FASHION AND FICTION.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4436, 5 July 1922, Page 3

FASHION AND FICTION.

MAGAZINES' REVIEWED. We have to acknowledge the current issues of the following publications : Weldon’s Children’s Fashions.—The new number of Weldon’s Bazaar of Children’s. Fashions is a splendid issue, with gratis cut-out. patterns enclosed for making a girl's cretonne dress, sports coat, and a dress and coat, also a boy’s blazer, all for 12 to 14 years, and a Magyar; dress and pettico.it for a small girl, 4 to G years. Full detail, with simple diagrams, are given for making these styles, and tlhe number also includes direction for a child's crochet dress, size 3 to 4 years, summer frocks for girls, and a host off other articles too numerous to mention. Weldon’s Ladies’ Journal.—All the newest summer fashions from Paris are given in the July number of Weldon’s Ladies' Journal whicih has an exquisite photogravure supplement of the smartest Paris modes. The gratis cut-out patterns are for a lady’s blazer and sports skirt, a summer dress, three-piece, suit, jumper slip, smart blouse and overdress, these being daintily illustrated in full colours on the cover. Tire fullest directions, witjh diagrams, are included in the number, for cutting out and making up these designs. There is also a large transfer design enclosed for bead embroidery on dresses, bags, etc.

Harmsworth’s Fashions. —Just to Brand. Harmsworth’s June fashions for all. 'T>o dresses and jumper patterns free, double sheet, transfer embroidery designs, and full instructions for making a smart crochet dress. Readers will appreciate the two charming summer frock designs given away with the free patterns in this issue. There are illustrations otihe newest coat-frocks and early summer fashions in Paris. Ladies cannot afford to disregard when Paris speaks, and in Harmsworth’s Fashions for All you have her latest words concerning Dame Fashion, t'he frivolous. This issue is replete with charming designs and illustrations of ([rocks for every occasion. Smart: ideas for the matron, and dainty lingerie in which the modern girl so deligHs; economical ideas for short lengths of materials, and good ideas for the big girl; simple designs for the sports girl, and • sewing secrets concerning the dainty trimmings that are going to be so much worn this summer. This issue is an absolute necessity for every woman. The Novel. —The latest issue contains a number of excellent short stories. This magazine, al ways fulfills its name—it is novel. Among .he outstanding stories is a Bond Street sensation, by W. L. George, called “Lady Alcuin Intervenes,’’ "The Woodstock Plate,” by Eden Philpotts, a delightful story of Devonshire, and “The Scventih stair,” a hair-jraising ghost story, by Elliot O’Donnell'. One need never be afraid, olj being bore! if there is a copy of the Novel about. The Red.—“ Has Every Man his Price?” Read “The Acid Test,” by Norman Torry, in the May issue u f - The Red ; a most unusual story. Be- 1 sides the above there is a number of remarkably good short stories and the fifth and sixth instalments! of “Charles Rex,” by Ethel M. Dell. Fred M. White contributes "The Lure of the Printed Word,” a mystery story, and Edmund Snell the fifth and sixth episodes of "The Amazing Adventure.” James Barr, E. M. Ingleby. Henry Holt, Coutts Brisbane, and other popular authors help to make tiliis an exceptional issue. The Yellow.—-Although always good the May issue of the Yellow magazine is particularly so. There is a long instalment of that interesting serial, “The Shark and the Sentimentalist,” by Roy Norton. That alone is sufficient inducement, but when ten fine short stories are added for good measure, well, it is worth talking about.

The Wide World'.—.The June issue of The Wide World magazine is a number you will like. There is the first instalment of one of the most thrilling narratives ever published, “Trailing the Gun-runners..” It is full of excitement and suspense—the sort of story that grips one from start to finish Anatiher typical Wide World scoop is “Roy Gardner, Bandit Extraordinary,” an account of the careeof a truly remarkable character. Other contributions are “ Across Remote Yunnan,” "Exploring the Salton Sea,” and “Besieged by Man-eat-ing Lions.” Altogether a splendid number. The Strand. —The June issue of the well-iknown Strapd magazine contains a special article by Arnold Bennet and, besides other .attractions, splendid stories by Wodehouse, Frankau, and Oppenheim. Mrs. C. N. Williamson also contributes "Through London with toe Wish Waggon,” an article about London, the mibst wonderful city in the world. Actual photographs strikingly illustrate this unusual article. My Magazine.—This is Che bne the kiddies love. The May issue is delightful, but ,th'e real charm of! My Magazine lies in its educational valirn to the young mihds. Get it for ths kiddies, tiheir pleasure will amply repay you. The London.—Just to hand is the June issue of The London magazine, and a particualrly good number it is. Some of the authors who help to make it so are John Galsworthy, Sir Basil Thomson, K.C.8., John Buclhan, Eden Phillpotts, F. Tennyson Jesse, Alfred Noyes, etc. Also a striking article by Sir William J. Noble called "The Future of the Worker.” The Premier. —We hp.Ve just received a copy of the ever popular Premier, Don’t miss the opening instalment of. “Men of Affairs,” by Roland Pertwee. It is a story of thrills, of youth, love, and adventure. It is a story that will grip you. Another chronicle of Iflie “Odds-on Club” and “The Phantom Box, ”a romance of a .famous crime which baffled the authorities many years ago, are worthy of note, besides “Woman — Courage !” by C. Patrick Thompson. Other stories are by Morley Roberts, Albert Terhune, Valentine Williams, and Marton Howard.