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COSMETIC BOGIES.

BEAUTY AIDS, HARMLESS.

At last American physicians havej begun to recognise the fact that any woman is entitled to make her- self more beautiful, and will · not: be deterred by mysterious warninga of possible danger issued by aged) medical practitioners, anys a Now York correspondent of the Eveu-} + ing Standard, who consider plain living more tesirable than sparkle, and vivacity in life.

A reaction has set in against the doleful announcements of medien! school graduates that cosmetics; and face powders and cold creants and the other basic contributions to feminine phlchritude are dan- gerous to health, and should be avoided by all women wishing to live long and in comfort.

increasingly

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The way the advien of the. doctors had been Ignored in recent years this

caused respect has dodora themselves to examing their own doctrines. They have found that their pre- dictions of disaster have not come true indeed, quite the contrary.

Professor Curt Wimmer, Bead of the College of Pharmacy of Colum- bit University, In an article for women in the Liberty Magazine, makes the confession--which wo- men have known all along-that| "few products come into my labora- tory which, by the most severe judgment could be called harmful. With certain reservations I should say American women nowadays are Temarkably safe in purchasing cold creams, cosmetica, powilers, and astringents from houses of good reputation."

Not Enough to be Dangerous.

It is now admitted by the former critics of beauty preparations that manufacturers do not seek to im- pose on their clients with dangerous wares. There are so many safej and effective aids to beauty on the market that it would be impossible;

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1928.

WOMAN'S

WORLD

"Goodbye straight silhouette,” any spring evening prowns, of which these three are chiclý, typical; left roses and green traveries on ivory chiffon: (centre) periwinkle moire, the neck- line and bodice caught with plåtinum-act turquoise ornaments, and (right) dignified, rich, black velvet with swallowtail hemline.

FOR YOUR POWDER.

ful account.

THE DRESSING TABLE.

A SIMPLE AND BUSINESS- LIKE AFFAIR.

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THIS WEEK'S RECIPE.

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PEACOCK BLUE.

AND KALEIDOSCOPE

THOUGHTS,

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Peacock blue is a resplendent shade, rare and beautiful, and a pears to be a combination many tints which scintillate and display a new colour, with each slanting ray of the sun, All the glinting tinta of blue sen-water, the firelike reflections of an opal, the bluish violet of the amethyst, the rosy afterglow of evening and the sheen of gold, of silver and of bronze are concentrated in a rich tone which thrills the beholder like the sight of a. glowing pre- clous jewel.

BOX WATCHES.

ELITE STYLES

WORN AS AN ORNAMENT,

There is a new

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FASHION IN LEGS.

WHAT IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL POSE.

How should legs be worn?

watches. These are oblong in boxes that have a centre opening shape and encased in little leather

Four accomplished manipula- and slide over the face of the tors of graceful limbs spent a watch. When shut they look like whole day in London recently try- small match cases and are noting to find the correct fashion in much bigger-if any,

legs.

The more expensive varieties of this idea are given enamel and gold ease. Some have the added cious stones. These are so de- attractions of monograms in, pre- corative tit,they could be worn as fobs or us pendants.

Anther charming example of one de la well displayed in the hidden timepiece is a small soft velvet shadowed and basuti-lacquer red enamel box, which is ful in its own graceful folds; in volume in miniature with

clasped like #32 old-fashioned shimmering silks and in smooth, beautiful gold hasp. shining satin: but the gleaming, iridescent feather of the peacock, glistening with colour, must be seen close at hand before the true shade of "peacock blue" con Le appreciated.

Far to the west, at the end of t ong shining boulevard and a grey winding road, there is a little vineclad ranch house resting in a, green hollow among many fertile hills. Orderly spaciousness and an air of tranquillity hover about the wido barnyard and the ranch grounds. Near the kitchen

door, mounted on an upright sup- port, covered with" woodbine, hangs a great bell whose glear peal summons the men from the fields.

Ducks, chickens and turkeys scratch and pick about in the soft soil and the dry chaff of the yard and here, appearing at a distance much like the turkey's, are to be found the peacocks. Down from the sunlit hills, through the wheat fields and the orchard they roam at will and feed with the poultry in the yard.

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The Blue of Nature. How dazzlingly the sun catches the radiance on feathered necks, BROWN SPONGE CAKE.

on smooth-sides and long tail- coverts! Here indeed Sieve one breakfastcupful of rare tint of "pancock blue" in ail flour with a pinch of salt, half-the richness and splendor of blue, toponful of bicarbonate of soda, of bronze, of gold, and of green. one teasponful each of eream of When the bird struts proudly and hurlar, and ground cinnamon, two the tail and long trailing feathers Leaspoonfuls of cocoa or choco- are spread fanwise, the occllated Jato powder.

spots scom to gloam like jewelled eyes.

