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! A Queen's Wardrobe For A Royal Tour The bluze of publicity turned on- Queen Elizabeth II and what she wears is probably brighter than that focused on any woman in the world. Only- Mrs. John F. Kennedy, wife of the President of the United States, as her public engagements muly tiply in number, seems likely to attract such" a spotlight Queen Elizabeth 11, since she left the schoolroom, has had to wear clothes influenced to some extent by the circumstances of her public engagements, First shes must consider those ubiquitous cameras. Her clothes must show up well against a crowd in black and white pho- tographs. For this reason the Queen often chooses light colors. People who wait hours to sce the Queen pass by want to see her face and catch a glimpse of her_ smile. Her hats, therefore, must be either small or have off- the-face brims. Since her wedding, the Queen has been more adventurous in her styling and many here credit | the good dress sense of her hus- band, the Duks of Edinburgh for this. For her current tour to India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Iran, the Queen had more than 90 outfits, with special dresses for each big function, and a variety of cli mates had to be considered, too. Queen Elizabeth's chief dress- "maker is the usually cheerful, smiling Norman [Hartnell As 7 soon as the itinerary of a reyal tour is fixed, Mr. Hartnell is summoned from his Bruton Street salon to Buckingham PRINTED PATTERN collar flattery A deep - descending frames you in softest above a slimming skirt. Smart in daytime cottons -- elegant in silk or faille for gala evenings. Printed Pattern 4704: Half Sizes 121%, 141%, 16%, 18%, 207%, 821%. Size 16% requires 3% yards 85-inch fabric. Send FIFTY . CENTS (50¢) (sfamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety,) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. ANNOUNCING the biggest fa- shion show of Spring-Summer, 1061 -- pages; pages, 'pages of' tterns in our new Color Cata- og -- just out! Hurry, send 35¢ now! ISSUE 12 -- 1961 other g° CN # antiatl s h Peto WF A TAY fs : A ea ot SL ERLE - ia 5 + E21 : fehed - oan SHEEN ARF IE SARL SE RI, SPARRN ea a w "waists oes rime EEE ae many of those thousands Paluce for a preliminary con- ference. On the next visit to the Palace Mr. Hartnell takes samples of new and suitable fabrics. At this point the experi- enced "Madame Vera" one of Mr. Hartnell's chief vendeuses, comes into the picture. Her pri- vate name-is Madame Poncin, a | charming Englishwoman, widow of a Frenchman, who has the entire charge, from this moment, of shepherding the royal ward- robe through to completion. The Queen likes, whenever possible, to experiment with color and texture. She is keenly interested in the "feel" of fab-- rics. She presses them with her fingers and tests them. She loved the soft silks, chalk-white satins, gold shantungs, the di- aphanous organzas, and the corded grosgrains, from which day ands evening dresses were made for the Indian visit. As soon as the Queen has chosen the materials, Mr. Hart- nell retires, usually to his coun- try house not far from Windsor Castle, to niake delicate water- color sketches of the suggested models. Much discussion goes on when the Queen sees these. Each design is conned in detail and "visualized against the back- ground in which.it is likely to be worn, For the Indian visit there were gorgeous settings, and castern trappings, for which "the Queen chose dresses mostly in plain colors--pastels for day, and white with gold or silver for--evening to show up well against the strong reds, greens, and blues warn by Dritish and Indian guests. ' For her first State banquet in Pakistan the Queen chose a white satin evening gown with a dramatic folded train of em- erald satin flowing from the deep neckline, writes Ruth Jor- dan in the Christian Science Monitor. ) ; Another evening dress was a slender sheath, white crepe em- broidered in crystal brilliants and emeralds to match the Queen's emerald and diamond tiara. Tor day. wear the Queen chose. loose, collarless coats over cool- looking dresses, one in. gold shantung and another in peri- winkle blue. ' - _ Once the Queen has decided on the styles, there is bustling activity in Mr. Hartnell's work- rooms, behind the gray and sil- ver salon with its crystal chan- deliers.