Dame CLARA BUTT'S Greatest Song - “ABIDE WITH ME”
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14,, 1931.
WOMEN'S WORLD
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
OUR CLOTHES.
Some Cold Facts About Them.
There is a famous shop which looks like the stage iden of al
Therein duke's private house.
last week I saw a charming olderly lady who is not at all well of order an evening dress at "a special price for you, Moddam only forty guinena,”
I had thought that it was quito A pretty frock, and with a few bbvious improvements it could he made up for forty-five shillings, plus the price of the stuff, by n clever little dressmaker.
Parla has a flair for clothes, but Paris makes the most awful mia-| takes, and the worst of them she imposes upon credulous London and New York.
The real Paris is very conserva- tive, but foreigners expect from her each season something new and something startling. With her tongue in her checks, Parls provides it, and misguided Lon- don pushes ita hat on to the back of its head or trails its skirts in the dust, believing it in the very Jast word in smartness.
Paris, of course, wears its hat. according to its forehead, and only the little midinettes, troting about with bandboxes, show a bunch of dusty curls at the neck and sum- cient naked crown to challenge the Jaws of gravity.
In a discreet ateller anered to the ultra chle a vendeuse told me: "But, of course, none of our clients will wear long dresses in the day- time. Why should they? They
are ugly and inconvenient." Realities.
Regal Pyjamas.
Velvet pyjamas go marching on in the fashion parade. Sumptuous black velvet with the trousers cut to resemble a skirt fashion the regal "Pullman pyjama" at the left. The sleeve and neck dec rations are of the same rich roman silk used for the wash. Pench belge, honey amber and Ivory astin are the smartly blended shades in the smoking pyjamaa at the right.
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STICKLERS
THESE thirlere matches represent the enclosures of six sheep-pens, all of the same size. The side of one of these enclosures has been swept away by a storm and the farmer attempting to discover a new way of enclosing six pens, ali of equal size, with the remaining twelve sides. Can you do it with matchet7
[The solution of yesterday's "Stickler" appears on another page.]
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS.
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Is it not time, then, that Eng- land stopped being fooled? We have not sufficient money in these days to pay twice and three times the vaine of dress for the label imagine that the line to-day is no lovely," she said. "And what an It had cost fifteen sewn into the waistband. It is complicated that nobody except original cut."
Don't guinena. unnecessary to spend more than themselves can achieve it.
On the whole. you believe it. a moderate sum on any frock to the more complicated the line the Let us have done with all this day. Moreover, the actual dress
less effective the dress. "When in nonsense about clothes. It is not that is selling for thirty to forty doubt add a pleat-or a frill-or well drossed to look unsuitable and guineas in one shop is often pro- eurable for twenty
inverted something on the uncomfortable like the stars of in another. 11
motto of the bad Hollywood. It is not well dressed Afteen in a third, and len come cross" is the
workman.
in look expensive and ornate. It where else.
is not necessarily well dressed to “Letingel ̄ ̄down to realities:Simplicity is far more attractive look like everyone else, which is
would houses
have us than any amount of labourious de the ambition of the Frenchwomen.
tail, and Frenchwomen know this The models that perfectly well.
At the end of the war the please them have no success in majority of French manufacturers 10 A harsh, sudden cry. London because we, poor fools, started to reorganise their busi-11 This pod holda no peas.
modern feeling that we must get some-ness ou
lines. Every thing for our
insist on penny of their profits went into over-claboration.
new machinery, while we were
Some
The New Bob.
Here's the new national bob for 1931. Irene Dunne, film player, is wearing the mode chosen by the National Hair Dressers and Cosmetologists Association which met in Los Angeles recently.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
AW, GEE, MR BROWN PLEASE LET ME GO WITH YOU TO LOOK FOR FARBAR...PLEASE... I WONT BE IN YOUR WAY ANY AN' BESIDES YOU MIGHT AS WELL HAVE SOMEONE TO HOLD DOWN THAT EXTRA SEAT !!
