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"MANNERLESS BEHAVIOUR" OF THE MODERN GIRL.
ANNOYING NEIGHBOURS--
LEGAL-
RIGHTS AGAINST GRIEVANCES.".
A barrister, writing in the Daily Mail, gives a
A few points
Vague denunciations of the modern giri
Neighbours are not always "haigh- achieve little. They leave her calmly bourly" and one is sometimes exasperated indiferent and her critics still baffled into wondering how much it is necessary But an actual illustration of the "man to endure batore one may "take action." hers" of Miss 1925, will let her o herself as others se her, writes Lady Bland-Sutton in the Weekly Dispatch, and perhaps induce her to think it over
who The other day a friend of mine was to dine with a lady who might quite well be described as 'grande dame, asked if he might take with him and introduce to her a girl whom he thought would make an amusing addition to the party after- wards. She said she would be delighted
to ser her.
Dinner was at seven for the play begun at eight, When, therefore, at quarter past seven the girl had not burned up, the hostess decisted that she would wait no longer. So they went in to dia-
ner.
KOUGH SHOD METHODS.
Your neighbour has no right to keep his pathway or garden tidy by dumping his refuse over the fence and leaving you to find a last resting-place for it; nor can be drain-the-rain-of-his-summer- house into your garden or on to your roof; if he does, you can summon him.
and You are entitled to the
pencefal pleasant occupation of your premises, and anything that infringes that occupancy may be held to be a nuisance. Your neighbour is not entitled for instance to carry on any offensive or noisome trade even though he was there before you came.
Some naisraces we can abate, ourselves. If your neighbour places offensive matter adjoining your house you may remove it. If his trees overhang your garden you may cut off the offending branches with out his permission,
"
"Half an hour late the girl appeared. She walked straight up to her friend, ignoring her hostess, and said she was too
Bat you may not enter upon his pre- terribly sorry, but her pig of a mani- curist had kept ber waiting Then, be raises without permission, unless the mat coming aware that she was in a strange ter is one of urgenes-as-for-instance house, she turned, gave a vague stile in if his shed is on fire adjoining your the direction of her hostess, and sank fence, or a pipe, has burst and is flood- into her seat with an air of exhaustioning your premises
She decided that she would forego the soup,,
but being thirsty she would sub stitute champagne, thereby making her bostess wooder it, inadvertently, she was
dipsomaniac. entertaining &
Almost before she had started to de- vour a half-cold sole she turned to the guest on her right, demanded and got match, and lit a cigarette.
If your neighbour's eat disturbs your bulbs and his dog tramples on your lower-beds, you have no redress unless you can prove that his pets are, of a arischievous disposition and the owner is Nor must you lay traps or aware of it. destroy them unless you find them doing serious damage.
WOMAN DOCTOR'S SACRIFICE.
"As soon as she had finished her cigar- ette, which she had pued to the accom- paniment of staccato remarks to her, neighbour, still entirely disregarding her How one of the resident, worpen doctors hostess, she produced a bag of the pro- gave ber blood to a baby patient and sn portions of a small suit case, and ex-probably saved its life, although the iracted a powder puff, a lip-stick, an eyebrow pencil, and finally, a comb, which she laid beside her plate.
ATTACK AND DEFENCE."
"All the mysteries of makeup were then revealed in the startled guests. They Anw one shade of powder being applied to the chin, another to the forehead. They saw the gradual drawing of Cupid's box. They saw the elaborate birth of a row of eyelashes. And, lastly," they saw what some of them had never aren before the intricate method by which a shingled girl combs her hair.
This crowning touch was too much for the long-suffering hostess. With au ies glance at the girl she waited for moment's silence and then inquired, Would you like to go upstairs to a bed room?
Teete
"Entirely unabashed, the girl the shattering inspection with a bright smile, and drawled: Oh, no-thank very much. But, if you don't mind, I should rather like to pop out for a minute) and do a little telephoning."
