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The bridesmaids chose gay garden colours-

ASHION experta com- mand brides to obey by wearing white on their wedding day and the brides reply "I will,"

So hore comes the bride. Lovely in her all-white gown and flowing veil, with her attendants in their colourful and dresses-a perfect foll background to the bridal cos- tume.

This is a year of all-white brides, so the fashion dictators tell us. Both Worth and Lan- vin, famous French designers, favour a V-neck.

A

Others prefer a square, or just a slight cowl at the throat. sultable style for the very young bride is a very full skirt. just. reaching to the toes, a bodice but- toning down the front and a small Peter Pan collar.

Wedding Gown

Summer brides will like to know theso points, as all girls picture of the themselves in the role briden, and without headdress. vell and bouquet a wedding la robbed of much of its picturesque array.

This article is devoted entirely to-day to the wedding gowns of the I have bride and her bridesmaida. designed a wedding dress that also han a future.

Either dull faced supplc jerseys or satins are suitable. Soft brocade with a faint pattern as well as moire, but these are nol such a practical proposition unless you choose frock in a period or picture style.

The half figure sketched shows the intest style of wedding veils, although many brides prefer yards and yards of tulle.

Halo Headdress

A halo headdrean suits mast types of fners, this can be built up to a becoming height with sprim of orange blossoma

A mob cap of net encircled with a wreath of Blowers or posy are attrnclive alterimisves.

When it emies to deciding your bidesmuklet frocits, keep in front of your mind that they wil have to be worn afterwards.

A delightful idea in to have each one in n different shade, especially if you live in small town; a brzy of frocks all in the mine colour at a Jocal dance or party will stamp them brides- maida fræks.

Tiered frocks of talle with 11th puff sleeven In sweet-pen shades of blue, lavender and pink will look delightful, and if you need an intense note of colour introduce this into their bouquets

Tuffet frocks with pleating infrared eati

The Bride wore

WHITE

Short transparent wedding vetis ara Ticw for summer weddings. The

goton you see will tie toorn after the honeymoon

dinner, dancea and partics.

for Victorian postes. Apple green, azalea pink, Russian ac, cornflower blue are shades that spring to my mind and are In keeping with this kind of bouquet.

Perhaps you are having youthful attemiauts, crisp tucked organ- then choon frilled chiffon

dic. They will make lovely party frocks later, and in Bly of the valley green, cowslip yellow or shell pink are delightfully fresh looking.

Many and long are the arguments us to what went on their heads. ahuti the dentinida Wrenth or isle Boral Juliet caps give an attrac- tive uniformity of style.

It is so much more duncult to and a hat that

is going to please everyone

A charming den I noticed the other day was

n peay of flowers attached to a tiny rkuli cap with velvet ribbons tying under the chin. For Future Wear

Remember too that frocks can be decked up with tiny flowers at neck, sleeves and waist to match the headdresses, or even no bracelets.

And now just word on the future of the wed- ding gown.

The wire bride will select n alyle so that by the removal of the sleeves, and after a vinit to the dyers, it returns to circulation aa

Kay new evening dress for

social happenings

MARY GRACE

abend.

Here's a Surprise

Dish

LAM CUTLETS IN ASPIC SIMMER & little chopped mushroom, parsley, shatter and the

brouni

in butter, being careful that the butter does not Season some rather thin cullets and cook them very gently in the

buster.

When they are well done put them to cool and press them between two dishes. Cut some red and green pickles into faney shapes,

Mask cach cutlet in a gomi white sauce in which a léttir gelatine has been dissolved, and decorate with the cut pickles,

Pour a thin layer of asple Jelly in a pan, and, when it has set firm, lap in the cutlets. Add sonte more aspic to set them fru.. When this has set add a third layer of uspic.

Allow this to get quite firm, then cut out the cutlets and dis them up on a border of vegetables act in aspie.

Cold Evoked peas or French beans can be put in the centre.

Bits to

out

cut

Safe Strainer

DUTTER inuslin should be

Twist some stiff brown paper into rolls; put one roll down ench side and ane down the back of the chair and they will keep the cover Brmly in pluce.

