ANNOUNCING!
9th December, 1931
OPENING DATE OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1931.
"BRUNSWICK HOUSE"
ARCADE GLOUCESTER BUILDING (Operated by The China Phonograph & Radio Ltd.)
COMPLETE STOCK OF
LATEST
DANCE HITS
1
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Electrically Recorded
RECORDS.
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Care for
with this perfect
seap-
your
SOAP
skin
O much depends on your soup if you would keep your skin south and lovely, Choose a soap which has acen refined agit, and again to make it safe for the most a poag as reizesh ng as it is soothing, whose fragrant lather is a tender ceres. Such a soup is Erasonic→→→ violet-tinted. vide scented.
tender akin
And then
this powder
Complete your daily beauty treatment with Peerless Erasmic Complexion Powder. it will give your skin the perfume and bloom of the English violets with which it is scented. Soft and fine, it refreshes as well as beautifies. Use it throughout the bastest weather and notice how cond and iragrate it keeps your skin.
PEERLESS
ERASMIC
X-6P 137–180
SOAP
THE HRAEMIC COMPANY LIMITED, LONDON, ENGLAND
MASSAGE HALL
MRS S. UZUNOYE
57, Queen's Road C., 2nd floor, Expert Masseuse.
MRS. MOTONO. Massage.
Hand and Electric 31b, Wyndham Street.
WOMEN'S WORLD
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
TAKE CARE OF YOUR FURS.
[By a Furrier.]
Nothing look more dowdy than
a far that has become soaked with rain Tho hairs mat together in a most bedraggled fashion, and
and tho effect is not a pleasant one.
Never dry for before a hot fire, This is disastrous, as the natural oils in the skin are absorbed by the heat, the leather becomes hard, and the fur begins to "moult."
You probably have an attachment on your vacuum-elønner for drying with warm nie. Use this, and dry the fur thoroughly. But take cari that the air in warm, not hot.
When quite dry, hold the fur by the end, and bent it lightly with a Palle Beat regularly up and down until the whole surface has been! entered several times. Then brush with a stiff brush, and comb it gent. iv. Your fur will then be as beauti. ful as ever.
Should your furs have become dusty through lying neglected dur ing the summer months, you will find the vacuum-cleaner again uses ful. Care must be taken, however, to fit the proper attachment, as too
treat suction
to the hairs, yosh damage ira, particularly if they are
of a fine quality.
I this fails to remove the dust, it will be necessary to use benzine. But you must be absolutely positive that the fur in "natural"""; "that is
to say, has not been dyed. #tipped," tay blended with dyed fur. Other wing the
use of chemicals will utterly rum it.
reole•un iL fur with benzine, take
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a smiali pail of cotton won lightly dipped in the liquid, and dal the rents of hair. Change the pads ar they become soiled. Now
put the fur in a carboard box.
which you have placed n hasulful each of line sawdust (satinwood or boxwood, ran obtain from a cattierunaker),
and pulverised planter
paris. Shake the box thoroughly. Tho mixture will aburly the benzine and remove all dunt,
Sext, give the far a gentle beat- ing as already described until evory Particle of Kawilust ban been removed.
FULLNESS BEGINS
AT HIPS.
Most of the features of Patou's new evening mode are Illustrated by this pink beige gown. The fuller, underlined deenliete, full skirt with the twin-pleated panel repented in front, the sash complete with ends, and the narrow kilting that outlines the hem all are points of interest.
SHAMPOOING
Should there be the slightest That Curly Coiffure.ains in water and whipping them
dont as to the nature of the fur, il is highly viable nol to attempt
from that of the dry but brightly coloured hair. It is a stimulating lather made from dissolving certain foam. This oils as well as re- cleaning by means of a chemicalhair to suit the hat are raising again
The now ways of dressing the vitalises the hair and brings out its lights. Persevere with brushing The cost of having it rieaned by a the old question, "How often shall and massaging the dry scalp, but do reliable furrier is very slight when shampoo my hair ?" For, curls are not try to improve oily hair in this compared with the possibility of to lavishly displayed that they must ruining your far beyond all hope.
