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A CUFF FROM MOSCOW

Moscow claims to have discover

SHORTER SKIRTS IN

NEAR FUTURE?

FAMOUS DESIGNER

THINKS NOT

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ed a new cure for eczema and FASHIONS NOWADAYS. DICTATED

jother such diseases. ***

BY WOMEN THEMSELVES

(By Capt. Edward Molyneux)

Paris.

T this season of the year. a

After all, it is they who adopt. It seems to me this is the way it

Dr. Kazakov, impressively en- titled Director of the State Scien- tific Institute for Metabolism and Endocrine Disorders, employs ex tracts from organs -- such as the heart, brain, eyes or muscles calls them lysates, and claims that only mine out of 223 skin disease short while before the pre should be Our job is not to patients failed to improve under sentation of the winter collec-dictate, but to realise what styles their application. The preparations, designers are not apt to be women are wanting and to provide tions are made from minced fresh talkative about any innovations them....

they want to launch. I for one,

Discussion tissue.

Apart from my instinct for de- Lysates are also being used to am still in the experimental stage increase the milk production of with my designs and expect to sign. I have many real and valued among the leaders of goats and cows, the number af modify my ideas right up to the friends eggs laid by hens, and the weight moment the collection is present-fashion here in Paris, and also in

સસ્તું.

London and New York, who often of pigs.

However, this much I can say come up to see me in my atelier.to. No sensational change in skirt discuss dresses they are wanting

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CORPS FOUNDED BY HENRY VIII

The Honourable Corps of Gen-ength is taking place this season. for some special occasion-

Even if some of the leading coutu- I then design the dress, and tlemen-at-Arms heid a receptioners here in Paris should take it afterwards it is adapted into a

recently at St. James's Palace

The corps, which is the King's finto their heads to launch a sudden (model which is shown to and personal bodyguard, is a select and radical change in the length ordered by women in general

it. Here is an example of what. F body of retired officers. Lord Lu-of skirts, I am pretty certain

would have no success. Women mean. can is its captain. “

Its

Some years back Lady came

In the reign of Henry VIIL, its know what they want in these days.

as the and you can be pretty certain that to see me, telling me she wanted they would never wear ande length something practical to wear when skirts for morning or sports

she did her physical exercises. She made a rough sketch on the Sartorial Dictators Before the War, Paris dress decided could be worked out in back of an envelope. "which wa

founder, it was known King's Spears of Honour. splendour caused a great sensa- tion at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. It did not again serve out- side England until it accompan-makers were very little short of ied King Edward VIL to Dublin sartorial

the law, although, as the Minis-in 1904.

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dictators Fashions the way of pleated shorts. We

shirt

seemed to enjoy being treated in this manner. To-day, believe me

splendid idea, made in white-

frequently unpractical and often made them in black satin, and, to It was William IV. who gave the unlovely, were almost imposed ear with them, a white silk polo try of Transport hastened to

The idea was good and practical for exercises at home, but it say the absence of the word corps its present designation on smart women, and they not

unable to sit down). but they struck me that it would also be a not absolve a Formerly it had become known as only stood for it (they were often "Stop" will motorist from the consequences the Gentlemen Pensioners. while Rising Trade Index of ay hurt he may do

ignoring a signal. The defec

or not, it is the women themselves tussore. for beach wear, I made there Whether regarded as proof of tive signals, of which

Mother: "Here's a note from Mary who impose their wishes, their model on those lines, and that with that needs and their whims on the de-season shorts put in their first. the actual growth of British must be a large number in exist

signer, and we are only too glad to appearance on summer beaches and have since been adopted by foreign trade or as presenting a peace, will no doubt be speedily saying that she's cloped

made to conform to the law. Poet

Father: "Mmm! Well, let's hurry listen and adapt.

the whole world of fashion. balance more satisfactory to

In the interval the motorist who up and move away from here into a

Trains A Bere England, the foreign trade re turns for the first half of the has regard for his own safety one-room apartment before they come

and the security of the public back" * year are full of cheer. Exports will hesitate to take advantage of British manufactures

thern- authorities have shown better than in any year sinceof the fact that certain trafic 1930, showing an improvement selves insufficiently informed of of £15,000,000 as compared with the requirements of the regula last year, and are £25.000.000 tions.

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For That Stage Jubilee A Tempest a congratulations..

Clear "Modern girls can be read like?

Sally a writer books," says the bald

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On another occasion a friend who is, internationally "considered: to be one of the smartest women-

The as Kaiser-T-Find left Stalin Society complained about the gapore on Tuesday and is due here long evening dresses with trains that had been worn for the last to-morrow morning.

few seasons. She said that this above the values of 1933.

