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CHANGES AND-FLOWERS GO TO THE HEAD

A Large New Assortment of STRAW HAND BAGS

for

Spring and Summer

Prices From 30 cts. to $300,

Silk Kimonos, Underwears

The

and Table Linens in Latest Patterns.

See them at

CHINESE BAZAAR China Bldg Queen's Road C. Hong Kong

Mayo's

Photo D'Asia'

line, where they aru attached ta necklets of material or banquets...

of Blowers, are new and charming. These are especially successful in gowas of flowered taffeta trim- med with pastel organdie.

A new trianing for the exotic straw hats is bunches of tiny to- matas garnished with dashelled green peas, or miniature apples made of red, feathers! But for those of you who dislike extremes, you're still quite safe with Bow-

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under your brim or at the hack of your straw toque. Flow.. ers, indeed. aro everywhere. Flurists are outdoing themselves in creating new arrangements." Soft clusters are worn with the picture frock and there is an eye for colour combinations such

the mimosa, and violet spray. Little. bracelets, of violets are n smart and different addition to. the evening ensemble. Yes, re- gardless of age, violets are the ..choice, Artificial posies also de

mand attention. Deep purplish red carnations,

Aurelin's

There is nothing that can do more to bring out the interesting lines of the face than a clever hair modern And the arrangement. coiffures are a triumph in indi- No longer is it neces- viduality, sary to have regular features, for be any irregular features can modified to hold. great charm.

The summer's new printed silks are interesting and lovely. Very often they are printed with flags -the Silver Jubilea motif-or again with birds, leaves, moons, suns, and old-fashioned flowers. fascinations, perhaps But of all or gay bouton-

the nieres, of daisies, sweet peas or

summer hosiery is greatest, There is a new ringlers stocking pansies go hand in hand with the new Bower-printed linkies. In a coppery shade for brown or nff-blue and an And there are actually artificial

Lan ensembles and gardenios that

golour for the blue costume. This carnations smell like the flowers!

off-blue is tinged with grey and to the gives a flattering effect leg. Elegance, and the prevailing femininity are introduced in an exquisite one thread stocking. A new stocking for afternoon wear is in a very small mesh and is especially woven to cling to the leg. to It comes in leading shades combine with colours in shoes,

No more original designs have, appeared than those of the new handbags. The materinis

Hairdressing fashions have cer- tainly influenced the evening tuode. The soft neck dravery makes a hair covering when you step out to find a taxi-enb at a draughty Larner. The sideway swirl coiffure · drapes "the rape of the neck and lends itself, to the little clips, the posies, and the combs of caloured enamel that look so well. Puffy curls climbing from the ear tip to the crows of the head belong to an evening coiffure and are perhaps more fascinating than any marble prototype ringlets, The arrangement is. asymmetrien! and hence multi- plies the interest of the face by suggesting a problematie person- ality, the face appearing quite different according to the aspect from which it is viewed. Another arrangement bunches the hair in the nape of the neck and has the effect of defining the contour of a well-shaped head, and of framing it with the face and setting, these on the pedestal formed by the neck and shoulders.

TWIN TALES (Continued),

of

them to be "the finest Sonnets since Shakespeare."

Fifteen years after their mar. riage Elizabeth died unexpectedly, No foreknowledge of death spoiled their last hours together. Brown-> ing wrote:

"It was the most perfect expres- sion of her love to me within my whole knowledge of her always smilingly, happily, and with a face like a girl'a-and in a few minutes. she died in my arms; her head on my cheek. Her last word when I anked "How do you feel?'- "Beautiful,"

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MODE

Entrance Chinese Bazaar..

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and very

calf and pigskin, pin scal

One even saddle leather, distinctive large envelope-style bag in natural saddle-leather has a pony's bit combined with lea- ther for a handle. As a happy compliment is a leather belt whose buckle is also a pony's bit; this can be conveniently snapped on and off and used on other belt- ings for a change.

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One roomy pin-seal handbag has unusual shape. Two broad strips of the leather join in such a fashion as to make the bottom of the bag n square, with invert- ed pleats at the side. The closing is a zipper fastening ending in B short bracelet handle.

Pigskin bags come not only in natural colour, but also in many of the Summer shades. Two the nval flaps, one

on top of other, the small one continuing up to form the handle und the larger one unsnapping to reveal a roomy pocket, give the "longer-than-wide" model an air of outstanding smartness,

new

The newest vanity ense hangs from the wrist like a large golden Easter egg, while fans look like mirrors, circular, with transpar- rent cellophane handles.

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THE WE S CREATION

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Balibuntal in Queen Mary Blue, Marina Green, Red & Nature !

White Cart-wheel hats in colour trimmed!

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Summer

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Grow Your Name In Mustard And Cress

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N interesting thing to do in your garden is, to grow your own name in mustard and Crea*.- To do this you must prepare the soil well in a sunny, open situation. Dig.the ground well and then finish off the surface with a, rake, mak- ing the soil. very fine and as level as possible..

The letters for the name should be rather big and about ten or twelve inches high. Each letter is traced out on the soil with a point- ed stick and you should form it in double lines which ure about two inches apart.

