1927-04-29 — Page 8

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 29th, 1927.

PORCELAIN AND GLASS.

THEIR DECORATIVE VALUE

i

CURIOS.

MORE STORIES FROM

QUINNEYS.

The

WOMAN'S PAGE

BY THE WAY.

TOWELS FOR THE SIA STOLL- Whiteway, Laidlaw's have coloured turkish towels, which are excellent for bathing parties and only $1.75.

SHOES.

SWIFT SHUTTLES OF AN

EMPIRE'S LOOM."

Footwear has always been a Japan, the flowery land, with her to women, but never, perhaps, since fascinated the West, but I did not source of delight and extravagence dainty butterfly ladies, has alwaysḍ There is no gift so abused as

the days of the Plantagenets, have know until I paid a visit early this The young housewives of to-day have firmly set their faces against taste. Only children and savages the Victorian passion for callee. are entirely unbiased in their likes tions." Those tiresome small tables and dislikes. Many adulta may pre- Dishes placed on ice are very apt

shoes been so fantastic as to-day week, to the Pioneer Silk Store, TO PREVENT DISHES SLIPPING." Unsuitable," crowded with Gos" ware, silver

"' absurd," trinkets, or Dresden pieces, are

and that it is Japan which is producing test that they make their purchases to slip. The difficulty can be Dyer-

14 extravagent," are the banished from modern homes. But solely to please themselves, but come by placing a larga rubber brious terms flung at our footwear we are wearing to-day. Nor did I oppro many of the most lovely materials living here in the East, we realise, they are none the less largely fading on the ice before putting the by the upholders of the good and realise what a variety of these same perhaps more keenly than at Home,fluenced by the public opinion of

dish in position. the decorative value of a porcelaia their age and environmen

PORTASIG ICS CHESTS-Caldbeck solid Victorian tradition, and by lovely materials there are. Tinsell vase, or plate, in the furnishing cestor worship is not confined to the leat make of ice chests specially them, like colours as much as

A Macgregor are stocking as excel. jealous men. For men, most of laces, in soft shades and exquisite scheme, because we see them con- Chinese. My mother always liked designed for travellers. But the do but they haven't generally the chiffon velvet brocades, and gor tinually in the shops.

we patterns, dainty, figured georgettes, Hangings, carpets, and cushions for my father is good enough for household purposes.

it," and "What was good enough larger sise is equally useful_for create & sense of warmth which is i » not desirable in the hot weather; tinually turned on

are phrases which are condice

These Tun- courage of their convictions, even display of loveliness. If the cus geous satins, make a bewildering chestr use very little ice and the Fair Isle pull-over craze being tomers. want to look at every roli but, when we clear them out, it

in defence of leaves the room looking bare and

some hideous household god.

are reasonably priced.

seon joked out of existence. Why of material in the shop before under furnished, and we miss the

But perhaps the lesst genuine ENAMELED ICE CHESTS.-White-

Don't you think its time they taste of all is that of the possessor / away, Laidlaw have also a new ica/not a Brighter Enshands compaign them 1 It is not often one has a making a purchase who can blame

ed a more rational and becoming mode 1

unifying note of colour which they gave. It is here that a vase or other piece of plain, but clear coloured porcelain or glass can be used with effect, and such trasures

surroundings as the Japanese have well demonstrated.

me

stigmatised us being a dangerous thing. How many Among the the ing American houses sands of spurious Corets decorat

apprecia Corot

look their best in somewhat bare bought because of a real were

tion of the great painter i - well known artist, I paid £1,000 for that picture." That is the label and the picture's value to its owner in sixty per cent, of the cases. "little knowledge which is the trap for the amateur collector is the fortune of the dishonest vendor and the fake.

What Is An Ornament? Such pieces need not be of any great value provided that they are

AN. AFTERNOON FROCK AND, EVENING

DRESA IN ONE

Curio Collecting.

