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BARBARIC GIRLS
The SAVAGE BECOMES The
By F. G. H. SALUSBURY
GODDESS
of FASHION
have never been present at the un- lacquering of one of these beautiful little heads, but I should think it would be something like scraping varnish off a door."
TWO NEW COCKTAILS
FOR THE BARBARIC ONES
Whisky as an ingredient in cock atils is winning popularity among woofan dus to the happy discovery that it blends perfectly with pine- apple juice, which increases Ite acceptability to feminine palates.
At a cocktail party in London the other day two recipes won par
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There can be few men now who do not touch up their eyelashes WHAT little barbarians women with black, brown or blue cosmeti
have become not only in their and the fashion flourishes in the morals and their manners-how open air. At a recent race meet many of the young girls of to-daying I saw a girl, who could not with their mother but in the up just as if stre were going on the have any manners at all, compared have been more than twenty, made
of their physical stage. She had learned all the restraint and the lack of taste that ture, the ingredients of which cocktails will not oust all the old
enhancement
charms!
The general mancipation of women has let Eve loose on the world and, like a suddenly liberat ed tigress, she has galloped straight back to the jungle.
REVOLT.
tricks. She was a complete little Barbaris."
Her eyelashes, heavily blacked, were thickened with false ones that had been attached with a spot of gum. Her face was uniformly.co loured with a yellow wash. Her eyelids were tinted a golden brown. Her lips were as red and shiny as a pillar-box, and her nails had Vaheen Tanquered vermilion. Sha ex- ploded in the fresh air, and against the green grass, with all the force of a frework.
has
How this emancipation come about I do not know. rious wise men have ascribed it to various causes to a revulsion, no longer to be bottled up, against the stuffy conventions of the tast century; to the chaos following the great war: to the sentimental weakening of man. I repeat, I do not know. But there is one thing certain-so-called civilised woman has gone barbarian because of love: love of admiration, love of luxury, and-just love.
That night she wo id change her war paint according to the colour of her evening dress. Let us sup post the dress to be green. Off would come her yellow wash, on would go a milky one, and har monising green paint would be applied to her eyelids.
Her mouth would change frota All her primitive instincts have vermilion to deep crimson, and her come to the surface, and have ex-cheeks would bloom with chemical hibited themselves in primitive roses. Her nails, too, would chan ways that would do credit to the ge to crimson:" veritable African eavages who dis- tort their lips by stretching them over wooden plates.
It ao happens that European men do not admire overthick lips. Let them, however, show a sigu
There is perhaps ans woman is pretty back, but, with the lack of twenty thousand who has a really
characterise our barbarians, moet of them flaunt their blades and their spinal columns in. public.
shoulder
They certainly attract atten tion in this way, and so, I sup- pore, they are happy.
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PRIMITIVE
Their manners are primitive, without any of the savage's sim plicity. Cigarette ends litter their progress across rooms and past furniture. Drinks are spilt on valuable chairs and tables. They hava no consideration, bless their hearts, for any che or anything. apart from their immediate de- gires. Civilised society has been dissolved. in the cocktail shaker, and smeared with paint,
Madame and Miss Barbarias. I salute you. You ultrafeminine in your bursting of the bonds of all restraint. You are having a It is understood that slie has great time. But I do not see in long since shaved off her eyebrows. you the fall of another Roman Em When we saw her on the acecourse pire. I see in you a bright future. she wore, instead of them, delicate Man is long-suffering and he, too, curves painted in a rich brown. has had his sense of values turned For the evening she has rubbed upside down-but, sooner or later,
The other called. "Highland Fling is a dry challenging mix and is both sweet and seductive.
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Scotch Whisky Pineapple Juice Kinz Lillet
A daalf or two of peach bittere. The enthusiasm of the inventer
(Continued on next Columa).
may be pardoned, for though these
favourites, they have two special virtues; the purity of whisky, so often the only form of aloobal per mitted to some people, and the wonderful digestive properties of pineapple juice which make the mixture a true aperitif.
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THE FALL OF THE DOLLAR
Not to shrink
of doing so, and their wonen will off thess brown curves and painted you will provoke him to assert him GUARANTEED Not to fade
put no limit to the su ering by which beauty may be obtained
Lot them show a liking for long necks, and their wives and sweet hearts will try to copy the giraffe women of the East, whose necks have been tortured to extraordin ary lengths by the successive, add tions of thick metal ringe.
