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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1986.

How to

SUN

become an autumn

-

100

BLONDE

RE you a sun-blonde-brown-haired in winter,

A when hats take all the purkic out of your hair,

then ripening to gold when the sun shines?

To Increase the effects of sun-without harming the hair-wipe on some spirit, such as enu de Cologne. The spirit, without sun, would not lighten your hair, but the combined effect-of su and spirit is to net as a bleach.

So that the under part of the hair does not show through darker, change the porting occasional- ly. As spirit is rather drying, rub in a 1tle of of sweet almonds at night, to counteract this tendency.

A LONDON WRITER, round-the-world traveller, on the way through China finds-

Hongkong is as smart as Paris

I

N the guide-books there is always a piece headed, "The Romance of Pei- ping-Mysterious, Glamor- ous, Fascinating.'

If you turn over a few pages you will find "Facts About Hong- kong," just like that. You will learn its distance from London (11,000 miles), ita total popula- tion, which day it is in London when it is five o'clock over here; but none of them will ever call it Romantic.

-and clothes are

ten times as cheap

Inspiration

for a dress:

the straight

up and down

Chinese robe

with its dis.

But then Hongkong (was it I who said it or two other people?)

is

not China, though exactly what it

creet calf-

is 'neither I nor any

has bothered to find out.

high slit shirt

is much

other scribe

It is as smart as Paris, as neon-

lit as New York,

as

sinister

other

Singapore, and, like most ports in the world, it has its Chinese quarter.

Air-cooling Revolution

HONGKONG makes undies

accentuated.

There's a lot of inspiration for

look around to

dress designers though, if they like

thore you can

streets. The get in Paris and for a Chinese Exhibition In London offer- tenth of the price. Walk up and ed nothing as decorative as the down the Street of Thousand street-cleaning coolfe's wet-day out-} and One Nightles and look at them. it, which is made of natural coloured I walked that way myself. Now coconut fibre, fringed at the bottom, there are only 000.

und with wide, fringed cape sleeves, looks like Snail-skin

The forel residents are mostly It In trade, There is none of the ulmless amiablity of Peiping.

They go to smart restaurants and wear smart clothes, and think Oriental-style decoration is op- pressive." They live in an air-con- ¿litioned atmosphere; air-cooling has revolutionised life in the tropics.

ants to give me one more Chinese meal before I left China, maybe for years, maybe for ever.

We had a lot of good Bungs to eat; I'll tell you all about a Chinese dinner another time. Meanwhile I seem to recollect promising a piece about bean shoots, that typical Chinese vegetable, and how to grow them. Well, here's how.

You can use any sort of dried bean: broad beans they say are good, You lay them out on damp fannel. keep it damp and in the dark until the shoots are at least an inch high. Then you fry them in hot oil for frum two to five minutes according to how crispy you like them, and add them at the very last second to n stew, a curry, or a mixed vegetable dish.

Not the sort of Place for You

FTER dinner we went to

certuin sinount

Di talk

ROUND ABOUT by

T

The Showman

“HE stupidity of it all 10 appalling. Everywhere nro propagooseygandists, foaming at the beak, and wandering, up- stairs and downstairs, to blazes.

Our blood is being made to curdle, our spines are being chilled. We are told that the nations Billing on a powder-barrel Splenetle splen report ile latest drops of venon thrown uff by the "circles"-diplomatic, authori tative, military and financial-in their crazy, whirling dancea.

Qulle mad it seems and quite hope- less.

·Aud all we want-Bert and I-is'a nico quiet time, with a bit of money and a bit of good, clean fan.

That's all Funny, in't it?

Looking Ahead

MEANWHILE, to regain the good

humour for which I am fainous

I am taking leave to fix my vialonury eye on the year 2000. And what do Ince?

I nee nothing: that is the beauty of it.

Stay My glass clears as I empty It. I see the world convulsed by two im portant events. First, Mr. Winston Churchill has just completed his neventy-sixth life of Märlborough: second, a sulky daffodil hoa turird and bitten Mr. Beverley Nichols on thre Ankle:

Generous Impulse

A WOMAN motorist, who was ficed"

for obstruction, was sold to have admitted that she had looked into ene costumier's shop for twenty minutes.

Or. na the dear old song put it. “I nm not past buying your window,"

Reversion to Madness'

Now to the consideration of a phrase that will be killed only when all the publicity-men and journalists are laid end-to-end-"The world's best-dresand

woman."

But have you thought of the powder- barrel on which it alia? The dull, fish- Ike face of the husband-at-break: fant brightens romantically as he reads 11. The wife, knowing that she can never rival this description, determines to make up for IL by being' a better, sweeter little woman, and, as a starter, affectionately hacks her husband on the ahiris when, he sets out to business.

He retaliates lovingly by funging at her with his umbrella, A hit, a pal- pable hitl She screams. The hour

The fire-brigude is sunt- collapses. moned. Flits start. A rlot. Pelice. Troops called out. Revolution. Civil war. The end of the Empire.

I tell you, the careless use of this phrase is fraught with danger.

From the Heart PEOPLE гiewhere have been invited Lo reply to this question: “What pclnts have struck you about any ex-

it isn't only the foreign girls but the rich Chinese who are smart in Hongkong. They are wise enough to Wear Chinese style dresses, but they about oplum and heroin dens, sailors'

perience? Joints, and mysterious dives, but they have plenty of Western influence,

The straight up and down Chinese were "not the sort of place for you, robe with its discreet calf-high slit my dear."

skirt is, in Hongkong, much accentu So I never got to see anything | ated. To begin with, it is made to more during than a night club with fit at the waist. The slit in the skirt a cabaret consisting of a couple doesn't stop at the calf or even at of tangoists, a vocalist, a set of Hula the knee if the leg underneath is Hula girls, who danced gally, but worth exhibiting.

decorously, to Hawaiian gullars.

