1927-11-25 — Page 9

WOMAN'S PAGE

FADELESS FABRICS.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25th, 1927.

WOMAN'S £5,000 GAMBLING REFORMATORY BOY POSES

(CONTD.). WOMAN'S DISCOVERY THAT

MAY CHEAPEN COST.

FANTASIE.

FELPH

Miss Era Hibbert, the scientist at WHERE THE Manchester College of Technologs, FAIRIES ARE."

whose research work has led to a discovery which may result in the cheap production of fadeless dye- stuffs with consequent important re- sulta on the textile trade, now throws more light on the subject. 2

Once a year, at Christmas time, the minds of those who design our dresses wänder down the narrow Innes of fashion. And as Blake wandering among the field paths of Sussex saw fairies, so do they when they give their imaginations reign in designing those charming, fan tasie for my lady's boudoir. Dress hangers, show trees, and powder puffs take strange and forely forms, tiny gracious figures decorate them in fairy frocks of silk and tulle, or quaint clan faces crowned with silken wigs smile upon them,

There is a powder bowl of crystal now in Lane Crawford's covered with a network of gold lace. On the lid is a silk rose and fastened to its underside a swansdown puff. There is a box holding two dress hangers padded in bright ceris silk, and between them lies a has wisk of the same colour. A similar decorated box has hangers and a pair of gilt and painted shoe trees. A little Victoriaa - izdy hides & clothes brush under her satin skirt, while a fairy in a frilly skirt lies on a puff of the same delicate blue as her dress,

She explained that experients on the effect of sunlight on materialı that had been indigo-dyed, had shown that fading of colour was not caused by any redaction of the fabric but by a definite change in the substance of the material used in the colouring.

Exploring on these lines, Mias Hibbert had found a method in the case of indige of separating this new substanes, and has found it to be satin, a composition know to science when colours fade.

WOMAN'S NEW FREEDOM.

SENSE OF SOCIAL DUTY

MR. BALDWIN POINTS THE'

WAY.

FINE SENTIMENTS NOT SUFFICIENT.

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Try and put back into the pool of the nation's life as much as, or more than, you have had your selves" This, in a sentence, was

LOSSES.

VISITS TO CASINOS ON THE CONTINENT,

WOMEN'S 8,000 gambling losses at Monte Carlo and other Continental resorts were disclosed at the London Bankruptcy Court when Mrs. Amalia Craven, a widow, of St. George's-square, Bet gravia, attended for publia examination accounts what showed liabilities £1108 and assets £585.

*

---- AS “LORD

FAMOUS AIRWOMAN' VICTIMIZED BY AVIATION

GENIUS.

"AMERICAN VIEW.

HIS OPINION OF BRITAIN.

Mr. Robert P. Scripps, the well- known American journalist and president of the Scrippe-Howard

The astonishing career of a dark, newspapers, gives in the following handsome, stylishly dressed man of interview with the Daily News his

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THE FAT MAN MAKES MONEY,

THE SALT OF THE EART

-[BT ONE OF THEM,]

It was William Shakespeare

What do the Americans think of and such as sleep o nights," and Britain! Our people, says Mr, thereby Shakespeare showed that to Scripps frankly, read the latest new as much about mankind as murder and the details of the ball the most expert phychologist to

day." game with more avidity than they de international polities

27, who had posed as a millionaire, views on Anglo-America relations himself no rasing greyhound, who dying officer, a peer, and "a and his impressions of Britain amade Julius Caesar say: "Let me have about me men who are fat, nephew of Lady Stuart," was dishe sees it. slowed at the London Sessions, when the man, Frederick. Edgar Oldrey. was sentenced to three years' penal servitude for a series of offences.

Oldrey pleaded guilty to stealing

Fat men are the salt of the carth.. a cheque book from Mrs. Eliott Lynn, the famous airwoman, and I suppose it is the same in Eng-Those who dong it have only to stealing a ring, a suit case, and land. But I must say that there look about then to see that it is is really no anti-British feeling intre. By the term *fat man", I He asked that six further charges the State, and I am positive that do not mean the abnormal and in- of obtaining credit by fraud and the future of the world for some fortunate wretch who puffs and attempting to obtain motor-ears long time, at least, will be largely pants his way through life sur- English rounded by a mountain of cumber- and other goods by: false pretences in the hands of the should be taken into consideration. speaking section of the world. It some fish he is more a study for

