REJUVENATION.
Scientists' tell us that man abed never grow old, that it is his doll- berate neglect to conserve his functional balanco that limits hia days to the Scriptural throa score years and ten. ÷
-
TO-DAY'S FILMS.
LON CHANEY'S WEIRD NEW
PICTURE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1928,
WOMAN'S WORLD
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
Clothes Care.”“
Man the Martyr.
Modern Dress.
Lon Chaney has perhaps one of There is no longer need to seek the strangest roles of his enrer the fountain of youth in out-of-film which comes to the Queen's in "The Unknown," the mystory the-way places. The chart to its Theatre to-day until Saturday. discovery is in the hands of all.The story deals with a sinister That chart points. clearly to the armiess side-show freak, who, maintonance of the human system from his hiding place in a circus, in normal functional balance, by is the guiding brain of an under- the judicious employment of me-world gang of criminals.. dia that rainforce natural. func-
During the film Lon Chaney dis- tion and thereby help to ward off illness. In simple language, the plays uncanny skill with his feet, key to the retention of youthful using them to eat, drink, smoke
There is a logend that women Like everything else in this life, do not feel pain as much as men, zest for life, with all its undimi-shave and throw knives! Other clothes are the better for an occa- but certainly they know better nished interest and enthusiasm, is members of the cast. Include Jonasional rest, and garments that are their husbands and bronces the judicious use of a tonic de- Crawford, as the circus girl whom worn alternately with others retain how to deal with it. signed to keep personal fitness at a Kerry as the strong man who also longer than those which are worn the freak comes to love; Norman their smartness and shape far claims her hand; and Nick de more or less continuously.. Dr. Williams' Pink Pilla for Ruíz as Zanzi, a strange dwarfish Pale People will affect this for figure who knows the freak's you. They are a tonic with none amazing secret. "The Unknown" of the depressing after effects com is a weird romance, with a thrill- mon to so many remedies. Based ing climax. It is a picture that upon the prescription of an ex-will be remembered. perienced medical practitioner, they have restored thousands to An added attraction at the the enjoyment of perfect health, Queen's Theatre during the run which means the renewal of that of "The Unknown" is the return intense interest in life that keeps engagement of Mia, Chee Toy, the everyone young.
charming Chinese singer, who To be had of all chemists, or will render popular new song post free, at $1.50 per bottle, 6 numbers from her repertoire. Miss bottles for $8.00, from The Dr. Chce Toy will appear at all four Williams Medicine Co., 60, Kiang-shows and her return will give
general pleasure. se Road, Shanghai.
BETTER FOR AN OCCASIONAL [BY LADY KITTY VINGENT. THE PROBLEM OF SHOULDER-
REST.
maximum.
"The Runaway,"
The new picture at the Star HEAR MUSIC PLAYED BY THE Theatre today, "The Runaway,
is an exciting story of the Ken- tucky mountains, with a little
FOREMOST ARTISTS IN
YOUR OWN HOME ON THE
MORRISON
ELECTRIC EXPRESSION
PIANO DE LUXE
From the snappiest
Fox Trot to the most
intricate Classic,
all
4
are faithfull
reproduced by this
marvellous expres-
sion piano..
Demonstrated
at
TSANG FOOK PIANO CO.
́8, Des Vœux Road Central
(Entrance Ice Houso Stroot.)
Telephone C. 4648.
MRS. MOTONO
HAND & ELECTRIC MASSAGE
•
stockinette. Wear a jumper sult This is specially true. of for days on end and it will sag and bulge. But roll it lengthways, put 'It' in a drawer for a few days in between times, and it will tend to recover its shape. Unfortunately this rest cure is not efficacious in the case of the more open-knitted woollens, which, when they drop, are shapeless for over..
Dust is the great enemy of cloth and felt. Do not rely alone upon your clothes brush, but wield a small cane upon the clothes at Ire- quent intervals, and keep a pleco of fine sandpaper at hand to rub off small stains from felt hats as they appear.
