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A FORECAST..

A rather original theory of Yvonne Davidson's is that there is very little difference in line between the ordinary. sports clothes and the elaborate evening dress, Where the difference has to be worked in is in the matter of material, and for this reason, she thinks that the rich lames.and brocades will never go out of fashion. * I think," she said to me,

With the Rue de la Paix invaded sinte many years with titled members of the English aristocracy and refugee scions of Russian noble families, it is not tathat gold and silver kid have been done

ba wondered at that the wife of one of the most

to death, but I don't think lands or exalted among America's brocades will ever go out of fashion now, just as I think the full skirt has come to artists should have been fascinated by stay. I would say that godets will go out the dress world of Paris and started com-

of fashion before very long, because they | are 30 obvious and so simple that any- petition with some of the world's greatest one almost who can hold a needle can designers. This is Yvdane Davidson, the make a godet skirt, and they are bound wife of Jo Davidson: perhaps the best therefore to become commonplace. What think will take their place are full known of all American sculptors, ce skirts into which the fulling is introduced tainly the artist who has been commisin so intricate and novel a way that sioned to do more busts of celebrities than

no one can tell how it is done."

any other.

TROPICS ESSENTIAL."

HOME TRUTHS FOR UNITED STÁ CEST

المقامة

“We are becoming more and more dependent upon the greas ungevelopdü BTLBS 10 tropical countries IDE existence Inis statement was recently made by Professor Pearl of Joho nep- kins University, who estimates that w fore the end of the century one-half or

thu

the calories' required to sustain people of the United States will have to be imported.

Among the foreign products used for food purposes in the Laited States, thu coconut plays an important role, abe coconut palm grows only in the tropics as low altitude, preferably near the sn coast, and the Philippines with their tropical climate their thousands of islands having an extensive coastline in their prolific soil, are regarded as one of the most. faroured regions in the world for coconut culture. This state As an expounder of her belief, in lamé, ment is further-borne out by the fact Mrs. Davidson is frail and ethereal Yvonne Davidson is showing a number that the Philippines to-day produce one- to look at, and so willowy that the of charming models for wear in the house third of the world's supply of copra or else under a thick coat. The founda-the dried mennt of the coconut from slenderest frock looks graceful and betion is a plain skirt in black or some

which the oil is extracted—even though native growers have exercised little care dark-coloured safin, over which is were couting on her. Like herself, the clothes a long jumper of latas, brocade, made with in the planting of their trees and in the which Mrs. Davidson "creates are" rasen-long, tight-fitting aleoves and a neck harvesting and treatment of their pro- tially perrohal. aesthetic and different buttoning high up round the throat. duct. And this production is capable of

Changes, of course, can be rung in with unlimited expansion, as to all others you have ever seen.. She any number of such jumpers An ex- The growing scarcity and increasing makes simplicity her keynote and on the quisite model which she designed for her cost of animal fats due to rapidly self, shows one of these jumpers in white diminishing grazing areas in the United Plainest of foundations, or of lines, the and gold lamé brocade worn over a white States-has tremendously stimulated the works in innumerable changes with just velve the back of the low-cut neck is so stands out as the premier vegetable velvet skirt slightly flaring in front: curled consumption of vegetable oils. Coconut one touch of colour or some quaint de sable, complete from head to tail; stretch. tail. I called last week to

see the ed across the front of the tunic and round collection she has just prepared for the couple more of these animals with the Riviera and, incidentally, for Palm priceless pelt. For evening wear, she is Beach, for Yvonne Davidson is as well from a dark to a lighter tone. One model. featuring a great deal of velvet shading Sheherazade," is in a wonderful velvet shade; it is quite plain and straight in cut, the only decoration being a tablier effect in front caught up in loose folds to form a belt that cascades in draped folds down each side of the back In are plain in cut, and rely for effect on a fact, nearly all the velvet evening models

note of clever draping. THE PLEATED SKIET."

the hem of the skirt at the back, are a

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THE DIRECTORY sovers the notable events, ports and cities of the Far East, from Netherlands India to Siberia, in which Europeana reside.

