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Modern Effects In China
PATTERNS FOLLOW FASHIONS
IN FABRICS
By "Janet"
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space on the dinner table.
“Outsize” Cups
Next to her linen, the Victorian " to look at, and they take up litle womah especially prided herself on her china. Whenever I see a well-ordered china cupboard. I always get a mental picture of Mrs. Tulliver in "Mill on the handling her Floss" lovingly.
chancy" decorated with the sprigs so fashionable in those days, and brought out only on great occasions.
But I can't imagine modern wo- men fussing over teapots rolled in tissue paper and getting out the best tea cups when visitors are ex-; pected
Everything is made for use, and it is a good sign that we like to have pretty things for every day. not just for high days and, holl- days.
Tea china to-day is sensible in the extreme. For example, onè 'rarely sees those shallow cups which so soon let the tea get cold: the new ones are rather, tall and narrow. with ring handles.
Teapots really "pour" without dripping all over the cloth, and" have handles that give a good
"purchase."
"Spring" Patterns
But one thing that strikes me is the way patterns are following fashions in fabrics and furniture. There are tea sets which echo the pattern of chinz curtains, stripes and, checks are well to the fore for the autumn, and the liking for "spring" patterns is coming back.
If yours is one of those rooms with a real feminine atmosphere you will fall in love with a white tea set spotted with blue, The
spots are too small to be called polka dots, and they are surpris- ingly dainty.
The bread plate belonging to this set has blue lines as a border, and it blossoms out into two funny little "ears" at right angles to each other in place of the more traditional handles. You can get a toast-rack and a jam dish in the same pattern, so the tea table is really complete.
Just as feminine, but a complete contrast, is some new china in a Syringa pattern. The blue flowers with copper-coloured leaves sweep across the cups both inside and cut, and all the pieces are outiln-" ed with a blue border.
Modern rooms need china to match them, mostly rather pläin and with bands of colour for de- coration. The cups and plates in the new set are moulded int gra- duated bands, each outlined with colour. You can choose green, brown, or orange on ivory.
A slightly different pottern is mainly in a warm cream colour. which I find shows up so well on those gay-coloured linen cloths.
The bands here are round the edges of cups, saucera and plates. and I picked out a combination of pink, grey and black on the cream ground as particularly pretty. Can't you imagine this is a sunny, modem room, all pinks and greys, on an old rose linen cloth?
A Fascinating Set
Then, if your curtains are checked, match up the tea table to them with a fascinating seb which has a deep band of colour- ed checks round the saucers and tea cups This is a new nots in china, but is not expensive," I chose it for a kitchen-living room Where most of the furniture was enamelled apple green.
Or perhaps you like a note of oddness about the tea table-a different pattern or colour in the jam jar and butter dish. Some Hittle novel touch which inspires visitors to remark on it.'
In this case you will like the ware made to resemble basket work, and decorated with bum- ches of realistic fruit, one of this year's brightest ideas.
These pieces are bright and co- lourful, so use them with eith.T plain china to brighten up the table, or with china that is boldly patterned and will stand up to them. They would put more de-** licate designs in the shade.
Dinner ware? After all the no- velty of square plates and such- like, we are coming back to more rational Ideas, The, novelty in this year's design lles mainly fo
Sets of breakfast cups have an innovation which will appeal to mere man-they are real, "out- size." holding about half a pint, and yet, they manage to avoid looking clumsy.
And I must not forget to tell you about some new china I saw recently, rather like the old suver lustre brought up to date. It was a clear Ivory colour and decorated with wide bands and handles of silver. It made up into most at- tractive coffee sets, which, com- plete with the pot, cost well un- der, the, pound, and could be had with a tray to match,
But, although it is in use every day, do treat your china, well. If you can spare a cupboard special- ly for it, have the hooks for cups fixed round the wall not on the front of the shelves where the cups are likely to get knocked and broken,
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GOLD TOE NAILS
Latest Craze Among Film Stars
Help! I can't stand it. The latest Hollywood" fad is having gold on the toenails, says # correspondent. Not just gilded mind you-bút gold. It happens
this way.
