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RESTLE'S BURE THICK CREAM]

REAL CREAM

DELICIOUS with FRUIT SALADS

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1925. (FEATURE SECTION.

WOMEN'S INTERESTS

SAFE CREAM

Because

it's STERILISED

and GERM FREE

ESTLE'S

RE THICK CREAM

THASSO-SWISS COMODELER HOSIS. Į

PERMMENT-

WAIVED COIFFURE

fancy lightly turns to thoughts of

RENEE ADOREE,

FILM STARZ

NAIVE SEAUTY

FOR THE HOUSEWIFE,

Camphor is useful for removing. many stains. As soon as a child spills a little fruit juice on her frock, damp a piece of camphor and the stain will disappear.

If a mirror has stains that rofuse to come away with a wash leather, try rubbing them with soft dustor moistened with a fow drops of camphor.

The season is, at band when the

NOTES FROM PARIS.

Brilliantly coloured silks with largo and fantastic bordor design are featured in the silk collection. Large plaids and bold stripes are also leadors.

A close scrutiny of the now evening gowns reveals a tendency to accentuate the shoulders with embroidery, jewellery or insets of gold or silver laco,

Skirts show no signs of length- ening, but rather of shortening.

tiny house moth will be deposit. In Paris the conventional skirt is ing her oggs and the following from 14 to 16 inches from the mixture will not only perfume ground.

your clothes, but keep mother

moth at a distance:-

Applique motifs of pastel-tinted

Take one ounce each of cloves, organdie are used to decorata caraway seeds, nutmeg, mace, sheer hosiery in all tho now sinnamon and Tonquin beans, and colours. The decorations are, six ounces of orris root. Put them applied on the instep or some- all together and grind them to a times at the sides. powder, then place the powder in little bags made of closely woven material, and distribute the bags) "A few years ago. flower-be-among your clothes. dooked bonnets were the first har bingers of spring. The first warm. sunshiny days sent women and girls scurrying to the milliner's shop to buy the latest oreation in new straw hats.

Nowadays, warm weather sonda

alize that the hair itself is more'

ABOUT STOCKINGS..

Chiffon and georgette orapë aro both very smart. Chiffon is used mostly for dancing frocks for evening, while georgette is used. for afternoon and for ensembles ja's woll.

For formal summer wear there

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"Miss Vita L'Ehmann, has just been chosen as official Miss Los Angeles by the Chamber of Commerce of that city. Miss L'Elmann is declared to have the most beautiful arms in America.

ROUND THE PARIS SHOPS.

the same women swarming, to Stockings are very brilliant and is nothing more charming than beauty shops for permanent decorative these days, and some the ensembles of georgette orepe Waves. They have come to re-designed specially, for evening and chiffon, the wrap being made

BAGS OF RIBBON. In the spring a young woman's "Of course the permanent wave important than the hair covering, wear had dragons, curling their of two thickness of the material

has been adopted by women for. After a winter's social season, it way up the front, worked out in banded with soft fur. wear all the year round, said Mr, is a joy to be rid of the weekly gold spangles, so that the beast actually stood out in splendid

Laca flowers are very much permanent, waves, according to

Nestle but the number of waves hot iron treatments. A damp relief from the mesh, of the stock-

Fashionable bag makers Bret Charlos Nestle of New York, increase about 50 per

cent, comb applied to a permanent

The weavers have created showing evening bags made of beauty specialist, and originator during the spring and summer wave each morning will bringings, which wore in a pale flash liked as trimming for large straw

many varied methods to resist ribbon either in loops, interlaced suade. Others less startling, but fand horsehair braid hats. equally, en tly, show motifs of

rain and wind, and now comes a or ruched. Some are square and delicate lace let in down the front.

The spring dresses are fuller new kind of georgette cire which are finished at the handle with a The tawny shade of flesh than we have been accustomed to is as light as chiffon and yet pre-silken flower, and some are slimmer sil, pared in such a clever way that round with a delicate little china coloured stocking known as but they give a

gravier." that was introduced houette, because it is achieved it can defy the windiest or the pompadour's head pooping out of at the beginning of the sen on, without Bovarity or apparent wettest day on record.. Rub the ruchings. did not have as popular a run as effort.

of this form of coiffure,

POCKETS

"AND HANDKERCHIEFS.

months."

NEW MILLINERY TRIMMINGS.

the same results.

TRIFLES FROM A FASHION NOTE-BOOK.

Very few of the simple little Although many changes have woollen and crepe frocks are con-been rung on the new millinery Ribbon is making, as well as sidered complete unless they are modes these are not so numerous trimming, frocks. A lovely model fitted with a small side pocket, or or distinctive as to make the new was" of looped blue gros-grain breast pocket, which is placed hats really very different from ribbon, worn over a silver slip. there for the sole purpose of ac- those we have been wearing A blue dress was ornamented at commodating a coloured hand- during the past so1800.

regular intervals with three bands) kerchief. A continuation of this The small bat will remain. of red ribbon, finished with neat This, of course, is a concession little bows all the way down the provided with a tiny purse sewn to the babbed and shingled heade left side. on to the middle of it," and in in our midst, for, bow could one

idea is the bandkerchief which is

carried.

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which the powder puff may be keep on a large hat without the The three-piece under-garment aid of chignon and hairpins? The has arrived for evening wear. It square-shaped crown has given is usually made of orepe de Chine, place in these to high, rounded and comprises a camisole, knick- crowns, and these in their turn, ers, and an apron effect at the instead of having bows and back and the front which does cockades of ribbon perched right duty for a petticoat. on the summit, now have bunches of flowers and poufs the same colour as the hat,

ALL GINGHAM.

