NESTLE'S CHOCOLATES
XMAS GIFTS
ROLLS and PACKETS
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A charming little, roalge- gown design sketched at un exclusive selon
DANCING.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1926.
IS IT REALLY HEALTHY?
The answer to this question de pends entirely on the dancer. We hear so much about the various ilis and disabilities suffered by the community from dancing in general that there: are evidently pitfalls for most of us in this com- paratively innocuous pastime..
The soundest rule for everybody, is to dance in moderation. Takeri in moderate doses, a good dance after the day's work is an admir-. able tonic The evils of dancing are nearly all traceable to the abuses of early morning parties, excessive smoking, and a resort to cocktails because they are fashion- able rather than because they are enjoyed. Dancing for the average person can be as healthy as ten- nis or any other out-door pastime it a few simple prohibitions are borne in mind. It may sound ridi- culous to suggest to people that they should avoid overcrowded, ballrooms, but if they want a healthy dance they will certainly have to do 80.
Grace and Pleasure.
Another point, to bear in mind' is your style of dancing. The Charleston has not helped matters In this direction. It has made dancing ugly, and agliness, giving as it does very little pleasure, adds nothing of value to one's individual. well-being. Look after your danc- ing style, acquire grace and a fleet- BROCADES & SCARVES.Jing movement in the dances you do, and you cannot but derive in- [spiration and physical improve-
ment from the process.
Don't dance for the sake of dane- While the Spanish shawl, em-ing, either in summer or winter, broidered in colour, is still with us, or you will speedily be reduced to the brocades and velvets are much boredom. If you dance whenever, you feel the need of it you can'
newer.
ORNATE JEWELLERY.
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For a delicate type of frock noth- never go wrong, in your calcula- ing is more exquisite, than the tions.
scarf of late or painted chiffon,
which is worn to give the effect of Perhaps it is true that we take panels or draperies rather than a our dancing too self-consciously simple scarf.
and wonder whether we ought to
Jewellery WAS never
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gorgeous as now, and jewelled enjoy ourselves while the enjoy bracelets grow
wider and inent is slipping away. But the more dazzling. Corsage and warm and cordial atmosphere, the shoulder pins show the most attractive lighting, the exhilarat exquisite workmanship, as do the bar pins and the very large brooches ing music of an average ballroom of brilliants used to secure u drup-fare undoubtedly of enormous re- ery or jabot.
with her effects.
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WOMAN'S
WORLD
Two, accessories that no smart debutante or matron could possibly do without are a coloured fun and a golden shawl.
OVER THE TEA
CUPS.
(SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH BY "JOAN.") /
London, November, 18. Stephanie's first contribution to our page is the dainty little nightic agree combines grace and utility. herewith, which I am sure you will
It is not one of those affairs which one leaves about negligently for the
cream,
IS THAT SO?
تومی
Writing of Sir Frank Benson last greatest recruits is now touring week reminded me that one of his Canada-Mr. Matheson Lang. Canada was Mr. Lang's birthplace,
I see!" said Mr. Lang, succinctly, and Mra. Lang added quickly: "I re- member thinking at the time that energetic!" you needn't have been quite so!
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THE STREET OF ADVENTURE,
CAILLER and KOHLER'S
XMAS GIFTS
BONBONS
PARIS TELLS US—
Moire and georgette crepe in ex- actly the same shade are combined in the newest dance frocks.
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Velvet and metal cloth are used to make most exotic looking flowers that give a note of interest to eve ning gowns of coloured velvet, or chifon.
Slips of changeable satin, or of Irridescent fabrics are used under chiffon gowns.
Yellow and green are being pro- moted as the most popular colours for winter resort costumes.
Attractive combinations of silk and lace to be worn under evening gowns are made without backs, so that they may do service under the most low cut evening gown.
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"Fur coats for evening, of ermine or sable, are often lined with very soft and pliable velvet instead of gilk.
Leather coats in delightful shades of blue, red or green, are trimmed with narrow bands of gold or silver leather.
Chiffon evening frocks are a bit more sophisticated than they were last season, and often are given an unusual effect by the use of ostrich feathers shaded from light to dark In the colour of the frock.
A dainty little garment to be fashioned of voile and lace na described by Joan.
THIS WEEK'S RECIPE.
CHOCOLATE DELYSIA.
A delicious chocolate sweet can be made by taking a quarter of a pound of any good make of choco- late, grating it, und putting it into a basin. Then stand the basin over a saucepan of boiling water for thirty minutes, stirring occa- sionally. Allow it to cool slightly, and then add separately the yolks. of four eggs, beating thoroughly. Whisk the whites of eggs to a very stiff froth and fold them into the mixture ("fold" means add very slowly, without any "attempt to beat). Then pour the mixture into a glass dish and "Reversible coats this season are stand it aside for eight hours. fur on one side and tweed or kasha When ready to serve, cover with on the other.
This season's frack often has two coats, ono a sleeveless altair of vel- vet or kasha, and an outside one of fur or heavy wool material.
Chiffon dance frocks are popular- ly embroidered with rhinestones or encrusted with sequins.
Many, of the new scarfs are of wool and they are embroidered In wools in peasant designs.
cream, and keep it very cold until sent to the table.
No innovation of this season has met with greater response than the bloused back. In evening gowns it is particularly featured..
