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MEN IN SKIRTS AND TROUSERED WOMEN,
Two women with Elon-cropped, hair and wearing cream-coloured) trousers and sandals, and a man in a skirt, took part in the recent Men's Dress Reform Rally at King George's Hall, Tottenham Court- rond,
The majority of the 150 persona present word short trousers, ten- ti shirts, woollen stockings and founge jackets.
Mr. Ernest Thesiger, the actor, appeared in corduroy "shorts," a drill shirt with an open neck, and a woollen pullover gathered in at the waist with a leather belt. He did not wear a jacket.
Dr. C. W. Saleeby, the chairman, wearing shorts" and a tennis shirt with a tweed cont, explained the object of the rally.
"There la no offeinl dress of any kind," he said. "We have merely asked those who are interested to
come and discuss matters. We
think there is room for improve ment, and we are here to see what we can achieve in that respect,"
Dr. J. C. Flugel, senior lecturer
WOMAN'S WORLD
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
A "Superiority. Complex."
[By a Specialist in Child
Psychology.]
Happily there are few adults who do not realise the necessity for saying to Johnnie,, "Give some of your sweets to your Hitle sister," or "Save a sweet for daddy" for they realise, rightly, that this is on the way to helping Johanle to become an unselfish member of society-one who not only pulls his own weight" but also does a little rowing on behalf of the rest of the crew,
realised, however, is that, not only What is UIDE 80 generally
Livate, generosity, but it is also is this helping the child to cul-
in psychology at University Col-helping his "superiority-complex" lege, wore a blue lounge suit with to develop.
short trousers and a while tennis shirt. The only points in favour of conventional clothes, he said, were that they were long lived and had pockets.
"If there is to be rationalisation in industry," he paid, “it is Ume: there was rationalisation in clothes."
Dr. Leonard Williams wore morning dress with white spats and grey top hat.
"I want," he said, "to put in a pleo for conventional attire be- cause, there is nothing incompa- tible between conventional attire and the object of true reforta. have put on conventional attire because Peontend that you can be just as comfortable in this kind of kit as in any other."
Rev.
"În costume," said the Perey Dearmer, "we are all about 50 years behind the times. Men's costume in-day dove not reflect the mentality of the day, but that of 1860,
The modern clergymans repre- sents the Victorian tailors' iden of i a Man of God."
Mr. Dearmer wore ordinary clothes.
GHOST SCARE.
PARROTS WARNING WHICH CAUSED ALARM,
A party of lads camping on the shores of Lake Beauly inverucas- shire are now laughing over ap adventure which has just befallen them. So, too, are a number of local residents.
At dead of night there came from a thickel close by q voice
crying persistently "Oh, dear me; take care!"
The lads became so alarmed that they decided to break up their i qunrtera. Neighbours | who herd of the affair shock ! their heads and told the young fellows that the spot where they were camping was reputed to be haunted,
On the second night those stories and so neted upon the Inds; that they elected, to share one tenti only. Again the voice was heard. and scarcely had dawn broken! when steps were taken to break up the encampment.
These hnd not proceeded fur: when a solution to the mystery was provided by one boy, who, grently during, penetrated the thicket from which the voice had
come.
There, from a rabbit hole, again came the volce,Take care, tuke, care," and looking into the warren"
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Accept Silcky Sweets,
It is for this latter reason that it is usually unwise, and some times even unkind, to refuse a sweet (horribly sticky and up- appetising as it may appear to you); that is offered to you by a small child.
When you had your birthday. cake sent to you at school, would you, quite honesty, have enjoyed enting it all by yourself, never offering anyone else a single slice?
Of course you wouldn't.
In the Limelight.
It was the publicity of the thing, being able to pass it round to your friends, and being able to be thanked by them; that was half It threw you into the the fun. limelight, added to your self- esteem, and augmented the grow- ing sense of your own importance. 1 count a Httle Ave-year-old Welsh girl among my friends,
Florida's Fairest?
We
Pictured is Margaret Camp- bell, a bacteriology student at Florida State College for Wo men. Sho la holding the cup that is to be given the winner in a beauty pageant. She's li brunette and just 18.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
WHEN YOU GET BACK HOME YOU CAN SAY YOU SWAM AT THE BEACH OF *WAIKIKI !!
IMAGINE! ME SWIMMING ON THE FIRST DAY
OF APRIL DON'T GO OUT SO FAR, LIÇLE HARRY!
