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THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1936.

RUSSIA'S POLITICAL

EVOLUTION

Considerable prominence has been given in the world press to Russia's proposed new Constitu- Orchestration, containing a revised expres- sion of the Soviet's ideas or ideals of how the Communist State should be governed. The first obvious comment which suggests itself is that the oflicin udmission of the necessity for reform implies London Palladium Orchestra that the previous order fell far short of the millenium which the Bolshevists hat promised the country. If the proposals put forward are actually brought into operation, many forms of liberty not previously enjoyed will be

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Are you an Average Englishman?

average Englishman are of one, two, or three persona.

Just now he is losing weight.

2. The desiro to

ndequate.

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3. The desire for romance.

4. The desire for life.

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more

Low do hin desires display.

themselves!

1. He desires to be more mnacu- line.

He tries to cultivate his body by physical exercise and yearns to he strong and virile,

His coat Is padded to make his shoulders look brond.

He drives hard bargains, not so much to save money as to pravé himwolf better than his opponent. When he taken his wife to a re- staurant. he is much more fas- tidlous than when alone,

2. He desires to be more adequate,

He buys a larger car, a more is 6ft. 74ins. in height. 50,000 inhabitants (like nearly in summer

He lives in a town of more than The average man is 6lbs, lighter expensive radio than he can afford, than in winter. Io He buys expensive things not only 11st. 1lb. in weight, made half the population).

visits his hairdresser ten times in to impress his friends, but to ini- Britain's national expenditure in summer for only nine in winter: press the salesman. up as follows:

1934 was £1,094,000,000, There munkes him feel enol and fresh. 3. He desires romance, Water

7418! ∙11,800,000 families in the He suffers from rheumatism, as

He buys a car because it looks Salts

Homeland so that the average ex, de four out of five of his country-, glamorous, borrows a book be- penditure per family is £310.

Since the slump his standard of the cinema to see alluringly named cause of its gomantic title, goes to jving has gone up. How has he films. spent the extra money?

65

5

13.1/34%

15 - %

1.2/35/

Fat Albumen Sugar His hair and eyes are coloured brown. His whis. kers grow one-fortieth of an inch every day, his hair one fiftieth.

Je is 4-5th Ancient Briton, 1-16th Anglo-Saxon, 1-20th Roman, 1-20th-French.

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men.

4. His desire for life becomes Twenty-six point nine per cent, stronger every year.

One pound in every ten of his earnings goes in direct taxation.

Every week he spends £1 17s, on food, 199, 11d. on maintenance including for now houses and fur- their expenditure on home necen- take litle aches and pains more of his home, 138, 10d. un saving, if the population have Inercaned After thirty-five he begins to niture, 108, on clothes. 9s, an sities, 21.13 per cent, on saving seriously. He drives less rock- travel, 7s 3d. on liquor, 4s. Td, on 17.24 per cent, on charity, 13.89 lessly, saying that he is saving miscellaneous expenses, i4s. en per cent; on hobbies, 11.56 per petrol and wear and tear. smoking, 24, tid, on entertainment, rent, on children, 9.26 per cent.

He has

were grey.

in-

He gets interested in health exercises and foods, in safety de-

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Ha on newspapers and unoks, 3s, un luxuries. surance. Bd. on sickness, accidents, and in- Take the typical case of a man vices on things he buys. He likes who has spent money on home throw suits, two for things, whose Income has

rending "How I did it” interviews work, one sports ar week-end sult, creased by £50,

with centenarians. He spent £9 11s, that the modern Englishman Is per cent. of the suits sold last year 5s, on better clothes for his wife, HE would be willing to commit

skeletons shows One is probably grey. Forty-five in better clothes for himself, £0 fundamentally the same typ as the Ancient Briton of the Iron Age likely to be blue than browa, more domestic help, £9 48. on im- The second is more £ 14s, on furnishing. £8 24. on

a murder, if he know that he (1000 B.C.).

Thirty per cent, of the suits made broving his lunuse, få is, on better could not be found out, for He is 36ins, round the chest, in 1985 were blue, 20 per cest, food..

£20,000, to have his hair dyed 12ins, round the waist, 38ing, brown.

