Paris pet-fashion note
What the well dressed dog should wear
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Paris.
Off the Champs Elysces, 'near the salons of exclusive! drossmaker Balmain and one of the most expensivo Rhirtmakers in Paris, is a shop called
Chion
Au
Elegant (At the Elegant Dog).
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When a reporter called, two tiny Yorkshire terriers, owned a French com- by the wife of
IET, were on the
counter
being fitted with yellow knitted sweaters, at £1 12s. 6d. each.
Snid the manager: "For the winter, an elegant dog needs at least three items for his
wardrobe: the sweater, uf curve, for aporis; a smart coat, perhaps made of plaid, and a waterproof coul. Under the he cold days, waterproof, on will wear the sweater.
AT A GLANCE...
"Just as you can tell by lookinit at a woman whether the in dressed by Dior or Falk, to tell by tanking jacket that he is
go it easy at a dog's
dressed by Chien Elestnat.**
To "tailor" dog the owner
ᎥᎥᎩᎬ . according to dimensions,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPE, THURSDAY,
BRACELETS AND BREAD-SLICERS
By JOAN ERSKINE
London, Sept. 5.
A peep into little but good things promised for
bat for a full-sized poodle-far Britain's Festival Year (1951) is given in an unusual exhibition of "Leather Goods, Fancy Goods and Per- Paris the price is £3 33. forsonal Accessories," which opened in London today.
the mot fashionable breed in
rande-to-measaire cont.
Four winter feather
hoots
for a terrier cost 25s.
WING COLLARS
**
The Council of Industrial tree calf, were among the exhi- One section was devoted Design is holding a series bits.
entirely to accessories for the
American Thunderjets In Fly-Past
A solitary Battle of Bri- tain Hurricano fighter... probably piloted by one of "The Few"--will lead the commemoration fly-past over London on September 15. The air parade will fly in eight groups in this order:
. Group
I-Heavy bombers: six Lincolns and throe Lanca- stors.
Group II-Thirty-dx Mos- quitoes.
Group III-Eight Firebrands from the Navy,
Group IV. Eight Sea Hor- nels and in RAF Homels.
Group V.-Fifty-four Me
teors.
Group VI-Twenty-four Me- teors.
Group VII. -
Vampires.
Forty-eight
Group VILL---Sixteen Ameri-
can Thunder Jets.
NOT A SPEED SHOW
Their speeds will vary from 170 mph to 350 mph,
"We
want them to ду slowly enough for people to see them well, rather than display their speed," say the Air Ministry.
The fly-past route will be over Dagenham, the Tower of London, Parliament Square and Hyde Park Corner, where
divide into will Beroplanes
mailer formations to fly over provincial towns.
Scheduled time over Parlia- ment Square is 12.30, but the fight may be postponed a few hours If weather conditions are unfavourable.
TEST OF TIMING
Though there may be several of these small exhibitions huntsman. A hunting canteen Battle of Britain pilots flying. with the object of showing which strapped on to the saddle the RAF regard the whole a glass flask with exercise as a useful piece of manufacturers and desig-contained
swivel silver top and neat fil-training. ners the sort of standard
ver-plated sandwich tin, Ladica With aeroplanes coming from For collare, top fashion, in ai
with exquisitely different stations, flying at Flirting white
leather they hope to achieve in riding whips patent
worked Haard handles, and a different speeds, yet duc Winged collar
as their goods at the Festival (£3 38.)
man's hunting crop with a London in close worn with a man's dres shirt of Britain exhibition next plaitedt kangaroo hide, not for- with only pne-minute interval The collars are attached to year, when the complete getting a hunting horn and case, between the Groups, the fly- brightly coloure leather stock list will be shown to were all samples of hand-made past has to be a masterpiece
the public for the first time goods.
Heda for dogs are of coloured as "1951 Design Review." With The Increase in air
CARIVAN
shi1
collapsen
stretched
on
tubulny which in the
framework.
for packing holay luggage.
Fantastic varieties
of toys We on show, A favourite is a large, grey rubber muse which
equonka,
slightly
*I*be op hog a beauty parlour where, let than £1, an averagé-sized | dog pets FL shampoo, trim, manirure and brush-up. Ap- pointments have to be bookesi.
The
of timing.