Sparkling Gems

JEWELLERY

you

Keta duirty much quicker than scalded and dried before may realise. Try washing it with being used for straining, etc., And, soapy water to which 10 or 10 drops by the way, if you want to strain of sal volatile have been added and

Just you will find it gets a new sparkit through quickly, egg white gather up the ends of the muslin and squeeze.

Tight Covers

LOOSE

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Table Tops

CHAS

a Benares table--is best

hall

HASED brasswork-such as

chairs cleaned with on

n lemon well often work out of place rubbed into the brass, When it and look untidy and crumpled. Try looks clean rinse with warm water, this simple Way at keeping them dry, and polish well with a chamols set.

leather.

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GOOD NEIGHBOURS

M

ANY of us have been amused lately by the B.B.C. spelling bees, They are now to most of us, although in the ploncering days in Canada and the United States they were a popular form of entertainment.

I sometimes think we might with advantage revive other forms of Rees," for they express the real spirit of neighbourliness.

I have just read with pleasure a book by a Canadian author who. As a small giri, "went West" with her family to settle on the rich farm landa.

Life would have been impossible if people had not stood by each other in the fight against chaw, bad harvests, long distances, lonely prairies.

There were no shops, and no doctors within call.

It was not a question of minding one's own business, but of minding When a everybody else's business. young man was to set up housekeep ing. there was a "Housebuilding Bee." All the young men in the district gave a day of their labour, felling trees. clearing site, and preparing the trunka to make the wooden walls,

The girls gathered at the house of the bride-to-be for a quilting party. All brought a contribution to the feast. which always wound up the "Bee."

At busy times, men went to each other's farms for the threshing or women for jara-making.

Many hands made light work: every-

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one took a turn, and accepted help in their turn. The author told how onca a weasel burrowed under the hen run and killed all the hens which were to raise the chickens for the new farm. The following spring half a dozen neighbours drove up, each with a ben and its brood, lo start the mother off

gain.

Once. when the writer's sister lay at denth's door, a man staggered in through the snow, simply saying. "I heard you had a slek child; I have a littlo knowledge of medicine, so I came along."

It had taken two days for him to reach them.

We are all so self-sufficient in these days with shops round the corner, roads and buses, amusements ready- made, that we forget to be neighbourly.

MINNIE PALLISTER.

What to do

on the Wedding Day

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marriage of daughter creates a special duty for father. He escorts the bride to the church.

On arrival she takes his right arm and they walk up the centre aisle, to join the waiting bride- groom at the chancel stops.

Mother comes into the pic- ture, too. She drives to church before her daughter and their guests.

ceremony ale

During the occupies a seat right in front, on the left of the centre aisle.

But before the ceremony is her busiest time. She attends to all detalls, such as sending out invitations, arranging menus, table decorations, and the dis- play of presents in the recep- tion room.

Busy Best Man

the

The best man is indispensable. Before the ceremony he must help

make to

Bil bridegroom arrangements.

Application for banna to be read, paying fees and car fares, securing the wedding ring and all docu- ments connected with the cere- mony.

During the ceremony he takes his place on the right of the bride- groom, taking care of his hat and gloves.

He must produce the ring at the correct moment indicated by the clergyman. At the conclusion of the ceremony he escorts the chief bridesmaid to the vestry, where they sign the register.

Chief Bridesmaid

No less important than the best She man is the chief bridesmaid. should be with her friend early on the wedding morning to help with all details.

She then joins the other brides- maids and they drive to church well in advance of the bride.

When the bride arrives the pro- cession is formed, the attendants following the bride and her father up the aisle,

As the bride joins the bridegroom at the chancel steps the chiot bridesmaid takes her place on the bride's left, the other bridesmaids grouped behind her.

She takes care of the bride's gloves and bouquet, and later helps her to adjust her vell, or renders any small service necessary.

The Reception

Now we come to the reception. Bride and bridegroom arrive Arst at the reception hall, followed by the bride's parents.

The bride's mother welcomes the guests, who then pass on to con- gratulate the happy couple.

The bridal pair sit together at the principal table, the bride on her husband's left. On his right is the bride's mother, and on the bride's left her father.

There is no special rule for seat- ing the remainder of the guests, but old friends of the family and relatives of both families join the party at the bridal table.

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