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MODERN GIRL

"Still Charming and Modest"

Mr. Alfred Sutro, the playwright, lecturing at the Working Men's College, Crowndale Road, London, on January 25, on "Plays Moral and Immoral," said that, taking "Journey's End" 45 an example, the stuge to-day could not be said to be decadent.

"The words, moral, morality, murals, are dull works. They call up images of vigilance societies and old ladies protesting at mixed bath- lag and bishops deploring Sunday football.

"Sex at the moment bulks large- ly in literature and in drama. In the early Victorian days it was adured and worshipped. To-day it is ruthlessly desecrated and analys ed-psycho-analysed.

"In our advanced plays and novels the girl of to-day is depicted 13 2 harum-scarum hysterical creature whose life is one long round of cocktails and dissipation.

"This seems to me to be rather

a shame. I confess to a great deal of admiration for the modern girl. She wears her hair and dresses short, and I hope she will continue to do so.

"The girl of to-day can more or less go where she pleases, work where she pleases, see whom she

Green Predominates

The WOMAN'S Page

| Silken Poppies for Gown

Poppy red crepe and net is com- bined adroitly in this gown, The bodice displays two rows of shirs, and the skirt dips to the ground in a series of triangular pieces of net. poppies fall from the shoulder.

Silken

KISSING

With or Without a Moustache ?

An unsigned, uninitialled article In a London paper reads:

I suppose people love to belleve In the wholly unreasonable. They used to make a point of believing in witches. Now they believe in anything which calls itself scien- tifle. These and reflections on the folly of human nature are drawn from me by some man of science in America who has been investi- gating the effects of klases.

The investigation of kissing lon splendid example of magical science. The purpose was to dis- cover what effect the kisses of different types of men had on Avomen. As you doubtless remark, the idea is sufficiently absurd. We ta.k conveniently of a type of man, but in fact there is no type.

In an early story of Mr. Kipling's one rather vulgar young woman confides to another that being kisa- ed by a man who does not wax his moustache is like eating an egg, without salt. That, I suppose, is a type of man-the waxed-moustache type. But it is extinct, it belongs to palaeontology now. For who can wax a toothbrush?

One of the grand results of the American investigation was, how- ever, to prove that a kiss from a man with a moustache has not the same effect as a kiss from a man

You may

wonder how without, they got at that. By what scientific process a girl is reduced to the im- partial condition in which she can receive, prepare to be equally responsive, a kiss from a clean- Paris "dress dictutora" have shaven or a hirsute lip I do not lasued their décres regarding wo-know. men's attire for the immediate future. Frocks, they say, shall be longer in the evening but remain short for day, wear.

FASHION'S DECREE

Now, we are compelled to suspect that these "dictators" are not really dictating at all, that the horse has got the bit between her teeth and means to keep it there. In other words, the young woman of 1930 has got her own way in this direc- tion as well as in a good many others. It looks uncommonly like

"Without Prejudice”

BTBYERNENS BOXING YES XXXKIN!

| Simple Afternoon Frock | WOMAN'S THOUGHTS

Carried out in a soft woollen fabric of check design, the little frock is a model in neatness and simplicity. Pleated tucks the skirt give freedom of movement, while the white pique collar and cuffs add the necessary finish. —Marshall and Snelgrove, London,

(Sport and General).

NEW GOLF FASHION

London, January 27. Women are already adopting the new tweedknit golf fashion, which is us smart as it is practical, and which is creating such interest at Debenham and Freebody's, Wig- more Street. Golfing suits in this the matter wholly without pre- now fabric are lighter and more judice, But that destroys any possible value in the inquiry. For the only kisses that can be of any interest are those taken and given in a prejudiced condition.

The girls who received those. kisses, let us believe, approached

Once upon a time promiscuous kissing was the general rule in Britain. Erasmus remarked on it with expressions of warm satisfac-

a heavy defeat for the fashion diction. But it is not upon record that tators' forces.

he suffered or inflicted any in- dividual fascination. The kisses, in fact, meant nothing in particu-

They have, of course, retreated in good order and issued their de- cree with great show of all their | Jar. old imperiousness, but the fact re- mains, and is likely to do so for some time, that young women are neither going to be driven nor coaxed to curtalling the distance between the skirt and ground,

The short skirt has, it appears, censed to be a part of fashion that is subject to change. It has be- come the badge of the new freedom of women-a freedom that they don't intend to lose again,

One of the recent gowns modelled along lines of latest style is of green crepe. With the gown is worn a green felt hat, green leather pumps and a lit

GLASS FURNITURE

It is becoming quite a craze, and comes from France. Glass

The American investigator had some magical method of estimating the .amount of emotional dis- turbances produced by each kiss. And his scale is curious. The kiss shortened the life of the kissed by so many seconds.

