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Blue, To Bring Sloepe
At Lady Astor's
hirsty Ordeal. Blue le announced as a sura Small, stender, but vital from
How two Canadian mounted; their Spartan-like: policemen, cure for insomnia, according to w French physician who prefers to the top of her graceful head to the devotion to duty, inflicted upon hide his identity behind a mask tip of her tiny fect, Lady Astor's themselves the punishment of of anonymity (says the "Daily charm lies not only in the fact Tantalus, is told in the annual re- Times Journal," Fort-William,that she is a flame in the guise of port of the Royal Canadian Ontario). All that it is necessary an othereal woman but in her on Mounted Folice. The report re- for any one to do who was trou conscious joie de vivre, writes lates that two members of the bled with sleepless nights is to Elizabeth Craig in "The World force wäre afflicted with a griev upholster and to decorate his Magazine" (New York), She ous thirst while guarding a con- bedroom in blue, a quiet gives of that joy to every one she signment of seized liquor. The subdued blue and upon meets "Come on, this way to the seizure was made on an island off: retiring he will sink into bar she sang out at one of her Nova Scotia last August, and was restful and deep slumber. It is receptions as she led the way into valued at 18.000 dollars. Two necessary to live in blue," this the ivory and gold dinning hall mounted policemen guarded the French authority is quoted as say making a joke of her Prohibition liquor, which had been landed schooner, and, from: & smugg ing. "Bed both tires and excites, refreshments lemon and orange- it is the section of the spectrum ade in company with tea and according to io, statement of the least favourable to man's well-coffee. But it would not matter their comms officer, they being Green makes one happy, if there were no refreshments. were forth hours without but blue alone is calm and quiet. Lady Astor is so stimulating of rest, badly bitten by mosquitoes. Let us inmediately upholster our herself her guests need none and at Festme time suffering rooms in this divine colour and They would flock to her salons, badly from thirst while surround- let us light our rooms with a blue willy nilly. I wish I could paint by the wherewithal to quench light by means of coloured bulbs) you the ballroom empty in the
How to Prevent Shininess. so that no other colour may con-rich golden tones that combine to tradict the effect we are striving form a lovely frame for the most for. And in order to have the brilliant assemblage. Inget proper transition from this seda-panels of rich golden brocade, tive light to ordinary daylight, we framed with gilded scrolls and lit should upholster and light our by magnificent gilt chandeliers, it vestibules in green' Women of To-day
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The stallor who humorously declared that Mr. Hard Clothes Brush was his best friend spoke the truth (says a writer in the nese that is such a bugbear is the Daily Telegraph.") The shini is essentially an Empire room. Two small candelabras supported esuit of frictional wear. In 80 Columns in the newspapers mantelpiece, overlooked by anThose of us who are in business by graceful cupide,, flank the far as the friction can be elimin- ated, so also will the ahininess.. every day are devoted to shingled Empire gilt edged mirror, with and have to sit for some hours hends, boyish figures, rubber handsome white marble busts on corsets, and the importance of Sienna marble on guard at either daily on a chair with a wooden or women being womanly-just as if side..
horsehair seat should-this seems they could help says a casual
la counsel of perfection-get - a" contributor in the "Evening Aeroplanes Wireless.
cushion or cover. But not any Standard.") Being, a solicitor or
sort. Therein lies the secret. a barrister or a chartered ac A French Goliath air expressThe material must be a non- countant doesn't keep a woman find on the London-Paris route nolisher, and must not be atretch- from getting married any more has been fitted experimentally ed tightly. The looser the better. than a flood of Marie Stopes's with a T-valve wireless receiving Serge is a polisher so also is literature prevents the normal set; connected with which are 12 chintz. The best non-polishing. man and woman from becoming pairs of headphones, one for each material is a piece of will sheet- parents; it delays both, processes passenger in the saloon The 38-ing that has been washed, several a little, that is all-and that isceiver.la in the fore-part of the times. It would soon become. the fault of the man more often plane and is manipulated by the Bibby, of course, but not if it the of the woman, Beauty is engineer who accompanies the were dyed a dark colour-brown, but skin deep but womanliness lot. After further experi- for instance. An Experiment, isn't really a matter of lougments it is proposed to equip four months old now, has shown tresses, or fine figures long. other large agroplane expresses so that twill will not "shine" cloth clinging skirts, or a devotion to that passengers can listen to or serge. Where the shiness is croquet, as man seem to imagine broadcast programmes while indue, not to frictional wear, but to it; it's a matter of wanting some fight... thing she hasn't got. That club For business women la too small What are 250 women among two millions? There are not enough boyish figures in the country "to- day. A wholesale dress de Rubric, crimson, purple,, saffron, signer stated that his frock Painted shades-From Gold Cathay were made in three sizes the Finnate stalks in waving graces very slim for the expensive shops. Failing the red Wood the average for the middle-clase Potaled Bries for sale shops, and the largest size for the As the crowd surged by. cheap stores. As for Shingled
Flowers at New Year's Fair. Elvasoms for the New Year, Twisting branches, heavy
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pressure the pushing down of the naminto the material-all the cure that is required is to stretch the material-all the cure that is bend-required is to stretch the shiny
portion quite toutly and then bur" it up with a nail-brush damped with turpentine. Then, to open the web of the compress. jared material, rub it on the back. a few times with a finger-nail. If the material has been made shiny. by friction, the parts affected
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