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Pottery For Flowers
MOLOUR, which is such an im-
COLO
portant factor in
dower con-
tuiners, is getting more
attention
from the makers of pottery ware, and you no longer need depend en- tirely upon
The ordinary white,
cream, and bluck
were for artistic results from your floral groupings.
of clover The new shades
und
fuchsin that are so popular for dress wear and furnishings now, have spread to pottery. and all sorts of fascinating vnses, bowls, and Jars Can be had in these colours,
Reddish purple anemones tool de- Ilastful in them, for the colouring of the blooms and the pottery are com-
perfectly. plementary, and so blend
Then there is a charming pinky belge pottery that accentuates the pink linge in flowers, and brings out and the delicate hues of freesins aquileglas. The varied tinta of the lust two flowers are so subtle that they are apt to merge into their back- ground !! it is the wrong one. put into a jar of belge pottery with pinkish undertone their lovely colours will stand out cicarly.
If
Vases and bowls in rich blues and greens are also available at a price to quit
quit the average purse. The blue foil for shades provide "splendid flowers that are either quite purple or of so dark a blue that they are near- purple, while the greens give white flowers a waxy. exotic appearance, and are also ideal for tinted follage..
A careful study of the colours of both flowers and container will en- uble you to build up an effective and
atisfying picture quite easily.
The guiding rule to remember is to try and discover the pale tint that underlies the strong body colour in almost every flower and match this to the pottery. It is usually pink in #light blue flower and in
in purple blooms,
some
nauve ones, red and yellow in cream and orange-red
ortes,
If, therefore, you put some orange- red nasturtiums into a yellow Jur the yellow of the pottery will intensity the yellow in the flowers without de- tracting from the red tones, which are no strong to be affected adver- sely. You will thus get the full value of the magnificent colouring of the blooms.
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Summer Dress Parade
VARIETY is the spice of the sum-
"simple
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mer dress programme. Whether you choose a ittle frock" for day wear or glamorous evening gown or a sophis- ticated afternoon ensemble you will And that your choice of material and design is extensive.
Clothes for summer days have so many smart, individual touches that when you buy a dress, say, you can hardly fall to feel that it has just bern wilting in the shop for you that alone
SO into it, to step
full glory. This it may attain its marked trend towards individuality In dress is one of the happlest features of the summer parade, for
puld for Whatever sum Due has
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Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 8, 1939.
LOOKING LOVELY..
MIDGE, Sun High
answer
Service Bureau Ex
Personal & Home Beauty Problems
"Can't we turn it down a bi17"
EAUTY may be only skin deep, but isn't it true that a feeling Pot poise comes with a well- Kroomed appearance?
It
money, but a wise choice of colours for clothes And make-up; shoea, gloves, bag and ollier accessories in harmony; white
ingerle touchica crisp and fresh.
n't nlways a question
And beauty doesn't stop at one's own personal appearance; there is the aspect of providing it with the right Deiling-a charming home.
Readers have touched on both sides of the question In their letter to the Service Bureau. Here are some of the replies sent by ex- perts.
Brittle Nails
My nails have gone dry and brittle in the aca air and the cuticles are in- clined to split,
TRY. leaving off your varnish for a week or two and buffing the nails instead. Boak the finger-tips nightly in warm olive oil for ten minutes.
Pour a lie oll into a cup and sland it in hot water until the oil is warm, then put your fingers in it. Do this regularly and you will soon see un im- provement. Afterwards you can go back to your usual varnish. Red Heads Beware!
I have reddish hair and extremely Jatr skin. I long for a nice suntan, but usually only succeed in gelling bills
YOU are one of the people who must glory in their fairness and leave the copper tints to those with stronger and darker akins.
Although one of the good protective lotions will help you, you will not be able to le basking for hours at a stretch. You can deepen the colour of your skin with a special make-up.
Make-up for Tennis
Please advise me
QN
make-up.
I am playing in a big tennis tourna ment and want to look my best. I have dark hair, pale skin and brown eyes, I shall wear white.
