THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
How Fine to See a Man
Whose Hat Becomes Him
Whether it be a look of greeting between friends or the casual glance of strangers, a man's hat is always noticeable.
Why then should any man be indifferent to the appearance of his headwear-so Intimately affecting his features?
HENRY HEATH AND SCOTTS Hats are here in a liberal assortment of shapes and colours. This is a tip to the man who knows quality and our successful fitting reputation-that now is the time and here is the place for Hat Satisfaction.
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OUR WELL-DRESSED
NATION:
VISITORS IMPRESSED BY CHANGE OF STYLE.
CAUSED BY CINEMA?
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1927.
THE INTERESTS OF OLD AGE.
AN AGGRAVATING RETICENCE.
when the Flood subsided and end the kind of thing which we fancy youthfulness. Their old age od in the year of his own birth) that very old people may help us green because they have taken li to have been mature at the time not so much, to know as to feel.. as it came and lived in every no of the Mutiny and middle-aged when voting by ballot came in-
"Disinclined To Talk.
moment, not peevishly turnin their backs upon the present an this is to be not only venerable and monumental but a treasure-house of thing about which most very old knew it, but lacking about the Unfortunately that is the kind condemning the future before the of interesting information. And people are obstinately disinclined and ahead of them with coura people (eighty-five, say, is old sers and morals of their descen ways are all very well for broo the laro of talking with very old to talk. Convinced that the inan and interest. Old days and o enough for the spell to work) is dants aro abominable, they may being over when one is alone and the hope that they will open out roused now and then to their memories and of the politics snort of indignant reminiscence. people are present, the old war a fine little drowsy When younger books, but of the shyer matters of Freud at luncheon, or grandson planes, and how soon the tran and the history that are in the When a great-niece discusses to hear about television and al which even the modern domestic lights a cigarette in the drawing- mission of pictures by wireles school of historians cannot give room, we may hear, "In my time will be in common use, and wh the very truth. What it was like no "woman read Vanity Fair is the latest element to be di to go by coach or by chaise; what until she it was like to wear a crinoline; to "When I was your age, I could ent with them if they show th Was married," or, covered. We must not be impat bowl in a top-hat, before even the only smoke in the kitchen, after their minds are still receptive an low-crowned or "bowler hat was they had all gone to bed. But decline to be treated as too old t invented; to dine at 5 o'clock; to about what life was like in those learn, anuif candles and wind up th days they will too oll-lamp; to see Charles Kean or silence. It may be that they are sympathy and confidence, to ans often keep A better way is to win thei Macready; to ride daily to bust- afraid of being laughed at, or wer their questions as best ma ness along London roads that hat rather (for they are not wont to be, and gently to convince the only lately been changed to maca- show any form of cowardice) that that some younger people are. damite from adamite: to read their memories are too sacred and eager to know about the past a The woman's clothes wero de- To have been born in the region Dickens hot from the press, and t too precious for the youthful and some old people are to know abou picted also as ill-fitting, and she of King George IV.; to have known accompany, with much graceful therefore profane and vulgar. the present, and the future... Th inevitably had protruding teeth, at first hand that Early Victorian play of wrist and arm, on a tall,
More often the cause of their reward may be something wort huge, ungainly gloves, and gigan-period which every youngster of silk-fronted piano, the flute of a reticence is the
hearing, for old people who hav Lie feet encased in shapeless to-day imagines as a benighted whiskered and chokered gentle which has enabled them to grow no interest in the present, hav
very quality man hopefully suspected by and brutal barbarism that began Mamma of Intentions that is old; and that is their indefensibial rarely any interest in the past-
A woman has recently died in Spain at the age of 110: Now that a German man of science has If you ask any of the thousand created a synthetic vitamin, it will and one foreigners arriving daily in London what strikes them mostre long become the duty of every nhout the Englishwoman and one to live to the age of Methus Englishman of 1927 (says a Daily lab; but already centenarians News correspondent), you will seem to be so many that soon no probably be told, "The neat way newspaper will trouble to mention they dress."
them and no telegrams of con- Twenty years ago the average gratulation will be sent to them. Englishwoman or Englishman, was Eew ordinary people wish to live a thing of ridicule in the eyes of to the age of one hundred; but many foreigners. The English nearly every one feels that it man was depicted in cartoons as would be very interesting to talk clad in ill-fitting tweeda, his figure with one who is a hundred not either too thin or too fat his out and, like the Spanish woman leadgear a cap, a big pipe in his recently deceased, is mentally and mouth, and a walking-stick in his physically normal to the last... hand.
thick-soled shoes. But now!
