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THE HONGKONG ~~ DAILY

PRESS

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26ru

1926.

CLOTHES.

The pleasant gift of a dozen paira of stockings of the right size and shape is one not quickly forgotten, and in frequently received. Nice men puzzle for hours over the vexed question of Christ mas presents and this subject solves the whole problem so easily, for never lived the woman who had too many stockings At the same time fashion complicates the gift, for the ideal chiffon must so per- fectly match the frock worn as to be part and parcel of it, and the hag, and perchance the scarf as well; not forget- ting the felt or velour pull-on beret, and keeping an unrelenting eye on the shoes, (Exit the sigh of relief from the male roader at this point.) How the properly brought up Fictorian damsel completed hor tailet without such little gifts is n puzzle to the discerning young woman of to day who finds half a dozen bags a necessity if she will keep up to date. Light hose continue fashionable although the shades are apt to darken as winter kills any desire for the affairs of June. Nudes are still first favourite and it is a relief to see that the deep sunburn tints have already died a death, and been replaced by something gentler in tone. Paris strained every muscle to supplant the beige with varying shades of grey, from Elephant Breath" to black, but the move has failed. Woman has found the peace of mind, and economy, of limiting

BEAUTY PARLOUR. '

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My wife took a prize at a Beauty

Competition,

The policeman saw her, and made her

put it back."

OLD BALLAD

And that, of course, was very sad,for the poor lady, but it made me wonder just how many prizes we draw during the daily round as a reward for our efforts to conjure, retain, and regain our shifting charins. The dividend often comes up when it is least expected, and sometimes passes unnoticed even then, but one good rule in England is to put on your best face, your most becoming hat, before taking a railway journey with luggage. Believe me! there is no

The

WOMAN'S PAGE

IN THE GARDEN.

CANTON PEN SKETCHES:

THE CREEK.

A creek of muddy water, shallow, sailed with all the waste of humanity,-shadow- boat ed and shrouded in sampans, a shaped as a child would draw it,blunt ended with straight sides. -

The older houses are often built up on low arches, and the space under the arches makes excellent posting ground Here, in warm shade, the young seedlings spring up a few days after planting, and ten days later can be put out into the rock garden; for Hong Kong garden- ing is Rock gardening in its true and wild nature, though the jawong will attempt to force you back into stereo typed lodges, one above the other, which, A woman comes to stir with chopsticks, -placid face, the eyes wide apart and by their uniformity, lose even the charmantroubled. She sways as she stars. The cerise bands across her breast widen as of terraces.

the back to an embroidered square and hold within that square a sleeping baby.

On the Peak if you are lucky the house commands half an acre, but the hillside angle will only allow artificial beds to

Within all is clean, polished poop, cook- ing pots on open charcoal stoves, a large pas frying fish, vegetation, berts and offal together; another containing rice ghrtinous consistency-the boiled to cookies' food..

Dimly on the small deck you discover another child. He is probably two years old and he totters on the end of a red cord attacked to the curved roof, made of bamboo matting and loaves as plaited as to be rainproof. His legs marry his weight measily; girls must heed their steps or the yellow waters will cover them, but the boy will be the man and the cord is his heritage

The woman takes ati iron dipper, squats on her heels and begins to brush her even white teeth. The water is not no yellow now, but it is full of this and tant.. She tosses it in a swirl and gazes at A young pig floating slowly by dips her pan again within a few feet of the swollen carcase and makes tea for her family.

DULCIPEL"

Keeps the skin fresh, cool and fragrant

Counteracts the effects of perspiration

Exercises a tonic effect on the skin

Prevents and cures "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).

A smart rust colour rep' drrat with white crêpe de chine front and callar,

An evening dress which hown charming

effect made of mauve crepe satin with

pink and mauve Aqwers.

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more susceptible body on earth than the Average London porter. He is a cheer- ful soul, and is for ever trying to count- eract an atmosphere of smoke and smuts by tending the lady whose hat meets with his approval. Alas, the ricksha puller is usually unresponsive to such mundane matters, and suffers not so much in the soul as in the palms of his hands, which continually do itch! Beauty Culture shops, however, are springing up like mushrooms in Hong Kong, and in Kowloon.

her wardrobe to colours which will ama gamate without a second thought, and having discovered the true source of leisure in the male, is very reluctant to Talking to a mere man on the subject relinquish it. With the brown shoe, hose may be nude, or any of the varying of make-up he said he didn't mind what gradations towards beige, There is a a woman did to her face as long as the Daw shade, best described as grey-beige result made her look absolutely clean and which is designed to be worn with either sparkling Going further, he said be sports clothes of heather shadra, or with navy blue suite, and afternoon dresses. thought the Eton crop had that one great There is but one way to buy the correct virtue in its favour, and as we watched hose for any gown, and that by bring the passing throng I was inclined to ing the two together under the light to which they will both be subjected. Even agres with him, and to add that the girl ing stockings by artificial light are a with really close cropped hair had the very different shade to that expected, great advantage of being able to forget should they have been bought by day about her head altogether. Visions of light.

olden days are recalled by such a con- trast. Days when a tidy head of dis ciplined hair was sufficient to indicate all kinds of propensities only found in the fast set or the artistic circles of Putney and Pimlico

THE GENTLE ART

CONVERSATION.