CONCENTRATE on a natural effect,
and, above all, a make-up which will last. I suggest a good foundation lation, rouge and lipstick in a clear
uf
Carole Lombard protects har blonde hair with a peasant scarf
red, and peachy powder. You might like to use powder-cream as a founda tion; it stays on well, even when you get hot.
Too Plump
Like most "overweights, I feel sultry weather very much. Besides, a double chin and a "fyra" round my waist are apolling my looks. Can you help me, please?
8 you say, these extra pounds are
A even more burdensome is not
weather.
And it's a pity for a good- looking woman to know that her looks are being spoilt by overplumpness.
You'll be glad to hear of a new clentine discovery-a reducing creat; which is rubbed on to chin, neck, waist, or wherever necesary to reduce ex- cessive fat
Pretty Wedding
I want a very pretty wedding. What colour do you suggest for my four bridesmaida? Two are brunettes, one fair, and the fourth has black hair with grey-blue eyes.
ASWEET pen colour scheme would Have the girls be attractive. dressed in delicate shades of pink. The blue, green and mauve chiton. pink and blue dresses would sult the
Koala Bear Eats Sand
Cowes, Austraila.,
brunettes, and I would choose mauve for the dark girl and green for the blonde bridesmaid
They could wear circular veikt sur mounted by wreaths of flowers in mixed tones to match the dresses, and carry bouquets of pale pink rosebuds or mixed sweet peas.
High Colour
What colour should I wear? I have
pretty auburn hair, but my com
plexion is very floridi
KEEP off all bright tones. You will
And that navy, black, dark green or brown will offset your hair succeES- fully and have the effect of toning down your complexion. There is a new subdued shade of moss green which should suit you.-M. G.
Baby's Hair
!
Baby's hair is inclined to be straggly, and she has a great deal of scurt on her scalp.
ADVISE you to take Baby to a good hairdresser about once a month, Expert trimming stops the straggly look, and if looked after now, her hair should develop a nice natural wave Inter an
Pastel Bedroom
Can you help me to plan my new bedroom? 1 ain fair, I like feminine colours, and I want something really pretty and dainty
A
PASTEL scheme seems the right Betting for you. If the room is sunny, I suggest walls papered a pale green, woodwork to match. ceiling cream, and mushroom fawn carpet.
Have a peach pink bedspread and elderdown, pale peach niñon frilled curtains droped across the window, the leng draw curtains of chintz with n
while enjoying a sun bath
dainty floral design in peach and green on a creat ground.
Your dressing table mats could be pale green organdle, trinket set peach glass, with palo green candies. Light waxed walnut, sycamore, or natural oak furniture would look nice with this pastel scheme.
If the room does not get much aun, substitute pale peach for green as the wall colour and have a pale green bed. spread and elderdown.-J. J.
Party Sweet
Can you print a recipe for a pretty party stocet-something novel but not digicult?
I SUGGEST stuffed melon. Choose
ORDEAL BY STAIRWAY
A'
HUSH falls over the gay
chattering groups as she
glides down the great staircase with
cool, unhurried steps. She holds the
centre of the stage-end she knows it.
Only the confidence bora of a very slender lissom figure could stand up to ordeal by stairway on an "Orders and Decorations "occasion like tonight. She takes no chances with that willowy figure of hers. If, through some rare oversight, her host fails to see that there is gin and Rose's Lime Juice then she just sighs faintly and drinks nothing. He is a lucky bost who sees her a second time at his parties after making such a gaffe. There are many, many parties, but only one Rose's.
Book the Date
SATURDAY, JUNE 17th, 1939
CHILDREN'S CHARITY
THE
FAIR
IN AID 'OF
NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
FOR THE CARE OF WAR ORPHANS
a medium-sized molan, cut a slice "All
off the top and remove the seeds. Scoop out the melon and cut it into small pleoca, und, maka into a fruit- salad with tinned peaches and apricots, wafer slices of apple, raspberrica, quar- ters of orange,
Put all into the melon case, top it with whipped cream, and decorate with shredded almonds, whole raspberries or slices of peach.
Putting on the Shine
I have been married iz months, and have conscientiously polished my walnut suite, but the wood has lost it. nice bloss and looks smeary, Can you help met
REGULAR cleaning with furniture cream keeps walnut furniture In You have probably good condition. been using too much polish and not rubbing it up suelently.
