The death is announced of Eng. land's oldest woman, Mrs. Emma Coote, in a village near Taunton, Somerset, within only two days of her 109th birthday. It makes one dizzy to think of all the experiences of such a life, The year before she was born the Duke of Norfolk had just taken his seat in the House of Lords. the first Catholic teer to do so; and the many severe restrictions on Catholics had not yot been abolished. When che was seven Rowland Hill kad enabled people to send a letter for a penny (which is more than. can be done now); and when she When I was writing recently about the revival of fashion shows, I made the rather obvious romane that girls who had been in uniform all day would welcome a change into some~ thing soft and frilly in the evening.
Now T see it has come to An Issue with the authorities, Not only have the modistes been giving shows in London, but they have been sending out' mannequins to_display new fashions in big provincial towns, which, by all Accounts, have been very popular, Stern Realities Of War But here's the rub. By Service regulations the WAACS, the WAAF: the WINS, ete, ete,, must wear the uniforms at all times except when they ara at home or on. leave. To make matters worse, many of them as yet have only one uniform, though furiller supplies are due soon, But fancy having to live in the "same clothes day after day! War is tough stuff, And the War Office, equally tough, says that the rules must the same for women as for men.
Meanwhile the fashion houses, solleltous both for the sale of their stocks and the comfort of their clients, are agitating furiously to get the rule relaxed, But the War OMe has its own roubles. It has discovered that you inay give 100 women the same Serwige cap, but no power on earth will "prevent them from wearing it In 100 different ways, No amount of brass bhats can break down the instinctive individualism of feminine hats.
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