WHY DO WE GOSSIP?
In the Spring, a woman's fancy You must be a very unasual per-pity that thes, would other Lightlyns to thoughts of
son if you have never asked your-dulge in when trouble and frustra self, after being party to a gossipy tion come their way. half-hour: "Why did I say this, or that?"
us,
The knowledge that others have
HAT S!
With the
to face the same difficulties, fight the same battles, clim similar Few of us can resist gossiping mountains and encounter the same now and again, and most of
pitfalls, helps us all enormously to if we will only be truthful with take our courage in both hands and
With the new season's stocks round head-piece shows just above ourselves, have said something or face up to life in the proper spirit coming in and with March feeling the brim, which has a becoming other about a friend or acquain- And it is the knowledge gained progressively less near spring hats Holbein esque appearance. tance which we wish we could reso often in those odd half-hours of are beginning to betray thoughts of methods of hair-dressing which re- call.
gossip which teaches us that we suramer. That is to say, the resemble that of Sir Thomas More, Sometimes this wish is so strong are but one of a big family, and if gulation straw appears here and Holbein hats seem in keeping. The within us as to make us completely we have trouble there are others there in a window, as though to cone caps now and again run into miserable, and we
whose trouble exceeds our own, and show that it can be in the move-two points like a divided ask ourselves
to indulge ourselves in self-pity ment, the while velvet and wool do- These are cut off short and are crossly: “Oh, why do I gossip?”
minate the situation and will do so usually not too definite. "Well, why do we gossip?
for some time yet.
Some top-hat shapes are being My answer to that is, that we
New materials give some indica-women. They are worn on hair made just now, especially for elder- gossip because we like to every
tions for the future. There are one of us. We like to gossip for the
light Braids of straw and some same reason that people form clubs
which are coarse. Coloured straws --because, we need the companion- ship of each other to share ideas,
are many, and there are more flow- news, pleasures, and sorrows.
in it.
therefore seems absurd.
WAGE INCREASE GRANTED
London, To-day-
.
carrot.
which is worn loose behind, but generally gathered up to some ex- tent instead of being short. They are un-expectedly flattering to the
Where
The British Aluminium Companyers this year. Materials indicate faceTo. the top-hat almost any There is no harm in gossip. On has decided partially to meet the hats which are small and those which variation comes not amiss. the contrary, there is a lot of good demands of its workers for higher are large. For the spring there are there is a brim it is little more wages by agreeing to pay a bonus a good many knitted hats, but these than a roll or binding. Some of are made of chenille, or variegated them have the look of the top-hat Through gossip or the exchange of a halfpenny per hour.
Payment for piece work is to be threads, some having perhaps a little that went with the long riding habit of ideas we learn 2 lot about
gold in them. The scarlet hat seems and the chignon and they are worn increased by five per cent.
re-likely to be popular again and in with a loose veil, usually gathered
every sort of material. it enables plain dark clothes to be worn which in a fuzzy bunch at the side- back of the head. A few top-hats yet have a certain brightness. Rīb
incline inward half-way down, ac- bons seem to be suited for whole
things and places and people, that we would otherwise be ignorant of. Best of all we learn to realise that
we are neither more nor less mar- tyrs, nor heroines, than the other woman-or man-and that alone
The new scale of wages will main effective for twelve months.
-Trans-Ocean.
should do us an immense amount interruption to road, rail and air com- hats and also for trimming. These hieving a waisted effect. The dip
of good.
Unusually heavy rains have caused
munications throughout Palestine,
in front may be balanced by a large are variously of silk, of velvet, and
bow. down the hair at the back. of something which looks like fime when the top-hat is sloped slight- It takes the conceit out of some
Three Croydon hospitals have been knitted straw. Bright stripes aply inwards towards the top it be of us, and rightly so. It also keeps scheduled as air raid casualty clearing pear on dark grounds, and there others from those orgies or self-stations.
comes the Directoire hat. This has are plaid and check ribbons. Some
a curly brim and is on the high of those in black with a warm red side. and a blue-green stripe are very Homburg shapes are legion and becoming. Straw and velvet are to this is the hat which can be used be contrasted as violently as pos- for all but formal occasions. Any- sible. Coarse, shiny straws go with thing may happen to a Hombourg velvet trimmings. Some hats seem
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of the hair and which are much too
hat. Pieces may be cut out of it
to be made entirely of bow, and anywhere and folds of felt may be the bow may be either of straw or set on it resembling the sails of a of velvet. There are still innumer: windmill. The most becoming shape able little caps which follow the lift does away with the dent in the crown, has a brim curling up im- convenient, both for wearing and mensely on one side and a tall, al- for packing, to be discarded light most perpendicular, feather on the [ly.
other. This hat may be on the flat "Caps of felt and wool lend them-
side to
go with a rough tweed coat; selves to every sort of shape. Worn much tipped and pulled forward with big fur collars or fur capes, over one eye to go with a less
they run up into a peak towards formal suit.
the front. A cap may seem to be
made of two caps, one pulled for-
M. Van Zeeland, the Belgian Premier, ward and the other back with a appealed over the wireless for Belgians lift where they meet. The forage to compose their differences.
Ossietsky, the German pacifist writer
cap has many adaptations, both fea- thers and tassels being used to trim it. Little wings, quills, a wing and who was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, has been invited by vari- a question mark together, a wing ons non-political Norwegian organisa- and a spike are all methods of add- tions to visit Norway." ing point to the felt cap. None of
the plainest felts is the American "A-list of 87 persons who have been sailor. This falls in. with the off-deprived of their German citizenship for behaviour incompatible with their the-face tendency, without being 50 daty to the Reich," has appeared in self-confident. The top of the the German official Gazette.
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