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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY

1930.

THE NEW STORE FOR

SILKS

OPENING SALE NOW ON

SOME OF OUR BARGAINS-

LADIES'

Crept de Chine Hand Embroidered

Undies (3 Pc. Set.).......

do

$15.00

do Pyjamas :$ 7.50

MEN'S

Brit Quality Silk Shirti.....

do do Pyjamas.

.5 3.00

$ 6,00

THE

ᎢᎪᎫᎪᎷᎪᎻᎪᏞ SILK STORE

5, Flower Street

(Opposite Ching_Mail)

About Children Who" Are

Always Catching Cold.

!!!

WOMAN'S WORLD

'FOR OUR LADY READERS.

of

Why is it that one child seema to catch every cold, that is going, whilst others-living in precisely the same environment-do not? Most often you will find that the cold-catching child is a victim of consilpation. It always those -young, middle aged and old..

Paris. The vexed question nflicted with irregular, weak in- longer skirts, to-day the main testinal aution, who most easily theme of women's conversation all fall victim when colds are preva-over the world, has caused very lent.

determined reactions. Indeed, it Therefore the first thing to do holds all the elements of, contro- when your little one has a cold isversy, based as it is on a misunder to give it laxative medicine, the standing. very best of which for children is

Bach has already been written Baby's Own Tablets. In many on the subject, but in every in- stances that is all that is needed slanée people have been prone to to stop the cold. In every in-generalize somewhat too freely.! stance the ablets give the child My contention is that most writ- itsers have failed to distinguish be- immediate relief and hasten-

tween morning; afternoon and even- cure.

the And for all children troubleding clothes," although this is with any form of stomach or most important point. The result bowel trouble, indigestion, con has been considerable confusion in otipation, colic, 'Baby's Own Tab- the minds of the majority or wo- every day someone feta are of the utmost value. They men, and quickly reduce fever, ally teething comes forward and stateg emphati- cally that women nevar again will pains, expel worms.

wear trailing skirts. The trouble!

Any chemist can supply Baby's Own Tablets, or post free, is that these people think of day-- cents the vial, from the "Dr. Wil-time clothes in the guise of clothes iams Medicine Co., 60, Kiangse we have created solely for evening. Road, Shanghai.

STAR THEATRE

Commencing TURSDAY, JANUARY 16th.

A. CARPI

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IN A SERIES OF OPERAS

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Friday, January 17th

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Saturday, Jai uary 18th

MME. BUTTERFLY

Sunday, January 19th

BARBIERE de SIVIGLIA

Monday, January 20th CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA

and

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Tuesday, Jacuary 21st

FAUST

Wednesday, January 22nd

CARMEN

Booking at Moutrig's and the Eur. Price $4, $3, $2 & $1,

MARTIN'S

wenr.

As a matter of fact, extremely long evening gowns no longer aa- tonish or intimidate women. I is a feature of fashions, that their eyes have become familiar with for several seasons. They accept-}

For Afternoon-The new skit length is shown in this simple advance spring madel created by Jean Patou for his mid-season collection."

For Evening-This formal (Dough extremely simple even- ing frock shows no change in the length as compared with i models of two genenns bąck.

ed the longer, albeit uneven hem- line, when it was offered to them, and now even go so far as to have shorter models made longer, con- ! fident in the success that the long- er, more feminine type of dress has brought them,

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Undoubtedly, afternoon dresses are generally longer, but this ex- tra length in only, in reality? a matter of few inches. Women may sometimes utter n ery of dis-

shown muy when they are ankle-length model for the after-i Boon, but these dresses are 2x- represent ceptional and do not current fashions, as may be sup- rosed by people whom this-so- called evolution worries, Cer- ain afternoon dresses i showed in my winter collection 'are, intred, very long, but no great Importance should be attached to them And they by no means are representa- |tive of, any special style.

The greater number of my af- ternoon dresses measure from 34 Lo. 35 centimeters (14 to 15 inch- es) from the ground, excluding a small number of very dressy, for- mal afternoon ensembles, which Jare decidedly longer. They repre- :

translucent texture, allied with

↑ sont, however, a very small minor-

Ity.

The

Where morning Ur walking dresses are concerned. I have not added to the length of any dress since the preceeding season. only difference is that those wo men who unfortunately had ne quired the habit of wearing too short skirts have now discarded them and have their clothes made the same length as the model, in- stead of taking off an inch or two. Now that these longer skirts are generally worn, the added inches might be more apparent to the on- looker, but so far as the couturier In concerned, there is no change

in this type of dress.

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OUR NEW BRITISH CROSSWORDS.

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Frankly speaking. it Is the wo men who have changed their viewpoint. Those who clung to-57

the short skirt feel und know they look hopelessly out-of-date and af ter a season of rebellion, they are forced to admit that the couturier

IN

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10 Watchful..

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15 Doctrine.

was right,

To the couturier, the abbreviat-8 Graceful bird.

ed skiri was nothing more or less 12 Void, but a negation of style and good 13 Craft. taste. It is very graifying. after 14 Spare, all these years, to think that wo- men will be clothed in graceful, feminine clothes-JEAN PATOU.

For Morning-As shown by the charming costume above, the length of streets or sports" ensembles has not heen changed by Jean Patou,

service, doubtless there soun will

For the Housewife the dainty harmonising linen, be

TEA TABLE HARMONY.

