SLICK, STRAIGHT The Easter Bonnet
AND STRIPED
TWO-WAY
WINNER
IN STRIPES
is alick and straight with a pleat at the back. It's stripei-navy and while whipcord cotton, For the business woman who needs something tailored and washable for warmer days this is surely the answer? It's good value for money, too, because she can wear it as a dress or a coal, By Rembrandt it costs 71 guineas. The hat by Vernier,
PIOTUNE BY ROY BOUND.
THE
HE Easter bonnet is midway to the elbow in a cloud velling spoiled moro important than of deep cerise
with violet, ever this your,
Of similar construction, but. With the new short skirts not no large, la Jenny Fischer's which only just cover the "sputalk," consisting massca kner, a hat is essential to com- of black water tulle balanced on plete the silhouette. In then double winged block welvot words of Madame Simono Mir- band. man, Princess Margaret's' milli-
Descending almost to the basi ner, the hat, without being high of the shoulder bledes is the on the head, must give an illu same milliner's candy striped alon of holght to balance what beach hat, designed to insure its
has been taken from the skirt. wearer against munstroke. But To which Madame Vernier, it can be worn Lurned up in another of the Royal family's front to reveal a pretty face. milliners, adds that "above all And when the sun goes in, so else. Le but this season must can the hal-into the beach bag, be becoming; but it must also rolled up.
be chosen to relate to a apreide A bold tulip print is Medame ouit in order to dramatise the Mirman's choice for one striking effect."
outsize silk capeline while an- Thus, it may be very wide ur other printed silk model features very high, it may be flat or tail, a brown lenf motif on a white helmet-shaped or flying off at ground. A third model, with the back like a windsock. But down-curving thick brim in ith nearly always light and black tulle has flattened pink airy, and often shows the balt satin roses between the layers through a transparent bazo of of fulle on top of the hat, and tulle, point d'esprit, organza or on the under aide of the brim. one of the season's other popular sheer, fabrics,
STRAW
FLOWERS
Madame Vernier loads a large pink-straw with all the flowera
On other models, coarso open from the summer garden, or weave strew leaves the hair covers crown and brim with fea visible and well aired, One thers until the whole creation striking straw model, made by seems to be made of them. Madame Verler for the courier, At the other extreme to thera Michael, in white chip straw, huge, shoulder-hugging hats is a was strongly reminiscent of an whole range of berets, caps, upturned wastepaper basket cloches, turbans, toques and bedecked with a wide white le girl" Bretons. ribbon band.
Many a cap or beret this For this couture fashion collce- season will be made of organza,
tulle or net. ilon, too, Madame Vernier raided chilton,
Many,
the children's costume box and 100, will hold capilve, as in a came up with a series of "space cloud, a cluster of coloured rose- helmets," stressed by af velte buds, a single full-blown rose, or which cover a pillbox or helmet even a couple of kove birds. shope set square on the head Very sophisticated is Madame und descend straight and stiff Mirman's cap in black tulle, round face and head almost to hiding in its midst a single large chin level.
red ruse. In contrast, she has Madame Mirman interprets a youthful white "meringue" the sume idea in tambourines made entirely of net, or a pink her version of the pillbox- tulle souffle bespattered with ting: covered with a vell which looks bows.
Sometimes
Vernier
for all the world as if it had
a cap, cloche or been cut from a fisherman's not. toque becomes elongated and Both these milliners are show- rises like a pagoda or files out ing a number of tambourines to a point. Madame (or pillboxes) for the spring shows coo pogoda.........toque_la made of Ane straw, silks, organdy combination of black and gold or printed fabrics and trimmed, straw, while Madame Mirman's sometimes
a collection contains a number of
cones.
WINDSOCKS
with covered, variety of flowers or truli.
But shape matters little this year. There are berets, clochés,
Even longer are Me Harvane's Lurbons, toques, Bretons and windsocks which fly out at the schoolgirl "aailors," square
back of the head like the wind- crowned helmets, enormous socks on an airport. Only Mr expelines or cartwheels, some- Harvane's are made of straw, times with double or cutaway organza or jersey.
