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FASHIONS AND FANCIES

PICTURESQUE EVENING

SPORT COSTUMES HAVE SIMPLE LINES.

GOWNS.

Various Silhouettes Announce a Season of Individuality in the

Favoured Formal Frocks.

Fall Sports Outfits Express Harmony of Colour and Texture—The

Sweater Ensemble Is Much Seen in Smart Combinations of Colours,

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1928.

COLUMBUS.

ANOTHER BRICK HURLED АТ НІМ.

NOT AN ITALIANI

Was

A

change his surname and later his fuil name. Later when Isabella sent Colom off to discover America' he was "manufactured" into an Ita- lian servant of the crown, so that Castille and not Catalonia, would get all the credit of a "discovery" which had been assured beforehand.

published.

Paris, Dec. 28,*

"I have documentary proof that Christopher Columbus

the King did not ignore that Columbus had discovered land be- French corsair of Spanish descent fore he sent him on that historic and not an Italian, his name wasn't

trip to find a short-cut to the In- even Christopher Columbus, but dies. In fact I found the original' Joan Colom, and when he discover-contract between the King and ed America in 1492, he was only Colom, only falsified forgeries. making a second voyage, because on which have never been heretofore a secret trip some years before he had found that the world was round

"In this contract the King .aays, and land lay over the horizon.

"as a recompense for what you have That at least is the way Liuta already discovered and what you Ulloa, Peruvian student of Ameri-will discover in my name." The cana, la seeking to rewrite the story certitude that Colom had found land in histories and textbooks. Fear across the Atlantic is found in a of having his effigy burned, in Ckl-document which Mr. Sofus Larsen, cago caused Ulloa to decline to dis-eminent director of the National close other rather startling findings Library at Copenhagen, discovered about the hero's past.

in the files.

Ulloa has spent years in Európe, delving into manuscripts and five hundred year old documents and is convinced that the story of the dia- covery of America, as taught it in the schools, Is court propaganda of Ferdinand and Isabella.

we

were

"This Danish document is a con- tract giving Colom the fleet with. which he discovered Greenland, but here Colom was hiding under the name of Joan Scolvo. When he saw the American continent, I am con- vinced he thought that he had dis- covered an unknown corner of Asia and that by going farther south he would strike the rich Indies.

According to his revised version of history, America was discover- ed sometime about 1746 when the

"Recently, I have had the-good fortune to discover in the archives. Corsair Joan Colom, working for a Danish King, Christian LII. dis- at Barcelona the royal contract in covered Greenland and may have which Isabella sent Colom on his looked over Manhattan Island or way. It says, "Mitimus nobilem the hills of Boston Bay without sc- cirum Xristoforum Colom tually setting foot on shore.

"My study has left no doubt in my mind that Coloma was born at Catalan, in the territory of Ampur dan, which stretches for thirty-five miles in the present Spanish pro- The youthful note is emphasised' sports ensemble in the First. Na- vince of Gerona, between the Rio in sports costumes. The simple tional picture, "No Place to Go." Fluvia and the Pyrenees," said outline, too, is observed. In gen-It consists of a gray Angora Ulloa.. eral it is noted that there is a har-sweater showing smartly striped mony of feeling in

"Thus he would appear

to be fabrics that creates some of the skirt worn with it is of a gray back served various French princes es a colour and effects in gray and black. The silk Spanish, although we know that he smartest sports togs seen in sev-ground with dull red and black eral seasons.

sea captain.

viewed in keshas of new weaves in Many of the favoured models are beige, several shades of brown, blue and black. popular, too. Combinations of coloura are favoured. For in-

A new note in the formal frocks that go to dances and the theatre has been exhibited in the gowns that are winning attention in the smartly dressed world. The pic turesque costume is now at the height of the mode. The sophisti- cated frock that depended en tirely upon line has made way for the formal gown of billowing skirta that is part of the robe de style: the scant knee length dress of velvet-very full and uneven as to line; trains are even seen as well stance, a suit of brown "kasha may as the dropped shoulder yokes of using brighter tones such

be seen combined with a sweater another day these types of dresses that announce the sartorial formal orange or red with tans. season will all stress the pic-may be trimmed with red and

black, bright blues or yellows. turesque and individual.

Zephyr wools which model

Mixtures are

stripes. A silk scarf worn in Deau- a chic note when combined with a ville fashion with a red border adds

velour hat of simple outline.

