THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1986.
How to become an autumn
SUN
BLONDE
BL
ARE you a sun-blonde-brown-haired in winter, when hats take all the sparkle out of your hair,
then 'ripening to gold when the sun shines?
To Increase the effects of sun-without harming the half-wipe on some spirit, such as eau de would not 071, Cologne. The spirit, without lighten your hair, but the combined effect of run and spirit is to act as a bleach.
So that the under part of the hair does not how through darker, change the parting occasional- ly. As spirit is rather drying, rub in a little oll of sweet almonds at night, to counteract this tendency.
A LONDON WRITER, round-the-world traveller, on the way through
China finds-
Hongkong is as smart as Paris
N the guide-books there is always a piece headed, "The Romance of Pei- ping Mysterious, Glamor- ous, Fascinating.'
If you turn over a few pages you will find "Facts About Hong- kong," just like that. You will learn its distance from London (11,000 miles), its total popula- tion, which day it is in London when it is five o'clock over here; but none of them will ever call it Romantic.
But then Honghotų (was it I whe said it or two other people?)
is
not Ching, though exactly what it other scribe
is neither I nor any
hus bothered to find out.
--and clothes
ants to give the one mare Chinese incal before i lett China, maybe for years, maybe for ever.
.
We had a lot of good things to eat; I tell you all about a Chinese dinner another time, Mennwbile 1 seem in recollect promising a piece about brati shouts, that typient Chinese vegetable, and how to grow them. Well, here's how.
You can use any sort of dried bron: broad beans they say are good, You lay them out on damp Bannel. keep it damp and in the dark until the shoots are at least an inch high. Then you fry them in hot uit for from two to five minutes according to how crispy you like them, and add then at the very last second to a
are stew, curry. or a mixed vegetable
ten times as cheap
Inspiration
for a 'dress:
the straight
up and down
Chinese robe
with its dis
creet calf.
high slit skirt
sinister ay
is much accentuated.
other
It is as smart as Paris, us neon-
It as New York, as
Singapore, and, like most ports in the world, it has its Chinese quarter.
Air-cooling Revolution
There's a lot of inspiration for
HONGKONG makes undies dress designers though, if they like
that beat those you can get in Paris and for. tenth of the price. Walk up and Thousand down the Street of and One Nighties and loolt at them. I walked that way myself.
there are only 999,
to look around the streets. The Chinese Exhibition in London offer- the ed nothing as decorative as strent-cleaning coolie's wet-day out- fit, which is made of natural coloured Now coconut fibre, fringed at the bottom, and with wide, fringed cape sleeves.
The foreign residents are mostly. It looks like Snail-skin in trade. There is none of the
aimless amlability of
They go
Peiping.
glish.
Not the sort of Place for You
Are the town.
FTER dinner we went in It fa't only the forelyn girls but
There is a the rich Chinese who are smu
smart In
certain amount of talk Hongkong. They are wise enough to wear Chinese style dresses, but they hout opium and heroin dens, sailors Joints, and mysterious dives, but they have plenty of Western influence.
The straight up and down Chinese were "not the sort of pince for you, robe with its discreet calf-high slit my dear."
ated.
пя
skirt Is, In Hongkong, much accentu- So I never got to see anything To begin with, it is made to more during than a night club with et at the waist. The slit in the skirt a cabaret consisting of a couple doesn't stop at the calf or even at of tanigalsts, a vocalist, a set of Hula the knee if the leg underneath is Hula. girls, who danced gaily, but worth exhibiting.
decorously, to Hawaiian guitars. With some difculty, I managed to Hongkong persuade some of the local inhabit- right.
SKIN ITCH?
safe quick relief
ROUND ABOUT by
T
The Showman
HE stupidity of it all 1s appalling. Everywhere Arc propagooseygandists, foaming nt the beak, and wandering, up- stairs and downstairs, to blazen,
Our blood is being made to curdle, our spines are being chilled. We are told that the nations are sitting out & powder-barrel. Splenetle aples repor the latest drops of venom thrown off by the "circles"-diplomatic, authori talive, military and inanelal-in their crazy, whirling dances.
quite mad it seema and quite hope- 13.
And all wo want-Bert and I-is a nice quiet time, with a bit of money and a bit of good, clean fun.
That's all. Funny. Isn't it?
Looking Ahead
MEANWHILE, to regain the good
humour for which I am famous.
I am taking leave to Ax my vlaionary eye on the year 2000. And what do I ACC?
I see nothing: that is the beauty of it.
