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The simple dress on the left is expressed in mastic- stockinette, trimmed with fine tucks worked in rig-ag lines on bodice and skirt. The coal-frock, in fine check cloth, features the modish front drapery on the skirt, and a vent

of tucked crepe de chine.

THE HONGKONG MELEGE

FURDAY JUNE

WOMAN'S

JEWELLED WATCHES.

WORLD

HEALTH VIEWS.

AN ACTRESS'S WAY TO

FITNESS

OF INFINITESIMAL SIZE": Madame la Parisienne has dis carded her diamond and platinam

Women who value good looks wrist watch for lovely Jewelled realise now as a rule, that beauty pendants. Hanging from a cord or and health are very closely con- chain round her neck she wears a nected, but occasionally one comes little ball no large than a cobout cross a man who Imagines that encrusted with gems, in which is a powder-pun, lipstick, and vanishe

wee watch face.

set with diamonds, rubles, or emeralds,

Concealed in the umbrella top is another place for a watch. A spring releases the umbrella knob and reveals the watch in the handle.

CITY OF TRAGIC WIVES.

IN THE EMPIRE'S HOTTESTO SPOT

Singapore 1 sucity of tragic wives. There are thousands of

pale and bored, dressed In monotonous white "wash dresses," fretting away an exile's life in the hottest city in the British Empire.

ing creams are capable of pro- You may see us in the early.

Bulid ducing far more wonderful results morning, before the spotlight of than any woman ever knew them the sun reveals the plan

ings in a shadowless dan

to achlovo. Be

list

Fob watches are also popular and some are made to look like tiny books, which can be opened to show the miniature face. They are ex- quisite things of enamel and onyx, These cynics would probably belessly poking through the shops. amazed to learn the extent to The wives of Singapore and which the cult of Atness has been thrill, in shopping. We gat adopted by women, as the way to noon in restaurants, in hotels, beauty, and it would probably sur hold depressing, "pahit parties. priee them most to find that nowa A number of us try to drink away comes a hot, fitful sleep beneath days the stage-beauty leads in ennui with gin and bitters. Thon devotion to the open-air life.

a suffocating mosquito net

At night we dance, sometimes thoir! with young bachelors "fresh from home" who still retain northern vigour and Insouciance, We play feverish bridge for heavy stakes or motor out through the unchanging and merclicss rubber plantations with the sickly odour of latex and acid hanging in the still night air.

Last night, states a representa Bijou watches of infinitesimal size are much in vogue in Paris attive of a Home paper, chatting. clocks are with Corn Goffin, whose beauty and present. Boudoir the smallest possible oxamples exquisito daintiness largely make art of the "The Girl Friend" the happy show of the combined modern jeweller and watchmaker. it is, I heard how she, like so many There are those with facce no other young actresses whom I have larger than one's thumbnail,met, values fresh air and exercise in scarcely bigger three-fold gold above all else.

She very often chooses a hotel cases which open out and stand triangle-wise; others are niature a littlo way out of town so that she facsimiles of conventional French may have the joy of coast or coun- clocks, made of mother-of-pearl or try life during the day. Heat, pahits, and gossip. The enamel and gold in the place of marble and gilt. These stand in wee cupboard-like cases lined with pale velvet.

Evening Slippers.

An evening T strap evening shoe of raspberry satin uses a startling green-gold kid for its binding, trim and hed. A large round raspberry glittering stone fastens the T strap.

OVER THE TEA CUPS.

(SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPE" BY "JOAN"},"

Is That So

Just now, for instance, she is Every day, saying at Gullane. wet or inc, she plays golf; and she cares not at all if it rains, Rain, she declares, is excellent for the skin!

Sicop, exercise, fresh air, and work are the main features of her particular way of safeguarding fitness and beauty,

:

One day rolls into another. tragedy of the Singapore' wife is that she has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do. Housework and bringing up children are unheard of where boys can be hired for $1 week and ayahe (nurses) for less,

There's a better selection

LANE CRAWFORD'S

LADIES: SALON

··Left right are helt pink beach rule of pyjamas and long-sleeved overbloute with aireular

tucks, crimson one-piece suit with full and white polka-dotted sleeveless, lounging, site wi

will three-quarters coût.

