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HARPER’S BAZAR Honoré Sa ' SEI eh TO Franklin Simon 8 Co, {1 Store of Individual Shops AVENUE, 37th and 38th Sts., New YORK Harper's Bazar HARPER'S BAZAR is published month! 119 W. 40th St September, 1926 Magazine Company, Inc. Printed in U.S.A rearly class matter May 4th, 1901, at the post office, N < “Se . .by International subscription price, $4.00. Entered as second York, N. Y., under the act of March 3rd, 1879.

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Introducing for Mademoiselle (14 to 20 years) Also Size 31 for Small Women ‘The New Bramley [Dresses For fall and Winter

Reg. in U. S. Pat. Off. Model H 145—Vis-a-Vis two-piece Bramley dress introduces the new fashion of contrast. Jumper of silk crepe piped to match the vel- veteen skirt which has inverted box pleats both front and back and is made ona silk bodice-top. Collar may be worn open or closed. Colours: Paris blue or red jumper with black skirt, or carmel-beige jumper with brown skirt; dress also in all autumn green or all claret red. 29.50 Model H 148—Velveteen two-piece Bramley dress of imported velve- teen—jumper made of bands with the pile running the reverse way giving a two-tone effect. Newand smart is the Bramley slave-link jewelled belt; detachable white silk crepe collar may be worn open or closed. Skirt, pleated infront, on a silk bodice-top. Colours: wine-red, Paris blue, autumn green, pheasant brown or black. 29.50 Model H 150—Kashmit-toile two-piece Bramley dress made of a new and exclusive Bramley wool fabric. Collar and cuffs of white silk crepe; collar may be worn open or closed. New Bramley slave-link jewelled belt—exclusive as well as smart. Skirt, box-pleated in front, is on a silk bodice-top. Colours: autumn green, ensign blue, carmel-beige or 29.50 wine, Model H152—Crepe-Friskette two-piece Bramley dress of a fine light- weight wool Bramley fabric. Pin-tucked jumper with detachable chemisier, collar and cuffs. Collar may be worn open or closed. Front-pleated skirt on a silk bodice-top. Colours: stone blue, autumn green or claret red with flesh colour silk crepe collar, chemi- sier and cuffs; also in pheasant brown with beige. 29.50 Bramley Fashions are Originated and Patented by Franklin Simon & Co. Our Rights will be fully enforced Charge Accounts Solicited Pranklin Simon 8 Co, <d Store of Individual Shops Entire Contents Copyrighted, 1926, by Franklin Simon & Co., Inc. Fifth Avenue, 37thand 38thStreets, New York

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Fifth Avenue HARPER’S BAZAR B. Altman & Cn. BAS 1. The raccoon shawl collar cn a Renée coat of brown tweed has an enviable débonnaire attitude towards college life. Reproduction, $135.00 2. A jaunty coat of Donnybrook tweed, in green and blue mixture, cleverly stitched, and belted with al- ligator-grain leather. $75.00 3. “Invisible” stripes adroitly con- tradict those that run up and down, and achieve a smart back yoke. Repro- duction of a Jenny model in brown, blue or green Romany homespun with beaver collar. $125.00 4. Typically Chantal are the animat- ing tassels on this frock with wool crepe jumper and tweed skirt. In two shades of red or green. $39.00 5. Unmistakably French in idea is this jersey frock in beige, navy or Chanel red with contrasting bi-color ribbon touches. $29.00 Sizes, 14, 16, 18 SPORTSWEAR—THIRD FLOOR 6. Frock of Rodier kasha and black satin from Martial et Armand. Re- produced with the new-closing jumper in vermillion or marine. $59.00 A AR FRIIS ot Lk TR a ON Sa idea a RR A AES SY 6+ hom iat inet

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ZAR for SEPTEMBER 1926 5 BONWIT TELLER &,CO. FIFTH AVENUE AT 38™ STREET. NEW YORK. EXCLUSIVE SPORTS FROCKS by Jane Reony These Sports Frocks are Two of Many Models Designed Exclusively For Bonwit Teller & Co. by Jane Regny, Whose Sports Creations Have Met With Significant Success Because She Herself is a Distinguished Sports- woman and is Able to Ex- press the True Needs of Sport In Terms of Fashion. et FBP OSI cate La \ q/, LA BAULB LA BAULE— Exact reproduction of a sports frock designed by Jane Regny exclusively for this shop. Of flat crepe silk in wine red, : beige, spruce green or navigator blue. 55.00 PARIS PLAGE — Exact reproduction of a sports frock designed by Jane Regny exclusively for this shop. Of lightweight wool crepella in gop red, navigator blue, forest green or WORM 6c ew we es en eee WOMEN’S AND MISSES’ SIZES MAIL ORDERS FILLED ee ae MEZA a SPORTS ATTIRE—Fourth Floor | A Meant hui i i th AMT ART i ut NOTE : These drawings were made by Bernard = SCA unt B. de Monvel, one of the leading French artists, ayant mt H - ! Hat lath a iH a and posed by Jane Regny at her home, with ft i remy ANH YW i it i cal Hi uth her famous dog Cesar. Asai ieee HD NU AR Ca CN ANA : ef. '2 hs egee a O% enh v e 2, SS BERNARD De MONVEL - # oe

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6 PARIS OLLEGE 4LUB REG U.S. PAT. OFP. |-ASHIONS —designed for the smart woman about town as well as the College Miss. And ex- clusive with Stewart & Co. [LECE(LUB HAT In a new French version of the draped felt. Alpine Green, Chanel Red, Tan Blush, Royal Blue or Wild Honey. 12.50 Send for the New Fall and Winter Fashion Book © Stewart & Co., 1926 HARPER’S BAZAR fewurt $ Go. NEW YORK Correct Apparel forWomen & Misses Fifth Avenue at 37th Street \ > foitsce(iwe STRAP PUMP. In black or tan Russia Calf, Patent Leather, Black Satin or Brown Alhga- tor Suede, with smart reptilian leather strap and overlay. 10.75 foiisce(ivs FROCK Of friska cloth follows Paris’ ways to smartness. Stress- ing a chic simplicity in belted waistline, vestee effect and inverted side pleats. Bordeaux Red, Jungle Green, Sand- bar or Navy. Sizes 14 to 20. 28.00 foitsceftis COAT After the manner of Worth, this chic coat is developed of a fine wool tweed coating, it favors a double shawl collar and full-length revers of blended Kit caracul fur to har- monize with the grey or tan coating. Sizes 14 to 20. 57.00 iLECE(CUB SUIT Of Imported tan or grey wool tweed in youthful English- type mode) with huge collar of opossum fur. Smartened with inverted side pleats, patch pockets with leather inserts and a leather belt. Sizes 14 to 20. 35.00 6 ete ath Coan or Se REN ae atiihipie es? ete Pie es A ST ats SL

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NF ee Sree SS ae La ATS for SEPTEMBER 1926 BEST’S INTRODUCES THE FASHION OF THE SWEATER SUIT—-FOR GIRLS “Ohe ideal school costume SERVICEABLE — INEXPENSIVE — WARM — SMART x TT = et 4.50 19. 50 (A) —The top of this sweater cos- tume is Best’s famous sweater- it is so fine and soft it looks hand-knit. The skirt is purled in pleated effect on bodice top. Heather, tan, Lanvin green, rose, cardinal red. Sizes 4 to 6—4.50. 8 and 10—5.50 (B)—This is the junior edition of one of Best’s most successful sweater costumes. The sweater with Student Prince collar is widely striped with rayon. In French blue, Chanel red, Robin Hood green, Terrapin. Sizes 8 to 16 years—19.50. Mail Orders Filled 26.95 (C)—This is the junior edition of the Nada sweater suit. Knit- ted skirt in navy blue, with sweater striped in navy and red, navy and white, navy and royal, navy and tan—18.00 Navy cardi- gan jacket—8.95. Complete, the 3-pieces— Sizes 10 to 16 yrs.—26.95 Best & Co. Fifth Ave. at 35th St.— Paris Palm Beach te 9.49 10.50 (D)—A favorite sweater suit has a pull-over striped with rayon and a plain skirt. It comes in five lovely colors and is most inex- pensive. French blue, tan, rose, and Lanvin green. The skirt has an elastic waistband. Sizes 8 to 16—9.75 (E)— One of the smartest schools in the East has adopted this sweater suit as a school uniform. In a fine jersey knit, with ribbed collar and cuffs. Skirt with kick pleat at sides. New blue, claret, green. Sizes 8 to 16 years—10.50 Charge Accounts Solicited

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8 HARPER’S BAZAR NGAI LE AG ER TCS TO Rg EIS 2 OMS BD ao SE TE g Bots 2 Se TSR ey ore Re —— | This is the stylish coat for travel and for sport made by Hart Schaffner & Marx You get Scotch fleeces, bracing colors, plain shades, arrow head designs, hunting plaids, Caber checks, Pisa stripes. You get the sewing that only men’s tailors can give you. You get the finest quality money can produce at very nominal prices nH There are coats for dress, for motoring, for travel, for sport - in women’s and misses’ sizes. Send for style pictures HART SCHAFFNER & MARX | New York London Paris Chicago | Copyrighted 1926 Hart Schaffner & Marx ; 3 PR, MT EERE CE PR Oe . 1 PLS wes IMTS ARERR ae OES YY ~ 7 a oa eel - seaside 3 = a ef a FR ena ARIE, - Arent RNa rr sian ths Ie ti Rats nh oA Be Rte

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SN mi i ge eg So PR RM kee ae eee ne WBE HPs d sess estes 53 SEB DEEL iC Melati 29 Da en et EP AS hs ARIE NE Med ASL SEPTEMBER 1926 (Above) Man’s say case of brown shark grain seal, leather lined. Nine natural ebony color fittings, and a rubber lined box for toilet necessities 4 $18.89. (Below) The smart Ascot case in lizard grain calf, with ingenious patented lock in handle. Moire silk lined. Large mirror inside cover. In attractive shades of red, blue, green, black, grey, purple, tcn. $18.89. (Below) Traveling clock, radium dial, eight day, six jewel movement, hand en- graved face. In ecrase, pin morocco and calf. Green, rose, blue, brown, purple, tan, grey or black. $13.89. Complete beverage mix- er, in hand-sewn sole leather case. Nickel mixer, four cups and sugar box. $6.94. — oS ‘ \ | gj ode po 00o0900° oc? .@} (e) Coot 2eccco00 Con ACY’s Leather Acces- M sories Section, on the Street Floor, is a boon to the person who seeks a truly practical, endur- ingly lovely gift. Beauti- ful leather novelties from all the world are gathered here. Numerous smart traveling bags, wallets, and beverage sets from Eng- land, France, Italy and Austria. Richly color- ful portfolios, cigarette boxes and other things from Florence. There is an especially wide choice in gifts for men. The various items.on this page are indicative of how very low the prices are, MACY’S 34th St. and Broadway, New York '' (Left) Woman’s fitted case of izard grain leather, moire ined. Eight fittings, as illustrated. 16 by 18 inches. In blue, tan, green, grey, red, purple, black. $29.50. (Above) Sturdy over-night bag of black cobra grain cowhide, leather lined in red, green, blue or tan. Roomy pockets. $7.94. (Below) Bridge set of ecrase leather in rose, blue, brown or green. Two decks of gilt-edged cards, and score pad. $3.69. Writing case in ecrase leather with the new, more convenient writing tablet, moire lined. Rose, blue, tan, purple, green $4.64. ~~ i alll ~ AY i SS (\

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is for SEPTEMBER 1926 e PARIS HAS CRRATED A New Hurt SILHOUETTE L'ATELIER DE PARIS—THIRD FLOOR SAKS ~FIFTH AVENUE FORTY-NINTH to FIFTIETH STREET, NEW YORK

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Have YOU worn it Have You seen it? THE NEW GORDON LINE HEEL HARPER’S BAZAR ‘Deed ee tee dak kk Cen Btn nn ha AS artist designed it. And a house JE famous for the quality of its exquisite hosiery fashioned it in sheer chiffon—this heel with a slender double V that shadows Nature’s own lovely lines. And immediately women love it. So delicately does it emphasize the slim beauty of an ankle. So cleverly does it depart from the awkward heel lines we've known for years. So delight- fully does it add to true hosiery style. That is why discriminating women accepted it so eagerly.... Why almost immediately it began to appear along Fifth Avenue,on Michigan Boulevard, on the bright sands of Southampton ....even on the picturesque Conti- nental beaches where the most dis- tinctively-dressed women of the world You can buy these hose in all colors | —lovely pastel nudes for evening wear, — grays and flesh shades for street and / afternoon. And ask to see the exclu- sive Gordon colors — exquisite Lilac Nude, Froth, Ciel,and the new Cloud. § And one first delightful pair will show you what V-line hose can mean | to a costume, and why it is this grace- ful new design is revolutionizing ho- siery style. See them in your favorite shop today! And send for the new Gordon Style Booklet which will tell you the exact | shades in hosiery—the correct colors | in shoes to complete your fascinating | fall costumes. A postal card will bring it. Address Brown, Durrell Company, i Dept. H-9, 11 West 19th Street, | New York, or 104 Kingston Street, | ra ie ee Ste een oer’ are seen. Boston. i ; cAsk today to see Gordon V-line hosiery im your favorite shade ; —silk to the top Stockings of sheer beauty, whose gracefully balanced heel design, based : on the ancient Greek principle of d lynamic symmetry, shadows so beautifully | the lines with which Nature herself graces the human heel ; ; ORDON —a name to guide you in buy- t ing hosiery, whether you want them of : sheer chiffon or of lustrous heavy quisite to see—to touch....but only when you wear Gordon stockings can you discover all their beauty and their surprising silk, Exe durability. ordon HOSIERY

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ZAR Mae in trees ate eed Seen tov inn eh colors | wear, t and exclu- Lilac wi ie Hen loud. | r will | mean | yrace- | g ho- | : vorite © | Style : exact © colors © ating bring pany, street, treet, | : 3 | 5 ® 4 s P 4 3 22 eA Else ood 2d DLN: Wl RL St AR eh aa tet’ HSS for SEPTEMBER 1926 1B — Paris combines Velvet and Silk IN THE FIRST FROCKS OF FALL Lelong brings together three important fall styles to prove the chic of this daytime frock; the combination of velvet with a silk fabric—a new note on the fall horizon—the tiered skirt and the jabot. Styles spon- sored by every Paris house and presented to New York by The Little Salon in its collection of first fall frocks. The Lelong model sketched is copied in the fabrics of the original: flat crepe and velvet in black . . . $95 THE LITTLE SALON + THIRD FLOOR Lord & Taylor FIFTH AVENUE + NEW YORK OUR PERSONAL SHOPPING BUREAU IS PREPARED TO FILL MAIL AND TELEPHONE ORDERS PROMPTLY AND CAREFULLY

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HARPER'S BAZAR Qo i —— ® >. GC Nasr Miss Grace Hart’s fashion figures have attracted much favorable comment, and in all you will find that feeling of the natural figure beneath the frock. Miss Hart sketches the nude before gownting it just as the modern woman drapes her attire over the natural figure’s outline. Even in her sports clothes — the woman of today is no longer “le garcon”. She is frankly, fearlessly feminine! No longer does her sports frock hang from her shoulders in straight, uncompromising lines — it follows subtly the curves of her body. In other words, the dress of today is moulded over nature’s own lines with no wealth of under- "Vanity Fair VANITY FAIR SILK MILLS, 295 Fifth Ave., New York SILK UNDERWEAR, — ums: raiment to mar the silhouette of the body. : Vanity Fair's Vanitysilk is so woven as to be a mere ghost-like film of silken beauty, fairly melt- ing into the contour of the body—and you may choose it in all of Vanity Fair’s underpieces with their outstanding superiority of design and finish. READING, PA. AND HOSIERY

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HARPER’S BAZAR (Cammeyer Autumn fashions by Cammeyer will be shown in many cities. We will be pleased to tell you where you can see them and mail you a brochure of new styles. 4 modernistic theme is evident in many shoe fashions for the early Autumn. SALON de LUXE FIFTH AVENUF af FIFTY THIRD NEW YORK

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So aeack Ae Ae GE = Vina Fe Potente, ASO NC Rah ARE ANA A a a RRR Sa i ghia Wad ate plist 0 4 N& “A distinguished ey society matron records a motoring predilection IKE seeks like . . . The world’s elect comes to the | car-elect... It is inevitable that those who by birth- right move in America’s most select social orbits should join with our leaders in art and science, and with the Kings and Princes of the earth, in out- spoken expressions of esteem fora mo- tor-car as irreproachably beautiful, as exquisitely luxurious, as surpassingly efficient as the Willys-Knight Great Six Sedan. 4 4 4 The Knight sleeve-valve engine—pat- ented, protected, exclusive. An engine you'll never wear out. The only auto- mobile engine in the world that actu- ally improves with use... In this modern, extremely efficient mo- tor of the Willys-Knight Great Six Sedan, you have one of the great fea- tures responsible for the sale of more than 25,000 of these superb Sixes in the last 12 months—a sales gain of 62% in the first six months of this year. A success-record never before equaled in the same length of time, we believe, by any luxury car. 4 > 4 With no carbon troubles, no valves to MRS. JEROME NAPOLEON BONAPARTE —wife of the ex-Assistant Secretary of the Navy i fe v1 “Such a feeling of power, yet so de- lightfully quiet: +7 As close to an ideal means of getting about quickly and com- fortably as I can well conceive of 7 + + Cer- tainly no woman could ask for a more charmingly appointed or more easily handled motor-car.”’ 4 4 4 grind, the Willys-Knight Great Six edan cuts the customary up-keep costs intwo. At thesame time it completely wipes out the frequent and always in- convenient lay-ups the carbon-cleaning and valve-grinding nuisances necessi- tate in all cars of poppet-valve design. Its engine requiring practically no ad- justments, no repairs, in the Willys- Knight Great Six Sedan you have a car that stays out of the repair shop and in your service, uninterruptedly, day in and day out. Owner after owner will tell you that, throughout his entire period of ownership, he has never been without the use of his car, because of en- gine troubles, for a day or a single hour. 4 4 4 And for your added comfort and satis- faction Belflex Fabric Spring Shackles now replace the metal shackle used on other cars. Belflex—a noiseless, flex- ible, shock-absorbing rubberized fabric —takes up all vibration, keeps the chassis permanently silent and lessens, wear at every part of the car. 4 4 4 ... The new Willys Finance Plan means less money down, smaller monthly pay- ments; and the lowest credit-cost in the industry. Willys-Knight Great Six models from $1750 to $2495, F. O. B. Factory. We reserve the right to change prices and specifications without notice WILLYS-OVERLAND, Inc., Toledo, Ohio WILLYS-OVERLAND SALES CO. Lrtd., Toronto, Can. WILLYS-OVERLAND CROSSLEY Lrd., Stockport, Eng WILLYS-KNIGHT Great SIX “WITH AN ENGINE YOULL NEVER WEAR OUT”

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ANDRUFF is not only an unsightly nuisance but it is a danger signal of more serious scalp trouble —loss of hair, sometimes actual baldness. Women as well as men encounter this trouble. The present feminine vogue of wearing the hair bobbed has revealed to many women that they have dandruff, where they never were aware of it before. Dandruff is a germ disease that no intelligent person will neglect. The ideal treatment to combat dandruff conditions is the systematic use of Listerine, the safe antiseptic. We have received hundreds of unsolicited letters from Listerine users, who are most enthusiastic in their claims for what Listerine will do in this way. If you are troubled with dandruff you owe it to yourself to try it. DANDRUFF? Listerine does the trick. Bottle Bacilli, the cause of Dandruff. Illustration reproduced from Hazen’s “Diseases of the Skin.” C. V. Mosby, Publisher. Dandruff, known scientifically as Pityriasis Simplex Capitis, is a disease of the deeper rooted cells of the scalp. It may spread by infection through personal contact (combs, brushes, etc.). Many people, for instance, and especially children, are free from the disease until infected by actual con- tact with dandruff bacteria. Dandruff is a disease difficult to cure, but easy to check. Unless checked and properly treated it has a persistent tendency to reappear, and ofter in more virulent form, with possible loss of hair or even total baldness. The treatment to check dandruff requires constant cleanliness and the use of a suitable antiseptic solution to combat the disease and to heal the scalp. The use of Listerine for dandruff is not complicated. You simply douse it on your scalp, full strength, and massage thoroughly. The effect is antiseptic, cleansing and healing. And you will be amazed to see how this treatment, followed systematically, does the trick. Moreover, Listerine will not discolor the hair nor will it stain fabrics. Try Listerine some evening when your scalp feels tired and itchy. Dandruff is probably causing the trouble. Apply it generously and then massage vigorously. You will find it a stimulating tonic for the scalp, and in addi- tion to combating dandruff, you will find that it adds that luster and softness to the hair that is so important a part of being well-groomed.—Lambert Pharmacal Co., St. Louis, U.S. A. LISTE RINE —and dandruff simply do not get along together

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 In the Imperial “80” Chrysler engineers have given own- ers something more than ordinary roadability. They sought for stability and steadiness under all conditions and speeds and over the most difficult roadways. For they knew that the public wanted easement of all riding disturbances—elimination of road shocks, jolt- ing and sidesway heretofore considered inevitable even in the costliest of cars. This they accomplished by revolutionary principles of shock absorption—special Chrysler-designed spring mounting—long, almost flat springs parallel to the wheels to prevent sidesway—spring ends anchored in specially molded blocks of live rubber, and these in turn securely held under compression in malleable The Final Perfection of Riding Easement brackets at the frame ends. These live rubber blocks effectively insulate these springs from the frame and absorb all road shocks and road sounds. They also eliminate annoying squeaks and rattles and do away with the need of lubrication. Thus Chrysler engineers have met public demand in furnishing unusual riding qualities and countless other features in a car as fine as money can build. We are eager that you ride in a Chrysler Imperial “80”. Frankly, the results will amaze you. For you will experi- ence a new conception of riding luxury—unsurpassed speed ability even to 80 miles and more an hour plus a balanced buoyancy of motion beyond comparison or precedent. Eight superb body styles at new low prices, $2495 to $3595 f. o. b. Detroit CHRYSLER SALES CORPORATION, DETROIT, MICHIGAN CHRYSLER CORPORATION OF CANADA, LIMITED, WINDSOR, ONTARIO S ‘ nO R- GF « mperial (\° ae ae ae ae ee es

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18 HARPER’S BAZAR The RISE of the brown shoe is phenom- enal; its success established. Reena For those smart tweed things—brown. For the coat with brown fur, no matter what colour the fabric—brown. For the after- noon dress in almost any of the smart brown-red, rust or green shades—brown. The woman who isn’t generously supplied with brown shoes this winter will have to put her feet in storage. C Vici kid announces the mart browns as follows: VICI ROSETTE A delicately lovely rose- brown, ideal for the after- noon shoe to be worn with the lighter browns and reds. VICI CINNA Slightly darker than Rosette. VICI POLO A warm golden brown, for wear with brown, red-brown, green or rust — the leading brown of the season. VICI COCHIN A darker tone in the same rich brown scale. VICI WALNUT A deep true brown, the best possible tone to combine with Chanel red and the darker brown furs. igi ear i acai P RDN 0S BERLE RE abi ed as ee Mt ma, ne Se e ROBERT H. FOERDERER, Inc. PHILADELPHIA elling agencies in all parts of the wor Reo shoes are the only smart shoes with tweeds, in the world of sport; with coats trimmed with brown fur, on the street; with those chic little afternoon frocks of the brown, red-brown, rust or green colour-gamut ... You’re only as smart as your feet—how smart are they?

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1R for SEPTEMBER 1926 RBLAL SE Tix RETURN of black, long expected, has come with a rush. The black coat with silver fox, the black afternoon dress—demand a black shoe. Blues, from cornflower to navy, call for black as the only possible chic accent. The black shoe—all black, or touched with colour— must be represented many times in the shoe wardrobe of every smart woman. “ = “ VICI BLACK (mat or glacé finish) provides a black shoe that is new, smart and sponsored by Paris ever since early summer. Vici kid won’t crack. It’s easy to clean. [t shows the foot at its smallest . .. Where- fore it accomplishes the impossible, and com- bines economy with chic. reer ee Ln T= black broadcloth coat with fox fur will have an enormous success —if one wears black shoes with it. The vogue for shades of blue—there are three in the tiered dress illustrated at the left—calls for a black accent .-+-Call for yours today, at any shop where Vici kid shoes are on display. soa eae area. Look for the Vici Lucky Horseshoe stamped inside your brown or black shoes. An assurance of colour, quality—and the far-seeing smartness of your own taste. REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.

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HARPER’S BAZAR ou need not hesitate between beauty and common sense in foot- wear. Choose what you will ~ kidskin, suede, patent leather, calfskin, lizard, or sieihaaiiaitiaiitiee alligator glovelike in fit, hatlike in effed is introduced bere, . - e Genuine lizard applique trim, the Shoe of the Hour is the light- with ascot tan kidskin, Visible eyelets important. weight Fashion Welt. Time was when Welt Construction signified only mannish, athletic, heavy- THE SHOE OF THE HOUR

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 Matching visible eyelets soled shoes scorned by the fastidiously feminine. But modern ingenuity has de- vised ways to adapt the Welt to lighter modes, and modern fashion has found reasons to adopt the Welt in lighter moods. Fashion Welt footwear holds its shape longer, supports the foot more firmly, meets wet weather more gal- lantly. Inside is no seam or stitching to irritate one’s foot or shorten the life of chiffon hosiery. They may always be satisfactorily resoled. Particularly emphasized for autumn are Fashion Welt Oxfords finished pref- erably with visible eyelets. UNITED FAST COLOR EYELET COMPANY BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS FASHION WELIS with Visible Eyelets

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HARPER’S BAZAR “2 ISIS awe be 28S aN And now— Skinner’s Crepe de Chine! AVEN'’T youalways wanted a crepe de Chine Skinner is making this crepe de Chine. As dependa- that would combine all the good qualities a ble in quality as Skinner's famous satins for dresses, crepe de Chine ever had? . . . The linings and shoes. As smart as Paris ideal crepe de Chine? ee 20% itself. In all the best of the new One with the softest lustre—the , eg poo Skinner's | colours—48_ of them— including the lustre of pearls. One that would take jst the way you want Ht ta | Cea. Sinatra: Teenie those melting lovely lines of the new =| S**?°19 fF fal | black you ever saw—and you know It Stays in Pleat You can pleat Skinner's crepe I] mode—without angles or bulk. One how smart black is going to be, and " de Chine easily and it will stay | how hard it is to get in crepe. heavy enough to keep crisp pleats— in pleat well. The two designs || 8 P at the left are among the | yet supple enough to tie in a tiny bow. smartest of new pleated frocks. ] Walk straight into your favorite | | | It Ties in Small Bows shop and ask for Skinner’s crepe de One that would wear and wear and Skinner's crepe de Chine is | P P wear—and never get stringy or rusty =| $3), Sa Sua chine. The | Chine today. design in the center feat o ° ” or crushed—One that would wash! §& theamart mew tos. i Look for the Name in the Selvage a WILLIAM SKINNER & SONS, NEW YORK-CHICAGO-BOSTON-PHILA. MILLS, HOLYOKE, MASS. ESTABLISHED 1848 Skinners Crepes Some of the New Fall’ Colours Light Navy—That new autumn Wild Honey—A beige with rose blue—smart, discreet yet lively and gold in it—heavenly—an Old Wine—A marvelous deep- so new toned red—immensely flattering Black—Best of all blacks— pecans. smartest and most coming Sea Moss—The new green, equally good for blondes or brunettes THE SEL VAGE”

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 idea typed of Hlackshine gouns, for women. Gach oerfech in tine, treatment and. conception of the new fall mode CThebe and other Blackshire models, now being shown at Shops. cateung to a discununaing clentele—>

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HARPER’S BAZAR A great authority once said that there were only fifty indisputably smart women in the world--and one of them was Helen La France. This famous great lady, a very real per- son whose name only is fictitious, has consented to let us see and report her wardrobe from time to time. One of her dearest hobbies is shoes, -sj( and these she will pur- “GAH chase from only two places in the world-- Perugia in Paris and I.Miller in New York. § Helen La France has just returned to America with five trunksful of thrilling clothes ordered at DML, the recent Paris openings; and one of her first visits in New York was to I. Miller to order shoes for all her new costumes. f

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 | Vagabond Qeumtas AL | Baeetiti Lattncrr Helen La France’s first purchases of shoes for Autumn are always the sturdy walking shoes she will need on her return to town. The question of formal afternoon and evening gowns for Winter is never settled until after the openings, but her tailleurs and sports clothes for the Autumn were all chosen in Paris e in August. Therefore she YX can with perfect confidence select her informal shoes. {The shoes at the extreme left and right of the page would be appropriate with the smart new Premet traveling cos- tume which she wears on the opposite page. These smart crea- tions may be obtained at the many I. Miller shops and agencies throughout 23 the country.

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HARPER’S BAZAR ere is lasting beauty for your windows \ thee ete jaguae eaeeeses seesveee waeetee eetedas Ceovereceer eae es eaeetlatuas. 20888. aaees —— el tt 9 hed tt +o ereeesevas eusvsees Cee te eeereaetave: eeevecece ee essseaee! hdd eesareeces ‘ttt ii thd — see wevreerstaer: saseaee oe senesecaaeueeseee veers eaece geeugeerse? ve sseeesseree TIT ITI eaereea@ sesueseeur waeeeer fi ++ $44 4p Paecadasecssas saree ouoveees oe pigt—- PtriTiTii iii eae wssveusae SS oaeesesesceussscen ver H+ttttH PITTI T2424 ae spaccueevevegsere ‘Ti7iiidd stevcgr seer? iwaawngeves ss, asae Veecesveger cere gas sees sseqaeeae esestee vagrarares ‘eranvavseers Pritt peel pate pe pp pee tt + pt tp p> eeheenennannnaani engeoces 1. Quaker Net before washing 2. Quaker Net after one washing 3. Woven fabric before washing 4, Woven fabric after one washing \ No loss of light or transparency Light loss of 17% and much greater loss of transparency } ( Rees \ What good is it to select beautiful, transparent hte SAMPLES: No. 1, Quaker Net before washing; No 2, Quaker Net after one washing; No. 3, curtains if they lose their beauty and Woven fabric of same mesh before washing; No.4, Woven fabric of same mesh after one washing. : ? TESTS: A 4-inch square cut from each sample transparency at the first washing: ame RT Beak Measurements of diffused light were secured il- ‘ . A luminating the lace uniformly from all directions. Look at the demonstration above. Figure 1 is a sample of Quaker RESULTS: The results of the test showed the . . . . . Quaker Net after washing transmitted the same Filet Net before washing. Figure 2 is the same net after it has been amount of light as when new. washed. Note that the net is as open after washing as before. fap te ogee nyt Seg le That’s because of the long staple threads used in its construction. ee ee Note that each individual square retains its symmetry. That’s because pm AD in the “netted” construction of Quaker Nets each cross thread is \\ Electrical Testing Laboratories, N. Y. C. a firmly tied to each upright one, so that it cannot slip or get out of shape like a woven fabric. Now look at Figure 3, a piece of woven fabric before washing. Compare this with Figure 4, the same piece after a simple laundering. Notice how the threads have spread and shrunk and lost symmetry until what transparency the fabric originally had is gone,together with its value or beauty as a curtain. The test was made after one washing. The fabric would lose more and more transparency after each washing. These are not our tests. They were made by the Electrical Testing Laboratories. Their report shows that after washing Quaker Nets distribute 24% more light than the woven fabric. This demonstrates why home-makers who insist on Quaker Net Curtains are justly proud of their windows not only the first season, but until the curtains are actually worn out. Plain or Fancy by Yard or Pair You can get Quaker Net Curtains as plain or as fancy as your taste or your home demands. You can get them with large meshes or small, as you desire. You can buy them by the yard or as made-up curtains as your choice dictates. But whatever way you buy them you are sure that their beauty will last until the curtains are worn out. Send 10c to Dept. A for a copy of our new booklet “Correct Curtains” A —_ VERNA ERSIER MCU Zag —> = Z — 2uaker Nets and La 330 Fifth Avenue, New York QUA KE R LACE CO. Lehigh PRD any my ee Penn.

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SEPTEMBER 1926 Van Raalte Silk and Fabric Gloves ++ Van Raalte Glove and IIlusion Silk Underwear

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The notes of style which distinguish the Adorée (illustrated) and other Peacock models for Fall are—sheer beauty of line, new and exquisite leathers, and the masterly fashion in which the elements of charm have been combined to create a perfect and lasting fit...Peacock Shoes for HARPER’S BAZAR BACOCK SHORS MAN a Ole CD By Boy. DD -MALe Ss H women are contrived by master-craftsmen to heighten the beauty of ankle and foot. They are purchased by women who anticipate the mode at better shops throughout the country. PEACOCK SHOES NEW YORK - PARIS - LONDON ART IN SHOES

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 WINSTON —The slightly man- nish cut and the lustrous Corti- celli Satin canton of this frock make a charming paradox. Other women who make an art of dressing will find it as be- coming as Irene Castle does RONNETTE—In this praceful frock of rich Corticelli Crepe, Irene Castle endorsed the vogue MERIDEN — Satin lines this bolero jacket of Corticelli Crepe Alaska of black and white. A narrow enclosed front panel of white crepe from neck to hem is a chic detail and tops the dress. Colors: Wallflower, Navy, Sable, Black li CHILE Cas th C returns from Par 1S ” with the new (Corrcett coats and frocks N Paris Irene Castle found that there was something new in the mode this Fall. There’s a bit of a blouse below the waist where all was straight before. Where Summer fluttered, Fall sways ... Circular movements have a way of be- ing swung to the side giving animation to the silhouette. Moirés are having a fling. Satin crepes and crepe failles are favorites for dresses; the softest of woolens for coats. The smartest colors are the wine shades, wood browns, dull greens, Chanel red and black. The dresses that Irene Castle brought back with her are lovely object lessons in the new and the beautiful. Each one is so smart, so dis- tinguished, so becoming. | Only Corticelli silks were worthy to reproduce these dresses. Their purity, the gleaming, supple beauty of the silk made them the choice. From the collections of the famous French couturiers she has made her selections JEDDA—An English “Zig- zag” tapestry exclusive in Irene Castle Fashions. Lined with Corticelli thistledown silk And now in the smart shop in your town where the Irene Castle Corticelli fashions are sold you will find these intriguing costumes—fresh proof of Irene Castle’s right to be called “The best dressed woman in America.” The label shown below is sewn in each model to assure authen- ticity. If you would like to. know the store nearest you which carries these frocks and coats, fill out the coupon and it will be sent to you together with a booklet of this month’s styles. Mail this coupon for new fashion booklet THE CorTICcELLI SILK Company, Dept. 405 136 Madison Avenue, New York Please send me the free booklet of the latest *Trene Castle Corticelli Fashions.” Name_ Street___ ethic hood “ eee a) a __State__

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HARPER’S BAZAR ACES DESIGNED AND TAILORED BY F ¥ # td Look for this label. It is the identification of a smart garment, and your guarantee of quality. ‘Ask for Printzess apparel by name, (pr™ offers this interpre- tation of the new blouse wrap. This is but one of the many Printzess models which a leading merchant in your city is featuring this Fall. His store also features Printzess-Travelure wraps for travel and sport wear, and Printzess-Petite for the re- quirements of the shorter figure. The Printz-Biederman Company, Cleveland and New York.

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SEPTEMBER 1926 for tyke... 1S Only a part of ood Appearance. HE well groomed woman demands so much more than style in her wearing apparel. In shoes, for instance, she looks not merely for modes in harmony with her costumes, but also for the partic- ular make of shoe that insures poise and grace. She knows well that her carriage, quite as much as her dress, determines her appearance. as In the Arch Preserver Shoe she obtains the smartest possible style suitable for each occasion and gown, but in addition a distinctive construction that prevents the foot from sagging and enables her to walk naturally, freely and joyfully. The patented exclusive features of this famous shoe, the concealed, built-in arch bridge, the flat inner sole, and the heel-to-ball fitting method, are explained in our interesting booklet ‘‘Foot Youth” which we will send if you will mail the coupon. VU Tavec of the many sivles cre- The Arch Preserver Shoe for women, misses and children © sldweion with om is made only by The Selby Shoe Company, Portsmouth, Ohio. “XG ne Q The Selby Shoe Co., 509 7th St., Portsmouth, Ohio Please send postpaid your booklet No. B-9, ‘Foot Youth,"’ and Dame of your nearest dealer. “KEEPS THE FOOT WELL" I CINE Winches setenisnrvinbecesvsavaeaninssactinting rakes

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When Indian summer days are come—when with gay companions you saunter over the friendly fields —have a Camel! WHEN Indian summer days are here. And the smoky haze lies over the fields. When the merry notes of the horn, sounding after the coach and four, remind you of other days—have a Camel! For life is never so complete, so joyous as when a lighted Camel sends up its fragrant smoke. On city street or country road, in any season of the year, no other ciga- rette was ever so rich and fra- grant—so smooth and mellowy mild. When you become a Camel smoker, there’s no end to your en- joyment, for they never tire the taste. All Camel days are happy days, for they never leave a cig- aretty after-taste. Money doesn’t ' enter into Camel enjoyment. No matter how much you are able or willing to pay, you'll never get choicer tobaccos, more superbly blended, than you get in Camels. So, this perfect autumn day as your trail leads over the fields or along the turning road —as it seems that no other day or place could be so restful, so friendly— Have a Camel! No other cigarette in the world is like Camels. Camels contain the choicest Our highest wish, if you Turkish and Domestic tobaccos. The Camel blend is the triumph of expert do not yet know Camel blenders. Even the Camel cigarette paper is the finest — made especially in i quality, is that you try France. Into this one brand of cigarettes is concentrated the experience and . - them. We invite you to skill of the largest tobacco organization in the world. } compare Camels with “2 any other cigarétte made at any price. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco mpany Winston-Salem, N.C.

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WILLS SAINTE CLAIRE HEN quality car owners ultimately discover Wills Sainte Claire, their restless seeking after something different abruptly ends. Aware, after driving the car, that there is nothing finer anywhere to be found, they cease to seek. That is why it has become an adage throughout the Wills Sainte Claire organization, that the best prospect for a Wills Sainte Claire is the Wills Sainte Claire owner himself. WILLS SAINTE CLAIRE, INC. Marysville, Michigan

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34 Cunard S.S.ScyTuia’ 5% Annual Guise de Luxe Sailing Jan. 26, 1927 Limited to 400 Guests Madeira, Spain, Gibraltar, Algiers, Tunis, Pa- lermo, Messina, Taormina, Syracuse, Malta, Constantinople, Greece, Venice, Naples, Riviera, Monte Carlo, France, England. The Cruise of the magnificent 20,000-ton “Scythia” to the Mediterra- nean, under special charter, has become an annual classic. In every respect it is unsurpassed. Hot and cold running water in every cabin. Prearranged shore excursions at every port included in the rate. Finest hotels and the best of everything. Unusually long stay, at the height of the season, in Egypt and Palestine. Stop-over privilege in Europe without extra cost, returning via S. S. “Aquitania,” “Mauretania,” Luxury Cruisestothe | “Berengaria,” or any Cunard Line Steamer. Full information on request. Early reservation advisable. FRANK TOURIST CO. (Est. 1875) 542 Fifth Ave., New York Philadelphia—1529 Locust St. Besten—33 Devonshire St. Les Angeles—At Bank of America San Francisco—582 Market St. BAZAR HOTEL and TRAVEL DEPARTMEN “The Sunshine Belt to the Orient” Ancient forms of transportation contrast with the motor car in China Orient - Round the World Combining the only fortnightly service Round the World with the fastest service to the Orient Visit Honolulu, Japan, China, Manila, Malaya, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Italy, France, Boston, New Y ork, Havana, PanamaCanal Los Angeles and San Francisco. 22 ports in 14 countries. Strange peoples, rare beauties, remin- ders of an ancient civilization, mysticism, charm. Enjoy the luxury and comfort of a magnificent President Liner. Outside rooms with beds, not berths. Commodious and beautifully appointed. A world famous cuisine. A sailing every Saturday from San Francisco (every two weeks from Boston and New York). Likewise a sailing every 12 days from Seattle direct to the Orient without call at Honolulu. Complete information from local steamship or railroad ticket agent or Dollar Steamship Line Admiral Oriental Line 604 Fifth Avenue, NewYork 25 and 32 Broadway, New York Robert Dollar Building, San Francisco 1519 Railroad Ave. South, Seattle Chateau Frontenac, Quebec “How shall I know, unless I go, to Cairo or Cathay— Whether or not that blessed spot is blessed in every way?” —EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY. Indeed, Madam, how shall you know, unless you do go to Cairo or Cathay! Cairo and Cathay! Extremely foreign places, these, where the very spirit is transformed and exhilarated. Or, if Cairo and Cathay are too far away, there are always Quebec, and Bermuda, and a hundred other places, whose stories are told in this Travel Department. Nennilh 2. Kaur, DIRECTOR HARPER’S BAZAR TRAVEL DEPARTMENT 583 Madison Avenue, New York

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N@HARPER’S BAZAR HOTEL and TRAVEL DEPARTMEN ae is sath = am wal NUTY EVERYWHERE | ana you can bring it back/ Sail round the world. See its beauty. Store it in your mind. Bring it home in your trunks. Are not the gaiety and charm of Havana caught in that yellow shawl, so gleamingly shot with silver? Doesn't the sweet clink of those jade bracelets suggest the streets of Shanghai? The color of Java flares in those batik scarfs. = ; ee VESUVIUS That scarlet kimono carries with it the scents and the ; s scenes of Hong Kong. Sapphires and aquamarines—so cheap in Colombo-——are ravishing now. 5 d That piece of carnelian-color brocade that made so rare a gown—how vividly it reminds you of the wonder of Cairo. So it is—mute bits of beauty gathered in far places find e their own eloquence at home. a d The pleasantest way to find this beauty? Sail round the world on the Belgenland. Write for a booklet which tells a complete story of the cruise. The Belgenland, largest and finest liner that ever circled the globe, BOM BAY Sails from New York, December 14 Los Angeles, December 30 San Francisco, January 2 Back in New York, April 24,1927 60 cities 14 countries 132 days 28,000 miles For complete information ad- dress—Red Star Line, No. 1 Broadway; American Express Co., 65 Broadway, New York; RED STAR LINE INTERNATIONAL MERCANTILE MARINE COMPANY in cooperation with AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY Branch Offices in principal cities, OR ere Se )~=AUTHORIZED AGENCIES

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Cruise Sailing from New York, January 15, 1927 ZULUS, WAR DANCES, DIAMONDS, GOLD, VICTORIA FALLS These are the things members of the first cruise to Africa most wanted to see. And when they saw them, one of their spokes- men enthusiastically declared: “There are 100,000 people in America today, who, if they knew what we know now about South Africa, would be here tomorrow.” Here is the second opportunity to visit South and East Africa— also West Indies, South America, Egypt and Europe —an even more alluring cruise of 101 days, by THE WONDER-SHIP “ASTURIAS” Most luxurious liner in the world — a new motor vessel of 22,500 tons gross, 35,390 tons displacement.

A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY MN. NEW MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE From New York, February 26, 1927 SHRINES OF ANCIENT GREECE And scenic gems of the Dalmatian Riviera —these will be the fascinating new features of this 70-day cruise which will, in addition, visit all the ports of the standard cruise. The splendid cruising steamer ORCA, famous liner of the first Great African Cruise, will provide the utmost in comfort to supple- ment the attractions of the unusual itinerary. Write for Illustrated Booklets THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET CO. New York Boston Cleveland Chicago Detroit St. Louis Minneapolis San Francisco LosAngeles Seattle Atlanta Vancouver Montreal Toronto Halifax or any office of the AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY in cooperation with whom these cruises will be operated

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“CtheVopa € of Your Dreams , 138 Days 25Countries 59 Ports and Cities The itinerary of this “Wonder World Cruise” includes all the Oriental Portsand Cities of allother world cruises plus Siam, Borneo and Formosa. The seasons everywhere are the very best of the year; Egypt during the brilliant social season; India in the cool weather corresponding to our May; Peking in Springtime; and—the delight of all travelers—Japan in Cherry Blossom Time. ©Around-mtWorld on the “Queen of Cruising Steamers”’ RESOLUTE ‘i= Jan. 6, 1927 from New York Luxuriously appointed The rates of $2,000 and up throughout, the Resc.uTe include an_ extraordinary represents the acme of programof shore excur- cruising comfort. Unusual sions. spaciousness characterizes One management on ship the public rooms, state. and on shore. Descriptive literature sent on request.

rooms and decks. | HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINES UNITED AMERICAN LINES, INC. GENERAL AGENTS 35-39 Broadway, N.Y. 177N.MichiganAve.,Chicago 131 State St.,Boston 230 South 15th Street, Philadelphia 574 Market Street, San Francisco or Local Steamship and Tourist Agents

A FALL VACATION

a o ? Commute South this WHY NOT? W inter to Bermuda, Cuba, the Carib- < bean—all are increasingly ine tS lovely during the fall NORTA CAROLINA months, before the great influx of winter visitors makes them over-popular. FURNISHED HOMES for SALE or RENT Commute to Pinehurst where it is SPRING all winter. Only 16 hours from New York City and the tempered Perhaps, you feel the need mildness of climate makes safe a northern of a fall vacation and trip if necessary. ld lik hel An ideal place for the familyin the dry, bs 9 : ake us to help you bracing Sandhills of the Mid-South plan it. Just ask where sports and good fellowship abound. Golf, polo, tennis, gunclub, riding, archery. Health is first at Pinehurst. Outdoor exercise, climate, a town supply of fil- tered water, certified milk—all combine to put one “on the toes” and give health and happiness. Consumptivesexcluded. HARPER’S BAZAR TRAVEL DEPT. 383 Madison Ave. New York

For information write requirements to PINEHURST REAL ESTATE DEPT. PINEHURST, N.C. Opposite the Ritz

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NT pFHARPER’ S BAZAR HOT Es AE. TRAVEL DEPARTMENT 37 ON INDIAN SUMMER ce THE IDEAL VACATION TIME September — October — when the trees are glori- ously scarlet and golden, when all nature is in its prime, and the air is invigoratingly cool, this is the ideal vacation time. We know some partic- ularly lovely places to go this time of the year. May we tell you about them. Just ask HARPER’S BAZAR TRAVEL DEPT. 383 Madison Ave. New York Opposite the Ritz Fe Orie by the . , 18S‘PRESIDENTE WILSON’ (20 knots—Oilburner) sailing from New York | Jan«+25, 1927, and Boston next day. Rates from S€00 include hotels, guides, autos, shore visits. Stop-overs, Algiers, Madeira, Egypt, Athens, Corfu, Naples, Sicily, Riviera, Lisbon, Dalmatia, Venice, ete. (Regular sailings to Mediterranean and Adriatic ports.) Address all tourist offices. American Express Co., 65 Broadway, N. Y. shore i and cruise arrangements) COSULICH LINE (World Famous Cuisine) Phelps Bros. & Co., General Agents, 17 Battery Place, New York (94 years in Ocean Travel) By Cunarp-ANcuHor new oil burners at rates including hotels, guides, drives and fees. 121 days $1250 to $2900 ROUND THE WORLD ss “California” sailing Jan. 19 7th cruise, including Havana, Panama Canal, Los Angeles, Hilo, Honolulu, 18 days Japan and China, Manila, Java, Burma, option 17 days India, Ceylon, Egypt, Palestine, Greece, Italy, Riviera. Europe stop-overs. 23rd Mediterranean Cruise Jan. 29; 62 days, $600 to $1700. FRANK C. CLARK, Times Bidg., N. Y. (White Count) Largest and fastest Italian liner Sept. 4—Oct. ja —ttov. 16 Jan. 5—Feb. 10 S.S. CONTE ROSSO (Red Count) Sept. 21—Oct. 30—Dec. 9 Mar. 1—Apr. 5 To Gibraltar, Naples and Genoa During January and February steamers stop also at>Madeira and Algiers, and optional shore excursions are arranged at all ports of call. evr: In the Land of the Sky Where every day is playtime and the Opportunities for Investment know no Season Write for descriptive Literature Asheville Chamber of Commerce nt N.C. HOTEL ST. JAMES 100-113 West 45th St., New York City Midway between Fifth Avenue and Broadway An hotel of quiet dignity, having the atmos- phere and appointments of a well-conditioned home. Much favored by women traveling without escort. 3 minutes’ walk to 40 theatres and all best shops. fates and booklet = eo W. JOHNSON QUI Clark’s Famous Cruises | 1}CUNARD Caribbean BY\) 4A 15 Day Cruise’ SA on the FRANCONIA aety / Inclusive Fares $200 and up Sailing from New York Dec, 22, 1926 Returning Jan. 6, 1927 NE of the most magnetic short sea trips in the world—a special Cunard Cruise over Christmas and New Year, to Porto Rico, Jamaica, Havana, the Bahamas—on a world- renowned cruising ship, amidst climatic con- ditions ideal for winter travel. A trip that will substitute the glow of health for the 4% pallor of fatigue. ° ) also Two 31 Day Cruises on the new CALEDONIA Inclusive Fares $300 and up " From New York January 22, returning February 22 From New York February 26, returning March 29 To Nassau, Havana, Port au Prince, Kingston, Colon, Curacao, La Guayra, Trinidad, Barbadoes, Martinique and Bermuda. The Caledonia is a magnificent new steamer, fitted with the new thermo tank ventilation system which supplies a current of fresh air—under the passenger's own control —to every stateroom, an innovation of greatest comfort- value, when cruising in the tropics. Electric fans in every room. under the eae in the Cong “First Family’ or Benches a an H Agencies . ih \ 2 ; VA gived . a ™.