A bookbinder fellow is having the fun of "a lifetime-putting genuine gold-leaf toenails on the very famous,
They are of that permanent type gold which is applied on very ex- pensive volumes with genuine gold leaf. Each little toelet is given an application of the gold leaf and then they are burnished. It's a very romanesque, effect and it'a being done so that the correct effect may be had with the new sandals,
Even Garbo has gone in for it. Her golden toes peep out froin sandals whose stops consist of a few corda artfully crossed so su to hold the sole in place!
The sandals are very chic for evening wear with gold cords, but for the daytime, white is a favou→ rite, since it best reveals the sun.
foot and the golden burned toenails that are cinemalard's newest craze.
Norma Shearer's tiny feet also have golden nails these days. I understand Mary Pickford went through the process, before she left for the east coast. →.
In fact, if you're among the
the vegetable dishes, which are-elect of Hollywood at all, you have
mostly round and have fascinating «plain imobe and scroll handjes.
-Bome are made in the shape of desk blotters with flat lids, pretty
that ash of metal on the feet which is applied with the new process and which is on to stay for a while.
KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1934.
HONG
LONDON NOTES
Furs For The Autumn
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, Oct. 2. Every autumn certain furs gain or lose interest; new styles in shape and working are exhibited and designers who have practical ideas link their products with dress fashions. The more expen- sive furs, such as sable and mink, change least; by reason of their depth they never go out of tra- hlon, though the Hnes of a col- lar or sleeve and the ft of the back and wrap may vary,
There is now a revival of seal- skin and seal-dyed musquash, Al- aska seal is a most becoming and. enduring skin, though its weight has sometimes been against it, Or recent years it has been found possible to make the skins lighter and more pliable, and seal this- autumn are fairly light. When- ever there is much velvet in dress, sealskin comes back," Sealskin 'ac- cordingly is being made up as bronze-brown
and black-dyed
coats with collars.
Grey Indian lamb is also a new fashion: it is made with a shawi collar, slightly fitting and with tul sleeves tapering to the wrists, and more elaborately it becomes a cape sleeve bordered with grey dyed Arctic fox; it should look well over a frock of bottle-green. In- which is an autumn colour. dian lamb of a rich burnished brown, to which ermine is also dyed, is another of the season's furs. With brown lamb coats are large cape collars of sable-dyed kolinsky brought to point at the back. Dyed 'ermine continues to bea fur for long coats and capes: Its light weights- makes it easy to wear, and it lasts well. Some of the coats of this fur are worked in perpendicular strands "to give the fashionable straight
Line.
MONOCHROME FASHIONS
DOOMED?
The discreet monochrome fashions seem to be duomed. The nunjority of the designe are multi-coloured, some reminding of kirianos, others of a Hungarian
· peasant style. However, all ex- hibit an artistic tendency which give some of the models a plastic effect.
Almost without exception they resemble Greek vases, blossoms, or flowers. They all produce the une effect-they emphasise the womanly character, and are all that which we besi, than a year "age would have called old- fushioned.
Blue-Dyed Fox
American broadtall dyed to car- bon-paper blue has been made into long coats trimmed "with blue-dyed fox collar. Blue is not a fur colour; but, these coats make a change. Short capes and hip length capes are also made of blue American broadtail, some in odd back-to-front styles and others piented into a wide "horse-col- lar." For those who prefer a more usual colour there are American brondtail coats dyed
smoky-brown
and trimmed with natural blue fox which is also a smoky brown. This shade is common for sliks and woollens.. There are no great alterations in fur styles Cape collars on mink and sable coats can be worn..
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For The Well Dressed
HAT STYLES THAT ARE NEW
Special Air Mall Service)
London, Oct. 2... Purple is undoubtedly a French colour"favourite. If on the dark side and a rich velvet, purple is lovely in millinery. particulary when worn by fair girls or white
haired women.
