THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1931
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS,
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SPRING MEETING.
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WOMEN'S WORLD
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
Three New Satin Blouses.
Satin blouses to wear with new suits: There is a pale Jurquoise blue one, slightly gauged at shoulders and wrists, and made with the pretty draped neckline. Another in shell- pluk satin, with the back and front fullness gathered into a Barrow halter collar. And a third, in the modish oyster tint. with black lacing at neck and wrists.
YOUR CHILDREN.
[By Olive Roberts Barton.|
Mont of us know the mother whose child is never wrong.
FASHION NOTES.
The Tunic Re-appears.
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SPRING FASHIONS.
A Great Number of Styles.
Women are a attle overwhelm-1 ed at present by the number of i styles which have been presented by the Paris dressmakers this sea- Я01. And, in truth. Af aa fashionable gathering
one does not see two women dressed alike, whereas a few short seasons agó they were positively uniform.
But order ta returning more in the dressmaking world, and it is interesting to note that the definite and clear opinions of the big designers are now emer. bring.
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Across
1 I travel slowly after cattle, but; for the inost part, range fur and wide.
Spoil a close and, naturally, it becomes disfigured.
9 The extremities of this thread-
like substance make fire.
the
10 Litigation, or heraldle flower. 12 A Londen suburb, or what the
stage-mmager said when actor stopped. Bunch.
or a letter.
May be seen on a wave, a bird,
16 Part of a blacksmith's forge, or what one with speech impediment would call "sticker."
One, for example, advocates the Empire waist: another refuses to look at the normal wastline: the top of the hips is where all her helts 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--ihat is, two or three inches14 below the knees-for walking and country wear. They look extre ordinarily short to one's eyes, ne customed by this time to skirts which cover the Calf, but, thinking out the matter, it is roa- fised how eminently sensible la such a decision, which could only have been taken by a woman sure of herself.
Another dressmaker has vetoed the tuck-in blouse for country
on
18 A fish that may be turned into a
piece of meat.
21 This musical sign in the natural prey of another musical sign 22 Frequently
associated with a
void.
24 With a little readjustment, this
colour will preserve,
26 Frail humanity is always falling
into this.
26 A cheerful nie.
28 A figure well-known to cricket
lovers.
27 Musical instrument.
rano This pin admits indebtedness,
31 Relieved.
The tunde shows every indica-wear, "For those who like H, tion of returning. Charming and she says, "good; but I consider Her son fell through the ice becoming though it is, on the right belted jumper preferable." One 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 an evening gown.
women designer is even trying this copled her nightwork from
a when
it was last in vogue, neighbour because the teacher gave many wrong people ware it. them
too much homework to get poor things, they had nothing dise But. through with. Hor children are to wear, for in those days a par. always in trouble because the
ment, was either in the forefront neighbours pick quarrels.
of fashion or it was nowhere, and there was no alternative but to
They are bullied, dared, tempt ed, tormented, but when they get into trouble it is never their fault. Today we have a wide
choice.
She goes to school, she calls up other mother, she does a great dent of talking to everybody, and all she earns for herself is a repu tation.
I shall make an exception here of the occasional mother who has a real complaint to make and who
woman in a must bewildered state)
But all this leaves the average of mind. "Do I change my waist- What is the smartest length for line every time I chenge my frock? skirts" she asks, and wonders dismally if her entire winter outåt
see the opportunity for a little represents a series of dreadful er- quiet correction of a difcall hit uation. That done I shall go back rors,
The answer is that, as suggest-
to the first, to her with the chronic. Your waistline should be where complaint, who tries to shield the real truth from herself and the women will rejoice at the return
it saits you most. No doubt many) world, the real truth being that of the jumper, gyer which a belt her children ennnot meet the world' as it is.
is worn below the normal waist. That boy who dared the skater.the latest Paris collections.
and it is represented in some of the teacher who probably overstep ped herself in giving t
horne
As for skirt-lengths, these, too, work. the irritating children next in, the only thing to wear is a ure for you to decide. For even- door, all represent something,
They represent the world, its long skirt, but not necessarily un- problems and temptations and tri-jeven; 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 are of equni length all round. children's friends explaining, ex
Charncler Spells Happiness,
And she is
Leasing and pleading that it was strength and happiness within
not their fault?
|themselves: She will teach them resistance to temptation, self-re- No one, of course, and the world Hanec, toleration and contentment. that also tries us gives us our rat-Atso she will teach them that con- ing, Every one of us, whether serenees of their own acts must papper or milionare, brilliant or be borne by them. We have no use stupid, weak or strong. must stand for the tattler, the complainer, the on his own feet. And although hider-behind-skirts. then, a children, are at born encouraging all three things, with equal blessings, what we call Again I shall have to drag in the blessings may be the very cross Spartan women who taught their those born with them will have to sons to bear agony without com- bear, and the handicaps may be plaint. Translating it into mental blessings.
find emotional endurance instead Be that as it may, true happi-of physical, let me say this, that a ness lies only in character. And child who knows he is doing the. I am just old-fashioned enough to best he can won't be so very un- believe in a certain law of com- happy when he strikes a snar. Be- pensation.
fsides we often buve to bear thei If this nervous mother wants punishment for what other people her children to learn to live she do. Ife again. And that isn't n will not try to shield them but bad thing to make clair to the instead
she will try to develop children elther..
