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THE CHINA MAIL

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1992

The Woman's Page DEER

Fashions Ever Move

Even In China

Shanghat

Hygiene For

The Kitchen

Useful Hints To Housewives."

Becoming Style Centre Half the trouble and boredom of For Far East

Shanghai, August 30.

To the foreign ere it appears

Laundering

Simplified

Machines Do All The Work.

DELD

One Beauty Secret Lies In Care Of Eyes

Judgment of beauty differs con- teeth regularly, so why neglect the siderably according to people's eyes? This lotion will remove any woman's most dust or local irritation and also act

It is a fretful business to be standards some.

"EXTENSION styles changé just as often as Occording to the length of the skirt bowl and the water is released into personal laundering but also dry- and mouth are imperfect from a closed for ten minutes at a time.

OF OUR

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ONE MONTH ONLY Goods Marked Down To St Lower Prices. Some below cost

THE SWATOW..

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DRAPKIN'S

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VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

10

IN PKTS. OF 10'S

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FILIPINA.

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Kodaks And Caméran." ** Filmas, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and

Balarging.

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A Trial Order is Solicited.

A. SER & CO.

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rubbish.

"cleaning up the sink after the obliged to go to the expense of important point is her beautiful as a disinfectant. A very good and having all your own and the chil- hair or lovely skin, some admire easily made eye lotion is boranic dishes are washed will be avoided, dren's small bits of clothing was vi figure more than face-many notice powder and warm water, the cor If the housewife invests in a wash at the laundry. Happily, sme zat the mouth or hands, but I rect proportions of which are two. sing. And it has turned out to being-up bowl with a plug in the bot- Ingenious soul has catered for the don't think I am far wrong when I parts boracic powder to 100 parts

an altogether beguiling logic.

Chinese dress tom. The cow! fits into a bin busy woman by inventing a slick say that taking a general view the water and you should first dissolve The collar on

little machine that will come apart eves are the feature that most the powder in bolling water. Rose that Chinese dresses hit a certain always has been, and, presumably which, is turn, is fitted with and it into the space of a square people notice first and remember water and glycerine can be added fashion, like it, and keep it forever. always will be But bere again [strainer. When washing-up is foot for travelling. It is both afterwards. A woman with really if desired but are."not essential. That is entirely wrop Chinese the width of the collar varies finished, the plug is taken out of the washing machine and dry-cleaner, lovely eyes is often accounted While you are doing this rest as so that you can not only do your beautiful even though her nose qafetly as possible and keep the eyes This "season, very high collars are

clean any of your frocks and frills beauty standpoint. The eyes have If they are sore and inflamed, at all that are look az the worse for wear. been described as Twin windows an eys bath or cup is very useful. This hardy gadget is made with of the Soul and this is an apt Clap this over one eye at a time a-container-into-which you put a description mirroring as they do and open and shut it several times tablespoonful of soap flakes, warm one's every thought and Idea. The while it is immersed in the boracio Another gadget that makes for water, and the clothes to be washed: first important point to remember lotion.. Eye drops may be used hygiene is the little three-legged Then you turn a handle for three is no eye is attractive unless it is with care to brighten the eyes, but stand that raises the sink tidy, and minutes if silks are concerned, or clear and shining bright with they must not contain belladonna, so prevents its contents from being for five minutes

or health. Modern life, alas with its stropine or any drugs injurious to

the sight.

Long Eyelashes. The effect of long eyelashes enhances the beauty of expression and also makes the eyes look larger, Before using any make of eyelash cream it is wise to make sure beforehand it is a good one. Castor oll put on with a eye brush is very effective ingrowing luxuriant eyelashes. Some women use just a little vaseline put on with the tips of the fingers. It is also permis sible to darken the eyelashes, but here again be careful to use a good watercosmetic which should be applied with a not too damp brush. The eyelashes should always be brushed upwards and outwards- (not downwards otherwise they will

not be likely to curl

Material Constant,

cidental styles, and woe unto the the thing. The girls have a knack the bin. But the slightest speck of maiden-who-shows-up at a tea for harmony of detail that many garbage is trapped in the strainer dance in one of last Winter's frocks a foreign designer might envy. -to be burnt afterwards with other

Sleeves, when they are long are this Winter. Every other Chinese

'very tight this season. Four years gir! will know it immediately.

