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the turn of a sleevd, ecme curve of a, shoulder, a new knot. At home she experiments, combines, invents, and for the finished design there are a dozen clamorous dressmakers. IV was after this same process that Paquin's last winter's innovation of applying cretonne flowers in Empire designs upon his cloth gowns was evolved. A tew bolts of ancient cretonne, discovered in some 6mall shop, suggested the idea. Empire garlands were found especially attractive when outlined with tiniest threads of gold. With the new idea came a revival of the dresses of the period, the great plumed hate, and the red heeled buckled shoes, while Lalique produced tiny enamelled smelling bottles hung; by chain* from the little finger, woven gold reticules to be swung from the arms, and gorgeous- jewelled buckles. Fournery is another great designer, and Sandoz another. These three constitute the tribune, and below them just .step fiit three others. As an auhority says : "In their hafcds lies the destiny of future modes." Scores alter and vary, but they do not decree. No. Close as any well-orgaii'sed business monopoly; and &b exclusive, the few first dressmakers of Paris and a number of artists to assist create and control the fashion trust of the world. There seems to be a genial conspiracy between the British Home Office and the gaol authorities to treat all militant woman isuffragists in future as though they were spoiled children (writes a London correspondent). The Courts continue to pass sentences for disorder and window-breaking, with the usual option of h fine, anO the women invariably insist on going to prison, but the punishment is made in every way as light as possible. Nor are the majority of the suffragists anyJonger averse from making themselves comfortable during their confinement in gaol. They go to the Court to receive their sentences with almost as much luggage a*s the j would take on a holiday trip. The place is like a railway station. When a ',' Black Maria" lumbers off to Holloway with a load of suffragists its roof, piled high with leather bage, portmanteaus, and trav«]H»!4 baakeU, suggest* tho reassembling of a girls' school after^ the vacation. In the course of a privato conversation just before the latest demonstration outside the House of Commons, the secretary of one of the Labour members said she wanted to go to gaol in order to "get a 'vetk's rest." As an employer, tho Labour champion appears to be something of a- eweateivboftsibly' without being aWare of it. The lady realised her wish quite comfortably. She laid her hand on the arm of a constable when he was arresting one of her friends. That was "obstructing the police," and the M.P. lost his secretary lor a week in the middle of the autumn sessi&n. Holloway, she hpw declares, i» a most agreeable place, with brilliantly lighted halls, cells provided with electrio bells, ,and every reasonable comfort, a liberal diet, &nd good-i empered officials. When it was announced in the London Daily Telegraph that Dickens's admirers wero organising a fund for the benefit of the grandchildren of the great novelist it .was stated that only the daughters of the late Charles Dickens, jun., were in need of, assistance. Friends of Mr. Alfred Tennyson Dickens, who died the other day when lecturing in the United States, were of the opinion that the two daughters of that gentleman would be glad to participate, as it was believed that they 1 were not in flourishing circumstances. A letter to that effect was published in a Melbourne newspaper, and some of the personal friends of Mr. Alfred Dickens bestirred .themselves in the matter, and the committee of the Cronies, a social | club of which the late Mr. Alfred ! Dickens was a prominent member, got ready to take action (says the Sydney \ Sun). The Misses Dickens were interviewed at their comfortable residence at South Yarra, arid it was found that they had already disposed of the subject by promptly answering "No" to the Daily Telegraph's kindly cabled question as to their wishes about participation in the fund. Both were very emphatic on the subject. "Fortunately we are able to earn a decent living," said the "I teach music and my sister looks after little children, and between us we make enough to maintain ourselves respectably, so that we do not need anything that approaches charity, though, of course, we should like to have more money." "Give us our' good, old Australian independence," chimed in her sister with a laugh, and then these two ladies proceeded to speak of the abortive Dickens stamp fund and the present movement. 1 They said that they had felt greatly disturbed over the matter, and in this view they were in accord with their "Uncle Harry," afl they familiarly called the dignified Henry Fielding Dickens, K.C. , Fortunately, too, these plucky and resourceful young ladies, who have been earning their* own living for years, will now, under their mother's mar* riage settlement, come into the possession of an income that ■will effectually banish the wolf frottr their door. When the late Mr. Alfred Dickens was married the first time, years ago, he very prudently settled £5000 jointly on Mrs. Dickens and himself, with remainder to their children.. The income of this sum. or what remains of it, after losses in investments that went wrong years ago, woe enjoyed by Mr. A. T. 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