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THE NEWEST UNDER THE SUN!

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GOOD NEWS TO ALL WELL-DRESSED

GENTLEWOMEN AND MISSES ..........

By the last Amerlean mail we received our first shipment of "GAGE. NEW AUTUMN MILLINERY ORIGINALS" in divers new autumn styles and colours made of quailty luxurious fürfelts, also a magnill- cent now collection of Janfword new autumn afternoon, cocktail, evening gowns "EXCLUSIVELY designed by leading New York artists; of superb luxurious suede pumps in the Instword Now Fall high styles, in black, brown, navy; excellent calf wailding shoes In Low autumn brown and plush red; superb gold kid dressy shoes matched with gold bage. Also unpacked your-long-wished-for "REAL COBRA" handhags styled by top New York artists, whose originals. In luxurious dressy expensive wool broadcloth purses treasured by nil smart New Yorkers can also be seen at Mode Elite, 22 Queen's Road C.

BIGGEST BARCAIN SALES IN SMART DRESSES ETC.

All suitable for tropical wear till end of October. Many of these or- nents were received in July and August-now, in order to make room for the incoming divers shipments of our exciting new Fall Lines, we're compelled to sell them off at "REAL" WHOLESALE COSTS" and many at "HALF PRICES" All "BRAND NEW" Cailfor- nia lush colour sportswear precision-tailored shorts,

* Pedior- pushers, slacks, slacksuits, robes, beachcoats, midriif-and-shorts, swimfashions by "MAURICE haiters, our exclusive lines of "LASTEX" swimfash! HANDLER" and "CALTEX" are

cleared Dt "GENUINE 30% DIS- COUNT" All while New York summer bag originals are reduced Al- LDB received in most as cheap as domestic bags. All while suede pumps August are also cleared at $45 a pair-lightly shop-soiled once at $30 to $35 a pair. Mind you they're all superb fine suedes with arch preservern they Impart "REAL DAREFOOT COMFORT" which you would not find in your best Shanghal-made pumpa.

BIGGEST FASHION PARADE OF FINER

AMERICAN FOUNDATIONS.

Just unpacked by the last American mall new bins bras by "PETER- PAN" and "REÑEE,” also bras for nursing and complement wear Romething to beautiful and different you must seo them. If you have been unable to improve your figure line, we recommend you to wear foundations by "DIEN JOLIE" and "TRU BALANCE"-the two finest and most expensive better foundations ever made by

We also exclusively feature most America's best corset makers.

"SAVOX" "NEMO," ferred foundations by "FLEXEE," "DIANA," "KLEINERT," and nine other famous makers-It's true that nowhere else in Hongkong can you find such a comprehensive varied dependable line of Aner American foundations. See the now "Wipee" briet girdles, waist reducers, and many other exciting new strapless bras noted for comfort and good wear.

MODE ELITE

Direct Importers of Better Exclusive Fashiona

22 Queen's Road C., Kayamally Building. Ground Floor.

THEY TASTE DIFFERENT

FIRST POSTWAR SHIPMENT

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH," THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1948.

WOMANSENSE

Another Classic

By ALICE ALDEN

NO MATTER WHAT

firmly

the current fashion fnd may be the one- pleco dress with a separate skirt and

become blouse look, has entrenched and is well on its way to join the category of the classics. Tissue weight woollen i used for this neat qne-plecer made with simple but effectively handled top of cocoa brown wool and a black wool skirt that is back buttoned In diagonni wrap-around effect. Black and brown will be a big colour combination this autumn.

QUINNETTE'S RENOWNED PARTY PUNCH

BRITISH FRUIT JUICES

1

LIME JUICE CORDIAL

2 LEMON LIME CRUSH

ORANGE CRUSH

Obtainable At

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St. George's Building

HONG KONG.

Wrinkles "hang out" overnight

BOTANY

BRAND

WRINKLE-PROOF TIES

Trade Mark Registered

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For a particularly fine party punch pour 4 c, hot coffee (freshly mado) over one pint of vanitia, coffee or chocofute lee cream punch bowl. Blend lightly egg benter until ice cream partially melted. Add 4 pint more leo creams and sprinkle generously with nutmeg.

To dress up fruit cobblers, serve with

nutmeg-flavoured hard sauce

Ann Edwards on

The Paris Battle Of Fashion

PARIS... are just below the knee, a good

see.

What

HAVE just come from the 15 inches from the ground. dream show all Paria has Second talking point from been

this collection-were the magni- ficent materials. The estimat- ed value of the materials alone, given to me by n textile expert, was £12,000.

waiting to | would Christian Dior do?

Would the little Frenchman, who for two years has been the biggest single Influence on world fashion, stick to his moncy-spinning New Look? | Or would ho follow the rest of Parle in making straight, tubular dressca 7

The answer is that he de- cided to stick to it, and in plug- ging the aume line once again he has finished it for good.

Out of 190 dresses 1 Baw, nearly three-quarters were full- akirted and though Dior

bolstered his New Look new tricks-pointed winged cuffs and capes, fabu- lous materials-it was clearly tho now OLD LOOK to his au- dience.

