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Superlative

On your table, as elsewhere, you demand the best. That is why you will choose the superlative table salt free-running, economical.

pure

Cerebos

SALT

Rasikas Agnis?" John D. Hutchison & Co, Hong Kong..

DO YOU KNOW WHY VÉGETABLES ARE SO BENEF.CIAL?

The items of diet most vitally essenilar to health and vigor bana at of vitamins and worica and o'her mineral” salté foun in fresh vegetables. - .

CRESCENT BAKING POWDER con- lans these sɔme health-giving mineral salts.

Write for free Recipe Booke-Chinese or Foreign.

'Warning -

it is stronger. Use level apoON3.

Crescent Mfg. Co.

Far Eastern Division

Sold at all Proplaton Stores.

P. O. Box 947, Shanghal

DON'T TAKE RISKS

Dry cleaning is an important part of ang family's programme of thrift BUT

"BEWARE"

of cheap DRY CLEAN- ING. So called CHEMI- CAL CLEANING is soap) and water with a little spirit spotting. Such methods do not preserve cluth from moth and other insects,

"What is GENUINE DRY CLEANING ?" Bemoval of all dust, spots, and soiling of a greasy matter by special spirit soaps and pure PETROLEUM BENZINE which can only be used in special machines installed in a fully licensed building approved by the GOVERNMENT. There is only one large installation in the COLONY.'-,

THE STEAM LAUNDRY WORKS, MONGKOK.

After cleaning the cloth is sterilized and pressed with the latest steam presses. All SUITS, OVERCOATS, and orders to the value of 83.25 sent during May 1981, will receive ONE IMPROVED BANETEX MOTH PROOF BAG. After Juas, 10th, (date of arrival).

There is no suror method to preserve your clothes during the SIMMER than GENUINE DRY CLEANING, SEALING in a MOTH PROOF BAG.

THE STEAM LAUNDRY

Head Offee

Mongkok,

Kowloon, Hotel Depot, Hankow Road.

Hong Kong Depot:-16, Stanley St., Kowloon Dept, 19. Canton Road,

Peak Hotel Depot.

Tel. 21279,et Hong Kong Hotel (Visitors only)mam

Valeteria Service-364, Nathan Road, (next door MAJESTIC TUNATEE)

:-2, Peninsula Hotel Arcade.

Parfumerie Rigaud

PARIS,

"Un Air Embaume

EXCELLENT SCENT.

Most Popular & Famous Perfume

OBTAINARIM AT All Drugs, Chemists and Leading Stores.

AGENTS:

VICENTE ATIENZA & CO.

No. 54, NATHAN-HOAD,

57155.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1931.

WOMAN'S PAGE

WHEN BEAUTY WAS' DISTRUSTED.

די

Mailed Direct

from famous

Shoes

Prices Northampton

English at Factory

Such shades as "Rachel and. sunburn, were quit unknown,“| and many girls were not permitted | to powder at all, it being con- sidered only suitable for married women to indulge in theso arts and wiles. Even they had to do it very discreetly, and I can remember my grandmother saying severely :: “If a murriod woman cannot keep her, husband with the aid of soap and rain-water it would be batter to let him go rather than to use scente and powders."..

I don't suppose I used bath salts. before I was twenty-five or more, and the only scent. I possessed, as a girl was a little lavender water, with which I would sprinklą: my handkerchief when I wanted to be particularly dashing, Scouts and Buchlike vanities were nosoniatod in our minds with Burlington- Arande, which was the Mecca of all wickedness, and, of course, even Bond-strect was taboo after three o'clock in the afternoon,

"Cold cream." and that of a particularly stiff, and disagreeable consistency, was the only acknow ledged complexion remedy, If your face had been caught by the wind or the sun you slapped on a little cold cream and hoped for the best. No ordinary woman had any knowlodge of how to apply facial massage or how to eradicate, wrin- kles. A clay, pack would have been regarded with distrust, had it ožist- ed, and it was a generally accepted fact that a Divine Providence in- tended women of thirty-five and more to have double chins and lined. foreheady, and nobody thought of complaining.

Batter Times. Now.

The only form of artifice which was not considered' so, very repro- hensible was a wig or dyeing the hair indeed, I know one or two. most respectable old women with scarlet hair. Perhaps this was due

to the fact that the result was so appalling as immediately to make it moral.

NOT SO LONG AGO.ngo Bociety woman of to-day. Her nails are manicured as religiously ne she cicana hot teeth, and to nog lect them would be considered quite

In those days, although it was as unpleasant. Her hair is con- stantly being "set," permanently not realised, for such cults as peypho-annlysie were unknown, waved and cut. Her eyebrows are plucked, and she consults anxiously people suffered from an anti-beauty with her beauty specialist as to complex and beauty and the devil whether green powder suits her were closely associated. better than a faint shade of orange.

[BY LADY KITTY VINCENT.].

Only an unheaval like the Great War could possibly have made such remarkable changes as have taken place in the social fabric during the last twenty years.

