THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, JANUARY
1924.
WOMEN'S INTERESTS
SMART JERSEY FROCKS.
FASHIONABLE NOVELTIES.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
CLEAR GLASSES. Moisten the tips of the fingers and then rub them over a cake of
Shawls of real lace, brocade,
thick
de Chine. crepa breavily embroidered with design similar to that found in old Italian silk tapestry, are to the fore.. A small-sized Spanish shawl is also on the market, one will that folded cornerwise, drape the head like a bandeau and act as a shoulder wrap as well. Spanish lace, heavily that is useful for many occasions.classes and then polish as usual. fringed, is another original shawl soap rub the lens of your eye
HOW TO DANCE THE WILDFLOWER WALTZ.
BY ARTHUR MURRAY, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE
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OF SOCIAL DANCING.
THE Wildflower waltz was not misnamed when one takes into consideration the" carefree manner and abandon which characterize this dance.
This new waltz is lively, yet
It is undoutedly one of the most conservative; it does not tire one out as did the old-fashioned waltz.
This will prevent the moisture fascinating dances we have had which gathers upon glasses when in several seasons. when one goes from a cold into a warm atmosphere.
A new set of collar and cuffs in fine silk muslin are embroider- in wool, or daintily bound with several rows of different coloured baby ribbon. The deep collar of Puritan shape is the most be coming. A crepe de Chine blouse,stockings add a tablespoonful of
cut like a sailor's top, also has rows of narrow ribbon as a trim ming. A waist-coat of hand- painted suede, or brocade such as Beau Brummell would have worn, a pretty novelty to be noticed.
The new bedrooms shoes ar most attractive, With leather scle and a slight heel, they are made of crepe de Chine, tinely pleated, with a border of fur that fit-comfortably round the ankle. Not only in black, but green, crimson, cherry, and cyclamen: these cosy shoes are made, and they make as delightful a present
the satin mule that has a deep border u ostrich feather
One of the charms of the jersey firess is "ternfinite aluplability, The frocks sketched illustrate the prat. "Our follows, the peasant lines-pentantal sleeves, full blanse nut shirred skirt. Another is the straightest of one-piece malets with trim tuilural cullur and culty, facross the toe-cap Still another uses pirats and a mewngram for trimming.
BEAUTY AT THE DANCE.
If you want to look your best at the dance don't dress in a hur
a girl ry especially if you are who bas been working all day in an office or a show-run. Live yourself ten minutes rest. if you can't spare more, before you start dressing: it will be ten minutes well invested.
KEEPING CRYSTAL WARE BRIGHT.
Even the plainest class wih shine if it is properly washed and dried. Glassware should be washed in cold water to whieb a little liquid ammonia has been added, well rinsed in cold water and dried with a soft cloth quite devoid of "lu," however and
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Bandeaux for evening wear have wide range. Silver leaves and a dark dower, mounted in the form a coronet," make s pretty headdress. The coronet is the most popular shape for evening bands this winter. Iris
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always formed of flowers. So are made ting quills, black tipped with gold or silver: others have a row of ostrich tips rising behind a band of sequin triraning. The chignon net composed of flower hers is sing. Then there - the comb of Prey style for a low hair dres- golden balls reminiscent of the Even if a glass bus been tised Second Empire worn also across for milk there is no uccasion to the back of the head above a low
Rub the hair
dressing A Soray of wash it in hot water. milky surface well with a little eaver, wide at the bottom and sal: moistened, with cold water. tapering off to a single leaf, is rest. Close your eyes and relax then rinse and polish the glass indainty for a back hair dressing. all your muscles, and, if you have the usual way.
When you get home in the evening change into a dressing "gown and have a light meal, then lie down for the ten minutes, or whatever time you can spare for
been using your eyes all day, and they feel tiged, wring a soft hand- -kerchief out in hot water. spinkle a few drops of eau de Cologne an it, and folding it like a banlage. Jay it across the closed eyes, This will refresh them and make them. bright and sparkling.
