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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1917.

SHIPPING

P. & O. S. N. CO.

ROYAL MAIL SERVICE

UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT

TO

LADIES COLUMN.

PARIS FASHIONS.

THE ECONOMIC POSITION.

[MON TUETIMES.")

THE CHINA MAIL.

so med lople like labor precious stones" and make good, noter of colour, on, a | nombre dress,

CHILDREN'S M

1.

democracy by showing that autceray

Bittens to survive.”

We hope and believe that all that la

meet too pessimistic, but the spirit which Yet another marked note of this same prompts the words is admirable, and we collection is its success in chikiran'ı inodela. A small girl who has grown are quite sure, shas the samur apirmo mover sibes last year, by the way, shows some the vast majority of working men. very happy-looking children's dresses throughout the country. The real her and coat, Scarlat plays quite big of labour is as sound and brave and part in them, scarlet cloth allied to enable he ever it was. Was may hear ef shepherd's plaid, scarlet and navy serge industrial survet and grievances of all there was one very amusing little scarlet kinds; we may hear endloss stories of scarlet kad.

dark blse valuutise, and

average working man brought face to cloth hat with black velvet chinkstrap greusing in the Army, but when the The children's models are all simpls in face with the question whether he wants cut gay in colour, easy to put on, and slippers and shoes were worn with them, it easier for his brutal szemy to win, he not at all inxurious looking Eaw-heeled to do anything that cas Unceivably make and in no particuli: did the dress inter use language of anger and repudiation fere with the free movements of the which proves in a moment, the intensity child.

both at his earn and his resolution. Ele keeps firmly to his own opinion, and no soms of manipulation of policy by the smaller and more Intellectual sections

MARSEILLES AND LONDON, the world, and it is not idle in diams-that feated away into a ribbon babind.

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Steamers

LABTS

to

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Hongkong Noon

Connecting Mail Steamer from Colombo.

Das

Dhan Marseilles London'

1917,

1917

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Hongkong at the time of Booking.

On the Australian Route Tickets Interchangeable with Orient Line, MAILINGS DIRECT TO

SHANGHAL MOJI, KOBE AND

S. &.

YOKOHAMA.

Leave Hongkong About

Pamongers may trava! by Railway in Japan between Ports of Call free of charge. Ratura Tickets are availablo by Messagerie Maritimes Company.

(Non-

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MARSEILLES AND LONDON,

Calling at SINGAPORE, PORT SWETTENHAM, PENANG, COLOMLO AND PORT Sard.

-CARRYING 1ST AND 2ND SALOON PASSENGERS AT REDUCED RITES.

PROPOSE Samron:

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H'KONG

■bout

} Dae at

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about

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Any damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for, examination by the Consignees and the Cocopany's Surveyors, Mesara Goddard and Douglas, at 10 ar on Mondays and Thursdays. All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival bere, after which date they cannot be recognised. No Claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.

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FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS.

S. S. CHINA

WILL BAIL FROM HONGKONG FOR

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VIA SHANGHAI, JAPAN PORTS & HONOLULU.

FRIDAY, NOV. 16th, at 1 pm-SATURDAY, JAN. 26th.

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JAPAN CHIMA AND THATTS UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT,

The dress-making world is busy show ing Ite model to buyers from all over ing its awa problems from the work. women's point of view. After the strikes were wettled it was Decesary to discuss many points in detail, and these are the things which are now being threshed out Women's meetings have taken place, and the dressmakers' syndicate is faced with further rise in wages and a very workrooms, holidays and other minor points which affect both workers and employera.

BAU TAILOR-MADR SVTZES,

"fome, excellent tailor-made

för M

models in

definite programme about bygiene in the wore abow STOWN in the organization of Labour sec

Speaking generally, the position of the women working in this national industry of "dressmaking has improved greatly in recent years, and since the war began many improvements have boen made in the laws which affect the health and comfort of all classes of workers."“'"On", "the other hand, the superiors in the trade have lost severely, and woman who were earning anything from 2500 to £1,000 a year as first males; woman have been reduced to almost nothing. The lesser bands in the trade have had to fight against increase in the price of Eving and wider responsibilities, and the dressmakért themselves Favo had to face the ts of obtainin materiala” the

of prices

beige cloth with a blouse satin, aimply draped and tot very open

barda of male furi model, sober and

at the throat, over which was word Date blue cost with collar and cutie in beige wooling material ther

materialer sin gray wooller material, very soft trimmed with this also wa U distinguished. Some of the conta slipped ou over the head, but the fashion is one Other costs were quite long, others, in to think over twice before adopting it. wire three-quarters and sooo mut than half-length. They were all not without some fullness, but the picirts Bome colises werns of fun and of the wife al Barrow and of faft ankle lengthe enveloping shape of the son, but it in well to notice that more then one of the loading houses are showing signs of going back on the very high, full collar, and are encouraging more moderate ex amples.

tions, by the way, which contain persons who are not in the conventional sense working men at all will make him depart from it The Spectator.

VISITORS AT THE HOTELS.

