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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22612, 2 July 1935, Page 14

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Weldon’s Bazaar of Children’s Fashions, July number; contains free patterns of a dress and short coat (11-12 years), smock and knickers (3-4 years), and yoked frock (S-i In addition the 16-page supplement of fashions contains the latest designs in frocks, coats, berets, undies, etc. There is also a special page of fashions for mothers and mothers-to-be. There are exclusive articles on subjects of interest to women—Needlework. “ Charming Knitted Beach Suit for Five Years Old”; “When I’m a Grown Up Daddy,” “Beauty for Mothers” (care of the skin); Proud Parents,” “ Your Happiness is My Concern,” by Leonora Eyles; and home hints; Nurse Cooper supervises the mothercraft section and deals' with happy meal times and the importance of clothes for the mother-to-be.

Good Housekeeping for May is a special silver jubilee number. The Hon. Dorothy Hood writes of the jubilees of Queen Victoria and George V; St. John Eryiue pays a tribute that expresses the feelings of all in “Their Majesties”; and there is a special supplement in photogravure of the royal family and their relatives. In addition, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith gives some trenchant opinions in “ What I Think About the Press.” Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland, publishes “ Letters from Russia,” Francis Brett Young writes on The Secret History of a Novelist,” and Alice Baines in “ Magazines for Women,” discloses some interesting information. The cookery, housecraft and fashions section is particularly interesting this month, and more than usually well illustrated, its articles (all suplemented with photographs) including “The Institute’s Jubilee Cake,” “Catering for Fetes.” “Domestic Equipment, 1910-1935,” “Hardwood Floors,” “Joining the , Living and Dining Room,” “ Jesus .Hospital Almshouses,” and “ Make Dresses to Trim ” —all supplied by expert and first-class writers. The fiction is of an equally high standard and includes another of Sheila Kaye Smith’s delightful tales about Selina and Moira in “ Pomfiterania and the Dirty Boy.”