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THE
CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1930.
The WOMAN'S Page V
New Type of Sports Toys.
BERET
HIGH
COLLAR
SCARF TIED
IN STOCK TIE MANNER
JERSEY
COSTUME OF DELFT BLUE
LONGER
HEMLINES.
A CURIOUS HOME.
Osteri Sitwell, who has had a success with his new novel, "The Man Who Lost Himselt," lives in Chelsea with his sister, Edith. Their house, as you may guess, is not na other houses. It is the strangest jumble of old and new,
One rooms, for instance, is filled with Victorian wax flowers under glass, Berlin woolwork pictures and an immense tree made of looking- glass, wool and feathers; but the portraits on the walls
are ultra
FOR WET WEATHER.
Specialists in fancy crafts make attractive some very
umbrella handles, carved from hard woods, and, sometimes, ivory. The wood is, at times, painted with several different colours, Crook handles are made by the same artistic workers, but, in spite of the attrac tive designs, crook handles never achieve a great deal of popularity
Black handles are favoured now that the coloured covers are at- A blob
ceptul for everyday use.
JAZZ AGE.
The More Violent Phase Finished.
Until we can arrive at an exact definition of jazz we cannot say with any certainty that It is dying. I have seen it announced, appar
ently rust authoritatively, for the last five years and more, that jazz has had its day and will never have another one, writes Philip Page in the Evening Standard.
Possibly the same thing was said about various bars of 17th century Italian music 1 have in mind, which show unmistakable jazz progres- slons and rhythm. It was certainly said about Robert Schumann, the
first of the great jazz composers— if, that is, the essence of jazz is difficult syncopation. I defy anyone to play portions of "Carneval" and "Papillons" without being in dan- ger of reproducing the monotonous rhythmic contortions of the average jazz pianist.
In The Bone.
This syncopation, vague or pro- nounced, is in the very bones of the modern generation, and it will be the deuce of a job to get it out again. Need, indeed, we try to get it out again? So long as dancing is popu lar there will be strong rhythms to accompany it, unless women's long skirts take is in their dusty sweep right back to the Minuet, or fur- ther still into the distant past-to the Sarabande, the Bourrée, Pavane.
the
Even without dancing the craving for rhythm is there. A couple of cocktail times ago I was in the new- est and, I was led
to suppose. the most fashionable "mixed" club in London-n few yards off
Bond- street. Men and women sat round at little tables, drinking aperitifs and toying with olives.
At two planos
sat a young girl and's fair youth playing syncopated tunes quite softly aml Inoffensively.
Why Is It Popular, There was no question of dane. of colour on the top of a squat, ing, there were not even facilities
People seemed
black handle expresses the vague
for dancing.
Lo
Pretty Jane.
Pretty Jane Brewster, of Portland, Oregon, has won the 4-1 champion ship as the healthiest girl in the western half of the United States. She is thirteen years old and doctore mean as little to her as electric fans do to an Eskimo.
"KARA-SAMA "
New Dance and Long
Frocks?
Those who are slow to learn fresh dance-steps may well be dismayed'ut the news that st another type of fox-trot is to be imposed upon us, this time from the Congo, its name "Kara-Sama."
It is understandable that even the
FOR THE LITTLE ONES
Fashions Suited to the East.
Fashions for children naturally de not differ so greatly this year as do those for their elder sisters: no one would wish or expect to see little girls in long frocks! Yet the fashions of to-day have their influ- ence on small folks. For example a pretty little frock can be made with Princess cut ending with a tiny flared skirt and over this, us even- ing falls, a cupe-coat can be worn. The body of the fruck should be 'made in some light shade and the flared skirt in contrast, with cape of similar material. Another charm- ing little model shown lately for a maiden of six to seven years, was of artificial silk with blue spots on a white ground. In this frock the waist came at the actual natura! waist line, whilst joining it was a material, scalloped. A long white deep flared skirt of the
game collar edged with tiny pleats com- pleted this charming little dress.
Little tiny pleated bounces are very much worn by analt girls to- day in imitation of their grown- ups: six, even or even more of these wee flounces may be used, and no style can be prettier than a princess bodice ending in scallops above the tiny frills. Little girls too are developing the waist line and clamour for pretty belts: while the Princess line niso Ands as much Favour in growing maidens with their elder sisters.
Stylish Spring Costume.
BLACK FELT
HAT
SHOULDER
CAPE TRIMMING OVER SLEEVE
SILVER FOX
FUR
BELT AT WAISTLINE
AND. HIP
ANTELOPE
PURSE
SPHYNX GREEN
FROCK
PATENT LEATHER, OPERA PUMPS.
