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MASTERS OF PERMANENT BEAUTY.

LOVELINESS THAT COMES FROM PAIN.

NEW TORTURE"

TREATMENT, ·

I have just paid a visit, writes a correspondent to one of the Home bapers, to London's latest and most up-to-date Chamber of Horrors." No, it is not at Tussaud'a nor at the Tower of London. It is a few yards only from Bond-street, and there are no iron bars to the win dows nor stern-looking warders at the doors.

patient alignment as chorus girls in quest of a job.

I have been allowed to see every detail of the "Chamber" and even to touch every one of the exquisite- ly finished electrical instruments which can împart blue, black, red, 'mauve, green, and all the other colours in & permanent way and by the mere presure of a switch.

650 Moves a Minute.

The most useful of them contains a needle as thin as a hair, almost invisible to the naked eye, which can be made to oscillate at a speed of about 650 movements per minute. It is a terrific speed, one which closely resembles the buzzing of a fast electric bell.

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The needle goes right into the ekin, and every stab must mean a real torture to the paticut. imagine delicate parts of the face, like lips and eyelids, being "per- You can go in and come out at forated" at the speed of 650 per- will if you are prepared to pay for foratjous a minute. Yet no woman your torture." No men are al-ever eries, nor even murmurs, un- lowed. It is a "Chamber of Ilor- der the skilled hands of ber beauty ros" for women only, where the specialist. very latest beauty specialist of the world is giving women a treatment which claims to be a revolution tin itself.

No anaesthetic is given, not even smelling salts. Occasionally a pati. ent might just lightly faint, but the pleasure of knowing that her Lipsticks, pencils, brushes, paint, lips will be as red as pomegranate juice, and that her eyelashes will Dad waxes have all done their turn, They all require long hours of at-turn from fair to as black as those tendance every day, and modern of a Chinese, is sufficient to con- woman is getting so busy that shequer physical pain. can hardly derose hours of her time in beautifying herself.

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The treatment is costly. I am told that a face" "permanently" treated is worth from £5 to guineas, according to work, but à guarantee is given that it will not discolour for at least ten years, which means, after all, a fairly substantial saving against ordin-

She needs something more perma- nent and more durable. This is what the modern beauty specialist sets out to do. He claims to act your lips as red as a cherry inary lipsticks and paint. the space of a few minutes and to last for ever.

He claims to blacken your eye-. lida as dark as cbóny and to last for eternity. He claims to pro- long the arch of your eyebrows and to remain indelible for all time.

He is the master of "permanent"; beauty; he is the master of the se cret process which will fight time and age, and which will make wo man's beauty impervious to years and to weather.

I am told this is a real boon for women, and it must be so, for the persuasive, little white-haired minn with Harold Lloyd spectacles who received me at the door of this aw "Chamber of Horrors" had only a few minutes to spare for me, and a number of women of all ages were lining up for treat ment with the same orderly and

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Reverse Operation.

At times, however, some of the women who have been permanently treated wish to go back to their natural complexion. In this case everything is provided for them for the reverse operation, another simi- lar form of torture under which a woman can be assured that red lips will become" pink again and that black eyes will lose their injected colour. It is merely a question of fees.

Woman can nowadays be so trans-

themselves. formed that husbands may not be able to recognise their out from wives when they come this most up-to-date beauty parl

In fact, I am told that a our. certain bluish paint for the cheeks is very likely to become fashionable next winter.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

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Hozizontal.

1-Musical scale.

6.-Steeplc.

11.-Rest.

12.-Hostelries.

14.-Again.

15. Handles roughly

17.-Inclosed.

16. Central.

10. To think.

20-Cutting tool.

21-A parent.

22. To turn away.

3.-Solo.

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16.-Tunes. 19.-Baking places. 20.-Got up.

22. To be of use.

23.-Garret.

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23.-Protective garment.

26. Compact.

28.-Group of special students. 29.-Longed.

30. Worshipped. 31.--Part.

32.-Musical instruments, 33. Compound ether. 35.-Cavity.

21-Ships in 'blackbirding" trade. 38.-Wind" indicator.

20. A bird.

2. Shallow dishes.

28.-Drunkardis,

20.-European city.

31.-To alleviate. ·

34.-Image.

35.--Funny.

38.-Part of to be.

3.-Prefix of negation. 39.-Conclusive. "

39. Very warm.

40.-Comparative suffix.

41.-Poe's famous bird.. 42.-Colourless.

43. To testify.

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45.-Hindu: incarnation.

47-Is fond...

48.-Ceremonies.

1.--Cordial. 2.-Imitated.

Vertical.

3.--To cut. 4.Pronoun, B-Lesscns in force. 6.--To`switch.

"7-Rod."

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9.Prix: again.

10-Tonic.

11-Sloping walks.

