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HANDKERCHIEFS.

Handkerchiefs have again become im- portant this season. They are importaat -not because of merė nasal exigencies, but for almost every other reason. They decorate clothes. They hang in a certain way out of the pocket. They are of rich Ince or of bright colour to finish the general scheme of the dress, Where severity becomes too severe the pocket handkerchief can relieve the situation without incurring the reproach of futile decoration. They can be tucked into the sleeve to show colour. They can be stitched into a slit at the side of the dress to show both colour and movement. It is only of recent years that the pocket handkerchief ha for a short period become utilitarian. In Queen Elizabeth's day it was smart to have a handkerchief, but rather effeminate too. In the romantic period the handkerchief was needed because it behoved sensitive woman to shed tears. She, ahed tears, sometimes silent tears and sometimes not, at her husband and at the play equally: The scalding drop, lingering in the great eyes, eventually had to splash, and this was where the handkerchief came in.. In the days of Rousseau women took not one but several handkerchiefs to the play as proof of their sensibility. They were very beautiful handkerchiefs too, and were allowed to show on the knees or in the hand. To wave one's handkerchief was almost as much a part of the daily round as to say, good morning. It sped the parting guest and hailed his arrival

Skirts and coats that do not match but harmonize are smart. The coat is brown kasha cloth worn above a skirt of checked Rodier kasha in brown and beige,

MUSIC OF

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY DECEMBER SED, 1926,

THE FACE.

Every day television assumes more alarming proportions. From the latest report we learn that in a television picture as sent over the ether (being succession of electrical impulses) one could boar sounds by using a pair of phones instead of a proper receiver. One could,, it appears, become familiar with the sound of a friend's face. One could distinguish between the grimace and the smile, distinctly," one would say,

heard him winic.”

"Thou hast a serious face.

A betting, bargaining, and saving.

face,

A rich face, pawn it to the usurer."?

The pleated dress, is still popular. This one is in green crêpe de chine..

That should make a good noise, that face. Ah, but what of

"The face that launched a thousand

shipe,

And burnt the topless towers of

Ilium 1"

What of that? And is it" indeed possible that in the future some power will the giftie gie us to bear ourselves na ithes see us

"It would take a Scotchman in Novem ber to think of that.

RUSSIAN BALLET, IN

ENGLAND.

The

WOMAN'S PAGE

OUR

ARRANGING BOOK REVIEW.

THE HOUNDS OF SPRING: By SYLVIA

THOMPSON. (Filliam Heinemann, Ledi).

Because, by training, outwardly we are stoics, Sylvia Thompson feels constrained to cover her emotions, and the emotions of her readers, by a quotation from Sir John Seely: "The dense web of the for- tunes of man is woven without a void because in society, as in nature, the struc can trace ture is continuous; and we things back uninterruptedly, no end history because history made, and making, are acientifically inseparable, and separately unmeaning." Those words are for our solace; and indeed there is none other. Yet so simply, directly, clearly, does this story tell itself that it ceases to be anything but personal from the beginning. Such a lazy, lovely picture of English country life,it spreads before the eyes, not in black and white lettering on a page, but as parkland, meadow, and garden, young girls laughing and diving about the pond, musty bins enchanted evenings, and that sense of never-ending prosperity which the world-anders called a challenge to Fate. There is no moralising. The authoress forgets that, she set out to teach us a history lesson. She tells us simply of Zina in 1914 O Zina waking at dawn vaguely aware of the pure chill air, vaguely thinking of Ob the love. Colia,, and murmuring

liness of being alive" Sweet, kindly, gentle people, and they are taken by war and thrashed about. Bruised, and killed and crushed You stand with

Fur winter evening, claret velvet and ITS INFLUENCE ON MODERN LIFE gold lace. The panel and sleeves are.

BRIGHTER DRESS: BETTER MUSIC,

Loove,

Today, when young women ostensibly do not cry, handkerchiefs bave been re- duced to such a pass that pockets have bean judged annecessary. The way of

Zine enduring, that farewell to Colin,- the world is strewn with pocket hand- The Russian Ballet began their autaran the train, motor, lift, or steamer, accord; kerchiefs, and a test of supreme honesty season in London at the Lyceum Theatre ing to your personal experience, takes

seen in the person who considers i necessary to return a handkerchief to its on November 13th Writing in the Daily him from sight and you follow her owner. This season the handkerchief has duil Mr. P. G. Konody says of the in- to work and waiting. Quickly the blows fluence, during recent years, of the Bus are struck; just as it seemed in those not yet achieved a position of expressing sian Ballet in England:-

days. There was no lingering, no time Lovers the emotions." But it is wholly concerned,

to recover, blow after blow. It is not too much to say that this com-

all those like churches, domestic architecture,

lovelinesses of 1914 devoured "by war, stained-glass windows, pots, pans, and plex yet homogeneous manifestation of brothers, friends, money. pictures, in expressing decorative art at co-ordinated arts dancing, music, drama and the tale so simply told that you can its brightest and best.

tic gesture, painting, and stage design- not leave her. You can do nothing but has taken a profound hold on the large run swiftly with Zine, on through the public.

tagonising race which brings her at long More than that, it has had a lasting last to Colin once more. effect on our whole manner of Eving. It bas banished drabness from our homes. and from feminine attire, and has intra- People we have all met at sometime keep duced a bow joy in the use of strong coming in and out Nanny, left behind colour and daring contrasts where taste in the early chapters, creeps softly in to had tended in the direction of a faded put those last touches to the wedding. garment. This marriage to which Zing estheticism

Without stretching the point, one may turns for compensation. this marriage assort that this change was the direct that she leaves is just a fick of the i outcome of the leasons taught by the kaleidoscope. And when the page is Russian Ballet. It spread from fancy turned Zins and Colin, Wendy, and you and from the and I, are left patching the ruins. The dress to everyday wear,

bricks don't fit very well just yet, but costume to the homenage

This indirect effect on life in general Ister on the mortar will weld the broken

IN THE GARDEN.

