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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
EDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1919.
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DINNER GOWN OF
DESIGN.
PERSIAN
"The slabostale and armper dräner your a les sigurn is uf Persies inspitalion and only a bill worth with exynisileiy slender lines could achieve distinction on this nast
It is of heavy sutia and climping elitin. Theodosinuer of - this munirous geure, close a chefin af aprind due to coaline with lustrous deep creta salin, which, intura, is outlined with peuris, šopkro stenus qud jet:
The being tassels und öller trimmaus an faskirani og pearls, tipus stones and jet, while the varrings mei comb, which are un integral part of the "volume, are og, rest under. The slender slippers with their accentuated foes are also traded with jets.
What Paris Offers.
Shoulder straps of heads are also a noticeable feature of evening gowns when only tulle sleeves
In spite of ail that the couturiers say, in spite. too. of all their efforts and the charm of their new models, there will be great are worn. rosistance on the part of the
THE "FRAMING" EFFECT. the Parisienne with regard to
For large hais. the winter wider skirt. Never has one seen such plainness of models, such models are all to be short-brimm- narrowness of skirt. such simplied in the back and in the front city of design, as one now sees and very wide-brimmed at the worn by Parisiennes in all those sides. The brims also tend to places of fashion where they are droop over each ear, thus forming now foregathering.
a becoming frame for the face.
Wide toques. are to be worn Three metres of material are amply sufficient to make the largely again this winter. and smartest of robes. Such models the same effect of framing the are eminently suited to the times, upper part of the wearer's face is in which prices have risen to so sought after. One great modiste alarming an extent. The price offers a coque of close feathers of one yard of silk or woollen that form themselves into large material is at present higher than flat rosettes reaching down well over the ears like ear-caps: formerly paid for the stuff of an entire costume! Sixty francs a another shows a small mushroom metre for plain serge or gabardine shape that is covered with long is quite an ordinary figure. No ostrich feathers, the ends of which wonder that the practical French- droop down well into the neck of woman will make a strong stand the wearer: another goes so far to retain the present fashions as to allow the feathers to be so which require the minimure long that their ends forin a sort of short boa encircling the entire amount of material.
.neck.
Any extravagancies are frankly confined to the new fashions for evening-dres. The bunchy hip effect is here allowed to turn into
In spite of the modistes effort last winter to reintroduce the high crown, the Parisienne vetoed a real crinaline, but the result is any new innovation and insisted
able.
MY NOTEBOOK.
ON KOWLOON CHILDREN.
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THREADED VELVET.
FASCINATING WORK FOR CLEVER FINGERS.
A set of underwear in the trousseau of an autumn bride was of crepe de chine, threaded in simple designs with bebe black ribbon velvet. This proved a charming mode of decoration.
BOWLS FOR WOMEN.
A FIGURE-IMPROVER FOR THE MIDDLE-AGED.
Though bowls is quite an ancient game for it was probably played even before Elizabethan times it is only within recent years that women have taken up the game. Fifteen years ago" in Manchester and Liverpool women began to play a good deal, and now in the north women players are quite numerous, but in the south of England until seven years ago bowls was played by. men only. Even now in many clubs membership is refused to a At a famous club in
woman.
PERSONALITY COIFFURES.
A lady who lives in one of the modern flats in Kowloon com- plains that there is nowhere for children to play unless they are allowed to run about the streets with whom, and where the Amal pleases. She is only one of many with real cause for grievance. The flats in Kowloon-there are many of them, and they are not and gives one of the smartest inexpensiveure all without gar-variations of the popular black dens and there is not even a and white effect. public garden reserved for the
European All kinds of motifs can be use of these little children. Consequently. they worked on outline by this quick Kent, with a membership of 200 learn smatterings of any tongue and easy method. together with
men. there is only one lady but their own. If the parents of a great variety of borders, the the young mothers in Hongkong principal labour for the needle player and she was admitted could see their grand-children woman is the buttonholing of simply because, her husband. in Kowloon and the lower levels, the tiny eyelet holes, but with being a member, she stood up for "women's rights" and insisted they would be horrified, and it practice these are soon made.
on joining. She plays a good certainly is time something was The lines of patterns should
be drawn on the material game, does not get in the way of done for them.
