THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
1928.
GET IT AT THE QUEEN'S DISPENSARY
Fresh stocks constantly arriving.
22, Des Voeux Road, Central. Tel. 0 492.
Tel. 0. 492.
The dinner frock should be a shade morp ceremonial than that for a dance. There is something very dignified about this gown of deep mulberry georgette, its handkerchief flounces embroidered in silver threads. The drooping berthe is finished with a flower on the shoulder,
HAVE YOU A DOLL IN YOUR HOME?
PARIS MAKES THEM OLD-FASHIONED AND MODERN.
WOMAN'S
DINNER. AND THE EMOTIONS.
APPETITE KILLED BY JAZZ MUSIC.
WORLD
THE NEW SCARVES.
FASCINATING NOVELTIES!
SEEN IN LONDON SHOPS. Attractive cases of tooled leather showing a design of boat and train to hold your luggago labels. These make an amusing last-moment gift to friends who are going away.
Bridge sets with scores and two packs of cards in gold canvas and braid cases, made on the match-box principle.
HAVE TOUCHES OF FUR.
New scarves for early autumn are of heavy-weight crepe de Chine, finished with long ends of fur, some Most of us know from experience what resembling the elbow length that our comfort or discomfort cuffs with which we have grown after meals is party dependent familiar. The scarves themselves upon our émotions. Those who are rather long and are gathered in hate jazz music say goodbye to and smocked just above the fur appetite when their host leads with a slight suggestion of a bell- them to a table within 20 feet of rope. One charming scarf was of the band. The most exquisite beige crope de Chine with fox tails food, perfectly served, is not suff as a finish.
Glass ash-trays, with a delightful cient to flush the mucous, mem-
design of children's heads; the brane of the stomach and induce
Fur appears also on autumn hats, children are blowing bubbles. that generous manufacture of gas though often it is shaved close. It Also in glass are ash trays which tric juice which is essential to is generally used in bands alter-show a nymph in the water. happy digestion. A generation Ago medical students were taught nating with felt or in insets, but that when food reached the occasionally a fur crown is already stomach hydrocholoric acid and seen. pepsin were poured from the gastric glands. But about the same time a Russian physiologist Pawlow, proved by experiment that the justices required for digestion were dependent on nervous and not blance to the antimacassars of long upon physical factors. The smell ago! One of these jumpers Anno and sight and taste of food stimu-was recently seen in pastel tones Bunyan's cottage appear, late gastric juice before ever the of green and grey; it was designed so food reaches the stomach.
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Smart jumpers of wool. or silk crochet in the old-fashioned shell pattern bear an amusing resem
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Paper knives of ivory or tortol- seshell mounted with genuine old Maundy money. Small thermome ter and barometer in ivory to mach.
"Perfume burners in the form of China cottages, hand-made and fired in Cheleca studios. Hathaway's and John and
does a famous inn in to be worn with a grey crepe de Chester. There are also little gar Chine pleated skirt with a groen den corners, showing hollyhocks border near the hem, and was itself and other English flowers, finished with a grey crepe de Chine belt. Wool jumpers and silk skirts are quite in the order of things at
Worry and quarrelling inhibit or prevent the little glands from providing us with the fluids and compounds essential to com- fortable and complete digestion. present. Family rowa, conjugal quarrelling at meal-times will cause dyspepsia and disordered digestion, and can- cer may follow in their train, "Un- qufet meals make il digestion," and the young people who suffer jazz and the noley talk it neccalta- tes may have to pay a heavy pena)- ty in the forties.
Aesthetic Delights".
On the other hand, soft and me- lodious musio Induces emotional
No salon is complete these days without a doll of some des tranquility, which make for good It may be one of those pert damsels complete with turned-digestion. Any psychologist will cription. up nose and reddish blonde hair, or the supercilious sort that gaze tell you that cheerfulness and past you with a haughty stare. But dolls in general are very much beauty, lovely company and flow- invour with the "elegante" and no modern drawing roomers, and well set table improve ap- considered complete without one.
This craze of grownups has given the doll a new dignity. The petite and digestion. Better one dolls with which little girls play have a distinct touch of modern nophistication and they look quite different from the dolls of a The smart little Parisienne of eight or nine years generation ago. has acquired the ensemble" iden, too, and her dolls has a dress to
match her own.
Expression Vary,
dish and friend than å reven course dinner with dull compani- ons. Better the simplest meal- bread and butter and milk and fruft-alone than a feast with re- Intives who nag. Fatigue Inter- feres with appetite and good digen- tion. So that those who work hard
An Italian woman, Madame Lencl, first started making dolls of felt with the long willowy limbs and painted, faces which are will do well if they change and rest very popular. They are really works of art. It is simply marvellous for 15 minutes before attempting to what results Madame Lenet Has attained Just by using coloured dine. Wise men and women will felt and paints, but collaborating with hur are some very accom-never-as many of us do try to plished Italian artists. It is they who paint the varying expressions work and eat at the same time. on the dolls' faces and who decorate the boxes, animals and other The effort indeed of reading a toys which make the nutsory of today such a happy plac
newspaper takes blood to the brain
Madame Lenci's newest venture is in the realm of faney dress. which the stomach requires to en- She has conceived the idea of dressing grownups to look like dolls,able the glands to form the chemi- She undertakes to make a dress similar to that of any doll in harcal compounds-hydrochloric acid shop and the notion has met with tremendous success, especially and pepsin-essential in digestion: for fancy dress dances on board Atlantic liners. She uses chiefly We are sleepy after eating because soft felt and muslin or organdie. A woman can have a dress there is less blood in the brain. We representative of any period perfect in every detail, and at the same are, or we ought to be, as hungry time carry a miniature of herself in the shape of a doll.