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38 HARPER’S BAZAR HOTEL and TRAVEL DEPARTMENT H HE PERFECT of} HOLY LAND....EGYPT....VENICE Seventeen Colorful Ports a «Mood and Mode Cairo— Malta—Athens—Constantinople —Cat- of Correct Living taro —Venice!... Make them more than names! See them—know them—remember them....The ~ Empress of France, 18,350 gross tons, sails from il New York on February 12—bound for Spring- time. Madeira is her first port of call. Follow then Cadiz, Gibraltar, Algiers, and a dozen ports as colorful. You’ll spend almost 3 weeks in Egypt and the Holy Land. You'll see Beirut, Naples, Monaco, Cherbourg and Southampton. And always, on ship and on shore, the attentive management of the world’s greatest travel sys- tem. Fascinating excursions at all ports included in fare....For choice accommodations, book earlier. cl NIAAA AAAI Ss —_—_— ga NK ORS OOOO Re TF rs ANA XY a New York is planning to live at 15 EAST 69th STREET. . . XXX Because its address is so socially unique—because it is enviably con- — XMAS venient to metropolitan centers— because its luxury is tempered by the edicts of good taste—and because its The ship is the Empress EMPRESS OF Literature from your of France, 18,350 gross FRANCE local agent, or Cana- tons of steadiness and dian Pacific, N. Y., 344 appointments create an atmosphere comfort. Twice chosen for voyages bythe Prince of Wales. A cruise favor- ite. For greater comfort only a limited portion of her capacity will be booked for this cruise Madison Avenue; Chi- cago, 71 E. Jackson Boulevard; Montreal, 141 St. James St. Prin- cipal cities in U.S. A. and Canada. Personal service if desired that will be mirrored in the con- tentment of every resident. The spacious, many-windowed suites dl of 1 and 2 rooms, or more, give access to private bathsand deep cedar closets. Attractive dining salon operated un- der owner-management. Maid and valet service included in every lease. —— | “ Fe Hy ) = i}\ ~ ‘é = | OWNERSHIP MANAGEMENT r management = | . Occupancy NOW — Leasing as of OCTOBER Ist @f Floor Plans and Details on Request }O Owner - Representative on Prerzises SXXXXXAAAXAANXAAKARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAA MAAN \

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39 HARPER’S BAZAR HOTEL and TRAVEL DEPARTMENT NY) ae tS =r North Aftiea .... suilit.... exotie... oriental Where the smart world winters..... Only nine days from New York.... And no more expensive than an ordinary trip I TT TN i Lal Smouldering torches .. . wild strains of music... the sultry lifting of heavy scents from brazen burners! It is the witchery of the Orient woven into a tapestry of stars hung to the horizon. In the desert . .. serpentine caravans silhouette against starlit waves of sand... oases rear their umbrellas of palm fronds against the soft tropic sky. Scenes of unbelievable beauty . . . they lure the imaginative to a North Africa made comfortable by 31 famous Transatlantique hotels, with accommodations and cuisine as fine as those found in cosmopolitan centres. Luxurious motor cars travel excellent macadam roadways... and six-twin wheeled Renault cars ride the desert dunes. ; De Luxe fifty-seven day itinerary, including Mediterranean trip, private auto- mobile and all hotel expenses . . . $1450. Or specially arranged shorter trips ... including a thirteen day itinerary for $120. This Mohammedan Paradise is reached by “the longest gangplank in the world.” The Paris or France, de Luxe French Liners, will take you to Plymouth, England ...then Havre. The One-Class Cabin Liners go direct to Havre, the port of Paris. No transferring to tenders. Down the gangplank to the waiting train and Paris in three hours. Overnight express service to the Riviera. And a day across the Mediterranean to North Africa. Write for our illustrated brochure on North Africa ... and travel first in its pages. uve se INFORMATION FROM ANY FRENCH LINE AGENT OR TOURIST OFFICE, OR WRITE DIRECT TO 19 STATE STREET, NEW YORK CITY a8

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New York—Girls SEMPLE SCHL OARDING and Day School forgirls, opposite Central Park. College Pre- paratory. Post Graduate, Special and Finishing Courses. Interior Decorat- ing, Secretarialand Domes- tic Science Courses, Lan- guages, Art, Music, Dra- matic Art, Social Life, Outdoor Sports. For Catalogue address Mrs, T. Darrington Semple, Principal, Box B, 241 and 242 Central Park West New York City ‘Wadsidi oata TH aie all The Scudder School is unique in provid- ing intensive, practical courses combined with the advantages of a finishing school in New York City. Day and boaraing. College Preparatory and General Courses. High School. Household Arts. Every phase of home-making. Music. Secre- tarial Training for High School and College graduates. Social Welfere and Community Service. Voice and all instru- ments. Physical training and athletics for all. Address Miss H. B. Scudder, 244 West 72 Street, New York City. DONGAN HALL A Country School for Girls | One hour from N. Y. City College Pre waration General Course Art— Music All outdoor sports— Riding Emma B. Turnbach, A.B. Principal Box H, Dongan ~~ Staten Island, N. THE RAYSON SCHOOL 36th Year A quiet, refined home on Riverside Drive in New York with thorough college preparation. Miss Clara Fe at 1c, Miss Catherine Wilcox, Principals. 320 Riverside Drive, New York Cit ty. URSULINE ACADEMY | hours from New York. Usual Music. Lower School for younger girls. Riding. All Athletics. Special Vacation schedule. Catalog of URSULINE SISTERS, Bos 8, Middletown, N. Y. FOR GIRLS. 2 subjects. Also Secretarial; THE COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL Social and Economic Problems, Budgeting, Hygiene and Home Nursing, Foods and. Marketing including Cooking, Dressmaking, Millinery, Banking Investme inte, Household Management. ne yore and part-time courses 136 E. 55th St., New York City and Box 8 THE FINCH SCHOOL | POST-GRADUATE COURSES: Music, Arts, | Home Making, English, Dra ama, Secretarial, PARIS HOME of school ony usizes Travel, Arts, Languages = ssicA E. Ce anges. Principal, 61 East 77th S New York City THE BROWNSON SCHOOL | Catholic Boarding and Day School for Girls College Preparatory and Finishing Courses. Special classes in French and French conversation Address Mrs. Violett 22-24 East 91st Street New York Tutoring Elementary and College Preparatory Branches— Modern and Classical Languages re by leading schools of the city 38 East 85th Street New York City | PRIVATE TUTOR | | Mrs D. Roberts Rhinelander 2692 | — 119 West 4oth St., | At the Service of Every Reader HE services of the Harper’s Bazar School Department are available to all readers. even though you are not a regular subscriber. We are always glad to serve the casual reader. department will receive prompt and careful attention. Do not hesitate to write us Your letter addressed to this HARPER’S BAZAR SCHOOL DEPARTMENT New York City A SCHOOL OF College preparation. Junior School. Charles W. Hawthorne, N MARGARET BELL MERRILL, Music, M. A., BRIARCLIFF MRS. DOW’S SCHOOL LOYAL TRADITIONS WITH MODERN SPIRIT General Academic, Home Efficiency and Post Graduate courses. Art, New York Advantages New Model Swimming Pool Jan Sickesz, Direc toe of Music For Illustrated Circular, apply to Acting Principal, Briarcliff Manor, New York Depart ment » Director of Art Department life SCOVILLE SCHOOL, A Distinctive Fifth Avenue School Facing Central Park and the Art Museum. and Unsurpassed for Recreational Opportunities. Combines charming home interesting school work. Central Park for Riding and Out- door Sports. New York’s best in Music, Art and Drama. Regular Academic and Advanced Finishing Courses. Intensive College Prep- aration. Special Courses in Art, Music, Languages, Dramatic Art. Resident and Day Departments Address, Miss Rosa B. Chisman, Principal 1005 Fifth Avenue, New York City Lawrence Park, Bronxville, N. Y. 28 min- ity. College Prepar- Pycantwood Hall utes from New York atory and general a. Cottage System. Unrivaled location The country with advantages of city Telephone Bronxville 3116. Hewlett School White's Lane, Cedarhurst, L. I., N Twenty miles from New York City ay af boarding school for girls. Primary through college prepara- tory Country life with outdoor sports DREW sam Sent On Beautiful Lake Gleneida, 49 miles from New York. 600 Ft. Elevation. College Prepratory and Your Junior oe. ol hacer” % Wee oS. Sigt ear. unior 00! rigi resi- dent, Box 602, Carmel, N. ©, SS3ining School for Girls Junior College aevartment. Upper and Lower Schools. CLARA C. FULLER, Welsatael. Box 9B, Ossining-on- &-4, N.Y. PUTNAM HALL paratory School for Girls. Special One-year Intensive Course. Junior High Department. ELLEN CLIZBE BARTLETT, A. B., Principal Box 803, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. remond Manor A College Pre- Non-Sectarian Country Boarding School. All Grades, Junior College, Music, Travel Abroad. EUGENE H. LEHMAN, Director Tarrytown-on-Hudson, New York, Box Special Courses, 102 | Box B New York—Girls Gardner School 11 EAST 5ist ST., NEW YORK BY combining the most progressive methods of education, the cultural advantages of New York, and the popular forms of out-door rec- reation, the Gardner School provides girls with an ideal basis of education. The School Home—just off Fifth Avenue — is distinctive for its beauty and sim. plicity. Courses for all ages. Seventieth year. Catalog on request Miss Eltinge Miss Masiand | Prin. Boarding School for GIRLS from 6 to 14 WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK Kathleen Noble Jerome, Manager NOBLE SCHOOL The KNOX jccii A School of American Ideals In a Country of American Traditions INTENSIVE COLLEGE PREPARATORY Advanced Academic Courses with Diploma CULTURAL AND VOCATIONAL COURSES Healthful and varied outdoor Life. Modern Fireproof Buildings. Illustrated Booklet or Catalog on Request Mrs. RUSSELL HOUGHTON BOX B, COOPERSTOWN, N. Y. —New York Collegiate Institute school for girls College preparation a special feature. ough su the pupils by the Principal. Membership in the University of the State of New York. |) EUNICE A. SCHOONMAKER, Principal Thor- New York City High School and Elementary Departments. ff rvision of the instruction and work of §} 345 West End pg bet. 76th & 77th Sts. }} Povsytewart MARYMOUNT Hudson, N. Y. SCHOOL COLLEGE - (Wilson Park) (Castle Ave.) Finishing Courses. Secretarial. Domestic clea Swimming Pool. Branches, Fifth Ave., N. Y. City; Paris. For Catalogue apply to Reverend Mothet. Gis Oia Castle Miss Mason's School }t~- for Girls ~~... 942, Tarrytown-on-Hudson. New York Cathedral School Gardence of Saint warp Nee vet MIRIAM A. BYTEL, Principal r-™” 14a anxg a

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ool RK gressive cultural popular oor rec. Gardner es girls basis of he 1e—just luc — is for its l sim. il ages. year. guest Prin, len City ; IStaNo y York rincipal Select a School in the Easiest Way—Through Harper’s 41 Bazar Student Residences An Exclusive Residence for Girls Studying in New York - - rith Year The surroundings, service and appointments of a genuine home. Elective chaperonage. Languages. Piano. Two adjoining houses. Catalog on request. Open all year. filrs. Hoswell’s Address Mrs. Henry Harrison Boswell 344- -346 W. 84th Street (next Riverside Drive) Tel. Susquehanna 7653 * y, TEASDALE RESIDENCE For Girl Students and Young Women 326 W. 80th St., Riverside Drive, N. Y. C. Chaperonage French Booklet Tel. Susquehanna 7858 MISS FERGUSON’S RESIDENCE 1 home of exclusive patronage for girls studying in New York. Conveniently located. Chaperonage if desired. French. Open all year. Established 1915 = Catal on Request 311 West ‘82nd _Street, New York City Tel 5343 Miss Belden’ S$ Residence At Riverside Drive A select home for a lim- ited number of girls luxuries of the advan son in New York. lew York $Hrs. Sneden’ s Residence 6 West 87th Street (Central Park), New York A select and charming home for gil students. Centrally located, 9th year. Phone Schuyler 4032. Special arrangements for Summer Students. Miss M. Hourigan’s Residence School Degrees from Royal C “7 pcm of ls and Londo Music, French, Art. Opportunity for special study. Chaperonage. Supervision. Rooms with private baths. (Note change of address.) 37 E. 83rd t.. N. Y. City. Phone Rhinelander 0493. it have led us? WHERE DOES THE TALENT LIE? VERYONE has a talent but in most cases, unfortunately, it is sub- merged to make room for other things. less, and there is that longing for some sort of self-expression. been allowed to grow and develop in our own childhood, where might And now our children have those priceless opportunities? show which way the wind blows and indicate where that talent lies. In that astonishingly garbed paper doll may lie a triumph of Paris. And that trilly voice, a little unsteady but childishly sweet, may some day hold the attention of a crowded opera. barks his shins skinning up the trees—whose baseball activities put patches on all his breeches, may live with the immortals. outdoor boy who still finds time to dream over a Beethoven Sonata. What are you doing to guard these precious traits? in the right direction is a good school. school is through Harper’s Bazar. the leading preparatory schools throughout the world. tion is at your disposal without charge or obligation of any kind. Tell us about your children, and we will tell you about the schools. But it subsists, neverthe- Had it Straws And that youngster who Just a healthy The first step And the way to find a good Our representatives have visited This informa- Nennilh 2. Chaushea, Director HARPER’S BAZAR SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 119 West goth St. New York City New York—Boys New York ‘| Military Academy A ScHoou oF DistTIncTIoNn CorNWALL-oN-HuUDSON New York P.O. Box 14 Cte, frend Brigadier-General, D.S.M., Superintendent SCHOOL AWLIN FOR BOYS Dr. Frederick L. Gamage, Headmaster Pawling New York New York—Boys Te STORM KING Scho rmerty The STONE SCHOOL Established 1867 A Progressive College Preparatory School Attractive Outdoor Life. 50 Miles from New York Catalog and Book of Views on Request ALVAN E. Duerr, Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y. The MOHONK SCHOOL A Boarding School for Boys from 10 years to College Age College Preparatory, Technical and Business Courses. Outdoor Life and Health Stressed. For catalog address JEROME F. KIDDER, Box B, Mohonk Lake, New York for fifty boys6 to16. Beau- Kyle School tiful location. 22 miles from Ll re yeer. BK a ae fleld. —— homelike ’’—visitors’ expression Summer Camp in the Cs Cy . E Box 57, levingten-cn-tedesn, New York WOODLAND SCHOOL Boys 8 to 18. In Catskills, 1500 ft. elevation. Ideal for Sovelouee strong, manly boys, preparing for college or life. Skiing, snow-shoeing, skating. Athletics, Modern buildings, 315 acres. Erwin S. Spink, A.B., Head Ph icia, N.Y. EEKSKILL Xckoemy Endowed, 4 modern Syeorect buildings. New Gym and_ Pool. Senior i r-House. ee school for younger 7*. talog address: Principal, Box B, Pee! kill-on- Hudson, i? A BERKELEY-IRVING 4 BX $cHQ°e “From Primary to to Celta” 47th Year. ‘Smail classes. Phomough instruc- tion. Prepares for college or for business. Swim- ming pool, gymnasium building; roof playground— all on premises. Outing classes. o Yilustrated Catalogue. 311 West 83rd St., N. Y¥ The Manlius School **Saint John’s’’ A College Preparatory School with a military system developing manliness, a. — ness course. with a — pool, Penletic fields. Catalogu GENERAL WILLIAM oRROROK. Pres. Box 129, Manlius, New York | i @8 = 101 0) Sar gel ame > 1 ob a TARRYTOWN-ON-HUDSON, WN. Rev. J. M. Furman, L.H.D., Senanaoeas, ‘Box 913 New York—Boys RIVERDALE A Well Balanced Country School for Boys One of the Best College Entrance Board Records Athletics, Student Activities, Applied Music Fire-Proof Dormitory —20th Year— For Illustrated Catalog, Address FRANK S. HACKETT, Head Master Telephone RIVERDALE-ON-HUDSON Kingsbridge 3123 Upper New York City ns School Os »-ON-HUDSON, N.Y Prepares mere for College and Business. Military Gales Athletics. Separate school for boys under 13. Catalog. Dr. William A. Ranney, Principal. Bio Kelvin School hex 23rd year. A limited private high school for boys. Thorough preparation for all colleges. Small groups and individual instruction. Board and Regents examinations a specialty. New ACKENZIE for BOYS. CERTIFICATE PRIVILEGES. Twenty-five years successful preparation for college or business. All athletics, Win- ter Sports.( Also a ae A School.) Seventy- five min. from N. Y.C. Monroe, N. DWIGHT SCHOOL 72 PARK AVENUE Bet. 38th and 39th Sts. College and Regents’ Preparation, i Year Emil E. Camerer, Princip Address for Catalog REPTON SCH@L is the reguirements Of the For boys 8 to 14. English Universtiy Beaaters repares for best college prep. schoo Vv. Willoughby Barrett, Head cee Box B, Tarrytown, New York New York—Co-ed. A Progressive All-Day School Sor Children 4 to 12 The BENTLEY SCHOOL 145 West 78th Street New York City Bertha M. Bentley, Director BIRCH WATHEN SCHOOL A modern day school for boys and girls 150 West 94th Street ‘ 147, 149 West 93rd Street New York City The Washington School ew for SEVENTEEN day gchoo! from st STREET A college, ister versity of the State of New Yor MABEL A, TENNEY, "Principal. THE ARDEN SCHOOL youk?’povs — masters. Thorough training for Eastern ig sc —- Facili or for all round de- Rona nds. atalogue on request. INDALL, Headmaster, NEW Busousoc, NEw YORK. Raymond Riordon School Primary through College Preparatory. certified. simited enrollment. private school. Fully Not merely a Catalog. HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR BOYS FOR GIRLS 347 West 87th Street West End Ave. at 87th St. Grammar and High School. 34th begins Oct. 6th. Both Schools Under the Personal Direction of N. ARCHIBALD SHAW, M.A. ience. 24th Year. SCHOOL N YORK Its students omeolleges 0 re —) oy in the leading colleges ntensive indiv idual meth Write for Booklet 38 E.58 Tel. TReacat 4893 BURT’S SCHOOL OR TINY T S 1-12 A Home School for children for 12 years 1120 Constant Avenue, Peekskill, N. Y. Phone: Peekskill 1139 Happy Hours Kindergarten and First Primary ‘-: 3 to7 Booklet on request. 1. C. hy dad 345 West 86th Street, New York Cit STARKEY SEMINARY Co-educational. Patowet. sane grade and reparation for leading Kdvance work in art and ae Athletics. On eca Lake. Moderate rate. Address Martyn Summerbell, Ph.D., Principal. Box 32, Lakemont, New York. Ardsley Heights Country School Westchester a ag er m. ie . September first. Modern swimming oor studies audito- . su pervised spor Manual and Physical training — Ages 4 to 14. Booklet, Registrar, Bon Sal, ir sley, UNysuaL opportunity for fifteen chil- dren, five to twelve years. Private home school, also Summer amp. MISS CORALIE B. HAGEDORN 604 Riverside Drive, New York

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42 Long-Established Schools With Best Preparatory Training Pennsylvania—Girls Pennsylvania—Girls LINDEN An —¥ School Moderate Tuition HALLE, cnt In Southeastern Pennsylvania ~ Garden Spot of the United States. m odern 181" Year : a) Horseback Riding, Etc. Courses: Academic, Prepara- tory, Secretarial, Music, and Post Graduate. Separate Junior School F. W. STENGEL, D.D. Box 122, Lititz, PENNSYLVANIA | DARWGTON Founded 1851. National Patronage 60-acre estate 19 miles from Philadelphia Academic Courses College Preparatory High School School of Physical Education Vocational Courses Domestic Science, Art, Expression, Music. Opportunities for Riding, Tennis, Athletics Modern Equipment - Moderate Rates Illustrated catalog on request. CHRISTINE F. BYE, Box B, West Chester, Pa. . .* The Birmingham School FOR GIRLS Founded 1853 ‘*The Mountain School’ Alvan R. Grier, President; P. S. Moulton, Headmaster Healthful location in Alleghany Mts. School Park Land of 100 acres. Main Line Penna. R. R. Six modern, home-like buildings for 100 girls. Thorough preparation for college, examinations given at the senOe, aw - courses for girls not going to college usic, Art, Domestic Science. ymnasium, Sirimmning Pool. gy Address Registrar, Box 135 irmingham, Penna. BEAVER COLLEGE — Jenkintown, Pa. Continuing the work of Beechwood. General and Junior College Courses for young women, Degree and Diplomas. eaching Cer- tificates. Athletics. Write for catalc ECH HILL SCH Affiliated with Beaver New modern building completely College preparatory. Swimming dress Beechwood Hill poc x School, Jenkintown, Pa. Miss Sayward’s School For Girls. Suburbs of Philadelphia. College Pre- ratory and Secretarial Courses. Music, Domestic fence, Physical training. Outdoor sports, Horse- back riding, Swimming. Write Dept. B Miss Janet Sayward, Principal, Overbrook, Pa. OGONTZ SCHOOL ,-{gr. Two years helpful finishing course for high-school a? Special courses in Household Art, usic, Languages Me. baychologiate study individual needs. . 1850. md for catalog, Abby A. Sutherland, Pan, Ogontz School, Montgomery Co., Pa. Irving College and Music Conservatory 7ist year. A.B. course. Pipe organ, Piano, Violin, Voice, Theory, Mus. B. Home Economics, Dramatic Art. Secretaryship. Swimming pool Near_ Harrisbu Catalog. E. E. Camp- bell, Pres., Box B, Mechanicsburg, Pa. Seton Hill College “43 Minutes from Pittsburgh"’ A Standard Catholic College for Women Address The Registrar, Box 1, Greensburg, Penn. The ary’ planned and broad in scope. town near Philadelphia. ballet and aesthetic dancing. Wildclif, the graduate school, vocational and cultural subjects. play for little girls 6-12. interests you. 1510 L Box the girl who loves the out-of-doors. horseback riding, a delightful creek for canoeing and skating, hockey field, tennis courts and many other sports. ming pool, auditorium with stage and a completely equipped gymna- sium give keenest pleasure to girls who enjoy indoor activities, especially gives Lyon Schal Here is found a wholesome, happy school life in surroundings that are particularly adapted to the natural development of young girls. The Mary Lyon School offers every advantage that modern equipment and latest approved methods of study can give. College preparatory and general academic courses that are well Special emphasis on Art, Music, Dramatic Expression, Home-making and Secretarial Training. The beautiful school buildings are delightfully located in a college The surrounding country strongly appeals to There are wooded roadsides for Mr. and Mrs. H. M. CRIST, Principals A new 60-foot, tiled swim- two-year courses Seven Gables, well-balanced work and Write for catalog of department which ! in general Swarthmore, Pa. Complets Equipment—Pool, Fields—Eve | | delphia. | Thorough College Preparation. | | | Crafts. Tuition, although not low, Box 246 Bishopthorpe Manor A Popular Country School In Eastern Pennsylvania, convenient to New York and Phila- Gymnasium, Athletic acility for Happy and Profitable School Life. A COURSE FORIEVERY TALENT Special Opportunity in Home Economics, Interior Decoration, Costume Design, Secretarial Work, Expression, Art, Music, or Arts and is less than usually charged by schools offering equal or similar advantages. For Catalog and Booklet of Views Address MR. and MRS. CLAUDE N. WYANT, Principals Bethiechem, Pennsylvania Art Students Pennsylvania—Girls Ett ry ‘Sdbeet for Younger Girls Rydal, Junior Department of the Ogontz School A Gelightful home school where teachers with the mother-care instinct and a knowledge of child development are able to give your little daughter the right stimulus. If sh Ss need. Parents going abroad find i dal the ary refined school home for little girls fr from 9— A= country place in the beautiful Rydal hill country, 25 minutes from Phila- delphia. New residence ready October Ist. The school building is attractive and modern, with bright, sunshiny classroo School work is arranged a coonding to the standards of the Philadelphia public schools. French is taught under native teachers; piano | practice is supervised. Play and games under a | physical training director. Horse-back riding, | swimming, skating and coasting. Splendid | health results. Catalog ABBY A. SUTHERLAND Montgomery Co., Pa. Rydal PENN HALL An Unusual School for Girls Junior Conservatory of Music Just north of the Mason and Dixon line. Academic courses with intensive college | preparatory. A faculty of college and uni- versity graduates. Junior conservatory. Endorsed by leading American Conservatories. Also Home Economics, Dramatics, Secretarial, and Art Course. Every dormitory room communicates with | bath. Tiled pool. 9-hole golf course. Every sport. The school during the month of May occupies the new Flanders Hotel at Ocean City, N. J. Regular schedule of work continued. No extra charge. Catalog. FRANK S. MAGILL, A.M., Headmaster, Box H, Chambersburg, Pa. swimming . ‘ | | | | | | | Pe a 7 ur ae Pentti pre: WARTHMORE YOUR BOY "BOY Preparation for all manliness and chi anne para’ r college en' a nae tr jired exercise, all athletics, track ang imma Pool; Write tor information. ma ee Box 24, Swarthmore, Pa. NAZARE EEA For the Boy—First: Health and Character! College Preparatory and Business Courses. Experienced, Sympathetic ya Sepa: Junior School. Gym and P Rev. A. D. Thaeler, D.D., Box 50, Nazareth, Pa Pennsylvania—Boys Pennsylvania—Co-ed. HIGHLAND HALL Founded 1867 College preparatory and general courses. Two years advanced work. Unusual program of outdoor life. ELLEN C. KEATES, A.B. Principal, HOLLIDAYSBURG, PA. UM- Suburban to Philadelphia. Thorough College Preparation, Music, and Art. All y Spore Riding. ay 4 Catal Secretary, Box B, Bryn address: awr, Pa. School Information Select your school from a recommended list. The best are here. If you desire additional information, write Harper's Bazar School Department, 119 West 40th Street, New York CHESTNUT A Preparatory School for Boys. In the Open Country, Eleven Miles North of Philadelphia Complete Equipment w w Excellent ith Chapel, Library, Dormitories, Gymnasium, Recreation Building. Catalog on Request. | Swimming P: T.R. Hyde, M.A.(Yale), Head Master, Box B, Chestnut Hill, Pa. Record in College Preparation. Montessori Country and City School Children 3 to 12 years Scientific direction covering 12 years’ experience Able teachers and housemothers in charge. Cut riculum includes all_ formal grade studies. Mrs Anna Paist Ryan, Directress, Montessori Firt Boarding and Day School, Philadelphia, Pa HARRISBURG ACADEMY 3" Prepares for college or business. Thoroughly ex- perseces, teachers. Beautiful environment: modern uildings; playing grounds. Unexcelled separate under sympathetic supervision. due to endowment. Write Headmaster, Box D., Harrisburg, Junior Dept. Moderate rate r E. Brown, CARSON LONG 5: A anieary 5. School, 5th Grade to Colleg midway between ‘New York and Pittsburgh. struction. to learn, how to labor, how “ag _ the mountains Individual in- Enjoying now its greatest years. Box 15, New Bloomfield, Pa. FRANK oe MARSHALL A Widely Recognized, Prepara' School. Ww w_— Se Shoot Li Lite and Sports. sual Equipment age Le Location, 1,200 Boys Prepared for C sage in the last i &. Hartman D., Prin., Box 408, Lancaster, Penn. Crinity bouse Home oo BR. Philadelphia suburbs for small ed i Health and tion. s. Director trained in Modern " Paycholosy. Individual Atten- FILLER LUTZ, M.A Trinity House, Ambien. Pa. WYOMING SEMINARY A co-educational school, strong in character bi ing. College preparation, Business, Music, | Oratory and Home E Gy Athletic Field. 82nd _ year. Plant $1,000, Endowment, $700,000. Catalog. L. L. SPRAGU D.D., L.H.D., Pres., Kingston, Pennsylvania. GEORGE SCHOOL €27educstiont College Prep . 227 acres woods and fields bordering @& Neshaminy. Manual training, debating, ho' hold arts, all athletics. Own farm. Catalogué G. A. WALTON, A.M., Prin. George School. Box 255 New Musi:

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| New Jersey—Girls

School r Girls Ouse Sports «a Riding, Cuneaee. Gymncsiom. 4 roe Field. Catalog —- Anne nae ‘mensdmane. ™.. Principal Lakew oN J. ARDE N & om e neral «Courses

KENT PLACE SCHOOL for GIRLS SumMMIT, NEW JERSEY. An Endowed School. Thirty-Second Year. On the Estate of Chancellor Kent in the hills of New Jersey, twenty miles from New York. C — Preparatory. Academic. Music, Art, Athlet HARRIET Eaeee Hunt, Principal. Oak Knoll *Soiv chico Blackburn Road, Summit, New Jersey School for Girls, College preparatory and elementary departments, Collegesat Rosemont, Pa., and Oxfo’

England. Finishing Schools: Paris, Rome, Fribourg

Miss Beard’s School A COUNTRY SCHOOL NEAR NEW YORK College Preparation. General Courses, — Sports. ORANGE, NEW JERSEY

Ras Jersey— Boys An Endowed School for 300 carefully selected boys Invites Your Personal Investigation of her claim to excellence in LOCATION CHARACTER EQUIPMENT INSTRUCTION CHOOL SPIRIT Separate Lower School For Catalog address JOHN C. SHARPE, LL.D., Headmaster Box Z Blairstown, N. J.

INGSLEY SCHOOL", | and Boardin; College preparatory for boys. 22 ae er N.Y. ‘Tipp or om 3 Lower Schools. Catalox Head

.R. Wwaner B- Gerken, A. M. Assoc. Headmaster. FREEHOLD fixie: SCHOOL for boys 7 to 15. Modified military training— inculeates obedience, orderliness, self-reliance. The school with the personal touch. Write for Catalog. Address Major Chas. M. Duncan, Box 92, Freehold, N. J.

Newton Academy, ®*; NEWTON, N. J. A military country school for boys. 75th year. 2 hrs. from N. City. Beautiful location. 1000 ft. vation’ Thorough Seundaston for college or business. In-

BORDENTOWN ‘ira INSTITUTE Thorough preparation for college or business. Efficient faculty, small classes, individual atten- tion. Boys taught how tostudy. R.O. . 42nd year. Special Summer Session. Catalogtie Col. T. D, LANDON, Principal. Drawer C-30, BORDENTOWN, N. J. WENONAH MILITARY ACADEMY 12 miles from Philadelphia. C —— entrance, busi- ness and special courses. Ho ee under In- structor 0! apa ney eg Special school for Juniors, For Catalog and View Book write to the Registrar, Box 442, Wenonah, N. J.

Emphasis on preparation for EDDIE College Entrance Board Ex- er . eee ee L | leges. 15 modern buildings. 60 acres. Athletics for every boy. Six Forms, including twogrammar grades. 6lst year. Catalog. Box 9-S, Hightstown, N. J.

PRINCETON frac, ‘Headmaster | Preparatory for all colleges. Rapid progress. ymnasium. 53rd year. For Ke ~ address x B, Princeton, N. J

New Jersey—Co-ed. oe

Miss Beasley’s School A Year-’Round acest for Boys and Girls 4 to 1 Seashore Camp at pach Park, N. J. Miss C. A. Beasley, Summit, N. J.

Lakelande Boarding School For a select group of children—ages 6 to 14 Located in Lakewood’s evergreen fairy land of health and beauty. Charming home. Stimulating modern Bchool. Endorsed by prominent leaders in Jewry. Address A. F. LANDE, Director, 408 Lake Drive, Lakewood, N. J., or 28 W. 8$th St., N. Y. C.

DEVITTE SCHOOL Per month covers every expense All-year boarding schooland Summer Camps for boys and girls 5 to 12. French conversation. Swimming Pool. Vitte, Principal Box 48 M, Morganville, N. J.

Could any two words picture a more glorious, enchanting adventure to a growing boy BOARDING SCHOOL or girl? And in Harper’s Bazar you will find the lead- ing boarding schools in the country. It is needless to look elsewhere for a school for your children.

New Jersey—Girls

SCHOOL OF THE |

Miss Gildner's Princeton School Connery Roading FOR GIRLS At Princeton and Vay students 6 to 21 New Jersey Preparation College En- MUSIC DEPT. trance Board Examina- Theodore Hoeck, Sr., Head; g G raduate De — ment: Unusual advan- tages. Special lecturers. Junior School: Whole- some life under special direction. formerly with Leschetizky tions and Surplus Credits. General and Special Courses. Music, art,danc- ing, dramatics, domestic science, secretaryship. Individual Attention. Secluded location, mile from town; 57 acres. - Abundant Outdoor Miss Laura M. Gildner, A.M. . Director, Box Z, Princeton, N. J. Life

All Sports. Expert Riding Master

? Burlington, New Jersey ST. MARY S HALL ® hurch Boarding | School for Girls, on the aN, of the Delaware River. Lower, int em — Upper School. College | Courses. Special Em- 90th year opens usic, Art and General Course 8. For Catalog address -+-The Sister Superior, ST. JOHN BAPTIST ,33'2t FOR GIRLS A eee Bepeting School with Moderate es. r the care of the Sisters of St. John Baptist ph Church). College Preparatory. alston (near Morristown), New Jersey.

‘or_catalog ane rates write ‘DW IGHT. For cress Recommended by the leading Colleges for COLLEGE PREPARATION Adequate Departments for French, Spanish, German, English, Art, Physical Education, Domestic Science, Music and Expression, SPECIAL FINISHING COURSES Athletics, Gymnasium, Tennis, Riding. Spacious Grounds for Games Alumnae cordially recommend Dwight because of the spirit which it inculcates: Frankness, Self-Control, Service Write for illustrated catalog or book- lets telling of the life of the school. References on request Miss E. S. CREIGHTON Principal ENGLEWOOD, NEW JERSEY

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New England—Girls

Following are classes admitted: 1. Students preparing for college. (Certificate) Final year students will be admitted. 2. Students desiring to complete high school. (Diploma) 3. Students who have completed high school or second- ary school work,'and desire Junior College Courses. Students attend Boston historical churches. Chris- Domestic Science, Elocution, Art, Excellent Secre- A diploma will be given any student taking any of tian Science students attend Mother Church every Sunday. tarial Courses; Business Management, Junior College Courses. our two-year courses. With the exception of English and Literature, these courses are elective. Opportunities of Boston in Music, Art, historical associations: Voice, Piano, Violin, Harp, Organ, with Sch | eminent Boston masters. 00 Outdoor sports. Horseback Riding (our own stables), Golf Course on property, Tennis, Field and Sports, Winter Sports, Canoeing, Gymnasium, 45 by 90 ft., Swimming Pool. Finely equipped school— ° 1l buildings. Junior College Some rooms with hot and cold water. Students for 1926-1927 are being accepted in the order of application. = cars leave Chicago September 28 Pan deiioke ul pony A 2529 Summit _ 3 NEWTON, Mass. Send for Catalogue

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New England—Girls ROGERS HALL AN ENDOWED SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Thorough Preparation For All Colleges One Year Intensive Reviews For High School Graduates Two-Year Graduate Course with Diplo- ma in Home-making, Secretarial Train- ing, Music, Expression, Art, Advanced ‘Academic subjects Gymnasium Swimming Pool All Indoor and Outdoor Athletics ‘Twenty-six miles from Boston Faces Rogers Fort Hill Park Miss Olive Sewall Parsons, Principal assachusetts

THE CHAMBERLAYNE SCHOOL A limited number of older girls desiring special preparation for college or post-graduate work accepted as resident students. K. FILKINS, Director, 178 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass.

St. Wargaret’s School 5lst year. College peepamnenry. Limited Enroll- ment. Secretarial and General Courses. Out- door life on 50-acre farm. Athletics—a vital part of school life. Alberta C. Edell, A.M., Principal WA ATERBURY. CONN

OWARD SEMINARY 44th year. A famous old New England country school for girls. 25 miles from Boston. College preparation. Household Arts and Secretarial. Accredited. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Emerson, Prin., 26 Howard St., W. Bridgewater, Mass.

Worcester Domestic Science School 1 and 2 years normal diploma courses. Trains to teach cookery, sewing, dietitians, tea-room manage- ment. Graduates occupy exceptional positions. Address the Registrar. 110 Waban Hill Rd. Boston, Mass.

Were One of New England's oldest and best equipped schools, offering four years’ preparatory and one year college work. Outdoor sports. Gym- nasium. Riding. Catalog. AGNES N. SAFFORD, Principal, Portland, Maine.

GRAY COURT Point Haw. for Girls ACCREDITED. Suburban to N Cc. All usual studies. Also Secretarial. Arts an ac rafts. Horse- back riding. Beach. Ali Athletics. Apply for Cata- log to: JESSIE CALLAM GRAY, Prin. Box 6, Stamford-on-the-Sound, Conn.

HOWE-MAROT A Country Boarding School for Girls College Preparation. Varied Outdoor Life. Mary L. Marot, Headmistress, Thompson, Conn

CRESTALBAN A school for little girls. Invigorating air of the Berkshires. 20 minutes from Pittsfield. 200 acres, 3 buildings. Home training, character develop- ment, health. Open air classes. Outdoor sports. MIss MARGERY WHITING, Prin., Berkshire, Mass.

WALNUT HILL DCHOOL A College Prevaracory. 8. ry Girls. 17 miles Ac Skating Pond. Athletic Fields. 6 Buildings. Gymnasium. MISS FLORENCE BIGELOW, Principal

NQ CHOOL FOR GIRLS N nae preparato course for Smith and other colleges. ear intensive course for high school thy ON acre campus. Outdoor sports. DOROTHY BEMENT. £ samen | WHITAKER, Principals, Box B, Northampton, Mass.

A Modern The Mary C. Wheeler School tows snc Country Sciool Sas C —. Re ~~ see preparatory, general, and Art, Music, Dramatics. Riding. swi — Allo ‘and caeeot sports. Country residence oo fon 7K unger RHODE ISLAND

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Choose the Best School with the Aid of Harper’s Bazar New England—Girls A School for Girls Norwalk Connecticut In a beautiful New England town one hour from New York. A carefully selected group of girls from all parts of the country. Four school house and gymnasium. Extensive grounds Preparation for all colleges Diction and facility residenc es, Special courses. Dramatics. Every for outdoor life Catalog Margaret R. Brendlinger, A. B., Vassar Vida Hunt fontane A.B., Smith, Principals —LTENAC RE_ [, Country School for Young Girls From Ten to Fourteen Years of Age REPARATORY to Dana Hall. from Boston. All || supervised and Fourteen miles sports and athletics adapted to the age of the pupil. The finest instruction, care and influence. | MISS HE LE N TEMPLE ‘COOKE 7 Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass. | } FOUR REASONS for the Private School HERE are innumerable reasons why you should enter your children in a good private school, but here are four of paramount importance: 1. Pupils are always under the influence of teachers selected for their individual qualities and adaptation for the work. limited in number, which insures every pupil 2. Classes reciting every lesson every day. 3. A boarding school is the intermediate step between home restraint and the freedom of college. It provides experience among strangers, but still with directing friends. 4. The highest principles of life—individual and national— are supported, enforced and practiced in a good private school. The schools in Harper’s Bazar have been personally investigated, but if you wish information about some school which is not listed here, we shall be glad to help you. BAZAR SCHOOL DEPARTMENT New York City HARPER’S 119 West goth Street New England—Girls New England—Girls House in the Pines Norton, Mass. A country school for girls, near Bos- ton. College preparatory courses with intensive work for examinations ‘Two-year course for High School graduates. French House. Household Arts. Music. Art _ - alam 7 | epee | | instructors. Every attention, not only to habits of study, but to each girl's health and happiness. The Hedges—A school where the | young girl enjoys a wholesome life of study and play. Illustrated booklets on request. Miss GERTRUDE E. CORNISH Principal Se i ; Glen Eden Stoneleigh The new home by the sea of the Elmhurst School for Girls. Beauti- ful estate with attractive modern, fireproof mansion. Half a mile of sandy beach. Large campus. Horse- back riding, golf and all outdoor sports. Junior College, College Pre- paratory and Cultural Courses Isabel Cressler, Caroline Sumner, Principals Rye Beach, New Hampshire 43-aecre estate, ocean beach, playing fields. College Preparatory, General, Post-Graduate Courses. Address, MR. ANT BOX B MRS LASELL SEMINARY Overlooking beaut'ful village of Auburndale —ten miles from Boston. 30 acres. 15 buildings A complete course on the care and management of the home and family Unusual training in music with concert work. Secretarial, Art, Dramatic Exr- pression, Teacher Training and College Prepar- atory Courses. A separate school for younger girls Indoor and outdoor athletics. Gymnasium and swimming pool. Horseback riding a feature. Booklet GUY M. WINSLOW, Ph.D., Principal 130 Woodland Roai, Auburndale, Mass. THE MARY A. BURNHAM SCHOOL Northampton, Massachusetts A school for girls established in 1877 offering a four-year college preparatory course and special courses Students accepted for final year of intensive college preparation. Well-equipped gymnasium. Opposite Smith College Campus MISS HELEN E. THOMPSON, Principal Aeroplane view se» © ae es OD Gee.) On, COTO) F for GIRBS GREENWICH, CONNECTIC . “College Preparatory and Post \. One hour from New* ‘Graduate Courses. One year intensive College Preparatory Review: Superior advantages in Music, Art, Drama. House- hol4 Arts\and Secretarial Courses. Two-year Junior College Courses, for post-graduates with diploma on completion. Head Mistress, Elizabeth L. Ely; Associate Head Mistress, Edith Chapin Craven, A.B., Bryn Mawr. ‘ ry Suburban to New York City | Fifty Minutes from Fifth Avenue Por girls of high-school grade or graduates. Choice of regular and special studies, for every need. Academic, college pre- paratory, and two-years ad- vanced courses. Athletics, rid- ing, large gymnasium, theater, dancing. Sensibly ‘luxurious equipment; magnificent stone buildings; 10 acres. 17th year Select patronage. For catalogue address \ Recording Secretary of Glen Eden S ‘\ Stamford, Connecticut. ~, COLLEGE INTENSIVE PREPARATORY \renoon/ TUTORING &is/ SPECIAL COURSES a Mise Alice E Rey: . NEW HAVEN. CONN New England—Boys Westminster School SIMSBURY, CONNECTICUT A school policy definitely planned for the individual. A flexible form system that meets each boy’s need, and permits and encourages individual development. School life and athletics so organized that every boy has active part. A separate school for young boys under experienced masters. Two hundred acres of ground, twenty buildings, chapel, gymnasium, swimming pool. RAYMOND R. McORMOND, Headmaster Intimate Home Care. Comfortable Surroundings Study Personally Supervised by Principal RIREOWAM lege a a Specialty. Telephone Parents Who Wa W. JEROLD O’Nen, Principal, Stamford, Cona. MITCHELL SCHOOL For boys. Modern methods. Superb equipment. Campbell Hall for Juniors A. H. MITCHELL, Director, Box K, Billerica, Mass The Rectory School Episcopal school for boys 6 to 13. Each boy receives special attention in “How to Study. Supervisec ay home care. Apply Rev. F. H. Bigelow, Pomfret, Conn. Co

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Every School 45 Inquiry Receives Our Most Careful Attention

New England—Boys

DE MOTTE SCHOOL A preparatory school for boys (9 to 19) who need thorough fundamental instruction, sound training and wholesome surroundings. Summer and Winter sports. Summer School. Laurence Wash- burn De Mott, Norwalk, Conn. Immediate Information Without Cost HE School Department of Harper’s Bazar is now entering its eleventh year. In new and larger quarters, we are better equipped than ever before Tell us your requirements, and we will tell you about the schools. to advise you about your school problems.

1833 SUFFIELD 1926 An endowed school preparing boys for College. Scientific School, or business, with athletic program for all, under expert direction. Separate Junior School. Rev. Brownell Gage, Ph.D., Headmaster, 17 High St., Suffield, Conn.

TCHFI TC Young Boys 4, and Happiness achieve fine results ir Class Room we estate Altitude 1100. EARLE E. SARCKA Box 523 Litchfield, Conn.

School /or McTerpap YounvS Boys A father and mother’s care in their own home. Thorough preparation for Taft, Hotchkiss, etc. Summer Camp on Long Island Soun C. C. McTernan, 106 Columbia Bivd. /aterbury, Conn.

RIDGEFIELD A School in the foothills of the Berk- shires limited to fifty boys. Six forms. College preparatory.Two hours from New York. Splendid health record. THEODOREC. JEssUP, Headmaster, Ridgefield, Conn. ABBOTT Founded 1844. 40 Boys. Prepares for Coliege or Business. Lower School. Tuition $1200. For Catalog address Registrar, Farmington, Me.

SCHOOL a? LITTLE BLUE

The Suburban School for Boys Stamford-on-Sound. 60 minutes from New York City. Boys taught ‘‘How to Study.’’ Separate School for Younger Boys. For CATALOG ad- dress—V. Pres. DeWitt cal bb d School Clinton e er for Boys Prepares for College and Technical School Expert Tutoring Methods. $1200. JouN B. HEBBERD, A.M., CottonSt., NEWTON, MASS. SE

White Mt. region Home life with TEARNS SCHOO

cS personal supervision. Intensive preparation for secondary schools, colleges and scientific schools. Unusually rapid advancement. All year sports. Address Arthur F. Stearns, Principal, Mont Vernon, New Hampshire. na New England—Co-ed. 3 HOLMEWOOD— ——— A junior school for boys and girls rom 6 to 16 00 ie the hill country 40 miles from New York City Every facility for wholesome, happy P life. Expert instruction. Beautiful grounds, modern buildings. .d for $75 a month covers every expense MRS. L. S. TEBBETTS New Canaan, Conn, each rages an ; boy ST. ELIZABETH OF-THE-ROSES A Mother School Episcopal. Open all year. Children 3 to 12. One boys hour from New York. Usual studies. Outdoor sports. Rog Camp. Stamford 2173, Ring 1-4, Mrs . B. STODDARD, Shippan Point, Stamford, venty Conn. “The School That Develops Initiative.” ming Franklin, Mass.

60th year. Young men ean J Academy and young women find here a homelike atmosphere, thorough and efficient training in every devartment of a broad culture, a loyal and helpful school spirit. iberal Endowment permits liberal terms. $475 to $575 per pecial coures in domestic science For. catalog and information addr ARTHUR W. PIERCE, Litt.D., Headmaster.

EAST GREENWICH ACADEMY 124th year of wer ——y tradition. methods and equipment. College entrance cer- tificate. Seven buildings. Fine gymnasium. Athletic field all sports. Co-educational. Moderate rate Illustrated booklet. J. FRANCIS COOPER, Principal, East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Modern

SPRING HILL A Modern, Progressive, boarding school for boys and girls from 6 to 12.' Sixty acres, one hundred ad from New Y ork. Catalog on request. MRs. } teen eat NEY, Miss Dororuy BULL, Litchfield,

New England—Boys

Roxbury Track Team Classes limited Complete equi A. H. SHER

Washington—Girls

National Park Seminary Suburbs of Washington, D. C. Near Nation's Capital in 90- tate. Two-year Junior eo with special emphasis on peccaresen. for younger girls. xceptional ep includes ins | ol and gymnasium. Horseback riding. club-houses. Catalog. ress The Registrar, Box 170, Forest Glen, Maryland. JAMES E, AMENT, Ph.D. esident

Winners of Yale and Brown Interscholastics

ROXBURY A SPECIAL TYPE OF BOARDING SCHOOL Thoroughly and Efficiently Organized for Preparation for all Colleges and Universities Individual instruction and tutorial methods used whenever ability permits. to five. necessary. Boys progress as rapidly as In healthful country fifteen miles north of New Haven. All Athletics under skilled coaches. IFF, M.A., Headmaster pment. Cheshire, Connecticut

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For earnest boys with college vision Prepares for all colleges and technical schools. High standards of scholarship maintained. A school nationally known. The Worcester spirit: “To achieve the honorable.” 250 boys, $1,000,000 equipment, $1000 a year. Illustrated catalog. Samvuet F. Hotmes, Headmaster Geo. D. Cuvrcn, Regstrar Worcester, Mass.

MILFORD Fo

r College Preparation Years of Success in saving time for boys preparing for Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Other Colleges

For new catalog and college entrance record address S. B. Rosenbaum, Box a Milford, Connecticut Pioneer Modern in Rapid, Equipment, Thorough Suburban College Location, Preparation All Sports

Junior Collegiate, High School, College Preparatory Forms. Household Science, Secretarial Science, Music, Art. Country advantages. Address Sec ry, BoxB, Oakcrest, Washington, D.C.

Che Misses Stone’s School Advanced Courses in Cultural Subjects, Art, French, Music, Domestic Science, and Secretarial Science. Preparation for Travel. Miss Isabelle Stone, Ph.D., and Harriet Stone, M.S., 1700 Rhode Island Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C.

GUNSTON HALL 1924 Florida Ave., Ra ton, D. A school for girls. 1892 >. S. and academic courses. Two . ears’ graduate and college work. Music, Art, Expression, Domestic Science, eo MA L. GILDERSLEEVE, MARY B. M.A., Principals. t Margarets cris A Home School at the Nation's Capital, Personal Supervision of the Principal. Preparatory, General and Secretarial Courses, Moderate Cost. Address MRS. FRANK A. GALLUP, 2115-B California St., Washington, D. C. Kerr, B.A.,

The Eastman School 1305—17th St., Washington, D. C. Boarding and Day School for Girls. Primary to College. Courses from Catalog on request.

FAIRMONT SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 27th year. Tw 0-year JUNIOR Coupes and COLLEGE PRE PARATORY COURSES. Also COLLEGE COURSES in Secretarial Science, Domestic Science, Music, etc. Educational advantages of National Capital. For catalog address Fairmont — 2111S St., /ashington, D

Washington—Boys The SWAVELY «5; One hour from Washington. An enthusiastic pre- paratory school which boys love and parents ap- yrove. Sound scholarship. Character building. Strong on athletics, Ln a my gymnasium. Cata- log. Box 57P, Manassa, Va

Washington—Girls Stu KING-SMI "7 H 8 OL, go Washington and Paris MUSIC: DANCING: DRAMATIC ART: LANGUAGES: LITERATURE: FINE AND APPLIED ARTS A Residential School for Young Women offering unique and unexcelled opportunities for cultural or professional study and personality development, in an atmos- phere that is both artistic and stimulating. Any art, academic or college work arranged that student desires. All subjects elective. Tuition according to amount of work taken. Unusual social advantages of Washington; week of opera in New York; preparation for foreign travel. MR. AND MRs. AUGUST KING-SMITH, Directors 1751 New Hampshire Avenue, Washington, D. C.

Southern—Girls

COLLEGE < OF NOTRE! DAME OF F MARYLAND ryt A Catholic “institution for ‘the wnigher education of ween, .— ted mais the Catholic aenty

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RANDOLPH - MACON SCHOOL “Southern in its atmosphere.” A_ preparatory school for girls, located in famous Piedmont section ni 150 miles from Richmond. Meets maximum college entrance requirements. Vocal Music, Piano, Art, Expression, and Physical Cul- ture. Catalog and further information upon eogees John C. Simpson, A.M., Box H, Danville, eaisia.

4 4 BOXx 10 Chatham Episcopal Institute, chatham. Virginia College preparatory school for girls. Certificate a Also two” vears of advanced academic usic, » an Expression, G 1s at golf. ter Diocese of ‘Southern Virginia—President of Board. For Catalogue address MABEL ELEANOR STONE. Principat

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Southern Girls Fairfax, Hall Gamma For Girls. At the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in the famous Shenandoah Valley of Virginia Four hours from Washington Two main line railroads college preparatory and elective Thorough four-year courses, one- year graduate course. Music, Art, Household Science, Dramatics, Secretarial. Beautiful home-like buildings, 35 acres High alti- tude, Lithia spring water. Our own stable of gaited saddie horses, modern gymnasiun field sports, Lithia swim- ming pools. Rate $700. Catalog. Joha Noble Maxwell, President, Box H, Park Station, Waynesboro, Virginia.

NATIONALLY patronize d A school emphasizing the two-year Junior College and four-year High School courses. Also Music, Art, Expression, Home Eco- nomics, Secretarial, Physical Education, On the Gulf. De- lightful climate. Year-round sports. Catalog. President tichard G. Cox, Box H, Gulfport, Mississippi Gulf I Parke es 4 Junior College for Girls AIss Willer’s School For Girls A small select school with an atmosphere of home life. Situated in the fine residential sec-

tion of Baltimore. Lim- ited to 50 girls. Music, Art, Language Do- mestic Science. College Preparation. Golf and tennis privileges. Rid- ing. Miss Elizabeth M iiller, Prin., 838 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Md

WARD-BELMONT FOR GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN An Accredited Junior College and High School Reservations for the 1926-27 session should be made as soon as possible to in- sure entrance Thorough academic course tory advantages in Music, Expression, Art Physical Training, Home Economics and Secretarial. Outdoor sports. New gymna- sium, swimming pool and bowling alley References required Booklets on request WARD-BELMONT Belmont Heights, Box 12, Nashville, Tenn. Conserva-

Fassifern A select school pre paring girls for leading colleges In the Land of the Sky fusic, Art, Expression Home Economics. Physical training. Athletics, Riding, Golf. Catalog. Josern R. Sevier, D.D., President. Box F, Hendersonville, North Carolina

® ® ‘OR G a Columbia Institute "cut! Four years High School. Accredited Two Years College Work. Special Courses. High Standards. New Modern Equipment. Cultural, Healthful. Riding, Swimming, Golf. Rates $600. Catalog Address Mrs. Ernest Cruikshank, President Box B, Columbia, Tenn.

SOUTHERN COLLEGE Fixed rate, “In heart of Virginia.’’ 64th yr. 4 yr. H. 8, 2 yr. College Finishing, Social Training Music, Art, Expression, Domestic Science, Secre- tarial, Golf, Riding, Swimming, Tennis, Gym Historic tours. Arthur Kyle Davis, 210 College Place, Petersburg, Va.

ST.HILDA’S HALL Charles Town, W. Va. The Chevron School for girls. Episcopal. In_the Shenandoah Valley College Preparatory. Elec- tive Courses Music and Art. Athletics and life in Hockey. Individual instruction. $650 the open. Mariah Pendleton Duval, Principal. Catalog

Stuart Hall, Staunton, Virginia Episcopal school for girls—Eighty-third Session Rich in traditions of the past; alive to the needs of the present. Thorough college preparation. Out- door sports. Address Mrs. H. N. Hills, A.B. Box H

HOOD COLLEGE For Young Women Standard courses:—A.B. B.S. in Home Ae and B. M. in Musie. Practica! courses in Educa- tion, English Speech, and Art. Ten new buildings 125 pores. my own farm and dairy. Catalog and Book of V . JOSEP PH in “APPLE, LL.D., Box B, Frederick, Md.

their standards. without charge, write HARPER’S BAZAR 119 West goth Street

What School? HE staff of Harper’s Bazar Harpe personally investigated all the best schools from the Atlantic to the Pacific—from Canada to the Gulf. The Department knows their methods, their teachers, It is an expert in schools, as your physician is an expert in ills. School Department has For its advice, given

SCHOOL DEPARTMENT New York City

Southern—Girls

Southern—Boys

| SCUDDER SCHOOL OF CORAL GABLES, Miami Riviera, Floridan Day and Boarding 4 companion school of the famous Scudder School for Girls of New York City, same courses and supervision Children of winter visitors accommodated. Kindergarten, Elementary, and High Schools. College prepara- tory and General Courses. Postgraduate for Older Girls: (1) Secretarial. (2) Household Arts. (3) Social Welfare and Com- foothills. ot Blue Ridge. or EDWIN B. KING, Headmaster, Warrenton, Virginia. TUYVESANT SCHOOL FOR BOYS 0 Miles from Washington Healthful, open-air life Write for Catalo, 1g. boys. Prepares for college.

Small c ed military disci- pline. In the Shenandoah Valley near Washington. Wholesome influences. All athletics. For catalog address Dr. (o.uMB1 Write for catalog. Box 507,

ASSANUTTEN College Preparatory for manly boys asses. Modifi Howard J. Benchotf, Headmaster, Box 35, Woodstock, Va.

MILITARY ACADEMY Courses prepare forany college. Best plantin South. Ali athletics, goli and swimming pool. R.O Columbia, Tenn.

SEVERN SCHOOL Severn River near Annapolis. West Point and Annapolis. Exceptionally thorough work given and demanded. Prine “ipal, Severna Park, Md.

A country boarding school for boys. Ideal location on Prepares for College, Students taught how Water sports and all athletics. Limited Catalog ROLLAND M. TEEL, Ph.B.,

Kentucky Military Institute fully Classical, Junior School. Only boys of highest character accepted. Col. C.

An accredited school. years of success- preparing boys scientifie and commercial courses. Smal! classes—personal attention. ress Box H, Lyndon, Ky. B. Richmond, Pres.,

Western—Boys

NEW MEXICO MILITARY INSTITUTE Exceptional High Well bal- of “In the sunshine State.” School and Junior College work. anced academic, military and physical training. Cavalry school. Every boy rides. Polo, swimming, all sports.R.O.T.C. Bracing air, dry climate. 3700 ft. altitude. Outdoor a = year. Moderate ra’ catalog, address Cot. D. C. Pearson, Supt., Box B, Roswel!, New Mexico.

Clean Mind in a Sound Body Every Boy Recites Every Lesson Every Day Planned for thorough college prepara- tion in an atmosphere of honor, schol- arship and Christian ideals. Military training, 40-acre campus and nearby lakes afford every opportunity for a beneficial outdoor life and all athletics. Separate school for smaller boys in new building especially designed for this purpose. Summer school. Rev. Charles Herbert Young, S8.T.D., | Rector. For illustrated catalog and additional information address The Superintendent, Howe, Indiana

“*How to Study” taught boys. Graduates enter colleges without + examination. Also bu® iness course. All ath- letics. 48th yr. 10 build- ings. CATALOG of Dean, ALTON, Ill. MILITARY ACADEMY

~ MILITARY ACADEMY ULVER (On Lake Maxinkuckee) Prepares for -" college. Small classes. Unsurpassed equipment. Catalog. The Secretary, Culver, Ind. MIAM In the Miami River Valley, A school of high standa Military training for manl fields, baseball diamonds. Col. Orvon Graff Brown,

Military Institute Germantown Ohio 14 miles from Dayton liege prepare ring. ootball atalog. Pres., Box 260

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ies oom chool yr Boys tandards cated in mouetibe: NT YS n-air life Catalog. Virginia. EN ly boys. og address istock, Va. ED TARY JEMY - oe. A A, ig school sation on College, thorough izht how Limited ttention. Address jon, Ky. ise _ Harper’s Bazar Will 47 Solve the School Problem for You a Western—Boys MILITARY ACADEMY For Boys from 8 to 20 years of age. Member Association Military Col- leges and Schools of the U.S Affectionately known as M. M. A. Builds a clean mind in a sound body, and develops initia- tive and individualism. “Big Brother Plan” of government gives close personal touch be- tween cadets and instructors, encouraging friendships. Privi- lege contented student body and enthusiastic school spirit. R. O. T. C. unit with Army Officers. Directed Athletics, reaching every cadet. | College Preparatory. Business | and Music. Separate Lower School for younger boys. Facul- ty and equipment exceptional. Capacity taxed annually. Early enrollment necessary. Catalog. Address COL. E. Y. BURTON President Mexico, Mo. system insures Box 126 ACADEMY FOR BOYS 70th year. Beginning with first year high school. High record for passing college entrance examinations. Athletics for every boy— swimming pool, athletic field. Large endowment permits tuition of $750. ag Karl H. Stouffer, Headmaster, Box Z, Elgin, ELGIN in study” yraduates wit surpassed iver, Ind. NORTHWESTERN ywikvau ackbem NAVAL ACADEMY 70 miles from Chicago. An endowed College Preparatory School and Junior College. Its distinctive advantages and methods interest dis- criminating’ parents. CoL. R. P. DAVIDSON, Pres., Lake Geneva, Wis. IHORPE for BOYS —under 15, “‘ ACCREDITED ACADEMY.” “Character building on Principle.” On Lake neer Chicago. Semi-military. Athletics . Catalog of: Box B, Lake Forest, Hi. Johns Military Aeademy The American Rugby. Eminently fitted for training American boys. Thorough scholastic and military instruction. Situated on high ground in Waukesha County Lake Region. Catalog. Box 30J, Delafield, Wisconsin LAKE FOREST Non Military. College Preparatory Academy for boys. Near Chicago. All Athletics Endowed. Cata- log; J. W. Richards, Box 161, Lake Forest, Ill. Sbattuck School College preparatory. Military training. All athleties—S coaches. 16 buildings, 240 acres. Business Course. 68th year. Summer School. Catalog. Address C. W. Newhall, Headmaster. Box H, Faribault, Minn. O D For Young Boys 78th Year Located in hill country of Illinois. One hour from Chicago. deal home and school life. Ask about Camp Tosebo. Address NOBLE HILL, Principal, Woodstock, illinois The VALLEY RANCH SCHOOL ver, Weaning Thorough Eastern Preparatory. School training combined with rvised Western Ranch outdoor life. c hristian. — Cc ——y , dress: Valley | anc! astern Office, 70 East 45th LAZY JD St. New York. | = A SCHOOL ia the WEST HE Easterner going West to School will be surprised and delighted to learn that there is no buffalo hunting before breakfast. Painted Indians and stampedes like stage coaches are now picturesque memories of the West of another day. can lungs in the grandstand when the school team scores a point. | The only warwhoops are from lusty Ameri- The great West of today, rich in prosperity and humming with pro- gress, offers many of the finest schools to be found in the country. In them you will find the highest standard of requirements, excellent and faculties composed of widely experienced men and equipment, women of culture. The spaciousness and natural beauty of their location are outstanding features of the schools shown here. Outdoor life gives a vigorous school spirit. there pervades a friendly spirit characteristic of the West. Buildings are modern and new. In classroom and sport, HARPER’S BAZAR SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 119 West 4oth Street New York City — Western— Girls Western—Girls IR ALALL School for Girls Thorough preparation for College Examinations. Advanced courses of standard College work for High School Graduates. Write for catalog to Miss Freponta ALLEN, Indianapolis FOR Young Women Steady aim, clear vision. and a real purpose char- acterize Hardin students. Real American education for real Americ 7 girls emphasizing home and social life. Junior College, affliated with Chicago University. Fully accredited by all State Univer- sities and No. Central Ass’n. Strong High School department. Attend- ance strictly limited and _ select. Hardin girls are happy girlsk—and proud of Hardin College. For cata- logue, write to SAMUEL J.VAUGHN, President Box 123 Mexico, Mo. HILLCREST "2a" For girls 6 to 14. Charming — life. Cultural atmosphere. Supervised study. Thoroughness in grade work. Music emphasized. Bird study, sewing, cook- ing, letter writing and drawing. Interpretive dancing. Outdoor games and activities. In healthful hill country. 17th year. Only normal, healthy children are accepted. MISS SARAH M. DAVISON, Principal Box 4B Beaver Dam, Wisconsin Academie, college preparatory and = pneee courses for h oo ol o- Starret School for eisive wie he Corny Gi Is and universities. . is = SESS Cematans Conservatory of Digits. California—Girls CHICAGO matic yo Secretarial Courses. Special Pepi ey.4 For Boys and Girls who ial tutoring. Industrial, req spec: Academic, Cultural. Mrs. H. B. Hedley, Prin DE, PA. A limited group of on carefully selected chil- dren of retarded de- velopment. Beautiful estate. Homelike atmos- phere. Sympathetic, expert training and care. Miss Agnes H. Lawrence, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. THE WRIGHT ORAL SCHOOL For the Deaf and Partially Deaf Mt. Morris Park West, N. Y. City. Kindergarten to College Entrance. A refined boarding and day school with home atmosphere. Large faculty. In- dividual attention. Out-door gymnasium. In- struction entirely by Oral and Auricular methods. Children from four years up accepted. Co-educa- tional, 32nd year. Sebermerborb Sebo! A Home School for Exceptional Children who need Special Care and Training. Country Home Loca- tion makes possi ible moderate rate. Sve I. SCHERMERHOR Box 57 West, End Station, Richmond, Va THE WOODS’ SCHOOL For Exceptional Cbildren Three Separate Schools LITTLE FOLKS Camp with tutoring, June 16 to September 15 Booklet ox 152, Langhorne, Pa. Mrs. Mollie Woods Hare, Principal The Delbert Carter School for physically handicap boys and girls. Resident and Day Pupils. For booklet address Mrs. E. H. Thorn, York Road, Hatboro, Pa. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE SCHOOL For BACKWARD CHILDREN Katonah, N. Y.—42 Miles from N. Y. In the Beautiful Hills of Westchester County, Rudolph 8. Fried, Principal. STANDISH MANOR SCHOOL A special school =a backward girls. Individual in- struction. Experienced teachers. Happy home life. Healthful location. Outdoor and water sports. 30 acre estate. ALICE M. MYERS, Principal, HAZEL G. CULLINGFORD, Ass‘t Principal, HALIFAX, MASS. sccabiasad . —-t as Hiting. joarding & ‘ireproo uw Ss with ample Day St — nhtOU * _ e 43rd year. Fall BR as Sep tember 22. For catalog and Book of Views oles the Princh pals, Mr. and Mrs. Gerard T. Smith, Box 21, 4515 Drexel Boulevard, Chicago. Girls’ Collegiate School Glendora, California A country school 30 miles from Los Angeles. fi Overlooks famous San Gabriel Valley. Caarm- or ing buildings of Italian design. Orange groves, arcou Cc 00 Girls bridle paths on school's estate. Saddle horses. Ms All sports. Outdoor life a reality. 7th grade GAMBIER, OHIO to college entrance. Cnee t. y~ . and Special Courses. Accredit th year —— Harriette Merwin |) Principals begins Sept. 30th. Catalog and views. Miss Parsons and Miss Dennen, Principals Frances Shimer School For Girls and Young Women. 2 years’ College, 4 years’ Academy. Music, Art, Expression, Home Economics. 74th year. Campus 25 acres. Outdoor sports. 10 buildings. New $40,000 library. Term opens September 8th, 1926. Catalog. Wwm. P. McKee, President, A.M., B.D., Box 660, Mt. Carroll, Ill. THE ANNA HEAD SCHOOL Boarding and day school for girls. Students prepared for college board examinations. Fost-gradvete, Primary and Intermediate Depart- ments. Miss MARY E. WILSON, Principal, Box H, Berkeley, Cc alifornia. ESTLAKE stirs sugier College and Ac ration. Special courses in = ps and Home Economics. New Bui'dings. 334 So.Westmoreland Ave., Los Angeles, California St. Paul's distinctive Oak Hall School for Girls 73rd year. Boarding and Day. College prepara- tory, general, domestic science courses. Music and dramatic arts. Skating, Swimming, Riding, Tennis. Big new gymnasium. Numbers limited. Attractive home life. Booklet. MR. AND Mrs. R. A. MOORE, Prepa- Principals, 588 Holly Ave., St. Paul, Minn. xpression, LENOX HALL Located in St. Louis’ most beautiful suburb. Country surroundings. 6-acre campus. College preparatory, general courses. Music. Expression. Domestic Science. Small classes, homelike atmos- here. For catalog address Mrs. M,. LOUISE HOMAS, Box 1022, Kirkwood, Missouri. California—Boys PAG ACADEMY A big school for little boys. Sound training in the essential branches. Military training adapted to young boy needs. Sympathetic understanding and encouragement. Catalog. 1221 Cochran Avenue, Los Angeles, Cal. MILITARY FERRY HALL A college preparatory school of the first rank, advanced courses for high school graduates. Sub- urban to Chicago on shore of Lake Michigan. Gymnasium, A porechodt aint: Catalog. MISS ELOISE R Prin., Box 335, PM, Wecest. Il. SAN DIEGO ARMY AND NAVY ACADEMY “The coming West Point of the West" of California's ss scholastic rating. Jani Lindenwood College Standard college for young women. Two and four- year courses. redited. Conservatory advan- Univ. Christian influences. tages. 50 minutes from St. Louis. 100th anniver- year. Summer Session, July 1-Sept. 1. Catalogue. a | year. Every modern facility. Catalog. ‘Address Col. Thos. A. Davis, Bor. i, Pacific Beach Rouen. Pres., Box 526, St. Charles, Mo. Sia., San Diego, Cat. PERKINS S&hiakk For children requiring special training and educa- tion. Unsurpassed equipment on sixty-acre es- tate. Intimate home life. Experienced Staff. Med- ical direction. Franklin H. Perkins, M.D., Box 53, Lancaster, Mass. FOR re CHILDREN For boys and girls, 6 to 15, who require individual care and training. Denial home Ry Summer a in rest, Port Chester, N. Y. Tel. Port Cheeter 1556-M. SANATORIUM SCHOOL for treatment and instruction of physically de- fective and backward childr We make it children to Special class aanherah, Pennsylvania Nervous, backward and mental defectives An ideal home school for children of all es. Separate houses for boys and girls. Individual attention in_studies, physical : ture and manual a $75 a month and u HE BINGHAMTON TRAINING SCHOOL Mr. r Mrs. A. A. Boldt, 112 Fairview Ave., Binghamton, N. Y. The BANCROFT School For Retarded Children Unusually Large staff. Resident Yen sician and nurse. Summer camp at y Est. =. Catalog E. A. Farrington, M. D., ad Jonata G ‘Cooley, Directors, Box 165, Haddonfield. N. J. DEVEREUX SCH@LS for Children whose Progress has been Retarded Three separate schools for Boys and Girls of all ages requiring Scientific Observation and Special Instruction. Male faculty for older boys. HELENA . DEVEREUX, Director, Box B, Berwyn, Pa.