13-To approach stealthily.

39.-To deteat.

41.To decay.

42.-To stroke. 44.-Italian river. 46,-Six

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1930.

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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

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WOMAN'S PAGE

SUBURBAN HEIGHTS—THE WREATH

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

CALLS "TO WIFE TO COME SEE THE FINE HOLLY. WREATH HE GOT FOR THE PRONT. DOOR.

DECIDES IT'S GOING TO TAKE HIM LONGER

THAN HE FIGURED ON, GOES IN AND

PUTS ON SWEATER AND OVERCOAT. GLOYAS

WILLIANS 12-21

SAYS SURE HE WON'T LEAVE IT IN THE CHAIR, HE'LL PUT IT UP AS SOON AS HE GETS THAWED OUT.

PICKS UP HAM- MER, NAIL AND WREATH, DROP- PING THEM AGAIN AS HE PRICKS FINGER ON WREATH.

TAKES HAMMER NAIL AND WREATH AND GOES OUTSIDE.

GETS WREATH UP AT LAST. FINDS HE DIDN'T GET IT QUITE IN THE

MIDDLE, BUT IT WILL HAVE TO

DO.

FINGERS GET SO COLD, HE KEEPS. DROPPING NAIL.

PULLS CHAIR UP TO RADIATOR TO GET WARM AGAIN, SITTING DOWN ON' HOLLY LEAR WISHES HE HADN'T BOUGHT WREATH.

(Copyright. 1929. by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.);

THOSE DIFFICULT LONGER FROCKS.

COLOURS, MATERIALS AND LINE.

The new-fashioned evening dress | If you are any judge of character, with its long skirt lips accmplished you will have a most amusing a miracle. It has made the modern evening. woman self-conscious. You can see Long frocks are still something this miracle actually working any of a novelty, though I noticed only evening in the ladies' cleak-rooms two short ones at St. George's Ball. of smart restaurants. Women Bre

so anxious about their dresses that they almost forget about

faces.

their

The truth of the matter is that. we have almost forgotten how to manage long skirts, We have be come Bo accustomed to lounging about with sunken chest and round- ed shoulders, that we have lost the art of wearing our clothes with dignity.

The Enfortunate result of this is that very few of us are able to show off' our new evening dresses to their best advantage.

We are told ilut corsets will solve all our diffienities this winter. Corsets will help us to tertain.

extent; but if we really intend to look our best in the evening, we will have to learn how to walk, and carry ourselves, as well as our | mothers and grandmothers did.

A great many chiffon, satin, geor- gette and crepe de Chine evening frocks have elaborate strappings, rather harness, of the material across the bare back. There is a most original black velvet evening gown in one of the Champs Elysées dress shows, with the very low décolletage cut in points, three rows of rhinestones across the hack join- |ing the points on each side.

The most popular colours for these materials are pale grey, dark pink, light geranium red, bottle green and black. Some of the heaviest taffeta and fuille have pin dcts, or tiny criss-cross velvet patterns.

Black evening dresses have been unpopular during the past year or 80 Now, however, they are com- ing into fashion again, and the smartest women at Home are wear- ing all-black evening gowns of net, chiffon, and lace, velvet satin for dancing and supping at restauranta and night clubs,

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Women are taking mare nolice now of each other's clothes than they ever have before. Next time you go out dancing just notice the face of any woman in the room each time she catches sight of one of the new season's modela that she has dot seen before.

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DO NOT

MIX YOUR STEPS.

WARNING TO MODERN

DANCERS.

The steps of the various modern

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"Oh waiter, what is this you've

brought me

Why, that's bean soup."

MODERN.

Professor: "Microscopical in- vestigations lead us to believe there are colours too delicate to be dis-

"Of course its beez soup, but cerned by the human eye-invisibly what is it now?"

Client: "Could I see General "Green

Clerk: Sorry, but the General is ill to-day."

Client: What's the trouble?” Clerk: "Oh, things in general."

colours, we may call them."

Student. "I know the name of one of them,"

Professor: "Indeed! what is it?" Student: "Blind man's buff!"

Sandy had just arrived in the United States. As he walked off the ship he saw'a man in a diving outt climbing up from the har-

"Ah ain't gwine run after no bour to the deck. mo' trains"

"""Why ain't, yo'?”.

"Cause I ran after one de odder day; and when ab caught it, ah was two stations past whar ab wanted to get off!"

"Mon Mon," explained Sandy, I wish I had known about that sooner. I'd have walked across my- self!"

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Two coloured boys were arguing about who was the thinner of the two.

Ed: "How is your son getting along in the Ford factory, Jost" Sam "Nigger, you is so thin, Joe: "Fine, he's been promoted." | yo' ma could use yo' fo' a wid- Ed: "Promoted ?"

