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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1925.

LACTOGEN

FOR YOUR BABY

WOMEN'S INTERESTS

LACTOGEN

FOR YOUR BABY

The all-live frock will have jen important place in the autumn wardrobe, and will be mach, more practical. flan it. sounds, for it is made up on the simple lines that are popular this year,, This one- adds nothing in the way of trimming, and relies upon the beauty of its design and its enlcar-which is, cornflower blue-for its appeal.

FASHION NOTES.

For afternoon wear pumps of coloured dooskin in pastel colonis,

At the right and left are two styles in amoring hairdressing designed by P'essl;famous Viesnese hairdresser and in

the centre is a bob suitable for day wear. The model is Madame Louise herself,

Madame

BIGGER HANDS FEET.

Careful observors say that the woman of today has larger hands and feet than she had five years ago.

"It is quite true," said the buy er of a large store to a Daily Chronicle reprosentativo rocently.

After all, isn't it just what might be expected? Woman is living such a strenuous life to-day that muscular developments has made it necessary for her to tako biggor sizes in gloves and shoes.

"We notice this particularly in gloves, and since the war it Kas båen most striking. All this tennis, amateur gardening, and rowing, on the river, are having their offect, and most girls are wearing gloves two sizos largor than they were about five or six years ago.

"The same has happened with shoes, and while the foot has increased in size it has also to be. remembered that the very tight fitting shoe is not so much in demand."

Science is propared to believe what commerce has observed, but has not yet made its own tests.

Sir Arthur Keith, Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgoons, accepts the view, that, with increased exertion, woman's' hands and feet are larger, but] pointed out that to ascertain the the degree of development it would be necessary to have the!

Appliqued designs of brown, kuslyn teim this tan coat which is quiltless of curve or flare and makes the distance from shoulder to hemline in the straightest possible line.

of ten years ago and the measure- ments of to-day.

obvious that hands and feet will exercise," said Sir Sir Arthur,

"With all this increase in be developed.

"After all, good, big, shapely and the greater amount of walk-hands and feet are better than ing that is done by women, it is little hands and feet."

On the stroke of six, when you Todry with our quickened pave But for prening, let there be cover your head with feuthers, ao measurements, of say, 100 women |change from your day to your we weeds must change daily. Ac light heads to match our gay long as you look alluring,

Louies, spirits. By far the best choice for evening attire, don't forget to cording to

Perhaps by this time you have Chicago hair dresser, who has been evening is pure white, virginal surmised, that these lightning change your hair too,

studying hair styles in Vienna, white-arranged as elaborately as Time was when once a year was about the least we can do and still you like. Next to white a fashion changes are accomplished with often enough to change the colour have surtorial pretentions is to able evening hair shade is pure growth on your nun scalp.

transformations not with the of our hair. We vibrated, 'tis tene change our hair twice a day. sunshine or pure henna. from the blonde, to the brunette For morning she recommends a For morning you will wear a Natural hair seems to have gone state and then veered off possibly colour that is dark and serriceuble short bob, unved if you like, but out of style in Vienna, according into the henna and autumn shades, well, if not dark, at least neutral, suappy and tailored in uppeurto Marlame Louise, and is cut but having selected a tint, we stuck something on the biene or natural ante. For evening you may have quite close so as not to interfere by the colours for a season it tones that are so popular in puffs and curls and all the dis- with the smooth fit of a trans- least,

tracting tendrils you like, or even formation,

suits.

Chiffon flowers are very much FRAGMENTS FROM ANCIENT liked as a trimming for light chiffon frocks.

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The high effect that is gaining

that exactly match the costume popularity in millinery is achieved with which they are worn are by means of massed feathers of

ribbon leaps most appropriate.

IWO-SMART-GOWNS,

Fuo attractive dinner frocks, one of white crepa trimmed" with a fringe of need peorts, and the other of cream shadow with rosettes of blue velvet and satin and bunches of

CHINA. »

Somo. of the most interesting: nieces of silk in the world, now on view at the exhibition at the British Museum form part of a.) wonderful collection of archseo- logical relics from Eastern Turkestan, "Westernmost China and North-Eastern Porsi.

