1940-08-07 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 7, 1940

Bringing Up Father

FOR GOODNESS

SAKE-WHO IS

IT THAT

MAGGIE 19

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TALKING TO

ON THE

PHONE

UH-HUH- UH-HUH-

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UH-HUH- YES-1- UH-HUH-

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MY

SH-SH-H-!

FRIEND OF SISTER LUCY-

WANT YOLI TO MEET HER –

Page 11 By George MacManus

#DIDN'T KNOW, YOUR SISTER

HAD ANY

FRIENDS-

UH -HUH - UA-HUH- WH-HUH-

BY GOLLY- I'D LIKE TO MEET HER-

MAGGIE CAN'T GIT A WORD IN. EDGE WISE-

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A PAGE FOR WOMEN

Are We Going Back To These?

Fashions

EAT AT-

Jimmy's Kitchen

INEXPENSIVE

SATISFYING

Men's top-hats have no utility WHY BE DOWNHEARTED ?

fashionable

FOR THE BEST OF GOOD CHEER

COME TO THE CHANTECLER

do not follow each court doctor could cure. To hide, utterly disregarded by the empty other in logical sequence. They the blemish she covered it with a headed. are largely psychological and de- small piece of black plaster, And] pend on the economic condition of the country and the mental de- that was how beauty spots began.value, and became velopment of the people. This last Very rapidly this fashion be-only because they were first worn factor exerts a greater influence came ridiculous and to-day welby the Duke of Wellington, who upon dress than most people im- have pictures of a woman of the was very short. His topper was agine.

period, her forehead painted with more than two feet high! Immediately following the a coach and horses. A huge black Women have to be thankful to and enjoy Good food; Good wine and Good music. French revolution the thoughts of spot adorns each cheek. Under each a small, dumpy man for their, un- the people were concentrated on eye she wears a crescent and on comfortable high heels. Louis XVI freedom both of mind and body. One cannot say to what lengths tiers, a fact that made him feel her chin is a thick black streak.was overlooked by all his cour- and it become fashionable for clothes to be worn, when

this would have gone, but for the somewhat inferior, and he was.de- ditions permitted, for the purpose tess of Bedford. She brushed aside curry favour, suggested high heels

timely action taken by the Coun- lighted when a courtier, trying to Special monthly rates for Breakfasts, Tiffins and. of throwing into relief the out- the remonstrances of her chain, on all his footwear, for this raised Dinners. Fish and Chips 80 cents at Snack Bar, lines and contours of the body rather than as mere covering. The berlain and helped to kill the ab-him almost on a level with nor- summer costume of a fashionable surd fashion by appearing at an mal people.

important function in 1613 with al

eon-

When a fashion becomes ugly or

woman of the period had to pass clean face. This was so strange uncomfortable, there is always the two tests: its weight had to be 1 no more than half a pound as against two and a half pounds of the present day. And it had to be passed through a wedding ring!

To make it cling to the figure and throw out the lines of the body, women damped this light costume before putting it on..

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After the War of 1914-18, wo- that a chronicler wrote, "She, hope that it will suddenly vanish men in Britain experienced a de- forebears painting which makes through association with someone gree of emancipation never be her look somewhat odd among so of ill repute or lowly station. Dur- fore enjoyed, which resulted in many vizzards, which with their ing the last last century, bloomers dress becoming skimpier than spotted faces and frizzled powder-were fast becoming the craze when ever, and to-day a reaction has ed hair, makes all ladies look a certain famous owner of a num- set in. Gone are the simple lines. alike."

ber of hostelries put all his bar- Dresses are becoming untidy and The present

vogue of indis-maids into bloomers. That killed complicated, and it remains only criminate face painting, eyebrow the fashion at once, for it would for designers to accentuate cer-plucking, and hair waving innever do for society to be seen tain parts of the body, as they did sausage rolls and regular curls also, in identically the same clothes as in bygone times.

has the effect of killing feminine girls who served behind a counter. During the bustle period dresses individuality and casting all wo- The wearing of nightgowns by were designed to throw the men in a common mould.

day is happily, another habit that posterior into prominence, and in In hat designs, too, women have has ceased, for it was one of the the Middle Ages, when pregnancy a tendency towards the ridiculous, most slovenly that ever took Lon- was every woman's ideal, dresses as they had two centuries ago.don by storm. Who started it, no were cut and padded to make the Some went so far as to wear gal-one knows, but it became quite abdomen protrude, so as to give leons in full sail on their heads, the thing for women to receive the desired effect!

while society beauties in com-friends in their night dresses, or None can see round the corner paratively recent times have even make short calls so attired. of the road of fashion which winds worn hats sprouting bunches of Then, one unfortunate female. its way in the most inexplicable fruit and a variegated assortment having no other clothes, was hung manner. Women are the illogical of flowers,

in her night dress, and overnight) sex. They have taken from men Like the beauty spot, other society discarded the fashion. Ever the more pretentious role and fashions have also become popular since, only artists, writers and often follow the most ridiculous because a monarch was either vagabonds dare live all day in examples. For instance, Queen crippled or physically deficient. their sleeping clothes. Elizabeth, was much admired dur- Early in the present century we One other fashion killed in this ing her reign because of her ivory had the Alexandra Limp, a gait way was that of wearing huge complexion, which at a time when which became fashionable among ugly yellow lace cuffs and ruffies, everyone worked very hard, was silly women because Princess which had started in Elizabeth's a sign of gentility and refinement. Alexandra, wife of Edward VII time, but had grown to enormous The wives of the great determined limped. The fact that she suffered proportions during the reign of PROVISIONS DEPT. to emulate her, and in order to severely from rheumatism, which James I. gain a similar pallor they con-caused sumed a concoction of ashes, gravel and tallow which some genius sold in fancy jars at an ex-' orbitant price.

Famous persons, especially royalty, have been leaders of fashion since time immemorial. Unfortunately, they are so aped by the sycophantic that the fashi- ions they set sometimes become ridiculous. James I was noted for his cowardice and lived in con- stant fear of assassination, and for this reason his clothes were heavl ly padded. Most of his courtiers, who had no reason whatsoever to fear a similar death, followed, with the result that during his reign the hideous padded doublet! and. bombasted breeches had an' immense and unmerited vogue,

During his reign, too, society was so dissolute that influential men and women," rather than be recognised in doubtful company, affected masks. This fashion be- came universal in the highest so- ciety and women without masks earned the title of "barefaced."

Another member of royalty who originated a silly fashion

Was

this painful walk,

6-17

A cortain Mrs. Turner a leader

FOOD SUGGESTIONS!

CANADIAN SALMON .70 lb.

COD .60 lb.

Dad's Cookies .76 pkt.

SIZE

¡S. & W. Salmon

1 Tall

was

of fashion and the designer of the Weetabix worst of such monstrosities, aided

and abetted the Countess of Essex

.80 pkt.)

in poisoning Sir Thomas Over- “FAME” bury, While being tried and sen-

tenced she appeared in her hor-

SIZE

rible yellow cuffs and ruffles, and Apricots. Lord Chief Justice Coke, while

passing sentence, thundered, "Not

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only has she been guilty of the

cuffs and ruffs and I hope she will

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Lend the néighbours trowel and they'll come back

Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I. She was afflicted by a little stub- born. sore on her fado, which nói: for "mower.",

seven deadly sins, but she is the Sliced Grape Fruit inventor of the yellow starched

bo the last to wear then." He or-

dored her to be hanged in them Greengage Plums

at Tyburn, and no respectable por- son ever appeared in yellow cuffs and ruffs again.

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Strawberries

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70

Sliced Peaches

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