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THOSE ANKLES.

May Be Shown-Only a Trifle.

Paris, May 7.

of

[By Richard D. McMillan, United Press Staff Correspondent.]

Not only has the wonu fashion 1930 no knees, but she has hardly any ankles. She may show her ankles, a trifle in her after- noon tea-gown, but only a trille.

This return to the fushlon of modern young womma's grand. mother is definitely established and the gown creators of the Rue de la Paix declare they should not be surprised if men are deprived of souing women's knees, as they have been accustomed to, for perhaps the next two years.

So far as shapely limbs are con cerned, in fact, women of to-day might as well go back to the erino- lines of Victorian times and cer tainly Miss 1930 is us averse to showing her calves, apart from iimpled 'knees, as the woman of 1830. But whereas the latter lady was inspired solely by modesty the gizi of toulay has no concern about spring her own blushes and simply following the inseparable ralings of the fashion fiends.

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According to Captain Edward Molyneux. the British urvy de- signer here who is probably the first designer from foreign lands to clothe the French aristocracy, was men are glad to have a chance of covering up their legs for a time. If anything, they are likely to be more midest if only to enjoy the contrast with the prolonged period of leg display, when shimmering silk stockings served to attract male attention as much as an elegant

gown.

Now the dress designer is cóm- ing into his own again, with crea-

THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1930.

The WOMAN'S Page

PARISIENNE WHO IS SHOCKED,

Foreign Women Tead To

Degenerate la Paris.

Many foreign

women

behave

perfectly well in Paris, and muny behave disgracefully, of them writes Jeanne Gaston Leroux in No the Landon Daily Express. matter what their nationality-- they may be British, American. Russian, Japanese, Swedish German-they all experience a sense of greater liberty as soon as they are in Paris. and this new feeling bewilders them.

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Many soon see the best way to take advantage of this unlimited freedom, using it with modera- cool head. tion and keeping a Others, on the continry, feel in- toxicated by the new atmosphere; they abuse it and quickly cut off all reserve.

Among these there are often women of high morals who, in their own country, are regarded

or

na ideal wives,, respected mothers, well brought-up young girls who usually follow a tranquil mode of life.

Change of Morals.

What is the cause of this

Is it solely change of morals?

in the atmosphere of Paris, which is enough to intoxicate one more effectively than champagne and which makes one's blood tingle? No. This is not all There is something besides this. I think that these foreign women mistake many things in Paris and about Paris cause they have been

Last minute versions of captivating chic in millinery are presented in the above models. Never were strays so exquisite in texture-colours so lovely or hate so becoraing."

brought up with false ideas of France.

At home they have been told, end especially have they read, that Paris is a city of depravity, of debauchery and easy morals, where everything is permitted and no one is shocked that the Parisienne" is most frivolous with no leserve at all.

Why shouldn't they have belley- ed: all this? just as we have be loved them to be the models of virtue. Did not the foreigner for a long time imagine the French woman to be like the illustrations of "La Vie Parisienne" and the light comedies of the Palais Royal?

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The fashionable wardrobe of Summer shows new sillrunttes--ngw materials-new colours. are those that have a bright future in the Summer mode. Selection is varied for every осслятор fromm lumines to ten time.

A MIDDLEMAN NEEDED.

Kuala Lumpur, June 4-

of slumps day's

such

We. are ROW suffering from many women would be

find

middleman pleased to who would help them to earn pin money by buying direct, or selling

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on commission, their handiwork.

demand

UNIQUE FURNITURE.

Home Life Through The Centuries.

The making of furniture would seem to be one of the few trades with which familiarity breeds not boredom but interest, for, owing to the popularity of a series of lectures on its various aspects at the Geffrye

Museum, Shoreditch, the London County Council are inviting tendera for the extension of the building se that more persons may attend.

For the Rainy Day.

