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CONFIDE

MERE MALE is nearing his Atlles and confesses to having been very intolerant of young love. His wife is opposite, and he invites an opinion of his described attitude.

Perhaps, like many men, you

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WOMEN'S INTERESTS

Jashion

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Round The Shops

Bag and The Gloves

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WHAT'S IN A HAT!

GOING HIGH HAT? That is full fashion-but so is a small onė.. a big one, a low one or just some material that appears to be a hat. You can pretend to be a soldier boy, sailor boy, a Russian Princess, a Robin Hood, à Greta Garbo, or a Shirley Temple. Hats and more hals are in the style picture, and tie in with practically any costume you may choose.

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Trims are either too obvious or} The pill-box is another style. absent: Feathers are the most which has been in the fashion pic- With cooler days here, you must popular at the moment, and fine ture for several years. This year, have several · new pairs of gloves. feathers make a fine chapeau. you dress it up a bit with long ur Do not heave a sight The $6.85 Have them in bright colours and eye vells, bows on top or leathers suede and kid gloves are just the do not be afraid of tall or small at the side. This little plece of things for day-time and shopping.ones. Some of the hats have com- felt can do wonders for many of The palms are leather and the plete birds, others several waying you who have not one of those backs are suede. Colours are plumes. For sports, you can copy faces which suit the larger or dark, and the group is complete Robin Hood's feather and be right more, impudent bunnets of the in size range. They are a very in the front line of fashion. smart necessity.

To be fetching and catch "his

are

season.

FUR CHAPEAU

in the same shop at the same eye," try the tricom. This style is glove" counter you can find a very feminine, and be sure you Fur hats-small ones will be dresster glove in "washable," kid wear it on one side of the head. used quite extensively. Leopard, manufactured by Morley. There The trim with this bonnet should beaver, Persian lamb, rabbit and various styles and a wide be ribbon, vell, velvet, or a small other short-haired furs will be colour range in the deep colours.

are gadget. They

very swank turned Into darling pill boxes, And for the dressy event, of with a plain tailored salt or the berets or flat pan-cakes and be course, the 'fine French suede morning street dress,

the trick point in the dressy street gloves! Perfectly plain

or afternoon spectator sports out- ft. fine, delicate trim.

These "three glove styles are in- expensive and you will need one of each.

with OF

Perhaps you will not be able to

OFF THE FACE

The off-the-face hat, the one! which gives you the appearance of the little girl on the sight-seeing bus," is strictly a street chapeau, quite plain due to the high front. but it will be very much in this shop, too. They are in dark evidence this coming winter with leathers, very well fitted and con-heavy coats, suits and spectator servative. Belleve it or not, they

sport apparel. cost only $9.75.

resist the new American" bags in

The imitation leather bags. made by this same" firm, are very reasonable in price, wear very well, and are made in colours to match your costume..

Grand Manner.

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Now, berets! Everyone of this you adores them. Pull side down, push the back up. pull the centre crown up, or down over the eyes-just about any jerk and you have a new, beret:

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to

Brush

With all these new styles of headgear, pay attention your crowning glory. or swirl the hair upward. Just Imagine what you would look like with a flowing long bob; it would be silly and would rain the perfect hat for the perfect costume. The newest Hited colture in Paris has the back hair curled and cut short, like a baby's, and the top hair curled in a pompadour,

Invest in hats which will 'more or less complement your particu- lar hair style. Keep brushing your locks up and up each night; they must be trained.

Above all do not enter a hat

shop without having your hair ar- ranged in a more or less winter

ing to do the directing, instead of persuading her to accept and dis-

The all-sede, bright in colours, When dining and swaying to s the present rage. You can use charge a responsibility? Respon- sibility is assumed by taking it but music these coming nights, you a gadget trim, clip, veil of feather; Lot by merely obeying commands.must be the grande dame. All of however, it is smartest when worn Children as well as adults resent the new gowns express dignity and without any adornment. Do not being told what to do, and the richness. One of the smaller shops under-estimate this bat; it is a culture. You will not like the more independence and character has on display crepes, two tones. stand-by and worn more than ever new bonnets with a summer hair- they have the more they resent it rayon, taffeta, chiffon and velvet these days. and protect their integrity even for the evening hours, with childish excuses,

have forgotten your own youth, Youth is the time for the folltes of love. Age is the time or peace

: Noted in this group is the full- and more attention to the mind. I

Instead of ordering the door to ness to the back of the skirt and think it is always wise, when con-

front. demning the young, to go back to be shut, make your daughter as-low necklines, back and one's own youth and deliberately sume responsibility for leaving the Rich try to live again those days. Then door as she found it. Instead of jewels and embroidery are used cherish.

those ordering her to do something toon belts and sashs. Jackets are in gratitude. memories

VERY SORRY describes with keen intelligence and humilia. tion a parting. and her just attempt, after suffering, to put things right by confession her- self wrong in separating over

triviality.

