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GREAT REDUCTIONS
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JULY
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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15
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34
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475
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150
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Once again the robe de style may be seen exerting a strong influence upon, the formal mode.
it is seen
in all fabrics and in all colours and has many ways of distinguishing its
lines and detail, }
Certain types may emphasize their special qualities of beauty with real distinction in wearing the bouffant evening dress. It is parti- cularly becoming to the picturesque type, and also leads distinction to the petite miss when correctly
chosen.
glace taffeta is often used to cronte this effect. It is used with remark- able results in the robe de style with extreme width at the hips. Gathered flounces fall in irregular lines in this model, and are held at the front by a taffeta flower.
new bouffant frocks. very charming results in many
With all white gaining in its up- peal as the aeason advances. an un- usually effective evening gown de- signed in the picturesque robe de the style manner is seen in crepe satin and uses a lace collar with old-time appeal at the wide cut neck of the filted bodice. A full skirt shirred to join the waist possesses an un- even hemline and is slightly longer in back than,in front.
of
They
are seen in pastel shades and are. worn over drops of deeper tones. These rely but little upon trim- mings as their colourful fabrics a simple are sufficient to create charm:
Ex-
HORIZONTAL
4-Cwns
1-A globa
7-Vinegar container
S-The great artery
11-A molluck
12-Part of a wheel
THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE,
HORIZONTAL (Cont.)
51-Spoiled
54-To prohibit 55-Unit of time 57-Performing £8-Tall and thin 69-To let fall
14-An Oriental weight 61-Prefix. Up 16-Curly hair abtained 62-Hog-meat
from sheep
17-Man-like
19-Seize
21-Not in
22~Hide
24-Single
25-Conjunction
26-A watch charms 27-Crop
29-Church of England
(abbr.)
30-You
32-A Hebrew
34-To .cook in an oven 36-A unit of weight
$7-Boiltary
38-Bawed
$9-A label
41-Tora
43-Thus
44-Mo!sturo
46-Guided 47-Exclamation
<0-A pair
63-Ineline
66-To infilet, as -
vengeance |87-An alkali molution
68-To nisk
VERTICAL
1-Verbal
2-An alcoholic liquor
3-Exls: 4-Exclamation 5-Skill
6-A mále deer
7-A coagulated mass' S-A compared with 3-Capable
10-Prefix meaning
Male"
11-To woo
13-A relative
15-A long slender
apear
16-To court
17-An unruly crowd -A swart potato
VERTICAL (Cont.) 20-An Insect 22-Enumerated 23-Tolled 26-Discovered 28-Declined gradually 31-Garden tool 32-A spurt of liquid 33-Te move from side
to alde
33-To be cognizant of 38-Bent
40-Once more 42-To express
gratitude
43-Plg-pen
145-5mfil compact masE
46-A Ilmb 48-Noah's floating home 50-Long-handled
peddles
152-A ditch
53-Blte repeatedly 54-Sound made by a
dog
56-A list or record BB-Burden 60-Compensate $2-Used in writing 64-Group of States
(abbr.)
66-Right Excellent
(abbr.)
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
In general, the bouffant frock too The bouffant skirt that is longer should strena simplicity as in back than in front offers another much trimming tends to make it interesting effect in the robe de fussy. An over elaboration spoils
youthfulness. style, crented in pastel colours. its charm and These are lined in a deeper shade quisite fabrics should be chosen
SNAKE JEWELLERY. that is thus given an opportunity and these should be emphasized. With the yogue for laces and of displaying itself in the swaying A single flower or group of Blowers Other properly placed are often the only
Ladies are not only wearing the nets being featured for the sam- movements of the skirts.
across forms of trimming used,
fashionable snake necklets with mer season the robe de style comes skirts turn themselves up
Virginia Lee Corbin wears an ex- evening dress, but earrings, brace- into further popularity. It is ex-the front and so reveal a deeper
The tremely beautiful robe de style in a lets, and girdles to match. tremely interesting in both these fabrics. Often a bodice will be Just as all white is effective in formal scene in the First National stiff slave necklets to go with the
It is of gold bangles seen in soft silk or taffeta and a the evening made, all black may be film "Ladies at Play." skirt be made of Chantilly lace in seen with stunning results. It is deep rose taffeta simply and charm America, and were promptly super- bouffant tiers that are most effec- usually picturesque in Chantilly ingly designed. A simple bodice is seded by a flexible ornament having joined to a full skirt which adds a a snake's-head clasp, with jewelled tive. Net in row upon row of Ince in extremely wide and full on
transparent border for effective eyes. Gold and silver or imitations gauzy loveliness will fashion an- tiers. A snug bodice that possesses nesa. Graduated formal flowers of of those metals are used, and the other wide skirt while a small a deep cut decolletage is another chiffon and a large flat bow in the latest variation of the fashion lies bodice may be of either net cover- feature of this type of gown.
