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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY MARCH

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

TO-MORROW AT

THE CENTRAL.

COUNSEL FOR CROOKS OR PUB- LIC PROSECUTOR!

He Won at Bath, Un- til the Woman He Loved Faced Him Across the Stand ...

THE WORLD OF WOMEN

JOHN

BARRYMORE

HELEN

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STATE'S ATTORNEY

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WILLIAM (Stage) BOYD MARY DUNCAN

Directed by

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EVERY JEWELLERY

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Early spring hats in the Patou collection. (Left to right) A beige felt stitched in black and trimmed with red and black ribbon; pleated felt in green, red and white bow.trimming in three colours; hand plaited "paillasson in green, black and white which is trimmed with a straw feather motif; light felt beige hat with hand worked tucked brim.

and veil with dots to match. circumspect. The first hat cannot bring a summer, any more

than the first robin can.

By Jean Patou.

Paris, In epring models women are always attracted by the note of gaiety that is" in the atmos- phere. They feel the promise of warmer days and their minds turn

First Hats Light and Gay. Naturally the spring note

is

varied than the winter-time dress of summer days. itself.

I have often noticed that many A woman should remember, women complement an early spring however, that a hat can never be ensemble with a hat somewhat anything more than a complement too advanced, thinking that this of an ensemble and it must follow will convey the proper note. the same process of graduation. They are usually mistaken. The to colour. They wish to interpret never complete with the addition The fabric of the hat corresponds same effect can,

however, be these movements in this clothes. They may still be cold in their of the spring bat. For that reason to that of the dress, and it would obtained with felt or fabric, no- furs, but they like to anticipate the first apring hats are always be a great mistake to introduce thing being more appropriate to A light-coloured felt that season of flower which best created on this principle of light in early spring fashion such the season.

ness and gay colouring, and, as essentially summery mediums as hat can be just as expressive of with all accessories, fantasy has straws, which can only comple-the spring season, by its shape And yet, they will wise to be a greater play and can be more ment the light diaphanous dresses and fantasy, as any straw.

becomes them.

TO THE HOUSEWIFE.

Linen and Cotton

Tests.

Material may be dyed in the raw state, in the yarn, or after weaving. The colour is more even and the yarn more deeply impregnated with the colour when one of the first two methods is used. By ravelling a thread and examining the evenness .or

YOUR CHILDREN.

Let Them Cry Occasionally.

He was a very handsome baby

"What Do you want, Teddy?" she said.

Just Want to Cry

And then the baby lisped just ahout the best answer in the world,

"I want to ery," he sobbed. That hit everybody in the car.

Much.cotton, by means of ari- Irregularity of its colour, it is about two years old, dressed in it made friends of us all. Grouchy

ficial methods, is made to

re semble linen, so that the higher price of nen may be charged. It is useful, therefore, to know ways in which the two materials can be distinguished.

often possible to decide at what stage the dyeing took place.

a

a blue suede suit and cap to mat-old men looked up over their pa

mo-pers and smiled. Ladies looked at ch. His pale weary young ther carried him as she got on the each other and nodded. street car. I suppose they had been in to see the toys.

and

Good dyes cost five or six times what poor dyes cost, so that cheap grade of goods is likely so represent a weak colour. In the case of a nationally established whimpering a tired little cry that

Tired out, too, he was, brand, however, there is much to fear from fading, for started,

not grew to a lusty roar after the car grent gains have been made

re

People were repeating, "He just wants to cry, poor child, he just; wants to cry!"

One of the methods of adultera

ably nearly everybody around It hit a common chord. Prob- tion is the introduction of sizing, which results in a texture and

"just wanted to cry." Tired folk, lustre resembling linen, but lost

worried folk, sick, fearful nervous, after a few washings. By rub-cently in colour

mustn't cry, dear! bitter folk. But they had their bing the goods between the hands Many goods are subjected to the Let's look out of the window. feelings under masks, as grown- or pounding.. it on a table, the siz bleaching process after the dye. There! Look at all the people."[ups will, and would have been ing can be extracted in the forming and a tint that has withstood of a white powder.

two

permanance,

"Oh, you

better if each and every one of But he was tired of people. He them could have had a good bayl had seen too many already and the chaos and crash of the jammed street' didn't interest him a bit.