Metal
over
1950,
“Anything On Wheels” Derby
Unusual Passing-out
Parade
For Ron
By. Peter Lovegrove
Twenty-two-year-old, fair-haired Ron Barham, of Union Grove,
TWO little girls take a spill during the skating contest in New York of the 12th annual "Any- thing on Wheels" derby sponsored by the Child- Ken's Aid Society. The derby also included scoo ters, strollers, baby bug- gies, wagons, pashmobiles, tricycles and bikem. (Acme)
formation South Lambeth, London, who served in the Welch Regiment on his Na-Rose cuttings
Prices
tional Service and was stationed in Hamburg for 16 months, is normally
rather particular about his appearance. It is, in fact a standing joke sent by air
among his mates.
and
j
Today: however, with the in-earn dollars
con-
of metal creasing use tainers, tanks and bottles, it is a
though dying craft,
Thousands of dollars are wooden being earned by a new barrels are still essential for the British export-rosecut- | storage-of-wines, -spirits and
beer.
Stings,
travel. luggage Is becoming
But the last time I sawjor blew shrilly down the end of One is always Impressed by lighter every day. Women will
metal tubes. him he would have made an New York, Sept. 13. the latest in ceramics, the most particularly like a matching set
It was not the Prices in the metal market cld-time chimney sweep look ardeal.
end of his When the ingredients fashionable in clothes, and the in oyster washable hide, banded
unchanged
tailor's were well and truly mixed, and most elaborate in jewellery. But in pastel shades and lined with here closed today
Ron had become an unrecognisa. one cannot hide a feeling of per- gured taffein; and another made with the following exception: like a West End
Tin Grade A (99,80 percent { dummy."
ble, sticky meas, he was trundled sonal pride when confronted, as of specially woven flax canvas.
up and down the workshop i Standing in a 54-gallon hogs the barrel, and then, for good me, turns out a 6-gallon barrel
A quallied cooper, Ron told lines are taking them to hard -From-London's^uirports, ait in this exhibition, with the ex-sprayed with a washable cellu- or higher) New York, per lb., cellent leather work that is so lose finish and finely striped in 1014-United Press.
first soaked traditionally English,
There are always bat. A leading London platinum head cask, he was and in colours,
Arm has advanced its quotation wilh Dily water and then measure, was helped out
every day. Only wall-patroned currency countries all over the which craftsmanship plays such boxes and tollet cases to match. C30-3/4 per ounce following smothered with various unpala hurled up in the air three times oak is used for
the staves, and world, in succession.
special care has to be taken to British cullings have now great part.
Extra large handbags which the increase in the New York table concoctions, such as boot and sawdust, fond and wood-
ensure that sach is properly reached their highest popularity would FOR AIR TRAVELLERS
do as week-end cases price.
But Ron didn't seem lo mina Prices of antimony will be shavings,
curved. The barrel is then heated abroad. Inch-long cuttings are the accompaniment were in stone luxan hide. One
modern Diogenes a bit. As this follows:-English of a racket which would make emerged for breath every now
over an open fire to enable the being flown daily, in large and Tooled leather goods of all was accompanied by n tartan advanced s
a long
19.6 smooth
percent, from £150 to 215 Cup Tie crowd sigh with envy. kinds, and books bound in finest umbrella wilh
and again, o wide grin and slaves to bend and set to shape small consignments, to ton; 19 percent, Some of his mates hammered gleaming teeth could be dis-while the first hoops are fitted parks, street flower beds and elegant handle in matching hide, sterling per
private gardens of more. than bound with fine gold wire.
from £180 to 205; crude 70 hoops into the barrel with trus cerred through the curtain of and hammered into place.
30 nations. percent, from 152-1/2 to 105.-ing adzes, others banged happily slush, and he once gave me a
Each apprentice is uttached for bat anmelodiously on steel hoops bleary-eyed wink. Have
of United Press. you ever heard
the duration of his arücleship— "cloakhide"? For the record, it
12 years to a quauined crafts. is grained cowhide with grease
man who personally teaches him curried dressing, and looks like extra expensive fire, leather,
Humane Way
LEE PYONG YUL, 16, of the Seventh Regiment, Third Division, North Korean Army, cajoys a meal after surrendering to an American near Taegu. Several Red troops gave up, bearing UN safe con- duct passes. Treatment of Yul and his companions contrasts sharply with Red handling of U.S, prisonera. (Acme)
POCKET RADIO SET
A five-inch long radio weigh- Ing only eight ounces, und an electric lighter which could be plugged in and kept on the iable, attracted the men.
Among the exquisitely work- ed handbags was one in silver kid lined with white sük in the shape of a heart. But it was hardly distinguishable from a "Midas" evening bag made of satin sprayed with a metallic finish, which was much cheaper,!
