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FASHIONS AND FANCIES
Contrasting Fabrics Much Seen.
Brilliance.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1927.
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NEW SEASON GINGER
Most reliable, good strong, colour, mellow
and well preserved
The China Ginger Preserving Co., Ltd.
No:16, Bonham Strand. East
Telephone C..989
JUST UNPACKED
New
Hemingway and
Holeproof Silk Stockings
in Great Variety.
PIONEER SILK STORE China 'Building.
V. RUPCHAND, Mänager.
CHY LOONG.
New Season. Preserved Ginger.
Best quailty Prompt attention to Experters.
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Office: 281, Queen's Road Central, 2nd floor. Tel. Central 2580. Factory-500-304, Canton Road, Yaumati, Tel. K. 889.
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GENERAL WOLFE'S MOTHER.
Fabric Possesses a. Flattering. Sheen in the Formal Model
The golden mode of, the winter- time has a brilliance that makes it one of the season's favourite adap- · tations in the formal costume. The fabrics that possess lustre and beauty and drape in soft aubtle || folds are particularly beautiful inf their golden glory. Metallic materiala istrcus satins, chiffon velvets, lumes and brocaded chiffons all are to be found shedding a gold radiance.
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In addition to the glow of the fabric itself. Paris has seen to itjeet, possibly because it always has that there is much in the way of murks of usage on it, or because From the informal frock that noon, costume which finds velvet so
ornamentation to add a brilliantis does not have to be put dway in starts the day to the dinner or satisfactory in part, if not in all its
effectiveness to the formal costume. a cabinet possibly also for its sil- dance costume that is worn when frocks there appears a very youth Beads, embroidery, atrass, bugles, ver-grey hue or for the conjectares the occasion demands, the vogue for ful dress that shows a chiffon yelpaillettes, pearl and diamond out-it arouses in the imaginative mind. introducing contrasting fabrics isvet skirt in either plain, shirred or lines and the soft sheen of golden Unfortunately, supplies are get-
tucked lines, combining smartly The sports outfit which combines with a blouse of graceful outlines embroidery are all used in modelsting scarce, and a plate that was 55.
cf Paris inspiration.
Some before, the war is now £1. Jumper and skirt of different fabrics in soft sille or satim In tones the
Models in the metal brocades are of the best pieces are going to is well known to those who follow skirt and blouse harmoniza, but do
being constantly featured! The America. it is thought that dur- later winter versions show a more ing the war a great deal of Ger Puris ideals In dresa. The after- not match.
In the evening the effect is the gauzy texture than the "brocades of man pewter must have been melted same, but the manner of producing last year. They have somewhat the down owing to the urgent need for it more formal,
The skirt is quality of chiffon with the patterns its components-lend, tin, and generally of velvet, although fre-traced in gold or silver.
antimony. . No one, writes a correspondent of
Lames, which possess unusual
A certain amount of modern pew- Home paper, questions the cour-quently chiffon is found used for a
The jumper is usually of features in the silhouettes of the ter is being produced by handicraft age of "Bold General Wolfe," the contrast.) hero of Quebec, But was not fame and is, of course, sleeveless
newer modes-gay affairs in jumper workers. Its silvery colour, its de in its formal aspect. It may have outlines, are brilliant in appearance corative nature, and the fact that aware of the full extent of his
features of a real amper or it may while still youthful in appeal. It does not tarnish readily have cans, tea and coffee sets, kettles, bravery I read one of his letters to his mother, in which he states appear in a bodice effect in the con- Some of the more ornate models in created a demand for it, chiefly as and tobacco inrs. Since its use for
trasting fabric.
lames are in the plain materials a substitute for the cheaper grade domestic purposes has been prac thut he has tried all her suggested
embroidered in either beads or of silverware. There is a propertically continuous, modern pewter remedies, both those which had been
spangles which somehow manage tion of copper in the modern alloy has a claim to recognition by the a tawdry appearance to make it workable. As in the old collector, even though the modern The more unusual lames, however, days, it is made chiefly into wructi alloy and modern designs have pro- feature ostrich and fringe trimming cal objects for daily use, such as duced a totally different kind of reproduced in both bodice und skirt.with just a wee bit of jewel em-cake and fruit dishes, hot-waterware. For instance, a surf that matches the skirt in fabric, a flower that appears, at both skirt and blouse, an Applique that is foutured on both pieces or some form of trimming thrt connects them.
found effective, by others and those
not yet tried!
Mrs. Wolfe was tall and dark, She had brilliantly fair com- plexion, and her son once wrote to her: "You have through your whole time been a match for all the bend- Bat ties, your contemporaries."
that was not all. She was par ticularly fine housekeeper and enj joyed a beal reputation for her home-brewed medicines and cures. Here is one of the most famous of her remedies, which is still pre- served in her old recipe book-Take a peek of Green Garden Snails. wash them in Bear beer], put them in an oven and let them stay till they've done crying; then with a knife and fork prick the green from them, and beat the snail shells and
in a stone mortar. Then, take quart of green earthworms, slice them through the thiddle and strow them with salt, then wash them and
Whereas the sports costume generally introduces a blouse that
has but little in common with the skirt in the formal mode there is usually some definite. style, that is
|
to escape
broidery,
Borinne Griffith, for a formal scene in her, First National filra Three Hours," has chosen a very chic model in the new gauzy bra- cade, exotic designs of which are Mary Astor, whose youthful ap-brightly outlined in jewels. The pen) is so well suited to the jumper gold of the gown is finished in a selected а narrow brown fur at the uneven type of costume, hus charming version of this mode for hem. A new dinner, dress. The frock also possesses another feature of in- terest in its combination of black. and white. The lame bodice being. contrasted with the skirt of black velvet. The hom of the skirt is a
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PEWTER ORNAMENTS.
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The vogue of pewter is inevitable feature of interest and the bodico when domestic architecture
at a perlod such as the present, possesses a quaint appeal in its sleeveless and anux-fitting qualities. largely influenced by seventeenth A point of decoration that is fea-century design (says a Daily Tele- tured in both blouse and skirt is graph" writer). Anyone fortunate the morning glory spray that is seen enough to possess a room with old- at the waist as well as at one scal- oak panelling naturally buys the
ep of the hem of the skirt.
few places of pewter that will set Miss Aster is appearing in the off the oak to the best advantage. First National film, The Sea There are many modern housee, Tiger."
mareover, with long, "oak-panelled dining-rooms reproducing a seven- teenth century design, for which the owner, after the most careful consideration, decides that pewter is the only possible ornament. The first plate and tankard bought for the wall and mantelpiece nearly always turn the purchaser into a collector, for pewter, has an extra- ordinary fascination for anyone who has once dabbled In the sub-
BRINGING UP FATHER
beat them, the pot being first put into the still with two handfuls of angélico, C quart of rosemary flowers, then the snails and worms, the egrimony, bear's feet, red dock roots, barbery brake, bilbony, worm wood of each two handfuls; one handful of rie tumerick and one ounce of well dried and beaten. Then power pour] in three gallons of milk Wait till morning, then put in three Was General James telling the ounces of gloves (well beaten), sober, honest truth when he wrote hartshorn, xrated. Keep the still that he had tried all the remedies covered all night. This done atir It for was he paying a subtle compli- not. Distil with a moderate fire."ment to his lady mother? We shall Two tablespoonfuls of this Galight-never know.
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saffron
ful mixture wera to be taken as often as necessary.
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