THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1218. 1826,
FASHION."
THE GAIETY OF SPORTS...
CLOTHES.
BEAUTY CULTURE.
"Cert Room is no boudoir" insists American teomar judge. Accused de- tress removed to Detention Pen for paidering note:-New York PAPER. In 1920, I well remember an important member of Hongkong male society band endorses the opinion that the female It seems hard luck on the little lady, coming the object of ridicule, as
of the judge species is more deadly than reward for brightening the colour scheme
the male. There would seem to be s "of the local golf courses. His shirts,
ties, stockings (and the little gay garters work in public. Perhaps in the end, we campaign, in America against repair thereunto) his sweaters and topcoats,
shall replace the shoe-shine parlour at would now prove to be the envy of man, woman, and likewise of those diminutive the street corner, for a sister establish- possessors of tiny brilliant Fair Isle ment in aid of polished noses.
liness is next to godliness, it is also next jumpers, whom I saw atanding on Barker
to beauty, and the other component part Rond Tram Station recently. It is not
is relaxation. Men have learnt the re- just the autumn feeling reviving our fretted and frayed bodies. This revolt against dowdyness, this reaction to war grimness, is expressing itself in lovely radiant clothes all over the dressy world.
Hongkong women's shops generally, and one or two men's shops too, have gathered a fine collection of cheery gar to meet these, sparkling days. Checks, and cheques, are essential to our happiness; plaids do not conform to the
ments
usual arbitrary clan design, they run a mad riot of hilarity, and brazen their nudacity by keeping good lines, and by leaving space for a severe looking jumper of rich but plain material. Talking of men's shops, I hear there is a wail going up to Heaven at the wholesale robbery
An excellent addition to last year's coat is the touch of checked material on collar, cuffs, and pockets. The whole scheme can be carried out by making a skirt of the check, and decorating the beige jumper
with narrow ends,
If clean.
The
A cheriot in nut brown with squarer of herring-bone in bois du roir. An czcellent crumple of the new type of gay tweed suit. The white washing tha jumper is equally tailored, but contrast- ing in its simplicity.
of the male's choicest sports clothes, by juvenating value of Turkish baths, but women. Woollen stockings are rolled alas, we cannot indulge the sxury in over silk, and folded below the knee for China, We can go to one of the many warmth and comfort during coantry Beauty Parlours for face cleansing, and tramping. The pick of the soft knitted hot towel steaming. However tired, de- sweaters are bought from his own shop pressed, homesick you may be, an hour. by my lady, before the eye of her lord spent under skilful hands replaces weari has got used to the light of dawn. ness with vigour in mind and heart, Should his tailor prove susceptible to besides greatly improving the condition. flattery, the home-spun, woven to is of the skin. No dust is free from harmful own order for bis plus-fours, is to his germs, and Chinese streets are not the horror, wrapt about his wife's slander least offenders in this respect. Dry legs, and fashioned into a double-breast weather shews quickly in skin and hair, and more massage is necessary, and bene ficial to mind as well as body.
ed. coat..
Jumpers end well below the hip line, and are often hand knitted, the Borders being bound in checked cloth or plain crochet.
THE WOMAN WITH RED HAIR.
FLOWER STREET.
