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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1931.

THE CHINA

MAIL.

Eve

26 The Arcade,

Gloucester

Building:

GLOVES

FOR

DAY AND

EVENING

WEAR.

The WOMAN'S Page

A TREASURE.

My Gold Coast "house-hoy" is a |||31|44|03|||||23|||||| treasure....True, he is also rather unexpected. This morning he came to me and Ennounced:" "1 buy a wife next month, Ma. She live with me in your compound, please Mn, but she no bother to Foil. She very quiet, big fine girl from bush village. Cust me £30."

NEW

FELT

MILLINERY.

WHITE

AND

COLOURS.

Reasonable Prices.

YEE SANG FAT Co., Ltd.

ALEXANDER

INSTITUT DE BEAUTE

Phone 25169,

Pedder Building

(1st Floor).

Opposite Entrance to

Hong Kong Hotel

"But, Matthew, your room next

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to the garage is very small. . . .

"She will be only wife, Mn," plended Matthew. "I not like heathen "boy, who bring three or four,"

E raised no more objects. cannot risk losing Mutthew by quibbling over a mere wife, writes a London Woman on the Gold Coast. Though black, he is good to look'at; over six feet tall, and well built.

He is cook-general, waiter, valet, footican and bookkeeper rolled into one; and he pucks my clothes for u

trip "up river," or cuts my hus-

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he

any.

band's hair, as efficiently scrubs, sweeps and polishes. He hardly ever breaks thing; and he kicks out of the com- pound any travelling pedlar who tries to overcharge me for rugs, or ivory beads. Then there is, his dignity. ... Even an English but- ler might envy the impressive manner in which he

announces;

Lustrous Of Permanent Hair Waves { "Dinner-chop is served in the chop- which are Large, Soft and Natural,

ruoja. Ma." And yet I pay him Artistic Finger and Marcel Waves. Oil Treatment, Shampooing, Henna Pack only £0 a month, board wages.

(any colour), Hair Cutting and Mani-. Matthew works cheerfully from rure for Ladies and Gentlemen, Con6 m. till into at night, but the scientious Artistic Work by European Expert, Mr. Alexander.

CHARGES MODERATE

A VISIT WILL CONVINCE YOU,

job he likes best in his daily cycling to the native market. For that, he puts on white trousers, white shirt, black coat and a batter- ed Trilby hat. On his return, he takes these off and puts them care- fully away before unloading the live chickens, bananas, paw-paws, or whatever other goods he has slung on to the eyele handle-burs. Khaki shorts and a shirt with the sleeves cut off are good enough for indoor work.

As a cook, he lacks imagination; but he can copy almost any dish, once I have shown him exactly how to do it, and can now serve up a tasty "chop" even from tin- ned bacon, tinned vegetables and native cggs.

But left to himself, "lunch-chop" menu would bellet of fish fried hard; a chewed-up-looking mass of chicken, chicken cutlegs, Ma";— | fried onions, rich gravy, and thick banana fritters. Thin when the thermometer registers 80 in the shade.

All the same, Matthew is а "treasure":"you can well envy me.

COLOURED SHOES..

With so much colour in dress, it is natural that shoes also should be'ninde in colours, and the most fashionable colour at the moment

is green.

There is little doubt about this because designers of

shoes are

making their alcest

ARE YOU SUPERSTITIOUS?

There is a right and wrong kind of superstition. The right kind is cheery trustfulness in ourselven, or in the spirit that guides us; the other is a dependence on black magic, nothing more nor less. This fear of things going wrong unless ive take certain precautions, such models in green.. The most popu-as dodging ladders, looking at the lar shape is the one which finishes moon over the right shoulder, put- rather high on the instep with ting on the right shoe first, is an

undermining process. just one pair of eyelet holes and a tiny lacing. Dark leaf green is the most important colour, and there is a soft emerald tone for afternoon wear. The dark shado is for serious walking, and to go

with the woollen and tweed suits. Very fine kid, plaited like the cane seat of a chair, is now and Naturally pretty for fancy shoes, these shoes are expensive for the leather has to be of the softest, the workmanship of the most perfect, or else it is good-bye to a pair of silk stockings each time the shoes are worn. Snake-skin, crocodile, and seal-skin dye beautifully and are worked up with pipings and bands of plain leather into very slim courts shoes, but coloured kid easily frat favourite.

1 don't like to see children going through all the silly signs of devil- chashing, writes Olive Barton for the Free Press. Not that the little signs themselves matter much, or that the children take them so very seriously, but without doubt these

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seeds contain life germs, and they need little encouragement to turn into graver, bigger things.

What happens as the child grows, when his reason begins to work, his emotions are more clearly defined. and his power of selection becomes a very definite matter?

PYJAMA FROCKS.

One-piece pyjama frocks, divided skirts, and sun-back frocks have encroached upon the pyjama craze, which some of the Paris designers claim has now reached its limit. Nevertheless, the amart Summer sands will be thronged with more colourful specimens than ever this year. Tailored beach jackets are a recent addition to pyjama-land, and strike a plain-coloured theme with black and white and red and white spotted trousers. In this instance the short sleeved jacket of crepe de Chinc in entirely covered with pin-tucks.

White sailor hats conform with bands of ribbon to match the suits. crown and The coloured turban large white detachable brim still vies with the large type of sun hat one of the most popular for a beach head wear.

Will he begin to despise all this finger-crossing, palm-pounding and

Jersey and wool crepe in the new star-wishing? Not likely be- cause there is set in his imagina- mood in beach pyjamas, and they tion by this time a violent belief both look excellent in white with

plaid scarves that girdle gipsy-wise round waistlines.

In Lady Luck; either you are lucky sun-backs detailed and coloured or

What you do yourself doesn't matter; it's all up¦

or you are unlucky.

to certain signs, or else neglect on your part to placate the ever-wait- ing demons of misfortune.

I saw a film once in which a boy who had rather a weak character, was given a talisman by his grand- mother, who told him that, so long as he carried it, he could come to

no harm.

It would bring him

good luck. It was an old umbrella handle, believe.

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Away went Sonny around world, gaily achieving the most marvellous feats. But, when he loat his luck charm, he collapsed like a pricked balloon.

People who have "bad luck" ul- most invariably think back to some- thing they have done. "I know I'd have a quarrel with Fred. That salt last night...

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Well, all these little signa are only off-shoots of bigger, graver ones. Belief in good luck or bad luck is a shallow rock to build character upon, and in a hundred ways leads to unhappiness. Chil- dren should be turned away from it definitely and firmly.

YELLOW CHIFFON FOR EVENING.

Yellow chiffon embroidered with silver sequins is the latest conceit in evening gowns, and is featured by Tallulah Bankhead in Para- mount's New York studio produs- tion, "Tarnished Lady."

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Another attractive gown by the star in this picture is of black chiffon embroidered with crystals and rhinestones. With this evening costume, SE short jacket trimmed with black fox is worn by Miss Bankhead with intrigluing effect.

V Pok

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