POOR LITTLE NEW GIRL
TERM begins. Your five-years-old goes off to learn her alphabet. My daughter top of her prep. school, starts at the bottom of "big" school.
Janet leaves a sheltered private and enters a famous public school. John's parents move to the other end of England and their son's education is transferred to a school in their own district.
These four children, despite their differences in age and experience, are all "irst term." They will all undergo the nervous strain which accompanies change of environment. They will have to adapt themselves to new rules, new food, new personalities. It is not so easy.
HOW TO WEAR JEWELS JEWELLERY should be
chosen to emphasise your good points.
If your face is round and inclined to be wide, drop earrings will give length to your features. If, on the other hand, your face is long and narrow and rather sharp-featured, round stud earrings will give your face the necessary breadth and softness.
A faco that is dainty and petite will not look well with largo carrings, especially the
Dethroned
THE small person goes to her
Arst school from the warm haven of home. Mother is still her refuge, but during school hours she will not be there. She will be dethroned within a fortnight and Miss Smith will be quoted against her for at least three months.
The child will swagger, learn bad words, become surprisingly tired and exhausted,
colds, Ket pains.
aches and
'but
She will learn very little; that is a good thing. In her second term-about the middle of it—both she and her parents will get used io school and settle down.
Kept at Home
(she gets a cold she should the kept at home. This
should be compulsory by law, but
is not. Eight out of ten epidemics are caused by careless mothers send- school with
ing their children to
colds, or what they believe to be
colds.
It is better to keep your child away
"barbaric" type of hoop earring.for a week than to keep half a dozen It may be given an elfin delicacy or more schoolfellows at home for a and charm by modern earrings week each and at different times. that curve upwards round the
If she is tired she should also be
outer rim of the car or merely kept at home and in bed. fill the side of the ear.
If the face is large an over-small earring will look insignificant and ineffective.
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First Reports
DOTTOM of the ladder instead Clips, or two clips combined to
of top of the tree offers as form brooch, are a useful and much of a problem. My daughter's much-treasured item in most women's pride will suffer. She has been tep jewel collection.
If a woman is of her form among children of her small, with delicate features, this own age and under. clip or brouch should be worn high
is tall Now she will be the youngest in up near the throat. It she
school where the standard of and statuesque a more poised and a balanced effect will result if the eilp scholarship is high. I expect her is worn lower down on the bodice. Arst report to be poor.
A tall, slender woman can wenu two or even three wide bracelets on and her
forearm, but her shorter plumper sister must be content with one. It should be narrower and of
delicate workmanship. very
They are immediately and justly Long necklaces are not being worn
snubbed and they hate it. Brusquerle at present, but the three-tier string and a devil-may-care attitude is one of pearls that is so fashionable is of the commonest reactions, This suitable for almost anyone. The disappears in all normal children as lower tier should not reach to more soon as the "fitting-in" process is than six or eight inches below the complete. throat.
Choker necklaces should not be put on necks that are inclined to be) short. The latest teardrop necklaces, where stones are suspended frons a short gold chain, can add length to, an over-plump neckline.
The older children have their dimeulties in any kind of change ever. They are prone to say "We never did that at~~,“
Extra Care
URING that first period of: transition give your children a little extra attention. It can be Rings with large or long settings read over food, clothing and should only adorn long hands. Short affection of the demonstrative order. Angers look inelegant wearing large rings. I more than one ring Is My own plans include molt, a worn and bracelets are placed on large hot-water bottle, and two letters the same arm, no other jewellery every week! should be worn except some small
or medium-sized earrings.
Margaret Wray.
Dressing
gown man-tailored it yellow hand-blocked cashmere pat- terned with dark brown Scottiea. The Mules are of the same material. This smart outfit is in other colours.
P
TAILOR-MADES TAKE A
Pin-stripes
are a spring
vogue. This TIE suffragists of long ago have #
dark green lot to answer for. Before they started the question of equality for flannel outfit women, history was made by women ond the country was ruled by women-skirt, Jac-
behind the scenes.
ket, shorta
Compared with the early Victorian woman, we are poor creatures to-day. If you have any doubt about this let me refer you to those ladies of the Civil War and the "covered waggon" period, and to the women who went
out to India or the Crimea.
and slacks—
is pin-striped in white.
NEW SPRING TURN
Four-Piece In Pin-Stripes: Dressing Gown Ensemble Of Individuality
(By JANE CORDON)
To gauge how utterly we have crashed from our pedestal you need Their new house frocks have the sweaters are sold with boleras to only play a game of golf on any hall-mark of the big dress houses match. One white sweater has a course in the British Isles, or go horse though the prices. are very different. white bolero.
tailored in racing and look out for the notices in One I saw, beautifully
They have Jerseys covered the members stand, informing ladies "shocking" pink angora with navy that they may not sit or stand in blue crepe scarf and navy blue suede club badges, and longish jerseys: various places of advantage reserved belt with what appeared to be little which roll up at the hip-line and have gold the pegs hanging from the front, short sleeves. An amusing deck or
for the men,
with
It is probably too much to hope is 8 guineas. If you were asked to beach, suit, which has a blouse in that we shall recover our prestige, price their mules you would probably roughish blue slit, has sallar pants in but it is a step in the right direction be wrong, but here again your mis- acarlet silk that are rolled up to the when the most up-to-date men's shop lake would be excusable. They have knees. These pants make the model in Piccadilly gives up a whole floor a line selection of suede mules in the appear suitable for shrimping, but to women and scours the country for most lovely shades of lapls blue, whether you want to go shrimping the best designer of tallor-mades. emerald green mul scarlet, with is quite another matter.
They seem convinced that in the turn-back collars of gold kid, price There is a plaid lines frock, zipped | spring a woman's fancy promptly 20s 6d. Turkish mules in crimson, up the front and back. It is worn turns to thoughts of tailor-mades, and blue or green velvet with turned-pg, with a dark green linen bolero, lined so their new stock gives nine fat toes cost 189 td, and mules with open with plaid, and an enormous plaid pattern books showing over a thou- sandal toes with black and silver sombrero. sand spring sultings.
stripes are one guinea. In another department I found the
CAMEL-HAIR in all tones will be dressing-gown sketched for you.
seen this spring on any number of This particular model is in yellow If you are off on a cruise in search
of the sun, then the place for you the new sults. One plainly tailored hand-blocked cashmere, patterned is a shop with a famous nume in black woollen dress has the collar- dark brown Scotties. The gown is Regent-street. Among one of the band and short sleeve-band in two Inan-tailored. The males are of the most practical things you can buy tones of camel-hair same material. You can get these in is the dark green flannel suit with made of light camel-hair edged with other colours, patterned with white white pin-stripes sketched here. It a darker shade. A single-breasted Scuttles.
is worn with a little black crochet tailored jacket in dark camel-hair They also have some excellent but with a long tassel on one side. has the revers and pocket-flaps of a suits with short, man- The jacket and skirt combined make light tone. A loose Jacket with bell tailored dressing-gowns In hand- a good practical tailor-made, and the sleeves has wide borders down the blocked cashmere, worn with tailored jacket can be worn with the matching front light comel-bair, which is "slacks." The model I saw had a shorts or "slacks." These four gar- silt lengthways to form packets. navy blue dressing-gown patterned ments together with few light camel-halr cape, very square about with white circles and navy blue weight sweaters can be used in any the shoulders, is worn with a blackc "slacks."
number of different ways, The new suit.
Allison Bruce. lounging
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