All these are weekly rites and hardly worthy of consideration, but in addition she has oil baths, massage, and often she resorts to face-lifting and minor surgical small veing and moles,"

Instead of rovelling in a pagan manner in loveliness it was secretly

distrusted, and perhaps that ex plains why cosmetics wors regarded

with disfavour

Personally, I much prefer a world where it is possible to be nice-look-.

in merely by spending a little time

To those of us who were quite young twenty-five years ago it operations, such as the removal of and money, than living in the days

seems almost incredible that these changes tan really have taken place.

Look for instance, at the minor matter of personal cosmetics. I can remember the adverse criticism passed on a ecrtain very beautiful and well-known lady, whose hus band was in a crack cavalry regi- ment, in the matter of the lipstick

that she need on her mouth.

Twenty-five years ago the or-where saan and water were the only dinary Society woman used a little Permissible aids to beauty. pink. powder, and if she were rather advanced she had her nails manicured occasionally, but, of REMOVING MARKING INK. course, they were never varnished or shaded a bright pink. Such a proceeding would have immediately rendered her very conspicuoue, and, indeed, would have crented so much- comment that she would have found it difficult to live down.

Soap and Water.

To remove marking ink from linen, first wet the part of the linen containing the stain, stretching it. across the top of a basin or cup Shocked by Lipstick.

which is two-thirds full of hot Looking back, I do not suppose

water, and then apply salts of Irmon to the stain. Allow the salte that she used anything more daring than a very mild pink colouring, I can remember so well the ap of lemon to remain until the marks for, in those days, there were no pearance of the silver box contain are definitely showing signs of such things as orange, raspberrying my face powder and the look going. Finally, wash the material and similar violent tones to be ob of the powder, which was crudely and the ink stains will have com tained. But I honesty believe that pink and calculated to make any pletely disappeared: Care should she would have been more leniently nosa rosy. The only other alter-be taken that the water in the vessel ndead-white shade. | over which the. article is stretched regarded if her morale had been native was even more lax, but her mouth less which gave one the appearance of is almost boiling so that the steam rises through the linen. Another brilliant. That was considered the a picco of raw meat that was on crowning touch of all that was "the turn," and if it were a cold important point to remember is, not shocking and depraved.

day and the nose had been lavishly to attempt to wash the linen until Consider for a moment the or-powdered it ahone a strange phos the ink shows signs of disappear-

ing, dinary beauty routine of the aver-phorescent blue.

Macs Cafeteria

THE HONGKONG SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN mono Koko)

WILL BE

· TEMPORARILY TRANSFERRED

TO THE

FIRST FLOOR DINING ROOM)

(during structural alterations)

FROM

Monday, 15th June, 1981

Cooz

AND DELIGHTFUL

BONMENT

T

BARRÄTTS, have over 250,000) post customers. These cas tomers, sava from 20 to 40 per cent on middlemen's shop. prices in England; how much more then can YOU SAVE

Works

SLL 1024, Sizas stroked a

(medium)

OVERSEAS where tail Brown Willow and White

prices are so much higher ? Satisfaction or money back la

Buck. Vaconventional to pattem, even-

to the departure from the straight

guaranteed by a firm of inter-too-cap. line. Selected" willow call find it national reputation, Barrutta" Footshape Factory is one of the biggest boot works in England.

This 144-page Cata- logue sent Post Free featuring fine footwear for men, women and children, and out-fitting for men.

Servic

way into the principal parts of the shoe. This is protective as well as decorative." Soft white buck insertions hand sewn principle: prac tical walking solo.

Eng. Pr. 16/9 Postago 2/..

Two paire can be had for the same Postage.

How to send Your Order. Please state clearly style number and your aize, and swad chequa, money order or banker's draft' for pries and postage, Pandil outline. of foot (in stocking or sock) should be sent if you'do not know. Ülze or width, Cash'on delivery orders require 25 per cent deposit.

W. Barratt & Co. Ltd.

DEPT. D.P... FOOTSHAPE WORKS, Northampton, England.

A copy of the above catalogue showing full range of moduls, can be seen at W. BARRATT & Co., Lan. (Hong) Kong Branch), Room No. 11, 4th Floor, Alexandra Building.

DAIRY

[APE, 1.) 10

FARM DAINTIES

Summer Heat Has Its Own Reward

ICE CREAM

MADE with the purest

of cream and sugar flavoured with fresh fruits... Cool as a breeze, satisfying as a meal, nu, tritions but not too rich That's our ice cream; and there's none better.

Take home a brick or

measure as a surprise to-night's dinner.

6 Tempting Flavours

VANILLA

CHOCOLATE.

STRAWBERRY

ORANGE COFFEE

LEMON

The Dairy Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd.

A peek between meals

For a "peck between meals try two thin slices of buttered bread, spread with cheese and sprinkled with Mason's OK Sauce. You will be surprised how appetising and dainty a relish this will prove as a

carry on.

Mason's

OK

auce

RIOXLEY & CÓ HONG KONG