OUR
Novelties.
BACK-TO-FRONT COAT,
The back-to-front coat is dis- tinetly new, One gets the im pression at the first glance that it has been put on the wrong way round in the hurry of dressing, and that its wearer is too supersti- tious to change it.
effect, how-
The back-to-front ever, is a matter of design-not accident and is expected to have quite a vogue later on. We shall see if it lives up to expectations.
The. crat
intended to be of pearl-grey cloth with dark grey stitching and trimmings of black seal muaquash. There is no sign of lines of stitching out growing their popularity.
The coat is worn over a black satin dress with a hip yoke which fol- lows the line taken by the lower edge of the coat.
The skirt hus an even hemline, and all the fullness is concentrated In a godet at the back-towards the left side.
AT CANNES
WHAT WOMEN ARE WEARING
THE CHINA MAIL,
WOMEN'S
On a sunny morning in early February the Promenade de la Croisette at Cannes is crowded with pretty women in the latest and loveliest creations which have come straight down from Paris. The spring openings are in full blossom, and some of their cherish- ed buds have already drifted south- wards.
The sports suit is with us again, and in glorified, if somewhat modi. fed, form. The new version has certain masculine touches, such as linen collars, for example, or that new shirt blouse which is made of starched linen and accompanied by an ultra-mannish necktie, writes the Cannos correspondent of the "Daily Mail."
Stift the Uneven Hem.
One morning, just before lunch, I met three very perfectly dressed women on the Croisette, and so charming was their appearance that I made some lightning sketches. The -first, a simple frock with a quaintly uneven hem, WAH made of rose fondant silk and wool jersey stu interwoven with silver threads. There was a icose match- ing cape to go with this dress, which was circular in form and three-quarter length.
An Advance Spring Model
Forecast of Washable Frocks for Hong Kong's Summer.
SCIENTIFIC HOUSEKEEPING
New Gadgets at Paris Exhibition
[By A Woman Correspondent] Concerning the Paris House. keeping Exhibition at the Grand
The next model was one Palais, there are at least two
of the new black-and-white
points of view. One is that true
spring suits which are prov-labour-saving consists in a dip ing the clou of several important in the river instead of hot water "collections.” A beautiful kashmir and hot baths, and a cave instead cloth with a slightly rough surface
uf a house. The other is extreme was the material chosen for this complexity of existence, eked out costume. Specially smart was the by devices which add to Black kashmir cloth coat which was complexity; but make it run rather
more smoothly.
outlined with white kid and finished off with jet buttons. An ideal specimen of the fashionable short coal played and important role in the third suit of ainioid green kashmir cloth.
A Popular Type of Cont -
This type of coat may become the
rage of the season. I have seen it in all the more exclusive show- rooms, and in several different materials. For instance, a short coat in navy blue hand-woven linen had a deep hem af black silk braid- ing and à quaint little turn-over collar of grey squirrel,
Dainty Bonnet for all weathers.
the important collections, and in nearly every case black is the pre- dominating note in the en- sembles. With а skirt of black pleated crepe de Chine an admirable choice for the Riviera would be a coat of white Kashmir cloth arnamented with rows of black silk stitching and trimmed with white fur. Women who in- tend to use this type of ensemble for our colder and more capricious early spring will prefer the grey-i
colour scheme
Short coats will be included in and-black (Continued at foot of next Column.) gested.
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That the second point of view triumphs every time may be seen from the thousand-and-one in- genious inventions at the Grand Palais in the service of house-
keeping, and also from the fact thut the exhibition, from being housed more or less precariously in wooden huts, has now canonised into the dignity of the central show-place in Paris.
Curl to Life
a curl to life.
been
Nice and cool 1
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1929.
