BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 55, 27 May 1927, Page 5

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

A meeting in Hamilton last night elected Bishop Cherrington president of the newly-formed branch of the Bible in Schools League. Other officers are:—Chairman, Mr. J. B. Fow, Mayor of Hamilton; vice-presidents, Revs. G. R. Barnett, R. Morgan, P. Paris and H. G. Gilbert; secretary, Pastor J. Salisbury; treasurer, Mr. E. J. Davey; executive, Revs. L. Rogers, A. O. Harris, H. L. Fiet:g, Pastor R. G. Bycroft, Adjutant Ingles, Messrs. C. Waterhouse, P. M. Velvin, J. Mcßeath, A. Anderson, J. Primrose, Mesdames Craig, Jones, F. O. Anchor, Paul, Fraser, Clarke, I. H. Pearson, and Misses Henry and Stubbs.

SUE’S SHOE STUNTS

I had always wondered how Sue, who is always notoriously hard up, managed to have such a chic appearance till I saw her at work the other evening. She was doing up her last year’s dancing shoes. “They are so comfy,” she said. “I hate to throw* them out, and yet they are so dull beside all the other sparkly ones that are being worn. I’ve decided to renovate them.”

One pair was of beige kid, the other of black satin. The kid ones were dirty, but she had carefully removed all stains by going over them with a piece of rag dipped in petrol. Then she got busy. She had bought some gold paint, and this she had mixed with a little oil so that it would stick, then she carefully went all over the shoes with a small brush. When she had finished she had w r hat seemed a new pair of the very new’est gorgeously gilt affairs that are just the very thing for dancing and so expensive to buy.

The black ones were a different sort of problem.

“I wanted these to be shiny and sparkly,” she said, and she certainly had succeeded.

The toe points and heels of the shoes shone and sparkled with a thousand lights of w’hat seemed at first a myriad tiny gems, but on closer inspection proved to be tiny iridescent beads closely packed together. Sue proudly told me how’ she had got this effect. She had bought a small

box of these shiny beads of all colours. Then she had made a paper bag, or a cone, twisted round the fingers and brought to a point such as confectioners use w’hen piping cakes, and into this she poured the beads. The point was cut away and a little hole made to allow the beads to trickle through. Of course she firstly brushed the shoes carefully and then she smeared the heels and the points of the toes with a little strong glue. Taking a shoe at a time she allowed the beads to trickle out on to the heels and the toes and here they stuck with a delightfully encrusted effect. Coloured shoes are the dernier cri, and the gayer the better. One woman I saw dancing the other evening wore red shoes with her black georgette frock, and the only other red touch she had was the wrist band of w’atercd silk that exactly matched the shoes. There was the shoulder flower too that Sue had made herself, and was just the touch of colour that was needed to finish her black frock. The flower was big and flat and many petalled and toned from palest to deepest lilac.