1939-03-03 — Page 3

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Mavo's

HONG KONG SPE

New Millinery

Straws, Fabrics, Ribbons Select, group of Cotton Frocks.

Gloucester Arcade.

End of the Season

Clearance Sale

Evening Gowns, Afternoon & Morning

Attire Greatly Reduced.

Excella

188, Nathan Road.

Kowloon.

CONFIDE

GRATEFUL IS HAVING dif- ficulties with a "thank you” note. She does not know how to express her real feelings for a gift, a bracelet, she received on her birthday.

EVIDENTLY YOU KNOW the person quite well or they would "not have sent you such a personal and valuable gift. Therefore, do not be vague: name the gift, and how you will use it. "The" coral, bracelet is lovely and will sult my new print frock beautifully, etc." Do not make your note too long and do not be gushing or over affectionate.

UNDECIDED HAS A FRIEND confined to the hospital. She wishes to send her a gift and aska for suggestions. The in- valid cannot use her eyes for reading.

IN

Tel. 50811.

FAITH PRIOR

in price by going to a less expeu- sive abode and use the money" saved in side trips, etc.

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"Α WIDOW IS HAVING difficulty with an 18-year-old daughter. The girl has finish- ed her grade schooling" and does not wish to continue in the University. The mother is having trouble helping the girl find something to occupy her ilme and mind... "

ADVISE YOUR DAUGHTER to enter the business world, there are many positions she could fill very well, no doubt. After a year of such work she may select a career for herself and at that time re- į sume,her studies which would pre- pare her for future work. Do not push the girl or become im- patient, but do not allow her đó nothing or waste her time. Try

YOU DO NOT STATE the age of and help her find work which is your friend who is ill. However, of real interest and she will prob- what about a radio-you can rent ably surprise you with her indus-

try and deligence.

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ane for so much a month-and I am sure the hospital would give

DEAR FAITH PRIOR: II a per- your friend permission to use it at various hours, A bed Jacket, pack an acting in good faith, remar- of fortune telling cards, basket of ries thinking she, is divorced from fruit, yarn and needles for knit- her first husband, finds that she hasn't been divorced. can she be ting would be, suitable. -- Of course, it depends upon how your charged with bigamy? If this per- friend is, therefore, I suggest that son quietly divorces her first hus- band and remarties her present you ask her nurse before purchas- husband, could she be charged ing any gift.

A MOTHER WISHES TO send her ten year old daughter

to visit relations in Shanghai.

with bigamy after she has done so. DEBATER.

DEAR DEBATER: In the first place you do not state what na-

There is no one in the familytionality you are. Divorce in Eng-

land is much stricter and harder who can travel with the child,

to secure than in other countries. her parent wishes. to know

If a person secured a divorce. procedure what

to follow

they would have but one marriage, under the circumstances?.

therefore, they could not be living THE STEAMSHIP COMPANY in bigamy, then, could they? It can help you in this matter. Be is very seldom a divorce can be sure relations will meet the child received quietly, some publicity is In Shanghai, and arrange with the usually attached to it. If this steward and matron on the boat problem is of personal interest. I to take care of the little girl. Na- would suggest you see a lawyer terally you will double your tip to and have him explain the details these servants for their care of of the law to you. your daughter. Give the tic- ket and any money she takes with her to the Purser before the boat; leaves and put your child in his

care.

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She will have a pleasant trip

(Each week in this column FAITH PILIOR answers ques- tions of a personal nature sub- mitted by readers of the "Daily Press")

and be well taken care of on the ASKED QUEEN

Journey, Every large steamship.

line has ample facilities for chil-

dren's enjoyment while travelling MARY, KISS ME

"Who are you?"

WOMEN'S INTERESTS

Fashion

Round The ShopsTM

PRE-VIEW

Jonqulis, violets, pansies, daisies and tulips, which are now on dis- play in the Colony's flower shops, herald the opening of spring. This year our winter has been shorter and the delightful weather of the past few days gives all the ladies a touch of spring fever.