When you have finished the let- ters make n border-all round the name, also traced in double linea two inches apart. The seed in sown in between the lines in the letters and border,, and it is im- portant not to let any fall outside. the lines.

Sow The Crena First

As cress grows more slowly than mustard this should be sown first. Sow the seed rather thickly in the Jellers that form the name,' and then cover with a little dusting of light, dry soil. Four days later the mustard seed in sown in exactly the same way in the border..

Unicas the soll gets very dry no water will be needed, but if the ground Reems like dust a little sprinkling should be given. " there are any thin or bare patches. in letters or border re-now these parts with more seed as 2007 an you notice them. Eventually, you will have the name in letters of bright green with a pretty border all round..

If you have no plat of garden of your own you may grow your name just an well In a window box or. in an ordinary wooden box filled with mould. In this ense, of course, the letters will need to be much smaller.

Make-Up

For All Occasions

There is a different type of make-up for all occasions, whether you golf, ride, swin or dance. Among the different complexion shades to be had are: Brunette, Eggshell, Naturelle, Old Ivory, Arabian, Rose Blush and Rachel.

CHINA MAIL, HOME SUPPLEMENT

BEAUTY DIARY Paris Calling

HE eyes being the windows

Tof the soul, one must con-

tinually take care of them, and indeed the

the language of eyes can often be more ele- quent than anything spoken by the lips. The mouth, may re- fuse to tell secrets, but the eyes give them away every time. They will tell your age, your health and your emotions, whether you Are And ör glad.

If the eyes are dull you cannot look beautiful however hard you try, nor can

- you even pretend to be bright and gay if you are tired, for your eyes show It.

To be beautiful the eyes must sparkle, the whites must be clear; they must speak of health! Their size and colour is of very second- ary importance as compared with this. A puffiness under the eyes is usually the sign of fatigue and too many late nights, and, it is ruinous to your beauty t will, sige even the young woman. Begin your cure from the inside however dull that may sound. Plenty of pure water to drink between mestu. And then of ecurse plenty of restful sleep.

A simple external method of in- proving matters is to apply hot and cold compressex. Take two pads of cotton wool, soak one in cold water and the other in hot, and apply them alternately, first

to the right eye then to the left. As water is apt to be drying, it is advisable to follow this treat- ment by patting in a little skin. fool. If this is ut all inclined to he stif and hard, take

care to

• Esther, Your Eyes A-Sparkle · And Eloquent As·

Your Lips

Warm it, so that it seeps in ensi- ly without stretching the skin,

The tiny laughter wrinkles round the eyes may be quite at tractive, hat when they are the deeper kind, that show you have been worrying they Arc most unbecoming. Regular use of a special muscle oil will gradually erase them. A few drops should he smoothedl ench night before the going to bed and again in morning while dressing.

For those special occasions when you simply must look your beat at a moment's notice, an anti-wrinkle cream applied and left on for ten minutes before making-up is won- derfully effective. This is not of any lasting use but its just like a conjuring trick and will Lide you aver for the moment.

For those faces with stubborn wrinkles one of the best things is an electrical treatment. To take it one lies back in a chair, while a tiny pad worked by-elec tricity is drawn lightly over the skin benenth the eyes. Thus the muscles are enlivened and the skin loned up.

The effect of a tiring day shows in the eyes more quickly than anywhere else. Pads of col lon wool soaked in skin tonic and placed over the closed lids relieve strain and help to banish the dullness which is so fatal to good looks. "If you care to have a luxurious treatment you can give it to yourself at home by means of some special eye bandalettes, Composed of herbs, there wonderfully strengthening to the Oyes And quile mirneulously brightening. The them is to

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to way sook them in a little hot milk, then place them over the eyes for about ten minutes. Lie biek and, if pos sible, rest the mind at the same time. Then, when you take them off dab both eyes gently with two pads of wool soaked in water as cold as you can get it and skin tonic,

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same

corsage is twilled in the material. The second, of Persian rose tulle; a "allken vapour before which silver tears fall, in cas- enles, with which the whole front is inundated. The corsage is all. in silver and on the shoulder is n plumage of ostrich feathers. It is a dazzling effect. After this elaborate description of the ' fashion see what Alphonse Karr has to say in the "Le Grand Revue" about the women of the time.

"To-day the honest women have taken

up the battle with the demi monde and descended on. the street to battle and take up

the challenge in fashion. It is an unfortunate, courage, because on the street they must be beaten. The honest woman can only ruin a husband and one or two lovers, While the demi-monde collects her taxes from half of the total popula- tion. They exhibit, the same silk Ad velour but they do not are to dress for the street-that is to say undress only to certain

point.

It is only in the salons the theatres where they are allow. ed to show a half of the neck without incking decency; it would be monstrously indecent, in fact Impossible, to show the other half. Having been forced to cover their, neck they imagine they ex- hibit their body in the tight and clinging dresses, which makes their walk difficult and fatiguing, embarassing and awkward. They are obliged to sit on their side, almost on their hips.

