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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22,
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**NOVELTIES.
Millinore continue to invent the
DRESSING GOWN NOVELTIES.
most charming novelties in the The now dressing gowns that way of scarf and hat sols. Onoare made of pale pastel coloured is ombroidered with branches of crope de Chino, are hand-painted coral. Another mail black hat all over with exquisite flowers, trimmed with heron feathers and lined with a vivid contrasting which hang over the crown all coloured orepo de Chino. round the back, is trimmed with Other drossing gowns are mado largo groy pearls in front, and in of the new silk laco stockinetto, llou of a scarf, has a string of that some dresumakers are trying pearl beads to complete it, and, as to introduce for evening frocks. a finishing touch, pearl ball ear Those dressing wraps rings. Any colour of pearls is simple design, bandod and collar- smart, but grey seems to be pre-ed with silvor or gold lame and forted for these "scarf nocklaces" trimmed with long fringed sashes if it is permitted to invont such a of silver or gold ribbon. description.
NEW MATERIAL.
This very attractive coat is marle of the new wel material with a pattern of coloura woren in the cloth. It gives the up- pearance of being very sendte but is really only a straight wrap-over model bound with fur. It is lined with rd kasha cloth.
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Fur-trimmed dressing gowns, mado of some new very thin colour-printed velvetocu, .aro another novelty-those some- times boing lined throughout with fine Norwegian ciderdown; eider plumes of the same soft shade of groy being used like grobe to trim the collars and cuffs.
Equally fascinating are somo silk knitted or crachet wraps, cut on kimono lines, with hig 'coat collars of dyed rabbit or mock chenillo.
Dressing gowns of whito kasha nre cut on the lines of a man's loose-fitting top coat, and collared with white fur, which is also used to hom the inside and outside of the skirt.
By far the most practical idee and one that will appeal to the busy housewife is the dressing wrap, cat over-all of one-piece fashion. This may bo slipped on ovor the head, caught in with a girdle, and does not look out, of place at the breakfast table.
A good choice in materials is washing satin, which is both practical and economical, yet The various quite effuctive. wodilen materials which are now 80.02sily obtainable, make very Cosy wraps, and their bright colours aro particularly welcome ondall winter days,
BELTS AND FRILLS.
Some of the now wide suodo halts are trimmed with metallic ornaments, or decoracted with gdld and silverstencilling. These bolts, finished-on one side with a Net-of stool studs, are worn pressed i tow down over the hips of the now tubo kadha frocks.
THIS WERK'S RECIPE.
PEACH BLANOMANGE.
TO-DAY'S BEAUTY NOTE. It is astonishing how many otherwise fastidious women will
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Two cups poach pulp. 4 cup go on using a powder puff, long sugar, 4 tablespoons cornstarob, after It has become absolutoly 1/8 teaspoon salt, 2 eggs (whites.) grimy. One must admit that an Heat peach pulp and sugar to old powder puff is daaior to use, the boiling palat. Stir in corn- than a new one, and that it is starch stirred to a smooth paste almost Impossible to wash or Ballsfactorily, but with cold water enough to pour olcan oasily. Cook fifteen or twenty nothing could be worse for tho minutos, Romove from the firo skin than to have something and add salt. Add whitos of ogga soiled constantly rubbed over ita beaton until stiff and dry. Turn Reserve your powder puff for your Into mold and chill. Sorvo with neck and shoulders, and try us- boiled custard made with yolks ing, for your face, a small pleca of the egge.
IDEA MERCHANTS.
When a woman says to me now, "Oh, my dear, do let me holp you. I am just bursting with ideas i" my brutal instinct is to say: "Burst. But don't. let any of your ideas overflow on to mo says a writer in the Daily Chroniclo.".
This may Bound unappro- eiativo, evon harsh; but it is wisdom born of suffering. Peoplo who are bursting with Ideas know no restraint. They call themselves idea merchants, but they are moro like pirates. You
↓ acquiro have only to house or a new baby and they board you, willy-nilly, destroy your own ideas, plunder your peace of mind and retire, leaving you wrecked and adrift on a 803 of irritation.
now
Fooble-minded, you may say. Why suffer the ideas of other people when you have porfectly
Some reasons why Pa, is is the inspiration of the world when it comes to fashions. What buyers for leading houses which makos Paris the inspira- which affords an excellent ex-good ones of your own? Bot buy in Paris and advertise as tion of the world when it comes ample of the thrift of the Fronch. there is no oscaping the true- It is the removable train which born idea merchant. She is, or direct from Paris" and what to fashiona.. your neighbour, the tourist, bringe home as the "dernier, ori" in no way represent the real Parisian creations..
It is the "just different" thing which the buyer shuns because it night provo a white elephant, or which your neighbour hasn't the ourage to wear at the bridge club,
IDEAS FOR NEW LAMPSHADES.
