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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY,

DECEMBER

7,

1938.

7

"Oh! We SHALL Miss The Duchess' Say The Fashion Experts

She Is Britain's

Britain's Dress - Chooser-In-Chief

All Women Wait For Her

For Her Lead

There is dismay in the fashion world over the announcement that the Duke of

Kent is becoming Governor-General of Australia.

LOVE'S

LUCK

"I appear for this wo- man," said a solicitor defending 3 pretty young woman accused of speeding at Croydon recently.

"She has since be- come my wife. She was. very pre-occupied with wedding ments."

arrange-

But, alas! the court was unromantic. Fine £3; licence suspended six months.

DUKE TELLS OF "MY LAST 3d"

IS IT SWEETS OR CHOCOLATE ?

MEMORIES OF HIS

►

BOYHOOD

The Duke of Kent,

peaking |

4

It is feared-and openly said-that the absence of the Duchess from Britain will have an adverse effect on the whole fashion industry.

The Duchess has made fashion history. She has given London the leadership that belonged to Paris, and fashion houses fear that in her absence London will lose that lead again.

One famous designer said: "It because of her affeetion for the veiled really is a tragedy. It is difficult bat."

The head of a wholesale house to express in words the Impetus

satdi:- she gave to dress designing.

MAY DRIFT BACK "Fashion memories are Ehort, and I'm afrad we may drift bark to what we were-dull and un- Inspired."

One leading man i cotion design- ing confirmed this. He said: "As # result of the interest of the Duchess in various painted cottons, our orders were much farger than ever before.

"We have received any amouni of orders from London and the provinces for coples of the simple prlaoline frock the Duchess wore the other evening at the Bath Assembly Rooms.

"It is to be the popular style for Christmas parties."

What is the fashion leadership aceret of the Duchess?

"She is unique," sak one expert,

"Also the general taste in design because she never wears extreme and colour has improved

through the fashion; he attich/styles. She has perfected the art of

she set.

suitability in dress.. Yet she Ch

The head of a house famous formate the simplest suit decorative and Court and ball gowns saidīt -

lovely."

Hairdressers lament that they will

"The influrace of the Duchess on miss the Duchess just as much as the Fashions has been one of the most

fashion houses.

remarkable features of contem-¡ "She has shown

porary life, I fear her departure will lessen that Influence"

other women,"

said one of them, "that it is possible

new

A buyer at end of the West End to vary the hair style to sult the frock istores rhid: "She influenced the whole at the occasion. This was a

trend of women's clothes and hats" idea to Eugli kwomen.

| A sideswomen at the same store said; i we are always being asked for some thing buch as the Duchess wear

"In the arcerstary department, the harts.

initi coloured-edgret i haruikgerelief of the ind curried by the Thenland ate a substantial part of; our trade

SHE IS UNIQUE

Iecently at the dinner of the i The manager of a hat thm said: Advertising Association AL the "Our sales went up in a fantastic way Dorchester Hotel, congratulated those responsible for advertis.ng matter : this country "for not abus.ng the me!

of the superlative;" Our comfort; and enjoyment were, he said, based largely upon the honesty of the advertisement trade anything

else.

AS

"It is obvious," he went on, "hat an article widely advertised must be j of the quality which the advertise= | ment claims if it is to hold its own

in a free market. This has led to the publie trusting advertisements which they read, and to their being: seldom let down. I think this state of affairs is due very largely to the principle that underlica all British business-and I include „dverlisinti —it is Quality counts.'

"I CAN REMEMBER

H

"As a small boy I can remember

RECTOR

SAYS TEAS WASTE

MY TIME'

Market Harborough.

The Rev. Algernon S. Mills,

the conflicts in my own mind when forty-eight-year-old rector of I had to decide between spending Oxendon, my Just 3d of pocket money 013

near Market Har-

sweets or chocolnie. III dreided ou borough, ninety of whose checolute I was faced with the plains parishioners have petitioned the of a dozen manufacturers. ! was not conscious of trying to extract the Bishop of Peterborough for an greatest value out of my 3d, but inquiry into parish affairs, said: wanted the greatest enjoyment. "I could do better work in a slum

"My problems were, of course, than in this village of elderly immaterial, because the sweets or the chocolate were only luxuries, but people.

how much more serious in it for the "They expect me to waste time housewife trying to make a home having cups of ten with them." happy and comfortable.

