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This Xmas worry is silly

You may search the shops

for Novelties .^.

'a gift

But she'll always prefer, as

Silk Hosiery.

The brightest, and

best

VAN RAALTE ..

OR

A CHIC HANDBAG....

ESPECIALLY IF IT COMES

FROM

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WHO HAVE THE BEST.

FOR

PERMANENT WAVING

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MARCELLING

Trust none but an ARTIST!!

FOR

MANICURING

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY," DECEMBER

THE WORLD WORLD

FASHION NOTES.

Exquisite Evening

Gowns

OF WOMEN

There are any number of youth- ful looking nuts and dresses this year, stressing the well known and just the thing for Miss Slim, Miss Slight, and Miss Slender. The day gowns are short, and very narrow, devold of any irregularity of hemline, all of them with well-mannered" skirts.

Also seen are some very prim- Jooking, very feminine trotteurs, most of them in checked or small- stiriped materials. The costoca with such auits in Cases are sulliciently abbreviated to be mistaken for boleros.

worn

most

Many coats are collarless, with scarves which are the only note of colour, such scurves being used to Jook like collars, belts, or ties. Exquisite are the mousseline-de- solé evening gowns, and the chiffon- velvet evening gowns arc Also exceedingly smart. They deserve to be calicil "Poems," if only poems in chiffon and velvet. They con- alst of colour-harmonies, long and flowing panels, and draperies of classic proportions,

Skirts are different in shade from the colouring used for the bodice. By the way, a new note is the long elbow gloves in coloured | suede to match the gown,

or to form a contrast, often a daring touch of colour.

Skirts

Many of the new skirts are drap- ed towards the centre of the back. Some are longer in front. All pleated skirts show straight pleating with new styles in pleats. No skirt is cut ов the cross, 58 very few. Nothing inres through- out the collections.

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Ace high in the mode for formal bridge parties is this 'black transparent velvet frock with rent Veniae lace to orna- ment its cape collar that fastens down the back. Skirt fullness is gathered together in the rear and an ornamental belt buckle tops it. The sleeves are loag and point out over the hands at the cuffs.

SALESMAN SAM

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Black gowns that are different were worn by stage stars at the fashion show for the benefit of the Actors' Dinner Fund in New York (Left) Ermine sleeves made original puffs, with the ermine tails, dying like streamers, on sheath-like gown of black velvet, worn by Selena Royal. (Right) Draped armboles, sparkling buttons, and a slashed skirt were outstanding features of a gorgeously crinkled black crepe gown worn by Helen Broderick,

WHY ARE WOMEN

SUPERSTITIOUS?

IDEAS FOR YOUR NOTEBOOK.

It is perhaps significant that. Coffee Stains.To remove coffce Sir Walter Scolt, on those rare stains from delicate materials, Occasions when his romances brush with pure glycerine. Rinse dipped into the supernatural, al-in lukewarm water, and press on most chose women as the necessary the wrong side.

Home-Made Bleacher.-Crushed characters. Women seem to have always been more subject to pre-egrshell added to odd bits of soap monitions, secret signs, spiritun makes an excellent bleacher. Keep visitations, illomens, and the rest a small muslin bag handy, and of the expressions of superstition pap into it all orld bits of soup than has been the case with and eggshells. Tie up the bag members of the stronger sex. on washing day and drop it into

History, literature, and modern your copper with your white linen. fiction, they all are generously Biscuits Will Keep.-A crust of supplied with feminine supersti-bread placed in the tin with the tion-supporters, and the number biscuits absorbs moisture, and the would probably be very large if biscuits keep crisp longer. compared to that of masculine superstition-supporters, In the

more

no

WAR

1933

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

Across

1 Supply food to the supporters.

They're very voracious.

9 Game, when young.

10 Mem. See Ann at about two to

colour the batter.

11 Movement appreciated by the

actor.

12 This goat charges but it has

them without the goal.

-13 Win in this even if you lose in

the round-abouts.

past, of course, superstition took humorously, mark you--for

Rome desperate form and was other reason than because much more conmon than it is clumsy specimen of a man to-day. Edinburgh-and the rest thoughtless enough to put his um- of Scotland-nt one lime made an brella up inside their house! There everyday practice of drowning and is a whole encylopedia of these burning witches. Men, even in "bad signs," and every woman over the early days, had generally a forty seems to have them at her strong

dislike for superstition, finger-tips. Someone accidentally fit

were drops wns those women who

walking-stick. eternally stirring up trouble with luck," says Mrs. A. Someone else their fantastic Ideas!

(again accidentally) lets a spoon fall to the floor. "A visitor," ob serves Mrs. B. And so the force--

But, although most women nuwe days talk jokingly about the ex-

П

"Bad

plaints of their early superstition for no it appears to my ordinary obsessed sisters, are they really, commonsense-controlled mind-goes even advanced as they undoubtedly, on! are, completely rid of strange be- liefs?

And this is the question I would like to ask thone bad-omen women. Do they really belleve in what they There are many "modern" women' say or do they not make these re- who are astoundingly superstitious, marks "for something to say"? I but very few men. In fact, every should like to believe that the latter Fecond woman one meets refer suggestion is the true one, but, exclusively to the older generation when I recall the serious faces of does not see anything senseless in some people I personally have of- believing that, becange two knives fended, I fail to see how I can. huppen to cross at dinner a serious quarrel will inevitably follow.

We men do not know why wo- men are so supperstitious," Will

I have sean middle-aged women they condescend to tell us the become extremely excited and an- reason?-W STRACHAN-NISBET in

not In the noyed-and

least Exchange.

Boneless Too!

14 Game in the interior of a West

African Island.

17 Opposed to an Irish ending. 10 The skaters' figure is of im-

portance.

21 Part of an engine,

22 Turn it upside down.

24 Ends in bed, though only tossed

gently.

26 The girl with the heart.

29 There's no Rense in this-alill,

it's a clue.

31 Masculine name,

32 An uproarious fragment.

33 Not well in this caromit'a a

easemaker's job.

34 Endanger.

35 The art of the G.O.C.

Down..

Go on is here.

The means of doing no

3 "I'm glad I was up so late; for that's the reason I was up 20

("Cymbeline").

4 Classical country.

6 Make a loan in West Afrlen:

there's

some go in the place.

G Relatives.

7 Not no casy as lying.

Give an “adult lion gin" and see

it extending lengthwise: very

15

+

QU

+

funny (anag.).

9 Lancashire Lads, or Henry IV.

-or V., or VI

14 And yet they say that this re- ception ta attended by men only. 15 Uncouth sort of nano fór

rough sort of valley.

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16 A slow upheaval, but it is a comfort to think that it will end well.

18 With nothing above or below it could address great multitudes.

20 Crime briefly indicated.

23 Fruit is in and it rain outside. 26 Unnderned and scarcely rich, it

is fitting wear for the warrior, 27 Upset 18 and get under; it may

be hit.

28 Moving lttlo by little.

30 One who has a shot.

31 Put in the head.

Yesterday's Solution.

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