Hongkong Es cosmopolitan all

With some dificulty, I managed to persuade.some.of.the-local-inhabit- right..

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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.

HEN there are amah sults made of lychee cloth, which is shiny and blackj

The total Expenditure in 1930 on behalf of and looks a little like snail-skin. I bought one of these, or, nather, a sick and destitute children is estimated at two-piece suit; a man-amah's trou-$22,000, against which the Income to date is sers, which are wider and longer than $20,000 only. the woman-amah's culf-length, tight- In order to continue its work, the Society fitting panta, and the woman-amah's asks for the balance of

$2,000

clothes top fasicns close up at the neck, before the close of the financial year on

The female Hongkonger looks West for her, inspiration in --except for the smart tailored day the sults of tropical sulting and evening suits with white, tight waisted, exaggerated- shouldered mess jackets worn over blouses with black bows at the neck, with a plain long black skirt.

These are of the East if not East- ern, being copied from their boy friends' dally wear.

Ats at the waist, hak elbow length 31st October, sleeves, and tastens with cunning Hon. Treasurers: little loops and buttons across from Mr. A. McKELLAI, C.A., the front of the neck and down un-

c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzle & Co.,

P. & O. Bullding. der one arm. Lychee cloth would also make fine, alcek, Western style Mr. KWOK CHAN, evening dresses. They say water runs off it if you ever had to walit home.

c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,

Hongkong. September 15, 1036.

Disregarding the obvious-as the vicar bald when getting up off a sting- ing nettle-bere la the chance of a Brelline for Mr. Baldwin to give his real impressions of a night in the House of Commons. Thus, perhaps?........

1. I always seem to be apologising

for somebody or other

3. Lloyd George would look a different

man with a proper haircut. 3.I know I must have said something

-ilke "Trust me," ore

that I'll never hear the end of

4: Why on earth didn't I stick to business, breeding pips, and reading Mary Webb7

Dangor To Aryan

THOSE members of Herr Hitler's bodyguard, who have been pun- ished for having failed to prevent the American woman kissing him, are now writhing with shame.

"Did you not realise," they were told, int the Leader's moustache was in danger? Did you not realise that danger to the Leader's moustache is danger to Germany? Did you not realise that the Leader's moustache is part of his sacred equipment as a Hairy 'un?"

I may any that I have already been shot for making this atrocious pun. SOUVENIR

"I now have a cup at home of which I am the proud possessor. My dream really came true."

Most of us find it hard enough

to get away with tea-spoons,

Wags' Corner

DAD. I don't and this book much use," said a boy who had just begun to collect butterfles and moths.

"Where did you get it from?" "From a library. It's called, 'Ad- vice to Young Mothers, but there's not

word about moths in it,"

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I It may be run down, but the householders won't be offended. it's lower in price. You ask your broker!

8 Hoopoe wasn't the right bird, but it seems to settle who wrote about it.

▸ Shows inability to combine hun

and ate?

10 ff he plays dominoes, he begins

with double-sixes.. 11 Confuse. 12 Possibly

put on the line. 14 Free-handed with the whip

about a certain time.

10. The officer in charge hus prob- forgotten all about the ably great Greek who started it. 17 A horrid lle.

19 Mr. Lansbury's tree.

10 How, we creep about.

23 Has a long tail and ten feet and

an edge for a seaside feature.

ten

20 A great man in his way_and_

Rounds attractive. 27 Ges

out, evidently belonging to

28 4-grant actor.

20 There's spirit in this card.

30 Infantile quadruped,

31 Give off.

32 A Shakespeare princess. 33 Kind of finch.

34 A 13 Down.

. DOWN

1 225 In one of them here.

2 Without difficulty.

3 Could be

allered--but

wouldn't be Attingl

IL

U.S. COMMODITY PRICES

LATEST CABLED

QUOTATIONS

The following quotations on the New York commodity exchange are Issued by Reuter.

:

New York Colton

1

October

11.04/04 12.07/08 December 11.88/89 12.00/00 11.80/86. 12.00/00 January March

11.84/84 11.08/00 May

11.81/01 11.94/05 11.84/83 11.74/74

12.47

July

12.34

Spot

4 Keen desire. 6 Surround.

G To start with,

124

125

7 He scores his bulls probably

with his 6 Down.

13 Minced plc.on a volume,

15 I like this after a cup of tea.

19 If you take pains, you'll find

part of a bird inside.

20 They conceal their hoarding-

not that they are ashamed of K. 21 Oriental.

22 Take one's pleasure.

23 A Rving wage?

24 Pay sincerest flattery.

25 Human swine seem to mono- polise most of this colouring matter.

Yesterday's Bolution. DOLOMITES BA

AP BARMAID GALLIO UMGEMHOME LOTE TREE AZTEC STAR

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I RUN ESHO GARDEN SASPARROW HEALZIREDOM OF E TIDAL DOG SEARED

New York Babber

16.30b/10a deleted 16:37n

18.42/47

September October December

January March

May

July

16.5in

16.59/50

10.15b/18a

16.20/20 10.42n

10.39/29

16.07b/896 16.47b/490

16.77n

Total sales: 3,100 tons.

Chicago Wheat

10.50/56

September 11724/11734 deleted December 115/1154 113%/1132 May 114%/114 112/112 Saturday's Sales:-10,549,000 bushels. Chicago Corn

deleted September 110/116 December 05/05 04/04%% May.....

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October 110/110 167/4107% December 100/108% 1054/105%. May.. 1104/110% 107/107%

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