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GIRDLES and GIRDLIERES

BRASSIERES and UNDERWEAR

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE RANGE. EVER DISPLAYED HERE.

BY THE FOLLOWING FAMOUS MANUFACTURERS-

"FORMFIT"

"PRISCILLA”

"C. B."

"HICKORY"

14

and

'MOORE"

Silk Undies in

AT

A Charming

Selection.

ELITE STYLES

A.P.C. BUILDING

DOUBLE ENDOWMENTS

$725 a year will produce $10,000 at death or $20,000 at the end of 20 years if you survivo. NO MEDICAL EXAMINATION. Other terms on application to

CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LTD.

LIFE ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT

Hongkong Bank Buliding,

Telephone.28121.

MODERN BEAUTY

TREATMENT

PERMANENT WAVING NATURAL WAVES, CURLY ENDS. ELECTRIC BATHS,

JAPANESE MASSAGE.

Tester Beauty Parlour. Kayamally Bldg. 26, Peak Mansions. Tul. 22103. Ground Floor. Tal 29311.

For the Best

LOCAL VIEWS

and

-.

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS

Go To MEE CHEUNG

Studio, Ice House. St.

Branch. Beaconsfld Acador.

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1931.

WOMEN'S WORLD

FOR OUR LADY READERS.

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS,

ROMANCE IS EVER- GREEN.

By a Wife.]

"I seem to have lost romance! My mind won't soar above the butcher's bill, and I've no time to be beautiful any more!"

Polgnant, but oft-repeated cry!] Marriage seems able--for a time at least to turn the dulnilest sylph into a jnded hause-wife, thei gayest girl into a tired mother,

During their engagement, the husband-to-be always saw her at her heal. Dainty, fresh,

an- rufBed, Jelsured, all her thoughts for him, un extraneots worries! allowed to disturb their precious; hours together.

Then-marriage.

And Roner

or later the inevitable moment Tint comes to every couple, when, for the Arst time, he sees her at her worst Tired, dishevelled, worried. hop pretty freshness gon, she hardly seegas the same

woman.

Why? Alas, the early years of marriage maile fr love and laughter--are often

Years struggle. He has not yet "made good, and they cannot afford the easy way of life that later comes

a matter of

course. Add a hursery-und there is little mor- pin for the pretty superfluitiesį which, to a woman, menti so much.

At first she may not realine; exactly what has gone wrong: when he does, she suffers the more. Sitting sewing by the fire, opposite a tired husband, she sud- denly compares herself with the radiant girl she used to be, thore evenings when they danced to gether. To-night she hasn't even changed her frock!

And then the inevitable fear rears its bend - Romance is gone. Soon, love will follow.

She is wrong. Glamour, that

| exquisite but ephemeral flower of courtship may bo Kone, but romance is there beside her.

There was once a woman who

The Latest for Garden Wear.

[By Joan Savoy.]

never allowed her husband to see heitettyäng effects

Their little son fell ill All one

the are

Two smart outfits illustrate the shirt and shirtless variety of gardening costumes.

Given the right Clothes and any little bit of garden, even if on a roof, and you

Dver a pink cotton mesh shirt can get all the

of "Maud is slipped a pair of overalls in a her anything but perfectly turned

heavy, natural coloured material out. Yet, as time passed, she felt Overalls

accepted with gaudy horizontal stripes of she was losing the love she had fashion. But sach'overalls! Old-pink plaided with vertical stripes taken such infinite pains to keep.fashioned farmers would have of blue and black. The big, floppy thrown up their hands and faint-sun hat is of woven straw in pink night she fought for his life, ed away if anyone had told them and white.

The second overall suit is all in When at last he slept, she caught few years ago that girls would

be wearing plaid pink and black one piece, sleeveless and low- overalls with practically trans nacked, made of dark blue linen. parent lucy weave pink shirt This sult is cut with a slenderizing under them. Or black linen over-V panel for both front and back. falls with no shirt at all!

There is a stitched linen hat, of The garden overalls differ from the same dark blue, with very beach pyjamas in that they are large and very floppy brim. slightly tighter in the legs, Teach has no banding whatsoever. the toc but do not drag on the ground, and soldom have any With lapth Ա appropriate coats to go with them. it being garden shoes and gloves. For ao understood that when the day's woman, though she be a good quota of hard labour is done, you gardener, should sacrifice

in, bath and put on a frock! hands to work

New Sports Model.

This new sports shoe of dark blue cuff with rubber sole and heel is made in one piece. entirely seamless,

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sight of herself in the glass- weary, dishevelled, unattractive- il to her horror, heard her hus band's footstep. He gave one

BLOUSE TIES.

It

her

Across

1 Faith receives his hearty em- brace, though he has no poetry in his hend.

* A county.

11 "The maid left very early one evening: she chose to go, leaving

utterly stranded"

· men (hidden).

12 Hidden In II Acruas.

13 You wouldn't expect a riot to be

produced by three.

14 Hidden in 1 Across.

16. You wouldn't expect needs to hold

up an entrance, but they do.

19 A noise: you might male if I

first four-fths are Mac "Loyd"

(1)

20 The noises in this Paris atalion con be heard in the next parish.

21 Here we reject a distasteful this dinner table chopped into bits as we might a cheque.

23 Hidden in 11 Across,

24 You may do its reverse to the

bowling, but not in this game.

