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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 22, 1939.

Your Wife Wears Five New Publisher

hats.

Hats Every Year

And That Totals 75,000,000

EVERY YEAR the women of Britain buy 75,000,000

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And five times a year' (on an average) every wife gocs home with a smile and a hatbox in the hope of plea santly surprising her husband with the honeyed words, "Do you like me in this model, dear?"

At least, that is the estimate of the hend of a big hat mani- facturing concern in London.

Seventy-five million hats! Men probably think at once of

· 75,000,000 bills demanding 75,000,000 guincas.

But the statistics don't work out quite like that.

Hats of Gs. (or shall we say 4s, 11d.?) and under account for most of the total, so the proud assertion of the wife, "It was really a bargain," ought, in most cases, to be accepted without demur.

Out of the 15,000,000 women of stylish-hat-wearing age in Great Britain, the manufacturers discount a percentage of "open air" girls who don't wear hats-except, perhaps, on special oe- casions, such as going to church.

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This habit (or lack of habit) is said to be increasing, especially in the North, but the hat trade does not, apparently, regard it as widespread enough to be menacing.

Whimsies of fashion, leavened with rivalry for glamour, continue to lure women to the millinery departments. 20 A YEAR

"Many women lay 20 hats a year," said one store, "but they are the exception rather than the rule.

"Women are really more economical with their headwear than men give them credit for: they often have the same hat re- fashioned, instead of buying a new one.

"They also buy material for making up hats themselves, The average customer's hat bills probably amount. to no more than £3 a year."

I oaked a worman friend for her anual hat account. She reckoned:

Three winter but

Two spring hats;

Three summer hats;

One

or two hats for special occasions,"

B017 "Under £5."

What about men?

The Hatters Association said that

AND AFTER HATS -PINS

THE

E modern woman may not need so many pins RS did her mother, but there s si money in the pin business, as shown in the will, published recently, of Mr. T. W. D, Broughton, of Four Oaks,

J.P.. Warwickshire.

Mr. Broughton, who died in January aged 82, was a safety- pin manufacturer, at Smeth- wick, near Birmingham. He left 30.826.

his

elefonnuities to widlow (£400), to his daughter Milcent Hannah Kenney (£500), and to his sister, Hannah Frew (£30), the residue to accumulate during the life of his wife,

Then further aanulties will be paid to his daughter and his

Alster, the balance ultimately to

his sister's children.

About 5,000,000,000 bins are used every year in Great Britain. There is also money to be made out of other small things.

of £70,000 A fortune was left a few years ago by

'Slr Walter Evans, of Birchfield, Birmingham, deputy-chairman of one of the largest firms of button manufacturers In the

World.

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And huge sums have been left by makers of shoelaces, collar-studs, hocks-and-eyes, and hundreds of other little every-day necessities of lite.

don't

annum: total bill, one to two guineas. think," sald Mr. Godfrey, "that men have no new fashions in hats. The hat popular just now is distinguished by its light

Kidnapped

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George Palmer Putnam re-enacts in North Hollywood, Cal., scene as he was kidnapped from his garage by two mon. called it too serious to be a publicity stunt for a book he published.

Bible Saved

Saved From Sack Of City

THE latest additions to the 20,000-volume library of the British and Foreign Bible Society are seven manuscript books of the recently, Ethiopian Bible, which came into the possession. of the Society

The books were being sold in the streets after the sack of the Suciety's agent in Addis Ababa, who presented them to the Addis Ababa. They were bought by Mr. Percival Bevan, then

it was "frankly impossible to land your will notice bright colours though everybody knows," added the secretary, Mr. Godfrey, that Mr.blues and greens-in men's hats for James does not rush off to buy a pink sp (su healthy slyn, for if you look! library.

and country wear.

hat because he has just seen his! friend Mr. Smith wearing

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"IL a blue through history you will see that the

Ination has always worn A hot salesman said that the garments when it has

colourful average man was a two-hatter-per-virile,"

been most

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TSAR'S BIBLE Another of the Society's most) treasured possessions

is the Bible which the British and Foreign Bible Society presented to the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia on the occasion of their Coronation.

Russian Revolution" an official of the The Bible disappeared after the Society said "and nothing was heard

of

So fond was he of chess that Mr. John Keeble, of Rosary-road, Nor- wich, made nearly 20 bequests in his will to various players of chess and writers about the game.

These bequests amount than £500.

Mr. Keeble, a retired railway clerk, who died last February, aged 83, lett £9,864 gross (net personalty £9,708), He learned his chess as a youth from books, and played frequently for Great Britain in international centre of the cover. problem solving matches.

for 20 years. "It was found by a member of the Society's committee in a second-hand bookshop. He bought it and sented it to the Society."

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The book, a large family Bible,

bound in green leather and decorated is still in very fine condition.

It bears the Imperial crest In, the

Of very frugal habits, Mr, Keeble celve £10 each, while £300 is left mude a certain amount of money by to the British composing chess problems, and. It is which also is to receive Mr. Keeble's Chess Federallon, stated, also had money left him. collection of chess books and papers.

A number of chess editors and four members of Norwich Chess Club re- chess Institutions.

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