A lady's fancy may turn to love and travel in the spring, but right now, clothes are her main concern The Silk Suits

1k

Library, Supreme Cour

SET STYLES ARE TABOO

Gone are the days when women complied with set style rules of what to wear for specific events. Feminine hearts flut- ter to the tempo of most any ocasion if they know that they ATD outstandingly attired in infinite good taste. Perhaps this is the reason why the ladies manifest such a fair at the race track, evening dinkag and dancing in hotels and various other affairs after Sundown.

They adore the show of it all a lov of every Laveller's. heart. and the most dramatic most ex-Camel's hair is very popular for viting moment is when they find this type of costume. A few styles themselves in the "glare of atten-have saddle stitching about the

tion."

In the past, many women have made the great mistake of flaunt-

edges with silk cord braid."

TOP COAT

The top coat is perfect for duty

with bell sleeves.

to rough, mannish sports clothes over other frocks which makes the at the races or any athletic meet, choice a wise one as you have a when they were unbecoming to summer, top coat along with the their type of beauty. But the wp-įsult. Colours are orchid rose, Very new. very flattering and man of 1939 is much wiser and blue and the natural tan'or camel's very suitable to Hongkong's cli-smarter in the ways of fashion and hair. The tailoring is plain, skirt mate is a two or three plece silk does not bedeck her figure with agored all around, a kong hip-atting sul, and that is exactly what garment which is in style but not jacket and full very simple coat fashion centres are acclaiming the suitable to her personality, latest in style, LANE, CRAWFORD have a varied selection of these new semi-dressy suits in crepes, reps and satins. The jackets of the ensembles, different in tailor- ing and design, all of them are styled with outstanding Jackets and plain skirts. Printed, pressed antin, rough and smooth crepes, 'some with embroidery. fine silk reps and other novelty materials are used.

A few sults have satin or crepe blousettes or can be worn with a silk blouse. Tailored informal sults have replaced the formal dinner suits, and will be worn from afternoons into informal evenings.

The Bargain Hunters

The number of women who are not constantly on the hunt for bargains in household or wearing apparel is very small This week EXCELLA, in Nathan Road, has been selling at greatly reduced prices, the remainder of their win- ter stock. Hats from $3 up, cotton frocks from $2.50 up. day and afternoon dresses priced accord- ingly, and evening frocks from $15 UD. Handbags and two-plece knitted suits have been grabbed by shoppers.

Several young ladies have found that reduced evening and dinner gowns are worth the Investment, especially after the tailor has re- modelled.. these dresses into sult- able afternoon and "Informal evening attire.

Practically all the merchandise in. this shop has been reduced to almost the cost brices and the wo- men have been beating a path to this sale.

New spring merchandise from America is due to arrive this week, therefore, all the winter and mid- season stock must be cleared and there are your values, mladies! Mad Hatters

Maybe you will think the millin- ers have gone stark, raving mad In hat designing for spring and summer! But just a moment, try on a new style, or two, then you mect your waterloo, you will not be able to resist buying one of these creations which you thought were completely mad. MAYOS, in the Arcade, will sympathize with you and your problem which will be solved by a chapeau from their varied selections,

gard. Last Two Exle Days

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“A CASUAL auxit with matching topcoat in hair angorn cloth is accented with saddle stitching.

You see

women in

tars over

PERFECT SETTING During the morning or afternoon

FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1939. -PAGE 3

Showing now

Informal Afternoon

Suits

Crepes, Satins

and

Silks

Select group

of

New Blouses.

Ladies Salon

Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

Tel. 33186.

Last

Day of Sale

Saturday.

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New Merchandise

arriving President Cleveland.

RIVELLE

TO BE IN 1939

Gloucester Argade.

