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WOMEN'S PAGE

WEDDING AT THE BIRTHDAY TO-DAY BEAUTY EXPERTS' PROBLEM AT

PEAK CHURCH

Mr. R. R. W. Ashby & Miss D. P. Hughes

BOUQUET OF ARUM

- LILIES

In the Peak Church yester- day afternoon Miss Doreen Patricia Hughes was married to Mr. Ronald Robert Willson Ashby. The ceremony was per- Cyril by the Rev. formed Brown before approximately ifty relatives and friends of the well-known, couple,

Miss Hughes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Hughes of London, as escorted to the altar by Mr. Her bridal R. Keith Valentine,

gown of white slipper satin was smart In Its simplicity. The bodice was fitted with a high neck and long tight sleeves, small pearls were embroidered in a design. Tre skirt with a train was cut on the blas and without trim.

Instead of the usual net vell, Miss Hughes wore a long full chit- for drape attached to her head by one arum ly. The same tower. composed her bouquet.

Miss P, A. M. Harrop attending the bride as Maid of Honour waS attired in floor length deep blue satin. gathered at the waist, sleeves and neck A small toque with well completed her afternoon costume.

Mr. Ashby, sor, of Mrs. Ashby, of "Meath." Paddock, Horley, is Hen. A. D. C. to His Excellency the Governor. The best man was Mr. B. M. Bateman.

After the church ceremony a re- ception was held in the home of Mrs. R. Keith Valentine at 273. The Peak.

After * honeymoon trip the popular couple will take up rest- dence in the Colony, where Ashby is connected with Messrs, Dedwell and Co., Ltd.

Patricia Howell, daughter of the late Mr. James Howell and Mrs, Howell, of 32, West Ter- race, Kowloon Docks, who cele- brates her fourth birthday to- day.

THURSDAY'S MENU

BREAKFAST

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Codish Cakes and

Mashed Potatoes Rye Toast Coffee

LUNCHEON

Oxtail Soup Green Lettuce Head and

French Dressing Baked Spaghetti

with

Mr.

Tomato Sauce

Cheese Cakes.

Cauliflower with Bütter French Bread

NAVAL CAPTAIN,

MARRIED

The marriage of Captain Francis Cyril Mynn. R.N., HMS. Tarantula, to Miss Helly Ziemer née Velten. took place at the Registry, · Su- preme Court, yesterday.

Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, Regis- trar of Marriages, officiated and the witnesses were Messrs. .R Janssen and W. Janssen.

Sliced Pineapple & Cookies

Tea

DINNER

Chuted Salmon Cream of Corn Soup Tomato Salad

Chicken Baked in Cocoanut Baked Cabbage

String Brans French Pastries and Coffee After Dinner Mints

NEWSETTES

The Emergency Refugee Counell will meet at 6 p.m. to-day.

Entries for the Sallars' and Soldiers' Home Camera Club's an- nual exhibition close to-day.

Mr. Percy Chen will be the speaker at to-day's tifan of the Y's Men's Club.

A CHICAGO CONFERENCE

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Approximately 8,000 beauty experts put their heads together and agreed that American womanhood has scarcely a leg to stand

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It all started in Paris when 'fashion experts decreed that kirts were on their way up, that knees were coming into the open and that thick ankles were out with stenographer's bips.

Hollywood brought it to a boil

FIELD-MARSHAL'S | DEATH FORESEEN IN A DREAM

Memoirs Of Lady Londonderry

A dream, in which the murder of Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson was foreseen a few weeks before It actually occurred, is described by the Marchioness of Londonderry in her autoblography. "Retrospect" Frederick Muller. 12s. 6d) pub- lished recently.

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when news filtered out that such NOVEL POINT IN Six weeks before his death. Sie

stars as Claudette Colbert and Carole Lombard-whose nether" ex- tremities never heretofore had been criticized-were busy streamlining ankles, calves and legs above the knees

A Hollywood columnist recently reported that Claudette had trim- med of two inches above the knee and now was boasting over-all measurements of 13 Inches at the ankle. 13 at the calf and 201 Inches above the knee.

LEG SLIMMING'

"We call it leg slimming'," ex- plained Mrs Mary K. Braden, Cleveland. O. Mrs. Braden is presi- dent of the American Cosmetician's Association, holding its 19th an- nual convention.

"Styles, with skirts higher than they've ever been since 1930. and

BIGAMY CASE

Man Might Marry

Women Galore"

Justice

Atkinson

› What Mr. described as an "interesting point of the law on olgamy, which would have to be decided by the 'Court of Appeal, was raised at Sussex Assizes, Lewes, recently.

Thomas Joseph Treanor, 42, an hotel worker, was charged with! bigamously marrying Lilian May Anderson at Oxford in 1930 and marrying Kathleen bigamously Florence Collins Davis at Chiches- ter last January.

Henry Wilson dined with Lord and at Mount Lady Londonderry Stewart their home in, Northern Ireland,

One night, soon after Sir Henry's Londonderry departure. Lady dreamed that he had been mur- dered. She found herself sitting up in bed, calling out in loud tones. Good God! Someone must go and tell Lady Wilson!"

