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LONDON'S SMART YOUTHS
More colour is coming Into men's clothing.
Young men are paying more xt- tention to style.
The Englishman is the best dressed in the world.
Londen leads in fashion.
These are the opinions of ME.. James Weddell, of Manchester, who was elected president of the National Federation of Morchan Tailors (Incorporated) at thé an- nual meeting of the federation in Holborn Town Hall recently.
The young men of to-day, he said, are paying more attention to style.
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The cult af slimness is being courted, and there is a pronounced feeling, for the longor jacket.
The Popular Plus -Fours Styles in men's clothes had been far too conservative in the past:" both in materials and colour. There was more evidence of more colour being introduced. For sports wear an amazing choice was offered, and the result was that the plus-four suit was the most popular in many men's ward- robes.
"I word combat the idea," add- ed the president, "that colour in men's dress is a sign of effeminacy.
"What period of history reveals the greatest heroiam and adven- Lure Surely the Elizabethan period, when our great captaina who built up our Empire. were at tired in ribbons, velvets, and silks "of every colyar in the rainbow:
"May not the dullness and dead- ly respectability of men's wear int recent generations typify the de- cay of the spirit of manly adven- ture? At any rate, let us welcopy: the tendency to experiment in col- our."
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Too Much Modesty.
"He claimed for British tailors that they led the world in""cut"-- that touch of creative genius and deftness which gave "tone," and lent individuality and life to their productions. These clothes were sought for by men of discriminat- ing taste throughout the world.
Too much modesty had in the past been one of the failings of the merchant tailor, but since the war his sense of pride of craft had developed.
An Englishmen was acknow ledged all the world over as the best-dressed man of any nation and in men's fashions. London led.
Let them as merchant tailors bc- come better advertisers and preach to the world of man their faith. To be well dressed is the only visible form of prosperity."
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PRINCESS ILEANA OUT OF BOUNDS.
New York.Lieut....William J. Glasgow, Jun., a cadet at West Point Military Academy, woke up the other morning to find himself famous as the hero of a romance," with Princess Ileana as heroine."
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On the Royal party's return from the West, they were the week- "end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Char- les Mitchell at fashionable Tuxedo Park, only a dozen miles from West Point.
Princess Ileana (they say) asked. if Lieut. Glasgow could not be in- vited to luncheon.
Tuxedo Point Out Of Hounds.
" But the Superintent General at West Point had to reply that the rules prevented him from granting: furlough for such a purpose.
"Well, why can't we motor over to West Point, and have lunch
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There was no regulation against PRECIOUS MS. STOLEN. Mr. Ernest E. Magge, a partner discovered about a month ago,
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So Princess Deana, properly chaperoned, went in the Mitchelle' car, and Lieut. Glasgow and his friend "buddy," Cadet Captain Henry Douglas, had lunch with
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of the firm, told a Daily Chronicle when the Inspector-General of representative that the manuscript Libraries vialted St. Genevieve to had not been in the London office make the usual inventory of Its an hour. when they realised that it contents.
should still be in the Paris library The Minister of Public Instruc
"On examining-it-in London" hetion instituted a privato inquiry,' A precious Illuminated manu-
said, "our Paris. manager notleod aided by detectives, but although script of the 14th century, entitled that the library stamp was still on many suspicions were antertained the party, and the Princess gavere Genealogie de Jesus Christ it and that there was no cancella-as to who had abstracted the pre- the lieutenant her photograph, au Depuis Adam, which disappeared tion stamp to indicate that it had clous document from the archives tographed, with a very sen- from the famous St. Genevieve
the manuscript could not be found. timent.
Library in Paris, has been return-
been sold.
A New York newspaper wrote ited to the French GovernmentIt is customary in all big public. It is believed that the matter
Lost a Month Ago,
Ministera Confer, neve up in the best fairy story manner through the French Embassy in institutions to stamp their por was occupying the attention of describing Lieut. Glasgow as the London.
Adonis of the Academy. When A well-known London firm of manent possessions in this way, Ministers when it was unexpected- West Point heard of this as many dealers in books and manuscripts stamp on it any dealer would low Legal proceedings may be taken
and unless there is a cancellation ly returned. papers as there are denizens in had bought the manuscript for a America's Sandhurst were bought large sum of money through their that it was still the property of the by the French authorities against
It will be long before "Bill"Paris agent, but when they found on it the stamp of the St. Genevieve Glasgow-now called "The future Library they communicated with King of Ruritania, or. Tumanla"--
the Embassy. hoara the last of it."
up.
"We immediately got into touch Library In connection with thể mediately an officer of the St. Genevieve with the French authorities in this matter; country."
The manuscript, is about 26 The loss of the manuscript war yards long. -
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