THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY,
UST
193K
ARE SHORT SKIRTS COMING BACK?
FAMOUS DESIGNER GIVES HIS OPINION
A than
BY CAPT. EDWARD MOLYNEUX
f
T this season of the year, less black satin, and, to wear with them,
a month before the a white alik polo shirt. presentation of the winter colloc
The idea was good and practical lons, designers are not apt to be for exercises at home, but it struck. talkative about any innovations
me that it would also be a splendid they want to launch. I, for one, am still in the experimental stage den, made in white tussore, for with my designs, and expect to beach wear. I made a model on modify my ideas right up to the these lines, and that season shorts moment the collection is presented. put in their first appearance on summer beaches and have since However, this much I can say:
adopted by the whole of No sensational change in skiri been
fashion, length is taking place this season. Even if some of the leading coutu. On another occasion a friend who riers here in Paris should take it Is Internationally considered to be into their heads to launch a sudden on
of the smartest women in and radical change in the length of Society complained about the long skirts, I am pretty certain it would evening dress with trains that hud have no success. Women know been worn for the last few seasons. what they want in these days, and She said that this type of dress you can be pretty certain that they was all very well for house wear would never wear ankle length but that at restaurants when she skirts for morning or sports. wanted to dance, trains were a bore, Before the War, Paris dress- I have kept this in mind, and in makers were very little short of future I think you will find that martorial dictators. Fashions, fre-trains on evening dresses will be quently unpractical and often unfinished, except for the must formal lovely. were almost imposed on ecensions. smart women, and they not only stood for it (they were often unable to sit down), but they seemed to enjoy being treated'in this manner, To-day, believe me or not, it is the women themselves who'impose their wishes, their needs and their whims on the designer, and we are only too glad to listen and adapt.
套
After all, it is they who adopt. It seems to me this is the way it Our job is not to should be. dictate, but to realise what styles women are wanting and to provide
them.
DISCUSSION
It is by working out new ideas in this way that one is able to keep Smart wo- modern fashion sane. men to-day are not going to submit to wearing unsuitable clothes. That is why, in my opinion, the length of day skirts, at any rate, will stay more or less as it is now, not only this season but for many seasons to come.
FORECAST
I think you can take the following fashion forecasts as authoritative: For sports wear and day wear Apart from my instinct for deskirts will be definitely short, even aign. I have many real and valued shorter than they are at present. frlands among the leaders of By this I naturally do not mean fashion here in Paris, and also in the knee-length horrors wonten London and New York, who often wore a few years ago, but about 13 como up to see nie in my atelier to inches from the ground. discuss dresses they are wanting for some special occasion.
ARTIFICIAL LIFE EXPLAINED
ASEPTIC TECHNIQUE |
TRIUMPH
CHAMBER OF LIFE
By PROF. D. F. FRASER-
· HARRIS.
Sensational naws comes from
New York that an apparatus has been perfected whereby organs from a dead body can be kept alive not for a few hours but for days.
The inventors are Dr. Alexia Carrel, of the Rockefeller Insti- and tute of Medical Research,
Charles A. Lindbergh, Colonel
the airman.
BRITAIN NEAR TO
WZERO HOUR
BY MORRIS GILBERT
By August 2, 1914, there is no mistaking the ominous war clouds rolling up on every European hort- zon. Ministries and war lords
ULTI-
Rome The council of ministers confirms the neutrality of Italy.
Brussels. 7 p.m.-The German Ambassador hands the Belgian Foreign Minister a German ultima tum. Germany, it declares, per- suaded that the French army would pass through Belgium, determines to prevent "an enomy attack." Germany foresees no. hostile attitudo on Belgium's part, and will respect its territorial Integrity at the end of the war if Belgium maintains "friendly neutrality.”
Belgium dentes free passage for German troops, Germany will con- Alder Belgium as an enemy.
King Albert of Belgium rojects the ultimatum. At the same, time he appeals to King George for n diplomatic intervention:
London. Midday Sir Edward Grey learns of the rejection of the ultimatum.
In Parliament that afternoon,
KING GEORGE AND KING AL-1 he exposes the facts of the Anglo- STOOD SOLIDLY French military and naval conven- BERT
tion, hitherto undisclosed, terming GERMANY'S AGAINST
it a simple "entente" and not an MATUM.
