WHAT WE WOMEN THINK

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 19, 20 November 1931, Page 32

WHAT WE WOMEN THINK

Tip-tilted. [t is'easy to balance the newest craze, a tiny brim or point almost. covering. the right eye. This style will eventually settle down to a becoming compromise between a tiny cloche and piquant tricorne. The "bowler" crown of velvet van be extraordinarily becoming, turning up on the left side with an ostrich plume, or a fantasy of fringed silk treated: in feather-form, that sweeps round the‘back to the shoulder. ‘The tiny brim shades the right side of the face. This mode is’ equally pretty in straw. A Courageous Cleric. UTOLYCUS," in’ the "Sunday Times," writes: "One. clergyman has solved the problem of how to fill the churches. He is the Rev. Clarence May, who is one of the few London parsons who fills his church on a -Sunday. He.is in charge of St. Peter’s, Windmill Street, that quaint little church behind Piccadilly. Circus, sandwiched:in between two famous restaurants. Sufficient: money, incidentally, has been offered for the purchase of the site on which the .church stands to enable several churches to be built. He preached ‘a little while ago on the subject of a play being performed in London, and invited .an-actress to his pulpit to discuss it. The church was full, chairs crowded the aisles, and crowds stood through the service. The preacher said that the theatre reflects and teaches life, and is something more than a vehicle of amusement, Withont the theatre a good many of us would be emotionally dead, and the theatre is one of the great means of developing sympathy and purging the emotions by expressing them." Then And Now. NOTHIN G could be more interesting to the student of house decoration than the experiment that the ‘Hon. Angus Holden has made in a small house in Hbury Street; that of placing next door to each other, with a curtained archway between, a room furnished in the early’ Victorian manner and a completely modern room. The Victorian room is the older idea of the two, for Mr. Holden has been | an-ardent collector of Victoriana ever since he was at Bton, and the woolwork pictures and cushions, bead mats, silk flowers under glass, firescreens, and antimacassars have been picked up all over Europe. Behind the sofa, covered in glazed chintz and provided with Berlin woolwork cushions worked by Mr. Holden, is the statesman’s corner. Here, on a superb bead mat, stand Gladstone, Peel, and Disraeli. Among the gems of Victoriana in this room are a silver box given by Queen Victoria to John Brown, her Highland ghillie, two pictures of poodles made of kid and white plush, a lamp shade adorned with real pressed flowers and a lace fringe, and a collection of mother of pearl objects, including a bouquet holder and a brooch in the shape of a lady’s hand, The only "rapport" with the modern room next door is a bunch of purple "everlastings" which are sometimes transported to 1930, and sometimes put back to 1860. Battleship grey are the walls and ceiling of the modern room, with shining chromium-plated divans and a sofa covered in black hide of the kind used in motor-car upholstery. Mr: Holden himself designed the black bookease, which is "stepped," and the aluminium fireplace for thé electric fire. . The curtains are an artistic de-

sign in black, grey and pale green silk -a waste product utilised by a Continental factory-and there are silver glass tulips in a silver glass bowl on the aluminium mantelpiece.

Plain glass shelves run along the walls at a convenient height for cigarette boxes and ash trays, and lighting is provided by a clouded crystal "egg" on a glass stand, and a flood light arranged in one corner, A Fail-me-never. NE of the most unexpected fashion revivals is that of the elaborate evening blouse which was worn in the early years of the present century. In its latest and smartest guise it makes its appearance among the new dinner gown modes in lame worn over a skirt of black crepe-de-chine. The coloured plouse with black skirt vogue flourished some twenty years ago. Once again fashion repeats itself! A Homely Touch. (CABBAGE has been raised to the rank of a dinner party vegetable, and ways of serving it are discussed. It is selling better than any other vegetable. Women are thinking so much about careful buying that it is little wonder that it should have become a dinner-table topic.. They have discovered that it costs less to give a dinner party. to-day. than it did twelve months ago, and'that they can best reap the advantage of the lower prices vy entertaining at home. In the home at- mosphere the art of conversation is bound to flourish. and the new trend will have the effect of making women

display their homes to the best ad- i vantage. Curlylocks. PORTSWOMEN of every kind are quite the most important and earefully considered clients in the salons of hair specialists during the holiday months. For the first time different styles of waving and curling the hair suitable for the exigencies of different sports have been devised. One of the most popular of these is the Californian curl, which consists of very tight curls all over the head, which can be combed out after the bath to get rid of the stickiness of the sea-water, after which they curl back again. The woman tennis player has, at Wimbledon, mastered the art of a neat coiffure, but a bandeau is very destructive to the usual permanent wave, which is set closely across the top and sides of the hea\. A. special wave has been arranged fur tennis players which is broad afid flat over the whole of the top of the head, where the bandeau or eye-shade fastens, and then little curls appear just above the ear. In this, too, the hair is taken well off the forehead so as not to fall into the eyes. The Divine Bernhardt. __ HE looked paintable though no one could paint her. Beauty with her was a garment which she could put on as often as she pleased. When she let it fall from her shoulders she was a small woman with very delicate features, thin lips, a small, beautifullymodelled nose, hooded eyes of a grey: , green shadowed by a fleece of red-gold / hair, strong, slender hands; and a manner full of nervous energy. But when! she would appear beautiful, none of, these details were to be perceived; her face became a lamp, through which glowed pale light, her hair burned like an aureole; she grew tall and stately; it was transfiguration."-Graham Robertson. — Not Too Slim. Au very well to be slim anc swaying as a willow-wand, but no one wants to be scraggy. The woman who wishes to put on weight should drink at: least two pints of milk every day. Cream should be taken with all sweets and puddings if possible. Soups, butter, . eggs, milk puddings, boiled rice, beef, mutton and poultry are all permissible, while of the fruits bananas and apples are the most beneficial. -A little pure olive oil taken after meals will helpful; it maybe taken. in capsule form if desired. All kinds of vinegar and pickles are best avoided. Persevere with this regime for a few weeks, and you will soon notice the difference it makes in your complexion. Blotches and pimples disappear, and all: the unsightly angles that made you envy your plump sisters will have filled out into more becoming curves. Modish. "THERE is a good deal of. brigntye coloured gipsy embroidery to be seen on the new afternoon frocks. Sleeves show smart puffs and frills wv else appear as an upper-and a lower sleeve, in contrasting colours. ‘Leg-o’-mutton sleeves appear in many of the new outfits and also in the evening coats, most of which are full or threequarter. length. so

Limitations You ask me for a Poem-a thing impassioned With fiery eloquence, supreme, earth-free Mine but to give a modest rhyme, ill-fashioned, That whispers shy of bird and flower and tree. You ask me for a Song, highheaven resoundingA rhapsody with grand, majestic theme--I can but sing, with muted voice soft-sounding, A little song of gladness, a trivial ’ thing of dreams. You ask me for a Love sublime, celestia]lLibation fit for gods-I only had A. humble human love-earth-bound, terrestrial-To:-give to you, to try to make you glad.

W. H.

McK.