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June
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1934.
The Woman's Page
CHOOSING FACE POWDER
Valuable Hints For The Blonde Or Brunette.
POWDER COLOUR GUIDE
The wrong shade of powder will
7 mar the best complexion. A very
7 fair skin. can take on a rough, arsh appearance if too dark, a powder is used on it.
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A dark glowing beauty can give 12 the richness of her skin a depress 14 ingly greyish tinge, if she has used a shade of powder which is too light.
The weight and texture of your powder is also important. The finer and lighter the powder the naturally it smoothly and
8 gmore
will blend with the skin. If one: Usca an over heavy powder, the akin loses its clearness, and any suggestion of the tiniest and finesti
8 lines begin to look like furrows,
Careful Grading
12
Te-
It is best to choose a medium- weight powder, and, if it is too! heavy, mix it with a lighter one un- til the correct weight is found. In choosing shades of powder. member that the most normal skin has a touch of yellow in it. All 10 face powders should have just a 11 trace
of yellow to supplement their tone.
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The blonde needs a powder of a natural or pale peach shade (there are various tones in every shade).
A brunette requires a Rachel or ja darker peach shade, according to The exset colour of her complexion; an olive complexion (and this can be such a charming one) requires La shade which has more of a yellow
tone.
A "Little Extra!"
Organdi Frock With Frills
Linen Ensemble
A wrap-around linen, skirt fastened by a blue suede belt is the attractive feature of this graceful beach en semble worn by Myrna Loy, bonust- ful movie stor. It also consists of an anchor blouse, with a huge embrold- ered anchor on the front and loced linen shorts.
Pale Gray Cashmere
Cape.
Auburn hair usually has its own beautiful skin colour. One might ajrecommend deep flesh powder for this. Chestnut auburn hair needs 9a powder of a pinky shade, with
The fashion now is a short cape, more brown in its composition.
Day-time
should in pale grey cashmere, worn with never be overdone. Its object is dress and Quaker-like cap of same to protect the skin, and to act as material. Deep tucks are worn on
powdering
a dainty finish. In the evenings we the bodice of the frock.
ean allow more "make up." as arti
light improves ft. Tho
shaded powder, which will give
When
KNITTING HINT
doing knitting of
Black Taffeta. Evening
Gown.
"TEMPETUOUS PETTICOAT”
FOR DAMP CUPBOARDS
Charcoal placed in muslin baga and hung in a damp cupboard, will quickly absorb all moisture - An earthenware crock full of unslaked lime will absorb all the moisture!
Frivolous Wraps For
Evening Wear. ̈·
There is something of the Tan-from a damp cellar. go touch about the model we are Juvited to admire. The long Pria- bess-like upper half is black lace: run through with silver threads that make a zig-zag lightning pat- tern and it fits the figure like a glove from square neckline to knees. Then comes the "tempes- tuous petti-goat"a mass of black net flounces set in sweeping lige, rising to instep height in front, falling to train length at the back. And stiffened Rounces at that!
There is a tempestuous look, too, about the pale primrose organdi frock designed for a famous American beauty, The skirt is nothing but frills, and the bodice ia almost covered with fluttering ruffles after the man ner of the eighteenth century.
You would not call big frilled kleeves of nigger-brown crepe on
a pale honey-coloured crepe frock ordinary, exactly peaceful and would you? The honey-coloured frock has one deep flounce of self material on the skirt, and round the close-to-the throat neckline is a gathered frill which develops into In cascading jabot to the waist in front. With those sleeves, and & wide sash the ends of which is quite sufficiently arresting to he classed among the "tempestuous" frocks.
Like Grandmother's.
If you do not want to be quite so much off the beaten. track, per- haps you would consider an even- Ing gown "like Grandmother wore?" The original is develop- ed in rustling black taffetas, on Princess linea, the long skirt hav- ing a stiffened ruche of the ma- terial, and the off-the-shoulders corsage finished with a frill of petals, coch petal topped by a tiny Delicious! Especial- damask rose.
ly with short black taffetas gloves which have petalled gauntlets like the berthe.
