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THE CHINA

MAIL.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1930,

The WOMAN'S Page

Stylish Headgear

Close-Fitting Hat Favoured

Lenglen Love Song

Assorted Colours Make Perfect Costume

That

Petals of ashes of roser velvet nre adapted

for this close-fitting hat. A softly looped how is

atlucked to one side.

RULING THE WAVES

unwaved hair is thought

not mean "add" these days does that frequent and expensive visita to the hairdresser arc essential.

Many waving and setting equip ments are now soll to be used at home. There are clips which can b pinned to the hair after washing. These are very simple to use, but are best on naturally or permanently wavy hair. Then, an extended slide consists of a number of combs with teeth at the back, the combs being attached one to the other. so that they are put in position after the hair has been washed, and then pressed together.

Smart Fur Felt

This stylish new Model is made in stitched velour and fur felt in belge and nigger combination. By Reslaw, London.

HOME-PAINTED FURNITURE

RUSH TO ALTAR

"Like Buying A New Hat"

were con-

Haty marriages. demned in a sermon

"to young folk about to marry," which the Rev. Father John Caulfield deli

at the Roman Catholic vered Church of St. Lake, Pinner, Mid- dlesex, on February 19.

He said: Young girls to-day are rushing into marriage us though it were but the purchasing of a new hat. Young men seem to regard it as lightly as if it were the selection of another suit. There are three reasons for these marriages-sen- suality, money, and position. They all end in misery.

There are these hasty weddings light-hearted couples. The honey- 11008. Then the brightness fades. A few cross words. A big row.

The close-fitting hat of velvet and grosgrain ribbon that is worn by this film star answers the purpose of forming a frame for her face and fits snugly under the luxurious fiteh collar of a velvet wrap.

PIQUE TORTOISESHELL

Lady Ada Boyd is one of those who decided to go off to still warm- weather in the West Indies.

er

She left behind her in London a fine collection of pique tortoiseshell, an interest that she shares with the Queen.

Tortoiseshell is "pique" when it is softened in boiling water, and then designs in gold and silver are worked in it, which stand out finaly when the ders again.

tortoiseshell har

This is an art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and con- sequently one of the best places for "ands" of pique tortoiseshell is Brighton.

It was at an old curiosity shop in Brighton that the Queen, attend. ed by Lady Ada Boyd, discovered a really lovely box, which is now in her Majesty's private collection at

the Palace.

WHAT GLOVES DEMAND

The new wrist-length gloves for

Then either separation or continu- evening wear demand white, well, ed unhappiness.

tended, and beautifully shaped arms.

I see on all skles the tragedies, Courses of 'massage and exorcises

the ghastly tragedies, which are the result of hasle. To the out- side world couples, may seem happy and contented, but 1, who have been a priest for twenty-eight years, have seen the terrible misery and unhappiness that lies behind. Men come home and their hearts fall when they think of what awaits them--a nagging wife. Can you blame them if they go out and spend and enjoy?

Women of these marriages grow extravagant. "He goes out and apends; why shouldn't I?" they ask, The children are brought up to their example.

BARBOLA WORK

Women who are interested in bar-

the stem of a lamp, they can have the parchment shade painted with the same design. It is a pretty idea, and suggests itself for a series of gifts,

It seems quite the vogue theae ( bola work, now find that when they days to buy whitewood furniture have completed the decoration on and paint it yourself. Those who Insist on a little furniturs of ex- ceptionally good shape find they can judge more clearly the shape of the furniture before it is coloured or varnished, Very often, the paint- ing looks more skilful than it really Is, especially on the new kitchen | fittings which are more or less straight In line, and though first experiments in cheerful colours may pall, they can be easily renewed.

Pamela

For instance, when giving pre- sents to a favourite relative, you could follow the lamp and shade with an attractive mirroz, and there are blotters, pon trays and powder bowls all adorned by sprays barbola flowers.

13, Queen's Rd, C.

riext to St. Franels Hótel

Have a Large Selection of Ladies' Dresses, Ensembles, Hats, Gloves, Sunshades and

Afternoon Gowns.

FOR THE

RACES

Dressmaking and Millinery,

This will attended to as a special departm

easonable charge

with

or

to improve the shape are given dally in a Dover-street beauty salon, and clients are taught how to perform the special movements at home.

"Gooseflesh and thin, discoloured elbows are the two commonest de fects which women ask me to treat," said the beauty expert at this salon "Gooseflesh la caused partly by poor circulation, but more frequently by hard skin. The use of pore lotion for washing and the application of cream at night to soften the hard

The romance of Baldwin M. Baldwin and Suzanne Lenglen, tennis star, has blossomed again in Paris. The one-time greatest woman tennis player is acting as director of the sports section of a leading Paris couturier.

Society Matron's Dress

The dress of a modern Society

FASHIONS UPSET

Belge and wine red have been combined for the costume and accessories chosen. These acees- sories consist of a bonnet style of hat with stitch- inga in tan, tan kid gloves and a string of the red and black beads strung in a black-oyed Susan pattern.

