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-As Delightful

as it is

Nourishing

OVALTINE' COLD

TRY this really delightful drink

for

summer

days cold

'Ovaltine. As delicious in this way as when made as a hot beverage. It not merely quenches the thirst, but refreshes and invigorates as well. It supplies, too, the nourishment you parti. cularly need in the summer--for ordinary hot weather foods contain little nourishment-while the need for nourishment remains much the same all the year round.

Cold 'Ovaltine' is easy- to- prepare. Add to cold milk or milk and water. Whisk with an egg-whisk or shake in a cocktail shaker. Then you have a creamy, foaming drink-as deli- cious as it is refreshing. Brimful, too, of energy-giving nourishment to enable you to avoid fatigue and to keep vigorous and healthy.

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THE

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1929.

WOMAN'S PAGE

WOMEN I WOULD RATHER NOT

MARRY.

BY A RETURNED ENGLISHMAN...

Do not imagine for one moment that I consider myself to be a "catch" or fancy my chances, but years of unmarried discomfort in India's torrid plains make me feel that I ought to get married, if only for my own comfort's sake, writes an Englishman to a London paper.

For some two months now I have been comparing in my mind the present and the probable future Buitability of those women of my se quaintance as yet unmarried who might marry the.

Speaking Financially,

Next there is Alys, a little patri- eian tigress. She is fair, with the large blue eyes and fair skin that mark the well-bred English girl. The daughter of a Тал whose fathers have been in the House of Lords ever since there was one, she has all the hautear," all the poise-distinct from. pose that one could expect from a queen.

She ought indeed to marry a king or a governor-general. Except that her caustic wit and fighting zinture make for her more enemies than her natural charm dissolves. For instinctive knowledge of horses. houses. pictures, and people she has: no equal of her age, which is Itwenty-fire.

The Daily Round. So far nothing has happened. have enjoyed the company of some, half-dozen smart women, at lugches, dinners, dances, and races, played golf, tennis. bridge, ridden with them, taken them to Lord's, been to tea and cocktail parties with them.

Every, normal opportunity of pleasant companionship has been ours, and yet all I have been able to decide is that would rather not marry any one of them.

Let me introduce you to them.

First, there is Jennifer.

Luxury Girls.

Jennifer is fairly tall, exceeding ly beautiful, always perfectly well dressed. She is eùltured, aweet, and understanding. I love dining with her and discussing books and litera ture, problems in philosophy, and music, about which she knows even less than she does about books. Her home is enriched with the best that her father's money can buy of Italian art and luxury. Her life is a succession of lunches here, there, or in the entry, of thes "dansant, of cocktail parties, din- ners, dances, and balls.

If I had a much greater income and wanted, a chatelaine tq, a large English country house (not too far away from town), I am convinced Jennifer would be superb. But for the workaday world, with its games and exercise, and far from Italian "comforts, I would not choose Jenni-

fer-even if she would have me.

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Duty But, alas, the possession of a bouse in town and an historic man- sion"in the country does not mean that she can afford to marry a poor

“WILD ORCHIDS.”

TRIANGLE STORY IN A LOVELY SETTING.

J

GRETA GARBO, NILS ASTHER AND LEWIS STONE,

JOY OUR FILM CRITIC.]

"Wild Orchids" is one of the best ilms we have seen here for a long time. It is difficult to find

equate words in which to sum up its peculiar charm, except to any that the whole picture has been planned on the lines of a musical composition There are only three acton and the background, but the background is the biggest factor of all. There have been any number of alms in which a romantic or beautiful setting has given charm to a rather trite story, and many others in which the setting hai been an adequate accompaniment. but in Wild Orchids · the setting is the theme, and the characters the instruments which repeat and emphasise it.

FLORAL DAYS--

Long swathed hips and an almal natural waist line are inter- " esting fashion points in this original design for a summer frock of flower printed and plain crêpe de chine. The swathed drapery is formed by a wide sanh tied at the back in a big bow with long ends that nearly touch the ground.

