WOMEN’S JOURNALS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 157, 5 July 1934, Page 2

WOMEN’S JOURNALS

CHILDREN’S FASHIONS A free transfer of a spray of roses and rosebuds suitable for embroidering pram covers, babies’ dresses, table cloths, tray cloths, etc., is enclosed in the July number of Weldon’s Bazaar of Children’s Fashions. In this issue are free patterns of a little girl’s dress, frock and kmckers 5 to 6 years, schoolgirl’s dress and blazer, 11 to 12 years, also beret. Many of the fashions are in colour and include frocks for sport and holidays, school and parties, etc. New coats, undies, boys’ wear, baby clothes, also sun suits for summer, hats, etc. There are useful hints in the mothercraft section, tips for the housewife, an article on furnishing, needlework and cookery. A story, “The Quest,” by /Arthur McArthur, kiddies' pages with a nature talk, puzzles and directions for making a model caravan. BRITANNIA AND EVE An arresting article entitled “V.U.'s,” of the great slump, with intimate interviews with some optimists who successfully defied depression, written by Joan Woollcombe, is one of tho features in the May number of Britannia and Eve, which is one of the most attractive issues o-t this popular journal. C. Patrick Thompsos has an article on Stavisky, the bad man of France. Among other articles is “Old Tales Re-told,” written and illustrated by F. Matania, R. I. There’s a complete home and fashion section, special pages being devoted to London styles, with a talk on fashions by Aladge Garland. The prevailing features of styles for the coming season are shown, also accessories giving small details which are of great importance in a well-equipped wardrobe. In the home section arc some useful suggestions for renovating the home this spring and some idea of what they would cost, also inexpensive alterations to the home and illustrating bright treatments that could be used to advantage. The Earl of Cardigan has something to say concerning motoring, while A. H. Adair gives some useful advice on up-to-date entertaining, with recipes for a “help yourself” dinner party. There are illustrated stories by F. E. Verney, Sewell Stokes, James Francis Dwyer, Hannen Swatter, W. A. Darlington and H. T. W. Bousfield. Books are reviewed by Arnold Palmer and there are the regular departments, directions for knitting a chic bathing suit, while the pages of the journal are jacketed in a new cellophane cover. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Everybody's interests are served in the May issue of Good Housekeeping, which has an attractive coloured frontispiece portrait of a child in the act of blowing out the two caudles ou a birthday cake. “ Housekeeping 100 Years Ago” will interest all women. The article is written from original pre-Victorian documents transcribed and annotated by Hector Bolitho and illustrated with phutc-grapas. “Running a House With a House-boy” it an article in which a reader tells how she solved the housekeeping problem by employing a young man instead of a maidservant. Marion Spencer w.’ites on “The Antiques of the Future,” the article being illustrated with beautiful photographs of modern-styled furniture in chromium plated steel and enamel. St. John Ervine, In an article

“Coming Alen in the Church of England,” asks “Who are the men likely within the next ton years to prevail in ecclesiastical authority?” As well as several interesting articles, there is fiction of a high standard and in this number the authors include Rafael Sabatini, Lorna Rea, Richard Ullman, Helen Grace Carlisle, Alargaret Sangtser, also serials by 0. Douglas and Dorothy Whipple. Taffeta rustics into the mode and all eyes will be on the neckline, according to the fashion writer, who has much to say on the styles that will prevail for the coming summer, while some very new features for evening wear are shown. The housecraft, furnishing and decoration sections reveal innumerable suggestions and the department of cookery offer some appetising dishes, including fish from the shell, something especially delicious in dishes from Italy, also home-made wines. In the needlework and knitting supplement are directions for knitting a man’s swimming suit and a pair of child’s socks, a galleon design in tapestry stitch and needlework panel. Flower lovers will be interested in the hints with illustrations given on flora] decoration foi the home by Constance Spry. Pages for children, health and beauty clinics and other departments are all up to standard. These publications are from Gordon and Gotch, per Air. C. W. Poynter, Bookseller, Victoria Avenue.