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PLEA FOR THE COOK
School frocks are very simple, and with such delightful designs in tobralco and other such materials, which withstand even droby's efforts Miss Margaret Bondfield, Minis- to ruin them, school frocks can be ter of Labour, speaking at the an- made both durable and fascinating.nual general meeting of the Abbey Tunic frocks are still popular with Road Building Society at the the belt at the waist, and this style Queen's Hall, London, on March 8, can be varied in many ways. Smat suggested that building sociatios girls going to school need so many could exercise an Immense in- Irocks, and nowadays children can fluence in directing, their invest- be kept out here longer than of ments in house property into char- yore, owing to educational con-
nels where they could persuade ditions which did not exist a few architects and buildera to equip years back, to say nothing of our houses with labour-saving devices. | own H stations and those in the "I assure you," she added, "that Dutch East Indies.
there are occasions when my blood boils, and naver does it boll to such, a high point us when I go into a house where it is perfectly obvious that the architect never gave one single thought to the manner in which a woman would have to con- duct the work of the house. With every lack of imagination, the best room faces north and the larder faces south.
modern and on the large round of the moment so far as umbrellas listen subconsciously, if they listen- sturdiest patriot may fail to find bockers to match each frock, thus
Victorian table are spread fan-wise
all the Sitwell publications.
In another room, together with screen made of Victorian fashion plates and stuffed birds, are Dobson's bust of Osbert and Maurice Lambert's bust of Edith, and one also notices some old Italian mas- ters, a Wyndham Lewis painting, grinning negro heads, two Duncan Grants and a patch-work cottage
tablecloth.
To reach the garden room, you go
tissue
are concerned.
FOR THE HOSTESS.
The other day a well- known
started hostess
21 new vogue at her tea parties,
baskets by using
instead of plates. When it is just a matter of a little refreshment after 11 Bridge party, the baskets are intriguing and adequate.
These baskets were enamelled a delicate coral colour with a band of gold around the edges. They held
ol at all, and to treat the sounds as a soothing, trivial habit, as an American chews gum or a Levan- tine fidgets and twiddles with hia string of beads.
That, I truly believe, is the key to the continued popularity of what Is jazz to-day-its softness and un- obtrusiveness. Jazz is not dying
or dead, but it is changing.
The raucousness has gone. Un- fashionable and generally disliked are the deafening blurts and blabs of trumpets, the barbaric crashing and smashings of the trap drummer
The habit of making knicker- ecstasy in treading our native mea dispensing with pettics, is a fashion sures. Folk-dancing savours too
not likely to meet with disfavour much of the nursery in its steps, among young folks, specially out in demands too heavy a tux on. the
hot climates. Children abhor wear- memory in its inteleacy, ever to being too many clothes and are indeed popular, but why go to the Congo? far better if lightly clad. But next For my part, (saya a writer into the skin a woollen singlet should a Home paper) however insidious always be worn, for every healthy the call of "Kara-Sama," I shall child is a restless mortal, and much continue to indulge my invariable activity means much perspiring, an practice of compelling my partner excellent thing by the way, but the to take a steady walk as i genially little body must be carefully guard- hum, "You
ed against checking this and court- think you're wrong." We men must ing a chill. Every child in the
may be wonderful. I
tropics as soon as old enough should be made to wear pyjamas at night,
A large one was piled with the death-trap drummer in that through the Quick Step and slow. made of vyella
through a minute strip of garden, with a fig tree. This room, Is hung with multi-coloured
and fruit. furnished with baroque chairs and various fruits and the other baskets n settee in the shape of dolphins, had been filled with nuts, already apparently composed of mother-of-shelled, grapes, small pears, and so pearl.
on, just sufficient for each person. The altting-room on the first floor covers of bright sugar *has loose
stick pink and king-fisher blue striped silk, and brittle looking-glass trees and ornaments on little tables.
A BLACK FROCK,
A black frock is a usual standby. For evening wear, black nets are speckled with silver spots, or left plain and made with flounces which give a longer line to the wearer than she has known for some time. It is the tall woman who wears the new styles so successfully, and who finds black such a treasured asset to the wardrobe, in winter and summer. Black coats in cloth, velvet and satin-and even tweed when black and grey are inter- mingled-form part of the smartest outits this season.
It is difficult to improve upon a black hat, says the woman who possesses a complexion without a blemlah. Velvet afternoon frocks are made to emphasise the slimness of her waist, and they are cut tight across the hips, but bung in folds at the hem.
RUSSIAN HANDIWORK,
There is an Jutresain demand for Russian handwork, and this is seen in many new and charming en sembles. Soft woolly materials in: plain, but unusual colours are made into simple frocks or jumpers and skirts, and these Are painted by hand around the skirt hem. There is nothing, ordinary about the painted design Instead of } rows of growing flowers a thick tracery of streaks Is, preferred, and zigzag patterns vie with pretty, hurring bone ellectuX
Plain coateer toge with these frocks appear in cottasting shades and are left unpainted, but If there is a scarf, it matches the aklit both In colour and in the de. alga which has been päintéd across
This
Striking
I have death.
30 often yearned for his has returned. Often feeble melody, In place of all this, melody
(Continued at foot of next Column)
Model.
stand firm against innovations. Those of ug
who have walked
ourselves to be intimidated by any Foxtrot eras are not going to allow
Congo atrocity.
And in any case, how is this "Kara-Sama" going to suit the new long frocks? Somehow one does not visualise the Congo ladles in the latest British fashion.
ORIGINAL DRESSES.
