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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEM

17949.

HERE JUST IN TIME FOR HIS CHRISTMAS!

WOOLLEN SCARVES

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WOMANSENSE AT YULETIDE

ROMANTIC DRESSES FOR AN OLD-FASHIONED

THIS Christmas will be

a real "buttona and

There is a rich variety colours and fabrics to from:

af

choose

CHRISTMAS

By Eve Lovegreen

her

tea in the afternoon, on to cock- party mood. Don't stop at pin- proves to be so i worn by

ELEGANCE.

can live.

com-

the

Why is it that blue-eyed blondes never wear anything but bluet True, their eyes are blue, but they may not be tho bows" affair to delight.

the easiest me blue; there are so many the feminine heart, for prayer for the woman who has pockets jut out over the hips,

strict eye on

Peplums aro

and subtle different

shades are things in the world to make, A budget. Many of them party dresses are' at their to keep a

be certain Really, rolden- lovellest and most romantic.. made with strapless tops in frothy tulle one in sugar pink overtones that it is difficult to should try wearing The tie-silk or taffeta which some glamorous material such or ice blue will transform a blondes has been languishing in as sequinned velvet or cloth of plain black dress into a party primrose yellow or light navy, both colours keyed to suit their as "too cold. The skirt is a dark, con- plece. your wardrobe

Flowers are now used as ne- particular colouring, feature is a short hug-me-ught a elaborate for everyday" trasting colour. But the clever really comes into its own jacket which slips over your cessories in a host of different. There are several colours to a sure method suit every type of skin and hair it is just what you need this bare shoulder to give you a ways, and aro

to be a "difficult" colour, Christmas to look festive dress that will take you out to of making you look, and feel, in tone. Lime green-thought by

ning a solitary bloom to one and well-dressed.

Jalls, and finally dancing.

shoulder of your dress. This someone with a sallow skin, but year flowers are worn in the worn by the girl with mid-

brown hair

and medium unexpeeled most

places. stiff brocades, rustling

moires VENING dresses are at their single red rose is tucked into plexion, it is an immediate suc- taffetas, sophisticated

E most romantle--there is a the belt of a dress, a pony peeps cess. It takes her out of

class, makes her vivid peacock

you shades us In such

orange, copper hint of the crinoline and 18th out of a pocket, or green, burnt

century elegance about some of make a bracelet" of Dowers and brown of ruby red.

the full skirted models shown, and wear it on your, wrist, Even Illustrated

a anklets of Bowers are being top left is on makea Victor Stiebel cocktail dress illustrated below formal ball dress by Frederick worn with the short

It dresses, and I have seen three her old standby, green, and try, Starke in peach-blue tulle.

fucked instead, a deep shade of violet In black

em full-blown roses coyly only trimming a sequin on the right-it is

The result is striking original. moire, with

dramatic pockets, broidery. The tightly swathed into a bustlel shoulder line and cummerbund waist and new

Colours can do so much full skirt This is the sort of billowing skiet make it a por-

GAY COLOURS wear for cock feat choice for Christmas balls. excitement

your appearance and momnle falls or Informat

Apart from the

that it is a pity not to experi- parties; it

Christman,

unes would even double as a "short" of a new dress for

With most of us feel dissatisfied with HERD are some gay and uns ment until you find the

The best way. worn dress

everyday clothes at this usual colours to be seen this that suit you. OLET

to try out now, colours is to hold time of the year and long for season-but many women are

them little afraid of branching out a pleca of the fabric, next some miracle to change

into a new colour scheme. They your face in daylight. If 11 make them look dif- all, to

your colour which, they makes your skin glow, ferent." Take heart, there are find innumerable ways in which ae feel, cults them, and they over eyes. sparkle, then it is your

be used

colour. to deviate from it. cessories brighten

clothes up everyday and give them a festive air.

List. Stolch are fist on the

be in almost any They can

rsey silk, or material-wool, jersey,

cotton. Draped

capo

drets you cun

evening suitable accessorios,

These dresses

the

new short are

evening

On answer to

a

Coloured Christmas Trees

Are Popular This Season

By ELIZABETH TOOMEY

N old-fashioned Santa Claus

A would never reconnaise mone

of the season's pink and char- treuse Christmas trees.

"It's a one-season fud," one ornament manufacturer

that

 dispiny disagreed.

