VfJ': A Relief! iiwin mi '"Wiw nmnyimw iinw MM3 Ifs a relief to know that Schnoideman's if, a are still ablo to offer smart dressers 1 ffltfjSßk'-- THE LATEST SPRING SUITS, jam l||W in light tweeds, checks and mm ' Pi|w ' pinheads,from £6. llil ffill I H•- On r prices are daily emancipating-more Hr« ||||| r« and more men from the present day fin If!! On top of our'low prices we give . '1' ill tif "Right up-to-the-minute" FI I •fir s tyles and "beautiful" fit. § •* (j a general "all round'' satisfaction. MAKE AN KOMOMy MOVE BY CALLING IN TO-DAY . COUNTRY PEOPLE! Send for out Famous Self-Measurement Forms. P. Sckietdenm^s TAILORS AND COSTUMIERS HI CUBA STREET (2 doors from Grand Central Hotel) Wellington EESSaa "Just Rings" iffiiTirwwHHnnnwiiiiiriiiinhTniiri«ni-itHngmfnmTniin^l^ | W ffiff ' H ' wla^'"''""' M; ' Msa In addition to onr fine range of rings set with the better known and. usual ring stones, we have a nice stock of J, GEMS That Are Quite Unique GEMS For instance, we have just mounted up a very fine square cut "CITRON" diamond with an exceptionally good blue white diamond on either side as a three i stone 1 ring, making a magnificent ornament of a most unique character and probably the only one of its kind in New Zealand. Such are usually termed "col- ' lectors' gems" because of their • rarity, and we have various other specimens to 6how interested customers. SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY. W. LITTLEJOHN & SON LTD. 7 222-224 Lambton Quay Wellington I mi Solicited Bmm DON'T LOOK OLDij' §ot restart your grey and faded b&lxs to their natural color with LOCKYER'S SULPHUR' restorer lal *W SSI Sold Everywhere. , Vttf 1/ H\W . tft\w §j lever's gtvea hualth to tb« Hilrttid reitotei the natural color. *83 f \V tfflV UoloUDtratn« scalp,andmikes the mo«i. perfcot E»l» Drsaslno, - - v SSiNG The Wonderful Experience of ETHEL WISDOM Her Great Discovery will Help You, Too A Grand FREE Offer! Ethel Wisdom, the only daughter, did once, and asked to be told' all about it. not know of the straitened circumstances .'I received the most interesting pnrticuin which her .parents found themselves lars explaining everything, tree. This and had believed that everything wa9 as information was'a revelation to me, and usual, until one day she overheard a .provided just the opportunity I needed, conversation between her parents. I 6oon realised that any woman could . ' learn dressmaking by this wonderful new "I don't know how I'm going to buy system. her the clothes she needs now. My in- T , come has not risen as the cost of living y ', ln 55' 9 . , I has increased. Two years ago it was m . ake * b T« ful ?°T' Knd . 1 •? ample, but now it won't, provide us of pietty clothes to show you. Besides with k decent living-and I'm discour- earnin S to make blouses, skirts, cosT t.umee, underclothing, etc., I learned 8 ~ ... , , what colours and materials tuifc different' "I had no idea things were-so bad aa types and how to add those little touches that, John. I'm 60 sorry. If I could that make clothes smart and. bocomiDg* only help you I "And now, father—and this is really the / "Oh, you do, dear, her father replied, "best part of my surprise—the marvellous "It is no fault of ours. We never lived Associated System has taught me the extravagantly, but these last two years? way to help that I wanted so much to have been terrible! Whatever happens, find. My first plan was simply to surthough, don't tell Ethel. prise you by making, instead of buying At the words a great feeling of love my dress, and then to show you that, by swept over Ethel. Her first impulse was spending money for materials only, . I to rush in and comfort them-both. But, had been able to get a dress and many knowin" that she had overheard would other things, too. Three weeks ago this only disturb them more. So, with tear- lovely dress was done, and I was going filled eyes she tip-toed to her own room to tell you the secret then, but some of and dropped into the little chair before girls came in, and I couldn't resist her dressing-table. "I will help them," showing it. They fell m love with it, she whispered. "But what can 1 do?'' and begged me to make dresses for them. For a long time she sat. thinking. Then "I'd never dreamed of sewing for cho picked up a paper she had been read- others, but then the big thought came ing that morning. She paused at a that I could not only save on mother's story but finally, seeming to get. an in- clothcs and inino, but could make money, (miration she put tho paper aside, and, too. So I agreed to dothreo dresses for as she sat chin resting on her palm, a the girls, and I earned over .£6 making glad expression came into her eyes. them. Other girls are wanting m» to make things, too. TO have more than '.' I can do for weeks! And, father, isn't As Ethel's father and her mother sa- ft wonderful how it'a all come out?" talkingtogether ei ley "Wonderful!" And he held hor close heard her door open, anil somcDooy tripp .. i , . , . ed lightly down the passage, and what an «> jtW Ethel stood before them! For several n'V>tene« m ms eyes, i jjinci skkxi uei miracle! And you ve made me the hapruonients no-one spoKe. ptest father in the world!" t f/ 10 ."?!?" 16 ' S ° U'e 1 ' Ethel's plan has a practical application lather. . to your needs. More than 11,000 women "It's perfect, dear!" And pnue and nnd girls havo proved that you can wonder ehono in his face. "Its the quickly learn at home, in spare time, by most beautiful dress you've ever had. Elie Associated System, to make your own But, where did you buy it? nrid children's clothes and hats. It "That's the real surprise, dad. I mak( ?. the slightest difference where didn't biiv it at nil —I made every stitch >'°" lve - in city, town, or country—you. nf H mvcfllP flidn't T mother sl " ? a " ' Clirn f ll3 S'mplo system, which has of. it myself, d.dn t 1, motiier. dftln^ "I don't understand, Mr. Wisdom be- s ty]j s i, clothes and hats. Savings olgan. "I didn't know that you could sew mM (. Kflo( j ). 0 -[ )e true,, and the joy of at all—let alone mako a dress_ like that. being independent, to women and girls "Well, father," Ethel said, a tew ; n a j[ par t 8 of Australia and New Zeamonths ago I thought that I ought_ to j nn(1 _ j t wil ] y OU nothing to get: help in some other way than just assist- f„)i information, and I euggesll that you ing with the how*work. But at hrst . , prom pH T , 1)C i n(r snre to ment ' ion I didn t know of any way to do t. 1 hen t])o We]) . .. Domilli „ aTld , rtlotl , or rt 'the story-of the development of n won- linery. btato it you nre Mrs. or jMiss. derful new method, by wliicli' any girl Do this immediately, as otherwise you or woman, anywhere, could learn e as ''y may lose the chance of a lifetime. SEND and quickly, right at Tumie, to mako be- KQ MoNl .jy ; simply send vour name" and coming clothcs and millmsry. a(](]rc . s NQW fo - ASSOCIATJ3I , "I saw at once thatif I could learn SCIIOOL 01) - Dn i;SSMAKING, 22 Canto make stylish and becoming clothes lor Tlniise 1 oo; 7 T,'ij.,„|, n n, ci r „t mother and myself it would mew the " ousc . aM. Elizabeth Street,truest kind of economy. So I wroto at si DIN hi.
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