Irritation Among The

Mink

SYDNEY is laughing but sym pathetic about this one: US General Robert L. Eichelberger and his wife have been official guests of Australia for Coral Sea Week and on the last night of their visit were guests-of-honour at Sydney’s top flight social event, the Coral Sea Ball.

Next morning readers of one of the dailies were amazed to read in the social column that Mrs. Eichelberger wore a cape of “imitation mink” over her lace ball gown. It was put down to either unnecessary tactlessness or sheer cattishness on the part of some female journalist. However, it appears that that was not the case at all.

What the General’s lady wore was a cape of “mutation mink”— some thing that is bred true to colour and so good that it does not even have to be dyed but the mere male com positor who set up the story just be fore the paper went to press, knew little about fur and decided there was no such animal as a mutation mink.

So in it went as imitation.

We hope that Mrs. Eichelberger has an exaggerated sense of humour. For any ordinary female who as much as owns a square inch of mink, to have it described as imitation in a paper that boasts of having the lar gest morning circulation in NSW, would just be the unkindest cut of all.