With the knowledge that men are regrettably conservative in "matters of dress, it is surprising to note from these photographs that a great change has taken place in the special rains despatched "on public schools, several of which added have been rendered. She has re-[Christmas Eve, T could give you the peated that the object of the Asto themselves expensive new bulld~ Soeiation is to unite British women figures but spare you; figures have! ings which they are now regretting. in the social service of the Empire: terribly damping effect on anyone The Tush ceased, a backwash has fond of the community, and at no fexeept incorrigible statisticians. The time in. our history, she points out.
Opposition in Parliament continually begun, and where it is going to stop becoming a serious matter. De-has such union been so important, harp upon the slump that 1s coming! creasing families are part of the the past many women have end of course, on the Government's cause, Tt is very rare now to find fused to Join, and their reasons, on failure to prepare for it. Might one Seven or eight brothers spread over reply to them in the farewell words the history of a school for 20 years Bunyan's Mr. Despondency, when for more, as Was once quite common. ud his daughter Much-afraid But the greater danger to the public steh an association, they have said, were about to cross the River: Schools comes from the once Tookednite frankly, that public gatherings 'Sd women's associations do not sel and my, dguehler's te Wat down-on aeeondary "schools, appeal to them, and that they have gab Benoni Sasi fess W] stoned with, masters eager t Inel= lite the "publ schoo! sprite preferred their' leisure time to be foo plain with you, they" a ist ip"provided with every convenience, Spent privately among friends. leh we. ebtertainca "wen. cou Sad offering am edveation fr tons of "As a nation British women are not first began, to: be. Pilgtims, fever "ahake' them elf all 'And pounds which" at-the public school clubeminded: clubs and associations They" will walks about and. centers Fons" tute' hundreds not appeal to. them; they are {altmont ofthe Pligrims: but nervous of such, and with this retir~ Pests ent ye the" doors, upon would be interesting to know ting tendency they. may have been. them wot is the tendency in gil schools, excused in the past for hesitating uriing nip Sy foal trid. personal Join any big society. However, now A Fascinating Exhibition xpericnee, one incline (o thine that that the general rally is for the com-thy were never more Hourishing than mon good, one feels sure that women The exhibition of European Art theyre mows In come of the. most will put aside a natural dislike the 17th Century which opens at; totea"T belewe "ut entrance is coming into a public association of Burlington House at the end of this practically" commpeitive, AL one this type, and will, when their help week should be particularly attrac: {Fehon not far from our wil age, not needed, be glad to render what tive. Tt was a time of sinful: \revpartietarly famous school" the service they can to an organization vitality in any arts. when men's Retimisitest isin the hippy preston which is caring for their own nation-Imaginations, stimulated by the de-beng abe fo pei and howe tls so wholeheartedly and generously. velopment of the Renaissance (though tins "The explanation may be patty 'Only those engaged in social worl Ruskin did call it q "foul torrent") all schools for ris are' come ud some of the business folk here, [and by the new luxury and splendor ur Puratively new etd. thus only new really know fo what extent distress of the royal Courts, blossomed 01 ut] Bre begtaning toaeque the" tadlhas gripped Britishers in Shanghai.
With extraordinary exuberance. Music lions and. prestige, peculiar fo euch, 'Theirs fe not a sadly spectacular Was not to reach its fullest stature! which have: made' the public schoo poverty which shows itself on the for another two centuries, although For eye ao much sought ater. There Btreets; of in starving groups in alley.
'Scarlatti in Italy and the English {ei Be a conterone' of the ational ways, out it is with us, and it is Madrigal writers have never been Union of "Women 'Teachers next acute: the hardship Is none the less surpassed in their own sphere. Bi ut month, fut they nave other subjects Sgonizing for not. being obtrusive. in Flanders Van Dyck and Rubens toes hosties the. umber Many' forelgnocs this winter have were painting; in Spain, Velasquez! {Rete pubis, most notably that ancient fallen more degrees below their ac~ and El Greco.
In Rome Bernine was hievances me, laveterae habit feustomed standards of living than building the superb colonnade pot authorities to dismiss tenchers have some of the refugees, and while front of St, Peter's Shen they marry. Love snd learn the latter will have the ardent laces were adorning the city.
Tine tay the inexorable orien, do not sympathy of all humanitarian-minded England the Tudor and Jacobean cogatnce, Team not going Aectthenteh? unvout "ereen. Hibbed black woo! frock, with a short folk, yet the {orelgn distressed should not be forgotten. Business men tell Setour "ha lack Zomestic_ architettare which has) citer way @sisic Of beauty in faq "enough to express Us that things will not improve for Fever oom equalled; while wood many for some time. By the time carvers headed by Grinling Gibbons, Song" tae Seat x Hor the TOT Gave of Sri the har grown the horses will Stonemasons and metal workers The Rating of the Stars have starved if we do not remember shared in the general joyousness to Include on: own folk when we 'The annual survey of a the most shoulders and collars than is the craftsmanship. fore giving out cur contributions in, popular cinema stars was published Chao nows 'Still, "numbers. of oUF one respect, the exhibition may' money and in service.
Just. before Christmas and for the have its inconveniences for resent ay. elderly men were re-Tt is therefore the hope of the US third year, running Shitloy Temple Pisrkably. good looking around 1906. cexceutive of the B.W.A. that British Fishion experts are waiting hungrily list both in Great Britain "modern daughters "who have Wromen who have not yet come forthe new, or rather very old, ideas 3 merica, Having just, been ud Seen "known to exelaim™ don't ward will decide to join, and pull which they expect to glean from the Speaking of schools. T may add. that Know what Mother could have their weight in the. schemes. which pictures on view. Of course, these the mere mention of her name in. an e"Buher to wish to many bin, the association has on hand for Heeas were always available at the Bnglish school of either sox, evokes Moaid td the answer i they" saw Geating with the present unpre National Gallery or Wallace Collec howls of derision which sets one these petures of their male proton.