"Realizing that I had been. dreaming-It was about 4 a.m.

1 lay down and went to sleep again," she said. "But when I eventually woke, I still re- vividly, membered my dream

and felt as if I had received a blow."

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When she told Lord Londonderry

He was further accused of mak-and the Marquess of Dufferin, they cruaker." She retorted that she slippers appearing without tees and ing false entries to procure the reproached her with being “an old had told them "because people al- with high built up" hres, call de- marriages and stealing 27 105.

M. Eric Neve, prosecuting, said

claimed

dream! to have W335 finite attention to the ankles and

Treanor deserted his legal wife in

things after the event." the legs," she said,

"Ten days afterwards my hus- "It's the job of the beauty tech-1918 and had never seen her again.

The fact that, for seven years band telephoned to me saying my nician to know how to supply this

he had no knowledge that she was dream had come true. It was ter "leg appear."

alive might be a defence to the rible. I had debated whether I first bigamy, but not to the second should have told Lady Wilson of Otherwise a man could go up and my dream. Had I been in Eng- down the country marrying women land at the time I think I would galore.

have done so....

DISLIKED WOMEN WHO SHOT

Lady Londonderry describes an incident at Sandringham, when King George V. said that "of all the horrible" things, he thought cult to imagine that a man may that a woman who shot was the have a fresh wife every six months worst." and get away with it..

There are 100 steps to the leg slimming process, beginning with a massage of the toes and instep. and progressing by easy stages to the knee.

Mr. Geoffrey Lawrence, defend- SHAPELY BRUNETTE “„ · Pretty Maude McKenna, a shape-ing, submitted that it was a defence ly, brunette from Cleveland, agreed to the second marriage, to take part in a demonstration, climbing into a chromium-trimmed barber's chair alrendy shapely

knees

The operator grasped the right fect Armly between thumb and forefinger and began work on the tocs.

“WIFE EVERY SIX MONTHS" Mr. Justice Atkinson: It is diff

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"A mild remonstrance from me.

On Mr Justice Atkinson's who had shot both with gun and direction, the jury returned a ver- rifle from my earllest youth. There dict of not guilty on the first was a further and more vehement explosion front the King at my re- "You see." she said, "we work bigamy charge.

Mr. Justice Atkinson said he mark," she adds. from the ground up."

Lady Londonderry then remind- ruled against Mr. Lawrence in the and second

and Nasť

he directed led him that his father. King Ed- ward VII., had in the previous Treanor to plead guilty.

He said to. Treanor: "I am generation given her aunt. Lady

a Martini-Henry dealing with this case on the Radnor,

second with which she was an expert shot. "Teh! said the King." "disgust- ia a crime.

She kneaded vigorously. Miss McKenna squirmed giggled.

"Ouch." she said. "that tickles."

LAMBETH WALK

WAS INVENTED IN LONDON

"A Swell Way To Make Friends"

that think

what You might with war scares and A.R.P., Lon-

have more don. would

serious for things to think up

safled

the 9.5

than dance crazes

"Mr. C. G. Keen Shanghai yesterday in Tjinegara.

there's dance music

assumption

that' the

bigamous marriage

rifle.

By

the

If I am wrong about that, the ting, horrible, unwomanly!! Court of Appeal will put it right this time we had reached the hall. and I give you leave to appeal, If The King flung open the door, and

me, covering It does not stand it is only there before because of a purely legal techni-whole expanse of the opposite wall..

splendid collection cality and does not at all affect

behaviour on that trophies of all sorts and kinds of your moral

occasion.

was a

heads.

of

***My daughter-in-law's' (the "I shall sentence you to 12 present Queen), said the King with months on the second bigamy charge."

Treanor was also sentenced to three months on the first of the

entry charges

six and months on the second, these two

these days false-

was

a loud laugh.”

MR. MACDONALD'S UNIFORMS

Or the late Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald, Lady Londonderry writes: "Nothing gave him more genuine pleasure than the "uniforms which

for him to wear. He looked very

well in them and was proud of

But just go. to any place wher: sentences being consecutive, but his high office made it necessary

and what concurrent with the sentence for Mr. Lawrence Kadoorie has been do you find? The Lambeth Walk bigamy. For larceny he

sentenced to six months impri- appointed Vice-President of the and the Palais Glide. St. John Ambulance Association

Like the Lambeth Walk, the sonment, consecutive with the false and Brigade.

Palais Gllde was invented by Lon-entry sentences. don's Cockney boys and girls. And

Round About

the fact.

"I remember one evening when I was dining alone at Londonderry House, the telephone rang about. dinner time. Ramsay himself spoke and asked if he could look in for coffee on his way to the Palace.

Mr A E, Pearson, of the Kow-Luke the Lambeth Walt it was loon Docks, returned from Home taken over and polished up *

yesterday in the The Rev. J. R. Higgs will speak leave

4. bit by British society.

