THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1927.
Ladies will always find a wide selection of Toilet Pre- parcions, Perfumes, Powder, etc. AT THE
QUEEN'S DISPENSARY
22, Des Voeux Road, Central.
Tél. C. 402.
Tel. 0. 492.
THOSE ELUSIVE KNEES.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE
UNEVEN HEM LINE.
Knees are atll in the fore front of fashion. Half hidden, or show- ing from one view only they are mare attractive than when boldly displayed except on the very young and graceful.
"Chic" or Discretion.
How high may the hemline mount with discretion, or a more im portant consideration, with chick.
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CHILDREN AND ANIMALS.
THE PART PLAYED BY PETS IN CHILD EDUCATION.
The world inhabited by children and animals is very different to that known by adults. Its business is purely physical, growth, food, exercise and play; money, giving and money spending have no part in it.
WOMAN'S
WORLD
IDEALS THAT INFLUENCE THE MODE.
THE CHARM OF THE PERIOD DRESS.
Whatever the ideal of woman- hood is during any particular period to exemplified in woman's dress. Victorian timidity and shrinking hid behind voluminous crinolines The Nursery Library.
designed to make the wearer appear It was not u Most of the well loved nursery tiny and fragile... It depends, fair lady, on yourself:coks deal with the real or imagin- very successful camouflage in many on your taste, your figure and your ary adventures of the animal cases of the strongly marked fea- couturier. If you are a jeune fille, kingdom, from "Mother Goose" and tures of our ancestresses which be slender and sylph-like, you may "The Three Bears, to Kipling's trayed their quite "unfeminine" wear your skirts so short that they "Jungle Books," "Binck Beauty,' show the knee caps. Otherwise
and the tales of Scaton Thomson.frmness of mind. The Restoration you will be better dressed if they Fairy aturies too of all nations period replaced the sad severe fall to just below your knees for
have as many animal as human styles of the Puritans, Norman sports, morning or smart afternoon characters. But the true, the half ladies strove to gain an added dig- wear, The evening, mode "allows
true, and the wholly funtastic for so many hints and compromises on the subject of knees that it is animal stories all exert an equality and courage from their tall impossible to lay down any rule, charm over the child mind. The headdresses, the Greeks who wor "Slumr kitten." "Tuss in Boots" and shipped bodily perfection evolved a Older women, or "understandings" have been modell. "The cat who walked by himself" style of dress which left the limbs ed by nature in a rather generous, are as beloved and as real to nurs-nhampered. But one could extend mood, may venture to add at least folk as the tabby sleeping by the list indefinitely, even down to two inches more below the knee without a sacrifice of chic te dis- cretion.
those whose
Uneven Hem Line.
the fire.
The Power of Children Over Animals:
A.
The extraordinary power which children have over animals is in part due to the attitude of mind induced by these stories which re prosent animals in a half-human and wholly friendly light, and in part to similarity of interest.
fre-
the boyish mode which swept the world as a revolt against the sor rowing feminine hearts left after the dreadful days of war.
A kindly compromise has been
Put 1927 hits brought a very de- designed by those responsible for
finite reversion to the earlier ideal our clothes for any who feel that the very brief skirt is only for these
of womanhood. Once more gracious- whose lives have been hearly
ness and feminine charm is demand- Theed of us, men have got rather tired! short. The uneven hemline has a very definite place to lay in the hull urchin whom one may see in of the boyish pad who seemned so
berd mode, and it can be very charming an English village, can
fresh and charming a year or so "If it is used with taste and skill, and scold beasts which are
Many of the new evening dress es-quently alarming to the more. timid ago. The "Period" frock is quite at their alders; and the stories certainly coming into its own this pecially those on robe de style or picture lines are quite tong, often which one hears of the children of reason, but the designers seem a the elephant lines are more wonder alle neurtzin which period best Ankle length and gut up to show either one or both knees in the i than the aulvéntures of Mawgli front.