„There were satin brocades with heavy Chinese embroidery: black velvets decorated with braid and tassels indesigns like Victorian wallpaper, leather, lined with scar- let velvet and edged with sable; and heavy velvets thickly layered with diamonds.

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Other-fashion- talking points the show were the long strings of

fenthers, warzz with all evening

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Lovely Hands Are Appealing

COSTI TA Grova

Use of a good hand cream is just as infportant during the summer months

as it is in the winter.

By HELEN FOLLETT

pearls worn round the shoulders ond arms looped up on brooches or hanging down the back....glittering necklaces of huge brillants....long with suede galters reaching to the knee, collars, wide-rimmed velvet hats and Hitle

skull cops trimmed with apiky PEAUTIFUL hands carry a strong dresses....deep slit necklines filled them who is

Appeal. Any woman can have willing to take pro- in with pale pink roses....

teelive measures, give them the care Some of the dressen brought they need. Big hands, or tile rounds of applause,

And if I did not-as one admirernot matter much if the skin sur- onea, long or short, the shape does of Dior had forecast-manage to face is beautifully smooth and white, "faint eight times" at the beauty of nalla perfectly groomed. Graceful the evening gowns. I do say that movements impart

His biggest departure is the shortened skirt. Women who have struggled and puzzled

tips in it, friction it over the backs of your hands. It will REMOVE stains, will help if you have picked up a flock of summer freckles. Use a lotion or a once a day. Don't fancy that lotions are only for winter service. Une

good hand

cream

needs them all the year round. distinction to Because of frequent washing, the

how to get a band of extra they were among the most seduc pretty hands. If you feel that your skin surface is deprived of the

length can now rip them off, according to Dior. His skirts

tive and inmorous seen.

Problem Children Found Curable`

I have ever it

NORMAN, Okla.-Your child may think their parents like them

hove great mental ability, but they do well in school but don't vou may keep him from developing love them for themselves. it by making home life unhappy.

That is the word of members of Oklahoma's mobile psychological unit.

Psychologists of the unit travel fo towns through Oklahoma, offering 1 help without charge persons who never take their emotional problems to a psychologist,

would as they take physical ills to doctor,

The organisation works principal- ly with children. Members report remarkable success in making good pupils out of bad ones.

Talk With Parents Usually they talk with parents of) children who tenchers say are not

"Regardless pt what a child's trouble is. showing him you love him usually helps," she insists.

mitts have gone a bit scrubby-they natural oil that keeps it may if you are a demon gardener Hence the need of a cream. and don't wear working gloves-ret out to make them attractive. They will repay you tenfold,

Avold strong soaps. Keep them out of hot water as much as you

If you are a home. can.

maker, wear rubber gloves when doing rough work. It by chance you And little grey lines in your Knuckles add some cornmeal when scrubbing them; it will whisk the lines out in a jiffy.

Preparing vegetables, putting up fruit, roughens the hands. Have cut lemon at hand, plunge your finger

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smooth,

When applying a cream don't for- get that plenty of friction forces it into the flesh, making for better re- sults. Thumb

your knuckles, cream, your wrists, give your cibows more attention. Elbows Beldom qualify. The flesh there is inclined. to be coarse and grey.

Keep the cuticle free of the finger nall fabric. It it clings tightly, the skin will break, hangnails will form, and they will not add to galely of existence. Every night the cuticle should be lubricated. Oll won't remove polish, so don't worry about that.

BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE

Shadows Changed into Fish

getting along well in seliool. KNARF

happy.

un-

-They Had Fun Swimming in the Brook-

By MAX TRELL

and Hanid, the shadow-

In children

with the turned- many cases they find the "problem"

round

swimming names, were children are Intelligent but down the brook, darting in and out Although sponsored by the com- among the rocks, turning and leap- mittee for mental hygiene and then through the sun-sparkling water University of Oklahomu, the psycho-

as swiftly as fish. To tell you the truth

(though you'll hardly belleve logical unit is economically an or

they had become changed into Ash. When they stopped for phan.

moment in a deep pool where the water fell, all froth and bubbles, hended by Dr W.

of

from the high rocks just overhead, professor

they locked at each other in Parents with

children not doing astonishment.

They

and well in school should, by all means,

had tpils and scales refrain from coaxing them to

fins! better.

It had all come about after they according to Dorothy Mit-met their friend King Nep a few chell, a staff member,

Him She says that only makes matters sitting as usual on-hla- mossy rock

minutes before. They found worse. It makes

Omcials hope either the state or some private source will provide money to keep it going.

The unit is peach

Lemmon, assistant psychology.

or custard sauce well-favoured with cinnamon: And -11, come time, there is home-made peach ice cream at your house, then remem- ber this notion: Crack a few peach pits and extract the nut. Add the pench nuts, chopped, to the cream' of mixture together with 2 tsp. powdered mace, to each quart of The delicious flavour will. cream. have the family guessingl

do

sonte "children"

COLOURFUL BRETON

By ALICE ALDEN THE COLOURFUL HAT has been riding high this summer, adding bright note to darit sheers. Madame Reine destrued this sophisticated breton of vivid pink ballbuntal. A wide band of emerald green satin

RED RYDER

crosses the crown and emerges be- Jow the rolling brim to the under the chin. Matching pink iris accent one side of the crown and the under- chin bow. This Jo A frankly pretty, flattering hat.

