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IN PARLIAMENT.

A NEW IDEA.

A new idea from Paris-the jumper shewing beneath the

CoRtume cont

EVENING GOWNS.

J

BLACK BECOMES MAID AND

MATRON.

Black evening dresses cast pleas ing shadows on winter modes this

year.

WOMEN WHO SEEK SEATS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1928.

the

WOMAN'S

WORLD

OVER THE TEA CUPS.

(SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH” BY “JOAN"} · ́ ̧

LONDON GOSSIP.

(DÝ JOÀNG)

ELITE STYLES .

London, Dec. 23. Princess Mary followed the ex- ample of many society women and began collecting flower pictures a few years ago. She now has a very good collection, including old-

There in every prospect that more women will try for a seat in Parlia ment at the next General Election than was the case three years ago.. Then there were 41 candidates, including 6 Liberáls, 12 Labour and 22 Conservatives. Already the can-

London, Dec. 22. who was a contemporary of the made her debut on such a memor-fashioned water colours and modern didntures.of 38 have been endorsed by the respective headquarters of

One of the latest fashions is to Queen of Spain-the lato Princess able occasion, naturally far less im-flowar paintings.

Lady Elphinstone, the Duchess of have

showing Margaret of Connaught; who mar portanco attached to the event York's sister, is another society Liberals the parties concerned.

jumper the costume (whose arrangements are not yet beneath

coat, ried, the Crown Prince of Sweden, than

would otherwise have woman who collects these pictures. complete), 6, Labour 23, Conserva- accordance with the illus- land whose untimely death was such

because her It is, in fact, the la tragedy. Princess Margaret was Mrs. Corbett Ashby, the president very newest chic idea from Paris, close friend of Clare Sheridan speech was merely a

Furs for Men. of the Women's National Liberal and if everyone managed to look (the sculptress-writer-traveller, the ocean of so much oratory

The Prince of Wales's winter other Liberal names mentioned are complaints; but imagine the possi- whose book "Nuda Veritas" on so vital a matter. In a way it Mrs. Wintringham, Mrs. Walter bilities of all kinds of jumpers Thornton Butterworth-I told you was quite the least embarrassing Runciman, Мінк Megan Lloyd showing below all kinds of coats. about last week) and the author opening she could have selected for George (who will stand probably Madeleine udds to her note on the gives some interesting sidelights on herself. for a Walsh constituency), and subject the comment: The Part her charming, unspoiled and de

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tration.

Federation, has been adopted, and like our model; there would be no

Lady Emmott.

The woman M.P's are likely to stand again for their constituencies. Mr. Pankhurst, the veteran leader for woman's suffrage, is "nursing

the Whitechapel and St. George's division of Stepney in the Conser vative interest.

Labour woman candidates include

sign dressmaker is evidently tired mocratic character." "Tell everyone of the neatness of our tailormades we are in love" Princess Margaret and has created the untidy varia-wrote to Clare Sheridan, when her

in A scarlet jumper with a black suit would be very effective." engagement to the Prince was an- nounced, "Ours is not a mariage arrange and when she was one of an informal party which just minned a little train on a mountain rallway, she said "Damn" like the

Vanity Street.

Lady Cynthia Mosley for Stoke-on- The other picture represents a Trent, Lady Clare. Annesley, an Hame coloured silk and lace frock. ant of Earl Annesley, for Bristol You will see that it le quite simple West, and Miss Jessie Stephen, once and suitable for a dance or dinner, a domestic servant, for South Porta- mouth..

THIS WEEK'S RECIPE.

AN UNUSUAL SALAD. Choose six to eight red apples, wipe well, core and then remove as much of the pulp as possible with out damaging the apples. Cut the pulp into small pieces and mix, it with two chopped bananas, 2oz, of preserved cherries, cut in pieces,

A Red Bag.

while at the same time it manages o introduce the popular dip at the. sides and back, without transform- ing the gown actually into one of the "picture" type, so fashion.

for 'really Important. affairs. The model constats, As you can see, of an ас- cordian-pleated skirt under the top one of silk and lace; while the bodice is a mixture of the two fabrics.

Very much more simple,

on the whole, than it looks.

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Is That So?

been the

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drop in

The Street of Adventure. If you have anything left for yourself out of that "tenner" which was given you for Christmas to buy present for yourself let me recom- mend a few novela. I have just finished ronding one called "Whoal Darkness" by H. D. Lowry and C.

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overcoat, with its collar of Persian Inmb, has had fow imitators among the young men. On the other hand, the frosty weather has brought forth many fur-trimmed coats by the older men.

In some cases the mink has turn- ed ambor through age, and ancient frogs are the fasteners instead of buttons. Fur coats in England are useful on few occasions, and doctors advice against their wear.

