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MYTH I long to explode Mrs Jones next door that it in your is the myth of that "little black frock."
It seems an immortal. Every other week women are told one hundred and one ways of trans- forming their worknday bluck into an exciting, inviting party frock, merely by adding a belt, costume jewellery, and a "de- mure"-how I hate that word!
white lace collar and cuffs. Let's face the truth-nothing short of a bell tent can hide the fact from
1943 utility, refurbished. This me, therefore, if you are taking time (and money and coupona) out for n new frock, it is as well to know that Jittle black frocks this sleekly pretty,
pert conscious ke no other
fore.
deeply pocketed
upron,
repeated
in the slotted bow at the neck.
This nylon looks und feels like a heavy satin taffeta, is used to give youthfui sophistication to the wearer. scason tar ant hip- frocks be-
Hips are stressed areas. Take thear models for the young
girl, the woman, and the matron.
Ench underlines the same trend: First, black satin-backed rayon, whose pencil skirt is slashed eliber side and covered by a black nylon
SENSIBLE SLEEP FOR YOUR CHILD
~By ANNE CUTHBERT—
books say that babies
O'this bank's say that
a.m.
In the middle is a slender black satin draped around the hips. turned and folded front to show a In matt surface.
And Tight is a frock with
sten- derising lines in the right places, picked out in fat Jet beads
again,
over those hips.
The small
sketches show you
further variations
of this trend.
FITAL:
stiffened
Былск
蘊 brald-
balicl
skirt peplum on a
black wool frock. Second: the lovely uneven hemline, dipping below calf-level at the back, hips
accen-
sequinned
black
H sleep! it is a gentle mothercraft
and should also have some hours of quaed
tuated with slumber during the day. The 'ac- cepted teaching on this subject, flower spray. morcover, insists upon 8 o'clock bed- Third: hip drapery time, summer and winter, long after again material baby is a year old, and most books brought from each add to this that the daytime siccp side and tying in should be kept up till the child has reached four or five years.
front.
to pole!' Thus sang the An- cient mariner and one would Imagine most mothers would agree with him, yet so far from being a gentle thing or 'he loved by those infants and tod- dlers who should benefit from it, sleep would appear to many of them to be something which is fought against with screams of rage, and kept at a distance for as long as it is humanly pos- sible to do 80. Personally I am always delighted to go to sleep
Madame Montessori, in one of her whenever opportunity offers. earlier books, states that in her but I know both from my own opinion many children are en experience-and-from-the-many courage to take too much sleep and letters I receive from mothers on the subject that very few children agree with me on this point.
Current trim- minga for littic Lately I have begun to doubt the black frocks, wisdom of this teaching and have therefore, out- considered whether, after all, sleepiness (or otherwise) of the child should not also be taken into account when calculating what is, or is not, a reasonable bedtime.
In the past I have always taken it for granted that I was right and the children were wrong. Practically all
Mary's ring-
a dei-clear
diamond...
She's
the costume
the mode the belt. the jewellery, and Lace
collar
ond cuffs. Instead, use nesh-coloured' black chition, or black net or lace, to cover current.
nervous
or
are draped all ways, often hemlines, or are in-
that if they are quietly, and har-cleavage. moniously employed their system is not being unduly strained show uneven and therefore they may not need credibly silm. very long periods of sleep. Other psychologists on the other liand con- And glitter and fuss go to your sider that whatever the child's hips, not your head; jet, sequins, natural inclination may be, he should rouleaux, fringe, a diagonal line of
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buttons, drapes and bustles.
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FULL-PAGE FEATURE
By W. J. BROWN, M. P.
FIFTEEN
WOMEN
‘A Regime Which Begins By Destroying
Liberty Ends By Denying Love.
GREAT issues are illustrat-
What is the explanation of this
ed by little things. The amazing situation? test of a whole philosophy may lie in the experience of one man. And fifteen women may pass judgment on a State.
Fifteen women? Yes-fifteen women. In Moscow! Todny.
They are Russian girls, who during the wor, married English boys serv- ing in tussin. Now the war is over. Their husbands are back in Britain. Their Russian wives wish to join them here.
But the Russian Government re- fure to allow them to leave Russia. And nothing that Mr Bevin or the Foreign Office have been able to do has been able to shake the Russian Government on this matter.
ERE is a great matter. It is an Issue which gues to the roots of all our palities.
Of all the compulsions of Instinct under which we humans are fated to spend our lives, the two strongest To are those of hunger and love.
ustain our physical lives, to escape, in union with the loved one, from the "Rense of separateness;" these are the two fundamentals of life base of
Ile at
all
commerce,
Is it that these fifteen losses pos- nens knowledge so seerel, so impor- tant, that its disclosure to Allied husbands must not be permitted?