-Madame Vera is linchpin of this activity. _ Skilful fitters from go where fittings are carried out under the watchful eye of Mr. Hartnell and Madame Vera. Although there is a dummy of the Queen's figure. she has the usual number of fittings as ma- terials do not respond to an in- animate shape as they do to a moving figure. the - "salon to the Palace--at-intervals- Only those who have seen the ° Queen at close range realize how petite she is and how small her As of people who flock to see the Queen only see her head even when she stands up in the limou- sine as she has been doing in her Indian tour her hats are most important. . The Queen .chose quite frivo- lous models of Petals and flowers in pale colors. These sat high on her head and held their own against -a background of mag- nificent bright turbans worn by the Indians. Many of the Queen's hats are made by Claude St. Cyr, of Paris, who has a London salon _ on. the ground floor of Mr. Hart- nell's house. Queen Elizabeth's relaxed and simple mahner makes a fitting at Buckingham Palace an enjoy- .-able session. Often.she keeps the company laughing at her amus- "ing remarks. She herself 'clear- ly enjoys every minute of plan- ning and fitting. Those who serve her experience a charming" relaxed gaiety and, are warmed by a sweet smile which. is neces- sarily missing from solemn pub- lic appearances. Highway planning « somehow devises new and wider highways funneling into cities that had too much automobile traffic = ten years ago. 3 DAWKINS SCORES wr WITH CUPID -- Peter Dawkins, West Point All American who won fame as rugby player in England, an- nounced his engagement to Judi Wright, with whom he Is shown here, j 0 "freezing rain later on . . . THE GOVERNOR'S GIRLS -- Janet, left, twin daughters of Matthew Welsh, Democratic governor. of Indiana. The 18-year-old girls are freshmen at Indiana Uni- versity. That's the family Bible they're cradling. "and Kay Welsh are = T INGERFARM CY Gwendoline P.Clatke Friday, March 3, was a record day in Ontario insofar as warm air and "bright sunshine were concerned. Partner was out for a walk_ late that afternoon and stopped to talk to a neighbour. Fred remarked on the lovely spring-like day. "Yes," agreed Partner, "but there's rough wea- ther ahead." "Rough weather!" Fred incredulously: - "Yes," answered Partner -- and added "Ever heard of sun- dogs, Fred?" "I've heard of them but I can't . repeated Tsay To really know what--they--- 1. are." ¥ "Look over towards the west and you'll see them." Fred looked, and there. on either side of the setting sun were two perpendicular bars of red-gold light. "Those are sun- dogs," explained Partner. "When- ever you see them you may look for rough weather within about twenty-four hours." . nd we got it -- snow and ---winhd. during _the night, followed | with the "promise of and by rain Chicago got its tornado. We don't often see sun-dogs in Ontario. Out west we used to watch for them. After they ap- peared many a farmer would make a hurried trip to town to get supplies before the weather changed. Scmetimes the change' might be delayed fortv-eight hours, but it always came. Well, I'm glad the weather stayed fine here until I had my special little chore accomplished. That is, getting my new licence plates for the car. Yes, I was one of the late-getters, not from choice but necessity. 1 couldn't very well get them 'while I was confined to bed. : 1 got to our local office about ten o'clock on the morning of March 1. The parking lot ac- commodates about 100 cars. I drove in and around three times but never a space could I find. . Finally IT double-parked while I went to speak to a traffic officer. "Isn't there ever any' let-up- around here?" 1 asked. Cars- were" still rolling in. "No, ma'am!" "Then when is the best time to come -- can you tell me that?" "Eight-thirty in the morning -- that's when we open." » So I came away and went back next morning, arriving at -eight- twenty-five. Even so there were nine men ahead of me waiting on the steps for the doors to open. I got in the line-up. In about twenty minutees I was out again, my precious plates clutch- ed jealousy in my arms. By that time the office and lobby were full and all the parking space taken up again. While waiting around I noticed the required | "proof of insurance often proved to be a stumbling block. One man said_he was Insured but. couldn't find the voucher. "Then you must pay the extra $5 or come back -with your voucher." "It 1 pay now-and find the voucher later will the money, be * refunded?" "Sorry -- no refund." man paid his extra $5. Two women were filling out The "girl took over the form and fill | "Heck, I don't know if 1 have liability insurance!" The other | ed in the answers without ask- ing any questions! I had my in- surance policy with me as well as the voucher because last year our agent hadn't given enough information and I had to go bdck for the