A TIRED FACE.

AND HOW TO REFRESH IT.

PLAYING BRIDGE.

HABITS THAT MAKE OR MAR

THE GAMEZ

And yet of all the cities in the Far East, Singapore is the most blessed. While civil war rages She makes up for Inte hours by round Shanghai and Peking, while sleeping late in the morning and Hongkong echoes with the has breakfast every day at the murderous atrocities of Canton, comfortable hour of 11.80. Singapore, a great function of all She belloves greatly in the wis-Eastern commerce, and the mouth] dom of eating, not at conventional of the greatest river of rubber in hours, but at those times which are the world, is thriving.

Stately buildings are rising most suitable for each individual's

along the water front. Now needs.

Harbour

After a strenuous day's work the Laughingly she told me of her hotels are projected." own unconventional meal-times-development grows apace. The

[By Noel Wendon three o'clock lunch, then a rest and roada" Are packed with the business woman often feels too ing's dancing or a visit to the tea before leaving for the theatre, greatest maze of shipping in the tired to look her best for an even and then a meal after the show. Far East,

theatre, The men, in their crinkly white

A warm bath, softened and scent. "Let me play cards with a man substantial enough to enable her

suita and topees, are busy making ed with her favourite bath salts, for an hour, and I'll tell you his London, May 17. Also is pictured a delightfully return to a fashion which will to wait for an 11.30 breakfast!

fitness, according to this charm East are as prosperous and busy bring the brightness back to her often heard. Who the author of face other measures must be resort this brilliant remark was "I do not In the first place, Madeleine simple jumper for morning wear, ultimately obviate those expensive Work Is the last essential for and unmaking. No men in the will refresh her physically, but to character," is saying 1. have know, but he certainly, was right, Ing Uttle philosopher. The fact as the Singapore men.

play

ed to draws our attention to what she which may be made up of any com- little "trima,"

that she was able to

The Listless and Forgotten.

A-Cream and Ice Massage, and I have a firm idea that he was calls "a labour-saving device," [bination of colours.

I was very pleased to note thatanette" 716 times without s

To refresh a tired, face and give a Bridge player the f thereby-probably unconsciously

the famous novelist, Miss. Sheila break, she puts down to the act But the Singapore wives they

It the brightness and bloom of Certainly there are few games in, -including the gentle art of

Before I get on to personal Kaye-Smith, has been mildly that she had to put so much hard

Almost every day a liner slips youth there is nothing better than the world which bring out a per- stitchery with that of cleaning

travellers. you will need some of your favour as well as Bridge does. Die sweeps, kitchen sinks, rather than regard- topics, I must tell you that there attacking the novelist who pays work into the part that she was, are forgotten.

hundred perspiring ing it as a lady's accomplishment. is a very strong "Long Hair" move more attention to soul-analysis as ahe whimsically put it, nearly into port and disgorges several a cream and fod massage. For this son's character and temperament They flock to the hotels most of its massage cream, a piece of ice down the defensive Armour and re-

mythical and a piece of butter muslin, veals the weak spots unerringly, them thrilled with However, so far as the majority ment afoot, headed by one of our than plot. Characterisation, while always hungry!

