WOMAN'S PAGE (CONTD.)
'ADRESS OF THE
STARS."
LONG LINES AND JEWEL TRIMMINGS DISTINGUISH THE EVENING MODE.
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The little fairy tale princess who asked for a dress of the stars." and got it, could have had no lovlier garment than those we are to wear this season in the evening. Diamante plays an important role- while beads of erystal, pearl, and. silver, and sequins, are also used to give the fairy like decoration which is very charming on Sawns of perfect and simple cut
interesting Perlungs the most
mode is this aspect of the new "combination of simplicity of Line with dainty trimming. Nothing is "funnsy and very few evening Frocks have the tailored look which was feature of last season's even- ing mode. I looked through Lane, Crawford's wardrobes, always delightful occupation and more so than ever, this year, to get an idea of what was the prevailing evening mode. A description of some of the charming gowns I saw there will,
CHIC ENSEMBLE.
A chic ensemble for the fate summer scazan in furnflower blue linen and catton voile patterned in a reil, blue, and grecu Boral design in a white ground,
perhaps, be the best method of ex- plaining the mode to you.
There, is a green satin berutė“ gown (green by the way is certainly a most important colour this year). cut with a circular skirt very much longer on one sidle. Across the gown run three fern like sprays etched with small stare of diemanté. On a frock of orchid georgette the bodice has a flowery all over désign of pearl beads, while the skirt is
sewn, with close lines of the same bends giving the effect of accordian pleats.
A very lovely dress of white georgette is divided into petals and the new encrustation lines by the uee of different coloured beads." Silver beads are used to outline the different sections of the design," the pattern being filled in with fine lines of tiny white beads (rather like darning stitch) and the material itself, outside the pattern, starred with diamanté. A track of cerise net has a diaper pattern like an airman's wings, made of tiny white beads, while green net is trimmed like an old fashioned
veil with spots of chenille."
I saw, too, a "couple of lovely thawls designed for evening wear. One is made of black net darned with gold thread and edged with gold face, with the other of black ninon edged with satin bas true lovers knot embroidered-in- diamanté..
HAIR WAVING.
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AUTUMN MILLINERY. THE NEW STYLE: TWO MATE RIAL HATS: STITCHING AND EMBROIDERY.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th, 1928.
I mentioned last week the large upsignment of new autumn hats which had arrived at The Dolly Vardon Hat Shop, but I did not have space to tell you much about them. This week there are again new ones and in fact as you prob. ably know they arrive on every mail boat,
GANG MURDER OF AAIRWOMEN OF ENGLAND.
CHILD.
HORRIBLE STORY AT CENTRAL POLICE COURT.
EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS.
200 LEARNING TO FLY.
POPULAR AEROPLANE CLUBS.
Two hundred women in England are learning how to fly,
"CROATS AND SERBS.
RECASTING THE YUGOSLAV STATE.
[SY A. BEAUMONT.]
It is enough to leave Trieste and An uncertain number, undoubt-te land ten hours later at Agram edly a large one, are toying with to feel oneself transferred at onte the idea. Special encouragement tato the Balkans. The people are to them to take lessons is now being given by the thirteen. Government subsidised private flying clubs, the Air Ministes has offered six 256 flying scholarships for those women who cannot afford the instruction fees, and recent weeks have seen civil aviation entering upon the greatest boom that has ever been known..
Extradition proceedings were commenced at the Central Magis tracy yesterday, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell against a Chinese named Tsang Yu on a requisition made Green is going to be important
by the Canton authorities. The this season. There are several new green a curious deep rau de nile, alleged fugitive is accused of kids pen green of a clear pastel shade napping and murder. The story is and a warm bottle green. Pinks one of appalling callousness the can be divided into the apricot eight year old son of a village and the beige tones besides a quite woman being decapitated and the
head returned to the mother intells me. new tone which verges on cyclamen. Browns and beiges are on theorder that the parents of other lads who were carried off might be whole warmer, and blues seem to
encouraged to pay up. tend towards saxe,
The material effects are very smart. Most of them include felt; felt and pause is new and very chic, and it is also combined with corded silk.