Sports Clothes are more Specialised.
(Left) Nautical and new is the boat flag motif that de corates a blue yachting outfit. A black and white tie, a shirt collar and box pleata individualise a white tennis frock. The
linen jacket has red, blue and back figures,
like each other very much, but our always existed, but which hitherto conversation is extremely limited have been covered over with a because our languages are diverse. veneer of so-called "modesty"---
Admiring the Squenlding Doll,
presumably because they were thought to be ugly-are now an But this, I notice, by no means prevents the growtli
of her open book,
And a good thing, too. Let our) "superiority-complex" with me. must accept an apple, a tiny sweet, never talked about in our time," elders say "Such things were a little bunch of flowers, when I eall at the Rectory-or. I mast it is a pity they weren't.
and then let them consider that Then watch her skin and hear her count perhaps such disgraces as the in Welsh and in English. The death of one mother in every two I must wonder at her squeaking hundred and fifty at child-birth] doll, and the picture-posteard that would no longer be a menace to has come from her elder sister at the nation. For doctors malutain school in England.
that the greatest for they have had to contend with in maternity work
Yes!--It certainly Is that "superiority-complex" that is gain has been the for of "false
Jag ground.
.
mindesty," in other words, ignorance,
That is dying-thanks largely to Georgian candour. Also is dying
Georgian Candour: the idea of taking things for
[By a Young Woman.]
granted." The veil has been lifted to no email purpose, in much the same way that Ibsen Ified when he wrote the "Dolls House
Nowadays, youth inquires about "I think you young women are everything-questions even reli
Young mon disgusting," an elderly aunt said gion itself.
and
to me recently, "You've lost all women find Modernists flying at sense of decency—that is, if you the throats of Fundamentalists— ever had one. You discuss things and Fundamentalists retaliating. I should have blushed to have They both join, however, in the known
And cryWhere anything about,
are the youth? you're as hard ns' nails. Tell me, Youth has no fixed religious do you believe In anything?" views!"
can Well, and
you Whereupon I scized my oppor-wonder ut It? tunity, and by the time I had To-day we do not pretend to be Anished, even my stuld relative better than we are-if anything For if had to admit that she had never we pretend to be worse., thought of "that side before." there is one thing over which First of all, I pointed out to her youth preserves ย becoming that if the twentieth century has modesty it is Its, virtues. produced nothing else, it has pro- So that people who take the duced a goneration with eyes wide trouble to study youth in all its open. The vell guarding the un-phases may yet find their reward, known has been torn aside, withi And, in effect, my aunt had to the result that facts which have agree to this.
COME ON-DOST BE AFRAID... IT'S JUST AS SNOOTA AS GLASS,
FRECKLES!
•
April Fool!
STAY RIGHT THERE TILL Zi GET OUT TO
YOU!!
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Hastened quickly.
10 Threefold.
11 Half-horses, half-donkeys.
12 Pour down.
14 Push one's way.
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16 Close.
Taraldic band.
17 Garden flower.
18 Smaller.
10 Inhabitants of Denmark,
20 Stories,
21 Precipitous.
24 Diminished..
20 Turns away from,
0 Kind of willow.
20
31 Deceiver.
34 Tree-like fern.
37 Made comfortable,
Talks indiscreetly.
41 Irritate.
Nobleman.
44
45 Say,
46' Nigh.
47 Pig'a pens.
48 Fairies,
49. Try,
50 Appropriate illegally,
51 Straight line.
52 Writing table.
53 Employs.
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Down
2 Belonging to a town.
Those who more,
4 Throba.
Go bnek.
7 Church dignatory.........
Use
9 Differ.
10 Look after,
18 Headland,
21 Hoarse noise.
22 Prepares for publication.
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24
Trimmed by shaving.
25 French copper coin.
27
Regret,
28 Child.
30 Builders..
32 Tardy.
33 Lets again.
36 Remolencsa.
36. Кеера.
38 Painter.
30 Most good.
40 Get up.
12 Brood of eagles.
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By Blosser
B16 BREAKER
THAT PLAYED:
BLUB
BLUB
I DIDN'T THINK YOUD PLAY AN APRIL FOOL. JOKE ON NE LIKE
THIS, UNCLE
HARRY!!
IT WAS THAT
THE JOKE ON
YOU, NOT
ME!!!
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