CZECHOSLOVAKIA 



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Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams 



FOUR OE a kind: turciaxsky sv. martin 



The short skirt, now a fad in Paris and the United States, is habit in Czechoslovakia. 

 Aprons are not to be removed, but put on, when a maid starts for a promenade. The bodices 

 and the kerchief head-dresses are characteristic. One might suspect the newer republic had 

 felt the influence of prevalent American styles in shirtwaist modes and the "mutton-sleeve" 

 fashion of an earlier date. Chronologically, the reverse is true. The Czech grandmother 

 need not complain that debutantes do not dress as they did when she was a girl. They do. 

 The young woman with the embroidered white apron is a Slovak matron. She is wearing 

 a Cicmamy costume, in many respects the most beautiful to be found in Czechoslovakia. 



pansy-bed of interesting peoples in rain- 

 bow costumes. It might well be made an 

 international exhibit of much that is in- 

 teresting in racial development and life. 



THE STRUGGLE FOR A SOUND ECONOMIC 

 BASIS 



Rut romance is lighter on the stomach 

 than the most widely advertised break- 



fast food, and what the little country that 

 stands between Germany and Poland on 

 the north and the two pitiful remnants 

 of proud Austria-Hungary on the south 

 is now trying to do is to put itself upon 

 a sound economic basis, prosaic as the 

 process must be in comparison with the 

 spectacular adventures of the Czecho- 

 slovaks during the last few years. 



