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THE
SHANGRILA BALL
in aid of
The Boys & Girls' Clubs
Association
(Under the distinguished patronage of
H.E. Sir Alexander Grantham, K.C.M.G. & Lady Grantham)
AT THE
HONG KONG
HOTEL
ON
NOVEMBER 15TH 1948
MONDAY..
DANCING.
CABARET
COSTUME CONTESTS --
anu
Other Special Displays
Champagne Corner
etc., etc.
TICKETS:
Double v
$50 $30
(including dinnor) Single..
A limited number of floorside tables aro available at $10 a seat. Bookings, Reservations & Tickets obtainable at the Hong Kong Hotel on and after October 20th,
THE RONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1948.
WOMANSENSE Making Over White Elephant Pieces Of Usable Furniture
R
EPORTS from recent furni-
ture showings tell us that furniture in still scarce, that prices are high, and going higher as manufacturing costs
By ELEANOR. ROSS
while she waits for the time when there will be a wider choice at per- haps more reasonable prices.
mount, and that, because of the may A ittle furniture surgery,
big demand, most outlets aro still being rationed.
This means that a wise home maker will continue keeping her furniture in as good
condition, as possible, replacing n piece only when it is absolutely
necessary,
PARIS AND LONDON SHOW PLAIDS
In Paris and In London plaids and tartans are back
in favour.
In
Bond-street
wasp-waisted
WAB
this
plaid jacket and skirt to match. Handbag
is white, cloves are black.
TAKING CARE
OF A SICK
PERSON
OTS of time, with nothing to do Lorrie wit sleep, sounda delightful to busy people rushing A convalescing around, but not to patient.
The convalescent hardly wall to get up and join the bury throng again.
сал
Пs pos-
Don't discard any piece that you ele. any look upon as a "while skilfully applied, solves many prob
comfortable lems, A clumsy but chair perhaps, one that has never fitted in with the scheme of things, Maybe a new a very special slip- cover may make it more acceptable. Or if a straight chair has knobs on
This tarian. cape, by Molyneux, in worn over green wool skirt, white linen blouse. Yellow cloves and white straw boater with tartan trimmings complete the outfi.
Around The
Town
with Mercia
the back posts or a curved fingree in the centre, these can be removed botore a tailored slip cover is made. lower a chair by having It is easy to have rockers removed, legs shortened.
or
Substitute Footboard
the
Keep' Legs Trim, Ankies Slim
Manange is helpful in keeping the loga shapely. While massaging, be sure the legs are well lubricated with a good cream.
An old-fashioned bed, ono with a looka extremely high headboard modern with the foot-bord sub- Headboard. Then stiluted for the paint It, or, better still, cover it with a gay slip to match the spread.
Remove the "gingerbread" from an old dresser or sideboard, refinish a moden chest of drawers.
hang itWHETHER skirts ba and lake off the mirror separately or treat the chest to one skirts be short, it doesn't matter; of those big, unframed mirrors that one of wontan's *greatest beauty
desires is to possess pretty do so much for a room.
and trim ankles,
Chest of Drawers
A chest of drawers is too useful BEAUTY
to part with, even if it does look a
little run-down. Why not palat n
bright colour and add interest to the|QUESTIONNAIRE
D
you ever
By HELEN FOLLETT
long
or
It
often happens, strangely enough, that a young woman who is of normal proportions elsewhere
chives. legs will develop fat
She ix painfully conscious of this anatomi- cal defect. If she will be persistent she can make them slimmer. One way to do it is to get a child's jump- Ing rope, use it for two vo-minute periods every day. Easy!
"toke
colour scheme of the room? Or.i maybe. In its bright paint coat, it
stop and would be just right in that dark hall stock" of yourself? There are
can Or perhaps it would fit into many things that you closet and provide excellent improve your appearance.
corner.
ת
storage space.
do lo
If hips and thighs, as well As calves, are upholstered with adipose tlasue, here is an *exercise that brings gratifying results:
Stand fall, hands on hips, cheat
your So many women refuse to facelifted, tuinny dat. Lift on
Then the Issue-and themselves, in the toes, keeping body balance. mirror. Do. at least, ask yourself bend your knees, sending them far these questions and follow up en part, lower the body until you are
resting on your heels.
Yes,
my the answers daily.
friend, you may take a fumble, but
Do I know the colours best suited what is that in the great and glorious to my complexion?
cause of pulchritude?
