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MOURNING AND KINDRED STYLES.

[FROM THE TIMES FABHION

CORRESPONDENT]

PABIS, December 11th. The bird of fashion is flying with a very broken wing just now, and her fight is low and timid. She is, morcover, treated with

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Show the pronta. At the present moment there are thousands of French girls and women, all of whom are capable of work ing at either toy or flower making, but

WAR BREVITIES.

The British Medical Journal stated, there are ad openings for them, and early in December, that there had been unless something ta done what is to very little enteric and no dysentery in become of the industries America and the British expeditionary force, England will be clamouring for both these things in January Where will they come from? And worse still, how are the unemployed girls and women going to live in the meantime

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The patrols on the east coast have been ordered to shoot any prisoners detected signalling id any manner or exhibiting any light that may be visible at sea.

The Kaiser continues to experiance great nervous depression, and the Kaiserin is opposing his intention to return to the front, says a mensage from The Hague

One hundred and ninety-three priests. have been shot, wounded, or imprisoned for giving evidence before the commission of inquiry into the German outrages in Btigium, says a message from Amsterdam.

As many as six ministers of the Charch of Scotland from the Lothians alon calisted as privates in the course of a few days. The tradition of the Covenanters is a fine thread with which to interlace any army,

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"Better to be married a minute the die an old maid," said Lady Hosie reply- ing recently to a member of the Isle of INDO-CHINA BRICKS. TILES. PIPES Wight Education Committes who ques- tioned the wisdom of young women teachers marrying soldiers just going to the front.

a cold indifference by those who, before GERMANY the war, were her most ardent lovers. Her bright eye and her gay plumage are

The complete disappearance of German not in favour, but, being a crature of a very adaptable nature and not entirely and Austrian business rivalry has opened devoid of human sympathy, for all her way to British mastery of British busi aire and graces and all her follies and ex-ness, says the British Trade Review. Gorman forges are cold, Gorman factories travagances, she is doing her best to prove to the world that she can meet the hours are silent, and German banks are drained of their precious metal merchandise. nood with distinction.

With a crippled Germany Great Britain Quite unobtrusively Fashion is having her say among all the philanthropic need not concern itself. There is no com- works, and sho has instilled into the petition in a corpes. But how long will minds of her most youthful and ambitious Germany remain crushed? Only long adherents that it is the moment to turn enough, depend upon it, to get her over a new page in the book of clothes. factories opened and her machinery The result is a pleasant one to behold, moving, and then wo shall be faced with and the Paris woman now walks demurely an inpouring of cheap goods Made in in skirts of reasonable width and shoes of Germany. In the face of, the greatest less perilous structure. She instile inte opportunity ever offered to British hor whole silhouette something of the manufacturers we must not stand idle seriousness of her mind, and although I Nearly every article of Gorman or cannot quite sympathize with the middle. Austrian manufacture now thrown out of aged women who дом say a little our markets can be manufactured here, viciously, The war will teach those and as cheaply-goods formerly sold in foolish little turkeys who made themselves this country by Germany and Austria so ridiculous before the war that life is aggregated a round sum of £30,000,000. There is a depot in rear of the fighting serious and not as mad as they made it. While our Army and Navy are attacking line whose members, a Chronicle terres. yet I must confess that the little the enemy in his territory, what more pondent tells us, describe it as the “* home turkeys" are more attractive in their now commercially sensible, and indeed more for lost dogs.” Its business is to give frocks than they wore in their old ones truly patriotic, than the seizure of the men who have strayed from their batta and in a cuff neglectful or a care enemy's trade by the brains of British Hons the right direction for rejoining less shoe-string "they are more to my business 1 But this is not a proposition | them. 1. fancy than they were when screwed up. to the latest extortion of fashion's to dream about; if plack and initiative are not behind the desire for supremacy caprice. It is even a little pathetic to see the unconscious way in which they in this snotter, it were better all talk of draw consolation from the very demure- seizing Germany's trade be dropped at ness of their attire, for the frailties of once. It cannot be proved that the foreign- youth are very like the wrinkles of old made goods which we have been buying age: they give character and colour to for years have been of superior quality life and make for love and understand-They have been popular mainly because they are cheap, and in their manufacture Ing.