Simply Smart.
cut
Down over one eye, away sharply to reveal the hair on the opposite side-this attractive brown valvet hat follows the new headline. It's only decoration is a pearl buckle and a fat bow in back,
be kopt scrupulously dainty and soft and this demands attention.
Constant
glands.
which stimulates the oily
An unusually strong shampoo, male with a base of coconut oil, completely clears the scalp of oil and the hair of grease. Antiseptic shampoos of pine tar are preferred by some women,
Use a Toothbrush!
Many women are now having their bair washed every week or lort wight according to its city or dry condition, and the choice of shampoo for those who use one at home ba comes an urgent problem.
Discover first the exnet condition After thorough cleansing at least of your hair and scalp. Is it dry, once a week, a tonic should be brittle, and inclined to split at the used. There is one which can be ends? Or lank and ally, refusing to rubbed into the scalp with a fine, hold the wave, which has, therefore, small brush, much as a toothbrush. to be pul in three or four times the lathor morely wiped off, and the week? Is it colourless, requiring a hair dried nad well brushed. special riner which will make it gleam again?
Eliminate Hard Water.
Here are stane suggestions made by London specialists on hair trent nient.
A liquid slumpoo which requires practically no water, and is wiped instead rium eft, minimises the drying effect of hard water.
Hot oil is well known as one of the best tonics for dry and brittle bnt. Now it can be obtained made [up, into shampoos, so that clean hair is cleansed and nourished at the same time.
-Stimulating Foam.
Finished the shampoo with a spe
rinse to improve the colour of the hair. One made from veget ables is
is intended to make white hair nowy and lustrous, while benn and camomile should be in constant use among women who wish to dis- play glossy curls beneath the new hate.
SHOE FRILLS
A pair of black crepe do Chine shoes is decorated in the front with a frill of white ribbon instead of the usual bow. The ruff in the shape of a semi-circle, la of pleated Another wash of the same kind in petorsham ribbon, and in the mid-1 intended for dry hair with a lifelessle is placed a large, aquare glass Foppearance--quite another problem bend
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
NCLE
WEATHER FORECAST:-
VARIABLE TEMPERATURES AND WINDS inducing
COLDS and CHILLS
which can be rapidly cured
by
QUINCIN
THE CERTAIN OURE
THE PHARMACY
OFLETCHER &.Co., Ltda.) Asiatic Building.
Tel. 20345.
JOHN RETURNS
FROM HIS
SEARCH FOR]
OSCAR,
WITHOUT
FINDING
EVEN A
TINY TRACE OF HIM.....
DOGONDEST THING I EVER. HEARD OF... HOW THAT
LAD JUST UP AND
DROPS PLUMB OUT
OF SIGHT IS
MORE THAN MY OLD HEAD CAN
UNDERSTAND!!
Gypsies?
I JUST HAPPENED TO REMEMBER, ABOUT THOSE GYPSIES 1 CHASED OFF THE PLACE A COUPLE WEEKS AGO....
THAT'S THE ANSWER,!! 1 BET "THEY HAD A HAND IN THIS
BOY DISAPPEARIN' !!
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS.
Across
I A favourite son.
The kiddle may appear so, but there's something of the little animal about her.
9 Cultivate heather and the dug
may be.
10 Soup known to golfers and ten-
nis-players.
11 "Tac dance" (anag).
13 Ono evidence of great alarm.
14 Before either way.
16 Mend, or go!
10 Oriental.
20 Avoid with a touch of rumina-
tion at the end.
21 In Rutland.
26 Many
Shakespeare play has
this ending,
27 Dok.
28 The old one is in the City of
London.
20 Such bearings are missing from
a car more often than not. 30 Possibly in your left at
Inoment.
thin
31 "The of faults is to be con scious of none." (Carlyle).
