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SHORT-LEGGED, SHORT-SLEEVED

PYJAMAS

Made from a fine soft English cotton poplin: cut on the casy sido and without a collar, to give the maximum of comfort.

$29.50 A SUIT

Standard style pyjamas are stocked in a wide variety of stripes or quite plain.

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13, CHATER ROAD

(Between Moutrle's and Kelly & Walsh's)

THE NEW BIRO

with

the newer look

The introduction of the new Biro was an instant success. It aimer, more graceful lines, its three attractive coloura-grey, maroon, black, its perfect balance and easy effortless writing-thest are the features that make the new Hiro a pen to admire and acquire.

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Biro

PRICE $6.50

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SOCIETY

3:00-1

HONGKONG

FOR THE

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN WOMEN'S AUXILIARY.

Appeals to the public for articles for a "JUMELE SALE” to be held on Tuesday, 6th June from Eight am to 8ix p.m., at the Public Relations building, Status Square, Opposite the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Build-

bg. Dow Voeux Road,

Clothing of any size, colour, Bummer er Winter, new or worn, will be appreciated. Articles mich so shoes, stockings underwear, hand-b6EA Guys, curios, odds, and onda, sto, atie algo policated,

Any little gift that could be used on a "While Elephant Table" wip also be appreciated.

Articles can be delivered to the First Floor, Lobby at the Gloucester Hotel, on or after May and.. to June 6th-inclusive-from 11.30 am, to 1.00 pm. od 7.30 p.m. to 0.00 p.m. If this address le not convertent for delivery plomo call my one of the following ladies who will gladly call

·ke anything that you have to offer for, the Juanhle, delo,

KOWLOONI-MIR 2. 10. 20586, 13-15, Salisbury Hond, (opp, Star Twzy),

Telephone No. 88937,

HONGKONG: Mrs. V. IL. Lostdy, Room 503 Gloucester Hotel. Telephone Blow andầu Märke N. Av dermani, a, raibe Vines Mt. Davi Road, Esk Salaam, Telephone No. 26984. Mrs. S.-J. Cooke, “, Hilcrest, 1X4 Fe Po |: Telephone No. 20007,

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

The loveliest dress I've ever had

IRENE DUNNE

poses for the

ANNE EDWARDS

column

A

Picture by

John French

SI always say--it's lucky I've got eimple tastes--and My Gosh! how expensive simple tastes aro!"

It was Irene Dunne speaking. about clothes. She had summed up the clothes philosophy of almost every elegant woman in that sentence.

"I like a very plain outline and lots of intricate detail and that's the kind you have to pay for," she went on.

"I never buy anything that's the very latest. Why, at the prices these people ask I'd think it unpardonable ex- travagance to buy a frock that people could look at one day and say, 'Oh, that 1 sensation.' was Paris's last season expect my evening clothes to last for six or seven years.

aro

"Most of my day things black. My husband doesn't like black, but I have to have it. And I love white in the evening-I think it's the most becoming colour of all.

"Women in California ore dreasing more and more like women in New York and Paris, We only wear slacks for the studlo now and after that the clothes are very formal,"

Bought in Rome

The dress she wears in the plcture "one of the lovellest I've ever had"-is so new that she has not worn it yet. She bought it in Rome on her way here.

Typleal of Miss Dunne's taste in clothes the outline is as simple as anyone's party dress, but the detail in elaborate and intricate.

Rows on rows of small organdle petals

each cm- are

broderie anglaise.

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ark-we think it's impolite. they just go and look it up la, the nics."

Daily Express Bles say Miss Dunne to 40.

Perhaps 35..

How old does the look? Perhaps 35-but it's a lovely face-r real, intelligent, with none of that bmced and wary beauty-treated look that makes many young-old women seem so unreal.

Her movements are as supple.. 03 a girl of 20, and her groom vi. ing belongs to the forties.

No Facials

How does she do it? Does she have constant facials? "Well, no, to tell the truth." the saye. "I never have facials"

Docs she do execrises?

*

"Well, I think it needs

no, special temperament to do them, and I haven't got it."

Diet then?

