1928-04-27 — Page 5

OUR DAILY TALK 'ON HEALTH.

POSITION OF WORKERS. IN

.SHOPS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1928.

WOMAN'S WORLD

FOR OUR LADY READERS.

OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE,

10

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Century

FANS

The scientifically shaped blades exceptionally wide and deep- ly pitched-provide the maxi- mum air movement, consistent with quiet operation.

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Estimates submitted for all types of stovca.

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METALS

of all kirida rapecially for ship building an engineering work. Completo sick. Best Terms, Immediate delivery.

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Central 615

STUDY IN DEPARTMENT. /

Pendant Vogue.

Art Silk.

A study of 97 workers in depart- ment storea who had never com- plained of foot trouble revealed the fact that 37 bad foot trouble or footstrain.

Forty-three wore "shoes, that were too short.

Forty had heels which upset the body build.

Nineteen others wore heels so high that they were injurious,

FASHION "ON A STRING."

Fashion is literally hanging on a string this spring.

ALMOST REACHED

PERFECTION..

Metallic Fabrics.

|SOME VERY SMART EFFECTS.

The gypsy sách and the Spanish The history of silk is of coatee are both revivals of arrost immemorial antiquity. There are- New ideas in jewellery are cap-records of a Chincae princess who ing Interest. What they actually ly fitted that they produced dis-turning the feminine fancy, as a was taking elaborate steps to foreshadow it is impossible to say, tortions of the feet.

In 60 cases the shoes were so bad-

Rubber heels are of advantage in lessening noise and in aiding walk fing. Ventilation is better in low shoes than in high shoes, but above everything else, the shoes must fit the feet.

Girls from 15 to 25 were found to be the most likely to buy shoes too short or tou aurrow, and indeed to buy them wholly for appearance und without relation to their use.. The Investigation of health con- trol in mercantile life made by the Harvard medical school indicated that department store employees seldom, are likely to dross suitably. Fashions dictate to them just na they do to the household worker or the womad of leisure. Furs in summer and thin stockings in win- ter are warn if they are the mode. Frequently stores and business establishments are. compelled to

heat them to an undue extent in winter because of the thin clothing [und the small amount of it worn by

wamen workers.

Many establishments Insist that employees wear a certain colour of garment, but naturally cannot de- mand a thickness or quality that will be desirable. This is left to the employees.

variation from the ropes of pearls which, while still popular, have lost their novelty. The dress- makers, who, since the beginning of the era of fashionablo. Taney jewellery, have done much to create new vogues, in ornaments, threw out a line to their patronsi in the form of a length of black cord with jewelled plaque" or pendunt as the glittering bait.

The feminine bites have exceet- ed all anticipations, and a sudden demand for black cord by the mile has developed. The cord is of the rounded eye-glass order, thin and silky-looking, and the pendant or plaque may reach to a point near the base of the cheat or dangle further.

The decoration on the end of the cord may be small or large, a single cabochon or an elaborate piece of modern setting in the form of a mosiac atones.

of semi-precious

The department store investiga- tions showed that objectionable odoura about the bodies of workers were a frequent cause of discomfort beautiful example of carved jade

to employees. The cause is usually excessive sweating, which can be overcome by a daily warm bath with soup and a daily change of under- clothing.

Sometimes a chunk of crystal or

or a combination of black onyx with brilliants or deep red corál

More Vanity.

A golden, bejewelled vanity case becomes more vain by wearing a lovely cameo in the centre,

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but as Individual detalls they com- mand attention.

Probably, one of the most daring mingling effects is being wrought| with metal materiale; one sces {silver and gold, and aluminium, gold and shades of copper, aluminium and gold, and graduat- ed tones of allver and gold. This being so, nothing la easier than to evolve a most effective and ravish- log frock out of remnants, or short lengths of these fabrics.

A remnant of gold tissue or lama can make a slim, long bodice, that disappears beneath a closely

So.

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1 Immersed..

Acrose.