If he goes shopping he walks Freen for £8,000, would sell his round the scat of his trousers, His overcoat is probably blué or twenty feet into a shop and then chances of life after death for His arm from shoulder to wrist black. Forty-five per cent, of fast wants to turn to the right. Ife £3,000, would agree to death in measures 2ins. The length of year's sates were these colours, 35 looka first at red colours, then fifteen years for £10,000, wants at his trousers inside the leg is per cent, grey, 30ins., and his elbow height is

green, then orare, last at purple, least £100 to parachute from an His attention shifts about every airplane 3,000 feet up. 43ins.

He takes size 8 in shoes, which means that his feet are 11-11ina. long. His hat size is 67% to 7. menning, that his head measures 214-22ins.

two seconda.

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His conversation contres chiefly round business and family, but also includes sport and high spot

THERE is no foretelling men's faste in colours. They change without reason But so far there THE lms he liked best last year politics. does not seem to have been niuch were “Lives of a Bengni Lan- As he goes to bed he cleans his alteration this year.

cer," "Top IL" "Bright Eyes," teeth, which are not so good as He works in commerce or fin

He buys two pairs of shoes a "The Scarlet Pimpernef" "Son- they would be if he used them ance dike 15.6 per cent, of Eng-ear, paying 109. a pair. The ders of the River," "The 10 Steps." enough on hard, gritty foods. Highmen), Blackcoats, are taller soles last him two months.

Four fundamental desires con- Well, how near the average and heavier than manual workers, His hat is a nigger brown trilby - frol his life:

are you? the clerks of London being tallest or a bowler. These types top hat at 6ft. Stains, Birmingham clerics sales with forty per cent, each. come second. Liverpool ones are about average, Loods, Sheffield, and Glasgow ones below it.

twenty to twenty-one years. His grip increases up to twenty years, and stays about uniform until slow decline sets in at shout forty. His pull increases to a maximum at 25-27%, ar & declines slowly from thirty.

He reaches maximum height at

1. The desire to be more masen- line.

Anthony Cotterell

THE KING LEADS FASHION

By "Guardsman"

an hour on the links. That brief hour

with much profit to the makers.

brought a beem in l'air Isle sweaters,

It was the King who, while Prince

hat to a favour which lind declined sudly after the war, when many men chose to wear soft felt hat.

In the hunting field he turned aut

Edward, looking from his window, [T was n sunny May day, and King thought it just the day for the wear ing of a straw hat. He put the j Considered as a machine, he thought into action and went to a develops approximately one brilliant society function wearing theels through the loop drawing it of Wales, bought back the bowler urmitted. It has, of

I seventh horse-power. This

is first

straw hat soon in London this closely round the neck. Always been difficult to discover motors, but the efficiency is good.

very small compared with other summer..

FAIR ISLE ART what is taking place behind A steam

The effect was mediate. Straw There was the fashion of the Fair engine would require fashion, are going to come shack into a say the London leaders of the-scenes-in-Russia, but this twice as much fuct to develop the favour they have not known since the much at any rate is known- same energy (300,000 kilogrammes War

thousand Communism is the only political a day) as the human machine.

War days. Two

extra belief that has been tolerated, i

bands have already been engaged to cope with the orders that are expect whilst liberty of speech and free- dom of the Press have been denied TAKE the typical Englishmani ad into the hat-making teene the people, and there have been, 7 years 4 months a woman of 25 when Prince of Wales. There was, The King has led fashion before, morcover, systematic campaigns years 6 months.

for instance, a style of tying a silk for the extirpation of religion.

More than scarf which a year or two ago was In the mailer of political belief,

all the rage among smart young men Communism is to remain the only

about Town. The surf the Prince legal form, hut numerous concey-

...wore during a cold spell was a polka sions are promised in the way of;

dot blue silk square, which he tied by folding in half and passing the two

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bors in 1900. He married at

He has one child. half the families of Great Britain

liberty, including the free practice NOTES OF THE DAY

of religious observances. It is further proposed that asylum shall be granted in Russia to foreign political leaders persecut»}

