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WOMANSENSE
FASHIONS GO
LIGHT-HEADED
EMININITY FIRST: The trend of current fashion crystallises as formal race meetings and other big sports eventa provide occasions for the season's dress parade. Fashion is more fusay than tailored. Full-skirted, near-ankle-length dresses, and dressmaker suits in faille, surah silk and poult steal the sceno,
With these clothes women are torn between two kinds of hats: the big romantic plcture hit, and the smaller, delicately smart hats like the Watteau shep- berdesa hat and the bonnet.
Grouped at the top are three furquoise roses and black - yelvet. wishful thinking large hats. ilus ribbon band. The front is veiled in frating the tread this season for light-weighing, light-looking hats.
black net sewn with satin ribbon braid.
Adreamy confection: black Below are two verslons of this", Chantilly lace is appliqued overseason's most successful small hats. a pleture: hat, by Honors Soeurs-Plasot and Pavy make the made of five layers of stiffened and wired white tullekkagi
makes another Ango Thaarup White hat of fine Swiss straw, the brim pleated at one side mi a shallow crown and decked with the chiar a Thaarup ballet bon- puir of seagull's wings."
-Erik maker- a turquoise, straw cartwheel, trimmed with huge
,
peaked platter of block velvet covered with pink ostrich-Ups; thơ curis of which tip over the back. K-One of the hats that the under
net in pink felt, trimmed with shaded pink roses and yards of black velling.
*
by
Patricia
(skatches®
1.by
Sigrid)
but changes are on the way
Swimming Is Good For You
It's important to protect your eyes when sunbathing. “A good way
are delaying their collections untill that nearly every' designer expect Eelk, of Paris, says, "What will great and powerful factor in the Wrap up in a bathrobe, run or play
the last possible moment, for they are trying to guoss the answer to the
Teen-Ager Cottons
Milliners are hesitating
between
one,
to soak cotton pads in good-quality witch hézal; place on sy clo
By HELEN FOLLETT met hea luga IN a few weeks time the world of question is fashion going to two possible trends, one known-the
fashion will be in a state of tur- change? m
NET in 'the' swim. It is good for circulation, to hasten reaction of directoire line, with its higher waist-G moll. For the autumn fashion Once fashion changes, The hat line-and the unknown opposition.
the fat and it is good for the the blood streams. Keep moving. and have If the air is cool, don't alt on the shows are about to begin, milliners: goes, too. A quick preview shows On the side of the directoire are at thin. Breast the waves
least two French-inspired milliners: fun. Interest in outdoor lie is a beach afterward and get chilled.. some kind of a change.
be, the most important hat trend? preservation of youthful appearance handball. To alt around with one's
nails blue finger The cloche.
swimming takes arst place
and one's teeth With long skirts and and
chattering · 16 to lose the vitallsing directoiro lines, cloches will be won among summer sports.
effects of tals 'exercise. often with fat crowns and a riddle Cutting through the water is a
Take your sun tan oil with nigrette."
means of overcoming aguro defects. and apply It not only to
Journ Says Mmo Vernier (who has as The chest is expanded, the backbone neck and arms, but to your legs as customer No. 1 the Duchess of is straightened and extended, the well. Sunburn is no trining matter. Kent), "Hats must follow the line of free action of the hip bones tends to Avoid It. Repeated munburn will clothes, and with the directoire normalise the thighs if they happen cause the skin to lose delicacy and trend, squarish hots are out. Bats to be over developed. After a sum fine texture. Also, it is a real danger, will be longer in front-in blue, in mer on the beach the plump girl Infections may follow.
blue,
in petrol blue, and In will And that there's more space in grey."
that lovely sweeping formal that My own prediction is this: stue has found a bit too snug for Whatever, trend nutumn clothes comfort. may lake, women will like their hair shorter, heads neater in outline, hats, closer and warmer for winter months.
vla in
«Nicely detailed 'white dress.
Care of Leather Bags
By ELEANOR ROSS
T this time of year, when we A tako luggage, from its storing place, most of us wonder if the bags will be free of mildew, the leather still nice and fresh looking, Well, if the bags have been properly stored after first being well con- ditioned, chances are, that, with a little freshening up, they will pass mustet very well:
over-
Bags, should not be stored in a damp basement norin, an heated bitc The porous
leather rany absorb the damp and become mildewed, "while hot air will dry the out the oils and may cause leather to crack.. But wherever you 'do store your leather luggage, it is good to take it out once in a while and treat it to a good reconditioning process. Theri, if an emergency trip
Rea
It is safe to forecast, therefore, that small roomy hats, probably likes the cloche, will win.
