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SHANGHAI MARKET
REPORT.
Dealers ConsetTAŬTO, The market for blacks is quieter and fair supplies of Venetians and Twills offered and few buyers, even though holders are ready to poa- cede one, to two per cent. in prices. The spring Fancies market show STRONG DEMAND FOR PIECE more activity and larger sales could be made, but for the fact that dealers insist on cash sales. "So often in the past they have been let PRODUCE MARKET REMAINS down on forward sales when the
DULL.
trade demand in early China New Year did not come up to merchants' expectations.
GOODS.
Shanghai, January 19th.–Agaia- the feature of the week in the con
tinued pleasing state of the Piece Goods Market. The Yutzfang auc. tion, which is the Arst sale for f payment after China New Year, totalled 605 packages and the gen eral tone throughout was very satis factory. Quite large quantities of Black Italians were absorbed very readily.
Trade inquiry is general and Szechuan has again participated in purchases during the past week.
Yarn And Cotton.
quite steady undertone at the aloss of the week, Business for export has been booked soms 4,000 to 5,000 bales'in all counts.”
BUY.
The silk market remains quiet with very little business being brought to book. The Homs mar kets are described as dull.
Motala
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There was some business done during the week in waste metals and prices remain more or less steady with little local demand.. will show activity before China It is not expected that this market New Year
Produce,
Apart from a certain activity in There is very little change in the Goat skin market there is little Yarn on the local exchange but of interest to report. An improve Cotton has declined about five macement in demand generally was for near positions and Tls. 1. for hoped for after the holidays buy { forward delivery. American Cotton this has not yet taken place, and is practically unchanged on tho few transactions have been record-
Clearancés: eased off con- ed. week.
new
In places, Venetians were a little bit stronger but prices generally siderably and dealers are not in still are inclined to fall. These clined to seriously discuss goods really constitute the only business. weak feature in the market at present.
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In their weekly report on China & Co. write!— Cotton and Yarn, Messrs. J. Spunt
Gres Shirtings still continues and Improvement in the prices for the rise has been very gradual and "If it were not for the fact of SATURDAY, January 19th steady indeed, since the middle of some of the local Mills having had November. Whites acem to have to buy the raw material in small FAREWELL PERFORMANCE
taken a distinct turn for the bet. quantitier to meet their most press- "MAN AND SUPERMAN"ter and practically all qualities-ing requirements, our market dur whether Korean specialities oring the past week could have been Company under the Management of regular China qualities have im- recorded as being practically life proved. The main strength for less, but toward the close it evinced ST CHALES MACDONA,
these goods still lies in Tientsin an easier undertone. The decline and Hankow,
registered ranges on the various White Lawns, after a weaker grades between Tls. 0.30 to Tis. 1.00 market last week, recovered about per picul which is principally as much as they lost.
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Agents :-
said that there was a strong de- mand for all goods from all usual supporters.
The Kingping Auction.
Goods are in short supply locally and consequently holders are asking prices well above the ideas of buyers abroad. There does not appear to be much likelihood of any change in the position until stocks accumulate.
AMERICAN SILK MARKET:
"ARTIFICIAL" AGAIN ACTIVE.
Information received from New
York states that prices of raw silk- in the American markets are apt
be unsteady. An to
anusual buoyancy has made buyers reluc tant to make large purchases. An although it is understood that loca! early drop in prices is anticipated merchants are doing their best to prevent anything in the nature of
glut of Chinese produce from flooding the markets.
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$1,307
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Italian Raw Silk: Extra Class
·81,385
eribable to the heavy increase in Deliveries have improved and stocks locally and the very slow im- again the principal feature was the provement in the demand either shipments to Hankow and Tientsin. from Mills or Exporters. While the There was also a small shipment to American and Indian markets con-
On the other hand, it is of in- Korea which gives reason to hope tinued in a more or less steady that things are improving in that position, the weakness that is mak-terest to note that the recent stag quarter. In conclusion, it can being itself felt in the domestic staple nation experienced in connection is also due to distress cotton being with artificial silk has disappeared offered by Bartain section of held within the past few days and the ers who have begun a timely pre-market is again active.
