looking faded after washing, can [be made from the old-fashioned [amma on "Abo "a mead tee spree lo poures is en daring the past your a long lst of pour prendre Then one, day she decided to take, Pom-poms in. variegated colours camomile flowers and allowed Soto Me Rite te che are seting hone efter. ripa and. 30 abet through adorned the shelves. and nodded] stand, covered, for not leas than gear mut ie the Far Bea Ang Cgugested, dnticts and see for her-|Srom atop" heraldic hats which 12 hours The water munt_ then iseal of thee deartgrn are hr. and ry. 4. Sit who are ring SE Pernaps, also she would ar Candide expressed i, might have] be strained from the. fowers, pub for one an Sarda the Blee Fewnel is a iasTia cher [be able to find. ome now and mae Alice in Wonderland herself into a saucepan with half an onnes parte of the Orient, original points of view to contri-i bit sceptical. of white curd soap, shredded, and Mrs, "Stitt dates her real Evans, the former of whom, it wi ute to the traffic problem, What Alctal flowers with tin leaves brought slowly to the boil. ' When acquaintanceship with the Far East be remembered, received in 1921 actually happened was that instead, and tinned petals waved about in sufficiently cool the shampoo is from her marriage, twenty-seven the silver medal of the Royal of solving traffic problems, she! coquettich disarray. Long whiskers ready for use, and the hair is found the "Lane "of Theatrical/ were strung along" the shelves to years ago, She hnd met Mr. Stitt Humane Society for saving life at on a visit. to the East some. six the Hong Mok disaster when give a counteracting note of under. washed with it in the ordinary
years previous, and then in 1899 HIM. Carlisle, commanded by She started out from the Bund on lying dignity. 'They waved about 'The Traveller's Case Canton Road and followed its lady'and shed a vell of dignity over Dressing-cases seem to be getting she arrived in' Penang to be mar-Capt. Evans, rescued 228 Chinese like fleeing from the river front] cubicle abandon, regardless of their smaller in size every year, and some ried to him and to take up her re-from drowning; Sir Ronald and through its structural canyons, origin which Candida ascertained fof them are so compact that sidence in this part of the world.
Lady Macleay, British Minister to through its avenue of middle class in flawless pidgin English to be is almost impossible to put the The next ten years or so were spent China and General and Lady utility shops and almost" to its] on the back of a Mongolian pony's thing back in place at the frat in the Straits Settlements, Penang Fowler, of Hongkong, when Gen. end where Thibet Road proclaims|neck, The costumes themselves and Singapore, then Japan became Fowler was in command of the 'a. sudden stop to its meanderings. grew in such lush profusion that bhar home and six years ago, Shanghai. troops here.
Throughout} the jvatiou places hospitality has been shown on In the same way Mrs, Stitt's Candida has a sense of the theatrical] Candida must needs discover that and she never reached the end of the average theatrical performance the road, because she was arrested) requires at least 15 of the highly where Mrs, Stitt has been identified nunierous occasions to bridal pairs by shop after cluttered shop of{ illuminated garments; that a big with foreign communities ina dis-who have been married from her Chinese fantasy. She decided then performance calls forth between tant part of the world, she has been house. and there that she had touched) 120 and 150 of them. noted for her charm as a hostess When the B, W. A. was organiz-the mainsprings of the Chinese Next door to the costumer's shop and the hospitality which she, us ed a few years ago, Mrs. Stitt was temperament. She proclaimed to|she found the theatrical cobbler. Wite of the manager of the Hong-! one of the active promoters of an Wierself that she had found China "Bootees" in formidable array sgrac-Kong and Shanghai Bank, was in' organization which would reach out ina nutshell—or rather in aled the dingy windows. Not by the position to dispense. Thus many, into the lives of all British women theatrical costumer's shop. Here wildest stretch of her imagination who have shared of this hospitality resident in Shanghai, Some of the was China's natural aptitude for could Candida conceive the displayed will have additional reason to regret first meetings of the Association effective confectionery and enerusia- boots peeping like little mice from her departure at the end of the Were held at Mrs. Stitt's house, and tion; her fan play; her instinct] beneath structural skirts, The me-week, Tater when the organization was de-for properly countenancing sundry topher became still more hopelessly 'Wher Mrs. Stitt came to, the finitely launched, she was the chair-occasions; her sense of symbolic} lost when she saw the emperor's Orient us an enthusiastic young' man for the large "Countxy Fair dignity and of candid evaluation—boots. graced by embroidered and woman devoted to all. kinds of witch proved one of the highly sue-it may be also her astute ap- bewhiskered cat's heads on their tip] sports, she found preciation of the small deceptive toes' ends, much' to interest wile.
Candida philosophised.
A hurried exit brought, the her in the colonial was a part of her philosophy to do}armourer's in view. bellicose type of life which small boy might have been let loose! existed in Penang But what she actually found inside; with comparative impunity at the of the shops was a manufac-theatrical armouvers, Trails of and Singapore in those days, Being industry of sizable pro- white frosting designed the hilt" of keen on tennis and portions. Large frames supported execstioncr's axes and aluminum the embroidery work which was!
Snake skin eares covered being laid on thick—by two! these swords, choppers. looked less enter apprentices, whose term of service lo to' Candida la the theatre jo of the com munity at once, and was understood to be eight years, cal fabledom, and the scent of though whose proficiency "even {wood met with recurrent garlic the hunt parties of Candida centd sce had been attained fumes to the latter's complete the tropics which long before that time, dismay.
The armourer's did not s0 have a distinction The roving eye of Candida caught! greatly enjoy Candida's visit nor all their own and glimpses of paste pearls the size'her pidgin politeness, and as she fave generally coup-of pigeon's eggs, Christman tree'said herself, she took therefore a Jed with pleasure ike festoonery of red, green, gold,' reluctant leave. jaunts through de-mauve and blue beads.
There, As Candida tread her way to the] Aightful scenes were were hats frosted like a wedding, breathing space of Thibet Road she attempt, A very neat altair in her especial delight. cake in lurid tints, depending upon'was conscious of a wave of the polished pigskin is about the size There was very whether they represented the Histrionie Muse's hand which fof " small attache ease, Tteontains little of the kind of bridegroom or the villain, the one! cluded her in the salutary blessing! three brushes, half 1 dozen bottles, night life which showing a Grisky dragon's head) rexervod for the Street of Theat A mirror, scissors, cent hanirers, goes with living in with pearl whiskers, the other noi cal Costumers. But of course the and—numerous other articles, Shanghai in Penanse ostentation whatever, but shroud.!traffic problem remains unsolved.—mounted in silver, 'Much less and Singapore in ed only in unflattering black.'
"Jill O'Lantern." elaborate i a Mat calf case, ike former days. Bath-big purse, specially made for ing parties' la the travellers, which contains soap and pleasant waters of
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