1938-12-07 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7,

1938.

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"Oh! We SHALL Miss The Duchess

Say The

The Fashion Experts

She Is Britain's Dress - Chooser-In-Chief

All Women Wait For Her Lead AUSTRALIA'S NEXT "VICEREINE"

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 શ pretty young woman accused of speeding at Croydon recently.

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

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,

spooting i

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 affection for the veiled really is a tragedy. It is difficult bat."

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

juairt:--- (she gave to dress designing.

MAY DRIFT BACK "Fashion memories urc sturi, and I'm trad we may drift back to what we were~itull and un- inspired,"

One learling man in cotton design- in confirmed this. He said: "As a result of the interest of the Duchess! in various printed cottons, our orders|

ere much iwere

larger Than ever before. the general

general taste in design and colour huis improved very much

through the fashions she set.”

...

The head of a house famous for

and ball gowns sald:-

Cowl failuence of the Duchess on

"We have received any amount of orders from London and the provinces for copies of the simple crinoling frock the Duchess wore the other evening at the Bath Assembly Rooms,

"It is to be the popular style for Christmas pariles,' What is the fashion leadership secret of the Duchess?

"She is unique," said one expert, "because he never wears extreme

yes. She has perfected the art of suitability in dress. Yet SHC can make the simplest suit decorative and lovely."

Hairdressers fament that they will

fashion houses.

fashions has been our of the most miss the Duchess just as much as the remarkable features of contem porary life. I fear her departure will lessen that influener.

A buyer at one of the West End stoves said: "She influenced the whole trend of women's rinthes and hats. A salesworton at the same store said; **We are always being; asked for some-

thing has the Duchess wears!

"In the accessory department, the britts, doves and coloured-edged handkerchiefs of the kind carried by the Ducass are a substantial part of jur Armle." -

SHE IS UNIQUE

i

"She has shown

other women,"

zaid one of them, "that it is possible to vary the hair style to suit the frock and the occasion. This was a new idea to Englishwomen.

"When she appeared with high curls In the Velorlan manier several suburban hairdressers". shops rad to take on extra assistants to cope with the rush of women who wished lo do their haft in the same way."

SEASON'S PROBLEM

It is believed that when the

revently at Lives dinner f the The manager of a hat firm said: | Duchess goes to Australla at least Advertising Association

the jour sales went up in a fantastic way one famous fashion house will open

Dorchester Hotel, congratulated those responsible for advertis.ng; matter in this country "for not abusing the use of the superlative." Our comfurt? and enjoyment were, he said, based largely upon the honesty of thei advertisement

anything else.

watle

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

in a free market. This has led to

the public trusting advertisements which they read, and to their being seldom let dawn. I think this state of aitairs is due very largely to the principle that underlies all British business-and I include advertising

—it is 'Quality counts.

"CAN REMEMBER

п

RECTOR

SAYS TEAS WASTE

MY TIME

Market Harborough.

"As a small hoy 1 can remember The Rev. Algernon S. Mills,

the conflicts in my own mind when | forty-eight-year-old rector of

I had to dreide between spending Oxendon,

my last 3d of pocket money 011

sweels or chocolate. If I decided on borough.

near Market Ilar- ninety of whose

chocolate I was faced with the elains parishioners have petitioned the not conscious of trying to extract the Bishop of Peterborough for an

of a dozen manufacturers.

treatest value out of my 3d, but Į inquiry into parish affairs, said:

ja branch there.

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

The

answer is that it is impossible

of because the seasons. Her

new summer 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,

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

THE OLDEST

HAS

WOMAN

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-

wanted the greatest enjoyment. “I could do better work in a slumlessly dressed and with her head high.

"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 is it for the "They expect me to waste time houseivife trying to make A home having cups of tea with them." The people who have signed the

and comfortable.

We all want this country to enjoy petition complain that Mr. Mills-

We want and prosperity.

who married a twenty-eight-year-old i

poster

months ago gives all his time to the

English men and women to feel. ex-factury worker scerely two not only proud, but happy. Tu achieve this we must all play our part.

Your part is a large cne, but young people,

I feel sure that in able hands lite

it will sure be successful.”

21 WERE THERE Twenty-one villagers went to yours

Advertising had become a business morning service in the fifteenth cen-

tury church recently.

undreamed of a few years ago,

Mrs. Mills sat in the front pew in "It is a mixture of fact, fiction, science, phychology and art Bula macintosh and beret. above all, it is human. I doubi #f Itaymond 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. Mis said that advertisement is, surely. its public the true Christion is self-disciplined appeal."

but savours all the pleasures of life":

that he does not go through life "using his eyes and ears for abuse of his fellowmen."

s

After the service girls and boys of the village went with Mr. Mills back to the rectory, made themselves at hone there.

"REAL DEMOCRACY" Lord Southwood, president of the Association, Whe 'presided, said the Duke's speech would give advertisers a new realisation of the part that they played in the welfare of the country.

"How happy and how fortunate are While Mrs. Milis prepared the In having Royal family Sunday dinner the rector talked of possessing so clear an understanding his flair for youth and preoccupation of affairs affecting the everyday lives with the souls of the young.

