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THE CHINA MAIL

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1933.

1t1 The WOMAN'S Page tit

CHILDREN'S GALA AT

REPULSE BAY

Next Wednesday's M.C.L. Fete.

ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR

Wednesday next will be a Great) Day in the lives of the children of Hong Kong.

It is the Gala Day of the Minis- tering Children's League, the one day in the year when Repulse Bay assumes the likeness of Blackpool or Margate.

Everything that can be thought of will be provided for the delight af the youngsters: chutes, Aunt Sallien, a fish-pond, and lucky dips stored with hundreds of toys spe cially sent out from London; dance hands and nigger minstrels; com- petitions, for which prizes will be given, in the form of swimming races, sand-castic building compet

parades, the tions and pyjama Just with a class for grown-ups. Lady Peel will present the prizes

Lo the lucky winners.

There will be a toy stall at which parents and uncles can purchase toys, bonks or gumes from an un- usually varied stock of gifts to gladden the hearts of the children. The Repulse Bay Hotel manage- ment are providing a refreshment buffet for the dispensing of tea. cold drinks etc. and the Dalry Farm Company a kiosk for the sale of milk, ices and similar dainties, In both cases the funds of the

League will benefit by a generous discount on the takings.

Tickels may be purchased at the Anderson Music Con or Kayamally's

stores,

Messrs.

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the

on

Helena May Institute between the hours of 10 a.m. and noon Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week, or from the Hon. General Secretary, Mrs. Butters, of 151 The Peak, telephone No. 29288.

A special service of buses will leave Blake Pier every 15 minuter from 130 p.m. until p.m., a con cession being made to ticket-hol- dera.

VELVET POPULAR FOR HATS

Velvet is to be one of the most

popular materials for millinery, as give the appearance of soft feathers,

it drapes and folds so becomingly. and there is a long-haired plush

Some of the new fancy velvet which closely resembles fur,

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Elaboration Features

Era Of Strange Trimmings

NAIL HEADS SHARK-TOOTHED EDGING STEEL FASTENINGS

Slack coats and capes in "bark" greens, browns and greys will make smart autumn and winter models. They will be worn over sults, some- times designed with contrasting coloured jackets, and sometimes showing steel ball button centre

front fastenings and leather belts

studded with sections of nail heads.

The coats have sleeves that widen

out moderately.

Coats swagger at half and three- quarter length. Capes of flat fur, like astrakhan, are slightly short-

er, with a shallow fold swaying from shoulder to shoulder resem

There bling a hood at the back.

ia one in black and one in grey a8- trakhan. the former worn over

&

red dress and the latter over brown one with steel bodice-button. fastenings.

Brightening The Sult. Jackets worn over gilet blouses! may meet tweed or lainage skirts

to tone. Check lainage jumper. jackets may be worn on the other hand, with a plain coloured skirt and cont Military frog fasten- Inge vle with ball button ones, and meet a shark-tooth edging will point to point down the centre front under a belt.

AUTUMN FASHION FORECASTS

Wide Shoulder ́Line Retained.

MANY NEW NOVELTIES

REFORE the launching of autumn fashions begins many If one model can be deemed amar-

novelties are appearing; some are ter than the other in this particu-intended to fill holiday gaps, and lar group it is a mid "bark" green a few are of those taking inte holi- three-quarter-length lainage cont.

days. This shows half-inch-wide diago-

The wide shoulder line is retain- nal machine-stitched lines rounded in almost all autumn clothes. the hem to match those spaced all A new coat and skirt of the so- down the skirt from waist to hem called "spectator type for Scot

ine It is worn with a rust land is made in mignonette green gera jacket/blouse.

and brown mixture tweeds and has Plaited Lame.

