there a special atnity' between brimstone butterflies and Easter, such we imagine between robins and Christmas?" As T was writing this norning a splendid brimstone flashed rest the window, a vivid. yellow streak against the grown trees, and it occurred to me that T cannot remember an Easter without the appearance of at least one of these brave brilliant butterflies, which are always the first to face the spring.
We know how sier sapphires. got their star, they were the stones which were tured to the east on the night of the Epiphany. Perhaps there were brimstones fluttering about in the garden as Mary Magdalene returned from the early visit to the sepulchre, There is of course nothing about the invention of such "fancy religions" as the sergeant-major calif ed them. "There are passages in the Epistles of both St "Paul and Peter which suggest that they were popular in their day. They "are Uustally most prolific in similar times of the world's history when people Fe restless and. discontented "and— may it be said?—a little too precious to find consolation in simpler spiritual forms. Louis XIV, it is said, was shocked to hear that Christ "spoke the language of the common people. There is a good deal of the same Howe are they doing the hair in Paris?
1 must be off the cars. Tt can be cut short and worn. shingled and swirled with a soft becoming front, Or it cane pinned ike all Schiaparelli's mannequins" under little sailors worn straight down over the eyes. If you want the hair long the back then the side locks are pulled up off the cars and anchored there with a bow or comb, and the back hair is coiffed low either in a bbroad bun, a roll, or soft trim curls. Chanel wears two false curls attached to her brown ribbon bow. we lois of false chignons. There are horsy Hollywood bobs.
What is Chanel herself wearing these days?
She has two new sweaters which she wears continuously. One is a Thus far it has been beautiful Eas-for weather. Being out this afternoon for a ramble round Surrey lanes and commons T thought there was a distinct change in the get-up of the hosts of cyclists and trampers whom we saw, No doubt Monday's papers Will regale us with the usual pictures of young. women traipsing. about Brighton beach mit "nodings on. But the cycling and walking girls (with really much more excuse for airy costumes than the bathing belles) were generally mutch more service ably. dressed—there were fewer fat red legs and tight shorts, stockings and short tweed skirts 'This means that what was formerly aerate has become a gine tune, and that real enjoyment of 3 country walla has superseded the wish to catch the eye of a Press photo grapher. Most new movements bo-in' ina secret desire to shock the elderly. If there is nothing more in the movement than that, it dies out quickly, if it is worth pursuing, it sheds its extravagances. "The moral for the elderly is to keep calm and refuse to be shock'.
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