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SHAMPOO
OBTAINABLE FROM OUR
PERFUMERY DEPT.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
PAMELA
(AND REDUCED.)
is now showing a new selection of
Woollen and Silk and Wool
Jumper Suits,
Tennis and Golf Socks,
very suitable for the present weather.
Another shipment of
Afternoon and Evening Dresses
specially ordered for
Race Week
is arriving to-day.
13, Queen's Road Central.
HATS AND FROCKS
FOR THE RACES
JUST ARRIVED.
York Building,
Chater Road,
AT
THE
SIGN
OF THE
LANTERN
Tel. C. 4864.
YOUR DANCING NIGHTS
WILL BE
NIGHTS OF GALDNESS
IF YOUR FROCK IS ALL THAT ART CAN MAKE IT.
Some charmingly original creations of a new and strik.... ing note may be seen at our establishment at any time.
Let an Artist help you choose
MADAME R. SARRAULT,
10_ICE_HOUSE STREET.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10th, 1928.
The
WOMAN'S PAGE
TREASURES OF THE FAR EAST.
WHERE TO SHOP IN HONG KONG.
ADVICE TO OUR VISITORS OF THE "BELGENLAND " AND "EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA."
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All over the world the traveller, entering a new port, experi ences the same difficulty of want of knowledge of the best shops in which, to purchase those precious momentoes of his or her voyage. There is so much to see and do in the course of a few days, that the visitor is often tempted by the first shop, and all too often regrets, when too late, that she has not gone further nfeld.
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Knowledge of local conditions and, of the Chinese language, may make back street" shopping worth while to the old resident or very experienced traveller; but there is ho" disguising that when a round-the-world liner is in harbour a keen eye is watchful for a strange face, and it is just these "back street" shops which are most on the look out of "sapa." The bigger firms mentioned on this page have built up a reputation for fair dealing over a number of years, and it is not in their interest to jeopardise that reputa- tion for the sake of a few dollars.
I have, therefore, on this page tried to give you some indien- tion of the type of goods which you can find at the various shops · mentipaed, and can assure yol that you will receive courteous treatment and a square'den at all of them.
A TEMPLE OF ART.
KOMOR AND KOMOR.
If Mr. Komor, our local Quin roya, comes forward to serve you himself you are indeed lucky, for he can show his treasures, as, no one else can and has, a fund of interesting stories in connection
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CHINESE BEDSPREADS.
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THE GRAND SILK STORE.
"A MOST FASCINATING
SHOP."
THE SIGN OF THE LANTERN,
I heard about The Sign, of the | Lantern in Chater Road, long before I reached Hong Kong, "A most fascinating shop," I was told, "which" you will never exhaust." Of course, residents in the Colony need no introduction to this tron- sure house, but possibly some of our visitors this week may not have had the recommendation I received. It would take more space than I Am allowed to tell you about a hundredth part of the delightful things that can be found there, but I should doubt if even the hardest headed business man in the world could go inside and come. out with his bank roll intact, and certainly no visiter in search of a momento of the East would want to do so. Blackwood furniture, old and new, Incquer, porcelain, rugs, oriental embroideries, and jewellery, make a setting for in- numerable lovely trifles, some rare and valuable and others which can be secured for a dollar or so.
A couple of lovely, genuinely old, mardarin coats attracted my atten tion yesterday. One was black) Komor and Komor's is the oldest Silk Store, which is on the corner frures: the other, a symphony of Pohoomull Brothers, the Granded with cherry red roses and tiny satin, very stiff and rich, embroider- establishment of its kind in Höng just opposite the "Queen's" Cinema blue and gold, was closely pattern- Kong, having been opened in 1867. in Queen's Road Central, is, I be-ed with the water and Imperial
The entrance to this well-known lieve, the oldest Silk Store in the dragons designs.
Colony, temple of art which you will find:
A new departure for The Sign There is a very pleasant atmos- the in Chater Road, is not very im- phere of worth while goods display-shawls. They are all, of the first Lantera ia Cantonese posing, but once inside you ared without much ostentation for gend small stitch variety, and can bewildered at the beauty and colour the shop is strongly established with be bought with condence, the
an excellent local reputation. "which meets your eyes. Every piece course, the goods stocked by most ant to pull away after a time, and Of cheaper long stitch embroidery is is a treasure, though some are quite of the better silk stores are to 2 the silk is often of too poor a modera treasures; you can make a
certain extent similar and I might quality to stand the heavy en- purchase there for under a dollar. Both the shop and the Fiencer. But who the Colony heris tou cun you much the same resume of hroidery. I believe this the only er you can spends, thousands of I am sure you will find it very buy those delightfully decorative dollars on some rare and beautiful much to your advantage to visit tongs of printed cotton, which for
both... abjet d'art such as the famous!
The Grand Silk Store has one of and individual a note to your room, a very small cost add so charming Tokugawa Screen.
