Would
you
make a good WITNESS?
WHERE were you at 4.30
$9?
on Saturday, January
Did you get any letters by the mid-day post last Wednesday week?
Were there any cars parked in your street when you came home last night?
Suppose that you were stand- ing in a witness box. A man's life might depend on the
accuracy of your answers tc such questions as these.
Have you a good memory? Well-developed powers of obser- vation?
Then answer the three ques- tions given here. It is simple to any one who tried to remem- ber how he spent yesterday. To remember what you did all day Jast Thursday fortnight is a Beverer test.
Questions about things which you have done in the past are pure memory tests.
Try these
Which side of the bus or train
dki you sit on going to work last Friday?
What have you had for luncheon for the last four days?
What Is the date of your driving Heence?
question about the cars parked in your street is one which cannot be answered unless you have used your powers of observa-
Frien
You can answer a "memory ques- Hon" with the help of concentrated though, but it is common experience that the more you think about things which only observation could have told you, de more impossible becomes to
to remember the
on
on
Ask any one whether the figures
their
drawing-room, clock
are
clock the local church Roman or Arable. Unless they have consciously noticed the figures they will never be able to say, although they may have looked at them every day for years.
What do you observe? This question is one which can
be answered from observation alone.
So are these:-
Is there a representation of Britannia on a ten-shilling note?
themselves.
REPORT BY ZOE FARMAR & ROBB ON
PARIS SPRING FASHION SHOWS
Day dresses have
high
necks and lots of trimming
TRENDS:
NECK-LINES: normal to high (have to be high or they'd never get all that trimming down the front). SHOULDERS: slightly squared for silks and jackets, or well-defined normal.
SLEEVES: if long, plain fitting. Short ones, to elbow often decorated with same mótif as on bodice.
SKIRTS: straight. BELT: many of fabric
and. leather (front and clasp leather, back same
as
dress); others mostly plain.
Black wool marocain dress, striped white pique trimmings, Bodice of white pique outlined in course black stitching, slots on to belt, is quite separate from dress, fixes also at back of neck. Design of front is also embroidered on sleeve panti. Stitching down front panel of dress is black, not contrast. Hat: 1910 boater white panama, black band.
AYTIME dresses I've
DA
back to ARPING H
frontal decoration- seen SO far are SO
man's evening waistcoat (single- Sane you'd think they'd been some of the shapes I noted were designed straight for the breasted and very low cut to smart stenographer.
show black of dress at top), an
Is the hot-water tap in your bathground. on the left or the right?
Does your husband, strike matches Their outline is fitting, with enormous oak-leaf shape (in Away from or towards himself?" only the slightest emphasis of emerald-green..on..black) fixing.
Watch people striking matahes. Nearly every man strikes them to-shoulders, the waists highish; on to a waist--and like the one wards himself. Nine out of ten belts mostly trim and slim; in the drawing; a stitch-on one women strike them nway from length again 14 inches (some formed by two two-inch wide banda of white petersham times even shorter) from the
stretched up the front of the Any and all divergences from bodice and parting near the this appear on the chest. And neck to convolute out around
the shouliers. even then the trimmings are Does the gate of your neighbour's just made for busy little women." house open inwards or outwards?
How many pieces of furniture are Can be taken off for washing or straw, there in your living room? It's a change. astonishing how many people
List your furniture
for-
get some large object when they are
giving a list from memory.
Where Is the nearest fire-alarm
to your house?
Other chest
decorations: same as the hat-coarse natural coloured and shiny, made into big square studs, one cach side of neck of dress and FALSE fronts, starched matching up with straw buckle
and spanning bodice to belt.
Which sock do you habitually put | fronts..
on first?
How many of your friends left-handed?
are.
Authority Issues Warning
One designer shows
I.
Dress sult, Spanish influence, navy blue wool with white- Iblue Wedgwood patterned linen.
Title bolero, Jacket: Tight pointed back and front.
Dress: Panelled skirt, sash of linen unslots from jacket to wear on dress. Inset ruffed neck of the patterned linen.
Hat: Navy straw helmet, comb at back of -etraw. Vell hangs Inch-wide edgings of con-
from
olde one
only. straight eleven, and when an idea occurs trasting colour to dress stitched Money-sack blue suede, ong white more than four times in a good on in square, V, or oval forma-metal, one yellow metal ring, collection you know it's certain tion to bodice....
Any, every double sacks, no try-on.
kind of embroidery.
Only in the shapes of bodice decoration do most of these dresses show any, originality. Many of them are made of
Regarding Flu. white, striped pique, some
in
dresses.
linen,
*
skirt you wear matching and close you can wear it the side matching cut knickers. Ankle-length tailored your dress or the other, plain, side.
Linings, In fact, are quite FOR summer (and after beach dresses that look pretty much evening like last your's sunrner all these are the sum-
Tussore,
dannel fashion oven for dresses. Summer severely or coats that are silk dresses more than grey), or
tailored have often as only enliven- bright coloured linens, silks, or mer dress shows-next Paris (belgo
show shows in September are winter- dress suits.
ment a bit of turn-back to And if the dress is patterned, what's underneath. A medical welter, in speaking of even flannels-on black.
skirt-shorts which the short plain-coloured jacket will Day shoes sudden reversion to wear the after-effects of influenza, or Black is still the day-time spring models) you can expect
until summertime any- to
be bound or piped with the stuff of the down at heel. Not those dreary. grippe, says: "It is astonishing the colour number of people who have been way, when you can expect crude, look like shorts, only are not.
Underneath the brief petal of a dress. May even be reversible, so semi-helghts, real low ones. crippled in health for years after an bright-patterned fabrics.
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