Use a thin cream freely when you are dressed. Never use soap and water after exposure to strong sun- Ught; it is a shock to the' skin when it is in a strative state, when
One reason why swimming is the ideal exercise; it does not overwork
Be sure, and protect your eye muscles that are used ordinarily from the sun. Use dark glassca and it rouses laggard, fibres, that when you're exercising;, soak pledge have not been active enough. cts of cotton In good-quality witch Complete Immersion is necessary, hazel, place them on your eyes-for Fright at the start. It tends to equalise sun bathing, and
BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE
Christopher Was Surprised
-He Saw Clothes With No One In Thiem-in: By MAX TRELL-
is indicated, the luggage will bo«XJELL," said Christopher Cricket rendy for use,
strange
"I saw a lot. of clothes," said Christopher; "all-hanging_c11 x line. But no one was in them."
POSERS
WHOSE WHO
Here are some more singular possessives. Each of the things ilsted is followed by a choice of descriptions. Correct answers are below.
1. Dutchman's
were (0) worn by Peter Stuyvesant, (b) held up by red suspenders, (e) found in the woods.
2. Dragon's blood used in making (a) varnish, (b), soup, (c) cochineal.
9. St Vifua" dance" is another name "for the (a); chores, (b)' tar- antella, (c) salior's hornpipe,
W to Knart and Hanid, the Saddle Soaps
shadow-children with the turned- "there I was stand- There are excellent saddle soaps around names, and leather cleaners and recon-ing in back of the garden; when, all ditioners on the market. It is a joy of a sudden I see a very
Feight" to use them and' to see dull looking
"A strange sight?" said Hauld, leather become clean and bright what did you see?" again Rawhide, plgskin and the usual black or ton hides do well By VERA WINSTON
with saddlesoap, while the grained TEEN-AGERS are devoted to crisp leathers such as alligator or crocodila cottons, frocks that are pleasing and morocco, take kindly to in their youthful freshness, ideal for conditioner. It there is a touch of buoyant summertime usc. Nice detail is apparent in this neat num- mildew, Brat remove it with soap ber of white cotton. It has reaming and water. Or sometimes a damp But tho from the shoulders that is released cloth will do the trick. below the hipline to terminate in leather should be thoroughly dried.
Don't try to do repairs on good box-pleats for the skirt. Royal blue peeps out of the pleats and makes the luggage, even if you are handy act-in collar effect and the, cuffs, as Leather work is, highly specialised to get off the line and go somewhere 'great big place. Let's fly away and (a) A well as the bow tled in front and It pays to have good pieces else. It's very odd to see clothes, see it! Then suddenly," said Chris- Horizontal stitching controls the handled by an expert. Very often, without anyone in them, trying to gu topher, "a surprising thing hap- otherwise princess ine,
"new bindings, scam repairs and a
pened!" off somewhere all by themselves." new lining will give“ a new lease on ute to what pecmed. like an old, wornout sultcafo or trunk.
Makeup Takes
Three Hours
7
Knart and Hanid laughed. "Those were the wet clothes that had just been washed," Hanld cald,
They
were hanging out to dry," Kharf added.
Christopher Cricket nodded. "Yes I guess that's right. They all looked didn't expect them quite wet. But
and legs to be moving their arms around,as though they were trying
The Wind
"It must have been the wind." said Hanid. "It was blowing them around. But that's good. Clothes get dry in the wind.".
* Suitcase Covers: When you invest in new leather Dame Edith Evans, distinguished luggage, protect your investment by
They were all held on the line by British stage actress, now making having covers made for it. All her film debut in "Queen Of Spades," leather shops are equipped to make clothes pins, Christopher con- certain's is setting an example to younger these covers, and many fine pieces tinued. "But they were
Christopher saw some clothes on the Ilac
"What happened?" Khart and Hanid both asked eagerly. A
actresses by getting up at five o'clock do come complete with cover. No tugging and pulling and kicking,
best to get loose. Of Christopher alghed as he shoul
4 The tailor's goose (a) Inye golden eggs, (b) has no feather. (e) lived on Threadneedle strect.
5. A dog's car is cometiraes found (4) in fuller's earth, (b) in a book, (c) under a cal's paw.
6. St. Elmo's fire is caused by (b) friction, (c) the
king's
7. A crow's nest is often built (a) in crosstrees, (b) in a hawse- hole, (e) near a cornerake..
...
your
(olled uмop pg"(unit) Burrooms) (on won osungsquia
(samo)
enoussa)
may really have been just the tree, come landed in the ditch, some Horse Likes Spaghetti
hours to apply, Dame Edith endures handbag that was either dirty, dull the way they were moving around That was the end of their trip."
that I crept up very, close, I was al-
It
] 8.' If you discover a mare's `nest, you should (a) become famous, (b) "Buddenly," said Christopher, the call a veterinary, (c) watch
Klop.