The skirt dips at the back, and the importance of the wile sash giver an effect of even greater length. The ends are cut in a wide curve-like wings and accentuate the full fluted lines of the skirt.

- Slenderness of line is achieved by cleverly cut points on the corsage, the figured crêpe de chine being laid on the plain male- rial in becoming lines. Shoes are made in figured crêpe de chine to match the frock; rather a smart idea for summery weather

wear

A matching scarf is worn, tied in a full bow at the side, with long floating ends bordered with plain crêpe de chine.

man, and indeed already duty has triumphed over inclination, and a captain serving abroad carries her picture and her memory with him wherever he goes.

There

THE WORLD AT ITS WORST-STOWING THE FAMILY'S BAGGAGE

By GLUYA'S WILLIAMS

GETS FAMILY ABCARD TRAIN AND WAITS WHILE THEY NAKE UP MINDS WHERE THEY WANT TO SIT

WIFE IS SURE HER BLACK BAG HAS BEEN LEFT IN STATION. AFTER HAUUNG THINGS OUT, FINDS BLACK BAG UNDER SEAT",

STOWS BAGGAGE" UNDER SEATS AND IN RACK SO IT WILL BE OUT OF THER

WAY

WIFE BECOMES CONVINCED THE THINGS ON RACK ARE NOT SECURE AND WILL FALL ON CHILDREN AS SOON AS TRAIN STARTS

(Copyright, 1929, by The Ball Syndicate, Inc.)

CURSE OF USURY

IN THE EAST:

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Supplanting the Pawn-Shop..

The salary earner in towns has now every facility to practise thrift und to put by for the rainy day: when in need he can have recourse to an institution which sets out to promote and protect his personal interests and which is ready to provide him with reasonable eredit for legitimate purposes. If he re sorts to the pawn shop and the pro fessional money-lender or appeals. for private charity, he deserves no consideration, if he does so wilful ly, and disciplinary action should

be taken against him.

Any plea of ignorance on his part will not bold water. very much longer, as the work these Thrift and Loan Societies are doing is steadily becoming known, though their utility is unfortunately not appar. ent to those who are not personally familiar with their organisation and system of working.

The credit society both in town and country will, in course of time, gradually supplant the usurer and the pawn-shop. The clients of the latter will eventually be found among that section of the com- munity whose credit is exiguous The usurer and the pawn-shop keeper is hot generally domiciled in Malays, and it will be difficult te compute how much of the natural, wealth of the country is drawn off in profits which are remitted to In- dia and China,

arc

The credit societies with their steadily expanding funds which are circulating is the country thereby performing a very useful and national service in conserving the capital resources of the country. Any appreciable increase in the number of societies or further ex- pansion of the movement must await the creation of a properly trained staff of organisers well versed in the art of applied econo mics and with the gift of leader- skipa.

her emotion, for Lillie loves her elderly husband although he treats her so stily. It is a role, bow- ever, which recalls the days before Miss Garbo won her title of "the alinking siren," and which gives her a better opportunity than many which she has lately played. There is nothing exotic about Lillie Sterling, most of the time we see, her as a white faced girl, worn out by the heat and the danger which she sees closing round her and does not know how to avert, petulant, tearful, nervous, anything but the The setting in Java, aot perhaps confident seductress which Grets Java as the sugar planters know it, Garbo has to often been. She has evea discarded her, clinging. but the Java of romance.

draperies and appears in business- all the glamour of tropical like Hines units and a shirt and Kenery, the strangeness and beauty breeches both of which, look for of an ancient and romantic people, Last, there is Virginia-with the the georgeous pageantry of the too hot for the tropics. When she Titian hair, hazel eyes, the com- East, and always

does dress up, once in a wonder. plexion and lips that look as if the undernote of tragic passion, of the ful Javanese dancing girl's costume,

and once make-up is inches thick, and which heat and the cruelty of tropic

a sarong, she looks childish and pathetic rather than are utterly innocent even of powder. forests.

seductive. Wild, untamed, marvellous Against this setting move three horse-woman, exquisite, but know persons.

