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Circular pin tueks give a smart loug fronted effect to this? tennis frock (at left) which is just the thing for the present weather in Hong Kong. At right is a brache georgette tea trock with a handkerchief collar.

BRITAIN'S LEAD

WOOL TRADE CHIEF'S COMPLAINT

PATTERNS COPIED

Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith, chairman of the committee inquir

for ing into the application safeguarding for the wool textile Industry, said at a meeting in Lon- don that evidence of costings would be heard in private.

Mr. Cyril Atkinson, K.C., M.P., for the applicants, said he had been supplied with information which, if it would not have been given in private, would have had to be with- drawn.

Mr. Sidney Ewart lingworth, chairman of the wooden section of In- the Federation of British dustries, denied that the British trade was unable to adapt itself to In the the demands of fashion. City there was a continuous inter

Linen embroidered in coloured thread.

I say us strongly as I can the whole thing is a perfect bogey. We have always led in making these types of cloth, perhaps go ing to more expense than anybody else in trying to produce some thing new. I have had my own patterns sent back as something new from abroad a year after 1 sent them out.

Higher Wages

The French send hundreds of thousands of pieces of cloth here. but no French manufacturer has ever come here and set

up plant. They tell us frankly that it is not a question of machinery or operatives, but if they brought a plant to this country with the conditions that we have to work under and the wages we have to pay they would be wiped out. Mr. Mingworth said that dyers' to more profits did not amount

No one in the than a yard.

efficiency world could show more

Thousands of than British dyers. foreign pieces of cloth cams to Bri- tain to be dyed because our dyes and finishes were better than el where.

THE CHINA MAIL,

WOMEN'S

SOME ILLUSIONS

ABOUT THE MODERN·· EVE

[Odette Tehernine in 'Daily Telegraph'}

if

I believe someone once said that Cleopatra's nose had been

an

a quarter of

inch

Jonger the map of Europe might look quite different to-day: That must be an ancient illusion, to begin with, for think what a quarter of an inch would mean to a really charming nose when a mere sixteenth of an inch can tip the scales in quite the wrong direction! However, let us attend to our owni illusions of the present age.

A favourite quip served up these days by those who are interested in Eve from a purely electoral point of view is that arch and pointless re- ference to the flapper of 15 or.... 50, which deceives neither the

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are

"Black shoes are always smart and flapper herself, nor Eve in her here

three particularly dainty twenties, thirties, and onwards, but models with short vamps. merely bores her. And to bore the modern woman is a fatal thing to do. "

Jealous or Sentimental Another favourite illusion which

DO YOU USE GLASSES?

IF SO, THESE HINTS WILL HELP YOU

SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1929.

SECTION

DESTRUCTIVE CHILD

A PROBLEM THAT DEMANDS NEW METHODS

[Dr. E. Cole in "Daily Telegraph"]:

The threat of Miss Wilkinson, M.P., to make it illegal for land. ladies to specify "no children" when letting apartments has brought forth the indignation "of these bread-winners. Their plea is that children are aadly disobedient and destructive, And there is a great deal of truth in this matter.

Parents do not realise sufficiently that children who are left to them- selves are by nature destructive. Natural tendencies will out. The of Sadism as the

instinct

psychologist terms it--that is, the destructive or cruelty impulse showa itself at a very early age. Give a small child a piece of paper to play with Before very long it will be in shreds.

Dynamic Impulses Modern teachers have begun to realise that the innate impulses are dynamic in nature. In the child they express themselves in dirtinesa, untidiness, cruelty, and in Be- many other anti-social ways. ing dynamic in nature, they can be

I am condemned to spectacles per-used for good or for evil. This depends upon the direction in which they are allowed to issue.

the

is periodically brought forward by many of the great, and learned, and well-informed men of our epoch is that men and women working sidemanently, and I find that my clothes by side in offices, laboratories, or need some adjustment.. training centres create a general atmosphere of violent jealousy, slackness, or Bentimental riot. Which is absurd, to say the least about it. ft is probable that the good gentlemen who voice such opinions have rather limited working knowledge of women on the whole, and the few women who agree with them have no knowledge at all about men. ̈.

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The majority of women who work do so because they have to, and when a woman is putting every ounce of ability she may possess in trying to do a job well she has no time to think whether the human being working at the desk next to hers is a girl like herself or a man, also trying to do his own job well, and, incidentally, not concerned about her at all.

Every-day life has no time for masculine suspicions or feminine. subtleties.

on with the To get work ought to be everybody's slogan. And with that another illusion- evaporates in a puff of smoke!

governess.