Joe: Yes, sir-he used to put on chassis nut number 34, and they jumped him right up to number 37."

Customer (after clerk has pulled down all but one of the blankets on the shelves): "I don't reallly want to buy blanket to-day. I was only looking for a friend." if you think your friend is hiding Clerk (sweetly): "Well, madam, in the other one. I gladly take it down for you."

dances of the ballroom should never. be mixed. This warning to those who would preserve their equili brium on the dance floor is as essential to bear in mind as it is to refrain from mixing your drinks.

There is nothing guaranteed so readily to," bowl you over" as a Uncle Eli (on shopping excursion cocktail containing a measure of in city): "I'm lookin' for suthin' this, a dash of that, and a spot of as a present to bring back to my the other thing. So it is with danc-wife

ing. Nothing will so readily upset Clerk: "How about this pair of balance, put a dancer out of his candlesticks. They're genuine an- stride, as an attempt to mix the

tiques." steps of various dances.

Docktail Dancing."

This is a mistake most common among dancers who, in every other way, are first class-and they won- der why they cannot balance 'pro- perly!.

Their style may be perfcet, but! the mixture of steps creates a kind of "cocktail dancing". that is neither one thing nor the other, and does not allow the full scope of pleasure afforded by the in dividual dances of to-day.

This mistake is so prevalent be cause most dancers are so steeped in fox-trat rhythm that they strive to alapt to all others the compara. tively easy steps done to that parti- cular rhythm. The result is chaos. Many of the steps of the fox-trot are.like those of the waltz (although actually the rhythm of the waltz is much slower and quite different), and so the ordinary dancer, with a limited repertoire of stepe, uses his knowledge of fox-trot steps. for all dances

This practice may serve for a time, but difficulties are bound to crop up. Feet will get into a hope Women are complaining a great

Icas tangle and steps simply will not fit in. Balance will be impair- deal about the new evening dresses -but they are buying them as fasted, hold-ups in mid-floor will occur, and afforts to regain control and as they are imported. The Felix Hat Shop had a lovely collection start afresh will cause vexatious

confusion, of models from Paris and New York shortly before Christmas and within a few days all were sold. Now, they tell me, they are wait- ing for a further "collection from Paris and some very lovely dresses are expected.

Pioneer News,

Several big caxes of new gonds were unpacked at the Pioneer Silk Store at the end of last week. Besides a big collection of delight- ful printed silks are some Indian bed spreads and table covers which are unusual nadd attractive.

The silks and oripe de chines and georgettes, have for the most pirt the small formalised patterns in one or two colours on a plain light ground which are new this season. Dark raisin and garnet reds and marnaut,—reds that look like-brown and browns that look like red-are most important if you would be up to date and these patterned 'kilks show how lovely they can be. Pastels have brightened up considerably and pearly white and grey, and cop- pery holes are also significant of the season. There is some georgette, too, in various colours, with a moiré pattern woven in silk on a white ground.

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The bed spreads are of the marcella type with a silk padded damask They are renamnble in price and can be had in o good, range of colours. · The table, dothe and curtains äre rich in the warm golds and reds of the East, and not unlike carpeta, woven

- New fannel coolie coats, haori coats and kimono havé also ar- rived as well as a new shipment of 157z Kayser stockings,

The Six-Eight.

Keep dances distinct from "one another. If you do not fox-trot and

waltz, wait until the one of these two dances which you have learned is played. Then go all out for it. You will enjoy it all the more. When you are proficient, in" one dance it will be time enough to acquire steps of another that has a different rhythm.

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It is quite permissible to intro- duce the steps of the quick-step into the "Yale Blues." These two are of the same family. The Yale Blues ia based on the rhythm of the fox-trot, and is but a charming now and exhilarating variation. Coming from the same decanter, so to speak, it can be mixed-with the step of the quick-time fox-trot without disastrous, consequences.

But it is entirely wrong to mix the steps of the new. Six-Eight with those of any other dance and will Lead to an soul of entanglements, The Six-Eight, like the tengo, 18 an entirely individual dance, and bears no relationship to any other of the modern measurer:"

"Maybe they are, but they look secondhand to me!?!

dow."

Rastus. "That's nothing, child, yo' is so thin yo' mu could give yo grapejuice and use yo' fo' a ther- mometer."

Victor told Ralph that he had seen the fourth dimension on the

accasion of last New Year's eve, and in fact could explain it.' Ralph was sceptical, 80 Victor began to expatiates-

Last New Year's eve I was in pretty high spirits, and I took » walk round to the railway yarda to clear my head, as I was seeing things double. When I first glimps ed it, there was a locomotive on the track, but the second time I looked there were two, and the third ime there were three stand- ing side by side. I got mad and looked again, and I'll be danged if there wasn't the fourth dim en- gine!"

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