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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1927.

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MILKMAID MILK

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Fresh Milk in a tin

ready for use.

For TEA and

DRINKING, PURPOSES.

Some of the season's shtres.

FROM THE PARIS SHOWROOMS.

BEAUTY HINTS.

THE VALUE OF MILK.

Time was when a woman of forty was considered middle-aged, and she no longer competed with youth in any way, Nowadays most women of forty could easily pass for twenty-five-that is, if they are willing to take a little trouble to remain youthful.

WOMAN'S

THE NEW FLAPPER.

NEW HAIR STYLE.

Anyone looking over a group of young girls in a ballroom to-day would surmise that the flapper has taken a flop. The girl in ber teens has lost her appearance of over- sophistication and has become as demure in her dress as her Grand- mother was.

Period gowns of taffetas and tulles, made with semi-fitted bodies of normal waist- If you would have and keep aline, and long full skirts, have clear, soft, smooth skin, remember transformed that your best friend is a "milk pack."

Wipe the face over with a soft towel to remove all traces of cream and powder, then sponge over with clear warm water softened with a dew drops of simple tincture of ben- zuin. Dry thoroughly, then take

the short-skirted flapper into an old-fashioned girl.

Changeable taffeta frocks, with their hemi-lines deeply bordered in tulle of velvet and scallop-edged, are those chosen by the majority of Platz talfetas with young girls. quilted hem-borders are also pre- valent. One must look like a doll

a piece of soft muslin (this should boudoir pillow if one is young this.

всяноп. Bouilant skirts, slender:

MADELEINE

WORLD

One of the new jumper designë.

ROBE DE STYLE.

THE QUESTION OF THE

PICTURE FROCK.

is nothing blatant in her manner of "Are we going to season ago. Hats are worn straight

MILKMAID

MILK

"EVAPORATED”.

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FOR THE TEA-TABLE. HATS THAT MAKE FOR

Quite the newest idea for a ten- tabla is a two-tier trolley wagon which, with an easy single move ment, collapses into a low tea-tablo. Being on castors, it can be run into the room already laid, and wheeled out again when finished with.

Low tea-tables are now seen everywhere. Standing only at knee-height they are so convenient when one dispense tea from a deep arm-chair or a chesterfield.

Tea Service to Match Room. A tea service to match the scheme of colouring in the lounge or one's boudoir is preferred at the moment. Dainty all-blue, rose, primrose, and even black cups and, saucers are scen; while tinted glass is a very Faithful repro- up-to-date note.

ductions of beautiful old Worcester, Derby and Dresden services are also popular.

BEAUTY.

All the best spring hats of 1927 have one quality in common-they Whether the make for beauty! model be close fiting or wide of brim it is almost certain to be flat- toring to its wearer-if discreetly chosen.

The wide-brimmed hat of the moment is a delightful affair which is free from exaggeration, But when summer comes we shall find "Hope" generally worn. And the genuine flop hat is by no means uni- versally becoming. However, we are just now concerned with models that are simply adorable, so why try to peer into the future?

J

Picturesque Models This Year..

Let no one imagine that we are going to set naide the "little hat" which has proved so comfortable

year.

The right way to serve fruit and becoming, Not so: but we are salads at the ten-table is in the sets going to be picturesque as well this of little saucerlike plates specially designed for the purpose, which are handed on a tray with creum and caster sugar. They are of very gay design, often hand-painted.

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MILKMAN

EVAPOR

COFFEE and COOKING PURPOSES.

VERY BECOMING.

be washed to renteve any dressing,bodies and ankles partially hidden aal dried before being used) and by long hems are the mode, fold it in four,

Shaded straws are going to be Cus strip from:

The vogue for letting the hair the folded mustin to cover the fore- head, two picces to fit over the grow long continues to have many

wide-brimmed beauty model which very fashionable. For instance, a cheeks, and a tearth to cover the youthful followers. Older women,

expresved purple sweet-pes tints was trimmed simply with a band chin and jaws: Wring these pieces however, are a little less keen on Some girls look.de-

and jaunty cocarde of 'dark purple out in warm (not bolled; milk, and long lucks. place the one strip over the fore-cidedly quaint and lovely with the