"I first used plnk Christmas trees with chartreuse ball de corations to decorate a depart- Aronstan store," Leo ment noted. "The store kept getting I guess requests for duplientes. people just got tired of red and

A Uny, gleaming Christmas tree made of coloured balls can bo piled up in a few minutes as decoration. a table or mantel

using an suggested Birch sniti. ordinary large knitting needle decorator with a flat end for the central stem. Then slip round Christ- tree bails In graduated mas sizes over the stem,

The biggest balla go at the to iiny balls bulium, tapering at the top to give a tree shape. tho A peaked ornament" used at top of a regular Christmas tree can be slipped over the pointed end of the knitting needle, or stick-and the miniature tree is complete.

cen

Onc company that ships real Christmas trees to a wide ares

J3

I sending them out this year in pale blue, pink, or any pastel colour requested. The ornameni followed by manufacturers loning down their baubles to more delicate shades.

you

decide

on a pastel

I Christmas, Aronstan suggests

a few do's and don'ts in decorat- Ing the tree. The ornaments should be la one or two uniform shades, he cautioned, or you'll spoil the effect. His cur- rent favourite is a combination ot pink trees, with magenta and silver decorations.

the

"It'# better to leave coloured lights off a pink or

decoratos magenta tree," the said. "Bright lights spoil the modernistic colour effect,"

an

that Ilkes If you're the type

Christmas, old-fashioned Aronstan advises staying away from pastels altogether."

"A magenta tree is meant for

a modern setting," he cald, "and it would look out of place in an old-fashioned living room."

ANOTHER display decorator

suggests trying some depart- mont store decorating ideas at home.

Ordinary bottle brushes were one of the household appliances Kenneth Birch turned into a wall decoration for a department store. The brushes were dipped in a thin, light green paint,

to propped up

dry, and sprinkled packaged snow jus! -before

tho

drying was completed The brush handles were wired 10- gether so the brushes inade a spray effect-like a spray of pine. A. huge bow at the top. or a cluster of bells,, and the bottle brushes were transformed into a beautiful spray to hang on a door or over a mantel.

PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS

Copies

of

photographs

taken by the South China Morning Post and Hong Kong Tolograph Staff Photographers

dro on view, in the Morning Post Building",

ORDERS BOOKED.

TH

US year there and more tree and home decorations on the market than

cycr before. Delicate tinsel ornaments and Intriente plastic snowflakes

typify the rivalry between the traditional find the modern

to

Here are some hints on how make the Christmas tree more fire-resistant and keep its

from dropping needles quickly:

Bring it home a day before you plan to set it up, then cut an inch off its base.

Place it in a bucket of ammo- rium sulphate solution and let it soak for 24 hours. Une one pound of ammonium sulphate, bought at any seed store, to one gallon of water.

Or spray

with "water glass-sodium silicate at the ratio of one quart to nine quarts of water. Exhibitors at flower shows use this method.

When setting it up, place the tree in a waterproof container of sand and anchor it well. Keep the sand moist.

oven

сап

heavy

fali

ap-

and

of

elegantly round your shoulders, they completely alter the pearance of a tired dress, have the added advantage

They are keeping you warm.

and worn with suits, with day evening dresses and give un- limited scope for ringing changes.

SCARF FUN

the

CARVES are fun and very be

coming. Tuck a lemon chiffon scart into the neck of a parma λ mutti- violet dress; drape

one round your. coloured shoulders; or twist a. long one round your waist cummerbund fashion, with the ends hanging down.

Belts play their part, loo, t

scene. This set- the Christmas son they are worn on bloused- back suits, usually very narrow. Follow through on dresses with narrow

belts In contrasting colours and small gilt buckles. If you are handy with a needle, make a brightly coloured stil silk belt with pockets attached, so that when you put it on the

HOW (B)RIGHT IS YOUR

8-YEAR-OLD?

E

that

DUCATIONALISTS say

The much more happens to eight-year-old than a change of Bome insist that the whole teeth nature changes about this time...

Give the eight-year-old a huge sheet of paper, a big, long-handled brush and a paints Jar of paints (ry powdered diluted with water), Then allow him to dmw what he likes.. Strange And fantastio are the usual results-often dark and lurid colours, with little attempt at balance or relationship. This is the ago of struggle to cope with the outside world. Monthly painting bouts will show you progress towards a sweet and sensible acceptance..

Writes with Ink, forming all letters cor rectly

Is established in. "loft" or "right". bandedness

11lb.

Height, 4 feet

Weight, for boys Sat., 121b, giris Set.

Chest, 24ina.

Has had whooping cough and mesales. Probablo illnesses this year, chicken- ox, or mumps.

on

Balances perfectly narrow bar for a distance of 10ft to

Onn climb rope

Jump 2ft to 20t. Bins...

