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THE SPIDER AND THE FLY.
BARBARA AND MATILDA
FIND THE KITTEN.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1932.
WOMAN'S PAGE
SURGEON PRAISES HIGH HEELS.
WHY WOMEN WEAR THEM.
High-heeled shoes are harmless.
Mr. P. B. Roth anys go, and he should know, for he is orthopedie surgeon to the Miller General Hos! pital...
In a paper road to a section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and printed, in the Lancet, M. Roth states that more than two-thirds of the civiliand women of the world wara high-heeled shove,
Asked why they wore them, he says, most women replied that high heoli looked smart, ware fashion- 'able, made the feet look smaller,
and were much more comfortable } than fat hools, specially in stand- ing.
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BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF MODERN., MODES.
The silhouette has "not changed much
Broad shoulders, and si hips, with what fullbeas there may be in the skirt below the knees, are the characteristic main lines of
dress.
late winter and early spring fashions. Crêpe Maracain, among the silk crepes, is used widely. Crêpe satin is also used, and sisa
Mr. Roth stated that he could heavy weight crêpe de chine and giva no credence to the suggestion triple georgette. The materials of objectors that a high heel caused used for the princess dresses now alterations in the spine and abdo so fashionable in the evening baseminal viscera. For walking, a heel to be just heavy enough to hang of about two inches was more com wall
fortable tban flatter heels, provided the ground was fairly smooth.
The new Bagheera velvet is very Backs to dresses show many dif-much liked. It has a duvetyn Anish ferent ideas in giving width for and, in aure to be used in the future, walking. there are plents set in the near and distant. It is as popular middle, or at the sides, or again, as Angel cloth was last season, and
is softer and more pliable. godets may be used for the pur- pose,»
Worth has some straight backs with inverted pleats at each side, Lelong has a finely plissi or pleated section which bangs midway from the waist, rather suggestive of the fantail Many skirts have back godets at knee height.
For the street, skirts are no longer than formerly. For late afternoon dresses skirts reach below the ankles, and for the evening there are dresses which miss the ground by an inch or more."
The waist line is movable matter. It is guided to its place by the proportions of each individual figure. This means that it is
neither high nor low to excess,.
Rust Reds.
For the moment, everyone is thinking in rust reds. Green holds its own in dark and light shades. Navy blueris brown are worn, but the Frenchwomen still wear more black than anything else. They put colour with it in a searf, a front, a flower,,, a belt For the evening, pala "pastel colours are worn, and ale black and all-white.
Woollen materials are more used than silk for day dress, and everything points to wool for the
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Fina jerays of all kinds are worn. Some have the appearance of being hand-knitted. Bands of knitting and crochet are used to make yokes for plain morning and sport dressen. Hand-knitted sweat- ors, short and in several colours Land stitches, are more than fashion-
ble. They are nu obsession.
Lace is used for the evenings in new ways. It is hirred, pus plain over taffetas, antin, and set. shaded colours it is effective.
In
Tailored clothes are the best stylo, Tho tailor now has his sny in dreases of all kinds, from the morning dress to the dinner dress. Good pressing and perfect cut are essential in dresses of all kinds. For coats and skirts the fold-over skirt has again been made.
The short slim basque jacket is more popular than the bolero.
The little shoulder cape that takes off will be a favourite acces sory to spring dresses made of light-weight woollen materiala. Two coloured ensembles are now rivalled by three-coloured ensem- bles Scarves are rampant, some plain, some twisted, some plaited- in, two or three colourk Fur is, of course, the most popular trimming for street clothes,
THE CHILDREN'S
Several days slipped by, and still, Mrs. Fluffy didn't bring her baby i homo, though she herself came with loud purre, drank her milk, abo a meal, and disappeared again." And it all seemed very strange.
A few daya later, Barbara,
CORNER.
ONCE UPON A TIME.
When gouts get indigestion that appens even to goats-stones form inside them. Our ancestors cherish. ed these "bezoor stones'
AB medi cines. Ambergris (grey amber "),
1s is curious how many people ser holidays Barbara, and her doll Matilda and Mummy were having another indigestion product, from
seem to have an instinctive dislike of spiders, and sometimes this dis- like amounts to a positive urenal Yet there is nothing whatever to be afraid of in any of the English spiders.
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Une bright morning in the xam-) child, Matilda, took a message from Mummy to Miss Adams, the dress. maker,
her, the door opened slowly, and in walked a beautiful Persian cat, carrying a very small kitten in her mouth.