Have you seen the new bracelet corded ribbon, u,tiny diamond ar- head, the pieces on the cheeks, and now hair-dress which draws the

frocks? The fad for wearing ten row thrust through the middle of arm the cocarde. Another, this time the long strip over the chin and hair back off the forehead with side

or twelve bracelets on one

was in jaws. Now wrap the head in a combs behind the ears and arranges

Fashions come and fashions go, has been utilized by gown manu a modified clothe shape, Lowel, drawing it well over the face, the back hair in ringiets over the

this This style is extremely at- but there is one quite remarkable facturers

and satin straw shaded from dark jade merely leaving it open over the neck. nose to allow of breathing comfort- tractive when the period gown is model that keeps popping up at re-numerous bracelets of bangle type to sea-green, with a flat wreath Often long antique earrings guiar intervals: La Robe de Style. are soiva to the underseam of the of ivy circling the high crown. Handkerchiefs are quite a second- Fably. Allow the muslip to remain | worn, fary consideration nowadays, alan the face till it has become thor-matched by short necklaces with Are we going to accept it-sori- sleeve of the gown. So far, we This model had been designed to and pendants are worn with this old-ously? Or are we going to con- have been bracelets used only on go with a smart black and white though I suppose we use them.. I oughly dry, then rurnove

A dainty and useful gown am told that there are no novelties, bathe the skin with a little more style manner of arranging the hair. tinue our present tactics coquet semi-sports, frocks, For instance, tailor-made,

Girls who can successfully wear As far as street clothes are conting with fussy frills and faintly a light green jumper frock has

in lace and satin as described and that a smart woman contents warm milk. Dry and dust with a This

donning une ten of these gold bangle bracelets

by Joan. "herself with hidden square of good complexion powder. cerned, the young girl continues to crinoline outline?

attached design will rejoice to see chic pastel-tinted cambrie, bordered with treatment can be given every day wear frocks or suits of slender lines robe de style en special occasions attached to the seam of the left close-fitting toques of aviator-can

Echo answers, arm. Bracelets white, or a hankie" of warhable if desired, but two or three times and short skirts. However, there and these only?

accept it about a quarter of an inch apart models made of dull silver or cop-

Thore's a now Invention for taffeta, finished with an initial.

a week will effect a marked im

being sewn to the sleeve with per lame which boast car-pads in

the guise of Futurist flowers made shoulder straps of adjustable type. heavy silk thread.

of glove kid or handpainted organ-Straps of silver or ribbon have There are two clans amongst the Provement in the most worn, lined wearing clothes as there was some seriousin?"

and wrinkled face.

dle. These floral decorations make women who use umbrellas.

ends which fasten into loops on Should the skin on the nose be side says that the old-fashioned

Mlle. no pretence to imitate Nature, but round loop clasps of silver at the

nevertheless, immensely de-

the bodice of the garment. The affair was the thing, and we find coarse and red, with open pores, a

ribbon strap on the ready-made them employing the long-handled piece of the thuslin should be cut

is always the same in general out. Robe de Style must be ancient and are.

garment is. cut off about half an models with hooked wooden tops. io fit over it, wrung out in the milk

inch from it's base and a button The followers of the "stumpy" and applied when the checks are THIS WEEK'S RECIPE.line though vastly different in de-modern at one and the same time, corative.

tail, is sponsored by one of the most She must know how to wear dainty

hole loop is used as a finish. One fashion have plenty to amuse them covered.

successful and influential dress-frills and knots of roses caught in by floating ribbons, but her slender. I saw a red silk

makers in Paris! at the moment.

Mile. Spinelly, who is a veritable can buy the shoulder straps ready Bathing the ince daily in milk design topped with a handle of red.

It cannot be denied that these body must resemble that of an

"Princesse de Chic," has just made with silver jewellery clasps adolescent. instead of water will keep the skin.) lizard, natural snake and ivory.

frilly frocks are charming when soft and free from lines, and a

Fascinating Frills and Laces. launched a close-fitting turban of which clasp through button hole Take a quart of milk and an worn by just the right girl. They

Far from Nevertheless it is true that glistening silver lame which has a loop of the garment.

Japanese landscape Although we are told that the milk bath is very beneficial to For this

ounce and a half each of cornflour are not for everyone.

For that reason only permissible wear for evening tired, aching eyes.

And in this fac: lies their taffetas, the one and only material miniature milk should be war, and sugar. Heat the milk, thicken that.

The little picture was exe- they are not likely to go out of is something that glitters, it is not the

after bathing the

with the cornflour, add the sugar, most potent spell. La robe de style for frocks of this order, is once painted across the forehead-ban- Parisiennes.

very famous Ja-fashion for some time to come, but Lace is used inland entirely true.

dip A piece

and boil well. Beat up two eggs can never become over-popular be- again in high favour with the big deau.

their clients. cuted by a

they do not come under the head- enormous quantities.

cotton-wool into warm milk and and add them. to the thickened milk, cause it would inevitably make any dressmakers and

These close-fitting. turban-toques ing "Beauty Hats" because they are A cont of brocade, which inlay it over the closed eyes for about atirring quickly all the time until but the right girl" look ridiculous. And we are reawakening to the fact panese artist in Paris,

All traces of strain

The The little tight eminently desirable.

com are in great favour with our chic very difficult to wear successfully. sleeveless and collarless, is counted ten minutes.

them curdle. When a good smooth athletic, figure. necessary for wear with an even-or fatigue will have disappeared they are cooked. On no account let it demands a very slender, not that frills and perfumed laces are

when the wool is removed.

custard is obtained mix with it half bodice, scanty and almost guiltless ponent parts of the robo do style ing frock.

the contents of a small tin of eva- of trimming, would look grotesque are already popular. Who can say -porated milk and coffee essence to if worn by une bella femme. Curves that we shall not in the near future taste. Let the mixture cool, then must be absent! Obviously deve-accept an ensemble which faintly

recalls the day of crinolines? freeze it in the usual way,

loped muscles must be absent!