Down
1 He can often afford to partake of an egg in the refreshment- Joon.
2 Nothing in features are running
knoty. Refer.
4 In a ne possibly, if you catch
my meaning.
A number in a fowl will in- crease one of the dimensions,
STICKERS.
A POPULAR GRANDEE OF
CADIZ
SOME
ONCE
RIOTOUS LADIES.
******* HIM. THEY CHUCKED
A ****, BUT HE DUCKED WHICH ....... THOSE
WILD LADIES OF CADIZ.
There are four wosts, all composed of the same seven letters, missing from the above. Can you fill in the words, in place of the black dots?
SHARE PRICES. TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS. The following is the list of local share quotations lasued to-day:
Danks.
Hongkong Bank, $1640 m. Chartered Bank, £12% n Mercantile A, and B., £19% 1. East Asia, $129 6.
Insurances.
10.
Canton Ins., 1,450 n. Union Ins., $430 China Underwriters, $4.90 b. China Fires, $850 n. H. K. Fire Ins., $1,450 n.
Shipping.
Douglas, $20 b.
H. K. Steamboats, $24 n. Indo-Chinas, (Pref.) 325 n. Union Waterboats, $28 n.
Mining.
Benguet, $10% n. Kailana, 30/- n.
S'hai Explorations, Tle. 2.40 b. Raubs, $43 8.
Docks, etc. Kowloon Wharves, $151 b. Whampoa Docks, $29 8. South China Motors $10. Providents (old) $5.15 b.
17
7 A reward in genuino about
Icave.
8 Waver
maids t)
(or possibly parlour-
12 A sixteenth-century master of
learning.
15 To do so in necessary to 10
остока,
16 In the Koran.
17 The first letter hints when it is
spread, and the rest what's on
18 A painful, malady.
10 Another dog (ono spelling).
22 Phase of revolution.
23 Near Hamburg.
24 I'm in the hunt and a vohlele 25 Churm.
Yesterday's Solution.
FRACTIONS DUPES AT MOTU A BE JOONBORA NEWTOWN TELUNNTE BUSY SNAIL HERS IN BETO IDYLLIC" GHOST H
SPRONG COMICAL
0
RWBO ETON VALUE OPIE VTEMFIFA
ELECTRO LASTING
NABLEEL TINGF READYMADE
I CANT SAY ANYTHING TO FRECKLES OR TAG, FOR, FEAR. "THEY'LL BE SCARED TO DEATH... YESSIR... IT'S
THOSE GYPSIES !!
Yesterday's Solution.
MADMEN MIMIC AND MOCK".
By inserting the letter "M" Evs times,
• a showri above, a sensible sentence can be formed,
Hongkowe, Tis. 225 n. New Engineers. Tlu. 61⁄2 n. Shanghai Docks, Tis. 95 n.
Cottons.
Bwo cottons Tls. 16 b. S'hai Cotton Tls. 85 r. Zoon Sings Tis, 12 n.
Lands, Hotels, etc. H.K. & S. Hotel (old) $15.372 n. II.K. S. Hotels (new) $14.70 b. H.K. Lands, $80 b. S'hai Land, Tis. 324 n. Humphreys $18 n. Realties, $12.05
Public Utilities, Tramways,
$21.10 b.
Peak Trams, (old), $14.75 b. Star Ferries, $954 BR.
China Light, $27.80 b. H. K. Electrics, $78. Macao Electrica, $23 n.. Telephones, 848 n China Buses, Tis. 17.99 . Singapore Tractions, 4/-n.
Industrials.
China Sugars 60 ctx. n. Malabona $39 %. Canton Ice, $574 b. Cement (com.) $15.10 b. Ropes, $164 n.
Stores, etc. Dairy Farms, $29 11. Watson, $16.70 Der A. Wings, $1 u. Lane Crawford, $8.50 b. Mackintosh, $19 n. Sinceres, $15
Powells, 88.60 n.
b.
MiscellaneouÉ, Amusements, $10% b. Constructions, (old) $5.80 sa.
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