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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,
YEE HING
(TOMEY & CO.)
No. 62, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. 23016,
JUST ARRIVED." “Swan" - Health. Shoes made from a high standard of materials, to give perfect satisfactory · wear under fair conditions at a lower priée $22.50 and $25.50.
To th
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the well-groomed man, no detail is too small to escape his no- tice. And that's why he insists on Kiwi for his shoes.
Kiwi enhances shoe leather, giving it a lust rous polish that lasts all 'day.
KIWI
The Quality Shoe Polish
The Woman's Page
Native Servants Need Watching
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Boys" Work Well But with the constant depressed air of
Lack Initiative.
WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK?
(By An Observer).
having been rubbed up yesterday or even the day before. One does not want a bungalow that looks like a well rup hotel, always perfect, never juntidy, with everything in its allot- ted place. Nor does one want to spend all one's energy in fighting It is no use leaving everything dirt and native 'servants, and the to the bay and then curse him be-iatter may easily become an obses- cause things are not as they should sion if allowed to. No, one wants be. He will work, and work well if the place to exude bomeliness and he is the right type of servant, but comfort. Shabbiness is forgiven these days when dollars "and cents
not
he is rarely overburdened with are hard to come by. But so few here look or seem bralne und is in need of constant bungalows 'out
real homes somehow, there is an supervision to ensure he is wasting his time. Method is some-empty fat air about them. Atmos- phere is really very important parti! thing the native servant cannot cularly in this country as the life understand.. I have seen a 'tukan and climate is so "monotonous. One now-wants a restful room to live in layer' (usually a mia-omen
where one can sit in comfort and adays) begin to sweep a room newly)
enjoyment with nice things around duated by the boy,' with all win one. But most people prefer a local dows shut and chicks drawn. so that club to making their own house a all he really does is to transfer dust place, they want to stay in. Sur from one spot to another, and the roundings have a great deal of In- fluence on one's daily life, there is
SUMMER HINTS ON CARE OF SKIN.
room is not cleaned at all. He may no getting away from if most of us be a good worker and convinced he are creatures of comfort really if is doing his job, but he is lacking we thought about it at all. Just completely in method. After all because we live out East life need how is a poor ignorant native to not necessarily be one eternal pienie know he should open all windows as it very often is. and always sweep thoroughly before dusting a room, unless he is taught to do so by the mistress of the house. Servants in this country af- rive with marvellous chits, but not one in ten is really trained. While it is an accepted fact that even.a well trained servant, particularly a Tamil, can very soon forget most of what he has been taught unless he)
always supervised, I can- not help thinking the why the average Bervant here Is
is
Customs In Stations
Of India.
Women may profit by advice given to those staying at a Hill Station reason whose usual beauty treatment must
out be changed slightly.
PARIS HAS SUDDEN
VELVET CRAZE.
Uncrushable Variety At The Races.
JACKETS ARE WARN
OBVIOUS MAKE-UP OFTEN ATTRACTS.
But Never In Taste On Holiday.
JUST "BE NATURAL” - Velvets are being heavily backed in certain places and among cer- by style prophets for autumn and tain people an obvious make-up is So untrained is due "Even if you do not use cream a to the negligence and slackness,
winter wear. Lyone velvet great deal in the plains, a good ||
hats not only permissible but considered of the average European woman, cleansing cream and a cooling lotion and scarves are worn with white attractive.
Not BO
on holiday. who because she lives in an easy instead of the usual astringent is frocks; and this type of velvet also There, artificiality is so.completely going climate lets domestic detallel really necessary for the change of take cara of themselves. They
climate," says a correspondent. won't study the question themselves Never use water on a scorched Agents:—W. R. LOXLEY & CO. so how can they teach their ser skin. It will merely aggravate the burn. A cream I have in mind is Is It A Real Home...
used extensively by people, unused When I walk into a house for the to sun and glare, when visiting the Arst time I am always interested to Riviera. It is said that one certain see, if it is a real home or not, ingredient counteracts the direct equal to real diamonds particularly if I have met the people action of the sun. This is used as In ali texpects beforehand. Instinctively that house a powder base and the dusting on of Specially in brilliancy tells the quite a lot about the the powder afterwards will do much of lustre, hardness, etc. dwellers therein. The house may or to prevent the skin from becoming Can cat glass like real diamonds. Froot against fire, file may not look lived in, but I can scorched.
