Page
2
THE CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1933.
1t1 The WOMAN'S Page ti
LATEST MODEL ROLLIEFLEX CAMERAS
The cameras that take 12 exposures
en a roll-Bim.
MIMOSA PLATES PRINTING PAPERS & FILMS. Painted Embroidery Colourful & Artificial
INVENTION OF BEAUTY.
Most Attractive creation not only for ladies, but also for cushions, handker.. chiefs, and urnamental articles for ladies' went.
DISPLAY IN OUR STORE. ORIENTAL ART CO.
Agepla
A SEK & CO.,
26, Des Voeux Road Central, Telephone No. 23459.
STARTS SATURDAY
AT
THE CENTRAL.
THE
Strang! Todifying the story of the man who hunted men!
MOST DANGEROUS
GAME
With JOEL MCCREA PAY WEAY, LESLIE BANKS, ROVENT ARMSTRONG, & COOPER SENDINSACE PRODUCTION RKO-BADIO Pictura
LOOKING GLASS CRAZE.
The looking-glass has sprung in to favour in London as personal adornment.
Necklaces are made of tiny, flat pieces of looking-glass cut round, or square, or pointed; supple brace lets consisting of alternate squares, of mirror and coloured clear glass, and rings consisting of
obling Д long oval ог of look-glass Arc both ing and novel, while of glass, cut into many scintillates oblique angles on aurroundings and friends,
*
silver
amus.
THE STANDARD FACE
OVER PRODUCTION IN PRETTINESS
ROUGE-RED PATH-
Every woman likes to be up to, ista salons which makes them ac- It is quire vacancy as they lose wrinkles date in her grievances.
and achieve slimness at the cost of content and repose.
therefore only natural that, with the rest of the world, she is be- wailing over-production in one hitherto specialised commodity, Why is there to-day so much pret tinees and so little beauty?
Dare You
When your shoes are shabby and someone stares at them, do you fidget and try to hide them? Or have you the strength of mind to remain calm, undaunted, and un- ashamed?
*
When someone says to you:-"[ don't like you in that frock," or "I don't like you with an eye vell," do you immediately discard the frock! or eye vell? Or have you sufficient strength of mind to abide by your own choice, and dress according to your own taste?
#
*
When someone talks unkindly about the drabness of mousy hair, or the ugliness of a fat figure, and you happen to be possessed of The Rouge-Red Path. either or both of these features, do It may be said that these re-you'suffer pange of misery about marks apply only to the great army it? Or do you courageously square of those who make up. But, un your shoulders, say: "Well, that's fortunately, few women with any me, and that's that?", and try to claim to beauty resist the tempta- rise above your defects by making tion to do so, and, having once be-yourself attractive in other ways? gun, have the strength of mind
*
*
The answer. It may seem to the discerning, can be found in a curi- ous aspect of that, world tragedy not to slide down the primrose, When you meet a woman who has of over-production. Never have rouge-red, carnation-lip path to a particularly beautiful laugh, or dress-designers offered more styles the confusion of their own charms, an attractive way with her eyes, or to their customera; never have the And their stronger sisters are some charming trick of speech, do accessories of beauty-parlours at there is no doubt, at a disadvan-you try to copy her? Or have you The general care of the the strength of mind to continue tempted so many varying aids to ge beauty; never has it been easier skin, the usual aids to the com- belag yourself? period, and the result is that adorned, into the shade. to imitate every type of every plexion de put natural beauty, un-i
women have become dazzled and muddled.
Smart Silliness.
It is of no use to complain. The last devotees in the world to be made reasonable will be those of They will not be contented with fashion. Beauty will undoubtedly Jump the attributes of one particular survive and emerge again triumph- facets model. On the few odd feet of ant. This article offers no advice one's surface nature has given them but sympathy only to the young they lasist upon crowding all the and fair who so effectively to-day charms they have ever admired in conceal their charms. any or every type of beauty. Wil- fully, it would seem, as one gazes round & tram-car or a bailroom, they have seized upon the beauties they were never meant by nature to possess.
It is now possible to look at one- self in the dangling ear-ring of a friend; if you cast down your eyes looking-glass buckles on her shoes will give you back your reflection.