All agrowing and ablowing" abouts the Cockney gentleman as he pushes his harrow load of Cladioli, Marguerites, White and pink Hydrangeas, all about the London streets, but what of us Down on your knees, Laddie, (wo must practise our Scotch this month) and dig deep and often for the roots of those weeds which, by magic, in night cast a carpet thickly over everything. Who ther at is a saving of labour and expense to keep strict wooding up all through the summer months is debatable, but the

There are postwar scenes in Vienna.

"

is at least as significant as the actual pieces, and perchance we shall achieve

struggle against such mequal odds is at artistic achievement of Disghileff, who again that which we lost in 1914, the present heartbreaking, and back breaking is the heart and soul of an enterprise golden gift of security. at the same time. Seedlings are very apt that has revolutionised the art of danc to give up the unpromising race righting and has put new rhythms and new Away, especially calery sewn in the open. dyname life into what had degenerated

The Chinese jahong is not fond of into a stale convention deep trenching, and will avoid it op all

THE SICK ROOM.

Hospitals supported on voluntary con- tributions are legion, both in England, and in the colonies. The money is hand- ed over in bulk to some distributing com- mittee, and comes to an end all too soon' if one may judge by the immediate re- What newal of the pleas for support. the world needs quite as urgently, and I would even argue that the schame would become an economy, is the service of a group of people who would arrange each room from the patient's point of view. The designer must become a victim of the typical nursing home private room to realize what is meant, and how easily such a sad state of affairs could be alter ed, once the antipathy of the staff has been overcome. This is scarcely a matter of money at all. It is much more a schemes collection of thoughts, and evolved during weeks of enforced idle-

ness."

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First the room. Very exceptions) is the friendly visitor who realizes that the boundaries of vision for the sick are the ceiling, the floor, the four walls, and the door; and the only variation of this monotonous tune is played on the door, which is sometimes open and sometimes shut. The bed is invariably placed in a space of wall between two windows, sand if not, it is of a height which pre- cludes the beautiful view, so often men- tioned by luckier folk who stand freely upon their own two feet. Opposite the bed, for far away below one's feet and out of sight, is the fire. That cheery companion (whose powers of comfort are almost unlimited providing he can dance! and flirt to delight your sleepy gaze), How becomes a cause of temporary ner vous break down every time a piece of) flaming coal falls from the grate, des tination, and powers of combustion un- knowal Creaks, which pass unnoticed by the busy folk, are well nigh unbear- able to the patient. A banging door, or a rattling latch sets every nerve on edge, and the pitiful part of such annoyances is the waste of vital energy used in saying "It doesn't matter a bit."-

Vasca for dowers in hospitals must be of convenient sizes, and of neutral colouring, preferably basket work, or of oxidised metal, since the drips of water left by careless servants do not show as they do on polished surfaces. The really important point about decorating a sick room is neutrality of colour, relieved by one splash of invigoration such as a cushion, or large simple bowl of flowers. For screens, and curtains, if any, a soft shade of fawn makes a beautiful back- ground to personal belongings which must vary with every patient, and the most important aim of the sick "room decorator should be to encourage the patient to gather a framework for his or her personality, for, only by perfect rest of the nervous system can the illness be eradicated in the least possible time.

For home nursing the task is an easier one, since King Routine can quickly be thrust through the window. Choose a corner with a view of the outside world on either side, if this be possible, and place the bed with the head some few fect from the angle. In the angle put a high stand with a lamp above the pillows, and a shelf at a convenint level for the patient to reach behind Yor all those things mankind needs and can't! reach, when footsteps are forbidden. On one side of the bed should be a table cupboard sufficiently large to hold books, papers, cigarettes and matches; letters Dead receptacle to hide them from prying eyes, the visitor who, is obvious- ly longing to say: "I see Mm." C.'■ writing there, etc. Flowers with scent can be placed under the lamp. at the back of the head, or near at hand, and in this respect one large collection of blooms of similar shape and colour is usually more satisfying to the invalid than a dozen scattered gifts (în fantidy disarray. The only way to arrange a sickroom to the complete satisfaction of the patient is to lie down on the bed, imagine yourself afflicted with a broken knee, and devise a plan for bringing all the luxuries within easy reach of the hand

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distinctly educational value. It is educaR delicacy is really nothing to be: A

tional also inasmuch as each of his pro-

most painstaking realism.

It is his manner of presentation that ductions places before us the essence and possible occasion, but the value of giving has brought about the appreciative ac rhythm of some particular divilisation is the ground opportunity for deep breath ceptance of modern methods of artistic a manner far more convincing and con- ing by this means, cannot be compensated expression that in other surroundings centrated than could be achieved by the by any other, and only in this way can would awaken suspicion, not frank the long roots, and the small Ebrous bulbs hostility. Modern music that is found be eradicated. They look imodent, and bewildering in the concert hall becomes dead enough at first glance, but all their quite clearly intelligible as an integral Of late. Diaghileff has paid special at vitality pours out in milky sap when the part of the Russian Ballet. crown is broken. Make a bonfire, and The Diaghileff's mission goes beyond burn him straight away, or he will gather that of an entertainer. His work has

his clan and defeat you.

(Continued on nezt. Column.)

The repertoire of the Diaghileff Ballsi is a very pageant of history

toption to the manifestations of the modern spirit in England and has en- listed the collaboration of English com posers, poets, and artists,"

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