A little girl walked into a bar-When he arrived he was arrayed like a swell way to at the next meeting of the Gnelsenau, accompanied by Mrs. It looks

an Elder Brother of Trinity friends and influence ber shop leading her woolly dog as Y.M.C.A. Discussion Group on Sun- Pearson and their young

House. day at 8 pm.

people, and if they get to" doing by a leash,

The attendant looked at the It in Berlin and Prague the goy-

Nigel.

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son, make

"This was the first occasion on

A lecture entitled "Around the ernments of Europe might Just child and her dog and inquired if which he had worn it, and he had Mr. A. L. Davidson, of the Bri- tish and Chinese Corporation, Ltd., World with has returned to Hongkong from a will be given by Mr. A. La visit to Chungking.

H.E. the Governor and Lady Northcote will attend a Retreat at the Hongkong Cricket Club ground to-morrow at 5 pm.

last.

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Church at St. Andrew's to-day, commencing at 9 p.m.

Camera" Flaher Hall

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"After he and it had been duly admired, he went of" with the serene countenance of a happy child. He was at his best at such moments as these... "

2 haly into she wished

cut? The come especially to show it off. He as well melt up their guns

youngster smiled and replied, "No. was so simple and so naive about saxophones and kettle drums.

but Mickey wants a hair trin and 1t. PALAIS GLIDE

shave."

The barber was startled as the Prince Serge Obolensky, a leader-

Russlan The annual dance of the Hong-in New York's

colony, little girl lifted the pup into the kong Ladies' Hockey Club will be brought the Palals Glide to U.S. chair and connded in a low vofte, held in the Roof Garden of the trom London. He added a few "It won't hurt Mic."

introduced it Hongkong Hotel to-morrow from refinements and

Mr. J. P. Xavier, sub-accountant at the Hotel St. Regis Maison

"No shave, price for hair cut-" of the Chartered Bank of India. ette Russe.

he escorted Australasia & China, is confined Before anyone could say Par-stated the barber as

long Unės of to the floor.

од dance

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Chapman, of the

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Shortly thereafter, the "dog's coat was clipped by several inches.

pneumonia.

Storage To Suit Needs

Mr. H. Boysen, of the Over-9.15 p.m. zeesche. Kali Export M.. of

Miss F. E. the north Shanghaf, sailed for yesterday in the sa. Tiinegara. Public & Thomas Hanbury School don Me But Haven't I -Met his canine customer from the chair to bed, suffering from bronchial

for Boys, in Shanghai, was a pas- You - Before, The head office of the Red Grosssenger. In the ss. Tjinegara, which strangers had formed Association of China

esta- salled for the north yesterday. floors and were stomping away tunes blished at Ewelyang on Dec, 11

to arrangements of such After four days march across as "Little Brown Jug" and "Walt-

Making equipment attractive hold dinner plates safely, they country from Tongkoon. Mr. Wing at the Church." Mr. W. G. Mather, manager of Jong Kee, of Boggabri, New Bouth The dance is every bit as demo- and then providing good-looking sometimes can be extended. If cratic as the Big Apple and storage places for it does not a broom closet is too low to make the Ewo Cotton Mill, Shanghai, Wales, and his brother Alec, ar-

con-it easy to stow away a mop, it and Mrs. Mather, sailed for the rived in Hongkong several days seems to be a trife less strenuous.necessarily include helpful

venience for the homemaker. It may be possible to cut a segment northern port yesterday in the ago. They expect to stay here for

BIG APPLE?

is the wise house builder, owner out of the shek over-head to .Tinegara.

several months before returning to

By the way, what | Australia.

who recognizes this make room for the end of the hap-or tenant

handle. the Big Apple? The fact and arranges accordingly. pened to The conference of overseas

Glide Is Measuring the actual number of Equipment never should be add-i Chinese who are natives of Hal- It is noted in the Johore beauty of the Palais

Island, has dispatched a

Government Gazette that the Hon. that if you're a man you can near feet of shell and storage led to the home unless it per

arm around a woman space, and the depth of the vari-forms really useful functions, and telegram to Generalissimo Chiang Dato Sir David Galloway has been slip an

and without ous kinds of closets. before

then once It is added, it should be Kai-shek paying him high res-appointed an unofficial member of you never saw

the capacity with stored so that it may be of utmost pects.

the Executive Council for a further getting slapped, and if you're a comparing

requirements for helpfulness to the homemaker. Deriod of one year, with effect woman you don't feel obliged to one's actual,

a dishes, glassware, pots and pans.) I cabinets and storage "An order has been given by the from Jan. 3. The Hon. Mr. B. J. call the police when you feel

and vacuum cleaner, is are handsomely designed, Generalissimo's headquarters to R. Barton has been appointed an strange arm around your waist.

to show the inadequate for the intended pur- That's the way you start out. more than likely the effect that no motor vehicles unofficial member of the Council

around need for more space, or space poses, or are incorrectly are permitted on the highways in of State for a further "period of Line up. put your arms

in the home, they may be a thing Szechuen before 5 am and after two years, with effect from Jan the dancers on either side and better located, or both.

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Ro on from there. midnight.

If shelves are too shallow to of beauty, but certainly they can-

not be a joy forever,

nan

ever

mops

J

closets yet

placed

THURSDAY, JANUARY 26. 1939.

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