25 A Boer might change into thin,

7 Sauth Coast resort.

30 Tackle.

31 Thrashing of your corn, al onco

Oriental and punitive.

Down

2 A dissolute implement.

3 May be quite Ò,K., but the cause requires some alteration. (No political allusion.)

Beer slur" (anag).

Fifty is the thin of a this. Advertising epithet for an ex-

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STICKLEBS

A B C

DE F

GHI

In the square above each letter stands for a number. The lowest number is one and the highest 100. The problems is to. replace the letters with the proper num ¿bers so that each row, horizontal, vertical

or diagonal, will total 1000 when its three. numbers are multiplied together. you fill in the necessary"numbers?{"

OVERSLEPT. ON THE TRAIN.

Can

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CANTON CADET MINŲS

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114

126

pensive suporfilm (two words).

7 Medical work.

9 Midrift.

10 French holiday and dance spell

a very svelte fish (two words). 12 Vessel.

15 Hidden in it Across. 17 If it

flowed the

other way: you'd have a "zemblance" of an Arlle land.

18 Thero's shell as well as shot in

this English town.

would e a növél iden lo start. this implement westward. 26. English port.

28 Dutch colony.

25 High hopes rest on this win.

Yesterday's Solution

MONMOUTHSHIRE

0 0 0 SATLATE WROUGHT

GLUE DELVE WISP AT DE SEUS O CREASES ROADHOG

R ORPHEUS ALGEBRA U ON N KUPU NINTH KITE LUDGIEF E

YELPING CHAPTER

TWVKLET! IRRETRIEVABLE

Yesterday's Solution

R••E• •O •O•E ••R IRISE TO VOTE SIR.

The lower line show the sentence which is made when the proper letters are filled in for the dota shown in the up- par line. The sentence reads the same forwards and backwards.

WATER LEVELS.

DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH AND EAST. RIVERS.

The following table, issued by the | Kwangtung River Conservancy Com- mission, shows in English foot the water levels on the West River, North | River and East River on the dates

named:

Aur Aug.

30 31

་

West River at Shiuhing 20.0 22.1 A TICKET.

North River, at Samshui 10.3 0.8 North River at Tsingyuen 12.0 119 7.5 7.2 That his ticket was in the pos- East River at Sheklung. session of a friend, who left the The highest levels recorded are: Smart ties for wear with shirt train when he (defendant) was Shlubing, 41 fact: Tsingyuen, 29.2 look, and caught her in his arms.blouses are essential, yet it is not asleep was the excuse given by feet; Samshui, 27.9 foet; Sheklung,

man named Wong Man, described 18 feet.

The lowest levels on rocord are Romuince thrives on the bitter-every woman who can manipulate

Canton cadel, who was minus & feet at Samshui and minus sweet of life; it is their joint a tie successfully, or requires the as atruggle with reality which binds full length of a man's tle. From charged before Mr. Fraser at the 27 fect at Shekinna

man most closely to the woman Paris comes a novelty which will Kowloon Magistracy this morning he adores. And when, the time of be welcomed or try ups of silk Canton Railway yesterday with It reached Cheung Muk Tau, his

by many women. It with travelling on the Kowloon stress is over, she assumes once takes the form

friend got off. He himself had more the personal charm which joined together by a narrow band. out having paid his fare.

Inspector Elston, who prosecut-intended to get off there, but as isher-birth-right, she will seem and this in just tucked inside the

negustomed.

!.

in him even more beautiful than neck of the blouse or jumper and ed, said the defendant get on the he was asleep, he did not know ever, in the glamour of the un-fastened with a pin or brooch. train at Canton in the full uniform that he had arrived at his destina-

When asked tion. Any material can be used, and of a Canton cadet,

His Worship adjourned the case the motifs may be fashioned in a for his ticket, he could not profer 24 hours to allow the defen But glamour is the bloom of around, square or oblong shape, dues it. day, and rootless. It is romance, and if so desired the initials of Defendant said he was with aidant to produce his friend to

Heaubatantinto his story. which, springing from the heart the wearer can be embroidered in friend, who had his ticket. of life, is evergreen!

the centre of the outer hp. fell asleep on the train and when] Bail was allowed at $50:

UNDERARM PERSPIRATION

Harmlessly, and Pleasantly eliminated by

NODOR

The Delicate Deodorant

THE PHARMACY

Asiatic Building.'

Taí. 20845.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

ARE YOU

ALL SET,

FRECKLES

YEAH...LET HER GO...

BOY!! DO YOU THINK":"

*MAYBE WE CAN

BEAT THE TRAIN INTO ELKHART,

RILEY?

WELL WELL TRY.........RIGHT" ALONG 'HERE IS, WHERE-

I USUALLY PASS THE CENTURY... THERE'S "THE RAILROAD, RIGHT

BENEATH US!!!

The Race!

HOT DOS!! THERE'S ·· THE TRAIN! MAN! We MUST BE GOIN' A

ANLE A MINUTE

HOH...NEARLY THREE TIMES THAT, FAST... OLD, TESSIC KNOWS HON TO'PLY!

By Blosser

NOW YOU'LL BE ABLE TO GET THAT CRUTCH TO

THE DETECTIVE BEFORE

HE GETS OFF THE TRAIN AND DISAPPEARS

IN THE CITY!!!

.TEZIS "ELKHART, NONN".

ĈI CAN SEE

THE RAILROAD

SHope !!

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