How does our American investi- gator know that his apparatus in measuring a loss of life was not actually recording a stimulus which meant increased and prolonged vigour.

No Faith in Apparatus But I have no sort of faith in these apparatus which measure ex- eftement or emotion. Let us allow

green suede hand bag. The gown furniture. Yes, even dining-tables that when we are in a state of ten- features the new high waist line and long skirt.

and chairs, and so on. All glass.sion our bodies can hetray it by You can have it in plain glass, heart beats or their influence on an pleases, and wear what she pleases, frosted glass, or coloured glass, electric current or

any physical and I maintain that she has forfeit

And the plates may be glass too.

means the laboratory pleases. ed none of the charm and modesty

Must be a queer effect to see What is that to the purpose? which were her characteristics in through things like that,

Excitement is not necessarily an index to feeling. I do not mean that some people are more easily excited than others, though, of course, that is true, and it destroys the usefulness of all attempts to calculate the effect of emotional stimulus, because what works upon

the past.

Cock-Shy of the Hour "Marriage, of course, is the the world will go on loving the man favourite cock-shy of the hour. In, who is the father of her children, deed, it has almost ceased to be You may do away with marriage; funny. Philosophers of the you will never, so long as women eminence of Bertrand Russell have continue to be mothers, do away made marriage out to be an effete with the wife. institution, and certainly, at least in America, the liberty with which divorces are handed out is some what undermining its foundations, "And yet, whatever the future may have in store, though divorce may be obtained at every grocer's shop, though marriage itself may become obsolete, the last woman in

"No objection can ever be taken to the theme of a play, novel, or picture. Every theme is legitimate; there is no subject under the sun which is denied to the artist, what ever the field he works in. What the public and the critics are for the moment concerned with is his treatment of that subject."

Pair of Pretty: “Tars”

Left 20 zighty Misiés, Julia Norkus, 18. of South Boston, Mass., and Phyllis Contzenu, 18, at Quincy, Mass, dressed in sailors' uniforms, in which they were held by police of Charlestown. Girls said they had attended a party with two, sailors, who✨ handed over their suits and dared the girls. to walk about the streets in them.

one does not stir another. But I

am thinking of the very different causes which can produce physical excitement in the same person.

Many of us,

including the equable and the wise, are at times strongly affected by triffes. The apparatus of the paychological

(Continued at foot of next Column.)

Gloves for Golf Links

Gortare important items in this session's

Resting in

Following the Crowd

Mary MacLeod Moore writes in the London Daily Telegraph:--

At a time when great stresa is lald upon the freedom of the in- dividual, more especially of the modern woman at last relieved of the yoke which her champions con- sider has pressed upon her far too long, one hardly dares to wonder If we are as free as we think.

In the matter of dress alone few of us are free woman. The fear

of being odd is one influence be- hind a more or less standardised style of dress, it is true; but it is also true that the steady, silent pressure of advertisement, of sug- gestion, have something to do with our obedience in the matter.

General Trend

Moreover, only the rich woman. as a rule, can dress in a style of her own, to expresa her own per- Bonality. The majority would be Vanquished in the fight for originality by the designer, the dressmaker, the wholesaler, and the retailer.

How many of us are absolutely free in our reading? Not that many books are under the ban of the censor, but simply because public opinion ordains that certain books must be read, and we read them. Partly because we are tired of saying that we have not read the much praised work, and find it easier to go with the tide.

Certain authors owe much to these unknown friends-the people who go about asking if you have read so-and-so, and apparently have no peace of mind until the answer is in the afirmative. The chosen few know if that particular book suits the mind and bent of the person in question; the others re- commend what they like regardless

Comfort

Screen star pictured abová Ands her rest periods eney to take when wearing a red and white pyjama costures of satin fashioned in a sailor blauso style with wido fioring trousers.

flexible than tweed although hardly distinguishable from it. A plain cardigan and wrap skirt costs 738. ed., while the suit, in which the length, is 948. 6d. The drosses in coat has revers or is three-quarter- the same fabric are charming and useful under a light spring coat. Berets of fleecy wool are suggested to go with the suits.

At the Civil Service Supply As- sociation, household linens are at- the | tractively reduced, while

fashion sections and high-grade fur department have some very good. things to sell at greatly reduced prices.

Coloured bed-linen is becoming Increasingly popular, and the all- wool coloured blankets in various shades, size 60 inches by 80 inches, which are to be sold in the sale at 11s. 9d., are an interesting example of the many bargains offered.

