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THE CHINA MAIL.

FASHIONS AND FANCIES

MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an export but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

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THE WING ON CO., LTD.

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GOOD LUCK

"GOOD LUCK"

BRAND

NEW SEASON GINGER

Most reliable, good strong colour, mellow and well preserved.

The China Ginger Preserving Co., Ltd.

No. 16, Bonham Strand, Easi

Telephone C. 989

PHONE C. 416.

THE ASIA COMPANY

GENERAL STOREKEEPERS

SHIP & FAMILY COMPRADORES

9, POTTINGER ST., HONG KONG.

Only the Finest British and American Goods are Stocked by us. Price List on Application.

-MAN LOONG

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NEW SEASON PRESERVED GINGER. Best quality-Prompt attention to Exporters. Office:-231, Queen's Road Central. Tel. G. 2530. Factory:2 Godown. Praya, Dundas St., Mongkok. Tel. K. 88.

Hong Kong's Artistic Photographers

The

YING MING STUDIO

Queen's Road Central

(Official Photographers of the "China Mail.")

Always Take

PEPS

TO WARD OFF DANGEROUS

COLDS & CHILLS

PEPS breatheskie tablets are inequalled as a remedy and jerventive of coazia, colds, chilis, nurs threat, bronchitis, kronchial catarek, Influenta,

Of medicins vendors everywhere."

Elaborate simplicity marks the keynote of distinction in the spring- tíme mode. The important varia- tions of the silhouette emphasize straight lines in a marked variety of fabrics and new spring colours,

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fur-a spring study in rich simpli city. Most models include chic details with exquisite furs, Ameri- can breadtail, ombre, lapin, fox, fitch, kolinsky, squirrel and ermine. One of the important fashion notes from Paris brings the in-

While fors are often en import formation that conts will remain ant means of adding chic to the

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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

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SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES

Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure These will give you a dive to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belenga in each white space, words starting at the uumbered aquares and running either horizontally or vertically or both

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle · will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

out

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.

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ŠTICE METRENATIONAL STERGATE

and to advise would-be emigranta not to despise the openings that domestic work offers in Australia to trained and educated women.

Mrs. Ingram employs 200 daily workers, whom she sends within a thirteen-mile radius to Charming woollens - Kashmirova, place on the spring horizon. Many | spring coat, there are many modeta approved mistresses.

"I feel Jorelia, Kasha, Supertwill, and of the new silhouettes reveal coats which do not use it at all. Instead that the whole domestic problem Charmeen presented in navy blue, beautifully tailored, straight of a long shawl collar is worn of a reeds reorganisation," she said in black and soft spring shades. The line and flatteringly tiered. importance of black for spring-soft richness of monkey fur in or tucked in interesting manner.

The contrasting fabric, braided, shirred an interview with a "Daily Tele- graph" representative. The do- particularly in the formal coat, is

shawl or mushroom collar seen in Dragon satin, Mirror crepe, frequently

Bows, which are of utmost im-mestic profession ought to be.one Its only. or Failles and is often smartly com- coats.

feature of these portance in the spring mode, have of the best for women.

a way of Introducing themselves in salvation is to raise its status by bined with white furs or nonkey

For afternoon,' coats possese a all sorts of odd places in the newest educating a new type of workers simplicity in effect that is achieved coats. They sometimes appear on with new ideals, and providing for through intricate cut and line. the shoulder, or in the back. They regulation hours, decent regulation Dull and lustrous surfaced are cleverly united, while sometimes anor possess long flowing ends that their private lives.

may be very brief in their outline, conditions, and enough liberty for A large num→ entirely different fabric is intro-create a graceful effect. duced.

ber of the ex-Service women who tificate for having passed teste at The ensemble note that is so had free passages from. England the end of three years' course at stressed in the new mode makes a after the war wera absorbed in a domestic arts training college. coat an essential part of the ward- domestic work. Many of them are The employees are known by the straight with intricate seamings.