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The hats I saw in this shop fall, perhaps, into two lots, the felts which are trimmed by cutting of the chape and overlaid bands and sections of felt, and those which have the new stitched trimmings. An example of the latter in bottle green, trimmed with a loose pattern of fine soutache braid in beige tones and a stitched green velvet tam with a very smart soft feather mount to fall over one check.
The double brim effect is used very.. oltra in the, cut felts, the upper brim, if one may call it that, being turned back rather more like petals than with the stiff angles of last year. Grosgrain ribbon in a very much deeper tone often appears on these models.
It would be impossible to attempt ny detailed description, to choose even one or two out of nearly 300 hate all different and rach with an equal right to destinetions would not take us very far. The variety is endless and the charm common to all. Whatever your colour or brad size there is a hat for you.
FOR AN ENGLISH BEAUTY.
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THE GRACIOUS EVENING MODE.
Some really delightful evening frocks have arrived this week at the Dolly Vardon Hat Shop. Like the charming hats which are always to be had there they are very reason- able in price and expressions of the Intest fashions. You will find nothing entre or dificulte to wear there, but each "hat or "frock is different and has the rachet that distinguishes a garment made from
model, creation.
TH first frock I noticed was the sim rst and of a quite unusual charm. It is made of pastel blue" tulle over violet silk. With its girdle of mauve cose petals, the big silver tipped flowers on shoulder and hip, it expresses the wild razn beauty of the golden haired Eng. lish girl whom its creator must surely have had in mind. Next I was shown a variety of more subtle beaded frocks. There is one of black georgette which is closely sewn over with gold and silver benda "It is almost a straight little tanic but the cunning godets in the skirt emphasised by the line of the bending give it the fluid movement A 60 important. in the mode. gracious gown is created of clear flowery green georgette with n design worked all over it in silver bends. The bodice is softly pouch- ed over a swathed hip sash of silver Jamé.
ACOB'S
GOLDEN PUFFS.
When Appetite fails and it
is too hot to eat,
GOLDEN PUFFS
are
Light, Delicious, Appetising.
Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, Assis- tant Attorney General. was for the prosecution, and Mr. F. H. Loseby represented the fugitive.
"Two of our women
apparently the same as in the West, but the atmosphere is different They talk and discuss the latest happenings in Belgrade or Zagreb in Way that mysterious and
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SYNTHETIC INSULIN
SEARCH.
CHEMISTS' GREAT OBSTACLE.
CONSTITUTION NOT KNOWN,
Ever since insulin was discovered chemists have been trying to Bad a substitute which could be nd- ministered to patients suffering from diabetes by the mouth to avoid the trouble and pain of injecting insulin under the skin.
As the result of inquiries made stems by a Daily Mail reporter as to the foreboding of progress of the search the following There statement was obtained from the greater trouble to come.
Research Department of the Middle sex Hospital:-
have been shocking things, it is Women are elamouring to learn
true. Two Croat deputies shot to fly," a well-known club secretar dead in the Skupshtina at Bel- members are at least middle-aged. grade, three others wounded, one of These two,” he adds, nnively, “are | them
Croat leader great not so quick as the men, but should Radich, who has since died. A few eventually make average pilots"
The Mayfair Flying Club re ceives ten letters from women for every one from men.
The
Of All Clas581 ̧ youngest
British woman
The
An in-
She won
the
days later, by way of reprisal, a Serbian newspaper editor was shot and killed in Zagreb, and all over some intricate and deeply en- tangled questions that cannot be solved even with blood.
At the comencement of the pre- ecedings Mr. Lindsell announced that he had the Governor's order
pilot is claimed by the Henderson on which the fugitive was arrested.
