Oct.
The freedom to change the fashion of attire or other form of adornment is highly prized by at Toast one of the sexes. In the last few months for example bold pioneers have rebelled against the tyranny of the shingle and the short skirt. So demurely beneath helmets, which sympathetically assume an Early Victorian note, blonde and auburn and brunette tresses have been appearing. Ankles have acquired their pristine importance since knees ha retired into obscurity og Nor is the delight of changing fashion confined to any age. Nowadays youth has no well-defined limits, Twenty-one can be as sophisticated and aged as it likes but fifty, even sixty, in on being open to all the privileges of seventeen if it feels that wa; So the mother—
Perhaps even the grandmother—of to-day can find in a change of style the source of much delight to. her family. The plunge is taken; the visit to the hairdresser has been paid, The rest is on the knees of the Gods or on the tongues of the assembled household. The ver-diet is awaited with some trepidation and not a_ little bravado. It comes; it is favourable—the family has learnt to be philosophical or tactful—and~ the victim proceeds to exhaust its possibilities till the next tura of the wheel arrives.
Not otherwise is it with newspapers. They are human if not intentionally fallible, They are also supremely feminine in their more materialistic aspects, In fact nothing arouses more discussion in the places where newspapers are cosseted and put to bed than their "dress." This Paper, in spite of its eighty years' or so which it tries to carry as jauntily as the age demands, is still ready to change its attire. There is a horrible monotony about columns, headlines, spaces and "boxes." The most careful manipulator of them cannot exorcise it entirely.
only by the occasional assertion of the right to shingle, to bob, to bant and to massage that the newspaper derives from its daily toil the necessary inventive to ashness, shows symptoms of this very human restlessness. There are new methods of Presenting old features to ite readers. They have been tentatively "tried out" in odd corners, They now come boldly to. the fore. There is the spectacle of the completely changed "shopwindow." The news of the day there displayed has been given new trappings. There have been readjustments of those engaging creatures known as ""double-column heads." There has been a redressing of the serried. ranks of headlines. There has been a little shingling, a little bobbing. Perhaps the result is not 80 satisfactory as was hoped. It will need time to settle down. Further oddments of ornamental tion will be added. Exuberant novelties may require pruning. But the fact remains: the paper has been given a new dress and, like everyone in that blissful state, it is blushing terri! consequence, Brcavse the Kiang and Ché- Kiang provincial authorities have placed a ban on the export of rice to cher parts of China, the Rice Commission is petitioning to have the restriction removed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.