the cheapness of labour in the enemies' countries has been an important factor There has been a good deal of quiet But the rent secret of success has been the discussion about the mourning which methods employed here by the Germans shall be worn for those who fall on the and Austrians in exploiting their goods. field of honour, and although the upper Their skill and daring in advertising classes are quite ready to modify the their home-made products have surpassed outward expression of their grief so that our own. Every one can recall a dozen the aspect of the country may be less familiar lugubrious, the middle labouring classes do not like the iden at his famous through the notion ties made the woman who lives in equalor, compara ink. To capture this great business, tively speaking, the depth of a crape veil amounting millions of pounds every means much. It gives her moral support year, is as essential as the physical and to take it crushing of our enemy; and as guns are

MOURNING.

commodities

Commander Hewlett,

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Flight directed the recent seaplane raid upon Cuxhaven, is the son of Mr. Maurice Howlett. the novelist, and a nephew of Mr. Dick Hewlett, who is now appearing with a theatrical troupe at a Calcutta theatre.

The lates instances of war unmes being conferred on children include:Robert Dismude Wilkins, Marne Mary Oliphant, Annie Courtrai Jones, Lillean Arras Benworth, Hollebeke James Williams. Louise Pervyse Jones, and Clercken Ainsworth.

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of consolation. In the same way she feels herself insulted when asked to dress her children in light colours, and nothing helps her more, or makes her feel the sympathy of her fellows so keenly, as the THE WAR AND AMERICAN upholding of her views in this matter.

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The way in which America is pushing its trade is indicated in the following note which is being sent out to the Press in all parts of the world-

The Frankfurter Zeilung publishes a letter from a German-American, in which he says: The impartial people of America are powerless to influence public. opinion in favour of Germany. The Press and the people of America will have nothing to do with you.”

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Hospital there is abundance of fuel every- where; and those commanding officers who take a lively interest in hygiene are pre- hibiting the consumption by their men of any water except that which has been boiled eg, by being made into tea.

The long veil in a very fine voile de aoie is being worn by young Frenchwomen rather in the fashion of an elongated Croix Rouge head-dress in black, with a band of white across the brow; but the majority of women are content to dress in very simple black tailor-mades with very nent toques. In this way they pass The American Bureau of Foreign Trade annoticed in the crowd of quietly-dressed of 29, Broadway, New York City, U.S.A., women who now fill the Paris streets, and offers to assist any merchants in this coun to be quiet, unemotional, and steady try who desire to establish trade relations under trouble is as much the way with with the United States. French women in these days as it is with

No charge will be made for the services French men,, '

Refugees who have fled to Holland Long coats with belts, slightly full skirts to the coat, high collar rendered, as all the expenses of the of fur, & straight skirted dress, well-made organization are, defrayed by American report that the Germans have posted eight boote of cloth and patent leather, a small, manufacturers interested in developing 15 centimetre guns and several machine close-fitting hat on a neat coiffure, with the export business of the United States. guns on the sand dunes between Duinser- Merchants who desire to take advantage gen and Heyst, and that German troops trimming of ostrich feathers, and a well-

concentrating along the Dutch adjusted veil-such are the elemente which of this offer should be as specific as are. go to make up the majority of French possible in their demands, so that there frontier between Oostham and Meerhout. women's walking dress at the present will be no unnecessary delays in writing Sizes, grades, moment. Black or dark blue are almost for further particulars.

"If his Excellency the General in the only shades one sees, and only the colours, quantities and approximate Command gives the order Regiment X touch of dainty lingerie at the throat prices should be given whenever practical now swims over to Dover, it is a matter relieves the uniform darkness. Last If samples are forwarded, these will be of course that the regiment, including year's fure are worn much as they were submitted to manufacturers interested those who cannot swim, swims over last year, although there is less of that The Bureau also suggests that those mink anys a Gorman Volunteer, in a letter to vulgar air of challenge in the way the ing use of the free services also furnish his father, in which he expounds the rules stolce are adjusted, for over everything banking and commercial references, so of soldierly obedienos. there has passed a wave born of unselfish sorrow and patriotism.”

