THE CHINA
MAIL,
WOMEN'S
SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1929.
FANCIES
Frills of Yesterday.
Evening Frock Of Novel Design
Simplicity and a nove! design are the outstanding features of this pink satin evening frock showing a gathered waistline, deep flounces at bottom of skirt, and a new line dip at the back. By "Itylus," New Bond-street, London.
Ideal housewear in summer.
Kayser Slipper Heel® Hosiery
Famous the world over for smartness--wear beauty-the Kayser "Slipper Heel" Hosiery of service weight. Woven with such exquisite delicacy that the fine texture quite disguises the service weight of the hose. With subtle beauty of color. The heel so cleverly de- signed that it excels all others in giving the ankle a slender, trim line.
At all-icwding dusters
Kayser
! PICTURES ON LOAN
WHY NOT LENDING GALLERIES?
[By Constance Eaton] Literature is now a common pos- session of the nation, thanks to the ending library. Small as the price is for many of the best and greatest books, it is beyond the means-of the majority of us. But no matter how poor the devoted reader, he or she may for a few ponce carry home practically any book produced by the press. The leading library makes it possible for all of us to be temporary owners of the newest and the 'okiest book treasures of the Lworld.
But though books have been put within the reach of the ordinary citizen, pictures are as far removed- from him. except, of course, in re- We production, as they ever were.
Our
are modern and democratic in our methods of book distribution, anti-
in and exclusive quated methods with regard to pictures.
Child's First Passion
The love of pictures is as univer- al as the love of books. Indeed, pictures are the child's first passion. Why does not modern democracy make it possible for the average person to enjoy the art as well as the literature of the world?
Think for a momnt of the advan- For tages of a lending gallery.
one thing, it would enable us to
change our pictures now and theo.
Style and Comfort
Pictures, like books, are food for Spring has come to stay and brought it this adorable sports frock, the mind and the imagination. But with
The blouse
we buy or borrow new books con-which is simplicity itself
is of fat crepe in a delicate purple hue, stantly, refreshing our souls with a
with a neckline which carries out the change of diet. We can no more very popular scarf motif. The ample expect to receive the same fresh-pleated skirt provides just the right contrast and helps to make this one of ness of stimulus from always look ing at the same pictures than from the most charming models of the sea- always reading the same books. After a picture has hung on our wall for a certain interval of time, it becomes part of the wall, and we pay no more attention to it than we do to the wall.
and cheapness.
son.
being, needs to be lived with to be fairly judged.
Joy of Choosing Think of the day on which you might be faring forth, not to the lending library, but to the lending gallery! Imagine for a moment the aesthetic pleasure of viewing scores of pictures with the object of choos- ing one or two to take home for temporary owner hip.
CHORUS GIRLS
THEIR FIRST FATTENING MEAL.
Eighteen chorus girls who are to appear in Mr. C. B. Cochran's new revag began in mail week the course of fattening luncheons which, It is hoped, will develop them into plump young women such as were seen on the stage in Victorian days. Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, who prescribed the food for the lun cheons, gat in the centre of a long table in Lyons' Corner House, Oxford-street, W., and watched the girls. By his side WAR Mr. Cochran.
Everybody drank milk, for milk is .part of
the fattening diet. The
menu was:
Cup of Cream Soup.
Omelette.
Wholemeal Bread and Butter.
Cheese.
Honey. Milk.
Sir William Arbuthnot Lane told the girls that they were the pioners of a campaign which would lead to a healthior and plumper womanhood.
Controller of Shapes
"The public 'take their cue from you." he added "and when women ste your lounded, graceful bodies on the stage they will soon want to change their boyish figures for feminine figures like yours."
Sir William also remarked that the world would regard Mr. of its greatest Cochran as one poniuses and philanthropists.
"We have found another Musso- lini," he declared. "Mussolini.may control the length of the women's dresses in Italy but Mr. Cochran will control the shapes of women all over the world."
Thrills of To-day.
Study in Contrasts
According to statisticiana, it was just ten years ago that the word "flapper" was first used in Britain to describe a very young girl. America borrowed it and put its own interpretation on it. But does the origin of the word matter? The important thing is that the picture on the left, showing a typical "flapper" of a decade ago, has nothing in common with the contemporary flapper. Judge for yourself. Now in the picture on the left it is really up to us to imagine that the Indy possesses certain of her "important" members. But Miss. 1929). on the right, leaves no doubt in anybody's mind-she definitely has ankles and arms and legs-and how?
