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Pago 10

The Cup that Cheers

Drink delicious

Ovaltine

and

Note the Difference in your Nerve-Strength and Outlook

T any time of the day a warm, comforting cup of Ovaltine' will do much to renew Lehergy, strengthen the nerves and brighten your outlook. 'Ovaltine' is all concentrated nourishment, derived from Nature's best foods -malt, milk and eggs.

"Ovaltine also at bedtime will greatly help you to ensure a good night's sleep. Its easily digested nutriment will assist you to relax, soothe the tired body and quickly provide the conditions most favourable to peaceful,

restorative sleep.

For these reasoas delicious 'Ovaltine' poscenes special advantages as the regular daytime and bedilme beverage, for maintaining health and vitality, and for promoting your cheerfulness and confidence.

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Woman Today

A FAMOUS ARTIST CREATED THE "GIBSON GIRL"

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All men fell in love with the Gibson Girl. She had a wasp waist set into generous hips and long dresses gathered around the "knees. The bosom, ample, spreading outwards nearly much...the hiper-The shoulders bare, smooth. The mouth patting, the eyes invit, ing, the hair swept forward over the forehend.

The Gibson Girl came from the pon of Charles Dana Gibson, and-his-inspiration was his very beautiful and famous wife, Irena Langhorne.

"Why do they call me a Gibson

Girl,

Her picture was inscribed on, fold and Cosmo Hamilton. Sang plates, cushions, trays and post-the chorus gally: In essentials, not so different cards. She gave her name ta from today's New Look-ultra-women's clothes. She transformed feminine, curvaceous, dependent, their figures, pastimes and out- No, not so differeni, for retail look. She stores today blouse

was epitomised and advertising parodied. on the stage ned and skirt combinations the now-fangled, moving pletures. Inspired by the Gibson Girl. She became

a greater Influence "She wore a bow-tie blouse, on her time than all the rustling black skirt. Remember stars of today put together. her the enpy runs.

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Old-timers among us can re member her a a glass dimly,

» vaque but poignant memory from the naughty nineties, and of which the Gibson Girl wre the universal symbol.

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back In all sturteil when Charles Dana Gibson, falely successful magazine illustra- innfried Irene, one of

Flt- beautiful Langhorne sisters,

of Virginia. (Another became Lay Astor,)

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"Queen Of The U.S." Airs, Gilson Gibson Girl.

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She berame, as a contemporary described her, "Queen of the United

Slates-eleggot, charm- ng. tall, willowy, her hair piled

above lofty brow. gally Millions of women studied ber hair-do

and deportiuent 201 specialty - written books. by Richard Harding Davis and The magazines.

Stage And Song

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"The Belle of Mayfair produced in 1900 by 11. E. Brook-

Gibson Girl, Gibson Giri? What is the matter with Mister

Tback?

Why Dana Gibson!

Wear a blank expression and a

monumental curl And walk around with a bend

In your back. Then they cat

Girl!"

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HEAVY FABRICS IN COCKTAIL GOWNS

Russell makes the most of a slim, flowing princess line, adding a band of braid, com- plete with bobbles, to the shoulder to act as incipient steeves.

It

the

Matt, on the other hand, plays tricks with his materigi. He adds a turned up hem to the skirt, drapes the basque, puits more draping on the very low curveil decolletage front, and then puts li.

cuffs

three-quarter sleeves,

Victor Stirbel

presenta t his collection one of the most attractive dinner dresses seen for years. Superb elegance in in every line of this gown in chessmit coloured satin, with Its blero effect outlined in white beaded embroidery.

Evening wear is divided to day into three categories, the formal evening gown, the dinner dress with short or long sleeves and long ballet-length skirt, and the cocktail dress with the skirt 1 from the ground, a high OF Jow decolletage, and aleeves of varying lengths.

Inside this framework, there art no roles. For the cock. tali dress materials are batter If the are heavy and stiff, and grosgrain or falile are two

fabrics which have been mado much of both by Petar Ru sell and Mattil—the latter the latest member to be elected to the Society of London Fashion Designers.