But nobody goes there, except: wondering, who are the public who in days long before Young the people who don't dress. It is to ake the popularity of a film stary fisissie was thought of. Mind, the mast effect of the gorgeous dresses trid how ate their preferences made Would not for the world suggest that Nothing Wasted immortalized by the old Court paine known? Clark' Gable was second the handsome youths have not deve-Surely there never was a time ters, al} gathered together in ite, Grucie Fields third. Among oped. into pleasant. looking elderly when every scrap and left-over fro exhibition which everyone must sec, British audiences she men, but, to be frank, they have not the home was watched with a vie that the dress designers trust to lure eacds the list. Sonja Henie runs into om so" weill as have their wives to making this of some use. From tus towards brighter colours and more tighth plage and with her very first and sweethearts, which seems to dis-orange peel 10 empty bottles, all are elaborate frocks. believe that, 200 fin "One in a Million," a thing never pel the theory' once held, that women how useful to somebody or some'
Years ago it took a woman of fashion done before by any star. T have not fage quicker than men.
Institution. Hundreds of pounds of fame four or five hours to dress.
Soon thig film but her "Lovely to range peel are used from which 10.
That will realy do for this gasping Look at," though the title is silly, is House Servants extract Vitamin 'D. it appears, mile-an-hour aye. And then there beautiful film, well acted, and with Felugee babies thrive on this. was the hair be done in lon the most exquisite scenes of skating Bits of odd wool can be knitted Finglels hanging round the ears.
Dia skiing, "One looks in vain for complete change in more ways than Cinee servant have undertone into garments, the destitute are not That. certainly will not every the name of Miss Mae West, but she tone." Amahs were of the unimagina~ touchy about colour schemes, and. face; and of course, the hair has to.
Cannot "attain unto the first ton." tive, stodgy, old-style dress type, nly warmth matters. Even a small bbe. grown first Aloe poor Mac. A telegram from While the houseboys were neater:
scrap of wool might be enough to 'What, perhaps, strikes one most New York says that the use of her better and a smarter dresser, and, knit' a bonnet for a new-born baby. dresses of the past is that they ame fas been banned by the to judge from their faces, of 0 for Chinese cables we learn; musi seem to have been made as if they tional "Broadcasting Company, on quieter, gentler class than those who have their heads covered, and were to last forever, of heavy ficcount of alleged impropriety' in a would appreciate that; in this cold materials, strengthened with quilting. skit called "Adam and Eve" in which weather, the hardening process for Staffs were more numerous, and it trid. embroidery.
And as we know, She toke part, However, she seems owly-borns is mot to be recom-is interesting to Jearn from the cor-from the waxen effigies in Westmin" to survive and, as Barkis would have mended.
Fespondence. cokinns that "Young ster Abbey and the chests in many old irnu'an, ow Bue ould 'Empty: bottles, vaseline pots, cream Housekeeper" is informed that, for country houses, they did last, as our Jars, and such like will be wel food servants she should pay' her boy lighter fimsicr frocks never will, emed by the hospitals, for in these $14. her cook S14, and her coolie $9 Those terrific old costumes belonged Some Astonishing Arrests they can give ointments an me-mensem,—that for a, first-class toa time when wealth a comfort dieiaes to out-patients. Old towel-Paablishment. a home articles pub-vere concentrated in the hands of The big jewel robbery of which ling fs Ukewise seceptable for babies, fished one Tearns that history repeats Tavoured few who moved slowly you have no doubt heard, in which there are references 0 the plus any old, colt absorbent cot through life ina series of stately one of Cartior's salesmen, calling at Cloth. The things mentioned are in Amount of "squeeze" made by house~ gestures. That sort of society the Hyde Park Hotel with a box of constant demand at the Lester Hospi-Servants, and the general conclusion Simply unthinkable now, and Uings worth £18,000 for a pretended {al and others, while the heads of ras, that no one could combat that. purchaser, was knocked out in the of the wonien's societies here will Ceriainty they have not passed on hotel room and robbed of all his Bladly receive Knitting materials. the needy which is extremely sensi the cure to ourselves, for the smi 'AIl working parties are suffering tive about receiving. relief. 'This rings, has taken a" most amazing able extortion still exists, and doubt turn.' JUust before Christmas four the loss of useful members, and Mrs. istered. with strict scercey, fess will continue to annoy house-Burton Sayer's working party has indeed is all social relief young men, the oldest only 26, were wives for many Kenerations to come.
est two workers in Mrs. E. T. Jones midst. As few people as possible Errested and charged at the West~ and Mrs. F. W, Gray who have left even on the various committees, kno minster police court. They. are all A Strong Appeal these parts for a time. The com ud to what extent help men of good antecedents, all living mittee carrying on includes Mrs. A. received. may have been true Bayfair, and generally well-known the urgency of present needs must BIN. MeGrogor (chairman), Mrs. W. 'T. fu the past that we had no secrets iq the West End. One of them is a pat a stop to reminiscence, and recall Fulstow (hon. secretary), Mrs. from our neighbours regarding our an of independent means, the others those things which must be Gilbert, (hon, treasurer), -Atss. "Ho-family affairs, but regarding our seem reasonably well off. One of done right ao. Members of the ward Vyse, and Mrs. C. R. Webb. charities we can truly say now that|them has strongly denied having HWA, will have received the:
'A tremendous amount of excellent Wwe act on the principle of never anything to do with the crime. 'The Prinied appeal vent out by their work is achieved by this body of, efting our right' and know what|cthers have made statements not yet Executive Committee, and publicity Workers, for they reach a section of four left hand does.
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