THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1928.
Stop
That Itch
Wush Laval on the burning, fah- ing torment of skin int Aral props auotas and cool-the itch- in kojo
*To have the skin refreshed-to have the sores, crusts, eruptions, tha blemiskar, pouplog, roughness, dii- appear to invo, once more, a smooth clear healthy surface—this is the work at invol
Laval in the truo ngant, for skin and nonip disenaan,, It vanishes into. tha' tiesins--it mwaeteng the skin,` Jeaving no stains, no unpleasant odors.
Your own physician will prescribo Laval for it hus baan positively ens dersed by ten thousand ductors. It bag-heated enaeant skin diseano pro- nounced ficurable, and it will renal your case,
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Washington, May 8.
The authorities ära ngreed that there is unemployment in the United States,, but disagree as to Its extent. Whether this is 8,000,- 000 (unquestionably a wild ex- aggeration) or 4,000,000, or fewer than two millions is of less conne- quence than the cause that has produced it, and that cause, if it:
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FOR OUR LADY READERS.
Coloured Baths.
be the real one, is decidedly in- RIGHT. FITMENTS FOR NEW teresting.
Since the Armistice, the object of every American - manufacturer
ROOM.
Perfection in anything from the modern point of view means not only that it is the most attractive of its kind, but also the most con venient.
has been to "speed up." His con- stant aim has been to turn out more goods at a lower price; to do this he has improved his pro- ceases and substituted, wherover So the "perfect" modern bath- possible, the machine for the man. room is not only made charming To him the ideal factory is a by Mexican anyx or coloured porce place full of machines but with lain and china furnituro. It saves fow men, or if mon must be om space by also acting as the dress- ployed, they aro merely the ing-room to the best bed-room, and mechanical complement of the the dividing door is covered machine. He scraps a machine the bed-room side by a full-length with a long and useful life before for a long glass. The occupant of mirror which saves the necessity it for something a little better. the "best room" gaily opens her His ambition ia mass production, mirror and trips into her bath- to which there is no limit except the capacity of his machines and. the consumptive power of the public.
Industrial
Paradox.
room.
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A véry big reason for the popularity of the coloured bath- room is that it does not "give ono Con- the shivers to look at." aciously or otherwise, people. are chilled at the sight of the all-white room and, according to a nerve. speciallat, it is better for people suffering from nerve trouble to unei coloured bath-rooma.
But there is a third factor In this equation. Society consists of capital, consumer, and labour, and the last is also consumer. So far has the mechanisation of indus- try been carried that manual In- The modern bath-room has all bour has been dispinced by the the dignity of a roum. In former machine and the consumptive days it was more like a recess.: power of labour la diminished. Now it has a proper window, ine; Hence there is to-day seen in the lighting is studied, and it la United States the greatest indue furnished with all the care paid to trial paradox ever known. There the colour scheme of another room. is. unemployment at a time of great industrial activity and high wages.
Usually when there is unem ployment faclory demand lan- guishes, wages fall, and there in
our
The dining-room and drawing- room were considered by mothers to be the most important. We are more interested in the draw- ing-room and bath-room,
Decorative
the schemes for
Pictured is Mias Anna Frederick of Luxembourg, one of the competitors of the International Pageant of Pulchri-
tyde, assembling at Galveston, Texas, from June 2 to 5.
modern bath-room are many and at Women's Fashions.
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Cushions.
nard Orientul
a rorresponding decline in eam-tractive. modity prices. The prices of There are the bath-rooms
125 YEARS OF CHANGE. MADE FROM SCRAPS OF SILK. staples remain unaffected, and the which the noor, walls, and even)
In the last 125 years women There are always new fashions prices of securities on the Stock the window-frume are of softly} Exchange, usually --- to re-coloured mosaics in greens and have run through a whole cycle in pretty things for the house 33 fashions. They have tried well as for My Lady. Cushiona fect the truth of industrial and blues. In this room the bath and of other conditions
other furniture are usually white enveloping themselves in crino-are perhaps the most fascinating than they have been for years.
Blue, pink, green, yellow lines and filling into skin-tight little touches of luxury and colour Money is abundant and, until these and other shudes it is pos- dresses; they have swathed their in the modern home, and the quite recently, chenp It is only sible now to get the bath, basin, logs with flounces or trains and housewife who is really a woman labour that feels the pinch. and various fitments. This colour-they have uncovered themselves to at heart loves her bright pillows In this emergency Labour, and ed furniture is immensely popular, the knees; at one time even their and pouffes of frilled silk, em- some eminent capitalists agree, and calls for walls and floor tiled throats were hugged by bits of netbroidered satin,
and their arms were concealed by prints. says the only solution is a shorter in the same shades.
alceves; now Árs working week. Mr.
