58 
LAND & WATER 
THE-WEST END 
^u 'Tiisse-Parcout 
December 7, 1916 
Well Matured 
Lavender Water 
Lavender water with its old-world scent 
and associations appeals to every dainty 
woman, and is sure of a grateful reception 
at Christmastide. 
Like many of her 
things there is, 
however, lavender 
water and lavender 
water, the lesser 
qualities being but 
mere apology fur 
the perfume they 
really should be. 
It is good news 
to learn of a 
really perfect 
lavender water, 
the fragrance from 
which is like a 
lavender bed in 
full bloom with 
the sua pouring 
down on it. This 
lavender water is kept by a firm of widespread renown and 
reliability, and the reason for its excellence is its age. It is 
all kept for four years after distillation, none being offered 
for sale till then. This makes all the difference to lavender 
water, as those buying it will quickly discover. It gains in 
perfume and delicacy to an almost incredible extent, and is a 
toilet water unusually rare. 
The price is all it should be, bottles costing is., 2s. 2d., 
4s. 6d., 6s. 3d., just according to size. 
Golden Meal 
Semolina 
Everybody is on the hunt for cheap 
nutritious food and it can be found With 
golden meal semolina. This hails from 
America, the demand of Americans over here for it in fact 
leading to its being stocked at all. Once estabhshed in this 
country the fancy for it is likely to remain, for with golden 
meal semolina a clever cook can work wonders. 
In colour it is a pale attractive-looking gold colour. 
When made into a milk pudding even that ordinary dish 
loses its dullness, while the addition of a little cream makes 
It particularly tempting. The main point, however, at this 
time is its cheapness. Two pounds cost the modest sum of 
5^d., while a big quantity, twenty eight pounds, costs but 
5s. 9d., amply repaying buying in bulk. 
The Perfect Bed 
Table 
In the past few months many bed tables 
have been mooted, but the best design 
without doubt is the "Adapta" adjust 
able bed table. This can be adjusted to any angle by the 
simple pushing of a button at the top. It can thus be easily 
worked by the person in bed. 
Througli these means it can be a breakfast tray, a book 
rest, a card table or anvthing else needed. The table is 
supported on a forked /oot going right under the bed so 
that no weight is on the occupant inside. Another rather 
unusual feature is the way. in which this table can act as a 
back rest. It gives the most complete support to anyone 
sittin.; up in bed and for this alone is invaluable. 
A clear bttle booklet fully illustrated concerns itself solely 
with this new comfort and will be forwarded with pleasure. 
Notions Worth 
Adopting 
People with an eye to the renovating 
of their evening wardrobes on account 
of Christmas visiting or the like 
will be interested in some most attractive Russian coats. 
Made in ninon or a thickish weave of chiffon they are trimmed 
most becomingly with marabout. The waist gauged into 
pretty fullness is run on elastic so that they fit practically 
everybody. Thev fasten beneath a marabout square buckle 
and worn over an old evening frock or tea gown refresh 
it in a way nothing short of electrifying. They are kept n 
any amount of lovely colourings. 
Renovating etceteras are indeed a feature at the shop in 
mind. Also shown here is a most lovely wrap fichu, copy 
of a Doucet model. Of gold run lace, the graceful ends 
fasten at the back in a ve y novel way and once more a 
transforming work is wrought. 
The same people stock ready for wear sUps in white or 
black taffetas at exceedingly low prices. Colours will be 
made to order and one of these slips combined with one 
of the lovely chiffon coats shown in such profusion make the 
most attractive informal evening gown. 
To Bazaar Stall 
Holders 
A toilet stall can be the centre of attrac- 
tion at a bazaar if it is properly equipped 
and prettily arranged. A firm of tlie most 
enticing perfumers in town are making special bazaar offers, 
full particulars of which will be promptly dispatched to any 
caring to see them. A form has to be filled up vouching 
that the articles will be used at a bazaar, but this is the only 
formality. 
The firm's specialities are legion. There is a most fragrant 
refreshing powder for dusting after a bath. Bath salts are ex- 
ceptionally good, while some face pow ler called the " Heart 
of a Rose ' is so true to its lovely name that one might indeed 
be smelling a bunch of fresh cut summer roses. 
Stockings never come amiss. They are 
such a good thing that nobody can have 
too many of them. A firm whose name 
Stockings for 
Christmas 
for stockings is 
famed far and 
near are putting 
up the most de- 
hghtful boxfuls for 
Christmas. In 
their dainty 
cretonne covering 
these stockings 
appear more than 
ever to advantage 
and the woman 
who may include 
them among her 
Christmas gifts 
will count herself 
a lucky mortal. 
Half a dozen 
pairs of pure black 
silk with lisle feet 
and tops cost 28s. 6d. in their box complete. Another box 
hfkls six pairs of coloured stockings of the purest French 
si k. Each stocking is finished by a hand-embroidered clock. 
Tlic shides are perfectly lovely and the price for the whole 
thing thirty shillings. Three pairs of capital cashmere 
stockings with silk clocks in black or coloured cost gs. 6d., 
these, too. being in a dainty box. So are some fine black spun 
silk stockings, three pairs of which cost 12s. 6d., a price to 
snap at now spun silk is so scarce. 
Apart from Christmas presents these stockings are worth 
buying from the ordinary point of view. Stockings are 
among -t the commodities that are bound to increase in price 
as time goes on, and the woman wise in her generation is fast 
laying in an advance stock of them. Every one of the stockings 
mentioned above are quoted at unusually low prices. Pri e^ 
which it is very certain cannot be repeated once the present 
stock is sold out. Frencii hose is becoming difficult to get 
because so many of the weavers are engaged on Government 
work, and the works themselves have been commandeered 
for other purposes. The French silk coloured stockings 
sold by the firm in question rank doubly in consequence. 
