YOUTH
Youth is not a time of life-it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red lips and supple knees; it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the cmotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth is the predominance of courage over timidity, the love of adventuro over the life of caac. No one grows old by merely living a number of years; they grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up. enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, fear and despair-these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the youthful spirit back to dust. Whether sixteen or sixty, there in in every being's heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy for the game of life. You are as young as your faith, as young as your self-confidence; You are as old as your despair. In that centrul place of your heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage, grandeur and power, from the carth, from men and from the Infinite, ao long are you young. When the wires are all down and all the central place of your heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then are you grown old indeed.
WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON
From
Colonial Dames
HOLLYWOOD AND
NAN KANG COMPANY, HONG KONG
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY DECEMBER 21,
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
MORE SPACE MORE CHARM
CLIVER ADVANTAGE HAS DIIN TAKEN in this bathroom of the wall space between bathroom and bedroom, a built-in dressing table being flanked by closets and wardrobes that provide plenty of places to put things-
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BY MARION CLYDE McCARROLL ECORATIVELY speaking, room for everything needed in there's no doubt the making a complete toilet, ono bathroom is the most of them even going so far as neglected room in the houso. to make available wardrobe In the average home, it's al- space for dressing gowns, night- most invariably a dreary white gowns, underwear and the like. tlled affair-glazed white tiles The bathroom shown in tho of oblong shape on the walls, top picture prides itself on its unglazed white hexagonal tiles clover use of the wall space be on the floor, which, with the tween it and the adjoining bed- white porcelain enamel bath room, a dressing table having tub and sink make the placa been built in, tugother with look as cold and impersonal closets, sliding trays for under and uninteresting as a doctor's garments and other articles, exantining room. If the walls and a goodly amount of cabinet: above the line where the tiling storage space. stops have been painted some
The colour schome of the: pastel colour. and the shower
room-blue, yellow, silver and curtain is a shade that har- white-takes ita cue from the monises with this, that's about linoleum on the floor, which is as far as the average housewife
blue with yellow insets. usually goes in fixing up the bathroom.
Then there's the matter of cupboard and drawer space where the usual bathroom also falls down badly. Thought and planning here again can find ways and means to provide places for bathroom linen, tol letries and the like.
The two bathrooms pictured have done away with bare whiteness and taken on charm. Besides that, they've put every bit of space to work to provide
an
The lower picture shows Early American bathroom, with walls of knotty pine except where Dutch blue ceramic tilo was used to protect splashablo areas. The red informal design of the floor linoleum
tile
makes an effective colour contrast, Chintz in a quaint design was used cover for window curtains and to the dressing table stool, while the
mirror is decorated in a manner that appropriately reflects the room's character. Reproductions of old- fashioned carriage lamps above the sink are another quainily whimsical touch.
TWO NEW LINES
in.
ANKLE SOCKS
WITH
BRITISH
$5.50 pr.
AMERICAN
$4.50 pr.
ELASTIC TOPS
ALLEN SOLLY'S
Purp wool in a cheery
range of plain colours: navy, red, saxe, beige, Canary and white.
IDOL BRAND
Thickish cotton sponge fabric suitable for
tennis, squash badmin- ton, golf or just hiking.
MACKINTOSH'S
Alexandra Building,
Des Voeux Road.
Christmas
ent
Some take their Rose's iced and tall,
Others for the Gimlet call
As East is East and West is West
It's hard to say which is the best.
But pity the man, who to this day
Hasnt tried it either way.
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Rose's is made with fresh ripe limes and sweetened with pure cane sugar.