It has frequently been urged

An unclaimed telegram from type of dress was all very well for Imports of all kinds from that, in the interest of the

London, addressed to Murray Lew-house wear, but that at restaur at ants, when she wanted to dance, abroad, on the other hand, are

"There's something to be said on is, Welsh-Fusiliers, is lying

trains were a bore. I have kept lower this year by nearly three colour blind, the various lenses

different both sides, as the letter-writer said the General Post Office.

this in mind, and in future I think millions sterling, although they should be given a

shape, and the answer has when he put P.IO. at the bottom of

of you will find that trains on even- are considerably in excess

Leung Kam-shui," aged 18. It would be always been that this is the page. those of 1933.

since necessary

the words

No. 34 Percival Street, collapsed ing dresses will be finished, except foolish to pretend that foreign stop" and "Go" are

It is by working, our new ideas trade is entirely satisfactory; in essential signals. If, however,

Canton Railway station and died its totals it remains far below the green light carries the word

in the Kowloon Hospital at noon. in this way that one is able to keep modern fashion sane Smart the figures of the better years "Go" it fails in the require before 1931, but steadily and

Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 women to-day are not going to continuously it is climbing back ments of the law as conspicuous

hours ending at 10 am to-day submit to wearing unsuitable clothes. That is why, in my to the higher levels, and isly as does the red light without

The total since lettering. The Departmental

was 0.87-inch. showing that with greater

January 1 has been 5499 inches, opinion, the length of day skirts, security in the home market Committee which sat in 1933

against an average of 5692 at any rate, will stay more or less as it is now, not only this season Britain's essential industries held that the use of the word

inches. "Go" was misleading, inasmuch

but for many seasons to come... laze recovering ground - lost,

as the exhibition of the green

Forecast abroad.

light could only be regarded as

The strange case of a man who The RMS. Empress of Eussia At the same time the direc- an invitation to proceed if the had forgotten his marriage was left Yokohama yesterday, and is I think you can take the follow- tion of British foreign trade is road were actually clear, and the decided by Mr. Justice Branson expected in Hong Kong nexting fashion forecasts as authorita. being sensibly modified. In a motorist was not absolved from at Exeter Assizes.

Wednesday. She will sail the tive recent press article devoted to the exercise of his individual Albert Victor Leonard, of following afternoon for Manīta the exchange of goods between judgment. Between the red Britham, who petitioned for the countries within the sterling and the green lights there is the divorce last October,

MAN WHO FORGOT this morning at the Kowloon for the most formal occasions.

HE WAS MARRIED

Events Prior To 1925 Obliterated

DECISION IN UNUSUAL DIVORCE CASE

For sports wear and day wear skirts will be definitely short, even- was the Tsang Kwong, unemployed, was shorter than they are at present. bloc. Prof Lionel Robbins said difference of an order in the stated to have married in 1925 in this morning sentenced to sis By this I naturally do not mean that "Recovery in the sterling first case and a sanction in the the rate of Williams, and it was months hard labour by Mr. Q. A the knee-length horrors women- area is real and unmistakable second; the first denies the only through meeting an aunt at A. Macfadyen at the Central Po-wore a few years ago, but about That is in part the effect of the motorist or the pedestrian any Plymouth two years later that he lice. Court for returning to

the 13 inches from the ground.

For afternoon -dresseB ankle. trade agreements. concluded | latitude of interpretation, the

length or a little longer will-be- He could not remember that or One death from diphtheria and right any other events in his life before seven cases of typhoid fever, with There will be two evening-dress 1925, it was stated. He had been four deaths, were reported as hav-silhouettes: the slim straight line

with the more important coun-second calls for the use of his had married at Edinburgh in Colony from banishment.

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CLIENT'S SAVINGS

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Riotous Living

torpedoed three times during the ing occurred in the Colony during with skirts just to the ground, and War and that affected his memory the week ended Saturday. There the full-skirted evening dress, The 1920 wife had also remarried were 51 deaths from tuberculosia which will be the same length........

However, we still have some- Mr. Justice Branson exercised

time ahead of us, and many modi- married discretion on the man's behalf

Cheng Shan-mgi, woman, of 3 Jubilee Street, was fications and surprises may come fined $5 for failing to report the about, but in principle I feel fair- removal of a registered mai-taxi, ly certain that the changes will Chung Chun-ho, aged 14, who left only be modifications and not the Colony with the defendant on drastic alterations. July 19 and returned on July 274 The girl was well looked after.

provement on the half year, but Spent By Solicitor In and granted him a decree misi. would have experienced [serious decline, had it not been for the agreements with the Scandinavian countries. An in- Money obtained by a solicitor creasing proportion of Britain's from a woman client was stated at exports goes to Empire coun-Brighton Quarter Sessions recent tries and those nations which ly to have been spent in riotous have attached themselves to living

MINIATURE BULLET KILLS MAN

Walking Stick Gun Tragedy

Cheung Cho were each senten- Leung Chan a 64-year old haw-ced to 10 months' hard labour by sterling The broad fact to be! Henry Cresswell-Bean, 33, x-

ker of No. 52 Tai Man Street. Mr. E L Wynne-Jones, at the read in the trade returns for the finitor who formerly practised in half-year is that with world Brighton, was sentenced to 18 John Beddall Smith, 56, of first floor, was admitted to the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- trade showing no recovery the months in the second division for Newark-lane Ripley, Surrey, Kowloon Hospital in an antoning for returning to the Colony British proportion of that trade frandulent conversion.

is substantially greater than it It was stated that

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At Bromler Police Court style recently a motorist successfully pleaded that he committed o

offence in passi

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who was found shot dead in the scious condition yesterday as the before their terus had expired. ved morning-room of his house was result of a fall from the stair

well known locally as a collector case of the same address. of English bird When he was tick gun was

Appearing together with Tsang Hee, unemployed, before Mr. E. Six weeks hard labor was I. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon imposed on a vegetable gardener. Police Court this morning on

Wynne, charge of stealing

or birds Lam Hing, by M. E-

r of his Jones at the Kow

The this morn for the

80 from Li Fonz, a

whom he wESS

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was imposed on

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fother of the