Not for years have there been so many fur-trimmed hats. EX- pensive skins are used to trim the velvets. Both the felts and tricorne and the admiral's hat in black or grey felt have fan- Fastic brims made in finest match- Ing brandtall.
ų Cossack Capa The Cossack cap mace of browzi broadtail looks like being a sure winner. The high Cossack tur- ben, so familiar a style half" a century ago, has returned to fas- hion, but with a diference. First of all the fur is soft and light. and, secondly, it can be dented and pulled about in all directions. Our leading milliners tell me that few women will care for the really high-crowned hat: it is so ageing. Certain French houses are stress- ing height. but the idea is not too well received
What a fascinating page from "Punch" of Leech's day is the pork-ple turban made entirely of
feathers- greenish black coq's with an adorable
the
cape of
The Coiffure Helps
All millinery is difficult to wea. this season-but the coiffure can help, for curls give the required tilt at the back or side-
The felt tricornes are now much improved by the stiffened net veil. There's much black and white worn on the head and for match- ing scarf and gloves. Black cloth Is trimmed with white ermine, and many dyed ermine toques are trimmed" with velvet to tone. Altogether it appears that mil- Unery has taken on a more formal and expensive air, with, of course, the exception of sports hats. which retain 3 becoming and practical aspect.
The knitted and woven caps and berets offer a marvellous variety. It is always wise to choose a com- fortable and flattening style for the country. The latter form of Tam-o'-Shamters are
admirable
for some faces, and the vast quan-" tity of new woolly values can be as easy to wear as richer silks and "velvets,
Some small shapes are like a forage cap and are easier than the cone-like toques.
-Up At Back
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The brim turning up at the back is a somewhat hard style and I foresee its abrupt nes being soft- same, lined black velvet and fastened as the season advances. tening with a black velvet bow at the side.
Another novelty is a toque and collar or Kreen merle and felt. This is fashioned after an elonga-. ted toque.
FLUFFY AND FRILLY
GILET
Quills, wings arrows, tufts of colour and hat-pins are all press- ed into the decorative service, even with trimmings and forma
ties. The modern trend la for. simplicity and good style in hats!
SHELL "JEWELS.”
The very latest novelty in the ""jewellery" line is a brooch, which may be used also as a hat ornament, made of mother of pear? in the shape of an oyster shell. In the centre glistens a tiný pearl,
Other shells have been used as models for ornaments, too. colourful and unusual choice would be a sea snail in lovėly. green shader.
THE CARE OF THE FEET
Faults of High-heeled
Shoes
(Special Air Mail Service)-
Edinburgh, Sapi. 22,.`· The members of the Incorporated Society of Chiropodists, who are holding their autumn convention in Edinburgh yesterday attended the Royal Infirmary and heard two lectures on the care of the feet.
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A DOCTOR ON CHINA
The first was by Professor Murray Lyon, whose subject was A Surgeon's China. By Albert "Diabetes and the Need for Foot
Gervais, London: Hamish Ha- Care."
milton. Pp. 303, 76. 6d. net,
NEW BISHOP OF HONAN
The
General Synod of the Church of England in Canada, at its meeting held in Montreal on September 15, gave formal appro- vival to the resolution that the
• Diocese of Honan should be in a position to elect its own Bishop and recommended that the Bynod of the Diocese, should entrust the election to the House of Bishops of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung
The second, by Professor John Fraser, M.C., dealt with "The
If every theorist on China could Foot of the Child." The lecturer said they encountered in certain of spend several thoughtful years in There should be no difficulty the Anthropoid apes & foot struc- Szechuan as a lay doctor before
which this year for every type of woman ture
was extraordinary delivering himself of opinions the to find many necklines that will similar to that of the human foot, balance between the optimists and become her, for the popularity of and there could be no doubt that the pessimists would be better the gilet has emphasised the im- there was a very strong argumamit kept. Dr. Gervais's book la frank,"
in support of the fact that the symapthetié, humorous, and true The full resolution reads: \ • portance of the neckline.