Mr. Montagu, prosecuting, said is therefore, up to Great Britain the physiologist than the efficiency. that Oldrey posed as Squadron and the United Stater to cooperate expert. By "fat man” (I' profes Leader Stuart, and was introduced to some extent, we being the big the term "plump") I mean the man to Mrs. Eliott Lynn in that name.

industrial and producing nations.

who has to admit (perhaps with As to whether the Anglo-Saxon sigh for days that are gone that his

He induced her to make an don't know that it will in the in. first when he remensures him every element will survive in America, Itailor is only playing for safety

the advice given by the Prime Mrs. Craven, replying to the Minister to those attending the Official Receiver, said that she be annual general meeting of the Union" cante a widow in 1909, and had of Girls' Schools, held at Church since lived on the proceeds of a House, Westminster, on October sale of valuable jewellery and further articles. Miss Hibbert stated that people 29th. It is one of the aims of the and income from investments. are inclined to believe that that was union to interest girls of the public The jewellery and furs were in the end of it. Far from that being the case" she added, "the And private secondary schools insured for £37,000 in 1922, and all colour is still there, but it has social service, and in this connee of it had since been sold in order undergone a change of form. and tion a Settlement has been estab to meet gambling and living what we are searching for is to find what the new substance produced lished at Feckham-road, Camber- expenses.

by the inding consists of, then we well, where girls leaving school can trace the cause of the fading can obtain experience of condi to its sures and ultimately dis tions in an artisan neighbourhood, cover better methods" of making colours fast."

as well as of the social and educa. tional "activities which best serve

To flank your mirror is a pierette At present, fadeless fabrics manu- head with a roguish smile and a factured from colouring materials big-ruf,-mounted on a silver-rod which do not reast to sunlight aro. and stand. On her head you munt; relatively expensive, but develop- put your hat while you add just ments on the lines of Miss Hibbert's the last finishing touches to your discovery will produce fadeless complexion or your hair, When fabrics at much less cost. you wish to powder your back you can use a tinted swansdown puff mounted on a long handel painted with an artistic design.

But there is no end to the quaint !· conceits which new provided to tempt and charin us this Christnins."; I cannot tell you of them all. se are cheap thera delicicus extravag ences, but all are chic, amusing and novel.

THE BLACK DIAMOND.

A FEW CHIC HATS. There are always some good things to be found behind the screen which stands on the left of the door in The Sign of the Lantern. Not many but always excellently chosen, are the frocks, coats and hats, which live in the wardrobe there, and the other day, I found several charm ing felt hats mostly of a simple though chic order, There was a susart little shape in warm leat

FASHION GOES TO THE

DOGS.

GREYHOUNDS ON WOMEN'S HATS.

Fashion, in the language of the day, has gone to the dogs" for inspiration, and, the latest trimming motive is the greyhound in gems, métal, enamel, ivory, or various forms of embroidery.

The greyhound silhouette is parti cularly effective in embroidery, and is used by the Paris milliners, who are always appreciative of any idea with topical appeal to give colour and finish to the otherwise severe close-fitting helmets of cloth, or felt.

veiret,

Two greyhounds in full ery, cut out in felt of a lighter shade than the hat they decorate, make striking addition to the season's millinery. The cut-cut greyhounds

are embroidered on to the hat.

it.

The Bishop of Southwark; "who

presided, said the union had now something like 150 schools belong. ing to it. From being purely local

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Gauss Of Tailors.

She attributed her failure to those gambling losses and extrava gant living, and also to interesi charges and loss on the realisation of her jewellery and furi

Too Early

Italians

dustrial districts. The seem to take the bonours in the Blum districts and in the matter of raising children.

The popular feeling for Eng

time he comes in, for L now

suit; the man who retires as grace- fully as possible from the strenuous games and prefers to take his ex- reise ka the form of bowls or golf.

He is the man at whom his but, though the fat man may cause a smile to say that he is not men tally alert is a gross libel,

the work had become national, and heavily in the casinos. The total Eliott Lynn went to her desk later land, however, is perfectly friend-friends sometimes poke gentle, fun,

from being parochial in its begin nings it now embraced every farin, of social work. The great danger before the country to-day was that which arose through class differ-

ences, not through hatred or selfishness, but more through mis- understanding and lack of sym- pathy.

The

Union of Girls'

Schools was one of the bridges built to span the cleavage which sometimes appeared between class and 'eines.

