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WOMAN'S
PAGE (CONTO.)
CAN YOUR CHILDREN SEE?
KIM'S GAME FOR WET DAYS.
"Of
Can your children see! course they can" I can hear so indignant mother reply. I don't Reglect their eyesight {"
Nevertheless many children, and grown-ups too, wer next to nothing, blind to the thousand points of Their eyes are good, but they are
BEAUTY HINT.
MISTAKES IN APPLYING COSMETICS.
Common mistakes that women make when using cosmetics were
follows:
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19th, 1928.
ROUND THE TOWN.
SEEN IN LOCAL SHOPS.
CHILDREN WHO RULE THEIR PARENTS.
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MORE FRIEND THAN MOTHER.
From the sleepy little Sussex town of Arundel a new deck chair has come to WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW's, It is made of good English wood and good English canvas, striped or plain coloured, the later on a re- (BY SIR ROBERT PARE, O.S.B.] movable frame, so that fit rotsa you can replace it without the use of naile. The chair itself is made on novel lines and provides one
There is always something new in furnishing fabrics to be found at WHITHAWAY, LAIDLAW's. This week it is a silk farish material which would be equally suitable for bang- summarised by a beauty expert asings or covers, although I think the particular beauty would show beat in the former use. The mate- rial, which is shot, is striped with bands of a sort of shadow cretonne floral design. I saw it in several less trap for unwary fingers than pink flowers, pink shot orange with adjustable prop to is the height orange flowers giving a sunset flame but when set up the chair is in effect, and the violet blue shot with a position for sitting upright. "A bronze flowers, which I thought the you lie back, however, it gives to your weight and automatically 6xea most attractive of all.
itself at the angle you find most comfortable.
They do not powder or cream their necks. Consequently they ruin the entire effect. The neck must always be treated as part of the your make-up before you put your They put too much rouge on their dress on, and not afterwards. cheeka and mouths.
THE SPIRIT OF MODERN DRESS.
ADAPTABLE AUTUMN
MILLINERY.
RAINBOW SHELVES,
While the fate of the bonnet remains more or less on the lap of
LAWN. TENNIS.
C.R.Ć.
"AT HOME."
EXHIBITION MATCHES.
The Chinese Recreation Club "At was unavoidably Home," which postponed last month on account of inclement weather, will be held to-morrow at Causeway Bay. As winners of the three divisiosa of
the "Rest in exhibition matches, the Tennis League, they will meet
in which some fine play is expected. Play will commence at 3 p.
beauty and interest which make life | free and made up accordingir. Do colours as, pink shot violet with the ordinary variety. There is no words a young sequaintance of The bonnet, except in its most modi. the respective team, drawn from
vivid.
A small boy has been staying with me. He weat for a walk the day after he arrived, and when he returned I asked, What did you Bee "
Oh nothing he replied cheerfully.
So we started to play Kim's Game. Do you know it! Fill a tray with small objects familiar to every child-a book, a knife, a glass, and so on. Let him look at it for one minute by your watch, and then see how many of the things he can name after the tray is removed. The first time Hugh named only four, but in a week nineteen.
We played the game out of doors too. It was, as he said, fearfully interesting! Ten cows, one goat with a new kid, three birds' nests lined with moss, a beautiful butter- fy, and an old man cutting a hedge. All these he showed me with pride. the old and when he added that man had such a very kind face I knew he was beginning to see.
Personality That Colours Vleton. There is an old saying. As I am, so I see," Hugh and I dis essed it. At first he thought it aught to be "Ay Lam, so I look." because if people were cross, they (Continued on sort Column)
They rough after they have pow dered instead of before.
They forget their eyelashes and their eyebrows Eyelashes need oc casional darkening and eyebrows must be combed and pinched into
shape.
They do not realise that a strong make-up is needed for the glaring 'ghts of night clubs and restaur ants, but a discreet entirely differ ent one for a walk on a sunny
morning-in town.
but faally he sug: looked cross," gested: If you were nasty, you'd face nasty!"
