THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, « 1933.
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
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AFTERNOON
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GOOD SERVICE
TIFFINS
DINNERS
DELIGHTFUL MUSIC
THE FINEST
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OK
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On Sale at All Stores. Sale Agents:
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York Building, Hongkong.
OF COURSE 1:
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EXCELLENGE
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OBTAINABLE AT
INDEED
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99, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL AND AT ALL LEADING WINE DEALERS. NEAR CENTRAL MARKET,
By Joan Savoy
THE WORLD OF WOMEN
Fashion is putting chle women
Into stripes for early Spring. But such lovely stripes!.
Sheer candy-stick stripes in gay. young red, white and blue organ- dy, aleck black and white striped diaphanous fabrics, novel striped shirtings for day time wear and all manner of striped suitings and coatinga for the street.
new
Among the newest are the strip- ed organdy evening things. They have spring in their crisp char- acter: they have life and a pleasing gaiety in their colouring. And they are fashioned with all the style notes embodied in them.
If you are a sophisticated wom- an, somewhat tired of all ruffles, furbelows and puffs" that the winter has introduced, and which you have always felt be- longed to the picturesque 18-year- old, you will be intrigued by the simple beauty of a black and white striped organdy for early spring. parties.
Diagonal Strines
the
It has a graceful circular. cape cut to its bodice, with the stripes running diagonally down to a V front, for diversity. The skirt is cut more on the straight than many winter things, gored, if you' please, so that it fits snugly, flares at about flounce height and, is belt- ed with the straight of the goods. You wear it over a long white satin slip, so that the organdy, in addition to its fresh crispness, takes on a sophisticated quality of subtle gleaming. It is the kind of dress you'll be utterly comfortable in, mainly because it is ao flatter- ing and new. The emart acces- saries are either dead white, some- thing not too heavy or else jet, for a choker necklace and ear rings and a bracelet or two..
BEAUTY HINTS.
Books are Eternal
Treasures.
Didn't Know Cinderella.
As I carefully leafed through this wonderful book she said, "Do please look at the illustration of Cinderilla,"
"Who?"
It seems almost incredible that in this day and era a child could | -grow up without booka. I mean "Oh, you mean Cinderella,"
books in the home. Yet a girl of corrected rudely. seventeen sighed the other day as she said she wished she had had
"Cinderilla! It is so absolutely lovely."
books when she was a little girl.
IF
ÎNOTES FROM PARIS.
The All Important Sleeve.
and
Under-sleeves, guimpes yests are shown in many new and effective styles. The widely flared and the short, plain sleeve that" ends at the elbow or short of it are popular.
"Is it 'Ella'?" she repeated much amused. "You know I never knew those stories as a little girl. My The accessories in müslin, lace, It came about at a "Little Thea- parents didn't believe in things crepe, and chiffon have usually tre" performance for children.
"
Across
1 Lean to the side against a bro-
ken reed-went the pace, in fact
& Quite a lot of bacon, but rather
a scratch meal, to judge from ite ingredients.
9 I printed, this in fearless form.
10 A single one may well be honest,
but a dou
double one's a humbug.
12 An outfit:"it's true, so don't
deny it
14 You are looking at to-day's.
16 A godlike vessel.
16 Dole and short commons.
19
23
Tropical "fruit.
twice in the morning sounds absurd,
ard, but it's an obvious truth.
A sufferer.
26 Extinct New Zonland bird.
28 Giraffe's cousin.
20 Ratan.
32 They are crazy.
33 Where animals meet their doom. 34 Praises.
36 Covered passages.
Down
1 A fabric that easily wrinkles: the inside is one big wrinkle"
(in a way),
2 Of course it's just an idea, but I think you'll find it the other way in the middle of the day.
3 If I'm one up on you, this makes
it level,
6
He's not living at home.
With a nasty expression on his face.
7 Starts with tails-twisting, and it's supposed to have a charming effect.
8 Ah! Sermon 11.Mcal.
"(Anagram.)
ARAB LEADER.
DEATH OF THE GRAND SENOUSSI
They were playing "Snow White ike that, I'm afraid I have missed been white, but new and ex-Mecca
ceedingly
And the Seven Dwarfs" and she did
se, the play was over.
| something."
