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THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, JULY 2
11 The WOMAN'S Page 1
WHEN CLEANING CHINA
March Of Military March Of Fashion
Swagger Capes Swing
Into Popularity.
NEW NECKLINES APPEAR
fresh-looking silk frocks that cover themselves with clever or amusing designs. Prints also know the value of capes.
If
The basic frocks in your ward- The fashion parade has a mill- robe should be of a solid colour. tary appearance this season. Whe- But a print, that its along in ther you go in wools or silks the som strange geometric fashion, chances are that a cape, or the will give you an uplifted feeling if suggestion of a cape, will help you you don't wear it too often. keep step to the Fashion's music. you do, you may get tired of it
For shouldering the style is the very soon. thing this summer. Swagger capes have awung into the fashion pic
the fashion line-up. Неге ture with a debonair, nonchalant in charm that has nothing to do with again there are capes. Many of (economic conditions or anything them are elbow length. Separate felse that is troublesome.
Wrist length capes are smartly military, yet delightfully feminine. The very gesture that throws back a cape has an allure that offsets any too-tailored effect.
Coats that wrap the figure in a slender silhouette are appearing
furs are doing much to add a pro- vocative feminine allurement to coats.
HAT CROWNS ARE HIGHER.
Chechias, Peaked Tyrolean Caps, And Canotiers
Tailored suits have come back. Frills and furbelows may take their tricks at candlelighting time. but when you walk down the avenue you can't expect the second
Chechias, peaked Tyrolean caps, glance unless your suit is tailored. and high crowned canotiers have Clever tucks produce slim waist- swept into fashion on a wave that lines, and shoulders that may not seems likely to engulf the shallow be all that you want them to be crowns popular for past seasons. will profit by padding that is per- Everywhere one goes, whether to fectly acceptable in this year's tea, to the races, or walking in the tailoring groups.
Bols, one sees high crowned models, made up in every conceivable ma- terial.
DIGNIFIED DINNER DRESSES.
Accessories Are Important
Paris Mannequins Adopt New Scheme.
Paris.
Accessories have perhaps never played as important a role as they fare playing this season. It is not only that designers have learned the importance of building up groups of accessories in amart colours and materials. Women themselves are much more concerned with correct accessories than they were a few YERTS
it ago. But this season, seems, couturiers themselves have discovered the role which may be played by chic and unusual acces- sories in building up costumes.
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EYE-VEILS IMPAIR
THE VISION.
Produces Inclination To Squint.
If you are slim and straight and young the tailored suit may be as strictly efficient as you want it. In the Jardin d'Acclimitation the But if you are a type that doesn't other morning, a very smart tail- respond to the too-plain effects, leur, was sech in a rough grey wool- don't hesitate to employ a few len, with epaulet shoulders, very helpful aids.
short fitted jacket, worn with aj After all, the creating of an in-mannish blouse of deep red crepe- dividual beauty that follows the de-chine. general style is much more im- And accompanying this costume,
moment, fashionable eye-veils, de- portant than strict adherence to was the inevitable chechia, made of
cleres a leading London oculist. some one phase of the mode. the suit fabric, and topped with a
"Veils impair the vision," he Styles were created to help you, tiny red yarn ball.
A pale green chiffon
summer says, "and a women has toʻstrain and you needn't use yourself as When the canotier is chosen, as frock figured with pale rose has a her eyes to see properly through show horse on which to drape it often is, it may have the shallow cape of pale green feathers falling them.
Since articles intended only for ornament are not so highly anneal-them. ed as others, they should never be washed in water beyond ·a' tepid temperature. The best material for cleansing either porcelain or glass is fuller's earth. This must be beaten into a fine powder and carefully cleared from all rough or hard particles which might endan- ger the polish of the surface.
NO STOCKINGS NOW
Because of the difficulty of pre- serving the stream-line silhouette: with a dance dress, many women have given up wearing stockinge ́in the evening.
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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 witbu.
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crown of recent seasons, but the almost straight. Black crinkled "Those veils with spots are the very newest ones have a quite high taffetas makes a dignified dinner worst. They cause the eyes erown sometimes higher in the back dress. Brown cire muslin for the converge inwards, and if worn than in the front.
evening goes with pale pink roses. long enough will produce an in-
With evening dresses and gar-clination to squint."-Reuter. den party clothes gloves may be
SUMMER COLOUR
COMBINATIONS.