NOPE...I KNOW HOW BADLY YOU'D LIKE TO GO ALONG, BUT IM DOIN' THIS ALONE. AN' IF ANYTHING HAPPENS NOBODY'S TO BLAME
BUT MYSELF!!
money,
Ácrobu:
1 E be silly moth," said the
rustic gaily (anag.). Veneralen.
12 The material from which Deme. lor restored the shoulder of Pelops.
13 What the Tyrolese mountaineers
LANJ
14 What bird would be useful when
"It takes such a quantity carelessly enjoying the boom and stuff, shys Monsieur So and Suding up to the limit. when you hesitate at the forty Now they are reaping their guineas, Yes, it does. If you profit and we have got to make up 17 One of the level; treeless plains
ave very tall it takes seven yards lost time. We can do it, if Eng- to make a dress, and the heaviest shwomen will help. As a nation silks are about a guine a yarıl.
we have got brains and we have the rank snobbery to imagine got ideas, but we have not yet that because a dress is recognisa-learned to think for ourselves. 1 as a standardised French
Meanwhile, it might benefit aur model it is necessarily better than depleted pockets to realise that we afrock at a quarter the price can get three original English specially designed in England for model, and if we have couruge the individual who is to wear it. und common sense we shall not
Some time ago a
well-known only be as well dressed as our Parisian dressmaker had a fivependthrift neighbours, but feel it. days exhfultion in London. She averaged £300 worth of erdera sach to her ow}} returned day and country to execute them with materials and French On the last evening met her at a dinner party.
French
Jahours.
-Rosita Forbes.
FOR THE HATSTAND.
A binck wooden elephant which holds a coat and hat brush will be She looked charming in a frock a welcome accessory to any hail- of blue and crystal which she told stand. The brushes are backed me cost about, forty guineas, un-with red wood, and the hat brush less, of course, you want it embrolis placed in the elephant's mouth. dered like yours with real diamante, while the larger clothes brush Is Then it would have to be more." held securely in place in a slot at
Angered my skirt. "It is the back of the animal's head.
She
HE'S AFRAID SOMETHING MISHT - 60 VIRONG AN' THAT MAYBE ZD GET HURT.... SKÚČKS” INE FLOWN WITH PILOTS WHO
WERE DOWNRIGHT RECKLESS"
A Lone Hand!
NO USE BEGGIN MY
| ÚNGLE CLEM "TO `GO
ALONG 'CAUSE VIHEN
His MIND'S SET IT'S SETË
a new building is being orected?
in Northern Russia,
K
10 A little subaltern begins to con-
quer.
at it is best in Guernsey, in April
especially (hidden),
22 Originally, one of the Seven Won-
ders of the World. 24 An article followed by two pre-
positions yields a bright colour. 20 "In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh the more mighty than he seems."King Henry V.
29 Gather together a quantity.
31 Spring is nearly here.
32 This will carry you.
33 Excessive.
34 A decidedly horsy mythological
character. 15 "Re Italian lot" (anag.).
Down,
2 A very personal matter, In print. 3 Go slow, this is covered with a
sticky black substance.
4 In the customer certain? In a
guinen sterling? (hidden).
An early warrior-bard, the sub. Ject of a heated controversy in the 18th Century.
It is so very, very late, that wo
may call it by and by." Romeo and Juliet,
OSCARS
YEAH?
UNCLE
CLEAN
TAKES
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8 "Green chose mo" (anag.). DA writer of comedies, some of whose works have survived fog more than two thousand years. 14 This stretch of Scottish land in
almost filled with cars.
16 A part song (two words), 18 When you reach the gates say that you represent me and that I am as sorry as they can be (hid den),
18 This bar is found in India.
23 Brash-uraine is what gardeners
eall it.
20 A sheepish sort of sound.
25 To adorn may give a severe blow,
but in it is not gulity.
27 This was guilty a long time ago,
28. A merchant in small wares, 30 The dunce may be in for a bad
B1 ilising tones.
one.
Yesterday's Solution.
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