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-8-HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS

Mavo's

HONG KONG

SPECIAL SALE

HOPPE

100 DRESSES AT COST PRICE

TO MAKE SPACE FOR NEW GOODS.

NEW SHIPMENT TOMORROW.

Gloucester Arcade.

SHOWING FROM TOMORROW

NEW DRESSES FOR DAY & AFTERNOON

Tel. 33186

WEAR, SUITS, SLACKS

AND

BEACH TOGS.

RIVELLE

Gloucester Arende

WOMEN'S INTERESTS

Plaid marches to the front for warm weather evening fashions ... And Ruth Hussey pauses in her new suspender dinner dress, fashioned of linen and gay plaid in green, rust and black. The wide waistband diminishes with midriff and contrasts with the very full gathered skirt. Narrow suspenders trimmed with black velvet top The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer actress wears multi-coloured sandals to com-

plete her ensemble.

TEA-TIME DAINTIES It Has Been Said Of a quaint bodice, unusual with its shirred square neckline.

Next Elme you have a little party, or one or two friends are popping in for a cup of tea, makę sandwichez to some attractive hand round with the "cup that cheers,""

slices

You want some white bread and hew Cut sume brown--not too very thin

of both and spread them. with

margarine. white bread, Take a slice of spread it with fish or meat paste or with pounded cheese" season lightly and cover with brown bread slice.

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Put some chopped lettuce or cress on this, with 1 little mayonnaise or salad dressing If you have any, sprinkle with, salt and popper and cover with 3 white slice.

LOVE

We are shaped and fashion- ed by what we love-Goethe.

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Love warms more than a thousand fires.-Old proverb.

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People in love think other people's eyes are out--Spanish proverb.

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Where love is there is no labour; and if there be labour, the labour is loved-Augus- tine.

Ite that falls in love with himself will find no rival.—- Franklin.

On the white slice lay thin with slices of tomato, season. and with a sharp knife, cut the pepper and salt, and cover with sandwich into sllees downwards brown bread, margarined side right through the brown and the down: Press "very firmly together i white" bread.

WINGS AND WAISTS-

MARK THE

1940 SUITS

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HIGH, WIDE AND BECOMING to all are the winged revers of the 1940 Summer suits. For revers are the news. Their shape will give the fashion look to the figure hugging. waisted jacket of your new costume,

At one of the leading Lon-

dan dress shows revers were the outstanding feature

CONTRAST NOTE:

Cherry-coloured skirt with soft

Round The Shops

SUMMER HAS ARRIVED! With all its disadvantages and its ad- vantages! This fact has been brought home to Hongkong, which has already had a taste of warm and humid weather, with worse to come! The shops are vying with each other in their displays of summer goods and the early sum- mer rush to be ready for the hot days has started in earnest.

Summer. Hats:

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COLOURS in hats always strike distinctive note. A visit to Lane, Crawford's Ladies' Salon

than will more

bear out this statement. There the shopper will find a really beautiful selection of the latest summer headgear and in such a variety of colours and shapes too! Particularly chic are the flower trimmed models, im- parting, as they are meant to do, a feeling of freshness and dainti- ness to the wearer. Then, there are the models with fascinating vells and snoods--so popular among the Colony's women folk. favour Those who

more sober styles have just as big a selection: to make their chalce. trom in the plair. and fancy straw models. There should be a rush for hats here this week.

Cost Price Sale:

DROP in at Mayo's, in the Ar- cade, and be amazed! They are offering one of the largest selec-

FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1940.

A. BEAUTIFUL SELECTION

NEW

OF

SUMMER HATS

BIG VARIETY

OF SHAPES AND

COLOURS.

FANCY STRAWS

LADIES' SALON

AND

PLAIN

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

New Swathed Coiffures

tion of dresses for all occasions at THE DUCHESS OF

are

cost price. Morning, afternoon and evening wear in the most de-

designs lightful styles and being" cleared to make way for their new goods, which will be on display tomorrow.

Along with these dresses Mayo's are offering a choice range of artificial flowers -flowers always put the finishing touch to the well-dressed women's Starchly white were those in stiff pique, an excellent freshen- appearance. And don't forget that Saturday's display of new goods ing note to your suit as they were includes silk and cotton frocks cut to the shape of the cloth modelled and styled to suit the

collar or rever beneath, and were detachable

blue coat had revers to match the LATEST TOUCH: skirt. In another instance pipings at the edge gave a distinctive con- trast note.