marked "with others playing, and so most of and the holes
the men do not resent her pre- cross lines in pencil. They
sence and are even willing to It is really a pity that the should then be cut by making a pd playground in Chatham slit with a sharp pair of scissors, play with her, but some of the members still regard her with Road cannot be improved and but great care should be taken to kept for European children only make them just the right size, disapproval. At other clubs in the south. however, women are At present it is used mostly as a neither too big nor too little. The
At seen playing regularly. resting place for coolies, and such raw edge should be sewn around being the case the use for which once, then buttonholed very Wimbledon it is quite usual for a man to bring his wife or other it was originally intended is nearly in silk. The velvet should never made of it. Of course, a be run in and pulled gently. so lady friend to take part in a similar use is mostly made of our that it lies exactly even with the game. Also there is now near Where London a club solely for ladies, beautiful Botanical Gardens. but surface of the material. then they are not placed in the two ends of velvet meet they the Kingston (Canbury Gardens) neighbourhood of hundreds of should be fixed with a stitch, but Ladies' Club, which is properly little European children.
lightly, in order that it may be organised and where matches are easy to remove when the gar-played on first-class turf kept by
the Council. ment is washed. "
There is, indeed. no reason not play
that her cherished expectations why women should
of the dear old capital had falleg bowls. On the contrary, many women, especially those over
The place is a to the ground.
with its nightmare," she said, tennis too strenuous or who for
crowds surging THE RETURN OF THE STRICTLY never-ending some health consideration per-
ORNAMENTAL.
down the main thoroughfares. seem to have the haps, cannot manage the swing
Novelties possessing no practic-The women necessary in golf, would derive much physical benefit from the al value are now and again to be clothes mania twice as badly as gentle exercise obtained by play seen in the shops, after years when I was here before, and
The fact that the during which there was no time the buses and tubes leave me. ing bowls, abdominal muscles are among to make, on the part of manufac-speechless. Way, even Big Ben those exercised is a wieghty argu-turers and no inclination to buy. is out of tune as he chimes the ment in favour of women taking on the part of the public. any- hours-but perhaps it is I who not strtly am out of tone with the times. thing that was
Anyway, I'm glad I haven't got up the game.
utilitarian."
to stop bere."
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Nearly all the houses on the
are not
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Peak have private gardens and i Its important to make patterns even if this were not the case the which it is easy to outline in Peak is reserved and the kiddies running.
may so that there there meer only children of their be as little as possible cross-thirty-five or forty, who find
of the velvet own nationality. Then again Peak ing Roaris are mostly impassable to wrong side. If needful, a few traffic, while it is the reverse in embroidery stitches may be adde i Kowloon. The wonder is there to emphasise certain of the finer
accidents. numerous
points. This method of decoration especially no that the new is used with effective results on Castle Peak Road is opened and blouses of heavy silk, or it looks the number of motorists has well as a bordering to a wide
At Home greatly increased.
collar. every town and suburb has it Park. Hongkong has its unused, inconveniently-placed Botanical Gardens while Kowloon Streets are full of children with no place for them to run about in safety.
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It must be nothing but ignor ance on the part of the authorities of the size of the European population of Kowloon that keeps it lagging behind in so many naryssaries of life. I do not want to bring forth the old cry of racial discrimination such as any re- servation scheme always does, but this is a British Colony and bas been developed by Britishers. Such being the case. it behoves us to look after the needs of the younger generation of our ora nationals.
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The souled playground. one would think, could easily be improved and then reserved for the children's use. Mothers could then instruct their Amahs where to take the children and then see they make a few visits to
were there.
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One wonders why someone does not commence a private school for young children in Kowloon. Such a school is really needed and. if started, would not lack support, I am sure. Many par- ents prefer more individual at- tention for their children, especial- ly whilst young, than is possible
so fascinating that not the sternest upon the low crown. This season critic could decry it. Always the it is to be lower than ever, and impression of the crinoline, is usually, when of velvet or satin, at a large school, however good ents of many of the young given by means of tulle bunched is very full and draped. But in the general tuition may be. Par- at the hips over the foundation, the winter, when she wears a and then allowed to float away high fur collar, and the straight, children who are at present run- in the daintiest manner imagin-high fur collar will be more thanning about the streets, receiving ever popular this coming season, no education whatever, would privately managed the Parisenne will wear little support a Trains are to be worn, but they except her favourite large white school. are not essential. As far as toque of fur, of velvet, of panne, sleeves are concerned. one can of satin, of duvetyn, or of narrow indulge in full length or none at ribbon or fancy passementerie. all, according to fancy. The same The toque has become one of the thing applies to the neck. The staple articles of her winter-time dress can be as high as the base attire. of the throat, of medium lowness,
Lanvin shows a charming type hackless, or almost non-existent of toque which will certainly be back and front.
popular, of white duvetyn made Vivid colourings, such as fame Russian fashion, with two narrow colour, jade, cerise, and brocades, pipings of black patent leather those under her charge those are the rule for young people, and fontlinging the
This type of school would not require a fully- certificated mistress. All that is needed would be for some lady with a love for children to come forward and establish such a school. teaching the children the rudiments of educa tion and, above all, imparting to
characteristic little points of good manners most have floating draperies of Russia bandeau, while in the which distinguish the properly
Zich we allowed to bang centre is placed a large bright trained child.