Rub over the suite with soft muslin out in equal parts of vinegar wrung and warm water, dry with a leather. then apply a little good furniture cream and polish up with a duster or leather, Polish the suite with a leather dally: It should not be necessary to use ap- cream oftener than every week or ten
days.
A koala bear here has setentists nings towards the foot of the skirt going haywire. The bear Ilves only 21 where it Anished in a plethora
on sand and salt, water, staying on dress it is comforting to feel that coloured blossoms.
has "something different" which
An afternoon dress striped in navy, the beach, following the tide in and raises it above the ordinary level.
and white had the stripes aut, drinking salt water on the way, clover. A mannequin display of summer running in vertical direction on the with an occasional mouthful of sand.
Koalas rarely come to the beach R, Ste gang rape mujy? fashions was given recently, when skirt and horizontally on the bodice. models
for day, afternoon, and even- Flowers also had an important and, according to naturalists, rarely said, it is because they feel the ing wear were shown."
part to play: One-smurt two-piero drink. When they do drink, it is proach of death. Stripes were cleverly used in the ensemble of frock and jacket in navy design of several dresses. For in- and white had the top part of the stance, vivid black and white stripes dress patterned with widely spaced in a horizontul direction patterned a navy blue flowers graduating towards striking evening dress with bigh the foot of the dress where the pat- waltline and short train effect. tern had changed into white flowers Over the stripes on differed parts of an a navy ground. On the jacket the dress was a floral pattern in the
cllect graduating ereasing in size from small begin-achieved.
same
What Women Have
Taught Me
By A MODERN man
If there inclined to think we
was
is only half-a-crown to
WE, men are upon the earth to do spend, a woman will show a man how any teaching that may be necessary. tu spend it and have a good time on Women are there to be accepted, but It; while the man, If left to himself, down not to full any logical would declare himself to certataly
but those of being good and out and miserably broke. purposes
Women wives and rearing nice children.
can show any man, if he i I do not think woman to teach him chooses to look, the art of being sen- anything about the art of living, sibly hard-hearted. This may be be But he ought to. I have come to cause women are shrewd and look
thut
to their the conclusion
always
own and their women have
am family's affairs before anything else. deal, and 1
laught me a great taking a lesson. But the fact remains that a woman
assuredly not
Women have taught me the mean- has the commonsense to be able to lag of unselfishness. Men have not, refuse pleas for money or loans of in themselves, the slightest concep- money.
tion of the art of making sacrifices, A Sense of Monetary Values should really be made. If a man
For Our Junior Readers
T
-TO-DAY'S hunting has yielded a very mixed bag. The chief catch was a mermaid's purse." for so an old beachcomber called a three-inch long, leathery kind of case with tendrils at each end, which at one time carried a dog-
Asia's cres.
The tendrils, acting as anchor chains, coll round clusters of sea- weed or coral stalks, and so hold the "cradle" steady.
But I found most amusement to-day in watching the antics of numerou crabs, brought out of their rock cro- vices in swarms, so it seemed, by the mols: heat. Almost at once I fright- ened a masked crab, which was push- ing up out of the sand, only to take cover again very quickly when ho heard my excited yell
Selfish Shell-fish
Not so the green shore crab. This fellow, Icaring pursuit, scampered off at top speed, tripping along on his too- like claws like a dancer, and was soon safely hidden in a rock alleyway.
Greediness in't the word for these harmless looking crabs. From behind a rock I spied on three, sharing a meal, a allco of fish,
Not only was the biggest Decimen
A Rhubarb "Wrinkle❞
the sourness
of
KING CRAB
Tripping along on his too-like claws.
disantialed after eating the Ilen's share, but in a sudden fit of rage he turned on the smallest crab, and in o very few seconds revealed himself as a
Help Kidneys
starts out to do something unselfish, A woman can say "Yes" as readi- depend upon it that he does it in ly us any man if u case truly deserves such a way that all the world knows her indulgence: But-the-does-notr and thumps him on the back. That like any man, say "Yes" and spend is not unselfishness. It is just glori- money Invishly on totally unworthy destion.
objects:
Don't Take Drastic Drugs To overcome Women ате very different. The
Men are soft-hearted. It is men
rhubarb, cook it in a casserole Your kidneys have nine million tiny world
with daughters is crammed
who
dls- over-tip. Women show
in a slow oven with Barbados sugar. tabes or filters which are endangered_by neglect or draatio, irritating drugs Be who have given up chances of hap crimination in money matters.