policy. This year I came prépared and sure enough it was needed. Our agent is going to 'hear about that, believe - me. Another thing, next year I'll be getting my plates the first week in January as. I have done other years -- that is, D:V. and wea- "ther permitting. What's the sense of putting it off? One might just:as well pay first as last. Money is just as hard to find one time as another. Well, here we go, back to farm topics. You know, sometimes when I watch "Country Time" on TV it almost scares me. The progress that has taken place since we were actively engaged "in farming is astounding. Eggs never touched by.human hands ~except-when taken from the hens | : ETE --» even that wouldn't be neces- sary with trap-nests. Suction cups pick up eggs; conveyor belts take them from one opera- tion to another; eggs moved from hens to packing plants in '48 hours. It would take a wise hen these days to know her own eggs. Efficiency . . . wonderful, but I wouldn't want it. For the sheer joy of farming give me the days when we worked with our biddies like buddies, with names for those with unusual characteristics. And they were never scared when we walked among them. Thirty -years ago "most small flocks had the run of the farm, laying somewhat strong flavoured eggs. But oh, the joy of it 'when we found a motherly ¢he had stolen away in +a dark corner of 'the barn. Those were the: days when, even if farming methods lacked efficiency, there was colour' and charm that pro- vided a tremendously satisfying way of life. ep British Mothers : Call Him "Bounder" The dver-worrying mothers of British debutantes knew ° the name well. It was that of Ed- ward Langely, 29, a tall, dark, sardenic man who had cut a swath among their daughters" that sometimes seemed wide as a heath. To them he was "that bounder," "that awful: man." The Indian-born son of a Brit- ish police officer and a Spanish . manicurist, Eddie Langely had racked up so many conquests that the courts repeatedly were susceptible -. girls, ~Until last month, there had been four such cases: 7 No. 1--Katharine Dowsett, 21. Her millionaire father chased her and Langley (they were elop- ing) to Scotland and broke down their hotel. door. ; 7 No. 2":Mary-June Moore, 19. Her stepbrother and™two friends in the Guards 'kidndpped her In forms for renewal. One said -- hen venturing forth with a clutch - of fluffy chicks hatched in a nest ~called'on to keep him away fiom GORGEOUS -- Tennis star Gus- sie Moran, she of the lace panties fame, wore this outfit to the Desert Circus Beaux Arts Ball in Palm Springs. Chelsea hotel and drove her back to Daddy's Sussex mansion. No. 3--Lady Saragh 'Seymour Le Poer Trench, 27. She joined Largley on a colossal binge that -- lasted until her ladyship's checks bounced. No. 4--Pat Dunn, 19. Langley"s 1960 _ fianc stepped in. Last month, still living it up in irict, Eddie Langley added No. B to the heiresses and debutantes from whom he has been more or less forcibly separated. She was Catharine Cadogan, 20, step- daughter of the British ambassa- dor to Brazil. To tear her from Langley's .charms she had just been whisked off on a 5,500-mile flight to Rio de Janiero. Naturally, this called for a party: Langley -threw..open his apartment to a swarm of Lon- don's uppercrust teen-agers and playboys and just about every- body who was nobody. During it, Langley mused to a reporter: "Champagne and caviar without a cent in my pockets . . . Phat's my way of life. I love it." ~ People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the back of ~the -church, and ¢e--until her "parents | his basement flat on the edge of - London's Bohemian Chelsea dis- . the middle of | ory "That hour glass figure doesn't' - help her to get to work on time." ' CTR Te) va .of all she was struck by the lack "complete the china collection so like an art collector into an an- "The -desk was "one given --to-- * President Hayes President's Wife Digs Up Treasures i. Little has been scen of Mrs. Kennedy during her first month or more as a resident of the White House, but her presence has been felt in a very positive way. y For she is obviously a rather positive woman, with a strong' feeling for the artistic fitness of things. This was apparent al- most immediately. To " Like: any wife coming into a new home, she looked it over and saw 'things to be done. First of authentic, period furniture in the downstairs puplic' rooms. A quick tour of the White House brought to light hidden "treasures" in downstairs rooms' and tucked away in locked cab- inets. As a result some of these have been brought forward for use as public display. She saw paintings which