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The First Over-Channef Flight

(Baraques to Dover, July 25, 1909).

M. Blasfol's mumentous achieveme

in frig from Francs to England in a Auswer than air machine is Castined

to become a raliestons, fu History,

Nerve Strain, Despondency, Exhaustion

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1ST, 1910.

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IN MY LADY'S CHAMBER,

Englishwomen: usually recognize that in order to have a good figure it is not enough merely to confine it within the narrow limita of a modern cornet. We do not spend our time altogether in realining in graceful posi tions or in standing still to be admired. Love ment is even more importaub than repare. Walking, riding, playing golf are far more becoming to a really beautiful figure than repose, and in the ball-room overy onlooker thinks admiringly

When you do dance, I wish you

A wave of the sea, that you might ever da Nothing but that.

But to walk, to ride, to swing a golf club, to dance as lightly as a wind tossed wave are things impossible to any one who, like Mme. de Sevigne's charming daughter, is so anch afraid of growing fat that she dare eat nothing for a whole day but the head of a woodcock grilled in a candle-fame. Pordita "danced featly because sho was a happy hearty, country lass, who had plenty of good food and plenty of fresh air and exercise. It is natural for the young and vigorous to be slight and graceful, but as the decades pass a woman must be ready to take a little trouble if she wishes to keep her figure and her carriage unimpaired as es may be. Bomi-starvation and constant drugs are a foolish mistake, but Intelligent attention to diet and exercise will work wonders, sad the present style of dress imperatively demands that in many cases wonders shall be

worked.

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they will die hard-they are very conventent; White gloves are said to be going out, bat carefully washed in water that is only just warm they will look like new for a surprisingly long time.-From The Times.

THE NEW GIRLS,

[BY XLLA HEPWORTH DIXON.] ·

The modern girl, with all her amazing men- tal and physical developments, occupies in these islands, in virtue of her numbers, the front row of the

young generation which is leally knooking at the door. To the timid reactionary, who sees in every change a social oatastrophe, the most disquieting characteristic

of this

this young creature is that she is physically as big as and sometimas bigger than her brother. These pessimists may be heard quoting por tentous examples from natural history, anch as that of certain independent lady insecte who made short work of the more diminutive males by eating them, or more prudently hang- ing them up in their winter larder for future consumption.

QUITE FRIENDLY.

It is needloss, however, to distress ourselves with dismal prophecies of this kind, for the modern girl, though extraordinarily muscular and vigorous, shows no hostility towards her boy friends. Indeed, she generally adopts a genial and tolerant attitude towards them until her maiden affections are definitely engaged, when abe bas short fit of baro-worship, which is Anally extinguished by marriage. For thos specimens of the modern young person whom we have been privileged to see turned into wives hare far too keon a sense of humour to take the Miltonte view of their husbands or of the married state.

& netrese and

British

Wo, are not quite so severe as we wore the other day I even saw a velvet skirt made full all round in the fashion of the later eighties; still our outlines Are for 1 the most part kept severely flat, there is no fulness of any kind above the kness, and the sokico of a pocket in which

any

Before marriage hor most salient phar thing may be kept is still sternly denied to us actoristic is her determination to bo "off- by our tailers and dressmakers. They always sieht." So much has aho absorbed of hated pockets, now they simply forbid them if the Zeitgeist that she would not tolerate for you want to put anything in them, that is to a moment the slipshod training, the amateur say pockets as a mere adornment your tailor methods, of the Victorian daughter, What does occasionally give but these are a mock- sver she sets hand to the docs thoroughly. In ory

ond derision. It is hard to imaging whatever direction hòr tastes incline she will why we submit to such tyranny as this read the thorny path which leads to perfection. but "sufferance is the badge of all our tribe," It may be painting or gardening, bridge or and we sre allowed a substitute that is surgery, politics or polite conversation; to all sometimes quite efficient, in the shape of Tittle these things she brings an outh unipant and hamil-bog. They are rather troublesome to power of concentration which are not always to carry, they are very easy to lose, and some of he seen among her young masculine contem u have found it difficult now and then to dis-poraries, I know a peerless young beauty who tinguish our own from other people's This can end a table or chair with difficulty, at least, is to be removed by the dexterity which would put to the blush

hand-bugs. not ne latest fashion the thing to have a piece of the same material as one's costume mounted upon a little metal top, generally silver. Bags of this kind are altogether pretty, convenient, and practical: they might be still further improved if some enterprising manufacturer would make metal tops into which bags of different kinds could easily be inserted. It is a long and expensive business to wait while a piece of each walking dress is sent to a workman to be Stted, with a top, and at present it seems always necessary to send all the way to Paris. A piece of leather might be fixed in the metal top, projecting about half an inch or less and provided with eyelet holes along its lower edge, to which any kind of bag could easily be fastened in such a way as completely to hide the leather; or a little rod might ran along the inside of the metal bag-top, with tiny silver rings upon it to which the bag might be fantoned; or the t might be provided with flexible teeth all its lower edge, that could be pushed

the sterial and then folded back so as

to hold the bag firmly in position. Any of these devices would make it easy for one's maid to slip into the bagtop a bag to match any costume that was going to bo worn, as a bag would be made by the tailor or dressmaker, as a matter of course, as part of the costume,

THE WANING POPULARITY OF COLOURS. At present the mest nseful matorial in which to have a bag of this kind made is without doubt black velvet. Black velvet, especially when trimmed with fur, is a favourite material for costumes of all kinds, and it is also very much used for trimming costumes made of other materiala. A beautiful evening dress that I saw the other day had triangular pieces of black pretending to hide openings both back

Velvet

toriously incapable of any such manifestation of modesty. I have seen an ingénne, not long out of the schoolroom, riso in a Mayfair drawing- room and make a creditable speech in favour of wowan's franchise, and have beheld a youthful lady at the Horse Show fooling four-in-hand with the coclues of a professional whip,

INCLINED TO ROMP.