Dress Like Your Doll.
A hunters after three hour's men- tal work, because, the blood is ex- The crinoline period is by far the most picturesque in this hausted of substances used up by line and although the general oflhouette is the same, countless effects the brain cells and the body needs can be obtained in the use of various colourings. There was, for new supplies. The healthy brain example, in the charming little Lenel shop in the Faubourg St. worker is comparable to the athlete Honore the other day, a regal looking lady doll dressed in a billowy who uses his food supply so much ruffled dross over which was placed a bright scarlet long-basqued more than the sluggard or those cost, complete with a scarlet marquis hat. This travesty would look who load on idle and sedentary perfectly charming on a tall, slim blonde,
Another amusing Lenci credion is her bar Indy. She is the only ultra-modern touch in the entire show and she is very charming. She is perched, in an eminently modern pose, on a 'bar stool, complete with short skirts, long silm legs and boyish bob. She is quite a favourite for fancy dress,
The flapper-at-the-bar,atts on a high stool smartly dress- ed in a lively green felt frock, with a pet dog under one arm, a cigarette in her mouth. Reminiscent of the '80s, is the demure little doll that presents a symphony" of pinks and greens on a background of snowy organdle. Her hat is green felt with pink flowers. A little coloured boy and an alligator, complete the picture.
life.
Hungry Again.
Crope de chine and lace are
a charming combination, es- pecially if the lace is dyed to the pastel shade of the crepe, A cuff of lace on one wrist is considered a smart note, and large flowers are still worn at the waistline.
SPORTS STOCKINGS.
THE NEW COLOUR BLENDS.
Bome foods are more easily dig- ested, and after eating these wa have that vague sensation which tells us we are hungry for more food, Bolled rice passes into the intestine in an hour, uncooked eggs and oysters also, I believe, leave the stomach in two hours. A hard boiled egg may take three and a Sports stocking are very attrac- half hours to be digested sufficient-tive just now and show unusually ly to leave the stomach; and heavy fcharming colour contrasts. Though meats such as pork take longer the heather tones as ever prevail, atill. Clear soup โช rapid- there are also delightful blends of ly sent Into the Intestine harshell blue and grey, rose colour to be absorbed into the and fawn, deep purple and brown, blood, and it acts as an appetizer and yellow and brown, green and in that it promotes the secretion beige.
of gastric juice. White fish is
easily digestible. Game and joints
are the more solid part of the din-
Checks, plaids, diamond pattern
ner, and so they are placed half and stripes are all seen, and there way. Light sweets are excellent is a decided liking for a small pat- If the previous dinner has not besa terning resembling the convention- too heavy, and the ideal finish of a al small flower design which has been used so much this year for
good dinner (good from a psycho-materials. Jacquard in cashmere logical aspect) is fruit. The mild and spun silk is a good choice, and held of the raw fruit stimulates many will be attracted to "real. the flow of saliva, the digestive Scotch knit stocking in the juice of the mouth. This washes
moor's own colourings. the teeth of sticky, starchy sub- stances which are apt to ferment,
Those who favour socks also find producing the lactic acid, which softens the teeth, So with coffee an interesting variety from which a mental stimulant-the dinner to make a selection. The fanblon- where Interesting conversation,able sock has an angora top in very goodwill and happy companion gay colourings, orange or crimson ahip reigns comes to a satisfactory or jade green stripes contrasting close. Elizabeth Sloan Chesser: with the sock itself which is usually
in belge or brown. M.D.
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Wheatley's "Cries of London" plctures in enamel on tiny vanity
cases.
Shingle sets in enamel, with designs in natural colours of pen- cocks, harons, parrots, or garden
acenes.
don
"Bustle" Evening Frock.
There's a better selection
At
LANE, CRAWFORD'S
LADIES' SALON
NEA
Announcement has been made in Los Angeles of the ap proaching marriage of Mary Philbin, movie actress, to Paul Tho Kohner, an executive of the Universal studios. romance began three years ago when Miss Philbin went as 'a featured actress to the Universal studios where Kohner was casting director,
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THIS WEEK'S RECIPE.
A COLD SAVOURY.
HINTS FOR THE HOME.
Glass does not dull so quickly A charming variation of the it It in washed as follows; Mix a "bustlo" evening frock which has little whiting with some blue- made its appearance in Lon-water, and add to a bowl of warm Mash some Gruyeré or, féal
at acveral functions
soapy water.
Cheshire, with half the amount of during the past few weeks has been devised by an ingenious The bristles of hair brushes that pounded walnut kernals. Serve modiste. The frock, which is de have become soft through repeated on very thin rounds or aquaros.or signed for a youthful wearer, washing may be stiffoned again by octagons of brown bread and but- on straight inca indipping them in a strong solution {ter. "This should start a line of is made front, the round-necked bodice of alum and then drying them thought which will lead to Mang moulding the figure. All the speedily.
Inventions of your own. Buch, It fullness 13
the caught to
might have been as: cream cheese back and concealed under numbers of horizontal frills. The dress ordinary nan with too much fat in and chopped olives, treated much mentioned is made of crepe-de- it, will aplutter, grease over the as above and speckled with Chine in a shade of primrose. whole stove, but not if a pinch or cayenne. Dealre in the mother of yellow, and frills are edged with two of fine salt is placed in the invention just as frequently 'se
necessity. cream laco.
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A shallow frying-pan, or an
pan. before use.
Parking Thin and Now
IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS ALWAYS
"ROOM FOR ONE --
NOWNDAY "THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM: FOR ONE MORE