THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, JANUARY
YOUR BABY IS SURE'
OF A GOOD
IF
FOUNDATION
BROUGHT UP ON
LACTOGEN
WOMEN'S INTERESTS
LACTOGEN
CONTAINS ALL BODY-BUILD- ING ELEMENTS ESSENTIAL TO BABY'S GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT
JEWELLED HEAD- DRESSES.
Jewellery designers, have used ingonuity In creating head- dresses for ovoning wear. Soma sort of imposing jewelled design is counted necessary for formal occasions, while the latest thing for a more informal dance is a slender fillet of gold or platinum, beautified with a single sparkling stone in the centre. Classic do- signs are favoured, and it is no- ticeable that all the head-dresses are pressed well down on the forehead.
modern
chorus
Three of Gertrude Hoffmann's
girls-meaning
that they eschew the butter-and-egu
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man-appear above. These pro-
ducts of a new era în chorus girl-
The 18 girls in her company who dance, fenco, sing, swing on the trapeze and do acrobatic work in "Artists and Models," a Now York revue, ure even more famous for what they don't, do; than for what they do. They don't smoke. They don't drink cocktails, They don't frequent cabarets or night clubs.
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team. doos, And this auto-
ing are Catherine, Eileen and
Dorothy of the" "Artists and
Models Broadway show, Miss
Hoffmann's classic profile uppeurs
belore.
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"Marriage is important, but so
TAKE CARE OF YOUR, NECK.
Don't, if you wish to preserve the youthful contour of your face,! get into the habit of neglecting the care of your neck. Many a woman who dovotes a certain amount of time overy day to the care of her complexion hardly aver troubles about her neck; until she realises, often quito suddenly, that though her facel may look but thirty, her neck) gives the impression that sho is nearing fifty.
Each time you cream your face, carry the feeding cream down over the jaws and along the throat, patting it in rather more thickly around the sides of the neck from immediately un-1 der the ears to the base of thei throut. For it is here that, as the years pass, the tell-tale
This is Della Vanna, clad in the unusual golden-huet costume with which nightly she dazzles the eyes of audiences at one of New York's popular remes.
ABOUT THE TANGO
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SLIPPERS FOR THE REST HOUR.
Gertrude Hoffmann started a whon they live in the thick of it,| "A young girl should be invariably advise against it. new style in dancing years ago, when many mothers can't koep protected, not shoved out to sink
ing flesh-forming cream, with the most cursory glance at our For bedroom wear and rest "Understand, I have and, today she's starting some-daughters from "flasks and or swim when she isn't trained objection to matrimony.
plenty of oils in its ingredients, ball-rooms, that the tango has hours there are all manner of thing else a' new model in fags"?
for the ordeal," she went on. "A married myself and have been for especially by all those who are number of amateurs dancing it The most sought after fad at the I'm should be used for the purpose, caught on. Not only are a larger novelties in the way of slippers. chorus girls.
Whereupon Miss Hoffmann girl needs guidance from older 25 years to the same man. But inclined to be too thin.
women, but IL must beI have never been dependent.
fas opposed to the couples who moment is a sole of highly paint- sympathetic and logical-not just I've always had my career as
always take the floor to make ed wood, which can be adorned "Igive them something better blanket restrictions,
Pinch and knead the skin as a show, but everyone is clearly with cubist squares or delicate to do. I give them hard work
well as my husband and my this stimulates the muscles and a little tango mad. Danco talk hand-painted sprays of flowers. and rigid hours. They observe
"And if you deny freedom, you children. I couldn't have been keeps the contour youthful. nowadays consists of the ques-as you please. This is held to training rules' just as a football girls work. They have to have believe the avenge modern girl jaws grow heavy and years are tango?"
must substitute, ambition. My happy any other way, and Once the face begins to sag the tion:
"Can you
foot with two hands of dance the the The weather and the crochet, much after the style of matically shuts off the late sup- leop. Every morning, except is built that way too.
added to one's apparent age.
shingle are supercilously ignor. footwear in ancient pictures,.." pers, drinks and cigarettss. They Sunday they go to school where
one band stretching across the I teach then dancing, pantomime
But, should you be one of those can't do that sort of thing and donducting, and other instructors is a carcer, and so is getting one's who are too plump and you fear their work.
toes, the other around the ankle But all the same, we must and instep. A more fairylike "I don't make rutes. I morely coach them in acrobatics, fencing stride hofore ont starts to travel. a double chin-also a very age- guard against the too definite variation of the same model is t point out natural ones. I stress and ballet.
fa girl has had a busy, happying possession--you must use an assumption that the dance has sole the importance of work
ife up to 25, she will have much astringent lotion and bathe the come to stay.
of quilted satin. "They are learning to be useful better judgment in choosing a skin beneath the chin with very been standardised, and while al-tiny flowers.
It has not yet bands covered with feathers or health. I show them how they and self-supporting as to express mate and will make a better wife cold water every night and lowing for the personal varia- affect their breathing with cig themselves and contribute to the than if she marries before her morning. Also you should pay iion in every ballroom measure, coloured leathers. arettes and their hearts and nervos beauty of life. None of them has character is thoroughly formed. special attention to the back of and the need for latitude in ball-fashioned after the mule shape, Eccentric slippers are made of with stimulants.