she felt could be more prominently displayed to advantage in other parts of the house. Soon the American ° public began to realize that this young woman with her quiet,- almost shy appearance is a person with a mind of her own and not afraid to express it. Indeed, of all the nation's First Ladies, it 1s doubtful if any has come Into the White House and given it the imprint of her own portmaiy in so short a-time. ach First Lady has, in. some way, léft her signature there in some contribution to its historie 'mosalc, but this has generally come over the course of years, not weeks. Mrs. Eisenhower, for instance, made it her project to that there are now pieces rep- resenting all first families. ; Jacqueline Kennedy - plunged "into White House housekeeping. tique shop. She Immediately came upon a historic desk made from the timbers of the British ship Resolute. B in. 1878, and used by many Presidents since. But during the remodelling of the White House in the Truman administration it -was moved downstairs to what Is known as the "broadcast room." Mrs. Kennedy saw it not 'only as appropriate for the President's office because of its historle value, but also because "of its connection with the sea. The President, as a Navy man, had requested her to secure some paintings of naval battle scenes for his office. These she found among White House art, but the desk was an unexpected dis- covery. Many tourists have long ad- 'mired the lovely Howard Chan- dler Christie portrait of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge on the ground floor corridor. So did Mrs. Ken- nedy, and promptly had it hung in the more elegant setting of the Red Room. \ Most significant of all, per- "haps; --is---her---eonclusion-.that__ something should be done to remedy the lack of authentic period furniture in the first floor rooms--that is, the East Room, the Red, Blue, and Green Rooms, and the State Dining Room. Mrs. Kennedy was by no means the first to note the un- fortunate contrast between the beauty -of these rooms and the rather nondescript furniture in them. This has-been deplored by - visitors and by previous admin- istrations, writes. Josephine Rip- ley in the Christian Science Monitor. - : Silke Now thé present First Lady has taken the initiative toward remedying this deficiency. She has been in close touch with the her thinking about White House changes, and out of this develop ed the appointment of a com~ mittee of the Fine Arts Commis- sion which had just been given the task of locating authentle furniture of the period -- and then more important--of raising the funds to purchase these items. Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. Is a hostess obligated to rise and greet each newcomer to her home? : . A. Most certainly. A hostess who does not do so is rude and inhospitable, ' . Q. When meat is passed at the table, and the portion held clos- est to you is too big, or too well done, or has too much fat on it, is it all right to search through the' portions until yo find a suitable piece? - do it without taking too much time or without disarranging the whole dish. Q. What do you do when you have accidentally taken some "foreign matter" into your mouth at the dinner table -- stones, fish bones, and such? Are these removed with the fork? A. No, do not use the fork. These foreign bodies are remov- ed with the thumb and fore- finger, and placed on the edge of the plate. ~ For Year 'Round i Daughter looks so pretty in 'this whirl-skirted dress. Colorful . embroidery trims neck. A practical jumper! Can be a summer dress. Pattern 866: only the jumper pattern; sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 included; transfer. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont* Print plainly - PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- DRESS. JUST OFF THE PRESS! Send now for cur exciting, new 1961 Needlecraft Catalog. Over 125 designs to crochet, knit, sew, em- broider, quilt, weave -- fashions, homefurnishings, toys, gifts, ba- zaar hits. Plus FREE -- instruc- _ tions for six smart veil caps. Hur- Fine Arts Commission in all of ry, send 25¢ now! A. This is all right if you can worn with blouse =withott;-it's ~~ the middle of the night from a 7 -DOINGS IN THE ART WORLD + tensions the art world continues to spin Isak Denesen, left, examines a statue «At an artists' ball in St. louis, Les P _ France, the resemblance is noted betwee her celebrated husband, Bernard. ~ Con pleted by ional cries; economic recession and cold war pace. In Copenhagen, Danish authoress U.S. sculptor Emile Norman, rup as a living mosaic. And in Paris, the paihting of her created by