5 Digging instruments. 9 Secret writing.

10 Exclamation expressive of grief. 12 Stato omphatically.

13 Aids.

10 Temper. 17 Trim.

a vision of that which is perfect. 19 Understand. 22 Comfort, 20 Delighted,

25 Cut short 26 Fabricates. 27 Articles of food, 28 Strike.

draped gipsy Bash of coppery 23 Travel in the water. bronze tissue. The ends of this sash, after knotting directly in the centre-front, fly loose, and a.strip. of brown fur can be posed with excellent effect at one side.

For the skirt of such a frock,

20 Fragment. 30 Hip-bone.

B2 Journey.

36 Headland.

38 Dry up.

44 Mlalake.

gold lace looks well, and thero la 41 British river. so little of this required that a 40 To be spiritless.

deep lace-bordered net would meet 47 Ladies title.

48 Extenuate. the case. Taking rough measure--| 49 Always. ments, it would be the simplest 50 Trees.

51 Afternoon meals. task to pick up the component

62 Consuming. parts of this creation, and so 58 Cuts off, by the colour and style of the ments more than four thousand acquire a dance dress, that in addi- dress worn with it. Brilliants and years ago. To tell the romantic tion to being extremely attractive,

is preferred. Choice is dictated supply herself with silken gar

Where such.olours persist, and old paste accord with the present story of how silk was first intro- when they are due to some infec-feeling for black, and the dreadused into India and then became kives the key-note of tious distubance of the nose or of making rule is that gowns should the occasion of the earliest, tenta- fashion. some other portion of the body, the have their matching jawele-nt the tive and Tumbling, contacta bp- person should have medical alten-end of the cord."

tion.

RUBBER AND MINING.

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LATEST QUOTATIONS AND DIVIDENDS.

Mesara. Carroll Bros, have been advised, of the following quota [dions and dividends on rubber and

mining ahares:

Jimals

Quotations.

Allenbys

Glenealys

$1.40 1.60

.1.26

2.70

1.40

1.10

1.30

Kedahs

Lunas

Malaka Pindas

Pajamis

Dividends.

Tin Bentong

22/

Ting Kil

7%

Kinta Tin Dredging

(int.) Ulu Yam

5 %

1/-

Paris, Mar. 20,-A Paris jewel- ler, Marcel Gayet, aged 35, jumped with $ parachute from thie Eiffel Tower at midday to- day and Whe killed. Gayet had

interested always been

In parachutes and was anxious to test the new model he had just constructed. He went to the Eiffel Tower with a few friends at lunch- time, when there is scarcely any- body about, but instead of mount- ing to the top he stopped at the first platform, climbed the railings and jumped. The parachute. did not have a chance of opening and the erashed to

the ground, his backbone, arms and legs being

We Have Received

SEVERAL NEW VARIETIES!

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The above model is of dell- cate pink chiffon. The billow. ing, uneven hem adds its to the swaying quota

silhouette.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

LOOK WHAT I 607!! LOOK!

WHERE ARE ALL THE THINGS YOU SAID YOU BOUGHT WIZA THE EIGHTY EIGHT DOLLARS AND TWENTY. SIX CENTS?

tween the luxurious culture of the East and the still immature civili- sation of Greece and Rome, would be do write a great part of the his tory of the ancient world.

Suffice it to say that for count- less generationé silk has been the material of the richest fabrics that have gone to the adornment of Man. Always it has been rare and costly for not till our own day has human ingenuity succeeded in imitating, the exquisite craftsman- ship of the

Spinning Worms,

That In their grean shops weave,

the smooth-hair'd silk"

It is only within the last twenty years that a material almost in- distinguishable from the natural product has been made on a large scale, if not from a sow's ear, at Feast from Rubstances scarcely more promising, and Bo has brought within the reach of mil- lions what was oneo the luxury of the great ones of the earth,

A Child's Thought.

It is very nice to know

That I am made so neatly, And that my little skin andf

banes

Cover me completely.