*
*
Be sure cupboards and wardrobes New York movie-actress hiding are absolutely free from damp. from justice and causing a tremen | Silk inevitably rets in too moist an dous conflict between two power-atmosphere, and both cotton and ful clans. The mysterious shoot-linen "become mildewed. ing of a wealthy young Now Yorker in a Tennessee elty, the girl's fight from the scene of the tragedy, her plea to a young mountaineer to shelter her and the drama. that reaults when the "dead" man appears in the moun- Lain settlement seeking vengeance, Tend suspense, to the stury. Clara Boy is the girl, Warner Baxter the mountaineer, and William Powell the New Yorker. Set in the heart of the Kentucky moun- tains the picture is notable for its beautiful background. "The Runaway" will be screened at the Star Theatre until Saturday,
"Orphans of the Storm."! An exceptionally large cast) headed by Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Joseph Skildraut, Sheldon Lewis, Creighton Hale and Monte Blue is only one feature of "Orphans of the Storm," which is to be shown at the World Theatre to-day and to-morrow. Dealing as it does with the French revolu- tion, the picture is lavish in its settings of that period, while D. W. Grimths, the eminent director, has spared no trouble or expense in reproducing the atmosphere of the time with the utmost realism. "Orphans of the Storm" Is a plc- turé that can be seen again, and again, no perfect is it in every detail.
GOOD YEAR,
BRITAIN'S REVENUE OVER EXPENDITURE,
London, Mar. 28.
The financial year which ends next Saturday will almost certain- ly close with a surplus of revenue, over expenditure, for the first time for three years.
The Treasury returns for the last week, with a revenue of £31,- 000,000, showed # surplus of
nearly £9,000,000.
The total revenue for the year now exceeds 2818,000,000 while the
No. 31B, Top Floor, Wyndham St expenditure to date is: £600,000
Hongkong.
MRS. SEKAI
MASSAGE Wyndhamn Street, 1st floor
Hongkong.
less than that sum.
At the corresponding date of last year, the expenditure was higher and the revenue lower, and there was a deficiency of over £37,000,000.
The floating. debt was reduced last week by over £9,000,000.--- British Wirelcas...
TAKE CARE OF YOUR HAIR
BY USING
CRINO-VIM HAIR TONIC.
Place worn clothes on a hanger immediately after removal, but leave them hanging in the room and do not put them away in the ward- robe. Dresses that have been worn. all day, and perhaps under a cont, are creased and affected by the warmth of the body. If they aro given an hour or two in the air) they freshen up and more or less iron out their own creases. Othor- wise those creases develop into per manent lines.
Smart Pyjamas.
Here are pictured smart' pyjamas in Cheney silk. In
the pattern are gaudy wind milla, electric signs and even sight-seeing buscs.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
I'M GOOD ANY MAD „AT TAG FOR COMIN' OVER
TO OUR AQUSE ANI SAYIN
IT'S DIRTIER THAN THER
· HOUSE? I'M GONNA.
STAY MAD AT AIM 700?!
برسی
A man who is suffering from some slight acho or pain is a
Blue and Beige.
An envelope bag of navy blue calf, combined with superimposed strips of beige,
Is very smart.
pathetic object and enough to up set a whole household. If he stays: ut homo and gives himself a free day from the oflice. It is ten to one that he will not go to bed. Oh, no! He sits huddled over the fire, shiver- ing pathetically and resisting all efforts to better his condition..
"Go to bed, dear," says his wife, endeavouring to keep her voleo kind and to hide her irritation. "'I bring you up. some nice hot soup and if you keep warm you'll be all right by to-morio§./....:
"Thank you, my dear," says the martyr. "I don't want to be a trouble to anybody. I can manage here very well. No, don't bother about food, I don't want to ent anything," Then he passes a hand neross his aching brow and looks pathetic,
The whole household feel that it
is callous to enjoy themselves or to make a noise, so they tip-too about in a state of suppressed discomfort, Towards evening the sufferer rises } from his chair und asks feebly for a thermometur. Ho resista all efforts to take it out of his mouth; till at least five minutes have pass- de, and when he finds that it re- gisters 99 degrees ho gives himself: up for lost.
He 'directs that the doctor shall be summoned and he is distinctly aggrieved when someone suggests that it is hardly worth while send- ing for him when a day in bed would work an instant cure. After the doctor has been and prescribed some treatment he feels better and Insists upon getting up and having a bath, so that the next day. he really has a temperature and pro- | bably is ill for a week,
"I can't make up my mind to give way," he says proudly to his friends when next lie meets them. "Mary wouldn't believe how bad I was. I fancy I gave her a bit of a shock. But I hate being nuisance and I carried on a bit too long."
