The Ministry of Munitions announces that it is prepared to sell all kinds of army kilts at £1 a time. Kilts there are of varying tartans, and kilts of no tartan at all, such as the London-Scottish, and with seven yards of cloth in each they are to be picked up for a mere £1. It is certainly a bargain for anybody who wants to possess kilts, for they probably cost about twice as much. The question now is whether the British housewife will show herself as clever as was the French pays anne in remodelling these garments into skirts and the like. The ease with which this could be done by these wonderful people, the French country folk, made the kilt a popular article of wear in France, and probably to this day the mam'selles and youngsters still sport such souvenirs. But popular as it was, the kilt could not rival the grey shirt in worldwide favour. fe is doubtful whether the Egyptian ever saw his way to make a galabich out of a kilt, but he certainly had no objection to wearing two or three or more of these grey shirts on his back. Probably he had no other place of safety for them.
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