School. of Brooklands Mr. Fitzroy applied for the al- Flying teration of certain dates appear- Aerodrome. as Mrs. Ranald.
Ten years ago the Croats catered ing on the requisition from Can school also recently brought out ton. The date of kidnapping was Mrs. Courtney, wife of the famous cheerfully and heartily into "the given as 19th of the sixth ruoan of Atlantic and test pilot. last year, which was erroneously teresting personality anong air scheme of a great Yugoslavia. It translated Jure 17th, 102, women is Miss Brown, of Lan was their idea at first that they instead of July 17th. At anothercashire Aero Club.
should form a nicely arranged, place the document stated that the thrilling 100 miles an hour race at brotherly state, everyone living. fugitive was wanted for the kid- the Blackpool air pageant.
Among the society women air en-happy under one general govern. napping of one Kwan Wai," and Mr. Fitzroy asked for the addition thusiasts are Lady Loughborough, ment, with a national flag of their the Hon. Mr. Richard Norton, the of the phrase "and eight others."
Mrs. Mr. Lindsell allowed the altera. Hon:
Victor Brace, Mrs. tions, mentioning that he had rend Wills and Mrs. Mond, all members through the document and found of the Mayfair Flying Club and that Chinese dates were indicated its "Women's Flying Reserve." and further that nine boys were The women who fy do not always alleged to have been kidnapped belong to the wealthy or the leisur
ed einsses. from a school.
Most of them follow quite prosaic professions, such as accountancy and the law;
Two film actresses, a fashionable
End
dressmaker. and n West chauffeuse are among the thirty- five women being taught to fy by the London Aeroplane Club at Stag:Lane.
Mr. Losely raised no objection, but he said that As the defence would be an alibi, it made matters difficult for him. He asked to be allowed the right to reserve cross- examination, to which his Worship agreed.
The Hampshire Aeroplane Club has the record number of women members of any flying club in this country. They total 50, and there are 330 male members.
...
Bandits Attack School. Outlining his case, Mr. Fitzroy said that on July 17th last year, in the village of Pak Fong, which was in the Nam Hoi district, a land of men numbering about thirty of which the fugitive was one. entered a school and carried
to him after he had parted with off aine of the scholars. They were
on four or five 98,000. He gave the money to his subsequently pus junks.
coneybine who paid the money to moment he At the
had no the gang. He knew the defendant evidence of the murder, but he was who lived in the adjoining village. Mr. Fitzroy at this stage remark hoping to get that from the Can-
authorities.
evidence ed to the Magistrate that that was which he had, said Mr. Fitzroy, as far as he could go. with the receive He expected to was frum nue of the boys, who was case. kidnapped. The father of another evidence of the murder and he kidnapped boy, who paid a ransom would have to ask for a remand of $6,000, was also available as until such information was witness. The mother of the mureeived from the Canion authori- dered hoy could say that she aptics. pealed to the bandits to leave her son alone. She was of the work ing class and upable to: pay ran so..
ton
The
The head of this boy was taken back to the village by the bandits on August 15th. It was impaled on bamboo pole, and the object apparently was to terrorise the parents of the other boys who were kidnapped. Apparently they sue ceeded in this for several ransoms were paid.
Kwan Chan, a 16-year-old youth then gave evidence of how he was kidnapped when his village wus raided by bandits.
Boy's Head Returned To His Mother.
re.
- Insuficient Witnesses. The Magistrate replied that the authorities should have sent down more witnesses even for the charge of kidnapping. There may have been reasons for only the three witnesses being sent down, but the cuse could do with more.
It was then mentioned that the defendant had been held since June 26th until August 30th on a series of four-day deportation war- rants. The prisoner had been re- leased on August 30th but no soaner had he got to Arbuthnot Road than he was re-arrested on the warrant issued by H.E. the Governor.
