Carrying out a custom of the city feminine Shanghai appeared Champions Day in new and lovely costumes. Luxurious furs and fur coats were much in evidence and brown vied with black for colour supremacy. Among some of especially etcdreseea women were Countess do Courseulles, Mrs. G. L. Wilson, Mrs G. E. Tucker, Mrs. T. B, Dunn, Mrs.
Harold Robinson, Mrs. L.R. Andrews, Mrs. J. A. Mackay, Mrs. J. E, Fullam, [Miss Dallas Lee Franklin the most of whom showed a decided preference {for black.
Club Chairman Returns Mrs. J. T. Ford, chairman of the British Women's Association, returned ito Shanghai on Wednesday from a visit in Peiping and up the Gorges just {in time to attend an executive meeting of the BW.A. Members of that organization are delighted to have her! back again and she is ge: ting into the full swing of club life once more! after her several months absence. She spent the summer in. Weihaiwei and returned here for day or so before! threads being continuing her holiday. atic work. Flowers are often used to give a symbolic value—the peony and magnolia, chrysanthemums and Jprunus blossom. Butterfles, we Jmember, are emblems of happiness and the crane, an emblem of longevity. "A. posy'cirele of flowers, the first' leiier in the name of each flower spelling out a Christian name, is a good subject suggestion, and flowers of the month would be an appropriate birthday embroidery.
New Faces with New Fashions New colour alliances in dress are so daring that they demand of women very special care in the arrangement fof her hair and, particularly, her make-up. In the day-time she can be as venturesome with powder, lipstick and rouge as she pleases, for the prevailing military styles call for something dashing to complete their swagger.
All the same it is well to bear in mind the rule: make up to the colour hearest your skin. If' the shades blue, then choose your rouge and Upstick in a clear bright red with slightly bluish tones. If yellow or brown, then have something warmer, with a fair amount of orange. When wearing a dress of mauve, purple or deep wine other rule must be considered, Your skin must be white, otherwise the mauve will make it look sallow, Sun-tan must be banished. Have a palish powder with a pinky tone, and yet your rouge and make-up be in the same pinkish shade, Deeper purples require something stronger. A striking make-up can be achieved by using & dark rouge, a rich dark lipstick, and a powder specially made for' this ensemble in a warm, pinky-brown tone. For the rich burgundies there is a wide Jcolour range designed to give the skin just the right glow. First comes a deep powder in a warm rachel, then dark rosetta rouge and a coquette lipstick.
"With the various shades of fashion-fable green, the make-up should be smooth and matt, A pale foundation feream, and a powder with just hint more colour, to give life to tt face, is needed. In addition, a ttle rouge can be blended over the cheeks and a fairly vivid lipstick fused to accent the mouth, Tea-Table Economies The tragedy of the broken tet service—espectally when the set happens to be a particular favourite with Its owner—is well-known to most of us. Cups and saucers Just will get broken, and there frequently come times when we are left with the romans of perhaps three, four or five Jdifterent toa services, "What then jean be done with the' china oddments?
'A friend of mine has successfully solved the aifeulty in an economical Jand an original way. She is not Jashamed of her oddments of pretty china. On the contrary she has assembled them artistically to form a delightful new set. She makes a point in fact of having no two' cups fand saucers alike if she can help it. The colour of her tea-pot may tone jin with her milk-fug, or be in a daringly contrasting colour, but there fs, og it were, no blood relationship [between them, The effect, of course, is patchwork, but how gay and Interesting! The attraction of a uniform tea-set- wa [before the novel charm of the odd-Jments tea-set, Any size, any shape jand any colour your china pieces can be. There is plenty of scope here for the planing of artistic tea-tables.
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