The collective appearance of Flower Street" is improving daily, after a most discouraging six weeks, when ons felt She said: "I have taken this house sorry, for oneself and the vendor,- for six months, and I simply cannot obviously a little shame-faced at the feel restful in it! It is comfortable, quality and quantity of the supply. and well furnished, and I don't know. From now till June that row of stalls why I hate it, but I do! It is simply is a continuous temptation, and perhaps Bot my background, and I can't subdue the kindest welcome one can give the it." Looking round I was puzzled too, wives of the new regiment is a word of patil the truth rang out. like a bell warning about good value. Miriam his glorious red hair, and The Chinese have a most ingenious although she cannot see it herself, she method of preparing shrub and tree instinctively knows that she is inçon-blooms for house decoration, and in the gruous in this house, where the pre case of the sweet smelling Temple Flower dominating colour is pink of every shade, the plan works excellently. The small and rose in particular. You cannot gold and cream trumpet is detached from fight against red hair, it is too virile, its large leafed branch at the base of the It demande immediately love or hatred, calyx, and fixed on to the sharp end of and brooks on compromise. The red a branch of leafed privet. Though haired woman who is, of necessity, obviously without water, these blooms migratory, would find it an economy to will often last three days, if sprinkled. carry with her a bolt of inexpensive lightly every evening Well and good. plain rosset, fawn, or green cretonne But the wily fahwong has carried the from Manchester, and cushion covers to system into other realms, than this legiti tone. Plain loose chair covers are easy inate fraud, until the purchaser is wise to make, and easy to alter when the size to cast & critical eye over every tempting of Chairs differs greatly. To a lesser bunch. Hoses, bell-lilies, chrysanthemums, degree most women have definite sympansies, and a dozen others are anneces pathy with some colour, and feel at their sarily mutilated, and bitter disappoint. best only when they have recognised the ment epauca twelve hours after arinng fact, and chosen accordingly.
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WOMAN'S PAGE
THE GARDEN.
THE CARE OF BOOKS. ON THE PEAK AND IN
KOWLOON.-
The man who gets one hundred per cant out of a Hongkong garden has to get up before the fahrung! One tip is worth remembering. When the master returns in the evening, he finds perhaps! So many houses in South China are two dozen pots of transplanted seedlings practically devoid of books that the of his favourite Bower in place of his visitor looks round for sound reasons to large box of plants, but no sign of the explain such a sad state of affairs. Sad odd hundred slightly inferior seedlings, it is Until one is blind. no friends are which made up the former total. The more faithful, and the amount of sym- smaller plants can be used to great ad.pathy, joy, entertainment, amusement, vantage if bedded out along cach duge sad encouragement derived depends, of the vegetable garden plots, where, after all, upon the reader's own selection, for all are there in profusion. Kowloon in a little while, large quantities of flowers can be cut for use in the house,does not complain of damp perils as without in any way detracting from bitterly as the Peak, but every other the general appearance of the garden, is suffered equally, and dust falls. on Zinnias, calendulas, stocks, marigolds, the good book, and the bad. cosmos, nasturtiums make a brave show. ing against the green background, and acem to like the shade afforded by eat bage leaves, In the event of any pot failures the gape can filled be from this
source.
RECIPES.
Sweetbreads stewed with chestnuts, and a few slices of large olives make a most Savoury dish for Sunday night dinner One is weary from a day of unusual physical exercise at Shek O Fanling, Deep Water Bay, and a rather lighter dinner than usual is often welcome."
Hostesses, in England, hardly regard chicken livers as princely fare, but in China they may be served, without a second thought, hidden under a mould of clear tomate jelly,
This jumper is bound in wide sunde, and has a narrow belt of the same material. Likewise the hat. The scarf speaks for itself in loud tones,
LAST MINUTE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
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Admittedly food for thought just now when even local products have become dearer, in sympathy with imported goods. There is a 33 per cent. silk duty in England which makes one's gifts of this nature either dearer to send, or an ex- pense to receive. Men are, particularly reluctant to set out on an expedition armed with a list of names, and sugges- tions, but the fact that few houses have too much embroidered linen, and few men, or women, too many initialled hand- kerchiefs will surely help to solve the puzzle,
AKLEHUNU N LHDAWR † OLLOW-EW
IN MADAME FLINT'S
BEAUTY PARLOUR
PARISIANA
|HONGKONG HO玺EL AN EFTRACE
A skin lacking in freshness and M R delicacy is really nothing to be. A concerned about. Madame Landen ST, now undertaking in
ALMOND PACK TREATMENT
P which effectively bleaches the skia T by opening this pores and removing R impurities."