At the beware of fussy clothes.

Study: Your Jewellery Go in for pointed neck-openings on your frocks, and often their out-

ext-

On the left is plain and printed crepe de chine in an attrac- tive afternoon frock; at right two smart afternoon gowns with the popular V necks and swathed hip girdle.

Personally, I like to have glasses The landlady's complaint of deg- the fact with horn rims (not necessarily the tructive children provęs

A CAT IN THE HOUSE heaviest). and do

thing that this dynamic energy is thoroughly.

pressing itself in a wrong direc

[By Ralph Harold Bretherton] It is a serious matter to add. two tion.. Cutting holes in the carpets, emphatic, circles to our features, scratching initials on the best sofa, We are promised a kitten as and it means

on the walls, or that we must avoid drawing pictures

soon as he is old enough to be other circles and other emphasis. using the crochet antimacassars to taken from his mother. He will No more severe garments, madam, play "bears" gives the landlady be the first cat that we have had unless you wish to look like a stage every right to grumble and specify since long ago when the war broke She has had a up our home, and when he comes. time, "no children." same

hard-earned experience.

And no

We shall greet him just a little one wants the best parlour ruined! shyly perhaps, with some doubt as However, the core, of the whole to whether he will like us. Really matter is that the parent does not we have grown rusty in the ways understand the child, and allows of cats, and we may not do by him his exuberance of energy to run riot as he should be done by. to destruction and disaster. This Other amenities of the home sadistic Impulse pan be turned to have dribbled back one by one useful purposes. There would be since we settled down again after no good soldiers or surgeons if this the war; but he had to wait until instinct to destroy had not been we expanded from the top floor given its outlet towards sublimation which made shift-as-a-flat-into- a in social aims. Moreover, humanity real house with elbow-room and a would be much poorer, Many a beyond at the back garden with mother is too lazy. It is easier sunny walls, pretty flowers, and to say, "Don't do that!" and con-rustling trees. Yet even then we tinue to read. an exciting novel, hesitated. than to turn attention to the child and wake up to the fact that he must have definite play substituted for his erring energy.

world on the pillar of the gate. We shall find him a little heavy Chen, and shall tell him of it with A very real gasp of pain when he kneads his strong, broad paws dreamily into our flesh.

Discomfort Gladly Suffered He will roam later on, no doubt.

and then, in the dead of night, we shall hear him come with a thud from the open window on to the for. What if a moment later he jumps up to lie like a ton weight We shall keep still on the bed!: and suffer cramp rather than throw bim off. If we did, he might take it amiss and go back out of the home window and never come again.

Will He Like Us? And we are, in anticipation, just--- a little afraid that we

may do something that will make him diz- like us and look for a better home. Still, we are determined to do our best for him.

We want him to stay, and we He Will be Shy at First Still, a kitten awaits adoption, hope that the welcome we shall and we have said that we will take give him will make him feel that he And almost excitedly we cannot do better than fix up with. think of what he will be us for the rest of his life. "Daily about the house. We cannot ex-

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him.

Again, & much-aired illusion which some people take for positive Serviceable handbags for sun or rain. truth is that women judge by in- herent. intuition and men by sound lines as much as possible. Let logic. They don't exactly. The your neck-lace be a long one, or if

If his cutting propensities are to real truth of the matter is that wo- you must wear. a choker let it be the fore get some coloured paper Mr. A. S. Comyns Carr, KC.

men know all about logic, but the light in accent and colour.

and teach him to cut out animal pect, perhaps, to find him, proper- (for the objectors): It is your primeval Eve in them rebels 11 Let your hair frame your face as shapes or hats! Let him play at ly strokable at first. A little fol- case that the only things which putting their knowledge into prae- tenderly as may be

Pull it well soldiers and have a good game of low, still comically uncertain on If he is anxious to his young legs, he will hardly stand enable the French and Germans to

tice, while the old Adam in man is forward at the sides, if that suits Red Indiana. meet you in competition are de ashamed of the intuition he may your contours, and shun a bald draw and scribble give him a good "p to the hand just yet. But later, preciation of currency and low possess for fear. of it being con- forehead as you would the plague.

big piece of paper, and make a point when he is strong on his feet, he will 'press his back up into the wages? Yes, and hours and considered too feminine an attribute. For out-of-doors, sof, full furs of admiring his hieroglyphics. ditions of labour.

will be more becoming than smooth

What the parent needs to know is friendly palm. The committee adjourned.

varieties, and a scarf Bosely arrang-

that the child needs the right outlet ed will help you to ban severity,

in play.