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48 Find Pleasure and Independence in Special School Training Professional ERICAN ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ARTS Founded 1884 by Franklin H. Sargent For 42 Years America’s Leading Institution for Dramatic Art and Expression Prepares for ? : Acting Teaching Directing Develops Poise and Personality for use in any vocation in life NEW FALL CLASS BEGINS OCT. 26 Extension Dramatic Courses in co-operation with COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Free Catalog describes all Courses from Room 175 “I” CARNEGIE HALL, New York FUUUU TOV ECU CTT USET TTT aie Edith Coburn Noyes School Oral English Drama Character Education Analysis and Enperprete ation of Litera- ture, Voice, Dicti Costume and Sce ate Design, Lighting, lay Production, Modern Art Tech- nique, Fully Equipped Little Theatre. Personal Culture, Individual Develop- ment and Balance, Psychology, Peda- gogy, French (Yersin Method). Nineteenth Year Opens September 27th Fdith Coburn Noyes, Principal Symphony Chambers, Boston, Mass. DRAMA MUSIC COLLEGE of DANCE ARIS SINGING and PHOTO-PLAY Directors: 2 - “eh Alan Dale For Acting, Teaching, Directing. Wm. A. Brady Developing personality and poise essential for any vocation in life. Alviene Art Theater and Student Stock Co. afford appearances while Henry Miller Sir John-Martin LJ ony learning. debuts and . J. Shu ert careers stressed. Write Study Marguerite Clark warted to Secretary. 43 West Rose Coughlan 72nd St., N. Y., ask for catalog 20. satisfaction will follow. advise with wisdom. 119 West goth Street WE CAN GIVE YOU EXPERT COUNSEL HEN you select a school upon the recommendation of Harper’s Bazar, you may be sure that complete This School Department has for ten years been helping its readers find suitable schools and the good reports which come in consequence enable us to HARPER’S BAZAR SCHOOL DEPARTMENT New York City Professional Learn Y INTERIOR | DECORATING at Home \ 0 ick, Easy M Start Now. No special ul artistic ability needed Practical Course peaperse by expert decorators quickly qualifies time. It's easy. Decorate your own home—st business or get well paid working for others full ore are time Earnings up to $200 a week. ILLUSTRATED BOOK rite at once to "National School of Interior Decoration Dept. 289, 2 West 47th Street, New York City NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ART A thorough art training Costume Design; Interior Decorating; Ad- vertising Art; Illustration; Life; Fashions; Painting; Cartooning; Air Brush; Commer- cial Design. Both Residence and Home Study Positions and Orders secured for graduates. For new Booklet—apply to Principal, National Academy of Art, 230 E. Ohio St., Chicago SCHOOL of the THEATRE AND THRESHOLD PLAYERS ARE TREE Mason Grorce ARLIsS ALTER HAMPDEN Ernest TRUEX Six months’ stock experience before graduation. Dancing, fencing, voice development, pantomime, Shake- speare, playwriting, etc. ‘all term opens October 4th. PRINCESS Lemeeten 104-H West 39th St. NEW YORK The Associated Schools New York School of Design, Illustration and Painting, School of American Sculpture, New England School of Design. Fall term begins September First. Drawing- —Painting—Sculp- ture—Ilustration— Commercial Art—Costume Design— Fashion drawing—Interior decoration -Textile and State ¢ Jesign Teachers training and Handicrafts. Day and evening classes Enrollment limited. For illustrated booklet address. uglas John Connah, 145-147 East 57th Street, New {York, N. Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. r The — MURRAY ANDERSON— OBERT MILTON SCHOOL of the THEATER and DANCE 128-130 East 58TH STREET, New YORK CITY Phone Regent 4960 THE ONLY SCHOOL OF ITS KIND IN AMERICA STUDIO FOR THE THEATRE THEODORA IRVINE, DIRECTOR. A _ Special Course in Acting. Stage Technique, Voice, Fencing, Dancing, Make-up, Rehearsal of Plays. Teacher of Alice Brady Work sponsored by Eva Le Gallienne, Mr. and Mrs. Coburn, Edith Wynne Matthison, Charles name Kennedy. Sum- mer Course, June to Sept Catalog av request. Box B. 31 RIVERSIDE DRIVE, . c. THE ALBERTI SCHOOL of Expression and Dramatic Art Pantomime, Literature, Life Study, Stage, Mechan- Play Construction and Directing, etc. Two- ear course Special classes Connected with Stuart Walker's companies and Young People's Theatre, Inc., Catalog. Room 1118 Carnegie The NEW YORK SCHOGOL o INTERIOR DECORATION of 441 MADISON AVE:-NEW YORK SHERRILL WHITON, DIRECTOR PRACTICAL TRAINING COURSE Fali course starts Oct. Ist Send for catalog 40 HOME STUDY COURSES Start any time—Catalog A9 New Building of the St. Louis School of Fine Arts of Washington University Gift of Wm. K. Bixby, to open Sept. 2oth. Courses in weaving, bookbinding, pottery and metal working in addition to regula: courses. For catalog, write E. H. Wuerpel, director, Room 16. Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. Hall, New York. MACLEAN Sistcf 2teste: Des Original schoo! of the American method. Regular session opens Sept. 7th. Vocal art—musical comedy —stagecraft—expression and dramatic art. Excel- lent instructors. Individual attention. Enter any time. 2835 S. Michigan Ave., Box B, Chicago, Iii. ELIZABETH MACK STUDIOS Training for Stage, Platform and Teaching. § i De; Department in Theatre Routine | gives practise in acting and production of plays Winter course in New York. Summer course in Paris. 66 Fifth Ave., New York, 43 rue Michel Ange, Paris FALL TERM NEW YORK SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION Chartered by Regents of N. Y. State Univ. 33rd year. Class and private instruction. Defective speech m 1 ments now received. Telephone Columbu 332 West 56th Street. New York City Emerson College of Oratory Largest School of Oratory. Belles-let- tres and Pedagogy in America.Summer Session. 47th year. Degrees granted. Address HARRY SEYMOUR Ross, Dean, Huntington Chambers, Boston, COMMERCIAL ART ILLUST’N INTER. DecorR., ARCHT. & MECH. DRAFT- ING, COSTUME AND MIL. DESIGNING. PRACTICING SPECIALISTS TEACHERS. GRADUATES ASSISTED TO PosITIONsS. CATALOG. DORMITORIES LIVINGSTONE ACADEMY, 43rd Year 1518 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D. C. BLEEKS Mitte; SCHOOL Dressmaking, Patterncutting, Operating and Sketching. Wholesale, Retail and Home courses Individual Hand Painting on Materials taught Booklet a. & instruction. Day and Evening. Positions H upon request. 261 West 125th St.. N DESIGNING and MILLINERY | Dressmaking and Pattern Cutting taught. In- dividual Instruction in Trade Methods for Whole- sale and Retail. Also for Personal Use. Day and McDowell aching and Millinery School, 71 West 45th Street, New York. Established 1876. No Branches THE FEAGIN SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ART ACTING gi ee TEACHING - PUB- LIC SPEAKIN Personality, through trai ssion. Voic Diction, Physical Training, French Panto- mimic Charts. Fencing, i. ae ase. 112-114 Carnegie Hall, New Yor! New York. Cacle, 1766 bentas Oct. 4, N.Y. SCHOOL OF FINES APPLIED ART NEW YORK, PARIS - ITALY, ENGLAND HE only international professional art school of Interior Architecture and Lecoration, Graphic Advertising and Illustration, Theatre and Costume Design Train- ing Teachers, Research, other subjects. Frank Alvah Parsons, Wm. M. Pierre Brissaud, Howard By a4 @ Fuller and 60 other specialist. SEND FOR CIRCULARS. ‘BEGINS SEPT. 3rd 2239 Broadway, N. Y. Cit Address See. { 9 Place des Vosges, Paris GRAND CENTRAL SCHOOL OF ART. | A new school of art to develop individual talent under the instruction of successful modern artists. Courses are offered in Painting; Drawing; Sculpture; Illustration; Costume; Poster and Textile Design; and Advertising iilustratior.. Catalogue on Request Room 7001 Grand Central Terminal, New York aeuitdieemmtnnede NEW YORK SCHOOL OF APPLIED DESIGN FOR WOMEN 160 Lexington Ave., N. Y. City 34th Year Textile Designing, Fashion Drawing, Poster and Commercial Art, Interior Decoration, Advanced Design under Winold Reiss Preparatory Courses. Positions and orders filled. VESPER GEORGE HOOL OF FINE ano APPLIED ARTS Booklet. 131 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass. NATIONAL SCHOOL OF FINE AND APPLIED ART Felix Mahony, Pres. Interior Decoration, Color, Costume, Commercial Poster. Design. Dynamic Symmetry, Life. Sketch Class. Catalog. Connecticut Ave. and M, Washington, D. C. School of the MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Sist year Boston, Mass. Drawing, Painting, Modeling, Design, under master teachers Scholarships at home and abroad Illustrated booklet. MASTER INSTITUTE OF UNITED ARTS MUSIC. .-PAINTING---SCULPTUR: ARCHITECTURE --- OPERA Chass BALLET --- DRAMA --- LECTURES Send for Catalogue H 310 RIVERSIDE DRIVE NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS ND CRAFTS, INC. Cc ee... Illustrated folder on request Miss Katharine B. Child, Director Room 407, 349 Newbury St., Boston, Mass. Professional COSTUME and MILLINERY DESIGN In Costume Design, as with any other subject, the selection of the most suc- cessful school is of vital importance to your success. Fashion Academy is the largest school of its kind in the United States. —a national institution devoted ex- clusively to teaching ostume and Millinery Design and Fashion Illustra- tion. —the school whose graduates number among the highest-salaried professional designers in the country. —the school whose teachers are prac- tical experts with years of experience in the actual producing field. —the school which is endorsed by every important fashion publication in this country. Limited enroliment—so call or write for information early EMIL ALVIN HARTMAN FASHION ACADEMY New York Paris 4 East 53rd Street at Fifth Avenue New York City ALL ASSES BEGIN SEPT 6" RESERVATIONS NOW \DEMY OF FINE ART. Ti ‘ CARL N.WERNTZ pirector 81 E MADISON ST., CHICAGO . Traphagen School of Fashion Intensive Nine Months Winter Course All phases from elementary to full mastery costume design and illustration ae taught w shortest time compatible with t Special Courses Planned for Teachers « Day, Evening and Sunday — Our sales department disposes of student work. Certificates given to students fulfilling requirements of the course. — ETHEL TRAPHAGEN 200 West 57th St. Ne w York SCHOOL LF DESIGN AND LIB -.7"7 ARTS 212 West 59th St., N. Y. C., Box H LIFE: saawenns PAINTING: FASHION ILLUSTRATION: INTERIOR DECORATION. Modern Costumes, Modern Homes, Modern People Metropolitan Art School Michel Jacobs, Director, 58 pL x) 3 *. | & f Author of “The Art of Color” and * e Study of Color” LIFE PORTRAIT POSTER | Coste ME DESIGN INTERIOR DECORATIO VOGUE SCHOOL FASHION I ILLUSTRATION. 8. Michigan Bivd., Chicage Designing and Illustration Inspiring professions —_ pay. Learn to create exclusive styles in a well-equipped and practical school. Enrollment limited. Tndividual instrue- tion. Day and evening classes. FASHION ART SCHOOL Rite Temple, San Francisco, Scottish Californls

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NED WAYEBURN eengee y **The Charleston,"’ developed Evelyn Law, Marilyn Miller, Ann Pennington, Gilda Gray and hundreds of other internationally famous stars— ——who staged the best editions of also *‘Palm Beach

cessful Revu ical Comed' an Headline Vaudeville Productions, College and Society entertainments, offers com- plete courses in EVERY Type of DANCING —for Stage or Social Affairs Private Lessons or Classes for Adults or Children, BEGINNERS, Advan Pupils and Professionals. Special Ad- vanced Instruction for Teachers.

New Classes for Adult Girls start Tues. Sept. 7th, and Mon. Oct. 4th. Children's classes every Saturday. Children’s Fall Term starts Sat. Sept. 26th. Enroll at once! Com plete Spevtin df 8 of Amatow I Prodactions

Evelyn Law. dancing star (ante Fol NED WAYBURN twa un’ Studios of Stage Dancing Inc. 1841 Broadway,(Entr.on 60th St.)Studio. 8 At Columbus oy ew —— Open ot — ‘round (Closed Site Js P.M.) Phone Columbus 3500 Ned Wayburn has just written a book—“The Art of Stage Dancing” —complete—authoritative —500 pages—$5.00 postpaid. Order Today. other it suc- nce to CH ALI F ReSsAN NORA. school LOUIS H. CHALIF, Princi; “Highest Standards of Artistic Merit"’ d ex- Fall and Winter Courses. Catalog on request. > and 163-165 WEST 57TH ST., NEW YORK CITY ustra- 2 KING-SMITH sional - wai } STUDIO SCHOOL rience _ : Washington, D. C. aiseall t post N | A resident school for girls this AND ALLIED n this wane, MUSIC 4%? For professional or cultural study. iu New York appearances arranged. ly Mr. and Mrs. August King-Smith, Directors MAN é AY Institute of Musical Art Paris Frank Damrosch, Director. Endowed. All branches of music. Conducted only for stu- venue dents of real musical ability and serious purpose. Special Announcement et te All talented advanced violin students will come under the personal observation and instruction of Prof. Leopold Auer Catalog, Dept. 0, 120 Claremont Ave., New York =PT6" VATIONS C\V/ OW incinnati J onserb IMELY EST. 1867 OF MUSIC, INC. IBJEC Noted Faculty in all branches. Dormitories. ADJEL Bertha Baur, Director. For catalogue C ADEMY N. A. HOWARD, Registrar, Cincinnati, Ohio RTS. Z DIRECTOR a ; CSG Mew Bork School of Wusic a Arts Piano, Voice, Violin, Languages, Arts, Interior Decoration. Resident and day pupils. _ Entrance atany time. 824 West End Ave., New York City. 5 Riverside 10091. Fashion er Course umasteryt @ Louisville Conservatory of Music roughness, An accredited School of Music and Dramatic Art. Teachers All branches of Music. Supervising and Normal rr address” JONS Le’ Guopen em, Mai r, 228 "West °. ¢ f ass JO; L. GRUBER. ts fuljlling Broadway, Louisville, Ky ——— “w"")} SHORT-STORY WRITING

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A PRACTICAL forty-lesson course in the writing and marketing of the Short- Story taught by Dr. rg Esenwein. Editor of The Writer's Monthly. 150 page catalog free. Please address: The Home Correspondence School Dr.Esenwein, Dept. 1 Springfield, Mass.

“Only College of Auction Bridge” Expert personal instruction, for individuals or classes, beginners, advanced players, or teachers. Special lessons on any desired features. Course by mail. Visitors always welcome. Under direction of E. V. Shepard, SHEPARD’S STUDIO, Inc. Box B Telephone Circle 10041 20 West 54th Street New York, N. Y.

Teachers’ Agencies THE FISK TEACHERS’ AGENCY - rae Dosrateles saew ice. Nearly every private #1 in America has employ recommendation. aa er C. S. CROSMAN, 225 FIFTH AVE., N. Y.

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AVE you an occupation that will bring real pleasure into your ing because we know more. and play Juliet. screen!) and delightful. nursing. These are only a few. fully, interesting courses. | always get help from 119 West 4oth Street

ful and enduring grow under our own this kind is an education in itself. task, we develop the mind, we learn things, we become more interest- Perhaps existence has grown less fresh and thrilling than in the days when you were playing house and decided to go on the stage (Or were you one of the girls of a later day whose dramatic ambitions now lead inevitably to the moving picture At all events, you were busy every second of the day—and happy. Very happy, because you were busy learning something new, strange And now you can take up an occupation all over again. in dress designing, cooking, scie=zes, music, writing, secretaryship, | If you will study these pages care- you will find many interesting schools in which you can study If you find it difficult to make a choice, you can HARPER’S BAZAR SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

life—also a living, if that were ever required? You know, of course, that there is no keener pleasure than to see something beauti- hands. To originate work of In our efforts to accomplish the Courses New York City

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HISD CONCUNS Thorough professional training for secretaryships and executive positions. The School occupies the Studios of the Tilden Building; classrooms opening upon a roof garden have abundance of light and air. The Bureau of Placement is a recog- nized feature of the School. Gradu- ates are sought for varied and re- sponsible positions. Successive entrance dates. Illustrated booklet. <q 105 West 40tn Street, New York ~) [@jrited States Secretarial. cas ol 627 Fifth Avenue, New York City Secretarial & Business Training. Ask for Catalog B Irving Edgar Chase, Director. Vanderbilt 2474

Secretarial and execu- tive training for Educated Ww . 2 yr. degree & shorter courses. Posi- one tF gratuites. For dress Registrar, onibEn COLLEGE, renton, N. J. IDER ollege&

School of Domestic Arts and Science Cne-yeer course and short courses in Cooking, Sewing, Buying—Home-making in all branches. Nationally recognized school equipped for Practical Home Training and | eager, Management. ‘atalc Modern students’ residence

Dept. 28, Chicago, Til. 6 No. Michigan Ave.

KATHARINE GIBBS SCHOOL SECRETARIAL & EXECUTIVE Training for educated women One-year course includes Residence School in sochaseal, cooncmnte, and roa usiness training BOSTON preparing for superior 90 Marlboro Street |] 20S!tions. Two-year course includ- ing y oomege Jom may - students not desiring col- NEW YORK lege, but wishing a cul- 247 Park Avenue tural as well as business education. Intensive course for col- PROVIDENCE lege women. ecial class 155 Angell Street rooms, special ee and special schedule

FROWN = OF COMMERCE Trains for best Secretarial PLACES quaaenna, Write | regular course. ‘The Sargent Schoo

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Miss ILLMAN’S TRAINING SCHOOL for Kindergarten and Primary Teachers Junior, senior and graduate courses. Home-like residence. A.T. ILLMAN, Prin., Box B, 4000 Pine St., Phila., Pa.

HARRIETTE MELISSA MILLS KINDERGARTEN - PRIMARY TRAINING SCHOOL jated with New York University U ssoelir Credit. Students enrolled for September and February. Exceptional residence facilities. Miss HARRIETTE MELISSA MILIS, Principal Five B, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Columbia Kindergarten Normal School Two Years Course. SARA K. Lippincott, Principal. The Westmoreland, Washington, D. C.

POSSE-NISSEN SCHOOL Physical Education for women. 36th year. 3-year One-year special in medical gym- nastics and Swedish massage. Playground work, extensive summer courses and camp. Dormitories. Apply to Secretary, 779 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

of Physical Education Founded 1881 by Dr. D. A. Sargent. Booklet on request. L. W. SARGENT, Director, Cambridge, Mass.

Opportunity wrecome, LRAINED NURSE $15 mommy allowance. Ideal living gondivpons. sur . 2% year course. Age ig q Send for descriptive folder and application. SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL ASSOCIA- TION, Southampton, Long Island.

Girls’ Camps

—Camp Niwauna Senior and Junior Camps. All land and water sports under capable leadership. About seventy-five miles from New York and Philadelphia in the Blue Mountains. Booklet upon request. Lotta Rowe Anthony, Branchville, N. J.

Switzerland—Girls

VILLA RECAMIER 3 Avenue Calas Champel-Geneve, Switzerland SCHOOL OF HEALTH French and foreign languages are taught by anes i Lew One of the eas on uipped schools : Switzerlund. Care- al training and home atmosphere.

JOHN J. BROWN, LL.B., Director, 25 W. 45th St., New York Register Now For BALLARD SCHOCL oan... 610 Lex. Ave. at 53rd St. | Central Branch Y.W.C.A. OLD COLONY SCHOOL Secretarial and Business Training for Young Women One year course. Resident and day pupils Florence B. La Moreaux, A.B. Mrs. Margaret Vail Fowler, Principal. 315-317 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.

Te EFRSKINE scnoor Cultural and Technical training for girls who have finished high sc! sy Resident and day students. Write to Miss E. McClintock, A.M., 129 Beacon Street, Boston, } 1 3. Lesley School of Household Aris Reg course—two years. Dormitory. New oy “puilding. For catalog address the Sec- retary, 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, Mass.

Italy—Girls

. , . . Miss Barry’s Foreign School for Girls FLORENCE, ITALY Combining home and school life. Cultural Courses. Fencing, Lg vg Riding, Historic Tours. Lower school for younger girls. Address The Secretary, Box 142, Cambridge, Mass.

Versailles—Girls

L’ERMITAGE Miles. Patapie’s School for Girls 20 minutes from Paris Offers all advantages of Paris with country life. French studies—Music—Art—tTravel. Apply to MADEMOISELLE LATAPIE 15 Rue de l'Ermitage, Versailles

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ennnoetenevesnnenert IITTTITITITITINII LL “8 FOREIGN SCHOOLS France—Girls MISS McLEAN’S SCHOOL of FOREIGN TRAVEL October to June 11th Year — France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, England Riviera S pen es aed den eae at Oars : ~ AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVES: ments of a refined French home, combined Miss CLAIRE KELLOGG Sebeot is , F wy Sy “Palais de Justice, Paris—Residence of King Louis 1X of France in the 13th 56 West 50th Street, New York City surrounded by a large park. Spring weather Century. In the foreground Pont de la Monnaie.” Mrs. H. H. WYMAN, the year round. Special Art Studies. | c-o Old Colony Trust Co., Boston, Mass. CHATEAU DES BROUSSAILLES, Cannes, France EXCLUSIVE HOME SCHOOL OVER-SEAS for American girls. Prepares for American Colleges The COLLEGE MONTMORENCY = 4 PARIS if - Oies hy 7 pe Seren girls a chance for serious and attrac- Mile. D. MOULIN : : : tiv k i h lik 6 Rue Frederic assy, NICE (A.M.), France HE Schools abroad, like the schools in this country, 4 eldedly Franch atmosphere. Magnificent private mansion opposite - have been personally visited by representatives of the Bois de Boulogne. For particulass THE ENGLISH |, SCHOO Harper’s Bazar. You may write to these schools, therefore, Mme. L. Rollet de Combmore! u ~ - ‘ , . Mme. D. A. Perrier (University Day and Boarding School for Boys and Girls e | G - d cnglish G: Tennis Court. Next tern wi 5 raduate) 19 Boulevard de Regine October, Int. Apply MF. L- M.A. Westall, Villa, th full assurance that they are worthy of your patronage Montmorency—Paris. Sain serara, ntibes, a ) rance. If you find it difficult to make a choice from the many Delightful French Home. Most oe schools listed, we shall be glad to help you make a selection. Tell us the age and sex of your child, the sort of school you are seeking and your preference as to location. We shall be no Madame glad to tell you about schools to meet the requirements. M. Th. LEGRAND du PUITS 3, RUE LYAUTEY. PARIS 66 Avenue de Neuilly Neuilly, Paris Cc having a comfortable | L A i R B oO q Ss house in the healthi- 7 V4 An exclusive school for Young Girls, near the est part of Paris, near Ld - beautiful forest of Verrieres—20 minutes from ps se rmsnaicraienane a Paris—Neuilly—Girls the Bois de Boulogne, Paris by the School's private car—Resident receives a few young Director | and visiting professors for all courses. Bath girls who w with every room. Tennis—Golf—Riding. study F . ; Write for circular with terms to Liseracare, Mus HARPER’S BAZAR SCHOOL DEPARTMENT MME. DE BROUTELLES, CLAIRBOIS, the many places of Route de Verrieres, Clamart, (Seine) historical interest of 119 West 40th Street New York City and near Paris VILLA SAINT-GEORGES An exclusive finishing school for young girls. Paris—Boys Exceptional opportunity for Frenc Summer residence in Normandy. Apply to - — mae ww rece ee Uenauin tai: MADEMOISELLE CORNIQUET, 60 Rue Borghese, Neuilly s/Seine HOME SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES CHATEAU i ae, 7 | : . ly Principal: Madame Collot Large Garden rennis— All moses accommo- | i dations. Special Individual care .arge coun- try residence during Summer V acation— Course e ; H oO M E PA STE U R of lectures for preparation of Examinations , . School for girls from 8 to 20. First class 104 Avenue je ’ : , tuition in French at the Sorbonne and Near the 8 On a hill overlooking open oo i es Victor-Duruy College. Sightseeing, home country at BURES, par ms life, modern comfort. Highest references | Villennes, S. et O. France : . .? pal cnet MARYMOUNT PREPARES boys for American hos i ya, Mademoiselle PONTON olleges, according to highest ' es od es . - *) receives a few girls who wish f - . t to perfect their knowledge we Ss. alse de Boulogne Finishing School for Girls Branch of Marymount College, New York Modern Accommodations, 3 hal . individual care, Address—Rev. MOTHER, 72 standards of scholarship, sports- Dp Boulevard de la Saussaye, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris manship and moral earnestness, of French. Her large flat is while perfecting them in foreign 2 ba ee en eee ee languages and opening and en- : | br dential prow sh iat eo riching their minds through con- oo = The girls are chaperoned . . Ys ar rs -wo ~. " . very W’ ‘ Paris—Saint Cloud—Girls tact with old-world culture: Soke iene cae Maintains resident psychologist to study each boy personally, help him face life, and | 6 Rue Lyautey (Passy) develop individual potentialities; limits size of classes; coaches boys in all sports. Paris, France receives a limited num- P . Madame A. BAINE ber of Foreign girls ‘ Is equipped —_ centrally-heated stone buildings; modern plumbing; separate infirmary wishing to perfect their study of French, Music or contagious diseases; science laboratory; manual training shops; gymnasium arranged ; ; : 2 Y; me a 5 angec . . a a Lg ha yt | for basket-ball, boxing, wrestling, apparatus work, etc.; baseball diamonds; football fields; MADAME ROBI me ta a = (Seine & Oise) France iy seco aan a egy and dairy products; and is staffed by best paid, most competent uni- young ladies for perfection in cultural French. ° . a , Pa 1 Villa Boileau, 18 Rue Molitor, Paris ome Boys can be accompanied from New York. caer ws heacapnnstih lesen tacit Prospectus on application to the Director. Parle—Boulogne—Girts CHATEAU de BURES, par Villennes, S. et O. France Les Olseaux rs Se Highly qecommentet, Fintitins School in de- ightful home atmos . Hes 4 ati MODERN FINISHING SCHOOL in sunny grounds. Modern p — a always spoken. rofessors f. hosen subjects. FOR GIRLS Opera and places of historical {interest visited with chaperone. Tennis. Studio. Catalogue Miss Scott & Paris—Groslay—Girls on application. . 25, Rue Steffen - Asnieres - PARIS | | i nee ates Sumo — yell CHATEAU DE GROSLAY (S. & O.) CASTEL VICTORIA Boulogne) 1 20 minutes from Paris 6 Avenue Francois Arago—Le Vesinet HIGH CLASS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS The most modern establish- ment of its kind. With a -— | Thorough French Studies. Finishing Courses. Park of 3 Acres it is located | , E | ' I EK Art— Music—Sightseeing—Travel. | between Paris and the For- a est of St. Germain, and Mrs. Bernt Lie’s Finishir. School for Giris, 39 COLLEGE PREPARATORY COURSES } — 20 minutes of the Rue du Chateau & 9 »venue Victor Hugo, for DAY pupils and BOARDERS at the ai Satie dee ceiiais Boulogne s8/Seine— Paris. | oe Annexe — 37 rue RIBERA, Paris (16 eme) Principal, fur booklet.

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; VES: City Mass. MORENCY sion opposite T particulais ombmorei University levard de Paris. Le t Finishing. me. Most de- references in information . Bath ‘Riding. IS, ne) er dis- ol, six ‘rench. l6eme) ol in de- situation French subjects. t visited atalogue —_—__— ‘ ‘sinet tablish- With a located he For- n, and of the acaille, t. * 2 YEARS OF HARPER’S BAZAR for $6.00 you save as much as you spend PARIS PLANS AN EXCITING SEASON IN CLOTHES AND SO DO YOl And you'll have it, Harper’s Bazar helping. There isn’t a number of it which you can afford to miss. Next month, for instance, look for The Paris Openings, in Harper’s Bazar’s own View. The new silhouettes, the new details, the new everything,—and so much else! The Bazar’s taste—every model will be that particular de- signer’s happiest thought. The Bazar’s flair for success will tell you which ideas are to be good for seasons to come. The Bazar’s clear sense—among a riot of ideas you will see only what really matters, and you will see that clearly. And then there is the Bazar’s own particular gift of making every page a sophisticated pleasure. And the Bazar’s practi- cal value. The best is the most practical. You can’t afford less. FICTION, TOO And how can we begin to tell the riches which will come to you all year in stories, in book and play articles, in suggestions for your home? Just one hint,—don’t on any account miss the second part of ‘The Thunderer,’ by E. Barrington. It contains the genuine love-letters of Napoleon to Josephine. Blazing out among the passionate love-letters of all time, they will enthrall you. , There isn’t anything else quite like Harper’s Bazar, is there? You can’t face the winter without it. The only way to be sure of it every month is to SUBSCRIBE. Use the coupon TODAY. There are just three ways of buying Harper's Bazar—at the single-copy price of 50c; by regular subscription at $4.00 a year—and now through this unusual offer which cuts the single-copy price in half, and which is an investment. Use the coupon now.) (COUPON) Harper’s Bazar, 119 West 40th Street, New York City Please send me Harper's Bazar for two You may remit on receipt of bill. years at your special price of $6.00. Or if you care to enclose your re- (If you prefer Harper's Bazar at the mittance with this coupon we will regular yearly subscription price of add an extra month to your sub- 34.00 check here. () scription. Canadian postage $1 extra for one year; foreign postage $2 extra for one year. NAME STREET CITY AND STATE H. B. 9-26-b . B. 9-26-b un os New , York, They are most welcome among, the right sort of people—everywhere cuir Shovw Paris And at felect ‘d Confectioners JAMARC 102 WEST, 101s STREET? NEW YQRK CITY Uraris new powder box with gifter and woof puff patented) $ 1,22 OTHER. CREATIONS — nAslas wnles Blots soyp Yemen ose Nilay SPECIAL OFFER \ B sf lpdouka \ Face Reoder and trial Vidl of Parfum 25 cts. Post Paid

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Secrets of Beauty Women who know the im- portance of always looking their best find at the Salon of Angela Varona the skill- ful methods that enhance their charms of complexion and hair. (Preparations on sale at Bonwit Teller & Co., Stern Bros., John Wana- maker and Franklin Simon & Co.) ANGELA VARONA 22 East 55th Street New York Appointments: Plaza 8822, 4056 hildren’s Clothes— To INDIVIDUAL ORDER Only “True, your models are “individual '— but your exquisite hand-work is just as appealing.” This Very New School Frock M ADE up In the love- liest Challis imag- inable—both light and dark shades, in many a quaint pattern, in most combination you , Collar, cuffs and trimmings are in contrasting color effects. Sizes: 2 to 6 years, $12.75 8 to 12 years, $14.50 Bloomers (any size) $3.50 Specializing Children’s Clothes— Boys up to 4; Girls, In- fants to 16—Misses. Sketches on request if you give children’s ages Mail Orders Receive My Personal Care. Inquiries Invited from Specialty Shops. ADELE MAXUMILLAN 267 West 11th Street New York UOOOOUEEOAEEERON EDEN HPULEOENOTOGEOODOOOEDEGROEEORUOODODORCOREOUOUOGORERSONULE HATS GOWNOS SPORTS APPAREL 602 MADISON AVE. at 57th. ST. NEW YORK. Paris ~ 21 Rue Du Chateau D'Eau. SOOT LLL LLLLLLLLL LALLA Counc LLL Leo © Fotograms, N. Y. SOCIAL CALENDAR for September SEPTEMBER 1 Horse Races under auspices of Westchester Racing Association at Belmont Park, N. Y., to continue until September 14, inclusive. SEPTEMBER 2 Annual Newport Horse Show, Newport, R. I., to continue until September 4, inclusive. Members of committee are Frank K. Sturgis, chairman; Charles P. Williams, secretary and treasurer; and Arthur Curtiss James, William Fitzhugh Whitehouse, Gustave J. S. White, William H. Vander- bilt, Thomas G. Ashton, Alfred B. Maclay, Frederick P. Garrettson and Lewis E. Waring. Annual Horse Show under auspices of Fairfield County Hunt Club, West- port, Conn., to continue until September 4, inclusive. SEPTEMBER 4 Annual Gold Mashie Golf Tournament, Ocean Links, Newport, R. I., to continue until September 6, inclusive. SEPTEMBER 6 Labor Day. SEPTEMBER 8 Wedding of Miss Anne Hollister Fish, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Latham Fish, to Walter Stiles Hoyt, at “Southwind,” the country home of the bride’s parents in Greenport, L. I. SEPTEMBER 9 Wedding of Miss Suzanne V. Wayman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Wayman, to L. Peter Donchian, in Christ Church, Bronxville, N. Y. SEPTEMBER II Annual Dog Show under auspices of Westbury Kennel Association, West- bury, L. I. Wedding of Miss Helen Manning Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald M. Brown, to Herbert Dudley Hale, at “Stonybrook,”’ the country home of the bride’s parents in Cooperstown, N. Y. Wedding of Miss Mary Hale Harts, daughter of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. William Harts, to Robert Earl, Jr., in First Congregational Church, Madison, Conn. Wedding of Miss Emma R. Hinchman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Hinchman, to Elliott F. Brockelbank, at home of bride’s parents in Short Hills, N. J. SEPTEMBER 13 National Amateur Golf Championship Games, Baltusrol Golf Club, Baltusrol, N. J., to continue until September 18, inclusive. Men’s National Tennis Singles at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, L. I. SEPTEMBER 15 Annual Mineola Horse Show, Mineola, L. I., to continue until September 17. Horse Races under auspices of Queens County Jockey Club, Aqueduct, N. Y., to continue until September 29, inclusive. HARPER’S BAZAR STORE BALT Fitting the Sizes ItolO Aarrow Heel AAAA WE STYLE FORECAST HS.ON REQUEST Your Beauty Blooms UNDER the deft and enchanting skill of Madame Mays’ scientific methods, your beauty becomes viva- ciously enhanced. Wrinkles, freckles ' and scars vanish, lines about the eyes are smoothed away, and relaxed tis- sues of face and throat are given the new youth of satiny texture. Treat- ments of usually 10 to 14 days are given amidst all the restful and ele- gant surroundings of a private home. All consultations and treatments Madame in strictest con- ha ys Sjidence. Convincing details Cace and booklet on request 50 W. 49th St. ee New York City A wOrelia J Ma fe. This fascinating nov- elty by Glassberg, with its Spanish-Cuban heel strikes a new note of individuality in Fall footwear. Available in Black Alligator with Pat- ent Overlay Brown Alligator with Tan Calf Overlay and Black Velour Calf with Patent Overlay (Perugia Spike Heel). Mail Orders Filled Sizes i-10 Widths AA-E lassber SHORT VAMP HOES Since 1902 73 West 50th St. 290 Fifth Ave., 511 Sixth Ave.

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letails requcst 1 St. City —___——4 ° S lta sf for SEPTEMBER 1926 creations of leading Couturiers. GOWNS — WRAPS — SUITS — SPORTS- WEAR and ACCESSORIES made for you in Paris from linings carefully fitted here. NEW YORK /HOP 30 WE/T 5I8/T i... KAELRED commutes to Paris —- regularly —selecting for your individual requirements the most advanced [rcthe in Spechitd cans = / September Means Shopping IMES have changed while you were away. There are new things in old, familiar shops, and new shops in old, familiar streets. You must make another voyage of dis- covery. You feel like starting at the Battery with the entire family purse and _ working north, dashing east and west into every side street. You make a list: new things for fall, the children, the house, your- self, a dependable hairdresser with a flair for the new mode. If you’re wise you will con- serve your energy and your purse by looking through these pages and charting your course accordingly. 17 East 45th Street AVE _ beauty—youth—slender- ness! These come by building health from within, by removing the causes of sickness. Try our noted colon irrigation, reducing treatments, massage and _ electrical baths—all supervised by Miss Sund- holm herself. Perfect Health is the Foundation of Beauty Write for booklet or telephone for appointment Finlandia Health Studio New York Telephone: Murray Hill 3068 Aphrodite Beauty Creams Dns Vital Health means glowing BEAUTY © Fotograms, N. Y. SOCIAL CALENDAR for September SEPTEMBER 16 Wedding of Miss Erma Fulton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edison Fulton, to William Robert Cubbins, Jr., in St. Thomas’s Church. Recep- tion at Ambassador. SEPTEMBER 17 Annual Far Hills Horse Show, Far Hills, N. J., to continue until September 18, inclusive. Dance by Mr. and Mrs. George Rose, in honor of their débutante daughter Miss Gwendolyn Rose, at “Overland House,” Old Westbury, L. I. SEPTEMBER 18 Wedding of Miss Paula Siedenburg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reinard Siedenburg, to A. Norman Into, at “Fort Hills Farm,” the country home of the bride’s parents in Greenwich, Conn. Annual Smithtown Horse Show, Smithtown, L. I. Annual Horse Show under auspices of Greenwich Riding Association, Greenwich, Conn. Open Polo Championship Games, Meadow Brook Polo Club, Westbury, L. I., to continue until October 2, inclusive. Wedding of Miss Helen Jones, to Harry P. Cox, in St. Agnes’s Episcopal Church, East Orange, N. J. SEPTEMBER 20 Wedding of Miss Elsie Elizabeth Pearson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Edward Pearson, to George H. Davis, in First Baptist Church, East Orange, N. J. SEPTEMBER 24 Annual Morris County Horse Show, Morristown, N. J., to continue until September 25, inclusive. SEPTEMBER 25 Wedding of Miss Lucilla H. Wylie, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Wylie, to Henry Codman Potter, at “Hawthorne House,” the country home of the bride’s parents in Quogue, L. I. Dog Show under auspices of Tuxedo Kennel Club, Tuxedo Park, N. Y. Dog Show under auspices of Shepherd Dog Club of America, New York. Wedding of Miss Adele Thompson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Thompson, to Howard M. Briscoe, in Christ Church, Greenwich, Conn. SEPTEMBER 28 Art Exhibition by Art-in-Trades Club, Waldorf-Astoria, to continue until October 27. SEPTEMBER 29 Annual Bryn Mawr Horse Show, Bryn Mawr, Pa., to continue until October 2. BuackHibiss MILLINERY 6 West 57: Street A step from Fifth Avenue NEW YORK The W orld’s Show Place of Fashion HATS. GOWNS, COATS and WRAPS Prices Never Excessive When the knowing hostess makes her plans OR every important func- tion of the coming brilliant winter season . . . from daughter’s presentation to the less formal dinner or tea . . . the knowing hostess will avail herself of Sherry’s inimitable service. How else can one be relieved of all time consuming details and be assured of faultlessly correct appointments? chuis Shony 300 Park Avenue Fifth Avenue at 58th Street The Waldorf Astoria, New York : EXACTING STANDARDS Here is an institution devoted en- tirely to the art of permanent wav- ing. us greater beauty, more perfect mode and absolute safety are assured, All work under the per- sonal supervision of J. Schaeffer. Phone Bryant 7615 for appointment. The Establishment of J, STHAEFFER, 590 FIFTH AVENUE ™ ri Near 48% Street G) _

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HARPER’S BAZAR = a HENRI VERGNE ANDRIMONT A delightful sport coat of giraffe kid with collar and cuffs in mink-colored seal. The ornaments on sleeves and collar are of buck- skin in a matching tone. As shown by the above example, Henri Vergne strives constantly to produce models in fur which are both smart and unusual. His creations are always significant of the coming mode in fur fashions. COATS — WRAPS — FURS 3 RUE DU 29 JUILLET & 18 RUE ROYALE, PARIS

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ZAR G4, SEPTEMBER 1926 % E/ FDR FEMININE BEAUTY CREATED BY & cit modes 10, avenue victor emmanuel, champs -élysées - paris- You have a friend in Parts When you need the sort of assis | There you will find Madame Calvé, tance which only a friend in the to whom you can go, as you would city can give you—advice and _ toa personal friend. Your problems suggestions about shops and will be her problems, and she will hotels, schools and doctors, re help you in every way possible. member the address: There is no charge, of course. This 2, rue de la Paix. is part of our service to our friends. sth cocinesinin ited laaitiateies ae es ee HARPER’S BAZAR INFORMATION BUREAU Madame Calvé, in charge Paris, 2, rue de la Paix

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GRANDS HOTELS EUROPEENS NICE HOTEL NEGRESCO Le plus somptueux des palaces PARIS CLARIDGES HOTEL Le plus bel hotel de Paris LYON PALACE HOTEL Le dernier construit BRUXELLES PALACE HOTEL Universellement connu HOTEL ASTORIA Aristocratique ARDENNE BELGIQUE CHATEAU D’ARDENNE Le plus beau golf du monde MADRID PALACE HOTEL Unique au monde HOTEL RITZ Le plus aristocratique SANTANDER HOTEL REAL Situation incomparable SAINT SEBASTIEN CONTINENTAL PALACE Le meilleur climat Where lo shop in [aris OME to Nice, Cannes, Monte Carlo and the other wonder resorts C of the beautiful French Riviera! There you will find dainty branches of the most celebrated firms in Paris which quickly spread Fashion’s latest decrees and make a specialty of articles best suited to their location. In them the exquisitely smart woman can find every- thing to content her whims and fancies. HARPER’S BAZAR suits sports coats evening wraps finest furs DD MAX new branch: 17bis, Avenue Matignon CHAMPS-ELYSEES SOvVPrY Robes Manteaux Lingeriés e 10,Rue de Castiglione PARIS ASK HELEN SCOTT for any information or service you may need in Paris You may need a shopping companion, a guide, an interpreter, a steamship passage or a car for the day or week. Mail orders promptly attended to. Let us do your shopping for you. All information without charge Suite 205, 56, Fg. St. Honore, Paris Telephone: Elysées 90-54 Cable—HELSCOT EUGENIE & JULIETTE HAUTE COUTURE 20 Rue des Capucines PARIS r. COUTURE =—————— 63 Boulevard Haussmann PARIS NICE e HOTEL RUHL Center of Fashion on the Riviera located on the seaside ~:) > Under the same management NICE Hotel Royal Hotel Savoy Hotel Plazza et de France GRENOBLE Hotel Majestic PARIS Hotel Carlton Leuwandbine De Luxe Gloves and Hosiery Paris 10 rue Auber ( Opéra ) Cannes Biarritz 14, Bd de la Croisette 10, rue Mazagran EN EF couturier 374 Rue St. Honoré Paris (Near Place Vendéme)

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ZAR aris re for SEPTEMBER 1926 WHERE TO SHOP IN ‘Parts DRESSES, MANTLES, FURS. HENRY 193 RUE Sf HONORE AUX Mille & Une Nitty LINGERIE LAYETTES DRESSES 8, Chaussée d’ Antin (near the Opera) TAN E REGNY COUTURE SPORT 11.RUE LA BOETIE PARIS TELEPH.ELYSEES : 2667 VETEMENTS — IRREDFERN COUTURIER SOCIETE FRANCAISE ROBES MANTEAUX FOURRURES LINGERIE AMAZONES MODES 242, RUE de RIVOLI PARIS Deauville Paris Plage Nice DE SPORT PYJAMAS DE LUXE 82 RUE DES PETITS CHAMPS (PLACE VENDOME) WELLY SCEURS MODES COUTURE LINGERIE 21. FAUBOURG S" HONORE,2I DARIS DAVIDSON 24,RUE DE MARIGNAN ‘couTuRE MADELEINE DELANNOY COUTURE 11 RUE VIGNON TEL.CENTRAL: 5855 jeanne duc 12 rue de la paix Alone in Struggling Against the Hopeless Uniformity of Present Millinery Fashions Th Smartest Hand Bags WHEREVER FASHION CONGREGATES, THE SPIRIT OF PARIS IS MOST CLEARLY EXPRESSED IN THE GOWNS CREATED BY 8,PLACE VENDOME DARI a i Place Vendéme Germaine Guerin Tortoise Shell - - Dressing Cases 243, Rue Saint-Honoré PARIS Be sure before you leave to take note of this address MALBOROUGH 59 RUE SAINT LAZARE Models a Specialty from the latest collections of Parisian couturiers bear- ing authentic signatures. Immediate delivery Faultless alterations. Couture Fourrure Lingerie geht 9 Faubourg St. Honore (Anct. Place Vendome) PARIS AGN ES 6 RUE A — ine 1, Place Vend6me Paris DRESSES - COATS-TRICOTS LINGERIE MILLINERY A GENTw NEW YORK Mapame. CUSSON Soo, Fifth Avenue, Soc HARPER’S BAZAR @ PARIS OFFICE 2 Rue De La Paix DUCERF-SCAVINI BOOTMAKER 31, Rue Cambon, PARIS LOUISEBOULANGER CHAMPSELYSEES SRUE DE BERRI DRESSES FURS MANTLES LINGERIE

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original gown shown above was photo- graphed by Baron de Meyer and designed by M. Rossi of the House of Lucile-Paris which makes a specialty of models for discriminat- ing American women who de- sire gowns of rare distinction and charm. Lucile-Paris has no branches any- where and 1s con- nected with no other firm. LUCILE 14, RUE DE PENTHIEVRE PARIS oiattt ftawls HARPER’S BAZAR amalar 4 Mizzoli li r hers cecreed, “a (rand Prix. came (leaky) Wordly Exportation

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 GERMAINE AUBERT JEANNE LAfFitTe NEUF RUE RICHEPANSE! Here you'll find LA COUR FLEURIE where six specialty shops are grouped in a garden setting. It's the latest of Paris innovations—La Cour Fleurie—planned by six progressive French shops for busy people. They thought of you:—the regret- fully short time you sometimes spend in Paris with so many things to do—if only you knew where to get just that dream frock you need, and to buy this for Margot and that for John! They all speak English at La Cour Fleurie. They understand your way. Their success is established because their merchandise expresses quality, elegance and the price is marked in plain figures. If you want to make really gratifying Paris purchases, keep this page to remind you of the right address. QORUVUE | : RICHEPANSE Ae DARIS madeleine CHARMEL DODGE & GIZARDIN SULLY J.BINET f 4 LINGERIE DESHABILLES ROBES MANTEAUX Faultless taste, Elegant line your individuality Handbags GERMAINE AUBERT: Just the right bag for use with your suit, afternoon and evening gown. Men’s Wear CHARMEL: Choicest Ties, Tailored Shirts and Pyjamas for the well-groomed man. Antiques, Bibelots DODGE. & GIZARDIN: An unusual collection of genuine antique furniture and bibelots for presents and the home. Jewelry SULLY: Specializing in Jeweled Wrist Watches of exquisite design and workmanship. Nettoyage JEAN BINET: Garments cleaned with delicate care and speedily delivered in impeccable condition.