The people who have simed the

"We all want this country to enjoy petition complain that Mr. MIS peace, and prosperity. We want English men anel

who married a twenty-eight-year-old

worker Ferrelly

To

women to feel.ex-factory not only proud, but happy. achieve this we must all play our months ago-gives all his time to the

part. Your part is a lurge

one,

but

I feel sure that in able hands ke yours it will sure be successful.”

Advertising had become a business undreamed of a few years ago.

young people.

Lo

21 WERE THERE Twenty-one villagers went morning service in the fifteenth cen- tury church recently.

"It is a mixture of fact, Action, Mrs. Mills sat in the front pew in

lence, phychology and art

But, a macintosh and beret.

above all, it is human. I doubt it

Raymond Moore, eleven-year-old

there is any business that is so son of the village milkman, played essentially human, for the whole the organ. merit of a good and successful In his sermon Mr. Mills said that adverusement is, surely, its public the true Christian is "self-disciplined sppeal."

bul savours all the pleasures of ilte" "REAL DEMOCRACY"

that he does not go through life Lord Southwood, president of the "sing his eyes

and cars for abuse of! Association, who presided, sold the his fellowmen. Duke's speech would give advertisers After the service girls and boys of

a new realisation of the part that the village went with Mr. Mills back they played in the welfare of the to the rectory, made themselves at country.

home there.

"How happy and how fortunate are While Mrs. Mills prepared the we in baving a Royal family Sunday dinner the rector talked of possessing so clear un understanding his flair for youth and preoccupation

of affairs affecting the everyday lives

of our people! There is hardly an aspect of our national life that does not receive the Inspiration and

with the souls of the young.

I'LL MEET THEM

He said: "It is true I have a club

support of our Royal family. What here for the young people.

"When she appeared with bigh curls in the Victorian manner several suburban hairdressers' shops Jad

Lake 11 extra assistants to cope with the rush of women who wished to do thele hair in the same way."

SEASON'S PROBLEM

יון!

it i: believed that when Duchess goes to Australia at lead one famous fashion house will open Ja branch there.

Why, you may ask, should not the Duchess continue to lead fashions while in Australia?

The

new

wer is that is impossible wer is of the reasons. Her mer fashions will come in what is our winter time, and her winter fashions in our summer,

She will always be either six months out of date or six months ahead.

AUSTRALIA'S NEXT "VICEREINE"

The Duchess of Kent walking to her seat in the Granada Cinema, Clap- ham Junction, on arriving to attend a presentation of the Aim Letter of Introduction which was given in aid of charity. Nestlers to say, the nine- pennies and one-and-sixpennies were packed, but not at the usual prices,

THE OLDEST WOMAN

HAS LEFT HOLLOWAY

Holloway Jail's oldest prisoner, sixty-eight-year-old Mrs. Mary Millicent Di- xon, was recently released after serving nearly six years of an eight year sentence. Little Mrs. Dixon, a dignified, motherly figure, came out to start life again fault- lessly dressed and with her head high.

Princesses Get First Xmas Gift

Princess Elizabeth and Princess their first Margaret have had Christmas present.

The Quecu recently necented a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs sel, made from the wishbones of chickens and modelling paste by An Ealing ex-Service man, Mr. A. G. Marshall, of Station-parade, Eating Commos.

Meanwhile the toy "flower shop" presented to Princess Margaret by the City of Paris in proving one of The favourite playthings of the two Princesse,

Princess Margaret sent a mes- sage thanking the Mayor of Paris for the gift, and the Queen addest This charming present Wan shown to the Princess on her re- turn from Scotland, and every afternoon since the foy shop has been for bath her and PrincesA Elizabeth a constant. source of pleasure and amusement.”

You might have thought, if you had : seen her come out that this gentle old; lady had merely been paying a visit to the prison to see some gering re- lative, so impeccable was her air of respectability.

Beneath the smart black cont (with umbrella to match) gives her by the prison authorities, she wore a daintily embroidered while silk blouse made by herself in prison.

The black hat trimmed with hand- nude silk roses was her own work, 100.

