THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
DECEMBE
OUR NEW
THE NEW SILK STORE
known as:
THE TAJMAHAL SILK STORE
5, Flower St. (Opposite China Mail)
IB NOW HOLDING SPECIAL
OPENING SALE
SOME OF OUR BARGAINS
9 Crepe de Chine Hand Embroidered
Undien (3. Pc. Set) $15,00
LADIES'
MEN'S
do dom Pyjamas $7.50
Best Quality Silk Shirts $3,00 do do Pyjamai" $8,00
Many Other Bargaina
Our Prices Will Surprise You!
Special Values in
Gent's Raincoats
AT OUR
CLOSING-UP SALE.
PRICES
FROM $6.50
A LOT OF ODD SIZES AT
HALF PRICE.
YEE SANG FAT.
ONCE
WE DO YOUR WORK-YOU WILL,
ALWAYS
COME TO US.
FIAT GARAGE
67, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel. 6.4821
SANITARY
EQUIPMENT
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
WOMAN'S WORLD
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
New and very modern is the buckle of this rosë belge Paris hat with its mushroom brim. For the buckle is made of wood, in contemporary design of different planes and many shadings. Wooden earrings, light as air, make an unusual ornament ensemble with the buckle. Wood is used nowadays most decoratively, for buttons for tailored frocks, for framics of new purses fashioned of winter fabrics and for belt and pump buckles on sports things.
Parisian Notes.
GORGEOUS EVENING DRESSES AND WRAPS.
In Paris, women are letting their hair grow again. There are curis in front, bunches of curls at the Back; in- Tact, there is a “little girl" look about most of the women
one meets,
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For evening wear, the tendency is the same. There are the white tulles and, nets garlanded with rosebuds and ribbons.
New Coiffures.
CHA
HAIR
DRESSER.
The New Hats.
AND JEWEL TRIMMED GOWNS.
in the openings, it has been Inoticed that many of the coutal- riores are giving the evening models long broad brooches, mado of coloured stones and crystals, |with a huge pendant stone at the Fond. These are placed at the com-" menecment of skirt draperies, "not quito in the middle below the waist. Other favoured brooches are shaped like a dagger, and tuck- ad round one hip, with the hond part showing over the bodico,
Large coloured stones, jadoor torquoise, form the fastenings of some of the now belt which now sit quite happily at the normal waistline. The clasp of the bag,
or at least the brooch which ties down the scarf, should be of matching stones.
1 Refuse.
10 Only:
6 Calamitous.
Acroni
9 Quote.
17. Luminous ring.
After all, jewellery is useless 13 Dtion of
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25
10 Throw out.
18 Mere repetition,
19 Middle.
21 Kind of Apple. 26 Becken 29 Comfort
without a pretty frock to set it off, and if the worst comes, we can always slip on a trusty rope of pearls and look simple.
Whatever will be worn in the the futuro, it will only be meant for a diversion; we shall never be 20 State of being behindhard. told to discard our pearls, I feel e8 Place of amusement. sure. They are as much an institu-31 Performed. tion on the Houses of Parliament. 09 Repules.
35 Insect.
30
Domestic animal, 40 Barked
Some of the newest broad-brim» 80 Gentle blow. med hats have crowns of one 37 Mischievous impa, material and brims of another. 88 Aged. One, seen the other day, had a crown "made of dull satin
and fitted the head closely, the brim was of black felt, and the trim ming consisted of a torsade of rase-pink crepe-de-chine.
2 Not high.
44 Bour alc.
46 Slips affixed for address,
Taverns.
50 Knowledge, Women have tired at last of 51 Place for cars. plain untrimmed hats, and ther 55 Andoyed. are demanding something a little 58 Ireland. more elaborate, and the modistea,
60 Ventured to please them, are trimming both a3 Cleft.
62 Thick cord. large and small hats with such 04 Genuine. expensive accessories ais nigrettes 65 Mid-day. and ostrich plumes, which, of 88 Something taught course, will make new hats very 67 Not atheists. much more costly. The "beret." In H kashn or sergo for sports wenr, stil} continues to be very popular,
These little shapes are liked, not only because they can be tucked away in one's pocket or bag, with Twenty-four of the world's lead-out in the least injuring their ing hairdressers met at the Royal smartness, but because they fit.so Blooms- delightfully, to the head, and over Hotel, Russell-squuré, bury, last month. in the Interna- the brow on one side, while on the tional Hairdressers' Society's one check, gives an air of youth other, the line which sweeps down nual contest for a £105 challenge which is delightful. A little sports
hat which is often worn cup.
of stitching, and turns up grace- Įtówu, is in silk, encircled by rows
fully in front.
in
The competitors were all men They were given 45 minuten in One of these 1830 frocks seen which to create a coiffure recently, by name Volupte-al-| posticke. Their models, young and though nothing less voluptuous attractive girls, were first given a could be imagined was very complexion to suit the transfor- sweet-and-seventeen, with its mation,
LEE YU KEE || simple bodice and full skirt.
SHOWROOM 24h, Des Youx Rd, C. Tai, C. 1888 PLUMBING WORKSHOP
14, Moos Street, Tal. C. 4778 CEMENT TILE FACTORY" 83, Wakefield Rd. Tel. C, 1488
MRS. MOTONO
HAND & ELECTRIC
The colour was pearl grey and the material tulle; while the roses that trimmed It gave it almost a Victorian air.
and
Fantastic rolls of wavex bunches of curls grew under the nimble fingers of the hairdressers. They took infinite pains with their ‚work, raising a curl here and there with a hut pin or a long wooden skewer, then standing back or go- ing upon one knee to admire the
Evening dresses for formal oc- casions have traips; some of these start from the back, and are of the "peacock order, others are result. elongated panels from the waist..
