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Straight Lines Leaning Towards a Sports Silhouette Predominate
in the New Mode.
The Spring coat for 1927 pos- Resses several features that are particularly distinctive. They are in general simple in lines and of a 'saft dull finished fabric and are trimmed with dat, fura.
Dull Kasha-like fabrics such as Jorella, Kashmireen, and Junova Suedes lead the mode in the more formal conts with silks in black or blue featured in late afternoon models.
In the typically sports coat tweeds in stunning blocks or tiny patterns appear in various shades and mixtures. Cardels hair in beige tonės also is seen.
Furs lean almost entirely to the flat pelts. Ermine. broadtail, kolynsky squirrel and leopard skins being favoured. In the typically sports types calfskin in either all
brown or brown and white or all black or black and white appear to advantage on cuffs, collars, pockets, belt or front panels.
Unusual seams, tuckings and dis- tinctive lines mark these coats as
Exquisite Trazs and Posies in Fragile Designs and Lovely Colours Now Decorate the Table and Boudoir.
There has come from Paris a new fashion in decorations that is being used with lovely results. Crystal, in all sorts of charming designs and delicate colours has been used to form trees and flowers of great. beauty. It has come as a particu Jarly effective decoration for the formal luncheon or dinner.
white, but there are, of course, cry- stal flowers that are tinted in their natural shades. Coral and crystal beads used on trees and flowers are particularly effective,
In place of real flowers or the silver birds, Ivory figures and other novelties used to add beauty and charm to the dinner table, these graceful and shimmering crystal trees or flowers now lend an air of extreme dignity and charm.
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These crystal trees when used with the soft lights of candles are
most
effective. Thoir shining frostlike effect is very real and very lovely. Their slim branches have a delicacy that is charming and their gleaming whitenore is n exquisite compliment to the glass
and silver of the table service.
Trees and other glass table decorations are most often seen in
NOVELTIES IN HANDBAGS.
The frosted effect of the crystal fir tree is particularly enchanting when a white effect is desired. Tall candles burning in high silver candlesticks surrounding the tree makes a really lovely centrepiece.
Crystal swans, fishes, birds and ather figures come to add beauty to the table. These do not only ap pear in white, but in all tints to carry out the colour acheme,
and
HORIZONTAL
THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) | · VERTICAL (Cont)
1-To radiate host and 48-Measure of distance 18-8allor
light
4-Remotoly
B-Painful skin tumer 52-Club teen
43 Moves
51-Anger
9-Extent
154-6tudent at West
11-Part of a harnes
58-Joyous
13-A guitar-like
Instrument
18-A tiresome parson
17-Essential
Point
|68-Begying device
68-Carry on 160-Term in baseball
19-A globule at liquid 01-A little pla
22-Reverential fear
23-To ostry out in
actlen
24-Fura
2B-To Join
28-Bafora
29-A thin cookie
31-Ropast
$3-Vehicle
$4-Contend
15-Find the sum of 37-Ward off
38-Mexican laborer
41-Separately
43-Droop
46-Talk slowly
|62–Noxious growth 63-Tenure of office
VERTICAL
1-Blood
2-To recline S-A shade of groun
B-Blemish 6-8kili
7-Pastoral plpo
10-Poultry
|12-A baseball teams
13-Fine openwork.
20-Floating platform 21-Tiny orifice in the
skin
25-Cut
27-To portray in olta. 29-Walked in walar
¡30-Zeal
32-Guldad 33-Head-goRT 35-Guard [37-To.grow.dim
[39-Part of the finger |40-Ran away from
42-To amit in a streams 43-Romain
|44-tolp
48-Expanded 47-A cloak 49-To climb 80-Condition 69-Put away
|85–The cause of disenso
87-Ropret
14-A system of signats[50-Patrio
15-To uphold
organization of
16-480 sheets of paper! U. 8. (abbr.)
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Start out by filling in the words of which-you-feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered aquarea and running either horizontally or vertically or both.
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
pary, deals with English and French harbours, and is extremely popular for boys' rooma. There are slao several fine posters of At- antic liners and of the big docks.
·In studios and country bungalows other famous posters are to be found.
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Crystal trees or flowers, used in the centre, may be matched in candles. goblets and other table necessities. When all white is used the finely cut crystal goblets add 'a smart accompaniment. Green, in its coolness, may be
There is one by a clever matched in flowers that show varl- ous shades of green. Coral flowers, young artist of women at the sales coral glassware,, and reddish tones which is used in art schools to Illustrate modern technique and both crystal flowers in
treatment. Two small posters of glasses all may be seen creating flowers at Kew, when framed, are unusual results. However, the sparkle of the pure white crystals colourful as, and more uncom mon than, the conventional bunch is, perhaps, the most effective.