T

I expect an evening dress to last six or seven years ...

eat everything, but in woman. (At if they were much, and a nose that starts straight

than older then < much

any

and suddenly turns up at the beoldered and edged with moderation, you know."

Then it will tip), perhaps if you have a very beauty Home

treatment, woman is now.)

bome naturally to setile my happy and very successful life! Star points round, the skirt perhaps?

and if you add to it grooming of onco read in in weight as I walk and sit, to turn

Amerikan embroidered with pearl and

standard--it the Irene my head and my eyes slowly. ench

that paper silver pailletter,

point American

could explain a lot. kept her complexion So perhaps the reverse is true. edged with embroidered ruffles. Dunne

The frock is in white or smooth by laying strips of Think yourself young and you gandle but the effect is glitter cucumber peel against her skin. look it."

Hundreds of women wrole in to ing, frothy, and elegant,

say they'd followed my advice and it worked wonders. So I' certainly must try it some time. "When I play the part of Queen Victoria at 50 I shall you start with natural assets of think of myself as on old the Dunne quality (harel eyes

Don't Ask.... How old is Irene Dunne? "That's the one question reporter asks,"

every British she says. "At home they don't

THE LOW

DRAWSTRING

An Explanation

that Perhaps

explains Perhaps something.

NECK

Evening sweater by Dorville with lowo drawe

-neck and sleeves out in DHE

I KNOW.... PEOPLE. I feel I know all about (without having to meet them): The woman (Mrs Hart, of Mitcham, Surrey), who said: "Whlst has been my life."

The girl in a trade unles dispute (Misg Beryl Fisher) "who stuck to her guna."

The lady in Queenborough, Kent, about whom a councillor said: "Mrs Weekes is known in borough as "The Little our Mother.'"

in

1.

The advertiser who put this "Harussed newspaper:

housewife compelled by local conditions to exchange pleasant country house for four-bedroom fat Hopes view of trees."

"Oné But it was

Way had seen it all before? So have Street James Mason's latest,

QUOTES

WHAT MEAN?

L

HE

COULD

"It's so nice lo

sit and say nothing." "You're so different." "It needs someone like you to deal with him."

That's what I cali a kind hat.” "We'll let the evening shape itself."

-(London Express Service)

MEN GO FOR PALM BEACH BEIGE

RESS of the week Is

Dinspired by Dior's

Chinese coolle style and ap- poara in dull woven gold Inme, scattered with bluo gentians, in a small-size collection for Autumn.

Ja

Best hat ordered for Australia the lampshade berét, in mushroom felt underlined with black and edged with black silk braid bobbies.

Star ult le utility, called the Turnabout, because

ils Jacket

reverses from glant checks to Glenweave birds-ey, can be wom loose or bolted and has la

kirt to

to match each side. Beauty" find from America is pearl nall varnish, with iridescent finish, back again fa three shades of pink.

Novel accessory scen at Moly- noux's showing of Californian designers' "Sunshine Clothes" is n bathing towel edged with wide bands of black colton and black tassels, which is so large - it makes a beach clonk

Men Buy More Bince the end of rationing in March 1049 men's clothing sales have risen far more steeply than those of women.

One male hat shop reports sale of 43 British Stetsons in one

day recently and that general hot sales are up 15 pc. on last year.

with-

Twelve-guinea tartan drawn from one shop window, as the rush of buyers was exceed- ing the supply.

Male snob appeal is being titivated by a new range of pure Bilk iles, handkerchiefs and scarves called "Our Heritage." All bear coats-of-arms of come of our oldest familles and are Gold with a leaflet giving a brief history of the arms and the name of the man who originally

them in carried

historical battles.

And for men who scoff at the vidiculous names of women's clothes what about the new British Colour Council shades for 1050 masculine apparel, Jungle Wine, Riviera Mist, Palm Beach Belge, Eden Grey, Isls Green and Harvest White?

On & Chain

A safety guard for valuable the latest jewellery fashion from car-rings called the "Guardeit" is America. It consists of a short gold chain connected to a fine wire that curves Invisibly bes hind the car. If the car-ring falls off it is hold by the chain. Wedding rings, high, wide and white are another American fashion. Of white palladium, many are three-quarters of an inch wido and for lightness in weight are hollowed out at the back.