the finest collections of Silk Shawls as a hanging or table cloth or made
the Colony and I have always up as cushion covers. Kimono and Haori coats of destine-shop lengths and oddments of old. found there particularly attractive | You will always find in this tive patterns, They have just now Chinese embroidery, rescued from some exceptionally fine mandarin mandarin garments and made up garments. Besides in very compreinte mats, table runners and bed- with various pieces. The huge the East, you will find at this Store you come upon a Chinese altar bensive range of silks from all over apreads, but it is not often that bronze lioness, a beautiful life size, sculpture with gilded eyes, which very pleasing ivories, crystal and cloth which looks as fresh and
amber, stands just inside, has been an ob
lovely, as it did when it was first ject of admiration to young and bedspreads the Chinese kind with now, of a vivid apple green satin, For wonderfully embroidered embroidered. There is one there old in Hong Kong since it Arst a thousand birds, Indian, Persian embroidered with the figures of appeared in Komor's, and we whe often go in there would sadly miss and Japanese, you cannot do better three gede in a garden of flowers than Pohoomull's and in the same and butterfies. A porcelain horse it if it were to be carried off to shop there is an excellent collection of about the year 1780 stands on the some other land. A more than life. aize bronze Buddah from Siam looks silk ones which are very well worth modelled and has a high peaked of carpets, especially of Persian same table. It is beautifully on all who enter with his stratigring for their beauty alone. mystical eyes and seems to stand
green Cossack sidle on its back. guard over the thousand and one! objects that fill shelves and coun ters. There is ivory, figure pieces
worn to-day. Mandarin coats are and quaint little Netsuke; cloisonné
known and admired the world over, of all gendres, some extremely
and the Pioneer Silk Store have a valuable; porcelaine, bronze and
very fine collection of them. Mar- Jacquer work, comprising a collee-THE PIONEER SILK STORE.
darin Pyjama Suits which make tion the like of which is seldom met with under one roof for variety and! Our local name for the Pioneer must fascinating negligée are less
Silk Store which you will find in perial yellow satin with
well-known, I noticed one in Im- sprays of Upstairs in the "sanctuary" you Queen's Road Central in The will and a remarkable collection of Rainbow Shop." They pride them pink almond blossom, and another old bronze Buddah heads, with their known to the dyers, and when you which with their more open necks selves on having silke of every shade of luck satin with circular medal
lions of small cherry pink flowers, mystical contemplative look and curiously elongated ears. Some go in, at the end of a busy day. Bermed particular suitable for very lovely specimens of the cabinet the vivid and lovely mass of colour etienn
07 European ladies. makers art both black wood and from the silks atrewn on the counter Maharajah coata"
ATC like the lacquer, screens, chests and cabinets, makes you want to carry it all away popular Haori coats in shape but fill nearly all the available space. just agit
just as it the silke, Indian, de dressing gowns or negligée considerably longer, and can be Wonderful Chinese carpeta lie on the floor and the shelves are crowd-Burmest bestaand Chinese, wraps. These are, of course, quite
beauty.
One thing is certain you cannot be disappointed in Kemor's, and even if you make but modest pur.
ORIENTAL SILKS NEW AND OLD.
red georgettes, gorgeous satine representative of every period of lamés, crepe de chine, taffetas and Chinese art.
velvet there are any number of Printed in some oriental design, lovely oriental, garments come new Dancing coats may be new to you, they again are a variation of the some gequine antiques. The modern ones have been made Haori cont specially designed for the danenuts or to slip on between chase you will have seen there of a more ample size than those the dances in the evening, The
for slender Chinese specimens of what is best in Chi- designed
difference lies in the fact that the nese and Japanese art, and will maidens, but you will fad old gar- dancing coat has a fringe at the leave with a better understanding ments which, as fresh and lovely as hem and on the ends of the long and appreciation of Oriental art when they were first made,. can be Aleeves, and is generally printed in
work,
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THE PIONEER SILK
STORE
Particularly invites your inspection
TO-DAY
Mandarin Coats and Pyjamas
A Unique Collection of Oriental Silks in
Shade
bright colours.
Many of you may be interested to take home Chinese garments ́ettch as are worn to-day. With this iden the "Pioneer has had a large stock of both the long cont dress and the pyjama style, made up with a wider cut, in all sorts of. pilka using particularly those patterns and colours most pleasing to Western taste,
You can also find here squares and pieces of antique Chinese-cm- broidery, lovely wall hangings and
very large stock of Cantonese
ELIZABETH ARDEN
NEW YORK,
PARIS.
LONDON,
ELIZABETH ARDEN, whose smart Salons are frequented by the most beautiful women of the fashionable world, senda these wine suggestions to all women;'
Don't mistake the cultivation of loveliness for make-up. They are miles apart! It wisdom, of course, to make subtle awe of the vollet accessories to enhance and accent the features and the natural colouring But it is tragid to 1ry to hide blemishes with countetios, for each year you will grow more depen... dent on those artificial means of concealing the ravages of your unwisdom.
Learn to care for your skin scientifically, to keep it young and naturally lovely. Quicken the circulation that carries off posions sad brings fresh colour to cheeks. Nourish the "times to keep them dra and round. Drive away xil signs of age by holding the keen soutour, and the radiant sparkle youth. You can!
The Venetian Preparations, which I made first for the treatment giren in my Salons, are now on special diaplay at
WATSON'S
whose maistaste will give avery information and advice "concerning the preparations most suited to individual
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
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THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY.
LUXURY WITH ECONOMY.
POHOOMULL BROTHERS
Wish to draw your attention to their special display of Cantonese Shawls. ·
A large Shipment of“ Oriental Embroideries
Mandarin and Haori Coats and Kimonos
has just arrived.
Silks from China, India, Burma and Japan.
DO YOUR SHOPPING AT POHOOMULLS.
HATS FOR THE RACES
Just Received
A consignment of Ladies' Hats
SMART
ELEGANT
INEXPENSIVE.
$7.50 to $25.00-
CALL AND INSPECT.
shawls. This business is famous LADIES OUTFITTING DEPT.
locally for their stockings and silk embroidered underwear. They will also make-up any material you may buy for you within sixteen hours, and bave a large, staff of expert tailors for this purpose,
I have not attempted here to give you a detailed description of every | thing you can find in this store, but | enough, I hope, to urge you to call there and see the rest for yourself.
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.
HONG KONG,