For I should blush for very

shame

If, when I was a-thinking, My skin and bones should come

undone

And leave my mind a-blinking.. And all my wicked thoughts and

feelings

Naked in the light: Oh! I'm extremely glad to feel

My fastenings are tight.

OH! WAY. I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT THAT!!

DO YOU REALLY WANT ME TO TELL YOU?

YES

Down

1. Kind of pigeon.

futuro

2 Notions.

skillfully Uneven panela balance so that four points nearly touch the floor on both sides, leaving the front and back short for the dancer's convenience. A narrow rib- bon bands the waistline,

Merry, Christmas!

1 Lively.

4 Machines for taking up mud.

5 Divisions of the calyx,

6 Dismal.

7 African antelope.

8 Kind of starch.

21 YEARS AGO, !

SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE

TELEGRAPH FILES..

The following items are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the weak ended April 29th. 1907.

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9 Church dignitaries.

17 Seamstressen.

13 Runs with, haste,

14 Meadow...

16 Killed.

20 Senior Girl Guides.

21 Obscure.

22 Dalid.

24 Troe.

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28 Unleavened cakes of oatmeal,

29 Show,

31 Measureing instruments,

33 Paragraph,

34 Shaving.

36 Squaro mensura

37 Punctuation mark

89 Water jug.

40 Sweetheart.

42 Valley.

43 Bird's home.

46 Measure out.

40 Vegetables,

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Yesterday's 'Solution.

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FUNNY FILM.

"COHENS AND KELLYS IN PARIS."

There are innumerable funny incidents in "The Cohens, and Kellys in Paris," now being screón- ed at the Queen's Theatre. At The rate of the dollar on de- the first showings yesterday, the mand was 28. 1.9/16d.

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large audiences thoroughly enjoy ed seeing the old familiar business II.M.S. Bedford arrived in Hong-partners in the unusual surround-- kong to relieve H.M.S. Diadem.

ings of Parisian life. All manner of things happen to them, Includ- The Pacific Mall Steamship ing exciting acuffles in a gay Companys' liner Mongolia went night-cafe and scares in the ashore near Mojl, but was later boudoir of an artist's model, to refloated.

say nothing of Cohen becoming Involved in a duel. The incidents The R.. Hosan Maru, of the are, of course, much exaggerated, 0. S. K. fleet, was launched at but one has to remember that It Kobe,

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Shareholders of the Canton River Iron Bridge Company met at Honam and elected officials.

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is sheer farce which is Going presented.

Dr. Wu Ting-fang arrived in Canton to make the necessary asome of the most humorous bits in rangements for the establishment of the Canton-Kowloon Railway

Bureau.

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Severe earthquake shocks were reported from Bulgaria.

Cohen is played by George. Sydney, and he is as good as ever." We have seen Kelly done better than by J. Farrel McDonald, but, all the same, he is responsible for this funny Alm. Vera Gordon and Katie Price as the respective wives are extremely good, whilst the rest of the cast is admirably allotted. Those who want a good laugh should see this Cohen and. Kelly comedy,

In a friendly shooting match, the Hongkong Volunteer Reserva As-

Dr. Wu Ting-fang and Mr. sociation defeated H.M.B. Water- witch. Amongst the former team Chang Pat-tsze were appointed co- were Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse and Presidents of the Canton-Hankow

Railway. Mr. L. G. Bird.

THE THINGS WERENT: FOR US.....Z KNEW. SANTA WOULD BRING US ALL SOMETHING ANYWAY SO

I SPENT IT ALL AT YODER'S GROCERY STORE FOR CHRISTMAS GOODIES TO BE DELIVERED TO BOYS AND GIRLS JAIS AMORNING WHO WOULDNY BE SURE OF A

VISIT FROM

SANTA CLAUS

I HOPE ENERYBODY HAS AS MERRY A |CHRISTMAS AS

WE'RE HAVING!'

By Blosser

AND NEXT YEAR I'M GOING TO DO TAG SAME TAINS AGAIN!!!

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