ITEMS OF INTEREST

Shannon News, 7 February 1928, Page 2

ITEMS OF INTEREST

At the age of 21 Airs. Flossie Sullivan Parr Broden Parr Lane, to-day secured her fifth divorce at Sioux City, lowa. She was married when she was twelve, she told the Court, but was granted a divorce on the grounds of cruelty tivo years later. She was married again when she was 16, but divorce followed. Other marriages and divorces occurred when she was 17 to 18 years of age.

The Queen is very fond of fur and a very good judge of skins, and her advice is usually asked by her friends who want to know exactly what to buy. She has a good many fur coats but only keeps two at a time; the rest are sent to a famous fur firm to be taken care of and cleaned at frequent intervals. A beautiful woman, a beautiful child, a beautiful flower, a beautiful sunset, and a beautiful building are the ..five tilings selected by Air Gordon Seifridge as the most beautiful in creation.

“I approve of the young people of the present day,” said Lady Alice Fergusson in the course of an address at Dunedin. “I don’t say that I approve of all they do, but I like their independence and I admire their ca- ■ pability and their courage. Often from the lips of middle-aged women we hear the phrase—‘l can’t think what young people are about nowa- ,

days.’ Well I nfever want to say that I deplore tlie fact that there is a want of thrift, too great a love of excitement, and perhaps more selfishness: 1 deplore the amount of juvenile crime and the tendency to regard life as an an opportunity for having a good time and nothing else. But when I meet

0 ) pouiioui e-ioui IOBJ I SSumV OSSID say, ‘‘What are the parents about?’”