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Would

you make a good WITNESS?

XHERE were you at 4.30

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on Saturday, January

Did you get any letters by the mid-day post last Wednesday week?

Were there any cars parked in your street when you came home last night?

Suppose that you were stand- ing in a witness box. A man's life might dopend on the accuracy of your answers such questions as these.

to

Have you a good memory? Well-developed powers of obser- Nation?

Then answer the three ques- tions given here. It is simple to any one who tried to remem- ber how he spent yesterday. To remember what you did all day. Jast Thursday fortnight is a Heverer test.

Questions about things

which

you have done in the past are pure memory tests.

Which

3

Try these

side of the bus or train

did you sit on going to work last Friday?

What have you had for luncheon

for the last four days?

What is the date of your driving | licence?

The question

about the car's

parked in your street is one which unless you answered cannot be have used your powers of observa- tion.

You can answer a "memory ques- tlo with the help of concentrated thought, but it is common experience that the more you think about things which only observation could have tokl you, the more impossible becomes to remember them.

on

on

Ask any one whether the figures their drawing-room clock or clock Are the local church

Roman or Arabid. Unless they have consciously noticed the figures they will never be able to say, although- they may have looked at them every day for years.

.

What do you observe?

This question is one which

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be answered from observation alone.

So are theses

Is there 21 representation

of

REPORT BY ZOE FARMAR & ROBB ON

PARIS SPRING FASHION SHOWS

Day

dresses have high

necks and lots of trimming

TRENDS:

NECK-LINES: normal to high (have to be high or they'd never get all that trimming down the front). SHOULDERS: slightly squared for silks and jackets, or -well-defined normál.

SLEEVES: if long, plain fitting. Short ones, to elbow often decorated with same motif as on bodice.

SKIRTS: straight. BELT: many of fabric

and leather (front and clasp leather, back same 14 dress); others

mostly plain.

小

Black wool marocain dress, striped white pique trimmings.

Bodice of white pique outlined in coarse black stitching, slots on to belt, is quite separate from dress, fixes also at back of neck. Design of front is also embroidered on sleeve panci. Stitching down front panel of dress is black, not contrast. "Hat: 1910 boater white panama, black band. ༀཡཾlཏ-1ıཨཱཨཏྠཾསཾཡ1*lf4ma«f=koldfstal=1-leilei-f4st-liin

back to

DAYTIME dresses I've HARPING

frontal decoration-

seen so far are 50

sane you'd think they'd been some of the shapes 1. noted were man's evening waistcoat (single- designed straight for the breasted and very low cat to show black of dress at top), an smart stenographer.

Their outline is fitting, with enormous oak-leaf shape (in of emerald green un black) fixing away from or towards himself? only the slightest emphasis

Watch people striking matches. Nearly every man strikes them to shoulders, the waists highish; on to a waist and like the one

Britannia-on-a-ten-shilling-nate?.

Does your husband strike matches

wards himself. Nine women themselves.

out of ten belts mostly trim and slim; in the drawing; a stitch-on one.

Is the hot-water tap in your bath on the left or the right?

List your furniture

formed by two two-inch

white petersham strike them away from length again 14 inches (some-

times even shorter) from the bands of

stretched up the front of the ground.

Any and all divergences from bodice and parting near the out around And neck to convolute this appear on the chest. even then the trimmings are the shoulders.

Other chest decorations: just made for busy little women.

hat-coarse Can be taken off for washing or straw, same' as the

shiny, coloured and natural a change.

made into big square studs,. one each side of neck of dress and FALSE fronts, starched matching up with straw buckle

Does the gate of your neighbour's house open inwards or outwards?

How many pieces of furniture are there in your living room? It's astonishing how many people get some large object when they are giving a list from memory.

Arc-alarm Where is the nearest

to your house?

for-

Which sock do you habitually put on Arsi?

How many of your friends left-handed?

are

Authority Issues Warning

fronts: .

and

spanning bodice to belt,

Inch-wide . One designer shows

edgings of con- eleven, and when an idea occurs trasting colour to dress stitched more than four times in a good on in square, V, or oval forma- collection you know it's certain tion to bodice.... Any, every -no try-on.

kind of embroidery.

.

in

Dress sult, Spanish influence,

navy blue wool with white. blue Wedgwood patterned linen.

Jacket: Tight little Epointed back and front.

bolero,

Dress: Panelled skirt, sasit of linen unslots from jacket to wear on dress. Inset ruffed neck of the patterned linen.

Hat: Navy straw helmet, comb straw. Vell hangs at back of

side only. front one straight money-sack blue suede, one white one yellow metal ring, metal, double cacks,

evening

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Only in the shapes of bodice

skirt you wear matching and close- you can wear It the side matching decoration do most of these

cut knickers. Ankle-length fallored your dress or the other, ploln, side.

quite Linings, in fact, are dresses show any originality.

FOR summer (and after beach dresses that look pretty much

last year's summer like Many of them are made of

ail these are the sum

Tussore, linen, flannel fashion--even for dresses, Summer dresses.

severely silk dresses or coals that are grey), or

tailored have often as only caliven- show bright coloured linens, silks, or mer dress shows-next Paria (belge

a bit of turn-back to ment even flannels on black..... shows in September are winter- dress suits,

And if the dress is patterned, what's underneath. A medicul writer, in speaking of

the day-time spring models) you can expect Black is still

skirt-shorts-which the short plain-coloured facket will Day shoes--sudden reversion the after-effects of influenza, or grippe, says: "It is astonishing the colour, until summertime any- to

Regarding Flu. white, striped pique, some

wear

number of people who have been way, when you can expect crude, look like shorts, only are not.

Underneath the brief crippled in health for years after an bright-patterned fabrics..

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