The one knee only style, himself. Equally amazing is the expresses the modern woman.. Bat where the greatest length is generatiency with which dogs and cats equally the modern woman is not! ally on the left hip, a the test will submit to mauling and in- quite sure herself. There are too version of this mode which was dignities at the hands of their many varieties of, her, from the Introduced by Lavin and bas beene small owners.
cocktail, flapper to the hard-headed very popular.
business woman, and all the shades, Letween, not exeping the band of The Kindergarten system re cognises this natural affinity be modern home-keeping women who tween, children and animals, and want to graft, the new scientific tries to turn it to an educational value by simple lessons in natural history. Much of the work of the |S. P. C. A. might be avoided if parents and teachers the world over vore more alive to the moral value of fairy stories, and their natural successors books teaching the habits and lives of the animal kingdom. By establishing feelings of kinship and, sympathy between man beast a great deal of thoughtless and more of deliberate cruelty might be avoided.
Flares, pleats, cascades and fodels are all used to achieve the uneven hem line, and to soften the effect of the very brief skirt. Es- pecially when sitting down these longer sections lend an air of graci- ousness which is very acceptable at the moment; and they are invari- ably more becoming to older women than the skinipy, above-the-knee, skirts which look so charming on the very young.
WATERPROOF.
A welerproof sports mirror is an essential and practical accessory to miludy's bathing costume. It is attached to a rubber bracelet in all colours.
The Value of Animal Stories.
and
The Problem of Domestic. Pets.
Domestic Pets present a problem in most households. What they have to offer in return for board and lodging in fairly obvious. Companionship, protection and love, such as are often given by the meanest cur to even an unworthy master,, are by no means all. To the children they give more than that. Living toys are a continual source of interest, and the care of pets, with the small daily attentions which they demand, is an excellent training in unselfishness, and thought for others.
Small Tragedies.
Despite all this there are many homes where the in- troduction of pets 18 look- ed
with disfavour, and
upon
not without reason. The lives of unimals, or caged birds, is com- paratively short, and small, though often very deeply felt tragedies are of constant occurrence in the households
lovers. of animals Again it cannot be denied, that, whatever genuine affection a child many feel for its pets, their claims
ITEMS FOR THE HOUSE are apt to be forgotten when some fresh excitement fills the mind of the small owner. The tale of little English-made hand-wrought pew-yellow bodies lying on the sanded ter is being used for many things, floors of their cages because of one which are useful as well as beauti- day's neglect must be a long one, ful in design, The pewter is quite and no floods of tears can put the bright, and each piece is hammer-song back in those pitifully opened ed by hand. This metal requires beaks. no cleaning beyond rdinary wash- ing. It keeps its brightness, too- in fact, this improves with age.
In addition to tea and coffee ver- vices in different designs and sizes, there are many tankards ade of this pewter, as well as endlesticks, trays, napkin rings, bowla, ink stands, and ashtrays.
Effective Table Decoration. A new idea in table decoration concerns a trea of twisted pewter or bronze from which hang many oranges of normal size, while perch-
Inn Hot Climate.
Here in a sub-tropical climate the keeping of pets presents an even greater problem. An unhealthy animális a very real danger especially in a house where there are children, and there are very fow dogs that are really healthy here. muzzling Our very necessary orders many also lead to tragedy, for partly out of sympathy and more from forgetfulness a child will very often omit putting on the dogs muzzle before letting him out. Even eats are very liable to get
ed in the branches is a gorgeous vermin infested unlose very great
care is taken; and, while it is often
A French model in bracken- brown marocain, shewing the the new decoupe trimming in aclf material. The deep revers, wide turn-back cuffs and re- verse Truer on skirt are all last-minute notes.
and knowledge of motherhond house-keeping on to the Victorian tradition of a “lady."
