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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1925

WOMEN'S INTERESTS

Hervis pictured Maria Esther Pomar, one of Mexico'n' prettiest comie actresses. She is shown wearing a hat trimmel in white wetrich fathers..

MEN AND MAIL JONGG.

Mah Jongg is still very popular

IDEAL AGE TO MÁRRY.

The ideal age for a girl to with marry is 25. Her husband ought, women, who dorcribe it as such to be three years older--no more

In London, especially

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FASHION NOTES.

Square scarfs of shaded chiffon have long knitted fringe and are charmingly ethereal for evening.

GORGEOUS EVENING WRAPS.

INTERESTING ITEMS.

-Tho amartest groys a e in the Evoning cloaks are more gnr. Most attractive hata are made. putty shades-that is, with a sug-gaous than the lovely frocks which of moire ribbon with a line of gestion of yellow about it.

they concoal. All the colours of gold about each edge, the ribbon a splendid suúcot were reflected boing about half an inch wide. in one vary alaborato cloak of Such hats are lovellost when self brocaded satin, and the floral trimmed with only, a bow or s design was surely the largest kaot of ribbon." ever seen in this season of huge patterings. The cloak, waich- was fairly wide and long was. Wrapped in slim lines round the wearor and was bordered with black coney.‹

Flannel and other soft finishod wools are very attractive for sport ensembles in the pastel shades.

This is season of bright coloured millinery, and the red hat is at the height of its popül arity. Shades of rose and purple are also likod.

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Whito sweaters that button closely about the nock, or have a turnover or round collar bound with a colour are very popular with school and college girls.

One of the most lovely dance, frocks over created is of white chiffon with bow knots of brilliant. rhinestones scattered irregularly over the surface of the vory full skirt and very snug blouse,

Taffata and chiffon dresses with very bouffant skirts come in cyclamen, faded ipink, lavender and in combinations of blue and pink and black and pink.

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Lace fans with lovely amber or Carved ivory sticks are a pleasant change from the more common plumed varieties.

Jewelled hosiery, while it is not exploited by the most conger- vatively gowned women, ja never- theless snown in the most ex-| clusive shops, at prices that are quite staggering.

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Lovely hand-dyed scarfs have Russian designs, and Russian colourings and are most effective; with a dark suit or gown..

The lie oxford is making a, bid peaceful game." There is no and 10 less. A great many for popularity this season. It is doubt that the accessories have a people think that the bus band shown in natural alligator skin good deal to do with its popularity ought to be 10 years older than with tailored stitchings. with the fair sex.

Mou, however, enjoy it, top. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, for example, prefers the game to bridge, and is uncommonly quick at it, too.

A COLOURFUL FROCK.

A colourful frock with dots and circles of rose colour on a background of Copenhagen blue, Buliness is introduced by plents that hang from the pockets monogramed tie.. and bands of plain colone form the trimming,

the woman he marries. "A woman ages more quickly than a man," they say in explanation. This is not true. Take a look at a nian of 40 and his wife of the same age. Nine times out of ten the man will have just as many wrinkles as his wife. His bairi will be just as grey

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ho may have a bald spot besides ! Most womon of 40 know that they are 40. But the aveTARĖ inan of 40 thinks he is still a young dop. Ho firmly belioves that young women of 30 or so are interest in him

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they are. perhaps, Bot not romantically. They may enjoy going out to lunch and dance with him. They may he thrilled by his attodions But dopend upon it, the harn al appor wante to marry a man who is not much older than she is.

Marriace, has been called "a voyage into the unknown with the unknown." Two people think that they are going to live happiir together

becauso each

happens to like the way the other makes love. Ilardly ever do they. stop to consider whether they

have the same tastes, the saine outlook on life,

PANELS FOR SHORT SKIRTS.

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The newest bats are narrow: of brim but vory bigh of crown, but the crowns aro so deftly crushed or built up so smartly there is no sense of disproportion.

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Another strikingly beautiful evening cloak was offlame colour- ed chiffon valvot, trimmed with bunny fur dyed to match-and to An attractive shoulder, pin to match exactly the rosult of be worn on a white satin frock years of experiment. A luchas threo large circles of square) Chinese silk wrap, embroidered cut sapphires outlined with small with rhinobills. in silver pagodas, was bordered diamonde.

was out an extremely narrow frock, unrelieved with any other A full-length cape of dark, sable Tho Blame-coloured chiffon lines, giving a wonderfully supple colour or trimming but the ma- effect, and a squirr. 1 cloak was made wide enough to be worn in terial, continues to be a leader in

fashion.

less regal mannor, and bad, indeed, an almost jaunty touch.

TINY MIRROR.

The newest Type of finger ring is a large, portion of mirror set in a gold of platinum frame,and worn "on the first Auger. It comes in very handy when the lips need „redecorul“.

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HOW TO KEEP FIT.

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With the abort, lounced skirt footwear becomes most import- ant. The pewest shoes are simple in design but very elegant'as to! material and cut.

Bonded stockings, with designe in cut steel or gold beads from instep to knee are among the ex- treme novelties of this season.

Some of the newest garters from Paris have quaint rosettes in which a small face is surrounded by white ribbon, giving the effect of a Fierrot.