Black broadcloth, conta trimmed with light furs such as summer er- Flowers of fur are new this sea-mine, natural lynx and light colour- son and will probably be very poed foxes are the very smartest pular on fur coats. They are made wraps you can effect.. of short haired polts such as un- born calf and pony skin.
It is a wise woman who keeps her cuporative value to normal human. cdification of observers....and and before he left London, he told wears something else at night! me that he was looking forward costumes simple and places herity, and it is a sound instinct which Stephanie says that such a gar with much interest to playing there. If there is anyone who wants to faith in well selected accessories, makes for the dance floor without, ment ntade in white,
or In the course of his career, he has read what the Kaiser William II because she can give the impression paying too much attention
coloured voile, and inset with played in nearly all the Dominions, thinks about himself and his neti- of a very extensive wardrobe, on a
torchon lace, will wear and wash and he considers these tours bonch-vities and doubtless there are glight foundation if she is careful ulterior matters of health and and wear again, looking delightful cial to his companies, inasmuch as thousands of people suficiently In-
until it falls to bits. Of course, they prevent the players and plays terested to do so there is "My Scallops are a very popular form crepe de chine and finer lace can he from becoming stale. Colonial an Early Life," a book just published of adornment, particularly for pol employed in the making; but the diences, Mr. Lang thinks, are criti- by Methuena. In spite of all we lars, vestess, cuffs and wide berthas, voile is particularly suitablé for the cal but appreciative of the know about him, it is thrilling design. The pin-tucks, too, are a right thing when they get it, and and intriguing try and very delightful form of ornamenta- well "worth while."
work out the why and wherefore of tion.
him. Notwithstanding which, it is my personal opinion that the gentleman rightly should be classi fed among those who assert that "the owl was a baker's daughter."
A SOCIETY' BEAUTY,
Lady Regina Lisburne, wife of the Earl of Lisburne, to acknowledged as one of the most beautiful women in London acciety. She fs the daughter of Don Julio de
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He has a charming wife-known Theri Margarita's contribution is to playgoers as Miss Hutin Britton a little knife-pleated crepe de chine who is accompanying him on his frock, to be worn with a tour, but doing very little acting contee. of contrasting colour. this time. They found; on previ Those of you who live in ous occassions, that the Colonials
For admirers of "General John climates of a variable nature were so hospitable, and the social Regan," "Spanish Gold" and the know what a boon, the smart little demands upon, them so severe, that other books of George A. Birming house-coat can be.. Last year it Mrs. Lang is taking on that side of hom, there is a new one entitled became a recognised article of even the trip and practically nothing else. "The Smuggler's Cave." I always ing and afternoon wear," supplant- What a lifel By the way, when I think that G. A. B. is one of those ing the doubtful "woolly" which saw them together, they told me writers who can be depended upon, was guaranteed to spoil any wo- what. I think is a charming story. not to go below a certain standard man's appearance, to any nothing They met in the Benson company, and to interest even when he does of the fact that one immediately and Sir Frank, having considera- not convince. "Ian Hay" is another caught a cold upon leaving it off. tion for a very young actress con-writer who never entirely lets one This season it has become an In- fronted with the necessity for re-down, and in his new book "Half a tegral part of the scheme of things hearsing a very "tough" love scene, Sovereign," you will find his usual sartorial, in that no "little" dress, said to Matheson Lang: "Take herlight humour and touch. Towards. will be complete without it, and as over there somewhere, and work the end, he has a tilt at the occult, it is made of a light fabric, it will the scene out by yourselves first but this needn't deter, anyone, bo- slip under a wrap coat without suf- before you rehearse with, the com- cause it's nothing particularly seri-" fering any ill effects."
pany." "We worked it out, as you cus one way or the other.
BEING PHOTOGRAPHED.
nose itches-yet we dare not scratch our hand goes to sleep on the arm of the chale The camera holds us ginzed like the Medusa's head. Then the shutter clicks, we let out our breath, and are ourselves again,
We can't get away from the hu- mano cantera. Its little shutter is recording Impressione of us, snap- shotting our mobility; and as we note approval or critism so we are, prompt to exaggerate or to modify. Unless, indeed we react contrari wise and take a spiteful pleasure
our company...
UNNATURAL POSES.
"Just be perfectly natural, please," he says, and immediately wo foul leds natural than ever in our lives, before, writes V. Sack- ourselves. There is always thisIn going against the influence, of ville West In the Evening Stan- business of posturing. dard.
Fow of us, I suspect, show pre
If, that is to say, we are ever
Even so the posturing rembinat catches ua oither way. Thero is no cacapo.
The matter” might rest thoro, with little hurt to anybody. There
A few moments later, after acisely the same side of ourselves franzied effort on our part to re-to two different people. It is capture through desultory chatter their fault, no doubt, for calling the magic of self-forgetfulness, out a different set of virtues, fol the horrid man trips us again, lies, opinions, tastea, or errors in, after all, no reason why we "Just hold that expression, plonso," us. We know more or leas what should let others see us as we are he says, and the smile stiffens on they expect of us, and do our best if we don't choose to. We put on our lips, and the smile stron to give it thom, perpetually posing clothes for disguise and decency,
Wat continue to grin in frozen before the sensitive lens of their co why shouldn't we also put on a
Matching belts and hat bands, particularly in high colours such as Valencia blue, or crimson are very much liked with plain coloured kasha or jersey sport dresses.
CAPTIVATES SOCIETY.
This debutante beauty is captivating Washington society this scaron, She is Mise Lillian Tuckerman, daughte