Meanwhile our Eves do their best with paint and false bair and the assistance of the chemist's labora- tory.
WHAT THE
on two others, even more delicata, feelf, and to amack you again when and done in a dark blue. They you need it. That is what you slant up slightly towards her tem- want. I think. ples and make her look-she things. And then all will be right with
the world. mysteriously alluring.
She may wear sandals with her evening dress, and if so her toe nails will be varnished to match her finger nalla.
Her hair will be lacquered so that it sets almost as stily as a board, and in the lacquer you may detect glittering specks, of gold. 1
CHILDI ON
WILL BE WEARING
Mothers will find in this article much useful advice, about clothes, for the children.
cuffed with white pique voile.
Organdie, muslin, or taffeta make tea-party frocks for the lit le Princesses, and these are cut on similar lines. Many of these have no aleaves at all, or very tiny
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Simple lines, pale blues and gay yallows are favoured by the Du- chess of York for her little daugh ters. Many & mother of small" ones. girls will want to choose likewise, and in doing so she will not err On windy day a woollen jumper in taste.h
or cardigan is useful, and as lông. When Princesa Elizabeth Was as it is plain and trim, two years old every one wondered smart. Princess Elizabeth what sort of clothes the Duchessa lemonwool jumper for cooler wea would choose for her. Well, know ther, and sometimes a natural- ing that the fate of all smart chil coloured one. dren depended on her
Very
We are
GIRL WHO WOULD NOT STAY AT HOME-AND MADE HISTORY
Mins Peggy Scriven. the pretty tewenty-year-old girl, the Cinderel- la of the English Lawn Tennis As- sociation, is now the woman" "cham- pion of France.
She beat Mme. Mathieu, France's No. 1 player., 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.
She is the first individual, man or woman, of British birth who has Lever won a singles championship of France since the title was thrown open to the world
She is also he the girl whom the English Selection Committee con- sidered not a good enough playari to represent her country, of British women players.
Peggy ranked No. 12 in the list
When she was not selected she decided to go over to Paris along as an unofficial English player.
The official team had their ex- penses paid. Peggy paid her own Members of the official team were capice, Michael Cunningham-Reid wears nursed throughout their visit. mothers in Mayfair waited eagera plain wool cardigan for playing Peggy had not even a member of
in the garden, and the Hon. her family with her. Mountjoy Fane's children. Tony
But what she had was a mission and Daphne, are often en into prove that her ranking was all woollen jumpers.
wrong-and a deadly long distance -Perhaps your children are keenThese two things carried her
driving forehand. on riding, and your plans for them with J. Crawford, the Australian include a daily gallop, sur
ly for her decision.
"Plain clothes" was the answer, and the frocks and coats we sec the little Princess wearing are all simple and very trim.
Soft pale bluss and clear gay yellows are the colours most often worn by Elizabeth and her sister Margaret.
If you base your children's wardrobe on the sort of clothes the little Princesses are wearing you may be sure of the right fashions and the right style.
They are wearing high necks and high waistlings, and these fashions have travelled as far as Holly wood, where Marlons Dietrich's daughter Maria, and Helen Hayes': little girl, Mary, have cotton frocks
right up to the neck
For mornings you might choose one of the many attractive print
ed British cottons fora
high neck, tiny sleeves,
with
gathered at a high waitline like
the one Elizabeth has, collared and
Most of the younger generation through the mixed doubles final seen in the Row ride astride, and
with Blying colours. jodhpurs with velvet jockey cape match yesterday with
They carried her to the final, are moet often worn bere and at Mathieu. France's singles title.
Mme. the riding school where Lady Mary And they carried her through Cambridge and Lady Elizabeth that. Cavendish are pupils.
When we come to the beach, that crowd, but there was one in She had ten thousand friends in fashions are still trim, and blues particular friend who crossed and yellows good colours again. over to France last week who was "Bunnyweather" rompare are thrilled more than all the others to very simple, and could be made in see. Peggy win the French Crown, gay yellow and clear blue cottons
Bold daffodil yellow checks on a light blue or white ground would be good for boys overalls. You make these overalls with, short, legs. if you like them better, or buy them for less than five shillings in gaily. striped cotton materjal.
Primrose yellow Howers on light blus ground would be attrac tive for a little girl's crawlera. ✨ You could take the skirt-spa- rately to wear over the crawlers. as a change from the usual · frock and knicker est.
The English team did not see her win. They had already, left Paris.
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