If there is no room for the old library table In your new room scheme, how about refinishing the top, and putting the table in Junior's room for a work table? Or that small dining room table that doesn't seem to fit In anywhere, anymore, it is of the old-fashioned two-part pedestal type. might be separated and done over, then used as two smart console tables for the living! room or hall, with the fat sides which are not only new but be- placed against the wall. Old marbie coming to me? 1op tables can be cut down for coffee
Do I make any conscious effort tables, refinished to suit your room to walk well? scheme.
Do I ever study the contour of my head before selecting a hot?
Do I know that makeup shades
Do these movements ten limes the Arst day, Afteen the second, twenty the third. get up to twenty-îve an soon as you can.
When the calves are large, sélect shoes that are not conspicuous. An instructor of physical education tells your good-looks reporter that
course of a year if she will wear heels of medium height, have shoes carefully fitted,
Do I attend to the title rips da woman may be able to reduce the If you have more dining chairs tears in my clothes or do I just pin size of the ankles a full inch in the.. than you are using, perhaps two of up things?
Just right for the. them might be hall. The seats may be recovered, Do I go through my cupboards and the wooden frames painted or and try to match up accessories and refinished. This will not interfere clothes? with their occasional use in the din- ing room, but
add charm, rather when they are placed at opposite ends of the dining table.
Do I really Intend to Improve appearance or do I not?
Well-what's your answer?
ing
Massage is also helpful in reduc--
flabbinets -and unbecoming my keeping legs shapely. While mas-
saging, be sure legs are well lubri- cated with n good cream.
BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE
The Robin Was Getting Dinner
But Suddenly the Dinner Got Away-
By MAX TRELL
Hillaly HAND, the shadow-girl with the
on
turned-about nume, was sitting The thing to do is to make the
house the back steps of the patient as comfortable as possible
were sold at wondering whether she ought to and to keep him or her cheerful. The THREE paintings
yesterday's uri exhibition in sew the missing button back on her bed must be as comfortable sible and it must be made and con-aid of S.P.C. (Women's Auxiliury) coat, or go down to the pond for a when all at once a robin Sheets funds. The exhibition was opened swim; stantly re-made with care.
and will con-alighted on the grass, just a should be kept fresh and spotless; by Lady Grantham
feet away. bedclothes must be kept free from lique for another two days. being twisted and wrinkled; pillows must be fluffed up and adjusted.
Morale
A clean and attractive-room-helps
patient im the morale of the
Because so much time is mensely.
looking around the spent
is of interest. little thing every Plants growing in attractive pottery
window
or s
room,
ill flowers on the
favourite artistically pictures
hung in groups on the wall facing the bed, all help to break the monotony. bulletin board onto which one tacks get-well cards, arousing cartoons and jokes, with the material constantly to bu a good changed, is bound morale-raiser,
Food
nicely
Eleven artists
are participating and some really excellent work is
few
First It cocked its head peered sharply at Hanid.
"How do you do, Robin,"
and
Kuld
it
bird-
of
on display. The artists exhibiting are Mr Yes Bon, Mr. Kan Kam Hanid. shek and his daughter Dlana, Mr Luis Chan, Mr Lee Byng, Mr M. G. The robin chirped. Perhaps
was saying something in
made up language.
which
Wong. Mr Pau Shlu-yau, Mr Tsal Li-on. Mr Chao Shao-on, Mr Chaupa and songs instead of words Kung-li and Mr Ng Po-wan,
'Close on to 400 Rotarians and their guests are expected at the Kowloon Rotary Club's first nnnual_bali 10- morrow evening at the Peninsula Hotel.
Rolarian James Moodle will be master
show.
At any rate, Honid and sentences. didn't understand what the chirps meant.
9-4
The robin pulled on a big worm
How The "Colt" Caught The Cattle Thieves
(Continued from Yesterday)
THE trick come back then and
they londed
But up.
smallest call got away.
The men
about this
decided
off.
hnd talked
and then
the
o while apparently
went
and to let it go,
Denny and Chester had then gone after the calf and were
trying to drive it to the road as the easiest way home when Cork-found them.
, the "I want to see just where
The happened," said Mr. Prince.
In his car lo three of them went the spot where the men had out of the water.
come
there
Just as Denny had said, It was a hard question to decide.
were truck tracks at the edge of on the The robin now started hopping
have to waltthe road and boot prints But Hanid didn't up and down, first this way, then
and the grass that way; then darting around, with long before the qucation
was de bank of the brook,
was senrred where the calf its eyes tooking straight into the cided for her.
struggled. grass. Suddenly it stuck down Its bin.
An Earthworm
+
1
A cat came creeping along the grass, very slowly, without making a sound. But the cat's eyes glistened hungrily. And her eyes weren't an
the earthworm. They were on the robin.