Look at the three frocks which our London artist has sent us this week. The delightful picture gown of green velvet and taco seems un- decided whether It has been design- ed for a Victorian, a Stuart or a quite modern wearer. I think I should prefer the bodice to end with the quaint littel berthe the line of which is rather spoilt by the modern V-neck which cuts it.
Cailler's
“SPICED DAINTIES.”
THE CORRECT USE OF PERFUME.
The art of perfumery bus to-day reached a refhement uadream
CHOCOLATE
Whipped Crearn }WALNUT WHIRLS
THE LITTLE ONE WITH FLOWERS.
CHILDREN AND WEDDINGS.
Pictures of wedding which include small page boys or
groups
flower girls are 'always particularly of by the ancients. No doubt charming. Their dowerlike Inno- Cleopatra's costly scents would cent faces acem the appropriat scem crude and heavy to-day: "and, finish to a pageant of triumphant although much is written in roman- girlhood, and besides the presamte tic novels about the heavy and of these little people gives a bint exotic perfumes of the orient, most of the best gift marriage can give. of us prefer those subtle essences which distinguish the well dressed woman of the west.
A Choice of Perfume, The correct use of perfumes is no less a sign of breeding and taste nowadays than it was in the Vic- torkan ers, when lavender water and cau-de-cologne were the only scents permissible to a lady..
A Weary Bride.
But that charming wedding group is not taken without trouble and often worse. Children, an generally out of place at a grown up gathering. They need constant attention, and, if they are natural children, they are apt to get wond stage, fright than either of the two principal parties and display conal- derably less self control. I remem ber one wedding photo with two charming roguish little boys scat A Part of the Ensemble.
ed at the feet of the bride and The woman who understands the groom, which is spoilt by the art of attractiveness is particular fact that the bride looks tired, hap evidently got weary of holding ber at the about the perfume which she uses, banquet at the prottiest angle.
She sees that it expresses her per- and hay pushed back
hur sonality and is an essential part of vell. No wonder she began to low She is interest in her own appearance, st the ensemble of her toilet.
had posed for three quarters of an hour before the page boys could be persuaded to sit still.
na-
The dinner dress of night blue satin has very obviously been' Inspired by, the Greek tashions, because it follows the tural
of linea
the even having the belt normal waist. Such a dress seems typical of our womanhood to-day. There is somathing of austerity,
body
boyishness, and a great deal of womanly charm about it. The artist has drawn us rather a sndly poctic locking wearer, but I think it would be an admirable gown for a woman who was happy in her home or her business.
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The afternoon frock which has been designed for bracken brown marocain seems to hold a hint of the musketeer period in its cuffs and revers. But the fact that lace has been replaced by the new de
of trimming
the self material marks it as a product of a It is the frock 288 gorgeous age.
who can or the gallant woman ight and work without ever losing her femininity, and who knows the mportance of beauty and restraint
empe
n dress.
TWO CHARMING EVENING GOWNS.
Mugst
Lime green ring velvet matorialises the bodice of this charming picture frock. The skirt is a mass of fine lace flounces, with super threads running through the pattern. Similar lace Reversible crepe fashions the quaint little berthe, and the centre buckle in in diamento. salin, in a rich night blue, shade, is tac dfor the attractive dinner, gown on the right; the dull side appearing on the upper bodice and part of the skirt, and the shing side forming shoulder atraps, lower bodice, hip yoke and godele.
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An orderly sewing basket.or Clothes hangers and shoe trees
never guilty of wearing a perfume designed for the evening, out of doors or during the day.
The Use of Several Perfumes.
There
Now that there is so innumer- able a variety of lovely perfumes it 15 possible to choose the exact re- quirement for each toilette. are those scents which suggest themselves for sports clothes, others a little more subtle may be used with an afternoon gown, but the heavier more romantic perfumes belong to the magnificent type of evening toilette and to no other.
"Isn't She Sweet
If the little attendants are attrac- tive children and attractively dress- ed, they are apt to deflect a good. deal of interest from the bride. There is something so aderably about the demure ways of a mult child when it feels it is playing ab important role, that hardly any woman, or man for that matter, con resist it.
very
A Dress Rehearsal
One Perfume Only.