After your rest take a warm bath if you cant for this will freshen you up tremendously, but if that is or possible dip your- feet into bot water, to which good handful of common salt has been added. Dry them, then spinkle a few drops of eau de Cologne into the palm of the hand and rub it into them. You will then be able to dance till morn- ing, and your feet will feel as fresh as when you started.
To make your skin soft and-- white add a quarter pirt of milk to the water used for wedring - the face, neck and shoulders Make a paste with a little fine oatmeal and.milk and rub this into the skin, allowing it to be: come almost dry, then rub it off with the tips of the fingers." It will come off in tiny flakes, and will prevent the face from be- coming shiny right through the evening,
If you are a blonde, instead of white or pink powder, use the pale mauve shade of power called lilas": while a brunette will be wise to discard the shade she generally uses in favour of a powder tinted pale green.
Most girls, even if they do not "touch up in the ordinary way,
hot left to drain,
SIMPLE LINES.
Simple lines and fur trimninga employ a little artificial aid when are two rules for smart winter going to a dance. If you use Fricks, either of the coloured powders
Sketched here are new models of: mentioned take care that your winter frocks. They are styles lip stick suits the colouring adaptable both to silk and to wool chosen, and for touching up the fabrics and have slim straight lines eyes use a brown eyebrow pencils entirely becoming.
if you are fair, for this has a much softer effect than a black
leather and rub it well in. Your jone,
And, should you use a liquid skin will then took like white. powder for your neck, shoulders velvet, and the powder will not and arms, after applying it and rub off on your partner's cost allowing it to dry thoroughly, sleeve a tragedy which hap
piece of soft chambial pens tod offs
THAT PICOT RIBBON
EFFECT.
Rows 224 rows of dainty ribbon form the trimming of many e dainty garment at the moment. and yards and yards of ribbon ran away with heaps and heaps of pennies sore than many-of-a- can afferri.
Yet the girl with a short purse may have jest the same effect for a fourth of the money if a yard or two of suitable material is pur- chased and tacked into parallel lines the width of the ribbon she would have bought if her purse had been longer. The material can then be taken to a machine shop and be bemstitched quite cheaply.
By cutting through the hemsti- ching a picot edging is obtained which is quite strong and has the same effect as a picot ribbon.
THE FASHIONABLE EARRING.
The fashion of long earrings does not wane. Cat steel drops of the ancient .button type: that Some preparation simulates the "dark. blue opal: butterflies wings in a blue-green, mounted a silver; topaz, amethyst, lapis lazuli, and such stones, are all made into drop earrings. The latest type of earring is made of suede or leather, hand-painted with flower, insect, or some Egyptian motto. This novelty is inexpensive, but is very effective for ordinary occasions.
LIGHT STOCKINGS. When washing light coloured
borax to the water. This removes stains made by the shoes.
UPHOLSTERED GOODS.
Upholstered furniture should be dusted with a brush and wiped
with an old silk duster. The woodwork must be rubbed with a soft cloth.
GREASY CARI ET. To clean a greasy carpet mix whiting and corn meal and heat
MAN'S PART.
Step forward on the left foot for three beats of the music. While the weight is on the left foot, swing the right foot in from
of you
Take a long step back on the right foot. holding the weight on it for three counts. While the weight is on the right font, swing the left foot backward.
After mastering the first two paragraphs above complete the step by taking two forward waltz movements totalling six counts.
Repeat the entire step. Step forward on the left and swing the right forward. Then step back- ward on the right and swing the laft backward. Complete the step by taking two forward waltz movements.
LADY'S PART.
Arthur Murray and Aileen Meehan illustrating the first dep in the "wildflower_wältz."
Take a long step backward with
Repeat the entire step.
(Rock
Read the man's part carefully. Step backward with the right foot, holding the weight on that At the foot for three counts. same time swing the left foot backward.
Step forward with the left foot the right foot, rising up and down forward at left, rock backward and hold the weight on that foot on the right and holding the on right, then take two forward.
At the same time weight on that foot for three waltz movements of six counts)." for three beats.
LADY'S PART. swing the right, foot as far for counts. (The left foot is brought
Step backward ch the right foot ward as possible. Note that when up to the right but no weight is
and bold the weight on that foot you swing your foot forward, the placed on left).
