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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

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HOW DID. EDIT YOU LOSE,

WHISKERS?

1927.

Hong Kong

There are many ways of marking the new spring hut. It possesses many of the. fentures that made it smart throughout the winter time, but has changed some important de- talls to impart an air of newness in originality.

There are many types to choose from in the new millinery mode. From hats of extremely high crowns. and almost no brims to hats of very broad brima and only moderately high crowns there is a variety that is extremely plensing to the feminine seeker of chic.

able as possible. It is seen in all types and shades and is holding its place in the large number of straw hats that welcome an early spring.

The toque that has aroused so much favourable comment in early spring modela pursues its happy way in grosgrain in latter additions. The large hat has unusual possi- It is particularly. pleasing when bilities in the spring wardrobe. It made of several foues. A toque-bas a place-of-extreme-importance that affects the form of a beret in straw and grosgrain is another ex- tremely popular choice. Milan and belting used in artistic combing- tions also manage to produce an extremely smart spring hat.

Turbans-made rather high-and often of the Milan straw, are ex- tremely fashionable when decorat ed with one of the season's Buc cesses a large bow. Another un usual turban that promises chic is fashioned of balibant! and-trimmed in tailored buckle and bow effect.

Straws are finding themselves much used. They are also smart in combination with satin and felt. Combinations of colours, too, are much used and help to distinguish

the newest hats.

Among other types of the very small hat there is seen a new ver- sion of the aviator's model with-ex-

REVIVAL OF THE WIG...

The tentative revival of the wig as a change from the ubiquit ous shingle suggests some amusing comparisons with its bygone airs Richardson in and graces, writes Mrs. Herbert

graph."

in formal effects and will grow steadily in popularity as the sca- son advances into suntmer.

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HORIZONTAL

:-Fouration timber

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Places of abode

12-Small Spanish

horssi

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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 40-Authoritative

Ktandard 42-Jurisprudence 43-Combining form.

Single 44-Imposing

13-Metal-Bearing veins 48-Pertaining to the

15-The.holm-cak

16 Cry of sheep

throat

47-Romantle

18-Extract information 50-Personal Interest.

from

19-Manuscripts (abbr.)

20-irritates

22-Prolix Upen

23-Jumbled type

24-Pada

28-Within

27-Midday

28-Eradicate

23-Specific gravity

(abbr.)

30-Immutable.

34-Printers' measura

36-Near the atern 3t-Blumber

33-Brother (abbr)

161-Club obligations

VERTICAL

1-Squares in a

'checker pattern

2-Wild goat -Inflamed 4-iminutive suffix C-Distance above a base (abbr) G-To be somewhat

7. Eight

E-To put on

-Capital of Finland

VERTICAL (Cont.) 11-Everlasting

12-Narrow, flat

trimming

14-Twirl 16-Cut short 17-Boverage

20-Ravi 21-Leather strip 24-Digit

28-Tha aun

29-Chanted

31-Pipe fitting 32-Empire 33-Lately made 36-Lle at anchor 37-Farest growth (pl.) 39-Missile weapon of

balle and corde

41-Neck hair of ilon. 43-Silent

l 45-To take leave (abbr.) 146-African antelope

48-Because

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Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure, These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at th numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

Trimming appear to impart a more feminine touch to the hats.

often rather trim outlines. Flowers and feathers frequently

Side ing its greatest age, really adopted treatments are much used while in it as a protection against draughts. some cases the trimming appears And a famous English perruquier at the back at the nape of the neck. inscribed beneath his sign, the

Natalie Kingston, whose rather "Abaalom": large hats introduce this type into Oh my son, Absalom! Oh Abaslom,

my son I springtime favour, wears several charming models in the First Naf thou had'st worn a periwig, thou tional film,

had at not been undone. "Diamonds in the

Which is probably true. And what an opportunity the wig has always given us for being witty at the ex pense of our friends:

the "Daily Tele- Rough."

fashioned, but silk wigs of silver The green wig is now almost old-

and rose, and the always becoming evening frocks, and fashion poudre type, are, still worn with diets further developments of the pre-

hair for wig-making is nothing new, vogue. To use material other than though hair has always been the most popular medium, and Dr. Johnson defines a wig sa adsciti- tious hair, worn by way of ment or concealment of baldness,

to

Dr.

Poland Street, next door Burney, with whose children Httle Fanny Burney used to play.