18 it that the Russian Government fear what these losses might write home to their friends in Russin about conditions in Britain?
Is it that the Russian Government fear the addition to the military and industrial strengh of Britain that the Coming of these fifteen girls should represent?
Is the hold of the Fourteen Dicta- tors of the Kremlin so weak that it might be imperilled if these fifteen girls once breathed the air of relative freedom?
I do not know. All I know is that regime which begins by destroy- ing liberty ends by denying love!
•
•
WE need not be surprised, though
we should certainly be warned, by this fantastic event. For it illus- trates how for the theorist con carried by the theory.
be
The theory says that there can be no Insting pence between a Com- munist country and a Capitalist rest of the world. So the "iron curtain" must be maintained between the one and the other. ano
The Russians must be allowed to all know nothing of what conditions are Re- have
seen something of the West must be re-educated" in "de-contamination
e-c
These two things
Industry,
all State-organisation. We like elsewhere in the world. politics,
cat work to cat: we to live; to love, and through inve, we live turning Russian soldiers who
to hand on to generations yet unborn. the torch to
Now hat form of social organisa- centres" before being released to
their homes. tion will best promote these ends is
which has occupied the culate in Russia.
Foreign newspapers must not cir- an issue minds of men
And no throughout the ages.
Russian From Plato to Sir
woman, married though she may be, Thomas More. More to Robert Owen, from must pass through the curtain to join Owen to
to Karl Marx, men's minds her husband here! live pondered this problem, and each has given the answer which it wus in him to give,
from
of Marx.
The answer which dominates the thought of our day-though this will not be so tomorrow-is the answer one-sixth of the world is
The other Ave- sixths are quarrelling about Mar- xism. It dominates our international politics. It is the water-shed lp the domestic politics of pretty well all the countries of Europe.
•
•
IT is recorded of Mr Will Crooks,
perhaps the most truly typical working-class representative who ever sat in the House of Commons. that on one occasion he was present at a Labour Party reception.
Among those
present were a con- siderable number of the "intellec- tuals," the "theorists" of Labour, men of the same doctrine type an those who made the Russian Revolu- tion, and who rule Russia to-day.
Crooks, who was
the ordinary NOW
TOW Russia is the one country in man through and through, but with which the Marxist philosophy every quality slightly enlarged, lool
and has been tried out. Not under dicat ed long_ earnestly at group of conditions, It is true. Not without them. Then he turned to a distin
guished the interruption of years of bitter
Journalist at his side-who, though not a war which, however, have also been thou
workman, remained endured by other countries.
obstinately human all his life-and Still, for twenty years or more the passed the final judgment upon such State in Russia has.
been all men, which shall stand as long powerful. No
opposition,
time under- und or legal, has been permitted.
trouble with those ground The State has had a
a monopoly, nat only of police-power and military power, but also of all these instru- ments the Press, the publishing
the
the
lasts. He said "The
fellows is that they ain't got backs to their 'cada!"
KE
no
$0
in
platform, the radio, all THE theorist never has neither. hools and cinemas-whereby
here nor in Russia. And, of e people is moulded and fifteen Russian girls will stay though. And Russla is our ally.
Russia, and fifteen Englishmen will But after
twenty years of Mar- stay in Britain. And never these xism, twenty years of State mono- twains shall meet. poly of all forms of power, afteen. National barriers shall separate Russian girls married to Afteen them, and the seas divide. But more nationals of Russia's ally. Great than by frontlers and seas they will
Britain, are kept against their will in be separated by a theory carried to Russia, while their husbondh solitary here.
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Ingredients: 1 the condensed milk (skimmed sweetened brand); 3 level dessertspoons powdered gelatine; 4 dessert- spoons water; 1 dessert- spoon flavouring (pepper. mint or fruit, not vanilla). DOUR the condensed milk
Into a small saucepan.: Rinse the tin with 4 dessert- spoons bolling water, add to
milk. Add gelatine.
Keep on д very low flame, stirring. When the: mixture thickens remove from flame, stir vigorously to blend well.
Replace, and stir till the mixture is just at boiling. point.
Pour into a bowl, leave to cool and nearly to set: when the centre is not as Arm as the aldes. Add favouring and beat with d strong fork, tuting the: basin, until colour lightens and air-holes appear.
Put in greased dish and; leave for 1-2 hours. Cut: Into shapes..
Robb,
stay the last point of insanity by rulers who "ave no backs to their 'eads!"
Fashion Artist
Now being made in Eng- tand are short boned coracts (first reported to you from Paris last February), which are essential to the success of the new wasp-waisted frocks. Already being produced in small quantities, there whate- boned satin corsets cost £3 338. each.
guaranteed
to re duce the waist by two inches, The strapless. American braz
slere-specially designed for +wearing with topless evening ffockets firmly wired round edge..
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