THE CHINA MAIL,
WOMEN'S
Frills of Yesterday.
The Latest Evening Frocks
Three Spring Hats
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1929.
FANCIES
Thrills of To-day.
What Ice-Skating Bathers. Wear
Two exclusive Reville creations. The gown on left is of lacquer red and burnished gold lame, made in a distinctive style with graduated frills at back and long side draperies, while that on right is a dainty ronfection of primrose tuile with insertions
lace, the long trail of roses from shoulder to bem making a dainty finish to the old-world fullness of the skirt.--(Sport and General).
Note the Designs
A touch of the right colour is an impurtant accessory in the
woman's ensemble.
A WORD ON HATS
smart
Enterprising milliners must be having great fun this season. The word "toque" perhaps hardly im- plies the chic of the terribly at tractive Horal hats. A well-known artist gives us a cap entirely com- posed of open-work velvet and silk leaves on a foundation of a fine network of straw, all in beige bronze shade.
Kayser Slipper Heel Hosiery
MEN ARE HONEST
BUT A JUDGE DOES NOT THINK SO
A PAYING HABIT
I suppose a judge is not likely to hold a high opinion of human nature, says the "Daily Telegraph," He sees too much of what is not its brightest and best. Ia my innocence I sometimes wonder whether the barrister who has to
Talk about taking the old strap off the roll! What the ladies aren't going to do to the petty cash ja nobody's business this Spring. The nifty felt of silver grey at the left, that Mary Nolan, ex- tremely blonde in complexion, fi nds so becoming, will make a hit anywhere. Just gaze at the mystery honnat of navy blue, centre, revealing one of Esther Ralaton's eyebrows, and then, if you can stand. the strain, see how the briramed hat of white corded silk faced with black becomes Anita · Page. They are only three of the pretty styles which are yamping the ladies this year of 1929, ..
bably the King's estimate of his fellow creatures was much the same as the judge's-we are all dishonest in patches.
found by chance if the something | tive scale. Yet we do find that the happens to be attractive to the number of people who attempt. finder. This I do not belleve in these big defalcations, embezzle- the least. And speaking without ments, and what not is insignificant For one thing, honesty, like personal přejudice for I never compared with the number of those other virtues, is not only a question found anything which had the who have the opportunity, of meaning well, but of intelligence slightest interest for me-I doubt and taking pains. It is impos-if this sort of temptation is very sible to be honest if you do not powerful to the normal mind. keep a moderately clear head. Of course, there are people who You forget let us take one of the cannot see anything left without most familiar instancas-petty debts which you ought to have paid. An excuse is not to be found in the fact that you have genially forgotten other debts due to you. Honesty does not consist in ignor ing obligations. That may
be a comfortable and, so long as you confine your negligence to trifling obligations, a jovial and popular way of living.
But Mr. Justice Swift would be quite justified in saying it was "dishonest în patches."
There is another department. 1
demn.
From Paris
The latest in ladies' novelties, with a forecast as to what designs. summer materials will be of.
or a
Hardy London girl swimmers undaunted by the Arctic spell a few weeks ago, The Kenwood Regulars Ladies' Swimming Club, of Hampstead, London, indulge in some winter pastimes on the ice, in their bathing costumes prlor: to breaking the ice for their customary swim at Kenwood Pond. Two of the members indulge in a little skating. (Sport and General).
ordinary rules, because the plen- ant fiction lingers that he is bur dared with grave matters of busi ness, or that his professional cares weigir heavily upon him.
In spite of the existence of the criminal law and Mr. Justice Swift, it is true that our society is organised on the assumption of general honesty, and in general the assumption is justified. No insistance upon the uncertainty of property of umbrellas or on the common baseness of mankind in the matter of matches shall shake my belief that in general and in important things most of us are honest, not in patches, but as a matter of routine, I do not sug gest that the ordinary man and woman are particularly good. I do suggest that they are not are also the quaint individuals who particularly silly. They know cultivate a certain brusqueness,
that honesty is the best policy.
BAD MOURNERS
A WOMAN'S THOUGHTS
- THEREON
The artist or poet is still excused because of the deeply rooted belief that creative work makes one rather odd, even though some of the most successful men in these lines book like smart stockbrokers. And there
and are self-consciously unconsci- ous of the ordinary rules for what used to be called in the nursery "pretty behaviour.”
The Golden Rule But for a woman there is less tolerance. As ahe is supposed to have more time for social mätters,` her manners are more in evidence and subject to closer scrutiny.