Your regret is understandable. and your shock and hurt feelings

and handsome artificial

her room, make her responsible still in the picture. some with for the order of her room and let fringe, spangles, sequin and a few her suffer the results of disorder. with fur trim.

YES OR NO has dismissed the man she cared for because of bis many petty faults and 'meanness, and asks how to Judge human beings and if she was right in her action?

In the same shop are French felt hoods. The colours are beautiful rich and deep and the bright vivid shades. These can be fashioned to your individual taste. As soon as you see them, you commence to search your brain for a costume to blend with these gorgeous coloured felts.

Temple and Durbin

You obviously have had your when hard words met your diffi-fondness for him killed by his un- cult apology. As you still con-coubtedly wrong behaviour, lies.

The Shirley Temple and Deanna vinced he cares, and stubbornly trickery, deception, and stinginess. Durbin bonnets may sound very adopts this attitude to punish you Because that affection is as dead childish, but many is perhaps? Leave him alone until as if you never cared at all, it when you find just the correct he misses you sufficiently to over-proves itself not to have been love. piece of apparel in a boys' or girls' Love is a strange power which department. One of the Kowloon rome his hurt.

the time

If he does not, you must try to refuses to die even in the bitterest shops has a selection of hats worn some of pain and cruellest of disillusion. by these two outstanding little regard the matter with

are quite right. philosophy and not let it wreck Count your af fortunate for your actresses. They your health. It is weakness of freedom from a spiritual boridage for sport clothes, tailored and character that lets sorrow or loss which robs the lives of many lov-trim. See that you get there b2- cause a breakdown. When one ing women of all hope and peace. fore the younger members of the gives in too much and worries Nobody can withstand the slow family. others, that is wrong. Life still destructive power of small mean has to go on, so one might as well faults, and you have done right. face things with courage.

IGNORANT inquires regard-

ing the length of time for

mourning apparel after the death of her father?

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FIRST AND LAST explains a state of affairs in her home created by her husband's ob- sessed devotion to an older sis- ter who mothered him when he was younger and for whom It is entirely up to you how long

he sacrifices the comfort and you wear mourning. but no one

peace of his wife and child. could criticise you for beginning to' abandon it after six months. You The governing laws of the un- can very properly commence to verse are that man makes his wear white, black and white and home, has his wife and family, soft pastel colours. To-day, only and forsakes all others. So it goes very occasionally do we see any on generation after generation. one went a black band around the There is no need, if a man has the time. entirely to sleeve. This old English custom is means and gradually being discontinued. If neglect one who has 'been, good to you have. black slacks wear them, him, but his wife, and child and but do not buy them if you do not own home come first. already own them, nor do I see any reason for buying mourning.

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DISGUSTED MOTHER writes of her nine-year-old daughter, who always invents an excuse whenever she is asked to do some little chore. How can she break this child of her Fault before it becomes tabit? Have you ever stopped to think that you may be undermining the self-respect of your child by try-

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Moreover, you have described with unconscious accuracy a type of woman who invariably exerts her cheated maternal instincts on a younger brother. Your distur- bance is quite normal, for your in- stinct recognises an

"enemy of your peace and happiness, Your husband is, as you say, rather weak in character, although loving" and kind, and perhaps that ex- plains it all. You must talk to [him and not argue.

(Each week in this column,“ Faith Frior answers questions of a personal nature submitted

by readers of the Daily Press.)

Tricorns, pill boxes, Robin Hood

and many other styles have just arrived in this shop for the more dressler occasion. Feathers, bows. and fur globs are the main trims. The colours are varied. And it will thrill you to match a new, handbag with one of the hats! The selec-. tion in the latter is very good, all the colours and styles being quite high fashion.

Any information pertaining to these items may be obtain ed from Barbara Lee, 30251, or enclose a self addressed en- velope to, the "Dally Press.”

FASHIONS IN FOOD

CONVERSATION

It is perhaps because of the Great War that people talk a": good deal about food, but It is also a greater · apprecia-- tion by the generality of this Important subject which has brought it into general con- versation.

