The Brecon County Times Neath Gazette and General Advertiser for the Counties of Brecon Carmarthen Radnor Monmouth Glamorgan Cardigan Montgomery Hereford

I WOMAN'S REALM. [ DRESS-FASHION-HOME. HATS IN CHANTILLY LACE. i HATS IN CHANTILLY LACE. J Hats in Chantilly lace are coming to the fore, and will be worn throughout the summer for dressy occasions, the Gentle- j woman says. There are, of course, several ways of applying' the lace. I have seen, I the writer goes on, a broad-brimmed sailor hat in white straw whereon a flounce of black Chantilly covered the brim, and was edged with a narrow fringe of white glycerined feathers. j The lining was of black velvet, with a black tulle scarf draped round the crown, caught towards the front with a large pink rose. The same model will also be made il white Chantilly alone, over a wire frame, a white tulle scarf and feather fringe ap- pearing. AN AFTERNOON FROCK. t The graceful afternoon frock sketched was made of chnrmeuse. t is trimmed with a double row of wide, knotted fringe to match. The collar, cuffs, and vest are of ivory georgette, finished with pleated frills. The bodice is cut all in one, and a 1 0 PATTERN No. 2.447. I very wide swatheH band separates it from the skirt. The two rows of fringe are I superposed one over the other right round the skirt, and have a very elegant effect when the wearer moves. SWEET SIXTEEN." No braided tresses or dreamy eyes characterise Sweet Sixteen to-day, the Queen says. Rather with tossing curls, bobbed or flowing, and with wide-open searchiong glance does she scan the future. How many of us, watching the whole- hearted delight of younger sister, niece, or daughter, think, with more than half a sigh, what we would give to laugh again as freely, enjoy as fully, the passing plea- sures of the hour! And to this carnival Sweet Sixteen knows better than to come unprepared. Dame Fashion is bestowing so empha- tically her particular blessing on frilly frosks—and white ones at that—and has surely proved that she has a special corner in her heart for her youthful devotees, for no two other assets are of more value ihan these to assist those who have arrived at what some term "the awkward age to outmanoeuvre the angles whilst retaining the gTaces of the growing years. A SUMMER SUIT. The delightful summer suit illustrated may be made of coloured linen. The little coat is not intended to fasten—it opens wide to show the white pique waistcoat, I PATTERN No. ,44e. I I which has a big' collar to fall over the coat. The waistcoat is finished by a nar- row leather belt. The buttonholes are simulated, the buttons covered blocks. TO-DA Y'S RECIPE. A JELLIED MEAT MOULD.—This can be made with cold cooked meat, beef, mutton, or lamb. and half a pound will be re- quired, a quarter of a pound of cooked liani or bacon, one hard-boiled egg, any c-old vegetables, such as carrots and asparagus tips. half all ounce of gelatine, and one pint of clear vegetable stock. Rinse a souffle-tin in cold water, melt the gelatine in the stock, and when cold pour i;! enough to form a layer at the bottom of the tin; when set,.arrange the cold vege- I tables round the lower part of the tin, and some sliced hard-boiled egg in the centre; pour a little more stock over, and allow :t to set. Cut the meat and ham into dice

