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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1927.
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TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Fres.
As the spring season advances the combination of black and white is more and more noted. It is of course extremely effective in the coats of kasha and satin, crepe and chiffon which are so smartly com- bined with crmine or white fox. It is equally chic and extremely sparty in the tailored
suits of twills and dull finished woollens that add a white scarf for contrast. But in the frocks that are beneath the topcoat, the black and white combination persists with still more attention to detail.
In satin crepe that bestowa smart effects in the use of its two sides,
white is seen as an effective trim-
As the days lengthen and the colour appear very new in summer sun's rays grow stronger, the en- models. Variations are numerous. semble that exerts the greatest ap- and the dress of a solid colour Occasionally the coat being of print peal is fashioned of silk. It mat silk. But dress and coat may both ters but little what colours have be of a solid colour with pipings or been chosen, but, as the mode de trimmings of a printed fabric. mands a coat, It is essential that the coat be not a burden but an in- teresting and not uncomfortable ad- dition to the ensemble.
Ensembles for afternoon wear have been developed in a variety of light weight materials, variously
combined.
ming. Sometimes it is only a flower of small patterns, fashion dresses Figured silks, usually of startling whiteness that forms a trimming at other times a collar, and coats. Many long coats to com- reverse effect or vestee in white in plete the ensemble are of solid troduces the contrast; sometimes colour crepe de chine, satin: back the fabric itself is figured and white crepes, fiat crepes, faille wool crepe designs appear gally blocked upon a black background, or vice versa, or georgette crepe. One colour gear
The vogue of lace having stretch. gette crepe ensembles are often ed its popularity into the summer seen with long or short coats mode, the formal gown of back three quarter length capes. and white, too, takes on as air of Trimmings are apt to bon, flower, pearl or crystal trim-marked originality, even though they ming to relieve a sober effect now be used sparingly. Belts, buckles, is seen.
importance. Black lace with rib-
Ann Rork, seen in the First Na- tional picture, "The Prince of Head Waiters," wears. several charming frocks which stress black and white combinations. Miss Rork in pic-
tured in a smart two-piece dress of black flat crepe with white col- lar, cuffs and vestee. The skirt is of tiny accordion pleats and the long blouse is trimmed with four silk tassels which lend an unusual effect.
AN IDEAL GIRLS CLUB.
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23-To disperse
25-Thus
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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) | VERTICAL (Cont.)
|43-Argent (abbr.)
44-To move 48-A high explosive
(abbr.)
47-A top
40-Female dear (pl) $1-More dreadful 62-Combining form.
Outalde 53-A plant-louse 54-Exist
VERTICAL 1-Distracted
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India
26-Eldest on of feast 4-To exist
(Bible)
30-Congregate
31-Tillage
32-Washes up, at
WaYce
34 The moon 35-Profix With 37-Quick-tempered 39-Conjunction 40-Place (abbr.), 12-To waken abruptly i
To amuse oneself
6-To effect
18-A tropical fruit 19-To hasten away [20-To gesticulate
22-Melody 29-Refusa mata! 24-Characterized by
rain.
26-Not the same 27-Salt (Latin) 29-A diminutive suffix 33-A definite locality 34-For fear that 28-Pertaining to vision 38-To strike with the
fist
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Borapod linen.
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44-Personal pronoun
45-Road (abbr.)
47-Prefix Two $46-Before
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzlc.)
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throughout a springtime of popular with my hair down and my skirts
The ensemble mode has persisted ity well into the summer mode. hanging just below the knee (where Many interesting ensembles have they are to-day), I got up next coats of three-quarters lengths and morning and had my hair put up hang loosely. Those for sports are and my skirts dropped to chogen in half or full lengths, often ground (where in those days they belted or with yokes. Coats of all used to rest, even on the most in- lengths are seen for the afternoon formal occasion), and in this formal or semi-formal coat. tions for early summer appear black maelstrom of a London season.
strange disguise was flung, shiver- Among the favoured combina ing and blinking a little, into the and white models in all sorts of didn't think or shiver long. Friend- striking arrangements. Black ships shot up like Jack's beanstalk, dresses of silks, satins or georgettes from nowhere, as it seemed, and black trimmed with white furs or what might have been an empty are seen with satin or silk coats of charged with point and meaning fabrics. Black and white printed round-Violet Bonham Carter in silk dresses also combine them- "Good Housekeeping." selves strikingly with coats.of black trimmed with white.
Ann Rork, seen in First Nation-i al's picture, "The Prince of Head Waiters," wears a smart ensemble of black and white. It consists of buttons, fringe, embroidery, pleata black satin cont that features a ing tucks, stitching, and every type cape effect and Д collar of snowy of bow are used to create striking decorates the shoulder.
ermine. A white flower, too,
Under effects.
neath is worn a trim gown of black also smartly combined with white. A small black hat, shoes, hose and exquisitely beaded purse with white background complete the details of a smart ensemble.
Ensembles consisting of a dress of printing silk with a coat in plain
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There is no doubt that there are tidal perlots of friend-making in every life. Eighteen is, I think, the age of spate at which the first great spring-tide of friendship comes rolling in for men and women alike. If poll were to be taken among men as to what they considered to be the most valuable thing they had carried away with them from Oxford or Cambridge, I think that 90 per cent. would say the friend. ships they had made there. Their classics and philosophy they have most likely lightly shed, forgotten, and never missed; their friends they have kept throughout life.
ages of twenty and thirty-business and professional girls, all of whom believe that nowhere in London exists a Club anything like theirs. There is, in London, plenty of ac commodation for women in expen- sive clubs, and at the other end of the scale is the bostel, St. In Lancaster Gate, overlooking Andrew's stands midway, and fills Hyde Parke, le a girls' residential a need which yearly grows greater club, says a London correspondent Recently the House Committee de- of the "Scotsman." At any rate, it cided on an important development, is called a girls' club, but it is ac- New premises have been acquired tually a dream come true. Some and are to be turned into a club for years ago a Scottish girl in Lon young men, and members of both don discovered for herself how houses will entertain one another difficult it was to live comfortably at social gatherings under the kind when away from home, with nely guidance of the secretary, who friends, and a living to earn. She will act on these occasions both as pictured then, in her imagination, hostess and chaperone. The scheme a big house a happy house, the is in the nature of an experiment, companionship of other girls, free and it will be interesting to see how dom and pleasant surroundinge. In this co-operation of a woman's club after years she helped to realise with
a man's club works in actual this dream, and the St. Andrew's practice. Combined amusements Club is the result. It is a beautiful and excursions are to be arranged, old house, adapted to meet the and the two clubs will, as far as needs of fifty odd girls between the possible, run on similar lines. next. I went to bed one night
BY GOLLY. THIS IS A NICE JOB I'VE GOT ON ME HANDS-I'VE GOT TO GIT, THIS ELEPHANT OUT OF THE HOUSE, BUT HE
WON'T MOVE!
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of women I think the same true. I cannot speak of their, Uni- versity life, of which I have experience even at second-hand, but only of the conventional emer- genee from the schoolroom into the world at large which happened to me (and many contemporaries) quite suddenly from one day to the
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