Your English girls sure have the French girls beat to a frazzle, a much-toured American remarkedl to n. Daily News representative yesterday. Their shoes and stock- ings are neater; they walk more naturally; their hands are neater and better kept, and they wear tailor-mades as though they were poured into them.
Don't tell me that an English girl does not know how to put on her hat to the best advantage.; You're only to walk about the City with your eyes open-that is, j if your wife, after the first five minutes, does not put on the blinkers!
The Explanation.
Your men are all-what do you call them-lords, a French womar visitor observed. For the sport, they all wear the plus-four. For tennis they all, wear the flannel, and in the City they all wen beautifully tailored clothes. And their shoes! You never see shoes that exhibit the wear. They shine beautifully.
One explanation offered is the greater simplicity in both men's and women's dress, enabling the ready-made garment to be a thing of beauty, a good fit, and at the same time comparatively cheapl because of the saving by mass pro duction.
Now that woman is more or less tied down to a uniform; she ex- presses her individuality by a dif- ferent tilt to her hat or some trifte of taste, whereas in "the bad old days" she relied on a bunch of lace or something that soon look- cd. tawdry.
It is suggested that the vogue of the cinemas and the illustrated pages in the newspapers have placed higher standards of taste in dress within the reach of every class.
✓
View of America. How does Miss America of 1927 compare with the English "flap- per."*
According to Bone of the 30 girls from Harrod's staff who returned last night after a 10,000 mile American tour she has
Nicer legs and feet.
A better figure-very often. Shorter skirts.
Mora frocks to wear and better|
fitting ones.
As much confidence and
45-
Murance at 14 as our girls have ati
20.
On the other hand-
All American girls "make up" their faces, and lipsticks flourish even among children of 18."
While-
American men dress too dis- gracefully for words.
They are very chic little girls and smarter in detail than ours, said Miss D. Baker, one of the party, to a Press representative. But American' men are terribly dressed. Their tailoring is dis gusting. The only thing to be said for it is that it is comfortable and clean. I wanted to put pina in the men all the way 'down. There was no fit about thèm at
all.
We went to a dance at a coun try club, and to our horror the men took off their coats and danced in their shirt-sleeves. We were 'so startled that we nearly walked out. Yes, our men, at any Fate, beat the Americans. hollow.
George E. Wood, aged 16, was placed on probation at West Ham recently for assaulting his mo ther, a widow, of Fife-road, Can- ning Town, E. The mother said the boy had a very bad temper. One morning he did not get up till 10.30. He then wanted ham and eggs for breakfast. She ob- |jected, and he hit her three times on the back with the handle of a broom, which he broke. Wood, it was stated, had thrown up a good situation in the City. The Ind who had been remanded now said that he had written to her ask! ing for forgiveness and she had for- given him,
The Times.
HONG KONG WOMEN'S GUILD
AND
MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE.
Fun
un of the Fair.
TO BE HELD AT
LEE GARDENS
OCTOBER Ist, 1927
from 3.30 p.m. to 12.00 mid-night.
Do you want Music?
There will be three Military Bands, Massed Pipers,
1812 played by the Massed Bands. Fireworks at II.00 p.m.
Do you want to Dance?
There will be dancing
Whitey Smith and his ọ
Majestic Music Masters.
from 8.00 p.m. to 12.00 mid-night.
Do you want Food?
There will be Open-air Tea Gardens, Chinese Chow, and the Kandy Kids Stall.
Do you want Fun?
THEN COME TO THE FAIR.