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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 72, 28 March 1910, Page 9

while M. Galipaux, the Blackbird, with a tremendous tail fastened to his braces, skips nimbly around his gigantic cage. In a corner the elegant Mine. Simone sits vigorously flapping her arms. In the midst of it all the poet, an eyeglass in his eye, mokes suggestions for the interpretation of his work. The woman who loses her hold upon that which formerly interested her is not going the 1 ight' way towards securing a graceful old age. Should she abandon her liking for becoming clothes, lose her zest for pictures and poetry, and for concerts and the drama, she will find her life considerably nai rowed in a \ery short spaco of time. What she should wear is a question sometimes despairingly considered by the woman who imagines that the dressmakers and milliners despise any customers save the youthful and lovely. As a matter of fact, age is as satisfactory to dress ai youth, and in many cases far more so, provided tho figure has been kept lissome and graceful by exercise and by a judicious diet, the result of acting upon the well-established fact that less food i* needed as age increases. The woman who is growing old gracefully has an almost limitless choice in dress, but it must be made with circumspection. A great authority in London actually recommends his client* to choose white silk and crepe de chine for the evening, brqeaded with silver and poftened with beautiful lace. Ho never consents that the dark and dreary colours relegated to ago by usage shall fall to their lot, but finds for each enquirer the precisely suitable t-hade of • grey, blue, mauve, green, fawn, or rose that will suit her. His ideal of graceful ago is a whitehaired, clear-eomnJeYioned. and blender woman, with colouring like a cameo, whom he dressew in white and tho most delicate greys and fawns, touched with tender rose and pale blue. The sparkling of jet and diamante work he rorrves for more robnst clients, but to all he gives lace, and plenty of it, both black and ivory white. Hats instead of bonnet*, or even toques, softened with prettily draped laco veils, ho recommend* a* a nil*-, and ir.whtle« sufficiently definite of deMgn to be differentiated from the »hapeleu nnd meaningless draperies that sometimes pass as cloaks. Concerning jewellery, he suggepls pearls and amethysts and a few veiy good diamonds, worn away from thp face, whpie they are apt to challenge comparison with the complexion. Among the lady farmers and gardenerg who are met at dinner at th<« Imperial Restaurant, liegent-Mreet, London, on 16th February, .Miss Binnie Clarke ptobably holds the record, reports an English journal. She is a young EnglUh woman who has fanned 330 acres in Canada. She has plou^ied her own land and tended without help through a whole winter fourteen horses and cattle. Athletic, clear-complex ioned, bright-eyed women aro the lady farmers of England. Though natuially very feminino in the matter of pretty evening toilettes, they are practical in their knowledge of scientific farming as it is taught at the agricultural colleges. Many of them cultivate one or two hundred acres of laud. They can make speeches ai well (is farm, nnd tho nfter-dinncr oratory will be helped by such a wellknown expert as Mr. It. A. Yerburgh, M.P. The Mechanics' Institute at Footscray (Victoria) was occupied by a large number last week, when they were addressed by Mi»« Vida Goldstein, as a candidate for a seat in tho Federal Senate. Miss Goldstein, in the course of her addiess, advocated amendment of tho marriage and divorce laws. She remarked that if the people voted against her candidature they voted against tho home Mr. Kemp (an elderly man) : "No! no! It is the man who supports the home. I know — I'm the father of two families." (Laughter.) Miss (fcldstein said she did not say that men purposely made the laws so that they would be unjust to vvomen, they simply erred because they didn't understand the matter from a woman's aspect. Hence the necessity for women in Parliament. — (Applause.) Mr. Kemp : "If elected, will you introduce a Bill to put a stiff tax on bachelors?" Miss Goldstein : "I would bo cAcediuply sorry to favour any proposal that would be likely to encourago some mon to get married." — (Laughter.) Mr. Kemp : "If I were a single nun I'd indiico you to get mairied. You'd look at things in a different light then."— Loud laughter. The Chairman : Order! .Air. Kemp : "Is the candidate in favour of a bonus being given to mothers for every "Lild above the fifth?" Afiss Goldstein : "I haven't considered that method of encouraging population, but if is v good principle I don t know why it should begin with the fifth ; why not with tho first?"— (Laughtor.) Paris, telegraphs a correspondent, is in the throe* of a "Chantecler" craze. Watches, inkstands, panei-knivep, and all kinds of fancy articles bearing the worldfamous figuro of the Gallic cock fill the shop windows, while every newt>papei' and periodical, serious and comic, seems to bo devoted to M. Rostand'e play. The latest nov«lty is a Chunteoler charm of hammered gold, exquisitely hand-finished, showing in bas-relief Chantecler's meeting with tli6 hen-pheasant. Hundreds of these have been supplied to the iewellert of the Kite Itoyale and the Hue de la Paix, and large consignments arc being sont to London. They coHt £8 apiece. The "Chantecler" hat is to be the 6inarte.st novelty in f-piing millinery. Feminine curiosity was, if unything, heightened by the brief invoice desciiption that preceded tho hats. It lacked detail, and left much to tho imagination. Of the four "Chantecler" creation!;, on« is a natural cogue toque, tiimmed iv ith head and red comb — "•Chantecler" proper. Another is a pheasant toque, inspired by the golden hen pheasant head-dress oi Mine. Simone. The third te a block straw with white couque feathers, and the remaining toqu<j is trimmed willi white wings and cerise- »il!.. In the tone ol a great instrument the personality of the maker is present as vividly jih the soul of a great artibt is present in a canvas. It is this rare quality that has gained for the Chall«n Piano the ear pi the cultured public. Tho tone is the life and soul of a piano; and tho tone of thetChallen Piano is remarkably resonant and vibrant. It has a singing quality, and tiie richncr* of tone remains to the veiy lact. Tho Challen is a British built pin no, and is honestly mado in every detail. Tho sole agents for thin great piano aie The Wellington Piano Company, Ltd.. Larnbtonquay. — Advt. Ladies' Costumes are mad? at the English Tailoring Koomo, 52, \Villin-ntreet. Those who huvo been gowned by Mr. W. S. Bedfoul ate continually advertising him. — Advt. It In a well-known fact that dainty fabrics rcquiie v good soap, find when tiomx Soap is lined no annoyance 13 caused to ladies, who require 'all their laeen and fine linen to look well. Ol course, there are other soapt., but Lowis and Whitty's Boia;; Soap ib by far the best. Once you une it, its superiority over all other soaps is apparent. In your ntxt ord«r to your groeir include Lewis and Whitty'e Bprax Soap. — Adrt.