Breast-Fed is Best Fed

The Mother of this Perfect Baby writes

"I'am sending you a photograph of Falerie Ann, aged six months. She weighs #1 16. and sleeps from 6 pim. to dam, and the Afutron of the clinic she attends has named her "the perfect baby.".

"Valmie Ann is breast-fed, and ever since ziz'momika before the vica Lown" I havn'tåken

'Ovaltind every night,”

Wide experience has proved the remarkable value of 'Ovaltins' to expectant and nursing motheri. It stimulates a rich supply of breast-milk and provides the sourishment needed to maintain the strength and viņality of the mother,

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Doctors and nurses strongly recommand that "Ovaltine' be taken repularly before and after baby comes,

Ovaltine

Enables Mothers to Breast-Feed their Babies

Distributors:-¡ARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.

45C167

Salts tend to have a uniform air, and it is lett to the revers to give the latest touch of ingenuity. Wide to the sleeve seam are the revers for the narrow shouldered girl, giving her the breadth she needs across the top of the figure.

An entirely new feature, is the single-shaped rever giving a square line across the coat, another good line for the slim girl,

summer weather.

Beach Wear:

HONGKONG'S beaches will draw their accustomed "crowds during the hot summer days ahead and

KENT

AND NURSING

LONDON, Apr. 3 (By Air Mail) The Duchess of Kent wore the uni- form of Lady Superintendent-in- Chlef for the St. John Ambulance Priory of Wales when she visited the thirtieth annual Nursing Ex- hibition yesterday afternoon, held under the auspices of the Narsing

Mirror at the New Horticultural Hall. She was accompanied by. Lady Louis Mountbatten, who was also in uniform, The exhibition continued until April 12.

PRESENTATION'S

the discriminating woman desires Lord Addison, with whom was to be as fascinating on the beach | Lady Addison, welcomed "the

WINDSWEPT

- BUT NEAT AND TIDY

bave

Women in uniform already solved the problem of hairdressing by demonstrating suitable ways to trim hair for service caps and how to introduce feminine top-knot charm even if hair is cut shorter about the nape.

"Cache Peigne". Characteristics of certain hata make for convention. "Cache. peigne" fittings some, by the way, appearing like abridged fish- net snoods-exact more or less abundant nape-line Interest, but not so the broader and longer

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age while at the same time out- lining the turn of a pretty head.

Long Hair

as she is in the ballroom. Rivelle, Duchess and made a number of head grip. This serves to perch in the Arcade, has some of the presentations. The Duchess spent small hats forward from daintiest "beach wear in town. a long time going round the exhi~ Salts and slacks in the ever popu-bits, which were of exceptional Inment, which adds dignity to car-

upward swathed hairdressing move... lar sharkskin material will find terest this year owing to the many ready buyers at the prices at nursing problems arising out of which she is giving them away..the war. Rivelle also expects a fresh as- sortment of afternoon and even- ng attire today and these can be An unusual colour scheme were depended upon to please every red revers edged with beige that taste. for Rivelle is as careful. as matched the, shaped skirt. The ever in her choice of goods for secret behind all this rever news the women in this Colony.

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is that they alm, to give us that

ilusion of a small waist that few of us really possess.

for sports sults, Matrons are going to like this.

She first visited the emergency. receiving station at the special. exhibit of the Red Cross and the Order of St. John,, where she was received by Dame Beryl Oliver, Miss Darbyshire, Mrs. St. John At-. klason, and Mrs. Tapply.

Tendencies for these windswept swathes are developing and have who leaves hair sumciently long different phases with Antoine,

so that movements can be brush- ed into position "up centre back -WELL-LAID OUTPOST

or from one side to the other. The Duchess commented that it Hair is tucked neatly under was the most beautifully laid out into line up centre back where medical service post she had seen. fuller silhouettes are suggested Watch your Jackets and see The only Service exhibit was that for evening colffures. Ends of that they fasten high, for in this of the Royal Air Force, whose both swept up and over move- Another point to note is the way" the new rever achieves its

medical branch showed now every-

are finished off. In long latest roll collar. It is small, quite modern touch. It will be a colour-thing needed in an operating soft rolls across top before the different from those of previous ful summer for no less than theatre can be transported by air peak, smaller rolls that become absorbed in a mass above the styles, and has just sumcient three colours must be seen length to slim. With a raglan-cut your, outfit and even four or five

brow, and slanting ones at sides. sleeve, it is being used a great deal if you can wear them!

