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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 19, 1939.
Gifts for Ladies
Elizabeth
Arden
"ELIZADETII
preparations
ARDEN" comprising: Beauty Boxes, "Hartony Sets, Dusting Powder, Bath Essence and Soap
In "Blue Grays" and "Jame Geronlun"
Perfumes
SCARVES
"Jaeger" Woollen Serves in altective designs an endoara
Scarves made at Woollen Famer,
SB Triangles, Storks, Squares, etc... featuring many new ideas of patterns and coluttrings.
Cultured Pearl Necklets
Genuine Diamond Dress Rings
Ladies' Gold Signet Rings
Gold Brooches (Naval Crown)
Silver Vanity Cases
Fine Enamel Varsity Cases
Chrome Vanity Cases
Ladles Handbag Combs
Silver & Enamel Powder Bowls
Silver Mtd, Scent Sprays
Chrome Manicure Stands
GLOVES
There is no problem pertaining to Gloves ihat cannot be sol- ved by our Glove Department which carries an extensive range Evening Gloves, White Kid, or Coloured. Silk Lace will add chic to any Evening Gown, whilst
Day Cloves of Chamois, Kid, Suede, or Fahrie in all the popular shades including Reds, and Greens are irresistible.
NOVELTIES
A GOOD SELECTION OF XMAS GIFTS INCLUDING-KOALA BEARS, NATIONAL WOOL CRAFT WORK, TABLE MATS FANCY MIRRORS PEGGY COAT HANGER. ETU. ETC,
PRICED FROM 50 cts.
$85.00 to $125.00
LADIES' FITTED DRESSING CASES
Silver or Enamel
Ladies' Parker Fountain Pens
Ail Prices
$30.00
... $17.50
From $32.50
From $37.50
From $12.30
From & 3.50
From $32.50
From $16.50
From $30.00
$22.50-$35.00
EVENING HANDBAGS
WE HAVE THE MOST DISTINCTIVE AND FASCINATING SELECTION OF EVENING BAGS COMPRISING: GOLD, AND SILVER MESH VELVET, BEADED BAGS IN WHITE AND GOLD, AND GOLD AND SILVER KID HAS DEEN USED WITH SUBTLE ART TO DE- LIGHT THE EYE.
YANITY BAGS WHICH CONTAIN EVERY ESSENTIAL FOR AN EVEN- ING'S USE IN AN AMAZINGLY SMALL SPACE ARE TO DE HAD IN AN EXTENSIVE RANGE,
BRUSH
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SETS
ELEGANT BRUSH SETS, UP-TO-DATE DESIGNS AND COLOURS, IN REAL ENAMEL ON ILM. ENGINE-TURNED SILVER, Blue, Green, Mauve, and Piŋk. CRYSTAL
REAL CHYSTAL BRUSH SETS, HAND CUT, IN BLACK AND WHITE DESIGN. REAL HAND CUT CRYSTAL CIGAR- ETTE BOXES. POWDER COWLS, SCENŤ BOTTLES. MIDGET SCENT SPRAYS, AMBER CHYSTAL POWDER BOWLS, AMBER CHYSTAL SCENT BOTTLES.
Gifts for Men
SLIPOVEES
"JAEGER" ALL WOOL SLIPOVERS IN
PLAIN
SHADES.
FANCY DESIGNS.
MIXTURES, AND
Prices Range From $12.50 each,
PULLOVERS
ALL WOOL PULLOVERS WITH ROLL NECK OR WITH "V" NECK IN POPU- LAR SHADES,
Prices Range From 510,50 each.
FOR MEN
SOLID GOLD CUFFLINKS
Numerous Designs
COMPLETE SETS KREMENTZ
Dress Wear
SOLID GOLD SIGNET RINGS
SILVER KEY CHAINS
„From $39.00 pr
$22.50 to $62.50
$27.50
$25.00
SOLID GOLD KEY CHAIN
$85.00
GOLD COLLAR PINS
$ 9.30
GOLD TIE HOLDERS
$18.50
SETS GOLDSTUDS & LINKS
.From $12.50
SOLID SILVER CIGARETTE CASES
SOLID SILVER CIGARETTE BOXES
$45.00 $30.00
Numerons Desigos
SLIPPERS "JAEGER" SLIPPERS AS ILLUSTRATION IN DARK TAN LEATHER WITH ALL WOOL. LINING. ALL SIZES
$14,50.