Answers Une broke and all the clothes went 'flying away."
"And, did they get to see the bịg........ world?" Hanld askea.
Shook His Head
every morning to be at Welwyn chance of scuffs
or nicks with trying their
ald Christopher, Studios on time.
course, just as you say, it may have his head. "No," covered luggage! Although her elaborate raakeup, as
Give
your leather handbags, good been the wind. But then, again, it "they didn't. Some landed: In the the 89-year-old' Counters Runeva care, too We've seen
many an clothes Themselves
trying
to go off landed on the garden wall and the skaya, is hardly less pleasant than a expensive outôt ruined because the with the wind. I was so surprised at rest of them all fell to the ground.
MEMPHIS, Ten-Adolph Gri minor operation, and takes three wearer carried a good leather
santi' has an eight-year-old riding "Oh what a shanio!” sald Hanid. horse that eats spaghetti. Gefranți philosophy.
scuffed.
over them from mort that I could
was short of real horse feed orie Small sections of a special plastic mouths, every few weeks. If the clothes talking among themselves "But that wasn't even the worst of day, so he carted to the stable compound are dried over the surface bar Is carried frequently. Treat "Oh you couldn't" exclaimed it, Bald Christopher, "They all of her skin and then coloured with them to a good leather cleaner Hanid. a special, greasepaint. The design of the makeup took about three days to and conditioner. Keep linings up work
out, and was photographed to snuff, too. One of those magnetic under a variety of lights until the clothes brushes does a good job at correct effect was found up for hand vacuum or either the brush nd carrying-off-dust as does a small "I've been delirmakeup twenty-six years, and I've never attachment or the crevice (por from found anyone more patient and co- the aliachment kit of your regular operative than, Dame Edith," says vacuum cleaner. The job only taken Bob Clark, they stúdiós makeup a few minutes but it poys off in dividends, of good grooming. Per- chiet
Dame Edlin's co-stars in "Queen sonal good gooming start with the Of Spades" aro Anton Walbrook good grooming of one's clothes and and Ronald Howard.
accessories, A S
Masaj
For Dinner? Yea!
RED RYDER
MART LEANOR 1:THIS IS DICKSKIN SANGFORD ONS OF RED RYDAR'S BACLORURN FALE-
HOWDY A BUCKSKIN?
WHAT BRINOD TOU
| HAAR (BUCKSKTIN:
ENCI THE DE
TANT SKIN TOLI-
Rupert's Island. Adventure-17
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got solled and had to be washed all bucket of spaghetti. Spot, the horse, over again. They had to be rubbed loved it, and it's now part of his "Clothes never talk" said Knart. and scrubbed, and wrung out. And regular diet. -“Maybe they don't usually," said : when mother hung them out the sea. they don't ond time, she was careful to use when people are around. But when twice as many clothespins as be Christopher. "Maybe
got right under the line, I heard fore, so that node of them could ever them as distinctly as I hear you now, by away again. Yes, he, added, ““it's beard a shirt, saying 'Let's go way a pity they couldn't go away as they ... let's go far away! Then one at pinuned, but it would be funny, for mother's aprons said, I've never clothes to go travelling around with- been out of the kitchen, except to out anybody in them. They i have come out here, to this clothes linel to wait to see the world when the Then all the other clothes on the people they belong to toko, then fine started shouting": "The world's a along, by wearing them"
HOLD MAS CLARK DIBDADO Ha
·FRIE NICUS ARE CHIPPIN
By Fred Harman
RED'LL WANT TO
"KNOWIN JANE CLARK/ How You
BABLY D
RASSLE GRUB
Putting on speed. Sam, takes the motor-boat into the lake and there, sure enough at Freddy and, Perdy in the paper-boat-, *** So you're right," gasps Sam. It is made of paper. I thought you must be tell ing me a fairy tale. Seeing, Sam/ and Rupert so near the foxes take fright. They don't know how to gel wout of his way, so Ferdy leans for
ward and unfolda, one of the sails Hutto get a larger-space to catch the wind. Immediately the frail cralo begins to fill with water and-the-
mothers squeal with fright,
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