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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1928.

OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE,

YET ANOTHER

CONSIGNMENT

of

SUMMER

21

HATS

IS HERE

LANE, CRAWFORD'S

Use

:

LADIES' SALON.

PURICO

THE UNEXCELLED COOKING FAT

Obtainable at

All GROCERS & STOREKEEPERS.

Agents:- KELLER, KERN~& CO., LTD. 18, Connaught Road, Telephone 0.8120.

Glossy, dust-proof and antiseptic floors can be obtained easily and quickly by the regular use of

Johnson's Polishing Wax Liquid or Paste

Invaluable for polishing floors, linoleum, furniture, pianos, automobiles, etc.

Johnson's Wax in for sale at all gro care, hardware and lending afojas

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HAVE YOU RECEIVED A COPY

of the 37th. Annual Report of the

HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY ? (Est. 1889).

T

If not apply to:

The Hon. Treasurer,

Mrs. SHELLSHEAR,

Hongkong University,

who will send it forthwith.

IT WILL INTEREST AND SURPRISE YOU.

P. T. FARRELL

Consulting Engineer & Manufacturers' Representative.

Agencies for m

Bolinder's Crude Oil Engines Marine,

Stationary and Lighting.

"WYANDOTTE" Boller Cleaner and Cleanser.

King's Building, Top Floor,

Telephone Central 4422, Te egraphlo Addrem "VARSEEING "

MOSQUITO LOTION.

Both a

PREVENTATIVE

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THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY

14, Queen's Road, U.

Tel.: 0, 1877,

WOMAN'S WORLD

FOR OUR LADY READERS.

New Steps For Dancers.

[By a Dance Professional.]

A change is coming over" the fashionable ballrooms. For the past year the dance scans. has sug- gested a procession of orderly and nicely polsed robots. Now a series of new jazz variations is ruffling the calm pleture.

All the new movements are in the nature either of a modified and redressed black bottom or a Charles- ton with graftings from blues and black bottom.

The Baltimore is as good an example as any. It is a neat and taking measure, which is going

to bo danced a good deal this sea- son. But perhaps only by the The new jazz young and agile. tricks are not kind to the portly and the middle-aged.

Here, in passing, is a tip for those over forty. Don't try to keep paco with new dance tricks that require a supple joint and an agile foot. Just dance foxtrots and blues in your own nicely balanced Don't Charleston. And way, avoid the tango.

The tango seems to have a fatal attraction for retired business men This is sad. and portly, women.

For it is a dance for lithe and fiery youth. It is a matter of body car riage, not of deliberately placed feet.

rumour.

There is a rumour that one or two new dances composed of a set series of steps are going to be Ignore the popular. While ballrooms remain crowded no set, dance will come in. It can- not, there is no room for it. Any- one who tries resolutely to follow. out the sequence of a set dance) will have his toes trodden off in any fashionable ballroom, .

Here is how prints combino. with plain fabrics to give summer sportswear distinc- tion: brown polka dotted crepe, set off by brown flat crepe at the cuffs, girdle and v-heck, fashion" the intri- guing suit at the left; the other is of the new twood silk combined with plain English red.

to

1 Period,

Астова.

6 Touch gently.

10 Pansago money.

11 Discharge with force.

12 Food in general.

14 An order to stop (Naut).

18 Look pleasant.

16

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18 Girl's maIG.

19 Pertaining to an area,

20 Perennial plants.

21 Perfume.

24 Flanders.

26 Turns from

29 Knot in wood.

81 Long step.

84 Elects again.

57 Perila

S2 Turkish decroo.

41 Measures,

44 Venture,

45 Inhabitants of Finland.

43 Boar,

47 Delightful regions.

48 Struck with amazement.

40 Denomination.

60. Young lady.

51 Angers.

22

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10 Widely prevailing rumour.

18 Turas, su new mown hay,, 21 Enquirer,

22 Ex-Emperors of Russia.

23 Rattling sounds in lungs.

24 Donkey.

25 Equality.

Fabled blad

28 Distress alizal.

80 Relight

32 Long Tiolent

speechas,

88 Orders for goods,

35 Exhibiting fores.

36 Having treason.

38 Rainbows.

80 Days of Roman calendar.

40 Genus of palmis.

42 Head ornament.

43 Becomes fast.

Yesterday's Solution.

ADAR NASICORN

A

10000 G

Rubber Curtains.

Please Dress Well. 52 Ornamental band.

R

TURGE

53 British food fish.

Down.

FOR THE NEW HOME.

[By a Man.]

1 Inn

2 Obliterato,

3 Ro-mould.

:·

Bands are helping the now livell-

. Bathroom curtains of any ordin- There have been so many un- ness of which I speak by playing a greater variety of dance music.ary material must of necessity al-warranted outeries against the way! Also by playing more pieces in ways be limp and slightly bedrag in which women spend money on They will, for in- gled, since they are subjected to a clothing that I should like to give varied time. stance, tako a blues plecs, play it series of sted baths every day, the opinion that I know most men to orthodox slow blues time, and The common-senso curtains for the have on the subject of women and suddenly throw in a "hot break" bathroom are made of rubberised dress.

