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He teles to cultivate his body by "physical · exercise and yearns to
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His coat is padded to make his shoulders look brond.
He drives hard bargains, not sp much to save money as to prove himself better than his opponent. When he takes his wife to a re- staurant he is much more fa8- tidious than when alone. "
2. He desires to bo more adoqunto.
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visits his hairdresser ten times in to impress his friends, but to ini- Britain's national expenditure in summer for only nine in winter: press the salesman. 1934 was £1,094,000,000. There It makes him feel cool and fresh.
3. He desires romance, 11,800,000 families in the He suffers from rheumatism, as Ilo buys n car because it looks be- Homeland, so that the average ex- do four out of five of his country- glamorous, borrows a book penditure per family is £330.
cause of its romantic title, goes to Since the slump his standard of the cfnema to see alluringly named living has gone up. How has he hims spent the extra money?
4. His desire for life becomes Twenty-six point nine per cent, stronger every year.
men,
their expenditure on home neces- take little aches and pains more of the population have increased After thirty-five he begins to rities, 21.13 per cent, on saving, seriously. He drives less reck- 17.24 per cent, on charity, 18.30 lessly, saying that he le saving 15. an per cent. on hobbies, 11.66 per petrol and wear and tear.
cent, on children, 9.26 per ceat.
in-
One pound in every ten of his earnings goos in direct taxation,
Every week he spends II 17s. 12,837 on fond, 198, Uld, on maintenance His hair and eyes are including for new houses nad fur- of his home. 33s. 108, on saving, GARAGE
coloured brown. His whis- niture, 108. on elothes, 9s. on Tel. 27778/9,kers grow one-fortieth of an miscellaneous expenses,
Travel, 7s, 3d, on liquor, 4s, 74, où inch every day, his hair one- smoking, 2s, fd, on entertainment,
He gets interested in health fiftieth.
28. on newspapers and hooks, 39. on luxuries, Rel, on sickness, aeeidenta, and in- Take the typical case of a man exercises and foods, in safety de- He is 4-5th Ancien Brito. surance.
who has spent money on home vices on things he buys. He likes rending "How I did it" interviews. 1-10th Anglo-Saxón, 1-20th Reman, He has Three suits, two for things, whose income has Michonne -20th French. ALABAKIA. Suleiman
with centenarians. Alarakia (Song), ageil 28, at
work, one sports ar week-end sait, creased by £50. He spent £9 11s. Research 1211 his residence No. 8 Caine Rond.
skeletons shows the is probably grey. Forty-dye en better clothes for himself, £9 Funeral takes place to-day at that the modera Englishman is per cent. of the suits Hold last year 5s, on better clothes for his wife, HE would be willing to commit p20, pussing the Monument at ] fundamentally the same type us were groy. The second is more 8 14s, on furnishing. £8 2s. on 5.30 pan, Shanghai nod Japan the Ancient Briton of the Iron Age likely to be blue than brown, more domestic help. £9 da, on im- papers please eupy,
(1000 B.C.).
Thirty- per cent, of the suits made proving his house, £5 4s, on better could not He is 36ins, round the chest, in 1935 were blue, 20 per cent, food. 32ina. round the waist, 38ins, brown, round the seat of his trousers,
His overcoat la probably blue or His arm from shoulder to wrist black. Forty-five per cent, of last measures 24ins. The length of year's sales were these colours, 35 his trousers Inside the leg in per cent, grey, 30%ins,, and his elbow height is
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Miliza Korjus
THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1936.
43ins.
He takes size 8 in shoes, which means that his feet are 11-111⁄4ína.
meaning that his head measures 2134-22ins.
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THERE is no foretelling men's taste in colours. They change without reason. But so far there
...Miliza Korjus RUSSIA'S POLITICAL long. His hat size is 674 to 7. on it seem to have been much
EVOLUTION
alteration this year
He buys two pairs of shoes a sales last him two months. year, paying 10s. a pair. The
In Sweet Content (Sanderson) Ever in my mind (Taylor & Russell) C-2839 Bell Song ("Lakme”—Delibes)
Oriental Prayer ("Lakme"-Delibes} Carneval de Vienne on Themes by Johann Strauss
He works in commerce or fin- Mariz Rosenthal (Pianist) Considerable prominence has ance like 15.6 per cent. of Eng
been given in the world press to lishmen). Blackcants are taller
This hat is a nigger brown trilby Slavonic Dance No. 4 in F Major (Dovrak)
Russia's proposed now Constitu- and heavier than manuni workers,
or a bowler. These types top hat Czech Philharmonic Orchestration, containing a revised expres- the clerks of London being tallest
sion of the Soviet's ideas or ideals at fift. 8ins. Birmingham eleres sales with forty per cent, each. of how the Communist State come second, Liverpool ones are C-2840 Die Meistersinger-Prelude, Act 3 (Wagner)
should be governed. The first about average, Leeds, Sheffield, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra obvious comment which suggests and Glasgow ones below it.