When it comes to the old oateh,
be the champion of most unpleas-wonder how many of us take pains ant people, or the judge who sees to it that their unpleasantness is to see that people who have deal-
ings with
us do not cheat them-an owner handy and abstain from well and truly exposed, is more
selves. It is not for me to con- stealing it. But apart from esses likely -to despise his fellow-
How often do I count myof this jackdaw instinet, I don't creatures. But no doubt the
How often do I make believe the first impulse of the judge, having had all the barrister's change?
sure nothing has been overlooked finder of a diamond tiara
(By Mary Moore] experience as well as that of the in a bill? When I am sharing string of pearls is to appropriate
When William of Wykeham pro- Bench, is better equipped for cynicism. When I read that Mr. expenses with somebody else, do the thing,
nounced the dictum that Manners I go over each item to be certain There are much more subtle Makyth Man-a saying which has Justice Swift had been remarking that I am paying my full portion? temptations. Every now and then been in circulation ever since and "Would you rather have a good "Everybody is honest and dis- honest in patches" it did seem to Alas! none of these things do the Law Courts tell us of people quoted ad nauseam for want of heart and bad manners or a bad me a very painful example of the consistently perform. I am con- placed in positions which gave anything which improves on the heart and good manners?** one is
tent with a general notion that the them resulta of a judicial career.
a chance of profitable dis-Idea-he evidently referred to man- almost inclined to vote in favour of change, and the bill, and the divi-honesty who used it abundantly. kind as a whole, and was not inten- those whose charming manners of costs are "about right." "Opportunity makes the thief, tionally slighting the other sex help the machinery to run emooth- And are you more careful?
says the ancient maxim. But, For, indeed, manners are of almost trusting charitably that they after all, does it? Far be it from more importance to women than to me to judge austerely people who their fathers, brothers, and hus yielded to temptations which have bands never come to me, for, after all,
But perhaps Mr. Justice Swift was thinking of larger issues, of the dishonesty which involves
say that no one in the world can I have heard people great gains...
A man may (let us emphasise I have never had any scope for the "may") be forgiven at times a be trusted to return.
something dishonesty on a large and attrac- certain slackness or relaxing of the
It was, I understand, an obiter gion dictum, His lordship did not give a ruling that we are all dishonest, he only
expressed an opinion King David, who anticipated Mr. Justica Swift by remarking that all men are liars, afterwards acknow ledged that be said it in hia haste. Some doubt has been cast on the completeness of this withdrawal, and I own that his Majesty's real opinion of human veracity is not as clear as it might be,
But pro-
Now That Spring Is Here
have been maligned in the matter
of hearts. Yet the best manners are based on kindness, unselfla}- ness, and the Golden Rule.
Hardly anywhere are bad man- hers more noticeable and more ac tively offensive than in the theatre, Fet, despite the publicity given to the subject, people, continue to arrive late, to talk, to rustle, to attend to their toilets in public with an abandon which is startling.
For Shopping
An even worse breach of manners is ufortunately common. It is com mitted by the theatre party that; keeps the unfortunate man at the end of the row standing while it caimly discusses seating arrange ments after which the whole party This jacket suit worn by Mary erashes by without one word of Brian, is of brown and beige, and so is apology or thanks! One can only the felt hat. The kashn-cont is honey? hope that their hearts are very brown, a colour that is repeated at the very good. But how they would have grieved William of Wyreham!
Daily Telegraph."
border of the belge silk skirt. A scarf
combining the costume colours is tied jauntily about the neck.
In step with the mode in color—in weight in beauty is Kayser "Slipper Heel" Hosiery. The shimmering lustre of the pure thread silk gives vibrant life to the subtle shades.......soft grays and beiges for tailored or afternoon... subtle flesh effects for evening, Woven so finely, so evenly that there's no ripple or line to mar its beauty.
all leading dealers
Kayser
These Hollywood, beauties "show what will be worn by?
Romain
Pamela
announces the new arrival of exceedingly smart
DAY and AFTERNOON
DRESSES
also
a new selection of
CHIC HATS
13, Queen's Road C.
left, Anita Pare poses in a sleeveless blouse of moven. krog: skirt. Leila Hysme, centre has chosen a coat of beige flaan and back. Beige snakeskin trims the toe and heel of her Wears a Spring, wrap of bottle, meen, with hat to matchi and slippers
shoulders