The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
ENGLISH WOMEN.
 WEAR NEW STYLE |OF BOYISH BOB
EEton Crop Calls For
 Short Hair And Pink EdIS
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| LONDON, Dec. 6.-The Eton Crop |has appeared among London's ultra Fashionable women and bids fair to be- come rapidly popular in modish May flair. As the name indicates, it is style which has been traditionally popu- liar in England's public schools. It is Essentially masculine in appearance. The hair, is cut short and shaved from the nape of the neck, the ears are entirely exposed and their lobs colored carm- line, thus dispensing with earrings. The cut is considerably shorter than is usual for boy, with the hair wide |iy parted on the left and, brushed back severely, Women with naturally wavy locks are using special strengthening machine to iron their kinks, process not unknown among the colored gentry of Dixie but heretofore never put into practice by Nordic blondes.
 Britons unable to bear the expense of trip to the Alps for their winter sports will be able to have some near skiing" in Piccadilly, where one of the bigger stores has erected an imitation snow slope for their patrons to prac- tice this difficult port. The "Piccadilly |Alps" have the form of a giant switch back railway. Londoners who have done nothing more serious than walk from their clubs to Bond street or the theater may be seen daily trying to negotiate the ups and downs of the structure, attired in suitable" garb.
 Wearing a pair of skis they try vigor- ously to follow the instructor, who climbs and descends easily, but so far the pupils have been more adept at descending than ascending, and then seldom in the approved Alpine manner. The slope is 30 feet long and is cOv- cred with a whitish material, slickly waxed.
 Prince Plays Banjo
 The Prince of Wales is learning to play the banjulele and thousands of his fathers subjects are taking up the cross word puzzle craze, which has only recently crossed the Atlantic. The prince, who is somewhat of jazz dilet- tance, recently took a few tips on thumping the banjo from an American master of that instrument who hap pened to be performing in "a London cabaret. He has been beating the snare and base drums in syncopated manner for quite some time, and now finds leisure to plunk away at the banJulele. Ia hybrid instrument combining some oi the qualities, whether good or bad, of the banjo and the ukelele.
 Several members of Wales suite share his enthusiasm for the throbbing, synco' pated dance tunes broadcast for Broad, way and with their aid and that oi some friends he has an orchestra of his own at St. James Palace. :.
 The aristocratic cocktail, America $ gift to the convivial world, is being Standardized and democratized by tht British. Within the last few weeks ready-mixed cocktails have been put or the market in bottles shaped like cock tailshakers. They are all ready tt serve-Martinis, Bronxes, Manhattan' or what7will-you.
 The tinkling sound of shaking ic' which was such sweet music to the ear of many Americans in the old days, i denied the buyers of these ready mad drinks, but the Briton never goes il for ice anyway. ls
 The older generation of 2 drinkers never friendly to the cocktail, is hor rified by the latest innovation.\ On' such connoisseur remarked recent! that there was at least some excuse for Americas pride in the cocktail O the prev Volstetadian days. Then, he ex plained, his host insisted on mixing hi own and some fame was attached to thu creation of a new or unusual glassful but to have ready made ones, as alik as two mugs of beer from one bar rell, seemed to him a descent iron nristocratic grace into one of the mos horrible ways of standardized demo cracy.
 The old school has always opposed tfss cocktails invasion of England, de claring it the most pernicious drinl ever invented and accusing it of destroy Ing the palate and causing its addict to lose all taste for good wine, bu the cocktail continues to supersede tn more delicate drinks unpopular favor
 The younger men and women of Lon don, who are more and more turnin to the United States as arbiter of thei amusement standards, are the principa experimenters with this pre-prandia concoction. 5,. t-,.
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