ago they were so wide that a lady Occidental styles are decided upon had to hold her sleeve up with one great fashion centres, and hand when she reached across her usually by nu. Slowly the Chin-soup bowl ese are getting around to the same: "Material is another thing that idea and whereas, in the old days, always stays more or less constant femy.ne fashions were elected bytin China. Velvet may be decreed a special social class of women, by in Paris but silk is cheap in Shang- degrees tailors around town are hai and so silk, it remains. The making up the styles for the "com- little silk worms of China have ing season, inaugurating them, and proved to be successful foil against seeing that they are followed. The the Intrusion of foreign influences Hung Ziang establishment is, an as far as dress material is con important fashion centre. Wang cerned. But the decoration of a Ziang is another, started at first by dress changes with each season. It a popular young lady named Miss is usually selected with one eye on Tong Ying, whose authority in the design and colours of the ma- dress was unquestioned. Miss Tong terial. This season" a simple band Ying deserted her establishment to trimming is the vogue. Last year get married to a lawyer and it was lace was all the vogue. Last Win- taken over by men tailors who ter it was embroidery. For the have successfully followed her pre-coming season it is predicted that cedent of originating the prevailing a double band of trimming will be mode. Henry the Tailor has used in place of the single one popu- number of similar style centres far at, the moment. Dimensions will along Bubbling Well Road.

also change. Long gowns will be decidedly tighter this Wintar.

Convenience. Important.

and

· Tailors and society women decide

Tales of Trousers, upon the current fashion by a

Long gowns have only been in careful consideration of Occidental fashion for about six years modes and convenience. In colour were taken over, from the Manchus. and length the prevailing forsign Before that skirts and short blouses fashion is usually followed, but the were worn by women. And girls| slits, collar, and sleeves, are usually wore trousers. After they got mar made up according to convenience, ried they could graduate Into skirts At present the foreign styles say but not before. Trousers were the length in skirta and as a conse; prerogative of children and maidens. quence the splits have climbed

In those days, too, women's higher and higher as the skirts clothing was amply padded, but went down. When skirts were to-day the fad for slenderness has ahort 50 were splits. But long caused all women to eliminate any skirts and short spli a are decidedly superfluous materiál: Formerly inconvenient for walking and dane frocks were lined with fur in the

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HOW MARY KEEPS HER SLIMNESS.

Two Meals A Day Is

The Secret

Winter time but nowadays parents think they dre lucky. If they can rade their daughters to put on two layers of silk - before braving the chill November blasts.

Studies Primitiva Life.

A Good Light Essential. Never, Dever, sew or read at night in a bad light, as it is absolutely ruinous to any sight however strong or young you are. Always see the light is behind you throwing Its rays on to your book or needia- work. Cream should never be rub- bed into the skin around the eyes as this is very easily stretched, but after a careful cleaning of the eyelids a little cream may be gently patted in with the finger tipe. Some Beauty specialists advocate an oll with tonic and feeding properties, but I have always found a good cold cream sufficient as it is easily absorbed and very refreshing, and its use prevents: the eyes gett too dry which they are apt to do in this country. Above zil we want avoid tired eyes the feature which woman has

washed out every time a bowl in woollens. The "wash" is then ready many up-to-date pursuits which are against so carefully in the

weather. Visiting out-of-the-way places is emptied.

for drying off, preparatory to the all hard on the eyes

one of the favourite pastimes of Such things not only keep the ministrations of an electric iron, motoring, dying and whisper

As there are no moving parts inside cigarettes and cocktails give Miss Claudia de Lys, one of the sink wholesome, but reduce the tale little machine, there can be no lhes to the ever- world's foremost authorities on

likelihood of having to call in the worry as to materials being torn.tip which is worth courtship and marriage, customs "Mary Pickford is as slim as among primitive peoples. Mise de plumber to deal with stopped pipes. The principle upon which the fees and is yet still so often ignored evor," writes a correspondent in the Lye has lived among the native The provisions, too, of a rubber machine is constructed enables it to to take a glass of

first thing la London Star, and when some not tribes of the Pacific Islands, Africa, force-pump, which brings to the do its dry cleaning work on similar thing at night, quite so alim women friends beg New Zealand, and Australia, and

lines. But in this case two quarts the morning will ged her to tell them the secret, she has spent several years in India, surface any odds and ends that may of the special dry cleaning fuld that yellowish tinge in såld:

Japan, and China. She is a French stick to the sides of the pipes, is sold with it go into the container, eyes "Yes, I am rather proud that author of note

doubly sus haven't t allowed myself to get f

"But how do you manage to do it?" they asked all together

"No lunch!" replied Miss Pick ford laconically.”-“I never have any lunch-just a glass of 'Ovaltine. Or if 1 lunch with friends as I do sometimes,then there "là no

for me in the evening. That is all. But you see how it kept the down.”

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