ROSE'S
ne juice
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SPRING PREVIEW:
TARTAN COTTONS ARE TOPS
the
By Joan Erskine
LONDON.
began this series of fashion articles wo months ago with a review of the Dor- ville winter collection. Last week I had the pleasure of seeing their spring collection. It had restrained same air of elegance. Olive
O'Neill, the Dor ville designer, works for wholesale model house. She there fore designs clothes that can be worn with comfort and grace, rather than elaborate showpieces or caricatures of fashion,
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with the appearance of grey flannel Cool and becoming the high-waisted, slim-skirted dress was topped by o flared back hip-length jacket. Deep cuffs on the three-quarter sleeves were in bright yellow silk, whito craval on the spotted, matching dress.
For
coolness, too. came sult in light olive rayon shantung.
For hot days in town the simple eleganco of a two-piece in black .cotton pique wo
was much admired. It featured the new short bolero, and I hear it is to be repeated in gun- metal and white, to the joy of over- seas visitors who saw the collection.
THEY SAT UP
BUT what really made the tradi
Designers for wholesale houses have an extremely difficult task. It is no easy job to design a dress or sult that must be worn by hundreds
tionally bored press representa- of women all over the world, and
the Individual tives sit up and take notice were the yet still retain all
model.
tarian cottons. Scotland's tartans, touches that make it a Feminino taste varies greatly. Cer-
in their new setting, are as pretty tainly.
of the majority
picture, Day, evening and wone dinner dresses were shown
Full- follow fashion-but not its every
skirted like
and low-necked, They may lurn and twist.
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are
Bome
the sloping shoulder line, and yet-trimmed-with-Broderie Anglaise, the not want it to slope too much; hip sombre Black Watch colouring Kava
the
cotton the appearance of taffeta, drapery many appeal, but not If it is
Almost the only time that blue, overdone; the longer skirt may be
bottle-green black and accepted--but not if it is an exag-
ever particular used together is in this length.
tartan, and the deep rich colour. Taking all these foibles into con- sideration, wholesale designers combination lent the dresses an air
of formal dignity. current French and study the English trends, consider carefully Just how far they can go, and then but produco something wearable distinctive..
FASHION LEADERS THE couturier works it an entire
ly different principle. He does not want to follow fashion. He wants to lead it. For a large sum
buy of money you are able to
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dress from, say, Molyneux or Hart- nell, or some other famous house, in the almost certain knowledge that your dress is unique,
And
for this privilege you not only part with small fortune, but must have the ability, and the courage, to wear something very definitely "out-of the-ordinary." For the general public this is impractical,
People, too have become more name conscious. complete With assurance suit, Dorville dress, Harella cool, in way they certainly would
not. Jinve dono before the dono war. The intro- duction of "Uulity and rationing had a great deal to do with this. People began
to search for good quality clothes, and found that the best were hardest to find. So they noted the name of the maker when they came upon something worth buying, and refused to accept second-best.
The predomina- ting feature of the Dorville collection Was the uso cotton for day and
of
Informal evening
dresses. And-coun-
tries
with warm climates will open,
tartans
were
Worn with the matching spots, attached to a plain black court shoe and tied round the ankle, giving n fashionable bolillen effect. Spats that match dresses, gloves, or umbrellas are Blowly catching on But thay aro ns yet very expensive about £3.10. pair.
Now that the 'frilled petticoat craze is dying, the same Idea has been re-introduced to us in a new way. A pink and white Ancly
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IN AN EARLY AMERICAN HOUSE, the usual white-tiled bathroom la distinctly out of place, so in this case tho room was given the right character, with knotty pine walls, hooked rug, quaintly decorated dressing table.
HOW TO HAVE TRIM ANKLES AND GENERAL FOOT COMFORT
RIM ankes are what every Tgirl wants.
