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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, DECEMBER

1928.

OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

WOMAN'S WORLD

FOR OUR LADY READERS.

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-It is not too soon to 'think of Christmas, and a

visit of inspection to Ullmann's will reveal a wide sorection of Gifts in-→→

RINGS, BRACELETS NECKLETS, BROOCHES, etc.

Set with

Diamonds and Precious Stones.

THE LARGEST SELECTION OF WATCHES IN HONGKONG.

Silver-ware, Electro-ware, Glassware and Fancy Goods,

PRICES ALWAYS REASONABLE

J. ULLMANN & Co.,

Alexandra Building,

NO GIFT IS SO PERSONAL AS PURE CHINA TEA FROM CHINA.

PURE GHNA

THE CHINA TEA COMPANY,

DAVID BUILDING.

FRESH COFFEE

ROASTED AND GROUND DAILY AT

GRAECO EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE. Opposite Hongkong Hotel.

WE

STOCK

RADIO ALL SPARES

INCLUDING SHORT WAVE EQUIPMENT, COMPLETE SETS

BEST MAKES. LOWEST PRICES. NOTE THE ADDRESS-

THE UNION STORE, 37, Des Voeux Road.

E. HING & CO. BHIPBUILDING MATERIALS, SHIP CHANDLERS

HARDWARE MERCHANTS.

PHONE CENTRAL No. 1116

Just received.

FRESH STOCKS OF

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Wing Woo strací TEL. Central 25

BLACK NARCISSUS & XMAS NIGHT PERFUMES

THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY. 13, QUEEN's Road Central. Tel. C. 1877,

The dinner gown at the left has a bloused bodice, draped skirt and white gardenias. Centre is an accordian pleated skirt, cut circular, with a dipping back. The tiered skirt,

dipping backline and a lovely bertha give distinction to

Women Keep Young.

THE WAY OF AESTHETIC

SURGERY.

Will esthetic surgery achieve for women the age-long dream of Eternal Youth? It has been anid, by a woman, of course, that wonten | die twice over-the first time being when they realize that they are old you wish to know when that happens you may remember that a woman is as old as she] looks.

Life Goes On. '

Life goes on. Oh, never heed

The pessimist who says it

falls;

It disappoints..and hurts and

Thwarts

Each one of us, but never

atales!

Life goes on. We only pause

In life there's always movement,

motive,

New zest for which we must

make room.

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dinner gown.

The Chocolate Cure.

BIG INCREASE IN SALES OF THE SWEETMEAT.

Although the wholesale experta nay talk about a slump in the cocun trade, manufacturers and sellers of high-class chocolates maintain that chocolate-eating, far rum dying out, is actually on the' To dream of past things, dwellnereuse. One of the latest and

on gloom

certainly one of the most aleasant "curea" for those who oversmoke or over-drink la the' chocolate cure.

In the List of 5,000 Customers.

One of the leading dealers in Mayfair now has upon his register-: Ld list of 6,000 customers à number · of men, who started oating choco- lates in order to cure themselves of excess either in drink or smoking. "The number of men who eat cho- colates has thus actually increnu- ed considerably since the war, he stated. "On the Whole they prefer- chocolate peppermints to any other avour. Plain chocolate pastilles, much in demand

Life goes on. However sad

Or dull you may be at this

hour;

The tyrant life with stinging

AW'cetness

Will once more wake you to

its power!

THELMA COOMBS.

But there is a more children, are

In New York, in London, and in' Parls, where the best-known of such esthetic Burgeons is a things are woman, wonderful being done by the process, which may be briefly described as "lifting the skin" or "taking a tuck in." The sagging and wrinkling of the skin caused by the constant use of the face ninacles, as French- women use them in speech as well! as in emotional. strain, soan pro-; duce these ageing lines. The operation itself is tedious, but the tiny incision is scarcely visible, is vanity"especially in beauty once made almost exclusively for and the hair can be arranged to parlours. hide it until the sear heals, which serious aide to the matter. Women among smokers. Most of the men it quickly dues. The process is of to-day are not only social who eat a lot of chocolate have not tea painful or exhausting, it outterflies. They are professional given up smoking altogether, but

the two tastes. would seem, for after six hours in workers, clerks, shopkeepers and women seem to be able to combine

In many the hands of the surgeon a client competitors of men. has been able to go to a reception, cases they find themselves doomed Why Are We Shocked? to the position of Othelle, their We are rather shocked, perhaps, occupation gone, not because they to hear of this tampering with our are old but because they look old own akin, but it is curious how before their time.

