IN PASSING

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20284, 28 August 1937, Page 18 (Supplement)

IN PASSING

j Notes and Snapshots j I see where somebody or other has been supporting a movement for less home-work for sobool children. Well that will certainly make a big difference In the parents’ leisure hours, won’t It? I was sitting', in the early dusk the other evening, musing Idly, when I heard the fascinating “dip clop” of hooves. And immediately my thoughts went back to the excitement such a sound would have caused in the years gone by, when every hoof-beat in some small villages meant the bringing of news from further afield. The sound of hooves brings, 100, the thought of wide spaces and the exhilaration of a gallop through the sharpness of the air, and the shadowy romances of very distant days, when beaux and their ladies alighted gallantly from luxurious stages, with a sigh of relief that the “gentlemen of the road” seemed to be traversing another highway. Our roads may boast the sleekest of limousines today, but our streets are oil-stained and strongly redolent of petrol; the old highways were rutted and treacherous in bad weather, but there was a glamour about the ring of horseshoes that cannot be Infused into the raucous “peep of a klaxon. • • • • “Not a shot was fired as the troops, preceded by bands, marched Into ” says a cable report. Probably the bands rendered them dumb and statuesque l • • • • “I had a little golf ball; I smote It very hard, But that blessed little' golf ball would move not e’en a yard. I looked at It quite squarely, and smote with might and main, But when I looked again to see, my might had been In vain. 1 So I shut my eyes, and let It fly, then looked down once again; The Jolly ball had left the tee, and was floating down the drain I” • * * * Suits for the spring are going to be very natty. Like fur coats, suits will hide a multitude of sins and serve a maximum number of occasions. Some of the tweeds that are already on show are very pretty, and I see the Queen Is favouring misty blues and a rose pink flecked In a deeper shade, so perhaps that will begin a vogue for these shades which are both charming and practicable. Swaggers are to come back to the top of the fashion ladder again, and doubtless will gain as much popularity as was theirs two seasons ago. Their one bad fault, to my mind, is their tendency to make every wearer look bulky and rather shapeless, and to make for a general sameness that is apt to become a little depressing. • * * •

Did you notice where, after a strike lasting 15 days, the Melbourne Gaswork employees have returned to work? It is not expected, however, that there will be a restoration of the full pressure of gas for nearly a week. Still I daresay that if they have as much hot air floating about there as we have here even that won’t matter much.

Tops this week to a very lovely frock on someone, slim, fair, and petite, of blush pink p.cated taffeta and tulle, with a softly bouffant skirt, and very distinctive use made of the pleating. Black cire satin, very severe, with an emerald swathe, was worn most successfully by someone slim and very dark, and black gossamer lace over a sheathflttlng underdress of silver lame was unusual and effective. Soft gentian blue suede satin brocaded in silver was worn charmingly by someone small and svelte, and a diagonally striped American model in several gay colours was most distinctive. * * • • Always remember that it’s not the rags one wears that counts, but the way one hangs them I