THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12th, 1927.
The
WOMAN'S PAGE
BORN IN THE EAST., THE SPIRIT OF THE CLEANING FANCY
AGE.
furnishings which lies beyond the lounge is to be included in the
restaurant for the dansanta
SHOES.
To Remove Stalas, For the popular lizard skins, [erenza anffices, but for python, sither natural or dyed, a white shoo which has a dull and rougher sur
a non-inflammable spirit face, cleaner is used.
"This is the same cleaner, that
A YARD AND A. HALF.
When Two Or More Cleaners Are Needed.
Now that an alliance of two or or more leathers is so frequent in women's shoes, more than one type of cleaner is necessary for many varieties, and great care has to be taken in applying each.
A yard and a ball of dance dress material, half an hour at the machine, and an hour with a needle
For instance, satin may be strap- which mean so much, and behold a leather and coloured silk and kid frock which will bet your feet often are allied in evening shoes. twinkling and bring the roses to Black satin and gold metal cloth your checks! New dresses bring fashion aboca with a patent com- more roses than rouge pots do, what-position beel, and shoes of pale coloured leather have strappings of ever the nice may say.
reptile akins or kid of a darker or eontrasting shade.
"SPOILT OF COURSE.”
An air of bustle and movement The wide variety of shoe leathers How often you hear it said at had invaded the quiet well run pre-produced within recent years Home about some child he is mises of Lane, Crawford's. It was naturally necessitates a large num- terribly spoilt, of course, he was born in India (ar Hong Konel as though half a dozen energeticber of new shoe-cleaning materials, putting those finishing touches ped with silver or gilt kid. Gilded
housewives were indulging in an Consequently this need Eas involved What a pity it is that it should be orgy of spring cleaning. But it was, a great deal of research work on the so true. Many parents make great I found that expression of the part of manufacturers of shoe sacrifices in order to avoid this | *** stigma being attached to their child-pirit of the age, Charleston, who polishes and fabric-ahoe cleaners. was responsible for the upheaval Tell. Either they separate, the That quiet sanctuary of luxurious mother taking the little ones. home or, what is perhaps still sadder, she returns and leaves them to face the most impressionable years with- out "her care. The question of health does, of course, play its part, but here at least in Hong Kong there are many sturdy youngsters who have never seen England's and and pleasant land," separation is not always accessary so that score. I was distressed to bear new comer to the Colony talking the other day about a party of older Hong Kong children. "Abominably rude, with no con- sideration for any one," was "bis criticism. Can this be a necessary price to pay for educating ones children here ?
green
There are two reasons why child- ren brought up in the East are com-
And this delightful material It comes from India and you can find it at the Pioneer Silk Store. A
An Australian Invention. fascinating box was unpacked, for
of boot polish me and one by one the dress lengths. Another firm were displayed. There was an ivory manufacturers, make a preparation an Australian invention, can be we sell for removing stains from scorgette with deep vandyked insets in the form of white liquid. This, of silver lace, a pinky buis de ruke biege or other delicato shades of crêpe de chine with a wide inser-used on all leathers and also for
and light-coloured glacé- tion of lace gold and apricot in shoes of Panama straw.. shoes,” szid a well-known manaingene. And in all that box there.. "We produce 5,000 gallons of
were no two pieces the same, crope this preparation daily turer of shoe polishes.
de chine and georgette in lavender, member of the firm and send sup red, black, white, green, blue, andplies all over the world. One of our biggest markets for the pre- paration is Germany." pinks of many different tones, have inset bands of tinsel laće, "some act in points, some in curves, some straight.
satin
seemed to glimpse the impudent firt of a whispy frock and a silken leg behind a massive wardrobe, and o temporal o mates! downstairs the cases of silver ware have been ousted from their glittering tanks, by plebian pots and pans.
Hardware has been promoted to the ground door and the furnishing
Treatment of Metal Fabrim. quarters on the has found new
Men and women, Euro "For gold and silver kid shoes mezzanine. peans and Chinese were working we make a special liquid cleaner and perspiring, hammers and saws which contains a certain amount For metal and colour, were adding their insistant notes to of metal.
tinaci broendes We make the clamour, the old conventions are ed being overthrown in order thata, cleaner in the form of white a soft brush to the shoe. The Hong Kong can dance at tea time
powder is so fine that it is not neces as Iane, Crawford's.
sary to brush it out of the material
For the girl with but little pin money or the woman with but little time this material is a great boom, for it is just that tiresome insertion that takes time patience and skill.