Scottish pelible brooches, shaped traditionally like dirks or round and set with cairn- orms, were shown side by side with surrealistic costume jewel- lery in plastic. A new type of helivy bracelet (illustrated jabove) was a curved shield with side silts for tying round the wrist with o velvet or satin The surface is swirled in
band.
gold on a white background. It in a design that might have been used in Britain before the Ro-
nan conquest.
BELATED IDEAS
Threo rensible ilents that might have been thought of long ago were:
3.
sury
All the horseplay meant that he hnd completed his appren-
Miss Phipps Seeks A Job ticeship us a cooper in Watney's all there is to
Miss Phipps, tall, with large Coat hangers for the nur- dark blue eyes, and brown hal In the shape of swans. colled smoothly at the back, demonstrating These are attractive enough to han entice young children to hang French beauty products to the up their clothes.
counter of a West End store.
beeza
about
WIE
Stag brewery and had become a fully-fledged craftsman. The unceremonious" Initiation carried out by his fellow-coopers, and witnessed by the whole brewery, his family and flancec. The best part of it came at the end when his future health and skill was toasted by all preset
This quaint ceremony, like the craft
Itself of cooperaKO goes back many centuries. The trade of cask-muking was already practised in Britax in the time of the Romans, and the manual technique has changed little with the passage of years. At one time coopers were an essential part of the crew of every vessel, since nearly every- thing was stored, in casks.
EMERGENCY FUNDS FOR U.S. FORCES
Д
Washington, Sept. 13. The Senate Appropria- tions Committee tonight unanimously approved $17,185,000,000 emergency supplemental appropriations bill to strengthen the Unit- ed States armed forces for a military emergency.
The Senate Committee added approximately $414,000,000 to the $10,771,000,000 approved by the House. The total or $17,105,000,000 Includes $11,- Increasing the 642,000,000 for United States defence establish- ment and $4,000,000,000 for the military
ald programme Western Europ
Europe, Committee The
Kenneth Senator
for
Chairman, McKellar
1. A chromium-plated bread | slicing gauge for the housewife i with an upeven eye. which allows for the size of cut to be [regulated by easy movement. It:
Looking for a job is Miss "Now I want to find an exe
brains cuta cake and meat rolls too. Diana Phipps, 24-year-old callve job-to use my
as well as my knowledge of the Duchess of 2.
cosmetics," says Miss Phipps. A wool winder with three niece of arms which clips on to the Gloucester. Her mother,
She started training for this table, and enables one person to Lady Sybil Phipps, is 18 months
ago, went to Paris wind wool easily, It can be sister of the Duchess.
for her
diploma, Since then adjusted to different .sizgi
she has travelled from store to skeins.
store, giving advice on alls to beauty.
bas forthright Mist Phipps opinions
tho average (Democrat; Tennessee), cald ke woman's icnowledge of cosmetics, hoped to bring the bill up for "English women are far too action
in the Senate tomorrow. conservative about beauty pre- Since the Houso approved the parations. They slap the same bill on August 23, President old cream
on their faces year Truman has sent further re- after
of year regardles
totalling quests to Congress whether or not : sults them," about $435,000,000. Tho Senate
Committee approved most
of Since she was 17 Miss Phipps these and added some Hems not
*inese una has been a working girl. 10 requested by the President. her fist job, with the American!
In inajor increases for the Special Servicd
ahe defence. prograntime the Senate helped organise entortainments Committee added $18,000,000 for US, troops.
for the Any
my medical and Mimi Phippopot engaged hospital programmes, $10,000,- and unattacho1"-lives in 000 for naval medical care, and Chelsea fiat, I love cooking $40,000,000 for more naval ship And sewing" the toys,
replacement United Press. !
Office
trade.
know of tho
stock
SPEED ESSENTIAL The director-of-a-company Sporting Kic cuttings said: "Our Arst necessity is speed. The cutting-or rose-budding eyes, as they are known com= In the old rinys, apprentices mercially.dle a fortnight af- had to pay for the privilege, ter being taken. now they receive wages during Air Transport is the only the whole time they де solution. Icarning
"We are
now dealing with OS far apart
"I've enjoyed it," he sald, countries adding as he wring some mud Australia and Cunda Que out of his latr. "In fact, I think oversens trade has spread to rather go through those places we had not even con-
again than the last 15 templated, when we starteda
exporting in 1840."
I'll
years
minutes."
Royalty
On
Tour
BEFORE leaving for their first tour of Crown Prince Anfaw Wossen, son of Ext Selassie of Ethiopia, and his wife, Prince Worg, pose for an official portrait in Ado with" "their" "tfred-month-old"?" daughter- Make (Rolf Tetsurely launt far hekimp plinh, had priff 13 14 1947 TOA
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