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I'm Never To Time!

By AN UNPUNCTUAL MODERN

HAVE come to the conclusion that punctuality is an overrated virtue.. We were never meant to live like clockwork toys or inhumanly curate machines.

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I myself hayo suffered from a laudable, but aggravating, desire to be in time and, having given myself at least half an hour too much, have been forced to, pace wearily up and down street, vainly trying to keep

my mind of a coming interview.

Then, quaking, I have entered on the dot to fud that someone else Is tate and keeps me waiting! Now, it I hud been unpunctual, reasonably so, there would not have been time for disquieting thoughts and the all- important impression would have been mude that I was a much sought- after person.

In social fe, tou, unpunctuality is an nasei. The firstcamier hears the strain of meeting strangers with taciturn visage and of making con- versation with a seemingly tongue-

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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 20, 1939.

Of course you can

wear

these new

short skirts

A lot of women are jibbing

at the idea of wearing their skirts 17ins. off the ground.-- But there are ways of making short skirts look longer and more becoming.

THE new short skirt style started in tied guest. How much better it is Amerien. Not surprising, because to arrive Inter and find a beaming American women can usually count on host and crowd of chattering their well-shaped greyhound legs as

people!

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Also, the fate-comer enters alone and is not one of an indistinguish- able crowd. She

Jone of their best points.

But English women find these just-

put on "over-the-knee-length skirts pretty try- model gown, a distinctive air, and ing. Some of you are probably saying

ren gracefully. 01 hesitate upon the threshold, sure that to yourself: "But I can't wear these she will be the cynosure of admiring short skirts."

sull into

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An Elusive Air

Women, they say, should!

must do:-

If so, this is what you

FIRST: Concentrate on gelting, ult the lines of your sults and frocks vertical; panels.

be pleats, trimmings must run downwards; this

clusive, perplexing, ever uncertain. will make your frock look longer than it That elusive air, I and, Is-well-- [netundly is. clusive; but it can be cultivated.

The essential thing is never to do or SECOND: Go in for petticoats,

be what is expected and que eunbound hems, anything which will add ' sturi, 1 think, by being a little late.

jan extra inch or so without appeur-

Ing to.

The woman who keeps stats wulting, not too long, is. I believe, more appreciated when she actually comes e begins to wonder if she l safe, to realise how he misses her and how little he knows of the real "she." It does not du to be taken for granted.

Is there anyone who is painetual in the morning? Can anyone seriously like getting up? A few snatched minutes in bed at 7 am, are more enjoyable than a whole night of un- broken rest. My mattress always seems softer when I ought to get up. and the spice of excitement la the fact that I may miss my bus lends enjoyment to a triße.

THIRD: Wear dark-toned stock- ings, matching your frock if possible

FOURTH: Wear heels as high as them. you can comfortably take These will lift you and your skirt well off the ground without showing inny more of your legs.

Here are five spring outfits-a sull anet #1 frack-ta illustrate the polut:-

LEFT: Print frock in tie silk with mall prey and white design. A white fritty petticoat shows an inch below the hem of the skirt, and is matched by another fritt which

Life to a time-table in sadly un-curves down each side of the bodice, interestinit.

The late-comer is sought because she does not seek, breause she is not over-eager. Unmethodical, maybe, but happy, she lives her own, not another's, ite.

BEAUTY TIPS

At this season you may find that your skin is in a condition. that is half-way between seall- ness and bloteliness. You can correct without elaborate care. Just use a eleansing cream before your soap and water washing every night and use a skin tonic to help perk -up·

-your- skin. Once a week use a good stimulating cream or missk and leave a rich cream on your skja for half an hour or longer. Finkh the treatment with brisk slapping with a pad of cotton soaked in lee water or cold stringent,

SHORT CUTS

The offensive odour and smoke caused by oven spills insy be checked by sprinkling a quantify of, tuble sall over the spilled substance.

and another round the edge of each short sleeve. Neck of the dress is plain white shirt filled in with a front, caught at the neck by two buttons, and again at the waist.

