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FASHIONS AND FANCIES.

SILK. ATTIRE TO THE FORE. The words of the old song are literally, como

"And ye shall walk in silk-attiro. true now: We de walk in it, although for many years it was considered: most unsailable for outdoor wear. The introduction of silken walking suits was mode from America some two or three seasons ago, and they became immediately favourites. But only a soft, shiny kind of glacé was nsel. This year Parls lui "gone one belter, and is wing foulard for this purpose, It makes very charming little frocks, of course short, and with a good deal of fullness in the

skirts.

A, FOULARD WALKING BUIT.

A smart example is in pale beige foulard, with bino dots and circles of various sizes scattered over it irregularly. The front bresalt hangs is a plain paus, but at the sides there are several bread, Hat pleats held in by three slanting bonds of Chinese embroidery-massed blue lowers and batterities on a yellow ground. Gorgeous as this sounde, all who know the ways of Oriental work will gross that its effect is riol but quist. The close-fitting bodice is almost hidden under tunic of dull blue tussare, bound with embroidery. The tunic is perfecly plain, hanging a few inches below the waist, back and front, crossing the shoulders and hold together under the arms by hands of embroidery, Abere it, where it is rounded like a circular yoke, appears & smart little neck arrangement of white lawn spotted and edged with blue.

THE OVERLOADING OF HATS.

There is far too much of the smart spring hat. It is of a good size to begin with, in straw or wilk, but the weight of flowers on it makes it resemble one of the flower-baskets at Oxford-cirons. The smart fashion artist over gives his ladies Greek Euroate, preferring the Annie Laurie type, very long and slender. The result is that they look dangerously brittle when taken in conjunction with the enormous erections of the moment which go by the name of hats simply because they are worn on heads, Horticultural Shows would be a better name,

CHINESE IMMIGRATION

INTO AUSTRALIA.

SURREPTITIOUS IMPORTATIONS.. séries of articles on this subject are being published in the Sunday Times, a leading West Australian newspaper, publish at Perth,

The following is taken from the first article on the subject:-

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 15TH, 1909.

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THE LIFE T. For this reason only young men are "crimped" in Chine for shipping to Australis. The effect is that the starving wrotek kális. It is thus easy to riderstand why the majority himself with eating or drinking. of the Chinese in this State are relatively youngAgain, a man may have an idea that lo will. men, in the full bloom of amuhood, and ranging make another rejoice by saying something from about 23 to 28 years of age. The mortali gracious about his behind his back He does ty among the stowaways is at times, rightfally--but the third person, to whom the gra cious saying is committed, fails to pass it on, high. The long journey through tropical Heus,

atmos a sneer, so that if ever-it arrives at its destina pellated the dreadfal olors necessarily insidental to Perhaps he distorts it, or gives it the gloss of their surroundings, the

rations doled was intended.. phare exhausted of its life-sustaining qualition its effect is the exact opposite of what tics, and the miserable

Or the gracious saying is tent in a letter by on't by their compatriots, individually Every legislativo effort to keep John China- and collectively conspire to reduce them to a postaud is lost on its travels. Or it is printed man out of Australia has been attended with condition which is cruol and dreadful beyond in a paper, kid it happens that the paper is

any consequences of negligible importance and value conception. Dertha are fairly frequent, but never read by the eyes it was meant to gladden. The Immigration Restriction Act doesn't only two or three of the crew are aware that All the chances are against.

