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GREAT REDUCTIONS

IN

ALL DEPARTMENTS

FROM JULY 8TH.

THE CHINA MAIL.

FASHIONS AND FANCIES

MONDAY, JULY 18, · 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

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

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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, Bonhom Strand, East

Telephone C. 989

Hong Kong's Artistic Photographers

The

YING MING STUDIO

Queen's Road Central..

(Official Photographers of the "China Mail.")

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,

PIONEER SILK STORE

LADIES!

COME AND INSPECT

OUR NEW STOCK

. OF

SILKS

MAN LOONG PRESERVED GINGER MANUFACTURERS.

NEW SEASON PRESERVED GINGER. Beat quality-Prompt attention to Exportera. Office: 233, Queen's Road Central. Tel. C. 2530.

Factory:-2 Godown, Praya, Dundas St., Mongkok. Tel. K. 88.

CHI WAH.

TAILORING.

Once known as Chison. Perfect fit guaranteed. 9, Wyndham Street,

TANG YUK, DENTIST Successor to

the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street,

TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.

The sports theme is being used more and more for urcasions other than strictly sports. Nowadays the coals, suits and frocks that are apparently designed for only cer tain occasions find themselves ex- pressing their popularity in fields far from the sport ventres. This is particularly true in the spring

and gummer seasons.

nate.

Right now costs designed along tailored or sports lines predomi- There are all sorts of femi nizing touches to include them in more formal themes, but in line and fabric the sports note predomi-

mater,

Fabrics, to begin with, are seen in all sorts of interesting colours, colour combinations and designs. The woollen fabric that fashions so

many of the sports coats is seen in Interesting checks, blacks, stripes, geometric designs, floral patterns and unusual weaves.

The tweeds that are imported from Seatland and are so much used in coats of Paris inspiration, that are loosely woven with a clear thread of white to distinguish them, fashion many of the most strictly tailored models. These coats rely upon smart lines and unusual touches. For instance, a wide belt of brilliant blue suede and a high, upstanding collar lined in the same shade of blue will bring a chic note to the otherwise simply designed coat. of blue and white tweed. and brown combinations and black Tweeds that show beige and white contrasts are among the most familiar fabrics and are gen- erally seen in simple designs.

The all white woollen fabric that introduces colours in curious de signs is smartly seen, while canary and green, rose and grey, blue and grey, white and red, orange and white, yellow and white and all sorts of other combinations are ased in coats of extreme smartness of fabric, lines and detail.

DELINQUENT CHILDREN.

Youthful Sense of Injustice.

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The sports mode that is correct and relies upon its tucks and but-

is well tons to distinguish it,

Wool jersey in all white also may for almost all occasions exemplified in the two-piece cos-be used to create a chic appearance is part with skirts possessing odd pleat- tume of white. White cularly pleasing in warm weatherings and a plain jumper. Often it there is nothing smarter than with a cardigan jacket it complet ce the sports costume of all white, in one of the season's most successful either one, two or three pieces.

Jane Winton, appearing in the First National Alm, "The. Poor Nut," wears a decidedly new and appealing costume pour le sport that is fashioned of all white and is designed in two pieces. Its short skirt is finely pleated and the jacket is distinguished by a row of buttons extending down the entire front. Fine pleats form a border at the bottom and almost merge with the pleating of the skirt. A simple collar adds a youthful note that is expressed throughout all the details of the costume.

sports appearances. A string of; coloured beads or a flower at the Shoulder is often the only distin- guishing touch of colour seen the sports ensemble.

in

White Rodier jersey striped with white silk is used in creating 2 most interesting sports ensemble. 11 is often seen combined with plain shirt of kasha, a bloused effect in the jumper, a tiny belt, and an

HORIZONTAL

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10-Cry grass

11-To offer objections 13-New

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17-Lair

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26-High

27-Bahold

28-Capped

32-Pertaining to the

middle

36-Chinese shrub

95-Time Immediately

preceding some event

HORIZONTAL (Cont.)

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19-To'accuse of crime

42-A dipper 43-Dally personal

record

45-A male chlid

45-Tardier

48-To haul

49-A sign of sent

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monastery

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16-Comparative suffix 17-8tation (20-Brilliancy 121-To project 122-A dessert

4-Shade 25-Period of time (29-A nut

130-A mate. (xiang)

131-To behtve

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g-Decay

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[42–Ship's dally record

44-Over there 47-Toward

SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES

Stars out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in tun to still others. Å letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares 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.)

all white scarf that hangs in long ends across the shoulder. Beads of vivid colouring-are-worn-close-to the neck and often a hat of a bright fresh supply pours in, and the gas is shade complete the costume. mechanically turned on again.