"alliance." Then, suddenly, he reveals the terms of Germany's hastily compose their final aktima ruthless ultimatum. In violation of tums...
the guarantees of neutrality in Many years ago the late Pro-Paris-Learning that German force since 1839.
Ernest fessor
Starling, of
patrols were penetrating into Sir Edward Grey demands of University College, London, des French territory, Premier Vivinat Berlin the withdrawal of the signed an apparatus for keeping protests to the German Ambassador. ultimatum to Belgium. Falling a alive the heart and lungs of a 2.30 p.m. The 10-kilometre retire-satisfactory answer, the British dead cnt. This method should not ment of French troops from the ambassador was to demand his be confused with a quite different French frontier, previously in-passports. one, namely that of Professor Oatituted as a mark of goood faith, Berlin. Bethmann-Hollweg S. Gibbs, a Leicester man, now of is lifted,
scribes the treaty of guarantee of Parls hears that German troops | Belgian neutrality “a simple scrap Georgetown University, Washing-
of paper." ton, whereby the heart of a catare penetrating Luxemburg. was replaced by a rubber bag which for some hours maintained
an artificial circulation through Ing access to the organ and finally
killing it. the still living animal.
HEART BEATING
J
This is a triumph of aseptic Ihysiologists have, of course, technique, for everything--blood, known for a long time that such air, instruments, apparatus-mest an organ as the heart of a cold-
all be germless. beat for blooded animal could many hours after the death of the
H. K. GOVERNÖR
HIGH STATESMANSHIP NEEDED
do-
Shanghal, August. 2. The appointment to the new Into this "Chamber of Life" no
vacant Governorship of Hangkong animal that owned it.
micro-organisms enter, and hence of a statesman of pre-eminent Fishermen and sportsmen know in that sterile chamber nothing is
qualifications, who would assume IL cold-
present to compromise the vitality the duties of rapporteur to the Bri- that the heart of Buch blooded animal as the shark, for instance, will beat for many hours of the surviving organ. This is tish Government on events in the for we have long Pacific for due guidance of British after the shark as a whole is dead, what is new,
article in the North China Daily The hearts of snakes, vipers, and known that by profusing arterial policy is suggested in a leading reptiles such as tortoises will beat blood through an excised organ or News of to-day. ankle strongly long, after their owners limb the organ or limb would live na
One of the simplest truly as when these wore part and could be adjusted so as in nowise It is contended that his relations I then design the dress, and length or A little longer will be are no more.
experiments in the physiological afterwards it is adapted into aight,
There will be two evenlag-dress i laboratory is to kili a frok, cutparcel of the now dead organism.to diminish the authority of the model which is shown to and order. ed by women in general,
silhouettes: the slim straight line Here is an example of what with skirts just to the ground, and the full-skirted evening dress, which will be the same length-
njaan.
For
afternoon dresses
However, we have another month
Some years back Lady-came to see me, telling me she wanted something practical to wear when ahead of us, and many modifications she did her physical exercise. She and surprises may come about, but made a rough sketch on the back in principle 1 feel fairly certain of an envelope, which we decided that the changes will only be could be worked out in the way of modifications and not drastic altera. pleated shorts. We made them in tions.
Catching young storks is a task requiring patience of the East Prussians who are sending the birds to other parts of Germany, to breed a stock for all the country.
out its heart, and feed that heart with sheep's blood, when we can keep it alive and actively beating for quile 24 hours.
Ambassadors
and
in Nanking
Hongkong has close contacts, uncertain in their defnition, with the Kwangtung China through Provincial Government.
We can imitate perfectly the pulsating blood in the arteries Tokyo, which returns as, before by the veins, and hence there is no reason But this life after the death of why, since the organ is supplied the owner of an organ is true of with plenty of good blood, it should other organs than the heart, only not continue to act as it provinsly it is comparatively easy to tell did when in the body. when a heart is alive because we can see it beating. It is not near-
in
ANCIENT PROBLEM
ly so easy to be sure about, say, The American apparatus must be the liver, because we cannot sco very efficient, for we are told that it doing anything.
one experiment the thyroid gland of some mammal has lived for twenty days after the death of the unimal that owned it.