Do simple vaulting over horse or bar (with pummel or bar hold, not without).. Will follow adult version of Pligrim's Progress

and grasp with sano abstract idea after explanation

Noods plotorial.or "action" help for lan

history, geography

guage,

Lassage.

Physical type clear 6. the ballet dancer, the athlete, or the brainy butterfinger" are now before you permanently

Neous 1,000 onlories pet

day

finterpreted in daite foods this medna dosa. risal, fos, butter; fo cheese, pint milk, 1, rich nah (such as herrings), small toa kib, notatoes, plus green vegetable and frgit each day," (Don't reler Mr. Strachey, these › are the dielelle jaots per god helght, weight;))

*** CHECK-UP based

on a ten years' study of boys and girls-- gives you the chance to check off the progress of an eight-year-old child: The personal touch this week is given by Mrs. Murdoch, wife of Richard ("Stinker") ticked off the Murdoch, who has accomplishments of their daughter, Belinda.

•

and Mrs. Belinda Margaret, eight-year-old daughter of Mr.

Stinker" Murdoch She lose with a younger sister and brother In a house with a garden at Mayfield, Sussex,- Favourite books i Adventure stories about horses, Most condemning word : Horrid.

Belf-confidence is at low perhaps lowest-ebb in whole childhood. Home H. no longer the whiola horison, the outside world looms large and nos aloraya trienally

Twelve hours sleep mondodatn

Knows up to nine' times" muntilostion table, but only parrot-like

Roads Daily Nervous, in, reading, of song words ....

* Flays Birst-teant gamon'..':

Resola, brilliantly. small responsibilities

Books popularity at schoul, refidia, often at home

Hoods, hot mapper :: at

(Watch clothes carefully; particularly covering of Jest in winter. This is the age for the highest loss of heat per body surface.)

(Nightmares occur oocs- sionally. Rouskuro, and balance school pork with. outdoor activities, hand work and musto. warm. sweet drink 15 minutes before bed will help.)

Chiswim "breast stroke" with support ..........

Acute

Benso ・ot 'fair

-Taste in food formed...

(The meat lover, the truitarian, the sweet-tooth, the bulk-needer, are all established; and will only change again in 17a owing

· ́to a grim necessity or a moral conniction taler on.)

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--London Express Berotos)

ona

In the same why a creamy evening skinned redhead should desert

Give A

and

for

Children's

Holiday Party

By ELEANOR ROSS

you haven't youngsters in

to..

As the children arrive, let

your family circle, beg or them help in anal decorations

All the company borrow come, and stage a party, until

if you want to experience the assembled.

This is a good way

BTO not acquainted,

real Joy of the wonderful to break the ice if some of the Yuletide spirit. We know more guesta than one family that begs and Despite

their front most

horrows youngsters from an or- youngsters are really painfully

giving them some one of the shy. But phanage or from

that deals thing wonderful to do, such as community services

final holiday decoration touches with underprivileged children.

for their very own party, is There's no need to make the calculated to bridge the gap and elaborate or make them all good friends overly costly. The spirit of the holl right away. day and the glorious spirit of childhood will

party

make

icer

the oc-

When the last guest has caslon a wonderful one, and arrived, complete the

will have the breaking with 'n good game, such as an obstacle race or

you, the hosts,

best time of all..

Make a huge Santa to wel- "Christmas Mail." For this, ar- Make him range on a table a number of come the guests. from a large wooden barrel, holiday greeting cards, one less painted red with white belt and than the number of the com

Have the children pany. buttons. His head can

march around the room made of an old pillow case, a

bo

ip

flour sack, or any kind of cloth inuske, which, when stopped,

The bag, Stuff it with paper, straw the signal for the big rush.

any "mail" one left without that or anything avaliable

drops out. Thus it goes, until would do, and palat on it an the last child is the winner and, opproximation

age, of course, is suitably rewarded. fellow's

visage. red-checked Provide him with an amplo

of

the

old

wig and beard of white cotton Work out some contests for

red.cape diferent groups, with a trea and top him off with

Of course, the big attraction sure hunt as the star attraction. Is the Christmas tree, so make it is difficult to hide small it as exciting and colourful as gifts, use pretty cards decorated possible for the youngsters, with different seats. When one. Brightly coloured toys and of these cards is found,

the dis plenty of edible decorations will coverer comes to the barrel. salisfy the children, provided Santa and receives a gift, that the froe Is festooned with wrapped and identified with plenty of tingel --and--bright senis to match those of the lights. Check there for safety, treasure card. Keep the pre-

sents small and simple.

plenbet