WOMAN'S WORLD
WHITEAWAYS
for
LOOSE COVERS
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1929.
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OBTAINABLE
GIN
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FOR OUR LADY READERS.
The Latest Idea for Travelling.
The very Instest idea from Paris takes the form of a costume- coat for travelling. Developed in tweed jersey, the cont is made in one plece, yet appears to be à coat and skirt ensemble. It is Anished with a scarf, and worn with a comfortable little hat of the same material,
Bright Hair.
but a bright and glossy whether it is dark or grey.
Menace to Beauty,
head,
Fashion Notes.
BLACK DRESSES AND PEARLS.
The vogue for black afternoon dresses, has brought with it the vogue "for turquolso and corni nockinces. More generally worn are those made of round beads. Variety is the life of style, and corni coklacca do look extremely well against black slik or. Batin
gowns.
This year women are wearing strings of branch coral, na well as small coral bends, and, in certain antique shops, It is easy to find coral strings which are well aged, and have that deep red tone which la ao priced in coral,
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OUR NEW BRITISH CROSSWORDS.
But, when all is said' and done, what is lovelier with a black!
1 Best part.
10 Half
dress than a pearl necklace, reali 5 Flowers. or imitation? So few women can 12 Acquire. afford the real thing nowadays, 24 Formation. and the imitation ones are some-15 Machine. times so lovely-but, ok, no expen- 10 Valley. sive-that it is impossible to tell 17 Killed.
Across
they are not genuine. Rows and 18 Secures by authority. rows of pearls can be worn with a 22 Organs of smell, black dress, and a single pearl 23 Species of eagle, ring, with pearl earrings, turns 24 Colonist. the gloomiest black dress into a 28 Steep flax in water.
20 Box: thing of beauty,
Crystal bead necklaces are go-30 Anoint again.
29 Gone by.
ing out of fashion; they are some-32 Defraud. what hard to the face. They, 33 Having a nose. however, look well with the sports 35 Species of entia. costume or a summer muslin frock. 39 Ages.
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Blue and Red, Whenever blue is in fashion, we also see a good deal of red. These elear scarlet reds are very nice with more sober bluce. Also, the new reds are good for spring, be- cause they look fresh, and, they fone in with the new yellows which are also good with the blues, and the naturelle tones.
Grey is *Another important neutral colour. Its ultimate sug- The locks of our forefathers a number of the influential cou- cean, atill, is not decided, although row grey with advancing yeara.tourlers have been ordering it. To-day youthfah men and women has been the song of poets for stress of modern life is respon the middle for the sunburnt skin Sunny hair as an asset to beauty are silver hairag. For this, the women have been shy of grey for a number of years, but, though ugres past. Woman's crowning aible. Worry is the greatest glory is just as sensitive in ita menace to the beauty of the hair, may work against it, the use of response to the emotions as are alt is the chief cattue of silver the new yellow and scarlet reds, clear skin and sparkling eye. It threads among the black or gold, possibly, will conciliate the greys can be afled or marred by them. An old-world grandmother, aged and the sunburnt complexions." Imagine a colourful skin and eighty, died recently. There were
SMILING YOUR WAY TO BEAUTY.
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bright eyen, with dull and dank-nu silver lines amongst her glossy She refused to worry, although looking hair. There is something black locks, even when death the storms and tempests of life lacking.
It detracts from the pinced the musk of peace upon her lind beset her on all sides. other good points, There is no face. This old lady had a smile The cultivation of a "merry charm about It.
for everyone. Her maxim in life heart" optimistic attitude towards
It
It has always been said that the was, "I thunk God always for what life is the best hair tonic. charm of the Frenchwoman lies in I possess, and leave the rest." can be manufactured in one's the fact that she knows how to Her faith was more than the pro- own mental inboratory. Why not keep and dress het hair. To be verbial grain of mustard seed, try iŁ?-DR, ESTELLE COLE "bien soignee" is part and parcel'
of her make-up, even when her clothes are shabby.
And although good" care and hygiene of the hair and head are necessary factors towards bright. headlights, yet the beauty and Tustre of it are dependent to n large extent on the emotional ten- dències. This has been proved in. many cases.
Quite recently a young woman, while Alpine climbing, was unfor- tunate enough to miss her footing| and hang suspended in space, on a rock for twelve hours. At the end of this time she was rescued by a search party. It was found that her hair had turned absolute- ly white through fear during thone hours.
Most of us have watched a cat with arched back and bristling. with fear encounter something! antagonistic. The telling of grue- Some tales is said to produce the |effect of causing the hair "to stand; on end." The emotions of fearl and terror aro responsible for these results. On the other hand, no one sees the bright,,happy- natured, cheerful person with any
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
WELL, THIS WEEK WE HAVE OUR EXAMINATIONS ANY THEN WE CONT HAVE TO GO BACK TO SCHCOL UNTIL AFTER NEW YEARS — ONE OF
THE QUESTIONS WILL BE WHO
MADE THE FIRST
AMERICAN FLAG.....
I KNOW THE
ANSWER TO
THAT!!
New Bodices for the Coming Season.
The Vinock-line is enhanced by the addition of a dainty vest over which a soft satin tie is loosely knotted. Stitched strappings in a darken tone lend an unusual note to a plain frock. The round- ed neckline, defined by a band of balge crepe finishing in a hem- stitched jabot, és excellent on a navy crepe dreas. The boat-shaped neckline is completed by a collar in tri-coloured ribbon which form a acart. For the tailored dress is the bodice Onished with a stitched strap of the material while the draped neckline is becoming on the printed crope frock.
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WAY, THERE'S ALEK! YOU LOOK WORRIED ALEK **HULATE THE
MATTER?
A. Question
AW-IT'S THE AMERICAN FLAG QUESTION IN
OUR EXAMS
FLO
WELL-THAT ISNT HARD FOR YOU, IS IT? YOU KNOW WHO IT WAS THAT MADE THE AMERICAN
FLAG, DONT
YOU?
42 Pitch of sound,
44 Black (Heraldic). 45 Worker,
40 Fodder pit... 47 Bird's haunt 2- 49 Statements of belief. 48 Having legs.
1 Boundary. 2 Correcte,
$ Coreal plant.
Dolon
4 Employed in basket making, 6 Cleaned by brushing, ↑ Provokes,
8 Fences
9 Line-in trigonometry,
Use
ALS
10 Covered chairs.
11. Formerly,
13 Ela.
18 Avers.
19 Draw-back.
20 Salt-work.
21 Snake.
26 Twice-fiva.
27 Submissive,
#1 Regard,
32 Used in salad,
34 Hoarded.
80 Passage way."
37 Island.
38 Live ender.
40 Horizontal bar,
41 Hit hard.
42 Melody.
43 Headland,
Yesterday's Solution.
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IN
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PURICO
THE UNEXCELLED COOKING FAT
Obtainable at
All GROCERS & STOREKEEPERS.
Agenta:-KELLER, KERN & CO., LTD.
18, Connaught Road.
Telephone 0. 3120.
For the Boat
LOCAL VIEWS
and
PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS
Go To
:
MEE CHEUNG
Studio, Ice House St.
Branch 7, Beaconsfield Arende.
Chang Chung, a shop foki, al-accosted by an Indian who stated leges to the police that last night, that he was a policeman. The while walking in King's Park, Indian relieved him of $2.80 and near No. 2 Railway Bridge, he was ran away,
By Blosser
YES-I KNOW BETSY ROSS MADE THE
FLAG
BUT WHO PUT THE STICK ON
IT ??
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