NEW CLOTHES
that
youth bas fled and the shopper has entered upon a The fresh stage of her career. discovery that a hat which has always been my style" is so no: longer may fix a gulf between then. But for a man! well, and now,
I ask you!
DOMESTIC SERVICE AGAIN
At the present time al but those whose thoughts are fixed on great matters to the 'exclusion of all else Mr. Cochran said that he was lemurst realise that clothes are oc- to seek a means of producing acupying much attention at least, plumper chorus girl because for the attention of women.
You may have spent all your several years he had noticed that the girls under his care were not money already, or you may be an physically fit for their strenuous earnest person who only regards work, "I discovered that they were clothes as a covering to be bought Even food or the when necessity demands..
Many women must have been not eating sufficient
ab, you must be awam that columns reading with interest a correspon- right food."
of print, pages of pictures and dence in one of the newspapers. on Parisian actresses, beauty apu- fascinating displays in the shop the subject of domestic service and bat although cialists, and women writers are windows are calling attention to its improvement. entirely in agreement with Mr. the fact that spring clothes and much has been written by capable Cochran that the era of the stand hats are here, that there are per persons, anxious
Paris Approves
Another advantage of a lending gallery is that it would make it possible for us to live with original paintings and drawings. Repro- ductions are well enough, and they have done much towards raising the popular standard of taste in art; they have been manufactured with
And, finally, summon up the the most praiseworthy verisimilitude vision of a water-colour signed by But they cannot such-and-such an artist hanging compete for adiument with origin- there by your desk, or a landscape als. There is an entirely dit-in oils y such-and-auch another, ferent feeling about the original. bringing midsummer into your cold
M. Maurice de Waleffe, the or The actual paper or
Then wonder to canvas on north bed-room. which the artist has worked, the yourself why we have not had lend-ganiser of world-wide beauty con- colours laid there by his own brushing galleries long, long since! or pencil, carry with them the ins- piration of his own mood and per-) sonality, and no reproduction-no matter how ingeniously done
The could possibly convey them. dearest ambition of many art lovers is to see on their walls the actual work of the artist's own bands.
Incidentally, the lending gallery: would be an immense help to the growing band of struggling young painters, and would save many of them the discouragement which proverbially dogs their steps. It would supply them with a little money, but, above all, it would make their work known. It would in time be the means of hastening the day of recognition for the genuine. artist, because the only sure way to determine the value of pictures is to hang them on one's walls for a while. A picture, like a human
A wide-brim straw.
er line for women is over.
tests, says:
The Egyptian fashions in the past committed the grave error of trying to develop the slender wo- man. The Greeks and Latins ener getically reacted against this.
One of the most beautiful lines! in woman is the graceful curve of the waist between the shoulders and hips.
Mme. Aurel, the woman, novelist, said:
Coolness for the children.
to find some
The exaggerated slender line is tain changes in materials, designs solution of the vexatious "domestic
the problem," one feels that no definite a danger to the white race. It and lengths which make
what conclusion has been reached. has caused the loss of their health clothes of yesteryear seem
and that WC must are,
The suggestion that a federation and later in life the joys of they
formed of women's maternity to hundreds of thousands be up and doing in the matter of should be
looking modern and "right".
societies and organisations of all of our girls.an
Countess de la Rochefoucauld Men may be, and are, self-con- kinds, which would ask the Board the to develop scious about their clothes being of Education said:
correct, but they have a dull time domestic side in schools and treat compared to women when it comes housecraft as a more important How uninter-subject, is very good, but for some to new garments. esting to change a button or to reason it seems difficult to organise Everyone agrees add another, to choose a tie and such a body:
Thin women look awful. Have you ever contemplated them on the seashore with their bony legs and skinny shoulders?
Jolly Tars in
Hornpipe Costumes
get socks to match, and to ring the that something should be done, but with changes on various shirts, compar- societies of the kind meet ed with the variety and novelty comparatively little support in re- involved in a woman's shopping to lation to the number of persons
To interested in the subject suit the change of reasons." women, a new hat is far more than domestic service;
of
and reforms union be- a new hat. It may mean romance, which depend upon gafety, youth, OF again, it tween employers and employed
offer the first proof seem slow in coming
may-
Pamela
New Selection
AFTERNOON GOWNS
suitable for
the Garden Party.
Only they are tar-esses, as it were, and these pretty maidens gave a massed hornpipe, as shown above, at Vancouver's first Sea Music Festival which was held from January 23 to 26 at the Hotel Van-
Isdale couver under the auspices of the Canadian Pacific Railway. -Miss Mar dance and has also arranged others for the festival,
(Denta)
presented the
13, Queen's Road C..