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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1929.
WOMAN'S PAGE.
WHAT YOUR HANDS MEAN.
CHARACTER IN THE FINGER TIPS.
THE SECRET OF LOVELY HANDS,
A number of women are born to rock the cradle. Others are pro- destined to be happiest piloting an airplane or hewing out other carcers Jor themselves.
Some women will and the world of men at their feet with no effort on their part. Others are fated to go the lone way.
These and other potent character- istics of people are revealed note by word of mouth nor by glance of eye, but by the unconscious move ment and the shape and character of their bands.
Tell-Tale Indicator. Hands are the most tell-tale in dicator of character that human A woman can shut beings have. her eyes. She can seal her lips. Her hands will tell the truth about "her character. In fact, her hands may tell much more about hersel! than she herself knows.
The general shape, the width across at various intervals, the length of fingers, shape, and pro- portion to the palm, the thickness and modelling in general, and the traceries of blood vessels all tell their story. Moreover, the move- ment of hands is fully as important as shape.
One's little Sagers and thumbs are tell-tale digits.
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If there is a short distance be- tween the end of the thumb and the top joint it indicates a narrow mind, ignorance, sentimentalizm.
What Thumbs Reveal. The distance and shape of the second joint of the thumb are im- portant. The balanced person has a thumb that is slightly narrower between the joints than above the first joint. It must slope in a little or it indicates ignorance. But if it slopes too much, if the space is too thin, it indicates an egoist.
As the thumb tells. strength of character, determination and intel- ligence, so the little finger is the index to sensitiveness and culture.
Crooked little üngers shew arrest-
have pads of flesh of the under. side they show an artistic appre ciatic, even if the rest of the hand
creative genius
shows no
centre finger tells little.
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The general shape of hands tells the tale when fingers are consider- ed also. The round, sweet, full feminine hand, for instance, may belong to the temperament that is exceeding hard. She may love one day and hate the next, and she always hates wholeheartedly.
The mother hand, the band of the home-lover, is one that is broad at the base stopping gently until the width just below the fingers is much narrower than at the base of the hand.
Her carcerist sister, however, is apt to have a hand that is much wider across just at the base of the fingers than ucar the wrist. Her fingers may be long but not so gently tapering, and they are apt to be flat on the ends. Sometimes her fingers are quite long and cap able looking. There are apt to be many bine veins on the back of her hand.
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Your Share in Your Fate. It is obviously impossible change the bony structure of your hands, but a very great deal enn be done by massage and general care of the hands. In order to make the fingers alender and, give them a good shape they should be mas- suged with cream or warm oil as though you were putting on gloves.
Much depends on your confidence in your hands. If you know that they are well kept and well mani- cured you will like to show them and so if you are wise, will study in which poses they look best. The charm and grace of hands depends very much on their control, hands that are constantly fluttering shout ar seldom so lovely as those in re- pose.
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Your hands which "tell so much about you are deserving of quite
as much care as your face and will respond quickly to expert atten
ed development and lack of cultivation. A regular manicure given by tion.
an expert is a duty which every woman owes te her hands, and to herself, if she wishes to be beauti ful.
The more cultured a person is the finer and straighter the little Singer.
Astistic Sense. First and third fingers give an indication of artistic sense. If they
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PETALCHENE.
Petalchene is the name of a de lightful new fabric for undies and children's frocks which is being manufactured in England. You can get it at the PIONEER SILK STORE in a wide range of colours, which are guaranteed fast in the wash.
Fuji crépe, another good material for underwear, has also arrived this week in 30 different abades. and there as an excellent selection of printed georgettes and crêpe de chines in the new season's patterns
now on view.
Gown of crêpe figured in black and white, white ratin revers, satin lower part of the skirt.
BATHING BABIES.
Bathing Babies are going to be
INSPIRATION OR JIG SAW PUZZLE?
FISH TAIL DRAPERIES ON NINON FROCKS.