"JAEGER" SLIPPERS, VERY SOFT SUEDE with SHEEPSKIN LINING IN NIGGER BROWN, OR NATURAL SHADE. ALL SIZES.... $10.50.
CARDIGANS "JAEGER" CAMEL-HAIR AND WOOL CARDIGANS.
$35.00 each,
PURE CASHMERE CARDIGANS' IN $52,00 each. PLAIN SHADES ONLY
SILK NECK TIES
A specially selected range in a large variety of exclusive designs in every conceivable, shade awaits your cholee, these are. "Brocklehurst" Ties and are Prices $3.50, $4.50 and $5.00. made in Macclesfeld, England
Real English Gum Twill Silk Ties in exceedingly smart designs...... $5.00 each. ................. $13.50 Melurive. With Silk Handkerchief (size 20" x 20") to match
.From 50.50 to $10.50 per Tic. "Spitalfield" Hand Woven Silk Ties
"KENT" MILITARY NAIK BRUSHES
As Hlustration in a Leather Holding Case, with Black Composition Backs, and Comb. "Rent" Military Brushes without Case with Ebony or Satin Wood Backs.
DRESSING GOWNS
PURE SILK AND ARTIFICAL SILK DRESSING GOWNS IN EXCLUSIVE COLOURS AND DESIGNS TO SUIT
ALL TASTES,
'SILK GOWNS
.From $55.00 each.
ART SILK GOWNS .From $27.50 each.
"JAEGER" HEAVY ALL WOOL DRESS- ING GOWNS IN A WIDE RANGE OF PLAIN, AND CHECK DESIGNS.
From $57.50 each.
"JAEGER" PURE CAMEL-HAIR DRESSING GOWNS ...... 585.00 each.
SOCKS
Our extensive assortment of Woollen Half Hose by "Jaeger", "Two Steeples", and "Viyella" is Indescribable wo have socks to suit every taste. Prices Range from $2.25 per pr.
SIZES 10" TO 12"
LANE-CRAWFORD-LTD.
OPEN UNTIL 6. P.M.
OPEN UNTIL 6 P.M.
Here's
How to Pick a
Tie A Man Will Really Wear
By BARCLAY SWAIN
LUFS
Let these ties gulde you in se- leoting that appropriate gilt for a man at Christmas. It's appropri- ale, that is, If it harmonises with his skilris and suits. If it doesn't well, he'll unwrap grunt a subdued “thanks" and then con- sign to the rear of his tie rack. Another "Christmas tle"-one of the unwearables,
Remember
There are probably more women satin stripe are favoured for semi- buying lles for men. this time of the sports suits. The matching hand- year and falling down on the job, kerchief and the sets are still strong. than at any other tine. The Christ- One really nice set I saw matched a
a silk tie.i mus the lines up with the mother-in- linen handkerchief to law jokes nud the rest of the poor English foulards are good now even Bilge. One
the larger nano- In winter, facturers, anticipating such trouble. has turned out ties in preplanned sets to go with the three predominant lining are rich, luxurious and mas tree decorations and buy new
of
Smail neat patterns in heavy close weaves in a seven fold the without
TO ORDER early from pour wine merchant.
TO LOOK through stock of Christ-
suit rolours-grey, blue and brown. Mindy simply thinks of which suit ang lasting. The tie it neat knots.
onca, if necessary before all the good her hon likes best, picks out a busente el on the blas pulls back into
htags over
night mes are gone. Also get some pow- of two or three is to match it shape when and is certain he won't surreptitious. You can tell whether it has been cut dored starch for frost, ly hand any neckwear tash this way by pulling it slightly, it it TO SEE that you have enough has "spring" when pulled the long glasses to go round, and plenty of
TRI.
Generally speaking, here are the way, it's a bits eut tie, rules гог ties. With grey suits Ties this year tend toward simple,| Haroon and blue, ties harmonise real designs. They aren't fussy,!
olines, cherries, olive sticks, etc.
TO THINK out where your Christ-
The former to be won with grey Rowery or tricky but are unobtrusive mas tree is going to be placed, and shirts the latter with blue.
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With blue suits the choice is rather and harmonious in colour and pat see that an electric plug is handy ti you're going in for coloured electric restricted. With a fight blue shirt
lights.. the following go well; medium blue te with soft blue gires, dark blue lies with red or light blue figures and dark red ties with dark blue Agures. With a light grey shirt blue and grey ties may be worn.