Hair Cutting and 'Marcel Waving
• Speciality,
What are the local enemies that dis courage the book purchaser? driving him to rely on libraries, which in their turn so rarely seem to satisfy. Damp, dust, cockroaches, silver-fish, accommodation, the transitory element of life in South China, the book. borrower, and-the greatest of these is the last-the thief!
a fi in During the damp months the bedroom is essential, so no extra penge is entailed by keeping a dozen specially selected treasures in a corner cupboard, or in an enclosed bookcase over the mantlepiece. The glass should keep the books moderately free from dust, and those books in frequent use need attention about once a month if the electric bulb can can be trusted to dry the atmosphere, and prevent mould. Cockroach powder is essential in the cages, and books in ordinary bindings must be varnished, taking great care to leave no edges without this protection. Silver-fish ruin books, in much the same way that ants this year are spoiling the seed beds in the garden, but the books can be liberally sprinkled with powdered alus, and a small syringe is necessary to carry the powder down the inside of the back binding.
One more thing the book-lover has learnt ia Hongkong-all these precautions are useless if the reader succumbs to the temptation to leave his book lying on the table when he goes to bed.
About the book,, thief. His crimes are legion. He borrows your favourite book, delighta in it, rings you up to tell you how wonderful it is, and leaves it to be devoured at night by all and sundry of those other enemies. Worse still be lends it without permission to his best friend, or embarrasses one by asking leave to do so. He may ram it into a bookense already too full, and consequently loosen the binding when he pulls it out again by its top edge. Often a reference book will be left half in the pages as a marker, or he may leave it lying print down close to a bot fire which melts the glue. If is doubtful if the criminal dog-earer is entirely a thing of the These infuriating friends replaced the Thabit of turning down the top right hand corner, by a simple process of turning up its opposite number at the foot of the page, or folding the entire page towards its own centre. Exclamation marks on the margin may express his feelings of surprise or incredulity; and the owner of the volume suffers both emotions on the return of his prized possession."
past!
Leather bindings produce a joy all their own, a feeling of opulence so difficult to conjure in these hard times. A little harness, or saddie, soap will help them to remain supple and clean.
Few Christmas presents surpass the well-chosen book, and however limited and spasmodic one's home, one dozen permabant treasures will never be re- gretted. As a beginning to compiling this list I venture to suggest these six, The Oxford book of English Verse and its new companion The Oxford Book of English Prose, The Weekend Book, a book of Quotations, A good Dictionary, an advanced book of Cookery. The treasures iù these six will delight friends of either sex at all times of day or night. The dyspeptic can while away the hours com- piling menus of food permitted, rash, or forbidden, according to his mood; and the one per thousand who has no such limitations will riot in a welter of good living.
There is still space for six delights, and six hundred thousand ready to lay claim to the privilege of sharing your leisure-the very word reminds me of one, an amusing description of adminis terial experience, "The Leisure Hours
an Egyptian Official "
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by Lord Edvard Cecil.
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Keeps the skin fresh, cool and fragrant
Counteracts the effects of perspiration
Fxercises a tonic effect on the skin
Prevents and
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Hongkong Foot."
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. PHONE C. 16
A NOVELTY!
LEATHER HANDPAINTED AND EMBOSSED-WORK, LADIES HANDBAGS, ATTRACTIVE COLOURS," THE LATEST STYLE
From $1 to $7.50
THE PIONEER SILK STORE CHINA BUILDINGS (Opposite Flower Street).
SHINGLING
The
WAVING MANICURING.
promptest and most
courteous service in Town.
CAMPBELL MOORE.
16, Queen's Road Central (1st floor). OPPOSITE COLONIAL DISPENSARY.
We have just received another large selection of Straw Purses
from Ceylon also some attrac- tive I-chang Cross Stitch Work suitable for Xmas Presents.
THE SIGH OF THE
LANTERN
York Building, Chater Boad (next door to Kelly & Walsh), Tel C. 4854.
CHRISTMAS
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AT HOME!
Have you realised that to get your Presents Home in time for Christmas, they must be purchased now?
Prove to your friends that the
boycott is over by sending them
CANTON EMBROIDERED SHAWLS
SWÄTOW
DRAWN WORK
FOOCHOW LACQUER WARE
of which we have just received a new stock and which we invite everyone to inspect before seeking presents elsewhere,
THE SWATOW LACE Co., Ltd. 21, Queen's Road (Next HKU, Garrige)
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