In these days of drab towns the a few bars in double-double time. fabric, which may be bought by

On the whole, though, jazz music the yard and made up in the usual only colour we see in the streets i There are innumerable pat seems to be the red of a pfilar-box blues, foxtrot, Charleston, Balti-way. more, black bottom, and their seve terns and colours, and a rub with aor a Socialist's tie; and no one will ral variations--is more rhythmic clean damp sponge serves to keep contend that this shade of red la

really very tasteful: and melodious. In a word, it is the curtains clean.

A new form of rubber floor cover-fore we are deeply grateful to the better-at once easier id dance to

ing, imitates crazy paving, which women who introduce beauty into and more attractive to listen to,

is charming for garden rooms, ver- our streets, and make life a little andahs and loggias. It is not only brighter and a little more worth very much in the picture, but, what living by dressing tastefully and Beads and a Bustle. is even more important, it la warm well.

to the feet.

UNUSUAL COSTUME IN SOUTH AFRICA.

There-

Every time I see a well-dressed woman I have an irresistible desire pleated and gathered and draped to thank her, and. I am sure other Into the skirts, and the generous men feel the same.. We men are proportions of the bustles are the too careless or lazy to trouble too more emphatic on account of the much with our clothing, and por

haps bright clothes would not suit wearers."

ua very well; but a woman's face and figure, with really pretty to clothes, are seldom unnoticed by a

Two Extremes of Style. Astonishment' gives way

The bustle is one of those strange dress obscsafons that appear at in- tervals as regularly as a recurring! decimal. Not the true hustle, of course, but something near it, to amusement as one surveys the rest man.

A beaded girdle, which dress designers endeavour of the costume,

r

Some people seeni to regard ex-

to lead us via side draperies anda necklace or two, & few bracelets, pensive clothes as sheer waste, and, wired sashes. Fortunately we and perhaps a bunchy umbrells tied undoubtedly, if all the wild stories grow wise to the deception in good about the centre with a piece of are true about the prodigious sums time and drop it before we are string complete the picture. It is that women are supposed to squan- caught.

the height of a native's ambition to der, the extravagance can hardly be With the Whole-Heartedness of own an umbrella, though I have pardoned; bit in the majority of never seen one in actual use. There cases a woman hates to be 'fleeced.". the Native,

is real humour in the situation. and can usually contrive to dress But who would expect to meet Here is the bustle, outward and smartly without running up great the bustle in the heart of Rhodesia, visible sign of Victorian refinement, expense. But, in any case, moder- thousands of miles from its ori-of an era eo modest that it was inte expense to procure beauty ginal home, worn with an air by delicate to create clothes that dia is not a "cheer waste," for without Please don't take any notice of a native girls, its line preserved unal-not conceal and improve upon beauty life would be intolerable. tered throughout the years? Yet nature, allied to the almost com few old crabtrees and their melan plete undress of the heart of I saw this unexpected.sight on

cholic croakings, but continue to recent journey to Northern Rhode Africa.

give pleasure to the despised male sia and the Congo, says a writer

Fashions Have Stood Still sex, and you will earn their heart- to a Home journal. Newcomers who

The reason for the bustle felt gratitude. have grown accustomed to dusky beauties in an animal skin and a fashion? Well, it is not far to seek

few beads almost gasp with aston- When white officials and others to the native women, whe copied ishment. They are no apologies first took their wives, to this out- them faithfully, and fashions in for bustles either. Yards and yards post of Empire, bustles were in native circles have stood still over and yards of material have been vogue. They made instant appeal! since.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

POP-YOU KNOW SOMEBODY MOVED IN THE BIG STAUFFER HOUSE LAST MONDAY AND OSSIG ANI SAIN A LITTLE {CHAIR WITH THE NAME (BILLIE' ON IT SO WE

FIGURED OUT THEY HAD 2. (A LITTLE Bay!

YES

WELL-YESTERDAY 1. SAN OSSIE AND HE SAID HE SAW BILLIE AN' THAT SHE

SPOKE TO AIM !!

Good News!!

QU, BILLIE'S A SUE, IS

SAE

4. Monace. & Halo,

7 Plunge into fluid. 8 Large hot.

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WELL, ZLATS WHAT SEEMS SO FUNNY TO MS- WHO EVER HEARD OF A GIRL WITH TAG, NÁME OF BILLIE'? YOU DONT S'POSE IT COULD BE A GIRL, DO YOU,

Pop?

WHY, CERTAINLY!!,

COME TO TUNK OF IT I SAW A CUTE LITTLE GIRL

THERE AS L

by WENT

BY!

By Blower

* DID YOU HEAR THAT, 723? A CUTE LITTLE GIRL!!

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