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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1928.

WOMAN'S WORLD

FOR OUR LADY READERS.

Fashionable Babies.

PRINCESS ELIZABETH SETS

A NEW VOGUE.

Children's clothes are affected by the fashions just as much as are their mothers' and grand- mothers'.

who

Miss Taylour-Smith, designs clothes for London's May- fair babies dwelling in luxurious nurseries, states that children's elothes are frequently miniature copies of grown-up garments.

Last season,' she said, "wo wore flowered crepe de Chines and floral chiffons, so this season, the amart child will be decked in these pretty materials. Most children wear silk, too, at all times, except at school, when they wear heavier and more serviceable stuff.

Fashions Set by Princess Elizabeth.

"Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth set a fashion when, alie appeared in little white organdie frocks, with high yokes, and tiny puffed sleeves, daintily edged with lado or embroidered in delicate patterns. We sell a great many of these frocks for the baby up to three or four years of age.

"Since Princess Elizabeth has been wearing a string of coral beads round her neck which, I anderstand, her mother used to wear as a child, many other chil dren wear these necklaces. Fre- quently, ton, they have ribbons of coral colour running through the yoke of the frock to match. Family Lare for the Very Young.

"Some mothers bring in family lace to have made into robes for their babies," went on Miss Tay- four-Smith. She exhibited a robe of white georgette, with exquisite Honiton lace let in as a panel in front and as godet at the sides of the hem.

"Another fashion of the modern child is to have little dainty: kickers to match each frock she

Wears.

*

To Ensure Penceuble Fittings.

In order to keep the children! anused when they come in to bei fitted for their frocks Miss Taylour-Smith has an intriguing. rocking-horse on wheels and some bewitching dolls for them to dress up as well. So children who hate tie, dressmaker are quite amen- able in her hands and she can fit, their little gowns.

Ticklish Parasol.

Paris capa the vogue for fluffy parasols by fashioning a striking one of long, waving uncurled ostrich plumes in a rich purple. shade.

In a contest in which hundreds competed, Signorina Livia Marracci, 19, was chosen by the Roman newspaper Pevere to represent Italy in the International Pageant of Pulebritude at Galveston, Texas, June, 2 to 5. The Gazzetta del Popolo of Turin, the signorina's bone, says of her: "She has a dashing and elegant figure. Her eyes have a sweet expression of melancholy-she is indeed the lower of youth."

Get-rich-quick Women.

By Evelyn Irons.]

She is far outnumbered, in this year of grace, by the type of woman who wants silks and diamond tho clocks, not as mann from

Ales but as a result of her own fortit nuy be in speculation, or in writing best-sellers, or in con- trolling a big business, or in some- thing respectable, such as being a

A young woman who is at the musician." outset of her business carcer visit-i

the other day the house of an extremely rich man.

Much less robust and admirable was the Victorian young person "Some day," she announced ar-wing, though expressing no vulgar desire to roll in wealth, sponged rogantly on her return, “1, a matter of course upon the male shali have made as much money members of her family in the hope i is that, I, too, shall have a room.hat an adequate legacy might ac wung with purple silk with a din-rue to her for the indefinite ser- vice of "keeping house." She was, mond clock on tho mantepiece."

in fact, a gold-digger in virtue's clothing.

woman, imacka

of

the

With infinite lact one refrained from reminding her of Dr. Ethel

Small .wonder that Cabinet myth's sinister sayings about the Ministers are able to say with a conspiracy of men to secure the degree of truth that there have few great women writers. plums of life for themselves. For been

the initial incentive of the will to be a self-made, mil- Without lionaire is a rest thing in a money-making, it is difficult to dis- cipline oneself sufficiently to under- particularly when, it take the toils of authorship, or any.

have else. Few hearty thing Kool, vulgarity-Women have beenFrancisan temperament of a cor- all too apt to set off with attain admirable modern artist who would-unless his fellow-artists lofty contempt for sordid cash and restrained him from this break of to make reluctant but abject com-union rules-sell his pictures for half a crown apiece. Least of all promises with reality later..

women who are temperamentally The easiest and least obvious averse from garret life and compromise is to dig the necessary more susceptible than men to the money out of someone who has bait of luxury. Jacquired it. But mercifully the golddigger is a comparatively rare bird now. That is why such'a fuss is made of her

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

SAY! WHERE WAS YOU YESTERDAY? BILLIE AN ME WAS OVER TO YOUR

HOUSE LOOKIN,

FOR YOU!!

I WASN'T THERE WAS I??

WHAT DID YOU WANT ME FOR?

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Sponging led women nowhere. But the modern get-rich-quick wo man is a force to be reckoned with -even if her riches are so remote as to be almost illusory,

Worse and More of It

WHY YOU ACT LIKE YOU VJAS MAO-GEE, BILLE OR ME ISN'T MAD AT YOU- WAY BILLIE FELT AWFUL BAD WHEN SHE FOUND

YOU WASNT HOME YESTERDAY!

DID SHE? DID SAE REALLY?

YOU AIN'T FOOLIN" ME NOW?

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18. To listen..

19 Tune played by a single instru-

ment,

20 Renta.

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23 A foot-pound.,

24 Recipient,

20 Net to be drawn on bottom of

river.

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28 Mid days.

30 Multitude.

33 To free.

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36 Metal,

38 Found in a chimney.

30 To load.

41 Shute.

43 The net of raising.

44 Prophet.

45 Always.

40 Keeper of an Irish smuggler's hut.

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3 Farther inward.

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nature.

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Entity.

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35 Earlier.

37 To sneeze.

38 Heir.

40 State.

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