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WOMAN'S WORLD
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
Fashion Notes.
DRESS OR SPORTS, FROCKS.
It is extraordinary how the' materials which have hitherto been kept exclusively for evening wear, are now making their ap pearanco in morning and after- noon and even sports frocks. Even gold tissue and satin are! utilised, while there are very fascinating fabrics of Jersey which contafu interwoven gold or silyor threads.
some
In some of the latest sports fabrics, this iden has been very successfully developed, and one: suft seen and prepared for a lady who is about to start for, Cannes, is so brilliant that it seems to flashi back the sunlight.
Indeed, many of the new frocks are, of this material, while there are others of plain jersey encrust- ed with milk, which have a par ticularly good line.
A pretty note is introduced in crepe-de-chino jumpers those
which button in front-by cutting the material into points, before the buttonholes, and using gold. rimmed bultons which match the colour of the dress.
Practical Golf Suits,
Many of the sports suits that are being shown have a graduated horizontal stripe on the jumper, the skirt being quite plain, except for n group of tucks, usually placed in front to provide the necessary fullness,
The necklines are pretty, some- times being bort-shaped, ond Anished with a button or buckle, a note which may be repeated at the waistline. Crepo-de-chine crusted on jersey is sometimes seen on these frocks, or one jersey ou, the other.
.on-
A practical idea appears on the have short golf auits, which
Diagonal banda and edgings of dark brown cloth form a striking adornment for a coat in fawn suiting. The coat in cut on wrap-over lines, fastened at the waist with a narrow: belt, and finished at the neck with the new revers-collar.
knickers attached to the skirt, and Some Useful Hints.
are topped with a long coat.
The simplest evening frock nowadays is often the amartest and most desirable, Here f one, in soft apricot tinted moire allk, which relies on the beauty of its fabric and the grace of its draping for all its exquisite
effect.
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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
I'M GONNA COME RIGHT
OUT AN TELL FRECKLES WHAT
AY SECRET IS GEE! IXUST"
· CANT KEEP IT TO MYSELF ANY LONGER--- HE'LL BE
SO SURPRISED HE WONT
KAYONU WHAT TO
SAY!!
FOR THE WOMAN WHO WEARS GLASSES.
Settling Down.
WOMEN KEEP YOUTHFUL APPEARANCE,
I am condemned to spectacles" Women have, it is generally permanently, and I find that my agreed, in the last score of years clothes need some adjustment. achievod quito- n remarkable Personally like to have glasses triumph over age, or, to be more with horn rims (not necessarily accurate, over the disabilities the heaviest) and do the thing generally brought about by age. thoroughly.
They koép their. youthful
It is a serious matter to add appearance much longer than two emphatic circles to our their grandmothers did; they features, and it means that we dance and play games and shingle must avoid other circles and other their heads at an age when evon; emphasis.
were mothers No more severo gar-their
wearing menta, madam, unless you wish to bonnets and settling down to fire- look like a stage governeas, At side enjoymenta for life. the same timo, beware of fussy But are they really very much
happier for the change? clothes.
Study Your Jewellery.
Up to a certain point the exten-
should be free to follow them.
But is the craze for rushing about and "keeping in the swim" not being overdone?
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OUR NEW BRITISH CROSSWORDS:
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53
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Acrons.
1 Ill tempered woman, 6 Enfolds.
10 Foot covering.
11 For propelling boat.
18 Irritate." *:
15 Keep from decay.
16 Hostler,...
17 Publish.
18 One who diye,
20 Culinary Requisito,
22 Unclean.
29 Moist
20 Call for old.
27 Step.
30 Stopped.
32 Food.
83 Deliver orders.
35 Plend with.
37 Performer,
38 Merit...
40 Travol,
41 Cured meat.
42 Playa
45 Part of flower.
47 Notion.
50 Catton gauros.
52 Situation,
54 Joined.
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55 Absolute Sovereign.
60 Sagacious.
57 Attar.
68 Drics.
59 Re-fr.
60 Garps.
Doson
1. Having shoes.
2, Sweet.
3 Repose.
4 Part of spooch.
5 Forason.
7 Opposed to sciences.
8 Rernuneration of pilot. ◊ Sledge.
THE FRENCH AIR MINISTRY.
STRANGE STRUGGLE GOING ON.