The vogue for the ensemble has spread from the toilette to the tes- table, and the latest idea for the hostess who delights in dainty effects is china and linen en suite for afternoon tea.

achieves so novel and charming an effect that the fashion bids fair to spread rapidly,

Delight to the Eye.

15 Subject of a discourse. 17 Company of people. „

18 Orator.

20. Entertainment.

22. Commotion,

23 Part of a fish.

25 Entertained with a feast.

27, Leskened.

30 Chief.

31 Entire.

32. Twofold.

33 Encampment.

36 Prime mover.

37 Fly with haste.

38 Disseminator;

40 Peer.

43 Rodent.

44 Extremity of the foot.

46 Those who suffer for the truth, .....

49 Groaning,

52 On the leeside.

53 Fervent

54 Extinct bird.

55 Plying.

50 Measuring instrument.

57 Despatched.

68 Raise the shoulders.

5 Uncommon.

Down

.1 Indicative of love.

Inefficient. -

3 The hub.

4 Pomelled,

4. Nerdy,

7 Smart..

Come after.

'Tiegram.

UNDER A FLOOR FOR

TWO YEARS.

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70

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10 Hard calcareous substance. 10 Outfit

21 Word expressing refusal.

24 Violent onsal.

25 Cultivates.

26 Giver.

27 Nobleman.

28 Dullard,

20 Avenue in a wood.

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34 That which foretokens.

36 Verse.

86 Revolving part of a motor.

37 Slim.

30 Path.

41 Fangless serpent,

12 Worth,

45 Beneath.

46 Lump.

47 "Restraint.

48 Scarf.

19 Bill of fare.

60 Jet,

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Yesterday's Solution.

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RASE KITE REVERED SPHERES

10:

LETTER GOLF,

There's not much difference

HIDING, IN “DUG-OUT FROM between STOP and HALT, except Hu letter golf where par is six,

POLICE.

How a man had been hiding from the police for "two years in ja "secret dug-out" under the floor of his home was described at Walsall when Sidney Warner, nged 37, wand-machinist, was sentenced to 12 months' imprison-! ment for housebreaking.

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The police, after about 50 fruit- less visits to the house where Warner lived with his widowed mother, surrounded bis home, but could not find him."

They sounded the floor, and beneath the linoleum discovered a trapdoor leading to a hole seven feet by two feel, in which Warner. was lying with stolen property around him.

Mother's Retort.

S

TOP

H

ALT

1. The idea of letter golf is to

For the nursery there are amusing mugs, baby plates, tea- cups, porridge pintes, ten-pots, &c., If the iris is not to one's lasta ade so strongly as to reduce the danger of breakages to a minimum. there are three other delightful Lucie Atwell pictures, and others The defending solicitor said change one word to another and Shelley harmony sets that may by Hilda Cowham decorate this that Warner, while serving in the do it in par, a given number of

to one's liking. The; PILLS

prove more

nursery ware, that is calculated to Navy, had an order for 10s, week-strokes. Thus to change COW to daisy design is one of them.

make meal-time a joyous advenly made against him on a woman's HEN, in three strokes, Cow ture for the small child. Rize complaint. To avoid arrest under HOW, HEW, HEN.

2-You can, change only one The iris forms the keynote for

pudding would disappear twice as the warrant, issued at Portsmouth, one fascinating scheme. Qn: 'n The corner of an oldsworld rapidly from a plate when there he had lived in this dug-out two letter at a time,

3-You must have a complete background of creamy linen an country garden, with clusters of was a gaycolourel "Ride a Cock years. He had lived a life of, iris design is appliqued which guy flowers on a rustic arch, is re- Horse to Banbury Cross picture misery, never able to go out with word, of common usage, for onch his wife and family, excent after jump. Slang words and abbrevia repeats the exact pattern and produced on a Shelley tea set that hiding beneath It.

tions dent's count. But the possibilities of Shelley nightfall. colouring on the china itself. The will delight the eye of the garden-

His mother, charged with har 4. The order of letters cannot table napkins arever suite, lover. It captured the spirit of chins are by no matins, exhausted

be changed. The fairy lightness of the china, the countryside, and though, at in these few examples. Many other bouring him, said: the delicacy of its design and present, there is no matching charming pieces will be found by any mother shield hor son?!!

She was bound over. colouring, and its thin, pearly, table-linen for this particular the diligent seeker.

APIOL & STEEL Sureand certain for all Female complaints. Every lady should keep a box in the house.

Sold by A. S. Watson & Sons, Chemists, and all, Chemists. and Stores, Propr.: MARTIN, Chemist, Smcikamyte, England.

TO CLEAR

ALL CRACKERS

Less 25%

THE PHARMACY

(FLETCHER & CO. LTD.,).

A.P.C. Building.

T41, 0.345.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

ALL RIGHT, Boyb... WE'RE READY

TO 60!!

ALL ABOARD

WELL-WE'RE

.. OFF! HANG

ON NOW!

Some

Vacation!

GBLYE FLECKLES - B'BLYE

TLAGALONG!!

GEE-I HATE. TO LEAVE LINDY ́AN' 'ANY DOG YOULL TAKE GOOD CARE ́OF 'EM, VIONG

YOU, DAN?

דה

DEED I WILU, TAG!

YOUVE HAD A GREAT NAGATION

THIS YEAR,

· HOMENT YOU, FRECKLES?

"Wouldn't

One solution is printed on: another page.

By Blosser

...

IT SURE WAS

SOME VACATION,

UNCLE PARRY!

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