Wonderful creatures, men?
AOA, ALEK! YOU
KNOW WHAT I
WANT FOR
CARISTMAS? дом?
1
STRAPS.
Perhaps the most difficult feature
logion,
of a dress to keep in order is the shoulder-strap. The worst offen- dera are thaso who wear heir shoulder straps too long 2 time. They aro for its not always realized how the shoulder-strap has not only to cope with the ordinary features of dirt but it is also rub- bing all the time against dresses and sleeves which are not con- tinually washed and cleaned. The next worst offender is the: owner of miscellaneous shoulder-straps, some of ribbons, some of tape, all of different widths and different shades of white.
OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
17
te Acroft.
2 Press forward.
5 Floating vegetation on the Nile, 9 Earth
hemisphere.
Even when these are gathered up together with a clasp on the shoulder they have an untidy, 10 Constellation of the Southern dragged look. Finally, oven the cicancat of shoulder-straps are very 11 Lay particular stress upon. diflcult, if not impossible, to main-12 Public thoroughfares. tain at their first whiteness. Tho 14 Tales,
17 Perfume from fowers. 18 Performed.
only remedy is to scrap them be- fore they take on the dingy hue of continual and difficult washing,
If the wearer of shoulder-straps 24 Carrier.
21 Sweet smelling Lower. 22 Gallinaceous birds.
is extravagant about nothing else 25 Be cautious," she should attend to this con- 20 Male child. spicuous and revealing feature of 27 Consumed. modern dress. Some women at 28 Fillet of silk. tempt to get round the difficulty by 30 Commands. wearing straps of beads. These 12 Fades. manage, nevertheless, very soon to 85 Entrance. become dingy. Others boldly adopt 09: Short tailed crustancoana. colours. Peacock blue shoulder 30 Corrosive influence. atraps made rather. narrow
41 Bulter-trees. are 43. Part of a church. sometimes worn with white or pale 44 Small dried flatics. under-garments, while the pink-45 Longer delayed. belge tendency in underclothes also 46 Weird. finds an echo in the shoulder-strap. 47 Colours. Other people like black, at least for 48 Doitics. some of their straps. Anything is better than the dingy pinke, whites, and yellows which are the direct. result of wearing straps too often and too long.
Python Skin.
Hat, scarf, dress, bag and boots are all of the new python skin.
Proof!!
DON'T TALK TO ME!! I'M ANAD
AT YOU!!
1 Depository.
Down
2 Genius of parasitic fungi.
3 Malo shoop.
4 The science of duty.
5 A relative...
6 Sleepy.
7 Dismal.
8- Fabricates.
Have That Hat Cleaned and Re-Blocked!
We are expertsin
Renovation.
Dry Cleaning of Every
Kind.
¡12 Play boisterously.
18 Ascribe,
15. Rose-like,
16 Wither.
18
Fertaining to Aaron.
19 Drag.
20 Those who owe money,
22 Sow again.
23 Prophets.
28 Tattered garments.
29 Exclamation expressing triump
81. Satisfy.
as Moves round.
34.Flowing back.
30. Huddled together.
37 Made comfortablo.
39 Asconds.
40. Killed,
42 ́Active.
43 Old.
Yesterday's Puzzles -
CALM
JUBE GABOO
ANGER PECAN
ARIES
ORSL ROGALLO
BOLAT Y A
R
M
BADZE
MONDEA
IN D
BATED
V
CRGOTED VILLA NOWC (EAN
DOTE RELOS ACRY
THE INTERNATIONAL DRY-CLEANING & DYEING CO.
19, Wyndham Street, Hongkong.
36, Nathan Road,
Howloon,
HAVE YOU A JOB
FOR A MAN OR A WOMAN ?
If so, please notify the Hon. Secretary, Hongkong Benevolent Society (Est. 1889), at the City Hall, between 11 a.m. and 12 noon on any Monday or Thursday.
Or to No, 514 the Peak at any time,
MAD AT ME? WHY ALEK, I'M NOT MAD
"AT YOU YOU'RE
JUST FOOLING=L - DON'T BELIEVE
By Blouser
IF YOU DON'T BLIEVE ME YOU CAN LOOK
AT MY FACE
AN SEE!!
THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY
14, Queen's Road, 0,
Tel, 0, 1877.
Page 5Page 6