A row of buttons down the front of a dress are made of small pieces of looking-glass set in metal, while the large flat button of an evening wrap is a fiat piece of mirror with bevelled edge.
•
An evening handbag of material to match the gown has two trian- gular pieces of mirror spreading from each corner of one side so that no mirror need be carried inside
the bag.
LIQUIDATION SALE
UNTIL MARCH 15th, 1933.
50% REDUCTION
CLEARANCE OF LARGE STOCKS OF: -- AFTERNOON DRESSES, Wool and Silk
from $15 to $35
EVENING DRESSES
$20 to $60
SUMMER WASHING FROCKS A FUR COATS (LONG)
*
$7 to $10
**
$45 to $60
FUR JACKETS (SHORT)
14
$25 to $30
#
22
$12 to $30
FOX FUR
HATS, STOCKINGS, UNDERWEAR, Etc.
ALL FAR BELOW ACTUAL-COST.
THE
“ARCADIA”
No. 47, Pekin Road.
NEAR STAR CINEMA, KOWLOON,
OVERLAND CHINA MAIL
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY:
contains all the general, fe
news of the week.
Order Your Copy Now.
Chinz Mall O
Fyndham Street.
* *
Believing that reserve. is more than commendable in a woman perkiness, or that the place of a married woman is in the home, what do you say when you fall in with people who believe exactly the opposite? Do you veer round to their point of view, or have you the courage to stick to your own con-j victions?
Menu Suggestions For To-morrow
Buttered Rolls
Jam Fraft Salad
Spicy Frosting Coffee
Leaspoon cinnamon teaspoon cloves
1
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
sifted cup
confectioner's
Bugar
Here you see a woman whose Meat Loaf - Escalloped Potatoes classic features and pale colour- ing recall the ivory serenity of al Grecian statue; over her face this Date Spice Cake anxious candidate for beauty has daubed aunburn lolion, and on her, pa a slash of crimson suitable only for a gipsy queen. The gipay queen beside her, however, has
with her own quarrelled thurms and, in the current phrase,. has gone platinum blonde.
dark
1
Salted Nuts Mint. Candies Meat Loaf, Serving 12, pound chopped beef round 1⁄2 pound chopped veal round 4 pound choppad pork steak 11⁄2 cups crumbs
3
egge
11⁄2 teaspoon salt
3
箍
3
3
1
1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
tablespoons finely chopped onion
tablespoons chopped parsley tablespoons chopped celery cup milk
Mix ingredients and shape into
Mix ingredients and beat two minutes. Let stand Bevera minutes, beat well and frost the cake.
1
BOWS OF MANY KINDS.
As an illustration of the rogue for bows, take the evening gown that has a diagonal bustle drapery across the back of the skirt finish-' a long bow while a ed off with smaller bow' adorns the opposite shoulder. Another, in soft satin, has a bodice front something like a drawn severely nurse's apron,
Girls blessed by nature with the sweet elusive beauty of Italian Madonnas hasten to have their eyebrows plucked and attain smart silliness, writes W. F. P. in
"Manchester the
Guardian." Matrons with the ample beauty which Rubens loved to paint slim themselves into splender haggard- two rolls, two inches in diameter. necked smartness. The Undine Place in baking pan and add round the figure, and tied at the Cover and bake back with a fairly small bow that type conceal their clfin prettiness inch of water.
to most successfully beneath coats of 14 hours in moderate oven. is stiffened with fine muslin powder and paint, pricked out Baste frequently. Serve warm, ook as if it were starched. Then "there is the bib frock which has the with glycerined oyelashes. The cut in slices, day of mask balls is over because
plain bodice and the frilled bib- every woman now coaxes her face
shaped berthe attached at the neck-
into a mask to conceal her own
line in front, graduated over the Individual type of beauty.
shoulders, and tied at the back of the neck in a flat bow. The bow. holds the back straps in position.
.
