MARY ANNE LOOKS AT LIFE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 388, 24 November 1932, Page 7

MARY ANNE LOOKS AT LIFE

| Why not j I just love that little veil worn by j one q£ the film stars the other week. j Veils are the most charming and inj triguing things and if they come back I'm half inclined to buy one. But then the story of a sad incident in the family history eomes back to me. It happened to an aunt of mine — a spinster one, I mean, who lived in the j days when veils were worn heavily j spotted and of a thick mesh. She j never patronised the fashion, but at last she was tempted and fell. The ] one she purchased was of extra thick j mesh and more than usually spotty. j In fact, it might have heen said to obliterate her features altogeth'er. A maid in the household gazed at her entranced. "Oh, Miss Mary," she | gasped in rapt admiration, "if you'd worn a veil, you'd have had a young man years ago!" Plucked Eyebrows. I quite agree with the Countess of Oxford when she says "There is one fashion which my sex have adopted which anyone of artistic perception must deplore. I thing it is called 'p'lucking eyebrows.' How it is done and why it is done I cannot imagine, but the hard, thin line of feminine loreheads has taken away all the mystery, cl^arm and expression of otherwise lovely faces, and if that's fashion, I cannot say I admire it!" Novel Idea. I was at a dinner party the other evening where ices were served in the most attraetive style I have ever seen. Some long-stemmed glasses were used and each one was lined with flower petals in the most cunning way so thati when the ice-cream was put on top of them the petals showed through in the most charming pattern, and then each was garnished wtih a tiny rosebud on top. Wasn't that sweet? I notieed that, besides serving as a pretty garnish, the cream absorhs a little of the perfume of the flower petals. The best petals to use, I ga~ thered, would be roses violets and orange blossom. Perhaps this may attract you as it attracted MARY ANNE'.