Silk and wool combinations are Ideas for nursery decoration are All white is seen in both woollen extremely smart in all white. So is also to be found at the exhibition. and silk fabrics. A two-piece the knitted silk that fashions so There is a tendency both in private dress of white crepe de chine often adds a cardigan sweater of white, tumes. Thin white silks, finely up the walls of children's rooms. many of the two-piece sports cos- houses and in hospitals to brighten wool for. warmth as well as effce-

achieve this object wallpaper chic appearance with a small white fabrics in all white with jacket of fairy stories told in six or more, tiveness and finishes an extremely pleated, are much used for sleeve-To

less tennis dresses and the heavier manufacturers are producing series felt or crocheted straw

hat and added make

a striking golf cos-oval or square pictures which are white hose and sports shoes. Oc- t

tume. Although this seaBOU sees posted on a plain paper in, place 'casionally a note of colour is in- cluded in the scarf or printed ker- many colours used, the costume of of a frieze. The series on view at chief that is tied in Deauville all white will achieve a place of the exhibition Illustrates the story first importance in the sports of Peter Pan. The Red Indians, fashion about the shoulders.

White Nankin erepe with finely mode. It is generally becoming the pirates, Peter, Wendy, and the to all types and lends itself to all mushroom are all charmingly re tucked bands to form a trimming is

presented on the wall, and the an especially smart choice in all sorts of interesting treatments.

effect is most attractive. white. It is made without pleats

are

KITCHEN EQUIPMENT.

Suggestions For Flat Dwellers

A most complete kitchen fitting into a space about 12ft. by 6ft. is on view at the Hospitals and Institu- tions Exhibition. It is of consider-

Ann Rork, seen in First Na- tional's The Prince of Head Waitere,"

wears a sporta coat in a Crichton-Miller believes, such mani- novelty fabric introducing several festations the unsuspected shades

of brown and tan. It is frults of seeds sown away back in trimmed with a roli Fitch fur the very early days, the result of collar and a narrow belt.

that blind feeling of injustice, of undeserved inferiority, which finds, outlet in a determination to "get a bit of his own back" at the expense of society. There is the child de-able interest to flat dwellers owing prived of the home which he sees to the way in which the equipment Fitted in a remarkably enjoying; who has others

*pated. no "mummie" to come to breakings-up small area are a heated clothes at school, no daddy of whom to cupboard, a water heater, a stove, an incinerator, and a large refri- chatter to intimates; and especially the child who feels even keener in-gerator. The value of the incinera Modern psychological research justice because of separation which tor will immediately be appreciat-

ed has thrown light upon many aspects seems to him avoidable, whose par- by people who live in flats. It of the problem of the difficult and ents are abroad, or divorced. Such

will burn anything, however wet, delinquent child, and Dr. H. Crich- feelings are never expressed, and

and the health" authorities are so ton-Miller, in the course, of lectures few people realise them, so they tance that they are having leaflets Impressed with its hygiene impor- he is giving under the auspices of surge unhindered in the hidden life, the Tavistock Clinic, dealt recently embittering it, and eventually pro- with one of them-the reason ducing that state of mind which underlying that strange alteration finds revenge in acts of moral Where there are children. a heat- in the apparent characters of chil- sabotage, in lying, thieving, bully-ed cupboard is a great boon. The dren which sometimes puzzles, no ing, especially this last if the seeds cupboard exhibited was especially less than it pains, both parents und of jealousy have also been unwisely designed for use in a diminutive teachers. Most people know in sown. Not to have a home is bad; kitchen, and is only eighteen inches stances of it: the child who from not to have parents is worse. De wide. It adjoins a gas-heating cir- apparently being quite normally privation of the privileges and pre-culator for the hot-water supply. "good," becomes unamenable to dis rogatives which belong to the child The amount of water heated can be cipline, develops mischievous ten- normally blessed in these ways regulated from five to thirty gal- dencies, even to thieving, and shows | creates a jealous bitterness in very lons. Immediately the water

Even cruelty in bullying the younger and many immature minds.

reaches a temperature of 140deg. more defenceless of his companions. I unwise, an incredibly foolish parent the gas is automatically turned out,

Often. perhaps generally, Dr. may he better than none,

and when the water is used up a

I'VE MADE UP MY MIND TO

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WHAT'S THIS? IT

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