Avoid Blue With Brown Win ruwn suits, beware of blue and most red ones. With a ercom or tan shirt select a ti of edish brown ground with a touch
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of copper or cream. With a green shirt wear a dark green tie with touches of light green Generally speaking, the rule is this tever wear a tie either to harmonise which or contrast with background does not contain at least one element which blends with either the suit or the shirt.
So much for colour, now for pat- -to-There-are-Birce basicly pez, The widely spaced pattern, the neal all-over design and the stripes. The widely spaced type goes well with
losely striped shirt as does the neat Denver design. The bold striped patterns are good on solit! colour ground shirts, And if you like wild shirts, better stick to solid colour ties when wearing them.
Wool Still King for Sports Wool ties are good for sports, the rough tweed weave tles in silk with
GIBLET PIE
DLACE a beefsterk, well re00-
souert, at the bottom of a pic-dial. Scald two or three sets of goose giblets, pick and singe them; take the outer ski of the feet, which, with the pinions, cut into two, the neck into three, the gizzard into four, and the liver and heart into two pleves. Wisly them saucepan. all clean, put in a and cover with water,
Add the drumsticks, LO onions, a little salt, and a tea- spoonful of whole black pep- per, tied in muslin; stow t the gizzards re tender. Take them out
put into the ple riis, senson with more popper and salt. Strain the liquor, and add halt a pint of it will a
lass of pork wine.
When cold, put pull paste round the rim of the dish and cover it with the same. Brush over with yolk of eg and bake in a good oven for 1 to I hour, becording to size.
All Set For The
TO GET in a good supply of candleg ..the electric light has been known to fuse, and where are you going to get an electrician from on Christmas or Boxing Day?
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Party
THIS PARTY, you must understand . . . is not wooden forks. All of it should be my own. I have been asked to it. Indeed, I have been sized on the one-bite unit. asked to a round dozen parties between now and New begins at 7.30 and is not a dinner It, on the other hand, the party Year's Eve and if I am to enjoy myself I expect certain panty, then I want much more sub- things.
I want to know exactly what kind The exact postal address and ner of party I am asked to attend. If telephone number would assist my am expected to play bridge or dance or listen to a Punch and Judy show I must be warned on my invitation card.
inquiries.
stantial food. Cold sausages and pica and Scotch eggs immediately suggest themselves.
At this kind of party the bufot should run-and run efficiently--until
it is time to go home. Hostesses who
I want to be Introduced to my imagine that guests eat less at stand-
fellow guests. I detest being told to up supper should think again. They
If any hostess says dinner at 8.30 make myself known to a roomful of cal more because nobody can check and then greets me with marvellous strangers. If I am not formally In- up on their helpings. and einborate suggestions for playing troduced then I want some ice-break-
in charades, then she must put up
with a guest who will be as reserved ing kind of game like "par" or as a first night seat.
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No Tip-up Vases
lubcis on backs which will make it I like Bowers, but at parties I like If my hostess lives in one of those easy for me to go up and say to a them where I can admire them well
reads without lamps and full of mis named houses, then I want to know how to get to her party in time.
I suggest a small rough mop on
the back of the invitation card with the name of the nearest station, bus stop or main road.
Ice-breaking Game
A prominent landmark would help
likely looking fellow. "I'm So-and- out of reach-in long troughs on man-
who are you?"
tlepieces or in well brackets, and not In Up-up vases and, more especially,
I want the right kind of food. If not in artistic jors on the floor. The the party is late enough to allow me same applies to lamps and valuable to eat my own dinner at home, then ornaments.
the party food must be crisp, have I want somewhere to put my wine- a sting, be exciting, and, above all. glass and know that it is not going a feast to the eye.
It should either be easy to eat with
If the house is in an outer suburb. fingers or be served with sticks or
DURO
WATER PUMP SALES
WATER FUMF REPAIRS
WATER PUMP MAINTENANCE
to strip the veneer off. I hate drip-
rings and those little embroidered circles for the bottoms of wineglasses, but I admire hostesses who openly [protect their french polish with shiny
ollcloth under linen.
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I must know what I am drinking. How am I to know what "some of this pink sluff" is going to do to me before the evening is out? If my hostess has not enough imagination to buy, decorative enamelled labels for her bottles and jugs then she should stick flags in the corks anying what's what.
I want to go home before I am dead tired. A subtle finale of some kind can wind up the party success.
EMPIRE SALES COMPANY. It can ho the Lambeth walk
TELEPHONE 31261 — M. B. KING — 33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD,
in the hall.
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