Eastern lamour and fill the Sponge the face and throat over of you are concerned, she is prebost famous impresarios, who very clever, and inseparable from

halls with the buzz of their talk with warm water, dry lightly, and You Know the Type.. ably right, for we have little time insisted that his chorus ladica the really good story, need not be

In the background; in wicker smear over with the cream Tap It What Bridge player does not these days to "sit on a cushion and could regain their crowning the alpha, and omega of a novel,

chairs, just looking on, are then with the tips of the fingers, go know the pleasant, laughing ing over the whole face from the happy opponent who condones our sew a fine seam." I will say, in story, and no end of women are and that terrible dissection to

Singapore wives, Here at Raffies chin upwards. Now fold a large mistakes, and while, he is winning paronthisis, however, that 1 con- going about with half an inch of which some authors-principally,

In the Europe or the Adelphi, they handkerchief like a bandage, and is the epitome of good fellowship sider the Modern Girl quite clever hair projecting from the back I regret to say, female,-subject

find an atmosphere," real or un-placing it under the chin tie on the But put him on the losing side, real, that they breathe into their top of the head. Wrap a plecs of watch him snap at his partner a at sowing, when aho bas time to brim of their hats, saying, in reply their characters is not only boring, "Oh, I'm but sometimes positively revolting.

suffocated souls.

ice in a piece of the muslin, folding errors, complain of the run of the settle down to it; but the trouble to discreet enquiries:

letting my hair grow! Didn't you Given a lively set of characters,

It is easy to distinguish them, it double before wrapping and cards, and swear that when two This well drawn, it might be left to the know Everybody is!"

amooth the face, as if ironing it finesses go wrong the luck must Just a trace of shadow.beneath the ed to be self-supporting, he doesn't seara, somehow, exactly the intelligent reader to imagine that

eyes, a mouth a trife hardened, with the ice. The ice should be be dead against him those tiny tired wrinkles that the passed quickly over the skin and And by him, I'm Afraid I must rarely has the time.

sun soon brings, and a dull tan not allowed to rest upon It include also 'her, though the personally, I cannot remember the moment to reply: "Everybody there was some fundamental rea

* Dry the skin, apply a touch of feminine counterpart is rarer. pallor. last time I made a garment, but isn't, because I'm not!"

Young "Arst contract" men, vanishing cream, wipe over with

is that, since she has been expect-

Speaking

only a few hours ago-to my Intense surpriee-I embroidered a navy-blue band which was to adorn the school cap of a tried and trusty stuffed monkey, grown thin and furless in the service of our family, very beautifully, in order that he may be a fitting companion. for his young owner. The embrol- dery was most creditable, and took half an hour; but for any night- dresses I may require, I shall most ertainly adopt our artist's sug- gestion and buy lace nightdress-

The son for their various actions, and

there seems no need to trace the life of the hero from the time he was spanked for robbing an orchard, and said to himself: "Apples and anguish ... green plums. .. green jealousy. the jealousy of the old for the enjoyment of youth

And so on. You know the kind of tosh I'mean! One cannot escape' It. "The gods and goddesses, the lorda and ladica, have gone; and now the plot has gone" says Miss Kaye

tops, as sold at all the big stores remarks, however true, "don't go Smith. Only temporarily, I hope. in infinite varieties, costing from down, and most distinctly do not There is bound to be a reaction- three shillings upwards-most dis- make one. popular. tinctly upwards. Now, having' a

For morning wear a de lightfully simple jumper in natural Shangtung, with hems and tie of brown check silk.

and soon Meantime we have yet The fact is another brilliant authoress who top costing, say, five shillings, you that hundreds of women really are does not disdain plot. Miss G. B need two-and-a-half or three yards trying to get long tresses again, S. Stern, whose picture is herewith. THIS WEEK'S KECIPE. (according to your height and but whether they will have the She is a woman of great talent and has read her novel, "Pantomime," whether you like nightdresses you courage to go through the awful personality, and nearly everyone can tuck round your toes, irrespec- preliminary stages, when they can which made her famous. When I tive of fashion of the new fabrle, neither keep their hair from trail tell you that she admits to the pro "Delysia", or Crepe Shalimar, both

MARZIPAN BISCUITS,

"griffins" they are called, are their soft cloth, and arrange a touch of The Selfish Unmasked. prey. A synthetle return to the rouge, high on the cheek-bones. Notice the steady, rock, like pla "old life," funny stories, Interested Work this into the skin, to solten of one player, the dashing bids of conversation, attention the Bin- the edges, and dust with powder. another, the timidity of a third gapore wives find these in the When dressing for the evening and the consistent over calling of companionship of young unasster after a day's work, especially if the a fourth, K

eyes have been strained over ledgers What a test of temper it can be nized men.