Not only is the Directory as full and complete in each case as it can be made, but each Colony, TION carefully revised each year, the Part or Settlement is prefaced by DESCRIP oil. Aside from its use as the base for majority of which will serve as an accurse GUIDES FOR THE TOURT, giving avery detail making high grade vegetable soups.

in connection with the

their places, glycerine, etc., it is becoming more and

History Topography, etc.. more a food product. Batter and lard,

The Information in these Descriptions, sangit? salad dressings and other similar preing of a hundred interesting articles, packed parations made from coconut oil, are now with faca concisaly set out and containing in general use as animal fat substitutes. statistics of the TRADE of each Country and

known the other sido of the Atlantic as shading from a cyclamen to a deep purple In desiccated or shredded form the part, would alone suffice to fiti a large volume.

the Statue of Liberty, itself. **REVERSIBLE FROCKS."

There were a number of the reversibl frocks which this designer has invented for the particular delight of the woman traveller. These are shown nearly always in crêpe Remain, and consist in two frocks cut exactly alike, but in different

Yvonne Davidson, like all designers these days, is featuring pleats a great colours, so that one can wear the darker deal, in her models. Among the smartest one outside one day and the lighter one of those she has prepared for Palm Beach the nest, or else change from afternoon are a number of walking and sports frocks showing a tightly pleated skirt made from to semi-evening attire in the one day by the gayest of plaid scarves, a long merely substituting the under" for the amartly-cut jumper, either in white crêpe top slip. They are in a host of charming de chine or in a shade to match the combinations of colours, cavy blue and muffer-scarf similar to the shirt. None dominating colour in the plaid, and a vieux rose, or almond green and black, of these plaids, be it said, ever saw & or else the old favourite, black and white sprig at heather, still less figured in a Each slip is made as a straight, one- clan war; they are plaids only in so far piece affair, som form being introduced as they are materials criss crossed with by means of girdles, pleats or clever trap-coloured stripes; but, they are very ing.

THE MANY PIECE FROCK."

charming, delightful fabrics for all that.

coconut enters largely into the making of candy, cakes and other eatables.

The busk of the coconut, called coir, goes to the making of. mata, rugs and upholstery, while the residue, left after meal, has great value as a cattle and extraction of the oil and known as copra

poultry food. During the late war the most effective gas mask devised was made from charcoal produced from coconut

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The Book is printed from New Type specially reserved for the purpose, and uniformity in every arrangement greatly facilitator reference.

Besides the usual Alphabetical List of Time: the Directory gives the OLASSIFIED LISTS of TRADES and PROFESSIONS at the larger Commercial Centres

:

The

during 1994 totalled 837,474,804, made ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS in

Philippine exports of coconut products up as follows: Coconut oil, $18,811,030; the Far East contains the name of over copra, 816,351,889, copra meal, 81,713,337;

30,000 FOREIGNERS, and desiccated or shredded coconut,

: 81,588,555. The great bulk of these ex-ranged, with the Initials as well as the Sar-

any name can be found instantly.

THE MAPS AND PLANS

of the principal ports of the Far East have bega mgraved by one of the most eminent Firme in Great Britain and are annually corrected and brought up to date.

ports went to the United States. Coconut area, in strictly Aphabetical Order, so that only to sugar, exports of which last year exports from the Philippines rank second

While all amounted to $41.868,080. Philippine products enter the United States free, coconut oil coming from countries other than the Philippines must pay two centa a pound duty, with three and one-half cents a pound duty on shredded coconut. Thus these im portant Philippine products have considerable advantage over importa

ions from foreign countries.

The late Viscount Leverhulme, in an introduction to a recent book entitled "Coconuts, the Consols of the East,"

Sty's**

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I know of no field of tropical agriculture that is so promising at the present moment as coconut planting, and

With other plaids of the same type that figure in taffetas and are mostly a ribt Another invention of Yvonne David of soft blues and pinks, Yvonne David- son's which is always a feature of any collection of Eera. is the many piece frocks, suitable for the débutante.

son has made several girlish evening frock. In this collection she has just pre- pared for the Riviera, there is one model | EGYPTIAN INFLUENCE. that combines no fewer than six dresses, I had thought that the influence for or, rather, six changes, in one. This is things Egyptian which the discovery of managed by designing a series of locse Tut-ank-Ahmen's tomb shed over the jumpers and coats that slip on and of world, had long died out, but it is crop over a plain dark-coloured skirt, so that ping up again, and is to be noticed in the busy woma