DON'T HEAR WHY SHOULD WE⋅ YOU DENYING YOU'LL NEVER THAT YOU ROBBED) TELL ANYBODY!

THE STAGE?

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While they were awluming in the brook the shadows saw a duck.

Experience Builds Success

By KATHERINE HOUISON'

CERTAIN

things happen to you

to

and entirely different ones your pals. Your experiences help you climb YOUR success ladder, and your pals get, the ones they need for theirs. These experietics are rungs in the ladder, and you step up each Umo you accept the happening and learn the lesson It has for you.

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Experiences make growing up such a thrilling and exciting time. They challenge you mentally, morally, and physically. They opportunities and they are obliga-

arc

tions, and your way of meeting them decides not only the sort of person you will be. But what you will make of your life.

Fail?

In the middle of the brook just be- yond where the willow tree dipped way It did when they saw it from its branches into the water. King above!

Suppose you fail In an examina- Nep was saying-as he had sald They saw the frogs sitting high tion-what do you do? Do You many times before-that he had

and grumble, blame the once been King of the Seven Seas,

up on the banks, with their heads grouch pointed up toward the sky. They teacher, claim the questions were long, long ago when his name was

saw a duck paddling across the not fair? Or do you accept, the King Neptune.

brook and sit only her moving experience as a jolt to waken you legs and her white feathers until to the fact you don't know all you suddenly she tipped over and then should and you need to buckle. they saw only her anopping black down and do more studying in eyes and lier yellow beak,

you want to climb that particular rung toward your goal. Whether you use your experience to help you climb or do nothing and

remaln where you are, depends entirely on your reaction to what happened.

"If you were once King of the Seven Seas, what are you now?" Knarf had asked.

Sad Voico

D

"Now," replied King Nep in sud voice, "I'm only King of this tiny brook. Still it's not a bad Ittle brook to be king of. Would you care to see it?"

"Oh, we've seen it lots and lots of times,** Hand told him. "We've walked up and down it ever since we were Itle."

Little King Nep shook his head. "That's not the way to see a brook. You've only seen the top of it. The right way to see a brook is to swim along the bottom, from the begin- ning of it to the spot where it joins the river to go down to the sea. Let me just change you into fish and you'll see what I mean,...”

They met snails climbing up the stens of water-plants. They saw water-bugs and water-beetles, scurrying along the mud and sand at the bottom.

KELA through the water and saw a little boy fishing,

They looked

But the best fun of all was racing

through the waler with all thu

Decide to accept the things thai happen to you as rungs, by which you can climb that success ladder.

Broken Leg No Barrier To Boy Ballplayer

other fish--a great crowd of them, jumping and laughing and splash- ing. The brook wound across the pasture where the cows catne to Superior, Wis-It took more than drink, and moved slowly around a broken leg to keep 13-year-oll the foot of the hill among the dark Tommy Lokken out of a baseball pines. They saw a rabbit drinking game, water at the edge and listening with Its cara cocked for a fox. They saw a robin taking a bath and a little girl salling a wooden boat with her brother.

Tommy broke the leg sliding into. second base in a practice game. But the youngster hobbled to the mound three weeks later to pitch his team to a 0-3 victory in an Important game.

He also contributed three hits to his club's attack. His only conces="

suitute ran for him..

So ho spoite a few words which Knart and Hand couldn't under stand, and then he waved the stnall Urce-pronged stick that he And finally, when they reached niways kept by his side-and an the spot where the brook joined instant later Knart and Hanid were the river to go down to the sea, all slon to the injury was that a sub- flashing through tho water DS at once they found themselves on though they had been fish all their the bank again, once more back in lives instead of just shadows-of- their old stupe.. 3t tools them quito children.

a while walk all the way to the And what. a. pleasant, merry, place where they left King Nep. wonderful trip it was, gliding And when they got there, ho was through the water as casily as swal- gone. All they could find was lows glide through the air! How little note which read: Hope different the brook looked from the enjoyed your trip. And they did.

you

He Stood Too Close

AND YOUR FAL.BUCKSKIN, DIDNT FOOL UST WE FIGURED OUT HE WAS WORKIN' WITH

You?

WHEN THE MINERS FIND OUT THEIR CLAIMS ARE SALTED TELL WANT TO LYNCH SOMEBODYANDI BUCKSKIN'LL BE THE GOAT!

BY FRED HARMAN

· Rupert & Ting-Ling--22,

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• Ruperi Endi. himself ›led into a courtyard where a very little old man is seated. "That must be the. inandarin, Li-poo,” he thinks. Ting- Ling stands in front of the mana darin and bows nearly to the ground. "O honourable grand daddy, this is. Rupert Heite" hei says. "I bring him to show Low Chinamun fuh, yes pletie.” Rupert stares. "How wonderfully polite- he is," he murmura. **3 wonder- if ought to do that to my daddy.. when I get home again."",

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