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Striking Regality

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Welcome relief from the jazzy era in this regal mode of ivory white satin which blends delightfully with a suc culent wrap of chinchilla. The silver and jewelled turban taken on the ap- pearance of a crown.

BEAUTY FOR THE BACK

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In The Mind As Well As In One's Habitu

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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, MARCH

1929.

WOMEN'S SECTION

Being tidy-minded, I am never led into sloppy ways, so I can con demn those that are! I think than mental sloppiness in worse sloppy ways. No one, I contend, is immune from the former In sidious fault.

By sloppy ways" i mean a lack of method. There are people who And it easier to have a place for everything, and to put everything in its place. Of these I am one. I cannot understand why some people prefer to have a drawer which, when opened, shows medley of stockings, ribbons, hand- kerchiefs and gloves! I do under- stand the old maid with her lists, her neat piles of clothes, and her labels for all her keys!

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The sloppiness of 'mind, though, which leads to mental cowardice, Is what I plead guilty to and would give the world to cure.

Moral Cowardice

I contend moral cowardice is due to mental stoppiness and the inability to pull one's self together and face lengthy explanations and expostulations.

Let us look at some of the com mon untruths this mental weak. ness leads to.

We are all taught as children to be truthful and at the same time to avoid hurting people's feelings, but there are few of ur who do not descend to the deepest in- trigue in order to carry out this. last injunction.

I have frequently been asked to eat some dish I dislike in order "not to hurt the cook's feelings." I have fed the dogs, or buried my helping of the dish for the self- same reason. I have had a special' dish termed "my favourite" and I have been too mentally sloppy to break down the myth and declare my hatred of it! I have praised a pudding and been condemned to

Too-slim backs are being treated by a leading Mayfair beauty spe- cialist at her Dover-street saloon. "Most women-especially young girls are dismayed to find that hackless evening gowns are unbe-see it frequently featured on my coming to the too-slender back," she menu. *aid. "Women with bony backs often suffer from open pores as well.

"Special massage with hot oil is given to feed the tissues, but much of the treatment is done at home. A flattening cream is recommend- ed to be rubbed into the back every night. Pine baths are also an in- portant item in home treatment.

Feigning Enjoyment

Mental sloppiness has again led me to put my share of the pud- ding in an envelope and drop it in the street later on sooner than to face my cook and say, "I am tired of that excellent pudding and do not want to see it again!"

Another fear is to confess one's "A powder made from an extract disilke of a special "trest." Some- of Marienbad pine-trees is added times one is taken to a play and would far rather go and to the bath-water. As it opens the one

glibly felgns en- pores as well as stimulating the dance, but one tissues a lotion is applied after-joyment and denies, if asked, that wards which closes the pores and one really enjoys dancing! prevents their becoming clogged with powder.

So throughout life we often fall

in with our neighbours' judgment

"If the skin is inclined to be of what we like in order to avoid tedious explanation. When greasy and there are open pores.

the back should be massaged gently shopping how frequently one takes while in the bath with a gritty the second best because one has which thoroughly not dared go out, having ransack- pore-wash,

eleanses the skin. For this I ad-ed the whole shop.

vise a Turkish towelling glove or a small Turkish towel dipped in the water. Avoid too strenuous rub- bing, which irritates the sensitive skin of the back.

"Heavy powdering will draw at

too-slim back rather tention to a than disguise it. A liquid powder, carefully applied to give a natural bloom to the skin, should be put on before going out."

Kayser Slipper-Heel Hosiery

The Downright Person When your frienda may, "Do you Ilke my house, tell me truthfully 2" Do you? 4

Or does the cloud of immoral sooner sloppiness descend, and than hurt your friends' feelings and enter into a long discussion

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An Advance Fashion For Summer Days

Spots will evidently be in favpor again judging by this promen ade three-piece in red and white spotted artificial silk crepe de chine. Note the novel pockets and neck band of the white Jumper, the two materials being used for the skull shape hat to match. The em- broidered parasol and inlets of filet late, strike a new note-(Sport and General).

Afternoon Tea

Blazing red Chinese chiffon lends a charming softness to this dainty draped afternoon gown. Perhaps, too, Elme Aristi lends some of her Grecian grace,

A PRINCESS" SOUP ·

As the night wore on and the cold seemed to get infa, the house, the surprise party, which had taken possession of Princess-S's big drawing-room some hours earller, began to feel a little chilly and also hungry.

Everybody had brought pro visions to the party, but, of course, the food was cold, and now every. one longed for something steaming

hot

and comforting: Some of guests departed to make for the nearest restaurant. The princess. kapt. back six- or eight of her: friends. "Come with me to the kitchen," she said. "We will see

what we can find."

Not Afraid of Hardships The princess, who is the daughter of a duchess, had a very modern bringing up, and with her young husband has made long ex- peditions after game, camping out

in forests, and doing her bit nobly over a camp fire, when the party had but limited food supplies.