We

of our people! There is hardly n

uspect of our national life that does

not receive the Inspirations

"nel.

I'LL MEET THEM

He said: "It is true I have a club support of our Royal family, What here for the young people.

Princesses Get First

Xmas Gift

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

The Queen recently accepted a Snow White and the Seven Dwarls set, made from the wishbones of chickens and modelling paste by An Ealing ex-Service man, Mr. A. G. Marshall, of Station-parade. Eating Commen.

Meanwhile the toy "flower shop" presented to Princess Margaret by the City of Paris is proving one of the favourite playthings of the two Princesses.

Princess Margaret sent a mes- sage thanking the Mayor of Paris for the gift, and the Queen added: This charming present was shown to the Princess her re- iarn from Scotland; and every afternoon since the foy shop han been for both her and Princess Elizabeth a constant source of pleasure and amusement,”

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

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

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

NOT TOO OLD

Mrs. Dixon has found a job. A clergyman has invited her 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-eight,”

Her crime? Petty stealing.

he said-Thomas Joseph Hayden,

Mrs. Dixon was frank about that, thirty-eight, of Sparkhill, Birm- It had been a weakness ever since ingham, allowed the children to she yielded to temptation at the age live alone. of forty-one-through poverty, sho suid.

An anonymous caller rang up the N.S.P.C.C., and at Birmingham Police Court recently Hayden was sentenced Imprisonment for to three months*

neglecting the younger child, a boy

She has been convicted eight times. The last time three years of her sen- tence were penal, and the other five were to have been "preventive delen-nged thirteen. tlan,"

The boy and his sister, who is fifteen, were found under-nourished i

neglected.

and

Chinchilla Farm Expands She served only three years in the preventive detention house at Hollo- Inglewood, Cal.

Hayden said, when he was traced. "I've taught them all to dance, and

The Chinchilla Sales Corporation way, and was then released for "good a lesson have we here in real

American Chinchilla conduet and special industry."

that he had given the girl £1 for I have been able to do

at its South little good democracy---] Icason of entire

Mrs, Dixon is a widow and arent and food. The rent was 14s. 5d. devotion to the country's good," for some of them. I like tackling Farin here now has 1,500 chinchillas

grandmother, with three children Wife No. 2, Mrs. Jean Hayden, was Women are goddesses on whom our the young people from poorer homes. put of the total of only 2,000 that are

of her ownL believed to exist in the entire world. "I the villagers have reasonable

She was a Welsh Me- married three weeks before. it was very existence depends. Why, B0 per

The farm stocted with 11 of the little Dhodist minister a daughter, brought a great shock to me when a police- cent, of the goods purchased in this complaint 'll meet them and answer animals, but it will be from 8 to 20 country are purchased by women, them."

years before the company figures li and. In fact, they hold our existence Ruby Mason, seventeen year-old con begin' selling furs.

£130,000,000

in their hands."

factory worker in Market Bar- No less than

was borough, has been for three years to spent every year in advertising, a the evening parties at the rectory. fhet that spoke eloquently of the "There might be ten or twelve of position to which the profession had us at a time." she said. "We sit ottnined.

Twins Confuse Campus

San Jose, Cal.

Confusion rolgns on the campus

around and talks and dance- Just ordinary. The rector made up come to church every Sunday. He ha been very good to all or us."

Jim Waller, head gardener at Oxendon Hall, said of the petitionera" attitudo.

"The villagers don't like the parties) and in the claks rooms of San Jose up 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

And a Bunday night. twins, all- bút two of which are clas-dancing with all the boys and girls of sified as “identical twins." Each pair Market Harborough going along. It's dresses alike.

a bit better now.”

The Tenova self-supporting sock is sock and suspender made one. Once these Tenova socks are on they're up for good. Lastex yarn is woven through the patent top, causing the sock to cling, gently and faithfully, without

drag or sag. And, being joined for life, sock

and suspender enjoy the luxury of the laundry together.

For day-time, sports and evening wear.

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up in a lovely old house at Colwyn man knocked at my door and At Christmas Time

Bay.

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

had no knowledge that he hnd On her lost birthday in

children. prison n special enke was made for her, and "I saw him before he was taken both the Governor and Deputy Gov-to prison. He bowed his head and ernor dropped in to the party. sold 'Please forgive me, dean. I wna

Despite her age, Mrs. Dixon did afraid of losing your love"," some of the finest work in the prison. The Irony of it all that Jenn

CONTINENTAL

PAY FOR WORK

She was awarded five certificates for "dates on children." "1 would have this in five years.

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

STURDY

and

STRONO

CARLOWITZ M. ('O.

4., Queen's Nd. 1ạt 30255.

Her tapestries, fire screens Rod lampshades have been sold by West the prisoners could spend their End shops.

money.

Last March the system of payin "On the first night,” said. Mes, prisoners for their work was intro Dixon, "11 was almost imponable to duced for the first time, and a' four control' the prisoners up they jostled

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