QUEEN ANNE EFFECT

But intuition is more or less com- mon to both sexes, and is not wo- man's prerogrative alone. So does one more illusion fade away.

change of patterns and ideus. Thousands of patterns were sent to skirts, falling in points, are This is incorrect, for she only takes London from Yorkshire.

A... A Child's Rights

Moreover, the parent must re-

We hope, of course, that he will" wash towards us, with a daintily curved paw over his whiskers, the fortune we need. And we hope,"

Overcoming the Hat Problem Another illusory belief is that Hats are a difficulty. They must A lovely frock for a debutante. popular one which holds that a be light in weight and not too close cut with Queen Anne stiffness, is

woman gauges her likes and dislikes fitting, or they will preas your in coral-coloured taffeta-the full

by the other person's appearance. spectacles on to the sensitive nerves behind the ears. On the other bordered with a pink net

CH- in someone's appearance in the first hand they must not be so small as Foreign manufacturers went broidered in coral and diamante. swift glance, and their is either to suggest another circle. round "clipping" these patterns: The demure corsage has an inner attracted or repelled by her new Fortunately Fashion is at pre- Then the competition began and ft berthe and armholes of the same became a question of price, Mr.net embroidery, while on one hin acquaintance's manner, for manners, sent a lenient mistress, especially

make or mar men and women in regard to millinery. Some brim made to understand Ullingworth added:

there is a rose made of coral, to alike.

in front will be helpful, and you damage has to be repaired, and he that there should be in a room on night time wear with the grande When we are

told we cannot match beads of the same youthful

must relinquish his pocket-money to will probably find an irregular. make a particular kind of cloth, stones.

shape becoming. Hard ribbons defray the expense. and petersham must go, to be re-i placed by velvet or anything else that gives softness.

Thus far

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Two Fairy Tales

on

Last of all to be disproved, are two old and widely opposed fairy tales about woman, one sentimental view placing her in the ranks of angels upon earth, and the other

my meditations born of an inexplicable fear and circles and severity had led me, mistrust of the feminine re- when I met an old friend. legating her to the position of an should hardly have known you," she insistent and troublesome element said, "but I think your glasses are ever encroaching on man's domain.

Bol summing-ups are wrong. Men and women can rise to great- ness when circumstances demand it,

just it!"

דיי

that the

ANKLE-BRACELETS

Evening shoes are again, for

member to treat the child as a too, that he will have a good purr. reasonable human being, with rights We must get the old grandfather clock going again and tune in its and responsibilities of his own. It is well to ask him whether he ticking to his song as he bubbles a fitting companion to the one at left. would like his favourite toy broken on the hearthrug. And then, with up or his best Sunday suit cut into the coals stirring and creaking and suddenly popping out into little hocls. When this point of view has

flurries of flame-and-with the cold- been-explained to him he must be

wind rumbling distantly in the chimney, there will be all the music

a winter night.

Toilette, getting more and His Favourite Game

decorative. The latest craze is Destructive children are the re-

He will be playful to begin with the ankle bracelet that assists sult of incompetent parents. If their energies were suitably directed our cat, a little chap who likes a in holding up the shoe. For complete this there would be no grumbling land-game. Who will tire first, he with example to

hia baby legs or we with our stiff coral-coloured satiu is the ladies.

joints as we absurdly drag a reel Louis shape ailvér and TOSE or a bit of paper again and again lame; the high heel is of silver across the floor?

leather, and a bind of the same comes from front to back, forming

ankle-bracelet. the

It ·can be but

THE ARCHED EFFECT

more

He will grow out of his playful One interesting change of line is nens, Times will make him a great observable in a model of black felt, sleek and dignified fellow who does further studded in paste, rather floppy at the sides, worn credit to his home as he proudly jewelled shoes are apt to catch in down low at the back, but with the suns himself in the eyes of the the floating, ham-lines. and both have their own individual the straight line they have marked smaller front brim made in fine work waiting for them if during out, and retain their courage and tucked silk and cut up into a slight- the ordinary trend of every day they vision by keeping their eyes on they arched curved effect to show a never let their walk deviate from stare.

large expanse of forehead.

YW.C.A. Workers,— A joint finance campaign of the Chinese and For

ed at Shanghai where both the Chinese and foreign teams commenced,

40 Chinese workers, divided into four teams under the leade

Mrs. H. L. Huang and Mrs. Pater Wang. The above photo?

1. 1. Wang and Mrs Peter Wang ~(Ah Fong.).

TW.CA.B was open- work There are over Wang, Mrs. Hauch orkers in the teams of Mrs."-

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