Let the sugar and water boll before warsi If Kidney trouble or fladder weak- A man enn learn from women the adding piness in order to say with a lonely
the rhubarb, cut into that sexe makes you suffer from Getting P Up Nights, Leg Paina, Nervousness, there must art of buying, bargaining, and gener-neat cubes about an inch long. inotlier or father. And be thousands of wives who ancrifice ally shopping. We scoff at the wo
If a few cubes of a red jelly tablet Fe Stiffness, Ithaurasism, Lumbaro, Circles Under yes, Bwolien Anklas,
Amarting.
themselves in a hundred unnoticeable man shopper, but she has the last are added at the same time, the Neuralgie Burning cur don'z dol ways so that their husbands may be laugh. A large part of the earth's happy. A woman oaks for no thanks surface could be covered by un-flavour and colour of the fruit will Acidity or Loss of
be improved. other than her pleasure if pleasure wanted articles that men have bought
·
W. B.
Big Shot of the Rock Pool
cannibal. He was king of the rock pool and a despotle specimen, too.
There are lots of rock pool dwellers that I shouldn't like to meet if I were, Bay, an oyster. Take the Dog Whelk, for instance. I found him, near low tide mark, perched on an oyster shell. and would you belleva 12-pulling his tongue out! This gimlet-like longue, armed with filoly iceil, was boring Into the oyater's shell. At the rate he was going. It would take him two days But the poor to reach his dinner. oyster hadri't any hope of sbaking him оп.
Qyster Feast
Though that one, at least, lives again. For, in examining the whalk, I loosened its terrible grip, and so robbed it of what must have been a hard earned meal
"Five-fingered Jack," the starfish, also likes oysters and also, I discovered, alls on their backs, extending his feelers, and by muction and by cutting off their food supplies, forces them to apen their shells-whereupon he helps himself to the feast.
shells.
After meeting these fierce folk, it was n change to pick up some lovely sen Amongst then was a perfect ladder shell, tapering to a fine point. with whorls spiralling, both up and down it and round its sides, looking like a fairy's ladder. Any number of acorn barnacles, mussel shells and pod razor shells, and two beautiful queen scallop shells, ribbed on the outside and coloured cloudy pink inside, I found on the shore,
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Then, finally, I saw the funniest of beach nights, a cockle dance. It was law tide. Buddenly a dozen or more of these little shell-fish leapt to le, anch thrusting its deahy foot out side- wayn. and danced down into the sen. Bo that was their famous foot-a won- derfully agile piece of muscle,
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A shop assistant. The woman who a perfect idiot. But it is very true in 48 hours. Cratom obat little and guaranteed to end your troubles in goes into a shop to buy what she that a woman can never look ridicul-1 days or money back. At all chemists The Art of Living
wants and nothing else-even to the ous. She can carry off a parallel Again, women have taught us the extent of turning the whole empori- situation without a blush or the finesse of loving. A man blunders um inside out deserves the hommage Bicker of an eyelid. She is socially.
Insensible of she should receive, through life, absurdly
more attractive "Socially Perfect"
the finer, ngater,
points. It is wamen who, even if
they are not 'creative, know how to
perfect. It is her job. Where men flush, shuffle their feet, stammer, and look obsurd, women
are. calm and
Women have taught me the art of thoroughly self-composed.
Bay
All these things which women can deal with loveliness already there. self composure. No
mon can
It is just that thing which we know with my degree of truth that he teach men are by he means value- an entry to a dinner less. Indeed, if I could say that men us a woman's touch." It is invalu-can: make able. It can make the best of the party twenty minutes late, wearing have taught women as many and as worst side of 1e in a way no mar a tweed sult, and" and everyone else useful points in the game of ute, ean hope to do,
An tails, without looking and feeling should be pleased.
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