The dress, hat and parasol are all made of gingham. The dreas has the long sleeves ond close-fitting collar that fashion is so insistent upon, as well as red buttons and bias banding

on the hem of the skirt and the

panels.

Furniture tapestry is finding its way on to frocks. Coat frocks Other models are trimmed with of rep cloth have large Stuart quaint metal motifs representing cuffs, a small pocket, and one birds on the wing, animals, and side of the collar trimmed with flowers. These trimmings are it. Patterns of large cabbaga fitted with tiny holes at the edge roses and leaves in all the pastel and are sewn on round the crown shades are most popular.

of the hat.

Another new idea is that of seawood. This is dyed beautiful The cuff pocket has been made shades of gold and bronze, and to accommodate the ubiquitous used mostly as a trimming for handkerchief. The pocket is so the real summery type of hat- small, however, that it only holds hats with wider, drooping brima" the flimsiest banky of georgette atd net and Jaco bats.

or lace.

The pieces of seaweed are ap-

plied flatly to the upper surface, Hats and scarves on suito are of the brim and held in place by still counted a necessity.

The

a layer of transparent net, tulle spring models are of straw with acropo de Chine or satin scarf

or crepe georgette.

SHOES FROM THE SHOPS.

exactly matching. The top-knot trimming of a bunch of cock's feathers, or a beautiful tissue

rose is repeated in the fastening

Embroidered evening shoes aro of the scarf.

the latest rage. They are usually ||-

the sandal shape, with a white A novelty is a collar of pivot- or beige background, embroidered edged valvot ribbon. A piece of with flowers and loaves in ribbon is worn round the throat, coloured throads.

looped or tied at the back with long ends that are finished with'

Black satin shoes for evening silkon roses. wear aro rather out of favour; if they are worn they must be

ornamented with brilliante,

One of the smartest shoes of

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FOR THE BOBBED.

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FOR AFTERNOON OR OFFICE WEAR.

Here are two practical frocks that would look equally well.... al a fashionable tea or in the office. At the left is a straight- line model with metal embroidery and crushed sash, forming dspanel at the side, as the only trimmings At the right is a frock of black and white foulard with an overskirt of black. It is trimmed with tiny buttons along the sides.

the moment is of pale coffes- The soerot of keeping.bobbed or coloured satin, with a very high shingled bair really trim and was expected, which is not sur Bold flower patterns in bold beel and cut out vamp, which is smart lies in nover allowing it to prising, asstocki gs of this shade colour schemos such as red and embroidered with tinsel threads.come ret in the wrong position. were apt to exaggerato the raw black, black and white, and white It is worth while to fix on an old sunburned appearance of toe lege, and rod are found in crepo do Roal bedroom shippers are being bair-not, or a thin voil, before go-1 But all other flieb shadow are juschines and chiffons. worn again; they are made ofing to bed, and even before resting as fashionable The next huo velvet, and aro gathered on to a in the daytime. The few seconds that will be launched in a deep

Linen in woven stripes and thin solo. Reund the top thore spent in this way will save many shade of battleship, groy... Wo le a piece of elastic and they are anxious minutes of ooazing re- men with anklon less shapely johooka as well as in plain colours trimmed across the front with fractory sidepieces and applit than they might be should wel is being sponsored for sport

drossos. Iwaves back into position.

come this innovation.

roses,

berised taffetas is another matori-

al that is water-proof. So there

is really noexcuse for the modern "GREEN-GOLD" BRACELETS. girl to look a fright every time the heavene send down showers

A bracelet that combines three Long ago we mado shoes and slave bangles twisted into one, bags of snake skin; now the big each circlet being of a different designers are using scraps of it shade of gold-white, green and as a trimming to tailored coats rose is the latest novelty in and jackets, dabbing appliques jewellery. of it on to pockets and cuffs and

It is prophesied that as the sea- sometimes making the entire son advances these bracolata collar and cuffs of the dead will enjoy an even greater vogue reptile. Snake skin belte, too, are than the glass jingles and the frequently the ohief feature of slave bangles of last year. Dain- a simple morning frock. The ty little rings to match are also hats that are worn with costumes boing made.

or coats on which this skin figures usually have a binding or a band of the same skin. Lizard skin, of course, is used as freely as snake skin for these decorative purposes.

The fourth-pioce dress is one of the features of the season as well as being an important concession. to the busy, and perhaps "hard-

woman. The foundation of

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this dress is a one-piece frock made on very simple, straight lines. Over this can be slipped a tunic in light crepe de Chino to match the dress, or in crepe georgette. To make still another. change, there is ancïber.tunic in a barmonising shade to the first, and made just a shade smaller, so that the first one shows out from underneath and constitutes a kind of band to throw the second into relief. Last of all comes a capa-jacket to pull on for street: wear. With black, nigger or blue as a foundation, any number of changes can be effected at little cost and little trouble.

THIS WEEK'S RECIPE.

STUFFED FIGS.

· One-half.pound pulled figs, 2 tablespoons augar, lemon, obopped nuts and datos.

Wash figs carefully through. several waters and steam until' tender. About ten minutes be fore tondor add sugar and juice of lemon. Let cool and cut off etom ond. Open and stuff with chopped nuts and datos, using onough orange juice to make moist. Borvo with slightly sweetened whipped cream,

Childron of four years of age should be served a fig stuffed -only with chopped dates.

A STRIKING FROCK..

This very feminine frock tr of white crepe handblocked in rose shades and a black lattice work. The scarf which is drawn closely about the necle in front reveals a deep Vin the back and the long end extend to the hemiine.