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doctor herself is too modest to say 30, was told to a Press representative at the Infants Hospital. Vincent-square, Westminster. The baby, an H-months- old girl twin, from Shadwell, was in a wasting condition when received at the hospital, and two months treatment produced no improvement. It theu
droided to try. blood
trans- Prusion. The father was not
avail able for the operation, the mother gave her blood but fainted and the dne- tor in charge of the child voluntered. Three times in the course of ten days blood was transferred, the amount given 10 all being half a pint, and with each transfusion the baby put on weight. She weighed 10lb. before transfusion and 100 fortnight later, siace when the child has improved enormously,
RADIO
WORLD'S FAIR.
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The new offices of the Second Radio World's Fair, located on the Fifteenth Floor of the Times Building. Broadway, The hostess gave a gasp of dismant and Street. New York, have been and then gave vent to her feelings.
She said that Miss was vulgar stupid, outrageous. If a girl bad be hated like that in her day she would have been ostracised from all decent society. "She said all that, and a great deal more-and I entirely agree with her. NOTE OF OPTIMISM.
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"But I can ad these gloomy observa tions" with "one" note of optimism The girl was about twenty-five years old, and one has noticed among many of the younger ones--frog seventeen to twenty who are just ainaking their start in life.
formally opened and Directors U. J Hermann and James F. Kerr are already arranging the final details of the biz. Exposition, which is to be held in the Bath Field Artiller Armory, September 14th to 19th
The 195 Show will be almost twice as large as the First Radio World's Fair which completely filled both Madison Square Garden and the 6th Regiment Armory, and broke all records for at tendance and business transacted: The haze armory is the only building in Greater New York large enough to house
a dreided improvement. They are smok-all of the 325 exhibits on the ground floor ing less, drinking and even occurion ally showing an unpowdered cheek to an astonished world. It is quite time
and still brave room enough safely to of "daily attendance accommodate 30,000 people: It is the largest building of its kind in America. The auditoriumi Lancashires 700 by 600 feet and does not
contain a single, pillar. The square foot-. age of the open Hoor space is exactly five times that of the present Madison Square Garden,
FASHIONS AND PORTRAITS. The President of the Royal Academy
There will be 275 bas done what was generally balirved to be impossible. He has found a new nationally known American manufactur reason for condemning the girl of the ers and 50 of the leading foreign con period and the fashion of the moment. Cerny abong the exhibitors and the com- and we saspect that it may be long behind value of the devices on display fore he hears the last of this achieve will run close to $15,000,000 ment. What is wrong with the "fair and their fashions? It passes the wit Men are not born equal, and they are of painter, says.Sir Frank Dicks, to not born fraternal; and I will ask any take out of them portraits which will mother in the audience if she does not
He agree with me. Baldwin. be a grace to fature generations."
he is at pains to compliment her charms; foes not deny the modern damsel beauty,
I am sure 1 should not enjoy a.£5 dinner ten times as much as a ten-
but so perverse is shy that she has en- shilling dinner. That is what makes me dued herself in a fashion which Aphrodite believe in the law of diminishing return could hardly carry off. If ladies like, in regard to riches. Mr. Robert Lynd. to have their waists appear where artists! know their big to be, says the President, sadly, it will be anwise so to paint them, and if the artist rally loves his art. he will not do it. Not from the fashions of our tirar, ugly or shapeless, will such n picture be painted as Gainsborough's "Mrs. Siddons." We incline to agre with Sir Frank. The most vehement ad- airer of modernity will find it hard to prove that the modes of the hour bave anything of the grand manner about them. But what are the ladies and the artists to dol As sculptors lovi
to put their heroes into uniform or robes,
ar
of
any rig which may conceal the borror
the trousers, so the painters may insist
upon the fair posing in some sort of
fancy dress. But the trouble is that
even of the fair, are seldom onsidered solely as works of aft. They have also to be records, family posses sions, and so forth. If Lady Clara Vere de Vore in painted in 1925 in the costizme of the Pompadour, the picture be beautiful, but it will not satisfy family portrait. The painter and
may
the sitter must endeavour to arrive at compromise which, while offering reasonable satisfaction to anatomical or thodoxy,
will suggest the truth of the period. Perhaps the President despairs too easily of the resources of his art. This is not the only period in which fashion has debased or misrepresented the female form.“ Rubena painted some portraits of women which are thought Colerable, hat no precisian in anatomy would allow that the inodes of that time gave Nature fair play--Daily Telegraph,
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