THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3195, 15 April 1911, Page 4

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Types of K addressing. When choosing a type -of hairdressing, be careful to remember that, speaking generally, dark hair should be dressed smoothly and that where it lies close to the head it .should shine like satin. Light liaif, on the other hand, should be aranged as loosely as possible in order to bring out the pretty tints of the tresses. A face of the perfect oval type may wear the hair dressed high or low with almost equal success, but should it incline to thinness the hair looks best dressed low and puffed out well at the sides. A round and dimpled childish face inclined to lie over-fat is most becoming if the hair is dressed high and only moderately puffed out at the sides. An oblong face should never have the hair dressed high, but low in the neck or midway between the nape of the neck and the crown of the 'head. The receding chin and large nose should be made more comely looking by a dressing in which the hair is kept as close to the head as possible. Tlie Greek type of hairdressing is only becoming to those with a,regular profile, and with rather a small nose. The large, square face will be improved in shape if the hair is dressed on the crown of the head, providing the face is not very long as well as square. A long square face should have the hair dressed low and well puffed out at the sides, and a thin face will look ever so. much plumper and prettier if puffed out as widely as possible at the sides. Flannelette Dangers. Commenting on deaths by burning the “British Medical Journal” says.— “The number of cases of burning by mishaps—in nearly every case ending fatally—in the month of November alone was 125, involving 131 persons. In no fewer than 39 ot these deaths is ascribed to the rapid burning of flannelette clothing (nightdresses and under-clothing) worn by the victim of the accident, and in 61) other cases, it is related that the clothing took fire, without information being given as to what it was made of. In some of tlie latter, aprons or pinafores are mentioned as having caught fire. These are not likely to have been made of flannelette, and from the nature of the garments it would be quite possible I for the flames rapidly to get such a hold that- they could not be immeditely extinguished. Of the 39 cases referred to above in which flannelette is specifically named as concerned in the result, in 28 the everage age of the victim was under four years, and in five the average age was eighty.” It is ■ pointed out that the manufacture of flannelette which is free from danger is already an accomplished fact, the product being no more combustible than flannel or other fabrics. Home Coloring. The freakish idea of having walls papered with black obtains considerably ,m London, though most people are content with merely admitting that a note of black in house decoration is as useful as it is in dress or embroidery (says an English writer). Quite a number of people have loose covers and cushion slijos in black, and a few go so far as to us© black curtains. A draw-ing-room in a well-known mansion has walls in rose du Barri, with a deeply embossed white frieze, and white woodwork. The chairs and settees ahe covered with cretonne with black ground brightly flowered, and a Sofa is covered with rose du Barri, and has black cushions), The carpet is grey. The grey room is popular as ever,, and is usually relieved with purple from the lightest to- the deepest shades. Pale brown 'rooms are frequently combined' with “log oak black” accessories, and one of the newest dining-rooms is in dull green, amber and dull, deep* red. In this room, too, a note of black is introduced by means of the furniture. The black touch is only successful in well lighted rooms, where it well deserves the welcome fashion is according it-

Melba Stories. There is probably no living singer to whom audiences have paid so many compliments as Melba, and many a good story she Tells in- this connection of the delightful. impudences of her compatriots in Australia. Once, as she was being enthusiastically cheered for her singing in a classical selection, an honest admirer in the gallery, shouted, “Don’t put on side. Nellie-1 Sang ‘Home, Sweet Home!’” And Nellie did.

Another time, when the diva became impatient at having to wait for dinner in an up-country hotel, /the (waiter considerably improved the occasion with, “Well, miss, you might oblige us with a song till the food comes up.” ■ “With my own people,” she told an interviewer, “I was staying at Sorrento. One day I noticed that the fence of the local cemetery was in a deplorably dilapidated condition, and I determined on getting up a concert to provide funds for a new railing. I had •glaring, peckers printed, and as a solutibn of one question ‘of ways and means’ I took charge of them myself, and with paste and brush set out to stick thorn in .the best positions. I raised £2O by the exploit.”