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60 Traffic LL traffic authorities agree that the general adoption of safety-glass all around as regular equipment in passenger automobiles, now pioneered by and exclu- sive to the New SAFETY STUTZ, will result in a great reduction of motoring injuries. From the very beginning, every New STUTZ car has had a safety-glass windshield. Then the builders of this surpassingly safe auto- mobile, noting the increasing frequency of newspaper reports chronicling damage from flying glass, decided that the New SAFETY STUTZ should have safety-glass all around. And so, safety-glass has been put into every window, and window-ventilator, every windshield, and windshield-wing of all New SAFETY STUTZ models. This voluntary adoption of safety-glass, at no additional expense to the car-owner, means that the ultimate step has been taken by the builders of the New SAFETY STUTZ to provide the safest private passenger auto- mobile ever built. And this safety feature is obtainable in no car other than the New SAFETY STUTZ. experts acclaim his adoption of afety Glass The safety-glass feature is naturally pio- neered by the designers who were first to radically lower the center of mass weight and so produce an automobile of incom- parable stability; who were first to adopt the improved hydrostatic four-wheel brakes developed by Timken; who made their frame the strongest and most rigid built, with integral steel running-boards or “side- bumpers”; who brought steel into the con- struction of their bodies to give maximum strength and narrow, clear-visioned front corner-posts. And the builders of the New SAFETY STUTZ now announce the latest develop- ment in the Fedco System of Theft Preven- tion and Detection. Additional protection is now given each owner, all without cost to him, by indemnity against loss of use resulting from theft, at the rate of five dollars per day, up to thirty days. New SAFETY STUTZ models with their exclusive features are now on display every- where. See the New SAFETY STUTZ, ride in it, drive it. (Telegraphed from Lake City, Florida) Just arrived after driving fitteen hundred miles in my NEW STUTZ Vertical Eight Brougham, which I took off your showroom floor in Chicago one week ago today. The performance of this car over Kentucky and Tennessee Mountains on high without shift- ing gears and through mud and on speedways I consider marvelous. Have had absolutely no trouble whatever and car most satisfactory in every way. MRS. ELIZABETH FULLER CHICAGO a 4 Eight body styles, including 7-passenger models, designed and constructed under the supervision of Brewster of New York. All closed bodies ically tilated —an exclusive feature. STUTZ MOTOR CAR COMPANY of AMERICA, Inc. Indianapolis New SAFETY STuTZ The first and only automobile to provide safety- glass all around without extra charge to the buyer

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| larper’s azar SEPTEMBER, 1926 Number 2567 CONTENTS soth Year Fiction Scidoetghomenaies See ee rere The Thunderer, The Beginning of a Thrilling Record of One of the World’s Great Love-stories, by the Author of “Glorious A pollo” Illustrated by F. R. GRUGER PE AT ey Se Seen MET ae TE mine RTS rte AG Lea mye ter 78, 79 Why Not Brunettes? New Chapters in the Diary of Lorelei Lee, the Heroine of ‘‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” Drawings by RALPH BARTON a ee ee The Duchess and Lady Torrent, A Story of How One Desper- ate Woman Tricked Another—and Then! Illustrated by HERBERT M. Stoops ee: TE MERI 5 oo ob oak oree eh wlecanewedesentens 102, 103 The Closed Shop, A Strange Comedy in a Little Spanish State Illustrated by EVERETT SHINN eR | ne ae ae ee Xo ene eS ar 108, 109 Undelivered Letters, That Could Have Explained an American Girl to her Titled English Husband Illustrated by WALLACE MorGAN Fashions PORTFOLIO OF PARIS FURS Fu rs an d Photographs by BARON DE MEYER i aiacecgiribatoibars a 68, 70, 71 Drawings by REY ae a atabeis Pere SR 74 75 ° Drawings by BERNARD B. DE MONVEL...................0000: 76, 77 — fa b rics Nu mM b er PORTFOLIO OF NEW YORK FURS AND COSTUMES Fight : Drawings by Mary MACKINNON................ 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87 -oora COMES I Oevesss NEW FEATHERS AND FABRICS a ID you know that Anita Loos’s clever stories, which Our Monthly Paris Letter, by Marjorie Howarp shife- have been running in Harper’s Bazar, have been Ain digs by BARON DE MEYER. . oot hee Waieieae Sigie -90, 91, 96, 97 e ° 2 = " rawings by REYNALDO Luza. .92, 93 ways made into a delightful play which has been running in Drawings by ENw ENGEL. . Snags airy? 94, 95 utely Chicago? Almost coincident with the arrival of this : oe Caen: ene = , story issue in your home, ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”’ will THE IMPORTANT NEW AMERICAN FABRICS : appear in New York, with June Walker in the réle of LUCILE BUCHANAN Reports What the American Manu- LER Lorelei. The editor went to the West to see a perform- tacturers Have Prepared for the New Season ance and he is not alone in predicting a great success for Drawings by Grace Harv.. .... wah 98, 99, 109, 10r it in the metropolis. The lines “get over.” They LAST MINUTE SKETCHES FROM PARIS................ 112, 113 da sparkle as they did on the printed page. John Anderson, ion the well-known critic on the New York Evening Post, ee aa also went to Chicago to see the play in advance of its Society premiére in New York, and will write of it and, inci- PORTRAIT OF MRS. THOMAS MARKOE ROBERTSON........ 64 dentally, of other dramatic things in a scintillating article which we promise you for October. Just as we give advance fashions, so we are giving you a foretaste of this delightful American comedy. The editor feels that he has discovered a really fine new writer in young George O’Neil, whose first story, “Orders from Beyond,” will be offered you next month. Here is a powerful piece of work, as fine as Willa Cather’s “A Lost Lady.” Drawn especially for Harper's Bazar, by Mary MACKINNON RICHMOND BARRETT..... Tennis at Newport in the Mauve Decade, A Glowing Picture of the Good Old Days Special Features eee : ‘ ;ENERALLY SPEAKING— Fe GE IE oie vine kw he Also promised for October is a gem of a little story by GENERALLY SPEAKING—Comment by the Entron 63 the ever popular Kathleen Norris, called “The Ring”; THE NEW SMART SMALL CARS............... 104, 105, 106, 107 and Baird Leonard, whose book department begins in Drawn by RayMonp Loewy and SAMUEL Davis Ort1s this issue, will write again of the two leading books of HARPER’S BAZAR SHOPPING SERVICE.................110, 111 the month. Richard Le Gallienne will contribute a Photographs by STEINER-BRUERL beautiful essay on ‘‘The Magic of Perfume. ad hi é . TR De I os 5 vais cards he we hinno a mtausasacsteeness 114 NEXT MONTH: THE PARIS OPENINGS NUMBER Fashion Points for Men Observed by our Man-About-Town Drawings by WELTON CHIPMAN SWAIN READ THESE BOOKS—Says Batrp LEONARD. ................-. 162 Harper's Bazar is published monthly in the U. S. A. by the International Magazine Company, Inc., William Randolph Hearst, president; C. H. Hathaway, vice-president; Ray Long, vice-president; Arthur S. Moore, treasurer; Austin W. Clark, secretary, 119 West 40th Street, New York City. Single Copies, 50 cents. Yearly subscription in United States and dependencies, $4.00. In Canada, $5.00. In foreign countries, $6.00. (All subscriptions are payable in advance and at the full price.) When you receive notice that your ubscription has expired it is best to renew it at once, using the blank enclosed. When changing an address, give the old address as well as the new and allow five weeks for the first copy to reach you. 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for SEPTEMBER 1926 GENERALLY SPEAKING F ONE who speaks over the radio has a “vast, invisible l audience,” the same is true of an editor. That elusive being, “the average reader,” is difficult to please, and more difficult to discover. Who is she? Where does she live? What does she think about? We editors are forever trying to give her, through our table of contents, which is the only banquet we can spread, something that she wants and needs. I was sitting at my desk reading manuscripts the other afternoon, having just acquired the title of editor of this maga- zine. Now, the reading of the fiction offered a periodical is a most important function. Searching for what will appeal to his unseen clientele, is no small part of an editor’s duties. A window-washer, strapped to the casement, was my only observer. I wished ardently to be alone. No manuscript offered us is neglected. The unknown genius from the hinter- lands may be in the thrilling morning mail. There is no telling when another O. Henry or Irvin Cobb may turn up. Well, after hours of concentration, and forgetful of the man at his job at my elbow, I was surprised to hear the window lifted, and a voice saying: “Can I ask you somethin’?” It was the window-washer. “Certainly,” I said, coming back from fiction to fact. “Say, I’ve been lookin’ at you fer an hour. Do they pay you fer doin’ that?” I must leave it to my unknown readers to decide whether the joke was on the window-washer or the editor. UESTIONS: I wish that more questions would be asked, whether personal or impersonal. I hope this page may become an open forum where I may speak to my readers, and be answered in turn. How are we to know one another unless there is an exchange of ideas? The very name of our magazine is an invitation to meet. The dictionary defines a bazaar as “a market-place or range of shops, often including a street or series of streets, sometimes under a common roof; in southern India and Ceylon, a single shop or stall kept by a native.” But we are not of India and Ceylon. We are of the western hemisphere, and “under a common roof” is the definition and phrase that most appeals to me. I hope that readers will come to feel their close connection with the editorial rooms. I myself have been asking some of our readers certain ques- tions. Several women have told me—and truthfully, I am certain—that they found many suggestions in our fashion pages, many practical ideas. They take to their modistes the drawings we offer each month, and have the designs copied— sometimes with minor changes, to suit their personal appearance to conform to their type. I hope that you do the same. Tell me what you like about this magazine; but even still more important and helpful, tell me what you dislike. And now let us speak of XPATRIATES: One hears a great deal of Americans who become expatriates: those pitifully inadequate men and women who rush off to Europe and live lonely and dissatisfied lives. In Paris, they remain for the most part in the American colony with others of their ilk, and some of them never even acquire the language. They play bridge, and drift along, with only one conviction: the sure knowledge that the United States is a cheap and dreadful country, wholly lacking in culture. Decent Americans resent these self-constituted envoys to foreign shores. They fear that they may be taken as perfect samples of what this country produces. But there is little to worry about. The Continentals never quite take unto their bosoms these curious folk; they are never absorbed by the French, or the Italians, or the Spanish. America may have its faults. The wise citizen is he or she who gladly drinks in the culture of an older and riper civiliza- tion and brings back to his native land a part of that excellence which no intelligent person can deny is essential to the making and molding of a complete man or woman. Who can deny, for instance, that Paris is the center of fashion? Hence we go to it, and extract the best it has to offer us. But if we can learn much from Europe, it is true that Europe likewise can learn much from us. Arnold Bennett says, in “Your United States,”—a book, by the way, written in 1912 which stands the test of the years—that in architecture we have advanced more than any other people; and so keen an observer as he found our newness invigorating, our youth inspiring. The truth is that every country has much to learn, and much to give to other lands. The ancient Greeks were once as modern as we. Ruins were not always ruins; yet there are some casual travelers who seem to think so. There was an hour when the Wingéd Victory was a fresh inspiration from the sculptor’s chisel, completely glorious; when the Hermes of Praxiteles was equally new; a day when the paint upon any great canvas was still wet. Youth, per se, is not a sin; neither is old age of itself a virtue. True, time gives to all beauty a mellowness and a grace; but if twilight is lovely, who can deny the clean wonder of the morning? It is absurd to say, pontifically and oracularly, that only this or that is good and great. A skyscraper, to one man, may be as wonderful as a skylark to another. There are no boundaries which prohibit the expression of ideas. The world, with its awe-inspiring modern inventions, is now prac- tically one big parish; and we can learn from one another as never before, because we are closer together than at any time in the history of the world. N BEING HOMESICK: I have a delightful friend who said to me the other day: “Why is it that so many of us consider it a sign of weakness to admit that, in a foreign land, we are homesick? Last year I had been in England two months, and was invited to go on to Italy, where I had never been, and which I wanted to see; but for the first time in my life I had a longing to get back to Chicago! I can’t explain the feeling. And I was not a little ashamed of it. “T continued to feel ashamed up to the moment when I took the steamer at Southampton. Then, suddenly, I became very proud of myself. To think that I had this in me, and didn’t know it until now! It was like the moment, during the War, when I discovered that I was not a physical coward. I crossed the ocean amid the submarine danger, and didn’t care a hang. We were all, literally, in the same boat; and I felt but an atom in the scheme of thing . Mind you, I don’t think I deserve the least credit for this revelation about myself. I’ve always been a bit of a fatalist, and the moment had merely come for me to put my belief to the crucial test. And then I discovered, too, that I was patriotic; that I honestly cared for the soil on which I was born, and for the flag that waved above it. “As a matter of fact, homesickness is a most laudable virtue. It reveals to oneself that there is some sentiment left in one; and why should we be frightened of sentiment? Sentimentality is another thing. I know stockbrokers who secretly read—and write—poetry. But they wouldn’t let anyone know it for the world. The Anglo-Saxon has got it into his head that the arts are rather precious. Your Latin thinks just the reverse. And how much more he gets out of life! “And yet, happy though I was to get back home, and good as the old dingy streets looked to me when I reached them, I’ve made up my mind to one thing: if it takes my last dollar to get there, I’m going to Italy next spring!”

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HARPER’S BAZAR Drawn especially for Harper's Bazar by MARY MacKINNON MRS. THOMAS MARKOE ROBERTSON formerly Miss Cordelia D. Biddle of Philadelphia, and one of the most popular and charming members of the younger set in New York and Southampton.

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| i ; SEPTEMBER 1926 By EK. BARRINGTON THE THUNDERER A Thrilling Record of One of the World's Great Love Stories by the Author of “Glorious Apollo” Illustrated by yr. BP. “ ELL, you have given your opinions,” said Madame WY reson leaning back in her chair. ‘Now, hear mine! I may say I have known the young Buona- partes from the cradle. I knew their mother Letizia Ramolini in Corsica—the handsomest girl there. And I say that the re- markable one of the family is Lucien. Napoleon has will and selfishness, and if he can thrust himself in front of others he will. But Lucien has ideals. He is the true son of the Revolution. Napoleon swims with the stream, but do you suppose he cares which side he is on so long as it’s successful? Not he!” She fluttered her fan, and with a final air furled the pretty amorini dancing on rosy clouds. Madame Permon had a son of twenty and more and a daughter of sixteen, but everything about her was charming—except, indeed, her insight. That was a little too keen for such dark Southern eyes veiled in such attractive black lashes. She too had been a Corsican beauty, rejoicing in the sonorous Greek name of Panoria Comnena, and the beauties, Panoria and Letizia, had been friends. Fate reserved a very different destiny for those two girls who started the race of life with equal hopes and handicaps. HE gossiping Madame Larousse was another member of the party. “Buonaparte,” she said, sipping her coffee, “is a curious name. And is it a Corsican name, citoyenne? Is there an- cientry behind it? One would like to know, now that this young general is beginning to give himself airs. I have heard Lucien talk of his family with a kind of affected reverence. Very silly, if they’re nobody in particular.” Madame Permon kindled beautifully in response. She de- tested the republican “‘citizeness” form of address, and when- ever she dared, which was seldom, exacted the aristocratic “madame.” Her bright eyes rayed out scorn on the Larousse. “It is not, citoyenne, because a family is not wallowing in gold, that it can be despised. The Buonapartes were allied in the past with my family, the Comneni were Emperors of Con- 1 stantinople—the last Emperors of the . : Roman Empire. The real Greek 4 y Sf name of the Buonapartes was—is— ee Kalomeros—which in Italian signifies ‘a good place’—buona parte. Being ae allied with us they also were allied with the Emperors of Byzantium. eS Certainly they had royal blood! And E j people did not close their eyes then to the existence of distinctions which exist!” “T often think,” put in the hand- some young soldier, Andoche Junot, leaning over the back of a chair, “‘that my General has a Roman look about him. You can fancy that clear profile on a coin, can’t you? And there’s a bust in the Museum—I thought directly I saw it it had a look of Buonaparte. Of course, I never can make Citoyenne Permon allow that an aide-de-camp is any judge of his General. She thinks she knows more about him thanI do. Own it, citoyenne!” Madame Permon tossed her pretty head with its curls and coils of silky black knotted high upon it. That form of address annoyed her even more from the lips of a man. “My dear Junot, you are an incurable sentimentalist about GRUGER Napoleon, and how can you judge? I have seen him as a troublesome self-willed brat, a plain boy with a furious temper which poverty compelled him to keep in some sort of control at Brienne and the military school of Paris—compelled, for he would have broken out a hundred times if he had dared. It was wormwood to him that he and his sister Elise were educated at the cost of the State. He never will forgive that stroke of fate as long as he lives.” ER daughter Laure, listening with the bright-eyed quiet of a mouse, ventured a little breathless word: “But, mother, it was frightfully hard on poor Elise that she never had money to do as the other girls did. Don’t you remember—” “Am I likely to forget! Yes—the poor child! Madame Letizia had asked me to visit her girl, and when I went one day with Napoleon she was weeping tears as big as grapes because the girls of her class were to give a little féte to a classmate who was going on holiday, and she had only six francs in the world, which had to last her until next quarter. I saw Napoleon slip his hand into his pocket, and draw it out again, deadly pale. You know, Junot, how he always pales instead of reddens when things move him.” “T know! Our regimental surgeon says people like that are always the most dangerous. The blood rushes to the vital centers and they’re capable of anything at the moment. But you helped the poor child, Madame.” “Possibly I did. And even for that Napoleon will not easily forgive me. Nor for the fact that in the attic here there was always a bed for him when he had a holiday and nowhere else to go.” There was a little irony in the finesse of her smile. Madame Permon prided herself on her insight into human nature and was a lady who could never be ad- mittedly in the wrong. Possibly she understood the Buonapartes so well because she too had the Corsican strain, which is as segregating as the Southern Irish and has points of re- semblance with it. “Well, I call it gross ingratitude!” said stout Citoyenne Larousse, willing to conciliate her rapier-witted hostess. “Every one knows the excellence of Citoyenne Permon’s heart, and for a benefit to be forgotten—or resented— is beneath human nature. But I have noticed that kind of unnatural restraint in young Buonaparte as if he were always on the defensive. He hasn’t the pleasant easy manner of General Junot here. Not by any means!” Junot bowed, but the compliment did not please him. He looked coldly into the lady’s eyes. “No person that I know of has any reason to complain of my General’s manners. He took lessons in dancing and deportment at a time when he could ill afford them, and when certainly pub- lic opinion did not call for them. I have heard excellent judges pronounce him perfectly polite and I am sure Citoyenne Per- mon will agree with me.” People might rally him on his devotion to Buonaparte, but it was fixed and unalterable—possibly the strongest feeling of his

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66 heart In all the violent discussions which took place in Madame Permon’s salon between herself, Buonaparte, and others who frequented it, Junot’s quiet support was always behind his friend, whom he persisted in believing to be the most wonderful man on earth, the staunchest of Republicans. When toward the end of the Reign of Terror Buonaparte was arrested as a spy and in some danger of losing his head, Junot was ready instantly with a romantic plan for his escape from prison, and, when it was refused, declared he was determined to share his friend’s imprisonment even if it were to be for life. But after thirteen days in the shadow of the guillotine his hero was released and the two resumed their hand-to-mouth existence of the struggle with poverty, the tragic longing for success. Yet, was it hopeless? The Revolution and its bloody sequence had set France at odds with all the world. Surely for two young men of dash and courage there was a prospect—say, in Italy—where the war-clouds were gathering black in Italian defiance of Austria. Mean- while, they supported themselves very largely on Junot’s successful gambling. Their pay was scarcely enough to keep them in bread, not to mention butter, and economize as Napoleon would he still had to make contributions to the support of his family, now compelled to leave Corsica for France, and there were times when he almost sank under the difficulties, growing leaner, more strained and haggard every day. yee reply Madame Permon looked at Madame Larousse with flushed cheeks and sparkling eyes. She might herself censure Napo- leon and, as a matter of fact, often did, for when two extremely hot tempers come into collision there can be only one result. But she was Corsican and so was he, and no mere Frenchwoman must in- trude. “General Junot is_ perfectly right!’’ she said warmly. “Per- sons whose own manners entitle them to judge commend General Buonaparte’s. Persons whose manners do not entitle them may be as censorious as they please. He is always perfectly obliging. Must you leave us, citoyenne?” (for the Larousse rose heavily, scenting lightning in the air). “Well, it is our loss. Albert!” Young Permon squireu the lady to the door, and returned laughing. “You frightened her away, mother! When you knit your little brows and color up, the enemy generally takes to her heels. Napoleon should be very much obliged to you! Personally, with all due deference to Junot, I have found him rather difficult.” Madame Permon laughed gaily. “The good God will forgive me my little lies! Napoleon will never have good manners. He will always either bully or sulk. But for all that, I think he has the rudiments of a heart—when one can get at it— and certainly he stands by his family. Heavens! —what a lot of them—Elise, Caroline, Pauline.” She ticked them off on her pretty fingers, Junot coloring at the last name. “Joseph, Napoleon, Lucien, Louis, Jerome. Providentially three of her thirteen died! The poor Letizia—I always think there’s a little vanity in insisting on presenting the world with so many copies of oneself. What can become of them all? The girls have no fortunes and never will. They are good-looking enough—” Laure Permon interposed again. ‘O, mother, Elise is beautiful, Caroline is more beautiful, Paulette beautifullest of all. She is exquisite —~such a complexion, such a lovely mouth, such a perfect figure. What does she want of money? She is like a princess in a fairy-tale.” “My dear Laurette, the Revolution has left decent persons so scandalously poor that no man can afford to amuse himself with only pretty lips nowadays. The prettiest lips must be fed, and Paulette Buonaparte is as fond of good things as any one else I know. Sentiment was guillotined in the Revolution as well as the fortunes of all decent people. It’s only the Convention who are rich—those bats and dormice who profess to govern France.” UNOT looked decidedly uncomfortable; the allusion to Pauline Buonaparte colored him to the ears. The allusion to the Convention ruling France was worse. The members might be bats and dormice, but they had their spies, and though France was gorged with murder and sensation by this time and they were hardly likely to emulate the blood-lust of Robespierre and his friends, who had just come to a well- deserved end, the comparatively toothless lion might still scratch if not bite. Buonaparte had warned him more than once that Madame Permon was dangerously free with her tongue— that the atmosphere of political discussion in her salon was not the healthiest for young generals who knew that kissing went by favor of the powers that be. “T am attached to Signora Panoria,” he “‘His face burned before her like white flame. He had absolutely lost control.” would say. “She showed kindness to me and my family when we needed it. She attended my father’s death-bed when he died away from us all in France; when I was as hard up as a fellow could be at Brienne and the Military School, she was hospitality itself to me. If ever I can do her a good turn I will. But her little tongue blisters! She is suspicious and quick-tempered like all Corsicans and spits fire on every one she doesn’t agree with. For my part I think it safer to keep out of her salon. She ran her family into danger of their lives HARPER’S BAZAR more than once during the Reign of Terror with her aristocratic notions and we are none of us out of the wood yet. Be careful, Junot.” These ominous words recurred to Junot as he listened. Like Citoyenne Larousse he rose to flee from a dangerous neighborhood. The pretty Laurette looked at him quizzically. With her mother’s insight she knew perfectly well that “ Puss-in-Boots,” as she had nick- named Napoleon, with his huge boots and slender legs, had cautioned his aide-de-camp against them. She knew too, what had escaped Madame Permon, that Junot was fatuously in love with the exquisite Paulette. Not that that mattered, for neither Paulette nor Napoleon would ever give a second thought to Junot’s sentiments if they stood in the way of any solid advantage; but a man of twenty-six desperately in love elsewhere is not an amusing companion for a charming dark-eyed girl of sixteen. Let Junot go—she did not care! A colonel at twenty-six? Yes, but every one was a colonel now. That did not count. She found no particular in- terest in either Junot or Napoleon. Her mother had friends among the noblesse and returning immigrants who had survived the Revolution, and she infinitely preferred their company and manners to either one or the other, handsome fellow as Junot might be. He went off with Albert Permon and the mother and daughter were left alone. They were exceedingly like each other, both charmingly pretty, dark with dancing eyes, fiery, full of energy and acumen, subdued for the time in the daughter by the manners of the period, which re- quired that a girl should rather be seen than heard. Perhaps since Madame Permon had been a widow discipline had been a little relaxed and there was more camaraderie than had been allowed before. At all events, Mademoiselle now per- mitted herself a remonstrance. “Mother, dear mother, after all the horrors and dangers we escaped in that awful time of the Terror, isn’t it dreadfully danger- ous to abuse the Convention? I know Junot would never tell what’s said, but Napoleon hardly ever comes to us now and it makes it very uncomfortable for me with the Buonaparte girls. Paulette let slip how Napoleon says that as a soldier under the orders of the Convention he can’t go where they’re abused.” ADAME PERMON laughed like silver bells. She was prettier and younger than ever when she laughed. No sensible person looking at her could have believed in the existence of Lau- rette, except as the younger sister, not to mention Albert. “You goose, you darling goose, do you really believe respect for the Convention keeps Napoleon away? Well now, you shall know the truth—the simple unadul- terated truth—which happened a few months ago and was not the best thing for my good little fillette to hear at the time.” Laurette pricked up her pretty ears. Her mother, still smiling, shaded her face from the fire with the amorini dancing on their rosy clouds. “Napoleon came here one day looking queerer, I think, than I ever saw him, and that’s saying a good deal. His long lanky hair—so badly powdered—hung over his shoulders, and if you had been there (Continued on page 148)

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 Soe STS ee SEF “<Stand up, you little lazy Josephine, and drink too,’ cried Thérése Tallien. ‘No—don’t rise like a snake undulating its coils, but spring like a panther. Health to Barras!’ They drank, Josephine sipping and smiling at her friend’s frantic enthusiasm. ‘To General Buonaparte! And may his star lead him high and far!”

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 WORTH Broadtail is so thin and supple that Paris is making little straight coats of it this season. This one from Worth is typical and is very smart in every detail— the tailored lapels, the flap pock- ets, and turned-back tailored cuffs, all are essentially of this season.

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This wrap is made of the whitest of whiie ermine, lined with white velvet. It is so soft and fine that it makes as narrow a silhouette as any velvet wrap could. Louiseboulanger’s furs—like her costumes—are noted for their original treatment. This is a straight coat of sable. The scarf-collar is made of perfectly mate hed velvet. LOUISE- \ BOULANGER | URS as an essential part of the winter wardrobe have never been more im- portant. Not only are the well-known furriers branching out into larger and more imposing quarters, but the fur departments of the regular dressmakers are taking on such significance that one of them, at least, has set up in a house of its own. Lanvin will formally open, this month, her fur and perfume house on the Rond Point of the Champs Elysées. It is a handsome shop, decorated like her older house in gray, with black baseboards and bright chestnut wood- work. From the laboratory for perfumes in the basement to the storage rooms’ for rare pelts on the top floor, the whole place is mod- ern, convenient, and scientifically installed. D@UILLET From her advance models shown us for this portfolio, we chose the lovely coat of dark Canadian mink, cut in the new rather full fashion, the fur worked in narrow fillets; and a good-looking street coat in shaded gray astrakhan, one of the favorite trimming furs this winter, cut on the new slightly “barrel” lines, which are a prediction for next winter. Other coats shown us were a sports model in undyed silvery seal, cut with a capuchin hood raised or lowered at will and lined with match- ing kasha as were most of the daytime models; and a Hudson seal coat, very “Lanvin,” hung with a flare from the shoulders, and bordered with an oval design in antelope and gazelle in three shades to match the kasha frock beneath. Madame Leroy, of the Fourrures Max, has HARPER’S BAZAR

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 Broadtail is one of the smartest pelts this season, but so delicate that it is for those who possess many fur coats. It is used for coat dresses, straight coats, and capes, and of all furs most nearly approaches cloth in supple- ness and thinness. Here it is combined with chinchilla. Long, becoming point, descending to a low waist- line, give this ermine wrap distinction. The upper part of the wrap has an ample- ness which is new in the mode, and gives importance to the upper part of the gar- ment rather than the skirt —a top-heavy silhouette. LELONG also opened her splendid new house in the Avenue Matignon. A quiet scheme of pearl gray is varied with flower panels painted in colors which glow softly in different tones of red. The main salon is circular, and a flight of steps leading to it gives the pretty manne- quins a fine opportunity for eTective posing. Ma- dame Leroy shows every sort of coat, all fur and fur trimmed. She also favors combinations of materials and adds shaded kasha scarfs to her shaded gazelle or chevrette sports coats. De- lightful coats on slim lines in American broad- tail or shaved lamb are shown with large en- velope purses made to match of the same fur. A splendid shawl of mole is photographed by Baron de Meyer. There are magnificences in chin- chilla and snow white ermine, as well as practi- calities for sports wear. Evening wraps are made of gorgeous lamés woven by Coudurier specially for this house, with its favorite gazelle leaping about among slender silver palms. Grunwaldt and Henri Vergne have given their most effective models to be drawn by Monsieur de Monvel. We were shown a striking evening wrap in black velvet lined with ermine and with a huge ermine collar from Heim. The combination of material and fur has become so important that even the furriers are taking it up. Im- mediately after the war, you remember, a woman might as well be dead as wear anything but a fur coat, preferably mink. Then the craze for slen- derness at all costs began, and brought with it the less bulky cloth garment, trimmed with fur, which has been in vogue ever since. It has by no means superseded the all fur coat, of course, but one can not deny that it has taken rank beside it. Of all combinations of fur and material, the black coat with fur in beige or putty tones has been the smartest. There is every indication that it will continue to be smart, though this sum- mer I observed a marked tendency to match the material to the fur. This, however, was probably a warm weather develop- ment. Side by side with it, I noticed the contrast idea, so strong through- out our summer ward- robes, carried into other

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The bloused all around line, which is one of the forecasts for winter, is well illustrated by this ermine wrap, shirred as if it were velvet. Broadtail is used for this short coat that fits snugly over the hips like a particularly well-cut blouse. It fastens at the low waist-line. MOLYNEUX fur trimmings. Paquin, for example, launched late in the season a very popular ensemble, in black and palest blue. The not quite long coat of the blue had a collar of black Persian lamb, while the frock divided the two colors. Whole fox skins will be much used for collars on fur- trimmed coats next season. The long haired furs, such as fox and lynx, will be best on afternoon coats and ensembles, while morning coats and sports types will favor flatter furs, and it is here that the imitations will be used, painted, stenciled, bleached, and oddly dyed furs being com- bined with cloth materials. The question of so-called “imitation” furs is developing in an interesting way. It is like that of false pearls, which origi- nally tried to pass for real, then realized that they might very well stand on their own merits. No reputable furrier will ever try to give you a substitute, or to pass off a skin for something else. He will frankly tell you that the pelt you admire is goat DRECOLL CALLOT HARPER’S BAZAR Callot was one of the first houses to handle fur exactly like cloth. This cape-coat of gray broadtail is cut with a singularly high collar. (Below) Gazelle is used here as an informal daytime coat, not quite a sports model, flared a bit so that it can be worn in the afternoon. CHERUIT or hare; and why not, when the prices of these humble creatures have surpassed those of “real” furs of our grandmothers’ days? The tremendous vogue of tailored or sports furs has had much to do with this frankness. We all know the many guises under which gazelle has been made to appear; we have seen it masquerade as “ giraffe’; and this year we are to see it again in gray spotted with white as “trout,” or in tawny and black like baby leopard. Young goat now rivals gazelle, and indeed is made to imitate it, being printed and dyed in exactly the same fashion. Sometimes it is shaved close, and called “moirette,” and it is particularly attractive in white or écru when treated in this way, and looks almost like broad- tail. Lelong likes to use it in white with other furs, such as nutria, the shaved goat being employed like cloth for a hand- some coat trimmed with the other fur. Hares and rabbits are still to the fore,

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 75 An important mink coat has an unusual arrange- ment of the fillets of which it is composed. The ex- tremely dark, supple Canadian mink has been matched with great skill. Madame Charlotte, at Pre- met, prefers the blending of fur and fabric to the all-fur wrap. This even- ing wrap with its exciting silhouette is of Empire green velvet and sable. Chinchilla is made into a slim wrap close to the body with a long cape over it. Pale pink brocade is used for the exquisite lining. though they have perhaps ceded first place to the goat. There is a new gray hare which is treated to resemble chinchilla quite successfully, for example. Each season there are new skins of mysterious origin, sometimes appearing as themselves, sometimes best employed in imitating others. In this category is the “pahmi,” which makes the best imitation of beaver or skunk when suitably dyed. It is a sort of rat, I believe, but among the furs there are far more creatures of heaven and earth than Horatio dreamed of in his zoology. The point is that where these novelties are employed, they are used frankly with no attempt at concealment. Among the “real” or precious furs, nothing will rival chinchilla for evening unless it be ermine, but the first from its rarity and delicacy will always surpass the latter. You will see in the illustrations that ermine is made up nowadays in the new bloused silhouette which was one of the principal forecast points in the midseason collections. One of the characteristics of the new furs is that the form of the garment is most carefully suited to the pelt of which it is made. We shall not see re- peated this year the godets in Persian lamb which were so inappropriate to fur though excellent in cloth. In the daytime, the furriers (Concluded on page 130) PREMET LANVIN

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BY ANITA RALPH BARTON Drew the Pictures

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Loos “So this literary gentleman decided that as long as he was her escort he really ought to save her life.” WHY NOT BRUNETTES? And Now We Come to the Part That Tells About GLORIFYING DOROTHY ELL I have finaly thought up a way to start Henry to get to feeling more proma- nent when he comes up to New York. Because the main thing about Henry at Philadelphia is that he belongs to almost everything, be- cause there is nothing that Henry really loves like joining something or other. But of course nobody ever bothered to ask Henry to join anything at New York. So then I decided to look for something or other that would send Henry an invitation to join it, so that he would feel more promanent coming to New York. Well I went to the Mayfair Club on Saturday night which is a delightful Club every two weeks at the Ritz hotel. But when I go to some delightful dance I do not stop using my brains and have a good time like most girls seem to, but I always try to think up a way to improve myself even while I am dancing. So at the Mayfair Club all the famous actresses and cinema stars go and dance with their gentlemen friends. So the result of it is, that there is almost every kind of a gentleman there. And there is one gentleman that all of we girls spend quite a A lot of time trying to keep from 24 dancing with. Because he almost _ — i always seems to be indignent about something or other and he does nothing but talk for hours and try to make everybody else indignent to. But I finaly decided to try to stand him for at least one dance, because he and Henry seem to resemble each other quite a lot and he might help Henry get to enjoy himself more at New York. So then I told him that I wanted

‘Mr. Ziegfeld stood Dorothy up in quite a good light and he looked her over and over and he smoked his cigar and smoked his cigar.”

my husband to move to New York but that he always felt quite lost at New York on account of not belonging to anything. So I asked him if he knew something or other that he could get an invitation for Henry to belong to at New York. So I really chose the right kind of a gentleman to ask such a thing, because gentlemen who are indignent always seem to belong to things. And he was almost more than delighted. Be- cause he belongs to a thing that holds banquets and listens to speeches every two weeks and he belongs to the Friends of Art and the New York Distemper League which is against dogs having distemper and the Ohio society. But the Ohio society is very very exclusive because you have to be born at Ohio. But he could get Henry an invitation to belong to the Pennsylvania society which does not seem to be so exclusive because all you have to be born at is Pennsylvania. And he belongs to quite a lot of other things that are all either for something or else against it. So the next day he got invitations for Henry to join everything and he brought them all. up to me and they were really marvelous. Because all the comittees of all the societies are full of promanent people at New York like Amy Bottsfield Rand and Percy Gilchrist Saunders for instants. So now I am mailing Henry one invitation every day and by the time he arrives to spend the week end with me at New York I really suppose he will be so excited that he will even stutter more than usual.

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 agit 00 4 “When a broker meets a girl, he always likes to be more serious and gives her all his good advice.” ‘“* Because it was Fate that just as Dorothy arrived at the Algonquin hotel it happened that a motion- picture company were just arriving from a location and they were all in quite amusing comedy makeups.” So even Dorothy seems to be commencing to have reverance for the kind of a wife I have become to Henry because Dorothy says that if I can bring Henry out of the suburbs of Philadelphia and make his intelect and per- sonality known to the masses, they will prob- ably elect him governor of Pennsylvania. So Dorothy seems to be improving after all. I mean, even if I do get discouradged at her, she really has done quite well when a girl realizes what Dorothy was when she first arrived at New York to get into the Follies. And I suppose quite a lot of girls wonder how girls get into the Follies, so the story of how a girl like Dorothy got into the Follies is really quite a story in itself. I mean almost every girl knows that it is very very difficult to meet Mr. Ziegfield. Because even if he does spend quite a lot of time picking and choosing girls to go into the Follies, he really seems to spend most of his time keeping out of the way of girls that want to go into the Follies. And when Dorothy arrived at New York nobody would ever think that she could ever go into the Follies. Because she was dressed in quite an unusual red dress that Dorothy says was the result of introducing her own ideas into Butterick patterns. And Dorothy’s own ideas are practically always wrong, especially on the subject of models because when Dorothy buys herself a new model, she always thinks about nobody but herself, and picks out what she likes and never stops to think that what gentlemen like is just the reverse. I mean when I pick out a new model, I always think of others, because I always seem to want to give others pleasure. But when Dorothy came out of the Grand Central Station at New York she was full of nothing but confidants and she did not seem to realize that she did not look like other girls. I mean other girls that arrive at New York have all of their things in a suitcase or even a valeese instead of an (Continued on page 128)

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TI INNIS Dashing sports costumes at a tennis match at the Newport Casino in 1889. AT NEWPORT IN THE The Author of “Rapture” Paints a Glowing Picture of the Good Old Days When Only the Four Hundred Entered the Sacred Casino By RicumMoNpD ERHAPS I am prejudiced—yes, I may as well confess at Pin start that I am prejudiced—against Forest Hills, with its brand-new concrete stadium; I still regret that the National Lawn Tennis Tournament should have turned its back on Newport and accepted the hospitality of the Long Island club. I know as well as anybody that Newport couldn’t accommodate the crowds; that sometimes, on the days of championship matches, scores of automobiles got no nearer to the Casino than the hills overlooking the Saunderstown ferry-slip; that those motorists from beyond the snug little island of Rhode Island who did manage to squeeze their cars on board the ferry were forced to get up before dawn, to go without their breakfasts and to break every known traffic law and most of the Ten Commandments into the bargain; that, once they gained the holy precincts of the Casino, they couldn't see a single square inch of the Championship Court unless they paid outrageous bribes to the red-sweatered ‘“‘shackers’’ for chiffoniers or rickety stepladders upon which to perch at peril of their lives. Yes, indeed, I know all that; but then, I never had to go through such ordeals to see McLoughlin trounced by Larned or Larned downed by “‘Big”’ Doherty. I had the good sense to live in Newport, not a quarter of a mile away from the Casino; if everyone else had possessed such canny foresight, we should still be hurrying off to the National Tournament at Newport every August. I am peculiarly fitted, I think, by influences both pre-natal and post-natal, to be a chronicler of the vanished pomp of BARRETT Tennis Week at Newport; for I was born one August morning right in the middle of the tournament. In the family archives is an old faded photograph of a great match on the Casino Championship Court—the picture is so very dim now that my parents can’t recognize the two players—and the date is August 28, 1895, the day of my birth. My mother has forgiven me much; but I have a sneaking suspicion that she has never for- given me for my blundering tactlessness in appearing upon the earthly scene in Tennis Week. She still says, with a sigh, “T’ve never lost a single important match since the National Tournament began—except the year my younger son was born.” By the time I was old enough to take an active interest in the fray, Tennis Week was already a gay and crowded affair, with international flavor. The reign of the great Dick Sears was long since ended; Bob Wrenn had faded into an historical figure, likewise Goodbody. The old harum-scarum days, when a scattering of a few hundred people sat in chairs around the court, were over. There was a grand-stand now—a quaint structure, that grand-stand. It had been bought from Barnum and Bailey’s circus; set up along the south side of the court, with its round hinged seats of solid wood painted a bright ver- milion, it looked oddly like a great gawdy typewriter, with people scrambling about over it and finally perching on the keys. Nothing could havé been more picturesque or more dizzyingly unsafe; the seats, as I have said, were solid, but every- thing else was a mere skeleton framework. The millionaires HARPER’S BAZAR MAUVE DECADE

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SEPTEMBER 1926 The very epitome of the period, there on the top step of the Horse-shoe Piazza, with umbrella and derby, sits Ward McAllister, embowered in Vanderbilts and Astors. of the region hung suspended precariously over an abyss. Ladies were always dropping their parasols through the wide open spaces; the trips up the narrow aisles—and down again— were as hazardous as mountain-climbing. I still remember vividly that terrifying moment when Mrs. John Jacob Astor (the present Lady Ribblesdale) caught her heel at the very top of the grand-stand and plunged headlong the whole length to the ground. She wasn’t hurt; nobody was ever injured, some- how, on that crazy, cranky structure. The people who had seats on it year after year must have borne charmed lives. And what a crowd that was! The Vanderbilts and the Astors, the Goelets and the Belmonts would have been just as indignant at the loss of their own particular seats on the Casino grand-stand as they would have been if some one had filched from them their luxurious red plush boxes at the Metro- politan. The queer part of it was that the tickets were ab- surdly cheap—as I remember it, they used to be just fifty cents. There was no wild speculation, with scalpers screaming at the entrance “Two tickets—fifty dollars for the pair!” Oh, no! The question was, not-how much must one pay, but how the devil could one break into the magic circle at all! Once safely in, however, one remained snug and secure for generations. That flimsy little grand-stand tucked away in the southeast corner of the Casino grounds under the great trees, with the dilapidated old Ocean House stables rotting peacefully into the earth at the rear, was for long years the gathering place of the highest and mightiest in the American scene. Certainly, in the words of Eugene O’Neill’s Hairy Ape, it ‘‘ belonged.” With such a background, it was no wonder that the tourna- ment itself had an intensely personal and intimate quality, something of a “family reunion” nature. Everybody knew all the details of the players’ lives. If you came out on the court in those days nursing a hang-over, your audience was sure to be “in” on your pretty secret. If you were engaged to be married, your girl on the grand-stand received almost as much attention as you did out on the court. Once, at a critical moment of one of Bill Clothier’s matches, an usher carried a glass of water up the grand-stand—dquite a feat of balancing, that!—to the Clothier party. Gossip began to buzz immedi- ately—which of the family could it be who was feeling faint— Bill’s father or Bill’s fiancée? We all knew how painfully ner- vous young Bill Larned was, too; a piece of paper fluttering about the court was enough to make him lose a match. So everybody used to pray for absolute unruffled quiet when Larned played. No one would have believed, then, that he could ever steady down into the magnificent machine he became in his prime. And the day Bundy ate a bad lobster at Berger’s —how we all followed the bulletins of his ptomaine! And the glow of satisfaction it gave us to find that Beals Wright’s game hadn’t suffered from the loss of the forefinger on his left hand! The whole thing was as romantic asa play. And it was staged like a play, too—with the hero of the hour kept off the scene till the suspense of the audience was at the cracking- point. If you recall, in those days the National Cham- pion didn’t play through: the tournament ran its dramatic course without him. Then he sallied forth for the challenge match; and, as fresh as could be, usually smothered the fagged and faded challenger. It (Continued on page 126) a a — ~ | | eae a A thrilling moment in a championship maich at Newport in the so elegant mauve nineties.

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HARPER’S BAZAR WHITE ERMINE COLLARED WITH FOX, IN THE NEW LAVISH MANNER The evening mode for the true ‘“‘elegante” is this season to be expressed with priceless furs and elaborate workmanship. The smart lines of this wrap show the new bloused bodice and slim skirt achieved entirely without any feeling of bulkiness, due to the exquisite working of the pelts. The ermine runs crosswise in the semi-fitted yoke and follows the body lines. As a frame for the face, fox is used in the shawl collar extending to the waist-line. GUNTHER

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for & PITEMBER 1°23 Models on this page from REVILLON FRERES 83 A short jacket of taupe pony-skin with bright blue leather binding is rather crisp and sports- manlike for street wear. A smart and impres- mode of this autumn is the wearing of two silver fox skins joined head to head. sive SFR ecg ct Ang From The long ‘‘guard”’ hair has been left on the beaver trimming of this beige character as sports frocks are, have a mink in this important pony-skin coat, cut on the smart woman’s wardrobe has in- greater variety of pelts to draw upon. daytime coat, cut with straight lines that are creased so that she now has fur coats for Leopard appears as often as it did last dolman sleeves to form the smart for daytime coats. eVety occasion, for street, sports, after- season, but is used more often as trim- yew “barrel” silhouette. HE fur coat has now many mani- festations. Its importance in the noon, and evening. The models on these pages were chosen as examples of fur wraps in the pelts most favored by smart designers. This year “novelty” furs do exist, and some of them are quite smart. Those furs of uncertain ancestry that made such a fantastic appearance last year are one of our last year’s heaviest snows. Printed furs are used as linings in sports wraps, but are seldom seen as wraps. For daytime general wear, the smartest fur houses are showing broadtail as flexible as a soft fabric, often handled in an almost tailored way for straight wraps, and just as often trimmed with contrasting fur. This handling of furs rather unceremoniously, as if they were fabric, has be- come an increasingly smart mode. Furs are cut into tailored lapels, stitched into pockets, and gathered into blouses exactly as a cloth coat is tailored and stitched into well- fitting smartness. Consequently fur coats have lost their bulky importance; a fur wrap no longer is just that and nothing more. It can have as much character as a cloth wrap, and be of as many different natures. Other furs for daytime are caracul, of exquisitely fine quality, mink, seal, natural “golden” seal, and nutria. FURS SELECTED FROM THE SMART AMERICAN DESIGNERS Printed Furs and “Novelty” Pelts of Uncertain LUCILE Ancestry Are Conspicuously Absent / This Years Mode By BUCHANAN Beige caracul of extreme JSineness is combined with Sports fur coats, which are as varied in raing, or combined with some other flat fur. Fine pony-skin, goat-skin, antelope kid, hair seal, and krimmer are all used. Evening furs are extremely luxurious this year. Ermine is used with a casualness of touch that distinguishes all the fur mode now; summer ermine is shown, but not as much as white ermine. Chinchilla is handled on almost tailored lines and lined with plain chiffon. Mink is used much as sable is used, with almost sports lines and without trimming of other fur. Daytime wraps are nearly all cut on straight sports lines, except that afternoon wraps flare slightly at the hem like the broadtail wrap on page eighty-five. Afternoon wraps are lavishly trimmed with costly furs, whole silver fox skins are used for collars, chinchilla is used in great bands on broadtail. Nearly all daytime coats, except sports coats, concentrate the interest of their design above the waist, by either gathers or dolman-cut sleeves, large raglan sleeves, and enormous collars. The bloused-back coat is particularly smart for afternoon. Neck-pieces of silver fox and sable are still smart. Two- piece “tandem” arrangements of silver fox are extremely smart. So are tandems of sable.

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Sables in rangement GUNTHER THE NEW FURS ARE MARVELS OF WORKMANSHIP Paris has launched the bloused-back wrap for cloth and fur wraps. Itis possible in fur onlywhen the pelt is ex- tremely supple, like the black caracul used to make this graceful wrap with full-length collar and cuffs of kolin- sky. Kolinsky is still excessively smart as trimming. Ermine is tinted a lovely pastel yellow and then combined with peach-colored fox to make a most flattering evening wrap. This sort of exquisite fur tinting should not be confused with the colored “novelty” fur atrocities occasionally launched. A new supple goat-skin is much employed for sports wear, dyed in becoming neutral shades. The belted coat at the extreme right is in two shades of gray. The darker shade of the fur is used for the stole and the elbow-deep cuffs of the smart straight-line sleeve The vogue for the silver fox scarf has revived the idea of fur neckpieces. new and most flattering stole for aflernoon wear. GUNTHER H. JAECKEL GUNTHER HARPER’S BAZAR A three-cornered scarf of beige ermine, with a narrow collar and pip- ing of brown ermine, is rather reminiscent of a sports handkerchief in its quaint informality. H. JAECKEL

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 ‘4 | s mY Y WYN Lae H. JAECKEL WHOLE FOX SKINS, SIMPLY DRAPED, ARE USED FOR IMPORTANT COLLARS This impressive daytime wrap embodies two of the most desirable and costly furs of this season—which are, of course, by the very nature of things, the smartest. The wrap is of broadtail, supple, flawless, and as fine as chiffon velvet, cut with a slight flare at the hem-line, as impor- tant afternoon wraps will often be this winter. The collar is made of two enormous silver fox pelts that form a stole reaching below the knees; the simple tailored cuffs are smartly cut from the broadtail. 4

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HARPER’S BAZAR Models from Vionnet, imported by SAKS FIFTH AVENUE FRENCH FROCKS AND COATS FOR AUTUMN Vionnet makes the skirt of this gray-blue heavy crépe frock look as if it were twisted around the body, so curiously are the small panels that form it cut. This ingenious cutting, with its unusual diagonal lines, is typically Vionnet. anal sapeert Se. ewer sated Chin dte F Another little frock of the semi-sports type, one of those frocks so extremely wearable for early autumn, is of dark blue kasha toile, combined with dark and light blue check wool fabric. It has blue leather buttons. A frock for early autumn, and one that may be worn this moment without a coat. It is of natural-colored kasha cloth, combined with dark blue fine wool, and embroidered with a smart dark blue monogram.

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SEPTEMBER 1926 Models imported by FRANKLIN SIMON This season’s new O’Rossen top-coat is very much A costume for street wear in early autumn is neither like last season’s at first glance, but there is a new a frock nor a suit, but resembles both. A short movement in its brown tweed severity, to distinguish jacket of brown plaided wool, trimmed with beige, is it. The difference is most noticeable at the waist. fastened to a sleeveless frock, to make a costume. ME RT: iY a. oes f La if AE y ~ f * 0 "5 2 , 14 , 7 om it Site | i One of the first furred top-coats to appear is of gray- For travel or motor or just general top-coat wear, a beige wool plaided with maroon. Natural badger fur new plaided wool wrap from Harry is rather unusual forms the enormous stole collar and the cuffs. It is in design. The scarf and narrow belt are good fea- exactly the coat for early autumn motor wear. tures; so are the wooden buttons and belt buckle.

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BAZAR HARPER’S By A. BE. W. MASON THE DUCHESS AND LADY TORRENT How One Desperate Woman Tricked She took a “ Lady Torrent consulted no one. cab from the corner of the street to Victoria Sta- tion, and was back again at Emperor’s Gate in time to sit down to dinner with her husband.” Another, and Then—! Tllustrated M. by HERBERT STOOPS SOUNDING phrase which merely states A a case will often be accepted as an ex- planation in other fields besides politics. Thus if one person said, “‘ Extraordinary affair, that of Lady Torrent. It’s just a case of social suicide,’’ the reply was certain to be, “ Yes, my dear, that’s just what it was.’’ Social suicide, indeed! Toby Manister, whenever he heard the words—and he heard them pretty often during one season—shrugged his shoulders and smiled contemptuously. They were the mere husk and shell of the affair, and he wanted the kernel. But he said nothing. For he was a dangerous little busybody with a sharp edge of malice to his mind as well as to his words; and here was, he felt sure, the very puzzle to amuse him, so long as he moved with sufficient dis- cretion. Discretion was necessary, for he had a glimpse of big names, and he, at all events, had no intention to commit social suicide. In the end, by putting this and that fragment of conversation together, by analyzing little inci- dents which he had witnessed without realizing their significance—he was present, for instance, at Lady Torrent’s party—by a deft question here and there, and finally, when he was fairly sure of his facts, by a bold visit to Lady Torrent her- self in her retreat near Dieppe, he got the story complete. And years afterward, when the prin- cipal actors had safely disap- peared from the scene, he told it. It was at a dinner-party where topic chased topic across the table and out of sight like so many feathers of cloud across a sky—a party of young people for the most part, amongst whom Toby Manister was beginning to feel uncom- fortably out of date. Then some one dropped a reminis- cence of Lady Torrent, and Toby Manister sat up in his chair. The old phrase leaped out reminted—‘The most in- explicable affair! After twenty solid years of untiring effort to achieve social success, twenty seasons when the gilt rout chairs went out of the house every morning to return to the house every evening, when every new reputation was chased and caught and sooner or later exhibited in the draw- ing-room at Emperor’s Gate, and was there thenceforward to be known as Eddie or Archie or Mona or Dollie, as the case might be—after all the bore- dom, and patience, and humilia- tion which such a life must mean, suddenly Lady Torrent goes off at the deep end and commits social suicide. Why?” Toby Manister replied. “She saw red suddenly and nothing else mattered. She became a woman instead of a machine like a hostess. She acquired a violent life of her own, or she had always possessed it and now let it rip. She was out for blood, and prudence, ambitions, society could go to blazes. Poor dear, it was she who went to blazes.”’ Toby was so pathetically eager to reestablish himself that no one of that kind gay party could gainsay him. They were rewarded with a curiously sinister little story of a duel to the death between a great lady and a little lady in which the little lady very nearly won. “T SAT through the trial, of course,” said Toby Manister, “and I noticed, as all the newspapers noticed, Lady Torrent’s quick bird-like glances toward the doors at the back of the Court whenever they swung open, as they so continually did, to admit one more spectator to the already congested benches. The news- papers put those glances down to fear—fear of what in the end did happen. But I felt certain that not for the first time the papers had observed and misread. Fear, after all, is un- mistakable; and I couldn’t discover any sign of fear in Lady Torrent, not even indeed any anxiety. What I saw was a sly, confident expectation of triumph. The appearance of the little jeweler from Brighton with the necklace in his hand was, I believe, the greatest shock she had ever received in her life. She thought herself safe, she was already gloating when in an instant—”’’ Toby Manister lifted his hand and brought the palm of it flat upon the table with a bang as though he crushed an insect. “We may look forward, it appears, to a charming story,” said the hostess with a note of mockery. Toby Manister needed no further encouragement. “The Duchess of Saxemundham was sitting with her secretary,’’ and he smiled complacently at the little start of astonishment which was universal in his audience. ‘Yes, the Duchess of Saxemundham was the great lady in the case.” HE Duchess of Saxemundham was of an unsullied reputation, she possessed enor- mous wealth, a great political influence, and a reprobate husband who in Paris, and Monte Carlo, and Venice and Aix, in fact anywhere except in London, might be seen to shake his head muzzily and say, “Cynthia’s miles too good for the likes of me. She’s a classic filly. I am the most contemptible of the Platers.” Of all these advantages the Duchess was well aware. She carried her charmingly tip-tilted nose high in the air, narrowed her intimate friends into a very small circle, and stood graciously aloof—a figure to which State and Church both clung as a proof that after all the world was not wholly lost. In this particular June, when she sat with her secretary in her study overlooking the Green Park, she had reached the age of thirty-one and the very perfection of her delicate rosebud

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 rather appealing and pathetic beauty. The Duchess was greatly helped to keep her balance upon her pedestal by a natural look of spirit- uality which hung like an aura about her small head with its heavy coils of dark hair. This look and her little wistful smile were indeed amongst her most important assets. For apart from their effect upon the people who didn’t know her, they made her very human and racy comments upon people and things seem attractively bizarre to those who did. “There’s another letter from Lady Torrent,” said Muriel Chalmers, the secretary, as she tore open the envelope with the laugh which in so many houses greeted Lady Torrent’s invita- 89 P | ; omeeri 28 6 ea OF tions. “‘She expects you to dine with her on Thursday week.” “Expects me?” exclaimed the Duchess— she was altogether Duchess at that moment. ““Why, I have refused to go.” “T know. I wrote the letter,’’ said Muriel. She spoke slowly with a note of perplexity in her voice, as she read this second invitation from Lady Torrent. “T asked you to mention that I hadn’t so far the honor of her acquaintance.” ‘“‘ And I did mention it. But—it’s quite im- possible of course—but this letter reads to me like a threat.” She turned to Cynthia Saxemundham with f “*He was so arlistic and sym- pathetic,’ said Cynthia—‘and he played polo divinely —and it was just after I was married and things were most hateful.’” the letter in her hand. Cynthia took it with a trill of amusement. Yes, there it was, a threatening letter—oh, very cleverly worded, not a phrase but could be made to look inno- cence itself—yet taken altogether, a pistol held quite definitely to the Duchess of Saxemund- ham’s head. Muriel Chalmers awaited another delicate outburst of amusement, but it never came. She turned about again with a gleam of anxiety in her eyes. But it was nothing to the anxiety which was now visible in every feature of Cynthia Saxemundham’s face. She sat very still and spoke rather to herself than to her young secretary. “She would never (Continued on page 116)

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HARPER’S BAZAR MODELE Grose DEMEYER. “La Croiviere Noire” in,pired these Clones hat,

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Alix has a weakness for the typical “ picture” hat of black satin. Here it is trimmed with a beige ostrich feather. N E W FEATHERS AND FABRICS In Parts, Hats Are Sprouting Tentative Feathers; They Are Also Appearing Disguised As African Head-dresses. The New By French Fabrics Are MLARJORIE The French Riviera. E ARE sitting under the date-palms, whose inter- WV ice: plumes spread a grateful green tent between us and a too friendly sun; and we are wearing cotton frocks and espadrilles, when we are not in one-piece bathing And as I look toward the Isles of Gold on one side, and into groves of cork-oaks and eucalyptus on the other, it seems suits. impossible to send my mind back to the salons of the milliners, fabric makers, and furriers I visited so solicitously just before leaving Paris. But after all, a sheet of type- writer paper makes as good a Magic Carpet as one can come by in these degenerate days; so heigh presto! back we go, to find ourselves surrounded by fascinating hats in an eye-blink. Nothing new at Reboux’s—just the same models hanging on their wooden trees, look- ing the worse for wear now that they have been crammed down reluctantly over so many traveling chignons. A _ delightful bangkok thing, in black, with red bindings of grosgrain, turned up in the back, with a crease across its crown and more than a suggestion of a poke in the front brim. Also a tiny béret-like cap in black velvet, perfectly brimless, with a rounded lobe down over one ear, and all the fulness of the typical béret taken out of the crown, which fits like a skull-cap. These are the only significant models I was able to pick up here. For Reboux will make autumn hats when autumn arrives. For her, sufficient unto the summer day is the millinery thereof. So I drop in to see, at close quarters, those hats of alluring outline that Agnés A sort of hand-woven tweed fabric is used for this Agnés hat, in light gray. spicuous seen from a distance. Gorgeous Stuffs HowaRbD showed the other night at the Grand Palais, among the stands of the Decorative Arts Exhibition. attractively shown before. let more or less well-dressed and well-trained mannequins promenade.across the stage, their hats looking quite incon- Millinery was never so Usually at things of this sort they This time, rows of huge hat boxes, from black to white, met our expec- tant eyes, and from them emerged the heads and shoulders of pretty girls, giving the hats their due importance. Agnés showed four white ones, the night I was there, and all of them in her new shape, outlining the front part of the head and extending in the back, either in a long line suggesting a chignon or in a halo-like half circle running across the top of the head, with more or less of an extension behind. She told me that while looking at the Congo belles in the film ‘‘La Croisiére Noire,” she suddenly said to herself: ‘I who love the lines of the gown close to the body, why don’t I make hats with lines close to the shape of the head, outlining the skull across the front, as these beautiful black women do?”’ So she tried it, and though she produced some extremely fanciful examples, she also produced a distinctly new hat silhouette which may be worn by any one. Baron de Meyer’s photographs illustrate her two types, one with the halo and one without. The latter is the newest version of the pointed hat, which Agnés was the first to launch two years ago. You may think the photograph exaggerated, but if you tuck in HARPER’S BAZAR

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 Maria Guy uses a lovely shade of lavender-gray for this close-fitting velvet hat. the suggestion of the soft point, in the back, the shape becomes wearable at once. This elongated head-line is really new, and may develop into something that will seriously influence the millinery mode, and from that the mode of clothes; for the one plays into the hands of the other nowadays, so that modern millinery com- pletes and depends upon modern frocks as much as classic head-dress ever did in days gone by. Aside from this elongated line, the principal forecast points for winter millinery are height and some form of draping. On these two points all the leading milliners agree. Then they diverge, some continuing to make their hats as tiny as possible, others trying very hard to tempt women to adopt at least a moderate sized shape with some brim. Suzanne Talbot has been much in the lime-light lately. Her hats are all high, sometimes with a long fold running across the crown from front to back, and with a narrow brim rolled up slightly on the sides; sometimes with the halo effect, or rounded diadem running across the center of the crown from The first shape is becoming only from the front and back; the second, when it suits the face at all, is good from all angles. Talbot is one of those who is trying to introduce some sort of trimming—a flower, a feather fantasy—into her hats, very few of which are made on blocked lines. A con- certed movement toward more workmanship in hats—shirrings, plaitings, drapings which require deft handling by skilfully trained fingers—has been launched to keep the Mimi Pinsons side to side. The crown has the new and desired height, and there is just a soft and curving brim to give it informality. of the millinery mode in their own trade, instead of scattering them into others, such as bag or shoe making. Its most tangible results, so far, are hats in velvet, with folds, dents, creases and crumples which look simple enough. But if you think they are easy to do, just try them. As to materials, velvet for afternoon hats and felt for morn- ings are far and away the leaders. Trimmings, when there are any, are merely tentative at present. Ostrich is appearing in many guises and disguises. Jeweled pins are still the comple- ment of many a shape when it gets onto the head of a smart wearer. In Luza’s drawings, and on pages one hundred and twelve and one hundred and thirteen, you will see typical examples from most of the leading milliners. Just a word to explain their intentions. Alix, whose originality is immense and refreshing, inclines toward a helmet shape which frames the face all round and suggests the returning soldiers in the Faust chorus. Maria Guy is still hoping for brims, though she will give you a hat as tiny as you please, bent in subtle lines. Marthe Régnier loves to make street hats of fur and sports hats of taupé felt, turned up in front, with crowns which, for some reason or other, are called ‘‘square.’”’ She would love to get you into a big velvet shape trimmed with ostrich feathers in the afternoon, with your velvet ensemble trimmed with fur. Marthe Collot wants you to wear a tiny shape whose narrow brim turns close down round the face, (Continued on page 96)

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HARPER’S BAZAR (Right) Rodier’s crepel lécla, a wool crépe with a silk surface, is used for this tiered frock from Yteb, in a new shade of bright dark red, known as “‘ beet.” (Left) ‘“‘Mosaic” is a soft-surfaced material from Rodier, with an in- distinct check in beige, black, and the new bright Hl dark red. With beige fox. YTEB i} \\ y VcHANTAL NEW AUTUMN FABRICS FROM THE FRENCH LOOMS (Left) Meyer’s “ popeline rustique” is a wool rep, woven with several colors of wool. It is shown as the skirt, in brown and green, of a green jersey blouse. “Chevrons,”’ another fab- ric from Meyer, is of her- ring-bone wool, combined with goat’s hair. The coat below is of this fabric in soft green, cut with a flare. 1 Vv V CHANTAL

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MARTIAL et | ARMAND 1 of | | N REDFERN This interesting evening wrap is made of Du- charne’s “damas de Bagh- dad,’ a lamé tissue, trimmed with brown fur. An evening cape of Bian- chini’s new ‘‘indianor,” a sort of herringbone lamé tissue in gold, is combined with the smart nasturtium velvet and beige fox fur. “Velours minuscule,” from Ducharne, has a pattern of velvet on a crépe ground. Among forecasts for au- REDFERN tumn, moire is most im-

This frock shows it in MARTIAL dR portant. This tunic Jrock dark red, a color which et y in dark blue shows Bian- promises well for winter. ARMAND chini’s patterned moire.

