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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1931.
WOMAN'S PAGE
DRESSING WELL-
FOR EVENINGS.
[BY JACQUELINE HOWARD.]
It is true that many people will need fewer evening dresses than usual this winter, because instead of going abroad to places where the newest and most luxurious evening acquisition, is only one among a crowd of other lovelinesses, they will probably go to places nearer home where the formal evening dress is only rarely needed.
This is no reason for dressing, for "indifferently. It is to be hoped that on the contrary it will stimulate us to a better knowledge of the demi-toilette; a knowledge in which the average Englishwoman is seldom very proagent.
Violet Lacs.
We have soon and worn lage sa often and for so long that I think most of us begin to weary of it a
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ORIGINS OF WELL-KNOWN";
PHRASES.
"LETTING THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG.”
At many old country fairn it was
common practice to defraud purchaser by disposing of a cat in- stead of a sucking pig. Out of the number up for sale only one pig was exposed to view. The others were supposed to be tied up in 'backs ready for taking away.
Sometimes a purchaser. taking precautions before making payment by opening the sack. lot the cat out, and so discovered the fraud,
Others who
were too trustful, however, might only realian the de- ception on arriving home, when they were said to have been "sucked in."
THE SMILE OF THE SEA PRINCESS.
CHAPTER VI.
(Continued, from Last Friday.) John-dory tried to keep near to the Coral Princess without her swing him. I am so ugly," he thought, "that, if she once caught sight of me, she would turn away her head, so as not to. Sometimes, just for a moment, ho felt very and, for he remembered very well how handsome he had boon when he was a royal merman, and lived in his father's Palace with his eleven brothers,
But then, he would remember that it was of no use to frat; and he
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Then he would look round to see whether there was anything he could do to help anyone else," and he always found something to do. One day he saw n ́hammer-fish come up to the Palace, to put up some ca-weed hangings ready for the great ball to be held the next night.. Bo John-dory told the hammer-fah him whether he wanted any help. that he was out of work, and asked Now, as every om was busy pre paring for the birthday party, the hammer-sh was very" glad to help, and he took John-dory on..
it combines a delicate appearance and a great power of enduranée.
But this applies to ordinary lace. „The dull-surfaced and heavy-yet finely patterned violet lace which made one of the most attractive dresses I have soen for a long time is in quite a different catogory.
The qualities which made one- long to possess this frock for one- self had nothing to do with ques- tions of expediency. The violet tone was warm but soft. The neck- line was only moderately low in front and ended in that deep Yat the back which gives a long slender line. The skirt fitted closely round the hips and fell in long graceful folds round the feet. It was held at the waist by a belt of diamanté. All this elegance, however, and ali the difference of appearance be tween this and the lees we know so well are still allied to prac- ticality.
The colour docs not so easily. and the fabric does not crease of Aptract to itself the spots and marks. which spoil so many evebing mate- risis with such unfriendly speed.
Another of the dresses which were sombre in colour"and vivid in feeling was in very dark brown
satin.
Here again, the hips were closely. moulded; "this time with the pointed insets which emphasise slenderness and often suggest it in its absence. Here also the neckline at the back was very deep V and the folds about the feet long, flowing and graceful.
was, made of the whitest sea-foam, and all agreed that so lovely a crea- ture had nerar béon seen before.
Her beauty quite took away Johnsdory's breath, so that at first ho did not get who were the guests" just behind the King and Queen and Princess. When at last he saw who they were, John-dory very nearly fell out of his hiding palaces with surprisé. They were the old Sea-witch and her ugly son, the young Sen-wizard!
(To be Continued. Y
In early
So John-dory went into the Palace to help to get the great ball- room rendy. As they hammered
IS THIS YOUR NAME?" away at the naila in the walls, the hammer-fish, who had worked for title meaning Holy or Sacred." Ilicam is really an old Sidonian the royal family all his life, and knew nil about them, told John-Thus One highly placed" or "set dury of the party, and that there apart." It comes to us through the was to be a grand supper as well as
Greek form "Heiros." a ball..
days it was used principally for priests and kings as "holy men," or those set apart or above their fellows. It was also used as a Royal name among the kings of Byracuse, Hiram has over, been a favourite in America though the reason is not
ry apparent.
Bo John-dory thought it would be a good thing if he could hide among the Benwerd hangings, and watch what went on. No one would ever know, and he would have a good chance to see the Coral Princess in the lovely robes they wore, at the moment, making for her. The next night, when the Palace was crowded from end to end with guests, John-dory carried out his plan. He had made a cun- ning little nook for himself among the thick hangings of sonweed, and thence he was able to watch all that
went on.
What he was most eager to soa was, of course, the Coral Princesa The hammer-fish had told him that } she would look lovely as a dream, and when she at last came into the great ball-room, John-dory thought
dream.
1
would say to himself, "Come, como, | nho looked for lovelier than any Jaba-dory, this will not do, crying | after what you know you will never get again! If you cannot be hand, some, at least you can be useful!
She swam into the grant hall on the arm of her father and every one mude way for her. Her dress
Classical. Llass.—
The front of the bodice was rather unusually draped across the bust. I do not mean in a manner which has never boen geon before, beeduss
the lines are actually classical; but merely that this is an early rein- troduction of linos we shall prob ably see very often in the futuro. They are. ominently satisfying to people who appreciate the human lures at its best and undistorted.
Both these dresses were worn by n air-haired mannequin with an ex- ceptionally good Agurs. Both couk be worn successfully with dark or silver hisir as well; and their lines would do much to help the indif- ferent figure to look good. The brown dress would naturally not be chosen for a silver-haired woinan unless her eyes were dark.
The woman with the least ten- dency towards a high colour would naturally avoid violet. Fow colurs are kinder to an evenly toned skin, in the proper evening circumstances, but nothing is more coarsening to (Continued on pert Volumn.)
RUSKS AND RHUBARB
When rhubarb does come in ib comes in such quantities as to be come a surfait. This now recipe will relieva tho hard pressed, mator. familias searching for a new idea.
Stow some rhubarb with plenty of water and sugar. Pat in a pie dish sufficient "Ovaltine" Ruska to cover the bottom closely. Pour over a layer of rhubarb und allow to soak in. Next, another layer" of Rusks and continue to alternate them with rhubarb till the dish is. full Cover with a plate and set neide for 2 hours in a cool place. Serve cold, turned out on a glass dish with whipped cream or oustard poured over. Raspberries, red- currante or any stewed fruit may. be used instead of rhubarb.
n. skin which is inclined to be avon alightly florid.
Black is good this. winter always; and so is off-white, whether "off" is in the direction of laven der or grey, beige or pink.
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