Author of "Dusty Answer”

A. Dawson-Scott (Hutchinson) 1 lunched yesterday with pretty which should not be missed. It Rosamond Lehrmann, the author of was started by the first mentioned the year's most striking success, author, I believe, and finished "Dusty Answer,"

by the accond after Mrs., She has just got back from Lowsy's death and it deals America, where she has been stay- with life in A Cornish tinted what it felt like to be-

for a month or two. mining village. I am not going to suggest that it is a cheerful book; come beat seller before, que has quite the reverse in fact: But one reached the middle twenties. But realises instinctively that it is writ- she takes her success very quietly. ten with a complete knowledge of Or perhaps it is her very soft voice the subject and conditions. Run-that makes her seem less excited ning through the story is a zealous than a more voluble person would methodist minister who is almost a | be.

fanatic, and you may be sure that With her dark, wavy hair and he doesn't do much to cheer things vivacious expression, she is quito up. Neverthless, if you are inter- one of our most attractive au- ested in the question of the miners thoresses, and she always wears de- --read it. You won't forget it lightful clothes.

to overcome what he believes to be

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One can get such diversified re-lb. of chopped preserved ginger, multa from black by changing the and lb. of chopped peanuts. Mix] material from crisp tulle to cling with the juice of a lemon and suff- the two daughters of the Queen of Sheridan regards the Princess as Ing about the struggles of some

This week we have a picture of next woman. Incidentally Clare afterwards. Then, if you like rend- ing satin, from filmy lace to svelt clent mayonnaise to moisten the in- Spain, one of whom, as you will see, the nearest approach to a saint we one in lovea man, this time

Captain Hook of 1927. velvet.

gredients, and fill into the apples is very much like her mother, are likely to get in the way of com- a dishonourable passion, studded appeared as one of the pirates in Every year Mr. William Luff hos Black, moreover, is utterly adapt Arrange on lettuce leaves and gar Those who have been privileged to paratively modern womanhood, and with plenty of drama and, what is "Peter Pan," and now, by one of able. It enhances a young matron's nish with watercress.

meet Her Spanish Majesty during charm, it adds to the dignity of an

her recent informal visit when she jall the parts of the book dealing technically known as "situations," those sudden turns of theatrical elderly woman. Some women can-

was accompanied by the Infantes-- with her are delightfully interest there is "Grist" by Edwin Carlile fortune, this charming actor finds not wear it. But the proportion is

remark that she is getting very ing without being fulsome. Clare Litsey. The latest novel from Eden himself as chief of the wicked band. @mall.

If you want to be really smart, lovely in her mature beauty; and of Sheridan, as you may, or may not, Phillpotts is "The Ring Fence," and Mr. Luff has replaced Mr. Henry I Never Wearies. buy a red bag, pleated on to a course she has a remarkable flair know, is in cousin of Winston if you are a lover of Phillpotts I Ainley as Peter's arch enemy, and frame, and for dress comparatively unusual Churchill the politican and Shane red do no more than tell you this. all his colleagues are pleased with For black has that enviable particularly large quality of never wearying those who onogrammed, and always carry thing for royal ladies, most of whom Lesile the author; three American If, on the other hand, you don't get his promotion. ace it. A woman may wear a smart this when dressed in black. A hos conform to a special regal and plain sisters having produced three bril on with the "Dartymoor" style, black lace gown again and again less superintending her At Home mode. The Queen of Spain is regal, Jiant children.

there is nothing more to say on the subject: and receive nothing but genuine the other afternoon used such a but she is also fashionable in the compliments about it.

scheme with the most becoming of Parisian sense: an irresistible com-

And, by the way, if you aspire The materials this season lend effects. Her frock and large hat bination.

Lady Iveagh, I notice, made her to write either serial stories or for infinite change to black. There were black and she wore pearls,

maiden speech in the course of the the cinema, Hutchinsons have are cobwebby Inces, rich, heavy and diamond brooches, her bag!

historie Prayer Book debate in the issued two books "How to Write laces, chiffons, tulle, antins, taffetas being the only note, of colour in a

House of Commons Inst week. Serial Fiction" and "How to Write and transparent velvets. Black striking scheme.

While it is noteworthy that she for the Cinema." comes shot with gold, aliver, bronze

or colour.

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How to Choose.

The choice of material is entire-

ly a matter of what sort of gown is to be fashioned..

Line is all-important, after the material in chosen. A youthful model is one fashioned of fluify, tiered net skirt with Irregular hem and a surplice bodice of gold- flecked net. For the more mature figure, one of the draped-toward- the-front velvets gives grace and alenderizing effect.

Sail is an unusually popular media for black evening gowns this season, because of its adaptability, A square yoked model with full, puffed skirt smocked for a wide low waistline has two narrow tailored. belta over the' smocking, just the width of the shoulder strups' and, like the shoulder straps, has tiny jewelled flowers for trimming, In- stead of buckles.