I do not think in the whole world there or the woman travelling, the "bunchy effects which most de ean, if she lik

come into town wearing signers achieve in front rather than at promise of so lucrative an invest a perfectly p little morning frock, the back of their dresses. Iteb, whose merit of time and money as in this in- and, without" ing herself out by re- mid-season collection I went to see last dustry. The world is only just awaken- turning to

ge, transform this into week, is using draping and voluminous ing to the value of coconut oil in the simply by adding a tunic effects over and over again in her models, manufacture of artificial butter of the might sound rather too and I noticed a tendency towards an highest quality and of the by-product incline the reader to imagine effect of this kind in several sports models copra cake as a feed for cattle.' ished effect would be "patchy," chez Yvonne Davidson, all of which show at is so astounding about this a wide coloured suede belt that girdles hat rack transformation is the figure rather tightly at a low waist itself and perfectly charm-line and ties in a great big uow and stiff ing. The une in question was a delight. ends in front, or else finished with a huge, ful combination of raven bluc, vieux rose decorative buckle. I wonder if this Given the present multiplied-and-in- and ivory crepe Romain skirt, jumpers mighty ruler of Egypt ever dreamed that dispensable uses of coconut oil and other and coats, either two or three or the one of his destinies, thousands of years

coconut products, and the steadily in- whole six of which harmonised with the after his death, would be to wield an increasing need for them, the United fluence over the dress of modern women grown mighty with the power of a vote and the right to shingle their hair!

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EXPECTED RETURN OF THE FITTED WAIST.

Mrs. Davidson firmly believes that it will not be long before the fitted waist is with us again. Discussing this most important fashion point with "me, Mrs. Davidson said: "I hold the American girl responsible for this, as well as for the very short, very fall, skirts. The American insists on having bodices that will show off her neat little waist and slim hips, and so, although most of the designers refuse to create any but models with a long waist line, and, even try in some, to sneak the length of the skirt down a centimetre, or two, there is also a tendency on the part of others, espe cially those who cater for an American clientèle, to hoist the waist up to its normal fine again and draw in bodices to this line as well. For the same realoE, I don't think those designers who have set themselves the task of lengthening the skirt line," will succeed. If anything, I think that skirts will be shorter this Reason,"

THE VOGUE FOR VELVET,

When I asked Yvonne Davidson whe- ther she considered the present vogue for velvet would last, she shook her head. "It is essentially a winter material,” sho replied," and will last just as long as the winter, and no longer. For one thing, it is not practicable as it marks so. easily, and once soiled in so difficult to do anything with. So with lace: We are using a tremendous amount of coloured and metallic laces just now, but it is hard to say whether they will remain for ever in fashion. I am inclined to think that they will last just about as long as feathers did, and that was all of last year. In the beginning, all the feather dealers were so desperate at being unable to sell their stocks that they almost gave us the feathers to put on our models so as to create the vogus for them," which we did. Well, you see, it only lasted a year, and I think the same will happen to lace once the first craze for it has pass

ed.

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BRITISH INTEGRITY."

LORD OXFORD ON A JUST AND GENEROUS PEOPLE.

The Earl of Oxford and Asquith was last month presented with the freedom of Huddersfield, and recalled the fact that, his grandfather began business in the town more than a century ago. Bir mother was brought up and married. there, and he himself went to school there for a short period.

The resolution conferring the freedom was moved by the Socialist Mayor, and supported by Conservative and Liberal Aldermen

Acknowledging the freedom, Lord Oxford zaid the British people, like the American people, were in the long run just and generous. They were always ready to forgive in those who had stood and served them errors of judgment-or should he say Iapses of intelligenes? (laughter) and even an occasional yield. ing of what Dr. Johnson in his great poem called "The feats of the brave. and the follies of the wise." The only thing which they would not forgive, and which they ought not to "pardon, was anything in the nature of crookedness, of double dealing, or of self-seeking. (Cheers.) During the many years in which he had been engaged in public life he bad had a considerable experience both of its ups and its downs.

But through it all," he said, "and never was it more true than it is to-day, 1 have never been for a moment tempted to be pesimistic about the fature of my country. After more than 40 yeaze of strenuang controversy in many fields. I see no sign of any decline in what Borke once called the inbred integrity of the British people." (Cheers.)

To those familiar with the various uses now made of coconut oil and the byproducts of the coconut (the shell, husk and copra meal), the, above statement needs no confirmation.

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