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FASHIONS AND FANCIES

SENK Perfumes That Enhance the Personality.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1927.

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There is always something new in the life of a screen star. And now the newest method of self- expression is obtained through the ase of urfèntal perfumes.

Individuality is always to be de sired by women who would achieve emartness and distinction. Clothes, for many years, have not been! selected because they are a part of the mode for the season, but br leapse they help to express, the wearer's personality. And so it is. with a the little things that go toward creating a perfect bnsemble. And perfume is a very vital part of the feminine list of things that add much to her charm and per- sonality.

In Hollywood, where

screen

stars live and move and have their being, there lives a Hindu who understands much about feminine" personality. And this Sirdar Byhogwan Ejer. Singh has taught charang femininity how best to express ivself through the art of wearing perfumes. He studies each aeeker for perfumes carefully afid

before mixing searchingly bizarre spices for them. And he teaches them the essential methods of selecting and wearing He believes that per

perfumea.

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fumes should be placed upon the skin and not on the clothing.

Dashing perfume on the blouse, the handkerchief, the fur or floral spray, is, according to this Hindu all wrong. Likewise should the atomizer be abandoned and perfume should never, never be, daubed on with the stopper of the bottle!

It is stated that four bakeries in the vicinity of Vienna Bave had to. close down in consequence of the diminished demand for Bread, pastries, and so forth (relates "Morning Post" writer.) If it be true, as asserted, that 200,000 of Vienna's womenfolk have cut bread. out of the daily menu in order to attain and

fashionable keep a almness, a good many other bakeries must be working half-

time.

Even in this country have known damsels who could not be regarded as anything but sylph- like: refure the most tampting choco- lates on the ground that these were unduly fattening. It must be a dull existence for those who cut out the sweets of life, and the wasting-pro- cess is not without its dangers.

To obtain the beat results, per- fumes should be gently rubbed into the skin and should Issue forth as a natural and fragrant odour of

nature.

women,

wood as a base, for she is a purely Nordic type in appearance, but has dash of oriental temperament. according to the Sirdar.

Voluptuous

with full mouths, large brown eyes and lithe the figures should depend upon Lotus for added charms, while a strange perfume which the Hindu calls Patchoully, and which has no English name, should be worn by auburn haired women, blondes and those with light brown hair. It is mild, but has a trace, spices,.

An important thing to remember according to this authority upon perfumes is that blonde girls with! thin pa large eyes and small | noses should wear Hght perfumes.

Brunettes with vivid colouring should wear perfumes with three parts alcohol to one part oil so that it is heavy. Attar of Roses is re- commended.

Titian haired! women should' blend flowers with spices, varying the percentage according to the temperament...

Phlegmatic women need spicy odeurs to enhance their charms.

And so it is in these days of ex- pressing individuality that per- fumes play an important role." The woman who does not match her

Perfumes should be selected to sait each personality, and the Hin-personality with perfume is lacking du has created special perfumes.for

in chic and charm. the store who visit him. For Corinne Griffith, who is seen in First National'a "Purple and Fine Linen," he has selected Moda Jose. ka which means, Mixture of Love, is a heavy perfume and carries with it the memory of happy times. Alva White: in her First National films uses her specially created per- fume, Turkish Keori. Keora is the great lily plant of India.

Anna Nilsson, whose blonde lovelines seen in First National's "Easy Pixings," wears a perfume of five blended flowers with sandal-

CONCERNING UMBRELLAS.

Pocket and Portable Shapes.

Umbreli are or friends at this time of the year, and some of us are thankful that they are small, but the miniature umbrella is no new departure, writes a cor- respondent in a Home newspaper. "As early as 1787, "Pocket and port-

The worst danger of alk, however, la surely the swing of the pendulum. When fashion tires of the asparagus figure it will rush to the opposite extreme and the Rabens style will The all the rage. It will be a great time, no doubt, for the butcher and the baker and the restaurant" pro- able umbrellas superior to any kind prietor, but to most of us the prospect is frankly horrible....

..SHİNGLING TO MUSIC.

A Brixton barber has hit upon the novel idea of entertaining his patrons, and, more especially his patronesses, with violin solos while their hair is being dressed (ob- Berves the "Sunday Chronicle.)

ever before manufactured in Great Britain" was cried in Cheapside, and many of us can remember tiny parascis that folded up into a neat little compras. At one time they had a ring at the bottom to carry them by, the wooden handle having a moulded point to rest on the ground.

An Ancient Origin. ||| How ancient the umbrella ia ve do not know, but Johnson speaks of it as "a screen used In some coun- The process of bobbing or shing- tries to keep off the sun, in others to keep off the rain." Umbrellas ling is a lengthy and tedious one for

the the woman in the chair, and barbers and parasols can be seen on are sometimes at their wits end to paintings and sculptures of anelent know how to keep up an interest-Egypt, and discoveries in Nineveh ing flow of chatter.

show that it was usual to carry an umbrella over the king's head both in peace and in war. Some of these were edged with tassels and de- eorated at the top with a flower or some other kind of ornament. Was not the skadelon, or day-shade, of the ancient Greeks carried over the head of Bacchus, and were not the daughters of aliens in Athens re-

The Brixton man has foun a solution which tempts clients to pa- tronise the place again, and sets them talking about it.

The idea has its counterpart in the Paris beauty shop run by Lina Cavaliert, wife of the famous epura tenor. Cavalieri himself sings to the women undergoing treatment.

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Start out by Allig in the words of which you feel reasonably surs, ***es will give you a clue to other words creasing them, and they in turm to others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the

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(The solution of the above cross-toord puzzle will in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word appear puzzle.)

AGREED FASHIONS.

The heads of big stores and manu- facturers may meet in Bradford to discuss the trend of feminine fashion if the suggestions of Mr. the Arthur Hett, president of Bradford Textile Society, are acted

Bradford manufacturers suffer heavy losses by a change in women's fashion, which means that certain clotha are left on their hands.

Ben Jonson mentions the umupone brella in comedy produced in 1616; indeed, they seem to have been, so important even then that remarks, gay and otherwise, zon cerning them were often made to "We need the collaboration of fall from the lips of, actors, In these people," said Mr. Hett, "and Beaumont and Fletcher's "Rule I would suggest that a committee Wife and have a Wife," the um- should be formed of fashion ex- brella is made to play "Trivia."

perta-representatives of the big Varieties in Feather and Silk. stores and the producers of the We gather from the writings of cloth. The retail distributors have Drayton, that the umbrella of that already been met. This Is carrying period was composed of feathers, the idea. a little further." Imitasing the plumage of water. birds. There has been a suggestion amongst 'those who rule. the fashione that one might do worse. than revert to that vogue, which is not surprising now that feathers are made to play such a large part in the making of flowers and also in the trimming of 'gowns.

In the days of Queen Anne the umbrella was in common use, but only by women; indeed, the Elgh- teenth Century was half-over be- fore it was used by both sexes in England. John Macdonald, a foot- man, who was advanced enough to leave his own memoirs, appeared in London in 1770 with a silk um- brella he had brought from Spain, and tells how he was hailed with the cry-Frenchman, why don't you get a coach?

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There was a period when brellas were kept at coffee-houses for the use of young gentlemen at night. In the "Female Tatler" for Dec. 12, 1709, there can be found the following: "The young gentle- men belonging to the Custom House, in fear of rain, borrowed an um brella from Will's Coffee-house in Cornhill."

It is from such history as this that our umbrella has come down It has us through the ages. come through many stages; through glory and renown, through scorn and disreputa,

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