A bath-room scheme for the balloon
Now comes the latest notion in William Crees, the President of the Ameri- wealthy consists of real marble and throats, not to mention backs, cushion art, and in the modern can Federation of Labour, after panelled walls, a bath to match,ure gaily exposed.
In all these extraordinary type of home at least it is sure to long years of study, gives it as and Mexican onyx basin and dress-
ing-table.
changes an interesting part has have a two-fold appeal. For the his conviction that the next step Is a working week af five days; The modern bath-room contains been played by Dicking and Jones, cushion covers are made of jumper silk-old pieces left over not five days' pay for six days not only bath and basin, but a which is celebrating its 126th from those knitting days-and work, but on the basin of six days' shower in a gings recess and a china anniversary.
dressing-table to hold toilet ne-transferred to Regent-street in worked in the simple stitches we pay for five days' work..
cessories. Everything is for easy 1825, and the present establish- know BO cleaning and easy management.
ment has fifty salons, crowded by Does a scrap-bag full of odd colours, whether plain twist, busy women shoppers.
crepe, or boucle, a new cushion.
Belief in High Wages,
It is a necessity, he claims, be cause, he is quoted: "Our produc- ing power has gone ahead so fast that it is estimated many of our basic industries, if they were to work at full capacity, could pro- duce in six months more than is now consumed in a year. And nany large manufacturing crt- ablishments close their doors for weeks each year for lack of people to buy their products. These and other similar facts indicate that it takes less time to produce goods.
Reiss, Massey & Co., Ltd. which we need than it took before
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the modern improvements were in- troduced. A great deal of this extra time is now wasted in un- employment and seasonal Black periods. As one way to stabilise employment the shorter week has been suggested."
The support given to the five days a week proposal by the Press is rather impressive, and it' is noteworthy there is no suggestion that wages should be reduced or the working day lengthened.
Trade unions in the dyeing and allied trades have informed the employers that unless a satisfactory agreement is reached in the wages dispute by the second week in June 35,000 óperatives will cease work.
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A Home Hint.
Black and white introduces. some unusual markings, on this modernistic vase of egg- shell lacquer
The business was
The remarkable thing about the 25 years of fashians is that the Cashions of 1928 have a great deal 'n common with the fashions of
woll. To those who
A charming and economicul means for using up odd scraps.
If possible, do not mix your 1803. But in the intervening silks, for plain and crepe twists years, chiefly between 1836 and look best with their own kind. 1927, there were many extremes Choose all the gayest and warmcet nd absurdities of fashion. At colours in the silk bag, and with- the one end of the scale was the out any studied scheme commence record dress for which 1,100 yards to knit them into varying stripes. of muslin were used. At the 1927 About 120 stitches should be wide end is, the dress, in which 14 enough for the average cushion. But Just as was done in jumper days, wards of material are used..
with the knit one plain row and one purl, when in connexion
fairly using
fing aluminium oming celebrations an official at his shop tried to find a 1928 dress needles and knitting evenly.
Introduce narrow bands of o contrast with Lady Hamilton's rown in the Reynolds picture he black or brown among the bright ind to discard one creation after "olours, and when the aquare in nother as possessing too many completed, crochet a border of
binck all found. eriod touches.
The back portion of the cushion Next week sys a writer in nail week, the whole of the cover is knitted in any neutral wuilding will be a mase of flowers hade of silk, or if there are scraps Crom the street. Inside, period of dull tones, work them into 'resses on the ground floor willlusteful stripes in the same way.
The finished cushion cover will thow the revolution that has taken
strike a delightful note of origina- place in fashion.
One of the chief changes is in lity and colour in the simple the materials. Nowadaya dress modern room. fabrics are "floppy," and the firm
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
AGESTERDAY
A TELEGRAM' WAS RECEIVED
BY FRECKLES'
MOTHER, FROM HER
BROTHER
HARRY,
ANNOUNCING THAT HE WOULD STOP OFF FOR. A FEW DAYS
VISIT........ SOON!
IS LE COMING TO OUR HOUSE, FRECKLES
had to have stiff silka specially reproduction and two girls were made for one of the period dresses employed two days in sewing on to be shown-that worn by Mra. the blue ribbon stripes.
A bodice made by the firm sixty Siddons in the Gainsborough pictures. The dress is an exact years ago will be on view.
THATS WHAT THIS TELEGRAM SAYS- GEE-I WONDER WHAT OUR UNCLE HARRY LOOKS
LIKE?
Uncle Harry's Quite à Mystery
MOM WHAT'S OUR. UNCLE HARRY LOOK.
LIKE AND WAY. HAVEN'T WE EVER
SEEN HIM
BEFORE?
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