· Fine embroideries will always find a market in Britain though usually this kind of handiwork is much The curator of the Museum told underpaid. In this country theme that the lectures are given week- is small; neverthelessly by experts; there is no fee for ad. original work must always at- tract buyers. Knitted garments well within the scope of most wo- men's capabilities yet how difficult it is to buy in any European shop hand knitted waistcoats, sleeveless jumpers, children's jerseys of light. wools, or even babies socks etc. One supposes that every European child spends some time up the hills- and needs warm clothes, which are far more attractive and durable! when hand made than are the woven varieties. Many women would be thankful to find a market for these home made endeavours, but up to dute по cnterprising person tas thought of B meang of helping them. Fraser's Hill

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would be the ideal place to start Π middleman's shop. Every-

who is on holiday has spending mood to coincide with their enjoyment of the invigorating air, but except for the Chinese gen-. oral shop, there is nothing to buy. For instance a smart wool jumper ready to catch the eye of a husband enjoying the holiday feeling and quite willing to be persuaded of its becomingness would find an easy sale. Children want toys, spades and buckets, balls etc. but they are artists' not obtainable, and even sketches of local beauty spots would find a quick sale, seeing the dif culties of obtaining the latter even Of course in the towns of Malaya. capital is needed for an enterprise of this kind but there is no doubt women would be very that many

the originator of a grateful to scheme to enable them to dispose of the work that they and Interest in doing in their spare time, and which they can sell with profit at con- siderably lower prices than the large shops who have their high over- head charges to consider. At the

mission. "Furniture making ́is one' same time this would be supplying of the most important of our local a much felt want to the holiday Industries," he asid, “and, by our: makers up Fraser's Hill-C. D. lectures and exhibition here, we are in Malay Mall,

trying to improve the taste of the craftsmen.”

A smart raincoat of rubberized

silk now being worn in black or

bright shades.

PORTRAIT GOWNS.

Those lovely women who have their portraits hung in the Royal Academy must be congratulating themselves on this season's fashions. Certainly the modern long gowns please the artists, and the more trailing

the

and unpractical draperies the more lovely the effect.. Tallulah Bankhead chose to be paint. ed in a draped pink lace slage negligen, very possibly the one Glasgow admired on her last vist: to the city.

One of the most beautiful Society girls, Lady Mary Lyon, looks won; derful in white net spotted with gold, and quite a quaint old-fashion- ed shoulder-cape like a fichu. Lady Strathcona, also wears an evening frock of net, while Mrs. James Gunn's white draped gown is worn with 'gay green slippers.

These portraits will no doubt pa greatly admired some day as exam- ples of the 1910 period.

woonden erection with revolving and extending arms, round which the women wound their skeins of wool. Again, the Nineteenth Century was also guilty of introducing mantel shelves. One of the walls in this room was originally in the old Coutts Bank in the Strand, and was bodily removed from that building when it was demolished:

The curator is making a collecion of old cooking utensils and ap- paratus, including roasting jacks,, hobs, and several replaces, while he also has in this Museum what are believed to be the only thres specimens in existence of the old- fashioned augers used for boring wood water mains.

Children's Amusements,

A piece of satin-wood that In 1907 fetched £160 'n ton at an auction, the highest price ever paid for any plece of wood up, to that time, is next to a unique specimen of British, walnut burr wood, while there are several stair cases of oak and deal with interesting historical associations. There

the for example, staircase taken from the house in Queen-street where Boswell, John- son's biographer, lived when, ho came to London, and there is also the keel of the Great Harry, the first ship built for the Navy, in 1498

tions of subtle, flowing lines, mak- ing every woman appear like a grown-up doll. Just now, evening dresses alone trail right down to the toes and heels, but the Rue 'de la Paix believes day-dresses will soon enough follow along the samo long lines. This street scenes in. Paris, New York and London, wherever there are fashionable wo- men,

the will shortly resemble crinoline age and men will have to take care of their feet if they don't want to trip on a lady's-gown." .

The new flowing evening dresses are already causing confusion on We dance-floors of the Paris cab- areta and select night-hunts where women have not yet learned the way to recapture the art of com- porting themselves in long dresses. The dress designers say women

This, I think, explains the par- need to practise the art of de- velopment thoroughly before they, ticular state of mind in which can wear the new gowns with the so many women foreigners arrive

He then conducted me round the ease and grace of the ladies of in France. They believe implicit the crinoline. For this reason, they what they have been told, tiplied as was the case until rebuilding, erected according to in-

struction, in the will of Sir Robert. schools of deportmennt, are spring "They want to copy us! It is part cently-It is easier to yield to Geffrye, Lord Mayor of London in Victorian architect, Alfred Stevens, A study partly designed by the temptation and to waste money 1686. In 1914 it was opened as a of the programme.