Tall
HELMETS
Karden
And
who wear.
bris, and simple skull caps.
summer For high Puramount for spring 1950 parties 1ster day wear, flower.. is construction-and construe- hats and chignons are popular, tion is always light.
made from almost any or every Bower of the field or garden. belmets are built of Among those most often fea- marguerlies, transparent spotted tulle on a tured are roses,
of the valley, virtually invisible frame.. Large violels, lics melon or balloon shapes in or- gerantum petals and Hiac. gunza look like the headdress of neither wind nor sun at Ascot some fantastle Eastern magician will daunt those -ready to take to the air on his Madame Mirman's latest "two- ngle carpet.
in-one" all capeline. For i Enormous
and the wind comes up, the broad capelines, with brims overlapping brim can be removed, leaving a the shoulders, have' yards-and-zmnet, snugly filling- turban...
summer and late dar Many yards of tulle on a light silk or
bats this БЕЗБОЛ have open dne. straw base. Alternatively,
of crowns and some-are-little more they are covered with rusCH
#prays of flower garden of than luras made a veritable
flowers
on poised the new bas a bouffant hair styles;
One of the most dramatic
spring blooms,
cartwheels
Edward Harvane shoulder-wide model in course
green veiling with "mimosa" headdresses seen in this reason's spots, and another in pink millinery collections is one by velling trimmed with little black Jenny Flocker which features. Or, cutting away block vulture feathers curving velvet bows. the belm, he products the effect up and over the head from a uf two huge butterfly wings white satin band.
--MURIEL PENN enveloping the shouldern almost
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Cellar Symphony Band
-The Music Was The Kind You Hear On Spring Evenings-
First there came a Mouse beat- By MAX TRELL
ing a drum made of half a wal- HRISTOPHER!" eried nut shell with a speck of all- two Hanid, the Shadow Girl cloth drawn across it and with the Turned-About Name, toothpicks for drumsticks. "Christopher Cricket! Come out, come out, wherever you are!"
Hanid looked around the room but she couldn't sco Christopher Cricket.
At that moment, Knari, the Shadow Boy, and his two friends Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, and Hiawatha, the Small-Sized Wooden Indian came. Into the' room
In The Cellar
"If you're looking for Christo- phér Cricket," sald Knart, "he's' down in the cellar playing the ftute."
They all went down to find Christopher.
Sure enough, there he won
of firewood sitting on a bit Just getting ready to pipe a tuno on his Auto.
Now you may not believe this but It's true. Knari, Hanki, Teddy and Hiawatha all saw it with their own eyes.
They saw Christopher blow gome notes on his flute anch, in-. mediately, from all sides of the cellar, other creatured marcfiing up.
Playing A Violin
Beete Next, there came playing a violin made out of an acorn with four spider webs for airing.
Next come Grasshopper.
a horn-blowing "My friends, I've called you al! here this afternoon so that we can give a concert for our good Next came a site-playing Toad friend
Koarf, Teddy". Hanid,
arxi anyone else and Hiawatha Next came a Frog with a blg who cares to come down here to trombone..
Next came a Sparrow with a mandolin,
Next came a group of Fire- files all playing a harp.
Flanily, averybody was there. Christopher Cricket greeted them all by standing on plece of firewood and saying:
Rupert and the Lost List-52
As the pals stream away from the wwod Margaret til looks paled "don't see how a sissy empty bottle really proves that Rupert went to Santa Claus's camie!" alle murmura nervously. "Oh, you'd better believe him.” laughs Edward. That yurt of -- thing --le always happening to Rupert, lucky chap 1”. And later
the
Mix Bear smiks, kindly at her.
That's solved one mystery for,
"Whenever all of us," she says..
we hear noles in the middle of the night that we can't explain we shall know that Santa Claus's messengers are visiting us.
The End
A New Adventure Bégini. Tomorrow.
NATALL RIGHTS NASSEVER
listen."
Ran Upstairs
ut
Hearing this, Knart ran stairs and came down with, Mr Punch and his wife, Judy, and General Tin, the Tin Soldier, and Baron Munch' who lived behind the Bookcase.
"Take your seats, overy- body," sald Christopher Cricket to all the guesta,
All the guests sat down on one Christopher played some notes
side of the 'coliar while all the
members of Christopher Cricket's "
Colebrated Cellar
Symphony
on his flute.
Orchestra sat down on the other. stood up and applauded
cheered.
The orchestra played. some
beautiful music.
It wasn't tho
and
"Thank you! Thank you!” said kind of music you hear in a con- Christopher Cricket, cort hall or on the radio or even
Then the Mouse with the drum
on phonograph records, It was and the Beetle with the violin
and the horn-blowing Grasshop-
the kind of musle you hear on spring evening snewhere in the per and the fife-playing Tod country.
Lovely Songs
and the Frog with the big troca- bone and the Sparrow with the mandolin and the Firefine withs their harp all marched back to The pieces of musle didn't have their pinces in the dark corpers any names, There wore songs of the cellar. without words. But they were no
lovely that when, finally, the
And the wonderful concert of
concert was over, Knart, Hand, Christopher Cricket's Celebrated and Cellar Symphony, Orchestra, was
Toddy, Hiawatha, Punch
Judy and all the other guests over.
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