(At the same feet are lifted slightly off the Note that by stepping forward for three counts.
floor,
Complete the movement by do ing two backward waltz move ments totalling six counts. Repeat the entire step.
MAN'S PART.
with the left foot and then step time draw the left foot up to the ping backward with the right. right without placing any weight rising up and down on each step. on the left foot).
Step forward on the left foot you do a rocking movement. The body sways forward, then back and hold the weight on that foot the mixture, then sift. it thickly
ward. Each step is given three for three count. (Draw the right up to the left without placing any Step forward on the left foot beats of masic.
weight on the right foot). over the surface and cover with
Kab iz hart and quick- and bid the weight on that foot Kasoline.
TO COMPLETE IT.
Take [WU backward waltz' As ly until the gasoline évaporates, for three beats of the music. then sweep very clean and wipe you take this step, let the body The step is completed by taking movements, beginning with right with a damp cloth. Of course.wing forward and rise up and two forward waltz movements be foot. The backward waltz move- there should be r fire in the down on your left foot. (The ginning with the left foot. The ment takes a total of six steps so house when this is being done. right foot is brought up to the forward waltz movements take that you finish with your weight
left but so weight is placed on six counts and you finish with the on the left foot.
weight on your right foot.
Repeat the entire movement. the right foot).
TO CLEAN SOILED · CROCHET WORK.
Soiled crochet work should never be sewn to the material it is to adorn until it is as white as the material itself.
Sailed crochet work. when GAIETY AND WORK. It is not advisable to boil the work, or it may shrizk in such a finished should be soaked in a way that it will be useless for the bowl of warm water, to which a article for which it was intended. tablespoonful of powdered borax Gaiety and work are parts of Once sewn to the material this has been added, and allowed to life that sommes seem hard to reconcile. The business girl finds remain all night. does not happen to any.degree.
The following day it should be it difficult to catch the usual thoroughly rinsed,then well wash-morning conveyance to the City ed in hot soap and water in the when she has danced most of the night away. Older women some- usual way.
A NOTABLE ENGLISH BEAUTY.
Lady Enid Vans is rated as one of the most beautiful wor England. A leader of the younger social net, she is the wife Vane, her to the Earl of Barnard, and daughter of Westmore
The best soap or soap powder times declare that they cannot - should always" be used, and two attend to the day's duties proper- or three clear rinsings be given,ly if they have been up after followed by a rinsing of blue midnight.
water.
The girl who returns from a
The work should be then pulled dance in the small hours should, into shape and placed through i resist the temptation to stay in the mangle and dried, pinned bed later than uanal, eat a very here and there to a clean cloth. simple though nourishing break- fast, and make certain of inhal- placed on a flat surface. "
ing a few draughts of real fresh" fair. If she can walk part of the way to the office, so much the
BUSINESS MANNERS. better.
-Fresh air is a wonderful restorer of vitality and beauty. We ought Good manners are not only not to feel ill effects from ac- casional late nights, and as, ä part of life, they are part of
matter of fact we rarely do, when business success. Not only will! those with whom you have te we have enjoyed ourselves. Bore- deal be grateful to you for your dom breeds profound wearuess! courtesy, you will feel better for SELLST
it yourself.
Do not, of course. waste time in elaborate formalities. You can be crisp as well as cordial; brief as well as considerate. And be calm. Fussing annoys everybody and uses up your own nervous energy. It is a counsel of perfec tion, yet aim at keeping a quiet mind. Even if the telephone has just rung for the seventh time in [five minutes!
IN PRAISE OF- LAUGHTER.
Laughter is the refreshment
Everytime
laughs it adds something to his fragment of life.
No man who has once -heartily and wholly laugh-
irreclaimably bádogg
When our frienda laugh. at us we should accept ther COTTO
If you are in a position ofed can be altogether and authority be careful to give to the people under you the neces sary powers over their own. departments. Nothing with go smoothly without due subordina tion. And if you ever have to reprove a subordinate, never tell har all her faults at otice. Thần in for, say hundin, te
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