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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY

16, 1930.

WOMAN'S WORLD

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Bigger and better sunburns will be the keynote of the 1980 bathing season, judging from advance style showings. Old King Sol has claimed a host of new devotees and this year's fashionable mermaids are due to forsake the old sun-tan suits for even scantier water fashions What the bathing beaches would look like like those worn by the charming nymph at the right. if the modern mermaids returned to the styles of past years is aptly illustrated in the other pictures.

Middle Age.

[By Minow.]

Why do so many people find it difficult to

grow middle aged They don't appear to have the same difficulty about letting themselves drift into old age.

Talking at Work

ACTS AS A SAFETY VALVE.

Is there. after all, justification for womma's alleged fondness for chattering when at work!

Every woman knows that her natural love of talking, even when I watched leaf fall to the she has not a great deal to any ground to-day, and it struck me that is of supreme interest. is that we alone in creation seem to afety value, and prevents the mis- fear the approach of middle age.chief that comes of bottled-up" My dog sat beside me; she is ten thoughts and experiences, so they years old, and although she enjoys have no qualms about giving in to every minute of her life she has their love of chattering during their

and free time. given up chasing rabbits, watches her son-indulgently, when he tears after them as she did five or six years ago. It seems odd that we cannot be as wies as the animals and enjoy each phase of life as it comes along.

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Wanted.

MORE LEISURED WOMEN.

must

[By a Busy Man.] There are too many girls in jobs, ton many women working. I am not referring to those who earn their living or starve; nor do I ourrest that women ought to give up their jobs to men.

But I miss the leisured woman, who has time to spare for the needs of others.

There are a gand many girls f my acquaintance who have private meane but they must eefs "get But is a different matter when a job" or they are miserable. it comes to work, and most con. Perhaps. I murmur, they are taking scientious women workers feel a work from others, who urgently re distinct

of having fallenquire it: but they too require it, short of that ideal of officiency they say, for it keeps them occupied which the serious business woman of to-day keeps over before her eyes, if they have yielded to the temptation to chatter while they worked.

Yet today I read that it has just been proved in yet another large business house, that the rule, lately introduced, that people whoar

Partner-Snatching at Forty, It is not as though middle age meant that we could no longer enjoy ourselves. It merely means taking the gifts that the kind gada provide for our years, instead of snatching and straining after pro- sent which can no longer satisfy ua You would hardly expect work allows it may talk while at child of fourteen to cry for the work. has had a splendid affect, Miss Dorothy Coldwells, aged 28.10 years has this prize previously spangled fairy at the top of the not upon the workers alone, but of Upper Park-road.Hampstead, bees won by a woman. Four thous-Christmas tree, and that is just upon the work N.W., is the winner of the Tnstitute and candidates sat for the examina what we do when we, at the age of Chartered Accountants' prize for ion. Miss Coldwells is accretary of forly, want to dance until four the senior bookkeeping and accoun-to the superintendent

in the morning, snatching what tancy examination of the London Vegan's Homes, Horseferry-road, partners we can, even if they be Chamber of Commerce, Only once in Westminister.

half our age.

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Of course no one would wish to. return again to the days of folded hands as an alternative to the em broidery frame; but surely there are other thingst Our generation has fully realised the joy and the value to oneself of work, as those girl enthusiasts prove. But in the fever for remunerative employment women are losing something as great as they gain.

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The trend of modern life is so parent lack of weightiness will time, and worship of the great god So. perhaps, after all, woman's full of rush, and working against turn out to be all for the best in speed. We seek something to business.-II.M In Erchange.

counterbalance this, and wo that even our women are caught up by the remorseless wheel. Yet it is to them that we should look. for that atmosphere of inward. peace that keeps men sane, despite the materialism of our business re-

gime.

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1 Quarrel,

Across

8 Lazy.

4 Relating to a base.

7-Skin.