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
FROM HIS HIDING
PLACE IN
THE INNER CANE; WHERE THE HERANT JHAS HIDDEN HIM, FRECKLES HAS TURNED
THE SITUATION OVER IN "HLS
MIND....
THOSE BIG BOZOS
· HAVE TAKEN THE OLD HERMIT AN' GONE DOWN THE MOUNTAIN SIDE.I 'BET....DOGGONE THEM!!! THE HERMIT DIDNT DO
ANYTHING' TO THEM....
I'M MAD
I'LL FOLLOW THEM.... WHAT DO I CARE. WHAT HAPPENS TO ME...I'M GOIN' TO SEE THAT THEY DON'T
HURT PETER
A Chic Model.
Above is pictured a pretty afternoon model. Developed
in wine-red wool crepe, soft and fine as georgette, it has the modish draped and pouched bodice, and a four-tiered scal- loped skirt, the scallops edged with silk brniti.
DowŃ A NARROW TRAIL
BINKLEY
AND
|FARBAR
LEAD
PETER
THE
RERMIT
37 A dangerous enlculator.
39, As this is full, it is not surpris. ing it is mostly protruberant. 41 Many, a lazy one would be its anegram if told they were one. 42 A word that is frequently on the
lips of an auctioneer.
43 This seed is not really a cereal,
whatever it may sound. 4J Saturate.
15 Blot out,
1 Blemish,
Down
2 This old game of cards contri.
butes largely to melancholy.
3 Set upright, and you will find
that it begins sooner.
STICKERS
(2)
3
By putting three fellers in the place of
the three numbers shown above, and
the following the arrows and spelling in the order of 1, 2, 3-2, 3, and 3, 12, you can make three different words.
NEW SUBMARINES.
PERSONS AND POSEIDON “ARRIVE IN PORT.
4 An English river, is reported. 0 Separate.
7 Try again-that's right.
These give.
10 Another form of 42 acroM).
11 This ox ndds up.
15 "O bell ta" (anog.).
17 This English
river starts ali right, but there would seem to be more to come.
18 Mount.
19 This flighty wenpan is slender if.
not quite narrow.
20 Record.
21 Back; if in front of a watch in
unreasonable.
23 Girl's name.
20 Lie in bed and be spoken of
falsely.
31 Six went to a drachma.
83 Tune up. 33 A
farmhouse
and buildings, containing a kitchener. 35 You must this thin clue to com
plete the puzzle.
36 Brond Scotch.
37 Proverb..
.
38 Another name for 41 acrosa, 40 Volume.
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Yesterday's Solution
COMMANDMENT EX-A-FE E OTTÖ DEARER ROSS INTE M STRUMS TPELTUAN Y EVANDI SCOO KN-F ADU TV 8 MATADOR ASSEGA
ELK TE NOTIFY ABRAÇA
AUTOCTOBEKL TRANCEUOTE IF EVEN MOORED ODER. I U
S-ELUCIDATING
Yesterday's Solution.
To make a circle one-half the area of nonser circle, follow the plan shown by the dolled lines above. Draw a square inside the large circle and then a circle inside the spare. The second tide will erlain half the mattenal of the fast cir the. Then, to prove it draw Au around the lug curle and it u obviously twice the size of the more stuur-and- the ratio of the circles is the same
Leaving Singapore on February 21. the two new "p" Class submarines, Perseus and Poseidon, arrived in The Pandora and Protons, it will be Hongkong on Friday and are now recalled, came into collision 80 miles alongside the II.M.S. Medway at No.from Gibraltar Straits. The Pandora's
Naval Buoy.
bows were damaged and a big holo The Perseus and Poseidon are two was torn under the water line. The uf four of Britain's largest and newest Proteus was damaged aft. No one submarines which set out from Ports- was injured and the vessels wors mouth for Hongkong early in Docum-docked at Gibraltar. They will bo bor, the other two being the Pandora here in due course after repairs. and Proteus. They were intended to Lt. Commdr. G. A. W. Voelcker is form a new flotilla to replace the in command of the Persqua, and Lt. versels of the "L" Class, which were Camade. 1. W. Galpin of the withdrawn sometime ago.
Poseidon.
Left Alone
YER A CLOSE MOUTHED OLD' CÙSS, AIN'T YAI 77 WELL... YOULL GOON TELL US WILAT WE WANT TO KNOW.com
THOSE OLD WHISKERS OF YOURS WILL DO LOTS OF VIASSING
BEFORE SO LONG«1»
ILL TELL
You
NOTHING!!
By Blosser
SEE-THE LIGHT HURTS INY EYES, COMIN" OUT OF A DARK CAVE LIKE "TUT..... BUT I'LL SOON BE ABLE TO SEGI CAN HEAR THEIR VOICES ·SOMEWHERE
DOWN TOWARD THE RIVER!!
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