LATEST INVENTION American Chemical Diamonds,
These diamonds are
Terms Cash or 0.0.0. Those who
vants.
in
appears in a number of afternoon out of place that it can only be re- frocks made on simple, straight garded as poor form. Once out of lines having short balloon sleeves. the great indoors it strikes its dia- The prettiest ones are..in the new cordant note and, seen as it must be dark plum colour, often enlivened under a bright sun, gives the muai- by touches of one of its lightest cal-comedy look that takes us right tones, the shade that was called back to the big golfing scene ashes of roses years ago. The lat cor tone to also made up in whole "Follow Through” And if a strik- frocks, tunics or accessories. Such ing make-up is poor form, a heavy are the fashions in the new models. one is a disaster. Life-like as it A striking ensemble, noted in the may seem before your mirror, it Fresident's entourage recently, was will soon collapse beyond repair- acid, water, oil, etc. These diamonds usually tell at a glance the sort of A good remedy well known to me can be washed with soap and water woman the wife is. Women for faces which become most and royal blue velvet worn with a short cool drinks and don't mind sitting a voluminous, ankle-length skirt of unless you sit perfectly still sipping and can be used for more than 100 character and personality Invariably uncomfortable when exposed to the sleeved surplice blouse of white alone. years. Price per carat H.K.$7.50
50. leave their mark on a house. The sun and glare of hill stations is the organdle and a blue velvet hat of
Exercise in a heavy make-up will purchase diamonds to the value of arrangement of knick knacka Pic following lotion: One drachm of the tricorns family trimmed with be fatal. The powder will take, EX $30 or more will get 20% dia tures, blending of colour scheme lavender water, one drachm of tine- tiny hang and side-curf effect of the rouge will streak, and the eye count. Send your ordera direct to the are all very characteristic. Some ture of myrrh, and half a drachm of blue aigrettes under the brim. Vel-shadow will produce strange little American Chemical Diamond Conhomes are P.O. Box No. 240, Penang, 8.2
always polished and borax,
vet skirts, by the way, with con-lines across your eyelids. Remem- When ordering mention "China Mail" ready with a gleaming wekome for
Any chemist could make it up for trasting bodices or jackets were ber that your olla and creams are everyone. And there are others!
you or you could buy the ingredients quite a feature of Grande Semaine what really count, and that if you and make it up yourself. You will
fashions.
use the right ones and apply them And this lotion both cool and re-
Velvet is anolving into a much carefully you will need little more freshing and useful at all times wherever you may happen to be. The more practical fabric than it used than a finishing touch. Apply it to be. Bianchini, for example, has with a light hand. Use your pow. face should be gently bathed with just made an absolutely uncrush-der sparingly, above all, in places the lotion applied with a soft padable velvet with rather deep pile: where it is apt to cake-in the cor
it was launched at the races by nere of your nose, at the sides of Ardanse, who used it for two after-your mouth. If your foundation is noon frocka, one black, one white, on evenly and worked well into your with ostrich trimming on the skin, you can just dust it on. But sleeves." "Antique-velvet is to be whatever you do, harmonize. It to Breakfast: Stewed, agar cereal, used for winter evening wraps. It your skin... even 1. the powder 16- cream, broiled cottage ham, cream- has a rather flattened surface—you quires mixing from day to day, ed potatoes, crisp toast, milk, coffee have probably often seen its ances You will find that range and eye Tiffin: Baked - spinach and tral type of antique Farmchairs: shadow are almost impossible to cheese, ice-box rolls, lemon chiffon Frappe velvet is another enchan- blend into a light skin. - Sunlight plø, milk tek/^Z
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TO-MORROW'S MENUS.
Dinner: Brolled hamburg steak, the races in the shape of little jac-they will do wondere
burg steak, ting new fabric, which appeared at will not stand them. However,
Asuntan.
hot horseradish sunce, twice baked kets worn over filmy frocks." It has The idea that a dark skin needs. no sweet potatoes, new cabbage with a frosted surface that looks as accents is entirely tatstaken "and hot dressing, cream puts Alled with though you had pressed the kitten's you can use a surprising amount itrawberry nut milk, coffee.
fur all sorts of differs
without its being detectable.
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