The Latest French Modes Imported for Shanghai In anticipation of Fair Week and the quickened interest in dress and adornment which is the usual concomitant of that festival season Messrs. Lane, Crawford and Ca. have just unpacked some charming new velvets. As everybody knows, this is a velvet year, and surely nothing can be more distinguished and becoming, than this material in its new, pliable weaves. The last variety to arrive is dubbed *'Midas" and drapes in lovely soft lines. Salome velvet is also displayed here in black and chiffon velvet in all colours, straight from Lyons.
The metal tissues, another favourite for the winter, may be obtained here in varied forms, silk metal tissue, metalassé, and embossed tissue silver and oxidized, 39 or 40 inches wide. Of course the popular printed crepe de chines in the new designs have not been overlooked, nor the new shades in crepe marocain. Sequin, bead, and jet trimmings and exquisite silk embroideries are also among the arrivals and wil well repay a visit, To wonder at these performances of mine, dlony 1950 or thereabouts to wonder at these performances of mine; Bloomers of pink crepe de chine and silk stockings in the drawer third from. the top, and the bottom drawer put to very Tomestic uses—Crab-meat in cans, canned pimentoes, curined macaroni grain, canned heat; When I inherited the lured was stuffed with things—Red flannel things with buttons of white china, Buttons of white china aylare like the white china bowls for oyster-stews Which my grandmother's beale offered to my grandmother on sleigh-rides, Always and forever, (Vot that she was "partial to oysters''!)
-lnd other things, fearful things, of unbleached domestic, And things yet more horrible, solid with machine tucking, (My grandmother was born "in 1813, these things were hers.).
There was a silver snuff-box in the upper drawer, alnd a mellow odour, keep my Naturals there and my Lurcos de Finas, wonder a deal about my grandmother, 3 Reading of the discovery of kerosene, or the beginning of rail-
T remind myself. "She was so old when that happened And I wish one were to come—Or two or three, but one would be:
better—Z'o wonder at my performances, Alas!
L have neglected to provide a child, —Edith Miniter.
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