The Archive · 1924

Rage for Fur Coats

Formed coats will be the outstanding feature of women's wear in the coming winter season, and beautiful specimens are being prepared by the furriers and tailors in the Rue de la Paix. For wealthy customers, these cours will be lined with sable, mink or other Hight weight furs for smaller purses there ix the homely: rabbit, which, can be made to look like almost any pelt in creation, Deliciously. cosy will be the new yarment of reps kasha or some thick make of silk with ite warm Hining, In form the winter awat Will be like that of the Joffre, with w twinkle' in his eye, men who got wards would certainly not be those who deserved them," summer, nearly: full length and straight and somewhat skirts, for, in the fashions will still Furth "The Saviour of Among the Marne anniversary' ceremonies was the unveiling of 3 monument to Marshal Galligni, erected at a lonely spot called jardou, about four miles from Meaux, facing the expanse of coun try on which the battle of the }Oureq, which paved the way to the story on the Marne, was fought Paris will ever remember who announced that she would be defended "to the end" and who commandeered taxi-cabs Jconvey troops to the scene of the fighting. Galliéni was not the only French strategist to conceive the idea of striking a blow at the flank of the German forces after they began their movement to the south-east instead of marching straight on and tainly open to whether the small number of infantry conveyed in cabs could have had any real influence on the result of the fighting; but Gulliéni remains the "saviour of Paris."

The monument at. Trilbardou not, the only one that a coteful apitol has consecrated to, memory. Another statue of the marshal, by M. Jean Boucher, is in existence, in the form of full-sized plaster model, which, last winter, was moved about on the Esplanade Jdes. Invalides the object of finding the most suitable site, A /spot facing the railway station was Jchosen, but the city engineers point Jed out that the tunnel underneath the short and narrow draperi have prevailed throughout the sum= mer, Ax for colours, brown cloth ud "brown furs promise to be the most papular, thou yeh the all-black coat ix by no means out of favour, Those who try to keep their dress expenditure within reasonable limits will welcome the new goat ae pro-Viding a means of utilizing, old furs, More and more fur is required every year for feminine attire, and all creation is being ransacked to ely woman, for, as th "Ca que' femme vent Chew vent." The domestic cat now to be Inid under contribution, and kittens, instead of being ruth-essly suppressed, will assume a commercial value. The fumet's now enables him to make the skin of a eat almost as flexible and Wear-resisting ax that of the fox, and it can also be made to "take" black dye quite satisfactorily, eat, which has hitherto rendered no known service except catching mice Jand rats and looking homelike in front of a blazing fire in the hearth, will thus unconsciously acquire title to the gratitude of the mor important half of humanity.

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