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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY

7th, 1927.

CHILDREN'S PARTIES SHOES, AND SLIP-

Every year in Hong Kong the parties become gore numerous, and larger; also more grandiose, if such a word may be used in this connee tion. We cannot hope to copate against the sailor as a best of child- ren for he excels the whole world at the game, and Mothers are newhere. In fact, in this case they "were not even invited, and the card simply requested that the child should be left at the ship's gang way at four o'clock, and called for at a later hour. It reminded one

of Barrie's

PERS.

The cobbler boasts that what he

doesn't know about us isn't worth knowing, and what we know about him, is that he costs three times

as much as he used to do, and the only compensation lies in the fact that our feet look very much pret

Meeting a man who had tier.. been away from England for twelve years, I asked him what thange astonished him most. Without the slightest hesitation he said “Feet." When one bad expected Regent St. to be the answer, such a thing was astonishing to me, as well as to him.

Little White Bird" wherein a lonely bachelor kidnaps a baby temporarily, and when its mother discovers is at long last, the

He began with stockings, and said in early 1914 a poor quality of child cries as it is carried away,

On this ocension the hosts" proud-getton-topped silk mixture hose was ly assert that there were no tears coming fairly general amongst once the gangway was passed, and the crowd of young women going the children still talk dreamily of to business and shopping in the morning. Many still wore boots, and the usual colour was black. Patent leather was exclusively, for the rich, and the streets have of euds of dust-To-return in 1936, and find the pavements crowded with gossamer-clad limba, shod with snake, with leard, with reindeer, elk. Lude, porpoise, paper, silki with metal with plaited straw,

A two-piece, fruck of great distinction is of clear yellow crepe thirring elizabeth with Chanet wed effectively at the neck-line, hips, and pockets. A wide scarf of the material is attached at the back of the neck.

Father

shoots and slides, and Christmas, and cherry cake. Un

th, with linen, and silver kid! And the colours" he said. Morning pamps in any rosy hue of earliest dawr, midday blues to match the summer skies.

There I had to interrupt, for

wvery

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The

WOMAN'S PAGE

ON THE TRAM.

On the tram, amongst a crowd

of two-piece stockingette suits with woolly jumpers, and scarfs of batik

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| LUNCH AT A CHINESE CHINESE DANCING.

RESTAURANT.

Whatever the feelings of the "Change is as good as a rest," Elders in reference to their sons silk, I saw the Best-Dressed-Woman, says the proverb, and how true it and daughters dancing in foreign So serene and tidy she looked, is! On Friday the housekeepers fashion, there is absolutely no deny- so slim, so composed, and English, and why? Because she order for the week-end breakfast, ing that they acquit themselves, wore a perfectly cat light whipcard luncheon, tea and dinner, day after nobly. Watching some eighty couples Tailor-made." a fitted vest or day they sing their monotonous song foxtrotting at the Reception, given vilet, twisted scarf of dark sables, and a comfortable felt of of grilled, hoded, "fried fish and in the Roof Garden, in honour of entrees. Laveeta.. souffles: the marriage of Miss Dora She to the fur's darkest shade. The skirt meat.

"

DULCIPEL

Keeps the skin fresh, cool and fragrant"

Counteracts the effects of perspiration

Exercises a tonic effecton the skin

Prevents and cures "Hongkong Foot.":

was wrapped over, and wide enough Fish, Beah, and good red herring Mr. Conway Wong, last week, the A. S. WATSON & Co., Etd.

FURNISHING:

use.

The bride's silver slippers danced bravely round the door with her room, but she was too shy to let

to ensure perfect comfort in walk precede us in the dreary march to quality and uniformity of the dane ing. Brown lizard shoes had been

death. There are pangs of satietying was most noticeable. They are, cut to measure. It wasn't kind to make everyone else look so fussy as well as of hunger, but go to lunch of course, more even in height than on a sanay day at the China Build-any similar group of Europeans, but ing Restaurant and you may enjoy in addition to that advantage, they both. I advise a sunny day because

all hold themselves well, and have the meal can then be taken in the air in an arbour with all the views good balance. No one ever saw A Chinese girl looking untidy, and The nursery of to-day is no longer of Peak and sea to aid one's a her little feet, now ireed from im

monotonous Tepetition of the petite. To the uninitiated the fol

prisonment are a joy to behold. rooms for grown-ups, and in Honglowing selection may be of

fried Kong, where castom ordains many Fried rice, vegetable soup, servants there is no need to spare chicken and walnuts with green the white paint. The nicest pur-ginger-sad bamboo shoots, crab sery I have seen is at the top of omelet, balls of garoups fried in the house, and swung from the batter with Chinese chutney sauce. centre beam is a thoroughly reliable There are some 5tty dishes for selecveil, and cloak, swing with a chair seat. The fur- tion, and every item is translated hitare is cream enamelled, and de- corated with a stencilled design in relours, just a nice cheerful friendly bunch of brilliant fowers." The little lads has a window seat from) which she can look from her turret into the sunset, and when tired of that she can open a door which leads on to a roof garden all her

own.