NOT TO BE

IN 1939

Forget that rather sickening ad- miration of the Glamour Girl, a. thoroughly adolescent conception. Away with your apathy, which you Be sure you have a few passion-call broad-mindedness; for the

(A LADY)

ate convictions. That you are in-sloppy way you speak, and for sim- telligent and frontierless in political ply

loving "Marie Antoinette" Interest. And violets are pinned, which politely ignored the French on your muff, plus the realization Revolution. that nothing brings out the Renoir, in vou so much as an oblique glance through your chenille veil Be sure you are gentle.

Please don't quote from a book inaccurately and start your intro- duction by saying vaguely, "I read Attain a new precision in your somewhere," and then forgetting S vocabulary, vivid but not shocking, the author's name. And please miaus "lousy" and "divine" and don't have a hair-do" so with "amusing" permanently ban-,plicated that it has to be lacquered ned.

The sliver of your repartee in place.

is welcome after a decade of wine-i

feeling

COM-

cracks Be sure you know about! Do not be so easily Influenced by cold water tenements, and under People with different standards stand the chill

than your own. Or do not always of being afraid. "Parade your sudden take brandy and never remember tolerance; as the new touchable port. And do not think a decisive quality of your well-brushed hair, whinny at any sensitive emotion is Beware, do not be mistaken about proof of a sense of humour, or that any evening dress is becoming prejudices,

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hand-me-down

long in the family, which are sup if it is cut low enough. posed to be proven truths. Forget And why join in the Lambeth not the Clarion red of your coat Walk, and pretend that it is a lot this year. And be sure you are more fun that it really is. Do unashamedly fond of your children. not be the one smoking through But, Oh! do not do your living your hat vell. And don't be guilty room in white.

of inadequate introductions, think PERFUME ADVERTISEMENT

ing its all right to ignore names so "L'Apres Midi d'un Fame" for an for using words you can't passibly Don't mistake the backdrop long as you remember faces. Also, old-time perfims advertisement; define.

and do not be taken in any more »

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by those hairy, swatting, four- Are you still wearing those doll letter writers, who give you im- hats, which were merclies to your printables for force, and no face? And are you leaning over a asterisks at all for passions.

bridge table in a low decolletage? and be very sure of your high It is very poor taste to be uncon sense of social responsibility in cernedly fate for dinners? outlawing dinners, dull and endless, shame, if with the food as heavy as the every detail of the foreign | news"

you try to know conversation. That you are not and not the names of your own taken in by the hothouse eroticism country's of certain Hinda of painting. You carrying purple lipstick to funeral diplomata. And for must change many things in 1989 lengths. You are not supposed to berides the way you do your hair, and before you know it, you'll have thing Modigliani is a cheese or s the men, es a kind of unexpected crooked seams, scuffed heels, wispy wine. And double hame for and thoroughly masculine gesture, back hair; and forgetting the fact taking you to luncheons and play that people see you going, as well ing the "Sir Walter!"

as coming.

Pill-boxes, exaggerated "sailors, picture hats, bonnets, made from

After 5 pm. you will see lots of straws, rough and fine, linens and dressy dresses, sabies cascading silk or silk and wool jersey. This silks are placed on your head.stout determined shoulders of a material designed along dressy pushed here and there until they tailleur or British tweeds beautt-lines is extremely chic and new suit your individual personality. In rally cut and designed. But what when Worn with TILES Exter these last two words you have the ever you ladies faunt be sure it the sun is down and lights are on. definition of the coming millinery is the most mattering to you Dining; having tea, dancing, going "Tashions. No set styles-there are

to the theatre or concert, matters many to choose but be careful,

not you will see the ladies wearing spend SA hour if necessary in

when attending spring

ulk jersey. SPOTY searching for the hat which pro-

}activities flamboyant clothes are

The cut in this cyle for late day vides interest for your coiffure,

given a perfect setting. You would and early evening has fullness of And we assure face and costume.