The boudoir, too, aheres the of vivid flowers against a black The background-a. style of picture charm of crystal ornaments. dressing tables or side tables are
much in demand for the walls of The chief made beautiful when decorated the converted cottage.
Some of these posters are sent purchasers of the posters are, how- with the delicate flowers of the ever, teachers, to whom one com- all over the world.. Native schools crystal trees and posies.
SEA GE AR [A]S
PIA
Sprine's favourites. The tailored note is stressed, while a feminizing influence is seen in the lighter and hrichter tones that line the cont And the gay flowers that add u emrine-like effect at the shoulder. Frequently, when fors are not ped. revers. panels or collars of the lining are seen.
These are usually in silks of a heavy texture.
Colours for Spring include black and while combinations, all shades of hie, helge tones and green.
Billie Dove, spog in a leading role in the First National film, "A Affair of the Follies" has been stunning Spring cont of seen in sporta tendencies, It is of beige camel's hair, expressing itself in while the bags had all the beautying sets of crystal plants and flowers of the Past" has, found favour in standing arrangement by which
simple lines with military collar of tan calfskin and wide V shaped cuffs set in a cloth band, The nar- row belt, so nobular this year, is smartly in evidence,
SILVER HAIR NETS. Ladies in evening dress have appeared recently at West-end restaurants and theatres with their Carefully waved shingle encased in n net of allver thread. not dissimi- lar from the shingle cons worn at night to pratert the coiffure. The novelty is having a great success, proving far more effective than the tulle scarf in keeping the hair in nlace during the journey from the house to the evening's destination. These silver neta, moreover, 'are very becoming, particularly over dark hair. They take the place of
An interesting indication of com- ing fashions in handbags was pro- vided by the display at the recent One of British Industries Fair. the most striking novelties consist ed of bags in handloomed leather. Viewed at a distance these beauti- ful bags appeared to be made of a woven material in rainbow effects.
A close inspection revealed that the strands used were leather, so that
made in the newest of those
had also the materials, they durability of a leather handbag. Handbags made of dyed lizard skins in which a pink or blue hue has been obtained are also likely to be seen in West-end shops in the coming season. Multi-coloured kasha, felt, and tweed will be used n good deal in the newest designs, and silk-embroidered kusha makes a very smart bag. Posy bags are not quite do new, but will still be carried. They are decorated in the corner with a posy similar to one- sold to be worn in the coat..
NO MORE SKIRTS?
There le a
Corinne Griffith, Been in First pany sells nearly 100 a week, while in Central Afrien, for instance, National's. "The Lady in Ermine," certain: posters of historical in have sent for them. always ready to use the novelties treat have sales totalling 8,000 in demand for them for barrack rooms One company has a old London types named "Survivals of offices," of Paris, has chosen several charm- 4 month or two, A series of six and to brighten up the dingy walls for her table decorations.
schools, and certain natural-history schools can have the posters at a posters are also in great demand. reduced price.
ARTISTIC POSTERS.
Many people who, have never Been Sir William Orben's paintinga at the Tate Gallery know every de tail of his famous, poster, "The Night Mail." and give it an honoured place on their walls. The vogue for collecting a series' of posters and framing them has abread very much more widely than was ever anticipated when the railway companies first engaged the services of leading artists. The bold colour work and the vigorous treatment make a great Shall women doff the skirt and appeal to many people who cannot In one don the breeches? (asks a "Sunday afford to buy originals,
Already so-room-the nursery posters are Chronicle" writer). ciety women abroad are doing so. dethroning such old favourites a ornament. and are bordered whether or not they, may have the "Bubbles" and "Her First Party." Lady One of the series that finds most with silver lace. On the other courage to do it at home. hand the silk wigs, which had a Diana Duff-Cooper, sending a snap favour is issued by a railway vogue in Paris. have more or less from America, is shown in a very company, and deals with rural There are the hop been relegated to the ranks of becoming masculine garb of plain characters: fancy dress, their effect being con-man's shirt and riding breeches pickers; with the ousts and green sidered too startling for normal Kenya ja also the home of beauti- forest. of hope for their setting, the purposes. The'sleek silver or rose ful titled women who stroll about ahepherds, the woodmen, the cow- coloured wigs are the most popu br ride all day in one or other of keepers, the market gardeners, and lar, and they want to be worn by the many variation of man's wear the bodgers.. Another very colour-
they favour.
ful series, issued, by another com very young people.
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