Waving a greeting from the yacht Southern Cross as they arrived in Miami recently, the Duke of Windsor made his first visit to the U.S.A. in 16 years, the Duchess her first visit in 12 year with them the Mayor of Miami, Mr. Alexander Orr Jr. occasion at really reasonable prices, Good shoes with crepe rubber soles 10s, a pair; crepe tin for underwear in eight shades many patterns $4 inches wide at Gs. 6d. a yard; and soft wool pyjamas T wonder what our grandmothers would have said to this now universal garment, so. much less droughty than a hight dress; or to the slacks, certainly not to be approved out of doors. but very comforting to those women who do some of their own house work, of whom there are more and more. But lean times are coming. Beauty preparations are already' scarce and there will be still less of them in the coming year, Tomorrow most of the big distributing firms will receive their ration for six months. which will only be a quarter of what they had between December and June in 1939. One pot of powder and one of creat ata time will probably be the allowance per woman, We shall have to resign ourselves to looking shiny like By the way one hears that ° the wives of German oticers and others who have come to France to escape the British alr raids are completely corrupted by the sight of the French-women's make-up and are emptying the shops of face-creams. powders and pimple lotions. So much for Hitler's efforts to inculcate virtue among his countrywoman.
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