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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, JULY,

TWO VERY DAINTY EVENING GOWNS.

WOMAN'S

The useful little dance dress seen on the right is in flesh pink net, with a novel 'waistline decoration in crystal, blue and pink beads. The model on the right which relies upon beauty of fabric for its charm, is carried out, in chiffon lame, showing various rose tints faintly out- lined with black upon an ivory background,

FRENCH INFLUENCE.

THE FASHION VOCABULARY.

LAWN TENNIS SHOES.

IN GREAT VARIETIES.

Some of the latest lawn tennis

Ahoes with 31 rubber aple.

THIS WEEK'S RECIPE.

AMBER PUDDING.

WORLD

I FEAR IN WOMAN.

THE WAY TO FIGHT IT.

Can women be divided into types according to whether they fear life jor fight it?

Some women are angry when they meet opposition, and they enjoy life much more than the fearful souls who are so easily made unhappy,

Anger, the emotion associated with pugnacity, is stimulating, even pleasurable, if our anger is just.

Fear, on the contrary, is always unpleasant and devastating to our self-esteem, whether it la fent due to trivialities or to terrors. Valu able it may be in moderation, if it saves our lives in facing trallic perils, or if it safeguards us from offending the moral code, such as it is, built through the centuries by mankind in the making.

On the other hand, fear spoila

the joy of life for fifty per cent. of women to-day. Fear of the dark and of wet, slimy animals may be traced to ancestral expert ence through racial memory. Ask half a dozen women if they are over. afraid. Ask them what particular fear hurt and thwarts their daily lives. If they answer honestly and sincerely, you will gain some insight into the human mind. Cats, wide spaces, draughts, social mistakes, illness, ghosts those six fears might be multipiled a hundredfold, and we must remember the strangest and strongest fear of all-fear of oneself.

Reason for Fear.

Fear versus fight vary in every Individual from year to year, from day to day; and both fight and fear

There's a better selection

LANE, CRAWFORD'S LADIES' SALON

OVER THE TEA CUPS.

(SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BY "JOAN")

Is That So?

London, May 24.

Sheridan, the post and playwright, This week we have a variation

and her husband was killed in the on the ensemble themo, introducing remarks under another heading dren from whom, in the circum- And, to continue my previous war. She has two beautiful chill- the over-populer cape instead of there has been a Beauty and stantes, one might be justifled in the coat, This particular model

controversy lately-the expecting a great deal, were it not Brains is a conibination of silk and wool: kind of thing which crops up as for the fact that exceptionally a thick kasha of the new and de- regularly as the Summer holidays, clever people so very rarely have lightful mid-night blue, combined and I was pleased to note that Mr exceptionally clever children, as with printed crepe de chine to Gordon Selfridge, Jnr. (who told statistics prove. However, Clare tone. Also are pictured two evening me that he began his commercial Sheridan managed to break down dresses, the little one of pink net, life by sticking on stamps in his the reserves of no less a person trimmed in crystal, blue and pink father's office at five shillings than Trotaky when she was in beads, for the more informal week when he was home from Russla, and he allowed her to occasion, then the dressy model of school in the vacations) said, model him; also she interviewed chiffon lame.

when asked his opinion on this that woman-doubter (if not exactly The day gown of black, white vital matter: "I think that man woman-hater) Signor Mussolini, and grey foulard is for the young whose mind is taken off his work She is the type of woman one because a good-looking girl is might go on writing or talking working in the same office is not about indefinitely just because

she herself goes on indefinitely i

matron, while also pictured is a amart pull-over sweater for the young Indy.

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Vanity Street.

And now for a hat. Before we go on I should like to plneo on record that I do not recommend you to adopt this style of chapeau if you have a face like the lady underneath it, because she looks altogether too droopy for the head- gear most depressing, In fact. it seems to me that it requires a bright, piquant little face to set off a hat like this, not one of the "illes and langour" type; so many people have a tendency to emphasise any unfortunate feature

much of a business mau. Rather more than half our employees are!

The Street of Adventure,

This week I have been deeply Interested by a book by a woman who seems to enjoy the doubtful advantage of knowing all there is" to know about her own sex. (To know all about the other sex is most certainly an advantage, prac- tically speaking; but to know. about one's awan.'gives one an un- comfortable feeling1

We are so funny with the veneer off!) How- ever, in "The Common Round" by D. C. F. Harding (Hurst and

by their choice of hate. You know women, and we find that good Blackett); we have a day in the life what I mean-tip-tilted nose, looks do anything but detract from of a modern girl. "Only a day are influenced very much by phy-turn-up hat! But to get back, at a woman's value as a salesman." in a full-sized novel?" I hear you aical health, are affected, for long last, to the model illustrated, And, one thing leading to another, query, Yet, but a day dissected example, by the physiology of the it was of black satin-the kind here you have a picture of a com- and analysed, and very amusingly internal glands of the body,

bination of brains, beauty and done, too. This is how it goes, for which endures throughout the sea-