Both the men play, well, perhaps An elderly man whose ing nothing of runding a house on and unemotional character, Mr. Aather the better of the two, a moderate income. Her extra has betrayed him into marriage for he enters whole-heartedly into vagant tastes are a little too much with a lovely passionate, girl, the & not too pleasant role. oven for extravagant me.

irl herself lonely and frightered, A number of Javanese contribute a great deal to the euccess of the But most important, she has noted a Javanese princeling with a

charming conversation, She is the sort of Western education, who entertains picture, acting with girl who depends upon "headlithe husband while he makes love naturalness. The scene in which a nes" for her remarks, and the to the wife. The busband is Lewis troupe of men and women enter- has told me I am too elever for Blone, Greta Garbo the girl, and tain the English guests in the Prince's palace with dancing and her, whatever that may mean,

Nils Asther the prince,

It is in some respects a new role music is exceptionally interesting. But I expect that in the end nons

I recommend you to see "Wild of these things will weigh with me. for Greta Garbo who is generally | Orchide" unless you have a dislike Instead of marrying I shall be required to be unable to express of triangle stories, or a preference married t

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WIFE FIND THEY'RE ON THE SUNNY SIDE AND HAD BIT-| TER MOVE. HE HUTTERS TRAINS, GOING TO START, CALLS 600DBYE AND DASHES OFF •

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Across. 1.-A Bronte novel, 3-A learned word for a study.

circle..

-Dangerous and invisible eae-

mies.

10-A circus in the Wild West. 11-Mahomet was its founder. 13.-A king without his head be

comes greedy.

14-Urish self-described.

15. For the sake of this ultimate-

ly a kingdom was lost. 16-Change one letter of 18 down

and get a great country. -Even if you make the last. letter the first the lady will still answer to the name. 19.-The surname of a ballad hern. -A fairy who in slang is no.

thing at all..

24.-The squirrel's food. 27-A material, though it, you substituté pound for shilling it is a sail..

29.-The drinking connoisseurs of

old like their. ale thus,

30. There were many of this from Erin and a notable one in

song."

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31-A mysterious subject in which you should not dabble. 34-A mountain nearly as far

south as you can get. 38.-The moon passes from one to

another.

30-This kind of boiler may be

financially profitable. 41-A Channel port famous in our

naval history. 4-A tailless holiday resort in

Scotland.

44-A literary dog with friends. 18-By prefixing "K"you

could turn this into a boat. 48-Slang in Paris.

49.-You may with Romeo in the correct circumstances jest at this.

30.-The shield of Zeus and now a

common word for protection. 51.-A Biblical traveller." 62.-General John's surname in

the play: 53.This is designed to soothe 54.-The outermost planet so far.

you.

Down

1-Johaan did not write, the

"Rosen kavalier.". 2-You can swear by it or by it

measure land.

3-He was Hermia's father. 4-He and his like won Crecy

and Agincourt. 6.A plant that might be thought

to be happy. 4.-The home of the Krupps. 7-There were four of them in Hussia and one was terrible.... 8.--An English county,

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tener.

12-A' Welsh ruler.

16. In the plural and of adver-

sity this is sweet.

15. You should hold a good hand

before you go this. 20.-What too much sun may do to

your garden.

21. The royal title in independent

Africa.

23. One of the Joneses bore this

name.

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vehicle.

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28. Without discount. 29. Bishops know this word. 31.A tragic heroine. 32.--Mark Antony said he was en-„

...vious.

33-One of the zodiac signs,

33. If the Erst letter were the same as the second and third this would be a soft pencil. 34.-Of Bishops or magistrates. 37.-This is non-productive. 39.-He worshipa fire. 40. Hector was one. 43.-Literally a child of the North. 45.-Looks like an appointment,

but means to make up for. 47.---Sandy is a golfer.

· 40.—An old one can tell you many.

a tale.

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