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Then Ziegfeld of Follies fang became interested, and the smash of 1907, the song that really click sweep the continuni, thus:

"Mister Gibson, Mister.Gibson.. Just give your brush a whirl). And they'll say on the beach, There's a prach,

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A peach of a Gibson Bathing

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Gibson Dean of

himself. became the American Illustrators. At 25 he was, the most sought- after, black, and white artist in the United States. One magazine. for example, paid him £25,000 for a series of 100 drawings.

.No Garrot

Success eume to him the enzy way. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Ira 1807, and spent his boyhood in Flushing. He took up sculpture and dra- Ing during his early teens, and While at Art School sold a car- toon to a magazine for the Ant- erlean equivalent of £1. Within ja year he was a successful com-

merctal artist. "I didn't have to starve in a gorret," he once said,

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After contributing for many years, he bought a controlling Interest In

American magazine, but dropped it to re- turn to painting once more. In 1930, he turned from black and white work to olis, but although painted until, the day of his death, was navar very successful this medium.

In His cartoons nearly alwages de- pleted the trinis of love between young people. The girl in she -picture, of course, wax always

the unmistakable Gibson Girl.

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Just before his death at the age of 78. Dana Gibson cx- plained his life-long devotion to the cause of, feniebie

beauty. When I starlet -I-was-young and healthy," he maid, "d the one thing that's worth drawing when you're young and healthy is a woman.""

Or, on his death-bed; "If I had

| been an oyster; · I'd have drawn

girl oysters.",

SKIRT RENOVATIONS

An economical and simple way to refashion your even- ing dress is a separate top to tuck into the taffeta skirt. First, see that the waistline of the skirt is well pulled in.

you have sufficient material in the

discarded bodice top, make a cummer. bund to match the skirt. if you intend wearing the drew for dancing, a fitted, off-the- shoulder top in pink satin would be charming. If it in for less formal occasion thère is charm-in-tho-Idea of beige lace made with long sleeves and + frilled neck. line.

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THE BIRTHDAY OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING

HOLIDAY, 10th JUNE, 1948.

HOURS OF BUSINESS

BUTCHERY DEPARTMENT. Branches & Windsor House Annexe

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RESTAURANTS: SODA FOUNTAINS Usual hours

Waistline pinch with a Cinch

By Carolyn Earle

Revival of the feminine waist for the "new look" and the "newer look" continues to provoke discussion on the corsels, bras, and girdles necessary to round out the current fashionable contours. Some walsiline whittlers. dubbed variously cinch, nipper. and waist away, narrow you in as much as two inches at the middle,

Medient opinton stems divided ļus the actuni danger to health in

the latest foundation garments.

Oversons manufacturers of the Leunfections-are-booking-tu-prose that the femining middle is not unduly pinched or winiaturally compressed by their products.

They say women would not suffer the Inconvenience and discomfort of Buch

a proceed.

Ing, and that the cinch balt not to wear. merely eases the flesh gently launched in around into the meat becoming Sir years ago contour.

in America.

Phase Fade-out

The wired bra was Paris 20 years ago. the designer settled

Nat just one wire, but a selec. Although willing to meet any four thicknesses

tion of wires in sevry sizes and are built into demand for these petite garments, the makers feel that they are just this garment, which is meticul- a fashion phase, and will one day ously atted, and also carries Vanish as quickly as they came, year's guarantee of comfort. leaving in jussession of the field General medical opinion is not the real foundations of fashion-favourable, however, to any bra the bras, the girdles, and the ull-fashion which unduly

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PRINCESS AT HOME

Anne Matheson, London correspondent for the "Australian Women's Weekly," pre- sonts this picture of the future home of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. Every morning

curtains as the traffle feream design for the roars in from the outskirts to the and rose-red-and-cream brocade

0 centres of London, a in business

traditional tsar-and-tulip slips out of

Kensington design for furnishings, the live Palace, joins the stream of city | ing-rooms have both richness workers and,swinging-right and comfort. down Constitution Hill, the, dri- Ver drops his wife off at Buck- Ingham Palace.

concen- car

The Dairy Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd.-ones that can hip a very neat trates pressure and constriction.

PURE FOOD SPECIALISTS

GENERAL HOLIDAY

THURSDAY, JUNE 10th, 1948.

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It was not fashion that put the foundation garment business on the financial map.

It was a fine, elastic thread that could be made into a fabric stretching up, down; and across, two-way and one-

way stretch, enabling a wearer to bend over without strangling on her girdle.