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Lace hats are being introduced for evening wear the lace, being handled just as velvet or satin, would be and draped into, the popular high-orowned effects.

The newestfrocks for tennis are absolutely sleevesless and have wide, circular, but very abbre- viated skirts.

Lolita Lee, 21-year-old college girl of California, is the First one selected for admission to the new Paramount Pictures School just established to train prospective screen atars,

A FAN FROCK.

FOR THE SHINGLED.

Twin combs are the fashion of

All the most radiant shades of sunrise seemed to have been used the moment for the shingled. The

in one of the frocks worn by Miss

Grey is smart, becoming. in the class with the beige and Stella Arbenina in "Yvolle," C.B. more novel the shape the better.

Fornald's new play at the Evory- Gold and silver veining on

blond man Theatre.

tortoiseshell is counted very The gown itself was of cloth of

tan abades when it comes to be- ing smart.

The Need of Physical Exercise.

Try this exercise a few times anti you will find how badly you need regular health exercises.

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gold, held by shoulder-straps made sinart just now. from heavy gold beads From the shoulder fell a train made from yellow georgette and similar georgette, in combination with flame colour, was used to make original fan-shaped draperies on either bip.

DO MEN DETEST PAINT AND ROUGE?

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Somo'oue onde said that a wo man is naver, beautiful until a man" tells her she is. But, from a man's standpoint, what is Beauty? Women have been try- ing to solve the riddle for ou sands of years. To-day they so m to have reached the conclusion that beauty means all the lip-salvo that a pair of tips can hold, un ashamed circles of rouge on either chook, and plenty of eyebrow ponolling! But is that the kind of good looks hat appeals to inan? Here's what Josoph Hergeshei- mer, the novelist, has to say about it: "In years gone by, Dorothy had never perfumed hor person with scontod extracts, colognes. But now her dressing table had its oddly shaped bottles

[DY S. MILDRED STRAUSS.] with bodies that could respond to be permanently beneficial...from Paris; there was a car Ie your hody 100 per cent. and be the pliant instruments of must have an objectivo, Syetoms mine lipstick, compact powder, in officiont? Of course it isn't. But expression for oup ideas and that look upon human beings as the various bags that everywhere is it ovan 50 per cent, efficient? feelings. But we have to make more physical contrivances put accompanied her. This was a Some Parisian dressmakers Probably not. The majority of the effort. Look about. See the in order by mechanical exercises universal custom; I had arrived have hit on an original idea for us are not. About 90 per cent. of humped backs, mechanical arms alone are all wrong. They after brief protests against a mare. adding a note of elegance to the the men and women of today and lege, flapping feet, beads fall- usually proceed in one direction change, at the understanding very short frocks. It must have bodies that are utterly in- ing forward and chests sunken only, constantly laying stress on that she couldn't, in her feminine be admitted, that though shurt capable of meeting their most in, abdomena protruding and the mère physical side and al-sphere, be peculiar; but I wonder- dresses may bo smart and ordinary physical demande, ourved, backe. Obviously, we most entirely neglecting the mind. ed how, no longer than ten years youthful, they do not posses that Most of us might as well have need physical development, but The individual must have, first ago, women had been so succeZE peculiar quality of elegance wooden bodies with occasional not mere artificial development of all, some feeling or ides to fully seductive without such aide. which belongs to longer frocks. joints and hinges as intricate without any real purpose. Nature express. The body is the in-Perhaps it was that the affair The now idea is to add to short foundations of muscle, sinow and does not work that way.

strument of that expression of seductiveness, had in itself, as

frocke a long straight panel that flesh that are never properly What we want is the impulse Once wo start from that basis we an end, grown more important... oitber hangs down until it touches developed...

to develop ourselves. Then we are on the right track. Lips to-day must be red, charm the floor, or slee swoops behind In childhood, we exercise will do it in the natural way. A In exercises that follow I shall carried abroad on scont, at any for a yard or more like a regular naturally and our bodios develop. girl who plays tennis develops tell you something about using price." So, you see, here's one train. Sometimes these panels As we grow older many of us forearm muscles, but she does not your body to develop it s you man who cannot see where paint are merely an extension of the limit our physical exertion to the play to develop theso, she plays develop your mind by a rounded and perfume adds ono jot to a skirt, sometimes loose width ordinary routine of every day for the enjoyment of the struggle. out course of study. When you woman's beauty! And there's of material hanging loosely froin habits such as walking a short The muscles develop to meet the know how to use it, you will food for thought in what he says the waist. With such a touch distance, running to catch a car demandemade upon them. They enjoy physical exerise and for there may be millions a simple dancing or dinner or dancing a few turns Con- are nature's response to the naturally seek it. And you will like him, who detest sening a frock becomes a more formal sequently, the muscles de noods of the player. Horein lies get the added joy that comes woman make horselt up to look toliette.

torforste. Nature endowed us the solution. Physical training from health and freedom, like s oborus girl!

SIMPLE SUMMER FROCK.

Here is the summer reduced absolutely simplest

a chemise- frock of printed silk, with a simple roll collar finished with long scarf ends. It may thus be worn closed ur open at

the throat,