But these vagaries
are merely
one mentioned because they are inter on the Fashion her skin an exquisitely translucent colour place a bunch of flowers of eating side-lights
June
Chichibu Maru Pres. Jefferson
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FOR MANILA -
ficial
June
blonde can use
a delicate green-{
Emp. of Russia
Pes. Bunver
Empress of Asla
Pres. Hayes
Pres. Jefferson
FOR SHANGHAI
June
Chichibu Maru
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TO REVIVE VIOLETS
Empress of Asia
7
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FOR STRAITS & INDIA
Violets which have drooped can
June
Auneas
to
8 look. At all times your face pow-contrasting colour near by, and Parade. We still have our charm- Bder will do Its work for your skin when your eyes get tired gaze ating and sensible day clothe
seconde. choose, and our graceful and clas- beller if you smooth it over gently the flowers for a few with the finger-tips.
The change of colour gives great sical evening gowns, relief.
be revived if held head downwards
in cold water for a few minutes. June 6
TRIMMING REAPPEARS ON
EVENING GOWNS
A Useful Lampshade For Invalids.
The blue paper in which cotton- As a foil to the austerity of the wool is wrapped makes an excel- last few seasons. a certain amount
Closes: Reg. 1.45 p.m. Ord. 2.30 p.m. od "By Air Mall" and handed in at of trimming is appearing on even-lent shade for electric light in case
Coal Ros99
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At the smart Paris restaurants these gala evenings are Весп 80 amazing display of fascinatingly. frivolous wraps and jackets.
Just the thing to add a touch of amartness to a simple evening
Kown!
Castor Oil Time,
Do You Remember This?
No doubt you do, for most parents of the last generation believed in the "good old-fashion- ed_remedy"-Castor Oil, What re- volting nauseating scenes does it not conjure up?" The horrible taste seems to come back years afterwards, just at the mere sight of it,
Now there is a better way, Many modern parents have turned away from such crude. griping, violent purgatives, and when their little ones need stomach and bowel corrective they now use the special formuls of an eminent child specialist which is put up under the name of
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INTRODUCTORY SALE
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Bringing Up Father.
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I'LL HAVE UNDERTAND
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
This cross-word puzzle has been made by un expert but our
readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling.
such as barbor, plow, and altho.
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HORIZONTAL 1-Stain of Ink 4-Hinders B-ireland (Post-] 9-Locks
11—A beverage (pl.) 12-Consumes 14-Told
17-8mail meen bed
(pl.) 20-Orator (abbr) 21-Toothed whest on
pur 22-Imitative (abbr) 23-Very
24-One who inherits 26-A singing voice 28-Musical note
20-Before 30-Yonder
34-A
37-Preposition 39-Dry
41-Remove the skin
42-Father (short) 43-Circle
| HORIZONTAL (Cont.) |
45-Rowa 46-Paradise
|43-To drag in the mud 150-An
An insect (pl.).
62-A Turkish officia! [53-Narrow strip of
Wood (54-Girl's name
66-Vehicle on runners 157-To corrode
a 68-Greek god of war
VERTICAL
1-Respire 2-Record 3-Ahand
B-Because 6-Stagger
7-A sex mammal 8-Girl's name 10-Stocky part of a
plant 11-Combining form.
Air
13-Agliata
114-A flower
VERTICAL (Cont.) 16-Large lake 16-June-bug
17-A vegetable 18-Asherent 10-Walk
25 Miataka 27-A drunkard
1.Post |32-Material for
making bags 3-A liquid measurea 34-A Ysatening device 138-Bewing Implement
(pl.)
26-Cures hides
18-Fatigue
40-Expire
41-Foot-like organ 42-BRUCY
|44-TILIS
47-Lifaires 40~8mlis
51-Island (Poet)
55-Deposit account
(abbr.)
86-5enlor (abbr.}
The solution of the above with a new cross-word puzzle
will appear in to-morrow'e isrus.
for brass. copper
and all metals
use-
BRASSO
-the
polish that gives a lasting shine
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
SE STRIPS
LIES
ANT VE ERA
EVER
LEDS
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WELL-ALL I KIN SAY 15- THAT WOMAN MUST HAVE LOST HER
APPETITE
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