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appointment with him for a flight Mrs. Craven said that she had to Zurich. He arrived at nine, but made a habit of going to Monte Mrs. Eliott Lynn was still in her Carlo, Ostend, and other Continent bedroom. She said he had como tal resorts since 1992, and lost too early; and he went away. Mrs. and found her chequebook missing. amount was established at £3,000

Detective Sergeant John Sands, although the ordinary man's Her household and personal said that Oldrey was sent to High opinion is not based on a lot of in- penses, in addition, amounted to

formation. It is generally felt that £11,000 during the last five years

the two people have a lot in com Mira. Craven was asked why the continued to gamble at the tables She replied that she hoped to re coup her losses, and made "desperate plunge" at the last; but with disastrous results."

The examination was concluded

THE PRACTICAL SEX...

WOMEN ON "FRETWORK "'

IN A LIFT.

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bury Industrial School for stealing money before he was 13. He had term at Borstal, from which in- ten further convictions, including a stitution he escaped.

He is believed to be the Allegitimate son of an actor," said hocd he was bandied about from Sergeant Sands, and in his child-

relative to relative.

Oldrey is a well-spoken man, and has educated himself in a wonderful

wuner in various establishments in which he has been detained. His theoretical knowledge of aviation is remarkable, and he is in a position to converse freely on such atters with persons of - many years' experience.

"Model Boy."

...

mon.

"As for the League of Nations I don't think it possible that the .S.A will get enthusiastic about entering, at any rate for some time many problems which directly affect The League has not dealt with very America.

"It has not taken much - of- e stand in the Far East in which we are interested, and it haan't settled the Chinese mess yet. The papers for which I speak advocated the Wilson programme, and we got gloriously licked on it politically

Personally, I think it is a great shame we did not go into the know what to say about it now. It League at the beginning. I don't

charter member and another to join it later.

brown turned up from the face with hat is very heeaming in line with fileges entalled. It was curious to brand-new lift that was carrying he. bas, since proved to be one of is one thing to join a club as a

think

The Prime Minister said he was amazed and rejoiced at the spirit that

was running through the girls schools and colleges to-day, making them seek, as those who

"It is a positive crime," said enjoyed great privileges, to recog

He was top of his class in the nies the obligations that those pri- ing intently at the ceiling of, a Borstal as a model body, although one Loudon typist to another, look reformatory, and was looked on in

how recently women had her up Oxford-circus. No their failures. a tiny feather mount to tone. Aita unfolded crown and soft curve come into their heritage. It was woman could nbly have thought His own opinion of Borstal is

opportunities for the higher educa- ing, and look at the rich carving tion of women were but few, and on the panels! She ran her finger the boys boast of and compare their they ought to be grateful all their down one of the myriad grooves various crimes." lives for the work done by those that decorated the green-painted Sergeant Sands added that early gallant pioneers of a generation wooden boards of the walls -in August Oldrey installed himself 4g0. (Hear, hear.) A sense of social duty was in itself a religious fidend. A horse-box or a 'what Green, as 'Squadron-Leader. Stuart, What is it, anyway?" asked her, at a flouse in Osborne Road, Stroud education in the best sense of the not

of the Royal Air Force," and later word, because it taught them to be

he.sbsconded with a suit and a case. members one of another, and it

On August 12th," said Sergeant made them realise the difficulties of achieving service

Sanda Oldrey ordered a car to drive Mrs. Eliott Lynn and their isolation.

party to Croydon, from where they proposed to fly to Zurich, but he did not turn up, and Mrs. Eliott Lynn's cheque-book was missed.

violet" grey felt has the favourite over the face. A tabne · felt; has not so many years ago, when the of all that deco Ant on the cell that it is a 'sink' of iniquity,/where

double brim effect, in front, the upper brim being turned sharply back and having a large black diamond right in the centre. This (Continued on next Column.)

trimming of circles stitched in rather more brightly toned silk, and a very smart model has a crown of black felt, nd a wide upturned brim of black panne,

When We Were Very Young

we had not the boon possessed by all youngsters to-day, of enjoying

Nature's delicious sweetmeat

SUN-MAID RAISINS

The Seedless Raisins

Red Package.

They contain Iron

in the

and are a food and a tonle—as well as a sweet that by enriching

the blood helps to bring

rosy cheeks and bright

yes to the kiddies.

eyes

San-Maid Raising

can be eaten straight

out of the packet, or used

for making tempting puddings and

:

cakes that appeal to young and old.

In two sizes

at all high class Stores and Compradores.