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a murder, if he knew that he be found out, for £20,000, to have his hair dyed. If he goes shopping he walks Teen for £8,000, would sell his twenty feet into a shop and then chances of life after death for wants to farm to the right. He £1,000, would agree to death in looks first at red colours, then fifteen years for £10,000, wants at green, then orange last at purple least £100 to parachute from an If attention shifts about every airplane 3,000 feet up.
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His conversation centres chiefly round business and family, but also includes sport and high spot
THE films he liked best last year politics.
were "Lives of a Bengal Lan- As he goes to bed he cleans his cer," "Top Ifa" "Bright Eyos," teeth, which are not so good as "The Scarlet Pimpernel," "San- they would be if he used them ders of the River." "The 39 Stops," enough on hard, gritty foods.
Four fundamental desires con- Well, how near the average trol his life:
are you?
1. The desire to be more masell- line.
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THE KING LEADS FASHION
By "Guardsman" brought
an hour on the links. That brief hour boom in Fair Isle sweaters, with much profit to the makers.
It was the King who, while Prince
He reaches maximum height at twenty to twenty-one years. His grip increases up to twenty years, and stays about uniform until a short of the millenium which the slow decline sets in at about forty.
was a sunny May'day, and King Bolshevists had promised the His pull increases to a maximum
Edward. Toolting from his window, country. If the proposals put at 264-27%, and declines slowly thought it just the day for the wear forward are actually brought into from thirty.
ing of
a straw hat. He put the operation, many forms of liberty
as a machine, he thought into action and went to net previously enjoyed will be
approximately one-brilliant society function wearing the ends through the loop-drawing of Wales, bought back the bowler hat to a favour which had declined seventh horsepower. This is first straw hat seen in London this closely round the neck,
sndly after the war, when many men FAIR ISLE ART permitted. It has, of course, very small compared with other summer.
rmitted.
chose to wear soft felt hats, always-been-difficult-to-discover motors, but the efficiency is goal. The effect was immediate Straw
-There-was-the fashion of the Fair
-In-the-hunting-field-he-tornel-out- what is taking place behind A steam engine would require fashion, are going to come back into a
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say the London. leaders of Tale golf sweater, which created one dny at Melton Mowbray wearing sartorial sensation when he first wore the skin-fitting hunting shirt of the scenes in Russia, but this twice as much fuel to develop the favour they have not known since the it at St. Andrews fourteen years ago. height yellow which gentleman much at any rate is known-same energy (300,000 kilogrammes
days. Two thousarx, extra The sweater the King wore on that farmers of the shires wore a century Communism is, the only political | a day) as the human machine. hands buve already been engaged to occasion puzzled most of the people and a half ago. That rovived another belief that has been tolerated, A
with the ondera that are expect- | who either saw it or read a descrip- | old fashion and did a spot of good to whilst liberty of speech and free-}
tion of afterwards. Generally in trade which needed a filip at that
a souvenir of the moment. was regarded a dom of the Press have been denied TAKE the typical Englishman told into the bat-making town
born in 1900. He married, at ! the people, and there have been, 27 years 4 months a woman of 25 moreover, systematic campaigns years 6 months.
