_ Among tho many changes that the war is bringing into tho streets and the homo some of the most significant are so quiet and unobtrusive that people hardly notico them, writes a correspondent in an English newspaper. One of these is tho change that has come over tho look of households of persons of fastidious tastes and strict aesthetic conduct. Formerly the idea of a mounted photograph (excopt perhaps a repradiiction of an old master) was thought to bo quite banal and terribly suburban. To-day you. find their mantelpieces crowded with photographs, some even pinned on the wall without the slightest regard for spacing and arrangement— details which formerly would have taken an afternoon's thought to settle. Our artistic houses aro being ruined without a single regret. Another reversion to simpler days is tho return of the oldfashioned hair brooch, with its little oblong frame of gold prettily wrought, enclosing a tiny panel for a strand of hair. Somo of them are originals bought iu curio shops or rummaged out from old cases, but the hair in them today is young and newly cut. Already, too, there are many little black mourning lockets with hair in them from beads that are now undor the clay over there in Flanders. Tlio Berlin City Council, after deciding to increase tho official prices of cakes and pastry to such an amount as to render tho purchase of these articles prohibitive to the general population, has forbidden their sale altogether. Thousands agree that. "NAZOI." is tho surest ;ind cheapest cough and cold remedy in this Dominion. Test it w.ith tho
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2471, 26 May 1915, Page 3
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266Page 3 Advertisements Column 6 Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2471, 26 May 1915, Page 3
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