The prize-winning head was in As for evening wraps, they will silver-grey hair with a splash of be simply gorgeous. Some are white at the front und over the entirely embroidered in benda in cars. The creator of it, a young Russian designs.. Other evening Serbian, M. Yownnowitsh, was clonku match the frock beneath In wildly applauded by his follow some way; a black satin wrap has hairdressers when he was present- No. 81B, Top Floor, Wyndham St.. appliqued flowers on it to matched with the cup. He is unable to
the pattern of the printed chiffon speak a word of English, but her flowers, which form the flowing showed his delight by smiling and draperies of the skirt. ·
nodding to the audience.
MASSAGE
Hongkong.
MASSAGE HALL
MRS. S. UZUNOYE
Expert Masseure
Tailoring is more tailored than ever. The short cout and slim skirt is being made, and so is the three-quarter coat with skirt and jumper, or little dress.
87, Queen's Road C., 2nd floor. tailors, They know that every Tweeds are always made by good
To our friends and to
those we have yet to meet,
we extend our best wishes
for a HAPPY and PRO-
SPEROUS NEW YEAR.
THE PHARMACY (FLETCHER & CO. LTD.)
A.P.C. Bulling.
Tal. Q.345.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
FRECKLES HAS GROWN A LITTLE HOMESICK.............. BUT NEITHER HE NOR TAG WILL SAY THAT, THEY WANT TO
GO HOME THEY FLIP A PENNY... HEADS THEY GO HOME AND TAILS THEY
STAY-BUT THE CON LANDS ON ITS EDGE- SO IT DOESNT"
COUNT
ALL RIGHT-WELL.,
·TRY IT AGAIN = HEADS WE 60: HOME AND TAILS WE DON'T...
BE CAREFUL “Navi SO YOU DON'T LOSE MY PENNY
woman likes to have a tweed coat! and skin, and that she never looks better than wearing it with her neat brown shoes; her trim strong gloves. stockings, her smart felt hat, and
ONE FOR THE MONEY-TWO FOR
THE SHOW-THREE TO MAKE READY
Patay Ruth Miller, the. Warner Bros. fentured player, is shown in an adaptation of the wind-blown - bob. The long hair in front is clipped and brushed toward the faca; at back, it is allowed to grow long.
Head or Tall?
OU, WAT A. MINUTE="I'LL TELL YOU A BETTER WAY TO DO ITS DO IT ON THE BACK OF YOUR
HAND
LIKE THIS?" GURE, IT DOESNT ANAKE 'ANY, DIFFERENCE HOW IT'S DONE!!
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4 Coagulated milk.
5 Product from coal. 6 Apex.
7 Granery, 8 Metal,
10. Holy, 12 Haul
14 Abhor..
17 Tracks.
20 Uncommon.
22 Wicked 24 Soon, 26 Proverb.
27 Fostivity. 20 Beckons, 80 Unfarten.
32 Image
34 Bort of treadle.
$7 Deserved.
80 Paril.
40 Thump.
41 Small lake.
43: Watchman.
45 Huge mon..
47 Glass receptacle.
48° Acquires knowledge.
52 Extra seed covering.
53 Prevalent.
54 Angor
56 Residuo of smoke. 67 Epic poetry.
60. Large pitcher.
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Saturday's Bolution.
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NEW RUBBER PROCESS starting experiments on
DUTCH PLANTER'S CLAIM.
Batavia, Nov, 27.
scale. If the trials are successful; the three discoveries, it la claimed, will mean a considerable change in Fuliber cultivation, resulting in largely increased production and consequently considerably lower production. costa.
A former Dutch rubber planter Lof' Jayo, Mr. Jules Bosch, after experiments for twelve years,
British Practice. claims to have made the following discoveries, which should have an able in London as to the character No further information is avail important bearing on the cultiva-of the new methods, which Mr tion of rubber.
Bosch claims to have "discovered:
(1) A new tapping knife pre-but it was admitted in rubber cluding the possibility of injuring circles that if they proved effec-1, trees.
tive they would undoubtedly have important reactions on the In- (2) A new tapping method dustry. totally differing from the present{ . system, which Mr. Bosch, after ex- It was pointed out that during tensive experiments, has found to the last 18 months a new scientific, have resulted in a much higher method of tapping has been in latex volume with the maintenance troduced throughout the British.. of the health of the trees;
plantations in Malaya, whichi: materially increases output and (3) New tapping time (also reducca conta. The coolle is now based on long years of experi- generally" ullated 200 trees per ments), viz., three days tapping day to tap instead of 400, with the two above-mentioned
factors, has resulted in Mr. Bosch This enables him to complete his derlying from a number of ex-task before the rise of the sun, perimental trees a production substantially reduces the flow. more than a hundred per cent from the bark, and to make much higher than from the present more careful incisions in the methods adopted,
trees. The result is that actually, à greater dafly yield is obtained It is learned that a rubber from the 200 trees than was pe estate in East Java is shortlyviously obtained from the 4007
BOY! ONE OF THEM BAS TO
COME UP
GEE-I'M ALMOST. AFRAID TO LOOK
AT IT!!
By Blosser
TAKE
YOUR. HAND IT HAS TO BE ONE OR THE
OTHER
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