Instance; A few reflections on the this above all-personality. Excess of thyroid gland stero- sons and is fashionable for rain or tion makes a woman nervous, lear-sunshine, adorned with a jade and refer to Clare Sheridan, the ex- part of Ármorel, the "heroine," as A she sits opposite her mother at ful, apprehensive. Excess of gold brocaded ribbon, Naturally plorer, writer, and sculptor. adrenalin, secreted by two tiny this colour scheme could be adapt few months ago I remember recome breakfast She was not aware cell masses on the surface of the ed to suit any costume, and there mending you, with more than my that she idoled upon her mother kidneys (called the glands of fight is no reason why-economy being usual amount of enthusiasm, Loj as an old dadr, but rather a back It is astonishing to consider the

One lb. cooking apples, 2 egg, or combat) make her capable of a necessary-the ribbon should not rend her book, "Nuda Verlias" number, whose curiosity must be be changeable, and thus introduce one of the most enthralling, auto- continually appeased with truth preponderance of French influence shoes are white with green, blue, 3 oz. sugar, rind and juice of 1 vast deal of "fight."

This All the fighting, forceful women further vàriety.

Bunson biographies I have ever read. or fiction, according to which was on the dresses of women every-or red saddle; these are laced lemon, some short pastry.

Peel and core the apples. Stew from Queen Elizabeth to Florence there seems some kind of reaction Mrs. Sheridan, who is as I may most convenient. She would have where. As evidence of this take Another tennis shoe, of rather till tender in a very little water. Nightingale were rich in adrena-against the very small hats (which have told you at the time-a coustu been pained to know that her the following collection of words better quality, is in white buck-ab through a sieve. Add sugar, Most of us are more suscep will undoubtedly return when of Winston Churchill on the one daughter had very few morals but and phrases employed in one short skin piped with red, green, or lemon, and the yolks of the captible to fear after illness or long winter comes) because large and hand, and Shane Leslie, the was happily endowed with an drooping brims arc every author, on the other, married. a instinctive desire to be decent." article by a fashion expert writing brown. It is a one-bar shoe, and Line the edges of a ple-dish with emotional strain.

In the shops. descendant of Richard Brinsley But you must read it! for an American publication; the looks very smart. The coloured pastry, put the mixture in and

The atrocities of life do not where Whip the

touch the sheltered women of the words are French, but we have tennis shoes, which were so popu- bake in a sharp oven. none to replace them in Englishlar on the Riviera this season, are whites of the eggs stifly, pile over civilized world to-day, to any ex- now being shown in the shops. the apple, sift with sugar, and

tent. It may take a nervous and so have accepted them: Jabot, They are a one-bur glace kid shoe, return to the oven to brown. breakdown to make applique, plisse, crepe-de-chine, with a crepe rubber sole, and are

understand the fear-paroxysm of of the mouse before the pound godet, georgelle, poplin, chou, seen in blue, red, helge, green, and trotteur, organdie, mousseline-de- bois du rose.

the cat. The some kind pl shoe soie, foulard. Some of these!

lizard words have naturally been used so is also made in real

Shoes of white net, long as to be accepted in the Eng- and phython. lish dictionaries; others have been altered for common English usage; but there may still be one or two relatively new words to be added our vocabulary. And these were in one short article.

to

Much tucking is featured on this gracefully draped gown in black, white and grey foulard, with white orepe revors and facings and a white georgetta vest.

with coloured leather straps, and shoes with two- buckskin

are also, in- coloured piping,

new range for the cluded in the tennis season. A shoe that can be worn for tennis or golf is in while buckskin with leather facings; il↑ is the kind of shoe worn by some of the American golf professionals last year, and has a crepe rubber sole. It is to be obtained with or without heels, as are most of the shoes made specially for tennis.

Another pretty tennis shoe is in a basket pattern of white and brown, Or white and gold, but the shoc said to be worn by all the cham- pion players is of plain white canvas or buckskin without orna- mentation of any kind. This shoe has a crepe rubber sole and one bar, and is one of the least expen- sive of them all.

LACEY LINGERIE.

LACE MATCHES DRESS TRIMMING.

If lace was ever used profusely, it is this scanon. Nearly half of the garment is in lace' or net. Not only are cream and biscuit tints of lace employed with the lingerie sets, hut alag lace dyed to match the material. Deep, pleated or gathered lace flounces are used on "scantics," as well as on under slips and nightgowne.

For the sports girl is this useful pull-over sweater. I is in fine beige wool stockinette, the bold design being carried, out in green silk and silver thread,

Lace Dresses.

