THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH BATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1918,
PARKER
IF YOUR NAME IS-
LUCY Symbol:
'A village School.
THIS name expresses frugality, love of nature and
the joy of the open country.
Monday is your lucky day and the hour after sun- rise and the second hour before sunset will bring you the greatest fortune. The 7th and the 27th days of the month are most favourable to you.
Grey and white are the colours that are most in harmony with the name of Lucy. Make use of them and combine them with the deeper shades in your schemes of decoration,
For your jewels choose moonstones and pearls. They will add to your happiness and good for- tune. Your lucky flower is the white fox-glove. 7 is your lucky number.
Ladies Must
THE
HE New
fa
shions mena
that we must re- learn to walk.
Learn
Mannequins are practising, the dance teachers are finishing their "mbering" lessons to debutantes with a course of walking round a ballroom with a wooden platter poised on their heads..
You simply cannot dress like a Chinese goddess or a Grecian one and stroll nonchalantly into a ball- room or restaurant: the watchword is "Glide." Slave draperies mean the same thing.
To
Walk
draped skirts will fall evenly on either side of you.
DUT the heel of the right foot in I the Instop of the second as in a ballet the standing position of
them about girl and then slide three inches apart. This will bring your knees nearly together with- And during the day, if you are to wear the short, narrow skirt out awkwardness. Finally, forget with ease, you should adopt the you ever wore trousers or shorts. These rules apply to the even- Beema that you same watchword and the lower heel.
become A dual person- The secret, I am told, lo to keeping only. It' the foot near the ground all the must
time. No high stopping, feet al-ality. During the day regard lega most straight, spine ditto.
ERTRUDE Lawrence kno.ra the GER
secrot of moving swiftly with an apparent effortless ease. It, is difficult to fathom how she does it in voluminous skirts, but it seemed to mo that it must have something to do with the way she moves from the hips, with the body Immobile; of the head her poise perhaps helps
Walking is not the only difficulty, however. There is the question of standing. Go to the British Museum and look at the' statues. Put in imagination, a cocktail glass in that uplifted band and note, how balance in achieved by the arm that drops loosely at the side. Loosely folded hands will, I sup pose, be permissible, but what shall we do about sitting. There is little In common between the free-and easiness of the modern poses and the dignity of the seated goddesses in stone or jade,
as something of which to be proud and knees as ornamental. At night remember the attitude of the ladies who draped their dining-room table legs lest they should remind any- one that women possessed "nether limbs."
Isn't it lucky that women are so adaptable?.
I
Women's Hats
Five-Minute Exercise No. 4
Here
an exercise, one designed to send a good reviving breeze deep down into the lungs. Specially good for heavy smokers and the weak- chested.
And
Gowns
No matter how young you hats are doing handsome
are, you want to feel things in tandem manner more alluring than ever at this year. You can either the gay winter parties, so get your hat to suit your you get into. the proper coiffure or vice versa. But spirit by finding dance you'll have to think of them dresses.
together or you won't be the irresistible piece you might otherwise be.
There is
and
no reason for that look of doubt on the face of the young lady on the left. Her dress is of cired lace in a very pale shade of pink. The front of her, skirt is slender, but it makes up for its slenderness by being voluminous, trailing in the back. front of the skirt and the train as well are edged in finely pleated net ruffles of the same shade. Net ruffles also outline the rather low decolletage and go over the shoulders to practically the waistline in back.
The
Just imagine yourself sweeping into a party with
Take now coiffure. (1) that parts the hair half way down the left side, curls little bangs over each side of the forehead and then gives a couple of soft waves of the hair all around the head, with curls at the back. An ideal hat for this coiffure (1 A) is one of the new high-in-the-back cuff beretsi that slides down to nothing
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over one eye, parts its cuff in the back and ties a neat bow across the back just above the curls. It is eel brown velvet, sleek, smart and dignified.
a chiffon train made entire- in
POSITION: Feet slightly above apart. Stretch arms head keeping shoulder normal position.
EXERCISE: In this position breathe in slowly. Hold your breath while you count thirty (more, if you can). Then ex- hale, suddenly, leaning forward from the waist, allowing your arms also to fall forward ef- fortless. Then, jerking your arms down, so that you bend further, go on breathing out feel as (even though you though you have no breath, left).
When you begin to wheeze or cough the exercise has ful- filled its purpose.
DON'T breathe in while you are bending forward."
Girls' and Boys' Corner ADVENTURE OF SMOKÝ
by UNCLE
Stromberg escapes and returns to the forest for ivory.
will tell you this week,WHAT do we do?" demanded children, of my old friends, Jack Jack.
Smoky shrugged his shoulders. Smoky, and Midnight, who are out
"He's a white man," he said..
on another jungle expedition when
·ly of ruffles-dozens of IF you intend going in for mysterious charm this them in Neptune blue. The entire dress is of chiffon. winter, a new coiffure for The ruffles begin at the you (2), particularly good waistline and go on inde-for blondes, dresses the finitely that is, to the floor. hair straight across the top, The front of the skirt is so with a right angle part and plain, and slender that it a cute bang that curls up actually turns you into a toward the middle. Flat ringlets cover the sides of nymph.
The back is The shoulder cape is de-the head. tachable, and you can parted straight down and remove it and hold it over the hair curled up to the your partner's back while skies.
dancing.
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beginning at the extremely energy in the morning. high waistline, which is
pointed. The draped shoul-
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and curls
they strike a deserted kraal. Mys- "We'll have to go after him. In YOU might as well start tiled, they decido to stay and any, case we've got to get back to your aeroplane, Jack, The quick- investigate. S
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You must choose a chair that They follow the trail of a motor-the lorry had been attacked. There under their backlines. Just fits your length of legilorry and catch up with Stromberg, was no sign of Stromberg.
(To be continued). You must sit slowly so that your their old enemy.
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