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Who shall arbitrata about the a paper on Edwin Waugh, the Lan-well-dressed woman? To one sho is cashire poet, to the Rotary Club, dressed this way, to another that. Manchester, recently, he said that Perhaps the best definition of her dialect is passing away. "It is is that she always fits in with her Documentary 4 months'

sight going out of fashion," he said, "and surroundings, writes the Paris cor 50 years hence may be an oddity." respondent of the "Morning Post."

Roth before and after the paper In Paris she agrees with Paris, some of Waugh's songs were sung in the country she leaves songs such as "Little, catile, little Paris clothes behind her, and dresses care," and "When the sun goes to suit the landscape. Whana down." Mr. Isherwood, of course, well-dressed Englishwoman goes to chielly thought of Waugh as a din-France, she gives to her clothes a lect poet-as a mouthpiece of a flattering French accent; in Eng Lancashire now swiftly passing land she modifies that accent if she away. Many people, he suggested, is tactful.

Tact and taste joined to a love of felt the loss of the old dialect very keonly, and to them Waugh was neatncias are things which help a always a constant source of plea-woman to dress well.

Money and time 'have also, a good or Ben sure. To read Waugh, Brierley, or Samuel Laycock, was deal to say on the subject.

But it is quite true that the best to know ngais a past generation and to have old scenes. rebuilt dressed women are not the richest, around the framework of homely or the ones who spend most time

and money on their clothes. und vigorous dialect."

Waugh, be said, had often been Some women have a paturál in- accused of vulgarity-a lack of re-stinct for clothes, and that usually finement and delicacy. As a mat-means that they can select and ter of fact Waugh never wrote a wear clothes which suit their par aingle scene based upon depravity, ticular style. The gift of dressing On demand and ovon if he had done so.it would well is surely given by the fairies, Gold Leaf, 100 dog

(per taol) be absurd to condomn him for it. and la not to be despised. It helps If we did, what was to be the fate women to get the best out of a small Sovereigna

buying rate) of Shakespeare and Burns or, for dress allowance, or to be a leader that matter the whole of the Eliza-df fashion if her pursa is well filled. Silver (per oz.)

Bar Silver in Hong, Pleasing the Menfolk bethans? All Waugh did was to

Kong Nobody who understands life in write of a simple people in a per- fectly simple language. The dialect big cities for women who work and Copper Cash

· THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1928.

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he used was now passing away. It play hard, looks at dress as a negli-Chinese Copper Cents 6% Frem. of fashion. It was the gible quantity. Only a woman who Rate of Native In-

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Lerest speech of common people, and to has such a position and such a per- admit any connection with com-sonality as to be able to Impose her- Chinese Sub, Coin monness in these days was to risk off and her peculiarities on the Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par. · a social set-back. Fifty years hence, world can afford to dreas badly.

I would almost go as far as to perhaps, the spoken dialect would

be an oddity. Latterly there had Bay that unless a woman dresses be- been less and less Interest in our comingly she is handicapped in the dialect literature, and this was due struggle for life.

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Stock

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Banks.

Hongkong Bank ..... $1305

do. Lon, Re... £140

Chartered Bank £29 Mercantile A. & B... £34

Men have grown accuustomed to TIT. on London .... 2/0 to d great extent to the prominence that was often given to the scenes see women lucking nice.. They like TT, on Shanghai . 78%

to have neat, trim pleasant maid- of eating and drinking.

The modern mind quite rightly-was servants, employees, wife, daught revolted by all the gluttony anders, friends. They like the women drunkenness of 60 years ago. But they take about with them to be

well dressed. the fact was that such scenes con- tributed a very small proportion of the total writings of Waugh and Brierley Laycock is free from themand by being presented too often they became an inexcusable distortion.

To Mr. Isherwood the trus Waugh is the poet. Here there was no con scious note of strain, he said, and the dialect poems of Edwin Waugh abounded with passages of rare, lyrical beauty.

COL. CHRISTIE

FORMER HUSBAND OF MRS. AGATHA CHRISTIE-

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Yet they wear an air of some disdain when woman talk "chif fons."

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They are completely ignorant of what it means in taste, skill, and good management for a woman to China Underwriters .... $1,40 be always suitably and becomingly China Fire Insurance $280 dressed, yet they criticise sharply. Fire Insurance. $780 such mistakes as the wrong shoes, Douglaner ****

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Successful Failures Happy is the woman who knows how to wear her clothes well. She can make them last longer and look well to the last thread. She can Benguets

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Notice was recently entered at some skill with her needle. The H. & E. Wharves St. George's Register Office, Han"stitch in time" adage is sound. It over-square, of the forthcoming means neatness and daintiness. marriage of Colonel Archibald

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seetha to have H.K. & 8. Hotel the writer of mystery stories, who learned how to put into it sil ahe Hongkong Lands disappeared in 1926:

needs for a week's visit, and to pro- Shanghai Landa .... Mrs. Christie's disappearance aduce variety in dresses, as well as Hongking Realties.

Humphreys Estatės .. few weeks before Christmas in 1926 to have all the necessaries for a H.K. Territorials .... ivan a sensation that lasted many somewhat elaborate toilette.

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doned car was found at Newlands, To youth must be given the palm Corner. For ten days afterwards for good dressed in the latest nothing was seen or heard of her fashion. Both "Miss" and "Made-Star Ferries until her husband, called by the moiselle" 1928 have ways of look. China Lights (comb

do. Harrogate police, identified her as a ing well dressed in town and coun- do, voman who had been staying at a try; at nine in the morning and at hydro in the Yorkshire town since midnight. They can racket all day the day after her disappearance.

and all night and never look un During her stay at the Hydro tidy. They can be sportswomen of Mrs. Christie was known as Mrs. the hardest and the most feminine Teresa Neele, of Capetown, the of dainty. ladies.

Chin Boces entry she made in the hydro regis-

This gift of dressing well has Singapore Tractions

do. Pret. come through their emancipation Jadustrials. D.S.O. and a C.M.G. He was an from home tyrannies, and though atna Bugars 'se Canton Icom **** offker in the R.F.A. He transferred they may not realise It, they owe Mabon Sugars their gift for looking so nice to Cements (comb.) to the Flying Corps in 1913.

Col. Christle served in France their elders, who dress so badly from August, 1914, until September, sometimes, but who fought for free- 1918, and was mentioned in des-dom, and found it too late to learn. Ropes (old)

how to manage their chiffons. patches five times.

ter in her own handwriting.

Col Archibald Christie is

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In September, 1918, he came to England as chief technical officer of ..THE DREAD OF CANCER

the South-eastern area, R.A.F. He reigned this position in June, 1019, Itaking up a City appointment..

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H. K. Govt, Losna Dr. H. W. Richards, warden of fears were groundless. the Royal Academy of Music and a There are many unhappy peoplo member of the Associated Board, who harbour, this same fear and speaking at distribution of music suffer great agony of mind until

Mr. A. Harland, M.P. for the certificates at. Harrow recently, they pluck up courage to undergo Ecclesall Division of Sheffield, "has : stated that the board identified it-medical examination. self completely with the recent

More than one London doctor has informed the local Conservative statement of Dr. Cyril Norwood, stated that a week rarely passes Association that he will not be Headmaster of Harrow School, that without one or two consultations of standing at the next general efce

aminations were always associat-this kind, the patient having usual. tion. ed with cramming.

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