How to do our hair, is the most anxious question of the moment. Confusion was caused by the electrifying appearance of the, Duchess of Kent at the ostrich feather show at South Africa House, of which I spoke last week, wearing her hair in the drooping page-boy bob which was popular' last year but now was thought {o have quite gone onl. How-fever a diserest' word went round from Belgrave Square that the payer bhoy bob was only transient due to the fact that the Duchess is having her portrait painted; and that "when this tyranny is over-past," she will lead the fashion in an Edwardian revival excessively cul and moulded glass of
hess in all our surroundings is per~ hhaps more pleasingly shown in glass than anywhere, some beautiful shapes without 2 serap of decoration on them being made.
On the other hand, eccentricity has broken out among the beer jugs and cocktail sets, 10 give us the weirdest shapes and odd colours, T saw a set recently of beer Jug and six glasses, bearing a portrait of Henry VIE on the jug and one Wwite on each glass. Of such one may beware.
When I was a child itinerant glass-blowers used to wander from town to town, hire an empty shop, and show their skill to all. who chose 10 see It, While you waited they would Dlow" charming little trees and Pnind are, i not of a high order, at feast regular and consistent, Consequently. we resent the fact that we must be bounced out of our regular Tut and contemplate matters of exchange, of which way the war-cat is going to Jump. It is doubtful if any~ one alive can answer the questions Which concern us most but we shall Ail hold our theories, The cost of living will concern housewives and some. will fondly regard their old housekeeping accounts (if any are methodical enough to have retained such), and will reflect that, though {they never suspected it at the time, those were the days."
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