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HOW ABOUT CHRIST- MAS?
AT THE SIGN OF THE LANTERN.
It seems hard to believe that it is October with the Streets still with flowerlike muslins and ghiffons, but it is high time that we were considering the subject of Christmas gifts for those at Home.
When one has lived here for some years the peculiar gifts of the Enst Jose some of their fascination, but if you can remember the thrills of the voyage and your first week among the Hong Kong shaps, yon will realise what the native pro- duce means to those at Home. For so little you can give so much plea sure: 4 dollar spent here will give a pound's worth of pride and joy to the one who opens your parcel. For what they want At Home is something distinctively foreign" which will be a proof that friends from far away hare not forgetten cbeta.
The Sign of the Lantern, within whose doors you find so much that is rare and beautiful, is always a happy hunting ground for gifts large or small. Miss Honess has a particular genius for offering us the gifts of the East in practical and acceptable form. Nestlaces suitable only for collections or a curios are restrung for present day us, scraps of lovely old embroidery) are used to fashion or embellish a hundred and one useful articles.
Those delightful sex grass bags which we use so much here are very little known at Home and they have the advantage of being very easily packed for transport. A large con- signment of thern has just arrived, some of the latest being in plain colours with an initial in one and containing a
small purse of the same colour. Of the same material are spectacle cases, shopping bags, blotters and book- covers, all well made and in a variety of charming patterns and colours.
corner
Dear little boxes for sweets, or to carry cottons and needles, etc., when travelling, are starred over with tiny towers, and a new comer is the little sweet- basket with a long handel.
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Sot grass combined with stronger material ia used to make very decorative attaché cases which would be admirable for bathing, and nests of work baskets. Manila cloth bag, collapsible book resta and waste paper baskets would also make much appreciated gifts. There baskets and book slides are also mande in old Chinese embroidery and silk, and as they fold quite flat for packing, they are very suitable to send home.
The charming little rice paper figures of which I have told you before, seem to be at arver ending variety. Each shipment brings fresh and delightful Sgures; among!
the last in a quite new departure.
BY THE WAY.
CARPETS.-Whiteaway. Laidlaw's have just received a number of seamless Axminster, carpets of English make. They are strongly woven of pure woel and dyed in fast colour. The patterns" are for side which should make the most part rather on the formal these carpets particularly appropriate for use with blackwood furniture, Two in particular in buff tones I theight were very distinctive. The one had formal sprays of flowers in a somewhat Chinese design and the other a self colour diaper pat
tern.
LIG SWEATERS FOR CHILDREN, On the ground floor of the same hop I found some delightful little wenters. They are knitted in & fine soft wool in various pretty colours, and would be just the thing to wear over a party frock under a coat or to give added warmth in the house. These little jerseys only ecet 8250 each.
the summer months we may be FOR A BETTER FIGURE-During excused for neglecting to a certain extent the use of correct corsetry Now, however, that it is cooler it
an Amerikan Tourist, a thoroughly Hampstead Heath figure. I wonder
Further, who appreciate the what the next caricature will be charm of taffeta here is a delightful and whether the artist responsible model in faille tofele of a rich has a deep
sense of humor as it bronze-green tint trimmed with lace would appear, or if this is a dyed to match. genuine attempt at portraiture. "The tippot, with its camen clasp, Certainly a set of these, little ita nourity. When it is removed figures which can be used as menu the dren is seen with a simple Eton holders, and generally represent the collar finish to the neck. Chinese theatrical confraternity, would make an excellent Christmas present to send home. Each is time that unruly Sgures were Sgure is a work of art, and they taken in hand again, and before have the added charms of being buying an autumn wardrobe you definitely oriental" work and only costing a dollar each.
EMBROIDERY.
STITCHES AND HINTS TO HELP WOMEN WITH NOT
MUCH LEISURE.
The intelligently industrious in has been too much direct cont of embroidery have been few. There the past and not enough invention or xpression of the present," writes Developments" in one of the new Mary Hogarth about **Modern
fifth edition of Art in Nerdlo chapters she has contributed to the work." by Lewis F. Day and Mary Buckle (Batsford, 78. 6).
.
A New Note In Design,
schools.
"But there are one or two living In Central Europe a widespread industry, a real ne el embroidery, is being brought into being. It strikes a new note, both in design and fulfilment
of lines and soners unknown or has gossamer-like quality not seen previously
. л combination
fare. isolate countries nor individuals.
..We
no longer
So our embroidery must perforce become more cosmopolitan and more self-conscious."
can
Some Hints To Embroiderers. In a chapter of hints to the worker the necessity of having large rycs for embroidery needles is men- tioned.