The silver nets just coming in for evening wear over the waved shin- gle recall the earlier silver night-

caps. And there are possibilities in the revival of the wire wig-but not, one hopes, of the bedside mouse- trap.

Another minor art which the re-

tra long tabs at the side. The In the late eighteenth century suscitation of the wig might en- small hat that boasts not a brim- wire wigs were much worn by both courage. is that of black making. or an exceptionally tiny one-often sexes, as they "ixed the pomatum, We have seen the idea of the wig- relies upon coloured inserts to add kept in the powder, and preserved block developed in the original a chic note. Crowns in the very

the curl." They were made of sillittle painted stands which suit the

small hat are either plain or pleat- ver wire to imitate grey haira, gold modern "vagabonds" so charming-

ed and creased in odd shapes.

among

chinaware, and the modern hat- block has not exhausted the artistic possibilities of such a holder..

to simulate "cheveux roux," and y. But the eighteenth-century wig- darkest steel for a black effect. A blocks were more solid and decora- a bit of shade to the eyes is found them, and they had one great ad-

A slightly larger hat that gives curry comb was used for dressing tive things in Delft or enamelled listed

popular modele. vantage over the wigs of wool and These often show pleated brims hair-they did not attract the mice, and crowns in twisted effects which so often found their way Into

The old pipe-clay worker, too, achieved by

tucks. Grosgrain the powdered and pomatumed erec-

may come to his own again. No- ribbon forming a band is a smart trimming.

tions in which ladies, even slept at thing so restored a curl as the little Bangkok plented from nights, rather than disturb their porous cylinders of pipe-clay called the crown to the edge of the brim "hende. So many were the "melan-around which (when properly heat- "billoquete" or simply "pipes," in the back, and a shaded brim, choly accidents" due to mousey de effect in front is found another predations that in 1777 the Society ed), the strands of the wig were smart model. Twisted grosgrain of Arta offered a premium for the wound. We may yet, like "the ribbon relieves the plain lines of "most useful bedside mouse-trap,"

ladica of St. James's," take our this hat.

In the intermediate size hat patented a silver bedside trap, and in pipes.

and Mr. Martingo, of Bond Street, wigs to the hairdresser's to be "put there is found the tricorn return- also a night-cap of silver wire, be expended in naming new varie- Some ingenuity, too, will have to ing to favour. It marks a new "flexible as gauze and yet so strong note in hats. Sometime the brims that not even a rat could gnawlightfully original, the pigeon-wing. ties. Earlier nomenclature was de- are slit at the corners and are through It." marked by tailored bows, Other

staircase, spinach-aced, rhinoceros, tricorns in felts find themselves

being highly popular, and our comet, snall-back, "and" she-dragon. possessing unusual lines in a round crown and two flares of felt twisted

modern vocabulary will not fail- us together at the back and tapered to

as the fashion grows. narrow ends at the front,

The small hat is still as fashion-

I DON'T KNOW-I HAD'EM LAST. NIGHT WHEN I WENT TO BED "BOT. THIS

MORNIN THEY WUZ GONE!

FEATURE SERVICE,

•"Gemi Britain" rights reserved.

Bond-street was not, of course, the only home of wig and gauze-CRP makers. Tremiott, in St. Clement's Churchyard, was the most famous eighteenth-century perruquier, and there was a noted maker also in Continued at foot of next column,

I DON'T KNOW HOW

↑ KIN GIT YOU OUT OF THE HOUSE WITHOUT MAGGIE SEEIN YOU!

After all, there is much to be said is always credited with inaugurat- for the wig. Poor Louis XIII., who

BRINGING UP. FATHER.

CAN'T YOU GIT ME ONE HER PILLOWS?N THEY'RE STUFFED WITH HAIR- THEN IKIN

MAKE A BEARDİ

KARRY UP!WE, ARE DUE ATH YONG WIS KEYS

HOUSE NOW!

Th' enormous head that Celia

wears

Is hers. And who'd have

thought it?

She swears 'tis hers, and true

she swears,

For I know where she bought

it!

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

GEMMULE CH ELAINE

ALLEGE

MI SOAR BRAN SCOT DONOR BON, ISM RYE ART OTTER AVE CARTË OCCAN RATED. S

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INTERNATİONAL

But the fashion is by no means universal,

present suit most of us-"I have and the non-committal hot worn it yet, but will begin next attitude of good Mr. Pepys will at week, Ged willing."

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