The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30


George Keppel, who has resumed her
place of leadership in Londons most ex-
elusive society, gives the following as her
idea of "the philosophy of life
Nagging is the constant reiteration OF
unpleasant truths.
Any man can talk woman over II he
tries.
Life is a compound. It has the tears OF
things; it has the JOY. the humor, the
pleasure of things.
If some women were only better cooks
there would be far fewer domestic differ
ences for us to settle.
There is always a chance for the good
joke.
A large share of the melancholy of
life is due to some arrangement of the
digestive system.
Mrs. Keppel wrote these sapient SEN
tences at recent reception in the note
book of a distinguished continental diplo-
matist, whose wife is famous as the pos
sessor of particularly tart tongue. Tne
latter agreed readily with all but the
second Solomon-like saying.
"Though red hair of the Titan tint
remains undimmed in lustre at least un-
til middle age; did you ever" asks Sir
Philip Burne-Jones, the Famous artist'
"see red haired old maid?'
The question has plunged London So
ciety into a controversy just as warm
as the hair lure concerned. But 1T is ad-
mitted that Sir Philip is right; the red
haired girls get first to the altar.
Il know that real red hair in girls
and women is extremely rare, nowadays,
1T. nth
ical experts say that the red haired race
Is fast disappearing. A friend to whom
| mentioned my one and only meeting
with a red haired spinster told me that
he had always heard that there was not
an old maid to be found whose head
was crowned with the real red hair.
Sir William Bamsay, the noted anthrop-
ologist. says. II am inclined to thlhk
that few If any girls with the Titan
tinted hair fail to get married. Men IKE
| them and they are quickly married. NOW
adays red hair is rare chiefly because
| only when both parents have red haif
does the hair of the child take on the
same color. And a man and woman with
red hair rarely marry"
The bishop of London has just read
certain class of ladies" a rather severe
| lecture on petty meanness, or to use MS
| own words, petty pilfering'
This petty pilfering,'' he says, has
been brought SO much to my notice that
| | have had to make it the subject OF
special moral teaching. i have peen as
sured by those whose knowledge l cam
not doubt that there is no end to small
| thefts which go on in high-class places
| of entertainment by well dressed ladies.
| In the dressing rooms Of hiSh-class music
| halls, picture houses restaurants, the oaiiy
pilfering are not simply irritating, put
| a serious financial loss.
Ladies calmly walk into these places.
| Use the dressing rooms, go out again.
| or sit down and carry on, where VIII
/ ing materials are provided, large ana
/ heavy correspondence. In one case
| know of a lady remained three hours In a
/ crowded tea room without spending q
penny and the loss of towels, soap, hair
brushes and combs, serviottes, teaspoons
| even small cruets and also powder puns'
amounts to a vexations item each Week.
"Where. when there is SO much exte-
| rior display, is this petty lust Tor get
| ting something for nothing going to end
| Shall we be obliged to have plainclothes
| detectives in addition to church onicials,
] or will Englishwomen so keep close
watch upon one another that these things
which are becoming disgrace to wom-
anhood shall be bound to cease?
What are Englishwomen coming to?
Il
they make off with property like this,
| certainly not with other peoples public
| powder puffs.
| On the palettes of the dress designers
a multitude offbright colors have been
splashed. 1t is a question which Will
j predominate when the usual sitting pro-
cess has been omplished-whether blue
| will win or yelows triumph of last year
continue this season.
| A march of mannequins in the sane
tum of a great dressmaker revealed
medley of colors. One coat and skirt
was Of a very brilliant magenta shade,
tempered by black Russian blouse. A
very pretty girl arrived in a radiant
| toilette as blue as a forget-me-not. arm
in arm with an older woman in a gown
of that mysteriously dark brown shade
known as tete de negro.
There were many manifestations of the
| appreciation shown already for mastic
parchment, beige and the kindred shades
scarcely tone removed from white, and
il was proved that very dark marine
blue is to be worn and that cerise will
lbe of a most appealing beauty.
/ Some of the new greens recall the aes-
thetic craze of 30 or 40 years ago. par
! tioularly the muddy shade known as isis
| and the sober olive. But there are very
vivid rivals with the tang of aniline
crudity In their violent quality Of tint.
| Queen Mary has promptly vetoed the
talked OF intention of King George to