WOMAN'S THOUGHTS

A thoroughly Victorian alliance Is It Vanity Or Public

of

for is responsible

one of the amartest of the early models

hats. Buntal-straw in an acid- yellow shade has a deep brim of lemon-green, with its softening grey shadings-in taffeta, stitched and of uneven proportions, so that one side can be “dragged" down to shade the face beneath. With this model is a chenille and silken scarf with straw embroidery of the two colours. This is a good model to wear with one of the new youthful and fantastic capes of cloth or silk. A curious point about the modern millinery modes is that traditions are mostly upset. Unlined pliable shapes, made up in two or more costly silks, possess an effortless air about them, so that they can be worn with a tailored tweed or a little blouse-frock.

Similar shapes in linen and crepe-de-Chine accompany sports and tennis frocks. Some are of the old cloche shape, but the dif- ference lles in the uneven and often wider brim. The cloche In felt provides the most excellent mode for travel.

MILLINERY AND THE COLLAR

It is interesting to observe how Requiescent women can become to the mode when it is a matter of headgear; and yet there is no item in the wardrobe where they should give more consideration to their own personality. These last months have witnessed quite good looking women made positively their milliner's,

matron, simplicity being the keynote plain by their, or

skin is advised. In the morning in the ensemble, the arms should be rubbed with a special atone, which is first dipped and a wrinkle sit used in the day- in water. After a few weeks of time. The whitening lotion with this treatment the trouble should which the arme are made up at disappear.

night should be applied with part- cular care to the elbows if they are at all discoloured."

"Thin elbow's

should be rubbed with a fattening cream at night

The Modern Miss

are

wear,

selection.

The dresses and coats of to-day

mostly flattering to whilst the average hat is frankly unbecoming. Models, from even the leading specialists, have not helped matters.

Spirit?

FOR CIGARETTE SMOKERS

the novelties which are sold for the

It is difficult to keep up with all

storing of cigarettes, but a new de- vice, which is certainly very intrl- Mary Macleod Moore writes in guing, is to have the cigarettes in the London Telegraph:

a nickel "egg." It works this way.

For ages much attention to the There is a knob on top, and as you decoration of one's body or one's pull up half the "egg" the cigar- face has been regarded as evidence | ottos appear all round the sides, of vanity or at least as savouring with a space between each so that of that weakness. Many are the they are ready to hand round. The words of advice and of reproof top is pushed down and the which have been addressed to the cigarettes disappear. matrons and maids, more especially the latter, who have done their best to add to such attractions as the Almighty gave them.

There is no denying that many have kept on their wilful way with- out rogard to the grave faces of the prophets and the advisers, but the more sensitive have experienced a feeling of guilt about the adorn- ment and the beautifying, which has tempered their pleasure in their own looks.

Even in these days when people are supposed to do much as they like without regard to old rules and restrictions, one feels that some apology is needed for spending much money on improving one's ap-; pearance, The dressmaker, the milliner, and the beauty-parlour seem to require some explanation, particularly when one cannot boast of spending much money in im- proving one's mind and adding to one's store of knowledge.

But let us turn the tables on our critics and advisers and proclaim that we are acting from public spirit when we add a touch to our faces and spend guineas on a hat. Why not? Whatever makes the world more beautiful, whatever rests and provides a feast for the eyes, whatever makes the passer- by feel more cheerful and hopeful, whether a garden, a new building,

or a new frock, should win the gratitude of the public.

Really prety women whose clothes are harmonious and suitable ara a joy to watch. Making the best of themselves they add to the charm of London or of anywhere else they may happen to be, and also tho As spirits of all who see them. we have no right to assume that because their faces and their clothes are pretty their minds are empty, we can enjoy and admire freely.

The difculties exparfenced with collars and hats are still great, for these enormously high enveloping mountains of fur necessitate the foreshortening of the generality of draped and blocked shapes. Line has to be sacrificed to the new collar, and the violent reduction at the back is too sudden to allow of good proportions. The deeply cut fronts and fantastic sideway "alanta" are rever too becoming. Still, hats in general. are assuming There is no special virtue in a more reasonable shapes, and the hideous hat and a complexion that great' artists, are combating diffi- frankly confirms the proud state- culties by making every shape on ment of the owner that ale never the head to suit the variety of uses even powder. To make the collars. :

best of oneself is a public duty.

It is a clever arrangement, and has come from Paris, but it is rather expensive.

Novel Head Gear

This shows one of the latest hats with extreme long back shaped into the neck-By Reslaw, London.

ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE BEAUTE

For the best Permanent Finger & Marcel Waves, Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladies & Gentlemen.

Fedder Bldg. Ist floor. Room 5 Tel, C. 6169. Opposite entrance H.K. Hotel.

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MAISON

de MODES

Mme. D'Obr..

18, Queen's Road, Central,

We have just received a nice selection of

SUMMER MATERIALS

and LIGHT WEIGHT DRESSES suitable for present wear.

COATS & DRESSES

for the

RACES

and a nice selection of

SPRING HATS

Orders taken for Coats and Dresses and exe

under personal mupervision