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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 10TH, 1924
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LEADING TOBACCONISTS, OPPOSITË QUEEN'S THEATRE
DRESSES MEN REMEMBER.
-"LINA ARAMAN. ↑
Which are the dresses men rentember 2 Men are critical of women's clothes but if they are asked to describe a Frock in detail they generally founder. And the dresses they love, those which linger long inthe memory, are rarely those which we ourselves have made favourites to which we have given affectionate exre."
Very many women make the mistake of believing that they are admired most in evening dress. Of all the boars in. the day those which follow dinner are planned with greatest care. Yet the un discerning eye of the modern man is ap to see all evening dresses under the light of an exalted uniforo. The sieve. less; straightlined gown uppeïrs to hiu to have little of the individuality which is possible in the garden party or after- noon frock.
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Men have an almost uncanny rightnessa of judgment, however, when it comes to the suitability of the dress" to the wenzer. Out in Indin an officer received nättle, time agoni (studio“ portrait of his wife It was an excellent photograph of a very charming woman' inta very elaborate dress.
To his letter of thanks the husband added: “But I wish you would send me that old snapshot in which you wear your habit,
The woman in question looked superb in the hunting åeld. Severity in dress suited her. If her husband had been her inide she would always have been well dressed, but she made the mistake of trusting to her own “sense "of clothes. The result was that highly decorative frocks bila personality which needed au almost classic austerity in expression
Women continue to wear the little bell- like hat, yet all men like the big Picture hut.ked that big flopping thing you wore at Mary's wedding, aminan res "markeil of an occasion; ten years old
That was the only hat which his wife had won that he could remember, and be was able to describe the long troon ing feather and the angle at which the hat had been pioned.
In details of style men are indifferent erities, hut in colour and in appreciation of the sympathy which can but does by no means always exist between a dress and its wearer, the judgment of a man is often more accurate than that of a wernan-Billy Mail,
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SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION LONDON, HAMBURG,
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Wines tay, 18th July
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MATACOMA MARU"...
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BUSHO MARU":
CALCUTTA VIR Singapore & Rangoon.
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Monday,
7th July,
Friday,
Both June. 5th July,
Wednesday, 2nd July,
Thursday, 26th Jane.
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER via Shanghai and......
Japan Ports."
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NEW YORK via Japan Ports, San Francisco and Panama.
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Wodnesday, 9th July,
Beginning of July.
Saturday, 14th June.
Thursday, 19th June.
Wednesday, 9th July.
JAPAN PORTS-Moji, Kobe, Osaka, Yokkaichi and Nagoya,
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Thursday, 19th June
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MR. LUM OF HONGKONG, CHINESE DINNERS DE LUTE
Neither nud nor rain has had any effect on the appetites of visitors to the Chinese restaurant at the British En pire Exhibition at Wembley, conducteit by Mr. Lum, the "Lyons of Hongkong." The persistence with which they retur to strange ulishes is one of the mysteries. of the exhibition," says a writer in one of the London papers.
Mr. Lam tells me that one unsophisti cated visitor who ate his first portion of broiled bamboo piths eight days ago with the air of a man going to execution has since come back six times for further adventures in the realm of Chinese culi- nary art.k
You can order such simple dishes na pork and noodles (a kind of Chinese macaroni) för 2s, or a plate of noodle soup for 15. 10s huncheon comprised the following:
Shark's fin with chicken in soup.
Broiled bamboo pith;
Stewed chickeň rolja:...“.
Fried yam and chow vice.
Tea
A de luxe dinner at the Hongkong, cex- "taurant can cost as much as £10 & plate- Here is the ment of a 10-course meal, representing the last word in dishes which are specialities of the various pro vinces, each prepared by a special chef:
Peking birds' nest soup.
2. Kwong Chow (stowed shark's fu), ́· 3. Kiungnan (steamed chicken with
...glutinous rice).
4. Manchurian stewed lichens..
5. Soochow stewed Awabi (Fish).
6 Yunnan steamed duck, with ham.
Yangchow maize custard u soup,-
8. Tibet Lo-Han Maigra (a vegtenhle
disk
9. Shanghai stewed fedgling pigeon,"
Pei-king Stewed mushrooIA,
Foncy patrry, noodles, dessert, fruifk
( varieties), and candied fruits." This dinner for 10 persons casts, £40, and the 10 chefs must have 12-hours" notice to order" to do their best.
Dinner and luncheon are enlivened by: Chinese jazz music.
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The Belgrade correspondent of the London Charrier writes:The papers re- port a strange story of a peasant girl the village with the power of radiation so that no clothes will remain on her. The village re- ports that whên, ckhen has ; dressed ber: clothes turn after a few boner frat into something resembling spider's web, and the literally into thin air. Naturally such as inconvenient person has disturb- ed the villagers, though probably less from consideration for the maintenance. of standards of propriety than from superstitious fears that she is possessed of diabolic powers. The chief of police of the district has sent for the girl, who is to be examined before the more en- "ghtened eyes of the district police und
committee of doctors,
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