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The London correspondent "The Queenslander" writes:

of

90

During the Catalan

revolt he commanded the fleet of Bene d'Anjou from 1466 to 1478, when his ships went on the rocks of the Portuguese coast.

"He then organised a pirate fleet with the ships of the French. King Catholic, that obliged Colom to

Cum

tribus, caravelis armatis per maria oceana ad partes indiae. "We send the noble Sir Christopher Colom with three armed caravels out upon the ocean seas towards the territory of India."

A

It was thus Colom started, under an assumed name, on his second trip to America from the little port of Pales, on the Andalusian coast,.. August 4, 1492."-United Press.

Countess Ahlefeldt-Laurvig, the wife of the Danish Minister, was one of the busiest women in Lon- don as hostess of the Crown Prince of Denmark. The Legation con- talus many treasures, including a room devoted to one of the best collections of Chinese porcelain in London.

this cardboard jewellery is really | but British-made tweeds, English prettier.

or Irish homespuns, and hand- The Beauty of Colour. woven Scottish tweeds. At Golds- The marked feminine feeling is well, woven In zigzag designs,

Has it ever occurred to you how Have you ever noticed Queenborough she wears coats and being expressed with particular

to 'the skirts, and knitted scarves effectiveness.

gen- fitted create several of the distinguished very clever are many of the arts Mary does not belong The snug

and crafts taught people to-day: monstrous In worn

regiment of elderly erally made by the crofters, and bodice is much seen with berthas, sports dresses and are

Isoft felt hats with a brim. I think proving popular in many instances. combination with jackets of wool and not only clever, but so extreme-dressers for ever in black?

wise and clever, our Princess has been largely re- Full skirts, short in front, but fall jersey. Wool jersey blouses com-y artistic? I am always trying to think she is so ing nearly to the ground in back, bined with crepe skirts are in learn something new, and I think too. It is a very common mistake aponsible for the great Impetus evidence, too. These may be of some of the most novel and de- come women make, of always Wear- given to the wearing of sports The short in front, but longer in the same contrasting shades of lightfully pretty things I saw re-ing sombre garments. This is not clothing, but she

harmonising tones. Or the colour cently at an the back line of the skirt is pretty scheme may be noted with the same

exhibition was he because the Queen dislikes black, pullovers or cardigans, but a silk flower jewellery. It sounds odd, but she believes the soft pastel shirt with plain man's collar and nearly the accepted silhouette but In all cases it does not lead to fabric trimming, the skirt that but you would hardly believe, how shades suit her white hair and fine tle. and does not patronise the attractive these things were; and, clear complexion best; and I am Fair Isle knitted jumper. Take grace and many of the Paris de forms the blouse. algners have created instead gowns the limelight of sports. The kpit-ion you must wear ornaments

The sweater ensemble is much in as to be in the front rank of fash-quite sure she is right, for blue all our royal ladies, and you will to eyes nearly always look bluer very rarely see them in black, The

are seen, too.

sorts of places,

Virginia Lee Corbin,

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expressing individuality by having an uneven hemline appear at all ted frock is worn with jersey match the colour of your dress, the when thrown up with pale shades. Duchess of York, for instance, like jumper or jacket. An open sweater idea fills a niche, so to speak; for Certainly the powder blues so the Queen, delights in pale colours.. value of the orna-f much liked by her Majesty I am sure you must have noted whose may also reveal a one piece dress it is not the blonde dáintiness makes her

of woollen fabric in striking colour ment, but its harmonising proper hydrangea blue, mauves, petal pink, this when she was with you. She

Suits of tweed worn

tles, which make it so desirable. and those charming cloud greys-is very feminine and does not care to gaze upon in the modern formal contrasts.

Let me describe some with Angora jersey blouses also are

earrings are so much liked in preference to for tailor-mades, her coats always. frocks, appears in a striking cog.

