The lingerie section was swamped!

And this time he pulled out a tortoise-shell shuttle round which was wrapped several inches of lingerie edging.

Fortunately we all are literally and scientifically inclined; the doom of purposeless fiction is sounded; and it is a great comfort to believe that, in the near future, only literary and scientific works suitable for man, woman, child, and suffragette, are to adorn the lingerie-laden counters in our great department shops.

Such a paragraph, for example, as the following, by "Lady Di," in The Sunday Evening Telegram, is hardly a clarion call to efficiency: "This recurrence of night raids has made business brisk in the lingerie salons, especially among flatland dwellers, for it's quite the thing now to have coffee and cake parties after a raid, with brandy neat in liqueur glasses for those whose nerves have been shaken.

"The lingerie shop in Oxford Streetwhat do you call itHobson's?" "I'm sure I don't knowthese ladies' things are a bit out of my line," said Rolfe, rising as he spoke

She put on a coat to match her skirt, leaving it partly open to show her transparent flesh-coloured lingerie waist.