A correspondent writes us from Parls as follows:
In the spring of 1928 it was the
5%
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110 Perfomo,
13 Eager.
14 Rub-out.
16 Fragments,
19 Gnawe.
21 Smudge.
24 Did.
25 Tap.
27 Faction.
28 External covering.
29. Beo.
31 Calm.
32 Sirap.
34 Tend to one point.
30 Mosh.
39 Ariso from
40 Froaks.
41 Retained.
49 Animation."
44 Worries.
46 Stoop.
48 Costly.
49 Eons
51 Arrest.
52 Road.
53 Sailors,
Yesterday's Solution"/
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domanded a restriction of the powers of the Minister of Avin tlon, M. Laurent-Eynac. In the struggle which followed between this new Minister on the one side and the War Minister, M. Painleve, and the Minister of Marine, M. Leygues, on the other side, M. Laurent Bynac carried the day. The Council of Ministera decided that the army and navy have to present their requirements to the
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Go in for pointed neck-openingssion of the period of no-called on your frocks, and soften their youth is undoubtedly good. outlines as much, as possible. Let As long as a woman really your necklace be a long one, or if enjoys the activities which used to military men of high rank who you must wear a choker let it be be more especially practised by ardently advocated the creation of Ministry of Aviation and that the light in accent and colour.. younger women, it is well that she a special Air, Ministry. General whole flying staff, Including the Fonville and General Girod in flying troops of the army and navy, Let your hair frame your face as tenderly as may be. Pull it
great zeal because they were of well forward at the sides, if that
particular took the matter up with are subject to that ministry,
Important Move, opinion that this, alone would Buits your contours, and shun a bald forehead as you would the
Many a woman must ask herself, guarantee a satisfactory develop- The powers thus assigned to when she Beans her packed
ment of French avlation. They the Air Minister are destined to' plague.
For out-of-doors, soft full furs engagement list, whether she is argued that no long as the Minis increase from your to year inas- will be more becoming than getting as much real happiness out trics of War, the Colonies, Com much as Franco devotes consider amooth varieties, and a scarf of all this activity as she would merce and Posts were concerned able sums to the development of air service, especially loosely arranged will help you to get if she were to give in to what with the question of aviation, her
is now considered the disgrace much of the work would be done wherever military questions aro ban severity.
ful temptation to "settle down," twice over at double expense and involved. The air service esti- Overcoming the Hat Problem.
of public defence mates for 1028 showed a marked Hata are a difficulty. They and live the life that her mother the interests must be light in weight and not and her grandmother lived at her would niso suffer. Consequently, increase; while, in 1929, those for
It was considered esential that the naval planes alone will show too close-fitting, or they will press age.
Would she lose much if she did control over commercial aviation further rise of 119 million francs. your spectacles on to the sensitive
On the yield? It may yet be shown that and the expenditure for the army This means more than 10 per cent.. nerves behind the cars. other hand they must not be so there would be more to be gained and navy should be placed in one of the total expenditure for de-
person's hands.
fence purposes; and it constitutes small as to suggest another circle. than lost by such a giving-in,
Fashion
at Fortunately
These arguments undoubtedly a 60 per cent increase of the present
Jenient
contributed. to the establishment amount hitherto spent on the mistress, thing else that gives softness.
on of the French Air Ministry to naval air forces, Thus far my meditations especially in regard to millinery.
It is clear that this new 'Alr Some brim in front will be help-circles and severity had led me, wards the close of the past sum-
"mer. But it so happens that just Ministry is becoming one of the ful, and you will probably find an when I met an old friend.
Hard should hardly have known you," the very chiefs of the army and most important and heavily Irregular shape becoming. ribbons and petersham must go, she said, "but I think your glasses navy ie, the Minister of War and Bnanced Government departments
the Minister of Marine, recently in France. to be replaced by velvet or any-lare just it!"-S. In Exchange,
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Freckles Spoils It
NOW IF HE STARTS IN OU TELLIN' AKE WILAT A BIG SECRET HE HAS
I'LL TELL HIM 2-DON'T CARE
IF HE HAS A ANILLION OF "E- IF I ACT LIKE I DONT CARE
HELL COME RISHT OUT
AN SPILL EVERYTHING!!
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WELL, IS POSE YOUVE BEEN WONDER- ING ALL TIUS TIME WHAT MY SECRET. IS AAY WIBUING ID „TELL YOU WHAT IT 16, HAVENT YOU FRECKLES
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NO AN WHATS
ANDRE I DOUBT IF IT AMOUNTS - TO A HILL OF
BEANS ANYWAY!!
OK, WELL IF THAT'S THE WAY YOU FEEL ABOUT
IT I WON'T, TELL YOU!!
By Blosser
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AICAN WHAT DID I SAY "THAT FOR TELBETHA AE WAS GOING TIL.
REALLY TELL I
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