Human nature is constituted stesugoly. restrict or retard him to the value of a feather another of their compatriots has entered into tempt to guide the course of happiness. duster, Mystic, inscrutable and incompre. possession of the Grant Secret. When the hensible, he defles the laws, dodges the police, coast is clear, and the ship is shrouded in dark. It is good to hear directly that we and dribbles into Australia in paties of threes noss, the corpse is dragged by the heels to the hold in esteem by our fellowa. It is good and fives despite the most strenuous exertions to taffrail and fung into the sea like a bucket of to be a, national hero, and seclulined by keep him off the Commonwealth door-stop. In of ashes. A dali splash, perhaps the flash of all writers suil speakers. It is good to many ways John is an incomprehensible dorsal fin as it plows through the foam with our plays, or pictures, or books upplanded by roauce. His ways, thoughts, beliefs, practices horrible swiftness, and the secret of, another the critics. It is good to be a darling of the dan trust always to spoult well of us, one, is we and customs are so widely divergent from those nameless and forgotten Chinaman is safely public. It is good to have a friend whom we which animate the Caucasian, with his thin baried in the fathomless depths of the Indian venear of mongrel civilisation, that the human Ocean. The ship's log contains no record of the know by experience, who does speak well of us paradox from the faecal-strewn slums of incident. The captain knows nothing of it. belund our backs. - · *****

Cauton still remains Frequently, he isn't aware that a portion of his Hongkong

unfathomable, and as cargo is contraband, and is perhaps sweltering chain or two of as perplexing, as enigmatical us the mystery which envelopes the and rotting to death within origin of the Egyptian Sphinx. We know him the quarter-deck. to be grossly immoral, according to our civilised lights. Ifo is also a trafficer in living flesh and blood to his finger-tips. He deals in haman lives with the same insoucianco with which he sells a bunch of turnips or a stone of potatoes. complex blend of Shylock and Legros in one its sweats his slaves with the brutal indifformace of the Oriental. The foss of the life of a patriot means nothing. What is one Chinaman the leas, with the tooming millions of the Celestial Empire to tempt to slavery and death with the irresistibile attraction-of-British-gold Nothing! Simply nothing: Not even a speck of dirt!

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mes and Wanneroo were in a state of uncultivated bounets, Day by day this attention becomes primitiveness. Gradually, the "cabbages" and more apparent, but coully fashions melt andetinave industry gras inte one of consider. changs under oue's eyes nowadays like things.in a dream, and particulary like the baby that able importance and Johr commenced to spread, changed into a pig in Alice's arms. The au- like an attack of leprosy, all over the rich alogy may go further. You would make swamps and, morasses which occur at frequent rather a handsome pig," asid Alice, "But you're intervals inside and outside the metropolitan a very ugly baby he cloche hata make area Cheap coolio labor because an inevitable rather charming bonnets, but they are horrible necessity relatively te the vigorous growth of the vegetable industry, and the bow Chows domiciled in the State started to snuggle in squads and battalions of indentured slaves under damnably treacherous conditions. In 19 0 it was a rare sight to see 15 or 20 Chinese working together in the same vegetable-patch. To-day it is quite as common as threepenny pints of colonial wallop. The rates of wrages then demanded by the domiciled Chows varied from 20s, to 30. a week, and tucker of a kind

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China Mail Parcel sont post freo in White or Eern. draw more joy from the unexpected word or not SAML. PEACH & SONS, Box 694, THE LOOMS, NOTTINGHAM, ENG. of graciousness. It means much more to hear that the last acquaintance from whom we could have hoped for appreciation has spoken well of It often happens that the ship is met at us than to hear how our best friend was com He secretly hear that a stranger has expressed a kind Derby, Broome, Hedland or Carnarvon by plimentary. And it means infinitely more to an omissary of the boss. Chow. farishes the coolies with hats and site of thought of as, never dreaming it would reach us,

UNK SOW ADMIRERS.

artist more to of elop-made clothes of European shape and than to hear as minch of any Requintaneo,

What praise means fashion, arrayed in which the Chows slip aslioro

when, standing by his exhibited at night, to re-appear the following morning es

perfectly genuine, passengers for Southern ports. Their fares are than pad, and as they presumably boarded the hug picture, he overhears a