leads into a children's room such as Because they are in Paris-they Easy life, too much comfort museum, and it now contains what could be found in London in 1850; feel it to he absolutely necessary, and too much luxury do not al They soon conse to be careful-ways encourage one along the perhaps the most interesting and it was here that I was able to get and reserved. With complete in-path of virtue, he "pleasures" unique collection of furniture In an unusual glimpse of the nature of úlfferance to propriety they let are expensive in Paris, and only existence, The exhibition consists children's amusements at that time. of a number of rooms furnished ac. There was a dolls' house with themselves drift along, and they those whose purses are full car cording to the period represented several dolls, including one that Core rap carried down dan indulge in them,

Thus, the first room was in the style played a tune: when it was shaken with the riskyofvar: I know

tton with little, American

British -- and popular in 1716, and included and another that could change its women who take Hogarth's original engravings of face from black to white, as well as deep interes the more serious A Rake's Pr

a small collection of picture books Parita

and nursery rhymes.

ing up again.

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State of Mind.

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MAID ALL FORLORN.

When He Is Slipping Away.

You say good-night beneath the lamp-post. You have said it before like that, so many times. You wait for his usual parting question

"When may

see you again?" But he says, instead, "Well-see you again some time!" And you go indoors with a heart of lead, be- Cause you know now that you won't be seeing him again—ever.

You haven't quarrelled. You haven't offended him, to your know. ledge. Things seemed to have been going on just the same as 'before. Only gradually he slips away from you--meets you less and less-then Just nods as he passes-finally walks straight past on the other side of the road.

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He told you once that he loved

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WEDDING RINGS.

Women's Love of Variety.

Are women becoming less senti- mental?

establishment, asked by a Preas re

The manager of one West-end,

presentative

how the changing fashion in rings was affecting trade, sald the marriage emblem is now regarded in a totally different light.

"Woman will to-day come into a shop and, taking off their wedding ring, worn thin with perhaps ten or 15 years use, will ask for it to be

to remodelled

the fashionable curtaining type.

Want A Chance. "The general reason given is:- "Oh, I am tired of this shape 1 want a change."

"It is a surprising development, because for centuries there has been

you. You have done nothing to killu superstition or prejudice against

that love. "How can you get him buck!" you ask.

even taking off the wedding ring, und certainly not letting it pass Into

But it is very, very unlikely that other hands. he will ever come back, now.

It may be that he is very young- at the growing, experimental age He met and liked you at one stagu of his growth, but now he has grown out of that,

He may have met another girl, or perhaps he doesn't want to be serious with anyone yet. He wants to be free; to be friendly with girls If he wants to; to forget them if he doesn't want to.

He feels awkward and uncomfort able about you, but he has made you no promises, so he feels he can.

not come to you now and apologise for his behaviour. Instead of break- ing off your friendship with a tact- ful little excuse, as a man, should, he keeps away and says nothing-as a man does.

Try not to blame him. You never

for you.

"When I was young, women would take their wedding rings to their graves."

Another subtle change is seen In the wearing of the ring:

It is becoming a vogue to keep it on the third finger of the right hand, instead of the left.

The old-fashioned 18-carat gold · ring is atlil popular, but it is being largely supplanted by those made of platinum er platinold "white gold." The latter is a secret trade alloy of precious metals.

Anniversary Days, Women who are still sentimental maka the remodelling process the occasion of the wedding day an niversary to celebrate the tenth or 20th year of marriage.

They will have messages given by their husbands Inscribed inside the Smart Modes.

Frocke for every type of smart femininity are shown above. For street wear-for afternoon wear-for the party or the tea dance. Bright crapes-chiffons of vivid, hue distinctive prints!

could be happy with a man who ring, after the fashion of the old go, he never could be the right man wanted to go. And if he wanted to Queen Aime posy rings.d

Another feature of the ultra- modern ring is to engrave it out From now onwards your life is side with a faint decorative design, free. And life can never stand stil, such as a wreath of orange leaves.. It is moving onwards and moving The manageress of a Plecadilly you onwards all the time to some establishment, asked if she thought unknown goal always protecting this new attitude on the part of

women to their rings was sympto you from mistakes on the way,

This little friendship was one of matic of the age, replied: those possible, mistakes, though you can't so it now.

But you will see it, Ister. There le a trite but none the less The curator told me, when our true saying referring to other "sh tour was ended, the maseum in the pes," so don't lose your pride.

By but doubted

forget that other people beside own erstwhile Gerry or Jeff do

own outside the

"I think giris to-day treasure their mariage tokens quite as much as those, of the past age, but they are less conservative than their mothers.

If they didn't, you'd never have. ting for hal the boys you coun

pais, nor half the girl