Br Otwà Dak Lonüon, June 6, You can imagine what a bombshell the clothes rationing order was, The Secret was extremely well kept, though there is said: to have been a little leakage. At one big store in the suburbs it is reported that last Saturday afternoon a loud-speaker kept warning customers to make up their minds "as an important Govérnment order is coming out soon." Büt in the main there was no chance for @hyone to rush round madly making eleventh-hour purchases, Although the coupon allowance will not run to half what even a very economical Woman used to spend on clothes, I have not heard one complaint against the order, and friends tell re that is their experience too, But there are a great many points that need clearing up, What, for instance, is to be the position of visitors from abroad, shipwrecked mariners and children whó come into the unrationed class in respect of age but not of inches? When does a mackintosh at One rate for coupons, cease to be a mackintosH "lid become a coat, at another rate? What about sheets and tablecloths Could I, for instance, buy a sik tablecloth without coupons and have a dress made of it, always supposifig that I would demean myself in war: time by wearing silk? What about bridal gowns and trousseaux? What about ballet shoes? I learn with amazement that few dancers can manage with less than one pair a night and that Pavlova wore out five or six pairs every evening, These are but a few samples of the diffieul= ties on which Captain Lyttleton, President of the Board of Trade, will have to give a ruling. Meanwhile there has been a general descent on the second-hand shops which deal in the dresses that women of fashion been.a woman of. unusual attraction, though at school she was presented to us às a motherly sort of person who cosseted Henry VIII in his aches and him in his out-What is it that gives some eir extraordinary allure? Mary Queen of Scots was not beautiful by most standards and there a legend that she had a cast in one eye. I remember a lady who had three husbands and nearly collared a fourth; and to Most of her friends (the women at least) it was a wonder how, on any beauty test, she had secured.even one, The Temple is a the names of Chaucer, Drake, Raleigh, Thackeray, Lamb and many more are ruined!: Gray's Inn, one of the lovelies of aH the Inns of Court, has suffered badly, The house in Gough Square, where Dr. Johnson lived and wrote "his dictionary, is no more, though I am gled to see that although the pretty old church of St. Clement Danes has been burnt out, the Doctor's statue stands unhurt at the east end, looking down his favourite Fleet Street. Of course the Temple wil be rebuilt, but the mellow charm of its old brickwork cannot be révaptured for centuries, if ever, for I suppose the bigger birds in defence of its young. But Í would back our chatti half-a-dozen wreüs, 1 do what to do for dur cat, whose ate becoming quite frayed.
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