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FOR THE BEST IN GOWNS

OUR NEW SELECTION OF

"JOSEPHINE C."

GOWNS FOR FORMAL WEAR

ARE JUST THE “THING"

PAUL RENNET ET. CIE

190, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

St. George's Bldg.,

Chater Road Hong Kong'

1 Paris calling

THE SILHOUETTE

Paul Rennet,

Crowded Hotel functions last year taught us that the summer did not end the dancing season. For sum- mer evening wear the inexpensive draped gown of figured silk crepe is advocated by:

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Peninsula Arcade,

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Kowloon.

YOURSELF AGAINST

Beach Foot

Hong Kong Foot

And Other Skin Troubles Use TITROL OILS Obtainable from DER A. WING & CO. 9, D'Agullar Street

SMART DRESSES GOWNS

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NOVELTIES JEWELLERY

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Gloucester Bldg.. South Arcade No. 3

RE certainly is enough

THERE

novelty in fashions this season to enable each woman to find just the frock to suit her. There are changes in the silhouette; some are sensa- tional changes and some mere subtle alterations. The wide ekirt has arrived even for day- time use. Sometimes its A dushing flare given by a wide. 'eircular skirt and mounted on a fitted hip yoke. Sometimes it is in more supple materials and styles and falls straight down. This smart fullness is Intro- duced by fine knife pleats or tiny boxpleats all round, or by a shirring or smocking mounted on to a shallow hip. yoke.

TWIN TALES

Treban and Mumtaz Mahal THE tale of Emperor Shah

goes back to the sixteen hun- dreds, but to this day the most beautiful building in, the world stands as a monument to their love. "Here in India at Agra, on the banks of the perfumed, Jurana, there is an edifice of in- comparable beauty, which holds enshrined within its cool

and sculptured loveliness the poignant melody of a love song."

Under Shah Jehan the Mogul Empire attained its greatest pros- perity. He erected splendid monu- ment after splendid monument and the golden age of Indian archi- tecture was born. The turning point in his life was his love for hia favourite wife and. Empress, the beautiful Mumtaz Mahal, whose name signifles "Crown of the Palace,"

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Of all the beautiful women in the Empire none could compare with Mumtaz Mehal, for she was more lovely. than words describe and there was nothing in his possession the Emperor, would not give her, but love is powerless against fate. Mumtaz Mahal be came. Il and died. The broken- hearted Shah Jehan determined' to build for her the most beautiful tomb in the world, where he would also be buried when his time came to die, and the result, is the Taj Mahal that most perfect domed, white marble building.

The twin tale of perfect love is that of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning Elizabeth was delicate, living the life of a recluse and an invalid. In her thirty-

Flaring afternoon and morning frocks are sometimes worn with shiny black patent 'Russian boots. And a most alluring evening gown cffect is the fitted bodice made entirly of seft feathers with a very full pleated skirt, trimmed with the same feathers at the hem.

Shoulders this season are often wallowed up by a new line, rup- *ning in a long curve from the neck to the wrist. Sometimes bands of embroidery run from ihe neckline at the sides down over the shoulders and outside the aleeves to the elbow or wrist. Cape sleeves or wide drop-should- er armholes, lined with contrast- ing material and turned back over the shoulders to the neck-

ninth year she met Browning for the first time and her whole life began to revolve around her friend- ship with the poet who typified the fighting spirit and radiated vitality, The attraction was mutual and Browning frequently sent her gifts of flowers. He longed to marry ker and soon overcame all her objections. They escaped tho Lyranny of Elizabeth's father, married secretly, and left for the Continent. At Pisa Browning read Elizabeth's "Sonneta From the Portuguese" for the first time. They were Inspired by her own Jove story and Browning believed