Look for the Maid of the Sun on the Red Package,

[P7]

in

The lift in question smelt new and looked like a first cousin to Victorian fretwork bookcase. In selfish the middle of the general efficiency of the Underground station it was I think this generation," connn anachronism. A deep cream tinued Mr. Baldwin, is learning ceiling wore round its edges that fine zentiments are not suff- funereal-looking trimming of deep cient. Just as Nurse Cavell said ly eut and ornamented woodwork that patriotism was not enough, in painted black. those last weeks she spent in the It would take any, one a week prison at Brussels, so we are to get the dust out of those crevices, realizing that we want more than to say nothing of the walls," said words. Newman, in one of his the first speaker-onl university sermons,

put that in one of his short, crisp phrases: ready of labour-saving in architec

"I thought men were making 'Nothing is so easy as to be re- ture. Do you remember the build-Ir ligious on paper. The whole outings in Metropolis Who wants look for you girls has been revolu- their lifts embroidered, anyway tionised since your mothers' time. What I any is the gates certainly since the time of your opened noisily, and the two mem grandmothers. Women, of course, bers of the more modern sex har have always played a part in his | vied away.-Daily Express. toty.

I Believe speculations have even been made as to the fate of the world had Cleopatra's nose

en a little shorter (laughter) I should say it has never been and even in the time of the Greeks wider, and there never, Was". who were a progressive people you greater demand for the higher will remember that even. Ischoma qualities of service: The standard chus, by no means a blind old of what is required has risen, and Tury, when speaking of his wife. I am thankful to think that no said she had always been, carefully public life in any country has been: guarded, so that she might see es rieber in personal service for little, hear as little, and ask as few generations than curs in this questions as possible. (Laughter.)country. (Cheers.).

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He had gone in the meantime to the Avro Aviation Company's offices in Piccadilly, and negotiated for the purchase of an airplane for £785 in which he had a trial flight from London.

Impressed By Press Conference: "I myself am greatly interested turned from Geneva. The Press. in the League, and I have just re- Conference, there was fine.

resolutions were paased. My papers "At least a number of very good continue to editorialise favourably it is extremely difficult to stir up on the activities of the League, but any popular enthusiasm.

-

ingly dependent upon

"But we are becoming increas foreign natons in a way that is not generally realised.

Wapoleon-Ineligible, s

At a gathering of French Army Freach military doctor declared officers In Paris a few weeks ago that if Napolon, had, applied for admission to the army of to-day be account of his girth. would have been turned down” or

of a man (perhaps to be regretted) The modern, measure of the value is his bank account first, and of industry, keed, efficient, and a character second. Yet the captain born, leader of men, is not noted as a class for his leaniness.

trust rather than confidence. How The thin, spare man breeds. dis- does the novelist picture bis villain 7 As a bit man, dark, hungry-looking, like Cassius He ever read of a fat villain? The fat classifice him as cadaverpus, " Who--

man gm't, fit into the part. The fat man 14 the god, fellow, the worker, the man who forces his way to the front by sheer weight of character and avoirdupois, What he lacks in physical activity he more than makes up by intellect.

All the thinkers of note-the

men who lost their waistlines early optimists. Niko Dr. Johnson, not the pessimists like Schopenhauer-were- in life, and never found them again...

The Testing Time. Women may sigh over the roman- tic and lean Valentinos and Adonises, but when it comes to marrying they leave them on ice Australian and Argentine beef com- Pickwicks They want men whose marked To be, called for," and For instance, there is enough marry the Mark. Tapleys and-Mr. ing into our country to affect the brains and capabilities they can market price of meat, and that trust to carry them through life in means that the mechanic living in, comfort, if not in speed. say. Baltimore is directly interest- The fat man is, as a rule, fat ed in the port of Sydney being kept because he is fond of his creature 14 Millionaire!!!

open.

comforts. These cannot be purchas was a millionaire, and that it did tion was below a hundred millions, even if he is naturally a little in- "Oldrey told the pilot that he Prior to 1900, when our popula.ed without money, and, therefore, not matter to him whether he spent it didn't matter much to that dolent, he has to work a hit harder seven hundred pounds or seven-mechanic if Australia, sank, because to get the extra money he wants pence, It before they parted he there was plenty of cheap land for succeeded in borrowing two pounds | all, From the airman."

"This dependence on other coun- Sergeant Sands stated

that tries is quite a new factor in Ame was Lord Dudley Stuart. He posed tain is probably the shipping trade among other names Oldrey assumed rica. The biggest interest in Bri

Stuart, and then he went to Wigan, coal and steel interests. in Liverpool as a nephew of Lady when you include with that the big where he was arrested while posing as Raymond Whortley..

