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a gift
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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1932
THE WORLD
OF WOMEN
FASHION NOTES.
Exquisite Evening
Gowns.
There are any number of youth- ful looking suite and dresses this year, stressing the well known and Just the thing for Miss Slim, Miss Slight, and Miss Slender. The day gowna are short, and very narrow, dovold of any Irregularity of hemline, all of them with "well-mannered" skirts.
worn cuses
Also seen are some very prim- looking, very feminine traiteurs, most of them in checked or small- stiriped materials. The coatees with auch suits in most nre sulficiently abbreviated to be mistaken for boleros.
Many conts are collarless, with #carves which are the only note of colour, such scarves being used to look like collars, belts, or tics. Exquisite are the mousseline-de- sole.evening gowns, and the chiffon- velvet evening Kowas are also exceedingly smart. They deservo to be called "Poems," if only poems in chiffon and velvet. They con- sist of colour-harmonies, long und flowing panels, and draperies of classic proportions.
Skirts are different in shade from the colouring used for the bodice. By the way, a new note is the long elbow gloves fn coloured Buede to match the gown, or to form contrast, often
a daring touch of colour.
Skirts
Many of the new skirts are drap- ed towards the centre of the back. i Some are longer in front. All pleated skirts show straight pleating with new styles' In pleats. No skirt is cut on the cross, or very few. Nothing flares through- out the collections.
Ace high in the mode for formal bridge parties is this black transparent velvet frock with real Venise lace to orna- ment its cape collar that fastens down the back. Skirt fullness is gathered together in the rear and an ornamental bolt buckde tops ft. The sleeves are long and point out over the hands at the cuffs.
SALESMAN SAM
Black gowns that are different wer, worn by stage stars at the fashion show for the benefit of the Actors' Dinner Fund in New York. (Left) Ermine sleeves made original puffs, with the ermine tails flying like streamers, on n sheath-like gown of black velvet, worn by Selena Royal. (Right) Draped armboles, sparkling buttons, and a slashed skirt were outstanding features of a gorgeously crinkled black crepe gown worn by Helen Broderick.
WHY ARE WOMEN
Sir
SUPERSTITIOUS?
IDEAS FOR YOUR NOTEBOOK.
It is perhaps significant that Coffee Stains-To remove coffcu Walter Scott, on those rare stains from delicate materials, occasions when his romances brush with pure glycerine. Rinse dipped into the supernatural, al in lukewarm water, and press or most chose women as the necessary the wrong side. characters. Women neem to have Home-Made Bleacher-Crushed always been more subject to pre-exrshell added to odd bits of soap monitions, secret signs, spiritual makes an excellent bleacher. Keep visitations, illomena, and the rest small muslin bag handy, and of the expressions of superstition pop into it all odd bits of HOND than has been the case with and eggshells. Tie up the bag members of the stronger Box. on washing day and drop it into History, Iterature, and modern your copper with your white linen, fiction, they all
Biscuits Will Keep.—A crust of are generously supplied with feminine supersti bread placed in the tin with the tion-supporters, and the number biscuits absorbs moisture, and the would probably be very large, if biscuits keep erisp longer. compared to that of masculine superstition-supporters. in the
past, of course, superstition took humorously, mark you for no some more desperate forms and was other reason than because
man was much more common
is clumsy specimen of than it to-day. Edinburgh-and the rest thoughtless enough to put his um- of Scotland-at one time made an brella up inside their house! There these everyday practice of drowning and is a whole encylopedia of burning witches. Man, even in "bad signs," and every kvoman over the early days, had generally a forty seems to have them at her strong dislike for superstition. Anger-tips. Someone accidentally "Bad It was those women who
walking-stick. were drops eternally stirring up trouble with luck," says Mrs. A. Someone else their fantastic ideas!
(again accidentally) lets a But. although most women nowa- fall to the floor. "A visitor," ob- days talk jokingly about the ex- serves Mrs. B. And so the farce- ploints of their early superstition- for so it appears to my ordinary obsessed sisters, are they really, commonsense-controlled mind-gacs cven advanced as they undoubtedly, on! are. completely rid of strange be liefs?
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And this is the question I would like to ask those bad-amen women. Do they really believe in what they There are many "modern" women any or do they not make these re- who are astoundingly superstitious,; marks "for samething to any I but very few men. In fact, every should like to believe that the latter second woman one meet-1 refer suggestion is the true one, but. exclusively to the older generation- when I recall the serious faces of does not see anything senseless in some people I personally have of believing that beenvze two knives; fondu, I fail to nee how I can.
We men do not know why wo- happen to cross at dinner a serious
Ar Dien quarrel will inevitably follow.
snarest tous. Wil 11 the I have seen middle-agrad women they condescend to tell become extremely excited and an- repin?W STRACHAN-NISLEг in noyed-and not in tho least Exchange.
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
Летовя
13:
1 Supply food to the supporters.
They're very voracious,
9 Game, when young,
10 Mem. See Ann at about two to
colour the butter.
11 Movement appreciated by the
actor.
12 This goat charges-but it has
them without the goal.
13 Win in this even if you lose in
the round-abouts.
14 Game in the interior of a West
African leland.
17 Opposed to an Irish ending, 19 The skatera figure is of Im-
portance.
21 Part of an engine.
22 Turn it upside down.
24 Ends in bed, though only toased
Rently,
20 The girl with the heart.
20 There's no senso in thin-still,
it's a clue.
31 Masculine name,
32 An uproarious fragment.
33 Net well in this case-it's a
easemaker'a Job.
34 Endanger.
36 The art of the G.O.C.
Down.
Go on. The means of doing so la here.
3 "I'm glad I was up no late; for that's the reason I was up so -" ("Cymbeline").
4 Classical country.
5 Mako a loan in West Africa:
there's some go in the place.
6 Relatives,
7 Not so easy as lying.
8 Give an "adult ilon gin" and scu
it extending lengthwise: very
310
funny (anng.).
9 Lancashire Lads, or Henry IV..
--or V., or VI
14 And yet they say that this ro- caption is attended by men only. 1b7ncouth sort of name, for a
rough sort of valley,
16 A slow upheaval, but it tan comfort to think that it will end well.
18 With nothing above or below it could address great multitudes. 20 Crime briefly Imlicated.
23 Fruit is in and it rains outside. 25 Unadorned and scarcely rich, it
is Atting wear for the warrior. 27 Upart 18 and get under; it may
be hit.
28 Moving little by little.
10 One who has a shot
31 Put In the head.
Yesterday's Solution.
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