The one who
checked colton dress had "deep has them is justified in being gathered frill attached to the inside
By HELEN FOLLETT
some
in
OF
tion to selecting the right kind of shoes, ninoty of them among one To slenderise bulky ankles, lift up hundred have troiters that are way crippled, deformed come down afflicted with corns, on the heels. Walk tippy ingrowing slowly of the skirt in a contrasting colour. proud of them and, always, she on the toes slowly. When sitting or walking one catches is a graceful, dainty stepper. toe. Run up stairs. Jumplug a guessing about that. The statement a glimpse of what appears to be a Maybe it is the pretty stepping rope is helpful, will reduce falled has been made repentedig by frilled petticoat,
their hearia to Dorville day, dress in Black featherweight Watch tartan, with rostohing twood two-piece
tie-on spata,
This hns the effect. too.
of that keeps the ankles slim, calves. making the dress Certainly the woman who plods hang well.
along, who never exercises, can' A flared skirt expect that ankles, and calves was given more too, will thicken.. awing by the ad-
To have neat ankles, keep on dition of an eight- your toes. Be fussy about the inch pleated hem.
Extremely Another had
A Massage
callouses of nails. We arc not
experts. Il Atting, poorly designed, shoes are the cause of the majorily of these conditions.
If adipose tissue has collected, a thumping, rousing massage every Dr Charlotte C. West, In her other day will crush the fat cells. book, "Ageless Youth," says: "There no perfect fect today. So Form, a bracelet with fingers and are
Our foot de- lamentably have
ankle, move the hands in opposite to the belief that the human foot double pleated high heela will cause these directions, pressing hard. into the is monstrously ugly. There are few healthy, normally formed feet among frill at the bot- human hinges to do a side-to- tom. Yet another side motion that is not a normal
civilised people! What an arraign- fell in liers from
ment!
thumbs of both hands, clasp the teriorated that most people acceda
the waist, the top
tler being gather-
ed to five peplum effect.
.. Materials
wear. shoes you
..
Mesh,
colls do
movement and which, in course Smooth up and down with at- of time, will cause, the muscles tened fingers. Make flats and thump to relax, fine contour to dis. with your knuckles. Fat appear. Wear your spikes at not like to be disturbed. Keep at the gay evening party, if you them long enough and they will go' used must, bat come down to earth off and die.
.were twisted cot-
tou, poplin, pique,
heels
Will Giva' Advice
When purchasing shoes, consider health and comfort first, then style.
Bexible leather soles, during the day, wearing low. Choose stockings.carefully. Seem- You can find shoes with soft leather beautifully designed, perfectly made,. or those of moderate free nylons are flattering to aver- top and
ngo legs. And remember, dark that will give such cars that you tweed. height. ;
stockings are a blessing the don't know you have foot and they woman whose legs have gone in for will also add chic to your sartorial
troppings. a policy of expansion..
Bilk, and the now crepe Skirto
cut were GRIFF
but generously, with nil fullness .at front or back,
NOT
hipz. Collars wero either small
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And
neat, or very deep
no
Ona Ankle Largor
Sometimes one ankle is larger
to
How far can you foot it? Do you
An experienced shoe clerk will be
than another. That comes from think nothing of clipping off a mile able to give you advice and sugges- the habit of letting the body or two at a brisk pace? We know tions. Too many Women will listen the answer. Most women are not to nothing along this line. Tary folded, weight rest on one foot when walkers, and that is a pity, because have worn a certain size, a certain half-measures. Al- standing. More havoc 18 walking is an excellent exercise, width and that: la what they do most all sleeves wrought: there may eventually It helps keep the musculature in a mand, willy-nilly. Feet change with wero cuffed, ami all pocket flaps set be a slight twist of the spinal healthy condition, puts carnation the years.
blooms in the checks, cheers the column. The girl who walks, mind, chugs up a healthy appetilo. vertically on hips. Colton all-over stands and moves gracefully is design't
not only keeping up good ap small; white pearance, but she is practising spotted silk had a
à health measure. prominent place.
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were
A good way to strengthen the Why don't you walk? Something arches and the muscles attached "to wrong with your fent, it is likely, the toes is to practise picking up or your shoes are not comfortable. marbles with your toes. » Al good- Because women pay so little atten- before-bedtime exercise.
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