Embroidery needles should have large eyes. The silk is not rubbed in threading them, and they make.
Either of these stitches could ajan make effective borders for a child's frock.
Efective and A stitch that easily worked in
is very pretty! this stitch pater-worked in chick lased throughwilk or wool.
her ring-boning.
It is ment and Contrasting col-
Tooks good. uured "threads could be used if this were employ ring-bone tit ed on a child's cher is avoient summer dress or by painty the overall,
nerile eye up The danger in instead of the. splitting the her point.
way for the thread to pass smoothly through the stuff. For working in twisted silk the eye should be roundish; for at silk, long; for sur face stitching or interlacing, a blunt tapestry needle' is best; for carrying cord or gold thread through the stuff, a rug needle.' should examine the new founda- If your work is faulty cut it tion garments Aesigned for use! cut and do it again. Unpicking is I mentioned last week that Christ with them, and get those, which are not so satisfactory; it loosens the mas cards and calendars, of Mis correct for your figure. The front stuff to drag the thread back" Honess' own design were expected. lace corket is an admirable correo through it, and the thread saved is They are very charming: the cards tive after a period of comparative of no further use. Beginners find with red, orange or blue, covers inaction, and allows for the most it hard to undo work once done; with a Chinese symbol painted on perfect adjustment as one's figure but a really good needlewaman. them in gold, have rice paper pic persuaded back into lines of never hesitates about it-her one tures inside.
beauty. Among the new founda thought is to get the thing right. tion garments in Lane, Crawford's Don't break your thread ever; that I noticed one front lacing model pulls it cut of condition. Always which was cut in a Von either cut it.' side under the bust to allow for. better diaphragm control, and was correspondingly long just over the
I have by no means exhausted the list of possible Christmas gifts to be found at the Sign of the Lan. tera; ahundred and one other artistic trifles, some very cheap and others genuine curios are to be ob- tained there. It is a tempting skop at any time, but quite irresist able just at the moment,
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of the attractive display of FRINGED EVENING Dance Coats and Wraps
Very striking and only just arrived in Hong Kong
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hips. A coraclette with a very well character which would make rich cut bramière has a wide panel of and warm linings for winter coats surgical elastic back and front or wraps; and from Japan come which would, serve as a suficient chiffon and georgette dress lengths, which I was looking at in Powell's propriate in the morning or after corrective for the slender figure. Georgette bordered and patterned this week seem to have been special noon; and the somewhat non- GIYTA OF THE EAST-To Pohoo with an embossed velvet brocade isly designed for our needs hers, descript colourings make them easy DTESA LENGTHS.-The Finncer mull Brothers all the lands of the very dainty and is a change from With a short and not very cold to wear with any hat or dress. Silk Store have received many East
are sending their rarest the all over velvet brocaded geor winter what we chiefly need is a BETH-Belts are be an im- more printed dress lengths which silka. From Burmah.come silk gette with which we are familiar. smart and yet serviceable cant portant iten during the winter and you will be glad to see. The brocades strongly woven of thick Other dress lengths have woven which will keep out the cold with- I was pleased to see a variety of patterns and colourings are more silk which would make very hand-silk brocade border georgette, out being heavy to wear. Chenille pretty patterns in Whiteaway, in line with European taste than rome wraps or dresses for the cooler and I noticed also some very lovely cloth, fine tweeds and light Laidlaw's. those formerly shown, being very days. There was one bolt of a lovely printed chiffons among them weight swede cloth are the favourite KIMONO-In the same shop soft and pretty. One piece in heavy navy silk brocaded with one in a clear pale mauve with a materials for coats of various eft found some charming printed tilk eau de Nil has a border of creamy smaller silver grey roses which I barder of blue iria leaves, colours mostly beiges blues and kimonos, very similar to Hacri chrysanthemumas, and another piece visioned as an evening wrap, or a A NECESSITY AND A LUXURY—An greys. They are cut on simple coats in style but lined with jap in pale mauve which runs to clear smart coat trimmed with white overcoat is a necessity and a luxury lines with a two button cross over silk. As these garments will wash pale green at the hem has a de fox. Shanghai sends us silk in one, but it must be both good generally, and trimmed with the they are, of course, more practical licately etched spray of cherry brocades of a rather more elaborate and smart if it is to fuifli both new charmingly dyed fur. A cont than the embroidered sort which blossom to trim it
(Continued on next Column.) demands. The new great" coats of this description is equally "ap- I must be dry cleaned.