These are the neck just above the shoulder room fushions, what this really but with exaggerated toes curling blados. For here a rather solid means is that the dance has not over, reminiscent of the Arabian lump of fatty tissue often forms: heavy and old, especially when Charleston is in just that position the slightest suggestion of back
set." and this makes the back look thin air at any moment. The new craze is a sole made with It may dissolve into Nights. Another example of the
evening dress is worn.
at the present time.
They don't encourage the stage door Johnny or the butter-and-
egg man.
They haven't anything like the freedom of the flapper or the dizzy delights of the debutante. In fact, ali over Broadway, they are regarded as model young
women.
and
The girls of my company are young. Some are but 26. They until they reach an age of judg. need to be protected and guided ment."
of the
ever been ill, or loft me for any reason-even though I am So it is not strange that the considered a strict disciplinarian." Hoffmann girls have become the I went to Miss Hoffmann, and
Miss Hoffmann when it comes to profession. They have made the
Even Cupid can't compete with standard
theatrical put this question to her says writer in an American paper:
winning her girls.
new type of chons girl popular. Then Miss Hoffmann, who has How do they get that way? been on the stage and knows its been with mo
"In the four years they have If other stage aspirants copy What form of discipline is
one has Miss. Hoffmann's now model in Really sido effective in these days?
Well as its married. They've lived in show girls as they did Eer dances, triumphs, explained to me she London, Paris and America. the old-fashioned chorus girl who How can she keep her 18 didn't believe in the modern Somo have considered mat-kept the Gay White Way gay beautiful chorus girls un theory that girls have to knowrimony, but when they asked my after midnight will become only contaminated by the jazz age, about life.
advice, as they always do, I a memory.
IN STRANGE CLOTHES.
This aludio photograph of Mile. Suzanne Lenglen is one of the few ever taken of the famous French alar without her racquet and familiar tennis costume.
THIS WEEK'S RECIPE.
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FOR AFTERNOON TEA, Dainty cakes suitable for after- noon tea can be made as follows: Mix together two ounces each of flour and cornflour and half a teaspoonful of baking powder.j Rub in two ounces of butter or margarine, and add an ounce off caster sugar. Mix to stiff pastol with a little milk and flavour with vanilla. Bake on a greased! tin in rough houpa for dbout, tonf minutes. When cold put two together with a little chocolate butter icing.
Those who like coconut will enjoy this filling for pastry "fingers: Molt two ounces of margarine in a small saucepan, add three ounces of caster sugar, cook for a minute or two, thon add two ounces of desiccated] coconut and an ounce of finely! chopped peel. Cool slightly, then add the juice of half a small lemon. If the mixture is inclined} to dry, pour in a little milk.
DECORATIVE HEADS..
Wo have grown a little tired of the haughty lady whose raised, eyebrows and Victorian curls decorate the top of the hooped ten cosy, therefore it is a welcome discovery that a little more variety is being introduced into these decorative heads. They are mada "in character, with wired.boad-dresses, so that It is not a difficult matfer to com- plete the design and so make a really original tea 0087.
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Alittle hard massage will often remove this fatty tissue, but the massage must be given with a patent roller, for it would be im- possible to treat this part of the nack thoroughly with the hands.
FROCKS FOR AFFERNOON AND EVENING.
This afternoon gown is picturesque, highly decorative, and out of the ordinary, yet is
in the most perfect taste and suggests nothing bitarre or too extreme.
The evening gown photographed to the type with which you can't go wrong. With an extrema decolletage, cut low under the arm, the skirt mày ba narrow and flare, and the silhouette becomes a matter of choice, so long as bodico fallows the molded type.
with
and small too caps. From these there are bands of jewelled tissue holding the slipper safe and
A GORGEOUS GOWN.
FOUR SIMPLIFIED FIGURES. The four simplified figuros of sound. the tango-the walk, media vuolta, promenade, and link step-are so easy that at last people are beginning to roalise that it can be done without an enormous amount of trouble, and that in its prosent form it is English enough, despite a French title, to suit our somewhat stiff and unyielding style,
Remember when you tango to keep the knees loose and, the rhythm firm. The man's re- sponsibility towards his partner increases in a tango, because there is greater subtlety in the steps and more skill' required in guiding- On the other hand, the time is much slower, and the pau- ses give him a chance to know ox. actly what he is going to do next. The foet of both dancers should closely hold the floor, and the gliding movements should be made without any appearance of heaviness.
MORE FAVOURABLE SITUATION. At present it is impossible even for tho experts to say whether the- tango will tako a permanent place on Our ballroom pro- grammes, or whether it will be gently waffed back to its more or less native soil in Paris and. South America. The situation is more favourablo now than last year, because we have discover od that the dance isn't really so difficult after all, Its fate is now in the hands of the composers and dance bands. If they come up to peratoh a big "if the chances of survival are very promising..
The above coloured velvet with gold lace.
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