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.; It is claimed in the petition for the in- ■ corporation of Acton that the is of prehistoric origin." Jabez Wolffe, who is now forty-two years old, intends to make his twenty- second attempt to swim the Channel in August. In Eastern Canada maple products this year are expected to beat all I'ds for the last teii years. Eighty Spaniards are being deported by the Cuban Government in connection with the recent strike agitation. The Mount Morgan Mines, near Bris- bane, have closed down, rendering ^500 workers idle. As no seaplanes are available the pro- jected aerial mail service between Vic- toria and Tasmania is being postponed. Fruit is rotting on AustraLian wharves. Growers have offered to provide a crew if the Government will furnish a steamer. Forty-seven deaths have occurred in Sydney from influenza during the week- end. About seventy delegates of the Labour Conference are suffering from the malady. It is stated that the full official text of the Peace Terms, published in Berlin, is being sold at Berne, .in German, French, and English, at the price of one franc. Rampton-on-Thames District Council is warning boating people of the danger to bathers of throwing broken glass into the Thames. Jewellery and other articles, valued at £ 2,500, haie been stolen from the house of Mr. Alexander Karrapatnezty, in Argyle- road, West London. Hay crops are so light in Devon that farmers, short of growths on their own holdings, are paying up to £20 an acre for accommodation grazing. It is not expected that Mr. Justice A. T.- Lawrence will be able to resume the hear- ing of the Marconi arbitration proceeding* until the 30th inst. Dr. Waldo, the City of London Coroner, at an inquest stated that as a result of the beer and whisky shortage a good many people were taking cocaine and other drugs. Mr. Donald Andrew, aged severity, a re- tired railway fireman, dropped dead in Swindon Cemetery while on bis way to place flowers on his wife's grave. Including convalescents from hospital, the number of men of the Overseas Forces entertained while on leave in London by the Overseas Hospitality Fund has now reached 100,000. When some bluejackets were returning from shore leave to his Majesty's ship Gibraltar in Portland Harbour, several of them fell into the water, and A. E. Killian, a shipwright, was drowned. Mr. Duveen, of Liverpool, who recently purchased Plas Newydd, the home of the famous Ladies of Llangollen, has inti- mated that the public privilege of inspect- ing' the residence would continue. An increased scale of stipends for minis- ters was adopted at the Primitive Metho- dist Conference at Grimsby, one delegate remarking It is not a salary we pay our ministers; it is an honorarium." Mr. Morland Agnew, of Trinity Col- lege, has given £ 25,000 for a new Cam- bridge nursing hostel in gratitude for the recovery of his wife from an operation M the present one. The conference of east coast watering- places has been granted £10,000 by the Government, to be spent on furnishing lodging-houses and enabling the owners to resume letting1 this season. William A. R. Longstaff, twenty-seven, solicitor, was sentenced to six months in the second division at Newport for forging mortgages; he had been wounded while serving in France, and had paid back the money. The Postal Censor's Department is ex- pected to close shortly. The strike of Dublin hotel employees, which began on Good Friday, has been settled. Mr. John Hobden, Warbleton Priory, Sussex, captained an eleven of himself, nine sons, and a son-in-law. A boat containing three men capsized off Whitby on Monday night, and one, named Spearsman, was drowned. off Whitby on Monday night, and one, named Spearsman, was drowned. Professor A. H. Trow, Professor of Botany at South Wales University Col- lege, has been appointed principal of the college. Four cases of malaria have been notified in Hanwell. A chicken has been hatched at Bridg- water with two bodies, one head, four wings, and four legs. Mrs. Greenwood, sister of ir Vansittart Bowater, ex-Lord Mayor of London, has died near Llanelly. Mr. and Mrs. A. Boorman, of Pembury, Tunbridge Welle, have celebrated their golden wedding, having been married at Brenehley in 18U9. Total number of war casualties among London and North-Western railwaymen has been returned at 12,416, of wlioiii 3,140 have been killed. To celebrate Peace the Duchess of Nor- folk will entertafn at a garden-party in the grounds of Arundel Castle every man, woman, and cMld in the town. Jarrow and Walisend licensing justices, as the result of a deputation of workmen, have ordered all publicans to remain open during permitted hours. In May. 1911, a postcard was posted at Yarmouth to Mrs. Wallis, of the Anfel Arias, Buixton, by a friend who died three years later. The card has just been de- livered to Mrs. Wallis. St. Andrew's, Willesden Green, is to have a war memorial chapel, richly panelled and corniced, with the 230 names of the fallen also to be recorded by the wavside cross in the churchyard.

HOW TO OBTAIN THE PA t-I We ran supply paper patterns each week of the sketch bearing the number below it. Our patterns are specially cut for us from designs expressly prepared for this column, and the cost of each complete pattern is 9d.. post free. Ackiiess all letters, enclosing stamps for patterns, to Sylvia," WUItefrlars House, Carmelite Street, London, E.G. 4. Be sure and mention the number of the pattern re- quired- when ordering Patterns will be despatched with ;l three dfcys 01 the receipt oS t." application

