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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1932..

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

THE WORLD OF WOMEN

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The Wastern World is frequently making reference

to the colour and lure of the East.

Perhaps its some-

what drab outlook at times serves to emphasise the contrast between East and West, Here we have almost constant sunshine, brightness and colour-and It seems that one of the most effective means of capturing the beauty and colours of the Orient-has been provided in beautiful silken fabrics.

So sought after is silk, that other countries have been compelled to raise a barrier against it by imposing duties but here people are able to enjoy the luxury of the most beautiful silken materials in the world. abroad аге --at prices which, when mentioned frequently disbelieved.

THE KASHMIR SILK STORE OFFERS YOU

an amazing array of Silk at its best, either by the yard, or daintily made up into delightful garments. Here are a few suggestions for X'mas

SILK UNDERWEAR, PYJAMAS, DRESSING GOWNS, HOURI COATS, NEGLICE WRAPS, HOSIERY, SCARVES, SHAWLS,

and many other things.

SUPERFINE QUALITIES AT SPECIALLY. FAVOURABLE CHRISTMAS PRICES.

ever.

New colours and handsome hand-work join to make winter Paris clothes loveller than (Left) Redfern makes a smartly tailored two-piece belge wool sports dress and uses beige and red wool for the hand-worked yoke which gives the dress. Interesting lines. Short slceves are good this winter. So is the inverted box pleat in both the back and front of the skirt. (Right) Fabric collars on wool conts are something new. Vera Borea uses rich yellow chamois for this new upstanding collar, giving chic to a smart rich yellow wool coat.

WOMAN-

if something better les within her her, she perceives that the rest of power. Inspired by the achieve the world has swept ahead without THE IDEALIST. ments of her sisters, nothing but her and she is left struggling for

supreme excellence will entisfy her. in It is not that she is changeable in!

"Aims Will Accomplish Much."

the rear. Determined to ac- complish in fifty years what man took five hundred to do, she plunges her ideals, but that those ideals do into the task of making up for lost not stand the test of time.

Attractive Alternatives

time with all that boundless energy that was given hor that she might be the means of carrying on the

race.

"If at First!”

"Isn't he wonderful!" guehes tha flapper as she emerges from the

If a man can conceal his foot of cinema after worshipping at the day for a sufficiently long period, shrine of her favourite film star. she will marry him. If not, an- Her task can only be completed "You are my ideal man," breathes other broken engagement provides to her antisfaction by continuous after what is best. the love-lorn maiden as she clings her friends with material for striving

gossip. Once she is married it Hence, directly one of her ideals desperately to the weedy, under minttars little to her whether her fails her, it is ruthlessly cast aside aized youth who has captured her husband can continue to attain the for something worthier. fancy.

high standard she sets, because sho

True, she makes endless Thng so many attractive alternatives for her worship. Her home, her takes, but that is the penalty which her, children, or her social triumph can must be paid by all who strive.

all be idealised, and no one who has Many of her ideals are laughable, observed the grim determination

those who except to Woman have un infinite capacity with which Mrs. Smith will set out pathos. for creating Ideals.

"I try to model my whole life on youre," sighs the woman to

bosom friend.

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1 Flour and egge compose two- thirds of this part of London

6 War-cry and there's little doubl

who started it.

It has a snug little house in it,

and, seriously, it starts and ends carly,

10 Eastern potentate.

11 Irish county.

12 A hyphenated kind of train; an

absurd title when you come to think of it.

18 The sorry part of cruelty,

15 A weakness,

18 Feeds an ocean greyhound,

19 It cannot be slow and sure.

20 A Mediterranean town ends a

raro feminino name.

22 Corrects.

24 The part of Arabia where no

ambitious artist wants to stop. 28 Bounds like what you should write in its last two squares. (Absoluto gift, this!) -

27 Night become Ulster's in the

event of disorder.

30 This kind of word in coined for

one occasion.

31 Suit-diamonds.

32 Happening.

33 Almost impudence, at times.

Down.

1 Smith.

2 District of Europe.

3 This part of the body confesses to kicking up a row or so # appeals to one's ear

4 An easy thing, and, after all,

his job la easier than the artist 5 A vague person, if you like!!

The top fa what the bottom is

pot.

7 Evoke rant (anag.).

8 An 18 does it freely.

14 Rather suggeste that the tallor

might speak after decapitation.

15 An eel in a foreign land fights on

his own.

18 Where one doesn't know.

17 Has a head and tall, but looks 、

the same from front or back, 18 Constituent of sherbet.

21 Many R Pope.

23 A handy man who reminda me

of my sister in France.

24 A complaint.

25 "Lord Marskal, command our officers at arms Be ready to direct these home --” Richard II.).

28 French town.

29 Between then and noW.

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This Xmas worry is silly

You may search the shops

for Novelties

mis-

a gift

But she'll always prefer, as

Silk Hosiery.

their

The

brightest,

and

best

to become a power in her suburb, or the way. Mrs. Jones will dedicate Because she longs for perfect her entire ilfe to the care of her children, she adores masculine family con doubt the truth of this statement.

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strength and beauty. That may cause her to become hysterical over a film star or a prize fighter, but the motive is good.

VAN RAALTE...

OR

more sho

really is, she will make a fool of herself over a woman friend.

As a callow girl at school sho gete a grand passion for a mistress or one of the prefects. A year or two later she will idealise the manly beauty of an actor. Be she busi- The Effect of Emancipation ness girl or society debutante, her

It seems to be quite a late teens will usually find her

Because she longs to be ercating a tin god out of some man phenomenon this feminine pass-clever and more lovely than

times she is even foolish enough to marry him, but more often her In grandmother's days a very restless search for perfection will young girl might dream of an ideal | send her flying to the latest ra lover, but when she became the even to herself, that she could have ligious cult or to the carving of a bride of bewhiskered grandpapa been mistaken in the man she chose she merely concerned herself with for a husband, she will give the running her house competently and most unswerving, devotion to a left serious thinking to the sterner, worthless acoundrel. sex.

But because she aims at perfect- Femine omancipation has altered ion for herself and will not, if she all that.

can help it, tolerate mediocrity. she may still do more in a generat-

carcer,

Because she will refuse to admit,

Is Woman Unstable?

Indeed, it is a matter for same astonishment that modern woman finds time for the prosaic business of marrying and bringing up a family. Her critica call her It is as though woman has ion to make this world fit to live unstable, but instability connates 'suddenly awakened after a sleep of in than man has been able to do the mediocre and second rate, and centuries. Rubbing her eyes and since the days of the Flood.— the woman of to-day is.soldum that casting bewildered looks around HUMPHREY HUME.

SALESMAN SAM

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