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WOMAN'S PAGE (CONTD.)
• PEKING RUGS.
FLOWERS IN RELIEF.
There can be so obte here who does not know and like the delight ful Peking rugs and carpets which are so cleverly woven" that the pattern appears to be inlaid. But I saw in the Sign of the Lantern a new and even more attractive ver- sion, in which the pattern appears Also in alight relief,
FROM JOSEPHINE.
EXQUISITE UNDIES AT LANE, CRAWFORD'S.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 27th, 1928.
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Pamela is one of those energetic perzona who are always Anding
ford's most lovely and at the same
I saw this week in Lane, Craw-something new to please us, and the latest is that the, is making time very practical undies.
They charming little frocks of coloured come from & Shanghai Arm, Jose- phine et Cic. and are made of linen. They are mostly in two colour effects in pastel shadrà and satin, lace trimmed and decorated express the very latest ideas in erepe de chine, marble crêpe or
en
with the finest embroidery,
Unlike most lingerie de luze, these Harments all seemed to me to be essentially practical; they are dainty without being fragile and the cut is as exquisite at the trim
There is one pink crepe petticoat for exniaple which has 12
It is always a treat to have a dress made to your own measure ments by an experienced cutter and designer but those lucky people who are "stock site" will find some thing to please them among those
who is well known for her chic appearance is having four made.
They are made in soft pastel ahades, such as mole with pink and Glur, or with pink and green, nus! those I saw were all variations of the lotus design. Knowing the hard wearing properties of these rugsming. provided, of course, you get good ones, I feel sure that the pattern would not wear down except after stitching round the top 18 its only already made for stock. One woman very long service. As a practical example of the wearing properties of the rugs she stocks Mir Honess drew my attention to a couple which were then in use in the shop. They had been there ever since the Siga of the Lanterns was opened, and what is more had been under water and nud when the premises were flooded out me years ago. But the colours were as fresh and charming as ever and the rugs themselves showed no" signs of the many feet which must have passed over them daily.
- A NEW MATERIAL. GEORGETTE DAMASKED AND EMBROIDERED.
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A very charming new material arrived this work at the Pioneer Silk Store. It is called embroider- ed georgette, but actually it is woven with a damask flower pattern. on which a silk warp has the effect of embroidery..
I saw this material, in one or two different designs in green,,mauve, champagne and pink. It is excep tionally dainty in effect and at the s Lime somewhat more formal (Continued un-next. Coluäu).
rewa of the Angst possible hem trimming, and like all the peties has a double panet back. Very lovely is another set which is trim med with net appliqué and darned by hand in beautiful lape pattern, che edge being all finely button holed. "The embroidery and drawn thread work which further trims.it, is so fine that it seems almost in hand. credible that it has been done by
Jephine et Cie to make any gar Lane, Crawford's can arrange for
ments ordered to a particular design of cut or embroidery but the examples now being shown should please the most fastidious Not the undies is their price which is very least delightful thing about these
much lower than anything else I have seen of the same order in Hong Kong.
and habille than the former mate rials which had a diaper pattern flower either damasked or -- broidered.
The pattern is a bold all over one which favours the eretonne motive so fashionable as the mo ment A further advantage is that this material, fragile as it appeara, is washable.
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San-Maid Raisins are a delicacy and a health-giving food for old and young.
Served at table,
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they are equally welcome at all times.
Look for the Maid of the Sun on the Red package.
Among those I saw the other day was a lemon yellow with a white vent panel and wide belt; a blue whin white galloped stemnings, and had the same trimming on the two patch pockets; and a pink a deeper tone of which had been This frock utilised for the hem. hne the new one-sided effect and has a panel of pleating on one side of the skirt.
was at neck and
TENNIS FROCKS.
The sketch, to the left of ivory- toned linen shown the simplicity and freedom which are the krynotes of tennis frucks The curatje has a deep inset front and collar with flat revere. The three deep but pleats un rach side of the skirt hang "prate headings where they fall free. The self girdle tien in a bare,
Pale toned in ige (or white) heavy crêpe de chine" in macd for the other frock. The corsage in button- en down une side, and a warrow self brit is tied towards the back. The skirt has a group of inserted-plents, and a manogram is embroidered in red on the inner vest front. "
Both dresses are dervelen, and the une if ye-shade ar bandeas is left to indiqudual chnier,
NEW AIDS TO BEAUTY.