Probably the earliest specimens anyone will over be able to look at, the fragments were once par of the old clothes in which Chip- ese soldiers, braders and travellers, | who died in the track of a trade route from China to Central Asia, were burie 1.

ROSE-RED AND BLUE Thought by Sir Aurel Stein to! belong to the First or Second Century A.D., and taken from a grave in the cemetery at Lon-fan, a bag, which might quite well be carried to the theatro with credit by a woman of fashion to-day, is cumposed of little diamonds of faded rose-red silk of the colour which lincs old, workboxos, of maze and of blue silk.

A fair-sized piece of the silk of the same period shows a delicious running pattern in soft blues and chestnuts in which: -drooping flowers like snowdrops figure4

A small piece of sprigged silk, showing birds in flowery troos, dates from the Seventh or Eighth Century,

PASTRY, TOO. Blurred green and yellow do sins srzgest that the popular sha tow" cretonnes of lat) years are in the direct line of desoont from the ancient Chinese fabrica.

A little bag of silk, buried with some wanderer from China in the Lou-lan cometory "a contury bo. fore or after the beginning of the Christian ora, is not mucli inore than an inch long, but has littlo drawer strings from which the re- mains of tassels dangle.

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American women vistors to the British, museum recently stood entranced before the caso in which was shown well-proserved pastry which had baori buried with Bome Chinese travellor in the eevonth century.

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Delicate little biscuits, "pierced and worked until they looked |jikó filigree buoklos, had been prepared to comfort the dead

THIS WEEK'S RECIPE.

YOUTHFUL AND SNAPDY.

This ensemble outfit, is of pearl gray flut crepe trimmed at the bottom of the coat and the dress with picotedged petals made of the silk. The lines are straight and youth- Jul, and the only ornament- sation allowed is at the hemline

ORANGE STEAMED

PUDDING.

Two tablespoons butter. I cup stale bread crumbs from soft part of loaf, 1 cup milk, sugar, 1 orange, 3 eggs, teaspoon salt..

Moiter butter, add bread crumbs: and milk and cook, stirring con- stantly until thick and smooth. Add rugar and salt and yolks off : eggs beaten until thick and lenion! coloured: Add grated rind and julco of orange. Boat whites of eggs until stiff and dry on a plat-i ter with a wire whisk. Fold into. first mixture and turn into a but- ter mold. Steam 45 minutes and servo with sauce or creani

FASHIONABLE ITEMS..

For formal evening use there are glistening bags of crystal beads about the size of peas, com- bined with silver mosh. The effect is dazzling, while another design is silver mesh worked to repre. sent a bead bag."

There is a craze at the moment to dross a brother and sister of about the same ago in matching garments, which give air air of Bophisistication. Nothing could be simpler nowadays, with spart little tailored crepe blouses, which inok equally well word with a skirt or trousers.

It is comes to the feminine] adornment of a frivolous appliqued motif, your son can always pro- sarvo his dignity with an initial.

Any precious, semi-precious or imitation stone, providing it "36] (original enough, has boon the do

sire of the smart, womaṇ: for} months past. She toyed grace- fully with every shade of pearl,. from socd to those larger than eggs, then she throw them all away, and searched favorishly for strings of wrought gold beads or exquisitely sot cabachons.T Now the very latest note of distinction is a collarette, with a | bracelet or two to match, osch an inch or more in width, while for very sumptuous occasions car- rings completing this endemble Ima

BEAUTY SECRETS OF FAMOUS BEAUTIES: 6.

BY HARRIET HAMMOND.

MOTION PICTURE AUTRESS,

You hand to accept the eyes you were born with, but the leshes that fringe them are of your own making. Init is impossible to change the expression or shape of the eye, but you can callivule for yourself those long silky tushes that maka naj ejjes passable.

My stock in trade is a small battle of sweet almond oil und a small cómét's hair brush. Apply the oil over the cas brows in a graceful line and across the lashes on the under sido.

To make the lashes cart upward appealingly pressa

·lushóa "back after the oil has been applied. This gets them. into the idea of growing that way, Always" after alling the 131, brótos Horush thent carefully so they will have that neut -well.

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