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hen your Nerves are all on edge

THE

THE busy mother only too

frequently suffers from worn,

and ragged nerves. There

is so much to do with so many interruptions. The children, if they are healthy, are so full of energy and make such a deal of noise.

Your nerves become strained under the pressure of household duties because the wastage of the nerve cells is not made 'good by sufficient restorative nourishment.

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1929.

WOMAN'S PAGE

SNAPSHOTS OF A BOY IN HIS GOOD CLOTHES

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

GETS ALL DRESSED UP TO GO TO AUNT MATILDA'S FOR SUPPER AND IS TOLD TO KEEP HIM- CLEAN UNTIL THEY'RE READY TO

GD.

MOTHER SHOUTS IS HE GOING DOWN CELLAR, BECAUSE HE MUSTN'T, IT'S TOO DUSTY.

DECIDES TO WAIT OUT OF POORS, BUT. IS STOPPED BY CALL FROM UPSTAIRS.

SIGHS AND DECIDES TO READ INSTEAD.

[II-4 » (Copyright, 1929, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

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It is extraordinary what romantic hold China has on thei

Celestial Kingdom seems so far away, so mysterious, that it seems sufficient to introduce a Chinese character or scene in a novel, to ensure at the least a certain amount of success for the writer.

Then when the foreigner comes to China, or to Hong Kong, what a sudden upsetting there is of all the preconceived ideas about tn.s

strange people. They become real, humaa, and after perhaps an initial disappointment, the new-comer either forgets their existence as much as he is able, or longa to learn the truth about them to replace the Mr. Wu's, etc., of his untravelled days.

ARGUES HE ISN'T: GOING TO PLAY HE'S JUST GOING TO WATCH AND HELL KEEP OUT OF PUDDLES.

MOTHER EXCLAIMS FROM DOORWAY FOR PITY'S SAKE GET UP OFF THE FLOOR, DOESN'T HE KNOW HOW LINT STICKS TO HIS BLUE SUIT.

HOUSES FIT FOR CHILDREN.

PROBLEMS OF FLAT LIFE.

·SIGHS AND DECIDES TO GO DOWN CELLAR INSTEAD AND WORK ON HIS AIRPLANE MODEL.

SIGHS AND FLOPS INTO CHAIR THINK- ING VERY BITTER THOUGHTS ABOUT GOOD CLOTHES.

HER HUSBAND.

1,

Rolande Sarrault

has now returned from

Paris and is showing

4

her new collection of

Gowns, Hats, Coats

and Sports Wear-

at

PEDDER BUILDING, 3rd FLOOR

Telephone: C. 2252.

Remanco Every Time. Dolly, coming in with her diamond rings and her chinchilla ceat, would sacrifice them and wear sixpenny pearls and her last year's model if her Hornes would make love to her as Dick does to Madge,

every

her the jolly good fellow," and she grumbles just the same, for she declares that other "people get tho best side of him.

Let a husband be domesticated, and his wife will tell you that he "potters about "and gets on her nerves," and she will have some- thing to say on the sphere of a wife and the rights of the home. Given domesticity then his wife grumbles a man who knows nothing at all of

at his lack of understanding of her lot.

Romance fetches woman time. Yet Madge envies Dolly her chinchilla-which Horace bought out of stern attention to stocks and shares and tells herself almost with bitterness' that if she is to sport even a rabbit skin this winter she will have to pay for it by the Familiarity Breeds Criticism. scrapings of her own economy. With too much love womea grow Few men can be all things to any surfeited, with too little they choose woman. When reliable and safe, to consider themselves neglected. husbands are usually lacking in If a man is always at home his wife sentiment. When they prove them-j'envies the wife of a commercial selves to be perfect lovers, pas- traveller. When ho uses his home sionate, tempestuous, then women merely no a sleeping-place, that is wonder if they alone content them. not right..

Never Satisfied.

One woman grumbles because her husband is too much the jolly good fellow, another that her husband is not jolly enough.

When a man is erratic and un- tidy, he is a thorn in his wife's IS HE THE SAME AS THE days. Yet the woman with a hus- band who is supertidy declared that OTHERS?

he sends her almost, crazy.

[BY JOAN KENNEDY}

Children are not made for flats, therefore, flats must be made for children, and with the great festival of childhood-Christmas-go near,

A very modern woman confessed. it seems an appropriate time to to me the other day that she would take stock and see what can be done

never marry because she would to bring at least the children's never be able to find in one man room more nearly up to the stand-all the qualities her ideal possessed, and required by modern thought.

liness, in fact, even more so. It

and polygamy was not yet possible. "What I really need. if I enter marriage," she said, with a twinkle in her eyes, is a husband for every mood. But the trouble with the average man is that he can't be all things to cne woman.

Pam went on to explain that if she found her intelectual ideal he was usually lacking in virility; that if she met her Samson it generally happened that he had no sentiment; that the perfect lover was quite in capable of making the necessary

The Book Shop and Bible Depot in Wyndham Street offers a chance Batisfying that curiosity. Existing

Sunlight and colour are as im-filthy lucre to pave life's pathway as it does to sell Bibles and. Chris- tian literature to Chinese and Eng-portant to their well being as clean with a little comfort. lish alike, the shelves in this shop has been well said that a bad home are extraordinarily cosmopolitan. is better than no home at all, and Romantic novels giving a more or less trathful picture of China, rub the child who is tumbling about the garden of some insanitary though picturesque cottage, is gen crally in a better case than the un

shoulders with such books 0.3

fortunate infant in a clean but

"Wanting the Moon. "Being so particular and want- ing the moon," she ended up, "I'm safer as a spinster. I've come to the conclusion that a number of men friends are better value for me than

one husband would be."