Velvet? Then Simple! For velvets, the simpler the bet- ter. One gown of black velvet shown to-day, achieves distinction

by

almost tailored lines, straight and #lenderizing, with a curcular skirt jabot inserted at one side and hang- ing below the hem.

Its trimming gets inspiration from this flying age, for it has two - wings worked out claborately in rhinestone and strass design, with the same trimming designating the belt line. It has a charming neck, a wide U, with the rear slightly lower than the front.

Rippling Ruffles.

Shown also to-day is a charming dance frock from Paris. Black tulle fashions it, with a dozen or so tiny ruffles rippling to uneven length on a very full skirt. The slip under this effectively lightens the frock by leaving the shouldera bare, of straps and ending its hem just below the knee: This drop effect of tulle, net and lace skirts height- ena tremendously their diaphanous daintiness.

A corsage of pastel coloured flow. ere and brocaded slippers give colour to this costume thouga often a black gown calls for black foot-gear.

I have been reading some very interesting details of a princess

CHICLY TYPICAL OF THE EBON VOGUE.

"A simple, black velvet of "almost tailored lincs" (left) has flying for the motif of its rhinestone and strass trimming-a girdle ending in a flared pair of wings. Below is a black tulle dance frock_ - ' from Paris, the corsage wf pantel flowers.

USE OF PHRASES.

SOMETHING TO REMEMBER

IN SPEECH.

If you are not watchful, the per- sistent use of phrases will not only creep into almost every conversa- tion-several times, in fact-but these phrases will induence the reaction of the mind.

Habit is a sympathetic thing, as we all know, sometimes too well, and it is astonishing how the mind will just do whatever we have trained: it to do. It is the way with those Irritating phrases to which we are, most of us, anyway, subject.

Doesn't it annoy you to be ever listening to some one, innocently enough, using that phrase "The point is this? Now it is useful in

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A flame coloured silk and lace frock, introducing the fashionable dip at the sides and back,

peacock types, whatever their ma- terial. Ring velvet has claims

magnetic attraction for the sharp to popularity, though; tulle hems or lace seem to have a sort of little heels of other women's dance

shock..

A

The White Lock.:

What a lot of women in society. to-day are cultivating one white lock of hair, springing from their forehead. Lady Bearsted has one A Film Charles. II.

which is very conspicuous and be coming on her thick brown hair. I When Stuart Blackton raised don't, however, quite like the obvi Lady Diana Cooper to the rank of ously false streaks of white which film star six years ago Mr. Luff some quite young girls are pinning played Charles II. in the story of into their hair! the restoration.

But the picture cut little cinema- tographic fce at the time. Also in the aristocratic dilettante cast was the Hon. Lois Sturt, Mr. Morgan's financee.

A Famous Music Teacher. Few musle teachers have had a greater number of famous 'pupils than Miss Mathilde Verne, who has been very ill, but whose condition, I am glad to hear, has considerably Improved.

Nobody was more sorry to hear of Miss Verne's illness than the Duchess of York, who has a very deep regard for her former music mistresa, '

Early Lessons..

When ever such a little girl the Duchess began having lessons at the Verne school, and contemporary pupils recall how a very miniature Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyou sat on a music stool to play, a planoforte solo at pupils' concert.

many sentences. It has its places The Duchess continued having. and its menning, but when we use music lessons, until a short time before her marriage, and has kept

it at the beginning, in the middle,

and at the end of a sentence, it in touch with Miss. Verne over

Ioses all its value, and stamps us since.

as of the genus parrot. The trouble, is that the spontaneous use of h fuifle phrase chokes the mind. It keeps out the expression of another. and more pertinent thought. It has answered to our training. that is the serious danger.

And

In due time, if we give way to it, we shall not so quickly respond to initiative, and our mind will slip 'back a pace or two,

Vanity.

This Intense curiosity 'about"oúr personalities and habits is going rather far! I heard the other day of a woman who decided that sho. would be filmed in order to see whe ther she had had any particular tricks of posture or nervous ges- ture. So she hired a man with a kine-camera to follow, her about Apart from all this, it is very everywhere for a week and "shoot" irritating to listen to a chorus of her at mects, at lunches, walking, "How feeble" "Awfully funny" "Right 0;" "Frightfully keen" "D'you see","

"Imean to say," and the like.

Frankly, those who so habitually use these phrases are often Inclined to shallowness of thinking. If it

riding, and what not. It cost her a lot of money, and when she saw the result she had the film des- troyed!

The Peacock Line””

is not always so, the constant re- The peacock line, which is pics petition will tend to make them so, turesque, without the disadvantages Pakipom of this all-round long skirt, has been Don't let us pander to anything much in evidence lately. About half that makes us legs useful G, Hthe frocles made for the mannequin Grubb.

ball procession were more or less.

A DANCE GOWN.

Of crystal-embroidered black

chison to this: model,