As home atties have sudden. been transformed into dens, and studies, for the grown-ups, and there is something, very soothing about being tucked away at the top

of the house. woman knows that if she wore coloured shoes it. would be simply to draw attention to the Ettle coloured leather and rubber pesey snuggling into the furs at her neck On: we had a long tolk. and I learnt many things that I might have thought out for myself, if I had taken the trouble to look bark wely years. As a matter of fact it did remind me of a little srere at a Ball in the Hong Kong Hotel in 1921,

wore a black

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Chiffon frock with a single large red Hower, and my black satin slippers were trimmed with red heels! I was told quite frankly then and there, that they were outrageous, and that I ought to be sunt home at once. When I met the lady in London in 1924, I was sorry to see her wearing a black chiffon frock: relieved with a single red lower, and having black satin slippers trimmed with red heels. Some people never know when to stop!

The type of bedroom slipper call ed Mule, was brought into favour because any other kind developes a crumpled appearance at the back, and is always a diffenity to adjust when without stockings. Few buyers realize that importance in cut and fit is a very serious matter. These slippers are most restful and becoming to wear with a leagown in the evening. They are stocked at Lane Craw- ford's in black, and colours, and toes. blocked and arched have Ostrich feather fluff is used as a binding. The price is very moderate for. such good quality and at.

NURSERY MENUS.

"Ent it up, and don't annoy,

Fat is good for a little boy." The elder brother who at the still- tender age of eleven spontaneously composed this satiric couplet, at the less some form of entertainment luncheon table, to the astonishment has been arranged in a private of his adult companions, is now a house, the easiest way to give a more serious and widely read poet, but that he had a message to de-

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party is to leave all the,,toys in liver, even then, is clear." the verandah, and add a grama-! Uninteresting meals even phone with suitable records. By these days, when stupidity is cer the time tea is bashed all the tainly not so rife as it once was in this respect, are still regarded as boys will have made some selection | a disciplinary measure in thousanda from the heap, and will proceed to of nurseries, and are daily dispens ed as such. The ridiculous" notion amuse themselves, and the girls that you ens spoil a child by giving will either join them, or have other it tempting food still prevails.

Within sensible limits nursery. ideas of their own. Some rowdy game towards the end of the after food cannot be too dainty, or too varied, and while some discipline noon is usually sufficient ne far as is, of course, necessary, it should be organisation goes. Very pretty remembered that certain dishes are table cloths of crinkly paper can positively nauseating to

Bome

be had at the Dennison Paper natures, and care should be taken Store. They have illustrations from by parents, to discover what these nursery rhymes in large figures are, in order that indifferent and round the edge, and with paper foolish nurses do not insist (Fat is caps, and a few crackers, add much good far.a little boy) unreason- to the brightness of the tea-table ably. A violently displayed anti- The next thing of importance is pathy indicates unusual sensitive- to provide a comfortable room inness, and coercion may be harmful."

Another stupidity frequently in which the parents can enjoy the

child party too, by having their tea indulged in is dubbing a comparative peace and quiet, and greedy" without due cause. The chatting about their various heirsenormous vitality of a child, de- and heiresses, or possibly why Mri mands tremendous tissue building,, C. will not return her partner's and to keep pace without exhaus lead even after the said partner has tion you can safely allow a child. murmured" Now Pamer!" on the to "stuff" if he shows he can

stand it Morning Post. • trick being takot.

One of the oft-forgotten neces sities of a nursery is a broad shelf running along the wall at beight convenient to the child. In it are stowed all those little baby trea- sures which make the main room so untidy, and are so often swept- away by the coolic la the evening, and thus the cause of tears in the morning. The child "should always have a stall brightly coloured flower bowl of her own in which to range flowers as a routine. Any baby loves playing with water and this gift helps her to gain a sense of colour, and balance, as well as increasing her love and care of flowers. }

If pictures should be hung on the level of a grown-up's eyes, it is equally important to remember the fact when decorating the nursery. The best type of prints are those wise definite drawing and colour- ing, without too much detail, and they can be attached to the wall. by drawing pins, changed every ionth as the child progresses in

Issons or interest.