A ball In London included a parade representing a Christmaas Dinner as one of its most interest ing features, and now puzzled dan cera run through the menu when invitations to fancy dress carnivals come round, and they want to wear something, out of the ordinary..
Plum puddings and mince pies were the dishes represented by the London ball-goers, but there are also turkeys and geese, or you might go as a very pearly oyster; instead of a collection of flower frocks fruits
от some Warmi
"I know very little about cook-] ing myself,” added Miss Bondfield. "We should go down on our knoes to the women who prepare food in varying and appotking ways. The manner in which we have treated our cooks in the past, whether they be mothers, sweethearts, or anyone else, has been perfectly dalous."
SIMPLICITY.
scan-
fortable in a warm land, but all material. This may sound uncom-
coverings when sleeping and as we children are prone to throw off bed-
elders know the temperature can
The odd jumpers one buys are drop very quickly during the night,
all plainly coloured If they have been selected from an up-to-the- or may be a sudden Sumatra blows
minute selection. Any desire for up, but for the child who wears warm pyjamas no anxiety need be
fancincas is expressed In the A lace-kalt jumper in felt when the mercury takes a slight weave. dip down during sleep hours.
fawn wool, and another in pale Children's party shoes should green with two fine white lines at match their frocks: this le not dif- the neck and wrists are two attrac- ficult of achievement in a land tive designs in town typical of the where children's shoes can be easily fashion of the moment. When a and cheaply made to measurements, light colour is chosen for the new or, when they are still babies, by woolly jumper, then it is tipped Amah, whose clever fingers can
with white, or else a really dark fashion the duckiest of shoes. colour stripes of carlae and black Children's footwear should always being the sort of sharp colours allow for the little feet to expand which blend nicely on ecru, tan, and broad square toes should be in- sky blue or rose. On the new sisted on. One point which can- Jumpers, collars are not so popular not ba too much stressed as V-necks. In the tropics is, never allow
are represented; and, for the mora your children to go barefoot. Such
en, provide the most delightful sug-
fancifully minded, the wine Hat pretty slippers can be bought in escape barefoot, but from the very supplies a whole fund of inspiration. native shops at a low price and are earllest days the danger of this in Absinthe, creme-de-menthe, and so so comfy to the little feet that there tropic lands must firmly be insisted Is no excuse for the mother who, | on, even if at times it entails punish- gestions for original dresses, beauti-through negligence, allowing her ment to impress this unwritten law fully coloured.
children to run about barefoot either on the, minds of little children in the house or garden, lay them living in the East, says the Woman open to very great risks. All chil- Correspandent of the Singapore dren love to kick off their shoes and Free Press.
stolen melody, alckly melody and melody overcast with the pale hue of unnecessary chromaticism-but, still, melody,
- Britain Again!
This softer and more melodious Jazz is coming to a lage extent not from "American" þut" from British, "composers. And it is improving. The violence of much of the nigger stuff (I am not forgetting the staider beauties of the music of the blašk peoples) and of the white music that imitated it on the other side of the Atlantic, was never really successfully transplanted In Groat Britain.LEN
Our own folk made a poor job of the really Jazzy jak But they are making an extremely fine fob of the
the Felopmen
is model is carried out In với
Victorian material The colouring To inctive large bow is effectively posed on the cut with points like an umbrella ("Baroqu
compoker
FINGER BOWLS.
The Italian Art Exhibition is in- fluencing our clothes and the way we do our hair, says a London writer, and now it seems as if the Naval Conference is having an For effect on our dining-tables. If you want to be amart, you must be nautical, and though the dinner table is not yet made to resemble a ship, it must be embellished with submarine decorations made of glass.
л on-
For instance, you set ormous bowl of blue-green glass in the middle of a polished table, £11 it with water and drop into it fragile pieces of Venetian glass made to resemble lobsters, crabs, anemones, corals, octopuses, sea- horses, sea-snails, cel and other Each "denizen of the deep.” finger bowl also his its "aea- faring inhabitant."
Lord Berners has just acquired one of these novel glass aquaria. The bowl revalves by means of electricity and electric bubbles are forced through the water.
COWL HAT,
Some of the fashionable medes seem to be designed to make dress. ing a longer and more tedious business, Ons new hat is likely to delay us longer still. This is a cowl hat, It is of a soft, silky
material, or a fine velour, and fits the bead like a glove.
The ends of the hat are wound round the head and face according to the wearer's fancy, and the style can be varied considerably,
Draping the hood just so, and tying the ends to the best possible advantage is sure to mean many extra minutes before our mirrors!
ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE BEAUTE
For the best Permanent Finger & Marcel Waves. Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladies & Gentlemen. Pedder Bldg. 1st floor. Hoom 5 Tel. C. $169. Opposite entrance H.K. Hotel,
MAISON de MODES
--·- Mme. ·D'Obru
18, Queen's Road, Central. JUST RECEIVED A Shipment of
SPRING HATS
and a beautiful selection of
SILK VOILES
for ofternoon and evening Dresses
also
COTTON VOILE DRESSES
for day wear.
Orders taken for Coats and Dresses and ef écuted
personal supervision.
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