TOP OP THE HOUR. It i# not suiprising that something of at s-ensatifn has been caused in Rome by the reappearance "in the political lists of Gio- vanni Giolitti, now seventy-seven, but still a potential force. It was said of him before the war that he was the most im- portant statesman produced by Italy since the generation of the Liberators. Brought up among the sturdy Piedmon- tese peasants, he has many'of their race characteristics, in which courage and capacity for work rank high. He has dominated many Italian Parliaments, and, as an English critic has written, his physicalalld mental -energy give to Lis erect figure, over six feet in height, the aspect of a Colossus and to his arguments an irresistible power. He lost much in prestige at the 1915 crisis, says the Manchester Guardian. Jout none the less it is doubtful whether any Italian statesman can compare with him in domestic politics. He is one of those rare politicians who can make and un- make Governments—always a great, over- shadowing figure, even when in the back- ground. His power has owed something to the advantage of the cold, self-con- tained North over the exuberant South, and it was really on the fall of Crispi that he built his power. The new Lady Ribblesdale, once Mrs. John Jacob Astor, is one of our richest and most beautiful Americans, says the Gentlewoman. She belongs to the inner circle of the smart set, entertains well, and is one of the best-dressed women in London. Also she is extremely capable in every way, and may often be seen driving her electric car in the traffic with great unconcern. During the war she worked well, and at one time acted as head pantrymaid at the American Women's Hospital for Officers at Lancaster Gate. She likes an active life, and is an expert at outdoor sports, riding, driving, skating, and sleighing. Also she fences well, and in old days, in. New York, she used to go in for sailing an ice-yacht and for sleighing. Vice-Admiral Sir A. L. Duff, who is to succeed Vice-Admiral F. C. T. Tudor as Commander-in-Chief on the China Station, will, I hear, hoist his flag in H.M.S. Haw- kins on July 25th, writes Clubman in the Pall Mall Gazette. Very great interest attaches to this maiden commission of our latest and largest light cruiser. Her officers, from Captain R. G. H. Henderson downward, have been most carefully selected with a view to making her the Na.vy's model ship in discipline and efficiency. Many innovations have been introduced to add to the comfort of the men, and several experiments will be tried in the way of improving the messing arrange- ments. Besides their ordinary quarters, which are roomy and well ventilated, the men have a commodious recreation room, fitted up with a cinema apparatus, games, and library facilities. from France stories come almost daily of the numbers of Generals and Staffs at Wimereux and elsewhere. If even half of the stories are true there should be several awkward questions in. store for Mr. Churchill when the Army Estimates are agtiin considered, says the Westminster Gazette. Here are some of the questions that might well be asked: How many Bri- gadier-Generals are there now, engaged solely on administrative work, as com- pared with those similarly engaged last November 11th? Has the Staff at Wimer- eux absorbed the many "brass liat-s" formerly situated at Dieppe, Rouen, Mow treuil, and Le Touquet, or are some Still remaining in "cushy" billets? What systematic effort is made to reduce expense and cut down Staff in France, and are many men still not demobilised, and wasting their time, because Generals must have clerks and batmen? The Select Committee on National Expenditure would do well to inquire into our G.H.Q. still in France. Dr. Pusey, the great Tractarian leader, made his home at Ascot when not at Ox- ford. Thjs, a contemporary recalls, once led to an amusing blunder. A sporting parson, visiting Christ Church during this 0 week of June for Commem. asked Osborne Gordon, the censor and a famous wit, how Dr. Pusey was going on, and was told that he had gone to Ascot. L, li What? God bless my soul exclaimed the astonished cleric. "You don't mean to tell me that old Pusey has gone racing at his time of life? Well," wiekediy. replied Gordon, I can tell you for cer- tain that lie is making a book at Ascot." The "book" Dr. Pusey was "making" happened to be his voluminous commen- tary on the Minor Prophets," but his clerical admirer left Oxford with an ideal sadly shattered.

A Gorman horsed ambulance dated 186o is among the war salvage recently received at the Croydon depot of the Roval Army Ordnance Corps, from which battle trophies are being sent to all parts of the world. Stoke Newington Borough Council has replied to the offer of the War Trophies Committee that it regrets it cannot find accommodation for a German (damaged) machine-gun with ammunition box and belt, but is prepared to find accommoda- tion for a tank or a whippet. Two herons are nesting within 100 vards of Cherteev Lock, on the Thames. Farmers in Wtst Surrey are complaining o the great increase in foxes and wild Cftts. Newbur-rh Colliery, Northumberland, is to be reopened after having been closed down through war conditions. <

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