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Land & Water 
February 14, igi8 
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DOMESTIC 
ECONOMY 
Scotch Tweed 
Suits 
like and attractive. 
Names and addresses of shops. Mere (he articles mentioned 
can be obtained, will be forwarded ^on receipt of a postcard 
addressed to Passe-PartotU. Land & Water, 5, Chancery 
Lane, IV.C. 2. Any other tn/ormation mill be given on request. 
Knockabout suits are the desidera- 
tum of everv won-i;in now-a-days, 
sometliiiig that she can spend most 
of her day in and always look woman- 
Nothing, of course, in ttiis particular 
category quite eclipses a well-cut tweed suit — but tweed and 
cut alike must be nowhere short of first-rate. 
A well known shop is laying special emphasis on their 
Scotch tweed suits selling at — considering the present cost 
of tweeds — an exceptionally reasonable pric-e. They are 
excellently cut, and the materials are carefully chosen, 
durable ones, certain to last and wear. One model in par- 
ticular appeals, a perfectly plain well-tailored coat and a skirt 
actually boasting the old-fashioned type of useful pockets 
concealed either side of the front panel. Tliere is a tweed belt 
and a general air of finish about the whole thing not always 
easy to find. Another capital feature is the waterproofed 
lining to the coat — a boon this, now so many women are out 
in all weathers. 
The range of colours is a big and vastly attractive one, 
blues, greens, browns, violets, pinks and mixtures being all 
represented. Coats and skirts are willingly sent on approval, 
or a range of patterns can be forwarded. Buying these suits 
is a chance not to be lightly set aside. Tweeds are likely to 
be di;3,wn into the shortage vortex before many months are 
over, and in any case their prices are abundantly certain to 
mount. There is another Scotch tweed model with a belt and 
big patch pockets — an inserted pleat behig adroitly introduced 
at the back of the coat, while some real Connemara and 
Harris tweed suits are so desirable that few seeing them will 
refrain from going a step further and purchasing. 
Before choosing a new spring frock 
Something New everyone should choose a new corset 
in Corsets — there being true economy in the 
idea since the success of the first 
hinges entirely on that of the second. A really good corset 
at a reasonable price is not the easiest of things to find, but a 
famous firm whose name for years has been syonymous with 
value has got it. Their " Ravissant " corset is every single 
thing a stay should be, running through the widest gamut of 
quality, style, and prices and in consequence suiting everyone, 
no matter what their Tcquirements arc. 
There is, for example, the guinea model, as certain to 
achieve fame as that syimmer is coming. This is what 
might be called " a good all-round stay," it is light, 
ha.s unbreakable bones, and is high at the back to give welcome 
support just about the shoulders. A stay like this suits the 
majority of tigures, 
Big women , however, will specially welcome the 
" Ravissant " stay made for their particular benefit. This 
is so arranged in front that when the wearer sits down extra 
room is at once allowed. Standing up suspenders auto- 
matically restore it to place and everytliing is in position. 
For war-workers there is the Tricot Ravissant, a very lightly 
boned stay, giving ample play and freedom and no more than 
I2S. <")d. in price. Then there is a Ravissant de Lu.\e, a stay 
of satin broche, model 33, for 6 ;;s., and many others, so that ail 
sides of the picture are duly considered. Every detail of these 
stays, be they high or low priced, is carried out by an e.Kpert, 
and their patrons are bound to be content. .\n assortment wi'l 
be sent on approval, but any new customers will facilitate 
despatch by suppljdng a London trade refeience. 
One of the most important matter^ 
The Collapsible in a baby's entourage is the bath 
ggfU in which he begins and ends his 
day. A collapsible bath is an idea 
particularly well worth heeding from more than one 
point of view. For one thing it is raised, being slung 
in such a way that anyone bathing a baby can do so with 
greatest ease, not having to stoop in the usual back-aching 
manner. Then when not wanted it folds perfectly flat and 
can be put in any nook or corner well out of the way. 
Emptying presents no difficulty, there being a special 
arrangement to let the water out, while for travelling it is 
nothing more nor less than ideal. 
Lately a great feeling has sprung up for folding things, but 
on every side it is perfectly understandable. The mere 
possibihty of being able to fold up a thing and put it away 
enhances its value at once, for it is not everyone with roomy 
houses and space to spare — added to which, numbers of (oik 
are now birds of passage. 
Everyone knows fiow difficult it is 
No More Stained to keep forks really clean, especially 
Forks when the domestic staff is not one 
of vast dimensions. Eggs and such 
like things have an untoward habit of staining between the 
prongs, with the unwelcome result that the dinner table is 
often not the immaculate affair it ought to be. 
In the old order of things fork prongs were most obstinate 
to clean, requiring a considerable amount of time and labour 
to keep them anything like in condition at all. Now this is all 
changed, they can be kept perfectly clean and shining through 
the good offices of the simplest little contrivance, the " Unecdit" 
Fork PoUsher. This is easy to work and so immediate in its 
results that ten forks can be brought up to the mark in the 
space of one minute. Powder is put on the polishing strands, 
the prongs of , the fork inserted between, and with a few 
movements up and down, the excellent deed is done. Backs 
and fronts are then just rubbed along a single strand and the 
whole prong of a fork is as bright and attractive as it should 
by rights be. 
A few other details, all of the most uncomplicated character, 
combine to make this polisher the ingenious contrivance it 
is'^nd one upon which the inventor has every cause to be 
congratulated. Before the p^lisher is used forks should be 
washed and all grease removed. It costs 3s. 6d. post free, 
or will be sent accompanied by a tin of specially good plate 
powder for 4s. — powder, polisher and posting combined. 
By Way of 
Information 
Golf shaped woven knickers in 
stockinette or cashmere have long 
been easy to get, but women find it a 
different matter when they want the 
same shape in longcloth, cambric or nainsook. Yet washing 
ones of this sort are often needed, and many a weary search 
has been made for them. A certain firm specialise in this 
particular type of pnnt.ilon from 4s. i id. They are edged with 
embroidery and are one and all the quintessence of durable - 
/ wear. Some are run at the waist into an elastic and very 
comfortoble thev are. Three .different sizes are available. 
They will tte gladly forwarded on approval, provided anyone 
not already known to the firm supplies the customary London 
reference. Passe-P.vrto-jt^ 
Provided D. H. Evans of Oxford Street have a say in the matter, 
nothing but praise can greet the hats of the spring. For llie new 
models showing are all and everything a spring liat should be, and 
quite enough to make us even prematurely discard winter headgear. 
It is abundantly certain that brocade hats of all sorts and sliapcs will 
have it all their own charming way. Evans are showing any number 
of these, notably a dark blue and gold brocade model with >oinething 
unusually clever in the way of a blue-beaded ornament. Then there 
are some'dehghtful high-draped toques of satin, a high black satin one 
draped in precisely the right way just awaiting some uncommonly 
lucky owner. A hat of legal and loof-ih straw in many different 
combinations of colouring and trimmed simply .with a bow and tie of 
ribbon is cheapness personsified at i8s., while novelty marks some 
hats of pedal straw for its own. These have clever little crochet bands 
finished off with a tiny beaded motif — are in all colours and cost no 
more than twenty-five shillings. Quite exceptionally charming, too, 
is a hat of basket straw in a picturesque Dolly Varden shape for 25/9. 
It is tied and bound with ribbon and boasts a bright little floral picquet. 
In rose colour it looks as charming as a hat can — but many oth.-r 
colours are also in the running and e.iu.iUv hard to beat. 
