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ALL COLOURS.

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SPRING MEETING.

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For the Best

LOCAL VIEWS

PORTRAIT

and

PHOTOGRAPHS

Go To MEE CHEUNG

Studo, Ice House S1.

Branch 7. Beaconsfield Arcade.

URODONAL

THE DEFINITE REMEDY FOR

RHEUMATISM

AND ALL

URIC ACID TROUBLES

SOLE AGENTS FOR HONG KONG CANTON & MACAU

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1931.

WOMEN'S WORLD

FOR OUR LADY READERS.

Three New Satin Blouses.

Satin Blouses la wear with new suits: There is a palo turquoise blue one, alightly gauged shoulders and wrists, and made with the pretty draped neckline. Auother in shell pink satin, with the back and front fullness gathered into a narrow halter collar. And a third, in the modish oyster tint, with hack lacing at neck and wrists,

YOUR CHILDREN.

[By Olive Roberts Barton.}

Most of us know the mother whose child is never wrong.

FASHION NOTES.

SPRING FASHIONS..

A Great Number of Styles.

Women are a attle overwhelm- ed at present by the number of styles which have been presented by the Paris dressninkers this sen- Ron. And, in truth, at any fashionable gathering one does not see two women dressed alike, whereas a few short seasona ngo they were positively uniform.

But order is returning oner more in the dressmaking workd. and it is interesting to note that the definite and clear opinions of. the big designers are now emer- ging.

One, for example, advocates the Empire waist: another refuses to look at the normal waistline; the top of the hipa Is where ali ber bells are placed, and it's no good pretending that the result is not quite charming, very becoming, and most comfortable. The same dressmaker has decided upon short skirts-that is, two or three inches below the knees--for walking and country went. They look extra- ordinarily short to one's eyes, ac- customed by this time to skirts which cover the calf, but, ori thinking out the matter. It is rea- lised how eminently sensible is such a ecision, which could only have been taken by a woman sure of herself.

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS.

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24

27

26

Across

1 I travel alowly after cattle, but, for the most part, rango fur and wide.

5 Spain colour and, naturally, it

becomes disfigured.

9 The extremities of this thread-

like substance make fire.

10 Litigation, or a heraldic flower. 12 A London suburb, or what the

atago-manager said when

actor stopped. 13 Bunch.

4 An English river, is repeated. * Separate,

7 Try again—that's right.

8 These give.

10 Another form of 42 acrOSY, 11 This or adds up.

15 "O bellus" (anag).

17 This English river starta all right, but there would aeem to be more to come.

18 Mount. the

14 May be seen on a wave, a bird,

or à letter.

16 Part of a blacksmith's forge, or what one with speech impediment would call a "sticker,"

18 A fish that may be turned into a

piece of meat,

21 This musical sign is the natural prey of another musical sign 22 Frequently

associated with o

vold.

24 With a little readjustment, this

colour will preserve.

25 Fraft humanity is always falling

into this. 26 A cheerful uit. 27 Musical instrument,

lovers.

Ifer son fell through the ice be. Hinn of returning. Charming and she says, "good; but 1 conskler a28 A figure well-known to cricket

One

37 A dangerous enlculator. 39 As thin in full, it is not surpris. Ing it mostly protruberant 41 Many n Inzy one would be its anagram If told they were one. 42 A word that is frequently on the

lips of an auctioneer.

The Tunic Re-appears. Another dressmaker has vetoed the tuck-in blouse for country The tunic shows every indica-wear. "For those who like it," beroming though it is, on the right belted jumper preferable." cause another boy dared him to go person, no doubt many where the ice was thin. Her girl will look askance at it, because, out on as evening gown.

wonien designer is even trying this idea 30 This pin admits indebtedness. copied her nightwork from

34 Relieved. Д whom it was lost in vogue, BO neighbour because the teacher gave many wrong people ware it. But, them too much homework to get poor things, they hnd nothing else through with, Her children are to wear, for is those days a gar- always in trouble because neighbours pick quarrels.

They are bullied, dared, tempt ed, tormented, but when they get into trouble it is never their fault, She goes to school, she calls up other mothers, she does great deal of talking to everybody, and woman in a most bewildered state all she earns for herself is a repu-of mind. "Do I change my waist- tation.

line every time I change my frock?

the

night was either in the forefront of fashion or it was nowhere, and there was no alternative but to acept it. To-day we have a wide

chufee.

But all this leaves the average

rors.

I shall make an exception here what is the smartest length for of the occasional mother who has

N <kirts real complaint to make and whe smally if her entire winter outfit she asks, and wonders Hees the opportunity for a little quiet correction of a difficult sit-represents a series of dreadful er uation. That done I shall go back to the frat, to her with the chronic

The answer is that, as suggest- complaint, who tries to shield the it suits you most.

Led, your waistline should be where No doubt many real truth from herself and the world, the real truth being that women will rejoice at the return her children cannot

of the jumper, over which a belt world as it is.

