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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1929.

The WOMAN'S Page S

Gaiety In Every Detail

FELT HATS

FOR COUNTRY POSTWOMEN AT HOME

Some hundreds of women in the rural districts of Britain are short- ly to be issued with hats, which they will have to wear for eighteen months, or longer, if renewal is not by then necessary, The hats will be of felt, and will have an oilskin covering of the "sou"-wester** shape, so as to carry the water off when it is raining.

The wearers will be the country postwomen, and their hats will be delivered to them on the order of Mr. H. B. Leos-Smith, the Post- master-General

Further details about the hats are nat forthcoming, except that they are in process of manufacture in the Midlands. It is not stated who designed them, and it is not even an nounced that they will be trimmed. with red tape.

Moreover, it is not known whether the women who are to wear them have been consulted. The inference is that they have not

been.

Sheer Loveliness

HOUSE DECORATION

OWNER'S, INDIVIDUALITY IN ORNAMENTS

The little boy's definition of a well as a hole with earth round it is not unlike the attitude of most of us regarding concrete things. A cere- monial occasion is not a thing by it- self, but a hole round which are dress and company and attitudes. ! Similarly dress is not a thing by

itself, but an 'occasion,

a function, a good deal of which con- eists in putting it on to the best ad- vantage.

Owners of houser have to deal with walls and the foundations, but the spirit of the house lies in the intimacy given it, the personal note, the feeling of ownness created by a number of odd thing the doyzcut, the children's gardens, the decoration which sym- bolizes ail the owner feels for it. To some extent this also applies to publis ownership, and still more cer- tainly to ngh intimables as the motor, which has been so carefully chosen, 01' the ornament. pure

Backless Garment

Still "In

Soft White tulle fashions this sum mer evening gown. The princess line of the bodice is finished with a droop- ing cape collar and the skirt consists of flounces cut on the badice. Sprinkled on the tulle are rhinestone and sequin trimmings which blend with the slipper buckles and jewels.

This attractive summer ensemble shows combination of a white sleeveless frock and a tinger-tip length printed coat. The Deauville ippers carry out the colours of the cunt, which add to an already

charming costume.

HOLIDAY COMPLEXION

SUNBURN DOES NOT SUIT

EVERY ONE

In the London "Daily Telegraph" Audrey Wrangham writes:

I watched a woman in the green and matre salons of a Mayfair beauty specialist choosing the beauty preparations that were to form 28 important part of her hol- day luggage. First of all there were three shades, differentiated by For

numbers, of sunburn lotion. each of these there were numbered powders and rouges to match.

A cleaning lotion was supplied to take off the sunburn twice a day,

or as often as the face is cleaned of its make-up, and a skin food to

leave on the skin at night to pro- vide the nourishment and protec tive grease that is not contained in the sunburn lotions.

That was a comprehensive outfit for a woman who was going to pay visits in the country and abroad, who did not tan very easily and whe did but want to give up much of her holiday lo elaborate make-up.

Instant Sunburn

It is necessary to be smart and up to date to appear sunburned on the very day of one's arrival by the sea or in the country, hence the No. I lotion, which can be replaced by No. 2 when the sun has had a chance of deeponing an artificial sunburn. No. 1 combined with a distinctly pinky-orange shade of

rouge remains the most successful al night when black as well as colours may be worn, and jewels. No. 3 sanburn lotion with mandarin yellow rouge is intended for those who burn easily or are determined to become a deep bronze.

Forecasts of what the smartest cardigans and pull-overs will be like during the coming season.

and consequently. Mr. Lees-Smith may find that, of all posts, that of a

dictator of hats is about the most

unpopular.

It is painted out that, among the things that women hate most, are:

Wearing a hat of a style worn by omebody else in this case, by hun- dreds of others;

Only a few doors way another beauty specialist is concentrating upon complexion aids for those who indulge in tennis and bathing dur- ing the summer holidays. A very useful astringent powder, which looks like superfine grey dust. is smoothed lightly over the skin of the face with cottonwool over a day Intion and under powder and make-fore, that this attempt at hat design. ing will provide the Socialist Post- master-General with a grave pro- in importance,

up.

Waterproof Cream

Wearing a hat until it is worn out. There is every possibility, there

A bathing cream which is water-blem-second only proof can be worked in to the face perhaps, to the question of the em- lip lotion of a pleasant cherry red vice. over the ordinary make-up, and a ployment of women in the Civil Ser-

is intended just to be wiped over

This latter question is to be re-

Will

the lips before the lipstick is apferred to a Royal Commission. plied. At the sea the lips are apt the hat issue meet with the same

to get rough, and then the lipstick fate? cannot be smoothly applied unless there is, as it were, a varnish underneath.