When Did Kipling Write?

SINGAPORE.¦-

Hail, Mother East and West seek

my aid

Ere the spent gear may dare the

porte afar.

The second doorway of the wide

world's trade

Is mine to loose or bar.

HONG KONG.

Hait, Mother Hold me fast; my

praya aleeps

Under innumerable keels to-day. Yet guard (and landward), or to

morrow sweeps

Thy warships down the bay!

Two-Piece Frock, boring a Slip Over Blour, with Convertible Collar: and Skirt, with"Circular Flare Across Front, Straight Back.

on the menu. Some of these de licacies are expensive, but it is pos sible to obtain a delightful meal for & most reasonable sum, and it is such a change from the usual Euro-

pean menu

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us see her face for more than a moment. Her lovely gown of cream and faint roses, with its train, and

was made Madame Chiffon of Pedder Street. Very many of the guests had shing. led hair, and some wore semi-foreign clothes. One frock of black vellet was banded with rings of white fur at the wide-ended sleeves, and round the collar, and the "short skirt. Black seemed first favourite and showed up well against the gorgeous brocades of the conven- tional Chinese coats. It must be very nice to have ribe proud bro- thers to help at one's wedding.

While lunching there recently, with a Chinese friend, he told nie that the food in Hong Kong was very inferior to the same type ob- tainable in Canton city. The first class Cantonese cook makes a big wage in the restaurants where. wealthy entertaining is done, and nothing will tempt him to come to Hong Kong. Then agail Cantonese lood is admitted to be much superior to anything found in North China, though from a foreigner's point of view few dishes can surpass the stewed tail of the northera sheep, which carries an abundance of fat, or the stuffed Peking duck, which comes to table apparently whole, though in reality it is boned," and only supported by delicious stuffing, cleverly inserted without breaking the skin. Bean sprouts, which seem always to be in season here, make a pleasant vegetable, or a good separate course i served with a covering of cheese sauce, or mixed with tinned baked beans, celery,

and

At some of the more exclusive restaurants In Canton, those, to which men go when they want a per fect meal rather than a business meeting, a whole sucking pig will Out appear apparently uncarved.

fly the eager chopsticks, and it is then seen that the crackling "is actually divided into convenient pieces, and when that has disap peared the meat of the pig is dis covered also carved ready, fer serv ing. How such a feat can be accom plished without the joint getting cold is difficult to see, but all the restaurants are dinhese in these piping hot when brought to table. Chinese food is suitable to the clim ate, whether in winter or suminer. and though the penalty of conver sion may be obesity, it will not be dyspepsis.

SILVO

LIQUID SILVER POLISH

These Silver Gifts which Icon- stantly use are kept in good condition by cleaning them with Silvo, the non-injurious silver polish. One can rely upon Silvo-it is quick and it is safe and easy to use on all silver and electro plate Use an old soft cloth.

RECKITT & SONS, LTD. HULL AND LONDON.".

SILVO

SILVER

Obtainable at all the Leading Stores.

AGENTS

BRUNNER MOND & Co. (CHINA), Ltd.

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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

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PHONE. C. 16

NOVELTY!

LEATHER HANDPAINTED AND EMBOSSED- WORK, LADIES' HANDBAGS, ATTRACTIVE COLOURS, TRE LATEST STYLE.

From $1 to $7.50

THE PIONEER SILK STORE CHINA BUILDINGS (Opposite Flower Street).

SHINGLING

WAVING MANICURING

The promptest and most courteous service in Town.

CAMPBELL MOORE.

16, Queen's Road Central (ist floor). QIPOSITE COLONIAL DISPENSARY.

We have just received A Small Consignment of Very Attractive Evening Frocks from $75,00.

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AT THE SIGN OF THE

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

Telephone C. 4864.

LANTERN

THE GIFT SEASON:

and nobody should fail to

Our new

stocks of

PEKIN GLASS BEADS,

LACQUER WARE

inspect

AND CLOISONNE,

EMBROIDERED SHAWLS AND MANDARIN COATS

AND MART OTHER

CHOICE ORIENTAL GIFTS.

THE SWATOW LACE COMPANY.

21, Queen's Rood (Naat HEB. Gargi.}

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