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HARPER’S BAZAR “ . ad —— 28 ee Em rome ae like a flower. Her crowns are high, draped, sometimes on béret lines, sometimes in a tall point. Combinations of two colors or two shades are her favorites. Camille Roger likes a rather high crown, sometimes square, with a touch of trimming right in the front. She has used quantities of velvet, often in several tones at once. She would love to see the moderate sized hat return, but can give no definite opinion about it till the dressmakers have had their say. Jane Blanchot com- bines not only colors but materials, and believes in the nastur- tium shades for millinery. Her favorite shape is high, some- what square, and has a brim turned up in the back or at one side. She uses ostrich in the form of a scarf which is attached to the high hat at one side and thrown round the neck in Pierrot style. Jeanne Duc’s hats show quantities of fine workmanship, shirring, incrustations, feather motifs, odd flowers of unusual materials. Tallien thinks that the undoubted vogue of the brimmed sports hat may bring the moderate brim into other wear, but realizes that a big fur collar always demands a little hat. She likes the new nasturtium shades, and the red-browns, and uses them to line the brims of black hats, choosing the shade very carefully to flatter the individual complexion. The discussion of which comes first, a new millinery or a new clothes mode, goes on ad infinitum, like that of the hen MODELE Otros green, blue, geld from Coudurier and the egg. Some take the hen’s part, some the egg’s, and it is of no great importance either way, provided that the two finally suit each other. Both, of course, depend equally upon the available materials of their craft, and that is why, at this time of year, the collections of the fabric makers are so im- portant. We can’t have much novelty in either millinery or clothes, if there is nothing new to make them of. The in- genuity and sheer power of invention of the French fabric makers win my fervent admiration. After all, the basis of all their bewildering variety of tissues is the same old thread, one going one way and another crossing it; yet twice a year, by endless variations on this simplest theme, they produce collections of dozens of novelties, novelties not only of pattern, but of ways of making one thread run over and under another. It is difficult to tell you about these novelties without becoming boringly technical, but you realize their importance when you know that the entire new mode is based upon them. In general, the new materials stress softness and suppleness this year, allowing for a mode in which more fabric is employed than is the case in a sheath silhouette, for which we should be given thicker, more rigid tissues. All the new materials, whether they are of metal, silk, or wool, or a combination of two or more, are remarkable for their flexibility, readily lending themselves to gathering, (Continued on page 122)

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kasha fabrics from PRodier

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HARPER’S BAZAR NEW AMERICAN FABRICS FOR AUTUMN This Season, Fabrics From Domestic Looms are Distinguished b y Their Ingenious Weaves and Clever “Off” Shades AMERICAN SILKS OLOR and varied weaves are the two outstanding features of American silks this season. Printed silks are not shown as much as they were last season. Printed fabrics are nearly all “novelty” fabrics, such as printed velvets and over-printed brocades, for evening wear and linings. Printed pliable taffetas are shown for linings. Moire silks, extremely pliable, are used for afternoon and evening. Canton crépes, satin crépes, and heavy flat crépes are the most important weaves in the mode. Velvet is most important for formal wear. Warm colors, derived from the “wall-flower” shades and the African shades launched earlier in the season by Paris, are shown by several important silk houses. Wood brown and dead leaf tones, beige and tan, are still excellent. Wine shades, and variations of the Chanel reds are having a renewed vogue in silk this autumn. “Off” shades of green, such as silvery neutral greens and reseda and dark evergreen shades, are having continued favor. Fabric manufacturers are designing this season’s washable silks with decided emphasis on their excessive smartness as well as their practical qualities. One of the newest Dar- brook offerings is a thirty-two inch washable silk broadcloth known as “Tophole,’ a silk with excellent body, woven with checks and plaids. , A two-piece jumper frock is of dark blue ‘“‘glaceen,” a smooth-finished covert rep made by Forstmann and Huffmann that has a white thread interwoven, giving it a flecked frosted look new in fabrics this season. The chemisette is bright blue. From Abercrombie and Fitch. AMERICAN WOOLENS NEW supple “five ounce” woolen fabric is being shown by many important houses this season to take the place of silk for the inevitable silk frock of last season. Suéde-finished fabrics and thin fine velours are for formal wear. Broadcloth-finished fabrics with a semi-lustrous surface are other formal materials. Lustrous twills and fine reps are used for “little” frocks. Any fabric belonging to the “kasha family” is good. Jersey cloth is renewed for sports wear. “Novelty” woolens include printed flannel that looks like tweed. Wool crépe is ex- tremely smart. Golden browns and bois-de-rose browns are first to be considered in woolens. Chanel red and wine reds. Deep vermilion. Greens in the same silvery colors as the silk houses are showing. Beige, of course.

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 EVENING FABRICS ARE BOTH SIMPLE AND LUXURIOUS (Left) The season has brought forth a fabric oddly reminiscent of the Mauve Decade. “ Butterfly marquisette,”’ Mallinson’s new silk voile, has a quaint crisp quality perfectly adapted to the lines of the cloud-blue dancing frock, covered by flying panels, and cut with the new high neck-line in back. From Best. Velvet is much seen for formal wear this autumn, and is often combined with fur in the lavish models shown so far. An evening gown of classic lines is made of Cheney chiffon velvet in a rich red color known as “crushed berry.” and is finished with a border of ashes-of-roses fox fur. Model from Bendel. One of Cheney’s exquisite metal brocades is “ over-printed” in a gay Scotch plaid design and used to make the elaborate fur-collared wrap shown above. Sleeves that are a cross between a dolman and a cape give it the new smart rather top- heavy silhouette, and it is lined with supple chiffon velvet.

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 yi alte», Lat Dotty, > Ke LY. WSS Fe > y S > SS Kec feeceeeeez \\ . oA RK ~~ ¢ N w& yy SS » s\ b> > 2 Lightweight wools are used for linings in autumn and winter coats of lighter fabrics. The straight coat of black “mirrokrépe” is lined with natural- colored kasha, and has a surplice collar and cuffs of Hudson seal. The satin side of the crépe makes the body of the coat, trimmed with the dull. From Arnold Constable. Fabric by Cheney. The newest daytime coats have all the in- terest of design above the waist-line so that the silhouette is almost top-heavy. “ Kashmirtoga,” one of Forsimann and Huffmann’s new suéde finished woolens in soft wood brown, has a luxurious collar and cuffs of rose kit fox. Long- haired furs trim the more formal day- time coats. From Bergdorf Goodman. Many of the new woolens have woven patterns in autumn colorings. The fabric of the dress and coat above, of *“‘kenadaire” cloth, has a deep tan back- ground, patterned with black, brown, and berge in a chevron design. The lining and lapels of the coat and the trim- ming of the dress are green suéde. From B. Altman. Fabric from Haas Brothers. THE DAYTIME COAT IS ALMOST INVARIABLY STRAIGHT, BUT VARIES IN FABRIC 101

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HARPER’S BAZAR BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM THE CLOSED SHOP A Strange Comedy in a Little Spanish State OTHING would induce me to tell the N name of the happy country, or its cap- ital, in which the incidents occurred which I am constrained to relate; but I see no harm in admitting that it is a free and inde- pendent State in the continent of America. This is vague enough, in all conscience, and can give rise to no diplomatic incident. Now, the president of this free and indepen- dent State had an eye to a pretty woman and there came to his capital, a wide and sunny town with a plaza, a cathedral not without dignity, and a few old Spanish houses, a young person from Michigan of such a pleasing aspect that his heart went out to her. He lost no time in declaring his passion and was gratified to learn that it was returned, but he was mortified to discover that the young person regarded his possession of a wife and her possession of a husband as a bar to their union. She had a feminine weakness for marriage. Though it seemed unreasonable to the president, he was not the man to refuse a pretty woman the gratification of her whim and promised to make such arrange- ments as would enable him to offer her wedlock. He called his attorneys to- gether and put the matter before them. He had long thought, he said, that for a progressive country their marriage laws were remarkably out of date and he pro- posed therefore radically to amend them. The attorneys retired, and after a brief interval devised a divorce law which was satisfactory to the president. UT the State of which I write was always careful to do things in a con- way, for it was a highly civilized, democratic, and respectable country. A president who respects him- self and his oath of office cannot promul- gate a law, even if it is to his own interest, without adhering to certain forms, and these things take time. The president had barely signed the decree which made the new divorce law valid when a revolu- tion broke out and he was very unfor- tunately hanged on a lamp-post in the plaza in front of the cathedral which was not without dignity. The young person with the pleasing aspect left town in a hurry, but the law remained. Its terms were simple. On the payment of one hundred dollars gold, and after a residence of thirty days, a man could divorce his wife or a wife her husband without even apprising the other party of the intended step. Your wife might tell you that she was going to spend a month with her aged mother. and one morning at breakfast when you looked through your mail you might receive a letter from her informing you that she had divorced you and was already married to another. Now, it was not long before the happy news spread here and there that at a stitutional With a Flourish at the End Illustrated by EVERETT SHINN reasonable distance from New York was a country, the capital of which had an equable climate and tolerable accommodation, where a woman could release herself, expeditiously and with economy, from the irksome bonds of matrimony. The fact that the operation could be performed without the husband’s knowledge saved her from those preliminary and acrimo- nious discussions which are so wearing to the nerves. Every woman knows that however much a man may argue about a proposition he will generally accept a fact with resignation. Tell him you want a Rolls-Royce and he will say he can’t afford it; but buy it and he will sign his check like a lamb. So in a very short time beautiful women in considerable numbers began to come down to the pleasant, sunny town; tired business women and women of ‘Don Agosto did a roaring trade with the generals and colonels who came to look at these beautiful creatures.” fashion, women of pleasure and women of leisure; they came from New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, they came from Georgia and they came from Dakota, they came from all the States of the Union. The passenger accom- modation on the ships of the United Fruit Line was only just adequate to the demand, and if you wanted a state-room to yourself you had to engage it six months in advance. Prosperity descended upon the capital of this enterprising State, and in a very little while there was not a lawyer in it who did not own a Ford car. Don Agosto, the proprietor of the Grand Hotel, went to the expense of building several bath- rooms, but he did not grudge it; he was making a fortune, and he never passed the lamp-post on which the outgoing president had been hanged without giving it a jaunty wave of his hand. “He was a great man,”’ he said. ‘‘One day they will erect a statue to him.” HAVE spoken as though it were only women who availed themselves of this convenient and reasonable law, and this might indicate that in the United States it is they, rather than men, who desire release from the impediment of Holy Matrimony. I have no reason to believe that this is so. Though it was women in great majority who traveled to this country in order to get a divorce, I ascribe this to the fact that it is always easy for them to get away for six weeks (a week there, a week back, and thirty days to establish a domicile), but it is difficult for men to leave their affairs so long. It is true that they could go there during the summer holidays, but then the heat is somewhat oppressive; and besides, there are no golf links. It is reasonable enough to suppose that many a man will hesitate to divorce his wife, when he can do it only at the cost of losing a month’s golf. There were, of course, two or three males spending their thirty days at the Grand Hotel, but they were generally, for a reason which is obscure, commercial travelers. I can but imagine that, by the nature of their avocations, they were able at one and the same time to pursue freedom and profit. E THIS as it may, the fact remains that the inmates of the Grand Hotel were for the most part women, and very gay it was in the patio at luncheon and at dinner when they sat at little square tables under the arches discussing their matrimonial troubles and drinking cham- pagne. Don Agosto did a roaring trade with the generals and colonels (there were more generals than colonels in the army of this State), the lawyers, bankers, merchants and the young sparks of the town who came to look at these beautiful creatures. Now it must be confessed that this

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 103 “* How well you’re looking, Don Manuel,’ said | La Gorda. ‘You are a fine figure of a man.’”’ perfect little city, notwithstanding its manifold advantages, somewhat lacked places of amuse- ment. There was but one cinema, and this showed films which had been wandering too long from their happy home in Hollywood. In the daytime you could have consultations with your lawyer, polish your nails and do a little shopping, but the evenings were inter- minable. There were many complaints that thirty days was a long time, and more than one impatient young thing asked her lawyer why they didn’t put a little pep into their law and do the whole job in eight-and-forty hours. Don Agosto, however, was a man of re- source and presently he had an inspiration: he engaged a troupe of wandering Guata- maltecans who played the marimba. There is no music in the world that sets the toes so irresistibly tingling, and in a little while every one in the patio began dancing. It is of course obvious that twenty-five beau ‘iful women can- not dance with three commercial travelers, but there were all these generals and colonels and there were all the young sparks of the town. They danced divinely and they had great liquid black eyes. The hours flew, the days tripped one upon the heels of the other so quickly that the month passed before you realized it, and more than one of Don Agosto’s guests when she bade him farewell confessed that she would willingly have stayed longer. Don Agosto was radiant. He liked to see people enjoy themselves, the marimba band was worth twice the money he paid for it, and it did his heart good to see his ladies dance with the gallant officers and the young men of the town. Since Don Agosto was thrifty, he always turned off the electric light on the stairs and in the pas- sage at ten o’clock at night, and the gallant of- ficers and young men of the town improved their English wonderfully. (Concluded on page 132)

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RENAULT There is nowadays a decided vogue in this country, as well as in Europe, for the very small car. The small, easily handled, and what is so very important, easily parked, model immediately recommends itself to the woman. The “baby” Renault is a small marvel of perfection, in smart detail of appointment and in unerring performance. THE SMART SMALL CAR Small Cars, Reliable of Performance, and of a Tailored Smartness of Line, Have a Definite Appeal to the Woman Driver Both for Town and Country N THESE pages are shown a collection of small cars, ~O chosen’ for their particular appeal to the woman driver, specifically the sportswoman driver. Two of these cars are of the “toy” type that have been successfully used in Europe for several years; the others are the small or “jewel” models of well-known and reliable makes of motors. One of the “toy” cars is the “baby” Renault, illustrated above. An ingenious little car, just exactly large enough to hold two people, but with surprising car space within its small limits. An extremely high-powered engine in comparison to the small size of the car and four-wheel brakes are two of its advantages. Another is its nimbleness in tight places in traffic. Of course, a car of these small proportions considerably facilitates the parking problem, too. The Willys-Overland Company points with pride to its new model which it has named the “Whippet.” This car was patterned after the small cars of Europe such as the baby Renault. It is a smart-appearing little car, particularly the model shown on page 107, for two pas- sengers. Its agility of performance, its low wheel-base, and its beautifully proportioned lines have won a great deal of enthusiasm among the motor mad. Women like it because of its compactness and the ease with which it skims through traffic. And, of course, there is in its favor its low consumption of gasoline, compared with that of a large car. Stutz has paid a great deal of attention to reducing the hazards of accident toa minimum. This they have achieved by stability, by increased resistance to overturn, by lowering the gravity center, by lowering the mass weight of the car. The four-wheel hydrostatic brake system, developed to a new and equalized efficiency, is another element for safety that the Stutz has added. Most interesting of all is the use of a new safety glass, interwoven with very fine piano wire of high tensile strength, used for wind-shields, windows, and doors. The small roadster and speedster models of motors such as those shown on these pages are all recommended by their ease of handling and easy manipulation in traffic. As country club cars, cars to use about a country place for short trips. when the large chauffeur-driven car is not desired, these models are smart and efficient, two things that the smart woman demands in her clothes, her household, and her motors. Many of the models shown on these pages are chosen as second cars by people who wish to have all of their motors of uniform smartness and dependability. As young girls’ cars for use in the country these small models are suitable and attractive. Those with the rumble seat behind are convenient when one wishes to carry a chauffeur. HARPER’S BAZAR

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for STUTZ SEPTEMBER 1926 The lonz and low ‘Junior Eight”? roadster made by the Locomobile Company has much to recommend it to the woman. It is a fast car, and one that makes a feature of its safety. The braking system is identical with that of a large car—the mechanical brakes used on several of the highest powered foreign cars. This, with quick acceleration, makes it an especially good car for the woman driver. CHRYSLER The small and jewel-like car that is absolutely reliable is, of course, the ideal car for a woman to drive. The new Chrysler “Seventy” is the embodiment of compactness and steadiness combined with exceptional lightness of weight. Another point in favor of the Chrysler, is its almost im- perceptible motor vibration, and its freedom from side sway. The Chrysler has, indeed, popularized quality. Stutz has made safety its new attractive feature—it was last season, you will remember, that the Stutz brought out its new and revolutionized model, shown in Harper’s Bazar for January of this year. This season the Stutz has made the additional point of safety. Safety is achieved by a lower, longer wheel-base—consequently lowered gravity center— and by safety glass in the wind-shields and windows. LOCOMOBILE

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HARPER’S BAZAR i The Reo Company produced, a little over a year ago, this roadster, designed with one idea—to give unqualified service under all conditions. The model was an immediate success, since it added smartness to ils excellent performance. It is excellent to run to the beach; to the station for the late guest who missed the only good train, for general sports use. Women like, and insist upon, a car that is handled easily and that, con- sequently, is easily parked. The Nash Motor Company has made a distinguished-looking model, known as the Nash Special Six Roadster, a splendid car for the woman driver. This car is equipped with a rumble seat, and its simple grace of line is emphasized by its two-toned color.

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 NN SUVA HUPMOBILE One of those congenial foursome models that one reads about but seldom sees is actually achieved by the Hupmobile, in the Hupmobile eight- cylinder sports roadster. This car is a decided favorite among women who like to drive in the country and who go in for golf and other sports that require a certain amount of car space for their paraphernalia. This is the “Whippet” model that the Wiilys-Overland Company has brought out this season. It is a small car designed after the small “toy” models of Europe. The particular advantage in this tvpe of car is its safety due to its low gravity center, and its comparatively small consump- tion of gasoline. This is a smart car for the young girl of the family. OVERLAND

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Illustrated by WALLAC! MORGAN ARRED from her young husband's confi- dence by his unpierceable English re- serve, Lady Wycombe, who was Kath- leen Monalty of New York before her marriage, sought an outlet for her high young emotions through writing with great candor all that she would like to tell him if she dared. Among the many letters on various subjects is one in which she expresses her feelings on being presented to his family, and another describing a day spent with Ronny Ormskirk. The unpleasant termination of this escapade prompted another letter, in which she tells of a blackmailing encounter with Sheila Carrick, who was about to be discarded in Ronny Ormskirk’s affections. To JoHN VERNON CHEYNE WYCOMBE, ELEVENTH EARL OF RissporouGH, D.S.O., M.C. Icknield-over-Cross. EAREST: I’m in very low spirits to-night. I have a headache and a heartache and there’s a nasty thread of jealousy sewing me into knots. It isn’t the vague jealousy of your work this time, although it has taken you to town every day since your breakfast with Win- ston Churchill. Every one says that your speech in the House of Lords in the middle of the Cruiser crisis helped the Admiralty, which in spite of the general outcry against spend- ing money ought to have been helped in this case. I don’t know. As a practical person I’m all against tying up an enormous amount of money in something that won’t make a return, but if you are right in your contention that a strong navy is the best insurance against some horrible outbreak, well and good. I’m for peace at the proper price. And now you tell me that you are up to your neck in the Committee meetings which are discussing the report about Mosul, that and the northern whatever be, may By Cosmo HAMILTON That Could Have boundary of Mesopotamia, which you say is the danger spot. You've only had time to tell me that you are all against the experts, and are making yourself “devilish unpopular with certain members of the Cabinet but none of the soldiers” by urging the cutting of England’s losses out there and making an end to what you call “that fathead adventure.” I don’t know the first thing about it. How should I? I always thought that Mesopotamia was one of the myths. But what I do know is that I’ve hardly seen anything of you during the whole of the week and that you sit up half the night over a mass of papers and are utterly distrait with me. But we'll let that go, al- though we're still on our honeymoon and I’d like to have you all to myself. I am not a fluffy-minded idiot, or a cry-baby, and anything that you can do to keep the world from fight- ing I’m with. Go to it with everything you have in you, I say, and don’t care a whoop about me. The men are working well on the house and I have plenty to keep me out of mischief all day in fixing the place for Mamma. So really and truly, underneath moments of natural disappointment and loneliness, I like the way you accept responsibility and set your teeth like a bulldog into important national questions. It’s your job and you must do it, as father has always done his job, like the rest of the men who count. I couldn’t bear it if you were a Hugo, a word spinner, a looker-on, a charming messer about. If the truth must be told, and it must in these letters, the person who has been using the needle is the stealthy Sillysette. Jack, I’ve become, quite suddenly, filthily jealous of her. I suppose it’s awfully stupid, but it’s true. As she is such an old friend of yours and for some unimaginable reason you find something in her to like, I couldn't very well tell her that the HARPER’S BAZAR “Tt was my last chance for a little egotism and I took it. ‘Don’t,’ I said, and put up my hand to keep you off. I shall never forget the look of amaze- ment that shot across your face. Your ‘Good Heavens, what's the row?’ showed how little you considered a mere wife.” UNDELIVERED LETTERS txpla ined an American Girl to Her ‘Titled English Husband sight of her gives me goose-flesh and ask her to stop her all-day-long practise of dropping in until you’ve got through your work in town. After all it is very lonely in the golf cottage, and she’s a hobbyless, helpless creature who depends on every one around her and thinks she knows how to converse. In fact she’s as utterly lost when she’s by herself as a hair- dresser would be in a whaler. She’s happy only when she has grouped her limbs into the most comfortable chair and is off on miles of yap. When she starts off with ‘‘what I always say is,” I feel completely doomed. LL this week, then, she has been following me about like a Russian wolfhound, just as white, just as loopy, and just as concave. But not, unfortunately, just as silent, and not by any means as grateful for kindness. That word is not to be found in her dictionary, stupendous tome that it is. For several mornings, not having been hitting on all twelve, I’ve had breakfast up in my room, and each time—would you believe it?—she’s made an entrance and kept me about. ‘“‘Morning. Doesn’t one’s Spirit rise with the Dew to Heaven on such a Morning as this?” (Excuse me, but what rot!) No, no, no. She won’t have anything. She has just pecked at a little toast. What she always says is eat a Light breakfast, a slightly more Substantial lunch and really Devote oneself to a very well-chosen dinner. But, after all, the coffee smells so tempting and the bacon so very tweeky—and there you are. All the trouble, just as I want to get into my clothes and push along to the works—I mean the Dower House— of ordering another breakfast, giving lots of unnecessary trouble, and hanging everything up. Then her Morning Views while she makes @ graceful meal, criticizing my clothes, comment-

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SEPTEMBER 1926 ing on my hair from the point of view of the Modern Trend, making nasty references to money and its Buying Power, and generally enjoying herself. All of which, for your sake, I could bear with fairly good grace, although her museum pro- fessor manner of regarding me as something quite unique is always with her. But what has got under my skin and made me very sore is her bland persistent way of commenting on all sorts of little things that I’ve said to no one but you, which proves that your inarticulation is personal to me. She takes an angelic delight in letting me know that, however you may be with me, with ker you have no barriers, that you speak the same language, are on a footing of the frankest intimacy, stand out in the Open, hide nothing from each other, and “* Let me tell you, once for all,’ screamed Evelyn Parke, ‘that you are the interloper here, not I.’” because of your very old Friendship—always with capital letters—are bound by a Tie of Sympathy which nothing can Destroy. F SHE simply made these statements, as she makes so many others, with nothing to back them up, they would bore me, of course, but nothing more than that. But every time she makes them, with a beatific triumph, she quotes me with inverted commas, jabs me with her metaphorical needle and fills my blood with a full injection of the microbes of jealousy. Two or three such doses, even, would be very bad to endure, because the only thing I have against you, Jack, is inarticulation, but her stabs have been made so often and so expertly during the whole of this week that her bacilli are making war in my veins and I’m thoroughly upset. I lay awake for hours last night with the lamp on at the side of my bed. I seemed more alone in the dark. You know how, if you lie in bed in the daytime, you are bound, unless you're reading, to watch the flies and their apparently aimless way of maneuvering, like a squadron of aeroplanes, going round and round with sudden dips, never completing their tangents, making nose dives that are quickly arrested, and averting dire collisions? In exactly that way I could see dozens of questions flying below the ceiling which came from nowhere, led nowhere, dipped, dodged, disappeared, recurred, seemed, becoming larger and larger, to be heading straight at me, only to dive, turn, and grow quite small again. The question that came most frequently and stood out among the (Continued on page 134)

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HARPER’S BAZAR HARPER’S BAZAR VISITS THE SHOPS “NOTE—New small objets d’art and occasional useful bits are particularly interesting at this time of year. The Harper’s Bazar Shopping Service has visited many of the smart decorators’ shops to choose these decorative and useful things. The Shopping Ser- vice will prepay shipping charges. Send check or money-order to Harper’s Bazar Shopping Service, 119 W. goth St., N. Y. C. A crystal-clear Venetian glass vase filled with water forms the lamp-base; the plaited book-linen shade matches the lamp. Light blue, sapphire, straw, amethyst, light green, violet. Complete, $91. Interesting in texture and shape is the pressed- glass salad plate above; in pale yellow or pink $1.35. The crystal goblet is $2.50. The hand-wrought silver fork is $6.50; the knife, $7.00. Italian écru linen thirteen-piece luncheon set, $16.50. This charming forty-two piece tea-set of excellent proportion is Wedgwood in ivory color with an old magenta design. There are a dozen cups, saucers, and plates, a tea-pot, cream pitcher, sugar bowl, slop bowl, and two small platters. Price, $60. Maple-finished Normandy chair upholstered in quilted red cretonne, $75. Quilted pillows, $6.50 each. Maple footstool, $4.50. Maple butterfly table, $25. Pewter lamp, $10.50, and parchmen t shade in green, yellow, or pink, $5.00. This elephant’s crystal charm is gay in the center of the dining-table, and even more brilliant on a window-shelf with the light behind him. This large size is $20.50, sent shipping charges collect.

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 Above is a pair of unusually decorative vases in the form of classic heads treated in a modern manner. These are made in lustrous yellow. $3.75 each. (Above center) These modern reproductions of old Staffordshire giraffes are $18 a pair. (Right) Green Spanish bubble glass is used for this table setting. Center bowl, $25. Goblet, $5. Sherbet glass, $4.50. Small plate, $2.50. A service plate of plain yellow or green glass, $2.25. Theice-cream spoon, of hand-wrought silver, is $4.25. A walnut coiffeuse of simplified Louis XV. design is $95. The crystal lamps which give a becoming light are $9.50 each. The scalloped parchment paper shades come in ivory with red, green, or gold; and in colors with gold, $6.50 each. es Photographs on both pages by Stetner- Bruehl A cabinet with its shelves filled with one’s choice of bric-d-brac or books is decora- tive and entertaining. This one, that is shown below, comes in all red, green, or ivory; or green lined with red, ivory lined with green, or red. Price $60.00. Modern reproductions of gay old Stafford- shire are as quaint, and not nearly so costly, as the antique. Those illustrated are sold in pairs. Giraffes, $18. The white poodles on the next shelf, $12. Hounds, $12, one of which is illustrated. The amusing pair going to market, on the left, and returning, on the right, are $18. The two reclining hounds are $7, and the Campbell Cottage which they guard is $7. Flower prints are much in vogue now. Those illustrated are $10.00 each.

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- CENE: A charming home in the Wheatley Hills, Long Island. The T. Carrington- W ylies are inthe midst of what we shall term a conversation. Me:: C-W. (motioning with her right hand)—If you'll turn a little to the left, Ted, I’d be able to tell much better. (Mr. C-W. turns.) That’s better. Now, don’t move an inch. Just as you are... . Yes, Teddy, the shoulders do need squaring. you're simply wonderful. I mean it. Mrs. C-W. (also now puff- ing a cigaret)—Thank you, Ted. . . . How’s the new din- ner-jacket—the one that ar- rived yesterday? I haven’t heard you say a thing about it. Mr. C-W. (beaming)—Dear, it’s a knock-out! One hundred per cent. O. K. Wide lapels, high buttoned, two hip pockets with plenty of room, and looks as though they’d poured me into it. Yet it has that Wide lapels, high buttoned, two necessary loose feeling, com- hip pockets with plenty of room. fortable as it can and should be. Mrs. C-W.—Do wear it this evening, won’t you. With one of those single-studded shirts with the double cuffs you had made at Cruger’s. I’m dying to see you in it. Mr. C-W.—AIll right, dear. And I think I'll try that new waistcoat I bought in London, too. You remember—the one that’s got no back to it. Why didn’t some one think of ’em long ago? There’s no use for a back on a waistcoat—none whatever. And the coat seems to set better. It’s one of the greatest discoveries of the ages. Mrs. C-W.—Of course I remember. The one with a V opening and rolled lapels. Single-breasted and three buttons set very close together. By the way, Ted, what was the name of that shop in Jermyn street? Mr. C-W.—Hawes and Curtis, dear. I hear they’re A- Number-One tailors, too. Harry Evarts gets all his clothes there now. Mrs. C-W.—I like Harry Evarts. And I like those collars he wears. Mr. C-W. (triumphant)—Didn’t I say so all along? Of course they need squaring. Shoulders, nowadays, must be square. And yet they say women don’t notice men’s clothes! Mrs. C-W.—Of course we do—just as women notice one another’s clothes. . . . The sleeves seem about the right length. And the waist’s per- fect. Don’t let them touch the waist. Mr. C-W.—Oh, otherwise the coat’s all right. But those shoulders ‘ll have to be squared more. How do you like the trousers? Mrs. C-W. (critically)—Mm!...If you'll stand a trifle nearer the . . . Good. That’s just right. . . . Don’t move now. . . . Ted, I think Those long-pointed striped collars that match his shirts. But thank heavens he’s not one of those whose ties, handkerchiefs, and socks are all of the same design. Mr. C-W.—I never could stand ties and handkerchiefs exactly the same. This business of all-around matching makes me tired. Can’t understand how the thing ever started. And I honestly hate the fad of not wearing garters. Men’s ankles are not pretty things. The I'd have them widened the teeniest weeniest bit. narrow. Didn’t notice it at the tailor’s. And I por think, maybe, I'll have them shortened, too. Trousers always have a mysterious way of getting longer, of themselves, after a few days. Mrs. C-W.—You’re right. They’re too long. Only a trifle, though. Mr. C-W. (crossing over to a tabouret near the fireplace and extracting a club cigaret from a container)—Well, that’s that. Shoulders squarer and trou- sers widened and _ shorter. Thanks for the critique, my dear. But there aren’t many women I’d listen to on the subject of men’s clothes. Yet, somehow or other, you call the turn ten times out of ten. It’s uncanny. You're always right. If my gloves are soiled or my hat’s the wrong shape, you spot it in a second. If I need a touch or so of color, you’ve immediately got an idea for a gayer tie or a sprig of something in the button- There's no use for a back on hole. And as for knowing a@ waistcoat—none whatever. when a thing doesn’t fit, Mr. C-W. (nodding)—Perhaps they are a little Too much design on a shoe is But there should be some. English get away with it; but we can’t, somehow. Mrs. C-W.—I suppose it’s sup- posed to be tidily-untidy. But it doesn’t go, somehow, in America. Lack of imagination’s responsible, Ted. That’s the answer, I’m certain. After all, it’s responsible for a whole lot of other silly things when the merest suggestion is all that’s really necessary. That’s where so many of you make your great mistake. Mr. C-W.—Guess you’re right about that, dear. A sug- gestion’s often more effective than the thing itself. But Harry Evarts doesn’t make that mistake, does he? Mrs. C-W.—No. Harry’s well dressed without being foppish. Next to you, he’s the best-dressed man I know. Mr. C-W.—He always wears a dark tie with a light suit, and vice versa. And not too much handkerchief peeping out of his pocket. And just the right flower in his lapel. Did you ever think how few wives put the right. flower in their husband’s lapel?—all except you, dear! Men haven’t the color sense that women have. That’s why every man should get hints from his wife. Mrs. C-W.—Men haven’t the chances to show their tastes that we women have. Of course, the foundation should be right, to begin with: the suit, I mean. After that, it’s a ques- tion of ties and collars, more than anything else. Mr. C-W.—And socks and shoes. The latter must never be too fancy. Too much design (Concluded on page 158) HARPER’S BAZAR WHAT MAKES THE MAN By Our Man- About-Town

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In shades of deep ivory, a pony skin coat interprets the mode for town and country wear. Ori ginal design by Bergdorf-Goodman. ERGDORF OODMAN 616 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK HARPER’ BAZA® THE DUCHESS AND LADY TORRENT 4. E. W. Mason’s Story Continued from page SQ) have dared to write like this unless—” the Duchess did not finish the sentence but rose swiftly and ran out of the room. The win- dows were all open and Muriel heard her humming a little gay tune, as she moved about her bedroom just above. Muriel drew a breath of relief. But though the Duchess returned to the study still humming, she was doing it absently and her face had quite lost its color. “Muriel,” she said abruptly, “you remem- ber that maid of mine, Nellie Webster, whom I dismissed for drinking?” wah es. “Do you know what became of her? Muriel Chalmers shook her head. “No. She never wrote for a character. “She didn’t need one,” the Duchess re- turned drily. ‘“‘She went straight off to Lady Torrent. I have asked my housekeeper. She took with her something much more valuable than a character. She sat down and smoked a cigaret, and faced the position of affairs. “Lady Torrent wishes to push that very ponderous husband of hers into the Cabinet, of which she hasn’t a chance. Partly for that reason, partly because I have always refused to know the woman, she wishes to exhibit me in her house.” A sudden vision of Lady Torrent’s good-looking little face, hard as iron under its pretense of bonhomie and vivacity, made the Duchess shiver. ‘She’s a poisonous little devil, too,’ she concluded lamety. Muriel Chalmers, no less her friend than her secretary, turned to her aghast. “Oh, Duchess, you are not going to go!” she exclaimed. Cynthia Saxemundham smiled. “No, my dear, I won’t. I can see the butler announcing me, the guests smirking, Lady Tor- rent hurrying forward, her smile of welcome struggling with a little snarl of triumph, and the captive Duchess trying to conceal her handcuffs and to be spoken of from that evening on as ‘Cynthia Saxemundhi um. No! No!—whatever happens!” “But must anything happen?” Muriel Chalmers asked timidly. ‘“‘Can’t I do some- thing?” Cynthia Saxemundham’s face lost its look of defiance and softened. “Yes, my dear, you can ring up the Guards’ Club and ask if Colonel Strickland is there. If so, I should like to speak to him.” In a few moments Muriel handed the in- strument to the Duchess. “He is on the line.” The Duchess spoke three sentences: “Henry, will you please come to luncheon with me to-day at half-past one? I shall be alone. I want your help.” It was like her to hang up the receiver without waiting for an answer. “He will help me out of my scrape,” she said, and she added with a grimace which altogether failed to hide a very genuine regret, “but at the same time, I shall lose for good something which I have treasured for a long while. On the whole—yes—damn Lady Torrent!” ” [': -COL. HENRY STRICKLAND with a long tail of decorations to his name had just returned from an expedition in the forests of Brazil, and should consequently have furnished the Duchess with an hour’s amuse- ment and interest. But nothing in the world at the moment could have done that. Cynthia Saxemundham ate a deplorable luncheon. For she had to confess that she, the one woman on a pedestal, had once taken a lover. And she had to make the confession to a man whom she had very nearly married, who on her account had remained a bachelor and become a wanderer over the face of the earth, and who, besides, worshiped her as a snow-white martyr bearing up courageously in a very speckled world. The task was not very pleasant for the Duchess of Saxemundham, but she managed to stumble through it over the coffee. She saw her friend’s face harden and a flush of anger deepen the tan of his cheeks. ““Who’s the man?” he asked bluntly as soon as she had finished. “Yes, of course, he would ask that,” thought the Duchess, wringing her hands beneath the table. There was no escape for her, however. She mentioned a name under her breath. The Colonel grew redder than ever. “That fellow!” he exploded. “Ronald Chepstowe! Cynthia! He’s hairy-heeled.’ “Oh, Henry, I never looked at his heels,’ cried Cynthia in despair. “He was artistic, and sympathetic—and he played polo div inely —and it only lasted the tiniest bit of time— and I was most unhappy—it was just a year after I was married and things were most hateful -and, ” she stole a glance at Henry Strickland—‘and you were miles away on the other side of the world—and anyway you put me up on a pedestal and wouldn’t have and so it didn’t seem to matter whom so long oe “So long as it was some one,” interrupted Strickland. ““Henry, you are hating me,”’ she cried. “T am disappointed,” replied the Colonel gruffly and he rose and looked for a long time out of the window. The Duchess k oked pathetically at his broad shoulders—they were rather attractive without an ounce of Spare flesh, she was suddenly diverted to recognize, but her own woes seized upon her again the next moment. She saw herself a white ala. baster statue lying on the grass beside q pedestal, all in pieces. Would he put the pieces together again, or would he look out of the window for ever and ever? He turned back at last. “You wanted some help, Cynthia,” he said in a gentler voice. “Yes. Your return to London was ap. nounced in the Times yesterday. So 7 are certain to be asked to a party by Lady Torrent.’ ; “That has already happened,” said Strick land. “Oh, you haven’t refused,” cried Cynthia, a new anxiety seizing her. “Of course not,” said Strickland. ‘‘T have accepted. I am dining with her to-morrow.” YNTHIA SAXEMUNDHAM was re lieved of course, yes, undoubtedly she was relieved. But the answer caused her a little shock, nevertheless. It had almost the air of a desertion. “Why?” she asked in a rather chilly voice “Because I amuse myself there,” he answered. ‘People do. It’s an amusing house. I never could understand why you must go shouting all over London that you wouldn’t go inside her door.’ “She calls people whom she doesn’t know by their Christian names,” said the Duchess stubbornly. “Well, you needn’t ke ep slapping her face all the time just for that “Oh, Henry, I don’t las her face,”’ cried Cynthia and suddenly her fingers tingled “But I should like to,” she added with a heartfelt fervor. Colonel Strickland looked at her curiously, “What in the world has Lady Torrent done to you?” he asked. Cynthia Saxemundham told him of the in- vitation which was a threat. “She has got a hold over you, then?” “Ves, Henry. “What sort of a hold?” Cynthia Saxemundham trod very delicately like a person on the edge of a quicksand. “Do you remember that old lawyer, Sir Hugo Cope, who was such a good friend of mine when I was a child?” Strickland nodded. “A wicked old devil,” said he. “But such a darling,” replied Cynthia. “The day I was married, at the reception after the ceremony, he said to me: ‘ My dear, I have given you a handsome present, but I am now going to give you three pieces of advice which are much more valuable. First, if you have to go and stay at a hotel, take care you always stay under your own name. Second, never keep any letters. Third, if in spite of one and two, you stiil get into trouble, come and see me at once. Tor the first time siace the confession had begun, Henry Strickland laughed. ‘Well? “The third piece of advice, of course, I can’t follow because Sir Hugo’s dead—and also,” she added quickly, “because you are here. The first I certainly did—I mean I should have if—well, once I did—that time- in the Isle of Wight.’ HE statement, confusing though it sounds, was clear as crystal to the Colonel. He nodded grimly. “The second piece of advice is where I went wrong,”’ the Duchess resumed. * You didn’t follow it?” ““No,”’ said the Duchess. “You wrote some letters?” “T kept some letters,’’ the Duchess cor rected. “From Hairy-heels?” Cynthia Saxernundham in her predicament did not think it. worth while to challenge the name. She passed on. ‘And a maid whom I dismissed took them. The maid’s now in Lady Torrent’s service. Colonel Strickland whistled. ; “T see. Awkward, eh? Lady Torrents going to turn the screw a bit, eh? It’s not to be expected that she would do aay thing else. But what can I do about & Cynthia?” : Cynthia Saxemundham looked at him with displeasure. She remembered that he neve would wrap things “) decently, and just @ (Continued on page 118)

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COUTURIERS ba Distinguished Attire for the gentlewoman. Au- thoritatively fashioned and expertly executed. Gowns Suits (oats Hats Furs “Dress «Accessories Parfum “Heure d’Extase”’ Wraps a For immediate requirements or to your individual order le Obtainable at their shops only PARIS BOSTON SOUTHAMPTON NEW YORK BUFFALO HYANNIS FIFTH AVENUE AT 52° STREET NewYork HARPER’S BAZA§G THE DUCHESS AND LADY TORRENT Me Ba Bs Mason’s Story Continued from paze 116) what he was wanted to do without asking what it was. “Vou are going to amuse yourself at Em- peror’s Gate to-morrow, aren't you?... Well then!” Strickland whistled again. Then he grinned with a cynical enjoyment, as he contemplated the wistful, slender angel in front of him. “You want me to steal ’em, eh?” Cynthia looked hurt. “Steal isn’t the right word at all to use. Lady Torrent stole them. I want you to recover them.” Colonel Strickland’s grin broadened. He was after all being offered a form of sport which would certainly have its difficulties and might have some thrills. “T’ll try. How many days have we got?” “T am expected to dinner on Thursday week. Lady Torrent won’t move before then.” “We have ten days then. I'll examine the ground to-morrow night,” said Colonel Strickland. He shook hands with his hostess, and amusement suddenly twinkled in his eyes. ‘Cynthia, what a fool you have made of me,”’ he cried. He went out of the house, and Cynthia Saxemundham heard him laughing aloud to himself as he went down the steps. She in her turn began to giggle. After all she was not so sure that she had lost so much by her confession as she had predicted to her secre- tary. On the whole she was inclined to like him better as her cynical partner in the chase after her vanishing reputation, than as the blindfold adorer in front of the snow-white statue. She found her secretary in the study. “T think he’ll do it, Muriel,” she said gaily. Muriel clasped her hands together in relief. “What a thing it is to have a man like that on his knees to you,” she exclaimed. “He has got up off his knees,” Duchess drily. said the OLONEL STRICKLAND found his quest so easy of accomplishment that he could not suppress an uneasy feeling that some- where there must be a catch in it. He went to the big house in Emperor’s Gate early and, excusing himself to the butler on the ground that he had misread the time on his card of invitation, was shown into a quite empty drawing-room. His hostess had not yet come down from her dressing. On the other hand she had left some evidence of how she had been engaged before she had gone up. For lying open upon a couch was a large and luxurious illustrated volume bound in vellum and gold. Strickland glanced at the open page and laughed. Lady Torrent was altogether too easy an antagonist. For the book was ‘‘ The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe,” and the particular tale which lay open was that famous story of diplomacy and the police, “The Pur- loined Letter.’’ Colonel Strickland knew it almost by heart. How the Minister D— got the whip-hand of a Royal Personage by stealing a letter and how he concealed it successfully against the minutest investiga- tions of the police, by placing it in an obvious position under their very noses—these details flashed at once into his mind. The conclusion from these premises was as obvious to Strick- land as the hiding place of the Purloined Letter had been to Poe’s analytical investiga- tor, Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin. “Lady Torrent has taken a leaf out of this book,”’ he said to himself, “and the love letters of Hairy-heels are not hidden in some locked cabinet or secret drawer where a clever burglar might find them, but in some commonplace receptacle in a public place where no one would for an instant think of looking for them —the dining-room, for instance, or here.” E BEGAN to move about the room, not touching anything, but taking note of everything. Hunting expeditions in thick jungles had not merely sharpened his vision, but given to it accuracy. His survey, there- fore, was as complete as it was rapid. There were between twenty and thirty of the in- criminating letters. Clearly the ordinary little toys and porcelain boxes of a drawing-room would not contain them. There remained two other objects, a handsome onyx cigaret- box on a side table by the fireplace, and another, a cheap affair of painted wood fashioned in the shape of a tiny traveling trunk and fastened with a trumpery lock. It needed just the inscription “A Present from Switzerland” to complete it. “Now what in the world is a thing like that doing here?”’ he asked. It stood in the center of a round rosewood table which was pushed into a corner of the room, and about it were arranged a miniature, a tortoise-shell paper-knife set in gold, some silver ash-trays, a second cigaret-box, this time of silver, and one or two small pieces of Battersea enamel. Strickland took a seat on the opposite side of the room. “She has followed the example of Minister D— too faithfully,’’ he reasoned. ‘“‘ That wooden box is too commonplace, too incon. siderable. She has given herself away by jt, If the letters are in this room at all, they are there.” He was confirmed in his belief a moment afterwards when Lady Torrent on entering the room saw the book, and made a percept. ible movement of annoyance. She closed it and put it away while Strickland once more made his excuses, and her eyes glanced guiltily toward the Swiss wooden box and back again to his face. “The great thing is that you are here,” she said, ‘‘and I hope that you are not going tg run away after dinner. For a good many amusing people are coming in and the gardeg will be lit up.” Strickland once more felt that the gods were smiling upon his adventure. For this room at odd moments in the evening would cep. tainly be empty and a throng of guests would make it difficult for his hostess afterwards tg select the criminal. He had no further conversation with her until after dinner when she sat down beside him and with the dreadful habit which ruled her out of the company of great ladies, asked him eagerly what he had been doing and, whilst he answered, gave her attention to the movements of her other guests. “Tt must have been charming,” she said as he told of an encounter with a crocodile. “It was indeed,’’ said he, and she rose abruptly and crossed the room. For two young people were standing by the rosewood table and bending over the miniature by the side of the Swiss box. . In a few minutes the lanterns began to glow in the garden, and the increasing throng began to seek the coolness of the summer night. It was just a London garden, a square of lawn, -a stone-paved path, a few lilac bushes and shrubs, and a border of flowers, but the lanterns were so arranged that a pleasant sense of great space was given and the dingy walls which surrounded it were lost in shadows, Strickland followed with the rest of the com pany and noticed with satisfaction that from the house door to the stone pavement fou steps led down. The windows of the drawing. room were then well above the level of the garden, and Strickland made sure that only from the far side of the lawn could the interior of the room be seen. He was safe then, for Lady Torrent was busily engaged at the v bottom of the steps in receiving the fn groups of people who had come on from thee ters and dinners. TRICKLAND slipped back into the house at a moment when Lady Torrent was surrounded. The drawing room was empty. In a second the wooden box was under his coat, and he in the passage. His heart was beating now quickly enough to satisfy his thirst for adventure. He felt a mad desire to thrust his way out of the house, just as stood. But he must control himself to nom chalance; he must fetch his overcoat and his hat without haste. He must stand in front of the little counter, hiding the box beneath his arm, and wait his turn whilst other guests who were coming had their coats and hats packed away. It seemed a century befor his were found and handed to him. He sauntered up-stairs again with his coat over his arm and was approached by the butler But the butler only said— “Shall I get you a taxi sir?” “T’ll pick one up,”’ Strickland replied and hoped that the man had not noticed his gasp of relief. Twenty yards from the front door, he stopped a passing cab and gave the Duchess’s address. ““Vhat’s that,” said he as he tucked th box away in the folds of his top coat, and ten minutes later he produced it in Duchess’s study. “T think they’re in that box,” he said. Cynthia Saxemundham seized upon it. “It’s locked,” she said and she shook the box. ‘“‘There’s something inside. We must break it open.” “No,” said Strickland. “Any little key will open it; and if it’s not broken, we a return it through the post.” A bunch of little keys was found im# drawer of the bureau. With eager finges Cynthia Saxemundham tried them. “Oh, I’ll never‘ be such a fool again,” sh said and as she tried the third key the lok yielded, the lid flew open. Cynthia uttered a little cry of delight. 4 sheaf of letters tied up in a carefully ribbon met her gaze. a. “Yes, they are here, untampered with she cried and she turned the box upside dow and shook them out on to the table. UT she shook something else out something which rattled, and both them stared at it, shocked out of all their glee (Continued on page 120)

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She expected me to come early. The open volume of Poe, her annoyance when she found it open, her quick glances toward the box, her anxiety lest any one should touch it —they were all meant for me, all meant to persuade me to do just what I did, slip the box under my coat and bolt with it. I ama real thief now, yousee. I have stolen her neck- lace. I can be arrested, tried, imprisoned.” “No!” cried Cynthia, “I have only to come forward and explain—” “Exactly. That’s what she’s after. That you should explain in the witness-box before a crowded court that you had sent me to re- cover the letters which had passed between you and your lover. She’s out for blood, Cynthia. She doesn’t want you in her house on Thursday week. She wants you in no- body’s house. She wants you smashed for good and all.” Cynthia Saxemundham threw up her hands in the air. “The impudence of the woman,’ scornfully. “Yes, that won’t help us,” returned Strick- land. Cynthia’s thoughts took another direction. “She daren’t risk it! She would have to admit that she was blackmailing me to come and dine with her.” Colonel Strickland shook his head gloomily. “Would that stop her?” he asked. “There are lots of women, who, once they see red, wouldn’t mind coming an almighty crash themselves, if they could bring their enemy down with them.” “Enemy!” Cynthia exclaimed. It was doing altogether too much honor to Lady Torrent to allow that she could consider the Duchess of Saxemundham as herenemy. She fingered the gleaming necklace. “Couldn’t you go back now and quietly re- turn it?” “She has laid her plans so thoroughly, that she must have foreseen that I might try to do that,” Strickland answered. “I am willing to bet that there’s a policeman already wait- ing outside the house. I should never be allowed to enter the house. I should be arrested in the street with the thing in my pocket.” “ Anyway, Henry,” said the Duchess stub- bornly, “I am not going to let you go to prison on my account.” “And I’m not going to let you go into the witness-box,” he returned. “So there we are. ’ she cried HERE they were, indeed. They sat in a miserable silence, each one casting about vainly for an escape from their predicament, when they heard a car stop at the door, and a latch-key turn in the lock. “Muriel!” said Cynthia Saxemundham. “There’s no reason why she should see these things.” She threw the letters into the grate and set fire to them. ““Muriel,” said Strickland in quite a dif- ferent note. He went to the door of the room and opened it. Muriel Chalmers in an evening gown was already half-way up the stairs. She turned and asked: “Do you want me?” “Badly,” said the Colonel. Muriel Chalmers ran down again eagerly. She was to be allowed to help after all. “What can I do?” she asked. The letters were blazing and curling up and turning black, whilst the Duchess on her knees beat them into tattered fragments with the poker. The necklace and the wooden box still stood upon the table. “‘Let’s consider,” said Strickland. The three of them sat about the table. “Do you know Lady Torrent?” he asked of Muriel. “Ne.” “But you have written to her.” “T have answered invitations.” “In your own name?” VO. Here the Duchess interrupted. She saw the way out too and her face was alight. * Muriel can take a false name.” DUCHESS AND LADY TORRENT Mason’s HARPER’S BAZAR Story “No,” Strickland expostulated. “This time we'll remember Sir Hugo’s advice. Le her go in her own!” He turned again tg Muriel Chalmers. “Do you know really well any of these people?” And he recited the names of the guests at Lady Torrent’; party. In a moment or two Muriel stopped him, “Yes, Mrs. Daventry. She’s a friend of mine.” “Good!” Strickland looked at the clock. The hands pointed to midnight. The party at Emperor’s Gate would be in full swing. Muriel was to take the box and the necklace and drive to the house. She would be shown up-stairs to leave her cloak. She was to tuck the bog and the necklace away somewhere, anywhere, in the room into which she was shown. She was to come down again. She was to give her real name to the butler who would lead her into the garden. If Lady Torrent was still at her post, she was to say boldly that Mrs. Daventry had asked her to join her there. If Lady Torrent wasn’t still on duty, then Muriel must find Mrs. Daventry for herself, and persuade her to say that she had asked Muriel to join her. “Will she do that, without asking yoy questions?” Strickland asked. “Certainly.” “Otherwise I'll give you a note to her. For I know her very well myself,” said the Duchess, beginning to rise from her chair. But once more Henry Strickland inter. “No, for Heaven’s sake! No letters! Let’s stick to Sir Hugo. The only real danger is that Muriel may be presented to Lady Torrent when she is actually talking to Mrs. Daventry, a we must leave it to her to make the best of it. TS catastrophe, however, did not occur, Muriel drove off to Emperor’s Gate ina taxi, she was shown up-stairs to an empty room heaped with cloaks, she found a knee- hole writing-table in a bay window, and into the bottom drawer on the left-hand side, she thrust the box with the necklace. Coming down-stairs, she gave her name to the butler and followed him into the garden. The butler looked around the dim garden with its groups of people, mingling and changing like a kaleidoscope. “Her Ladyship is, I think, in the supper room,”’ he said. “T’'ll find her then sooner or later,” said Muriel lightly, and she sped across the lawn, For she had seen Mrs. Daventry shaking hands with a man as though she was bidding him farewell. “You asked me to join you here,” said Muriel with determination. “T did no doubt,’ answered Mrs. Daventry, who was not easily surprised. “But I am going away now.” ‘That is all to the good,” said Muriel, and five minutes later she had left the house in Mrs. Daventry’s motor-car. Thus, the resti- tution was made and not a soul in Lady Torrent’s establishment was ever aware that the Duchess of Saxemundham’s secretary had been present that night as an uninvited guest. But Lt.-Col. Henry Strickland with a tail of decorations at the end of his name was the next morning for the theft of a valuable pearl necklace. HE WAS brought before the Chief Magis- trate at Bow Street. Lady Torrent had the most convincing story to tell. ““I wore my pearls in the afternoon,” she said, ‘“‘and while I was having tea, the clasp got loose and the pearls dropped from my neck onto the floor. I picked them up and placed them in a little wooden box on the table, which I locked. I meant to take the box up-stairs when I went up to dress, but some friends came in, and made me late. I ran up-stairs in a hurry, forgetting about the box. When I descended, Colonel Strickland was in the room. I told him of my misaé- venture while we were waiting for the other guests. Later on when we were all in garden, he was seen by two of my servants to enter the drawing-room. One of them watched him through the crack of the door and saw him with the box under his coat. He left the house immediately afterwards.” Lady Torrent had her witnesses at hand, the friends who had kept her late in the afternoot and the two servants. Colonel Strickland on the other hand disappointed his friends. He contented himself with reserving his d& fense. He was accordingly committed fot trial at the next Old Bailey Sessions whic wes to take place in a week, and admitted ail. During that week, of course, the scandal was immense and pleasurable. A seasol otherwise unremarkable received a tremendow fillip. The application for seats at the (Concluded on page 122) bh V