That

Some

Curia buying is an art. people are born with natural good taste which leads them to select the really artistic. productions of any period. Others learn by years of

study the distinguishing marks of a particular school or artist; and. there is a third class of buyer who judges a curio by two standards only its age and price. Neither antiquity nor high price are any criterion of artistic worth. No. rice. provided you can afford it, is too high for a treasure of which the possession will be a constant joy. There are other people to whom curio collecting is a form of nadness akin to that of the miser, they collect not for profit or pleas sure but for the shere lust of possession:

Of course, to the genuine collector even a piece which in in itse ugly or inartistic may have great value in flling a gap in his collection, just as the ord cary English half penny stamp has ita proper place in the album of the most distinguished philatelist.

Д

A Curio Fifty Thousand Years

Old.

enamel which is far easier to keep clean than the American wooden chest.

SEMI-MADE SUMMER DRESSES.---Ï saw in, the same shop some very charming semi made embroidered voile dresses, in a wide range of colours and designs, The Swatow Lace Company have a similar thing

Jumper suit in white Radium crêpe trimmed with coloited an broidery.

things at once,

and each seems more desirable than the last. Un- The Shoe Factory To-day.

less you are one of those strong! miaded women who knows exactly The model shoes bought by an

what she wants,which after all English factory come generally from takes half the fun out of shopping- a famous house in Paris and often a delicious hour will slip away be cost as much as 230 a pair. From fore you have come to a decision. one model a dozen or more varia

Figured Georgattas. tions are designed, and sti cord.

board composition patteras, bound cinated me most.

The new figured georgettes fas

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with metal are cut by an expert person, old or young, for whom

There is The shoes are built up like a model special pattern and colour does not dress, each expert concentrating on his or her speciality Smart young gette in pale pastel colours, with a seem to have been designed. Geor- things bend their shingled beads over the embroidery, the button all flower embroidered in silk of holing and binding of the shoes.

just tons deeper, would be equally When the delicate leathers

pretty for a child's party frock or tabrics, go to the room where men

for a dance dress, and has augges sew the uppers to the soles, the ion of freshness and youth which shoe is put into a protective paper fairness.

is particularly becoming to English shield, cut and sewn to its exact colours, with some really delightful Another range of soft shape, so as to avoid any risk of beiges among them, have a small the material being soiled.,

woven-in design in pale metalised thread. One very lovely material is in the palest lemon yellow with a silver gilt coloured pattern. This

Evening Shoes.

Gold predominates in shoes for evening wear, and they are mostly

est in extravagent sandal shapes material suggests itzel! for either: with high spike heels. There are afternoon dresses or dance frocks some very lovely models to be found for women of any age, bere now, at Holande Sarrauit's;

A bold ftoral all over pattern in embroider-

A

Tirizal Thread Laces.

Silk lace has been very popular lately; now Japan is sending us the motalised laces which French dress designers have made popular for

a gold red and green brocade bounded in silk on another range of with gold kid and A somewhat almost colourless georgette; in this similar shoe a Lane Crawford's. material blacks, greys, and darker Then there is the "satin abce; the colours prodominate, though there last named shop have two models are also pale shades; and the more which are particularly lovely one in formal pattern suggests their use nude satin strapped with silver kid, by older women or alternatively for and the other in a deeper shade coatees or sleeveless waistedata. nude with a front made of brocad ed silk which exactly imitates Ezard. Rolande Sarrault has very chic and simple little shoe in sca green satin and several in the new French mode of silk embroidery on a simply cut beige "satin shape, and at Powell's I saw a demurely evening dresses, or veiled with attractive shoe in grey brocaded georgette in bands on afternoon or silk strapped with gold kid. The dance frocks. The examples I raw same shop had two other really at the Pioneer Silk Store are in gorgeous shoes, one in stamped gold age of very lovely colours of kid, and the other in black satin which an rau de nil and a pale with strappings of gold kid radiat-pricot were exceptionally charm- the shoe, a gold Leel and a diamond ing over the whole back part of g.

Der Magnificent Brocades. buckle.

use either on the more elaborate

ANNETTE KELLERMANN

BATHING SUITS,

THE UNANIMOUS CHOICE

OF BATHING BEAUTIES.