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ROLL COLLAR:

1940 HATS ARE

50 YEARS BEHIND THE

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WOMEN'S HATS . this summer may be right up to the minute fashionably, but they re. 50 years behind the time historically.

"Easter Bonnets

Froot that the 1940 tad for tiny flower-bedecked bonnets goes back at least 50 years is seen in an exhi- hit of Easter bonnets from the last half century at the Chicago His- torical Society.

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Flowered Toque

The oldest hat in the collection, one which was worn by a Chicago soalety leader in 1890, could easily have been worn in this year's Faster parade.

It is a flowered toque covered with violets, roses, and feathers, exactly like many of the 1940 models.

1895 Model

Not quite so modern, but stili wearable today, is a hat from 1895. Its crown is covered with white and It is tied with a bow under the chin and worn tilted sauefly over the right eye.

FASHION NEWS

in craft.

No, Ittle June Preisser isn't giv ing anyone the horselaugh- it's, merely the expression on the wooden horse she wears as a lapel pin. Fashioned of natural wood, with painted nostrils" and "teeth," the amusing part of this little gadget is the felt ears and flowing mane of chenille.

Crisp black taffeta is the theme of - Lana Turner's off-the-face bonnet that complements (a full-skirted street-length afternoon dress of the same material. The crown úts close to the head and has a pleated brim extending in wide points from the temple to below the cars. A black ribbon anchors the hat and ties under the chin.

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Style is stolen from a man's tuxs. edo in Cecilia Parker's dinner pa Jamas. The black wool trousers areð...... distinctly of the mannish type and are accented with the satin stripe down the side. The Metro-Goldwyn-

· Mayer actress tops the slacks with a' soft white shirt, featuring long full alberes. A wide cummerbund țin bright red lends color to the en- semble and is repeated in the suede platform sandals in the same vivid, shade.

This mobile operating unit was one of the most popular stands, and the officer and nc.o.s in charge. were answering questions. all day.

At the other end of the stand was a large carrier for drop ping food in places that cannot be reached by land; a parachute was Atted to the upper part.

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The Duchess was also interested in an exhibit which showed how emergency problems an evacuated mother can met. A cradle can be made from a chest

drawers of and children's chairs from orange boxes.

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On the other hand, Graude the centre V from eliminates windswept swathes and formas a curi either side of nape where the hair is so often unruly. He also sponsors. front

partings with slanting side rolls that tum inward or outward according to type and profile. Rolls look supple, not stiff, and hair is well brushed up from temples in the groom- Ing.

This applies also to coiffures for girls between ages of 16 and 18, but deep waves are preferred to rolls and sat tucked into place by little bows at one or

GIVE THEM either side of front partings.

SOCKS

MANY readers have written asking for precise instructions how to make a bedsock. This is the pattern approved by the British Red Cross Society. It can be re- duced in size for children.

each of two predles, and one the be ginning and end of third needles: knit, next round plain.

repeat

There knit 6, take 2 together; repeat. to end of round. Kalt 6 rounds plain Knit B, take 2 together, to end of round Knit 5 rounds plain. Kait 4, take a together, repeat to

end

Materials required: 6 ounces of of round. Knit 4 rounds plain Knit white 4-ply wool and 4 No. 8 bone vulcanite needles.

or 3.

ins

Measurement when finished 22 Cast on 80 stitches (that is 20 on edch of 3 needles). Knit one round plain

Then knit 2 and purl 2 until a length of 10 inches is worked, them. kalt all plain for another 10 inches.

Knit one round plain. next round decrease 1 stitch about the centre of

3. take 2

rounds plain Kalt 2, take 2 together; repeat to end of round. Knit 2 rounds plain. Knit 1, take 2 together; repeat to end of

round together; repeat to end of

round Knit 1-round plain

Next round:"knit every 1 together, then knit 2, "sip the first knitted one over second; continue until last sittch, through which draw the wool, ledving a length of 4 or 5 taches to be neatly fastened off with darning needle.