robe for almost all dresses. When now married and have their own name of "marnı," just as the term Tucking in pointed V shapes in the

a satin or silk froek is worn it fa homes and children. Domestic "nurse" is used.in hospitals. Giris back of a slender coat is another new effect that is pleasing. Seam- don clad in garments of unusual usually accompanied by a coat of posts are so well paid that girls are who live in can get from 30s to £2 The sports coat able to save the money for a trip weekly, most of their evenings free, ing points to slenderness in the cut and colour (the kind of gar- matching fabric.

and often alternate week-ends. sides of another Paris coat of kash-ments we turn our heads to gaze of tweed or kasha finds itself to England and back again."

The conditions of employment Mrs. Ingram states that there is a mirova smartly trimmed with at, you would find at least a score covering a sports outfit of like American broadtall. Long, trian of women. A score! The cat-material. The ensemble is ex- laid down by Mrs. Ingram include big field for educated domestic gular lines are seamed in geometri-mate is far too low! More likely tremely important in the spring two weeks' holiday on full pay for workers up country. They live.

a hundred or a thousand! val effects in other models,

each year's service. Uniforms are with the family, accompany them It is not too much to say that Colours vary from the rich supplied and fares paid. The girls, on week-end motor trips, and are The tiered coat has an important for the last two or three genera-blacks to the pale beige' tones, on the other hand, must hold a cer- almost sure to marry before long.

tions the art of individuality in Greens and blues are much seen in clothing has been kept alive by the spring collection. women, and by women only; if the Calfskin is much used in the Discussing, in print, that subject ordering of our dress had been left sports models which include a of perennial interest, the shingle, a entirely to the lords of creation, Kasha fabric as well as tweeds. masculine critic has ventured to the probability is that, long ere Fur collara in general are rolled prophesy that when the long-haired this, all colour would have Ded high at the back of the neck. coiffure again returns to favour it from our streets and shop windows, will return with a conquering rush and we should all have declined (writes Cecily Hamilton in the into something like machine-made "Morning Post.") Women, accord- | uniforms. ing to the critic aforesaid, are, one and all, imitative creatures, wait ing humbly upon fashion's com- mands; and when the word has been given for curls and hairpins they will turn, with one accord, from the shingle and the bab, buy hairpins, and cultivate ringlets!

THE IMITATIVE SEX.

mode.

Colleen Moore, noted for her. smart collection of spring coats, varles her appearance by appearing in all shades and fabrics of spring For it was the main, the really importance. She is particularly Imitative sex, that banished bright partial to the kashaa and tweeds colour from its own daily use, that with calfakin and possessing limited its tailor to one or two straight lines. Black combined patterns, and handed' on, from with white ermine is another father to son, a tradition of raven favourite of Miss Moore for the new sobriety In the matter of its even-season. Colleen Moore wears ing garb. What time the sex that several new coats in her First prefers originality declined to be National film, "Orchids and robbed of Its rainbow tints and Ermine." flaunted itself, at its dinners and dances. In fame colours, purples, and jades!

DOMESTIC SERVANTS.

With the fate of the shingle or the Eton crop I am not at the mo- incat concerned; what interests me is the prophet's assertion that women are essentially the Imitative or sheep-like sex, For, surely, the And consider, too; the kindred. A regulation eight-hour day and boot is on the other foot; at any matter of hairdressing, True it is a weekly salary of £2 to £2 58. are rato," where clothing and personal that nowadaya. a í great many two of the conditions for daily appearance are concerned, the women wear their hair cut short; domestic workere under an interest- imitative sex the male. Eccen- but true it is also that the crop ing scheme run in Sydney, New trielty in clothing and personal apped head is not universal. The South Walde, by a house service pearance is rarer,, much_rarér, “in shingle may be the fashion but the expert, Mrs. Ingram, and her men than in women... For every rule of fashio". though. absolute colleague, says a Home paner: one man that you could induce to with men, is by no means absolute, Mra. Ingram is on a visit to Bri show himself in the streets of Lon- with women.

tain to study the situation there

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