The allet is not exactly a tunic, human foot had arisen by certain to life. He brings back even the but comes under the same cate-volutionary changes in the foot smells of Chengtu, the sweet and eighth length coats for those who gory. Actually. a gilet is a neck- of those should he say ancient the not so sweet, most vividly. His
up or down; shawl collars on the fatter lamb furs are also adapt- able, and there are scarf and muf- fer collars; but nothing is very high, and most collars are pulled- out at the back to make the hat comfortable. There are some seven-
like walking. Of Persian lamb, heavy fur, there are seven- eighth length tailored coats, and this length is likely to be repeat-
line attachment to a dress. 'Some- times it is only a collar-plus, but more often it extends over the dress and its sash ties in a bow like a blousette, but instead of being worn "under it is worn "over. In this way it encroeches on the tunic, and sometimes, in- deed, is worn at tunic length.
But it is to the gilet we owe the season's so varied neckline, or vice versa. And vary It must, either in simplicity or in elaboration--all fluffy and frilly and feminine
ed in sealskin and seal musquash.at the back. In this form it is As furs become less heavy fur costs can be worn more often, and the shorter length (when the line. la kept fairly straight) is useful. Coats of für such as ermine, mink, and sable have deep armholes to allow them to be worn over, coats and skirts or over trimmed even
Making gownS. :
hence the gllet, or the tubJE.
Fur capes for evening and day are made of all kinds of fur. There are silver fox wraps which come below the hips, ending in a det), point at the back, and there are MASSAGING A THIN FACE kolinsky capes, fr shoulder and hip lengths for wearing over cost-frocks. Collars on capes "stand away from the face, Capes
of the smaller fürs are often- mounted a little distance apart on silk so as not to rub and to be all the lighter.
ancestora.
He showed how the heel had gradually descended to bear weight, and he wondered if ladies who used high-heeled shoes and threby threw the weight forward on the front of the foot realised that in doing so they were mimicking a very sacient monkey, (Laughter.)
whole story will repay reading. But his conclusions are especially in teresting and so true. The white man who lives in the interior of China is gradually charmed and enchanted by the ancient people round him, but while he tends to grow away from conceptions famillae in the West he will not. claim to have "solved the problem of the Asiatic soul. He may pe netrate some way, but an invisible on the care of the feet, Profes harrier remains and he is in day- or Fraser spoke of the advantage ger of erecting another between of baring stockings and shoes himself and his own race. properly designed; the stocking should be like the mocassin of the primitive race. The tendency of the present day to use high-heeled shoes was a very great mistake.
Praise for Mocassins
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Bzechuan behind the coastal provinces in feeling the effect of modern thought, but even so Dr. Gervals produces good reasons for The effect of the high heel was his conclusion that the sorrow- to place the powerful heel bone ful voices of old, Ch will stall po út a disadvantage and to transmit.. Should a thin face be massaged: the weight of the body to the weak for a long time to "cord
cover the will it make it thinner?
pole of tramwaya part of the foot
If they would only adopt a heel phone which was scarcely heel at all is taking large measure of their disabilition, gives some idea
there would disappear.
sago is a two-way route to auty. Correctly done, it acts both as a bullder up and as a dis-
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1. That the General Synod of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hul having unanimously passed s resolution expressing the opinion
that the Diocese of Fonan would
be in a position to elect its own Bishop (or entrust such election
to the House of Bishops) in accordance with the Canonïs of the Chung Hua Sheng King Hni, This General Synod of the Church of England in Canada concurs in this resolution and agrees that the Diocese of Hanan abould proceed to act in this matter according
se Canons of their Church, under the advice of their metro- political authorities,
2. Further, that this General Bynod recommends to the Bynod of the Diocese of Honan that the election should be entruste House of Bishops of the Chung Hur Sheng Kong Hu
3. And further that such Ba lops as may be elected whether of Chinese or Can Allty should be requi
ince only to the authority of