"Chinese Realities" by John Foster which gives a clear exposition of the Chinese political situation to day. "China and Modern Medi- colourless and ugly institution.

Flats are generally built on the But Pain, out of a wide experi cine," The Working Girls of most practical lines, and it is hardence, made another remark. Said China," "Eater China a study in indeed for even the most imagina- she, "How many wives are satis- race contacts," are titles chosen attive child to believe in the possible fied, do you suppose I'd take a random from the shelf of books on existence of a priest's hole, a secret bet with you that half the women

in colour.

we know imagine that the other woman's husband is better value than their own."

things Chinese, beside them is a smaller book "Tales from the stairway or a "grey lady" in such Middle Kingdom" which should surroundings, yet how big a part make interesting light reading, and these imaginative games play in a little further on is a row of the happy days of childhood. The I did not take Pam'a bet, but her native stories in Chinese characters, romance must be supplied through words set me wondering and watch. besides translations from

other means. "and can be to a large ing. well- known English books.

extent supplemented by an interest Mary believes that Madge has a To pass on old and husband who must be wonderful, faded furnishings and hangings to because Madge gets flowers and cho the nursery, may be practical from colates, little lover-like surprises in The children's room should be the frocks, advice on her hairdressing, one point of view, but is very selfish. the way of pleasures, interest in her first to be renovated. Bright and the arrangement of the furniture, pretty curtains, chair covers, pic the colour of the cushions, tures and wall decoration should be provided and constantly changed.

If you are looking for a present to send home, or for a book to enter- tain or instruct yourself, this shop will provide you with as good a choice as you could wish for..

SNAKESKIN, STRAW AND FELT.

SOME SMART HATS.

This need not involve any great ex-

'Always a Saag."

Madge has a lover in her bus- pense. There are any number of hand, and her way is paved with cheap eretombes now on the market

kisses. specially designed for the purpose,

of which a good selection" can be But what the world does not found at Whiteaway, Laidlaws, perhaps know is that there would Give the little ones a real present be only bread and cheese to go this Christinas, by making one room with those kisses. if Madge did not use her own brain to make the Two or even more materials goin your flat as nearly as possible

in their ménage,

to the making of some of the perfect nursery under modern hous-money to pay the housekeeping bille smartest hats this winter." Folt is ing conditions. often nlied with panne velvet,

velvet with grosgrain, or

Mary does not know it, but there are times when Madge envies her. her solid Tom, who is so reliable and who provides his Mary with a

satin. A bow of matching grosgrain, All sorts of oddments are cleverly tied low in front where the brim used as trimmings, though orna is cut away over the forehead, ment is kept very strictly in its gives an interesting finish to a regular allowance,' right place, very much second to the small-brimmed hat of wine red- He gives her no care over such material and shape of the hat it stamped velvet. Quaint little details as where the rent is coming self.

"Cars" distinguished a cap of from, the money. for the gas bill, The hats in The Attic which Iblack satin and has a plait of silver the cost of a new carpet, the pay- was looking at this week are nearly entions of gold tissue, while another ment of the butcher's bill, the all of the type intended for after- very smart inodel is contrived of laundry and the baker. noon or restaurant wear, and are black satin and has a plat of silver You never hear Tom making As smart as they are distinctive straw over one ear. The line of this pretty speeches, but he is a solid One small shape of black felt is hat is particularly good. A sweep husband-the oak for little Mary, trimmed with a flat application of ing brim of pink-beige felt gives who needs somebody on whom she black satin and cocoa au lait felt, chic to a black panne hat of quite can rely. Sometimes Madge would which in turn has small appliqué generous proportions.

give a good deal to have a little circles of snake skin. A short There are several other very in- of those oak-like qualities in her scarf, made of black and cocoa tereating models of which I have no man. grosgrain with circter of the reptile space to write, and you will find Hard-working Madge gets made thin on the latter pumppanicachari inibe to hide their mood hat.

attractive frocks, two or three fat envy,lier. (Continued at foot of next column). pochettes of distinctive style.

(Oontinued on next Column.)

Perfection is rare and familiarity has a way of breeding criticism. It is quite true that we only know a person truly when we live with that person. The other woman's hus band is our unknown quantity, but to the other woman butt for criticism.

The truth is that we usually see the flaws in our own possessions, and Mrs. Married Woman can gen- crally find all the virtues her man

Mated to a humdrum man, the woman with temperament grumbles lacks in the other woman's husband at the stodginess of her lot, but givent a distance

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10. Small Jake. 18.-Conjunction.

20. Comparative suffix 22.-Shoe bottom. 24. Short sleeps: 27-Front of vessel. 99.--Part of church. 31.-Sheltered side. 32.-Carret.

34. Address to knights, 38.-Musical note. 37.-North Europeans. 39,- Arose.

41-Symbol for silicon. 42-Goddess of discord. 44.-Rock 45,--Finish. 47.-Girl's name. 40.-Pulverized rock. 50.-Withered.

52.-Active.

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27.--Goes by.

28.-Broad.

30-God of love.

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38.-Does wrong.

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40. To adorn.

48.-Free from moisture. 51.Half an em,

63.-Plural pronoun. 56.-Black substance.

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61.-Pronoun.

62-Pronoun.

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