The skirt of the frock is made in six panels (giving a longer look) and flares to a welde hem,

RIGHT: Navy blue suit in wool Tulli. Here again the lines are all long and curved on the short jacket, which is light-waisted and dips a couple of inches at the back. fatde is a pale blue usaistcoat slip, and in- side. that a dark blug.blouse....Jacket. has a small blue velvet collar at the back.

The skirt is short and full, pes, but the fulness comes froni clumps of unpressed plents which are stitched down to the hips, and spring out from there, not the waist (a "much caster Hue to wear).

Arabian Turnovers

1 cup butter

I package ere.m cheese.

cups flour

#4 teaspoon flour

Place 1 tablespoon of the following! Cream butter and cheese then add date filling on each square then fold corners together flour and salt and mix to firm dough, over bringing the

Arrange on Wrap In waxed paper and chill until into a crescent shape. putting

very arm. Roll thin on a floured a greased baking sheet and bake in board and cut into 3 inch squares. In hot oven about 15 minutes.

Fasten a paper bag over the mouth of the grinder with a rubber band when crackers and dry bread through the food chopper.

For a martmized foursome at bridge or poker, tiny eventhy hats^find 'favour: 'Sally Vietor designed there, one of 1-1-coloured twisted velvet and the other on the right, of contrasting ostrich feathers mounted on black velvet. Both gowns were created by Elizabeth Howes of metallic cloth. The one on the left is dark red, with low, square-cut neck and adjustable lacings. The other- ls of silver cloth with just a hint of blue, running through the entire gown.

Can You Apologise Gracefully?

CAN YOU

apologise? Can you Although some people maintain sincerely and humbly say "I'm that it is just as hard to forgive us sorry" when you know you are In It Is to be forgiven, I think the real the wrong, when you know you have victory goes to the one who comes

clean, enused a quarrel?

and whose proud though

If you are the type of woman who perhaps haltlug words, "I'm sorry!" can pocket her pride and take the point the way to peace. first steps towards clearing the air Always in the Right of misunderstanding, one thing Is

Of course, there are people who certain. You ure asympathetle woman, an intelligent woman, and simply cannot see themselves in the wrong. We all know the weman you have pluck!

There is no doubt about it, it is is continually ill-used, and it is never her fauit. The family, frienda, difficult to take the initial step after

"ti" and to be the one to offer ness associates, or everyday con- tacts muy all be blunted when the olive branch. "Please forgive me troubles arise, but she is always In are small words which mean 60 the right. No apology will be much, and yet they are often so hard forthcoming from her.

to utter.

In her heart she may know that If we can bring ourselves to take she is in the wrong, but something the plunge and apologise, however, in her mental make-up doggedly

is well worth while, for mis-

understandings which may quickly prevents her from owning up and be put right by a few simple words, so making a fresh start with those

concerned. assume lerrifle proportions if left to Such #1 plly this! For brooding flourish in an atmosphere of dread- over troubles, real or imaginary,

How often two people drift fur-only

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ther apart simply because neither of grievances which are allowed to pilc them will squash their pride and up one on top of another have

of stifling friendliness and affection. offer an apology?

The woman who is never" penitent on any occasion cannot expect others to rally round and sympathise when Family quarrels between relations her troubles became overwhelming. can soon develop into bitter feuds if The use of the right words in a either sido has not the courage to talent of the heart and mind, and come forward and acknowledge itself an apology, when necessary, is a in the wrong. The odd part is that grand way of exploiting that talent. no sooner does one side say they are Even in extreme cases when on sorry than the ollier inmediately apology misfires, don't you think it elaitos all the blame; but that does is better to have tried and, lost than nover to have made an effort at nil? not matter very much.

The thing that matters is making It is, after all, a gesture to be proud It up.. So often both sides in a of, and one that donately counts.

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wretched really, and long to be friends again. Even in blame others when there is a pos- are ourselves at trivial cases their urge is towards albility that we clearing the air so that things can fault.

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