The garden spider, is a handsome Creature with a white cross marked un its back, and it spins a very
Oh, Mrs. Eluffy," exlaimed wonderful and symmetrical web. Miss Adams when she First of all four strong foundation will you never decide to leave lines are spun, and then these are your child tucked up in bed ?? connected by a spiral, which goes. round and, round in ever-widening
tea with Mrs. Lea, lady who whales, provided ointments, and
lived near to Miss Adams,
names.
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Outside in the garden, the aum-old physicians valued the teeth As they waited in the kitchen Jormer flowers nodded to each other of fossil fish, which they be and Barbara told Matilda their lieved to be precious jewels" (as Shakespeare says) plucked Why, there's Mra. Fluffy" she from toads' heada. Amber they remarked, па a bluny-gray cat thought similar to ambergris, and streaked across the lawn, and was used, for physic, puzzled, some
times, lost in the shrubbery.
to And dics, inside the "stone" (The Natural History "Oh, whose cat is it?" asked came in,
Mrs. Lee, ive seen it so often Museum has specimens) Amber, crossing the garden lately,"
really, is fossil resin, in which pre- Barbara explained about Mrs. historic insects occasionally stucc Fluffy and the lout Kitty, and raid Newly engaged girls, in the good
bank account in buying a trousseau. Mrs. Lee suggested that it might They made it. No Buton girl 4. the baby should have been, and help to follow the cat through the reckoned fit for matrimony until told Mrs. Fluffy that if they had garden. But as they crossed the the had spun, with her own distaff been kittens they would have loved lawn Mrs. Fluffy darted past them, spinning wheels, now prized as and ran toward her proper home. The thread of the web is beaded to live there. But she took no
antiques,"
not perfected "That's DO with tiny drops of gum, and it is notice, having made up her mind
use; then," said until 1583-all her body, bed and,
Ftable linen. Hence the term "spin. this sticky substance which holds that the child should be an early Mummy. the small insects that become, en traveller, and whenever Barbara Presently they forgot Mrs. Fluffy, ster," while. wife is cousin to "and tells bow tangled in the web. If the spider called during the next few days the for it was such an intercating old the word "wave," becomes alarmed it seizes ita web mother cat had a "now hiding place garden, with quaint statues scatter there thrifty habits were continued with its foot, and shakes it so somewhere.
ed about, and Barbara and Matilda during wedded life.
A bird builds its mest in that
"circlen until the web is complete. Aeurled up on the rug with her baby they did want to know what had jold days, did not wreck father's
perfect web is very beautiful, es- pecially when the morning dow is on it, and the sun shines. It then looks like a dainty piece of jewel Jery made with diamonds.
become almost invisible..
Mra. Fluffy gave a wes' mew, and
After Barbara and Matilda had stroked the cnt and kitten they happened to it looked at the comfortable bed where
wore
rapidly that both spider and web Then one morning Miss Adams wanted to see everything.
said, It's gone altogether this trimmed yew every year," said Mrs. branches. Then she gave a squeal The male garden spider is much time! I've searched on top of the Lee, Would you like to see the of joy. smaller than the female, and more wardrobe, among baskets and boxes;
old one?" sierderly built. At the end of his in the linen cupboard, and every married life his wife naually de- where in the garden. But not a bit Mummy lifted her up, with Matilda Barbara said that she world. no youre him, but although such of kitten can I find."
in her arma, and she parted the forocious wife she is a good mother.
"Oh, dear" exclaimed Bai She lays many hundreds of egge, bara,
(Continued on near Golueras,) covers them with a silken bag, and protects them carefully.
May we look for it, please?" Barbara asked.
Mrs. Fluffy still comes purring home at meal times, though,” went Flies constantly seem to accept on Miss Adoms, she must have the invitation, Will you walk, it quite safe somewhere" into my parlour? anid the spider to the fly," and when a fly is caught in the web the spider pounces on it, and, seizing the fly with its jaws, at once begins to turn it round and round with the aid of its legs, com- pletely wrapping it up in a covers ing of silk. Then it drags the vic tim off, and sucks it blood till nothing but the skin is left.
Miss Adams said they might, but though they searched and searched there was not a wave of kitten, tail aarshore about.
י.
So Barbara and Matilda went home, hoping the kitten would be found again before he had grown into a grandfather cat.
Inside the old nont, curled up fast saleop, lay Mrs. Flugy's child!
Mr. Fluffy purred. Thank you," she seemed to say, " I thought it rather a good idea myself.":"
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Write to the advertising manager for details of the competition and entry form.
He was unable to find evidence of any harm resulting from high-heel- od shoes
A more likely cause was badly. fitting footwear..
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