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How did I come to have them? I took them from a maid who had left the Duchess’ service and clearly meant to use them for blackmail. I expected the Duchess to dine with me on Thursday week, and I kept them locked in the box in order to return them to her with my own hand. Of course, if the love-letters were what Colonel Strickland was after, let him return my neck- lace and I shall be happy to withdraw the charge against him.” Her attitude would be incontestably mag- nanimous—and she would be repaid—how she would be repaid!—for twenty years of trying to become the real thing and not quite be- coming it, for all her rebuffs, those witticisms at her expense, the little slaps in the face which she was going to return with one re- sounding smack which would bowl the beauti- ful idol of the day altogether off her pedestal and dismiss her to the obscurity of her island in the Hebrides. HUS rejoicing, on the third day before the trial, Lady Torrent opened by chance the lowest drawer in the left-hand side of her knee-hole writing-table; and sat like one turned into stone; and felt as cold as stone. “Of course I have been thinking of it too much,” she whispered to herself. “‘I see that box everywhere.” But she could not convince herself by that argument. She dived for the box. It was real. It was locked. She shook it. Something rattled inside of it. She fetched the key and unlocked it. Her pearl necklace gleamed at her, but the letters were gone. She had been outwitted after all. There was really only one course for Lady Torrent to take—to call for her motor-car, drive to her solicitor, and withdraw the charge of theft in terms as little humiliating as possible. But she would not do it. The triumph so earnestly prayed for—yes, she had dared to pray for it on her knees—must not be lost. She consulted no one. She looked at her clock. It was three o’clock. She burnt the box, wrapped up the necklace, slipped on a cloche hat which came well down over her eyes, flung some furs about her shoulders, took a cab from the corner of the street to Victoria Station, traveled by the first available train to Brighton, pawned the necklace at a small jeweler’s in the King’s Road and was back again at Emperor’s Gate in time to sit down to dinner with her husband. “Three more days, my dear,” he said looking at her tired face, “‘and this trial will be over, and we can get away to Switzerland for a holiday and a rest.” “Yes, that will be pleasant,’ she said. She added with a timid glance, “Do you know, ] think that I can guess what Colonel Strick. land’s defense will be. He will say that the necklace is mislaid somewhere in this house.” Sir William Torrent leaned back in his chair and blew out his lips, a sign with him of serious reflection. hadn’t thought of that. We ought tp have the house searched in the presence of witnesses. For that would be a suggestion of course that you had stolen it yourself to pay some secret debt,”’ he said and he saw her fag turn as white as the table-cloth. A gasp ¢ relief broke from her. She was thinking “What a stroke of luck that I found the neck. lace to-day!” Whilst the knowledge of the shipwreck she had escaped was still overwhelmingly new to her, there came a knocking upon the door. A most polite Inspector of Police had come tp make sure that the necklace had been nowher mislaid. “The positions in the world of yourself ang Colonel Strickland make this. of course, , serious case, my lady,” he explained. “Its the intention of the Crown to take over th prosecution.” The Inspector’s statement troubled an even frightened Lady Torrent. This was, private feud between herself and the Duches of Saxemundham. She had not calculate that since she had chosen to fight it out in the public courts, with a charge of theft against, third person as her weapon, the Crown woul inevitably interfere. Even when the Inspect had departed satisfied that the necklace wa not in the house, she was not altogether at he ease. She almost confided the truth to he husband. She began and hesitated and mp frained; and this probably was the most fata of all her mistakes in the affair. For he was proud of the necklace. He haf bought the pearls one by one, he had selected the design of the clasp, and when he went inty the witness-box he was able to give so com plete a description of it that any attempt to dispose of it undetected was quite out ¢ possibility. The little jeweler in the King’ road read the description in his evening at Brighton. Now he, amongst jewelers, ws as Lady Torrent amongst Duchesses ¢ Saxemundham. He too wanted prestige an recognition and the very best customers at his establishment: and here was his opportunity. The next morning he tucked the necklae into his pocket, traveled up to London, ani sent his name and the nature of his evidene in to the Counsel for the Defense. OBY MANISTER gave a glowing accowt of the sensation in court when, standing in the witness-box, he identified Lady Torrent as the woman who had pawned the necklace of the modest demeanor of Colonel Stricklani, and of the collapse of Lady Torrent. “But from what I could gather,’’ he added, “the Torrents are really much happier in ther villa near Dieppe than they ever were whikt they were climbing. And as for the Duches of Saxemundham, though she had lost tk adoration of her Colonel, she received he compensations too. For the pair of then remained on the most affectionate terms for many years and were often to be seen dining together at Claridge’s. Thus as you will x, everything is for the best in the best of al possible worlds.” NEW FEATHERS AND FABRIG Marjorie Howard’s Article (Continued from page 96) shirring, or plaiting in any of its forms. The woolens often have soft velvety surfaces, even when they are patterned. Plain ma- terials are increasingly important, marking the reaction against so much pattern. When there is a design, it is often only suggested, in the form of broken checks, or mere flecks of color. Ihe principle of contrast, the strongest note of the summer mode, is continued in the winter fabrics, not only contrast of color, but of material. Many of the new tissues combine more than one sort of thread. The most striking illustration of this is the series of Rodier kashas, in which cashmere wool is most effectively used with gold. Gold trim- mings and gold touches are found in the most advanced models at many of the dress- making houses, while Suzanne Talbot has made a whole series of next winter’s gowns in these Rodier kashas splashed and spotted with metal. Nearly all of the new Meyer woolens show a combination of different sorts of woolen thread, giving materi which are susceptible to quite new tre ments. They began this last year, when the used goat’s hair and camel’s hair with sheep! wool, but the flexibility of this year’s weavé is far greater and the materials the mo attractive. Among the silks, we find a significant pr ponderance of velvet, both plain and pi terned; and a wealth of lamés which st passes anything that has been shown in ths line before. Very significant are the metal lamés, ribbed, herring-boned, dingo suggesting tweeds and reps, which are in all the collections. A revival of heavy weaves like armure is foreshadowed. Talfies disappears, but satin receives attention. 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124 ‘GOWNS - HATS - COATS . LINGERIE - HOSIERY - FURS - _— There is an ingenious touch of the unusual in each Sheridan Creation that places it high in the esteem of smartly dressed women. This exquisite Gown is of Chantilly Lace with bands of lustrous Velvet on the bodice and skirt—delicate Dresden beading sparkles against the velvet and silver cloth gleams from beneath the velvet panels. Sheridas- 548 FIFTH AVENUE at 45 thST New York> OUR ONLY STORE NEW FEATHERS AND FABRIC Ho: (Concluded from page 122 Marjorie red-browns, verging on the nasturtium or wall- flower shades which, so far, have found favor only in advance millinery. It is a little difficult to see just how they will be intro- duced into clothes. Black and beige, the one for sports clothes and the other for both day and evening wear, are expected to continue; the black will often be lightened with metal, especially gold. Silver will more happily combine with white for evening. And now, going like pedagogs from the general to the particular, let us glance at some of the novelties that the fabric makers have prepared for us. I hope you appreciate this glimpse behind the scenes, for not many people get it. Rodier, of course, is going on with his kashas. Baron de Meyer has photo- graphed some of the most striking patterned ones, with their Cubist designs of graded color. On page ninety-four you will see a new metal one, called kasha plumellor, because it is really more like the feathers of a golden pheasant’s breast than anything else. There is a kasha d’or finely plaited in last year’s fashion, which gives the most lovely glittery surface you can imagine, and will be charming for skirts with jumper tops of the gold pat- terned varieties. Then there are the crepellas, always such favorites with Chanel. There is a new heavy weave for winter called cre pell- hiver, and a most promising material, already chosen by many of the houses, called cre pellécla because its surface is frosted with silk. It is illustrated in the model from Yteb on page ninety-four. The coat to wear with this new frock, with its significantly tiered skirt, is made of another typical Rodier material, with the soft velvety surface characteristic of so many of the new woolens, and called ‘“‘mosaic” on account of its broken check in three colors. These types struck me as being particularly sure of success; but words fail me to describe the beauty of the new silken fabrics, combinations of unusual weaving, exotic design, and color such as one finds only in the plumage of tropic birds. It is Jacques Rodier, I believe, who is re- sponsible for most of these colors and designs, and no wonder the French Government has just recognized his extraordinary ability with the Légion d'honneur. From the new Meyer woolens, I have chosen to illustrate a delightful new rep, called popeline rustique, and a new diagonal cheviotte, called ‘“‘Jes chevrons,” because diagonals, herring-bones, and such things will be very good this winter. Chantal has combined these two materials in an attractive sports costume using gray-green angora jersey for the blouse with a skirt of brownish popeline, its surface flecked with green, and the diagonal material, in the same green, for the coat, which is cut with a slight flare on the sides, and finished with a long shawl collar of taupe, with which it is also lined. Other new materials in the Meyer collection are jersaka, a material woven of several colors with a raised honeycomb design all over its surface in beige; and carmélea, another thick fabric of several tones, so named because the mixture of colors suggests the chameleon. Besides these novelties, Meyer is going on with his famous velours de Smyrne, sometimes mixed with silk this year, sometimes woven of several different colors giving a speckled effect. He likes the velvety surfaced things, making different shades, among them many of the new “beet” reds, and the nasturtiums, or burnt oranges. He also continues to mix different kinds of thread, wool, silk, camel, and goat hair, et cetera, in new designs and patterns. OR the silk collections, I need a paint-box much more than a typewriter. Let us take the three leaders in alphabetical order. First Bianchini—I have illustrated two of his most promising novelties in the frock and wrap from Martial and Armand. The tunic frock with its low-set flare is made of a brand new moire, in which the water-marks, instead of straying vaguely over the surface, are concentrated into star-like designs, not un- like snowflakes. This is a very important material; for moire, you know, was one of the featured players in the midseason collections. The evening wrap is made of Indianor, a golden material, almost exactly like metal rep, which is really irresistible. In this case, Madame Vallet has used it in connection with nasturtium colored velvet for a lovely cape, with shirred shoulders, and a whole fox skin for a collar. Some of the designers are predicting great things for satin this winter, and Bianchini is prepared for them with several handsome varieties, a new marocain with one satiny side called satinska, a satinska moire with one satin and one moire surface, and a carmanca, like the first, but even heavier. He is also reviving thick silk armures for coats; and imitating galuchat, boa-skin, and speckled trout on panne velvet and crépe, as he imitated lizard with so much success last year. Velvet holds a place of honor in his collection. There are lovely plain ones in an HARPER’S BAZ ard’s Article enormous range of color, both straight pile a» panne; there are printed ones with desig which range from the most modern imag; ings of Raoul Dufy to Renaissance Italjg motifs in stained glass colors. There an quantities of raised velvet designs on cris) voile and lamé. One lovely one has raised palm trees in shell-like velvet on a pring crépe ground of opalescent shades. Gry strides have been made in the combination, weaving and printing begun a short time ag We see a material with a pale gold ground, which appear raised velvet flowers, part of ¢ design being printed in several colors, whi part is woven. A huge bouquet in rajq velvet on a gold ground has its flowers print. by hand in five different colors. ; TH Bianchini lamés begin with the gy metal novelties, which I find so attractiy, In addition to the lovely Indianor, there js new thin gauze of gold or silver, alreai wrinkled to do away with the complaint th; these tissues crush too soon. Others » exactly like metal rep, and some of them hay a “lost” design in them, which is like fajy chasing on metal, and is seen only from oy angle of the stuff. Fine stripes and smg dots in different colored golds form anoth series. The brocades, both all silk, and @ and metal, are bewildering. The mo striking of all has an old-red satin foundatig, with a Chinese wave pattern on it in silye Over this is a slightly raised design in pip branches, like a Japanese print, in differey colored golds and silken greens. It is difficy: to imagine anything more gorgeous. The things that I go quite crazy over y Coudurier’s are the shawls. Callot reser most of the new designs each year, furnish them with magnificent silk fringes, and drapes them over her loveliest evening gow This year, they appear in raised vely designs instead of silk and metal brocade Velvet, you see, is imposing itself everywher even in shawls. We find at Coudurier: marvelously brilliant panne velvets, bet plain and printed, the printed often showig groups of fine line-stripes. They are x supple as foulard, and the artificial velye show a remarkable advance in beauty ¢ manufacture. The printed velvets apper in all types of design, conventional, geometric Cubist, and flowery. In the raised velvex on Georgette or voile foundations, dots, bob large, medium, and small, form a favorit motif. Small line checks in two colx raised above a third base color are charming, and have been reserved by Lelong. Tr lamés vary from thinnest gauzes, like dragon. fly wings, to thick silk and metal creations, s stiff as leather, and meant for slippers. Ther are many lamé moires, the water-marks i gold and silver on lovely color. In th brochés there are gold and silver designs ona printed chiffon base, on crépe jersey, and m satin, some in small inconspicuous pattems, others in huge grandiloquent designs. Th velvet lamés run to stripes, sometimes with gold lines between the stripes, sometime with three shades of the same color used in three bands of raised velvet design ona golden base. Baron de Meyer has photo graphed one of the loveliest brochés, in greens and blues, with a conventionalized golden peacock tail design magnificently Oriental. From Ducharne’s collection, I have chosa to illustrate a lovely damas, or all-metal lamé, with a design in different colored golds Redfern has made this into the splendid evening wrap that you see; while the Redfem gown is made of a charming raised velvet in the new “beet” color, with little blocs covering the voile surface. Ducharne al» has carried on the combination of printing and weaving which gives such interesting results There is a brocade with a rich dark colorel base with metal threads through it, in which the design of large leaves and drooping cascades of flowers is printed in other colorsin exactly the space left for them by the wove design. One of the prettiest effects of th new printed lamés is a silk and metal gauz which is printed with flowers on the revere side, the pattern showing through, Iie blossoms drowned in molten gold. Duchame is also making a series of all-metal tissues like rep, with both a wide and narrow rib; and om of the greatest successes is called ‘‘ mousseim métale,”” woven with one “chiffon” thread and one golden one, the very thin gauzy weave being called gaze d’or, while the heavier om, with more metal in it, is called mousse d'or, @ golden moss. Another great novelty is the moussdint broché, or brocaded chiffon, the pattern, oftes of flowers or butterflies, being in velvet the thinnest chiffon ground. ‘Thirsis,” the new chiffon velvet, is of the most ext ordinary fineness, hardly thicker than the down on a moth’s wing. Vionnet loves ® use it for gowns of characteristic geometrical line. The printed velvets are more attractivé than usual, one lovely design is like the flowery field in Botticelli’s ‘‘Primavera,” wil another suggests a canvas by Marie Laurenal.

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Z AX for SEPTEMBER 1926 125 1c] MOST MARVELOUS MUSICAL INVENTION IN WORLD’S HISTORY The BRUNSWICK PANATROPE utilizes newly discovered electrical processes to bring it pile ap h desig, Nn imag -e Italia There an on Cre las Taiigel a printe Ss. Greg ination time ag zround ; art of th Ors, whi in raise TS printe 1 the al ttractiye there js, » alread, laint the thers a he Mos undation in silver n in pine differen S difficuy y over g reserve furnishes nd drape gowns ud urier's ts, both | Showing are a 1 velvets eauty 9 $ appear eometric | velvet: > dragon pusseline rn, often elvet 00 sis,” t extr han the loves to metrical tractive > flowery > while urenda. you music and radio of a beauty hitherto unknown The Brunswick Panatrope is the world’s first purely elec- trical reproducing musical instrument. The new electrical method of recorded music reproduced on the Panatrope resembles the photographic process so closely that this amazing discovery is often called ‘music by photography.” HE PANATROPE is the joint achievement of four of the most widely-known institutions in the fields of electricity and acoustics: Radio Corporation of America, General Elec- tric Company, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, and The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. Amazes critics Although perfected less than a year ago, this new reproducing musical in- strument has been heard by more than four million persons. When first dem- onstrated, it was given front-page space by the great metropolitan newspapers as the most important musical develop- ment of the age. Critics were no less enthusiastic. Nothing in the whole world of music, we believe, ever created such profound interest and attention. The Brunswick Pana- trope may be had either alone or in combination THE BRUNSWICK-BALKE-COLLENDER CoO., The Brunswick Panatrope, Model 10. Fin- ished in highly figured walnut. Price $650. (Slightly higher west of Rockies) with the Radiola Super-heterodyne. Thus it puts at your finger-tips all music and the rhythmic, newsy programs of radio as well. Oper- ates entirely from the light socket; no batteries or outside wires needed. recorded Another triumph Brunswick has also developed another musical instrument, as yet unnained,* for bringing out the music of the new PANATROPES - GENERAL OFFICES: 623 RADIOLAS - RECORDS SOUTH WABASH AVE., GIORGIO POLACCO Director Chicago Civic Opera Company, says: “T am spellbound by this wonderful achieve- ment of science, which, through electrical prin- cipies, has at last made it possible for music lovers to hear their fa- vorite artists absolutely as perfectly as if they were in their presence.” records. In tone qual- ity and its ability to re- produce the entire mu- sical scale, we believe this instrument repre- sents a very great ad- vance over anything in exis- tence, save the Panatrope. It dispenses with the electrical mechanism of the Panatrope, and its prices are lower, ranging from only $115 to $300 (slightly higher west of the Rockies). Certainly you must hear these won- der instruments. Your musical judg- ment will confirm the verdict of the critics that there is nothing in the field of music reproduction equal to them. It is hardly necessary to suggest that before buying any musical instrument or radio, you hear the Brunswick Panatrope, the Brunswick Panatrope & Radiola and the new Brunswick musical instrument as yet unnamed.* Brunswick dealers will gladly dem- onstrate these instruments. If there is no Brunswick store near you, write us. *$5,000 for a name To find a suitable name for the new Brunswick instrument described above, we offer 3 prizes totaling $5,000 for the best name submitted with slogan not exceeding 10 words describing its music. Write for free booklet giving all details. Address Dept. P-104. CHICAGO

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126 _ . Marie Earfe says “this is the essentiat_> eream~ MARIE EARLE explains that the Essential Cream, the Creme Anti-Rides, is just as surely the normal food for the skin as milk is the natural food for a little child. The Marie Earle way is simple and reasonable. It takes but a few minutes night and morning; for the Marie Earle method is common sense, not magie. There are three Basic Treatments— Number One for average, Number Two for dry, Number Three for oily skins. Use the Essential Cream, a cleansing and nourishing preparation, first for thorough cleansing. . « « Then put it on again and let it feed your skin. This time use with it the Cucumber Emulsion to make it twice as penetrating. Then tone the skin. In this climate most skins are dry and the Soothing Freshener Lotion is usually required. Don’t wash your face ever. Alkaline soap and hard water dry the skin disastrously, making the little lines that become hard wrinkles. Marie Earle is now at her distinguished new salon on Fifth Avenue at 52nd Street. It is most conveniently located in the fashionable shopping district of New York. If you are in town for a short time, you can easily make an appointment for a treatment before lunch or tea. . . . If it is not possible for you to come to the Salon, write to the Consultation Department for “The Other Side of the Moon” —a veritable Encyclopaedia Marie Earle! This booklet in- cludes a Diagnosis Blank, which, when you fill it out, will enable Miss Earle to tell you just what your skin needs. The booklet and the service are entirely free. Marie Earle preparations are on sale in the better shops—or you may order direct from the Salon, Dept. M, 659 Fifth Avenue, The Essential Cream, $1.90 up. Tte’ Carle’ Reg. U.S. Pat. Of. NEW YORK Richmond Barrett’s HARPER’S BAZAR TENNIS AT NEWPORT IN THE MAUVE DECADE Article (Continued from page 81) was unfair, ot course; but it was spectacular. The first real revolution in the tennis world came with the famous Doherty brothers from England—a bloodless revolution, to be sure, but interesting and typical of the general psychology of that vanished epoch; for, even more important to the initiated than the new style of game was the manner of dress of the Dohertys in action. Suddenly it dawned upon the Newport crowd that there could be a correct fashion in tennis togs. ‘“‘What the well-dressed man will wear on the court’’— somehow, nobody had bothered about that heretofore. The American boys had worn their shabbiest old clothes, and there was an end of it. But the Dohertys! Immaculate white duck trousers, baby-blue belts and—an incredible innovation!—buckskin shoes as white as bathroom porcelain. The Dohertys carried everything before them, including the National Singles and the National Doubles; their greatest fame, however, rested on the fact that they had made the American youth ashamed of his unkempt appearance. Brooks Brothers really should have presented to Doherty brothers, on their return to England, the biggest cups to be bought at any price. The haberdashery business must have boomed amazingly after that famous British invasion. NOTHER revolution—and this one was destined to be anything but bloodless— came from California. At first, nobody worried much about this band of disheveled kids. After learning the Doherty lesson, the Eastern tennis player had come to believe that good clothes were at least half the battle. Sized up according to that standard, the boys from California hadn’t a chance of ever getting anywhere. Bundy did give the established order something of a jolt when he chopped his way into the challenge round his very first season. But Larned disposed of him at last; and people decided comfortably that the doughty Westerner’s success had signified very little. The queer game he played really wasn’t tennis at all; he was just a trickster and his bluff had been called. But what about that freckled ingratiating youngster with the flame-colored hair—that odd mixture of Logi the Fire God with a plain pleasant Irish grin, an even pleasanter Irish twinkle in the eye? What’s his name, by the way? We consulted our programs and we read the simple surname McLoughlin. How long was it before it streamed across the tennis heavens—flame-colored like his cele- brated mane? Not long. “The California Comet” was presently a trade-mark as well known as Eva Tanguay’s “‘Cyclone of Vaude- ville.’ The coming of Maurie McLoughlin was really the beginning of the end for New- port. It was he, more than any other in- fluence, that changed the tennis world. Shy and self-effacing, a tremendous favorite with the Casino crowd and a lover of Newport him- self, he yet unconsciously brought in the “star” system that spelt ruin to the first capital of Tennis—the “star” system, with all that the term implies of front-page head- lines and heavy advertisement and flaunting exploitation. His unprecedented fame brought to the little island of Rhode Island crowds that crammed it to the gunwales and eventually scuttled it. The thousands of rampant McLoughlin fans couldn’t be accommodated decently in the few small “family” hotels of Newport; mobs of hungry enthusiasts ranged the streets, trying without success to wedge and jostle their way into the overcrowded dining-rooms of Gunther’s and Berger’s and Hill Top Inn. The ferries groaned with the weight of auto- mobiles and were followed by the enraged shrieks of those who were left behind. Ex- citement and irritation increased. Every day during Tournament Week the enemies of Newport increased by hundreds. The place was much too little, was hopelessly out of date; something had to be done about it. And—alas!—something was. Of all this fury and hysteria McLoughlin was the un- witting cause. We were made to pay dear for our original attitude of tolerant scorn toward the red-headed boy from the West and his little band of intrepid followers. I suppose, when Rome was mistress of the world, the Romans viewed in much the same way the struggling advance-guard of the Visigoths and the Vandals that wandered into the Imperial City. Who were these quaint for- lorn barbarians, anyway? Well, Rome fell, as perhaps you remember; and so did Newport. OT that it happened overnight! Mc- Loughlin and Bundy and Johnston and Griffin worked for some years on the Newport courts before the stronghold of the Casino collapsed ignominiously. Meanwhile the Na- tional Tournament grew to more and more unwieldly proportions. The Casino posi- tively bulged with the crowds. The Cham- pionship Court was moved over from its modest little pocket in the southeast corner of the grounds to the Horse Show ring. Th Horse Show boxes were given over automat cally to the faithful millionaires of the colony The celebrated old vermilion grand-stayj was overhauled and made prosaically sq and set up across the court. Two new grand. stands were erected. The Casino toily valiantly to accommodate the throngs; by everything was still all wrong. It was Spa. cious and airy enough once you got insid the grounds; and you could buy a seat q one of the stands without difficulty no, But the Casino, unfortunately, had only oy entrance, which served also as the one exit~ and that happened to be through a long og. ridor not more than fifteen feet wide. N THE day of a championship matd there would be approximately seven thoy. sand people bottled up in the place. The ew dus, starting at about noon, went on foreve, The last man out ran the risk of dropping from exhaustion and starvation; and if did live to see Bellevue Avenue again, th chances were that his automobile would parked about a mile away. It was all a vey brilliant and glorious pageant, with mop Paris frocks and Poole suits and Rolls-Royegs to the square inch than could be found apy. where else in the world; but it was also ho. ribly inconvenient. The morale of the affay had been hopelessly shattered. Curses both loud and deep became the accepted order the day. The spirit of democracy, too, » well as of plain common-sense comfort, wy abroad. Tennis was a national game, } was asserted—a game for all classes. Why right had these hidebound Newport snobs tj keep it to themselves and make it a fashig parade? And a string orchestra strummig away in the background! Good heaven was this the setting for a game that was sup posed to appeal to red-blooded, hundri percent. American manhood? The bors somehow seemed the last insult to the carper Boxes at a tennis tournament—boxes! An the people in them made as much racket as; lot of sparrows in ivy; it was impossible ty pay attention to the game. So it went; and all of a sudden the groans the threatening grumbles directed indiscrin- inately against nothing in particular a everything in general, merged into one grea swelling chant: “Down with Newport; hur for West Side!” The national game hi found itself at last, had seized upon its wate word. Bastille Day for the ancien régim had come; “On to West Side”’ was the Ma seillaise of the new democracy. The inev- table and tragic moment arrived, in Februay of 1915, when the annual meeting of tk United States National Lawn Tennis Assocs tion declared the long and glamourous reign of Newport to be over and gave the Nationd Tournament to West Side. AND now, though the new capital has bee threatened several times and Philadelphia once actually succeeded in grabbing away th prize, Forest Hills is at last secure and im pregnable; with the brilliant coup d’état of th concrete stadium, the club has struck it roots so deep that nothing can bring it crashing down. Ah, well—we all realize that Ne York is the only place for the Nationd Tournament these days, that Newport succumbed to the natural laws of expansion and hustling development. As for prax and blame—there’s simply no such ethicl question involved. Tennis began as a sort of aristocrat amoy sports, a snobbish pastime—“ the gentleman’ game” it was naively called; as such, it hal its perfect setting at Newport. Then tk day came when it ceased to be conservative when it threw itself in with the trend of tk times—democracy, bigness and absolilt commercial soundness. That it modeled itself more or less on the baseball patten may be a matter of regret to many; still, i we're going to stress the “National” in is title, what more fitting than to let it apes husky big brother, the national game? Theres an epic thrill, a grandeur of scale about Tilden-Johnston match at Forest Hills tht was lacking at Newport when “Big” Doherty beat Larned and Larned trounced McLoughils. Memories of conflicts in the Yale Bowl, @ Big League scraps in the Yankee Stadium come to the mind nowadays during a Nation Tournament. The polite applause of Net port—the clapping of little gloved the rap-rap-rap of gold-headed canes parasols from Paris—has given place unabashed rooting and jovial rowdy booiit- At Forest Hills, one can even buy peanuls— a fact to make the Governors of the Newpst Casino shudder. The urbane and perf crush has been supplanted by the mb Thousands of fans emerge, grimy and wiltel, from the subway; the automobile line 54 queer hodge-podge—a few big foreign @ lording it over a lot of rusty little fiwes (Concluded on page 130)

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DEL MONTE-HICKEY | atte pee Sport. Clothes with a Spirit, as new as the Season. itself — gay, brilliant. and fascinating — enlivening the activities of Fall— for Motor, Travel, Town and Sports.... Ready now at. your favorite Shop! ‘DEL MONTE-HICKEY | 246 WEST 38TH STREET, NEW YORK HARPER’S BAZAR WHY NOT BRUNETTESP Anita Loos’s Story (Continued from page 79) armadillo basket. So Dorothy started to walk down Forty Fifth street to look for a hotel. So she started to go into quite a large hotel but the taxi starter who was standing out in front stopped Dorothy and told her that they did not allow animals in his hotel. So Dorothy told him that it was not an animal but it was nothing but a dead armadillo that was made into a basket. So then he told her that they did not allow armadillo baskets in his hotel. So then Dorothy became very very indignent and she says she started to give him an arguement because she seemed to think that when a hotel allowed aligator valeeses they really ought not to discriminate against an armadillo basket. But Dorothy says she talked to him and talked to him but she could not seem to make him realize that he did not have a leg to stand on. So she went on until she came to another hotel. So this hotel was a very very refined hotel for middle age ladies. And it seems that there was quite an elderly lady standing in the lobby when Dorothy went in. So Dorothy put the Armadillo basket on a chair and the elderly lady went over to the chair to sit down but instead of sitting down she seemed to suddenly catch sight of the Armadillo basket and faint. So after all of the confusion was all over, the clerk took quite a good look at Dorothy and he told her that they did not seem to have any more rooms vacant at his hotel. O THEN Dorothy went around the corner to try Forty Forth Street. And I really think that Dorothy would never have found an exclusive hotel in New York but Fate always seems to help a girl like Dorothy. Because it was Fate that the ‘next hotel that Dorothy arrived at was the Algonquin hotel where all the famous actresses and movie stars live and just as Dorothy arrived at the front door it happened that Buster Keaton and quite a lot of his motion picture company were just arriving from a location and they were all in quite amusing comedy makeups. So when Dorothy went into the lobby in the midst of them the room clerck thought that she belonged to them and he gave her a room and he never discovered his mistake until everybody had cleaned up for dinner. So when Dorothy came down stairs for dinner she seemed to notice that everybody seemed to be looking at her, but Dorothy says that she merely gave them quite a hawty look for being so rude as to look at a girl because she is well dressed. So she walked right into the special dining room that is reserved for nobody but famous actresses and famous literary people and when George, the famous head waiter saw her he became so dazed that he showed her to a table. So Dorothy says she ordered lobster salad, and chicken salad, and fruit salad for dinner and o— that she was a Woman of the World at last. So Dorothy began to get friendly with her waiter as usual, and the first thing she told the waiter was that she had arrived at New York to go into the Follies. So then the waiter told George and when all the famous people asked George who such a looking girl could be, and George told them that she had arrived at New York to go into the Follies, they were really very, very amused. And Dorothy finaly became the joke of the Algonquin hotel. So it really seems that Dorothy, who had spent practically her whole life making fun of everybody else, did not realize that her own time to be made fun of had come at last. ND you really could not blame everybody at the Algonquin hotel for making fun of Dorothy, because a very famous literary writer at the Algonquin hotel had discovered a girl that he was trying to get into the Follies himself. And when one literary gentle- man of the Algonquin hotel discovers a girl, all the others seem to always agree with him and help him quite a lot. So this girl was a large size Ugo Slav girl who was quite a vampire type. I mean she had very very black hair and quite black eyes and she had quite a desperite kind of an expression so there was really nothing else for her to be but a vampire type. So she practicaly had to wear red dresses and quite a lot of beads and long ear rings and Dorothy says you had to give her credit because she almost solved the problem of how to look quite well groomed without the use of water. And she was the type of a girl that everybody always looks at wherever she goes and asks one another who it is. So it was no wonder that everybody always told her she ought to go in the Follies. And this girl was the kind of a girl that brainy people practically always pick out to be beautiful. And what was even more, she was full of brains herself and she could talk for hours and hours on almost any kind of a subject. But the best thing she knew how to do was to hold conversations with gentle- men about Love. I mean, with one gentle- man at a time. And sne could be just ag brainy talking about Love as the girl could be in the great novel called The Green Hat. So of course she really was much to good to go into the Follies where girls do not even have any words to say, but she had to go into them on account of quite a heavy Ugo Slav dialect. But as soon as she could leary how to talk more like an American she had decided to become a famous actress and show we Americans her interperation of what famous writers like Mr. Strindburg meant, And she could hardly wait to get into the Follies so she could meet all the wealthy brokers who are fond of art and would finance her own company for her. So it was no wonder that they all thought she was devine and the literary writer who made her discovery could never seem to get over it. Because he found her when she wag nothing but a girl living at quite an inex. pensive socialist colony at Nutley New Jersey. And he brought her to a literary party at New York where all the literary people who work their brains hard all day, keep right on working their brains all night doing a thing called sharades. I mean [| think it is wonderful because they never seem to sit down and relax. So right in the midst of quite an amuseing sharade one of the famous gentlemen got excited about his success and dropped 4 candle that was lit into quite a large box ful] of the cute kind of paper caps that come out of bomboms. So then it caught fire and of course everybody ran out. But after they al] got in the street and called an alarm, they counted themselves all over and found out that one of them was missing. So then they realized it was the Ugo Slav girl and so this literary gentleman decided that as long as he was her escort he really ought to save her life. So he ran back into the apartment, and he went into the room where all of the fire was and this Ugo Slav girl was sitting there looking at it and saying in quite a romantic voice “Is not flame beautiful?” So when he heard her say a thing like that, at a time like that, he decided that she was not like other girls but that she was full of temperment besides, O HE stood in quite a daze and watched her. But by this time quite a harsh fire- man of Irish extraction came in and started to save her life. But all she did was resist him and say, “‘Leave me, I love beauty!” §o this fireman gave her quite a harsh slap to calm her down and took her out by force. But by this time all of the cute paper caps were nothing but a lot of cinders and the fire was all over. So from that time on, everybody realized that she was nothing but a genius and that was how she turned out to be the girl they all raved about. So they all kept on making engagements with Mr. Ziegfield to meet her but he always seemed to be out. So it wasno wonder they all had to laugh at a girl like Dorothy who had no critics to pick her out. Because, after all, the only substancial thing that Dorothy had was a letter of intro- duction to a broker in New York. And even this letter had been given to Dorothy at California by Charlie Gwynn the famous polo player when he was intoxicated. But Dorothy never seemed to worry, even when she was all alone in New York with nothing but 75 dollars. And she was 90 ignorent that when she looked at the large size of New York, she was not even surprised, because she did not think that New York was so large. Because Dorothy says that she thought it ended at Central Park on one side and the Flat Iron Building on the other and she was in New York for months and months before she ever even knew that there was any such a thing as the Financial Districk down at Wall Street. I mean Dorothy never seems to want to find things out for herself, like I always seem to. I mean when I first came to New York, the first thing I did was to go down to Wall Street and have quite a delicious luncheon with quite a lot of brokers in their own building, and I learned where all the money comes from. But Dorothy does not love education, and when a girl does not love it she never seems to realize what a very very great thrill it gives a girl to know that all of those brokers are down there every day making all of that money. © THE first morning after Dorothy at rived at New York she called up broker friend of Charlie Gwynn. So whet he talked te Dorothy over the telephone he was quite delighted because there is nothing a broker really enjoys so much as getting 4 girl an introduction to Mr. Ziegfield. the broker came right over to get Dorothy and take her to luncheon at the Ritz. But when he met Dorothy he looked at her @ looked at her, and he seemed to lose quite 4 lot of his confidents. So he ended up by taking her to quite an artistic tea room where she would not be noticed. (Continued on page 129)

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 But Dorothy really did not have hardly anything about her to interest a broker with. Because, in the first place, Dorothy always gems to want to make a broker laugh, which js fatal in itself. Because the only time brokers really care to laugh is at a show, or when they are telling each other riskay stories at the stock exchange. But when a broker meets a girl, he always likes to be more serious and gives her all his good advice. So the first thing this broker did was to tell Dorothy what a very very wicked place New York is, but instead of listening to him with reverance Dorothy says she asked him ifhe had some good addresses. But he finaly overlooked her errer and got to feeling better and then he told Dorothy that she should be very very careful about what gentlemen she met and to always ask him first whether she ought to. So Dorothy told him the only gentleman she had been talking to was the elevator boy at the Algonquin hotel, but of course, if he had anything on him, she’d take to using the stairs. So this broker began to feel very very uncomfortable with a girl who did not have any awe, but he concentrated very very hard on all of his friendship to Charlie Gwynn and he told her he would help her. So it seems that the brokers lawyer was also Mr. Ziegfields lawyer, so he made an engagement to take Dorothy to luncheon and meet him. But by the time Dorothy went to luncheon to meet the lawyer she had dis- covered the jewelry department at Blooming- dales department store and her personal pearants was even more unusual than ysual. But this lawyer was really no friend of Charlie Gwynns, because all he did was to look Dorothy over and explane to her that he had just recommended a bootlegger to Mr. Ziegfield that had sold him some very very bad Scotch and it would really do no girl any good to have him recommend her after that. So it all came to nothing. UT it seems that Charlie Gwynn was so very very popular with all his real gentle- men friends that they would really go through anything for him, so the broker stopped all his other work and started in to collect letters of intraduction to Mr. Ziegfield. Because, after all, he decided that if he and his friends got Dorothy to the point of meeting Mr. Ziegfield all of their loyalty to Charlie Gwynn would be at an end. But it took quite a long time, and Dorothy finaly reached a point where she had to pay nearly all of her money for her first weeks rom and board. But Dorothy’s poverty always seems to consist in not worrying about bills, and the only way she could think up to improve her time was to stay in the lobby at the Algonquin hotel and become more and more of a chum to the elevator boy. So she did nothing but stand around the elevator and everybody who went in and out always used to stop and say, “‘Well Miss Shaw, when do you go to work for Mr. Ziegfield?” and Dorothy was so ignorent that she had not even found out yet that they were making fun of her. But one morning Dorothy got quite tired of waiting while all of the important broker friends of Charlie Gwynn were collecting letters of intraduction to Mr. Ziegfield so she walked over to Mr. Ziegfields offices at the New Amsterdam theatre and became friendly with the office boy. So she asked him to get her an intraduction to Mr. Ziegfield and he took her right in to Mr. Ziegfield’s office and gave them an intraduction to one another and that was how they met. So then Dorothy asked Mr. Ziegfield for a situation. And then what happened to Dorothy really seems like almost a miracle. Because Mr. Ziegfield stood Dorothy up in quite a good light and he looked her over and over, and he smoked his cigar and smoked his cigar and finaly he sat down and wrote an order to Mr. Jean Buck to give her a situation and told her to report for rehearsals on Monday. UT after all it was really not so much of 4 miracle as it was only the result of the genius of Mr. Ziegfield. Because Mr. Zieg- held can see through all of a girls bad points and pick out her good points and Dorothy says that half the girls in the Follies would be passed up by every broker in New York before Mr. Ziegfield has glorified them. Be- cause when brokers are left to themselves, they always make a mistake and pick out some girl that is quite sheek, and then they keep on wondering what is the matter with Because hardly any broker seems to have enough psychology to realize that the teal ideal of his dreams is some small town Village bell that he used to weave a romance around when he was age sixteen. But Mr Liegfield knows all about psychology so that the kind he picks out. And Dorothy says that about all Mr. Ziegfield does to glorify m is to get them to comb the hay out of hair and give up starch in lingeray. WHY NOT BRUNETTES P Anita Loos’s Story (Continued from page 128) And as far as gowns are concerned, Dorothy says that Mr. Ziegfield would always rather have a girl get her models from Paris Ken- tucky than Paris France. Because nobody knows better than Mr. Ziegfield that there is much more glammer for gentlemen in dotted Swiss than there ever is in crape de sheen. And the result of it all is that a crowd of Follies girls off of the stage look just like the high school picknick. And Dorothy says that that is why a broker of 90 can escort a Follies girl to a party, and by the time it is time to = her home he almost reaches for his slate. AND Dorothy says it is really quite a waste of time to get letters of introduction to Mr. Ziegfield, because he gets over 20,000 of them every year and he does not even have to bother to read them because Dorothy says a composite photograph of all of them would not even be blu Because they practi- cally all say the same thing which seems to be, “Dear Mr. Ziegfield, This will introduce Miss in whom I have no other interest except to assist a little girl who is ambitious and helping to support her family.” So Dorothy says that when Mr. Ziegfield gets any such a letter it generally means that the girl is arriving in a Rols Royse and that she has already been glorified by Mr. Bendel or Mr. Tappé to a point where she has practi- cally lost all of her own personality. And Dorothy says practically all of Mr. Ziegfields best girls never even heard of any such a thing as a letter of intraduction but wander in on their own from 42nd Street, just like she did. So after Dorothy got her situation, she went back to the Algonquin hotel and met the famous literary gentleman in the lobby who was the one that discovered the famous Ugo Slav girl. So he came up to her and said “‘Well Miss Shaw, when do you start in to rehearse for Mr. Ziegfield?’”’ And when Dorothy said “Monday,” he nearly dropped dead. So he thought that it was Dorothy’s turn to fool him, but when Dorothy showed him Mr. Ziegfield’s note to Mr. Jean Buck, he nearly fell dead. So then the news got around the whole hotel and then they all nearly fell dead. But when the Ugo Slav girl heard about it, she really nearly fell dead be- cause she had spent 8 weeks in Mr. Ziegfield’s office with 10 letters of intraduction and she had not even got past the office boy. But Dorothy found out afterwards that whenever anybody sends Mr. Ziegfield any girls who has got brains, he takes quite a good look at her first through the crack of a door. And if she happens to be a vampire type in addition they hardly ever meet per- sonaly. Because nobody knows better than Mr. Ziegfield that the vampire type of a girl never seems to get anywheres. And there has never been a vampire type in the whole Follies. Because even Dolores who was a very very striking kind of a tall girl, was not a vampire type but she was really the Ma- donna type of a girl. S° IT turned out that that Ugo Slav girls brains never got her anywheres. Because Mr. Ziegfield knows that type of a girl like a book and he knows that they may intreeg literary people but are just the reverse with a broker. I mean no broker ever really feels at home with any girl who wants to talk about any such a riskay subject as Love. And a girl like that may be quite delightful in a book like the Green Hat, for instants, but in real life any girl who talks like that is gen- erally more famous for the way gentlemen seem to try to avoid her. So the way history has turned out only proves that Mr. Ziegfield is always right. Because, after all, Dorothy has turned out to be one of the most famous girls in New York, in spite of all of her faults, and that Ugo Slav girl has turned out to be one of the ones who is an extra girl whenever the Theatre Gild puts on some drama about low life in Hungary. ; . Well, when all of Charlie Gwynn’s friends heard that Dorothy was really rehearsing in the Follies they were all nearly dumbfound- ered. But when they got over that, they finally began to realize that Dorothy was quite cute after all. And she really did become quite a lot cuter because it did not take Dorothy so long to realize that some- thing was wrong somewheres. So she finaly bought herself quite a cute gingam model on Sixth Avenue and gave all! of her jewelry to the chamber maid, and finaly she looked just like all the other Follies girls. 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There’sa kick to it; it sets the It makes you ing tugs beneath them. cigars, in their shirt-sleeves. heard in the gallery pulses pounding and racing. half-drunk from excitement. Still much more gigantic scale. I used Firpo bout. delirium tremens then—now, were you? Well, that’s the sort of thing you go to Forest Hills to seek; and you never quite get it. Somehow, tennis It has a dual personality. Whatever may have been the faults of tennis at Newport, it was unique, absolutely sufficient unto itself; it possessed as complete and inimitable a charm as a Henley Regatta. sources. In fact, as the style is the man, tennis at the Casino circus grand-stand was put up in the midst of the most beautiful stretch of turf in the country; It borrowed nothing from alien And so it was authentically perfect. was Newport. That funny little and here’s the unfortunate part of it— tennis at Forest Hills is merely a pocket- edition of similar spectacles that are run on a the phrases “epic thrill’ and “grandeur of scale” a while back in describing Forest Hills; I was comparing it to Newport then, remember. But just compare in your mind a champion- ship match in that new concrete stadium with the Dempsey-Carpentier or the Dempsey- I You weren’t just half-drunk from excitement during those little man- handling sprees; as a matter of fact, you weren’t very much on the safe side of mental is sicklied o’er with just enough of the old tradition and reticence never to be able to let go altogether and send you back hot-foot into primeval savagery. the whole of the American Peerage sat Upog the hard little vermilion seats. In the heyday of Newport’s glory, before motor-cars were heard of, the people wouk dance each night till dawn at their balls and cotillions, rush home for a few hours’ s| drive to the Casino in their victorias, With the inevitable coachman and footman on the box, watch the morning match, then ready for some quaint ancient fashionahj rite in the afternoon—-some amusement tha is as dead and gone now as archery or croquet The great coaching pageant, for exampk along Bellevue Avenue—ah, that was pretty sight! The four-in-hands with the’ jingle-jingle of trappings, the lovely, jy. effectual, unathletic ladies way up on top, all laces and feathers and _ old-fashiongj coquetry, with the great beaux of the ep doing the driving at their sides—Foxy Keen and August Belmont and Jim Bennet Silly and empty, perhaps, the whole show- but disarmingly gay and chic! It was q delightful as an opera bouffe by Offenbag and it all revolved about tennis at the Casing Tennis at the Casino in summer, Patti at the Academy of Music in winter or, later, Caly as Carmen at the Metropolitan; in the fal Hot Springs or Tuxedo; in the spring, th dash to Paris for gowns at Worth’s—alway at Worth’s then. 4 Nowadays—well, in the winter there’ “Abie’s Irish Rose;” in the fall ther Atlantic City; in the early spring Miamj In the summer, baseball at the Yanke Stadium and tennis at Forest Hills. Ny string orchestra plays waltzes from “The Queen’s Lace Handkerchief” at these arenas as it used to do in Newport; the only music apart from the cheers and the boos, is the dulcet caterwauling of the urchins chanting “Get your peanuts now. Chocolate almond bars! Come ahead—get your peanuts nog, gents!” WHY NOT BRUNETTESP Anita Loos’s Story (Continued from page 129) Gwynn. he got there. could hardly stand the suspense. But he kept right on sending telegrams to everybody to get ready for quite a large size party he was going to give the night he re- turned to New York in honor of picking out So he finaly won the international polo match but he did not bother to wait for the party they were giving him to celebrate his Victory, but he took the train for New York because it seems that the party he was going to give at New York was really going to be the proudest night a girl that got into the Follies. of his life. So while Charlie Gwynn was straining all of his nerves trying to get to New York, Dorothy was rehearsing in the Follies and she was already thinking up good ways to waste her time enjoying herself. Because the first thing Dorothy started in to do was to pick herself out a chum. But instead of becoming acquainted with famous girls who went out socialy and would have a marvelous future like Martha Lorber and Kay Laurel, of course Dorothy started in to look father. So in the Follies there always seems to be 18 Tiller girls who are an English ballay — Ant these 18 Tiller girls never go out anywheres socialy because they have to practice all of And the result of it all is that they are just like one girl, on So when Dorothy was looking around for a girl friend, that was I mean she did not even pick out one Tiller girl, because it seems that one Tiller girl never seems to go out alone without spending all of her time yearn- are noted for nothing but hard work. the time just like soldiers. the stage and off of it. what she picked out. ing for the other 17 Tiller girls. And I think it was really very very un- And he sent Dorothy a telegram every day congratulating himself for picking her out and he told her to just hold on until Because it seems he could not leave for New York for several days because of quite an international polo match, but he dignified for Dorothy to go walking around with 18 Tiller girls when she could just a well be riding in a Roles Royce with Peggy Hopkins, for instants. And the reason Dorothy picked them out was because she had never heard any English girls tak cockney and she used to listen to them for hours and hours and never get through won- dering. Well the day finaly arrived when Charlie Gwynn arrived at New York. So he took Dorothy to luncheon and then he took her back to rehearsal. So then he had to huny up to the country to see his father who was very very low with newmonia but he apola- gized to Dorothy and he said he would hurry right back to call for her at ten o'clock to take her to the large party. And that was the night that Dorothy picked out to make one of her greatest mis- takes in. Because after rehearsal was over, instead of going back to her room and saving up all of her energy for the party, she took a bus with her 18 Tiller girl chums and went down to Coney Island. And what is even worse, she was having such a delightful time riding on all the unrefined concessions that she never even thought of looking at a cock and she never arrived back at the Algonquin hotel until half past ten. So when she got back there Charlie Gwynn had waited 2% hours in the lobby of the Algonquin hotel and he was almost ready to screem. And he finaly had to take Dorothy to the party with large size holes in her stockings from riding on the Devils Slide, and almost a dislocated hip. But even if Dorothy did start in by making such a social errer, it was really almost nothing compared to the errer she was getting ready to make. Because Dorothy was just on the verge of making the largest errer of her whole life, and leaving a_ millionaire broker wait for her while she was having 4 good time at Coney Island with 18 Tiller girls, was the best kind of a training that a girl like Dorothy could have for it (More of Dorothy’s Diary next month) PARIS FURS (Concluded from page 75) give the palm to mink and broadtail. Worth, as you will see on page sixty-nine, has a new and very lovely gray broadtail, which All furs will be used for the lavish fur trimmings which bid fair to be a feature of the winter much chance for the muff, while as for the stole, though a few furriers make it, the attached fur collar has pretty well done away with it. This summer the silver fox staged a surprising he uses for a straight slip of a coat. mode. In small furs, there is not comeback, being worn by the smartest Parisiennes with their plain and printed chiffon frocks. About bleached and col furs, opinions differ. One designer assures m® that they will be smarter than ever, while another declares that their vogue is ove Personally, I think such things as sk bleached to a creamy yellow may very survive, but I should be glad to miss red @ purple moleskin. We shall see what we $ see. Marjorie Howart.

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- LARAY Jide Csgaettn = y - “Wrapped in Harmony” EXE THIS CHIC COAT AND SMART FROCK INTRIGUINGLY BLEND IN A TUNEFUL DAYTIME SUGGESTION FOR - AUTUMN =: BY Hattie CARNEGIE: inc GOWNS - WRAPS - FURS - MILLINERY 42-44 East Forty-ninth Street NEW YORK OWS | lie, my dear, I do not know what you mean.’ HARPER’S BAZAR THE CLOSED SHOP W. Somerset Maugham’s Story (Concluded from page 103) Everything went as merrily as a marriage bell, if I may use a phrase which is not only hackneyed but in this connection unsuitable, till one day Madame Coralie called on her friend Carmencita and had a serious talk with her. For one man’s meat is another man’s poison. After a few words had been exchanged Carmencita called a maid and told her to run and fetch La Gorda. They had a matter of importance which they wished to discuss with her. La Gorda, a woman of ample proportions with a heavy mustache, soon joined them and over a bottle of Malaga the three of them held a momentous conversa- tion. The result of it was that they indited a letter to the president, asking for an audi- ence. The new president was a hefty young man in the early thirties who a few years before had been a stevedore in the employ- ment of an American firm, and he had risen to his present exalted position by a natural eloquence and an effective use of his gun when he wanted to make a point or emphasize a statement. When one of his secretaries placed this letter before him he laughed. “What do those three old dames want with me?” he said. But he was a good-natured fellow, and accessible. He did not forget that he had been elected by the people, as one of the people, to protect the people. He had also during his early youth been employed for some months by Madame Coralie to run errands. He told his secretary that he would see them at ten o’clock next morning. But when they went at the appointed hour to the palace and were led up a noble stairway to the audi- ence chamber, the official who conducted them knocked softly on the door, a barred Judas was opened and a suspicious eye ap- peared. The president had no intention of suffering the fate of his predecessor if he could help it, and no matter who his visitors were he did not receive them without precaution. The official gave the three ladies’ names, the door was opened, but not too wide, and they slipped in. It was a handsome room and various secretaries at little tables, in their shirt sleeves and with a revolver on each hip, were busy typing. One or two other young men, heavily armed, were lying on sofas reading the papers and smoking cigarets. The president, also in his shirt sleeves, with a revolver in his belt, was standing with his thumbs in the sleeve-holes of his waistcoat. He was tall and not too stout, of a handsome and even dignified presence. “Oue tal?” he cried, jovially, with a flash of his white teeth. “What brings you here, sefioras?”’ “How well you’re looking, Don Manuel,” said La Gorda. “You are a fine figure of a man.” He shook hands with them; and his staff, ceasing their strenuous activity, leaned back and cordially waved their hands to the three ladies. They were old friends and the greet- ings, if a trifle sardonic, were hearty. I must disclose the fact now (which I could without doubt do in a manner so discreet that I might be misunderstood) that these three ladies were the proprietresses of the three principal -what shall I say?—in the capital of this free and independent State. La Gorda and Carmencita were of Spanish origin and were very respectably dressed in black, with black silk shawls over their heads, but Madame Coralie was French and she wore a neat toque. They were all of mature age. T= president made them sit down, and offered them madeira and cigarets. “No, thank you, Don Manuel,” said Madame Coralie. “It is on business that we have come to see you.” “Well, what can I do for you?” La Gorda and Carmencita looked at Madame Coralie and Madame Coralie looked at La Gorda and Carmencita. They nodded, and she saw that they expected her to be their spokeswoman. “Well, Don Manuel, it is like this,”’ she began. “‘We are three women who have worked hard for many years and not a breath of scandal has ever tarnished our good names. There are not in all the Americas three more distinguished places than ours, and they are a credit to this beautiful city. Why, only last year I spent five hundred dollars to supply my sala principal with plate glass mirrors. We have always been respectable and we have paid our taxes with regularity. It is hard now that the fruits of our labor should be snatched away from us. The president was astounded. ‘“ But Cora- “It is the law we complain of. Ruin stares us in the face.” “Ruin?” “So long as this new divorce law is in existence we can do no business, and we may just as well shut up our beautiful places.” Then Madame Coralie explained in a manner so frank that I prefer to paraphrase her speech, that owing to this invasion of the town by beautiful ladies from a foreign land the three elegant places on which she and her two friends paid rates and taxes were ut deserted. The young men of fashion ppg. ferred to spend their evenings at the Grang Hotel where they received entertainment fg soft words which at the regular establish. ments they could get only for hard cash, “You cannot blame them,” said the preg. dent. “I don’t,” cried Madame Coralie; “| blame the women. They have no right ty come and take the bread out of our mouths Don Manuel, you are one of the people, yoy are not of these aristocratics. What will the country say if you allow us to be driven oy of business by blacklegs? I ask you, is it just is it honest?” : “But what can I do?” said the president “T cannot lock them up in their rooms for thirty days. How am I to blame if theg foreigners have no sense of decency?” “It’s different for a poor girl,” said Ig Gorda. “She has her way to make, but that these women do that sort of thing whe they’re not obliged to—no, that I shall neve understand.” “Tt is a wicked law,” said Carmencita, T® E president sprang to his feet. “You are not going to ask me to abrogate a law which has brought peace and plenty f this country? I am of the people, and I was elected by the people, and the prosperity of my fatherland is very near my heart. Divorge is our staple industry and the law shall be repealed only over my dead body. ” “Oh, Maria Santissima, that it should come to this,” said Carmencita. “And me with my two daughters in a convent in Ney Orleans. Ah, in this business one often has unpleasantness, but I always consoled myself by thinking that my daughters would many well, and when the time came for me to retife they would inherit my business. Do think I can keep them in a convent in Ney Orleans for nothing?” “And who is going to keep my son at Har. vard if I have to close my place, Don Manuel?” asked La Gorda. “As for myself,” said Madame Coralie, “T do not care. I shall return to France. My dear mother is eighty-seven years of age and she cannot live very much longer. It will bea comfort to her if I spend her last remaining years by her side. But it is the injustice of it that hurts. You have spent many evenings in my house, Don Manuel, and I am wounded that you should let us be treated like this. Did you not tell me that it was the proudest day of your life when you entered as an honored guest the house in which had once been employed as errand boy?” “T do not deny it.” Don Manuel walked up and down the large hall, shrugging his shoulders as he went, and now and then, deep in thought, he gesticulated. “T am of the people and elected by the people,” he cried, “and the fact is that these women are blacklegs.’”’ He turned to his assistants with a dramatic gesture. “It isa stain on my administration. It is against all my principles to allow unskilled and foreign labor to take the bread out of the mouths of honest people. These ladies are quite right to come to me and appeal for my protection. I will not allow the scandal to continue.” It was of course a pointed and effective speech, but all who heard it knew that it left things exactly where they were. M Coralie powdered her nose and gave it a brief look in her pocket mirror. “Of course I know what human nature is,” she said, “and I can well understand that time hangs heavily on the hands of these creatures.” “‘We could build a golf-course,” hazarded one of the secretaries. “It is true that this would only occupy them by day.” “Tf they want men why can’t they bring them with them?” said La Gorda. ‘““Caramba!”’ cried the president. “There is the solution.” He had not reached his exalted station without being a man of insight and resource. ““We will amend the law. Men shall come in as before without let or hindrance, but only women accompanied by their husbands or with their written consent.” He saw the look of amazement and even consternation which his secretaries gave him, and he waved his hand. “But the immigration authorities shall receive instructions to interpret the word husband with the widest latitude.” “‘ Maria Santissima!”’ cried Madame Coralie. “Don Manuel, you are a great man and one af these days they will erect a statue to you. The law was briefly amended according the terms of Don Manuel’s suggestion, whereas prosperity continued to pour its blessings on the wide and sunny capital this free and independent State, Madame Coralie was enabled profitably to pursue her useful avocations, Carmencita’s tw daughters completed their expensive educ® tion in the convent at New Orleans, and La Gorda’s son graduated at Harvard.