But if the bride has well-loved nieres or nephews whom she Alany fastidious women like to wishes. to include in her use one perfume only and to choose entourage at the altar, Alio patient and one which shall be individual to must be themselves. They have everything, see that they are drilled in their soap, powder, bath salts, creams, parts. Nothing is prettier than etc, of the same make and perfume, child attendants if all goes well, The obvious difficulty of this plan nothing more wearying to is the choice of a scent which shall the bride than anxiety about
their behaviour.. A be suitable for all occasions.
dreas “Spikenard and Saffron, Calamus rehearsal is absolutely neces
sary, in the church if possible, and it is better to risk slightly erump- ling the children's dresses than to find them overcome with shyness at
and Cinnamon."
Perfume has played a part in history since the beginning of time.. It is older even than man for the flowers depend in part, on-their sweet scents to attract the insects' on whom they rely for fertilization.
The Bible, our earliest, historical record, is full of references to per- fume; and it has played an integral part in the relationship of man to his fellow man, and to his god, in all lands and ages.
The Greeks considered the anoint- ing of their bodies with per- fumed oil un essential of their toll- ette, and even the most ignorant savages rub themselves with oils and spices on occasions of ceremony.
The Isle of Spices.
It is to perfume that a great, part of the discovery of the world is due. Hiram, King of Tyre, sent out his fleet in search of sweet aplees; the magnet which drew the men of the west across the sea was the "island of Spices," and it was to trade in the same valuable com- modity that the East India com- pany was formed. Thus indirectly It is to her perfumes that we owe our dominion over India.
The Offering of Perfume.
Not unnaturally, the offering of
FELT POUCH BAG.
An illustration of the new stitched felt pouch bag-gold hairline stitching on dark brown felt with amber toy.
perfume has eeemed an appropriate being unusually garbed on the occu-
act of worship among all peoples. afon.
The priests of old were anointed with scented oils and incenses still used to symbolize the ascent of the prayers of the faithful
The Safest Age.
Of course a great deal depende on the charactor of the child. There are children who have. at a tender age more social gifts and
THIS WEEK'S RECIPE. savoir faire than many adults ever
ARROZ A LA VALENCIANA.
attain, and are able to curb their natural high spirits or timidity on an important occasion. The satent age is generally between five or alz and eight years of age. Smaller children are apt to cry suddenly for tablespoon Purico, 1 cup Spanish their mothers or nurses, and.oldet rice, 4 hard-boiled egge. 1⁄2 lb. ones to be either pushing or scif
conscious. Spanish sausage, 2 green peppers,
1 young chicken, 4 tomatoes, 1
2 small onions, finely chopped, salt } —
and pepper to season.
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minutes longer, add the tomatoes, Cut the chicken into twelve first removing the seeds, and cook pieces. Put it into Bauce for ten minutes. Add this mixtara) with the sausage, pour to the chicken. Wash the rice and of hot hdd it to the chicken mixture, cook over it one cupful water and cook for fifteen minutes. together for twenty minutes more Meanwhile melt the Purico in order to cook the rice. It should
pan
In another saucepan, add the chop-be rather dry in appearance. Cut
Gold and silver lace can be clean-ped onions, and cook, but not each hard-boiled egg into four minutes, places and arrange as a border on the green pep the platter on which the Arroz a lat parrot, made of silk rewn with vivid beads, which glow when the light is maintained that these parasites do table saves time. Keep thread increase the life of their wearers. ed by brushing with alcohol or brown, for five
abredded, cook a few Valenciane is to be served. turned on. You may have an owl not attack human beings, I am very wound up, mending in one corner, Care in putting away is worth more gasoline, while laid out carefully then add
sceptical about this.
new work another and so on. than pressing. you like this better."
lon a bath towel,
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