-writer ger at Derby or Broome, and have apparently spontaneous expression of delight at his canina been residing in the State for some time they from the lips of a stranger who does not know or Fremantle, Or perhaps their owner decides more deeply than to see a stranger revelling in. experience no dificulty in landing at Geraldton him from Adam? What touches story that they shall go further East, in which ovent the pages of his book, to hear his laulation? What can please a King more than to talk with they find that the task of dodging the In-

log. But assuming it is decideda King, and then to hear a spontaneous expres off a greasy migration Restriction Act is easier than falling some humble subject who has no ides he is with they shall remain in hiding until Fremantle is sion of loyalty Amil life can bring no sweeter reached, arrangements are made for getting moment to the maker of songs than the moment them nahore at night time by means of fishing when, passing down the road, he hears through Imagine that everyone born on this earth is means of making occasional increments to their knows that his musio has not been in vain. emoluments.

given a bag filled with the seals of happinese There is another way which is cqually seerpea bag which can never fail. But not for tions. After the ship is tied up to the what, a those who saw the needs is the benty of the certain number of the Chinese crews is givet flowers they may rear. Their pleasure in the permits by the chief officer to visit the shore for flowers of their sowing must be derived, if at two or three hours after knock of time. These all, from the please of others; but it is unlikely permits are given to the stowaways, in exchange that they will experience this. Then imagine for a cash consideration, and the coolins piscidly that all endeavour to sow the greatest number walk nahore under the glare of the eye of the of seeds which the space or their lives allows, not Customs Department, and are met in the town planting them deliberately for any special per- by a friendly compatriot, who gets them out of son's enjoyment, but scattering the broadcast, sight, and beyond the immediate reach of the impartially on good and bad ground, authorities, without any unnecessary waste of time or opportunity. Then the stowaways begin to understand the nature of the agree

Many of ment they entered into prior to their engage. ment at Hongkong or Canton. them are drenched in ignorance even of the communest idioms of their own language. As the vegetable industry grew in valas and They pross their thoughts in a patoistes importance, the boss Chows conceived the idea which is a cross between the mumming of a of supplementing the local supply, of labor Simian ape and the gibberings of a congenital by importing coulies from Hongkong and idiot. They are rapidly brought to realise that Caution in small and unassuming parties they are indentured body and soul to the boss of five, ton and fifteen, according to require Chow for a number of years, during which they will be required to work out the cost of their ments. The modus operantly adopted in such itself. The facts we are simplicity Case is The way in which taste, ranges in a circle is well illustrated by the favour with which the about to furnish are incontestable. Thoy no dege at a wage which is never more-mid is and beggarly ration-pittance. And then, mil-Victorian frocks in Mr. Hawtrey's produc-rived from inside sources: from tas inner sometimes less than Five Shillings Per Week, friendless, alone, unknown, shackled by the tra tion are regarded, A for years ago wa hail revival of the 1837 styles, but even then we

aud starts to work out his destiny under should have ridiculed the ides that we could

ditious of centuries, he picke up a spade or shoe ever admire the plain shoulders, crinolined

conditions which are little batter than thos funacts, and funny little jackets of 1850. Yot

imposed, oven to-day, by King Leopold of Hel- even the burlesquely exaggerated frocks word Miss Fanny Brough in. The Noble

rium, on the native races of Congo Blate. by Spaniard" are remarked on with something warmer than toleration by the audience, and 48 for Miss Cutler and Miss Cleaver, the general opinion is that they are perfectly bein, to all practioal intents and purpoFOR, THE DISCOVERY OF A SIMPLE SYSTEM FOR withing. Yet the outanes of their frooks are in every respeel the exact opposite of these we consider smart to-day, and the simplicity of their hairdressing would le thought almost eccentric now.

THE VICTORIN BONNET. The description of these bonnets is really very like what one has read of in old-fashioned books. Not only is the shape approaching to the Victorian scoops, but the materials are the same, It is interesting to and ourselves returning to "elegant bonnets of drawn silk or gathered hile, with a FORA under the brim, and a drooping feather." And even the strings are provided-broad streamers of black velvet. black velvet, or tulle, or chiffon, sometimes with a roes tucked in where they are tied, after the fashion introduced by Queen Alexandra many years ago. But she wore tea! roses, and she was very lovely.

VICTORIAN FAGCKS AT TUE ROYALTY,

SIDE CUBIS AND CHIGNONS..