A friend of mine, who had to the skirt, at the most unexpect- sufficient imagination to forget ed angles. The purpose of all this Darwin and his theories of ovelu- complicated ent becomes clear when tion, once remarked wistfully what the frock is worn, for it gives that fun the Creator must have had when lovely floating backward movement making animals, especially the which is so important just now. quaint antedeluvian beasts that men tiny sleeveless coat is worn aver of science have reconstructed for our the also sleeveless-bodice, and a Amusement. It seems to me that narrow belt with a pink topez line. The material is, as I said, dress designors of to-day are having buckle confines the normal waist-
early as much fun!
They generally play with one of nixon, printed with natural colour. two ideas either the slender cling-ed cyclamen flowers on shell pink. ing garment or the Bouffant "pic ture frock which reaches very nearly to the proportions of crino- line. But from these two they in vent the most surprising variations Every frock is built up like a pic: ture puzzle of scraps of stuff of I 171 every imaginable shape. sometimes tempted to wonder whe ther they are not in actual fact built up from these scraps, rather than being designed as a whole and the pieces cut according If they are built up the ty. builders are certainly inspired for the results are charming.
There is a really lovely little frock of printed ninon now che: Pamela which is a perfect example
Another very charming dress of printed ninon in tones of burnt orange, lemon, and brown, stresses the little frills which are also ad important aspect of the summer mode. Seea from the back, it looks rather as if a circular shawl, a frill, or deep fichu edged with
were
work across the shoulders, except that the frill continues round the hips under the arms The skirt: hem, too, has a double frill. From the front you see the frills of both bodice and skirt run- ning up from the side seams to the pit of the throat and the centre of the waist, respectively. The neck is finished with a loose bow, and round the waist is a narrow belt,
of this problem. You notice arstunlerlined with terracotta ribbon,
of all that it has a graceful drapery and fastening with a crystal buckle.
or side train-on either ide
Then you see that this drapery in frock has sleeves and at the not one piece, but many pieces of wrists the frill motive appears
agtin material, and you take them up and look at their one by one shapes. One is like a fish tail, na other like a petal, a third a point, and they are joined together, and
"There are, too, some very charm- ing afternoon frocks of printed cripe de chine and foularde- now on show in the same shop.
CRETONNE COATS. A PRESENT FOR THE
One of the most delightful of the) summer fashions is the introdue tion of cretoane coata worn over white frucks. These coats are gen- erally made of cretonne witha white ground and small bright Aower patterns, bordered or trim med with the dominant colour of the design. They are also worn of cretonne on a pale huff or even coloured ground.
There is at present an excellent selection of Cretonnes suitable for this purpose in WHITEAWAY, LAID LAW's, which add to the charm of their appearance two excellent pro- perties they are guaranteed fade lesa and are very inexpensive.
HOME.
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When the rain comes-and it must come soon-you will be spend. ing perforce a good deal of time indoors, and with the darkened sky. you will need colour and sunshine You in the rooms more than ever. cannot sweep away the clouds which bide the sun, but you can bring sunshine into your home by the use of fresh and pretty cretonnes. Now is the time to set about it before the rain comes, and you cannot do better than to go to WHITEAWAY'S both to choose your cretonne and to get the covers made.
There is a very wide and pleas- ing choice of furnishing fabrics now on show there, and this shop has established a reputation for the ex
FOR LITTLE GIRLS.cellence of their chair's tailor-
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW's have now some delightful material for little girls frocks, organdie berder- ed with frills, so that mother has nothing to do but sew up the side seams and make the head and
as smart as the "Bathing Beau-arm holes. You can get it in pink ties" of Hollywood this year, if bordered with three rows of petals their mothers bay their small out alternately pink and blue, in écru fite in LANE, CRAWFORD's Children's shade with 5 rows of small frilla, Department. There are little suite, in orange with rows of plissé frills just like those for grown-ups, with set on in vandykes, and in green striped or jazz tops, and brief with 4 wider frills. It costs $2.50 knickers, joined with a white belt, a yard and one yard would be in all sorts of gay colours. Charm ample to make a frock for a amail ing little rubber caps, some of them girl.