Oldrey asked, on hearing the sentence, May I see my relatives, please?"

Sir Robert, Wallace, the chair-

"Certainly."

.

His quality of brain is as good as that of the thinner man, but what about the amount of work he makes it def I can only point once world, men who got there by using again to the prosperous men of the their brains, and discreetly point to their balging overcoats, "In America we are not so de-

Regard the theatrical producer pendent upon overseas trade, but covertly for he is very touchy about our population is now fast increasit Look at the famous writers, Look at almost any, man whose ing in the natural way and not only by immigration, and when we name is a byword-look at their get to 150 millions we shall find girth. They are all men who live what the history of this country and by their brains and many of them 9f Europe proves, that there must by their agile wits-Daily Dis be stabilisation of industry,

patch.

Profitable To Specialise.

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We have changed all that. You We want to maintain it and man:. are everything there is to see, you make it, if possible, better, and to Oldrey bowed and said, "Thank hear all there is to hear and some that end your active, co-operation you thy lard." He then walked of you a good deal more--and you is wanted Your work in social briskly from the dock.-Daily ask questions: That means, I service, whatever form it may take Express. hope, that you are fitting your requires exactly those, two things. selves to play your parts in life that my work requires patience fully and for the benefit of your and faith in human worth. Those country."

de maare the real foundations of demo Heart And Brain,^, ersey; not equality in the sense in

which that word is so often used. A SHOCKING ATROCITY OF of cheap motor-care and to depend ficial view I should imagine that "This association exists, among We are not all equal, and never other things, to arrange facilities for you to enter on such work and shall be, but it is the faith that every man and woman is worth

were

The

&

-BURIED ALIVE..

"JUSTICE" IN POLAND.

The farmer who grows wheat goes zomewhere else for his batter and Germans Going Ahead. eggs, and it may be that America "I have just paid visit to will find it-profitable to specialise Germany, and I find the Germans on something like the manufacture are going ahead. From a super

for other things on outside nations, they are more prosperous than

What I mean is that foreign coun. France. tries are becoming more and more Every town seems to have ne to enable you to equip yourselves while, and that beyond the ex-

It is reported from Warsaw that important in America, and that buildings, and everyone has a job, to perform such work under super ternal trappings, whether it is in the village of Simoney, in tendency will increase.

and they all knock off at four vision. The whole idea of what Rolls Royce or donkey cart, Volhynia, a terrible crime has been I have heard a good deal about o'clock to drink beer. One of my was called benevolence & couple of through all the pain and tragedy discovered. Without any generations ago has changed, and of life, there

legal the unemployment and the hard editors who was with me said, "It a human soul that right; the Lurgomaster of that times in England. It puzzles me

must be hell to lose a big war. been enormously enriched. fields which

covered hy you have got to get into touch place sentenced to death four Last night I want to the dog races, Yes, the Germans seem to be com-

with You have started with enor- peasants suspected of theft. The and there was a crowd of 100,000 Ang back, Beldom philanthropy a word

mous advantages and enormous peasants were taken to the cemetery there.

But about this English-speak heard to-day-have been narrowed privileges which some day you may by a night procession, in which a great deal by the activities of realise. Try and put back into the nearly all the inhabitants of the size in New York it would be a

"Why, if we got a crowd of thating influence in the world. The the State and the municipalities, pool of the nation's life as much village, pertook. There a grave front page story. You may be los will really do things is one of the working out of such a union which and you have got much less chaon as or more than you have had was dug, and the unfortunate feting championships, but there is no and much less need for what yourselves. If you make up your tered men were buried alive, might call the emotional beneva-minds that that shall be your at By acident the police at Rovno doubt that the English ge in more tackle in the years ahead. lence. You want to bring a comtitude towards life the opportuni. heard of the crime. The bodics for sports than we do. bination of the heart and brain

ties will be shown you as life goes into it to-day. But the field of on how you may best do your part. personal service has not shrunk in Only look out for those opportuni spite of those increased activities ties and stretch out your hands to

(Continued on next Column.) arect them. (Cheers.)

were exhumed and found ip posi tions proving the agony the victims had had to go through. The burge master and several villagers were arrested.

"We are more serious-minded. And I hear that you get enormous crowds at your football matches, too, held on the same day

(Continued on next Column.)

most important jobs we have to

a

We don't want to make it just there can be too much co-operation. handa across the sea party, and But I see no ground for conflict be tween the Britisher and the Ameri can, and, after all, we are both sensible people.!!