10 Decoy.

11 Was in debt.

12 Smooth.

14 Neglected street boy.

15 Character in music.

17 Censuring

19 Crawly.

21

Loyal

22 Stepped.

23 Gild (Fig.)

25 Belief.

28 Writing tablet.

20 Sand.

30 Scald.

31 Fillibeg

32 Reproach.

34. Dependent on choice.

37 Takes photographs.

40 Haul.

41. Correct.

42 Impede.

45 Not equal for some task,

48 At the top.

19 Rule:

50 Passed away.

61 Eke.

52 Lump of clay. 53 Bottom of boat. 54 Maiden.

65 Point of compass.

1 Cluster.

Down

2 Wiry annual plant. 3 Trivial.

4 Petitioner,

6 Pond of water.

6 Congeal.

7 Ehb.

9 Challenge.

13 Idle away time.

16 Herole.

18 Want.

20 Carried on the back of an animal.

22. Traffic.

23 Fashion.

24 Ingenuous.

125 Region of the earth.

126 Clatter.

27-In addition.

28 Pare close,

30

geny

32 Heavenly body,

33 Rural deity

35

List

of candidates.

36 Small church.

37 Crush.

38

Field.

39 Sway.

42 Ruin.

43 Ponderous book,

44 Compact.

46 Dwell...

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Our Stately Clothes. Middle age has so many pleasures. the many dances with the "one Now is the moment when we en man" of the moment, and the long choose the most beautiful of stately nights of gaiety, ending only when clothes without being told that the time came for an hour's sleep, "they are too old for us." We can before we started to hunt the sly swathe ourselves, in the evening, jackal. But it wouldn't amuse me

Time to be Sympathetic, in wonderful brocades, and realise to do it nowadays. I over-ate my

Leisure is a career, and thoro that we are looking our best, and self, so to speak, on that diet long

Бау thank Heaven-we can go to bed ago, and now I want to enjoy the who pursue it will have to.

good-bye to job-hunting, leaving at a reasonable hour without being pleasures of the moment considered a spoilsport. We can How delicious it is to be able to this to women whose livelihood de- enjoy clever conversation without be frankly greedy, and to know bends on it. There must be no

Rangoon, May 15. the hectic feeling that we ought to something about the ingredients spirit of idleness or frivolity, for "be doing something," and we can of the dishes that I used to neg-Ficisure, like talent, is a gift to be

Miss Amy Johnson's plane has make frienda of the opposite sex lect because I wanted to rush used for the sake of others.

How heavenly to Above all, it means cultivating the but powerless to act in any direc-been repaired, and she will resume without having the world wonder of and dance! whether we are going to elope with feel that it doesn't matter if I add best in one's own personality; a tion or even to adjourn, the House the flight to-morrow if teats; are

mind at peace, that one may give of Representatives had to order satisfactory---Reuter or marry them.

a pound or two to my weight!

to others; a life never too the arrest of members outside the [Miss Johnson, who is flying a I think middle-age is the mar- peace I am not decrying the pleasures vellous time, and I cannot under busy for other folks' needs; House in order to secure a quorum. small "Moth" plane from England as quick intuition and innate sympathy One of the first members escort to Australia, had a bad landing. of youth-for youth. Good heavens stand why women regard it

Rangoon, damaging, the how I enjoyed myself when I was something to postpone as long as with the failure which is only ed to the Chamber by the Sergeant- near

time it success gone astray; a heart that is at-Arms was Speaker Longworth. machine. Her

up-to-date young. The breathless firtations possible, instend of owning to

selfless and very big.

-Reuters American Service. " constitutes a record for the trip.] I had under atarlit Indian skies, and enjoying all it has to offer.

An Out-of-Date Diet.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

GEE-I HAVE SO MANY THINGS TO DO BEFORE WE

GO TO WASHINGTON I

HARDLY KNOW WHERE

I'M AT

SAY, ALEK-WILL YOU MIND JUMBO TILL I GET

BACK FROM MY

TRIP?

WHAT'S TH

A Vacation

MATTER, WITH, TAG TAXIS CARE:

OF HIM ??

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·BUT HE DOESN'T UNDER- ∙STAND DOGS LIKE YOU

DO YOU'LL TAKE CARE OF HIM WHILE :IM”

GONE, WON'T YOU?

Washington, May 15, Wearied by a six-hour flibuster,

OH ALLO RIGHT-BUT WHY PICK-

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..?

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