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MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

1 2

5

10

E

112

13

14

W

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16

119

1B

25

27

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HORIZONTAL

1-Fruit of the cak

(pl.)

G-Busses

11-To venture 12-Science

14-Naked 15-Heating devica 16-Viscous liquid 17-Dash, ardor 18-Remainder 10-Man's nama 20-Young girl

21-A fabrio

22-Harm

27-Crled

32-Anger

33-Stagger

34-Civat-like animal

(pl.)

36-Wisely

38-Little one

40-Italian city 44-Monkey

49

52

th

55

145 нь 147

5Q

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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

HORIZONTAL (Cont) | VERTICAL (Cont)

45-Girl's name

45-Assert

¡49-Beverage

50-Expensiva

|81-Jswain

52-Writing fuld 53-Profit

Foreign 66-Part of a vessal

(pl.)

VERTICAL

1-Loved 2-Cavern 3-Mineral rocks 4-Tear

6-Barom

6-Narrow leather

banda

7-Man's name

B-A festivity

-Periods 10-Falt

|13-Uncommon

E-Exlet |24-Adult malo' 25-Become ald 20-Obtain

28-Girl's nam (29-Man's name (abbr)

|30-Insect |31-Measure of length {34-Motor buliding |25–Offensive radio

Bounda

|36-Cut of beat (pl.)

37-Longs for 39-Uncover

{41-Above

42-Notation 43-Formarly

46-Rim

|46-A Shakespearian

character

47-Lald

BUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES

Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a dus to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter brlongs in each white space, words starting at the 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.)

The large bow that ties at all | favourite in the ensemble mode. sorts of odd places is dominating shares its popularity with the In a season where the fluttering the spring mode. It le particular coat of curved lines, as the mode gown of chiffon, paying specially in favour in the new frocks. The follows both curved and straight attention te bloused effects and spring frocks-no matter what the lines. bows for trimming, is seen the silhouette, are divertingly accented

Lols Wilson, whose straightline frock that' is intricate by a bow. It presents the feminine slenderness is especially well suit youthful its cut and heavily embroidered touch in the spring ensemble and ed to the straightline silhouette, is in beads, jet and bugles, is given makes a delightful contrast with seen in a charming beige ensemble a pince of extreme importance. the tailored frock. The fabric is in the First National motion_pic- Paillette embroidery trims many of but minor Importance. The ture," Broadway Nights.". Miss of the chic frocks for evening, bow, too, varies and is of the thin-Wilson's coat is straight of line Colours in these gowns are of nest chiffons or the heaviest and uses fox fur for elaborate secondary importance, although velvete.

treatment in shawl collar and wide she was fit to howl at the thought many charming combinations of

that she would never enter it again. The size of the bow varien, also. cuffe. The frock that accompanies she would a hundred times rather tones are seen. In the main, how- It may be small, but gives the it is of beige crepe silk with sleep on its bare floor than return ever, they rely upon their straight touch that is the inspiration of simple bodice-long in line and and lovely lines and exquisite em-

Paris. It may be large and fairly terminating in a large bow into that room Sid said her mother badmode all ready for her, the broldery to distinguish them, dominate the frock. Its position is front. The skirt is pleated on in Lines are not always straight in a matter of taste in each gown, for uneven lines and gives an interest- the jewelled effects, however, as it is seen everywhere.

ing contrast. many use the bolero blouse, draped sides and faintly Egyptian lines in the drawn-in effects at the front.

Rose and silver paillettes on a frock of flesh coloured crepe with simple lines to distinguish it fash ions one of the most interesting of the spring collection of formal frocks.

Gold, in many of these brilliant gowns, is the most popular choice. Its colour is effective and it lends itself to paillettes and beads with much success.

Natl Barr, who wears some ex- ceptionally interesting costumes in her First National film, “The Stolen Bride," is seen wearing a golden evening gown entirely pall- letted and beaded and marked for chic by its straight and pleasing lines.

JEWELLED COLLARS.

Old Fashion Meets A Shingle Need.

The spring mode is fairly cover. ¦ed with bows. Bows on shouldera, bows at collar, bowe on hip and bows in front and back mark the vogue of Paris,

THE GIRLS OF THE WAR.

dingy, cramped little box in Clar- ence Street, Kennington, with the workhouse turrets rising prison- like over the chimney-pots op- posite, and the trams, and the market on Saturday nights, and the tenants cailing in the grid of back yards below, and the smell of The bows do not remain satisfied Many of the girls had served in the gasometers over all.-Olive with their lovely lines on frocks France, carried forage and medi- | Onions-Cut Flowers (Chapman & but find themselves equally smart cal stores, evacuated wounded, Hull), on coats. They even fashion them-checked indents on the thronged selves of fur and many smart coats quays.. They had slept under particularly in the black and canvas on the cliff-tops, on ground. white mode are trimmed with eheets, under roofs of rubberoid bows of fur at collar or below the and corrugated iron. Like the men waist.

they had drawn their rations, like

All sorts of combinations are the men had stood rigid at the seen in the new ensembles, They sound of a whistle, watched the vary as to fabric and sometimes white pults of the combat up aloft, na to colour, but there is always taken to the shelters when the a sense of harmony. The two-earth-shaking bombs had -dropped. piece dress that is worn beneath Now the dread car of war, thunder- the spring coat invariably intro- ing past, had left behind it a duces another colour in one of its vaccum, in which they spun and parts. The jumper is either of a eddied.. lighter or darker shade than the skirt, or vice versa.

The straightline coat is a great

Stilly multitudinous echoes still rang in her memory now that the vast European silence had fallen. Soon those memories themselves would be no more than the dead leaves of last year, shivering on the boughs through the winter, to be pushed off by the quickening None would care green to come. roon which woman had ridden a motor bicycle in the war and which had not, who had filled shells of the belles of the 'eighties and of pearls in size varying from a 'nineties copled her taste.

pin's head to a pes, and these are and who had kept the area burn- In those days ladles wore their held in place by exquisitely working at home.

She felt rather like crying now. hair brushed up from the nape of ed slides of gold or platinum stud- the neck or shingled even shorter ded with more or less. precious She hated all this packing up and The room in which than to-day, and this left mono- atomes. Jet beads are sometimes moving on, tonous and trying line between uced with platinum stides decorat- she lingered had been an orderly. neck and shoulders.

ed with jet and diamonds: These room, and a summons to it a thing Jewellers and dressmakers now have the advantage of being ex- to be dreaded; but now it stood work so alosely together that it is tremely light in weight.

like a cage with its door wide open,

not surprising the former should Among the fashions that are pay revive a fashion that smoothes over ing a return visit is the jewelled a certain trying effect the shingle "dog" collar.".

has with low necks for all but the Queen Alexandra was extremely ❘ youngest. fond of this ornament, and many The new collars are made of rowa

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