"Sunburn does not suit everyone, but everyone is determined to have it." a beauty specialist confided, and because she dreads to SEC some skins ruined by the injudi cious use of sunburn appliances she has issued a warning to her clients against any dyes.

There are, of course, dyes now on the market to produce deep sun- burn which cannot be removed. sometimes for weeks.

WOMEN'S ADVANCE

ACTRESS VICE-PRESIDENTS OF ACTORS FUND

The cape is held in place by just one button and, atop the pleatings,

is a sach and bow...

Backs came to the fore early this season, and so far there aren't any signs of their disappearing. Joan Crawford, left, appears here in a white Shantung backless frock which she finds so comfortable, she intends to hang on to the last vestige of the fad. Josephine Dunn,. right, is wearing one of her favourite evening frocks-it's backless, of course, that's the reason she favours it.

almost heraldic convention in order again puts the idea of motion and that the idea, may be concentrated; force, before a realistic representa- on Speed. Perspective gives the speed suggestion, as does also the conventionalised smoke, which helps in the design to make a diamond con-

and simple, which is so exactly suit taining the aircraft. ed to the room,

How such functions as the simple

Domestic Signs

tation of the person using both. St. Christopher is very definitely bear- ing up his burden and bearing it with strength and fortitude, and the fact that the Child is so small pro- portionately upon the great arm gives, oddly enough, more point to the legend in which it grew heavier and heavier,

Finally, in the interests of room

For the first time in its history of ¦ forty-seven years the Actore Bane- volent Fund, which held its annual St. meeting at the New Theatre, Martin's-lane, W., elected women as | vice-presidents. These were Lady Alexander. Miss Sybil Thorndike, Miss Gladys Cooper, and Miss

Besides the plastic representation Evelyn Laye. Sir Barry Jackson, carrying to and fro of letters and of the idea of speed and transport, Bir Nigel Playfair. and Mr. Cyri goods can be invested with the per- individual to the Post, there are Maude were also elected vice-presid-sonal romance that appeale to us all similiar modes of representing or decoration, there is a figure of an

can be seen from the photograph of idealising a particular, house. the train and aeroplane coupled with the steamer, designed by MM. J. Martel This ornaments the Hotel des Postes at Belfort and Bar-le-Due respectively, (says a Paris corres pondent) and literally lends wings to the imagination, which before was only walking on the ground of mere postal delivery.

cnts.

Referring to these elections, Lady Wyndham, who presided, said: "We feel we have advanced a step to keep up with the times. We also now have a lady on the committee-Dame May Whitty while Miss Lilian Braithwaite and Miss Eva Moore have promised to

serve on the Actors' Benevolent Fund."

A humorous touch to the meeting was given by Sir Gerald du Maurier, who, in proposing a vote of thanks to Lady Wyndham, turned his back on the members and gave a sham speech to an imaginary audience.

Here are all the wonderful modern forces marshalled in the simplest of modern idioms. Here is not only a train, but Speed in the modernised form of Turner's train. In this design the water is reduced to an

Deck Clothes That Defy Ocean Breezes

If accordion-player, cut with a ruini- the inhabitanta are gardeners, there mum of incisive strokes in granite. can be a stone plaque indicating with In a nense, this figure is more Eng- similar brevity that gardening is lish than French in spirit. The in- If they like effable expression of the player as all-absorbing to them. horses or entertaining, if they are he draws out his instrument into a students

is the oven frenzied bridge parfectly delicious moan, or players, these all form subjecte for humour of the Cockney of the bar, the stone plaque which may serve as 43 we know it in this country.

A figure such as this is in place their outward and visible sign, their spiritual coat-of-arms, se it were. in many English rooms, which, in This little conceit, which adds to the default of better, have.

comic intimacy of a particular house, is animals, which are not so very also an extremely decorative ele comic, but would very much like to ment, just as is a stone, carved with be. Nor does its humour pall. The a date on the Elizabethan house. deep-drawn breath, both of the ac- Turning to the motor, MM. Martel cordion and the player, makes one have used the alphabet of St. Chris laugh and laugh again. The sculp- topher to spell a slightly different tor has fixed something delicious for word from those generally adopted all time. Strictly speaking, this is

શમ mascots. One little plaque is an "ornament," without severely made of silvered bronze, and it structural or decorative reasons.

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How to look smart and comfortable while walking the deck of your steamer, with a stLT wind blowing into your face at every turn, luas been admirably accomplished by these three travellers, The young lady on the left wearing a white wrap around coat which defies any gate to blow it open. The navy blue and white polka-dotted ensemble in the centre is one of those affairs that looks breezy, but really stays put at crucial moments. On the right is seen a one-piece kashs dress in black, with a stunning black and white striped scarf thrown jauntlly over the left shoulder,

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