+

NOT TOO OLD

Mrs. Dixon has found a job. A clergyman has invited her to be com- panion to his wife,

Man Feared

To Tell Wife No. 2 Of Children

Birmingham.

Because he was afraid to tell "I'm going to make a success of his second wife that he had two it" she said. "You see, I am not children by a previous marriage too old to do any sort of work--it would have "meant the end," although I am sixty-elght,”

Her crime? Petty stealing.

Mrs. Dixon was frank about that, It had been a weakness ever since The yielded to temptation at the age of forty-one-through poverty, she. sald.

he said-Thomas Joseph Hayden, thirty-eight, of Sparkhill, Birm- ingham, allowed the children to live alone.

An anonymous caller rang up the M.S.P.C.C., and at Birmingham Police She has been convicted elght times. Court recently Hayden was sentenced The last time three years of her sen- to tuve months' "Imprisonment for lence were penal, and the other five neglecting the younger child, a boy were to have been "preventive deten-aged thirteen.. tion."

Chinchilla Farm Expands She served only three years in the Inglewood, Cal. preventive detention house at Hollo- The Chinchilla Sales Corporation way, and was then released for "good Jesson have we here 13 real democracy-? Jesson of

I have been able to do a little good at its South American Chinchilla conduct sind special industry," entire

Mrs. Dixon is a widow and like tackling Form here now ins 1,500 chinchillna devotion to the country's good."

Women are goddesses on whom our the young people from poorer homes. out of the total of only 2,000 that are

a

"I've taught them all to dance, and

f one of them.

A

grandmother, with three children

fifteen, were found under-nourished

The boy and his sister, who inj and neglected.

very existence depentis, Why, 80 per cent of the goods purchased in this complaint I'll meet them and answer The firm started with 11 of the little country are purchased by

women, them.

"It 1 villagers have reasonable believed to exist in the entire worki

and, in fact, they hold our existence]

in their hands."

animals, but it will be from 8 to 20 Ruby Mason, seventeen-year-old years before the company Agures it factory

can begin selling furs. worker in Market Hor- was borough, has been for three years to epent every year in advertising, a the evening parties at the rectory. fact that spoke cloqueally of the "There night

No less than £130,000,000

position to which the profession had us at a time" be ten or twelve of

attained.

Twins Confuse Campus,

she said. "We sit around and talk and dance- Jual hrdinary. The rector made us come

church every Sunday. 10

He ins been very good to all or un."

Jie Walter, head gardener Oxendon Hall, mid of the petitioners' attitude.

CONTINENTAL

at

STURDY

arxl

San Jose, Cal. Confusion reigns on the campus "The villagers don't like the parties! and in the class rooms of San Jose un at the rectory." he said. "Radio. State College this year. Included in darts, billiards and table tennis to all the student body are seven sets of hours on Sunday night. And twins, all but two of which are elns-doneing with all the boys and girls of #iled as "identical twins." Each pair Market Harborough "ping along. It's dressen alike.

a bit better now."*

STRONG

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Was

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Lastex yarn

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and At Christmas Time

Hayden

said, when he was traced, i that he had given the girl £1 for rent and food. The rent was 14s. 5d. 2, Mrs. Jenn Hayden, was Wife No, 2, of her own. She was a Welsh Me- married three weeks before. thodist minister's daughter, brought a

to when

me

a police- #great shock up in a lovely old house at Colwyn man knocked at my door Bay.

kri me my husband had been sent to j Two of her brothers are ministers, prison," she told me with tears. and one of her sons in a missionary.

huck no knowledge

that he On her last birthday in prison a chiktren. special cake was made for her, and "I saw him before he was taken both the Governor and Deputy Gov-te prison. He bowed his head and ernor dropped in to the party. | said Please forgive me, Jean. Despite her age, Mrs. Dixon did afraid of losing your love"," some of the finest work has the prison.

*I

had

WAR

The Irony i alla that Jean She was awarded five certificates for "dotes on children." "I would have this in five years.

PAY FOR WORK

, End shops.

and

been pleased to look after Tom's motherless bairns," she said,

Her tapestries, fire screens

their lampshades have been sold by West the prisoners could spend

money. Last March the system of paying "On the first night," said Mrs. prisoners for their work was intra-Dixon, "I was almost impossible to

the

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