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Your Wife Wears Five

Hats Every Year

hats.

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And That Totals 75,000,000

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

And five times a year (on an average) every wife goes 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 head of a big hat manu- facturing concern in London.

Seventy-five million hats! Men probably think at once of 75,000,000 bills demanding 75,000,000 guineas.

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 prond 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-hnl-wearing age in Great Britain, the manufacturers discount a percentage of “open air" girls who don't wear hats-except, perhaps, on "special oc- casions, such as going to church.

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.

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

“Many women buy 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 at bills probably amount to no more than £3 a venr."

I asked a woman friend for her amual bat account. She reckoned;

Three winter hats;

Two spring hats; Three summer hats; One or two Occusions.

hats for special

Bill? "Under £5." What about men?

The latters Association sald that

AND AFTER HATS -PINS

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not need so many pins as did her mother, but there is still money in the pin business, as shown in the will, published recently of Mr. T. W. D. Broughton, J.P., of Four Onks, Warwickshire.

Mr. Broughton, who died in January aged 62, was a safety- pin manufacturer at Smeth- wick, near Birmingham. He left £30,028.

He left annuities to his widow (£400), to his daughter Mificent Hannali Kenney (£500), and to his sister. Hannah Frew (£30), the residue to accumulate during the life of his wife,

Then, further annuities will be paid to his daughter and his sister, the balance ulumately to his sister's children,

About 5,000,000,000 vins are used every year in Great Britain. There is also money to be made out of other small things. A fortune of £70,000 was left a few years ago by Sir Walter Evans of Birchfield, Birmingham, deputy-chairman of one of the largest firms of button manufacturers in the

World.

And huge sums have been feft by makers of shoe-laces, collar studs. hooks-and-eyes, and hundreds of other little every-day necessities of life..

unnum: total bili, one to two guineas. "Bitt don't think," sald. Mr. Godfrey. "that men have no new fashions in hats. The hat popular just now is distinguished by its tight it was "frankly impossible to say-weight. though everybody knows," added the

And

you will notice bright colours secretary, Mr. Godfrey, "that Mr.-blues and greens-in men's hats for Jones does not rush off to buy a pink sport and country wear. hit because he has just seen his "It is a healthy sign, for if you look friend Mr. Smith wearing a blue through history you will see that the one,"

nation has always worn colourful A lat salesman said that the garments when it has been most average man was a two-hatter-per-virile."

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Bible Saved From Sack Of City

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

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

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Bequests To Chess Fans

So fend was he of chess that Mr. John Kerble, of Rosary-road, Nor-

wich, made nearly 20 bequests in his will to various players of chess und writers ghout the gaine.

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Another of the Society's most treasured possessions is the Bible which the British and Foreign Bible Society, presented to the Tsur and Tsarina of Russia on the occasion of F1405-Deep Purple, their Coronation.

Russian Revolution an official of the The Bible disappeared after the Society sald "and nothing was heard of it for 20 years.

"It was found by a member of the Society's committee In a second-hand pre- bookshop. He bought 11 and

Mr. Keeble, a retired railway cleric, sented it to the Society." who died last February, aged 83, lett bound in green leather and decorated The book, a large family Bible, £9.864 gross (net personalty £9,798).

He learned his chess as a youths still in very fine condition. from_books, and played frequently It bears the Imperial crest in the

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