OF

I have memories of sitting behind a "The Living Age." Boston, will girl at a play and enduring the restless sapply for three months for the modest movement of her arms as she adjusted sum of one dollar gold, sufficient matter first one side of her head and then an- to enable its subscribers to "converse other. I was surprised, nevertheless, to wittily, listen intelligently, and laugh find a local beauty parlour busily judiciously." In fact to create a new engaged on making up bair clippings Heaven and a new Earth right here in into curls and swathes; not all of these Hong Kong. Evidently this is an ad were, for the amateur theatricals!. vanced course which wastes no time in and inculcating the laws of please "thank you," but gets right down to the meat.

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Parlour, tricks are at a premium here in England's outpost of Empire, and it can scarcely be claimed that dinner table cordab is conducted on any recognised lines. If there is gaiety it is epontane ous, and the wit is usually at the ex pense of some absent friend. The ab atract is forbidden by mutual consent, local politics are never given any serious hearing until after the walnuts and the wine have passed. Discussion, which may lead to argument, is a matter for trepidation, and what is left but parson- alities. Before leaving the Mother-land we are told that the English are an imperial race that British men accom. panied by their bravo wives, follow the ag nacomplaining to the most fotid places of the earth and there live in all! the delirious joy of patriotic devotion. Perhaps that is what we are doing, but I feel a copy of "The Living Age" would brighten matters considerably.

A

Gin here):

Welcome Visitor

at day time in

every Every

household. Bug, Flea, Eeetle, Motb, Fly, etc., dies once it has come into proper contact with

KEATING'S

An evening frock of gold lace underslip of cose satin.

be tucked away, above and below the grey granite boulders which abound A little dement is of great value, during storm times when the precious soil is so often washed down the hill to the sea. Draine ing space should be left, and only the front of the small bed reinforced in this way. Azaleas are often difficult to "strike," when first brought from Japan, and always need personal care. Hydranges cuttings are much more amenable to treniment and can be tucked away in sun and shade with impunity. Taken as a whole the Peak is very lovely in its flowering time, but it might easily be twice as colourful, and, could bear several thousand" new patches of hydrangea without any fear of conges tion. There is insufficient autumn, shad- ing, and one wonders why. Trees which turn to orange, brown, russet, and gold are found at all altitudes throughout the world, and would lead much variation to our island garden, and to Kowloon.

I fear the haphazard treatment auch subjects receive from individuals is due to the lamented fact that so" few of us regard Hong Kong as a permanent home, and few men lay a wine-cellar for unnamed posterity. Nevertheless there is a general move towards attracting the tourist, and surely the decoration of land is one of the pleasantest ways of doing it.

PIN MADAME

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LAKE-UNS – AMDAWN | ORRONMEN

BEAUTY PARLOUR

PARISIANA.

A akin lacking in freakness and

HONGKONG HOTEL ZACZ AZTRANCE

M.

delicacy is really nothing to be A concerned about. To see now-I

ST. endurtaking an

ALMOND PACK TREATMENT

which effectively bleaches the skin T. by opening the paras and removing impurities

Hair Cutting and Marcel Waving

Speciality

An attractive Navy blue velour codi with moleskin collar and cufs.

Suddenly they are there--perhaps from the band to which the sampan is tied. There is no greeting-five men at round the steaming pan. "Each has his bowl, faint bise pattern on bluey, porcelain. Ten minutes pass and a young woman begins to chatter inaudibly to her of the pana. They dip the dishes into the muddy water, and the men smoke from long thin-stemmed pipes.

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A heighbouring sampan saya outward little and the women exchange glances and then hurried words. The sampaa move again more definitely bumps heavily against its neighbour and ea crashes the mooring pole of those placid, well-fed smokers.

Instantly all is naise and confusion! The men try to match the loosened away- ing pole, fail, and it floats slowly out of reach. The two women hurl invective in a high animal key-their voices, their gestures and their black clothes suggest two large, angry starlings Still no sign from the aggresor, though the sampan is now broadside the creek. A pole is being skilfully worked from the hidden stern, and having rounded the bows of the vic tim a woman older than eternity comes to view Her toes, short, strong and square ending her foot, curve over the gunwale. Her wild grey hair streams back. waids from a forehead, prolonged into baldness. High on the evening breeze tumble her words and she is joined by a young girl. Indecency, personal, general, searing insult fill the air with tumult The men take no notice and speak, no word eyes to each other. A small idle crowd gathers on the stone wall-the-pole is recaptured, the disturber of peace passes, and oaths and ancestral curios are swamped in the high crackling of jous squibe thrown haring into the siz

JANET HALL

MARTIN'S

PAADIOL & STEEL

Sure and certain for all Female complaints.Everylady should keep a box in the house.

Chemists and Stores sall them throughout the world. Proprietors

MARIDA, Cheats, Sertinantni Kagladi

SHINGLING

WAVING

MANICURING.

The promptest and most

courteous service in Town.

CAMPBELL · MOORE.

16, Queen's Road Central (1st floor).

OPPOSITE COLONIAL DISPENSARY. .

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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 SION OF THE

LANTERN

York Building, Chater Road (next door to Kelly & Walsh). Tel C, 4864.

THE GIFT SEASON

and nobody should fail to inspect

our

new stocks of

ASS BRA

PEKIN GLASS BEADS,

LACQUER

WARE AND CLOISONNE,

EMBROIDERED SHAWLS AND MANDARIN COATS

AND MANY OTHER

CHOICE ORIENTAL GIFTS.

THE SWATOW LACE COMPANY

21, Queen's Road (Yes LL.B. Garaga.)