WHAT WE WOMEN THINK

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 14, 16 October 1931, Page 32

WHAT WE WOMEN THINK

Her Infinite Variety. Grr HUGH ALLEN, Director of the -Royal College of Music, as to the music teacher’s personality says: "The teacher of music must possess the hand of a musician, the mind of a seer, the persuasiveness of an Orpheus, the eye of a hawk, the ear of a terrier, the patience of Job, the optimism of a Micawber, the delicacy and quickness of a dragonfly, the courage of a lion, and the diplomacy of an archangel." Red as the Rose is She. GMART women are already planning the. yogues which will keep them ahead of Dame Fashion, Here are some forecasts of to-morrow’s styles: Geranium red is to be the "smart" colour, both on evening dresses and in brilliant belts for :ports frocks. Eyening headdresses of jewels will be worn. They will be simple in design, consisting mainly of a jewelled band or pin’ worn at, the back of the coiffure. Short boleros and waisteaats of leopard skin are likely..to prove popular: They. will be worn with dark brown or beige frocks. A novelty will be the introduction of bead scarves to match the facings of hats. The hats are heavily emboidered with small wooden or china beads of brilliant design on brims curving sharply back from the: face. The Coruséating Stella. Frew women have had a more udventurous career .than Miss Stella Benson, whose. novel ‘Tobit. Transplanted," has.been chosen by the P.E.N. Club as "the best representative British work of the last two years." Her early years were spent at Much. Wenlock, in Shropshire, where her -health was so delicate that. she never vent to school. Instead she travelled much in France, Germany and Switzerland. Just before the war she became a. militant Suffragette, and from 1914 to 1917, being greiutly interested in social work. she kept a small shop in Hoxton .in partnership with a local. woman. Here she sold paper bags to costers, and hetween times wrote her first two novels, "I Pose" and ‘This is the End." Read, Mark, Learn.iE is not easy to be beautiful, for that is a gift bestowed by the fairy godmother at birth, but it- is not impossible to be full of charm, of originality, and to possess a distinct personality, for that is a matter of studying yourself and your assets, just as carefully as you would ‘study: the "points" of a horse, the merits of a painting, or the lines of a piece of antique furniture. So few women take the trouble to discover to what type they belong. If they are rich and ean afford to go to the best and cleverest.dressmakers this does.not matter so much, but if they have to count their pennies carefully and. have .to buy their clothes when and where they can find them, it is worth potnds and pounds to know your type and to stick to it. If you are clever you can follow the fashion sufficiently so as not to appear demode, at the same time preserving the essentials of your type. This advice applies to clothes and to your face and figure, for, thanks to modern skill and art, it is quite possible.in these days to model your face much as you would a dress, and that without any question of "lifting" or interfering with Nature’s design. Au Naturel. NCE again women will feel that they cannot go out for the evening without real flowers twined in their

hair or fastened to their gowns. Flowers will be mostly worn as very long shoulder sprays, hanging over the back a little and coming well down in front. Orchids and lilies will be chosen, so Will roses and carnations, and the most

fashionable flowers of this London sea-son-gerberas-very dainty coloured daisies. Flowers are also being worn in the hair. A debutante of the season won a prize for her novel floral headdress. of gerberas and golden flowers.

London hostesses are extremely anxious to decorate their houses with country flowers, and there is a great demand for mixed bunches of herbaceous border blooms to arrange in their vases. These consist usually of.a colourful jumble of one or two larkspurs. «a few. delphiniums, sweet peas, cornflowers, and so forth, to get. the sense of a country garden in the town house. That Cigarette! [rt must be confessed that after three and a half centuries tobacco has triumphed. The conquest of her own sex: hus left my Lady Nicotine no other worlds to. conquer. But the belatedness of the victory makes one ask why women stood out so long. It is not as though smoking among them was ever altogether unknown. In "the golden age of tobacco’’-the early seventeenth century-Prynne tells us they were sometimes offered the pipe at the theatre instead of apples. But there was another and more potent reason. There was nothing for them to smoke but the pipe. And what was good enough for a "Moll Cutpurse"-what was even picturesque in the mouth of an old woman in a chimney-corner-was a hidéous deformity between the sweeter lips of sweet seventeen, or even reven-and-thirty. Even the cigarwhich had its own battle to fight before

it was approved by men-would have! been a monstrosity in the mouth of a fair woman, But on the coming of the cigarette

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A: Philanthropist. [HE death has taken place at her home in. London, Ontario, of Dr, Caroline Macdonald, who was-a -Presbyterian missionary for twenty-seven years in Japan, and did remarkable work there among prisoners. She first went out to Japan for the Y.W.C.A. in 1904, but for the past eighteen years had devoted herself to work in the Japanese prisons, to which she was given free entry. She was decorated by the Emperor for her philanthropic services. , Dr. Caroline Macdonald wrote a book, "A Gentleman in Prison," dealing with the diary of a murderer who came subject to her influence. Shea ceived a doctorate from Toronto, *niversity in-1927. nos . Those Little Feet, T is important chat the feet, the foundation of beauty, should receive the greatest care, for a pair of complaining feet.can do more to mat one’s good looks’ than anything. ~More wrinkles are cuused by aching feet than is generally realised. The purchase of a pair of new shoes is always an occdsion-but never let 1t be a hurried occasion. Always choose your shoes to suit your feet. If the shape and style which is ‘the prevailing fashion of the moment is not your shape . or style be strong-minded enough to: leave it alone. A smart shoe, which is" the wrong shape for your foot, may cause you untold agony. . ‘ A word about flat-heels. Do remember that flat heels and broad ‘toes ‘do not necessarily mean.foot comfort and foot strength. If you are troubled by fallen arches, or if your foot arches are at ull weak, you should not wear a shoe with a flat, shapeless heel. Missed Her Chance, JDICKEN S was only eighteen years of uge when he first met Maria Beadnell in 1830, while Maria was one year his senior. He was introduced to the family by his friend, Henry Kolle, who Was, engaged to one of the daughters, and.in their house he found much of the domesticity that had been missed in his own home.- The impressionable youth immediately fell in love with Maria, and, though there can be a) doubt that he shone in the which he found himself, Maria tre} him abominably. At this time Dickens was writing plays and acting in them, and, in spite of the fact that his private theatricals attracted much attention and: set him well on the road to fame, he was-not regarded as particularly eligible by Mr. Beadnell, who was a prosperous bank manager. As Bstella behaved to Pip, so Maria behaved to Dickens, "She made use of me to tease her other admirers, and she ttrned the very familiarity between herself and me to the account of putting a constant slight on my devotion to her, There were picnics, fete-days, plays, operas,’ concerts, parties-u!I sorts of pleasures through which I pursued her-and they were all miseries to me.. I never had one hour’s happiness in her society, and yet my mind, all-round the four and twenty hours, was harping on the happiness . of having--her..with me-unto déath."