During a recent German air raid the chapel of a North London orphanage was badly knocked about, it being situated only ten yards from the babies' dormitory. None of the children were hurt and the picture shows them as very cheerful, nervous, but she has settled down and T hope by the end of her week will be able (0 have one or two proper nights to her credit, he {ells me that the other day one of her friends, coming in from a first Aid Post where they had hada tereiblo might, said she had come across a collapsed building #rom which the fas was issuing from the main pipe in a huge sheet of flame high into the air. A warden was standing by with a frying-pan tilted against the sheet of flame Gt was too wide to hold the pan straight) trying his breakfast sausages, "Today is a lovely day—very wel come after the bitter cold we have had, We have got 220 evacuee ehildren coming to Newmarket today and Lam going down to help sort. them cut—20 are allotted to Cheveley, believe also Tam having for a week mother and baby from London, 'The baby's father was an Italian and went down on. the 'Andora Star' 1 is nice to thine that a house in the country can have its use in these In Paris, Now Women in Germany are now on-Joving the sweetness of Paris perfumes. The Bourjols frm. in. the. French capital, which was the biggest of Its kind in the world, is being forced to supply its famous products to Ger many. Included in these products, of course, is Chanel No, 5, a perfume invention of a Russian refugee which made 21,000,000 in sixteen years, 'The Russian's share from this was 0 contract of £6,000 a year. Chanel No. 5 was a lucky find, too, for Mime. Chanel, after which the sent was nomed.' The great French dressmaker has admitted having made from all her varied interests the sum of £200,000 in a single year—1936, By' the way, Mainbocher, another ternationally- known couturiet whose headquarters were in peace= time Paris, is now in New York where she has decided to open new quarters Chicago-born, Mainbocher designed the wedding-doess and wardrobe of the Duchess of Windsor, Inunched the strapless bodice, the schoolgirl silhouette and the feminine dinner-coat fashions, Schiaparelli, also in New York, was in Paris just before the Germans entered the city. She must egret the home in the heart of Paris, she had bought only three months earlier, with its acre garden. Tt cost her several millions of franes.
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