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{Adix) Lid
Prince's Bidu.
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A STEIN:&.COMPANY
Chicago, U.S.A. New York; U.S.A.
Is Your Wedding Ring
Wideweave PARISis your best introduction to long wear and great comfort. Tailored to it the leg- to bold your hose secure and trim. Ask for the gea- uine PARIS by name.
PARIS
BRASS?
You will see in this production a play subig, so beautiful an analytic story of why marriages are unhappy. so keen, so powerful, with acting so wonderful that you will place BRASS" among the very Guest Blus ever offered in Hongkong.
IT IS ANOTHER WARNER BROS. PRODUCTION
THE
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 17TH, 1924
PARIS FASHION NOTES...
[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, IS DEL RAMSAT]
Ostrich feather trimming is one of the uiost notable paints, of the senson... Couturiers go further and further with it. Now it is farming fringes, which Bounce the skirts, of evening gowns and PARIS, May 12th, dance frocks. The long tether hous become smarter and smarter as the sea- Wicker furniture for the summer, rvom
Ot csurse, they are always op the sun parlar lends itself to the goes on, creatier of eminently modern designs. Wern with the ends hanging down the To complete the effect it should be givneck so that they will wiggest as little modern designs in its 'eretonné cushions.
as possible the feather bois of the 1900 The current usage makes "these cushions period, which is too recent to be taken round, square, är oblong bat does not up as a "style" by the fashion erenters. ht the to the exact shape of the chair. This is rather convenient as any cushion can be used in any chair and by changing cushions about in the room an effect of monotony is avoided.
Bedstently with no footboards are the new thing in the matter of bedroom furnishings. They have the great advan tage af seeming to give more spare in the bedroom and in allowing the full glory of a ler or brocade counterpane to a pear from all points of view.
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Shoes made of inrrow strips of leather woven together appear for wintry wear, both in the low heeled sports dels and. in the more feminine editions, that are fitted with Louis XV. heels. They are maite in shade of wood brown, red, blue, rod and white and black and white, so you, may take your choice and be as sober. or as gay as you pleäse.
Parasols
become
this year have absolutely frivolis and irrepressible. There are small ones covered with the nost gaily figured eretonnes, fur use in Tike fees carpets are used with the country and at the seaside. There modern versions of interior decoration are figured taffetas ones re-covered with The earpet is made in alternate black finely pleated chiffon, and there are plaid and white sqpres which recall to mind umbrellas as well as parasols. The shape a chess boarth The Parisians use these of the new parasals often admits the long checked carpets for entry halls, and wait handle, while the shailing part is rather ing rooms, but 1 should particularly re-
small, and usually has but little aneb. commend them for the nursery, for they | For Fain umbrellas the short, clubrika would suggest to the child mim asy
ferm persists, as it is the easiest to carry, number of delightful games, and would bur red and blue plaid, yellow and black set the youngsters to counting and learn- plaid and red and white plaid taffetas ing numbers at a tender age. Whether covers them as often as the semi-durk another Newton could be trained as, red or blue changeahlé taffetas. result, of "a checked carpet I am mor prepared to say',
The Parisians are careful housekeepers, and carry the doctrine of wipe your feer before yini cer in" a long way. At the outer door of every apartment house in Paris there is a large cocamt door mat, inside the door is another, and Further along in the entry hall there is a thin Every apartment, has a mat he fore-its: dier, even though there he three doge nets"in the entry of the building, "Iris a gent saver of dust in the houses
» Halibair beterlegs encrusted with ribbon flowers any, as pretty and suitable an accessory as ca. h found for a young girl is in gestionable taste, to let children wear jewelry,, but at the same time it is good to enltivate a girl's feel ing for wearing pretty things gracefully These little ribbon bracelets fasten about the wrist with a sliding clasp of galialith or silver, which holds them siunathly in place. The Fibbon Bowers, which are made of very narrowest ribbon rufféd tightly and set, on edge can be made and set on the narrow black grosgrain ribbon of the bracelet, by any woman who is clever with r needle.
Fortunately, the vogue for borti ring med spectacles has gone the way of all fashions. Now the thing is to carry a face-h-main which is just an old fashion ed lorgnette made up in silver, tortoise shell or gallalith. Of course, it is fire. some to hold these moveable spectacles to the eyes, but one must put one effort into being smart.
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A line of pulling offers a new and quite charming trimming' for dance frocks An old gow, and afternoon gowns, even, can be rejuvenated by the applica in of this type of trimming in a con
The method is very. trasting colour.
84:11 simple Cut taffetas, faille or other crisp silk into strips about 'four them together, inches wide and sew
lowing in length oner and a half the length of the finished trimming; ar under the edges and press them towa with a warm iron, shirr the paterial with a double line of gathers at each edge gel elitch it in with the machine, placing the edges three inches or a little less apart so as to give a loose puff of the Two lines of this ilk between them.
trimming about the hem of a skirt, and one about the neckline will increase tho dressiness of the frock newusels,
There are a number of acidulatel creats the market for manieuring. purposes. Their objecteis to lossen the cuticle that clings to the muil sias to give the tail a elar lower outline) and provent the appearance of hangnails. The wise woman will apply the principle of these preparations, without necessarily having recourse to the products, by rubbing her hands with a lemon once a day and giving special attention to the state of the cuticle.
Within
this bottle is Whisky without equal
W
HEREVER you
see a bottle that has
and "brambles" "dimples" lighting "up its countenance with pride and pleasure, you may be sure that you and genuinely old whisky are at last face to face.
DAWSON The name of this whisky is
**IPICIAL*
SCOTCH WHISKY
ma
Peter Dawson, and it is the. product of generations of
experience in the art of
distilling, blending" and
maniring
The respect due to old age,
not to mention your palate,
demands that
you try, "P.D".
PETER DAWSON
Scotch Whisky
Agenta
H. J. RUTTONJEE & SONS 16. Queen's Road Central, HONG KONG
which offers nothing short of a garden to flowers, blossom and in their turn give the cure of the mistress of the house. place to paasies or heliptrope. In the The best way to keep up the supply of winter, the Paris window boxes show "the window box is to have a rotation of little privet trees, clipped into charming
The bulbs and the plants" bulbs and plants following each other regularity
the year round. Here, in Paris. the sea-after they have had their way can either The row of Bowerpots which used to son begins with violets, which are follow-go back to the florist or can be placed decorate the windowsills of city dwellersed by tulips, already footed in the in earth or sand in the cellar or the is now being replaced by the windowbox celler: then hyacinths. already showing court to rest themselves for their next
their bads replace the tulips, grow Brason of flowering- (Continueil on vest, column.)
POMMERY & GRENO CHAMPAGNE
'N view of the fact that certain brands of POMMERY & GRENO CHAM-
IN
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PAGNE are now being offered on the market which have not passed through our hands, we hereby give Notice that we are the Sole Agents in China and Hongkong for the importation and sale of POMMERY & GRENO CHAMPAGNE and that the Wines in question have been imported and put on the market without Messrs. Pommery & Greno's knowledge or consent. The only Wine which we are in future prepared to guarantee as shipped by Messrs. Pommery & Greno to China and Hongkong bears a foot-label on each bottle with our name
as Sole Agents.
CALDBECK MACGREGOR & Co, Ltd.