BUTTONS AND BRAIDING

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 422, 3 February 1909, Page 3

BUTTONS AND BRAIDING

- Most fashionable women now present a perfect rash: of' buttons; says a' writer-in .an Australian paper. V,: .These- .little ■ adornment's break out all. 1 over the dress of 'the wearer; A- check" 'skirt, a. short coat in self-colour to match' the check,"with .buttons clinging all over it,like limpets.-'to'a-rock', is ; .-the latest expression of good taste as exhibited in our city.. -.Nor; need! the wearer fear that -they, will soon" be out of fashion, for buttons' arid braiding will be found on all the : new things when they' are'opened : up. Some advance evening cloaks 'were.seen■ last'week,' just; a .casual glance in a show-room • ■ the are still all braided; gold is used, also-black. "Thonote of black" is sounded by fashion's heralds as loudly as.ever.. Though hats ; will pr'obablyTdwiridle, and skirts' spread "in-, size; the buttons'andthe braiding/will be fpiirid as pre-eminent as they areto-day..."

' !How many years have we all been spend-' •ing'-.in';.the:.yainjattempt. to cure or prevent .the _ cpmrri'on■' household cold?. says ■'an--'ins-! tralian paper. We have saturated ourselves with-drugs, tried change of air,, called Vtho thing-influenza, and taken it very seriously, dismissed it as "only a cold in the head,'';' and nearly died of it—we have run the gamut of; : emotion .and. ingenuity , without, .effect.' The.common cold may still be' said'totriumph over wretched humanity.. Once, 'it is. true,: we were ,told> of a spvereigri remedy. But as this consisted in abstaining, from all drink, liquid,, /that .is.to say, of any'sort or kind, for : a' complete twenty-four, hours,: it was not hard', to. determine that wo' preferred-'the cold.'. ;Now we ; are v told, that these .ailments; are. ; -.due:tp-.the' fact, that ..our feet -have fc: come tender owing to the luxurious'.habit of socks arid'shoes, .and.it'.is said that the'.last advice .of .medical. fashion,-is .to.;go'barefoot■ for'some'■'hbufs.'of. every:day, a-condition 'of body;which is,said to';cure'and prevent colds'.