The Magistrate decided that the case should continue, such evidence The mother of one of the kid-
as was available being taken. happed scholars told the Court
Kwan Sing Kwan "the elder that on the day of the attack on the school she was sitting outside brother of the kidnapped boy her door. She was drowsy at the who had already given evidence called. He said that time but was awakened by the was
was employed.
glass Later saw her boy he commotion.
and being carried off by one of the rob factory in Kennedy Town
he June 26th-
the her. She shouted to him that she on was a poor woman and implored fugitive in Shanghai Street, Mong- him to let her son go free, but her kok. At the time witness was ac pleadings fell on deaf ears and companied by a Chinese detective and he pointed out the prisoner'
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Cwn, the colours of which had al- ready been chosen, and with the ex-allies, the big Western countries like England, France, and America helping and protecting them, and,. perhaps, as progress required it," helping them to build railways, settle their debts, and enable them to cut a good figure in the Society' of Nations. But the Serbians, they say, did not quite enter into the scheme in the same way. There must be one State to command and lead the others, and that State would have to be Serbia.
It was accepted after some hesita tion by the different countries- Croatia, Slorcaia, Bosnia, and Dai- matia, which formed part of the former Austrian Empire-but with the idea that the Serbian hegemony should be a sort of brotherly leader ship and pot imply a state of inferiority. Ten years of experi ment of this régime have proved that it is unworkable, and the Croats to-day are determined to have a revision not only of the Constitution but of the whole Yugosiay, State system. They re- fuse to continue to be subject States. or provinces of Serbia. They want to have their own Diet or Parlia ment; self-government of a most comprehensive kind, and nothing will compel the Croat deputies to return to the Serbian Skopshtina, which has seen its day.
Dr. Macek, Dr. Trumbic, and others have assured me of their firm determination to obtain a federal organisation, without which they will refuse to have anything more to do with Serbia. Surprises and exciting days are sure to come, as the Serbians, on their side, are not ready to yield to any of these de-
Yet
disinterested mands. observers are agreed that without some new readjustment of relations political storm and stress will con- inue to distract the Triune King dom.-Sunday Times,
most
CAPTAIN COOK'S SEA
CHEST.
ANCIENT RELIC TO BE SOLD IN LONDON,
BIRMINGHAM.
Up to the present, is so far as we know, insulin has not been obtained in synthetic form. It is a substance extracted from the
pancreas of animals and, although it can be purified to a very great extent, we are as yet ignorant of its constitution, and until this has been determined synthesia is, of course, impossible.
Recently publications have ap. peared in Germany with regard to the therapeutic use of a syn- thetic substance whose pharma. cological action is allied to that of insulin.
This has been on the Con- tinental market under the name of
synthalin," and it is stated that it possesses the advantages of producing its effect when given by the mouth, a property not possesed by insulin.
The substance synthalin is a com- plex substituted guanidine deri- vative possessing marked toxic effects when given in large doses.
According to Continental work- ers it is very valuable in the treat ment of mild diabetes and they also say it cuts down the quan- tity of insulin required in many other cases.
Experiments in this country, however, have proved that the sub- stance does not net in the same manner as insulin and that its effect un many cases of diabetes: is unt in reality beneficial..
GHOST TRICKS.
A SMART LAD.
HOW BUTTONS WERE MADE TO FLY.
"It is the crudest fake I have ever seen in my life.”
The statement, was made to Daily Mad reporter by Mr. Harry Price, hon. director of the National Laboratory of Paychical Research, who made investigations concerning the "ghost" which is supposed to have been haunting No 28, Hafodartha-road, Llanhilleth, Men- mouthshire, for several weeks, old supposed medium, is properly controlled," he said, "nothing happens. He is one of the smartest Inds I have seen at this game.
If Herbert Dyer, the 17-years-
Both his parents thoroughly be- lieve in the boy, and the pheno
mena he produces, and Mr. Dyer himself broke down twice at the sérnee when his dead son Leslie was being talked about.”