With a sudden spring. the cat the robin, striking out with her claws as she did so.
what leaped at The next instant: she saw the robin had caught.. It was em-large carthworm.
of ceremonies, and Miss "My goodness!" Hand exclaim Meals, of course, are big events Azalea Reynolds and Mr H. J. Moodyed to herself. "It's caught some in the day, and tempting food, both contributing to the floor thing
and arranged gracefully served, will make them more so, and Several arms have donated splen- process of recov- did gifts as their contribution to- Burry along the ory. A Bower in a bud vase, some wards making this ball a buccess. favourite or unusual food, or a novel
have Kowloon Rotarians the food, are all barked on an ambitious programme way of serving welcome. Fruit juice, a dish of lee for the provision of trachoma and
other light
refreshments
T. B. clinics. The present situation yet!" Finnid sald, as she stood up are equally welcome in the long, for such sufferers is really very bad; on the steps and stared as hard as sometimes seemingly Interminable clinics and hospitals are sadly over-she could. The stretches of the morning or after crowded, noon and the evening hours.
cream or
TOPCOATS BY LEDUX
VISIT BOND STREET W...
"Only it hasn't really caught it,
had
toid
"You win," the Big Boss Denny admiringly. "But you haven't one thing. how you yet told us knew the truck would go by the cowbarn."
I
Denny grinned self-consciously. "We made it go that way." "Made It?"
and.
"We changed the signs on the post where the three roads cross.
remembered that Dad Mother and I had an argument Sharp Chirp
there one night and Daddy didn't The robin let go of the earth-belleve it was right even after he
saw the signs," robin had the worm, uttered n. single sharp chirp,
They checked up on that too. "Well," Mr. Prince said worm by the head-Or maybe by and new wildly off. the tall" Hanid went on to her- The cat walted for a moment, sit-men when they got back to the self. "One end of an earthworm
hting on her tall and gazing up at ranchhouse and had told everything, looks just the same as the other
the sky, thea the
turned and walked "the boy gets the reward. Two popular
Oh! What a hard job members of the end!
And he deserves it." American community will be leaving robin is having! It can't seem to into the house.
"You can give it to my father." The very shortly, after residence of about get the worm out of its hole in the
carthworm gavo itself a Denny replied. "It's for all of us,. five months, They are Mr and Mrs ground!"
shake, then slid down into fis hole and Chester." J. E. McKenna.
and disappeared,
Sure enough, the robin was tug- Mr McKenna, the acting Consul- ging at the worm with its might General
States, Little by little the worm was being for the United Clothes & Accessories of Distinction officially relinquishes his post today, drawn up out of its hole.
aid Mr George D. Hopper, who returned to Hongkong on Wednesday after spending five months leave, will resume duties tomorrow.
Mr and Mrs McKenna will going back to Nanklag.
At The Hong Kong Hotel, Nongkong. Tel: 30281-Ext. 302.
RED RYDER
DID YOU FIX UP THIS MAND ARM, JAKE?
YES. I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO TELL YOU RED/ HE SAID HE
GOT SKOT ACCIDENTAL/
down Hanld sat
on the steps again, still wondering if the ought to sew the button back on her epat, Honid didn't know whether she or have her swim in the pond.
up the wish," she sighed, "that, the robin wanted the robin to pull
cat worm and so have its dinner; or and the earthworm and the whether she wanted the worm to hadn't all gond away so fast. One get away and not become anyone's of them might have told me what dinner..
-to do."
Self Defence, Says Jake.
I DAUSED THE BULLET HOLE WITH IODINE. THEN HS TRIED TO DRAW A GUN TO ROB ME AND I GOT HIM WITH MY POCKET DERRINGER/
IF THE CORPUS DELICT: WAS ONE OF THE STAGE DANDITS,
1 CALL THE KILLIN' SELF- DEFENSE AND GOOD
RIDDANCE/
By Fred Harman
THE NEXT DAY PINKY TAKES THE
NEWS TO THE HIDEOUT...
I DON'T LIKE IT, BOYS/ TED WAS OUR PALE,
NEITHER DO 1, PINKY. I'M
GOING TO RIMROCK WITH YOU AND HAVE ATALK WITH
JAKE/
- END
-
to The
Rupert & Mr Punch-17-
Mr. Punch explama what Ruper and 'Algy are trying to do, and to Rupert's amazement' Judy, at once take charge. She orders the others about and seenti know just what to do. My Punch gives one of his sticks, and with three little people working happily and quickly, the hammock grows and riker 'ihape. That's topping. How clever they are 1" cries Rupert. At that moment -the dog Toby appears. · ““Hi, come on he bitke.You'll be late for your afternoon show,"
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