It is true that both these ladies rather shirk the proper hairdressing of the period. Miss Cutler goes back to an earlier decals of the Victorian ora, aut has bauches of side-curis,. and Miss Cleaver simply knots her dark hair at the back of her head. There is not one chenille net in the play! But having seen these frocks, and a first-night audience taking them in, Xanthippo says: I have looked on a revival of cripplines as an unlikely nightmare: now I regard them as possible dream. although we had a slight revival in clignons little while ago, they wore not of the viralent type that hung down the back in an awful red chelle bag; nor are we likely to be too accurate if ever we take to the frocks of that period Bgain.

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circles of Chinndom, for the persistent smuggl ing of coolies into the State is creating a Rear- city of work, and palling-down prices; to the natural exasperation of the Clestials who have labor to sell, and cannot command a fair and remunerative valuation in exchange for their services. There is a wide distinction between tho domiciled and the indentured Chinaman. The former, having worked out his salvation, is free to come and go se he pleases. The latter

HOW TO SPREAD HAPPINESS.

PRODUCING JOY.

BY MARCUS WOODWARD.]'.

We fell to discussing the finest pleasures of

apitilessly exploited prisoner, possessing ne other right except the privilege to live and vegetate like a cabbage, to toil from dawn to gloaming, and to exist on food as deficient in quantity as it is defilive in nutrireness. A full recognition of the distaction between the life--and it was the Philosopher who suggestel bond and the free Chinaman is necessary to ba that nothing could equal the joyous shock and realised, in order that the spirit of rivalry thrill of learning by chance that we had given prevailing between the free and the boss China-pleasure to others anawares. nan may be thoroughly appreciated and under- stood.

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The boss Chew, having determined to bring his free compatriots to a proper sense of their bearings, writes to his agent in China, accom ful amount, instructing him to arrange for paying his lotter with a raft for a substan shipment of coolies to Singapore. On reaching the Gate of the East, the coolies aro takon in land by a gang of crimps who live on the game.. and who arrange for their shipment on a suit. abin vessel bound (say) for West Australian ports. Prior to this stage being reached, the boss Chows at this end will have made arrange- ments with the ship's carpenter (colloquially

Have you (he inquired) ever tasted the delight. of overhearing a world of appreciation of your self, or of the work into which you have thrown yourself, expressed by a stranger? Or have you ever been permitted to see a letter addressed to another by one unknown to you, containing gracious world, a spontaneous thought of m If not, perhaps yo ness, about yourself? cannot quite grasp the transcendental joy of such an appreciation.

The letter may be only some little forinol note of net ten lines, of not ifty-wonls, yet if will keep it for it comes into your hands it will spread so won- deriul a happiness that ever alone, your most cherished essendons The words of the stranger, not even intended you on the long, dark road of life, light to disperse the encompassing fogs, to change leaden skies to violet, to drive back and hold at bay the all encircling occan moat of pain, toturn sorrow into joy, and the sweat of labour into the honeyed dew of Paradise.

THE ECCENTRICITIES OF DRAPERY, There is apparently no end to the extraordin-known as The Mystery and the crannia for your eyes, will be as a beacon-light to cheer ery ways in which the sof-jden is carried out (the parser's clerk) to take charge of the party on the eve of the departure of the vessel from on the newest frocks. Shawls are worn on

on her next voyage to Australia. The ingopera skirts, with their ends over the shoulders. scarves arb threaded in and out of unlikely cost of stowing away a Chinese coolie safe from seams, and tied in the most unexpected the prying eyes of the officers and the Customs places, and still new ways are painfully officials varies from £20 to £4 per head, devised. A perfectly plain frock of old according to the number arranged to be placed rose silk-cashmere has a breastplate of black on board. The completion of the agreement Chantilly lace lined with verise chiffon, and held is gecompanied by a cash payment of the in to the figure for about eight inches at the total amount agreed, ou between the high waist with an embroidery a grapes in shades contracting parties. The carpenter and the of dull green and silver. A land of cabochonacranio are necessarily parties to the ar In jet represents a waistband. Felow this the rangement, for whilst the latter conducte the lace hangs in long tolds, sweeps round the back commercial side of the business the carpenter is of the shirt low down, and is drawgup the other required to engineer and overlook the stowing side of the front to the waist again It is rather of the coolies in the most suitable place avail. as though a shawl worn over the shoulders and able on the ship,