He was right. What we really are colourg our vision.
"Seeing Beauty In Duliness. Later the boy will learn that because he is loving and true he will see love and truth in many queer guises, and because he can see beauty he will find it where Home can find only dullnesA.
Can our children see 7. It depends epon 18-not only how much they see but what they see; not failings in their fellows, but beauty, kind- liness, and truth through life.
Good Pictures can only from
Good Films be made.
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Autograph
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Years of experience have proved that the Yellow box Kodak Film, with its exceptional qualities of Speed and Latitude, is ideal for all kinds of pictures. Speed because it is a safeguard against under-exposur.... Latitude because it is useful when doubtful about
timing:
That's why you should always ask for the
KODAK
FILM IN THE YELLOW BOX.
Its uniformity and dependability is an nssurance of getting satisfactory pictures.
It is so easy to take snaps with a Kodak -- and Kodak
Films.
Ask a Kodak dealer for the booklet giving full particulars of the Kodak, the Cine-Kodak and Kodak Films, and learn just how simple" and delightful taking pictures is.
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KODAK CO.
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[J.F.B.2]
MADAMY SARRAULT has some really delightful "things, which were not unpacked when I was in last week. There are jumper suits, some with knitted woollen jumpers with tinsel lines to be worn over silk skirts, others of stockinette or the charm varieties of Kashadrap, ing new
A number of cases of felt and
velour hate. were being unpacked when I was in LANK, CRAWFORD's Those I saw were on Tuesday, meatly simple models with a medium brim, and a narrow band of gros
AUTUMN. MILLINERY.
THE SPIRIT OF MODERN DRESS.
Unusual trimming and intricate cut make for chic in there a weason's avuicle materialised in embroidered lamé, chiffon felt, and black velvet.
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more "dressy
many
She is more like & sister to the gods, the beret is firmly estab them than a mother." In these fewlished in popular favour already, mine summed up the relationship fed form, does not seem to har monise with the dress of the day- for that matter, with the of a young mother to her children, and incidentally supplied a key to or. a problem which it appears has fashionable face of the moment. been disturbing "good
This is an age of such sophis
real people for some time-the alleged ticated simplicity that in a
Though it may enhance the charm tendency of modern children to bonnet one car lot feel at home." rule their parents.
The young matron whom we were of certain faces-and it undoubted. accustomed to regard with a feelingly does-it upsets the balance of akin to awe has long disappeared the general outline, except where a from our midst. Her place has picture frock is concerned, been taken by a shingled, short- skirted young person who looks no older than the feels, and certainly little suggests what she actually is
a mother,
The Adaptable Baret, The beret, on the other hand, has caught the spirit of modern dress and adapte itself to every need of the up-to-date wardrobe. This The modera mother has immense adaptability is admirably lustrat. ed in the hats of the bavet type vitality. She partnery her son at tennis and her husband at golf, be-which you will find in the Dolly tween while superintending the Yardon Hat Shop. There are some
She is running of her household.
models of velvet which are rich often as good a dancer as her locking enough for the most elabo daughter if not a better.
rate afternoon toilet. A sweeping The Modern Girl's Best Pal."
tuft of feathers which suggests the But her enjoyment and test for picturesque headgear of Rembrant's life is completely genuine, she day gives some of them that cavilier avoids her children's habit of look which is so charming with the cultivating a bored and cynical new redingnite coat styles. Others attitude towards life and parents are embroidered with gold or colour in general. And. rather curiously, ed thread: Then again the heret she arouses little envy. Admira-
may be absolutely plain and of tion 'would be a better word. "She coloured felt, a charting mode for is my best pal" is a frequent ex- pression on the lips of the modern girl when speaking of her mother. In short, she is adored by all and sundry.