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One'

A BLOND SPANISH QUEEN.

of medicated

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on the head, but the hair is almost concealed beneath the hat.

COFFEE ICES.

Differing in Detail. You see, one is forced to realise that this particular frock, which

You see the difficulty?

Turban with Hand-Painted Decoration.

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BEAUTIFUL CARNIVAL QUEEN.

St. Augustine, Do blonda make good Spanish queenal,

thinks so, for Misa Ruth Graham, a blond from over the annual Ponce de Leon

OVER THE TEA CUPS.

(SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BY "JOAN.")

As

London, April 7. jand shoulders; and in the second filmland before I permitted them to Here are shoes! Some of them you have the detachable "harness" appear on the "allver screen." ure of a kind for which the average of soft satin which transforms the woman has very little use, but they frock into something entirely dif- Dickens enthusiast, "I once sat are interesting, and I will describe feront. The more I look at the through a film' which Interested me reminded me of them to you just to illustrate the design the less reason I see for not vaguely and

nothing I had ever encountered be- trend of footwear this season. At making this satin part optional.

of literature. the top we have a dainty pump of

And now for Madeleine's little fore in the way rose linen embroidered in silk in

dull green and pale rose. This is jumper frock. You will see that it!"Somewhere towards the end, by the ideal wear for a garden-party with conûrms my prognostication of a aid of "captions" I discovered that a pink gown, and might later be return to frills and fluffiness. There the picture was "Great Expecta utilised for evening wear, so I don't are buttons and bows and a jabot tions" by "Charles Dickens" (anal) think we need rule this particular of sorts, in fact all the jig-twaga model out as impracticable. This which used, several years ago, to type for the latter of course!) t remark also emphatically applies to be considered indispensable ad- was going to say how annoyed the the second shoe, which is black juncts to a blouse. Here the rent man would have been....but

nised it either! satin, piped with gold and orna- lovers of the ornate in dress have of course ho wouldn't have recog mented with gold buckle and their chance. strap, and is a most alluring crea- tion. Number three is a Spanish model of grey kid and lizard, and- excellent as a smart walking shoe,

Is that So..

We are, as you know, to have a experts Sir Hall Caine,

provided that you aren't going to British Hollywood, and have set outed of the vagrant woman who ap "live" in it, and that you have with a committeo of several changes. Next in order we on the subject.

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have an evening sandal in brocade whose of beigo, gold and rose and trimmed ture with gold kid. This specimen of artist

drawn the cobble's art, noodless to re- mark, was not cheap. To the last you this shoe of brown kid and lizard Iweek, la in- would apply the same remarks as teresting I made about the groy kid one. himself.

You will have noticed my ten- the matter. dency-born of necessity-to: aug As a writer gest frocks with convertible tops of books, I and so on. Well, although in this should think case the artist hasn't suggested it he feels he herself, I must point out that I sce has a distinct the possibility of two frocks in one. stake in the In the first place. you can have a claim, be- plain lace frock with a square neck cause if I and plain straight shoulder straps, had publish of the kind which never becomes jed successful

Now there is in existence one little! house, which was opened by the Lord Mayor this week, with forty- five beds. No questions are usk- plies for a bed for one night (long stayers are not encouraged, because this would be the negation of the "vagrant" idea) and the business is nonsectarian. So long as there is a vacant bed, a lamp shines outside. to indicate the fact, and. for one shilling a woman can get a night's rest, a warm bath and a cup of tea in the morning. This first house is in the heart of Bloomsbury, and it was an old poetry bookshop where young posts and "Intellec tuale" foregathered to "remould this sorry scheme of things entire I think it has been left to a woman to do a bit of practical remoulding.. however, and if you had Inspected. this house, as I did, and noted the entire absence of anything anyour- ing of the institutional" and "wol dacertainly want fore", nature, you would take off

Miss Virginia Wallar, of Caney, Kansas, has been chosen queen of the annual Tulsa, Rose Carnival and this picture seems to prove the judges were men of wisdom. But Miss Wallar is very smart as well as beautiful, As a student in Kansas State Agricultural College she has been presented with a sorority ring awarded each year to the' student making the best scholastic record among the 8,500