for the extirpation of religion. He has one child. More than In the matter of political belief, half the families of Great Britain Communism is to remain the only legal form, but mumerous concer- sions are promised in the way of
liberty, including the free practice NOTES OF THE DAY
of religions observances. It is further proposed that asylum shall be granted in Russia to foreign political leaders persecut-
YACHTING
The trade revival is having a ed by their Governments, al- great effect on yachting in Britain. though it is not made clear According to reliable reports whether such asylum is to be yacht builders have been busier offered to those of other than during the past winter than at any extreme Leftist views. White time since the Great War. The Russians, it is safe to assume,eport is generally regarded as a would never be welcomed back; luxury which only men with very nor, can we imagine, would any satisfactory bank balances can refugees whose political opinions indulge in, but apparently the clash with those of Moscow's daals has increased considerably number of such fortunate indivi- į leaders. Until the new Constitu- and the present racing Reason tion is actually working, it would promises to be one of the most be futile to attempt to assess the brilliant over experienced. At real value of the concessions the Royal Harwich Yacht Club promised. It is one thing to con-Regatta, which was held from the struct a Constitution, on paper, but sixth to the ninth of June, there quite another to apply it, even in were some wonderful craft, which spirit. Yet there may well be the were handled magnificently, the promise of better days in the pro-large yachts of the "J" class be- posals now put forward. The ing greatly admired.
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mere fact that they are made is Perhaps the most important something to the good. From event of the yachting season this time to time during the past three year was the launching of the or four years, there have been new "" cluas yacht, "Endeavour many indications that the Russian" which was designed by Mr. conception of Communism is not C. E. Nicholson and built at Gos- working as had been hoped; and here and there it has been deemed advisable to compromise with ori-all-round greater tolerance shown ginal ideals, even to the extent of by the nation's leaders. These adopting capitalistic concepts. developments may carry with The plan fact seems to be that them an implied condemnation of Tussin is at the moment passing the practices of the past, but if through a period of political evolu- the realities are faced and a tion, in which the most glaring sincere effort made to institute defects and shortcomings are reasonable reforms, those at the. being corrected as they become) head of affairs will be displaying exposed. We may therefore ex-a measure of political wisdom pect to see, by a gradual process, which may result in the general a greater measure of liberty for uplift of the nation and an en- the masses, the raising of the Ihancement of its reputation in "general standard of life, and another parts-of; the world..
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The King has led fashion before, visit to Japan he had paid not long Once at Le Touquet he appeared on when Prince of Wales. There was, before. The second guess was that the links in black ami white check for instance, a style of tying a silkit avas, a gift from some Roumanian
trousers, a sleeveless jumper of de scarf which & year or two ago was peasants. Actually, it was knitted in licate shade of salmen pink, and a the Fair Isle from traditional pat- all the rage among start young men about Town).
The scarf the Prince terns, which have been held to date wore during a cold spell was a polka- back to the days of the Armadu, dot blue silk square, which he tied by At any rate the Prince, as he then folding in half and passing the twe was, wore this striking sweater for
SIDE GLANCES
By George Clark
"All right, I'll tell the talpon that we can't move to Shanghal because you don't want Doris Jean to leave her tap-dancing class
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hirt and collar of bright blue. That created sensation akin to the created at
At St. Andrews, The next day neroplane loads of similar apparel were being rushed to Le Touquet, and were being spapped up eagerly by those who wanted to follow the Prince's rather daring fashion lead. GLENGARRY REVIVAL Wherever he has gone abrond the King has led the fashion
of the moment. Thus when he went to the Cape some years ago and got up- country there came down to Durban and other centres urgent orders for formal clothes from farmers who had given up all ideas of such things for
years.
It was the same when he went to South America, where one immediate result of his visit was a great rush of orders for evening dress on pure English lines. His wearing of a Glengarry bonnet in Canada some
years
led to a
of this form 2 widespread revival
Some of the fashions the King when Prince of Wales showed a mind for were distinctly startling, innovations which made the experts of Savile Row. sit up and take notice.
There
Was
was one occasion, for in- stance, when he wont to some boys' club boxing championships wearing a double-breasted dinner jacket, a soft shirt and soft cuffs, and soft collar, plus a pullover in grey check. That
fashion
that was not generally ndopted afterwards, nor, of course, was it over intended to be.
Some fashions that the King lends undoubtedly
meant. aro seriously Already the most versatilely dressed man in the world, he once declared that if it would help the British Em plre oue Liny bit he would only be too happy
to wear a different suit of clothing for overy single individual be had to meet.
Flo is Bke that-British trade and its welfare in one of the very real
of life to him, and he is always
how this or that trade can
be taken out of the doldrums into it hins either fallen or that may which it be threatening it,
Trade nenas employment," says the King in effect. "Fashions mean employntont. Whatever I can du to
help trade and bring more work to the people of Britain I intend to do..