Mr. Price described the séance at which he and Mrs. H. Lewis.were present. He said:
Directly we sat down one per- son controlled Herbert's left hand and foot and I controlled his right. When the lights were then put out I felt a movement of the boy's right arm and heard sonie thing drop into his lap.
The Empty Frames. Instantly I guessed he had Something up his coat which had been held in place by his right. elbow. This proved to be ab. salutely correct for in his lap when' the lights went up were two photographs, one of Leslie, which had come from frames on the wall of the next roern. No one in the séance room had been there for over an hour except Herbert.
We all trooped in and found both frames empty. I suggest that he had taken the photo- graphs from their frames, put them under his coat, and kept them in position there by his right.
After very careful and elaborate trials in this country, the exten-arm. sive use of synthalin has been abandoned,
Insulin Much Cheaper. Insulin is now comparatively cheap. A few years ago the price af 100 units, equal to 10 ordinary doses, was 25s.; now this quantity is being sold for 2. 82. Both the Middlesex Hospital and the London Hospital, which use a large quan- tity, made their own insulin when prices were high but no lenger End it advantageous to do to.
Efforts have been made in this country to provide a pancreatic preparation which could be taken by the mouth, and one firm of manu facturing chemists put up insulin in capsules. They were not, how- ever, sold to the public, and after
a trial their manufacture was aban- doned,
THE "NIGHT SAFE."
INNOVATION BY THE MID- LAND BANK.
Soon after this the controller on the left side said something. was touching his right shoulder. I said to Herbert, Will you allow me to put my hand there i and when I did so I grabbed a handful of Herbert's hair.
Later on, while his legs were not controlled he pushed the table over with them. I saw him put his foot out,
Moises In The Cupboard.
Several tricks like that were performed that evening. I found that the whirring noise in the haunted cupboard was caused by Herbert rubbing his heel up and down the match-boarding of the interior, and when I placed him in another position the noise was quite different.
One thing that puzzled me for a moment was how he sent buttons flying across the table while he was being controlled. But I dis covered that he had pushed down his waistcoat, got the two buttons under the edge of the table, and by a sudden jerk had whisked them off. It was a clever trick.
AN OTOGENARIAN OPTIMIST.
The tradesman need no longer have any tears as to the safety of LORD LAMBOURNE PRAISES his day's takings," elates paper.
Home
An innovation now being put into
MODERN YOUTH.
Lord Lambourne, who was 91 practice by the Midland Bank will last month, celebrated the event at make it possible for its clients to his home, Bishop's Hall, near Rom place their valuables in the bank's
safes at any time of the day or ford. Of late he has been indis- posed, but was sufficiently well to night.
The first example of the night give press representative some of his views on current events and eafe has been fitted to the King affairs. Recently Lord Lambourne Street, Hammersmith, branch. The
she saw her boy being hurriedly who was arrested by the officer. He belonged to Captain Cook, and to chute with a revolving door built the question of the efficiency of his
teken away.
An ancient sea-chest, said to have had seen the reward notice on his have been used by him on most of return to his village last year. He
safe itenf is inside the building, bad some piquant correspondence and is connected by means of with the Post Office authorities on telephone. "There has not beep into the outside wall. Access to the smallest improvement," he said provided. by the bank.
A few days latex she ceived a letter demanding ransom. She had, no money and did not. gave the date of his seeing the his famous voyages of discovery, the safe is gained by a special kes gleefully, and the only effect is answer as she thought it would be notice 13 June 5th. Later in the has just been acat from a Birming useless. The mother said that she course of cross-examination he said ham home to London, where it is
that he left Hong Kong for the to be sold.
Its present owners, Mr. and Mr
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The customer is also provided that the officials get more and more with a leather wallet in which he civil. I moke to my friend Sir places cash and cheques. The wal. William Mitchell-Thou son about it, never saw her boy alive again village on June 5th. It was also G. F. Playforth, 378, Victoria Road. let bears a distinctive number, and but there have been three failures Some days later she found the elicited that it was over 20 days
Lord head of this 8-year-old child stuck
Lambourne's views on a bamboo pole, which had been later that he had the defendant Aston, have no seafaring traditions, is fastened by a lock, the only key again in the week."
modern youth are very encouraging arrested. During those twenty and it is an evoritful story which of which is retained by the cus sent back to her...