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HARPER’S BAZAR UNDELIVERED LETTERS Cosmo Hamilton’s New Novel Continued from page 109) rest was. “Kath, what's the matter with you?” “What's the matter with you, Kath?” And the others that dodged about were, ‘‘ Does he find you stupid and unintelligent? Is he more interested in your body than your brain? Do you drive him under his shell because you irritate him? Does he open up to this girl because she’s more of his kind than you are? Was there something more between them than just friendship before he went to New York? Is he making fun of you behind your back?” Disturbing, haunting, humiliating ques- tions, all of them, which shake my faith in your loyalty, in what I thought was our fine and splendid partnership, and my hope and longing that the happy times we've had during our work together were making you less reticent and reserved. It may be that I’m making a mountain out of a mole-hill, manufacturing myself into an invalid because a thorn has scratched my finger. I may be doing you an injustice or be in an unhealthy frame of mind. But put it this way. How would you feel if Elliot were living nearby and made himself my shadow, a man who is in love and wanted to marry me, when, suddenly thrown with you, he began to comment on private things that you had said to me, quoting you so accurately that only I could have confided them to him? Not only that but suppose his constant in- nuendos and mysterious h‘nts. unfinished sentences and memories cut in half, left behind them the rankling suggestion of a deeper sympathy, a closer understanding between himself and me than you were aware, most bitterly, had existed between me and you? What would you do, Jack? Face me up and have it out, strangle it before it became a monster. or pooh-pooh the thing and treat it as a joke? Would you? But the difference between us is so great in the way of tempera- ment and tradition, atmosphere and upbring- ing, that if you put me through it I should answer, without the slichtest reserve. Whercas if I as much as attempted to rattle your private door you'd instantly turn the kcy upon me and leave me stultified Is it shy- ness? Is it self-consciousness? Is it a sort of pride? When you were very young, or during the war perhaps, did you throw down your fourth wall to some one you trusted who went horribly back on you? Oh, Jack, I don’t understand it, I’m a frightfully worried girl. It’s almost worse than being jealous, thoush that’s an agonizing pain, to be sore and hipped and uneasy with a na‘l through my pride. Or, is the right word vanity? Yes, it is. T HAS done a certa'n amount of good though and relieved my congestion of thought just to put these things down on paper, although they may never be read. Confession is good for the soul, but it is certainly all the better when the priest is not deaf in both ears. And now I must revert, unwillingly, to Ronny Ormskirk, who has an ominous kneck of cropping up in these letters whcn thcre’s anything wrong between us. He scnt me a letter by special messenger the morning after the féte which put me out of my misery as to whether you and he had met. I am thankful to say that he wrote like a gentleman, though in the uncertain handwriting of a schoolboy or a jockey—one line at one angle and the next at another, like the telephone poles in France that one sees in picture post-cards, so I'll be fair and copy it here: “My dear Daffodil: I don’t know who brought down that bludgeon on my fumey head, but if you do thank him from me. The blighter nearly brained me, and another ounce of weight would have necessitated trepanning, but if he never does arything else in his life he did a good thing then. I can only say to you in the feeblest extenuation of my un- forgivable behavior, and with the humblest apologies, that I love you and was drunk. Very drunk and in love as I have never been before. “You pulled my leg that very precious day on the river because I babble like the shallowest kind of brook. Do I? Well, I suppose I do. J want to be happy, but / can’t be happy, unless I make ’em all happy too-00-oo—your favorite song, eh what?—or something to that effect. “But in spite of my flow of words which struck you as being so vapid I was without one that could in any way describe my sensations when I brought back the cham- pagne and found an empty flat. I’m still without them, though you may be interested to know that I found others sufficiently useful to break off something that I didn’t think you’d like. Never mind what it was, but my reaction, to use the latest word, was respect, agreement with the drastic lesson you gave me, and a desire to clean upa bit. I give you my word as tothat. It was ruthless and far from generous but I did it on the spur oi the moment, thinking hard about you. “T don’t know. I suppose everything has gone too easy. I mean a doting mother, lots

of money, a facility at games, a too goog looking father, and all that. A swollen heaq comes on early, like mumps. No one during the whole of my life has reduced its size a you did—except, of course, the’ man wh» came out of the bush. It had been consider. ably smaller before that! “T rang you up half a dozen times the ney day to ask you to forgive my boorishness, by you had obviously given orders that yoy were out to me. I continued to ring hating to write letters, until you left town, You maintained your strategic position wel out of my ranve. I moped about, despep. ately in love with you, hating myself and the whole show. “Then I grew morbid for lack of exercise and took to doing a thing I’ve never don before, because it’s bad for one’s wind, | mean I tippled. I saw your photograph looking the darling that you are, in the Deily Graphic giving the prizes to the Constab. ulary of your parts, read about the revival of the old custom of holding the three-day business at Icknield-over-Cross, and on the last night, after buckets of brandy, motored down. I couldn’t keep away. “Beginning with a fracas at the gates with the local bobby, I was in a low and vile mood when I paid my shill'ng, and when I saw yoy dancing with those rustics and finally, looking so confoundedly happy, with your husband— oh, I don’t know, I snapped “You know what followed better far thay I do, except what happened when I woke w in my car. I was perfectly sober then and, having pieced things together, drove hom with blood all down my neck and the deepey sense of self-disgust in what I suppose is my soul. And the first thing I am doing this morning, on my knees, Daffodil dear, is tp write this feeble letter to tell you how I fed I’ve already said I love you and to prove hoy true it is I swear on my honor as a—as om who ought to be a gentleman, that I wont let you know I’m alive until you let me knop that Iam _ Ronald Ormskirk ” REPLIED to this, of course—it deserve an instant answer—and said that nothing of the sort would have happened if I hadnt been a fool. I said that I forgave him, asked him to forgive me, and accepted his word that he would not come anywhere near me until I sent an SOS. I made no mention d Sheila Carrick or her hold-up. I'm perfectly willing to pay for my mistakes. Poor soul, she has to live. And so, greatly relieved on that score, I hope that I may never see him again If I do—and this I swear—it will k only because of you and this subtle woman and a gencral break-up of everything that’s good. It was thoughtful of you to have suggested a house-party over the week-end—the first since I’ve been here. { iumped at it because I hoped it would prevent the _ inevitable Evclyn Parke from floating over like one of the loose clouds of a cyclonic disturbance, and it did. I’m glad to say. Hugo “rots” and she hates that, Nicolas avoids her like the plague, and she had never met the other people, and so she remained in lofty dudgeon with all the Sitwell poems. Serves her right. Also, because you had still to be away all day and even when you returned I knew you must hurry to your room after dinner and dig in behind the barbed wire of your work. And as I was running on very little gasoline I looked to Hugo and Nicolas to tow me up my hill of depression. They certainly did their best, but for some reason or other the rope kept breaking and I didn’t make it onee. Moira Starkley and Joan Burlington, who had always been on the top of their form when I was with them in London, were terribly tired and stale. The season had worn them to rags. Both of them spent the whole d Saturday and Sunday lying in bathing clothes on blankets on the terrace. They called it the radium cure and had their meals takes out to them and asked to be left alone. To talk was against the rules and to listen vey harmful. So there they lay, half the timeo their backs and half the time on their tummies scantily one-pieced, and very good to look at COULD see that Marshall considered that the world was coming to an end, tl he took out their meals himself. They had nothing to eat but ice-cream and m¥ tomatoes. I hoped for better things of Portsay, who sparkled that day at Ram and other times, and who has what they all in Chicago such a good mind, but she brought down ‘“‘The Painted Veil” with be and so was held to a hammock during t whole of the time in one long series of gas She is one of those conscientious, masticatig readers, and when she simply had to leave the book for meals she was so warped, she s by Somerset Maugham’s “poisonous vie® about women” that she hadn’t the heart ® talk. The only time she found her tongit was in the hall on Monday morning when, her husband pushing about chairs and hitta (Continued on page 136)

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Hugo and Nicolas played tennis all the time, and when I saw the it I spoilt their game I umpired for a little and then wandered into the beech forest to think my miserable thoughts. had tea with Mr. Pickering on Saturday discussing soils, and later went up to see the poor boy in his sun box, whose cough was very much worse. The look of him frightened me. On Saturday and Sunday nights after dinner, at which the two girls didn’t appear— they dragged themselves to bed with the dis- eo of the sun—Hugo, Nicolas, and I had a shot at three-handed bridge, a dreary game at best, after which the two boys devoted themselves to piquet and I wandered in to watch the billiards. But Colonel Mortock seemed ill at ease with a woman in the room, being, as he said, ‘‘a master of expletives,” and so after peeking at you behind your barricade of papers, I turned it up and sobbed myself to sleep. ACK, I don’t know whether this is a typical example of an English country house- party, but if it is I don’t want any more. Hugo had tipped me off about not arranging a schedule as we do—I mean they do, so hecti- cally on Long Island and other American places—but it seems to me that if this is the way it is done here one might just as well keep a free pub. By a most uncomfortable accident—I had been sleeping badly and was on my way to the rose garden on Monday morning an hour and a half before breakfast—I met Hugo coming out of Moira Starkley’s room. He was cool and casual about it. not a bit like a man who'd been caught, and, going off at an easy tangent, begged me not to forget to ask him at breakfast what he thought about Birkenhead’s effusion in one of the Sunday papers, “‘written, as usual, in the pompous language of the auctioneer.” He had read it late last night and had several bright com- ments to make. Whereupon, with a purely brother-in-law handshake, he tightened the rope of a rainbow dressing-gown, and ambled off to the bath. . . . Phew! I had been aware of that happening in other people’s houses, but it came as a shock in my own. He drove her up to town. Nicolas and Joan went off with the Portsays to hear of nothing but “The Painted Veil,” poor things, and before you hurried off with Colonel Mortock I tried to tell you something of all that was weighing me down. You were “beastly sick” at having seen so little of me, but were quite sure that I had had a topping time, said that things were in such a ghastly mess that you’ve have to sleep in town, held me tight and kissed me, yelled out, “Get in, Morty,” and went off like the wind. And so there I was, alone. WasI? Yes, because at the first sound of the inevitable Pre- raphaelite humming, I snatched up my letters and the Morning Post, made for the servants’ quarters in a panic, rushed out into the kitchen garden, and sat with my back to the peaches. If I had been surrounded by that awful Parke just then I must have murdered her horribly. I HEARD again from Mamma. It was all according to the dip I was in that her postscript should be, although she didn’t know it, the absolute back-breaking straw. Her condition continued to show improve- ment. Of that there was no doubt. Sleep dreamless, body without pain, digestion never better, brain completely at rest. She had been renewing her acquaintance with Jane \ustin—so refreshing, my dear. Dipping, too, into George Meredith, but very sparingly. To tell the truth, she always avoided the irritation of mazes. Then, too, his quite impertinent caricatures “of us”’ reminded her of Max Beerbohm’s. The weather had been remarkable. She couldn’t remember so persistent and beneficent a sun since the year 1911, when the Bishops, always so interested in farming, had actually prayed for rain. She was so happy to have had my letter yang with many graphic touches, ‘you have a most fluent pen’’) the del.ght- ful success of the féte days, held once more in the Park. In spirit she had been moving among her dear people and watching all the events. Yes, the cottagers’ wives had, as no one knew better, a magical touch with flowers. She wished that I had given her a catalogue of all that “the Bulstrode” had on. “On such occasions she was as comically interest- ing as a Brompton Road antique shop.” \nd now, as she really must obey orders and not exhaust herself, “I'll end, dear child, with love. Be kind to poor Evelyn Parke. She's a very dear friend of Jack’s. P.S. Cynthia, though reluctant to leave the Island, could not again refuse the pressing invitation of g school friend, the daughter of a wealthy Basque whose name I cannot spell, and so has this morning, with an easier mind on my account, gone to St. Jean de Luz to the fz umily villa there. Bang poor old Cynthia! What js the matter with life? Oh, Jack, I wish that we'd been able to do something to prevent this. With all my heart I do. Cynthia js such a darling and is so close to us. Where and how willit end? I see that Lord Reading has just gone back to India, which means either that her man has got an extension of leave or has resigned from his job. Or maybe he has had the luck to be appointed to another, on the staff of some one here. She hasn’t written to me, though I think she might have done. In any case, poor dear, she’s thrown her bonnet over the mill for the sake of a brief Paradise, and who can blame her for that? Meantime, I suppose, the very religious wife, who considers divorce jm- moral, is continuing to indulge her anemic passions with epigrammatists. It’s very, very hard luck, and oh, how frightfully stupid. What cruelty is done in the name of religion even in these skeptical times! Paradoxically enough, although I come from a country that seals up the lids of so many garbage cans in the belief that they empty themselves, I’m all for divorce. It should be made more easy, not more difficult, and marriage not a thing that any one can achieve for a couple of dollar bills. If two people get on each other’s nerves and take the sun out of the sky they ought to be able to get their freedom, not from Court, with all its disgust- ing requirements, but from any old notary public for the payment of twenty-five cents, goes UT what has given my heart another and profounder ache is something that I can hardly see to put down here for the tears that blur my sight. To-night, about ten o'clock, Marshall came into the library and said that the doctor had called. I had been dozing for hours in that high dim room, half buried in the past. The word doctor snatched me back to the present and of course I thought of you. You must have had an accident, a smash-up. My imagination ran amuck and I could see you bleeding and limp in a ditch somewhere on the road. I thought that some one had telephoned to the doctor to break this horror to me. I ran out and found him standing gravely in the hall. “No, no, no,” he said, before I could speak, “it has nothing to do with him. I’ve come in about that poor lad Nugent.” (Phil Nugent, the boy with the cough.) “Oh, what about him, Doctor?” “My dear young lady, I'm afraid it’s all UP.” “But he... he Saturday afternoon.” “Then he lied to you, my dear. I didn't want to disturb you over the week-end, but as a matter of fact he sent for me last Monday, the Monday after the féte. The excitement, or more probably some sudden exertion—he simply refused to explain—had brought ona hemorrhage, the worst he’s ever had. I didn’t like the look of him and I had to tell him so. But you know that boy, his courage and optimism, his faith in the sun and your said he felt better on hut? He scoffed at the idea of hospital. How about his cat and the bird? It was nothing. He had had ‘em before. He'd be on his feet, better than ever, if I would ‘give him a patch.’ But [ didn’t like the look of him and I’ve been up every day, often twice. I pretended to take him on a new walk that I had found. He knows my belief in walking for a man at my time of life. Well, I’ve just come back from his hut—run back, to be exact. And if you want to give him a kind word before he goes you must run, my dear. I'll follow as fast as I can. It’s a frightful tug up the hill.”’ And I did run as hard as I could. I flew across the lawn and along the pitch dark alley in which the Ormskirk affair took place, to the gate in the wall. It was locked, and in his fussy vigilance old Muggleford had taken the key. But it led out to the short cut up the hill and saved going all the way round and so I scrambled over the wall and took the hill with my chin almost touching my knees. All the time I could see the light in his sun box that was perched on top of the hill like a lighthouse on a rock, and when at last I reached it and stood outside for @ moment in order to recover my breath there was no sound of the dreadful coughing - had grown to know so well. Oh, God, I too late? No. He was lying in bed . one elbow, as white as a sheet, most terribly thin and breathing in short quick gasp Ihe cat was curled up at his feet and blackbird perched on the rail at the back of his bed. “Oh, Phil, my dear,”’ my knees at his side (Continued on page 138) I said, and went

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LONDON 5 } } HARPER’S BAZAR UNDELIVERED LETTERS Cosmo Hamilton’s New Novel (Continued from page 136) And he smiled and said, “This is death .. . Well, now I shall know what life means. The puzzle will be explained. I’m sorry, because I love life and wanted to make the most of it and do something decent fer you. Will you give me a keepsake to take over the bridge?” I knew what he meant and kissed him, and he gave a great sigh and put his head on my shoulder like a little boy with his mother. I felt like a mother A wave or maternal tenderness flooded my heart His voice went very high and thin and he tried to laugh. ‘No grumbles,” he said, “Kath, my dearest little friend. Take the ups and the downs as they come and carry on. Don’t you think? It’s all an ap- | prenticeship, a try-out for other and better | things. Do you mind looking after my invalids when they take my cage away?” “No, no,” I said. “No, of course not.’ “That’s awfully sporting,” he said. “You are the best of sports. How will you know when I pop in to see how you’re getting on? You'll never hear my cough any more.” And he laughed, with a sort of triumph, and was gone. And when I laid him down the cat was still sleeping and the bird still perched on the rail over his head. Oh, Jacko, Jacko, it was because of me and my folly and you and the wound you gave me and our mutual selfishness, that that poor boy had taken an earlier journey to something “better” than life. But is there anything better than life when it’s lived with love and understanding? KaTH. SS> ty * ~ ¥ I cknield-over-Cross, 20th July. EAREST JACK: I rang you up three times between six and seven this evening, finally catching you when you had dashed into Wycombe House for a hasty dinner, because I can’t go on any longer without having it out with you. You promised to sleep here to-morrow night whatever hap- pens, but cut short my attempt to tell you how serious things have become by saying that “they have indeed”—obviously not conceiving the possibility of my having troubles to bear—and then went on to give me a short account of the new and graver crisis that has been brought about by the attitudes of the leaders of the coal-miners in the face of all attempts at a settlement. The quarrel is not over a meatless bone, you said, as some people seem to think, and it really has very little to do with coal. The truth is that the extremist leaders of the Trade Union Congress have seized upon this moment of the collapse of our coal trade, which has been brought about by the cut- rate prices of other countries eager to take full advantage of our too expensive output, to order trades unions in no way concerned in the miners’ disputes to declare war upon the country. Four or five men, obviously paid by the Moscow Soviets, are treating British labor as though it were composed of Russian serfs, you said, and are planning to paralyze every industry in the country under orders from Moscow. For a combination of trade unions not immediately concerned in this dispute to engineer a joint attack on the life of the nation is not an industrial affair at all but a revolutionary movement, and that’s why you're concerned. You have been brought into conferences with the unhappy Mr. Baldwin, you said, because you had helped to organize the reserves of the Crown in a former crisis and may be called upon again. You doubt this because the Govern- ment doesn't trust the country and you believe that Mr. Baldwin will sell himself to the extremists for the sake of a temporary peace with the money of the ratepayer, and put one more gold nail into the coffin of law and order. I had nothing more to say. All the same the gravity of the situation in ? | which England has been placed—or has placed herselfi—doesn’t, quaint as it may appear to you, nullify in any way the gravity of the position of the poor little devil you brought to England as your wife. THINGs have become much too difficult here for me to bear in silence any longer. There has got to be what father calls a “ show-down,” Jack. I have borne with your steady and stultifying aversion to personalities, pleasant and unpleasant, as long as I can. All along it has been lying in one side of the scale, but up till now the other has been weighed down by love and admi- ration and my eagerness to conform. I have taken out the desire for human intercourse that belongs to every American—by which such people as Lady Emily, Evelyn Parke, and other scoffers think is meant meaningless laughter and back-chat, herding noisily in bunches and gossip over the actual and metaphorical back-yard fence, but which really stands for expressed affection and companionship, warm: hospitality and sym- pathy—in writing these letters, in telling you everything I have in my mind in what is, at the very best, a merely second-hand way. | began by making them a safety-valve and they have remained so ever since. If J nadn’t started and continued writing them [ think I should have burst. I am sure that I must have developed either into a headache fiend or lost the power of speech. But they no longer do the trick and when you come down to-morrow night I must talk you out of your shell. You must cease to be the lover, Jack, and become the husband, the friend, the human being. But before I tell you what has happened to bring this to a head I must go back to certain other things in their order as they came. Whatever is good in me comes from father, and among the points of his character that I’ve inherited is a tidy mind. T ABOUT three o'clock on Monday afternoon, when I had managed, by Riffianly tactics, to give the slip to Evelyn Parke—I mean I picnicked with the boys at the Dower House and told them to say when she nosed me out there, as, of course, she did, that I had gone home to bed with a headache while I hid among the reeking paint pots ina cellar—Pamela rang up from London. She, like Cynthia, was thinking about herself by way of a change and had cut herself tempo- rarily from Mamma’s apron strings, “she was really as fit as a fiddle’’—to tackle her own problem in the pathetic search of happi- ness that every woman makes, having, recklessly speaking, nothing else to do. She had had an urgent letter from Edmund Dorking, the man to whom she’s engaged, asking her to meet him to discuss his latest plan. She wanted to know if she might bring him down to dinner—‘you're gs practical, old thing, and I’m jolly sure can advise us”—and, if it were quite convenient, stay the night. I said “yes,” of course, not only because I was frightfully lonely and glad to see any one, except Evelyn, but also because I’m very fond of Pamela and would move a full-sized mountain if it would help her to run straight. I was all the more anxious for that because of Cynthia’s collapse and my nasty tangent with Ronny Ormskirk for which I had paid so dearly, with that poor boy on the hill. He is to be buried to-morrow in the churchyard down below. Captain Dorking borrowed a Citroén from some one and arrived in time for tea, You don’t know him, do you? But J did, in the first ten minutes, although I had never seen him before. He’s very tall and simple, unsmart, and, unlike so many Englishmen, has never bothered to cultivate a pose. He's neither Oxford nor Army. * He isn’t literary or sporting. You can’t immediately put him under any heading, except obviously that of “good sort.” He doesn’t talk with an accent or try to “place”’ his voice. He gives you a warm handgrip, is instantly at home, laughs because he has to and not because he thinks he ought, and is as natural and friendly as a dog—whose pedigree isn't flaunted in one’s face. His mouth is large and his nose isn’t straight, his ears catch the eye, and you can see that when he has his hair cut it’s just a cut. His collar is a little frayed on one side, a button is off one of his cuffs—always, I should think—and his clothes haven't been made’by a tailor but bya wholesale firm. But in spite of all he is thoroughbred with- out any argument and better than good- looking because he has trustable eyes and cheerfulness, and the sort of steady reliable spirit that burns like a li_ht on a rock. IfI were a sculptor I would make him stand for the figure of the Unknown Soldier. or if I were an artist I would use him as my model for the Pied Piper, leading tired and work- worn humanity from the slums. I wasn't 4 bit surprised when Pamela told me that his father was a doctor who had died making experiments with inoculations for the pre vention of one of the frightful epidemic among the people of India. Pamela adores him, it was very plain to see, and he adores her and makes no bones about it. If ever a marriage stands a chance of being made in Heaven here it is. I didn’t have to egg him into speaking. He waited until he had put away three cups of tea and a plate of extra crumpets, then led the way to the nearest herbaceous border, beamed upon it, turned to me as if he had known me all his li’e, and came straigh up to the point. It turned out that his latest plan, a brain wave, was to emigrate to Canada, buy some earth with the money that he had saved, run up a shack, make @ clearing “or whatever it is,” and at the end of a year, by which time everything would be going strong, send for Pamela, marry her i@ Quebec and settle on his farm. And whet she chipped in and said: “ You see, Kath, its less comic somehow for Captain and Li Pamela Dorking to rough it in a log hut m4 (Continued on page 140)

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(Continued from page 138) new country than in a tinpot villa in Croydon or .a_ hole-in-a-wall in Hammersmith,” thought of what Hugo had said and his sordid idea that Mamma should take the girls to Montreal and spread a thick layer of matrimonial birdlime on the transplanted family tree. The disconcerting and generally unpopular réle of the practical person invariably carries with it a very wet blanket which puts out mistaken enthusiasms as effectively as fire. Well, they had cast me to play that part, and having been in Canada over and over again I played it for all I was worth. But first I found out that Captain Dorking had never farmed in his life. He had gone from Harrow to Oxford and from Oxford, during his third year, into the Army as soon as the war broke out. He had joined up as a Tommy in a line regiment, been given a commission for gallantry in the field—the only field he knew anything about—and transferred to the R.F.A. e only job he could get after the Armis- tice, and that simply because his uncle was a director of the line, was a clerkship in the Cunard office where he had acquired a great reputation by capturing new rich Americans to sail on their smaller ships when the giants were all full up. He did so by convincing them that the smaller ships had become much smarter now owing to the fact that they were patronized only by the most exclusive American families and European nobility. In addition to his being able to prove the truth of this they loved to hear him laugh. HEN I discovered that Pamela had never lived farther away from the nearest town than forty miles and never from one that merely consisted of a one-story bank and a general store, where the thermometer is well below zero all the winter, before I killed the scheme. I drew an uncolored picture of very stern hardships, a cruel climate, the penalties of being green and soft, dreary evenings, no companionship, domestic work that would quickly take the bloom off Pamela’s cheek, a tragic struggle single- handed, that would put a crick in Edmund’s city back, children who must add to both their burdens and somehow scramble up, and showed them terribly plainly, that they could make a better living in their own surroundings by growing mushrooms for the London hotels in the Dower House cellars. I might just as well have used a hand grenade. Poor dears, they nearly wept. The only chance they saw of getting married had gone round the corner as black as a hearse. But having seen them together and taken as great a liking for Edmund as I had for Pamela, I was determined to play fairy god- mother before they left in the morning. It’s the easiest act in the world with other people’s money! So I put on my thinking cap. Ina recent letter from father—dictated and typed of course—he had told me of having been persuaded into buying up the patent for dry cleaning clothes at home. He said that it was very cheap and easy, that he had called it ‘Goodasnu,” and that it was bound to be a big winner as soon as he had started to push. “It’s one of my numerous side shows and I fear it will make another pile for your mother to hurl away.” Ts post-office closes at eight. At quarter to eight I sent off a man on a bicycle with a cable which ran as follows: “Dearest Dad cable me money and instruc- tions open office London Goodasnu stop have found only man in England to put it in every home stop his trustworthiness enthusiasm and winning smile worth thousand pounds a year and commission as beginning stop I will bet my life on that stop load up ship right away stop I love you Kath.” I just had time to read it aloud before I sent it off and you would have thought that instead of entertaining two happy people at dinner I had a school treat there. We spent a riotous evening, wrote a letter of resignation to the Cunard Line, hunted through the list of offices and flats, furnished both on paper, engaged a mythical army of drummers, decided on a day for the wedding and laughed like children every time that Edmund wound up all his sentences with “stop.”’ The load on my shoulders felt very light that night. They drove away in the morning before the dew was dry so that Edmund might arrive in Cockspur Street to punch the clock in time. But before they left, showing definite signs of cold feet, they came into my room. I asked them what was wrong and Pamela said, “Do you really believe that your father will do such a wonderful thing merely because you ask him?” To which I replied, as soon as I had re- covered from the biggest laugh I had ever enjoyed in England, “My dear old Pam and Edmund, I am the only daughter of a hundred per cent. American father and so what I say goes, you see.’’ The end of it was that they drove away in such a blaze of

HARPER’S BAZAR UNDELIVERED LETTERS Cosmo Hamilton’s New Novel < renewed joy that they made a moving white spot on the sky. I had no black frock to wear at my poor boy’s funeral, but I don’t think he minded that, and somehow if I had had one I shouldn't have worn it for him. Death, where is thy sting, when you alone cure our coughing fits and give new life? As he had no living relative in England I followed the coffin as his dearest friend, with that good kind doctor of ours. It was carried all down the hill to the church in Queen’s Risborough by six of the village men, and every child old enough to walk carried flowers in the little procession, It was a lovely morning with a cloudless sky, and a most beneficent sun. As we wended our way down with the old white cross behind us the doctor said, “How bravely that boy bore his cross! What a lesson he taught us!” HE scents of the hedges and wild flowers seemed sweeter than ever that day and the larks rose up with their throbbing songs like a choir as we went along. All the women who had stored up his kindly thoughts like rose leaves in a bowl attended the service and even Mr. Pickering’s outer stucco of hardness cracked when those words were read. And while we stood at the edge of the grave as the coffin was lowered, the shrill high voices of the children burst into ““Nearer, My God, to Thee.” All the horror and pain were absent. The shimmer of golden light, the vivid color of flowers on many graves, the calm stateliness of the yews with their gentle arms out- stretched, and even the tolling bell gave to this simple deed not grief but gladness. Phil Nugent had lost his cough, and although his hut would no longer make a beacon on the hill, no one who had ever known of his courage and his gayness would be able to glance up at the high spot without feeling his spirit about them with a sense of helpful- ness. I don’t have to tell you, dear old Phil, that your homesick cat and bird are with me. I took up my watch at the Dower House as soon as I got back. Everything there looks good. All the bad places in the roof have been mended and the chimneys patched, the bed- rooms have all been painted and papered and the two new bathrooms gleam. The stair- case looks really imposing. What delight- ful bannisters! But I don’t believe I told you of our discovery in the hall and lower rooms. It was most exciting, Jack. When we came to work on those we found that the farmer to whom your grandfather had let the house had put several coatings of wall- paper over the most charming powder wood paneling. I suppose he had found it cold. T WAS the boy with the falsetto who had cut a hole through this wad by way of ex- periment—he had worked in old houses before—and I need hardly tell you that I had every scrap of it off. Behold the result! All these rooms are now back to their original state, simply and beautifully paneled and sucking in layers of egg-shell white paint. You can’t think what this has made of the house. ‘The effect is exactly that of ridding a sweet old pauper lady of a printed linen dress and putting her back into the dress that she used to wear in youthful affluence. I’m too delighted for words. What a proper back- ground for all the old furniture I’ve bought from the Baronite! It is one of the thrills of my life. If anything will give Mamma a sense of fitness here, this is the thing that will do it, I feel sure. I was singing to the boys just after lunch— not very well, I’m afraid—when one of them came and told me that a Rolls-Royce was at the door. ‘Lady Sheila Carrick,” he said, “would like a word with you.” My heavy heart fell away down to my shoes. Had she come for further blackmail and being in need of cash gone back on her word? For a moment I felt too nervous and frightened to see her. I didn’t seem able to bear another kick in the face. But just as I was going to play the coward, tell the boy to say that I had left the house and that he didn’t know where I had gone, I heard a cool ‘“‘How de do” and felt like a mouse in a trap. It wasn’t because she was dressed more beautifully or wore a big pe on her finger that I had not seen before, but that her indefinable air of security and much less cynical smile gave me the courage to face her without shaking at the knees. I always know when I’m in a funk as you call it, by a pain through my solar plexus. To my amaze- ment it wasn’t there. “Quaint way of killing a fine afternoon,” she said as a mere statement, without sarcasm. “Is painting a hobby of yours?” In a burst of confidence that struck me as being strange under the circumstances, I told her what I was doing and why and took her over the house. She was quite sufficiently interested to praise the work and the speed with which it had been done, asked questions about prices, even, and was moved to amusement, if not to enthusiasm, at the paneling story and (Continued on page 142)

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HARPER’S BAZAR LETTERS New Novel (Continued from page 14°) then said finally, “Well, I’m hanged if I know of any other girl who would bother like this for a mother-in-law. Do you mind com- ing into the air?” What was the good of minding? She held the whip. O WE went out and walked round the garden, and while she made conventional remarks about the flowers and the old trees, stood startled at the view of the vale that one gets suddenly where the yew hedge stops, and looked me over curiously when she thought I wasn’t watching, I waited to be told the reason of her visit. I saw that some one had added to her collection of service stripes, three or four at I noticed a softer air about her. She seemed to have taken a cure, slept like a rational being, smoked less, and to be quite rid of her stale-eyed night-club look. She was many times more lovely, more delicately water color in the blue of her eyes and the cream of her skin than when she had come down before. Then she drew up at the gate and gazed at me with such an expression of friendship that I was as startled as she had been by the unexpected view. ‘‘Look here,” she said, “take this, will you, and when you go in, put it in the fire, if there is one, or tear it up, just as vou like.” She picked an envelop2 out of her bag and held it out to me. “What is it?” I asked, not dreaming what it could be. ‘“‘Henderson’s statement,” she said. “I’m able to retire from the blackmail game, and I thought you'd like to know.” I gasped, but had nothing to say “You see,” she went on, in that placid way of hers, ‘“‘my luck’s turned. A boy I knew when I was a kid has inherited his father’s business—whisky, a well-known brand. And although he knows my Ormskirk past he’s going to marry me. There are any number of men knocking about who deliberately marry notorious women because they need reflected glory. But this one is the rare exception. He’s marrying me for love. We're going to live in the country, hunt whenever it’s going, keep every domestic animal there is, and have a boy and giri.” Her cold eyes warmed and a little smile flickered round her lips. “The best of luck,’’ I said. “The best of luck to you. I hope we run across each other now and then.” “‘T hope we shall.”” We shook hands upon it, warmly. “Well, good-by, then. much.” “Thank you so very much. This is a great relief.” “Yes, of course it is.” She remained by the steps for a moment—not self-consciously or with hesitation, but because she was struck by a thought. “‘Oh, yes,” she said. “I knew there was something else. I’m doing my very best to forget Ronny. I hope you've done so already. Have you?” “Utterly,” I said. Once again I watched her into a car—the easy swing, the well set-up wide shoulders, the small head on the beautiful round neck, the boyish hips, the graceful ankles—but not to drive this time. Whisky, especially with prohibition in a thirsty country, pro- vided a smart chauffeur. Once again she saluted me with an upraised hand and I was left alone. I have not the slightest doubt about her having that boy and girl. And now I'll proceed to tell you why I rang you up—why I consider my crisis as grave as that of coal. Thanks so very ETURNING slowly home through the village—there was nothing to hurry for— I found Evelyn Parke in the hall. She was sitting floppily with her profile against the stained glass window, so that she appeared to have annexed the halo of your patron saint. Evidently she thought, as I did, that she looked like an Academy picture hung in the final ’eighties, the sort of thing I had seen a colored print of in the rectory. Her gown asI suppose she calls it, was arranged into thick fat creases and her hair was done in plaits, like an aureole, all around her head. Her feet were on the window seat and her long thin hands were clasped about her knees. The title that she had chosen for the picture was obviously “Agrevaine,’’ or “‘much too good for this earth.”’ All the same I noticed that she had ordered tea for herself and emptied a pot of honey. I suppose my “Hullo” was unenthusiastic. In fact, I meant it to be. And I know that my tips of fingers way of picking up her horrid handker- chief was calculated to annoy. Also I’m afraid that I intended her to see how I raised my eyebrows at her having ordered tea in my house as though it were a shop. In spite of which I was amazed and dumfounded at her violent storm of rage. Rising and towering above me, her gentle refined Preraphaelite-ism dropped with all its folds. She seemed to be thin and naked, modern and And then it all came out. She began by accusing me of the most dis. gusting rudeness. She said that my not having invited her up to the house for the week-end was a piece of vulgar and outrageous impertj- nence. She denounced me as “a common little American” for having dodged out of her way on every possible occasion, giving the servants the impression that she had no right to the run of the house. ‘Let me tell you once for all,”’ she screamed, “that you are the inter. loper here, not I.” She had had mercy on me hitherto, had treated me with great for. bearance for the sake of the general peace, but now that I had declared war and fought with dirty weapons she would show me that she could fight and ‘“‘was also the possessor of poisoned gas.” If it hadn't been for the dire necessity of marrying money she would have been your wife and there would have been some dignity in the place, even if it had existed behind half-closed rooms and “To Let” advertisements in Country Life. “Let me tell you that Jack loves me and has always loved me. We were engaged to be married before the war. I set him free jp order that he might go in search of American money. I sacrificed myself so that he might set his house in order. No one would know better than you, if you weren’t so conceited, that he loves me still and so far as happiness goes is a miserable broken man. Your body js not unattractive and an heir is needed, but you don’t speak the same language that he does and he leaves you whenever he can. That’s the truth and you know it! Everybody knows it. Would he find solace in work in the middle of a honeymoon, do you suppose, if he had been able to marry the woman he loved? You’re the laughing stock of the county with all your crudities, your songs to the Con- stabulary and your picnics with working men, your flirtation w:th that tubercular boy, and your behavior with Hugo in London. The whole countryside reeks with gossip and there’s not a dinner table in Buckinghamshire at which you’re not discussed as a joke. I have only to tell Jack of your treatment for you to be put in your place.” venomous, N AND on and on, with variations and graphic gestures, blazing eyes and a face the color of lard, with ridicule and hard short laughs, once or twice tears and hysterical shrillness. Again and again the most venom- ous words about money—* you think you can buy up the world ’’—but always back, from all her tangents, to your love for her and broken heart. ‘You don’t know him. You've never found him. He can’t speak to you. He hides himself from you behind utter word- lessness. Isn't that true? Isn’t it? Isn't it? The fact that he treats you as a woman only means that he’s a man. But you're a liar if you can stand there and tell me that you've ever felt like a wife.” But I’m not a liar and I had to stand there without one word to say. And when she took herself off, or rather “swept from the house,’’ as she will describe it to you, I still stood, chilled to the marrow, un- able to lie to myself. I was poisoned by her gas. Every word that she had flung at me epitomized my thoughts, brought them into solidity as the sand and lime and water at the Dower House becomes concrete when it’s mixed. I wish that I could have pulled myself together sufficiently well to have ordered her out of the house and shot something at her that would have made her squirm. But I couldn't. I was beaten. And so now there’s nothing for it but to wait for you, tell you everything, and hear what you have to say. I give you the benefit of the doubt before you answer because my mind is stored with many memories of the Aquitania, of Wycombe House, and the nest that looks down on the vale where I lay in your arms. But if only I could go to th’s window and hear the shake of the trains under Park Avenue, see all the lighted eyes in the apart ment houses in front of father’s room, have the absolute certainty that I was loved needed, respected and admired, that there was a man behind me, sitting there, who would listen to me and hide nothing when he spoke—just for a minute Kata. S Villa le Bocage, Suint Jean de Lus, Fram, Wednesday, August lh. EAR JACK: About this time last yeah when I was a still more ‘common American”? with mother at Southampto! mean the Southampton on Long Isl received a colored postcard of this place from one of my numerous school friends who triumphant knack of sending these enviable squares to those who remained at home. But it was her postcard of tm place with its wide blue bay and red (Continued on page 144)

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call ated ee —- COATS WRAPS gowns ““@ailleur to CMilady”’ GQ) AUTHORITATIVE SCTYLE CONCEPTION AUGMENTED WITH THE NEW AND. Con- DENIENT WRAPPY EFFECT we Naw (Bh York PB. “Weinstei ~ PARIS Fwenty West Fifty Sixth Street NEW YORK. ow | HARPER’S BAZAR UNDELIVERED LETTERS Cosmo Hamilton’s New Novel (Continued from page 142) white houses, with the Pyrenees cut like pieces of cardboard against a cloudless sky, more than any of the others, that made me put it down first in the list of those I longed to see. I have to thank you and Cynthia for the chance. I hadn’t given you up on Thursday night although you came so late. In fact it was a quarter to twelve. And when, just before dinner, some one rang up to say that you couldn’t possibly dine and so far as he could make out wouldn’t be able to leave London because “although old B. is going frightfully groggy he’s being urged to put up a fight,” I hung on your promise. You had said “ what- ever happens” and, although I don’t under- stand you, I know that you stick to your word. -I wasn’t alone until ten o’clock, however, because Hugo came in to tea on his way back from a nearby golf course and I persuaded him to keep me company at dinner. Although, as he said, “he had a detestation of fracas and turned away his head from all unseemliness,”’ he had been obliged to notice the hand of Trotsky round the Government’s throat and for the first time since he could remember would open the morning paper to see how much Baldwin had paid out of the public’s pocket in order to relax the grip. “He’s a weak and timid person and clings to the hope of being able to throw the onus of revolution on the shoulders of another Premier. A general strike would be a messy business though, and there would be no getting near Le Touquet where I’m due for a month with rather an amusing soul. Then, too, I’m certain that my man would join the rabble and choke me in my sleep.” N THE middle of dinner he faltered over an epigram, broke off in the middle of a sentence, said instead, “I had a little ecstatic note from Pamela this morning,” filled his glass, and rose. “Your Royal Highness, my Lord Duke, my Lords and Ladies, Ladies and Gentlemen,” he said, looking from one picture to another, “I have the great honor and the deep gratification of proposing the health and long continued happiness of the most gener- ous, the most sympathetic, and the most practical little lady who has ever reigned in our house.” I burst out crying and went blindly out of the room. I gave him time to finish dinner to the bitter end—as a matter of fact the savory was going to be very nice—bathed my eyes, powdered my nose, and flicked a comb through my hair—before I let him hear me on the terrace whistling “In Kentucky I sure was happy once.” He came out and took my arm and we walked up and down for an hour. Slow and melancholy processions of low black clouds were passing and the heavy rain had chilled the garden and made the flowers dank. But the starry faces of tobacco plants looked up at us and whole families of martins were playing before bed and screaming round the house. I ignored my sudden breakdown and played a cheerful part. So did he for a little while and I hoped that he had put it down to my having been moved and gratified by his un- expected praise. He was rather that kind, I thought. But I was wrong. He was worried and presently said so. He proved the astonish- ing fact that there were moments when he actually switched away from the absorbing consideration of the graceful Hugo to give a little thought to some one else for a change. He pressed me to tell him if anything was the matter, if anything had gone wrong in which he could help in any way. “T hope to God, my dear Daffodil, there isn’t a rift in the lute? What? Tell me, won’t you? Of course, old Jacko is a bit medieval, a trifle difficult to live with—not one-eyed as I am but utterly concentrated on what he considers to be his job. I mean a person with a stake in the country and that sort of thing. He always was a bit like that, and being one of the few men who took the war seriously and looked beyond it into a frightfully mismanaged peace has not been a very bright playfellow. I can well imagine that. In fact I look upon him with a mixture of admiration and ridicule as a modern Don Quixote without the comfort of a Sancho Panza, tilting at the windmills of Govern- ment inefficiency, well-organized communism and general Jaissez faire. Probably you find him a trifle inhuman, but after all, my child, no man ever sacrificed his pleasures on the altar of a cause without turning his wife into a tallow candle with which to light the thing. Do y’see?” WAS sorely tempted to take him into my confidence, to open up my flood-gates and ask him what to do. To use him as you’ve used Evelyn Parke, talk you over and back- bite, wallow in his sympathy and wear the martyr’s wreath. But—I don’t know. Somehow I couldn’t. I believe I told you before that I detest the wifely trick of parad- ing a husband in his underclothes before every prying eye. I’ve heard so much of jt and it has always made me sick. And so, like the much-abused Baldwin, I proce-ded tg dodge the issue and pretend to be perfectly pleased. He continued, not unwilling to take the floor again: “Daffodil dear, I ask you tg remember that you came across my brother at a most unrestful time. He went to New York on a mission. He came back to find every one howling for Economy, dead ¢. pecially against the spending of ill-spared money on armaments and such. To one who is obsessed with the notion that the future peace of the world depends on Britain as q hefty policeman you can see what he must have been through. Now comes this revoly. tionary movement in his own beloved coun. try, his horror at Government weakness and his undoubted feeling that she’s being handed over deliberately to the wreckers with all her glorious past. A man cannot be a husband as well as burning torch. If, as you say, there is nothing a little ragged at the elbow, as there might be very well, give him a chance, dear child. Wait till there’s a pause. Catch him at a moment when things look better, Coach him into laughter. Nurse him just a bit. Tempt him to play the giddy ox 4 little. Old Jack, you may take it from me, is the soundest fellow I know—and, moreover he’s deeply attached to you.” : He did his best, you see, and I was a hundred per cent. with him about your work, I’ve already established that. But could J agree as to your soundness on the top of Evelyn’s outburst? Could I believe in a deep attachment, other than to father’s money, when you were in love with another woman at the time you married me? Wouldn’t it have been sound to have told me of this and of your previous engagement, to have given me the chance either to have got out of it or gone through with it, taking the risk? I tho so, although I clung desperately to the hope that you would be able to show me that Evelyn was a victim of hallucinations ora sex complex and had manufactured herself into the angelic heroine of a Dellish novel, However, I tried to assume something of Hugo’s Chesterfield manner and thank him with a firm underlip for his brotherly concem, and shortly after he ‘tore himself away” and must have passed you on the road. He's a dear thing, very amusing, very good to look at and to be with, a shrewd and close ob server, with kind spots in his heart. But his self-indulgence is so colossal, his refusal to undertake responsibility so deep-rooted, his indolence and acceptance of anybody's bounty so frank and callous that, as he repre- sents the post-war type, no one can be sur- prised if the frightened Government regards him as being as great a danger to the country as the revolutionaries. He belongs to the growing army of what Nicolas calls “The Lollipops,’”’ men of good family who are poets and effeminates, stylists and onlookers and who are just as well-satisfied to live on a dole as their humbier brothers are. HEN he had gone, I told Marshall to order something for you to eat and have it ready in the dining-room. I felt certain that the last person to whom you had been paying any attention was yourself. I re minded Marshall of your liking for sandwiches because they’re not ‘‘such a fag” to eat ina hurry as things you have to cut for yourself. Then I went into the chapel for a little while and stayed there in the dark. Well, you arrived at a quarter to twelve and brought Colonel Mortock with you, and your reason for doing this, you said, was to discuss with him the reorganization immedi- ately of the amateur transport service which the Government had slacked inexcusably, and allowed to disintegrate. If they had been all ready to be called upon, and as efficient as before, Baldwin could have hummed another tune, you said. It was now a dead certainty that other trades would turn their machine guns on him and demand a subsidy so “there was precious little time to be lost.” You were humiliated and angry, I never dreamed that you could be so angry, you talked in short sharp sentences about having to set up a line of defense. You said that Mr. Baldwin ought to hand in his resignation, 9 that his place might be taken by a man who knew how to fight, or, if he clung to office in the face of his deplorable failure, be dit placed, as Generals were in the war their unfitness brought about disastets You couldn’t for the life of you see why the only people on earth who go from one hideous mistake to another without punishment af your pachydermatous political leaders. / while you talked, as much to Colonel Mortod as to me, you marched up and down the dining room eating those sandwiches. He ate, 1% as though he’d been starving for days. Iwi surprised to see that neither of you drank. I don’t suppose you remember the ull scorn in your retort when I asked you, as lis (Continued on page 145)

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for UNDELIVERED LETTERS Cosmo Hamilton’s SEPTEMBER 1926 New Novel (Continued from page 144) hostess, if Colonel Mortock would like a bed- room for the night. “Bedroom?” you said. ‘‘Good God, dear kid, Morty and I can’t think about bedrooms now. We shall be back on the road in ten minutes. There’s a conference going on in Arlington Street which I shouldn’t have left if | hadn’t given my promise to you. Some- body’s got to do something with Baldwin on his knees.” And then I suppose you must have seen the hole this made in me because you put your unsandwiched hand round my shoulder and gave me a hammy kiss. “I’m beastly sorry, young ’un,”’ you said. “I’m afraid you find it slow. But as one of the best little sportsmen I’ve ever met you'll play the game, of course. You'll see the papers to- morrow, so it’s no good my telling you now. It’s a case of a kiss, a sandwich, and a bolt. Here, Marshall, fill my pouch and put some matches in the car—ready, Morty?” Then you headed Colonel Mortock to the door, took me by the hand, led me with you to the steps, and while Marshall ran to the car with a jar of tobacco, like an excited hen, kissed me again. T WAS my last chance for a little egotism and I took it. “Don’t,” I said, and put up my hand to keep you off. I shall never forget the look of amazement that shot across your face. Your ‘Good Heavens, what’s the row?” showed how little you considered a mere wife, a mere honeymoon, the possibility of my having to set up a line of defense, of there being a crisis iv as well as outside your house, that almost made me laugh. As it was, speaking in telegram form as you had, I said, ‘‘ Evelyn Parke’s the row.” “Evelyn Parke? What in the name of—” “She loves you, she says.” “Oh, good Lord!” “And you love her, she says.” And I waited for you to cry out, “She’s a liar, a mischief-maker, the serpent in our Eden,""—swear words, ridicule, anything. If you had cursed me for a little fool, de- nounced me for my lack of faith, hit me even, I should have watched you leave me through tears of joy and cheered you on your way. But you didn’t. All you did was to give a gesture of huge impatience and shake your head as much as to say, “Oh, these women!” That was what made me grip you by the arm and cry out, “‘Are you sound? Are you? Are you?” And then Colonel Mortock called, and all you said was, “‘ Right, I’m coming,”’ and went, without answering me. I stayed down-stairs that night. The word bedroom raised as much scorn in me as it had raised in you. I pecked at the remaining sandwiches, said good-night to Marshall who was itching for a word, and then went out on the terrace and marched up and down. The blackness and indecision of the clouds which, with a fallen wind, were hardly moving now fitted my mood. Where was I? Where had you left me? What did you mean by letting me dangle from a rope like a solitary piece of washing? Did you dodge my ques- tio because you were ashamed or because you resented it? For an hour I went once more over every inch of well-trodden ground, blaming you, excusing you, doubting you, believing in you, repeating all that Hugo had said and all that Evelyn Parke had sreamed, admiring you, finding fault with you, hating you and loving you, bringing up on one side all my memories of your tender- ness and passion, ranging up on the other your silences, your reservations, your snail- like withdrawals—but remaining just exactly where I was. FINALLY I threw several logs on the fire in the library, collected some traveling rugs, drew a sofa into the range of warmth, took of my frock, and forced myself to sleep. I woke in the morning when my maid, with a perfectly expressionless face, brought in the inevitable cup of tea. I gave no explanation oimy eccentric behavior. It was all over the house by then, of course, by way of Marshall, that you had been down for ten minutes with Colonel Mortock, and as he had dramatized theevent, probably gone the whole hog while le was about it, and predicted the end of the world, it was natural that I should sleep on the ground floor in order to have less far to fall. lopened one of the papers and the head-lines echoed the words you had spoken while you ate. “Surrender to Violence. The Premier tands over the Government to the Reds. Intense uneasiness and dissatisfaction all over the Country. Lloyd George makes scathing mments. Labor triumphant.” I wondered how long your meeting had fone on, who had been there, what had happened, if all the members of the Chatham lub had been summoned from Vichy and Air-les-Bains, Cowes and all the golf clubs, ow the King felt, exactly what sort of lnguage Winston Churchill was using at the explosion of his budget, what the overtaxed middle-class were saying who would have to pay for the tune—why don’t they form a union?—and what sort of expressions there were at that moment on the faces of Welling- ton and Nelson, Pitt and Chatham, Salisbury and Queen Victoria as they looked down on London from their plinths. I don’t know why, but I was given twice my usual number of letters that morning. There must have been a hundred, I should think. It was in the ironic mood of things that all but two were begging letters from hospitals, clergymen’s widows, a society for providing artificial limbs to Our Heroes, an appeal for a hundred pounds from “an Ameri- can sister’ with which to produce her greatest play at the Everyman Theatre, a passionate demand for at least a thousand pounds from a body of Rhythmical women whose one object in life was to provide classical music to the criminal classes for the Higher Vibrationary Process, an “affectionate” request from the Columbia Women’s Club in London for a sum sufficient to enable them to commission a statue of the late Great Commoner for an honored place, and so on and so on. Pathetic, tragic, comic, and idiotic, an extraordinary reflection of the difficulty, the stupidity, and the queerness of these times. Of the others one was from a woman who wrote from Albu- querque and signed herself ‘Mrs. Barron W. Ramburgher”’ to tell me that she “was just going to go to Europe next year like all the others,” and asking me “to fix it so she should be presented to King Edward the same as them Vanderbilts.’”’ The other was from Cynthia. I T WAS a shocking but irresistible letter in which she told me that Colonel Shackle- ford’s sister, who had rented the villa to which he had taken her, ‘‘had been suddenly seized with an attack of conscience and is leaving for England the day after next. Having got a job in Egypt, Frank has only one more week to give me. -. Then—Mafische, the End. With Edith’s flight from this house of sin that precious week is busted, because Frank and I are sticklers for etiquette. I mean we demand a chaperone under the strict Edwardian rules. This place is full of visitors and a certain number are English and some of them know us! There mustn't be any gossip floating about which would inevitably drift to the Isle of Wight and have a damaging effect on Mamma. Dear old thing, can you find it in your kind heart to help us? I heard you say that you wanted to see this charming place and now that Jack is certain to be in armor, waving his two-handed sword, couldn’t you leave the lonely house for a little to be the first of the swallows to fly to the Sunny South? The bathing couldn’t be better, the golf, though you are obliged to drive off to the minute (which I detest) is excellent, and the sea that rushes in and goes bowling out sings an exhilarating song in which there’s a suggestion of the fandango. Spain, roughly. speaking, is only a ‘peoltari’s’ throw away. If you can, and will, buzz me a wire on receipt of this, telephone to Cook’s in Piccadilly to get you tickets for Tuesday, then catch the eleven o’clock express from Victoria arriving in Paris at 6.35, have dinner on your way to the Gare d’Orsay (Frank is all in favor of the Café Laparouse), catch the Train de Luxe Pyrénées-Céte-Basque at 8.15 and we will meet you at the station in the morning—I’m afraid at rather an un- earthly hour if it’s punctual, which it isn’t. We shall never be able to thank you if you'll do this for us, but I promise that we’ll prove our gratitude.” SENT the wire—wi-ah as I’m trying to call it—right away, got Cook’s on the telephone and was told that “‘everybody’s traveling but we'll do our best—will phone your Ladyship later,” and had my bath. Later meant twelve o’clock—‘‘have had the luck to get you all you want except cabin on boat deck, very sorry’—when I proceeded immedi- ately, and far too soon, to pack. Far too soon, because never in my life had I been so eager to rush away from any house as the house of Evelyn Parke. I knew that I could rely on my Admiral Crichton of a chauffeur to find Victoria Station for me and put me on the train—he’s a charming person who is a tower of strength on the Queen’s Risborough cricket team, I hear, and has made his sitting-room in Mrs. Podger’s cottage the wonder of the village—but as I wanted a private message to be delivered to you I phoned to Nicolas to meet me at Paddington. At first I thought of asking Hugo, but I had a feeling that he would raise a finger, put his head on one side and say, “Ah-h, there is a rift then,” and I’m not very keen on humble pie. In order not to allow myself any more opportunities for going over this thing than I could help— and over and over—I worked at the Dower House until five o’clock. It was a wet and miserable day, horribly cold and (Continued on page 140) | 145 MANON LESCAUT Face. 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I shall never forget the way in which I killed the evening—and I think that killing time is one of the worst forms of murder—because every detail of every long and lonely hour stamped itself on my brain. I went through something of the same experience once before, during the holidays two years ago. Mother and I were spending the summer at Bar Harbor and I suspected from what father had hinted in one of his letters that he was very ill. It might be appendicitis or ‘something worse.” But as mother was making a fool of herself with a simpering dance hound that year she pre- ferred to believe that it was only an attack of indigestion and wouldn’t go to New York. In any case she considered that to be ill or temporarily incapable of working was a bad case of self-indulgence on the part of the man who earned the money that she should spend, and so I went alone. The journey was a long one, half one afternoon and all one night, and there I sat, mewed up in the awful train, driving it mentally, impatient of every stop, my brain unwinding pictures of an operating table and a death-bed over which passed stretches of deserted country, telegraph poles, advertisement boards, railroad cross- ings, wooden shacks and small towns, people’s faces in the restaurant car, the bedding and drying clothes in all the windows of the slums of New York, and the backs of every book in father’s room in which I waited for an hour while he was being examined by several doctors. You must have had many such hours during all those years of war. Is it queer of me to see any similarity between these two evenings, do you think? I don’t, because I felt that there were all the symptoms of a grave illness in our relations, and I was waiting for the verdict as to whether our love was going to live or die. T WAS like dear old Nicolas to be punctual. It was he, in fact, who opened the door of my carriage helped me on to the platform, and collected a porter for my baggage and captured a taxicab. If he never had a play accepted and the British Soviet were to pinch his nest egg he would go to France, he said, not laugh- ing with his eyes, and be a concierge. I have never stayed in a Continental hotel, so the point was lost on me. It was while we were driving across London and after he had told me his news, or rather the lack of it, and the latest playwright gossip, which was that the man he admired, Lord Cromer, had very wisely banned the produc- tion of “Desire under the Elms’’—a nasty, perverted, and horribly tiresome piece, I thought, when I saw it in New York—that I gave him that message to you. I asked him to find you during the day and say this without any comments: “Kath wants me to tell you that she has gone to join Cynthia at St. Jean de Luz and that she intends to remain there until you send or bring an answer to her question. Her address is Villa le Bocage.”’ The question was “Are you sound?” as knew that you would remember. For one instant, I thought I was going to be disappointed in Nicolas, that he was going to xth hole of Mr. T. Suffern ’ at Newport, which is said one shot hole in the world. ED LETTERS do what Hugo did, put me through a cro examination and give me good advice. But my judgment of his character was the right one, and after darting a quick and anxioy look at me he simply said, “Right you ar Kath,” talked about other things until » arrived at the station, and then dashed of to get me some French money and a pile magazines. The train was crowded, and so, of course, was that footling little steamer on which yoy probably made far too infrequent crossing during the war, but quite enough to knoy when the sea is rough, the horrible hour it gives. Wedged in between an Englishmy with a pipe and an American woman with children who were utterly indifferent tp every one else’s comfort, and surrounded by the sort of people who had never achieved the moral strength of putting mind ove matter I endured the longest and most mw hygienic sixty minutes of my life. I think] shall fly next time. OR the rest of the journey, which was new and amusing, during which I wrenched ny- self into forgetting the pain and humiliationgd running away from a place that had suddenly ceased to be home, I was adopted by two Or ford men in mustard-colored “bags” who were going to Biarritz. They were vey thoughtful and cheery, and knew Hup slightly, whom they both resembled as closely as artificial pearls. They looked after me like a pair of exemplary mothers, took me to the Café La Perouse which overlooked the Seine and all those funny little bookstalls on the embankment, anticipated all my wants with feminine but not effeminate intuition and what’s more, spoke French which one of them described and explained as being “atte bow.” That it wasn’t was proved by the effective fluency with which they dealt with the scattered but irritable official who was in charge of the places on the train. They be rated him in what they called the scrapings of Montmartre. It was as effective as a burt of Irish on a New York traffic cop. They toli me that they looked forward to being Git L bertian gentlemen for one more year, ani after that, as the only means which the future offered of earning a good living, they wer going to join the Socialist party and become ] Trades Union leaders. “‘ We've got the gab, we need the graft, and we can learn to advertise.” 1 After leaving Bordeaux in the early hours of the morning the train dawdled through t many forests of fir trees, each one with tw little cups where their bark had been slashed ¢ away, passed a zigzag procession of sted erections which looked like children’> & ] aggerated toys and arrived in a new and lovely world nearly two hours late. By that time you had had my message and I hoped that you would have found a moment in you obsession of tilting at windmills to send m your answer._by telegram. “Yes,” that om good word would have sent me rushing back But there was nothing—nothing at all. % here I shall stay until I hear from you, do what I can for Cynthia. 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He sat down just where you are at this minute and began.” She acted the scene—another of her accom- plishments—perfectly. ““*Signora Panoria, I am come with a proposal.’ “““Ves, Napoleon. For an excursion to Fontainebleau? Laurette will be charmed.’ “The poor Napoleon was dashed. “*Pray, Signora Panoria, let me speak. No, something much more serious. Here is my family settled in France, and here’s yours. Well, we are all Corsicans. One can never really be at home with these French. I detest them more every day I live! Look at their idiotic behavior in this Revolution of theirs: Why, a whiff of grape-shot would have blown the whole thing to blazes at the beginning, and saved the monarchy. Saved the country, too, from being the laughing-stock of Europe. But no one had the sense!’ “*True enough!’ I said. ‘If only they had stuck to the Constitution of 1793 the horrors might have been spared and France respected still as a constitutional monarchy. But the proposal? Do you mean to stand for the Convention with my support? We are coming up in the world indeed!’ “*Signora Panoria, do be serious. No. I expect I shall soon be rising to some sort of standing in the world. I have my eye on a position now where I can get places for those belonging to me. I want an alliance between our families. Here is Paulette—as pretty as can be—and there’s your Albert. Why shouldn’t they make a match of it? My mother and you are lifelong friends. Do say yes! We may all yet make a fat living here in France.’ “T was silent with astonishment. In a way, Laurette, he was touching too—so young, and yet acting as*the father of the family. And so unspeakably queer! The Marquis of Carabas was in my head all the time I looked at him. “** Albert must judge for himself,’ I said as gravely as I could. ‘He’s of age. Yes, Paulette is certainly pretty. Perhaps almost too pretty. And not troubled with brains.’ “*Who cares for brains with a head like hers?’ says he. ‘But that isn’t all. What about Jerome and Laurette?’ “You may well jump, little daughter! I really couldn’t contain my laughter then. ‘Laurette and Jerome!’ I said, ‘but Jerome is younger than Laurette, and she has scarcely done with dolls! You are certainly in a marry- ing mood, Napoleon. This is a Massacre of the Innocents.’ “He laughed himself at that. ‘More still to come, Signora Panoria!’ he said. ‘A marriage-breeze certainly blew upon me this morning—and why not, now that I begin to see my way in the world a little? I have plans—’ but he stopped himself there. He waited a minute, then came forward and took my hand and kissed it as awkwardly as he always does. I’m sure he would have his own hand kissed instead for choice! He’s as vain as six peacocks, really. And then out came the wonderful proposal. He wanted to marry me. Me!” AURE PERMON burst into a wild fit of + laughter. Puss-in-Boots propose to her beautiful mother! Puss-in-Boots! She laughed until two bright tears of mirth ran down her cheeks. “Mother—that was the day we heard you laughing—wasn’t it?—and Napoleon came out all red and furious. Mon Dieu, what did you say?” “T stared at him stupefied and then laughed until I was tired. I couldn’t help it even if it did hurt his feelings. He drew himself up and glared at me like Don Desperado. ‘If this is good manners!’ said he, and still I laughed until I could laugh no more.” “T can just see how furious he would be,” Laure Permon said more gravely, ‘‘and he doesn’t forgive things. And then, mother?” “And then I said: ‘My dear Napoleon, let us talk seriously. You think you know my age. Well, you don’t! That’s one of my little weaknesses. Why, I might not only be your mother but Joseph’s! There now! Do spare me this kind of joke. I don’t like it from your mother’s son.’ “*But I’m serious, Signora Panoria,’ he said. ‘As serious ascan be. You don’t look a day over thirty and what do I care about age? I assure you I’ve thought it over. And now I see my way better I must marry. Indeed, they want to give me a charming woman who belongs to the aristocratic quarter, good-tempered, agreeable— O, I assure you I’ve not far to seek. But you would suit me better for several reasons. Do think about it.’ “He almost reduced me to hysterics. He was so grave about it, so sure he was right and such an incurable young idiot. To quiet him I said I would think about it, though I had HARPER’S BAZAR never aspired so high as to conquer a heart twenty-six, and I hoped this wouldn't inte. rupt our friendship. *“*At any rate think it over,’ he said, andy said ‘Well, well, I will.” But what do yo think, Laurette? Have you heard % Buonaparte girls chattering about any he means to bring off? There must be som. thing. Anyhow he was offended, for he has scarcely been here since.” “It’s a curious thing,” said Laurette, in, meditative fashion for so young a girl, “that one’s always talking about Napoleon, His queerness, or his poverty, or his looks, or wild things he says. One has to talk aboy him. He’s not like other people. I wonde who the woman of the Faubourg St. Germaiz is that they want him to marry? And | wonder who ‘they’ are?” “Depend upon it the whole thing ym nonsense,” her mother said briskly, 4 don’t even flatter myself he thought he Was in love with me. He had just shaped an planned the whole thing in his head as end to some scheme he has in view. By give me Lucien for calm good sense ay stability. You may laugh, Laurette, but j would never surprise me to see a real genuiy Republic established in France—not a wea despotism like the Convention—and Lug, the President. He believes in Liberty, ay is a man who will rise by the nobility of fx ideas. Napoleon believes in himself.” “O, mother, no more politics to-day, | entreat!” cried Laure, stopping her pretty ears. “And no more Napoleon! We hay my new evening gown to choose. I Indian muslin and silver lama to all the# mannered young generals alive. You ny rid of him and his impertinence very ye and there’s an end of it. Of course I see noy why he stays away. Let him!” “I wonder where I should have landed jf] had accepted the gentleman,” said Madam Permon, laughing again at the mere m. ollection of that absurd moment. “In g asylum for lunatics, I expect. Well, com along, Laurette. Get your hat.” ALKING quickly Junot found his wy through crowded narrow streets from th Permons’ house to the Jardin des Plantes, Paris was a queer sight in those day Something of its medieval dress linger about it still in the inconvenience, narrownes, darkness, and odor of those streets. Thy were horribly noisy too, with ill-fed horses ani ill-set wheels clattering over the cobble And every he or she hurrying on their busines had a furtive air as if conscious that a sudde clutch might be laid on the shoulder and pror to be Death’s. So many, so suddenly, hai dropped down that dark oubliette in the ks few years by the bloody way of the guillotine You might know as little of politics as the mm in the moon and meddle as little, but if yu had a private enemy, spiteful woman « jealous man, a nod to the Committee d Public Safety would do the trick, and tk black oubliette swallowed you and sow end. Things were better now, but still- Still, who could know? Junot had an appointment which he would not have missed for much fine gold. He pail little attention to the hurrying faces. He hal meant in any case to be there earlier tha necessary for there were one or two mattes he must consider carefully before the moment of meeting came, so his own affairs shut outa others and Paris went by unheeded. Picturs from the past flashed into his mind insteads he walked slowly up and down, waitin, waiting, among the leafless October trees. Toulon. The cursed English had mak good their footing there, invited by those wh hated the line the Revolution was takin. It had to be recaptured and he himself, + young sergeant, had often noticed the litt haggard eagle-faced Corsican, a captain d artillery whom they called Buonapatte Junot thought he had fire, readiness, othe good gifts for a soldier. Two fellow soldies Duroc and Marmont, themselves eager success, thought so too, but the little Corsian was so reserved that no one could get mm him—least of all a sergeant like Andod Junot. He had the burning pride ee —one could see that! How had ma meeting come to pass? The Corsi captain wanted an order carried to a pote danger—let us say death, for the risk to that—and Junot was sent to take hisonies He noticed then how quiet and pale thelittk captain was, with just one dangerous spark it the gray-blue of his eye. ; “Off with your uniform and take & order.” : That was all, but there was the autheslt ring of command in the voice. How had he found the courage to aa as he did? “Mon capitaine, not U Ne without my uniform. I’m no spy. A of France.” The answer flashed. “You refuse?” (Continued on page 150)

