1932-12-13 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1932,

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

THE WORLD

OF WOMEN

FES

The Western 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- --at prices which, when mentioned abroad are 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, NEGLIGE WRAPS, HOSIERY. SCARVES, SHAWLS,

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#ver.

New colours and bandsome hand-work join to make winter Paris clothes lovelier than (Left) Redfern makes a smartly inlinred two-piece belge wool sports dress and uses beige and red wool for the hand-worked yoke which gives the dress interesting lines. Short sleeves are good this winter. So is the inverted box plent in both the back and front of the Kkirt. (Right) Fabric collars on wool coats 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 lies within her her, sho perceives that the rest of power. Inspired by the achieve the world has awept ahead without THE IDEALIST. inents of her sisters, nothing but her and she is left struggling for

It is not that she is changeable in took five hundred to do, she plunges her ideals, but that those ideals do into the task of making up for lost

"Aims Will Accomplish Much."

supreme excellence will satisfy her complish in fifty years

In the rear. Determined to ac-

not stand the test of time.

Attractive Alternatives

If a man can conceal his feet of

clay for a sufficiently long period,

what man

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

race.

"If at First-!"

"Isn't he wonderful!" gushes the fluppar as the emerges. from the cinema after worshipping at the shrine of her favourite film star. fshe will marry him. If not, an- ller task can only be completed "You are my ideal man," breathes other broken engagement provides to her satisfaction by continuous 'her friends with materia! for striving after what is best. the love-lern maiden as she clings gossip. Once she is married it Hence, directly one of her ideals desperately to the weedy, under matters little to her whether her fails her, it is ruthlessly cast uside sized youth who has captured her husband can continue to attain the for something worthier." fancy.

high standard she sets, because she

"I try to model my whole life on yours," sighs the woman to Losom friend.

her

Across

1 Flour and eggs compose two- thirds of this part of London.

6 War-cry and there's little doubt

who started it

It has a snug little house in it.

and, seriously, it starts and ends early.

10 Eastern patentate.

11 Irish county,

12 A hyphenated kind of train; an

absurd titlo when you come to think of it.

13 The sorry part of cruelty,

15 A weakneKS.

18 Feeds an ocean greyhound.

19 It cannot be alow and sure.

20 A Mediterranean town onds 2.

raro feminine name.

22 Corrects.

24 The part of Arabia where no

ambitious artist wants to stop. 20 Sounds like what you should write in its last two squaren. (Absolute gift, this!)

27 Might becoma Ulster's in the

event of disarder.

30 This kind of word is coined for

one occasion.

31 Suit-lamonds.

32 Happening,

83-Almost impudence, at times.

Down.

I Smith.

District of Europe.

3 This part of the body confesses to kicking up a row-or so it appeals to one's car.

4 An easy thing, and, after all, his job la casier than the artist's. A vague person, if you likel¦

0 The top is what the bottom is

act.

? Evoko rant (anag).

8 An 18 does it frody,

14 Nather suggests that the tallor

might speak after decapitation.

15. An ool in a foreign land fightà on

his own.

18 Where one docen't know,

17 Has a head and tall, but logka.

the same from front or back,

18 Constituent of sherbet.

21 Many a Popo.

23 A handy man who raminds me

of my alster in France.

24 A complaint.

25 "Lord Marsial, command our officers at armé Be ready to direct those home —" Richard' II.).

28 French town.

20 Between then and now.

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True, she makes endless has so many attractive alternatives for her worship. Her home, her takes, but that is the penalty which children, or her social triumph can must be paid by all who strive. inll be idealised, and no one who hna

Many of her ideals are laughable, jobserved the grim determination

Woman have an infinite capacity with which Mrs. Smith will set out except to those who see their

pathos. for creating ideals.

to become a power in her suburb, or the way Mrs. Jones will dedicate Because she longs for perfect her entire life to the care of her children, she adores masculine family can doubt the truth of this strength and beauty. That may statement.

cause her to become hysterical over

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The Effect of Emancipation

As a callow girl at school, she gets a grand passion for a mistrosa or one of the prefects. A year or two later she will idealise the manly beauty of an actor. Be she busi- ness girl or society debutante, her late teens will usually and her It seems to be quite a modern crenting a tin god out of some inan 'phenomenon-this feminine pass

times she is even foolish enough to

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Because she longs to be more clever and more lovely than whe really is, she will make a fool of Theracif over a woman friend.

marry him, but more often her In grandmother's days a very

Because she will refuse to admit, restless search for perfection will young girl might dream of an ideal

but when she became the eveu to herself, that she could have send her flying to the latest re- lover, 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 unswarving devotion to A left serious thinking to the sterner worthless scoundrel. sex.

L'arear.

all that.

can

Is Woman Unstable?

Indeed, it is a matter for some

But because she aims at perfect- astonishment that modern woman

Femine emancipation has altered flou for herself and will not, if she finds time for the prosaic business

help it, tolerate mediocrity, of marrying and bringing up a

she may still do more in a generat- family. Her critica call her It is as though woman has lon to make this world fit to live unstable, but instability connotes auddenly 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 seldom that casting bewildered looks around HUMPHREY HUME,

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SHOWI

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