Intimate
Properly directed the Colony's policy could be a valuable m- bassadorial inspiration, to both countries. It is impossible to ignoro geographical facts which bring this island with its mainland appendages, into auch association with China, yet with a muddled sense of defeatlem and self-sufficiency, Hongkong, under Nerves and arteries, we have long the direction of Whitehall, man- hours after the animal that owned known, can live many days postages to perform, "that aupreme act it is dead, for If the liver be sup-mortem, and even the brain, that of myopic aloofness." piled with pure oxygenated blood, most sensitive mass of nerve-cells;"
THE "SURVIVORS"-- Physiologists, however, know that the liver can live for many
The administration of Hongkong
it will continue to do in a glass by far the most vulnerable in the vesnol what it did in the body of body, has been kept alive long calls for no special qualities ivhich the animal-namely, secreto some enough for the physiologists to cannot be secured by the appoint- an officer under the bile, which is ope of its inany satisfy themselves that it was still ment of
Colonial Office, functions.
A vigorous policy of co-operation
alive.
:
Organs which after the death The theoretical implications of between Hongkong and China is of the body go on doing what they this "Chamber of Life" are ex- the urgent need, and it is essential have always done are called tremely interesting, because there that Hongkong's important In- "surviving" organs.
is no valid reason why a survivingterests, and the benefits which It brain, for instance, should not re- can confer on, the Far East, should Now the trouble in the past has tain its consciousness since it is be brought within the scope of been that this post-mortem life being supplied with plenty of pure active Sino-British friendship. could not be exhibited indefinitely blood under sufficient pressure. because the isolated organ becamo| invaded by bacteria whose poisons ultimately killed it.
For that purpose Great Britain
the
In some respects the "Chamber requires statesmanship on of Life" brings us nearer to the spot, and the requirement may he comprehension of the physical con-best met by inducing a man of What the American biologists ditions necessary to maintain local pre-eminent qualifications Επ have discovered is a method of Hfe, but it cannot be sald to help assumie extended responsibilities preventing thene ever-present us to solve the nge-long problem in association with the Governor- germs of putrefaction from gain-of the nature of life itself.
jship-Router.
EFRIGERATION
REFRIGERVICE TO
*Undar Europaan Management.
"TD.
An Independent Super-Service for any make of Refrigerators, Everything for Electric Automatić Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning
SALES, HIRE, REPAIRS & TRADE-IN and SERVICE Distributors for well known makes of Refrigerators and parts: Full stocks of Refrigerants and parts at reasonable prices. Before you have your machine recharged with Refrigerant
consult us as to prices...
All work under expert supervision, GUARANTEED, and with the highest efficiency.
WORKS:
282 Ma Tau Wei Road, Kowloon.
Tel. No. 50311.
OFFICE: 4th Floor, King's Building, Connaught Road.
Tel. No. 24422,
ARE YOU LACKING IN VITAL FORCE & VIGOURP
Pure Blood is HEALTH, VIGOUR and LIFE,
Impure Blood is the root cause of Skin Diseases, Boils, Rashes, Ulcers, Sores, Glandular Swellings, Rheumatism. The polsons result in damage to the arteries, internal organs and premature old age. The direct way to health is by purifying. the blood with Clarke's Blood Mixture.
IS LIQUID TABLET form of all Chinists mod Dealers.
CLARKE'S
CRIMINAL
BLOOD PUNIPVING MERCINE
BLOOD MIXTURE
Ini
AEROMAIL.
Facsimile of
Watermark
SPECIAL
REDUCE
YOUR
AIR MAIL CHARGES
BY USING
THE "POST" AEROMAIL LETTER PAPER
AND ENVELOPES.
EXTREMELY LIGHT.
AND STRONG
ON SALE AT:-
THE SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. -
Wyndham St.
Tel. 26615.
PADS CONTAINING 100 SHEETS, LETTER SIZE, $1,00
ENVELOPES IN 3 SIZES, $1.75 TO $2.75 PER 100, SMALLER QUANTITIES ALSO AVAILABLE,
JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy. Farm's Soda Fountain.
The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of No. 6 Queen's Road Central.
Page 15Page 16