Deep, full semi-sleeves, made. Many are tho, lace dressos of very wide, of rich lace, are used gold, silver, or steel to be seen this on a crepo-de-chine night-gown, season, They seem to be almost which may have no other trim- indispensable in the wardrobe of ming, but which is pleated very the woman, who goes out a good dbal. They are often worn over full,

Often the lace on the slip and a bright silk lining, and completed on the combination. le precisely the by a handpainted sash of chiffon. same as that used on the frack. The neck should be "V" shaped, This is noted in transparent and the skirt-short, of courie frucks, when the slip shows lengthened by pleated panels, through, and reveals the fact that Flues of estrich, caught in the lace! the lace is identical to that used on here and there, give a pretty the Irock. This feature in novelty, Capes and long panels, observed at the smart teg dances, starting from the shoulders, give a evening functions, and, all the vaporous, indefinite outline, which cases where, the smart world con- is a good indication of ampler

future styles. gregates

Courage.

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woman

Women are often wonderfully brave in face of fear which fills their waking hours. I know women popular, prominent, univer sally admired who are afraid if they have to enter a crowded room Some fear restaurant. A draughts or germs, some suffer agonies if they make a trivial Kocial mistake or immagine they are snubbed by an acquaintance. Fear of ridicule is so common as

or

to be almost universal,

It is unwise, unchristian, to give way to fear. We must fight better, gain a new perspective, or find the hidden conflict in the mind which makes peace and poise Im- possible. Because fear, is paralyzing to effort, it obstructs the outgoing' instinctive energy and cramps personality. We must not "fear to-day when life calls fon women for courage and service to the community. Love of self, morbid self-consciousness, breeds fear. In love of humanity we attain to that selflessness which casts out fear, cures soul sickness, and wins harmony and happiness. -Dr, Elizabeth Sloan Chesser,

A MARRIAGE DAY.

صبي

Two separate lives that led

Each to each at last, Now, are made as one-- Soparate life is post. So strange & life can be:

Lived: aport, alone, Greater the wonder now. Together, to be known, Greater the wonder and

So great the gain The deepening of joy'

Of love that will not wine! So high their hopes and true,

This mutual intent,

Oh, may high-heartedness

To them be sent, Courage and sympathy

And humour's sure ba Life's troubles to surmount Life's storms to calm.

THELMA COOMBS.

A variation of the two-piece. in kasha and printed crepe do ching, introducing, the cape in stead of the coat. It will be very popular this season.

Newest Watches.

: A 'PLEA FOR THE

PICTURE HAT.

THE BRIDAL VEIL. BRIDE GIVEN A WIDE CHOICE.

[By An Old-Fashioned Man.] The bride of to-day is given a wide choice in the arrangement of There has been a lot in the her wedding veil By some papers lately about the return to charming and original ornament fashion of the picture hat, and as or colour, the line' of a picture I am one of those old-fashioned frock may be accentanted and a males who still cling to the belief touch of old-world charm and that women do dress to please and dignity added. attract their men-folk, I presume

The fashion for introducing

to give you a mere man's views gold, silver and even a little colour upon the subject..

The tulle veil tinted with a pale pink flush is most notably helpful to the bride not dowered with vivid colouring.

into the wedding toilette is vastly Dear Lady, you seem to be un- becoming to many brides who able to make up your mind about would find the "all white" scheme this picture bat, although it is somewhat trying and difficult to clear to me that your heart wear successfully. bankers after its large and droop-l ing brim. With your cloches and helmets you try to defy this per atstent lure of the picture hat, but every season. It turns up again to tempt you.

So, with your Your grandmother and mother sound modern cokamon sense favoured the picture hat, and couldn't you strike a happy maybe you are afraid of adopting medium and adopt the picture-hot, a mode that might bring with it but altered slightly to make it

other extreme.

a return to old-fashioned ideas suitable for wearing with your and inanners.

shinglet

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Perhaps you even think that anything worn in those days would make you look a little dowdy, but if you did but know how adorable your grandmother and, in turn, your mother looked in the picture. that you would have no fears upon that score, I think.

True, this hat belongs to the days of blushes and coyneas, things. I belleve: you, despise, but it deserved its naine of picture hat indeed when those dear ladles shyly blushed and took refuge from your gaze, under ita droop Ing brim...

To sit nearby watching a little mouth, a round dimpled chin and just, the, tip of a pert little-nose under that brim, and to see it lift a little and encounter a pair of laughing. eyes, are some of the de- lights that would return to us with the Picture Hat...

You argue that you like to open- ly face the world under your hol-) The newest watches to carry in met, and again you cannot wear a the pocket are made almost square, picture hat with shingled hair, and have a little case which can and you will not return to the be of gold, silver, tortoiseshell or tyranny of long hair for a hat, even shegreen. To see the time

Well, I agree with you that the the two ends of the case are pulled abolition of many old-fashioned apart, and are quickly pushed back things was an improvement; but into position again.

you must beware of going to the

Stephane

A fashionable hat in blacks *Batin, trimmed with a large bow of fade and gold, or somLE contrasting colours suitable. for the ensemble.