Smart Spring Wear

Getting very little help from her friends, who stood looking on with admiration at their hostess's preparations, the princess turned out in few minutes the most savoury of soups. Bringing from the larder a dish of butter, thres or four good-sized onions and i tomato, the put some butter in the saucepan and set it on the gas. ring to get hot while shenimbly Luxuriantly trimmed with white fox, aliced the aniona, k

Throwing these into the pan ahs this ensemble of dull fat crepe with shook them at intervals, while shiny satin white blouse offers mart they browned-gently and then added the tomato, cut up and crocheted straw hata with wisps of roughly peeled That, too, hissed the left hem of the skirt and soft In the pin among the onions while crocheted straw hats with wisps of the cook drew enough hot water white feathers lend a fair not seen for her soup. Pouring this upon the onions, she dropped. In a gen-every day."

FromReville

NEW WALK DECREED,

The Boyish Gesturen are Gone

The new line in dresses and coats in bringing about a new walk, says a Home. paper. The manaequipo, always adapt them- selves to their clothes very quick- ly, but the, amateur is elowër" to realise that there must be a change In 'deportment when there is any drastic change of fine in the dress.

Take the new long slim line: which Jean Paton has designed. From the hips to the kasos" ha binda” the figure, and all movement comes from the knees. Tall and slim, the mannequins moved" with' remarkable grate. not swaying' from the hips, with their heads, "like beli-fowits buoyant,"and" their shoulders slightly stooping.

·Pátou ⠀ is clamouring⠀⠀ "for" the feminine type of woman to come into fashion again; clearly be will have her feat), and slender,

Tike, again, the new Poiret Curven. Slender If, you will, but not straight up and down. Then there are the Lanvin styles, girlish, mlendar, with free-flowing draperies which leave the figure, undefined.

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„The": new walk - has not yet avolved,” “since fashions are tradictory. But it la sure that a' feline grace is sought after by the dressmakers, and women will be expected to move and sit more softly than they do now..

All the boyish gestures, atti-

Nifty Ensemble

tudes, and movements of a year The Interesting way in which the

ago are old-fashioned. Ose lead-pleating is handled and the clever He which Joins the jacket are trický Ideas Ing modelllat declares that she is in this ensemble. The finger-tip length inspired by the modes of mid- cost of poudre blue crepe is accented Edwardian days and is seeking to

at the cuffs and collar with dark blus and liver ribbon bands which blend give to bustles and paaiers that with the deep platinum fox, trimming graceful dip at the sides which for the sleeves. made even splump - women look. slander and short women look tall.

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The New Walk

It looks much as if women will have to change their walk when they change their dress (since we are still to wear short tailor-mades and sport skirts.

But the moment a tong skirt goes on, then comes a certain Gondage, No Woman can be any thing but feminine in her move ments in a long skirt without risk- ng looking like one of Cinderella's ugly sisters in A pantomimo, a'sia- ter whom every one knows to be a mA..

We need not mince, but we must be 'demure and unhurried, or we must learn to move like Con- stantia Durham, the "racing cat ter," with all car, draperies in full

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Since all evening dresses are long ever in front, dancing will be more graceful to watch. Those wriggling, tortured limbs emerging from short, tight dresses will dia sprear under flowing skirts, and deception will again help, womNSIT to win admiration. At present no Imperfect foot or leg can hide its imperfection:

A Free· Waistline

·FOR YOUR DOG

Attention to details insignificant in "themselves, may make all the difference in the world to the com- fort of doga. Although coddling is undesirable, reasonable .care ahould be taken to ensure freedom from draughts and damp, especially in the winter. Dogs are more resistant to" cold and changes, of climate than we are, and it would not be wholesome for them to live always in a uniform temperature.

Dogs are not always the best judges of what is good for them. We see them, often getting over- heated by lying in front of a fire, throw themselves down close to a door under which an icy current is constantly flowing. During the night, when fires have died down, they feel anything of the sort more acutely, and it is ad- visable to ascertain for yourself if the sleeping box or basket is ex- posed to draughts. Put your hand on the floor, in order to and out

If the box fa deep enough to protect the dog well when he is lying down he is not ilvely to sui- fer, but most" are shallow; and in such cases it is much better to rafas them, a foot or more.

**When He is Noisy at Night A free maistiine in assured. - When a dog is uncomfortable Even when the line is set at at night he will probably be rest- normal and his pinched seams to | less and nolay. Imagine the lot | indicate if there is no: pulling in. of one accommodated in "a kennel

... This means that movement will | with the opening at one end. By be easy at the waist, however tight putting the hole one side the wind drens dreperles may be about the is prevented from blowing straight kips....

· The new walk will not look

| laboured, though it may be diff÷

on the Immate The sleeping quarters at the farther and should

be sheltered by a screen of boards,

cult to be athletic in the balle Landa Hberal hedding of clean room.

straw given. S

· Heels" are not to be vary: high, ⠀⠀ A” kennel made of two thick- shoug are, not the pointed, nor too | nesses of boards with cowhair, felt | short.... The Mødern woman is or rawdust, in between is to be

learning rapidly that a tight shoe recommended. It is almost un which deforme the foot is not worth while, just as she has learned that a tight glove is valgir

To look cpmafortable luone's clothes need not mean slovenliness, and does mean easy movement.

necessary to speak of the per- zielous effects of damp, which is provocative of rheumatism and other Ille. Never comit to dry la dog thoroughly if he comes in wet last thing at night.—“Daily Mail.**

Your search for hosiery

is over If you've found Kayser. Heal'! Horory of service weight that is as gent perfection as moda make it."Combining smartness, Of course, the "Skipper Heel fea

benderized effect it gives the-

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