the bodice as you Mayos fill the bill in this re-lot wear a dramatic plaid coat skirt in front,

shopping or teaing but at such detail. gathers, pleats, drapes or sport events it would be the unusual cut sleeves can be long, cynosure of all eyes. Amazing three-quarters, short, full or Evening gowns, dinner gowns, combinations of colours are used narrow, suit your personality. felt hats, street dresses, afternoon)ior this apparel; red, black, white'

FASHION CHANGED and informal evening frocks will and blue in a group; or green,

March and into April furs will on sale at practically cost yellow, black and blue, and again

work and the fashion prices, to-day and to-morrow in pink, brown, gold and a little green still be

changed in coats White RIVELLE'S Shop. In the Arcade Coats have an easy swing with has The mid-season stock must be built-up shoulders, large inside Chinese kid is covering many cleared to make space for the new pocket and small collars if any. figures in the fashion centres. A spring and summer. merchandise. Suit bats are longer giving new design has a circular yoke in Many styles included in this sale length to the waistline. And into the back which is swung from the are very suitable for the present spring prances a fitted cost of neck, the front is simply draped, weather and the next two months laquer ret, biting yellow or brilliant shoulders are high and the sleeves to come. And new style treat- blue, fitted in style, very plainly are wide with bell caffs. Three- ments are incorporated in" this tatlored." worn over dark simple quarters is the usual length. sale selection. Pleats, gathers, cir-dresses

Reports say the latest conceflt in cular skirts, long and short sleeves, Three-piece ensembles are back pelts is the London sable-dyed swimming trunks, and evening⠀⠀ But as the Queen, was about to bigh and low necks in materials in fashion for day wear. these are squirrel designed with straight clothes plus changes of under gar-fleave, the child ran after her, pull-of-crepes, sheers, light wools, satina |———

lines slightly atted at the waist, ments are all you will need. Re-ed her coat, and said: "Oh, please and acetates.

*** be on display in this shop. Bour heavy square aboulders and full garding hotels; it is not necessary do kiss me."

By the middle of next week the to nuts, meaning morning attire sleeves with very little to the turn- advance spring styles arriving on to evening gowns will be in the ed down tuxedo collar*** the "Cleveland” from America will new group consigned to RIVELLE Scarves, Jackets, muds of fur and summer costumes.

A VACATIONER is planning

a month holiday this spring, He wishes to travel by air and steamship." He asks about wardrobes for southern wear and hotels located in various cities.

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A TRAVEL-AGENCI, STEAM- SHIP or airline office can help you regarding a wardrobe and hotels in the south. However, your usxal summer apparel will do very nicety on your trip. Linen suits, shorts,

"I am Queen Mary." "You're Queen - Mary, "are you? Well, please kiss me?”. This "unrehearsed" incident took place during Queen Mary's vialt to the Royal Boldiers Daughters Homes, In Hampstead, London....

Queen Mary had gone to see the infants when one, who was only four, asked to be kissed.

Queen Mary side: "Oh, I am afraid I can't. You see, if I kiss you, I will have to kits every-

ote."

for you to stay in the most ex- Bo the Queen graciously stooped pensive hotels, save the difference and kissed the child;"

be

are still holding their own in the public anecdotes about your private There is no forgiveness for your spring fashion parade.

No doubt you have foticed the fe. Your complete disregard of new prints Just received in the what men like you to wear. For Hongkong shore. Note the baste hinking that charm la a kind of colours, shoes, hose, all accessories Parlour trick that you've never have changed to kom line with us troubled, to practise. And the softer 1938 shades and above for treating your husband carelem all, the most important change and, as though he were an aging which you must accept sooner or muft. Before you know it Female later is the new tone in make-up. of 1939, you'll have the men, as a Finky, purple and cyclamen stades kind of unexpected and thorough- you will have to change to when ly masculine gesture, laying at wearing the new exciting, spring home reading books and enjoying

the evenings in their clubs,