SECTION
MARIA CRISTINA
TROUSSEAU IN FIVE. RAIL VANS
Queen Maria Cristina, tho Queen-Mother of Spain, whose death was recently reported, was the only daughter of the late Archduke Carl Ferdinand of Aus- tria. She was married at 21. in 1879, to the late King Alfonso XII of Spain, then a childless widower, and the late. Empress of Austria gave her a magnificent
trousseau, said to have filled five large railway-vans.”
King Alfonso XII died in 1885, aged 28, leaving Queen Maria Cristina as Queen Regent, with two daughters, one of whom, the Princess of the Asturias, became Queen. Six months later the pre- sent King Alfonso was born, and was proclaimed King the same day.
Queen Maria Cristina was Queen Regent until King Alfonso attain- ed his 16th year in 1902, and dur- ing her Regency she gained the affection of her people by her kind- liness and tact. They called her
A Tragic Ring
in a little arrangement for stirring "Maria Cristina the Good." mayonnaise. Put it under the turned-on tap, and it works by it-j self just like a little mill. A child would play with it for hours. is it not a grown-up toy? Similarly, there is a device for darning stockings which will fill in
When the present King ascend- ed the throne the Queen Mother devoted herself more completely to works of charity.
And
bricklayer fainting in the street On day she saw an unemployed
a whole heel with absolute neat at San Sebastian. He had tramped It is on the for many days seeking work. Giv ness and regularity, principal of a tiny loom, thoughing the contents of her purse to a him to give it is really only a flat piece of policeman. she told
the man a meal and then bring him to the palace. There the man tuld story to the Queen Mother,
money in his pocket,
wood. Strands of cotton are easily stretched across it, and then his every other thread can be raised.who sent him home by train with so that the needle passes through the two rows like a shuttle: On the return, the other half of the threads, is raised. 'There is 2
A superstitious story was told Spaniards in connection with the death of King Alfonso XII. boot-wiper with When he became engaged to his brushes all round it, which in- first wise he gave her an antique fallibly prevents any entry into a ring, which she wore until the day house with dirty shoes, and there of her death. From the day the
is a vacuum washing-dumper which late King placed the ring on her gets most of the dirt out of clothes finger, her health began to fail. before the real washing begins. numerable cooking. pots of iron, This is merely a large funnel on which, under pressure of two or the end of a stick. The clothes three atmospheres. cook twice or in the water are punched with this, three times as quickly as the with surprising results. ordinary pot. They were in-
Brighter Pans
There is, of course, very much to be said for Invention of any kind. vented three or four years ago, but | Pots and pang-the batterie de It blesseth him that gives and have
been perfected in various cuisine-are everything that is at- him that takes. It is amusing, ways.
It is far more entertain-tractive. Beside the aristocratic It is the little device which gives ng to hoil a dinner in ther than copper and brass pots and pans, in the ordinary way. They save there are the nickelled variety, The savage who found that the time, they save gas, but, above pans made of aluminium and rubbing of two rotten sticks to all, they allow us to tap the atmos-others enamelled in gay blue and gether make a spark must have phere and discover its secrets. white checks. This part of the had one of the first world thrills. We call them labour-saving, but kitchen alone is sufficient to de- Similarly the modern who holds we labour so hard to save labour corate it. There, are exceedingly piece of metal over a gas-tube and that, after all, it is the sense of comfortable mats for the kitchen, produces flame has also a sense invention that colours the picture. made of sponge indiarubber and of miracle, and even a feeling that
Trapping the Heat
brightly coloured, There are he has caused it. To some of us
for are more commonplace practical, oilskin pinafores these little applications of science inventions than these
generally at the ex-washing-days.
in gay to the ordinary events of life are hibition.
There is, for instance, colours, folding chairs, with the pure joy in themselves. They bring the universe in touch with a cooking pot made rather like an canvas placed both ways so that It does not sag-this also in bright exaggerated rain-gauge-that is to in-say, it is a basin which is fitted colours.
into a bottomless cylinder of metal. The cylinder encloses the gas, and causes every part of the flame to be directed on the bottom of the basin, instead of escaping, as is usually the case.