Quotations are as follow:- paration towards balancing up their settlements before the advent of the Japanese Raw Silk: At the Kungping auction thereChina New Year and as the time Class (extra) was not the buoyancy expected and this was somewhat surprising period, it is nothing but natural
draws nearer to that important Extra Class
[First Class trade orders were not lacking that we may experience for the time particularly for Greys and Whites. being a further decline in the rates. One reason suggested was, that, We are, however, of the opinion although extended payment was
that there will be recoveries some granted for the increased quantities offered, the due date for payment falls too early in China New Year. and for this reason speculators were not as active ae was anticipated.
Venetians, Twills and Velvets are now past their best season and are Quantities for clearing slower." these for a while must be reduced, otherwise prices will decline fur- ther..
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[BY & YOUNG WIFE.}
Do men's clothes irritate yout They irritate me; and I find the masculine attitude towards the sub- ject simply infuriating; so pompous and complacent.
Watch a man and his wife, dress- ing go out to dinner; the woman puts on one garment, a light silken affair that is innocent of any form of fasteners and which is both con- venient and pretty. She powders ber nose, brushes her hair, slips on. her frock, and she is ready-cool, comfortable, and contented.
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For the last half an hour his room has gradually come to resemble a battlefield. The floor is strewn with casualties, boiled shirts that have become spoilt in his frantic efforts' to get into them, "collar studs, white ties that have lost all their pristine crispness and look like bits of limp
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Utility Or Futility-Which 7
I think my chief source of irrita- tion is that men's clothes full no function, answer no purpose. I sug gest the immediate scrapping of nearly every article of men's clothes, particularly tall-bats, stiff shirts, white waistcoats and ties. A suit could easily be designed that would be comfortable rainproof, and prac tically everlasting.
It would have the new fasteners instead of the forty-three buttons. I am told a man can count on his clothes as he dressed; it would be ́easily washed, and it would possess no complicated ads and ends, such a links and studs.
Men's clothes now-a-days have no redeeming points. No one could pretend that they are healthy--- doctors pour out their souls daily in the newspapers, 'imploring their masculinė renders to wear more hygienic clothing. Needless to say the doctora, being men themselves, take no steps to inaugurate healthier fashions.
(Continued at foot of next column.)
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"ETERNITY" NECKLACES. ¡PAINTED ORGANDIE FANS.
Necklaces composed of narrow silver rings set with diamonds, sap- phires, or emeralds, in imitation of the popular #eternity" rings, are the newest trinkets shown for wear with evening frocks. Some of the necklets are made with rings of coloured stones placed in alternate shades, and others have several jewelled rings with a large pearl placed at intervals in between.
Silver grey face cloth and grey fox fur make this lovely wrap for evening or afternoon wear..
Are they serviceable? Tall-bats that are ruined at a touch 7 White spats that show every spot of mud? Trousers suspended by braces that are in a constant state of insecurity 1 The list of utterly useless and un- practical things would be endless.
The old painted fans of muslin or silk have come into fashion in a new form, the latest fans being made of black organdio muslin with a bold design in brilliant oil paint. One fan shows a pierrot and pier- rette in vivid shades, and another has a Spanish lady, with her comb and the rings on her fingers dusted with silver paint.
THE DUTY OF BEING BEAUTIFUL.
"A PLEA FOR "DECEITFUL WOMEN."
There are people who carp and cavil at the deceitfulness of women who use their own, knowledge of line and the skill of dressmakers and tailors to delude the eye of the observer.
But why shouldn't they? Everybody, whatever their looks ean took their best or their worst, according to the steps they take in the matter.
As it is also true that everybody enjoys beauty when they meet it, it is only kind and courteous to the rest of the world to make the best of the looka at one's disposal.
Bound To Look Well,
Naturally the ideal thing to do is to keep oneself in the best shape of which one's. proportions will al- law, and then one's clothes are bound to look well. But there may be any number of reasons why this is impossible, and in this case, it is both legitimate and altruistic to try to produce a stock size outline in spite of out size measurements A great deal may be done in this direction bywearing coats and dresses with Blenderising lines: great deal more may be done by holding the bead up, the shoulders down, and the back straight; and the shape and comfort of the things which are worn beneath the frock are also immensely .portant.
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