LANE, CRAWFORD'S

LADIES SALON.

SHINGLING WAVING MANICURING

The promptest and most courteous service la Town.

CAMPBELL MOORE.

19, Queen's Road Central (1st floor..

OPPONTE COLONIAL DisZEŃKARY. '

We have just received another large consign- »

ment of Ceylon Basket Ware-all sizes and colours Handbags.

York Building.

suitable for

Chafer Road.

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THE SIGN OF THE

LANTERN

Telephone C. 4864.

WE ARE NOW SHOWING

Our New Arrivals of

Woven for obis are magnificent MANILA AND BANGKOK

Mr. Komor has many amusing", stories to tell of the curio hunter, The popularity of the cardigan and like all true artists he waxes and of the bolero in responsible for slogueat on the folly of valuing an a very useful vogue a suit" object in proportion to its age. He which indudes turo drenzi, for the told me of a lady who came into cardigan is removable to show this shop in Tokyo in search of a sleeveless frock beneath. Note the Satauma vase and of the lesson he petal hem of the drew and the New Saught her. The vase he showed whim of having the back longer her was a hundred years old, but than the front.

that she considered far too modern Why," she said, "I have already curio that is three thousand

A New Summar Walking Shoe,

brocades some, Invishly decorated beautiful in themselves. At the years old, a brick which came out

The latest summer walking shoe wealth of rich coloured pattern. As with metal threads, others with a Sign of the Lantern you will find of an Egyptian tomb." "Indeed,"

in a slightly different material ia made of beige canvas. answered Mr. Komor, "I can show

That I saw several pieces of these which comes from the Philippine does not sound very attractive broendes hanging up in the shop, which would be admirable for the than that." and turning to his boy delightful dress from these lengths ford's collection you will see that things must, that it would be a

you a curio of far greater nge Islands. purpose, but it must be chosen he instructed him in Japanese to

Anyone could make a perhaps, but if you see Lane, Craw felt, as every lover of beautiful with regard to the general furnish fetch the said curio.

in a very short time, all you have it is exceedingly amart. The canvas shame to cut them to make obis or ing scheme of your room. "orangent, is not an ornament agerly examined what appeared to and gather or shirr the waist, the and it is bound or strapped in most the purpose for which they are The lady to do is to sew up the aide seams is so fine that it looks like suède still more to cover shoes, which is when it is out of harmony with its a grey stone iring on a bed neck sleeves and hem lines are surroundings. Take for example What is it," she naked.

cotton

of the models with kid. The pat-largely bought. The bold patterns wool in mailbox. very lovely covered porcelain how flint Madame, from the sea shore,"

terns and tones are exquisite, one and rich colours remind one of the shoe has exactly the effect of lizard hangs which Memling and other skin, and another has a graded medieval painters hung behind the cularly soft and pretty. diamond pattern which is parti- Madonna's throne, but alas few These modern houtes could suitably ac-

a great variety of oriental ware

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in five coloured Peking ware. The was the answer. After this it was ground is ivory white and is cover- not long before the two became the cheque he was horrified, and ed with a flower pattern in pale friendly, and Mr. Komor showing to save face" sent a messenger shoes are idet for a hot climate. commodate such, hangings, and so pinks, blues, greens and hiscuit tonga. One feels at once that such her his treasures brought her to his a picce belongs to the boudoir. It way, of thinking and convinced port haste to the lady, to ask her. The material is much cooler than we must enjoy them on cushions would be lost in a room with a ber that to bay what pleased her

to return the vase as it had been skin and the cut though smart is and on shoes, strong colour scheme where a large spending her money on uninterest-

personally was far wiser

than previously sold to another cus loose and comfortable.

tomer. This she refused to do, and Kwang Yao vase with a mottled

when he told her that the vase in lovely blues and maures relics of doubtful antiquity.

was worth at the most $20 she The Peach Blue Vase." made the inelegant reply Hats" and insisted on keeping her pur. chase. Still this honest dealer was uncomfortable, and, when four years later, the strong minded

glazbe a cool and decisive note.