13.
At the exhibition there are
Smart and Springlike
IN
This smart trim frock of mauve
There
Most of the main inventions at the exhibition depend fundamental- ly upon a cheap and plentiful sup- ply of gas and electricity, such, for instance, as can be obtained in America, but to a far less extent in the European countries. There are numbers of washing machines, which really perform their funétion except that collars and wristbanda generally require an extra" hand- rub on the top of the mechanica! effort.
There are admirable ice safes, with their large Baving of materials and their increase of luxury of flavour. These are worked by a small engine which is attached to an electric lighting plug. One compartment is kept st just above freezing point. Two or three others are a little less cold. If the temperature drops below this the engine ceases to work automatically. If it rises above it begins to work again. Thus a minimum of current is used. Here, again, is a neatness of device which, apart from its usefulness. adds to the embroidery side of houskeeping.
It is, however, perhaps among the smaller inventions that one enjoys the real sense of the "bor mot." There is wit, for instance,. in a machine which absorbs a potato and throws out the peel on one side and the potato on the other with absolute non-chalance. There is something almost comic about a little glass stand, arranged as to prevent a Camem- bert from running away, however overwhelming its inclination.
satin, decorated with hand embroidery An Ironing Invention
in
colour and rhinestone buckles
FL
brings a welcome suggestion of spring.
The folds going over the shoulder are
tied in streamers on the back.
So
People who have tried to iron velvet and Miled will be enchanted
Eton Type Dress
Sleek and trims, the Eton jacket is a with a stand which holds the hot new idea in two piece suite. Smartly
on upside down so that the velvet
may be drawn over it, instead of tailored in green crepe, it makes a
| being pressed down under it.
There is all the sense of a game
very smart appearance on the street.
The late King next presented the ring to his favourite sister, the Infanta Maria del Pilar, who died a few days later. He ther offered it to his sister-in-law, the youngest daughter of the Due-de Mont-
Adaptable what not for
nursery.
pensier, and she died after that the late King wore the himself until his death.
ing it for three months.
CHICKENS
wear
After
Accessories.
the brooder house and should be protected by a circle of fine-mesh wire netting. The circle should be formed about a foot away all around the lamp, thus making a fairly large sleeping area within the heat thrown out by the lamp. It is important to see that the chicks are evenly distributed round the circle, for by doing this much of the mortality caused by crowd- ing can be avoided.
Have a Slatted Floor When the chickens are fairly well feathered but not old enough to start perching the risk of crowd-
ringing reaches its most acute stage. Many deaths are caused by crush- ing, but most are due to suffoca- tion.
When They Leave the Brooder Although it is usual to take away the brooder lamp, when the chickens are 6 or 7 weeks old, it
is not advisable to make this a hard-and-fast rule.
The best remedy yet found for this, trouble is the slatted floor. The house should be built with a removable solid floor having a fixed slatted floor beneath it. With such a floor every chick can obtain
air and the risk of mortality is
appreciably reduced.
The age of six weeks should be the occasion for the Arat grading Much must depend upon the of the chicks. In the light breeds progress the chickens, have made the sexes can be separated at that and on the time of the year. In age, but in the heavy and general- late apring the practice is safe, purpose breeds it is best to leave bat during the first three months this work-until later, concentrating of the year caution is needed. An al the moment on grading accord excellent method of hardening offing to size. In most broods a few the chickens is by means of an very small chickens will be found. ordinary storm lantern. This is When the number is enough to brought into use when the chickens justify it these should be run un- are six weeks old.
der heat for two or three weeks lenger.-J. N. Leigh, in the "Daily
To Avoid Crowding!
It should be set in the centre of Mail."
Pamela
is now showing
a selection of
SILK TENNIS FROCKS AFTERNOON SILK DRESSES
WASHING DRESSES
and a
NEW RANGE OF HATS.
13, Queen's Road C.