TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 11, 30 September 1927, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

A NOVEL COAT. Great enthusiasm is being shown by Ameritan women for the new Coolie Coat. It is certainly a most attractive affair both for beach and negligee wear, ‘and many odd occasions. As a holiday garment. its advantages are numerous. Being distinctly Japanese both in colouring and. design, it is delightfully easy to pack. Printed wool delaine is one of the favourite fabrics .used for this new favourite. HATS AND SHAWLS, Something entirély new in. shawls is made entirely of coarse wool. Large crocheted motifs in a choice of beautifully blended colours, joined together with the good old-fashioned hairpin work, go to make up this novel contrwance. Of course it is finished with the ubiquitous fringe. The true cloche hat has at last died a lingering death; the vagabond lived. only a brief space. Many crowns are now lower than before. One of the newest combinations: is of felt and straw A hat with a felt crown has a brim of contrasting straw underlined with felt. "Wireless in a wonderful way has widened the range of interests which can be pursued in the home circle, and thus has enriched family life. It has also made a. notable contribution towards increasing ihe sense of common interest between the nalions of the world."-The Rt, Hon. David Lloyd George in a letter to the Managing Director of the B.B.C. OUR CHILDREN. The training of our children! What numerous and diverse opinions we hear on this subject nowadayst Such a lot has been written. about it, too, but the most helpful and practical book we have read is Mrs. Muriel Wrinch’s "Your Children: Some Chapters on Karly Home Teaching.and Training.’ She is not merely a_ theorist: her methods are the outcome of great experience, and are essentially constructive, placing first the health, happiness* and formation of character of the child. Mrs, Wrinch strikes a happy note midwav hetween the stern methods of our grandmothers, who repressed their children, keeping them in the background, and the. present-dav parent who "fusses" the child and gives it an entirely wrong sense of values by dragging it continually forward on every possible (and impossible!) occasion. Every modern mother knows that it is during the first few years of life that the child’s will is waiting to he formed. and this alone makes the job of matherhon? a whole-time one. Mrs. Wrinch’s book deals with the child’s health, first steps in educationteaching it independence,vet building un that most valuable quality-to help others as well as itself Tovs, she savs, should be of the very simplest; the child should he encouraged to evolve them ont of its own imagination There are chapters on training the senses, on imagination, on misunderstood children, on punishment, psychoanalvsis in the nurserv, on the most beautifnl wav to inculcate the facts of human life in the child-mind. Altogether a sound and valuable help to mothers who realise that theirs is a life-long -responsibility-in fact, to evervone interested in children, for we are all made aware of the fact that the well-broucht-up child is infinitely pleasanter to live with than the unfortunate little "pampered precocity." We never love the people who try to educate us: They can’t corn teach us to do that, A TALE OF TELEVISION. What will come after broadcasting? Television is surely close upon us, and it is merely a matter of time when its mystery will be revealed. A member of Captain Scott’s South Pole Exnedition exnerienced a "television" on December 15, 1912. He was in camp by the coast of the great Antartic continent, and being over-tired after the day’s trudge, could not sleen, but lav in a drowsy condition. All at once, before his half-closed eves, came a picture of five men standing round the tent, from the top of which two flags were fluttering. The explorer immediately opened wids his eves, to see only the round sun throneh the grev tent cloth. He jumped up, got hold of a chronometer, and as quick as thought his "dream vision"? was scientifically re. corded in the presence of witnesses. Time passed, and the episode faded away, until almost a vear had gone, when the December nieht’s vision pon. ped out anew. On November 12 the exmlorers found what remained of thie early helongings of Scott and his men out on the Great Ice Barrier. One of thany frand a litte hook. "Cantain Scott’s Diary Journal.". Our "televisionist" hurriedly turned the paves and to his amazement read: "The Nor-werians-five men--were here on the Pole, December 15." Some months later investigations nroved that not ontv the picture but Loi time of the hour was exactly correct, We have also heard of a telenhone snhseriber who dreams dreams and sees visions, She is evidently prepared for television at any moment. Going to

her ’*phone the other day to speak to a friend, her eye lighted on a small round mirror, It was perched on the top of the speaking apparatus (the previous speaker evidently had powdered her nose while waiting}, just above the line of vision. "Oh," murmured our dreanmier vaguely, ‘this must be television and I did’nt know ~we’d got it!* She even got a little excited as she dialed the nuinber, fixing her eye expectantly on the mirror, A voice answered, but no vision appeared! "Ts that you. dear?" she exclaimed. ‘Ihere must be something wrong with the *phone I CAN’T SEE YOU!" "Anyway," she protested to her friend, who hurried rownd in great alarm, fearing she was ill, ‘‘the electricians have been in the house for two or three days, and how was I to know they hadn’t put in ‘television’ while they were about it!" PARIS IN PYJAMAS. A model in which a high collar strikes an entirely new note, is fash ioned in heavy crepe-de-chine of while ground with a yellow checked design. The trousers are straight and loose; ihe simple tunic is innocent of sleeves; the high collar is of plain yellow crepe de-chine, fastening with a ffat bow at the back of the neck. A belt to match, in which the flat bow repeats itself, fits loosely round the hips. oma