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China Mail

HOME SUPPLEMENT

Impressions

ENGLISH

women may be clever, mys Mr. Hsiung. but our Chinese women are wisa and know how to keep young.

Mr. Ising may be the one moki qualified to monk, for he hex lived in London and writes and apeaks English fluently. He is the Chinese author and play-wright

who has translated the well-known Chinese play "Lady Precious Stream" into English. He does, "nevertheless, admire the English ..

that

-all, but their cooking. „Ahd strangely enough just this Inst week English papers proclaimed.

English women

were tho world's worst cooks; while..it is generally recognized that the. Chinese woman, is a

marvellous cook. But Mr. Hsiung goes, fur- ther. In answer to the question. "Is the Chinese woman not still where the civilsed European wo- man was hundreds of years agol" he says that she is where civilised European woman.. might well wish herself. She is in the home. He thinks the Chinese women' keeps young and childlike because she does not use her brain 100 much. That does not mean that she has not got a fine intelligence, · Far from it. But she does not worry as the Western women do. She has no struggle; she has security, Thus, It is that the Chinese woman in -her early thirties will look as fresh as the European girl in her early. twenties, And what is more, she will be contented, not restless and doubting as we are.

His wisdom les, he finds, in the fact that she does not compete in either business or sport with the mati, for she knows that she could never be his equal. In her own sphere she is complete:, she

is ruler and supreme in the work

for which she is best fitted and most useful in life.

I wonder what reply the modern Chinese woman would be tempted to make to Mr. Hsiung's article? He claims, for instance, that her position does not make her furious, or cause her to pen, indignant let- ters to her local newspaper. Did be see the headline a little while back which stated in large letters: "Chinese Women Protest." Feminist organisations not only

rose.

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In Shanghai but throughout China in unanimous protest against the revised Chincau Criminal Code, which provided for punishment of married women by" imprisonment for misconduct, while carrying no corresponding penalty for a man in a similar situation."

Circular telegrams were sent to women's organisation throughout the country calling for a united opposition, delegations were Kont

direct to Nanking to protest, and a furor was stirred up in the press. The paper states that the storm of feminina protext came as something of a surpring to Nanking.. For, throughout the centuries, women in China have been traditionally allent in public matters and have confined themselves, to the affairs of the household,

But this latest incident

to indicate some change

look in modern China.

goex

of out-

There is a firm determination on the part of an influential section of Chinese women to take an im portant part in public affairs.

Phyllis Juky.

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1935

PARIS CALLING.. -

~1890-

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What The "Arbiter

Elegantiarum The Time Dictate

ONLY

Of

NLY a few days separate from the Silver Jubilee celebrations of the whole British world. Wires are buzzing, committees run- ning to and fro arranging de- corations and illuminations, and stamp collectors are queuing up outside the post- office to obtain the much covet. cd first cancellations, Maga- zines and newspapers are issuing special Silver Jubilee

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éditions and reviewing the history of the past twenty- five years in politics, scienti-

fle progress, and fashion.

We too are inclined to reflect, notwithstanding our youth, but we are carried back to an earlier time. The trend of fashion in dress, in social life, and to some extent even in politics, shows a tendency to recapture the roman- ticism of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. For cen- turies Paris has supplied the in spiration for leaders of fashion all over the world. Although after the war, New York made a deter-

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THE HOUSE OF PERFECT STYLE

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featuring

SUMMER

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mined bid for her laurels,

after.

a few years struggle the supre- macy of Parls remains unquestion- able, The best American, fashion and society magazines maintain offices in Paris for the purpose of gathering their material. Now let us glance back and see what the "arbiter elegentiarum of Paris 1800 dictate. They seem to have a flowery vocabulary when they describe the "dernier cri" in fashion, which one must find just- fied after a glance at the pictures of the time. "If you want the novel hat go to "Chez B.", says the fashion reporter," there are delicious headressen for those "el- gantes" who want something out of the banality of fashion, but at the same time respecting good. There is a very beautiful hat in Italian straw shadowed by a cloud of plumes from lilac to jade green.

taste.

For the ladies leaving Paris, It

is indispensable to take with them hats for the Autumn season. saw an adorable hat in the shape,

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of a golden ducal, crown.

A Baudrillos in gold net falls to the nape and has gold stars on the front. An emerald greck velour gives the most marvellous effect, all in Spanish style.

One cannot be well dressed without a corset which is well · made, and to have a well made corset one must go to Leoty. One sees there nothing but the' dala- ties of coquetry.

The elegant woman should wear a corset in rose cambrić or i "Ophella" ornamented with modern lace. A dream is the brocade cor- set with garlands and bouquets. and a petticoat to match with wings of lace and pleated rushes in silk crepe. From Leoty "we hear that a certain Parisian lady ordered twenty corsets.. Is that not the peak of coquetry? Am order of twenty dresses is not such a great rarity, but twenty corants remains recorded in the annals of the shop. I saw two, dresses one in green brocade with a boquet of rosea and the traia lined in rose. In the front in a fall of green crepe de chine and the (Continued Over Page)

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