These things are not isolated phenomena, but facts which are extremely characteristic of the spirit of our youngest womenfolk. If they show a marked ambition to use their brains they are at the same time equally ready with their hands and arms, and among the lighter-hearted of the sex there is a strong disposition to tussle with boys of their own age and try feats of strength on lawn or sands. And the victory is not always to the virile half of humanity. The spectacle of a twentieth century Rosalind wrestling with Orlando, instead of heaving sighs among s wilderness of boughs, is indeed a diverting, as well se significant, sign of her progression.

to mah hor boy contemporaries, she is all But the modern girl is a little inclined diplomacy, sympathy, and tact to those she would call the right sort" of her on sex. Envy, malice, and spite have no part in her breezy and tolerant outlook. It is notorious that the younger feminine generation admire each other-even to excess. They dwell each other's good points, extol och other's beauty, and are loyal to each other in a way the Victorian girl could not have conceived. They have grasped the elemental truth that anion la strength, and the solidarity of women is now a feet which no one can afford to ignore. The young girls of to day have something of the same spirit of mutual admiration and easy good-

and front that did not exist, the real openings relup as the officers of a crack cavalry

being

completely disguised by the folds of the beautiful black lace that was draped over the black satin, A band of velvet like a sort of half sash went across the front just below the knees, and below it the skirt flowed out into consider able fulness.

It is true that black is very generally becom. ing, many woman never look to wall in any thing else; but in an ordinary ball-room, unless you have plak coste, kilte, or uniforms, the magpie colouring of all the men is nito anongh to subdue the general effect, and it seems a pity that the dresses of the women should tend towards a sombra uniformity.

There is, however, generally some little touch of colour about a black evening dress, some bright coloured lining allowed to show here and there, or some exquisite shades in the embroidery that nearly always add to the effoot It is the thing at present for the heels of the shoes to match this touch of relieving colour, and the effect is very pretty.

EVENING DRESS.

The sleeres of evening dreases are by no means invariably short this year; often they come quite to the elbow. Sozietimes, however, they are still made quite inconsiderable; in a disasically draped

With all these shining and attractive quali- ties, old-fashioned people are somewhat discon certed by the manners of the modern girl. Critics are heard protesting that she is self- assertive, arrogant, brusque, and wanting, in a worl, in those social graces, those sunve amenities which keep a somewhat hypocritical society running easily on its wheels. Others notably so keen an observer- as Mr. Max Beer- bobm-declare that in deportment she is alto gather deficient, that she "dops" into chairs, bangs out of rooms, and has none of the docility proper to her age and BAI.

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Moreover, two novelists of the first rank, Mr. H. G. Wells and Mr. Maurice Howlett, have simultaneously discovered that the latest feminine products, above all, determined to exercise the right of choice in marriage, w Las so long been debarred her owing to her which economical dependence on man. Mr. Wells has beot blamed in reactionary journals for hav ing depioted a young lady as acting in pre- cisely the same way in which George Eliot seted in the most smug period of the Victorian but if Aun Veronica aende her cap flying over the mill, leaving a faithful and gentle lever saw a more string of pearls ferons the shorter disconnplate, so also does the more spiritaalised across Sanchia of Mr. Maurice Hewlett's Open used to keep the corsage in place. The wearer Country." Both girls leave prosperous, of the dress had an unusually beautiful neukeless homes and try to earn-with seant success middle. and abcalders, but the whole effect of the cos their own livings, and both throw over tume was hardly satisfying. A very beautiful legitimate adorers for the overwhelming attrac gown worn on the same occasion by a handsome tion of an illicit love. These feminine vagaries brunetto was in delicate shades of save. may not be edifying, and are, indeed, from Elaborate embroidery cung closely to the figure many aspects deplorable, but it is significant of from a little above the waist to just below the hips, a pleated bodice ascended and a kilted and not feminine writers, have voiced the do- a changing society that two masculine writers, skirt descended from this justaucorps, and the termination of the modern gfel in choose a sleeves consisted chially of broad bands of the husband, instead of being handed over or sold same kind of embroidery.

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For afternoon dresses lace and embroidery are still very much worn as trimmings. Some timea cream or white lace is inserted round the neck, and then the rest of the costume is trimmed with lacs of gold, silver, or steel that reproduces exactly the same pattern. There is still a passion for everything that glitters, and drosses the possessor of good health and good Seuss-Dypopes, Narver Kidney and Lira are occasionally so thickly covered with job and with these elements of cover in life abs in beads that their wearers are quite weighed well equipped to attain it. Thus, as she is down by their burden. Sometimes two kinds

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