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BEECHAM'S PILLS may always be depended upon to exert a powerful and beneficial influence on the ills which beset the human race at various asons of the year. A few doses will act most eficctively on the vital organs, drive our impurities in the blood, cleanse the momach, strengthea the digestive organs, and lone and invigorate the entire system.

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and colours fantasies. The best dressing seen to-day is never eccentric. It is more often al richness most classically severe. Its (when it shows richness) comes from the elegance of the materials which go to make each separate garment, and the faultlessness of cut and detail with. which these are carried out. Esperistig is this the case with evening, gowns and wraps in the composition of which ex quisite lame, brocade and velvet fabrics are used worth very often what, in olden days, might have constituted a king's

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THE VOGUE OF TWEEDS.

tweeds, were

Ou the other hand, there is a great Yogad for the solid rough-and-ready effect in garments in progress. Take, for instance, the present vogue for tweeds. Up to two years ago, the only people one saw in Paris wearing the impossible looking tourists from all over the world that who went jolting. about the city in the great rubber neck" waggons. They were made up into awful-looking costumes with long custs of no distinct shape or cut and baggy, clumsy skirts, and one looked at the women wearing such

ments and burst into mer-esque' gar-

Now,

some of the biggest designers in Paris are taking these same despised tweeds and making thera up into the smartest possible of three piece costames and suits.

Chanel, the couturiere above all others who loves comfort and mo dern effects in her clothes, was one of the firs: to take tweeds seriously by introducing them into her famous tricot costumes, Like everything else that Chanel has found good, this idea has been approved of by the women who count, and the result is that this year finds many tweed suits being worn in the smartest rendezvous of "Paris.

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cut of shorter than the bodice length. an effect that is very amusing after qne has recovered the first surprise at sigh of these odd proportions.

The modern tweed costumes "usually show a straight line skirt which is ea- larged by a group of pleats inserted at one side or is made easy in width by the fold over line but it is sure to look straight to the cae and be easy to walk in. The coat may cover up all but an inch or two of the skirt, it may be three quarter in length or it may even be a short hip jacket, but whatever its length, it will be sure to de double-breasted and finished with macnish-looking revers. It is the perfectly loose line of these costumes which constitute their smart effect, and the accessories worn with them which constitute their elegance and at low of their being worn at smart after- uoon functions whereas their predecesors were never tolerated except in a railway train or on a

a golf cou One of the smartest accessories to a grey tweed suit silk is the beautiful silver grey fox stole, 300k sturdier, are really newer and there- whilst nothing sets off a brown tweed fore, a, sense, smartze.

course.

EMILY SPRING SUITA.

The suite for early Spring which some of the designers are already showing to the oversens buyers are mostly of kusha and fine tweed. For dressy

ocensions. black satin and the "cotele" or corded silks are being used. The satin suits, by reason of their cool sleek appearance are very tempting although the corded and costumes, though they

line

of fullness"

narrow.

suit so well as a red fox Bet." If

In the dressy three-piece suits for unseasonable at are too expensive or

which these two materials are being One of the different times of the year,

so much used, the same rules which ap silky-textured kasha scarves worn inside the coat I knotted about the throat like a stock col-bold good-that ising costumes

collar dr, else a silk scarf ply to the sports and

Co for comfort coupled with a

The lar will add just the touch of grace straight

effect.

satin lenda needed. The white sat

satin shirt blouse

well to pleating so that pleated and the heavily-ribbed silk stockings also contribute to the general effect of ele side panels and apron tunics are quite As to the satin and suits and costumes. gance and individual taste and complete frequently to he found figuring in satin a perfect ensemble which is in line cotele" silk coats, they tend to keep and detail so severly simple and yet so

to the simple, straight lines all coats becoming.

have followed or some time. They also ten, however, to fasten nearer the front

FELT HATS.

flats to wear with these sits are generally of felt. Just now, the small high crowned hats of fuzzy felt, in shades of brown, grey and black are bring worn a great deal. Silk felt hats mounted onto square-crowned shape also inding favour with women who like smart simplicity. One still sees small cloche type of bats with crowns pinch- ed and pleated into a variety of. Krotes. que shapes, but these are gradually giv ing way in favour of hats more simple in line, and a little less perky in effect. AFTERNOON COSTUMEN.

to

These two are the only changes noticed, although there were some coats that broke all rules by having, no collar at all and fastening right over on the left bip, surplice fashion.

finish with collar

THE GENERAL SILHOUETTE.