= trim

Cinch And Science An uplifted bosom, midriff, a anug waist, and a rounded hip constituting the immediate feminine goal, manu- facturers have scientific national on hand to help nature out. New

girdles (as distinct from

the cinch belts) rise well above

We beg to inform our patrons that on the above holiday, the waist to give a small-waisted our hours of business will be as follows:--

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look with no bulges.

"We prefer to let clothes com- plete the illusion of small waists," Jay the n manufacturers, who know comfort 19 always good! business

If you've got to hitch your girdle down every time you get up, it's either because you are **¡wearing a non-stretch fabric or the garment is too short-a com- mon error, Girdles should come

two inches below the curve of the buttocks.

Getting into a zipperless or roll- on girdle, with a minimum of contortion and hauling is a mat- ter that requires some explana- thou The recommended techlit quo is to turn the garment inside out and upside down; 'flp the garter edge over to the insido and step in at that end.

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Pull

Roll Technique

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up until the garters place and then, with a much nonchalance au is left, reach down, grasp tho girdio "In both handa firmly. without pushing 'fingars through the fabrio, and roll it up into place.

Matching the waistline con- troverty is the speculation on the strapless, wired bra-to, wear or

June Bride,

JUNE 18 STILL THE tradi- ilonal month for weddings-- for orange blossom and radiant brides. This 'young .wedding gown ls of ivary

satin, with a short, train, it. has a new, round neckling, outlined with a soft frill, and long princesa sleeves. The

"short"-"vait-ig ̈hald—at the crown with a band of orange blossom. (Worn 'by. Jana.

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Wedding Presents

Princess

It is the Duke of Edinburgh sent down

Elizabeth has had her plano and the

from

Windlesham

on his way to work at the Ad-radiogram which was the best. miralty, and Princess Elizabeth man's wedding present, with on her way to the sulte in Buck-Ane collection of records ingham Palace

which she has classics to samba. turned Into an office. By ten

Housekeeping at o'clock both are ul their deska,

presents no problems for Princess For Britain's No. 1 Newlyweds

Elizabeth, for housekeeper Mias have a working partnership

E. McGrigor, from Balmoral, has one that keeps them both busy everything under control. and happy for the eight hours

Princess Elizabeth's week-ends of the day they are separated.

are quiet, with simple housekeep- While Philp continues his ing, arranging her presents, and naval career, Princess Eliza golf on the Windlesham Moor beth gets down to the new and nine-hole course, but the week- exciting experience of running days are full and fascinating. a home as well as a job.

Sharing, with her husband bis

When

being, in fact, a "working simple, direct, and realistic out- look on. people and affairs, Prin- the week-ends come cess Elizabeth is now able to en round they are free free to enjoy the freedom of going about Joy the quietness and richness with him unhampered by the

of their first real home, "Win-restrictions which formerly sur dlesham Moor."

"In Surrey. And rounded her.

It is to Windlesham they have taken the _wedding_presents: chosen from the many thousands showered on them.

Sotting Up House Princess Elizabeth, with a very small staff and full programma during the weeks, is finding sot-f ting up house at Windlesham

Moar a much longer and harder daalc-than-the-had-anticipated.— Nevertheless it is one she

Popularity

Her popularity, which scam.

ad to reach its peak when an radiant bride aka loft, West- minster Abbay, has been fur- ther strengthened by her in- formal ́appearancea în public,; and her natural and spontano-| ous appreciation of simple so _clal_plóasantries.

The Clock Tower, Kensing-|

is thoroughly enjoying. Having ton Falace, former home of Prin- only the week-ends to work on ceBE

and the Earl of her country home and arrange in

in Athlone, is little more

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THE

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her own very individual manner furnished apartment ... a town the many lovely presents that flat where the Princess, and her are hers and Philip's, the "set-husbaad can work and organiso tling in" has become her relaxa- the rebuilding and redecorating tion.

bombed. Clarence Deep oream and duck onto which in time, will be their Lon- blue in furnishing taffeta là the don home. With the blueprints overall colour scheme of Prin- of work in progress at Clarence Elizabeth's rooms. She House In front of her, Princess ~~Has furnished the living rooms Elizabeth-Ya-- making suggestions

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