In their case it is not vanity but kinds. The duty on chocolate taken we become accustomed to all the stages of beauty cultivation-or, sheer necessity that drives them into the U.S.A. has been reduced to Think of For the present, manipulative sur-33.1/3 per cent. from 60 per cent, rather, preservation, the prejudices against false hair, gery is an expensive luxury. Some and Americans of both sexes are oc- of how, two generations ago, they day there may be middle-class casionally hard at work seeing how

where women with dreaded the thought of false teeth clinics

pack into their trunks. To-day we give thought and care moderate incomes may go for many boxes they can manage to to, and spend much money upon, restorative treatment, paying an our hair, our teeth, our eyes, our annual or bi-annual visit to the nails. Shall we in the future visit surgeon in the same way as nowa hair, to massage for double chin, the aesthetic surgeon and preserve days they send children half yearly who says that it is a wicked tam pering, with Nature to try to get to the dentist,. our youth?

Do not say that this is merely After all, if it is permissible to rid of wrinkles7LILY BRIDGE In vanity. If it comes to thut, "all wear dentures, to touch up grey Glasgow Herald.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

AS A SURPRISE TO FRECKLES, UNCLE HARRYS BIG AMPHIBIAN,

AIRPLANE ARRIVED IN THE. JUNGLES, AND IS TAKING THEM ON THE FIRST LEG OF THEIR AOMEWARD

JOURNEY→ THEY ARE STOPPING IN ZUE' CANNIBAL VILLAGE LONG -ENOUSI 70-SAY

GOODBYE TO

BETTY!!!

OL-IS THIS SAILOR SUIT FOR ME? CAN I PUTITON AND SLOW IT TO 1. BETTY WHEN

NIE LAND?,

SURE

SUELL CERTAINLY BE SURPRISED TO SEE ME, WON'T SAE? GEE.I WISH SHE WAS GOING HOME WITH US!

WOULD YOU LIKE HER TO GO BACK TO AMERICA WITH US,

FRECKLES F

Americans Laying in Stocks! "Americah visitors to West End varieties offered at reasonable prices chocolate shops, are amazed at the and at the quality of British choco- late compared with the Continental

"Betty Joins the Party

WOULDZISHOULD SAY!! I KNOW) ANGIA | WOULD BE SLAD TO HAVE HER

VISIT, US)

AND WE'RE GOING TO FLY OVER THE PYRAMIDS AND ZUE MEDITERRANEAN SEA AND THEN STOP. AT LONDON WHERE YWELL GET ON AL BIG BOAT

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Horizontal

110 Child's cap.

1 Injury.

6 Acriform fuel"

8 Caterpillar halk.

12 Melady.

14 Scheme.

18 To injure by exposure.

15 Average

10 Largest fresh-water fish

18 To compose and write:

20 Small

"

wig.

23 Wandering.

28 Pathway between tiers of seats.

29 Skirmish.

30 Shods blood.

32 Pillaged.

33 Ligulate.

36 A beautifler.

39 Street.

43 Region.

14 Type of postry.

45 Brim.

40 To throb.

11 Of each an equal quantity,

17 Liconao.

19 Sewing implement

20 Tlay flap.

21 To lubricate.

22. To employ.

24 Umpire.

25 Every

20 Born,

27 To scatter hay,

31 Yuccaliko plant,

32 Speeded.

34 To drive.

36 Taxi.

30 Nalive metal.

37 Ocean,

18. Door rug.

40.Queer.

41 Era.

42 Home of a wild animal,

Yesterday's Solution

47 Guided.

18 Paradise.

Vertical

1 Smoked thigh of a hog.

2 Exist,

* Inlet,

4 Priest's ornamental scarf.

5 The rate of ascent or descent.

6 Pertaining to air.

7 Condition.

8 Mineral spring.

9 Prophet who trained Samuel,

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

MOTOR BUS SERVICE EXTENSION.

3rd Route of

On and after the December, the

the Causeway Bay-West Point Bus Service will be extended along Belcher St. to Kennedy Town.

(HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.)

Last month the 600,000th tele- Hull City Council, voting for 4 than to Chief Superintendent Howden Phone was installed in the London now chief constable, gave d8 votes

Constable of area, which includes more one-third of the 1,780,000 tele- (Hull), against 12 to Captain phones in Great Britain and Nor- Rawlings, Chief

thern Ireland,

YOUR FATHER HAS CONSENTED TO YOUR GOING WITH US,BETTY®] HE WANTS TO BAY ♬ GOOD BYE

TO YOU.

I'D LOVE

[TO 60!

Derby.

By Blosser

GOOD BYE AND

GBYE!

GBYE!

GOOD LUCK!!

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