› Panama lacque, a very light and adaptable spring straw, can be found in the silver-grey millinery salon at Selfridge's, where han- dreds of new models have arrived by air from Paris,

Bakon Is expected to be the most popular atraw for "second-best" it was stated, while there are also delightful mixed straws that match the Tashiquäble tweeds? "There are, too, the ever-popular felts, which may now be regarded as on alt-the-year-Jouni vogusk

ohm, suitabins for sports occasions, for|laboratory, might record stronger shopping day daytime wear and for evening, excitement when the telephone had Here is displayed an attractive pair for the gulf been playing the fool with you links of chamois skin with: reinforcements on the inside and open-work patterns on the back. I than when you were kissed,

of whether the everyone.

Are we free

Emerald Green Gown

Emerald green chiffon velvet is the material used in the attractive street gown pictured above. The bodice and sleeves of the gown are trimmed with rea! face.

SPRING COLOURINGS

London, January 27. Shopping assumes a new interest for women this week, for many early models from the Spring col. lections have already arrived, and the millinery, sports wear and other fashion departments are displaying new modes and new colourings. Smart, practical and becoming, these fashions are likely to make a great appeal to the popular taste. On the other hand, there are still many bargains to be found, one store, indeed, starting its sale to- day.

Harrods are displaying many de- lightful modes for both sportsmen and women and holiday-makers off to the Riviera. The latest sports hat, straight from Paris, la în a new featherweight fabric-mouflon- racello...which is wonderfully light to wear and very becoming. The guinea shoes, of which this shop makes a speciality, may be in pig- skin and crocodile to tone with the fashionable tweeds, or black patent for afternoon wear.

Some of the latest Paris fabrics used in the new models suggest the countryside in spring. These are among the advance collection which can now be seen at Jay's, Oxford Circus. Spring blossoms inspiro intriguing patterns in the new Rodier, Bianchini, and Meyer fabrics. Other patterns suggest the sky, the changing sea, and the

same diet suits woodlands.

Not only those who are tied to cer- as regards time?

their daily bread, but the vast tain hours, wherein they work for number who feel guilty if they can not say that they "hardly have a moment," though the time may be filled with a succession of little duties, and often unnecessary en. gagements forcad upon them by circumstances, and again, by what may be called public opinion.

“How far am I froe, and how far am I bound-by what is expected of me by othera?" are questions which many of us find it embarrassing to

answer.

At this time of the year, when many people are considering rede- coration of their houses, it is very helpful to be able to see varioua rooms and halls artistically de- corated and furnished, such as are displayed by Schoolbred's, Totten- ham Court Road. It greatly faelli-: tates the choice of accessories for a particular room, and gives good idens for furnishing.

This firm la also offering this week 2,000 pairs of the Bemberg synthetic silk hose. These include all fashionable colours and sizes, and although In the ordinary way priced at 68. 11d, are being offered at 4s. 6d. a pair.

DAINTY TABLE

Count's Much in Entertaining

Whether or not your dinner party is a success may depend largely upon the appearance of the table. The discriminating hostess is as much concerned with the proper setting for her food as with its pre- paration, and if the service is lack- ing in any respect her self-consci- ousness is likely to be transmitted to her guesta.

In preparing for the dinner party make sure that your dishes and your glassware are shining with cleanliness. Wash them in hot soapsuda and rinse them in clear hot water. It will take only a few minutes of your time. Select your dantiest linens and your finest silverware. To brighten the silver- ware immerse the pieces in hot, Boapy water, rinse them and dry each piece thoroughly.

Before placing the silver on the table wash your hands thoroughly and handle the pieces carefully, so as to avoid leaving fingerprints. When everything is as dainty as you can make it set a bowl of flowers in the centre of the table; then slip into your moat becom ing gown and you will feel free to concentrate on the entertainment of your guests,

New Parisian Creation

One of the newer afternoon dresses

showing real Alencon lace collar and tie and cuffs. Diamond-shaped shir

rings at front, back and sides and

flared skirt give it the stamp of up-

to-datencts. An "Agnes" model turban of the same satin is worn with the

dresa,

MAISON de

ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE BEAUTE

For the best Permanent Finger & Marcel Waves. Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladles & Gentlemen. Fedder Bldg. 1st floor. Room 5 Tel C.5169. Opposite entranco H.K. Hotel.

- Mme. D'Obry,

MODES

18, Queen's Road, Central.

We have just received a nice selection of

SUMMER MATERIALS

and LIGHT WEIGHT DRESSES

suitable for present wear.

COATS & DRESSES

for the

RACES.

and a nice selection of

SPRING HATS

Orders taken för Conta and Dresses and executed under personal supervision.2"