Buine

Coloured Eid, having a big vogue, and our old Coloured kid shoes are once more. arourites, lacquer red and apple green are appearing in the latest cut. From Paris vid Madame Serrault come a number of less conspicuous 'tones, among which a deep plum coloured pump, and a smart little navy shoe tied with a ribbon bow at the instep, were very attractive a

Chinese And Indian Brocades

oranges, 3 lemons, 1 gill crashed FRUIT PUNCH.-Two grapefruit, pineapple, 1 syphon soda water (11 pts.), Ib. sugar, i pt. water. Boil the sugar and water together for 5 minutes; add to it the jules of the grapefruit, otanges, lemons and crushed pineapple. Stand and chill hours. Add iced soda water be. fore serving, sad serve with thin alices of eut lemon.

To the more formal and sparcely Another curious trait of the furnished room a large shalle anateur collector is to imagine cloisonné bowl in a deep lavender that their knowledge of antiques blue would, with its fine gold is greater than the dealer's. Oc- gleaming design, give the necessary casionally, of course, this is so but lady died, ho attended the auc note of richness....

such telf-opinionated Small-Spots Gf. Dolour. general rule deserte persons as a tion of her goods and bid at ance what they get a high gure for the famous vase. The decorative valus of blue and and дте imposed upon, often But he was out bidden and it went white ginger jars is obvious, but purposely, sometimes against the for 14,000 gold dollars to another dealer's wishes. The famous story it is astoanshing how much one of the "Peach Blue Vase well-

learned collector ! small well placed spot of colour

BALLONS FOR THE CHILDREN. Such stories is these told in Mr. can achieve. I saw a set of pink dealer of San Francisco, bought & a twinkle in his eye, show one the for bedroom or negligée wear; they. Pioneer Silk Store the other day,

illustrates such a case. A certain Komor's own faimitable way with

I saw some pretty Chinese slip Thres little almond eyed persona enamel samahui.cups, with a bright

pers at the Swatow Lace Company made very happy in the many coloured design, which would Chinese porcelain vase in a Shang- folly of going curio hunting with are made of good satin with leather by the possession of balloons, every look lovely in a blackwood cabinet; bai sale for ten dollars, and in his smell knowledge in small shops. It soles, are really exquisitely em-child who enters the shop is given and a plate of fluted green glass absence it was placed in his shop does not pay a well known dealer broidered in short stitch embroidery one, which is a very charming form which, if placed on a stand, with with the auctioneer's ticket Lot to be dishonest, and as a general mostly in rose and dragon designs of advertisement. its back to the light, would glow 10,000 still on it. A lady liked it, rule he is a man like Mr. Komor These shoes are from $1.50 a pair like an emerald. A desert service asked the price, and was told by with a genuine love of art, who and the heellcas variety from $1. few shipment of Colombo grass TINY GRASS Funsra-Among the in Japanese Lacquer, finger bowls newly engaged and none too knows the value and the story of They have also the cutest little bags just received at the Sign of and plates of gold and black, or bright assistant 810,000 geld, where nearly every piece in his shop. A shoes for tiny tots. The Pioneer the Lantern, are any number of red and black, with a dainty flower on she bought it. When the owner reputation for fair dealing is of Silk Store have a lovely range of 1 tiny little purses, which are very ornament is a it and lovely accom. returned to his shop and was shown for more value to him than $10,000 Indian gold and silver brocades for useful to keep inside the larger payment to a summer mehl.

(Continued on next Column). made over the sale of a fake. covering shoes,"

ones for money powder puff.

THE PIONEER SILK STORE.

Always up-to-date goods

STRAW HATS

Very suitable for present Spring Wear. These Hats are in all the Latest Shapes and Shades, and are Priced from $6.

Fresh Stocks will Arrive Every Week

SWATOW LACE CO., LTD.

21, Queen's Road (Next H. K. H. Garage).

goods for

for up-to-date people.

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