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for anyone. putting out inferior BEAUTIFYING' GLASS BOWL. stuffs to continue in business very

Those who are fond of chocolates, long without being found out..

There is lead in dry rouge, and or chocolate biscuits and care to

When you are spring-cleaning lead is dangerous if an excessivee the gold, silver, and coloured this year it would be a good idea to amount is used. In the past phyfare wrapped, may turn them to use all ornamentation and refurnish it. paper in which many of the sweets sweep your dressing-table bare of sicians have stressed this point. Now they are beginning to aumit

Bay some perfectly plain glass the once pretty arrangement of Fashions change everywhere, and that in general not enough lead is boxes-finger bowls, or glass grape muts, bowls, and brushes that form- put in dry rouge to work any fruit holders, which can be pured My Lay's toilet-table is now

Put a breakfasttupful of granu- Iated sugar into a pan with half- chased quite cheaply. There is alcohol in all astringents

definitely out of date. Today, in breakfastcupful of water, Stir Cut the paper into fancy shapes, keeping with the modern spirit of until the sugar has melted, then just as there is alkali ina and using clear gum, pasta on the cleanliness and efficiency, the dress-boil fast to a thin syrup. Add 1 oz. But physicians des not do their outside of the bowls, so that the ing-table is a very simple, business of halter, and when it has dis- it is charged by American women,colours show through to the side like affair. when they quote these facts. in of the glass. solemn manner, without adding whole surface is covered.

Ita plain at top, Solved pour the syrup from Do this until the instead of wearing a dress of dne height on to three beaten eggs, that it is all a matter of quantity, to dry.

Leave linen and embroidery, is covered whisking well. Continue whisk- and if the proportion is right

with plate glass. If there is any ing until the eggs are thick and benefits follow.

Next, at the oil stores, buy a tin pretty piece of lace that we wish to forthy, then atir in the flour mix of thin black lacquer. Paste this display, it is placed under the glass,ure with a metal spoon, as lightly It used to be said that women over the paper on the outside of where it is at once 'kept smooth, as possible. Put into a greased of the bell, and from the roof who use cold cream constantly on the bowl: if preferred, gold paint clean, and safe. their faces risk stimulating the may be used instead; or a combina

in lined with greased paper, and growth of hair.

From principles of bygiene, bake in a quick over antil firm

A mother peacock leading a little brood of half-grown young ones, with a quick flash of bronzy. brown feathers, disappears in the direction of the orchard. She tie gay plumage of the male. exhibited none of the characteris-

Often the far-flung eall of the peacock echoes from the field, from the barnyard, from the woodpile, from the wooden frune

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An army of specialists surround- ed them in

n Wardour-street studio to help them in their quest. woman who was considered.

Man was ignored; it was only The quest was most scientific. The film director in the Patho Studio Inoked long and carefully through the camera peephole. Be-

fore him was an expansive crino- line. Beneath it twinkled two tiny golden toch,

With the legs quite covered up It was hard to ensure a graceful posture. When it came to posing the bathing girl. ・ ・ ..

The Wrong Way,

Legs, we found during the tost (wrlles an Evening Standard representative) are the most im- portant item in a woman's ap- pearance.

The area of her skirt small' nowadays. Her slim torso does not make a large pattern. Her feet, her hands, her head, and her hair are tiny units:

But her legs are the biggest sin- gle component of her make-up. The way she wears them makes all the difference..

The test was conducted thus:- A girl sat on a representation of a Tube seat. She crossed hor legs, she re-crossed them.

For over an hour men with measuring rulers made, alterations to the poise of her right calf on her loft knee.

"In the end" they found the pose adjudged of the greatest beauty, which the camera recorded for the publie delectation..

Then her sister wat on the seat. She crossed her legs the wrong way. The difference?

"Show Your Eyebrows" Hnts. What a quaint, fickle creature is"! Fashion! Yesterday she mock- ed at the idea of allowing any out- side person to imagine that we were really possessed of either cars or eyebrows-in the street. Now the order has "gone forth that we are to "show our eye- browal" As to ears-they have nlready received their ticket-of- Creedom from the charming Greta of the shed. It is a high-pitched fowl -nesting and wandering on Carba. This famous film-stor's clangour not much in accord with the sunny hills of a California latest hairdressing fashion is al- One treasures in memory, the the barnyard "C, S. kisa-curl neatly curled under the picture of these gayly feathered Monitor."

Youth is capressed in the Linca of this light green sheer flannel.