Perhaps, this too, is another or typing, always give the eyes a The arguments which men. bord acid bath, and should they players will have, when tragedy for the young Annually a regular quota are feel dim and dull, soak a piece of fast. I have seen-game "sent home" for living beyond cotton wool in cold tes and lay rapted for whole minutes while

over the closed eyes for about five two players wrangle over a their means.G

Singapore is a Chinese puzzle of minutes. This has a wonderfully played card, or a quibble of, the marital tangles famed throughout other cities in the East, ki

On the other hand, it is a city of beautiful homes, great broad boulevards, exquisite gardens an architectural model of domestic peace,

The town is scattered along the low sandy shores of the island, and

Six ounces ground almonds, some from the sea can be seen the smoke

pastry board, divide the mixture shore. Inside the breakwater that into two parts, colour one portion stretches along the front are hun pink and the other green. Roll out dreds of small ships.

of which are something under four ing under the hat brim nor induco duction of what she calls sugar to sweeten not too much

Banks, shipping, buildings, shillings a yard well, say four it to wind itself round a pin or mediocre verse" and to talking. 1 egg, some pink and green colour clouds of rubber mills at work shillings. That is, roughly, ten or pad, remains to be seen. Person being one of her hobbles or recrea-ing, a little icing sugar, My night and day. twelve shillings for material and ally I think that nine out of every tlone, you will realise that G. B-sugar and almonds, and stir in the hotels and the magnificent new five shillings for the top: consider. en wil return suddenly to the S. Stern is no ordinary woman, beaten egg ably under a pound for a garment crop or shingle upon the first occa Almost a rival, in fact, to the other Put a little Icing sugar on the post office tower along the sea- of the style for which you would son of a social rature when they pay certainly not less than two really cannot afford to take any pounds in a shop. Anyone with ancas. and thereafter they the remotest idea of needlework will always find some jelly good

A book you must not miss into fancy shapes. Bake in a cool on arrival at Singapore, and the wing eyes of 'Bingapore wives-*** can fix the material on to the top, excuse for not starting in again. Whatever the fashion experta may

WS.LB in Dally Express. say, there le something about the "Bago Metal" Uraula Bloom: It oven for ten minutes, last you will forget, are the haunt- cropped-head which makes it more is the story of a man of his amall than a passing phase. Think of spark of divinity and his vast

Jewellery Season

Street.

The Street of Adventure.

on a sugared board, and cut them The first thing you will notice

Jewels appear with every sort of

Vanity

If you have towel rails in your "After that you are given two prac- the general improvement to the amount of dust. No less & per hat room on which towels refuse tical dresses for sports or travel- holr, the general tidiness, and, the son than Marle Coralll 18 reported to stay because of their round,

ralopi ling. One is expressed in the new improvement in the average to have said that Ursula Bloom highly polished surface, you will be mantle stockinette, with novel pin woman's silhouette, to say nothing would become a great novelist, glad to learn of a grip that, fitted costume this season. Some of the tucke worked in zig-zag lines on of the rejuvenating effect! And in her last book Spilled Balt to the rails, prevents the towels popula bodice and skirt. The coat frock if the hairdressers know which remember I thought she nearly got from sliding oft. It is made of Thinë, peb

with a apakelike action pictured is of fine check cloth, but side their, bread in, buttered, they there; now I think she has done rabber, and curls around the rail amethysts, aquamarinas It could be made equally effective will most certainly discourage any so.. in a less heavy material.

mother-of-pearl

lapis lazul

refreshing effect on them,

rules

What mean little tricks you sometimes see played by sportsmanlike player the

de

tion In pulling out a card which anothe ayor la Jed to take: a finesse, sighs whe

giving what is