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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4515, 15 January 1923, Page 3

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FASHION -IND FICTION. The Christmas and New Year number of Weldon’s Ladies’ Journal shows all the newest Paris fashions. The gratis patterns include a lady’s dress, evening gown, short, coat, and evening cloak—with full directions for cutting put and making up these designs. Special features of the number include a photogravure portrait of H.R.11. the Prince of Wales. Exquisite coloured supplement, of fashions, fancy dress, costumes, and Christinas .gifts ; also a splendid art supplement' illustrating day dresses, dinner gowns, dance frocks, evening wrapps, and the fashionable short, •coats. Weldon’s Bazaar o>f Children’s Fashions for January is to hand and, as its title-implies, is devoted to giving the latest ideas of dresses and clothing for the young folk. The illustration's include a party dress- of chiffon taffetta trimmed’ witli ribbon for girl 12 to 18 years, a dance frock trimmed with hand-made roses for girl 6 to 14 years, the latest, coat frock for gaberdine with kimono sleeves to bodice bloused at wais;, and many others. A double page is devoted to frocks for little maidens dancing costumes’. The giatis patterns include girl’s frock, evening dress, petal dance frock, smart, coat, and magyar Tunic. While many illustrations in this number are probably unseasonable for New Zealanl it is one well worth) putting aside for the "winter months. The Violet magazine for November is as attractive as its previous numbers, and contains quite a lot of interesting tales. “The Woman with the Cat’s Eyes,” a strange and powerful drama, is by William E. Groves. Another instalment" of the gripping and romantic serial “The Richest Girl at St. Gabriel’s” is given. Other short stories include “At the Sign of Peneros,” “Tales of a Fortune-teller,’ “Zella —Star of the Circus,“A Daughter of Devon,” “The Hidden Message,” “With the Tide,” and a host of others. The Premier magazine needs’ little boost, as it. always contains interesting reading. A new story, “Black Gold,” a novel Of the “out of doors, begins with this issue. This is a story of love and adventure in the uplands of California. The author lover of Nature in all her moods—has no finer work than in this new story. Maida? is’ a wonderful heroine, a child of the sun, and since Terhune is the author, there is, of course, a dog. All the other stories are well selected and by present-day contributors, including H. Mortimer Batten, F.Z.S., Howel Evans, Charles Thomson. Raymond Coulson, Dana Burnet, etc* The “Red” opens with “That Fellow McArthur,” the first instalment of a new serial story by Selwyn Pepson. Judging by its' opening chapter .this serial will be well worth following. The Red is illustrated throughout, and this always lends an added interest. to its storjes, which are carefully selected and give a wide range of reading.