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CAREER.
A NEW PROBLEM FOR MANY PARENTS.
REVOLVER IN COMMONS.
THE SPEAKER CAUGHT NAPPING..
WHEN A FIREARM IS NOT A FIREARM.
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Lospos, March 29th.
Lady Bran, M.A. (Oson and Dublin), widow of Sir John Beans, F.R.S., the antiquarian, in the House of Commons yester- The production of a toy revolver is a member of the purerning day led to an amusing scene. body of St. Paul's Gifle School,
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tullets which would pass through A fin, plank at a distance of soft.
will show the House what this sort of weapon looks like'' - he said, and produced from a con- venient hip-pocket & deadly-look- ing.revolver.
onee
The Speaker rose "There is an ancient rale against.
the production of arms in this House," he said.
and an e-member of the Council In the core of a speech com-. of Sommerville College, Orford. mending the first reading of his In an
article in the Daily Bill to restrict the sale of toy! Mail" she mijazm
nistols and revoivars, Mr. J. Many modern parents are much Hayes, Soc. Edge Hill, said that exercised in mind about the choice certain undesirable members of the community had discovered that these toys were capable of support. of their daughters careers.
This is quite a new kind of worrying threats in an endeavour to com- The main concern of parents in the mit a crime. Practical tests carri early days of the higher education out by the police showed that was to prevent their they were capable of.discharging of wonten girls from having any careers what soever, and many of my contem- poraries at Somerville College had come up in defiance of family nutho rity They had usually, of course, a very clear idea of what profes- sion they intended to follow. Wide Culture The Bast Grounding. They and their modern successore, who know exactly what their bent is and follow it regardless of guidance," present no problem at The girl whose genius for all.
Mr. Hayes was equal to the oc science, art, or the law is obvious casion. I am aware of that, Mr. while she is still at school is clearly Speaker," he replied, but accord- marked out for a career in her owing to the present law this is not special line, and is only too anxious a firearm within the meaning of to forge her own way. Her parents the Act. It is a toy weapon, and need only see that her general edu I think that your very natural ention is not neglected. Too early alarm at the sight of the weapon specialisation is a mistake, and if a is sufficient justification for asking girl leaves school as early as 17 the House to pass this Bill." or 18, she should, to my mind, bo taught a wide range of subjects up to the last. At schools, however where the leaving age 19, the range is rightly narrowed down in the final year. wide culture the best grounding for any career The only parental suasion a literar genius needs is to interest herself in mathematics and science.
When Heredity Is A Guide. It is when she has no inclination towards any one line of work that A school-girl's future is definitely a problem to the parent
Natural Alarm.
The rule to which the Speaker referred, is one of the most ancient in existence in the House. No one may wear arms in the House of Arms or his deputy, and the mover Commona except the Serjeant-at- and seconder of the Address to the King in reply to the Royal Speech at the opening of Parliament when engaged on this duty.
The Thin Red Lire." Before the wor even military uniforms were prohibited in the chamber.
A yard in front of the front bencher on each side cf the House ruos a thin red line in the carpet, and visitors to the House are often astonished at the loud shouts of "Order, order," which assail any member who, when speaking, puts his foot across it.
Heredity should not be overlooked when seeking a solution. Just as professions go down frem father to Fo, so the daughter of a legal, or a medical man may (I do not say must have inherited that parti- cular type of mind If she shows any sign of it, it would be wise This is a custom which goes back to plan her education so that she to very early days in Parliamer- can assist her father in his practice.tary history, when members did A woman's mind, with its meti- wear swords and tempers ran high. culous regard for detail, is parti. The opposing strips of red carpet cularly well adapted to the legal are so placed that without crossing profession. When a house is taken. one a member could not reach an- it is usually the wife who sees flaws other on the other side with his in the lease!
aword.
Why A Thorough Training Is Necessary,
Failing that course, parents and
Mr. Hayes was generally checred and, obtained a formal, first rend- ing for bis Bill without dissent.
Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the daughter should discuss some other Home Secretary, who heard Mr. line of specialisation. Definite Hayes, nodded appreciatively dur- training must in nearly every case ing his speech, and it is understood follow school and even university that the Government intend to give education now-a-days. It is becom- time for the passage of the Bill ing less and less possible to drift if the definitions in it are found casually into a business or profes- satisfactory by the legal advisera. sign; successful enreren are fur the highly trained and fully equipped || rexxlix of farsighted planning. The point is to think out the kind of WHEN SERVING TOMATOES. work that will probably be requir Fed, and to train thoroughly for it. HOW DO YOU DO THE
SCALDING!
Teaching is overcrowded with women who have drifted into it, though there is always room for the "born" teacher. The same applica
There are excellent
Ways
of
to secretarial work, where the potserving tomatoes which have never worth having are few and the appli received the blessing, of professional
cooks. This, for instance:
Cut
cants many.
The Window In The Top Flat. the tomatoes in thin slices and Architecture, on the other hand, arrange in layers in a deep dish, is too highly specialised to be over sprinkling each layer with salt and run with casual labour, and women them in n cual place for two hours pepper and a very little sugar. Put who have a sterner regard for prac tical utility than men, are valuable before serving. At the table they in a profession which to-day turns can be further seasoned as desired "Women" now take so much more out top-door flats with windows with French salad dressing or plain Luscious tomatoes so interest in beauty culture, that we opening outwards, and therefors vinegar." endeavour to put on the market practically impossible to clean, A prepared will grace any luncheon beauty aids which are as economical working man's wife was inspecting or dinner. as possible," said a member of a new house, and the first thing she a firm of makers of beauty re- did was to sit down on a chair in quisities
the kitchen.
"For instance, creams that are both vanishing, to act as a base for powder, and also skin foods are well known. New to the English market is a shampoo made up in crenin form that can also be used to soften and whiten the hands. When used as a shampoo, the hair is first made wet, and then a little cream is squeezed on to it. This quickly forms & lather and the hair is then washed in the usual way. Each tube contains sufficient cream for about four shampoos
"H'm," she said disparagingly, it's a pretty window, I'm sure but I couldn't see out of it when. I was doing my sewing "
The Evil Of Scalding. Another fallacy propagated by cooks pertains to scalding tomatoes to facilitate peeling.
Scalding, they maintain, partially cooks the tomatoes and renders them unfit for salad. But everything depends upon the temperature of the water, and celerity of the cook
Medical Side-lines." While success in the medical pro-
Certainly scalding is the enaiest profession itself is only for the method of removing tomato akius, brilliant girl, there are several and if each tomato is immersed in "side-lines to be considered. absolutely boiling water and remor After-care of orthopedic children, ed immediately, its centre does not for example, is work that is needed. put ever warm, much less cooked, One University woman, a specialist It is water below the boiling-point in physics, became an expert in the that injuries tomatoes, for in order To Check Unruly Waves. making of optical lenses.
to loosen the skin they must remain For the scientically Inclined who in so long that they fose their firm- Practical for travellera is a
industrial ness. brillianting for making the hair cannot aspire to
-work in chemistry or
If one is irrevocably opposed to glossy and for keeping the wave some commercial concern is a pop scalding, however, there remains in place that is also made up insible outlet. One former pupil of rubbing with the dull edge of a cream form in tube. A small St. Paul's School for Girls is now knife. This loosens the skin and quantity is squeezed out and rubbed food analyst to a large London permits it to peel off fairly easily. on to the hand and applied to the catering firm. brush.
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Evon Laundry Workers With Dogresal
Hut one way or another the sking must be removed, for they are an "Enhancing The Eyes.
unpleasant adjunct to a meal. The "So natural in appearance is modern eye make-up that the de- the individual girl But I would ins
The possibilities are as varied as inevitable exception to the rule per- baked tomatoes, which mand for it is increasing. We have arge all doubling parents to send should be cooked in their skins, as the tomatoes
to
a brown eye shadow for dark eyes, their promising girls to & University these help to hold and a blue cream for grey or blue if that is possible. The less intel together. eyes. These are applied to the lid. Iligent need the training even more. A degree, apart from its infinito
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