-(London Express Servica)

COOKERY CLUB expert HELEN BURKE gives some tips on marrows-

You must

always

catch them young

can buy peas too

At the last minute beat the

DO YOU AGREE? YOU

young-but not mar yolk of a small egg into three

rows. The

tablespoons of evaporated milk smaller they and air into the sauce. Add the the better, and they marrow and serve on toast, are already plentiful. I

WHERE I CAME IN.......... If I told you that insi arc. week I saw a Alm in which....

the plane's engines cut out over never buy a

"

i

be

Asparagus marrow con-

all the delicate

SPARAGUS should A plentiful for the next few the

the Sierras, the black eyes of a taining seeds I cannot cat, Mexican bandit swept lecher- because ously over the heroine's curves, narrow flavour is in the girl who crash-landed with centre.

out

looked БОСД

weeks. From one big bundle you can have asparagus with

a suitcase

If you select marrows not melted butter or Holandaise sauce, cream of asparagus soup ravishing in peasant costume longer than 8-9in. you can and

It asparagus omelette. borrowed from squalid natives, be fairly certain that the means taking a few sticks from It. Cut off the woody ends, well

a gangster walled on a street whole of their insides will the bundle, but it is worth Corner with rain pouring off be edible. Six to 7in. onea his hat, a girl sat waiting for

her man

behind

wash

in cold water, and thinly are even better-and you peel the lower stems. Tie into the rain- don't even have to peel the as many bundles as you have streaked window of a cate and little ones.

all the gangsters shot each other

to leave the hero in the clear at

diners, drop into rapidly boiling. salted water to which you have

The most appetising way added a teaspoon of sugor.

the end....would you say you to cook marrows is to cut simmer for 15-20 minutes. If

Soft Styles

but not

them into rounds, peel you are a gourmet and quarter them, then fry adventurous, serve with melted butter, which is simply that in margarine with a spot with the addition of a Küle of butter.

lemon juice or vinegar. Keep moving the pieces

If you are "adventurous,” around until most of them havo have Hollandaise sauce ready," taken on a golden tone, then

odd one to two tablespoons Cream of Asparagus

Soft-styled, washable, well- boling water, seasoning to faste,

priced separates have shown up cover tightly and finish cooking. Soup (for 4)

in America as the outstanding|| Fifteen

cruise and resort selling season

minutes should bo

soles geiters of the midwifer, enough. (I do not recommend SAVE the water in which the cooking marrows in a pressure sportswear cooker because, even without a four people you

asparagus was cooked. For will want, a drop of added water, you get so good quart. Also reserve two Linen for blouses, weskila, much liquid that You cannot to three sticks of the cooked

asparagus. dresses, and drapery evaporate it.)

Melt loz. butter or margarine

skirts,

botton fabrics interpreted In Marrow Toscana ---- in a saucepan, blend in 1oz.

terms of wide skirts, have attracted majority sales Fure HERE you dice the peeled four or comfour and cook to ΠΑΤΤΟΝ, Turn the pleces the white froly stage. Remove silks and spuns have not hear into a pet with a tablespoon of and stir in the asparagus water. stove, bring to so important in the midwinter water, cover tightly and cook Return to the analysis of" sportswear: sales, fairly rapidly for 10-15 minutes, the boil and season to fasto;

Meanwhile, riselt Iox butter Cut the tips of the rescryed Lime has been the colour and gently cook 12oz. thinly two to three stalks of cooked holding a good deal of sales apliced mushrooms in it, with asparagus into small pieces and post, buyers report, Black his teaspoon lemon juice. Sprinkle drop them into the hot soup. been promoted, but has not in oz. dour and cook with the Finally, stir in three to four mushrooms for 14 minute. Strain tablespoons - evaporated milk been too well accepted. Pink the stock from, the marrow into and heat through, but do not has been well liked and so have this and cook for a few minutes, boil again the cream or "popcorn" shades, adding seasoning, to taste S