A pear any other shades by the Queen, being trimmed and flounced with tume in the First National film, "No Dow and exceedingly chic. Button modelled on cardboard,

ever heard of her fur Something daily at the side Place to Go." It is of lipstick red sweaters that reveal knitted frocks shaped plece of cardboard was cut and no one

of straight slim lines are also seen out in the centre, leaving two or wearing any shade of brown or of her hat suits the Duchess, and silver cloth and turned back velvet, irregular of them, faced with in youthful and pleasing examples three times all over with bright green at any time; nor did she she knows it, and always has the veal the silver on the outside. The of the sports mode,

gold. It had the appearance of a ever appear in beige, for which trimming put on in this way. It skirt is gathered with a heading off

Sport and travelling

coats drop, and on to this tiny flowers there has been such a craze. It is quite clear these ladies realise the silver and attached to an elon-j

use fluffy surfaced materials were modelled in special paste sold is largely owing to the Queen that the value of colour, and the gated basque. Garlands of rosea in mixed tones of gray

for the purpose. I'll tell you how pale-tinted glittering evening Duchess of York especially never trim the dress and the picturesque

brown. Black le proving

to make them. Press out flat a gowns are so popular, for she "set departs from the feminine touch note is decidedly uresent,

exceptionally fashionable colour piece of paste and then stamp out the vogue of having her evening with all her clothes. She it was for sports. Usually the lines are circles for different sized flowers, dresses made to match each parti- who gave encouragement to the straight with a swagger effect at or use scissors. Then group them cular set of jewels the possesses, robe-de-style or picture dress, and the bottom. Patch pockets em- on the lower part of your card. If tailor-mades are required, navy very sweet she looks in them. phasize the sports note. Fur board drop, and make a charming blue is first favourite with the

Needlework Culture. Evening frocks In general are collara are worn for effect as well little group, When arranged, Queen. Princess Mary also is It is extraordinary since the war longer all round, They are still as comfort and the newer sports smear them all with melted glue never seen in black, but she adopta how women in England have re- very unevon; for it is only the furs are in evidence here as well and press them on to the founda- the pale tints so popular with her vived the art of needlework. I real robe-de-style that is accorded as in the coats made entirely of tion, but curl up the petals torayal mother. I have seen her in have seen the lovellest work re- a perfectly even hem, often trans- fur..

make them look natural. Apale green-this at Ascot of this cently which will five. for ever parent. Chiffon is obviously to

modelling tool will be better than rear and well it eulted her, for practically, both in finest Berlin be prominent in the ball-room

fingers to use. You must let the the Princess inherits her mother's wool work, tapestry, and pelit picture, especially in the case of

flowers be perfectly dry, which blue eyes and flawless skin. I do point. The present day woman. the straighter kind of drcas. Ex-

will take a day or two; then palat think women should consider these has undoubtedly returned to the quisitely soft and supple taffetas,

In colour with Barbola paint, and things in the same way as our pastime of her ancestress of the velvet, and satin will be the

when dry varnish with Barbola royal ladies, but the monotony of middle ages with regard to needle- materials most favoured for the

varnish. Now to complete, bore a black can be, and is, just now posi-work, and I am visiting this week robe-de-style, which also lends

tiny hole in the top of your drop, tively boring. Black is the highest one of the most wonderful ex- itself admirably to a judicious

and insert the ring of the earring pinnacle of fashion mood to-day, hibitions of ancient and modern harmonising of such materials.

screws, and you have just the most and every other woman or girl is needlework, which has even been. Thus a taffeta dress is seen with

delightful pair of earrings you arrayed in the smartest of black got together. The exhibition is on an almost knee-high hem of chiffon

can Imagine. Of course, you can tailor-mades, with either a widish- | behalf of one of our country hos while a velvet bodice can be most

arrange flowers to match your brimmed hat or a skull cap, pitala, which like all county picturesquely allied to a skirt of

costume, or use a brilliant con- known as the Mephisto hat, with other hospitals, kept .going taffetas. Satin frocks are being

trast, I know the description may tufts of plumage at the sides. by voluntary contributions ja trimmed with velvet, with taffetas,

sound boring, but in reality it is Princess Mary's Lead. shouting for funds. This is the or with chiffon. A chiffon robe-

really lovely and if you have an Another departure is due to first time such an exhibition has de-style han ruches of taffetas or

artistic tendency and clever Princess Mary, and that is the ever been held on behalf of charity bands of velvet, Decorative

fingers, you will find the work wearing of country clothes cor- and Queen Mary is patron and is touches are endless, in fact, in

fascinating. I've told you what ❘rectly. It won't surprise you to also lending some valuable work their variety.

can be done with fishbones, but hear the Princess

wears none for the show.

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