One
use with sports wear, or it may strike a mean between the two, and follow those lines of chic simplicity which are characteristic of many of the smartest felt hats this season. Though no
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In The Dustration. foolish as to deplore this friend-
Two unusual phases of this ship, certainly existing between modern children and their parents. ubiquitous headgear are shown in since it makes for happy and the sketch on this page. The top united families and destroys any risk of that corroding favouritism which caused such havoc in some Victorian families, there are, after all is said and done, certain limits Victoria Method's Were Harsh-But Exactive.
one, of gold lamé embroidered all over in black, green, and lacquer- red braids, is intended for evening occasions or a the dansant,
Vanity Case In Tassel. Its tassel is particularly interest
The Victorian method of bringing up a child was often harsh and de-ing. The jade and Inequer-red trimental to bis future welfare, but heading unscrews to disclose a tiny in its way it was effective, and mirror, puff, and rouge pad. A lip children were brought up, as they should be to look up to and respect stick depende from a ring under it, their parents.
where it is hidden by the binck silk strands of the tassel.
But many modern parents have I saw, too, some three-piece suita, grain ribbor. Some of them have
A Cap Of Felt And Georgeta. which are particularly chic, con- a little of the fashionable stitching gone to the opposite extreme. Is it
The cap in the middle is made sisting of jumper, skirt and long or embroidery on the erown as well, possible to imagine a child to-day cont, this intter to be worn open, or a contrasting ribbon, but for regarding his parents with awe, or
rather the respect that has in it the on the lines created by Maria Guy, light weight wool and stockinette, most part they were the simple type elements of awei True, this cul. The crown, of chiffon felt, is mount
of hat which is so becoming to The coat and skirt are of the wool.
where ed on a band of folded georgette and the jumper of the knitted English wemen especially for early tivation of a sense of fear encourag
ed by the Victorians was There were some fabric trimmed with bands of the autumn wear. mode's in the boxes they lamentably failed in a just in the same shade. A long streaner heavier material. There is a big
will fail parents
yet more their
at the back and is arranged scar and others.exclusive models.
lamentably if they allow children to lose that respect.
wise in whatever manner suits the There is little danger in the new individual wearer. relationship, provided the mother keeps a restraining band on any tendency of the child to take mat
Many ters into his own hands.
The selected teams are as follows:
WINNERS.
"A" Team-Captain: M. K. Lo M. K. Lo and M. W. Lo, Ng Sức Kwang and C. Choa, có k Lau and In Tak Cheuk.
"B" Team. Lau Man Ching and Ng Kam Chuen, Horace Lo and W. CHung, Kwok Po Kan and Ma Wai But.
"C" Team.-Captain: Cheng Chi Wing. Cheng Chi Wing and Chau Wah Po, Chiu Trun Chiu and Lau Man Kwong, Choy Ping Fan and Ip Kau. -
THE REST.
"Division.
S. A Rumjahn (Indian R.C.) and II. D. Rumjahn (Craigengawer); T. Honda (M.B.K.) and S. E. Green Kowloon C.C.); Dr. Tottenham (University) and J. S. McEachran (Hong Kong C.6).
"B" Division.
W. A. Nowers (Hong Kong CC.) - and R. M. Henderson (Hong Kong: CC.); Iu Tak Lam (University)" und Ho Wai Hing (South Chinn A.A.); T. Isomura (Nippon) and M. Kitajima (M.B.K.).
"Division.
C. Barretto (Recieio) and H. A. Barros (Beercio); Lieut. C. H. Atkins (Kowloon C.C.) and C. Pile (YM.CA.); C. C. Ma (South China) and A. White (Civil Service).
£10,000 FOR A FOOT- BALLER.
OFFER REFUSED.
A transfer fee of £10,000 has been offered for a Lancashire footballer. by a southern 'elab.
The offer was carefully considered and the reply was, "We dare not accept it. The officials were afraid of offending local opinion.
If an offer of £10,000 were accept- the player, if belonging to an English club, would be entitled to £100 for each year's service with the club. The recognised maximum is £500. After Sve years' service player may receive a "benefit" up th £650.