Blue In Many Shades.
of organdle. White coats go over!
without
black, navy blue, and light colours.
Dinner sleeves and with low backs, fall to
dresses,. cut
REMOVING SINK STAINS
the feet in straight lines, or have To remove stains from a sink
frills about the feet to the knees moisten a small handful of salt and sweep the ground.
with kerosene and apply the mixture
Navy blue and white, and yellow and white
are combined in sum- The dress with two tucks cutting with a clean rag. The sink will at mer frocks. Tea rose pink with the straight line of the skirt be- once become white. Flush out with brown looks well in a simple pink tween the knees and hips is made cold water. crepe dress with a brown organdie of crepe and of plain and 6gured
bow and a brown hat.
cotton.
LINEN SUITS IN VOGUE
Starch blue is seen in a garden party dress of frilled white muslin over A blue foundation. Pale Wedgwood blue makes a dinner
Linen suits are going to have an look cool and simple; pale figured important place in new wardrobes chiffon dresses for the evening this year. You now can buy finea capes of ostrich suiting that is uncrustable and it feathers of a pale colour to match. comes in dark, practical colors, in-
cluding black.
have sbort
HOME MADE COLANDER
A very serviceable Colander can
CARE OF ALUMINIUM. A jacket that buttons all the be made from a large Lactogen-
Aluminium canisters or any way up down the centre front may tin. Make holes in the bottom and ether aluminium kitchen-ware can give you the charm you need. about three inches up the sides be easily and well cleaned by rub- Square, collarless necklines are with
large nall, piercing from bing with dry, plain flour; it does
forming new, delightful frames for the inside. File off the burr with not affect the surface of the faces, too. Sash-tied waists and a rasp. three-quarter length sleeves with
tight cuffs that end below the
elbow are also important footnotes to style.
{^ As usual, you may break into print and a definite spring charm if you want to. The flowers [that bloom along about, this time arɩn't any more assured of a place in the fashion set-up than gay,
Bringing Up Father.
aluminium.
FIXING BED VALANCES
Bed valances are removed and replaced in an instant if flexible wire rods are fixed on to the wood- en sides of the mattress frame. These rods can be bought quite cheaply from any hard-ware store.
AH.MR.JIGGS! YOU HAVENT INSOMNIA. YOU JUST CANT SLEED BECAUSE YOU
LET THINGS WORRY YOU PUT. ALL YOUR WORRY OUT OF YOUR SIGHT. REMEMBER THE SAYING," OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF Mind" ONLY LOOK “AT THE CHEERFUL SIDE OF LIFE-
Guard his Health
Give him Formamintat once and so cute his Sore Throat before it develops into Influenza, Scarlet Fever or some other infectious disease.
Children like these harmless. tablets and they are much *more effective dhe gargics. Leep Formamint handy ---- bay'a bottle to-day.
FORMAMINT
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HORIZONTAL
1-Destiny 8-Speck
9-A title (Sp.) 10-A rodent (pl.)
16-Prussian city 18-Prefix: Thrice 20-Compass point
(abbr.) 21-Jeered 23-Half an
an em. 24-To give an
unexpected pleasure 25-Rub out 26-Anger 27-Lyric poem 28-Fashion 11-To pass slowly
24-Conjunction
25-Tested
28-Indefinite article
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| HORIZONTAL (Cont) | VERTICAL (Cont)
89-Share
|11-Tender places on »
41-Carries (Colloq.)
42–Fifty-six (Roman)
43-Cogwheel
45-Told à falsehood
j46-Lean
48-Amend
60-Mineral spring (pl.)| 161-Grade
VERTICAL
1-A plant
2-An Insect 3-Preposition 4-Appearing as if
B-Fine B-Father (Bhart) 7-Raw metal 8–Canvas shelter
More lucid
the skin
}12-A ilquld measure
14-A beverage 16-Bupplicate
17-Place
18-Bewing implement ·
_{pl} 21-Part
t of a ship (pl.)
22-Fear
28-Ballad
29-Large plant (pl.) :
30-5k1iful 32-Rescued 33-Girl's name 138–Burrowing ́anima!
pede! {40-Military algnal 142-Cord
44-Knock 145-Allow
|47-Egyptian sun-god
49-Mother (Short)
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