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They had often seen each other before, had even spoken, but never really met until then. “Vou’ve got to be about me!” he said slowly. ‘You'll do.” They had been together ever since—with intervals—but together. Friends, on one side at least. Junot knew all the shifts of the Buonaparte family as the tie drew closer. He knew how they had come over to France all but destitute. He shared Napoleon’s chagrin when Lucien— the idle sapless dreamer as his brother thought him—married Christine Boyer, his landlord’s daughter, a girl who could neither read nor write. “Why can’t a man believe in his future? To damn himself like that,”” was Napoleon’s comment. ‘‘One woman’s as good as another in a year’s time except for the advantages she brings, and Lucien—” He broke off there, biting the words into pale lips. Junot knew as well as if he had spit it out that Lucien would never be forgiven. Joseph was the eldest, but Napoleon was the real man of the family. All the Buonapartes knew that. Well, he had earned the position. He had struggled for them all. When he began to be noticed as a soldier and through his means France held the coast along the Mediterranean, his family was his first thought. His friend- ship with the younger Robespierre got Joseph a commissionership with the army, and Lucien a superintendency of stores. God knows they never would have got them for themselves! It was always Napoleon. One really might say he had won a wife with a dowry for Joseph—Julie Clary, the rich soapmaker’s girl. Clary pére had behaved very handsomely to Signora Letizia, too. He had come to believe that what with Napoleon and the beauty of the three girls there might be a future for these Corsican refugees. Junot knew—for Napoleon had told him—that he himself had had more than a passing thought of marrying Désirée, the other Clary daughter, who was desperately in love with him. “A nice girl, and | the money would be a just now,” Napoleon had said to “but, no. The Convention is tottering, me when it falls—there will be a better market!’ Junot could not for the life of him imagine why the fall of the Convention should affect Napoleon’s value in the marriage market. His own honest Republican heart was filled with anxiety at the thought of it. More blood, more bother, more silly upsets in Paris; and Italy waiting all the time like a fat goose ready for the plucking. Why in the name of sacred thunder couldn’t the country settle down to its business in peace? The business of prosperity within and war without. And when Napoleon gave Désirée Clary the go-by, after suggesting her in vain to Junot, she married Bernadotte, a soldier friend, and Junot really felt it to be a chance lost to Napoleon. The Convention still tottered on and nothing particular happened, except, indeed, that Junot fell madly in love with Paulette Buonaparte. His love for her brother began it. Her own loveliness finished it. Heavens, how beautiful she was! Figure, face, smile— perfection. STE =PS came along the gravel through the trees, light quick steps. He knew them very well, and they scattered his thoughts as a stone flung in water scatters reflections with reality. He never could concentrate on any- thing else when Napoleon was there. No one could describe Buonaparte as a good-looking fe'low, but the word “notice- able” might have been made for him. His face was lean enough to show the bones, and none the worse for that, since the architec- ture of the face, built up from a most powerful and thrust-out jaw and chin, was fine. The line of brow, nose, lips, clear-cut and beauti- ful—a sculptor could have done no better aiming at classic heroics. Some Roman or dominant Renaissance strain came out in him there. Put him in robes and you had a keen young cardinal of the Borgia circle with his eye on the throne of St. Peter, if that were the best prize in the lottery. Complexion pale as wax with a luminance about it that caught the eye. But here the beauty ceased and power dominated. ‘he eyes, deep set in marble caves, were not the eyes of Apollo; the ponderous hind. head on its short throat scorned proportion with the ill-matched figure. Ill-matched because from the waist upward he was built for a tall man. From the waist down the small neat legs and hands were those of a fop, Contradictions, physical as well as spiritual] and intellectual. The eyes—a deep gray. blue and in repose not remarkable, but of them more hereafter; the hair thin and fine jn quality, a dull chestnut. People already had begun to speak of him as altogether unusual, Junot had never doubted it from the be ginning. Buonaparte took more pains with his dresg now that things were looking up with him, His uniform fitted his lanky figure well, and the boots could no longer excite Laurette Permon’s derision and were better cleaned also than in the days when he had to keep them up to the mark himself. So deep in thought was he that he would have passed Junot unseen if he had not saluted, half in jest, half nervously. ** Mon General!” Napoleon stopped, smiling too, and all the meaning of his face changed from a land- scape in mist to one in sunshine. Now fora moment his face was entirely beautiful—the eyes mild and winning, the lips upcurved with almost feminine sweetness: the sweeter for the massive background of head and brows. “You here, Junot!” he said. got twenty minutes to spare. No more, m9 less. Let’s walk up and down—I wam exercise—and get through with it, whatever it is. How was the Citoyenne Permon? If she could only rule her tongue there’s no more charming woman in France Eh! You might do worse than think of the preti Laurette, Junot. Too young yet, but she grow. “= had a very different proposal to make, General,” said Junot quivering. The very clank of his sword as he walked unnerved him. And then Napoleon was so obviously think- ing of something else and caring not at all for what was in his mind. It grew irrelevant as the ants he saw crisscrossing on the path before them. Napoleon spoke again um “Well, Pye hearing. “You see, I’ve got a terrible lot on my mind to-day. The parting of the roads—it’s come at last. Here, listen—I know I can trust you through thick and thin, and you may have to be in it now for all I can tell. O Junot, if you only had a head and not a barber’s block on your shoulders! I want advice now as [I shall never want it again. And every one’s so desperately mediocre— My word, the mess they’ve made of France and the Revolution! If a man had a chance—” he stopped, with gloom blotting out all the light in his face. Seen thus the head was too heavy, stooped with its own weight. The man looked like a roughly blocked-out statue in marble. Something begun and left un- finished. UNOT took even the barber’s block patiently. He was used to these flowers of speech, and Buonaparte could make amends when he pleased. And then Paulette! “Well, what is it? You know I’m behind you always,” he said patiently, postponing himself as one always must do with Napoleon. “More rows in the Convention? Poor France! The People should hoof them into the gutter.’ ‘The People!” The echo in a tone of inexpressible contempt. “They say every country has the government it deserves. The fools! They earned their Convention and they have it! Well, the trouble’s this— Turn this way. Fewer people.” They turned down a side-alley and walked slowly, Buonaparte kicking up the withered leaves with his boots. He was nervous and irritable; Junot discreetly silent. “The Sections of Paris are up against the Convention,” he said. ‘They won’t st their fooleries any longer. They’re arming everywhere. To-morrow Paris will be im insurrection. And how do you suppose the Convention will meet it? Why—by — Barras at the head of the defense. Barras! Lath and plaster when they want blood and iron. There’il be real fighting. “ ‘And a good thing too! * Junot said boldly. “The sooner that stupid Convention is down and out the better—” Silence. His sails fluttered in the calm. He turned a wavering eye on Buonaparte. “You're on the side of the People?” he said. Still silence. The little general kicking up the leaves moodily. They turned into another and more deserted path, and he swung round in front of Junot and faced him. (Continued on page 152)

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Here’s my fool of a brother Lucien must call himself Brutus, to be in the fashion. And they must re-name all the months with high- sounding bosh; Fructidor, Messidor, instead of the good old names all the world uses. I declare to God I haven’t got them right in my head yet. And their tenth day instead of Sunday! Decadi! I could vomit when I think of their twaddle. Grown-up men to be playing with words.” E PAUSED breathless. Junot persisted doggedly. It never could seem so absurd to a Frenchman as to an outsider like a Corsican. The man was Italian, no Frenchman. “But the Convention—surely a greater set of fools never existed, my friend! How can you support them?” The other lifted his stooping head quickly. “True enough. But fools have their uses. “And how?” “They keep the nest warm for wiser men until the time is ripe.’ Another pause—Junot’s hand wavering uncertainly about his handsome mustaches. He could not see an inch ahead in the tangle. Buon: uparte halted suddenly. “T know your politics, Junot, and you don’t know mine. But we're friends. Can trust you? Will you follow me?” Junot looked at him with a smile struggling through sadness. “Yes, friends, though I often think you wouldn’t let your little finger ache to save my whole carcass. But I'll follow you. I never have any choice where you're concerned and you see clear where I don’t. What’s the game?” It was a virtue or at least a weapon of Buonaparte’s that he could take the exact measure of a man’s subjugation to himself. He spoke without hesitation. “Here it is then. Fréron is a friend of Barras. Fréron is in love with Paulette and willing to do me a good turn.” Junot winced, but was silent. “He brought Barras and me together this morning and Barras came straight to the point. ‘To-morrow decides the fate of the Convention,’ he said—and I could i his lips were white and he kept wiping his damp hands with his handkerchief, sol waited. ‘And we can’t trust our generals. They’re afraid of the People. Will you take command of the second army of the Con- vention?’ I hesitated for I happen to know the Sections are well-armed and it might be a better choice to back the People. But Barras was waiting. ‘I give you three minutes to decide,’ he said. What a three minutes!” He halted in a pallid excitement. Junot, his face quivering, exclaimed, “‘ But it was only yesterday you said to me, ‘If only the Sectionaries would put me at their head I would make short work of the Con- vention!’ O, stick to the Sections. Be an honest Republican and cover yourself with glory.” Buonaparte smiled a little, patiently as one does to a child. “My good Junot, the People’s ramp is played out. What France wants is law and order and a tight hand over her, and she'll get it. I didn’t take the three minutes, for ahead of me I saw. .. . More than I'll tell you now. But I engaged with Barras on the nail.” Junot was half stunned. “It was a great honor for a young man like you, anyhow!” he said doubtfully. ““Honor! They had no one else they could trust, and they knew a Corsican would be less squeamish about French blood than a Frenchman. There'll be grape-shot flying to-morrow—fifth of October, or 13th Vendé- miaire, as the fools call it. And you'll stand in with me, Junot? Where I go, my dog shall go? Eh? There are things ahead—but that can wait.’ “Where you go, I go! sort of sole -mnity. to-morrow. They walked in silence toward the streets explaining ” Junot said, with a “Give me my orders for again, Napoleon lost in thought. As they neared them Junot said with a certain timidity: ‘““Can you spare me a moment, General?” He looked at his watch. “Five minutes,’ was all he said. The lover’s voice choked in his throat. Five minutes, and that cold young face intent on its own mysterious thoughts opposing inscrutability to his fever! indicated, and out it came. “General, I love your sister Paulette, and I wrote to my father asking his advice. Here is his answer. But brevity was UONAPARTE listened now. He shot one keen look at Andoche and took the letter in silence. When he had mastered the sense he returned it. “Not a very brilliant prospect, my friend, Your father speaks of an eventual twenty a francs and nothing at all now, Paulette—” “But I shall be rich then, General. With my pay it means a very decent income, and as you climb I shall climb behind you. | lov e—I adore Paulette, but even her value to me is the greater because I should be your brother. You don’t reject me?” “T neither reject nor assent. The affair hasn't reached that stage—you have nothing; she has nothing. Twice nothing is worse than nothing. You must wait. God knows one has to wait for anything worth getting. As to whether Paulette is worth getting—” Junot broke in with a lover’s outburst which even Napoleon’s cool glance could not chill. Divine! Exquisite! “Well, to you she may be,” he interrupted; “to me she’s an adorably pretty little fool with a perfect taste in dress which she can’t gratify. Nothing more. My dear Junot, you've had affairs before—witness the pretty chambermaid. Witness Yvette. This fever will cure itself like the rest. As for me—I too have had my affairs. They are the natural distractions—but, when it comes to marriage, I sh-ll never let my head stumble over my heart. Take a leaf out of my book. Now walk with me as far as the Boulevard.” They parted in front of the Chinese Baths, and Junot had not had the courage to say another word of his hopes. Napoleon was kind but absent. He halted on his foot, however, as he turned to go. “Be with me early to-morrow. As to Paulette—your father wears well; you may never touch those twenty thousand francs. You must wait for better days and” (he turned his peculiar steely glance on Junot, the eyes as hard as Polar ice) ‘‘ to-morrow may be the beginning of them if you help me to bring it off. If I don’t bring it off—” He paused. “What then?” “Tails they win, heads I lose.” He laughed, pulled Junot’s ear after a fashion he had, and went striding off into the dark. T WAS the evening of the next day, the fateful fifth of October, and a beautiful woman stood at the window of her house, waiting, watching, trembling for news from the Tuileries where the Convention was hold- ing its sittings. The Tuileries, the palace of dead royalty, the home of dying dreams. The men using it now as the seat of government blustered to reassure themselves, but each went secretly in fear. Outside were forty thousand armed Sectionaries, and Barras— Barras!—was Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Interior, and a young com- paratively unknown general of forcign extrac- tion his only hope. There was reason for fear. It was Barras for whom she was waiting. She must have the news straight from him. If he were not here in ten minutes she would give him and the Convention up for lost. His head might at that very minute be tossing over Paris on a pike. Her own head had had a narrow escape of the same fate in the days of the Terror, and it was to save that graceful head that her lover Tal- lien had compassed the fall of the bloody Robespierre, and thus opened the prison doors to more destined victims than his lovely mistress. For this was Thérése Cabarrus, wife of de Fontenay, mistress and lately wife of Tallien, the man of the hour when Robespicrre paid for his crimes with his blood. Lovely among the lovely, wife of a man infamous from his cruelty and treachery, her all depended upon the life of the Convention. In her whole life of changes and surprises she had seldom liv through a day of more dreadful anxiety than this. For if the Convention crumbled and the People drunk with blood-lust ruled again, the Convention andiall allied with them co scarcely hope to see the sunrise of the following day. Dreadful images of her former imprison- ment, the men and women led out to death as sheep to the slaughter, haunted her as she watched and trembled in a mute agony. A step on the stair—a strange step, not that of Barras, nor yet Tallien. Then it was news— bad news, the news she sickened tohear. The servants were off duty—greedy for news. The door opened—and a young man in the uniform of a general of artillery walked in unannounced. He saw no one at first—she was half hidden by the heavy window curtains, (Continued on page 154) 3a == _- — — ~~ — hte -*, As mM -. ab wa «3 2 aa

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Citoyens Tallien and Barras are at this moment con- tinuing the deliberations of the Convention. The Sectionaries are completely routed. Being obliged to pass this way I was requested to give you the news.” Bright color flashed up into her face. At the moment he thought her the most fascinat- ing woman he had ever seen. ER tall elegant figure was displayed in every voluptuous curve by a dress of finest India muslin worked in a pattern of gold leaves and slit half-way up the thigh to display a band of gold and cameos encircling her leg above the knee. The ornament was repeated in a similar band on the upper part of the bare and beautiful arm. Her full bosom, seeming almost to burst the frail bodice of muslin and gold, was displayed almost to the waist, and above this audacity sprang the pillar of her throat and lovely sparkling brunette face crowned with short black silken curls like those of a handsome boy. Drunk with joy, she flung her bare arms above her head, and laughed aloud. The radiant display moved him. He drew a little nearer; he softened his voice for her. The events of the day had given him new courage with women—even with the Queen of the Convention as they called Thérése Tallien. “‘Citoyen General, your name, that I may welcome the bearer of the happiest news on earth to the happiest woman. Who com- manded the army of the Convention?” “*Citoyenne, it was I. My name is Buona- Half hysterical in the release of tension, she struck her hands together until her rings and bracelets jingled. “Then it was you—yourself! O Barras was wise! He knew his man. He deserves to be a—” she checked her dangerous word that had nearly burst from her lips—‘“‘the ruler of a sovereign people!” “He is a great man,” the young general replied, with imperceptible irony. “But what happened, general? I beg and entreat to be told. I hope these low scoundrels had a sound lesson?” “Citoyenne, they had. My artillery was placed ready to receive them, an attention they had not expected, and as they advanced upon the Tuileries I opened fire. I gave them the honor of firing first that they might be the aggressors. And then I let them have it. A mere whiff of grape-shot. But enough— why trouble your fair ears? The rabble fled, and Barras reported the complete triumph of the Government.” Her bright face shot out beams of delight. She caught his hands in hers and held them in a strong little clasp, scarlet lips apart dis- closing the pearls within. He knew he might have kissed them at that moment, have caught her in a strong embrace and had no blame, drunk as she was with joy, but he held himself cold and subordinate. For reasons. “General, you are a true republican—a true and faithful republican. In the name of France I thank you. There will be no reward too great for Captain Vendémiaire!”’ He had really forgotten for a second that the sober old fifth of October figured in the republican calendar as 13 Vendémiaire, but the flash pleased him—one of those useful nicknames which tag a man with something he would not have forgotten. “Captain Vendémiaire, at your service, cito- yenne!” he said bowing. “‘And for my reward—” Ts door opened slowly, and another woman moved languidly into the room. In a voice soft as silver bells in twilight she put her question to Thérése Tallien. “Ts it the news, chérie?”’ “News and of the best!” cried the other. “ Heartening news, Josephine, ma mie! Good republican news. Allow me to present Cap- tain Vendémiaire, who brings us such news that I must order a bottle of champagne to drink its health in and that of the Convention! The servants have all gone mad, I think. I'll fetch it myself.” She darted to the door and turned there. “T forgot! Pardon me. The Captain Vendémiaire, the citoyenne Beauharnais.” The two remained looking at each other with a smile as the lovely Tallien flew down the stair, twinkling with jewels as she ran. He saw grace itself moving in soft undula- tions to the sofa upon which grace must dis- pose herself to the best advantage and watched her with his cool interest. The name, What did he connect with that? He knew, The Viscount de Beauharnais—that was it, A noble, yes, and he had renounced the privileges of his rank and cast in his lot with the Revolution. They had made him Com. mander of the Rhine, and there he did his best, but what chance had a noble with the men of the Terror? They trumped up an accusation and guillotined him and there an end. Of his widow Buonaparte knew nothing. but supposed she had scraped through the Terror like Thérése Tallien by granting her favors to the new men. Stop!—had he not heard something about an aristocratic mistress of Barras’s? Some woman who had escaped out of prison with Tallien’s mistress, owing to the fall of Robespierre? Then this might be she. He looked with a deeper interest at the woman before him, and made his inventory, Certainly not beautiful like the other. None of that radiant flush and color about her. Not in her first youth. Possibly six and twenty—about his own age, but who could judge in that flattering rose-shaded candle- light? Her figure exquisite, with slender lovely curves of bosom and limbs, not quite so lavishly displayed as the Tallien’s. Fea- tures, good enough and no more, complexion the waxen whiteness of some thick petaled tropic flower which will show no flush of its life blood through that immaculate purity, Eyes, large, dark blue as hyacinth, and well- shaded by dark lashes, abundant chestnut hair on a head perched imperially on a swan’s throat. This gave her dignity. She hada foreign air—he sought the French type in her and could not find it. What word summed her up to be inventoried in the list he kept for reference? Seductive. That was it. Slowly, languidly seductive, a woman to send thrills and throbbings along a man’s blood, if no more. At her request he repeated the story of the day, noting how she smiled with pleasure, say- ing little—a close-lipped smile which did not disclose her teeth. He hurriedly added the word “‘distinguished” to his inventory. Yes, she looked an aristocrat to the long slender feet and almond-tipped fingers. “Were many killed, general? I hope not, French blood is French blood, no matter whose it is,” she said, fanning herself rhyth- mically. That question had not occurred to the beautiful dangerous Tallien, and he liked women to be gentle and compassionate; in all things the complement of man. “Not much life lost, madame. Most in the Section of Brutus. Madame will remem that a little blood-letting is sometimes neces- sary for the patient!” “True!” she said, and flushed delicately. ““Madame—” he had called her and un- consciously. It was long indeed since she had heard that form of address,and she liked it well. The charm of charms was that the young man had not known he said “madame.” It was wrung from him by some elegance of distine- tion in her that set her apart from other women. UT Buonaparte knew very well. If this were the favorite of Barras and Barras were to be as useful to him in the future as he intended he should be, the lady must be con- ciliated. ‘‘Madame” was a homage which women of that exotic grace would appreciate. They should have it. Suddenly he appeared to recollect himself. “Citoyenne, I apologize. voluntary mistake!”’ he said. She waved him to a chair as Thérése Tallien came up the stair with her strong swift tread and entered the room with a huge silver gilt tray, two bottles upon it and cut crystal goblets. The beautiful Bacchante! The color and glow of her! It was as if full summer with sunshine and rose-garlands had burst in upon them. She would not let Napoleon touch the bottle or help, and opened it dex- terously herself. “Sit down! You're tired out and women should wait upon a soldier. Eh, Josephine? See how white he is! Drink, my friend- drink first!” She pressed it into his hand, then lifted her own glass above her head at the full length of her lovely arm. “Stand up, you little lazy Josephine, and drink too. Up with your glass. It was an in- No—don't rise like a snake undulating its coils, but spring like a panther. Health to Barras!” They drank, Josephine sipping and smiling at her friend’s frantic enthusiasm. “To the Convention!” They drank again. “To Tallien. To all good and true Re publicans.”’ Again. (Continued on page 155)

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for SEPTEMBER 1926 THE THUNDERER E. Barrington >s New Novel (Continued from page 154) “And now—your glasses!” She refilled them with the light sparkle of the best in Tallien’s cellar. “To General Buonaparte! And may his star lead him high and far!” Napoleon set his down, half-way to his lips, laughing. Josephine smiled adorably at him as she drank, waving her glass gently in his honor. The Tailien emptied hers to the last drop and flung it on the parquet floor W he re it shattered into a hundred diamonds. Too good to use for anything else,” she said. “And now, citizen general, you are one of us. One and indivisible!’ ‘ “One and indivisible!” he repeated with a bow to either lady. Certainly no man and least of all a man who had struggled with ad- versity like Buonaparte, who had nearly damned himself by casting in his lot with Robespierre just as Robespierre was tottering to his fall and had just retrieved that stupidity, could object to union with the constellation of risen stars which these two women repre- sented. They were not only beauty but power. They had wealth, influence, all the prizes. But more. They were an open door on the way he meant to tread to a goal which even he could not discern at that moment. E COULD have lingered with them all night, but presently the Beauharnais said with the silvery gentleness that caught his ear at once. “Thérése, can’t you see that General Buonaparte is mortally tired? Send him away. He is too courteous to go. Am I not right, citizen general?” “I am tired, madame—citoyenne—but I forget it here.” Then I insist.” He bowed and in a few moments the curtain had dropped over that glittering scene and its sirens and he was in the cold dark street out- side. But he had made his effect. The door was wide open for him now. “‘What a very odd-looking young man!” said Josephine languidly to her friend. “I suppose he is going to be useful i in future and we shall have to invite him.” “We shall have to do more than invite him. We shall have to make him one of us and watch him all the time lest he should go too fast and get out of our reach. Odd? I thought his face remarkable.” “‘T can never be certain that I like remark- able people. They expect so much. Well— the day is over and I must have my beauty- sleep. Good night, chérie.”’ She moved about the room with exquisite grace, extinguishing candle after candle. “‘For you must sleep too, Thérése. I am glad I came to keep you company to-day. You would have sat up all night triumphing!” “‘T should!” said the Tallien. “Well, you are right. Let usgo. I believe the servants are all out in the streets.” That was the first meeting. FOUR months later Laurette Permon with her mother was at a public and extremely fashionable ball at the Hotel Thelusson. The Convention had triumphed and its five members were now the Directory, the five- fold King of France. Though no immediate disorder threatened and a sullen calm had set in, people were still afraid of displaying their wealth in private entertainments, for it was not desirable to advertise either to the sovereign People, or the sovereign Directory that here was a fat sheep for the shearing. Consequently, though the world danced as gaily as ever, it danced at the price of a ticket for some public resort. It was objectionable enough to Citoyenne Permon’s private sense of aristocracy to find herself and her daughter in the ballroom of the Hotel Thelusson with a paying crowd about her, but as there was no choice and she could not exist a day without society she went with her son and daughter, Saute de mieux. They looked about them on entering. None of the ladies connected by especially tender ties with the Directory were present, though there were many of pronounced republican principles, which at that date superseded and excused the absence of all others. There was a tightness about the corners of the Citoyenne Permon’s pretty mouth as she surveyed them and turned scornfully away. “Napoleon!” she said briefly, indicating to Laurette a little neat figure dressed in an extremely well-cut uniform, his eyes steadily fixed on the door with its rising tide of re- markably lightly dressed ladies. “Then that was he who got out of the fine carriage we saw as we drove up,” said Laurette with lively interest. “I thought $0, but couldn’t be sure. Times are changed!” Her mother laughed a little. “Times are changed with him indeed, and you'll find he won’t be eager to remember the past. General Buonaparte, the right- hand of the Directory, is a very different person from the half-starved little officer of artillery with his dirty boots that we knew once upon a time! Well, he has known which way the cat would jump and has jumped with her. What will you wager, Laurette, that he takes no notice of us to-night?” “*T’ll wager a box of bonbons that he does, mother,” Laurette said boldly. “He has far more heart than you'll allow, and I believe he’s really fond of you in spite of all that silly stuff about marrying. You'll see! He'll ask me to dance.” HAT they saw for some time was General Buonaparte fixed, gazing at the door. The magnificent Madame Tallien entered with her lawful Tallien, raying beauty and radiance about her, triumphant, the Queen of the Directory, her position assured for life as she well believed. Why not? With the little eagle-faced Corsican general for a sword in their right hands, who should say nay to Tallien, the man behind the Directory, and Barras their king and ruler? She wore a classic band of diamonds in her black curls, glittering like stars in midnight. Black also and glitter- ing with diamond spangles was the robe that professed to veil her republican charms—if the morsel that would easily lie in a man’s hand could be given so solid a name as robe. But it was the era of lavish . oy of nature’s handiwork enhanced with art. When the whisper ran round that Madame Tallien’s exquisitely formed leg was bare as far as the eye could reach save for the diamonds that adorned it above the knee, and when the en- raptured eye caressed little bare sandaled feet, each toe glitteringly ringed with diamonds, there was scarcely a woman present who did not blush for her own silk stockings. Her greeting to the young general was exuberantly cordial. Apart from inclination she had her orders to that effect, for the very efficiency of “Captain Vendémiaire” had alarmed the Directory—now grown extremely sensitive to the dangers of its position. She had been admitted to a conclave between Barras and Tallien where the position was put clearly enough before this daughter of the new- born France so thoroughly baptised in aristocratic blood. “General Buonaparte,” said Barras de- liberately, inhaling a huge pinch of snuff with his retracted nostrils, “must be kept in good humor until we find a man to beat him at his own game of war. For I fear he has realized that a game played once with success may be played twice and if he should turn and rend us on behalf of the sovereign people, or should elect to seat the Royal Family again on the throne, it might be—well, inconvenient! There are ambitions and, if I mistake not, an unflinching selfishness about that young man, which must be reckoned with. Tallien, haggard and eager, assented. “Tt is the women of our party who should see to this!” he said. “Buonaparte is at an impressionable age, and his pleasures have been restricted by poverty. Luxury, pleasure —those are the best securities against revolt, aay are certainly in a position to give hi t ” “TI know,” said Thérése Tallien. “He’s in a queer position. The people he defeated will never forgive him for the past, and I suppose we will never forgive him for the possible future.” She was thinking of that saying and the consequences as she saw him fixed by the ballroom door watching—watching! She understood perfectly well what he was watch- ing for and why. A little stir, and beauty was for the moment eclipsed as grace herself entered in the person of Citoyenne Beauharnais. She bowed slightly and smiled to Napoleon, glancing over her shoulder to see whether Barras brought up the rear, carrying her cashmere a little awkwardly over his arm. The new men had not the manners of the older school. That must be admitted. But Josephine, once Vicomtesse de Beauharnais, owed the uncouth Barras too much to be censorious. She smiled even more charmingly upon him than upon the young general, put her lovely hand through his arm, and undulated beside him to the upper end of the room with an air of mingled submission and possession which marked their relation as clearly as a trumpet proclamation could have done. But the world knew well enough. What was there to hide? There was nothing that was unfashionable in their connection and it was therefore above censure. The easy morals of the New France were only a trifle more down at heel than the old. That was all —the same but commoner and coarser. ADAME PERMON watched with her sparkling ironic glance. “She will dance with Napoleon. Look how he watches her!” she said to her son Albert. “Now that Laurette is dancing, Ill hazard a guess. I should not be surprised if Beauharnais is the woman they talk of his marrying, to bind him to the Directors’ interests. A woman of the aristocrats, they say—a woman older than himself—” Albert stared at her, mouth open. 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She did not look a day more than twenty-five, though she had a daughter at the fashionable school kept by Madame Campan. But, heavens alive, how could she have come by such amazing distinction? He knew as much of her as the world knew of the notorious friend of Barras and no more. The daughter of a mere sugar planter in the Isle of Mar- tinique and a poor one at that, a demoiselle de la Pagerie, married by a family arrangement between her clever aunt and her lover, to that lover’s son—the young de Beauharnais with whom she quarreled soon enough after marriage— How, where, had she learnt that soft distinction combined with exquisite kindliness? He could not tell. Marriage, indeed! Ridiculous to suppose that Napoleon could pick up a woman like that for the asking or would take her if he could! “See how he can’t take his eyes off her. He is madly in love!” asserted his mother’s cool impassive voice beside him. ‘‘He em- barrasses her, and that’s not surprising. But she would not be dancing with him now if Barras had not ordered it. And of course nothing could bind Napoleon to their in- la gah like such a marriage. I wonder if it wil “But what did happen to her, mother, after her husband was guillotined? I never heard,” young Albert persisted, staring at the gracious figure gliding and returning in the dance. “Why, she was imprisoned with Thérése Tallien in the prison of Les Carmes and con- demned to death with other aristocrats. It was a toss-up whether she or her husband would be guillotined first, and I don’t suppose either cared much about the fate of the other, for he had accused her of infidelity and they had parted after the births of the son and daughter. And Beauharnais was guillotined. Luckily for Madame de Beauharnais, Barras and Tallien saw plainly that Robespierre, the devil’s spawn as they called him—and he was! —in his fever for blood would have their heads next, and that urgency saved her. They got Robespierre’s head before he got theirs. Tallien was in love with Thérése Cabarrus, and out of prison she came with her friend the Beauharnais! A good many people better than either of them got out too. Pick up my fan, Albert.’ E WAS silent for a moment looking at the gliding figures before him. Could it be possible that these smiling elegant women were real, that they had suffered, agonized, wept in the frightful prisons of the Terror? That the guillotine had all but set its bloody claw where the line of diamonds glittered about that lovely throat? Yes, he remembered having heard how she had sobbed and wept in terror when she had received the death sentence— and now she was dancing, laughing, light, gay, frivolous. Could people forget like that? ‘But watch!” said his mother’s voice beside him. ‘Now the dance is over, see how Napo- leon slinks after her—afraid, but he can’t keep away. See, she takes his arm. Oh, yes, I told Laurette we should see nothing of him to-night. He islost. Drowned in that woman Beauharnais.”’ It was true. The ballroom was only a confused glitter of lights before his eyes. The faces swam about him, none clear but one, and that blinded and dazzled him. She took his arm and he believed she must feel the throbbing of his heart through the delicate fingers that rested on it as he led her silently through the crowd to one of the many little nooks set apart for the satiated dancers. Curious eyes watched them as they went. That was Captain Vendémiaire, the crowd whispered: the man who by saving the Con- vention had saved France from a new Reign of Terror. And with a Convention reformed into a Directory (words counted for so much in France!) what might not be hoped? And that exquisite pale aristocratic woman leaning on his arm with dark blue eyes languidly sur- veying them—that was the Citoyenne Beau- harnais, the mistress of Barras the Director. He must have great confidence in Captain Vendémiaire if he permitted her to dance with him, for the lady was a grande amoureuse —all the world knew what the intimate friend of the beautiful Thérése must be, and Barras as well as any. Indeed, at that moment he himself was watching the pair with his own expression of coarse cynicism. He laughed to himself and turned again to Tallien. These two were always good comrades in public at this particular time, though he was inwardly glad that Tallien was not a Director. So they chattered, and Napoleon, silent as death, led the gliding beauty to the little recess where they could be alone and quiet. He had thirsted for that moment, prayed and craved for it all night and now it was upon him, and how to deal with it none of the clear- headed decision he kept for other events could tell him. The position was so amazing. How would her sweet delicacy take it? He trembled before her, as he had never trembled before mortal man or woman, or the blue and starred image of the Queen of a Heaven gone so far out of fashion in the Revolution. HE slid into the deep chair among exotic flowers as white as her clear pale cheek and looked up at him, smiling her own mys- terious smile with softly closed lips. That smile had infinitely seductive secret meanings for him. He read all the submissive charm of the sex into the gentle reserve which, if he had but known, was only the necessity of hiding teeth less beautiful than the exquisitely rouged lips which concealed them. Then, sitting, he leaned forward until his right knee touched the ground, and so spoke, half kneel- ing. ‘Josephine, adored, I must speak and you hear. You can’t evade me any longer. Since that blessed night when you slipped into my arms like a moonbeam and gave yourself to me body and soul, what have I seen of you, and how do you think I am to live?” She started and looked nervously about her; then, gently as she did everything, laid a jeweled finger on his lip. He kissed it raven- ously, clasping and gripping her hand in both of his as if afraid she would slip from him like melting snow. “But you mustn’t, no, you mustn’t,”’ she whispered. “‘And don’t dare breathe a word of it again. Iam ashamed—lI ought never to, have done it, but these times go to one’s head like wine and I couldn’t bear to see you suffer. Don’t make me suffer because I pitied you. We must never meet again like that—never!”’ “And why not—why not?” he urged im- periously, with deep-set flashing eyes. “Surely the one good thing the Revolution has brought us is freedom. The fence is broken down be- tween men and women, and all the unnatural restraint is destroyed. You did no wrong. How could you? You gave yourself gener- ously, nobly, like the queen you are. But I want more—more. “What do you want?” she murmured, throwing her head back on the lovely long throat, and Jooking up at him under the shadow of long dark lashes. She thought she herself could have supplied the inevitable answer written in the set lips above his gripping jaw and chin. What should he want but what so many men had wanted from her every day and she had so often refused—an hour of love and then light parting and ob- livion. But when the answer came it half petrified her. “To marry you. To have you for my wife. To live in your adored arms night and day. To be able to drag you to my breast any minute I need you. To know that no other man can or dares even to dream of you. IS face burned before her like white flame, the blue-gray eyes dark as night in their deep sockets. He had absolutely lost control. He needed a strong hand over him. He frightened her. And people might come. They might— She stared at him confused and trembling, but still always gentle and conciliating. How could she hold a man like that in check? A boy of twenty-six! She felt old enough to be his mother though there were but six or seven years between them. How mad she had been! What could she do with him now? She should never have yielded as she had. It was to satisfy him and keep him happy and amused, and now came this ab- surdity. As a beginning she took his hand gently in hers and he pressed both against his thin breast with a catch in his throat that sounded like a dry sob. For the moment he was speechless, and it gave her the advantage she took. ““Napoleon—I do care for you. You are a dear young soldier. Do you think I would do for any other what I have done for you? But marriage is impossible. Things like that don’t happen in our world. 1 am bound to Barras; you know that, and you have your career to make, if ever you can make it. € Yould I have the selfishness to stand in your way— I who have a son - daughter to consider? (Continued on page 158)

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No—I don’t forbid you my presence. But you must a younger brother—no more. See for yourself! I have Hortense and Eugene to live for. Barras has promised me to provide for them, and I know he will do it. I have luck. I have a star!” “And what about mine?”’ he said, steadied in a moment and fixing her with those bright strange eyes. “Half starving at Brienne. Educated on charity, starving as a young Making my- self famous at Toulon. Spreading the power of France all along the southern coast of the Mediterranean. Captain Vendémiaire. I tell you, darling of my soul, that I too have a star, and that I will give Hortense and Eugene as good a provision in life as ever Barras could. And better because I love any lap- dog that is yours and he loves nothing but himself.” She drew back, half-frightened at his vehe “mence, releasing her hand. “But he is master, and you are man,” she said doubtfully, softening the phrase with a smile. ‘He is a Director. You are the general in the Directory’s pay. What chance have you of winning? He has won. He is the greatest man in France, for what is Tallien? \ man of straw! Not even a Director. It’s his wife that counts.” ‘You think that, you darling little fool!”’ he said, grasping her hand again. ‘Women should be fools about men’s business. They | are too lovely for our dirty work. Then listen. J am the greatest man in France, for I made the Directory and can unmake it. Don’t you know in your heart that Barras is afraid of me? Are your eyes as blind and bright as your diamonds? You'll see! He'll give me pres- ently command of the Army of Italy—the | Cinderella of the army—the ill-paid, neglected | Army of Italy, and it will be to get me out of France. O, my darling, believe in me; trust me, and with that army I'll make the world | your footstool.” she said, with her sweet languid smile, a little tired, like summer faintly touched with autumn. “But again what about my star? At best you can make me Madame la Generale, and the old woman in the Isle of Martinique told me better things than that. She said—open your eyes wide!— that I was to be a great queen! ‘And so you are, you beauty! Queen of all women who ever were or will be. Don’t I know it, who have held you in my arms for a night of June and fed on your beauty. My queen -the world’s queen. *‘No—a real queen!” she persisted gently, half-laughing at her own folly. ‘And in the prison of Les Carmes when they told me my head would fall that day I used to say, ‘No. You can’t persuade me of that. I am to bea queen and I'll make you all my ladies and gentlemen in waiting.’ Thérése was with me in prison and she knows that’s true. When the woman came outside the prison window all barred and te rrible —did I ever tell you that?” *‘No—never! Tell me! God! to think the devils put you through that agony. I'll make them all sweat blood for it one of these days. Is it any wonder I curse the Revolution!’ “But not so loud!” she said with her twilight smile. “‘ You might be heard. Well, I'll tell you. My order for death next day had “Large promises!” WHAT MAKES THE come, and Thérése and Madame d’Aguillon and I sat by the window, numbed, dumb. No—I don’t want to talk of death. It isn’t lucky. Weli—after days or hours of waiting (I don’t know which) I saw a woman outside, poorly dressed, and she made signs to the window, and we all looked at her, and cared | nothing for whatever message she might have. We had to die next day. But she caught up the end of her robe and shook it, and Thérése said, ‘Robe—what does that mean?’ And she caught up a little stone and threw it, and I said *Pierre—what does that mean?’ And then she drew her finger slowly across her throat, and I said ‘Guillotine’—and then suddenly Madame d’Aguillon screamed out. ‘She means throat! They’ve guillotined him.’ HE stopped—still quite calm, and smiling a little as at a pleasant memory. “And you?” he said, watching her passion- ately, intent on her beauty, not on the story. | “What did you say, you loveliest?” “T said, ‘Didn’t I tell you I should live to be a queen?’ And a few hours after we all walked out of the door free. That was my star! O, I’ve always been a mascotte. People said so in Martinique. One of my sisters was chosen for Beauharnais, and she died, and it was me instead. My mother said, ‘Every- thing comes to Yvette. You'll see.” And so it was in my marriage and in prison, and then when I hadn’t a sou for myself or the children—Barras! And then when Barras was going under, you had to save him and build up the Directory, and that was because of me. It always is! “Then give yourself to me for good and all!” he said with passion, his own superstition catching fire at hers. ‘‘ We'll mount together. I may make you a queen yet. Listen! I have a dream of getting out to India after I | and there are kingdoms there for the carving, and the fat-headed English to drive out. You shall have great sapphires as blue as your star-eyes, and pearls like your lovely pale face that only blushes a little—so little—when I adore you. And great emeralds for your throat and fingers, and have done with Italy, diamonds for your golden sandals, and black | slaves for you to shine among like a moon at midnight. Only trust me. Only give yourself to me and what can stop me?” “Common sense!”’ she said, drawing her perfumed fan softly across his eyes. ‘‘ And now we must go back. But listen—” seeing his despairing gesture, and the dull pallor that crept over his face—‘‘ Listen! If you are very good—very/—you may come to-night after the ball is over and I may speak to you for ten minutes in my boudoir. Only ten! Can you be good?” How his pale face lightened and flamed in ecstasy. How his eyes devoured her in mute worship. Afraid to speak, almost to breathe, lest he should wreck his promised heaven, he rose instantly and made way for her to pass, touching her arm almost with a girl’s timidity as she glided past him to the ballroom. Barras watched the return with the same cool cynicism as he had watched the departure. The party of the Directory left an hour later, attended by Captain Vendémiaire. Madame Permon, rising, gathered her shaw] about her and directed Albert to recall Laurette from her dance. “Did I not tell you that Napoleon would neglect us to-night?” she observed drily. “a may do myself the justice to say that he never so much as glanced in our direction. And that very imbecile Andoche Junot actually believes that he has a heart! Go, call Laurette. I can’t stay with this rabble a minute longer. This woman near me is deluged with cheap perfume and it suffocates me.” (To be continued in the October issue) MAN (Concluded from page 114) But there should on a shoe always looks bad. | be some. 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The makers of Notox will, upon re- quest, recommend a shop where you may have Notox expertly ap- plied. Free Trial Sample If you are discontented with your hair, send in the coupon and a free trial sample will be sent you, in a plain wranper? together with the Notox Beauty Analysis Chart. Pin a few strands of newly cut hair to the coupon to enable us to provide you with the right shade of Notox. Colors Hair Inside, as Nature Does INECTO, INC. 33-35 West 46th St., New York City. Gentlemen: Attached are a few newly cut strands of my hair. Send me a trial sample of Notox and Beauty Analysis Chart H. J. 2 Name.. City Address [AMERICAN TRACES OF THE An interesting Venetian lantern in bronze which belonged to the oldest brother of Napoleon, N EXTREMELY interesting relic, re- Aieece: with highly romantic and historical associations, has recently come to light in the possession of Mr. Samuel Edelman, of Philadelphia. This antique is an extraor- dinarily beautiful and finely constructed lan- tern, in perfect condition, wrought in bronze by Venetian workmen for Joseph Bonaparte, oldest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Naples, later King of Spain, and still later, a resident of Bordentown, N. J. When Joseph retired to France from Spain, and it was evident that the fortunes of his brother were lost, he went to Switzerland where he remained until the roth of March, 1815. He returned to Paris on the 22d of March, and then after urging his brother, Napoleon, to flee with him and pointing out that all arr angements had been Tse ted, and when, after consideration, Napoleon had declined on the ground that he could not desert his friends who had remained faithful to him, Joseph set sail in the Brig Commerce, a wine and commercial carrier, for America. Three times the vessel was intercepted and searched by British ships, but so perfect was his disguise and in such good order were the passports that no suspicion was arouse Joseph landed in New York in 1815, and assumed the title of C omte de Survilliers. He was made heartily welcome in New York. For a few weeks he lived at a country house on the banks of the Hudson, now one of New York’s interesting dining places just above Grant’s Tomb on Riverside Drive, known as the “‘ Claremont.” During his stay in New York, he selected a property of several hundred acres near Bor- dentown, New Jersey. There was a large, old-fashioned house dating from Colonial days, and most of the estate was well-devel- oped farm land. He spent large sums in im- proving the Bordentown estate, adding to the house and erecting ranges of farm buildings. It is said that the manner of his fixing Bordentown as a residence was that once, when the Emperor Napoleon was speaking upon the subject of the contingency of being forced to abandon France and seek refuge in America in the presence of Joseph and some of his officers, he unrolled a map and placing his finger upon a spot in New Jersey, said in substance: “If I am ever forced to fly to America, I shall settle somewhere between Philadelphia and New York, where I can receive the earliest intelligence from France by ships arriving at either port.” He purchased another property in Jefferson County in the State of New York, whic consisted of a huge tract of wild country and hunting ground, where he went from time to time on shooting expeditions. In 1822 he built a mansion on his wilderness estate in Jefferson County, and installed as mistress of the mansion in the woods, Annette Savage, a daugiicer of a Quaker family in Philadelphia. He divided his time between Bordentown and his house in the wilderness, and when he returned to Europe, he left Annette in America after making provision for her and a daughter she had born to him IX 1817, a law was passed by the Staie of New Jersey, permitting him to purchase and hold real estate, without becoming an American citizen, and a copy of this law was BONAPARTE FAMILY sent to him with expressions of benevolent courtesy by Gov. Mahlon Dickerson, of New Jersey. In 1825, the State of New York granted him the same privilege, but it is said that the same application to the Legislature of Pennsylvania was refused. His estate at Bordentown came to known as “Bonaparte Park.” The was situated on the Jersey banks of the Delaware River, and in appearance it would probably have resembled a moderate English country home. He is said to have bought it for $10,000 and to have laid out $20,000 more in having it completed in splendid style. In those days this was a vast amount of money. The mansion was destroyed by fire in January, 1825, and in the construction of a new house, he used his stable, where this lantern hung outside the wide entrance, and by alterations and extensions converted it into a structure hardly inferior to his former dwelling. He seemed to have a particular liking for the lantern, because he did not permit it to be disturbed from its position. The lantern seems to have come to America in one of the shipments of art treasures and other material which he was constantly receiving from Europe. His wife, Juliet, who resided in Florence, Italy, during the whole period of his exile, and between himself and whom there existed the greatest love, venera- tion and respect, was never able to make the sea voyage on account of her health. It seems most probable that Juliet herself sent the lantern with a quantity of other material to her husband. His wife had born him two daughters, Princess Zenaide, the oldest, and Charlotte, both of whom resided with Joseph at Bordentown. URING all the time that Joseph lived in America, a period of sixteen years, the lantern was a beacon of hospitality that light- ed the way of such visitors as Lafayette, Moreau, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Adams, General Scott, Major Stewart and Major Stockton, and a host of other “choice and master spirits of the age,’’ who were frequent callers at the Bordentown mansion. Joseph lived at his mansion in elegant style and came to be much esteemed and respected by the residents of Bordentown. He visited England in 1832, returned to America in 1837 where he remained nearly | two years, most of the time being spent at his mansion in Bordentown, and again went to England in 1839. In 1840, he suffered a paralytic attack from which he never re- covered, and he died at Florence, Italy, in the presence of his wife on July 28, 1844, at the age of seventy-six years. Princess Zenaide had married her cousin, Charles Lucien, and bore him eight children, of whom Joseph Lucien Charles Napoleon inherited the Park and all the real estate of his grandfather in America except the Groveville Farm. Joseph Lucien, the son of Zenaide, came to Bordentown and took possession of the estate shortly after his grandfather’s death. He resided at Bordentown at periods for a number of years. In 1845, he disposed of some of the most valuable of the statuary and paintings at a public auction sale on the premises in Bordentown. Some of these were very rare, several paintings of Rubens being among them. At last, in 1847, the Park was put up at auction and the highest bidder, Thomas Richards, Esq., of Philadel- phia, became the purchaser. Joseph Lucien died in Rome in 186s. Thomas Richards held title, however, for only a few years, conveying the property to Henry Beckett, Esq., on the 15th of October, 1850. Mr. Beckett was a son of Sir John Beckett, of Somerby Park, Lincolnshire, England. He had come to this country many years before and settled in Philadelphia, at which port he was for a long time British Consul. He married a Miss Hamilton, who was descended from Andrew Hamilton, a Scotchman and Deputy-Governor of Penn- sylvania in 1701. The Hamiltons lived in great state at their country seat at Bush Hill, near Fairmount. Prior to Mr. Beckett’s purchase of Bonaparte Park, he resided in the Ma/‘llard House, and not being satisfied with the old Bonaparte house, he had it pulled down and near its site erected a modern residence with gas and hot and cold water. The only things Mr. Beckett saved from the place were two mantelpieces sent to this country as a present to the Count by his uncle, Cardinal Fesch. They were carved in Italy at a cost of $1,500 each, and are beaut ful as works of art. Major Keegan, who was a resident of Phila- delphia, but prominent as a horseman and whip through the countryside, and who had always admired the lantern, acquired it from Mr. Beckett when he was disposing of the movable articles preparatory to pulling down the old Bonaparte house. So far as’is known, however, he never used it, permitting it to lie stored in the attic of his home in Philadelphia, where it was found by Colonel Keegan, his son, now eighty-six years old, and from whom it was acquired by Mr. Edelman. be house | HARPER’S BAZAR NEEDLESS HAIR » Like magic, this pink disc leaves the skin smooth Have you tried the wonderful BELLIN’S Wonderstoen) HIS amazing discovery is the daintiest, surest and safest way to remove and dis- courage needless hair on the face, arms, and legs. Just use Hon- derstoen. It is a flat, pinkish disc and is as easy to use as a powder puff. Apply Wonderstoen in a rotary motion over parts desired, then hair and fuzziness are in- stantly erased. 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Absorbine Jr LINIMENT — E ANTISEPTIC READ THESE BOOKS BAIRD LEONARD Sa ys should ever have been considered a light- minded occupation and drawn down upon the heads of those who indulged in it such opprobrious criticism from our thrifty and straightlaced forefathers, when fiction is now recognized as one of the most reliable avenues to fact and the novelist has come into his own as a true, as well as pleasant, interpreter of whatever phase of life he. chooses for his theme. Not to be au courant with the pro- ductions of those story-tellers who have es- tablished themselves as worthy of attention is not only a personal loss but a social de- ficiency, in these days when you never can tell what is going to pop into the head of the person sitting next you at dinner. The season is now at hand when publishers are pulling up the shop curtains on their offerings in this line, and conspicuous in the display is “Show Boat” by Edna Ferber (Doubleday, Page and Co.), whose “So Big” captured, and accepted in the spirit in which it was offered, last year’s Pulitzer prize. This time Miss Ferber, who is clever in not letting her reach exceed her grasp in the selection of material, has dipped into the pageantry of our national past and, meager though it be, extracted something out of which she has fashioned a spirited and sym- pathetic narrative. She does drag in, to be sure, not only by the hair of the head but by name, a few actors and dramatic critics of New York’s contemporary theatrical world, but don’t let that put you off. They are but evanescent accessories to the main business of the plot, and surely a reading public ac- customed to the great and actual names with which E. Barrington seasons her historical romances should not falter at the casual mention of Herbert Swope. Readers of this magazine will know, from what Miss Loos told them a month or two ago, that the Algonquin group is out, and readers from those districts to whose hearts this story will lie nearest will not know that it was ever in. “Show Boat” takes its title from those glorious caravansaries of entertainment which floated up and down the Mississippi and its chief tributaries before the unromantic nickelodeons arrived to make their business unprofitable. Nothing, it would seem from Miss Ferber’s revelations, could ever make it stale or flat. To the residents of the river towns the show boat was a godsend, anchor- I’ IS remarkable that the reading of novels | ing twice a year to mitigate the asperities of | existence with presentations of “Tempest and Sunshine,” “East Lynne,” and other popular masterpieces of the period. 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I might add, in order to do “Show Boat” full justice, that aside from being an interest- ing story told against a rich and colorful background, it contains an excellent formula for stuffing ham. The author’s acumen may be more sharply instanced by mentioning that upon one occasion the heroine, when at her sartorial best, “looked as if she had stepped out of the pages of Harper’s Bazar.” Now that the public is no longer afraid of five dollar books—and the reference is to the contents, not the price, too many proofs having been offered recently that a book which is expensive need not by that token be dull—it is a genuine pleasure to commend to you “The Story of Philosophy” by Will Durant (Simon and Schuster). The con- junction of the author’s first name with the Ph.D. which follows it would be sufficient evidence that he is a regular fellow, even had H. L. 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