In Scotland there is no limit to the amount a player may receive when transferred.
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£7,500 Half-back.
The record transfer fee is £7,500, paid by Aston Villa to Partick Thistle for Gibson, a half-back. But higher offers have been made.
Sir Charles Clegg, the president strongly last season when his own of the Football Association, spoke club, Sheffield United, were asked to pay £10,000 for a man. A trans- fer system which permitted such
he said he had been unable to find an alternative to it.
selection of hats, some very cheap which were still unpacked, I be and wise upbringing, but modern of georgette is attached to the cap sums, he declared, was wrong, but
lieve.
In LANE, CRAWFORD's children's Downstairs in WHITEAWAY, LAID- department I saw adorable little LAW's I saw an excellent range of bootees, those fascinating and not! Viyellas and light weight tweeds, very practical things that every wools and velour cloths had come mother loves to dress her darling in for street dresses and coats for
Some of them are in the autumn season. "The Viyellas mothers to-day, either because they up in.
are too tender-hearted or ignorar knitted wool or silk with awana have a striped, a checked and a down "turnovers," others have a plain material in each colour and of the subtle workings of the little looped wool turnover," and they there are among them some very mind, allow are in the pretty baby, colours as beautiful shades. well as white.
There are some little pram sets in
white wool ton, knitted in loops to give a carncul effect and bound with silk braid. I could not say how they would wash but they look de- lightful
A big shipment of artificial flowers for decoration purposes was being unpacked near by.. I noticed dahlias, larkspur and corn flowers, which were all very well made, also roses, lilac and maiden-hair fern and many other flowers.
quickly.
The last sketch shows a little hat that is most becoming to almost every type of face.
Of hinck velvet, the brim is folded back over the crown and faced with fine silver straw,
It is understood that the player for whom £10,000.,was then asked was S. Gibeon, the Nottingham Forest wing forward. Gibson bas just been transferred to Sheffield United for several thousand pounds less.
The Arsenal offered more than £7,500 for McGrory, the Celtic cen- The reason why he
was not transferred was that he
affer of £8,000 for Gallacher, their claimed £2,000 from the fee New- castle United have considered in centre forward."
their children to
The New Colours... "boss" When they are naughty,
Nearly 900 felt and velvet hats tre forward instead of correcting or punishing arrived this week at the Dolly them by the withholding of a treat, they will often employ Vardon Hat Shop. The most pro bribery. This is as futile as it is minent colours are nigger brown, dangerous. As the child grows up navy and madonna blues, sea gruss the ever popular beige and black he will become more and more in- green, and scarlet, while, of course, tractable whenever his wishes are
is not forgotten. opposed.
Barrow
"APPETISING FISH DISHES.
WAYS OF USING “LEFT-
OVERS.'
Must of these little hats roly on A Mother's Incompetence Soon
their cut for ornament. They may' Realised. I suppose most of us have rue-
be trimmed with appliqué bands of fully pulled ourselves out of bed
Children are guided largely by their own material or at least once during the last fort-I
There is something very attrae their instincts, and they soon get grosgrain ribbon of the same shade. night in search of n Warmer
tive about the nice clean shininess to know exactly where the land lies. Pin tucks, turned up portions, fan blacket, and certainly, no time of aluminium cooking vessels. No Once & mother allows herself to be shaped appliqués and tiny buckles
Any kind of cooked fish may be should be lost in purchasing all little spot of dirt can hide and overruled the child intuitively of diamante, gold, silver, or colour used for this timbale. Remove all that your household are likely to blush unseen, on it, and you have senses her incompetence to dened stone give all the necessary trimiskin and bones from about lib. of need during the winter. WHITE the happy knowledge that your food with the situation and does not ming in most cases, though em cooked fish and fake it finely. AWAY'S "Earlywarm blankets are is cooked not only under the most hesitate to take advantage of her. braidery and applications of an Grease a smail high casserole or a specially made for such climates as hygenic conditions, but with the
are other colour
τα by. The Economics Of Upbringing.
means timbale mould, and put in a layer ours. They are all pure wool and least extravagence in the use of
of cooked macaroni, then a layer of are very light yet warm.