front are the only decorations used, in twisted gold and silver ropes, ing silk, or of plain taffeta.
Silver and gold in the lames and and there is seen an air of youth of which the small, ones are worn As an many of the new evening metallic laces are expressed with and simplicity that is very charm-round the neck, while the larger silhouettes are wide at the hips, a much skill and beauty in the robe ing.
dé style.
OIL-PAINTED, GLASSES.
tone.
Black and white combinations are extremely effective, For in- stance, all white soft crepe satin, satin side up, le, used to form a slim bodice and full skirt edged with deep, uneven border of black The same lace is
front side.
Old-world garden scenes giving Chantilly lace. the effect of massed colour are en-used for u huge flower where joying one of their periodical bodice and skirt are joined at the vogues, and a very charming idea just introduced in the West-end is to have little paintings of this description carried out in oil on
white wine-glasses and finger-
Printed chiffons are used
with
bowls. Each piece is signed by the WOMEN'S BUSINESS SUCCESS. artist. The popularity of lacquer furniture at the present time has
THE BRIGAND NOTE.
The latest effort of the Rue de la Paix to escape from the eternal mannish "tailor-made" is a suit of which the coat begins like an or dinary coat and ends in a sort of glorified brigand's belt.
Quite 12 or 14 inches wide, the belted bottom part is sometimes made of cloth, with pieces added realistically to suggest holes for cartridges and pistols. Sometimes it is made of leather decorated in the same way. A third variation makes the belt of a new sort striped webbing material.
of
Jumper suits of crepe de Chine
prompted the designer to paint A new success for women in busi- glaar which will harmonise withness is revealed in the first year'a the lacquer dining-room. One set working of the egg and poultry pool of glass is particularly attractive. organised by housewives in the The green pedestals and tall stems Province of Saskatchewan, says of the hock glasses are surmounted an Ottawa, message. A turnover or antin have these "belt bottoms" hy white bowls on which the Jap of £107,223 is shown on a share in cloth to give them an original anese bridge, trees, and stork are capital of £2.474. All the direc- note. Often the belt is In a con- painted in red, blue, and gold. The tors, with one exception, are farm- trasted shade to the garment on finger-bowls are adorned in simi-ers' wives. During the twelve which it appears.
con-
lar way. The old-world flower de-months the pool, which has 16,000 When cloth is used it may be în signs are equally effective. Slim members, disposed of 1,190,000 the same shade as the suit itself hollyhocks painted up the sides of dozens of eggs and 810,000lb. of or in some contrasting colour. A the bowls in yellow and red, red poultry. One result is the deci- new idea is to have colours that are nasturtiums or cerise fuchsias are sion of the leading provincial not strikingly different, but equally popular. There is a great creamery to turn over to the pool trast slightly. demand for sets on which Madonna its entire egg and poultry business. The striped webbing belts are lilies are beautifully painted in In future fifty-two local creameries chiefly used for jumper suits in- some detail, the white bells with will act as assembling and shipping tended to be worn under a coat or their golden centres and green agents for the pool, and will place in the country,. All sorts of gay follage looking very charming. Pink all their organising and marketing colour combinations are to be seen. tulips and red daisies are among facilities at its disposal. The pre- A vivid bluish green with a stripe other subjects which appear on this sident of the bureau is Mrs. Bertha of yellow between looks charming attractive glass, of which large Holmes, the wife of a farmer at for the bottom of a navy golfing quantities are being sold.
Asquith.
auit.
BRINGING UP FATHER,
came
over from
ornaments girdle, the evening frock. Earrings and, if desired, a bracelet in the same design can also
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be worn, though it would require a effect without appearing to be over- statuesque figure to carry off the adorned.
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