a deep cape-yoke on the cost. Cartwheel armhole decorations giving an Illusion of width. Brown of silver and golden lame either suede is sparingly used for "aprat plaited or atitched, are featured on head" buttons and packet corners black satin evening gowns, one of

and pipings. which is worn under a half-length, A modified swagger coat is in white ermine coat with bishop Harris tweeds and Irish tweeds in These sleeves appear in gorse and pheasant colours, and sleeves. black and white ostrich fringe for worn three-quarter length usually another white evening cloak wrap, without buttons with a trim tailor- the black fringe sürrounding the fed skirt. Brown" and fawn Shet- upper arm and the white the low-land tweeds are lighter and made er.

up, with the new details: When Cinema gowns are coming to there are buttons they are usually the fore in winter fashions, a black of painted wood or leather. fakirt at ankle-length beng design-

Facts About Furs. SOME of the fur-trimmed tweed The trimmed and somewhat ex-led to go with a pea green blouse

which is belted and worn under a coats in Cumberland homespuns axgerated shoulder line, which will square-hold silver soutache short declare for the wide top. Beaver continue for the early autumn jacket. A similar jacket, waist and nutria are the fashionable makes small felt hats look insigni-length, is made from machine-stit-trimmings, and when the collar is a ficant and seems to demand fuller ched lame, but is of the open, fur scarf-cravat the fur is drop-

sleeveless kimono kind.......

Iped below the shoulder on capelsí and more elaborate coiffures and

There are little knitted hats that sepaulettes to suggest a wide line. hat styles.

ara zaodero versions of Chinese. A great variety to texture is seen bonnets and coolie shapes as well as in

the early autumn afternoon wide-brimmed ones with names like costs of rough and smooth wool- "White Horse;:"Inn”. and “Savile lens, and there are many belts of Roy."

twisted leather and silk cord and. similar devices,

Top-knots on little rounded caps, brims curling up at the sides. to follow the upward shoulder de and high pointed or folded crowns are all used to give this elabora=

tion.

CLOCHE HATS" FOR SPORT WEAR

For sports wear, the small cloche shape hat is still the most popular. It has a new ciniracter this setion in its elaborately worked crown. It may be in soft, felt with a flannel] finish, or in a two-tone", mixture which goes well with the autumn tweeds.

Bringing Up Father.

Collars on fur coats can be' fiat fur pieces, step-collars with scurt jends; or cape-collars that can be worn high or low. Some of the flat collars, usually of aliver fox on broadtall, are continued down to the waist line. -Sable- and "mínk sačk coats are being made three quarter length and finished with acart collars. A gray

cost

worked in the round bas a cape collar of blue fox. The für plece for autumn la distinct from the for

THE

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SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;

HOTELS.

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in association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking,

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

Thú crass-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic

apelling, such as-karbor, plow, and altho

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amends for

19-A Wager

21-Crimson 22-Organ of sight 24-Attended

20-Bew loosely

B-Conjunction 20-Regret

30-Frenoun #1-Indefinite article 82-Torment

36-Run away and

marry $7-Expire

$8-Conflict 40-Saints (abbr) +62-8lozvalada

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45-Fright

147-The fast scena

[49-Matric fand massure,

[50-A number

32-Grief

164-A title

118-Consume

18-Recent

19–Strippad

20-Brief

22-A member of the

British nobility (pl.)

25-A stockade in Russla

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|66-A rodent (pl.)

VERTICAL

20-An Infect

21-Small bed

25-Owed

27-Point of campasa

(abbr)

13-The keron

1-Owner of the Ark - 24-Mend covering 2-Make a mistake ? 30-City In Ontario 3-Trade by exchange 35-Artigles of

of commodities (4-1-up-bearing animal

5-A negative B-Finished 6-Tormenta

s-Golf mound

10-A anaka-like fah

(pl.)

12-AB Insect

commerce

|39-Alluda

-41-A heavenly bady |42-Kind of Isttuos.

|48-Kvil

|44-Looke

|46-Epoch':

|48-Portion

[61–81x (Roman).

The solution of the above with a meio orosz-word puzzle will appear in Monday'a fasue,

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