I do not suggest that the modern unusual. fuel, for aluminium heats very
But as you look round the shelves fish mixed with picked shrimps and I hear that the PIONEER SILK
"Diamond Aluminim young woman does not make a good
you are brought back again to this chopped mushrooms (either bottled She has & wider ex- STORE are doing a lot of business ware, which stocked by WHITEAWAY, mother.
or the grilled fresh variety)" scason, during their sale, certainly the shop LAIDLAW's.. is the best British make perience and more wisdom than her aspect of adaptability which is so
the economies of important a feature of the autumn add a dust of nutmeg, and coat. is always full and the bargains to and the beast for British people, predecessor in be had quite remarkably good. A shipment of flannel coolic coats in though you may find it hard to pur. bringing up children, and she does millinery. Almost any of these bats with tomato su all sorts of designs came in on Tues. ade your boy so. He prefers the somehow manage to make the lives could be worn with very different day, and they are being sold for old blackened iron pots which are of her little ones brighter and hap-tailettes, they seem to possess that $3.60 each which is very little, I ever properly cleaned because the pier in every way, and on the enviable power of taking on the ROYAL
characters. And there is certainly they form a part. With a simple wonder what the Lido beauties who dirt and remains of the last meal whole manages, to improve their character of the ensemble of which more affection between parents and sports suit they look just as well as AFTERNOON were wearing them so much this
their children to-day than was the they do with a tailor made, a fur summer paid for theirs in London TEA
or Paris!
case before the war, an outcome cont, or an afternoon dress.
The Dansant Hats. BISCUITS
They had also this week some
probably of this new relationship.
Parents The Wisest Judges. Some more, examples of that most children charming fashion the the daunant pretty colours which was
Nevertheless, modern must not be allowed to lose sight cap have.come in. They are all ex-
JACOB'S
A daintily tempt-
ing assortment
that makes [ca~
time a treat
W. & R.JACOB & CO., Ltd.^ DUBLIN INELAND
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don't show!
floral crepe broende in several HAIR WAVING.
new to
me and would make the most attrac
Continue these layers until the
cook gently in a moderate oven for ingredients are all used, the top 1 to 2 Hours. Serve in the casserole, layer being macaroni. Cover and
or turn out on to a hot dish.
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Fish Tar!-Flake 1h, of cooked fish, mix with salt, pepper, grated natmeg to taste, I teaspoonful of grated onion, and a gill of anchovy
tive linings for evening cloaks. or BEL
ELIEVE Me, after Permanent
or tomato sauce. Make hot, then fur coats. The material is very Hair Wave done by Mas. BETEN of the fact that their parents are pressed in aquache braid and trim- draw the pan to the side of the fire Bill into a tin lined with short- soft, and the design appears to be your Hair 18 marked with Beat Definite generally the wisent judges of what med with silver or gold, Sequins and stir in the beaten egg-yolk.
And the wise and gilded beads play-an-important embroidered in colours to tone with Wares. and no lika
the Newly is best for them.
encouraging this role too. One of the most attrae crust pastry. Cover with a lid of the ground, as for instance rau de Advertised Method here which leaves parent, while nile with faint touches of pink and the Hair Practically Straight and requires friendship between herself and her tive aspects of these caps is their pastry, knock up the edges, and blue in the embroidery, pastel blue A Weekly Waterwave-Has, J. BETEN children, will not fail to impress featherweight and the fact that you brush the tart over with the slightly with pink-and-green
Trained in Paris), No. 2, PRATT's upon them in suitable moments that can treat them with far less respect whipped white of an egg. Bake in
them in the least RoUILDING, KOWLOOS. TELEPHONE; K. she is, above all, their mother than they deserve without hurting a fairly hot oven 20 to 40 minutes.
Daily Mail.
All goods are much reduced the sale.
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