Not Tired The woman next to them extend-

and got it out of his system. It made me think about the chil- dren. The first thing we do when a child cries is to try to hush him up, or to divert him, or trot out some new interest. Why don't we let him alone occasionally and give

the effects of a bleach has nothing A few standard tests have been to fear from the laundry. formulated which point the differ-

An excellent way to establish ence between the textiles. the relative strength of certain The torn edge, for instance, of a brands of goods is to record the linen fabric is more jagged than date of purchasing an article re that of a cotton fabric. The presentative of each brand and ed her pocketbook, but he only burnt end of a linen thread is the number of launderings they leaned back and went on crying him a chance to wash out his feel- round, whereas a cotton yarn withstand before showing wear, but the roar had hecome a tired-ings?

whimper.

que.

cotton

tufts when burned. Moreover, a linen thrend smoulders, whereas The absorbency of towels can one blazes. Under be indicated by placing them an glycerine, a linen textile becomes top of a tub of water and seeing translucent, white cotton is opu-which ones sink the most quickly; If a wet finger is placed these, of course being the most under linen the dampness comes absorbent. through quickly, but is much more slowly absorbed by cotton. Ink | is taken up inore immediately by linen and describes a smooth blat, but cotton sucks it in more

evrls.

fibre

Strap Holders

Of course that wouldn't do all the time. Children mustn't turn "You're tired, aren't you,” said into chronic weepers. But there his mother. "Put your head down are occasions, as tired little Ted and close your eyes. That's a good said on the car, "they just want to boy!"

cry," and nothing else will do. We might obliterate ourselves and permit them the luxury of tears

Olive Roberts Barim.

"I don't want to close my eyes. I'm not blred." He sat up as

straight as a póker, “

Again she begged him to stop, fussing.

the people will think you are a bad

"You mustn't act this way. All

little boy."

Decorative Utility. For daily wear, nothing is more satisfactory than a dress whose light touches button right onto the dress and don't have to be sewed or pinned.

If you are bothered with your gradually and spreads it out in an slip or brassiere straps slipping

Linen irregular outline.

down over your shoulders, it will when ravelled remains straight

pay you to take a little time off and pointed, but a cotton yarn and sey holders into your dresses.

He stopped long enough to take These consist of about one inch of survey of "all the people." Poor tape, fastened to the shoulder little soul!. Every pair of eyes in Colour More Even

You can easily manage to at- seam of your dresses, with the car were turned his way, some Colour requires time for test- single snap to fasten them. You mpathetic, some plainly annoy tach most collars this way by hav in A swatch should be placed attach the two pieces of the snap, ed, others just staring at the curling the buttonholes made right in for a week in the sunlight and one to either end of the bit of oaity that could keep going so loud the collar and the buttons attached then compared with a piece not tape, making a loop, when shut. and so long without exhausting its to the dress, or vice-versa. Even

wind,

cuffs cin button on securely with thus exposed. A sample should You merely open the loop, slip it also be washed under the same around your shoulder straps, and

perhaps three holes holding them conditions which will obtain in then snap it shut. It holds the

by slipping buttons through them. the regular laundering and then straps in place and prevents any

Of course the buttons make a compared with the orginal goods.discomfort from slipping.

decorative touch, as well.

SALESMAN SAM

In teg climate

Children thrive well if

nourished by SCOTT'S Emulsion which en- riches the blood and prevents childhood silments. Ask for

SCOTT'S Emulsion

(GOSH!YER SURE! AN' I'LL DO BETTER (GETTIN' DERN) THAN THAT WHEN WE

PLAY TH GUARDS! GOOD, SAMMY,

BOY!

So many eyes were too much for him. He started to scream. And at last his long-suffering mo ther became impatient.

Efficiency Plus!

BANGO

HEY! WHATS!

"TH' BIG- IDEA?

Across

1 Handy tree for the history etull-

ent.

A good working clothes-maker, 9 A tot ready for bed.

10 An abstainer comes to the con-

clusion to wait.

11 This island, may be, is a drain. 12 How to keep well. 14 An offensive quality.

18 Extra two words).

faculty in the

highest

22 A destructive settler. 23 Can a fair person be one? 25 Pisces, perhaps.

24 It's little but sweet.

20 Such flattery turn us gray. 27 Rumbling conveyances,

Down

1 This people seems to resemble a

Jewish tribe.

2 "The Skin Game," so to speak.

3 French dialect.

4 There's room for these actors in

the van (two words).

6 He seems to be one of the best

7 This plant is enough to make

a cat smile.

8 Generally insolvent, but can al-

ways be relied upon to settle. 13 This bay is, of course, misnamed.

115 It's 'n solo (anag).

16 Arbitrary description of a soldier whose rank is made substantive 7 17 The famous artist makes notes. 19 A saint who acts the clown when

merry.

I

201 am in a situation that looks

fahy,

21 Something to search for.

Yesterday's Solation.

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