Evenings are drawing in, and lighting-up time becomes earlier. Little Directeiro jabot frills and each day. What have the Alad- frouds of exceedingly dainty dins of to-day-the modern manu- design are also much to the fore.footerers of lamps and lampshades Used as a relief on dark coloured to offer us in exchange for our clash dresses theso are made of old ones? Here are a few of the pleated or tucked georgette or latest novelties designed for the organdi, trimmed with minuto winter of 1924-5. paste and onyz studs that lend then groat distinction; while linked cuffs to match are used on the long sleeved autumn frocks.
TWO FUTURIST EFFECTS.
The nowest ahedra are made from a Celanese product-dull on the outer side and quite shiny an the ineldo-the botter to reflect the light. The "last word" are the tortoiseshell ones with a "fringe" of tortoiseshell, each particle connected to the lado with a tiny metai ring. Othora made in this same composition are in colourings like those old- fashioned colluloid balls so bo- loved of Victorian children.
Parchment or silk shades of paleat yellow with a border com- posod of the notos and worda of your favourite time, are the newest shades for the music rooni. Others in plain colours. show a frieze in silhouette of minstrels or Greek dancing girls. The most up-to-date silk shades are the Batik squares weighted with silken tassels drawn through blocks of painted wood.
Thero is a wide choice in the matjor of fringes, but these dem- posed of fluffy fronds of ostrich feathers are the nowost this sonson.
Many of the parchment shades are so treated that they become transparent, and are painted to resemble atainod glass. Very effective, these in the hall, or with wood panelling.
AN ENGLISH BEAUTY.
lace.
Paris is Paris for all of those.
ADAPTING THE SCARF..
It is the scarf-sleeve, the clever is practical and useful or it may rather she believes she is, un ly conceived scarf which term- be the simplest oretonne tunic altruist. She is out on the war: inatos in finely embroidered cuffs, bordered in old-fashioned un-path, bristling with ideas so that which make it less difficult to bleached muslin with slip of the she may be of some use in the handle and which makes a sleevo- same or ropes of tiny enchained world. She meane remarkably mirrera cascading. from a quaint well. She spares no breath and loss frock more wearable,
It is the embroidered bouquet creation of bridal satin and silver no words. If your new house or nursery is hor objective you are which replaces the fresh flowers
to be pitied. You must take a so dear to the heart of women and
deep breath and duck, letting the torrent of her invention' surge over you. Whon she has gone you can bring out your own little One of the important decorative ideas, wilted, perhaps, but homely uses that a scarf may play in a pleasant things suited to your woman's wardrobe is that of bed- tastes and Income.
inoro The Idea merchant, having room wrap. There is no charming form of neglige than a once found you, return again and large silk scarf or shrwl, which again to the attack. Resign your- to bar. can be thrown on over the night solf and don't listen gown and wrapped about the Nothing can be done about it. figure, where it will always drape Unless you can give her an idea] gracefully if made of good crepe in exchange adviso her to join an de Chine. A scarf utilised in this advertisement copywriter's staff. way affords just that protection; That is her proper place. from draughts which is necessary even in warm weather, and it ascapes reposting the monotonous lines of the eternal dressing gown;| which is bound to have an open front if it is to be slipped on.
In bed the scarf is more adapt- able than the made-up neglige. It makes the Ideal garmont for breakfasting in bed, wrapped about the arms and shoulders, with ends so long that they do not dipinto the! coffee. For the same reasons, the scarf offers the ideal wrap for those who read in bed.
The woman who is fond of knitting will like making one of the new drop-stitch scarves of beavy silk and wool mixture. There are no set dimensions for the scarf, but a good beginning is to saet on 80`atilabes,
Mrs. Lionel TennYBON) - 4444 daughter of Baron Glenconner, has been declared one of Enjj- land's loveliest society queens,
ELECTRICALLY HEATED
SCREENS.
The new electrical screens are For the dinner table, there are fashioned like an ordinary three small out glass lampitands with or five-fold screen, covered with cut crystal shades, which can be a plain surfaced canvas material. used for candles if electric light Screens of this sort are in great is not laid on.
request in nursing homes, in day
If severity in the keynote of and night nurseries, and in your room there are square Invalids' rooms, and they supply shades like a box kite, made of a long felt" want! for they have stiff cartridge paper of pa
the advantage of being portable,
be used painted, and Bighly and
A MINIATURE SCENT: SPRAY.
It is the custom of 'many women to carry perfume in their band- bage. The usual "smail bottle is not very con- ventont and certainly liable to spill its contente in the bag. A batter way is to use one of the now. miniaturescent sprays, provided with the samo.. fittings as the large kind in use on the drowsing. table. The little spray fa endlosed In ☎, pursɑ.. The whol
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of medicated cotton wool from a roll which you pan buy obeaply, at any chemists. It will apply the powder just as smoothly, and can be discarded after a day or two
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SIMPLE LINES. “
This frock is of rich and lovely materials but verygimple ns to line and effect. Black is contrasted with printed velvet ∙in very-exotic shades of red and yellow. The front is very full and the back is very plain.
WHEN A BOB'S NOT
BOB.