Champions Day as usual was as much a social event as the major racing day of the week and huge: jerowds swarmed the members stand, tiffin boxes and paddocks.
One of the largest tiffins was given! by Mr. D. E. Sassoon whose "Radiant London, Oct, 18.
Lovers of fine needlework, as well' jas our fashion creators, will find inspiration in many of the treasures jot the Chinese Exhibition, soon to be Jopened in London. Chinese embrol-Jdery is already making its appeartance on fashionable frocks, and the Exhibition promises to provide our Jartists in materials with new shades for next spring.
We are all perhaps a little tired which can be seen in Burlington House in a porcelain so delicate and transparent that the incised pattern jon the surface can only be detected when it is held up to the light. Other shades of the familiar "off white" Jgroup will doubtless be renamed. "Oatmeal white," and we cannot but bbe tempted to try to reproduce the lovely red used in many of the Chi-Inese porcelain exhibits. This _rich Jcolour Is said to have been obtained by working upon the powder of Jerushed rubles.
Chinese Needlework The appeal of Chinese decorative Jart to the modern housewife must be instantaneous. In our modernist rooms, severely furnished In pale tones of colour, a piece of Chinese embroidery supplies just that touch lof brightness and beauty in unusual design that is wanted to produce complete harmony. The embroidery may take the form of a cushion or perhaps For the needlewoman, too, there is {the attraction of an enurely different {type of work, which embroidery in the Chinese manner offers her, She now beginning to tun from her period pieces worked in wools and threads on canvas to take up silks and satins, upon which she can experi ment with new stitches. These are chiefly long and short satin stitches, stem stitching, and couching, New Subjects Emblem embroidery provides new subjects for our needlewomen—a welcome change after the ritual work which has been done mainly "picture" lines. Modern emblem de signs are being adaptations of sym-els to everyday life, and many de-Hghtful interpretations of good wish \for Christmas are thus being" prepared for Christmas gifts, 'A slight study of Chinese embroil dory has revealed many adaptable {ideas for this novel form of emblem Morn" carried off all honours, He had 36 merry guests in his box and among them were Sir Victor Sassoon, Messrs. Denzil and Cecil Ezra, Rodd Moffatt, Mrs. Conie Delaplano, Miss "Mickey" Hahn, Mr. and Mrs, Cyril Cooke, Mr. C. H. Arahold, Miss Maisie Middleton, Mr. and Mrs.'G. L. Wilson, Countess de Courseulles and others.
Judge and Mrs. C. Franklin had in their box Judge and Mrs. Milton J. Helmick, Mr. and Mrs, Monnelt 'Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bassett, 'Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Swan, Mr. and Mrs Petro-Pavlasky, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Fritz, Judge and Mrs. Boone, Mr. and 'Mrs.' W. H. Plant, Miss Dallas Lee Franklin, Miss Marjorie Braccher, Miss Ruth Danahy. Mr. Ivy Riddick and others.
Immediately following the races the Misses Danahy and Bravcher lett for Peiping where they are to visit unfit November 16 when they will return Shanghai and spend another fortnight before sailing for their home in New York.
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