Ever-useful Black Satin. The American fashion of wearing black satin shoes in the afternoon seems to have invaded Paris... đ season or two ago a really chic Parisienne would have turned up her dainty nose at such an idea; would have dubbed it "provincial but the dance craze has wrought A Kit That I Easily Damaged.
many changes. Now-a-days it is usual for girls-their mothers, too- *** Ganmetal kid, which has the to arrive at a tea-dance "dressed in somewhat iridescent finish of silk | fragile frocks of lace and chiffon...... kid, should be dealt with very care decorative shoes to match! Some fully. The finish is so easily dám-women can get away" with in- aged by friction, and, although novations of this kind, while others, good white cream can be used, less gifted or lesa adaptable, only usually wiping with a lamp cloth succeed in looking what the French is all that is necessary,
cali endimanchée.
Jewalled heels and buckles usually are cleaned by brushing with the white powder used for shoes of metal broende Naturally, the brush ought not to be too stiff or the stones may be dislodged.
Many of the straw and canvas shoes on the market clean very successfully, using only soft water and, if necessary soft nail brush. The soap should be pure and the water, not too plentiful.
The Right Court Shoe To Choose. For a black satin 'Court shoe to look its best it cught to be tut up high on the Hoot, otherwise it is apt to sprawl a little at the sides and make the foot appear wide. The heel, like all the best of its tribe just now, should be the alender Spanish heel, which is much smarter than the waisted Louis varieties. In one of the newest Some Shoe Taitlone.
shops in Regent-street,, where only Gunmetal leather shoes-these shoes, perfumes, and sports clothes no really navy blue with a are sold, all the shoes had Spanish grey sheen are selling very well, heels, and there was available-a said member of a well-known varied selection of those fancy little Bond-street firm. We have new tag ends which finish the laces in varieties in a similar leather in the Court-cum-laced type of shoe flesh colour.
which Americans and Frenchwomen (Continued on next Column) like so much.-E.
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For Hard-Court Tennis Shoes.
Shoes of sunburn canvas, a colour almost the shade of a hard tennis court and worn by hard- court players, also have a special cleaner. This in liquid and is the same colour as the shoo.. We sell
pared so unfavourably with those gives them orders! Unfortunately more liquid than solid cleaners for educated at Home. One is lack of it seems impossible to make Chinese canvas shoes, because, it is easier to parental control and the other in servants insist on small courtesies dulgence of Chinese servants. When from their charges, but the mother Apply and dries very quickly. the thermometer stands at some can and should do the insisting for cleaners for shoes, so we sell the where round 30,, and the humidity them. Say
please, Amah,
There is little demand for suède
eleaner we make to bag manufac
is even woxes, it is very difficult thank you, Amah once more turers.
put
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to be constantly running after a the small brain registers the advan chit that down,"
enforcing such orders as tages to be gained from using the "take your extra words, and very soon the
a regular the other servants "human beings out of your month, etc. child adopts them as fingers So very quickly the little ono dis formule.
after all." That is the crux of the covers, that he can disobey orders
I remember a very wealthy trouble. The language bar alone with impunity, But far larger woman at Home saying "I always makes it impossible to treat one's factor and graver, which is not insist on Jackie calling the butler servants here exactly as one does to be excused on the score of heat Mr. Long, as I think it's so import at home, but there can be no ex- is allowing the children to be rude, ant that children should realise that case for allowing the children to especially to the servants.. servants are human beings after think that they have no right to
Even small babies are amazingly all." It was not perhaps the best courtesy.
I believe that if parents would cunning as every mother knows way of putting it, but it does give they put two and two together, and, a clue to what is wrong out here. bear this in mind, and firmly stop very clearly realise cause and Children are very quick to realise any truculent young Briton from effect." Mother," says the small social distinctions and to pick up bullying his weak and all too willing philosopher, insists. on my saying their tone from their elders, the amah, the stigma attached to child- please before she gives me any remark "little pitchers have long red bred in the east would soon be thing, so it is quicker to say it ears is as true to-day as it was forgotten.. Every human being has at once, but amah doesn't care when it was first made. It is a right to courtesy, and to allow Nor does, his majesty the baby. He absurd to expect children to treat children to grow up without realis- tries to wheedle his mother and an amah as they would an English ing this is to put a stumbling block father, but he does not waste his nurse, if they realise that their in their path which will be a handi blandishments on the servants; he parents consider neither her nor cap to them right through their
live "(Continued on next Column.) (Continued on next Column.).
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