HONGKONG HOTEL. Mirande hiss D. Mr and: hữu &.-F.

Addicks 2 Kuchai

G. E. Andersonsfr: and Mrs LAVA Mr Geo, & Ancubuite

8...

and Tanistaen Murray Bain. Mr. Ga 10 Gulden-

Mry

ker Lavallee

Baring BEVER

and, falling off in trade, and the BRITISH LABOUR AND THE WAR. Mr.J. W. Bageken dangers and cutting down of transport

fer all exported and imported goods.

One cannot read the speeches of

In spite of all these difficulties, they mean that they have done so through large number of the most responsible. have carried on; and, although it may tendency to

to vanity on the part of women

Mr 8. X. Barell Mias de Bangoiti Mr and Mrs H. A.

Baxter

Capt. J. Baxter

Mr E N. de Leon Mr C. Little Mr S Lingfield Capt. B. F. Longland Major D. Macdonald

G. Luding

for the country is distinctly a feathenisfaction at the courage and" whole. Mrs E R. Balic cdougall i

ion

·

all over the world; yet that they should leaders of Labour without a thrill of Master Baxter have kept alive this immense

inheartedness with which they back the

Mr G. D. J. Ball

MacFarlane

Mackie their caps, and ore which the man policy of their country where they know Mr R. J. Birbeck

Mrs. H. B must recognize. You have only to watch it to be right. The line taken by such Mir U. T. Roswell Maitland

Borgersenir and Mrs F the women at work in e Parisian

hig dressmaker'a and you aill se beneath men a Ve Appleton. Mr. Thorne, Mr. Mir and Mrs A.-L. Mr-Ja Marlow the well-dressed air of each ons, a purely Bowermann, Mr. Havelock Wilson, mod

Dr and Mr÷0 businesslike attitude to clothes. They Mr. O'Grady has not been praised suffi-

MrH. Ron

Boylan Marriott show the most beautiful or the most ciently, and could hardly be praised too Mr W. G. Browch Mr JA Mosulay

ik Mrs Branch Mr H. E. Maslin bizarre dress with the intention of Bell-

it, and no c other.

much. We notice in particular an article Me J. B. Brunn Mr A. F. McKenna Dress to them is livelihood, not in the Iliastrated Sunday Herald" of Mr L. A. Calderop Mr H. van Moines Capern Mr G. Meldram part is even more than that, it is Augit 12th, in which Mr. O'Grady Mr. A. C

Mr & patriotic business for.there no. more sweeps away all subtle nuances and hair Mrs Chas. Clay Farisian dressmaker. She likes to ose patriotic woman in France than the splitting distinctions between mandatory Mr D. C. G. Clifford Capt. & Mrs Mitchell French misterials more than any

others.

sod consultative Conferences and says Mr and Mrs T. D.MA. Moulder and she searches mors willingly among outright that the worst day's work ever Cochrape

Mr and Mrs Mi F. old French designs for her ideas that done by the Labour and Socialist bodies Mr HR Plunkett- Mormy a among any others. Her ford pbines is of Great Britain was done at the Labour Mr F. W. Collins

Cole "C'est tellement Francns, Madame": and Conference recently. He writes as a Mrs J, F. Com nothing can be higher praise in her eyes good and true democrat who cannot

restrain his passion :---

that

And

THE NEW FASHIONS

3

In A collection which was shown this week the French note is well emphasized Dresses that are so simple as to look in- expensive and yet provato be inimitable, coats that are eat with severe lines and ordinary materiala yet do not look stiff and

formal, the most is employed with a talent is completely the reverse of ordinary. although in line all things are dar- in colour there is great restraint.

skirts

slim and

then in houses mady pieces, that is to say dress' of mousse line de sole or crepe georgette with a upper dreas of serge or cloth or satin.or elvet The thin material will look like Peter Pan's shadow and the sterner stuff wilf materialize it, letting only parts of the shadow

dress be seen, let

the sleeves, the sideway panels, Enda

And most da No two

it round the shoulders. Many of the adow dresses are made" in printed mousselines or crepons and the effect is very decorative. A blue, printed in erest design, with an over-dress of blus serga or bine satin and the feminine imagination will, from this see a vista of harmonious unicos in different tones.

Another festore of the same house 0. the use of thick, soft. woollen materials in the place of fur for cost collars and cuffs, for pockets, for scarves, and all such useful

fornaments on a winter dress or costume. navy serge will have collar and stuffs and pockets in striped

grey woollen material thick and cay

just like lambswool without Bo Leather is so tired að 4, i

sort of piping to outline the shape of

bodice or coat; backles and straps, cr, tabs, tiny bows, often take the place of but- tons where the dress fastems, and that in generally behind. All the buttons that

We have given hope," he $375, to the only remainioantocracy in the world to continue its course, strewa as it is with inexpressible horrors. We have fastened our boys in those horrible trenches for at fenes tivelve months Jonger than necessary. We have but tressed the terror bestriding Europe We have given sasent to the gospel that Mighty is Right, and we have dammed

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Bongkong May 14, 1918

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