To sum up what designers have s yet revealed of the new Spring styles, one may say that the general silhouette will riot be changed to any serious ex- tent bus rather that it will be reined with the object of allowing more freedom of movement and more distinc- The classic simplicity of afternoon tion of design. The material that will be used will be mostly soft and the costumes expresses itself largely in

colours, also, will tend towards soft and the wrap-around cents and the straight-

delicate stades. Black, of course, is the line frocks which are worn under them,

Inevitable exception, otherwise all the broad cloth, satin Such materials as

and

models I saw were carried out in soft yelvet are chosen for these frocks and, in the case of velvet, fur is invariably shades of brown, gray, green, pink, mauve and bine, Almond green will ba used as a trimming. For the warmer vived, also that rich shade of brown weather that is still, alas, a mouth or

tabac." One of the innova known Ba also for the PAZON so ahead, but

tions will be a wonderful shade of rose which is now in full awing down on the tion Riviera, the couturiers are designing magenta, a newly-invested colour that has all the brilliance of magenta with fashioned on just s simple crope costumes

out any of its trying qualities as all the same lines as the winter velvet ours

of the lights which make it such a The lines of being

in Paria worn these are straight and narrow as a rule, dificult and dangerous colour to wear, though fullness is introducul in a have been toned down by the rosy. variety -ol ways

Pleating is one of the sheen that has been woven into it. Thi favourite methods for introducing full colour is one of Eliana's discoveries and whole salon filled with Panels inlet down the she is show made of fine straw and hess and pleated a detail of these exquisite. sides are

ribbon pleated, twisted and plaited simple frocks. It has been found that rib

into a hundred

and all original shapes pleats look particularly effective when of them in this

Clancing new shade. introduced in conjunction with one of the crepe prints which, after having there and taking Eliane as a criterion milliners, I would RILY that the re been abandoned for a season or two, the big hat is not for next season,

tura of are now all the rage again. By using the shapes on show were just as small

now

these

Centres pleated and plais in and close-fitting as ever, they have, been,'|

one can obtain the effect of

two patterns of material in the same colouring, for the doubling of a fanteria!

be that, instead of square ncess changes the effect high, pinched crowns, all the shapes

by a pleating process cha

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Captain 0. SISGERS, B.N.8, carrying- His Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this Port en or about THURSDAY, the 19TH FEBRUARY, 1925, at Now, taking Pas-

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Silk and Valuables and Tes for Italy, France and London (under arrangement) will be tra

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of its design immensely, an every dress showed round crowns that fitted closely However, it is not the shape of the head. designer knows,

the crepe print frocks that are, ber colours ing pleated. Materials of plain can be varied with bands and panels in just the same way, and look just us effective.

A HAT-PROTECTOR.

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Many people object to taking a hat- box with them on a journey as well as

a trunk. The following device will

The general style of these little frocks. is simplicity itself. Mostly, they are britiesa, being made over slip make a safe corner for a hat in the" of crepe de Chine, China or silk to which they are attached by a low waistline. For figures that find auch a beltless style trying, a wide belt or two, or even three narrow ones may be added to hold the pleats in place and. lend certain invidual enchet to the frock. Some of the couturiera are plac ing these double and triple belts so low down that the skirt length is actually (Continue on next Column).

corner of the trunk, trunktray, or even drawer. Two pieces of wood, about the size of two sides of a hat-box, say, twelve to eighteen inches long. by eight high, planed and stained and then united by hinges, so that they will open to form & With the corner of the. right angle: trunk or drawer this will form four stiff. sides in which a hat may safely be plac ed.. When not in use the pieces will fold up and lie Bat.

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