's worn below the normal waist, That boy who dared the skater, and it is represented in some of the teacher who probably overstep-

The lates! Paris collections, ped herself in giving out home work, the irritating children next

meet the

As for skirt-lengths, these, too, are for you to decide. For even-

door, il represent something. ng, the only thing to wear is a They represent the world, Its ng skirt, but not necessarily an- problems and templations and tri-ve; some of the smartest seem als. Who, when this mother is

early to touch the ground, and one, is going to fly around to her re of equal length all round. children's friends explaining, ex---- causing and plending that it was rength not their fault?

within und happiness themselves. She will teach them Character Spels Hanniness, resistance to temptation, self-re- No one, of course, and the world iance, toleration and contentment. that also tries un gives us our rat- Also she will teach them that con- ing. Every one of us, whether sequences of their own acts must pauper or millionare, brilliant or be borne by them. We have no psei stupiti, weak or strong, must stand for the tattler, the complainer, the an his own feet. And although hider-behind-skirts.

And she is nien, and children, are no orn encouraging all three things. with equal blessings, what ve call Again I shall have to drag in the blessings

may be the very crows Spartan women who taught their those barn with them will have to us to bear agony without com- bear, and the handicaps may be plaint. Translating it into mental blessings.

and emotional endurance instead

Be that as it may, true happi-of physical, let me say this, that n ness lies only in character. And child who knows he la doing the am just old-fashioned enough to best he can won't be so very un- helley in a certain law of com- happy when he strikes a snak. Be- pensation.

sides we often have to bear the

If this nervous mother wants unishment for what other people her children to learn to live she to. life again. And that isn't a will not try to shield them bat bad thing to make clear to the instead she will try to develop children either.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

FROM HIS

HIDING PLACE IN THE INNER CAVE, WHERE THE HERMIT HAS HIDDEN- HIM.. FRECKLES HAS TURNED

THE SITUATION

THOSE BIG BOZOS HAVE TAKEN THE OLD HERMIT AN' GONE, DOWN THE MOUNTAIN SIDE.1

·BET....DOGGONE THEM!! THE HERMIT DIDN'T DO

ANYTHING TO THEM...... I'M MAD

I'LL FOLLOW THEM.... WHAT DO I. CARE WHAT -HAPPENS TO ME.....TA GOIN' TO SEE THAT THEY DON'T

HUIT PETER -

A Chic Model.

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Above is pictured a pretty afternoon model. Developed

in wine-red wool crepe, soft und tine s georgette, it has tho modish draped and pouched bodice, and a four-tiered scal- lopel skirt, the scallops edged with silk braid.

DOWN A NARRONN

TRAIL

BINKLEY

AND

FARBAR

LEAD

PETER

THE

KERIT

Left Alone

43 This seed is not really a cereal,

whatever it may sound. 14 Saturnte.

45 Blot out.

i Blemish.

Down

2 This old game of cards contri-

butes largely to melancholy.

Set upright, and you will find that it begins sooner.

STICKERS

(2)

3

By pulling three letters in the place of the three numbers shown above, and then following the arrows and spelling in the order of 1, 2, 3-2, 3, and 3, E2, you can make three different words.

NEW SUBMARINES.

PERSEUS AND POSEIDON ARRIVE IN FORT,

10 This fighty weapon in alvador if

not quite narrow. 20 Record.

21 Back;

in front of a watch is unreasonable.

23 Girl's name.

20 Lie in bed and be spoken of

falsely.

31 Six went to a drachina. 32 Tune up. JJ. A farmhouse

and buildings, containing a kitchener.

36 You must this thin clue to com

plete the puzzle.

38 Broad Scotch. 37 Proverb.

38 Another name for 41 RCTOSA. 40 Volume.

Yesterday's Solution

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Yesterday's Solution.

To make a circle one-half the area of cnother cicle, follow the plan shown by the dotted lines shove. Draw a state inside the large cucle and then a circle jaside the square. The second circle will contain had the maters of the first ca de, Then, to prove it, draw a square around the big cirde and it is obviou twice the size of the mer square-and the ratio of the circles is the same

Leaving Singapare on February 21, the two new "p" Class aubmarines, Perseus and Poseidon, arrived i The Pandora and Proteus, it will be Hongkong on Friday and are now recalled, came into collision 80 miles alongside the H.M.S. Medway at No. from Gibraltar Straite. The Pandora's 2 Naval Buoy.

bows were dumaged and a big hole The Perseus and Poseidon are two was torn under the water line. The of four of Britain's largest and newest Proteus was damaged aft. No one submarines which set out from Porte was injured and the vessels were mouth for Hongkong carly in Decem- docked at Gibraltar. They will bo bur, the other two boing the Pandora hera in due coureo after repairs. and Proteus. They were Intonkled to Lt. Commdr. G. A. W. Voelckor in a new flotilla to replace the in command of the Perseus, and Lt. vessels of the "L" Class, which were Commdr. B. W. Galpin of the

Poseidon. withdrawn sometime ago.

forin

YER A CLOSE MOUTIED [OLD CUSS, AIN'T YAH ??

WELL...YOULL BOON TELL US WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW....

THOSE OLD WHISKERS OF-YOURS CHILL DO LOTS OF WARSING. BEFORE SO LONG

ILL TREL

You

NOTHING!

By Blosser

SCR...THE LIGHT HURTS Masa Eyes, COMIN OUT OF A DARK. CAVE LIKE THAT... BUT I'LL SOON „BE ABLE TO SHE....I CAN HEAR

·TUGIR NOICES SOMEWHERE

DOWN TOWARD THE..

RIVER!!

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