This lady has never been poor. are
Cairo, Mar. 14. The death is announced from of Ahmed Sherif el Senoussi, known 18 the Grand Senoussi, who, urged by the vaded Egypt in November, 1915, with a mixed force of 30,000 men, comprising Serioussi, Arabs, Ber bers and Turks.
interesting varianta now made in. coloured not know the story-until, of cour- She has had blessings that a lot georgette, chiffon, or marquisette, Turkish and German intrigues, in-
This girl came of a "good" fam- of us have missed. All hut one to harmonise with or match the ily. Her father was a lawyer and thing. The wealth of stories that gown. Blue and beige, black and promoter and always made money. we can close our eyes and live white, scarlet and grey, and other She had everything a child could over again she will never have. colours are shown."
The evening fashions are dual, wish when she was little, includ. She can read them now but with ing a pony, and the wonder of the the shut mind of middle age. She dividing into informal and formal Wallace in January, 1916. Ren town, a little black and white cannot live" them as a little ones. monkey. She had more clothes child lives them and remembers.
Informal evening dresses are than almost any other child I knew,. Even "Cinderella," which she lived in a big house and travelled must have heard hundreds of this season ankle-length, and a are shorter even. with her dunt extensively. Her times, did not register clearly. few of them
Both informal, and formal frocks mother died when she was about Unbelievable, isn't it!
sometimes have irregular hem. lines. Formal frocks are instep-
ten.
Always Wanted Books
Fast in Minds Always
Perhaps this accounts for the It seems that I am sticking to length, floor length, and slightly fact that she had never been given fairly tales, but that is merely a training. The narrow, moulded, books. And yet most children coincidence. Fairy tales are only Empire evening dress le still know the classical fairy tales at a hundredth part of the wealth fashionable, but the evening dress
that age.
"I always wanted books-I al ways asked for them," she explain- ed when I expressed surprise, "but
b
with fitted bodice and full skirt
of reading for children."
is much newer. However, full Books are eternal treasures. I skirts do not flare in most cases,
go by
The really new evening frocks, should not let Christmas without them. maybe they thought I was nerv-
though, are the tunke evening ous, or didn't get but enough or Don't look upon a book as mére-frocks, with the tunic about waist- something. I never owned a bookly paper and ink. A book is a length, and with a full skirt that of my own, except school books, country, a continent, a world, that in split to the knees on the sides until I was n great big girl.” can never be taken away. from but modest for all that. No One day a woman was giving a us, even after the covers have waistlines on these frocks, but a book to a child for a birthday gift, crumpled and the printing has certain fullness suggesting the She proudly showed me the mod blurred. "Snow White," "Cinder- Empire line, which is, however, ern volume of little stories ilus olla," "The Sleeping Beauty." "A contradicted by the tunic. trated in a manner we children lice," are as important as "Saved ” Then there are the evening would have opened our eyes over "Guinevere" or "olde" and will frocks with velvet corselets from when we were little had anything live longer in our minds than any bust to hip-line, contrasting with half so marvelous come our way. of the classical ladies of later-life the skirt and part of the frock, Pastels of fairyland fit for areading, even the reading of the these have no waistline, but sug- French boudoir!
"teens."-Olive Itoberts Barton.
gest a new line.
SALESMAN SAM
Well, Looie's Happy!
His army was routed by General
ter's Special.
MENTHOLATUM
Don't
Cry, Girlie! Apply cooling Hen tholatum on your bruised knees to soothe the pain and avoid infection. Soon they will heal up. That's why so many mother always bare Hentholvimen handy for barn malis, cuts, etc. U Mentholatum for quick relief of calda. Apply to use, throsi, dicit.
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9
13.In the Dee it is longing.
17 Tilt comma. (Anagram.)
18 Properly sheaking, each one of"
the 32 Across ought to be.
20 A medicinal plant is nothing certain above a mile below a river.
21 Rearrange a widespread fog If you want to find the criminal in the "eternal triangle."
24 Kalf a tanner.
26 It takes a lot in a vegetable to
make a Basque game.
27 Traps,
30 It's hard enough to
set the
Thames on fire, hut a tekney might think it quite easy to get this burat
31 You might call it a bag: anyhow,
the cat's in it
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