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The Germans fear that Britain intends landing troops at Zeebrugge, and to repel movement of this nature 20,000 men are manning the trenches between Ostend and the Dutch frontier. The trenches are supported by a number of batteries. Many refugees are escaping to Boiland. fearing the consequences of an advance by the Allies.

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In nothing has the woman of Paris, whose silhouette is copied all over the The American Bureau of Foreign Trade world, changed so much an in her walk does not execute orders or indents for its But a very short time ago she wriggled own account, acting solely as an inter her way along and her anatomy appeared mediary between buyer, and seller, Should to be of the strangest. To-day she is orders be sent direct to the Bureau, such gradually slipping back into her old orders will be turned over to the manu babit of tripping, and it suits hor much facturer or export merchant best able to better. Her figure is taking on its old, execute them satisfactorily. Orders for familiar lines, and the flat chest is likely sample lines, if accompanied by the neces It is announced that the Crown Prince to disappear with the ungraceful wriggle sary remittance, will be executed by one of Bavaria ia severely wounded in the When the old writere spoke of une bella of the purchasing Agents of the Bureau, leg and is now in hospital in Ghent The Dockyard Managers, can be seen between the hours of 11 and 12 Noom fille de France, the imagination pictured who is familiar with the market in which Prince in a brother-in-law of the Queen something very different from the quaint the goods are to be sold, thus giving the of the Belgians. He has been in com little people who have grimaced along merchant all the advantages of a resident maad of the 6th German Army in the boulevards of late years, and it is buyer or purchasing agent without any Flanders, and distinguished furself not quite probable that with the return of

long ago by the issue of a violent tirade peace we shall see a return of the old of the expense.

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type French woman in all classes.

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but the world in general; for what the NEW PORTUGUESE MINISTRY. Frenchwoman does in feminine wiler to-day the English woman does to- marrow; and not only the Englishwoman, but the women of all the civilized world."

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The composition of the now Cabinet abandoned thair is as follows:-

Senhor CourINHO

front lines on the north-eastern side of Arras on December 17th The Germans trenches before the devastating fire and retired on Blangy and Saint Laurent, where snipers have taken up positions at windows and on the housetops. The Allies are strongly entrenches in the outskirts.

A member of the Ceylon Contingent writing of his voyage saya. It was here! funny all along the Suez Canal, were military posts of about 24 soldiers a mile apart, and when we were coming

Thoughtful people are expressing a good deal of anxiety about some of the essentially French industries and their possible fate on account of the stagnation

Premier and Minister in trade. It seems that the German com

of Marine mercial houses had not only possessed

Interior themselves of a great portion of the dress- Senhor Inada

Finance making trade before the war, but theyBoubor Clastno

Public Works had completely carried away all the Senhor BASTO cleaner forms of flower-making and Senhor Sospes Foreign and Justice

Senhor ALBUQUERQUE. Wär toy-making. Both flowers and toys are Parisian industries, and it is argued that Senhor S... Education HOW โร the moment to revive them. All Benbor GASPAR....... Colonies those flowers which were piled up a the Owing to the inability of the leaders big shops to be sold so cheaply were of the various parties to come to an agree through, as we passed each che, they German-made, and the toys which turned ment to form national Ministry the shouted Who are you? After telling Where are the French shops into palaces of delight new Cabinet is composed entirely of them they would shout for the French children at Christmas were Democrate As Senhor Casacho declares you going to which we always replied. also of German make. The models were, his op

ite duration is problemati To Berlin" Then they would all start to cheer. This went on all the way Gorman ruse, or call it adaptability if that the conditions in the Abate are through the Cana and was quite you will, twisted them just enough to identical with thood which caused the amusing. I wonder if the Contingent make them German. The Concours downfall of the previous Democratic will over get to Berlin I expect if we don't it will not be for the want of trying. Lépine supplied the ideas, but Germany Cabinet ander Senhor Coste

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