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FASHIONS AND FANCIES
The Feminine Mood Made Happy.
MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1927.
DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
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NEW SEASON GINGER
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Most reliable, good strong colour, mellow
and well preserved.
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The feminine desire for acces-seen on the evening scarfs. Ostrich dress. The position of the pos}, series of unusual appeal and dis- feathers in the long silky flues also however, is by no means stable and it appears with smart results at tinction may still be observed in serve as an elaborate edging. all the lovely things that Paris and The envelope purae has come to both shoulder, hip, waist or in cas- dur own smart shops offer.
create a chic addition to the list of cading effects from almost The chiffon scarf has come to re-accessories. In ostrich, alligator; point. The flower itself has grown place the more sturdy silk scarf of anakeskin or lizard it appears. In in beauty if not in size. The foral last year. "The lovely new designs oblong design. The suede or calf-displays are no longer merely huge in outline but are often small and in both pastel and vivid tones are skin flat envelope bag may also be
In their reproductions: seen giving a gay touch about the seen, but generally with an addition perfect
The chiffon, rúbbor, leather, wool- neck when the winter coat is open- of python skin for a new note.
len fabric and velvet flower are all ed. The scarf, of course.lengthens
seen in their proper places.." out in the evening into, shawl-like dimensions and is very appealing this season. Its fluttering folds of chiffon are seen in a huge aquare of exotic designs.
In the evening, the rhinestone pocketbook or the crocheted peart bag is the correct thing to accom- pany the formal costume. The Aubusson anvelope purse is also very smartly seen.
The georgette handkerchief has come to gain its share of interest.
Jewellery is always important. This season has seen introduced many pieces of charm. There is a tendency to introduce general charmingly designed jewels of a semi-precious nature. The settings
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never occurred to them that with the Insurance Act nothing was done for women working in the home? If any of them had any knowledge of the working woman in the home. they would agree that if a man fell
he could go home,, where his wife was waiting to act as his nurse, and his doctor and his sick allowance were provided under the insurance scheme. The housewife, It seamed, Bad but two alternatives--other
The shawl itself of Spanish origin is still seen, but there has come to accompany it et smart places a in all sorts of interesting patterns, i ara of utmost importance and mark she had to keep well or die:
it is seen in colours ranging from light tints to coloured shades.
shaw of either silk, lame or chiffon that ia heavily embroidered in self tones, that is very new and pleas- ing. Wide fringe being particularlyn, popular this season it is of course
DECORATION OF GLOVES.
the jewellery of a very new mode.
Billie Dave, whose appearance is The washable capeskin glove with always marked by her attention to the little things, is seen in First strap that goes all around is seen very smartly for sports and travel-National's new film, "An Afair of Bag. The more formal glove shows the Follies," wearing accessories a decorative cuff in colourful stitch-that will be of the utmost import ing or applique.
ance during the winter season.
PARAFFIN WASHING.
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Bracelets continue important: The reproduction of antique They appear in all versions of slave- gloves for the smart modern link designs and also come in sets. woman's wear is sending manufac- of very slender loops of gold to be turers to the museums for models. worn.in groups of five or six. One West-end shop is selling copies The flower that so brightly marks of the gloves worn by Queen Eliza- the shoulder of the coat is seen with beth at her coronation. the ori-equal success on the mid-winter ginals of which are in the manufac turers' possession. The gloves have wide gauntlets with a gusset at the side, and are edged with gold braid. Over the knuckles a crown is embroidered in tingel. There is not much difference be tween the medieval and the modern gauntlet, and, strange as it may seem, these gloves..are by no means too fanciful for smart attire. The "knight's glove" is another repro- duction, and bus as its chief feature & handsome blue and silver border. There is also the "Pharaoh glove." which has a medallion centre and
The Egyptian design.
"Marie Therese" pattern has a delightful little strap and is decorated with leather work and a piece of horn:
In addition to these copies of antique gauntlets, the shops are showing gloves with hand-em- broidered cuffs, Some are actually embroidered in genuine point-de- Beauvais, favourite patterns being the willow and a wreuth of roses. That such fine handwork should be used in the decoration of gloves in- dicates how eager the public is to procure something good and choice of its kind, In another instance the cuff is adorned with roses very finely worked in a tapestry stitch Hand- on canvas foundation.
อ painted and raa-embroider/14 wrists are other novelties.
You
are invited to inspect our stock of Asiatic, Foreign and Colonial POSTAGE STAMPS IN SETS, SINGLE, PACKETS BAGS AND IN APPROVAL SHEETS.
GRACA & CO. DEALERS IN POSTAGE STAMPS, PHILATELIC GOODS, PICTURE FOST CARDS, Toys, &c, No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, 2.0. Box No. 620, Hong Kong.
VICGS- I'M TELLING YOU'SE THIS DINNER WE'RE GONNA GINE YOU SHOULD BE HELD ON TUESDAT· BUT, CASEY HERE THINKS THURSDAY IS THE NIGHT!
-& KNOW I'M
RIGHT-JIGGS!
YOURE WRONG.”
"TUESDAY.
·IS BETTER!
THE HARDIER SEX.
Where Women "Excel Over
Men..
"Skimpy skirts, short clothes, and bobbed hair are far more suitable than the baggy trousers and tha flappy coats of men," declared Dr. Jane Walker, defending prosent-day I is not generally known that women's clothes when addressing paraffin, used in conjunction with members of the National Union of water, soap, and soda, is extremely Societies for Equal Citizenship at useful for washing very greasy the Mary Summer House, Tufton- London, recently. Dr. clothes, Buch as kitchen aprons. It street, is also very efficacious in the case of Walker also" contended that women are more, stalwart than men, they infectious clothing, as the germs are lilled in the process of washing.have greater vitality and live long-
Half-All the copper with water, and in it dissolve a quarter of a pound of soup and a quarter of a pound of soda. When the water fa boiling, add two tablespoonfuls of the best paraffin oil; then put in the dirty clothes.
Boil for half an hour, adding more soap and soda to the water if acum rises to the surface, as this shows that the water is too hard. Remove the articles from the cop- per and rinse them thoroughly, first in hot water to which goda has been added, and then in cold water. If possible, allow the clothes to dry in the open air, as this helps to re- move any slight smell of paraffin.
Infectious clothing must be boiled in the water (prepared as above) for at least one hour. This will kill the gorms; but the articles should be boiled twice more in order to kill the spores which would other wise be liable to develop later.
er. Year by year women tended to get stronger, and it was extremely rare nowadays to find # woman Buffering from the old complaint- Anaemia. She wanted to know why women working in the factory should be made to do fre drill while men were exempted. Could it be that the men were more intelligent? Fire drill was an excellent thing it men and women alike were made to do it. Women must make up their minds to stand together upon their feet. "Do not let us," she said, "be hypnotised into thinking our 'place is always the second place, and that men's place must always be the first place,"
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Dr. Christine Murrell wondered if they would have such unnecessary restrictions if women ander the age There had of 80, had the vote. never been any, proposal, as far as she was aware. of the eight-hour day for the housewife. Had it
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Mias. Cicely Hamilton, giving in- stances to show that women were hardier than men, said she believed that women were more difficult to drown than men. If one
tock a
walk on the Brighton-road one saw the epormous number of young men and women who went out joy-riding
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on motor bicycles. The young boy ings. In spite of malnutrition and riding the bike was protected by a
leather jacket and helmet; the girl the black eyes they received from behind him on the pillion had an their husbands, there were always open neek and artificial silk stock-more widows than widowers.
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