Stay My glass clears as I empty it. I see the world convulsed by two im- porlant events. First, Mr. Winston Churchil has just completed his Reventy-sixth life of Mariborough: Recond, a nuky daffodil has turned and bitten Mr. Beverley Nichols on the ankle.
Generous Impulse
A
WOMAN motorist, who was fued for obstruction, was said to have admitted that she find Igoked into one costumier's shop for twenty minutes.
Or, as the dear old song put . "I Am aut past buying our Widow.**
Reversion to Madness
NOW to the consideration of a phirare that will be killed only when all the publicly-men and journalists are faki end-to-end The world's tat-dressed worst."
But have you thought of the powder- barrel on which it sits? The dull,
ke face of the husband-at-breakfast brightens romantically as he reads 1. The wife, knowing that she can never rival this description, determines to make up for it by being a better, nweeter tle waren, and, ús a starter, affectionately hacks her husband of the shins when he sets out to business.
He retaliates lovingly by lunging n her with his umbrella. A bit, a pal pable hit! She screams. The hatre collapses. The re-brigade is un- moned. Fights start. A riot, Police. Civil Trong called out. Revolution. war. The end of the Empire.
I tell you, the careless use of this phense is fraught with danger.
From the Heart PEOPLE clarwbere have been invited Lo reply to this question: "What points have struck you about any ex- pertence?'
Disregarding the obylous-an the var sald when getting up off a sting- ing rettie-here is the chanco of n lifeline for Mr. Baldwit) to give his real impressions of a night in the Home of
Thus, perhaps: ----
Communs.
1. I always seem to be apologising
for somebody or other
cosmopolitan all
J.
Apply cooling anti- soptic Absorbine, Jr. -stops the itching, provents inflamma- tion. Promotes healthy healing for pimples, bolls, eczema and Insect bitas.
Absorbine
Sales Agents: MULLER MACLEAN & CO., INC.
HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.
HEN there are amah suits
made of lychee cloth,! which is shiny, and black
I The total Expenditure in 1930 on behalf of and looks a little like shuil-skin. bought ene of these, or, rather, a sick and destitute children is estimated at two-piece sult; a man-amah's trou- $22,000, against which the Income to date is sara, which are wider and longer than $20,000 only.
$2,000
to smart restaurants and wear smart clothes, and think
decoration Oriental-atylc
is "op- pressive," They live in an air-con- ditioned
air-cooling atmosphere; has revolutionised life in the tropics. the woman-aman's calf-length, tight- In order to continue its work, the Society
The female Hongkonger looks filling pants, and the woman-amah's asks for the balance of West for her inspiration in clothes top.
This fastens close up at the neck, before the close of the financial year on --except for the smart tailored day
the fits at the waist, has elbow length 31st October. sults of tropical sulting and
running Hon. Treasurers: evening suits with white, tight-sleeves, and fastens with waisted, exaggeratul shouldered little loops and buttons across from the front of the neck and down un- mess jackets worn over blouses with
der one arm. Lychee cloth would black bows at the neck, with a plain
atoo make fine, sleek, Western style: long black skirt.
evening dresses. They say water? runs of it if you ever had to walk home.
These are of the East if not East- ern, being copied from their boy friends' daily wear.
Mr. A. McKELLAR, CA.
c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co.,
P. & O. Building. Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine.
Hongkong. September 15, 1930.
Lloyd George would look a different, man with a proper haircut.
I know I must have said something keTrust me," or "Sealed Ups
that I neder hear the end of
4. Why on earth didn't stick to business, breeking pigs, and reading Mary Webb?
Danger To Aryan,
HOSE members of Herr ler's bodyguard, who have been pun- ished for having failed to prevent the American woinan klasing him, are now writhing with chune.
"Did you not realise." they were told. "Uut the Lender'a moustache was in danger? Did you not realise that danger to the Leader's moustache In Did you not danger to Germany? realise that the Lender's moustache in part of his sacred equipment na a Hairy 'un?
I may any that I have already been shot for making this atrocious pun. SOUVENIR
"I now have a cup at home of which I am the praud possessor. My dream really came true."
Most of us find it hard enough
to get away with tea-spoons.
Wags' Corner
"DAD, I don't find this book much
use," said a boy who had just begun to collect butterfles and moths.
"Where did you get it from?" "From a library. It's called. 'Ad- vice to Young Mothers,' but there's not
word about moths in It,"
H.M.V. PORTABLE GRAMOPHONES
The finest toned non-electrical Portable made with Automatic Starter & Stopper.
*1
In all popular colours.
THE LIFE AND SOUL of the PARTY !
TSANG FOOK. PIANO COMPANY. Marina House, 19. Queen's Road, C. Tel. 24648.