YACHTING

season

The trade revival is having 4, ed by their Governments, al-great effect on yachting in Britain. though it is not made clear According to reliable reports whether such asylum is to be yacht builders have been busier offered to those of other than during the past winter than at any extreme Leftist, views. White time since the Great War. The Russians, it is safe to assume, sport is generally regarded as a would never be welcomed back; luxney which only men with very nor, can we imagine, would any satisfactory bank balances enn refugees whose political opinions indulge in, but apparently the clash with those of Moscow number of such fortunate indivi- leaders. Until the new Constitu-and the present racing

duals has increased considerably tion is actually working, it would promises to be one of the mast be futile to attempt to assess the brilliant Over xperienced. AL real value of the concessions the Royal Harwich Yacht Club promised. It is one thing to con- Regatta, which was held from the struct a Constitution on paper, but sixth to the ninth of June, there quite another to apply it, even in were some wonderful craft, which spirit. Yet there may well be the were handled magnificently, the promise of better days in the pro-large yachts of the "J" class bo- posals now put forward. The ing greatly admired. mere fact that they are made is; Perhaps the most important something to the good. From event of the yachting season this time to time during the past three year was the launching of thai. or four years there have been new "J" class yacht, "Endeavour || many indications that the Itussian", which was designed by Mr. conception of Communism is not C. E. Nicholson and built at Go-

(Continued on Page 43 working ns had been hoped; and here and there it has been deemed

advisable to compromise with ori- all-round greater tolerance shown ginal ideals, even to the extent of by the nation's leaders. These adopting capitalistic concepts. developments may carry with The plan fact seems to be that them an implied condemnation of Russin is at the moment passing the practices of the past, but ifj. through a period of political evolu- the realities are faced and a tion, in which the most glaring sincere effort made to institute) defects and shortcomings are reasonable reforms, those at the being corrected as they become head of affairs will be displaying exposed. We may therefore ex-a measure of political wisdom pect to see, by a gradual process, which may result in the general a greater measure of liberty for uplift of the nation and an en- the masses, the raising of thehancement of its reputation in general standard of life, and an other parts of the world.

to

Britain.

sartorial sensation when he first wore the skin-fitting hunting shirt Isle golf sweater, which created one day at Melton Mowbray wearing it at St. Andrews fourteen years ago. bright

of which yellow

gentleman The sweater the King wore on that farmers of the shires wore a century occasion puzzled most of the people and a half ago. That revived another who either saw it or read a descrip old fashion and did spot of good to tion of it afterwards. Generally in trade which needed a fillip at that was regarded before. The second guess was that the links in black, and white check

led as a souvenir of the moment. visit to Japan he had pl not long

Once at Le Touquet he

appeared it was a gift from some Roumanian trousers, a sleeveless jumper of a de- peasants. Actually, it was knitted in liente ale of salmon pink, and a the Fair Isle from traditional pat-shirt and collar of bright blue. That tems, which have been held to date. back to the days of the Armain.

crested a sensation akin to the ane At any rate the Prince, as he then day aeroplane loads of similar apparel created at St. Andrews. The next was, wore this striking sweater for were being rushed to Le Touquet, and were being snapped up eagerly by those who wanted to follow the Prince's rather daring fashfort lead. GLENGARRY REVIVAL Wherever he has gone abroad the King has lel the fashion

of the moment. Thus when he went to the Cape some years ago and got up- country there came down to Durban and other centres urgent orders for formal clothes from durmers who had given up all ideas of such things for

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

"All right, I'll tell the taipan that we can't move to Shanghai "because you don't want Doris Jean to leave her

top-dancing class.":

years.

It was the same when he went to South America, where one immediate rrault of his visit was a great ush Lof onders for evening dress on pure English lines. His wearing of a Glengarry bonnet in Canada years ago led to a

of this form revival

Some of the fashions the King when Prince of Wales showed a mind for. were distinctly

Innovations startling, which made the experts of Savile Row sit up and take notice.

Thero was one occasion. for in- stance, when he went to some boys' club boxing championships wearing a double-breasted dinner Jacket, a soft shirt and soft cuffs, and a soft collar,

་་ plus A pullover in grey check. That WAN

a fashion that

that was not generally adopted afterwarda, nor, of course, was it ever intended to be.

Some fashions that the King leads undoubtedly are seriously mennt, Already the most versatilely dresse mn in the world, he onco declared if it would help the British Em- pire one tiny bit he would only be too to wear a different suit of

wait for every single individual he..

had

to meet

He is like lint-British trade and its welfare is one of the very real

things of life to him, and he is always thinking how this or that trade can be taken out of the doldrums into which it has either fallen or that may be threatening it.

"Trade means employment." the King in effect. Fashions can Kayx employment. Whatever I can do to help trade and bring more work in the people of Britain I intend to do."