Date Splice Cake. 1⁄2 cup fat
cup sugar
1
*gy
1
1
teaspoon cinnamon teaspoon cloves
1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
cup sour milk or buttermilk |
1/4 cups flour
-1
teaspoon soda *
Nor is it in type and colouring only that women lose the one in pursuit of the many. Charm has always depended upon expression, and in expresslon again women fly from model to model, From: the films girls carry away visions of the sinister charm of the vamp, the radiant teeth of the sunshine girl, the haughty arrogance of the pampered aristocrat, the petulant] charm of the girl who always ains of ingredients and for the best reasons. One- may minutes. Pour into shallow pan
2/3 cup chopped dates
1/3 cup nuta
1
teaspoon vanilla
Cream fat and sugar. Add rest'
beat
two
watch the young registering these lined with waxed paper. Brke 80
In quick succession as they powder | minutes in moderately slow oven. their noses before their tiny mir-Cool and frost.
rors.
Older women less often make this mistake; it is their an- xious pursuit of beauty in special-¡ (2
Bringing Up Father.
THAT'S A FINE SECRETARY
·MAGGIE PICKED OUT FER ME HE'S SO SMALL» SOME DAY I'LL STEP ON HIM AR WON'T KNOW IT WHAT GOOD IS HET ME ANËT #VEN ANY GOOD AS A
BODY-GUARD:
Spicy Frosting.
2
tablespoons butter,
tablespoons hot coffee
HUH' WHO 19
THAT COMIN' IN TO DEE, SEIMĄ? WOW. FALL BWY: IT'S HIS WIFE-1 ||
BUT, MY
DEAR
"THE
HONG KONG
PENINSULA HOTEL;
HONG KONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL}
PEAK HOTEL
& SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS,
· LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling, such as harbor, plow, and altho.
18
2
122
23
126
£27
28
29
130
De
40
1116
33 |उप
34
42
13
น
4G
पव
50
51
10
THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE
|'HORIZONTAL (Cont) | VERTICAL (Cont.)
41-8pecialty
HORIZONTAL 1-Lobster-like crustacean 6-influence
43-Boy's nickname
44-implement of
11-indigo
12-Reclined
13-To cause lingering
distress
17-Finate 18-Toli 20-To hasten 21-Aloft
23-Egyptian king 24-Stop
25-Devil
27-Parchance
25-Follower
29-Bulging
$2-01 or from Wales
36-Vax
37–Pastasaun 39-Auction 40-Prem
combat
46-Regard
48-Roman amparor
|14-Poker term
16-Pausa in
conversation
10-Thief
|22-A puddle
(Prov. Eng.)
26-No
[49-To foreteli dangar 124–Rabbits
60-Holy day in Spring 81-Appropriate
VERTICAL
1-Broaden aut 2-Chance
3-Writing fluid Machine for
grinding Fold B-Apportion T-Blonde 8-8##
9-Enanare
| 10-A score
-
|27-Cut with an axe
26-Te graze 80-Assistant 11-Gather up |34-The blackthorn
86-Having the adona
turned and stitched 27-Virtue
88-Cooks slowly
|41-Warning ory in goit
42-Jacob's brother
45-Fondia
47-Prefix makning
*threa
SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably wara. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to all others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both,
The solution of the above with a new cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue.
AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY by
A. E. CROOK, OBE, MA.. W. KAY, M.A.
W. L HANDYSIDE, M.A., B.SC.
PRICE $1.00.
NOW ON Sale at the PUBLISHERS.
The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd. -
China Mail Offcam. -
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION, '
IMPERTUPIABLE PACY GORIC RANP REARS 236 TAPUR. ODDITY O RECITE I STOOP TONES UP EARL ENTS LED TOADERS OE GAIN NAT ANT BE70CLS
TO RARE REAR OR BGELOD SAVED YA DOUBLE P RESAWN NOTES JOB SUNNO SUES LOLTA HERE *G9SONTINUNEJŠ
GO HOME NEVER BOTHER MEAT MYE OFFICE AND DON'T KEEP ME WAITING FOR SUPPER TO- NIGHT DO YOU
HEAR ME?
·USTEN-I WANT TO TAKE, SOME LESSONS KROM YOU! HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN MARRIED?
TOO
LONG