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
12"
113
116
14
10
1:20
27
30
33
ACROSS
B
It may be run down, but the householders won't be offended. osk 5 It's lower in price. You
your broker!
8 Hoopoe wasn't the right bird. but it seems to settle who wrote about it.
Shows Inability to combine bun
and ade?
10 If he plays dominoes, he begins
with double-sixes.
11 Confuse.
12 Possibly put on the line."
with the whip 14 Free-handed
about a certain time.
10 The officer in charge is prob
forgotten all about the rent Greek whe started it. 17 A horrid lie.
18 Mr. Lansbury's tree.
19 How we creep about.
tea
23 Has a long tall and ten feet and
-an.... edre for n seaside
fenture.
20 A great mon in his way and
sounds attractive.
27 Goes out, evidently belonging to
Suson.
28 A great actor.
29 There's spirit in this card, 30 Infantile quadruped. 31 Give off.
32 A Shakespeare princess. 33 Kind of inch. 34 A 13 Down.
DOWN
225 in one of them here. 2 Without difficulty.
be 3 Could
altered--but it wouldn't be Stting!
THEFT BY A BRIDE
ཐ
20
131
116
#1
4 Keen desire.
5 Surround.
6 To start with:
124
7 He scores his bulls probably
with his G Down.
13 Minced ple on a volume.
15 I like this after a cup of tea.
19 If you take pains, you'll find
nart of a bird inside.
20 They conceal their hoarding
not that they are ashamed of it. 21 Oriental.
22 Take one's pleasure. 23 A living wage?
24 Pay sincerest flattery.
20 Human swine seem to mono- colouring pollse most of this matter.
Yesterday's Bolation. DOLOMITES BASI
B.ARMA DE GA 10
T UGM TREE AZTEC STAR ZASCHRENDE
BUBTAIN TOWE DE
OSTRIPPARSEES T TO SEE OF FOME3 LEADEDRILLFAPES IRSUTES 5«E O GARDEN BBPARROW
TIDAL DOGSEARED
Wong went out to buy theatre
that
Returning he found tickets. his newly wed wife had disappear- ROBS HUSBAND ON
ed, together with his money, taken Wait- from an unlocked suitcase, WEDDING NIGHT
ing til 11 p.m. for her to come Remorseful and repentant, Hung back, Wong then reported the mat- Slu-ngan, 21, stood in the dock be- ter, to the Shamshulpo Police Sta- fore Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the ton.
the made, but Inquiries were Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, and shamefacedly adinitted the theft of woman could not be found.
on September About 10.30 am. from her $700 in Canton
25, she walked into the police sta- Det.-Sgt. Forrest said that Wong tion and gave herself up. She stat arrived from Canton on August 31,ed that she had given some of the She and took up residence at 208 Tai money to Chan Sum-fu and the rest
was in her mother's house. Nam Street, second floor.
On September 10 he was intro-hod stolen the money because she duced to defendant by a woman was in debt. At her mother's house, named Chan Sam-fu, Wong agreed $375 was recovered.
husband. Wong Kwale 25.
Chan Sam-tu had disappeared. to marry the young woman and on
The Magistrate took a lenient September 20 they began Ilving to-
view of this case, and fined defen- Heiher..
About 7 pm on the next day, dant $100 or one month hard labour.
ADVERTISE
where there is no
doubt about
CIRCULATION
SALESMAN SAM
SPEAKIN' OF VACATIONS, SAM, LOKAY, DUZ2! WHY IF YA WANNA GO SOME PLACE/DON'T WE BIG- OTHER THAN SANDY, BEACH, SHOTS GO ON A.
I'LL GO WITH YA!
„HUNTIN' TRIP?
[OFFICE
OF
E.
DUZZEN
Oh, Won't That Be Ducky?
SOUNDS GOOD! BUTT WE GOTTA GO SOME PLACE, WHERE THERE'S SOMETHIN'
TA HUNT!
|
BUT I WOULDN'T WANNA GO THERE AN' COME BACK WITHOUT US
HAVIN' HIT ANY THING!
(SURE! WOODY WOODS
IS JES'TH' PLACE||PI
FER-US!
OUT
~72 LUNCH
220022
·RIGHTO! THASS WHY I'VE PICKED WOODY WOODS!
By Small
ITS RIGHT NEAR OL QUIGLEY QUACKS
DUCK FARM!
PARASOLS
150¢ UP-
SAME PRICE
DOWN-
AT DUZZEM'S
T. AL MIG, LA I PAT, OFF.
Ø 19M BY KIDE SERVICE, DING
MEN
WOLKING DROP IN