Though so attractive in black and white, of course, it is not necessary to keep to this severe contrast. Colours carefully chosen look just as well. motif would look very smart worked on a very warm shade of brown on a blouse of a much paler tint.
NEW MODE.
As regards skill. they are often able to compete with men.
A charming coiffure for the young and lucely face. The hair is simply dressed to shear the outline of the head, and confined with a ribbon bandeau. Softness over the forekeni and around the fuck is desirable in the girlish coiffure.
JOTTINGS.
BRILLIANT JERSEYS.- "I consider that women have
New silk jerseys showing a A circulara far more delicate delivery than
men," said Mr. G. T. Burrows, series of beautiful colour blend- District Bowling Association, and on the ends of the girdles are secretary of the Wimbledon and ings on the lapels, round the hems, who won the Wimbledon Club to be seen. The colourings of 25-guinea cup. put up for the some of the sports coats for first time this year, "Moreover, autumn and winter wear were they do not cut up the expensive also very pleasing. I one case reproduce the turf in any way so badly as many vieux rose and green were so middle-aged gentlemen of large mingled as to
colouring of the moors, and in proportions are inclined to do.".
another black and bright yellow THE STRATEGY OF THE GAME
smart mottled-effect. Though bowls is not a difficult gave a game to learn, it is something These and other new jerseys, more than as the uninitiated mostly in bright colours, which generally imagine, throwing the will continue to be fashionable, jack and then trying to place the are woods as near to it as possible Finesse in placement. jockeying. for position. firing, and blocking the vision of players following contribute to the strategy of the game. Then there is an art in controlling the bias of the woods. and when one gets into, an advanced stage of the game skill is sometimes required to kill the
The mole of the new autumn season demands severe plain- ness-tery difficult to uchiere, but well done in this smart model of brenen gobardine. The novel touch is the row of buttons dout each alerte from shoulder to flaring cuff The. full tunic is very effectively trimmed in broad black silk braid, with braid- faished
•bocke
a smart
NEW USE FOR OLD SWEATERS. An expensive French model waistcoat of knitted wool which gave an appearance of a sweater recently shown had
worn underneath the coat. Why not embroider the tops of our old jumpers or jerseys in buttonhole workings, cut them out in waist- coat shape, and wear underneath new costumes? In jerseys elbows wear out first, while the fronts are still good.
SACHET SHAPED BAGS. Several women are now carry- buttonless, and the backing handbags made in the quaint fashion, made in two pieces, a new style handkerchief sachet that tends to give greater fullness which lie flat when set down, and when carried. Such bags are on the hips. Made of silk and have a pretty cornered effect cashmere, brushed up to give a rough effect. they are both warm quite easy to make with two small squares of material. One, and becoming.
of black satin trimmed with THE EXILE'S RETURN.
variegated bead fringe, with a A lady who returned to London bead tassel dangling from the from abroad, having been away centre of the lower square looked
bias by the use of the fingers, for the last eight years, confided I very effective.
which pull the wood from under- neath. Observation and judgment to reckon correctly the pace of the woods and the pace of the green are among the qualities essential in a good player. Some women, when they get doan to bowl. hesitate and lose their balance, wondering possibly if they are assuming graceful attitudes.
A short skirt should be worn. one not too full, otherwise, on a windy day it may prevent proper delivery.
Bowl is not a game solely for "old fogies" or sedate, middle- aged folk. True, men and women in the early twenties naturally prefer a lively game of football or.tennis, but bowls often attracte people no older, say, than 2. Some good men players-Mr. Burrows being" an example-- started, the game when quite young boys Au excellent young lady player is Miss Nellie Gillespie,whose father is a famous. player, and her brother one of the four finest players in London. She herself is so expert that Mr. MC. Carruthers, who won the English championship some feath
has offered to play with her.
THE NEW SILHOUETTES.
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First, the Venus de Milo straig! Elizabeth wasp waist and third the Sp
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