The same effect can be had in net appliqué with yellow ducklings or with flowers, and bathing shoes to in pale blue with frills and in match the costumes complete a smart mauve with a petal border for $1.50 ensemble.
a yard.
A TRICK IN ELECTRICITY. THE POWER OF MAGNETISM. AMERICAN PROFESSOR'S
DISCOVERY.
A tiny flame; a glass of ice water and a piece of metal no larger than a slice of bread were used in a re- cent demonstration in New York to develop electro-magnetiam suflicicat
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Moscow (UP)-Efforts are being
ing department. Fit is guaran- teed, and all the fabrics now in stock are guaranteed fadeless.
HATS FOR SMALL
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There are all sorts and conditions of hats for small people now to be found in LANE, CHAW7020's Child- ren's Department.
Panama and
tagel straws, topees in the new belmet shape, as well as the asual mushroom, and washing hats of white drill underlined with red, be sides the favourite sailor bats H.MS. "Resolute," "Tremendous," Formidable," and all the rest of the fleet !
WOMAN IN A BARGE. CORONER AND A SKIPPER'S RESPONSIBILITY.
The responsibility of a barge skip- made to fight against the practice per who allowed, a woman in his of taking seasonal wives" in the vessel peasant regions.
Young peotants marry girls just before the planting season, use their labour until the harvest is over, then divorce them. Legal
was emphasised by the coroner, Dr. W. H. Whitehead, at Greenwich inquest on May Wid- dewaon, aged thirty, & native of Chatham, who was found in the Thames rear Woolwich Ferry.
Ernest Henry Hughes, skipper of pushed by the Government, espect the sailing barge Alleyn, af Station "But what is it good for?" some ally in the matter of awarding part Road, Rainham, said that Widdow. one asked Dr. F. C. Brown, direcf the husband's income to the son used to visit him and his mate tor of the Museum of Peaceful Arts, who exhibited the new "thermo- magnet."
to support the weight of two large protection for the victims is being
men.
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girl.
in their barge and journey, with them between Chatham and Lon- den. She was missed from the Dr. Brown replied in the words
barge one night. in February, and. which Faraday once used in speak The thermo-magnet, the latest he reported this to the police. ing of, his pioneer dynamo: It development in this field, is the im The coroner observed that if isn't useful but it's very intereat vention of Dr. Paul E. Klopateg. Hughes had women on board hia ing
Chicago physicist. Its significance burge it was his duty to take care Engineers have a way of turning lies in the fact that it develops a of them, and he was accepting a intereating discoveries to practical mach larger flow of current than grave responsibility.
An open verdiet was recorded. In 1822 Seebeck found has ever before been generated in that if two bars of metal were feet, this way. If it can be perfected ened together and a wire 'was con- further. it may afford a practical,
TODAY'S WIRELESS nected to their free ends, en elec way of turning heat directly into tric current would flow in the wire electricity without the aid of steam whenever one bar was botter than tarbines and generators. the other. Interesting but hardly useful.
account.
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Engineers do not expect, however, that thermo-electric methods will, Bevising the Process. attain an efficiency which would Later the physicists reversed the warrant the displacing of all exist- process. They found that by mesing generating methods. But such suring the flow of current, minute methods bold the possibility of changes of temperature could be utilizing the waste heat which is detected. As the result the ther now given of in smelting plante mopilo, sensitive to one-millionth of and in similar high-temperatare port. a degree, now measures the beat industrial processes, of stars, and brings great savings ia industry, "controlling the tem pérature fa delicate manufacturing processes,
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Dr. Klopsteg'e key to unlock a dew 10.10 p.m.--News bulletin. storehouse of electrical energy. 10.30 p.m.-Close down.
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