This, however, fuion of black and gold is just et brushes and combs never he exposed when pressed, about 20 minutes, the bright beauty of the feathers, grain ranch and coming down to ready well known-the inevitable

has been proved a myth,

fective.

A Libel on Face Powder., A delighțim Fowl, looking like

the skin and makes it soft.

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the most expensive Eastern ware, Doctors now are saying that ex-is the reseit, une at a must-tri- perience has shown the definite ad- flag cost. vantage of cold cream. It has no If a plain glass butter dish, with effect on the hair, but it cleans lid is treated in the same way, it the skin of surface particles which makes a gorgeous powder bowl fasten themselves to it and so are of course the dishes must never be easily removed. It also labricates placed in water or the paper will

Fúce powders, it used to be said, clog the pores and makes complex- fon bad. But experience in this case, too, hap. shown that the phy- sicians have grossly exaggerated the facts. Powder used in modera- tion, as women know how to use it, has no ill-effect, and advantageous- ly takes off shine.

There are, however, several rules common sense which hold about cosmetics, and which, also most wo- men know without having to be told. If there are pimples on one's face, It is better to stop using cosmetics; until the pimples disappear, for otherwise they may become irritat- ed and get worse. Also lipsticks ought not to be applied over a cul on the lips, for obvious reasons. Indeed, the few anti-cosmetics rules are all so obvious that no woman' need pay a physician to enumerate them.

Lovely New Colours,

How very lovely are the spring colours: "Water-lily" yellow; "Volga" greon; Honey;" "Win. terhalter rose" and "Scorpion”- groy the last-named harmonises- admirably with the now corsage flower, which is made of delicately shaded scorpion skin.

Little naturalised, lizards forma novel "brouch" for sports hats. The new snake-fetish bracelets are raal snakes skins, diminutive, and made to coll snugly round the

Arm.

There are also charming little, Early Morning" hats of natural scorpion (chameleon), with which are worn gauntlet gloves with cuffs that match the hat."

The bodice of this evening in black crepe satin, terminat, model is a shapely little affair ing in a swathed belt with a gigantic bow at the side; the akirt is composed of three very full flounces of black tulle.

newest pieces of bedroom furniture upon a modern dressing-table. The are made with a special long drawer to accommodate these articles to- gether with manicure seta, jewel- cases, toilet lotions, and powder. quite vanished from the dressing. Other familiar ornaments have table. The pin-cushion, whether an up-to-date doll or an old-fashioned stuffed apple, is never seen, and certainly in these broochless daya we do not miss it. Trinket dishes and ring, stands have also disap peared. In fact, the well-known lit- ter of fancy pottery and linen has been swept clear, and the dressing- table has become the business-like desk of a beauty-secking woman.

Position of Mirror Important. Of course, the mirror and its position is the most important fea- ture. Generally it is of the three- picct: type, and when the table is placed in a good light (both day and artificial) it norves its practical purpose admirably. A table lamp set on the glass top will solve the problem of correct artificial light, its shade adding a charming pote of colour and decoration at the same time. Be careful, however, that the light falls upon yourself and doca not send all its glaring light into the mirror.

Fashion's latest sleeve vagary is the ultra-full one of "Bishop" persuasion. The jumper is in white crepe de chine embroidered with gradu.

ated black spots.

but if your bedroom has more than

Crystal is, perhaps, the only ing-stool is a pretty necessity. fashionable form of the well-known toilet set, and even it is losing with those of the table, and cover Choose one whose lines harmonieo favour in these days of dressing the neat in table simplicity. To-day we prefer furnishings of the room. Broende, accordance with the a single powder bowl of gay pottery artificial silk, and cretonne belong and one of these fascinating colour to various types of modern schemes, ed bottles for perfume or lotion as the sole decoration for our toilet a hint of old fashioned grace, a table. The charm of the antique sampler in gay wool cross-stitch.or is emphasised in many an artistica "collage" patterned cretonne will room, old Wedgewood china, pewter, make an ideal cover for your dres nad brass-ware being exceptionally sing-stool. A bedroom that 18 pretty on a period table. One old furnished in the severity of anti- candlestick with a bright coloured que oak requires a simple settle tapering candle looks delightful shaped stool. with a rush seat. when its shade matches that of the curtains and fashionable silk bed-modern furnishings, and a tollet- Simplicity is the key-note of spread

Where a simple table rather than much to the charm of a Indy's bed- table that is tidy and tasteful adds a éhest of drawers is used, a dress-room.

ear, not over it.

At the left is seen an ensemble of citronella rep,-the-blous of orine-de-chine in white i and the oat white-line; (right) a pink georgette evening gown entirely embroidered in small pearls in white and delicate shades of pink and green