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fastened at the waist should have slipped down. The coolies board the steamer at Singapore at

the figure as far as the fastenings would allow

ning the dead of night, and always when the crew is

It is lined with ceriso, but has an interlining busily engaged in loading coal sad carga. Prior of silver gauze. A bonnet of drawn chiffon trimmed with silver ganzo, is worn to their arrival, the carpenter has set off a parti. with this. It has two enormous feathers at one side, shaded from black to old rose through cerise, and is lined with drawn silver tulle and tied with long black velvet ribbon passed once under the chin, tied at the back, and thence allowed to float, the ends being

There is a common experience which we li know in some degres--the experience of leaving a roomful of people, then, as we close the door, of hearing, after a moment's silence, a laugh. our expense-and we, outside the door, carry Somebody within has said something witty at away that laughter in our souls; it is one more drop in life's cup of gall.

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we may be oppressed by an uneasy, vague Of if there is no actual laughter, yet as we go spicion that we are abent to be discuse, at least referred to and always in disparagement. Within the room we fancy we hear them saying: "How dill be grows, What atrocious hats she wears! What absurd ideas he holds,"

tion or recess into which the coolies are bundled he cannot really love her husband," "They like logs of wood. A house or temporary tene ment is then hastily run up, invariably connect ing with a port hela for reutilation, and leaving a small and obscure opening through which food under a mass of bunker. and water may be pushed at irregular inter als,

say he had boon hard hit in the City." "It is an absolute fact that she bought her drew at a second land store," "Of course he bought his He is a good sort, but quite devoid of the finest title," "She was married only for her mone,, feelings Ske means well, but really you

We believe.

embroidered in silver, and the whole strings the party me (the head froman)... is. Aknow they are saying these things

lined with green silk.

-THE X DE-CONST..

coal, Number handed a few dollars to shut his eyes and see and hear nothing. If stowed amongst the because we know how liable. we are to say them It is now an pocepted rule that each season cargo, the Berang (Anglica for bootswain) has ourselves about any or who leaves our company. before acquiring en onthit for walking, driving, his itching paina suitably greased for a similar It is the way of the world. Of the dead we speak motoring, dining, dancing, visiting, travelling, purpose. The sanitary arrangements in these nothing but good, but for the living back that one must have s new corset adapted to the hiding places are simply the quintessence of in-is turned on us we more often have a sneer than be Happiness in this world is lost likely to increasing dinness of one's bars. If the derribable-Eastern filth. The unfortunate stow, a gracious word.

Nor do those who is not increasing it ought to be other ways induced to leave their native country by wise one is hopelessly out of fashion. The the grossent of misrepressatations, experience found by those who seek it. robe-corset, with its continuous line of

dreadful time of it on the downward journey deliberately attempt to drive happiness inte petticoat, a The whole out in one i la princesse, quiltless of They are callously neglected by their keepers, another's arms csually succeed. Their method join or orense, is the ideal means of attaining and are supplied with rations at wide intervals is faulty they lo not realise that the elusive alimness, according to the opinion of both barely anificient to keep body and soul together, powers of lappiness must be conntered by London and Paris. The inventer is Mrs. Elinor The privations are of such a fearful chatrategy. Here is a poor, starving wretch" Temple, of Sloane-street, Gold Medalist-X. facter that only young men, of strong build says one who feels benignant, and desires to spread joy; and he tosses the beggars sovereign. and in good health, survive the ordeal, AND 2. in The Globe.

That is the system by which a universal joy might be produced-thesimple system fecnoladed the Philosopher) of going about the world and gracious things that can be said about other taking every opportunity of saying the most people behind their backs.

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