After unlocking the revolving to the younger generation; unlike chest. Asked if she knew the names of days he returned to his village and leads up to their ownership of the tomer.
on coming back to the Colony got
The chest is said to have been door in the street, the customer many of his contemporaries, he does Chan Yue and Chan Yui, she re-
in touch with a Chinese detective plied that she did and that shy and Snally had the man arrested given by Captain Cook to his friend places his wallet on a platform in not think that England is "going were members of the adjoining village. It was Chan Yui who was Witness said that he first saw the Captain Billcliffe, a soldier, of Lin- the aperture, and the closing of to the dogs," except, perhaps, in carrying her child and who passed fugitive in the street in which he colnshire, shortly after his return the door sende the wallet down the literal sense. The pioneering from one of his important voyages the chute into the safe. Here it spirit of the young men of to-day was arrested. 20 days after.
to the Antipodes, in 1775. After remains until the customer is able is as much alive ne ever it was. her door in the escape.?
The witness created some amuse- $6,000. Ransom.
ment in the Court by his replies Cook's untimely death, Billcliffe to call during banking hours, claim but I cannot help thinking that. Kwan Hing, father of one of the to Mr.. Loseby regarding the re- Rave it to Sir W. H. Elliott, whom his wallet, unlock it himself, and they are not so ready to leave their an ample pecuniary reward. 1. little kidnapped boys said that he ward of $500 for the capture of father was Captain John Elliott, pay in the contents in the ordinary homes unless they can be assured of was at a town called Kow Go at the robbers which had been offered. one of Cook's fellow navigators. WAY.
The fitting of the night sale in number of young men are forsaking not to his Thus it remained with, wafaring
structural The question were
alterations, the time of the outrage. When he
the army because there is more received the news he did not reliking and when asked if he had people for a time, but it passed volves
Speaking of the modern love of turn to his village but reported the received the money he replied in eventually to William Alcock, of representative of the learning money to be made in the City," kidnapping to the elders of his dignantly-"What Money." The Usselby Hall, Lincolnshire, and Post was informed by an official
"It is not a village and they promised to re- question was repeated and said through his widow to John Stafford, of the bank, so that, the safes can pleasure brought us to the question
of Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. not be fitted to all branches im- of gate-crashers."
new hing, Lord Lambourne ab port the incident to the. Munici that he had not received it. pality of the City, Promises of He agreed that he experted to Staford married twice, and his mediately.
The Hammersmith apparatus bas served. It was not impossible in action were made by the officials get it as he needed it to pay the second, wife gave the chest to her And later, he understood, a notice expenses of the witnesses brought sister, Mrs. Playforth, the present only just been put into operation, my day, and there were certainly and it is impossible, as vet, to some who got in without invita
very importiment of reward for information leading to Hong Kong for the case and also owner.
Now that it has passed into the decide to what extent use will be tions. It a to the capture of the gang had for the feast.
The Magistrate:Feast, Do you saleroom it is hoped that some effort made of it. The bank, however. practice, and I am astonished that been issued. He had not seen it personally. Witness explained that expect to celebrate the day on will be made to secure this interest is confident that it will be of great some of the men and women, the notification was posted in his which the fugitive is executed 1-ing relic for the nation. It is in service to many customers, and especially the men, who committed fairly good state of preservation,the ultimate extension of night this atrocious form of social offence village but he dared not return to Yes, the village is 300 was returned The case was adjourned till next the chest being covered with leather, facilities to all branches in busy should have been invited to other
Thursday:
studded with rans-headed unite-trading-contros-is-almost (Continued on next Volumn).
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