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In the Victorian days,

dress.

WHITE SIMPLICITY is perennially smart and Eleanor Powell. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, star, wears an evening gown of white souffle with gathered bodice and very full skirt. Shoulder straps the bands of the bodice, of brilliants find continuation in

achieving. a' Grecian note.

gians eat less and they are al- At the same time, the idea was ways talking about t

sustained that one ate nothing or next to nothing, and "to" talk Slimming is to-day only an- other word for food. since the of the glories of the sole or the two meet on the question of diet.savoury: to admit to an intimate And even the very young have knowledge of how it was produc- their diet scheme, if only in ed: to say, as people say nows- days, "I adore food," would have order to break it down,

been to confess oneself unlady- like and even coarse.

Women

are allowed to tastes in food, and encouraged to eat and to appre clate eating.

means

The Victorians many of them. would have liked to slim by other than corsetry, but the conception was different in days when six or seven course dinners were a matter of course.

are

have even

It is something to have got a delicacy which had no

And they were not necessarily when there was much money and much small courses, and they took a over

been actual basis in fact, and to en. food people were supposed not long time. It would have to talk about them. Thes Vic-dimcult to eat nothing while, joy openly, as well as in private, toriansats a lot, but they did they were in progress-soup:: fisn.}a daily process which, after all, not mention It The neo- Geor- meat, entres, and all.

In some quarters ranks as an art,

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ARE YOU SMART?

Smartness is very hard to capture with mere words, but there are. a few tricks and factors which go a long way to help a woman ap- pear smart.

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"The smart,lock is not an accident, nor luck, nor the so-called "Hair" for dressing. It is the product of wisdom and judgment and experience not forgetting trials and plenty of early errors!

One of these days, when you are dressed in your very best "bib and tucker," put your appearance to the test.

"Does your costume ft perfectiy? Is there a thread hanging, a button of a tiny spot, an uneven edge, a hemline an inch too long. a dip in the back? This doesn't sound mysterious, I know, but just the same it is getting down to real workable facts!

Nanie your costume now. Is it town, sport, afternoon, evening? Check the hal with it, and ask the same of the hat. The same of "your shoes, your bag and gloves.

Does your appearance present a quiet entity of colour to the eyes of others? Or have you a white jacket and a print frock with brown shoes and a yellow hat? That makes a hodge podge. Colour entity 19 a great secret.

Are you well groomed? For all the clothes from Parts itself can- pot help a woman whose make-up is careless, whose nails are ill kept, whose shoes and gloves look worn and weary! This dressing business is a big job. The women we turn to admire have earned our admira- tion. Such things do not just happen.

Do you know your type? Are you athletic, petite, reserved, ani- mated, dignified, ronguish? And how does your body line up with all this? Have you square, masculine shoulders, or more sloping femi- riine ones, a settled plumpness.

As much skill goes into the finished exect of a perfectly costum- ed woman as ever went into a protrait ur a statue. It is the great, modern art. Fortunately, each ony of you can teach yourself the skill of the game. Your satisfaction will be great when public eyes turn to give you that second searching look! N

When Milady Bowls

cotton kerchief about their neck. This is permissible and very useful: “ Have a bandeau or narrow ribbon about your hair.

Do you frequent the Alleys and enjoy swinging the woods to knock down the pins or make a complete strike? H so, what do you wear? There'

And above all, do not laden your Is apparel for various types of

face with, cosmetics. If you do, athletic activities, and bowling is included.

the perspiration will streak” “Your An aertex shirt-any" colour face and give you the appearance with short sleeves and open neck, of something out of a side-show. is best, and wear a brassiere under If you must, put lipstick on your this. Shorts are next on the lips; it will keep them from drying bowling costume list. They may and will not run or streak. Fur- be any colour but are not to be too thermore, make-up and vigorous short-remember you have to bend activities do not go together. I quite a bit at this game. Tennis is bad for your skin. shoes are the best footwear, and A good idea is to take a terry you will find a pair of socks neces-cloth or towelling Jacket to the sary: they absorb the perspiration Alleys with you. This is, to use of your feet, keeping the shoes after a game when on your way from becoming anchors to your home. They are extremely smart. body as well as preserving your can be made in various colours. tennis shoes.

and you can use them as a towel, BANDEAU ROUND YOUR HAIR They will keep you from catching

Bome women like' to wear a a cold.