SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1932.
THE CHINA MAIL.
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26, The Arcade,
Gloucester Building.
STRAW HATS
FOR THE RACES.
GLOVES
AND
HANDBAGS.
SUBNETTE STERILITER
ALEXANDER INSTITUT
DE BEAUTE
Phone 26169.
Fedder Building
(1st Floor)
Opposite Entrance to
Hong Kong Hotel.
AFTERNOON TEA.
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People who remember with long- ing the good old afternoon teas are really referring back to the im mense teas which preceded not din- ner but a very late supper, or they are remembering nursery teas when cake
object Equally they for- covetousness.
those teas that eaten by digestions of ostrich-like perfection. Nevertheless, the aver age afternoon tea is a very duli meal, and chiefly because of the luck of variety that attends it. Thin bread
butter is good as and far as it goes, but when it comes to cuke, there seems to be nothing but the heavy or the suwdusty varieties A good, home-made sponge cake was lost sight of when eggs be- came dear, and with eggs at certain seasons at very reasonable prices it has not been recovered. But a sponge-cake is a delight when it is not heavy or dry, and it might well be revived in place of its more orṇa- mental but much leas tasty rivals. Ruther damp cakes are nearly always appreciated, and the dampness need not be heavy. Sand-j wich cakes with " moist Alling which is not as sticky jam make very good eating and are never dry.
COLOUR NOTES.
NEW HANDBAGS.
of
bag the
A museum of women's handbags would make an interesting collec- tion. Even the last decade has scen drastic changes in their styles, the moroccan bag with the top clasp giving place to the pochette and the
in yielding pochette
favour of the large fap
and revival
large, round, pleated bag. The latest handbags combine beauty, utility, und safety in an almost ideal de- gree. The more luxurious have an inset top corner of burn- ished metal which serves as a mir-¡
Others have a double flap, the first concealing mirror, the second forming one side of the bag proper.
ror.
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Reptile skins have lost ground In the world of fashionable baga.
still Crocodile, however, is Vogue, Rome of the latest bags: being in dull crocodile or made half of shiny crocodile and half of dull leather, joined in a seam running from the clasp to the bottom of the bag. Sealskin in a popular skin for bags at the moment, matching!
moderate vogue for sealskin
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shoes.
LAMPSHADES.
HOME MANICURE,
"GLOVES, PLEASE.”
A timid-looking man hovered on the outskirts of the struggling mass of shoppers, shocked out of their usual calm by the announcement in: the morning's paper of bargains inj gloves. Nothing but influenza could have kept his wife at home, but the doctor and the germs had won,
| so she had fallen back on him, andi
he felt that he was failing her.
"Better be there early," he had
| thought, and so had they.
"Find the floorwalker," he decid-| ed, and so did they.
"Shout," he said to himself, but they won enally.
"Gloves, please," he murmured in every lull, but no one heard him.
Sald one tired girl behind the counter to another tired girl: "See that little man at the back? He's. been there a long time. I wonder who he is."
"Must be a detective," said the other, "but he doesn't look as though he could detect."
TO CLEAN PICTURE GLASS.
At this time of the year, when Spring-cleaning has receded into the dim distance, water-colour pic- tures are looking much less attrac-| tive as their colours are dimmed! by a slight film caused by the fogs and damp of Winter.
For a very simple remedy, buy a pennyworth of powdered chalk
Kak
THE NIGHTCAP
Since hair waves have had to be
Silk lampshades may be washed Sometimes you find it difficult to in soap and water if the process le Make a get the right
care, shade of dye you undertaken with Want, and are not sure which ones lather with good soap-flakes and to mix together to ensure the dip the lampshade up and down. Manicuring the nails is not such from your chemiet, put it into a kept carefully in place rather than colour; often, too, a garment which Bead trimmings will take no harm a simple, casual business as some bottle with a wide mouth, and be occasioned by tonga or curlers Rinse in girls seem to imagine. To get the shake vigorously. Find two soft the boudoir cap has given way to has been hopefully dyed black from this treatment.
best effects it must be done ex- old cloths, using one to clean the the hair act, which, in its turn, has tremely carefully and thoroughly. glass with and the other to polish. yielded to something very much The cuticle round the nails must The inside of windows can also be like the nightcap. Reople are mak- be thoroughly softened before any very easily cleaned in this way.
colour.
Sandwiches themselves need not taste like shavings with potted meat between, Potted meat rarely succeeds in sandwiches, and some- thing with a touch of mayonnaise or gherkin, or the two mixed, is a good substitute. Two or three decker sandwiches need not be thick if well cut and one of the Iny ers can be something creamy like mayonnaise. Cream and jum sand-| wiches are delicious, and the cream ean whipped if it is too moist. Ar agreeable addition to a tea- 1. because they are intriguing. are little narrow bricks made of
t-real, brown sugar, and butter neutralise the blue tint. With mixed together and baked. Plenty dark green a touch of purple is sur is required. A surprise necessary to get a good black; for
dark red, add a little darkgreen. at the lou-table is at least as im- partant as at dinner-time and is much less often thought of.
SHARK'S SKIN TAMMY.
to
turns out a horrible dingy rusty lukewarm water and hang out of doors to dry. Any beads should In dyeing material black, it is be wiped with a warm, dry cloth be- necessary
counteract the fore hanging out. effect of the original colour. For example, If the material is blue, 1 touch of orange; ahould be added to the black dye
To dye anything a jade green,| mix a packet of light green with half a packet of yellow; for saxe bluc use a packet of light blue and one-sixteenth of a packet of light green; for peach, use a packet of pink and a quarter packet of yel-
A Paris correspondent reports low; and mulberry, use a packet of several interesting new develop purple with half a packet of hello- ments in millinery.
The latest trope. thing, she says, is a new mat fabric in white that seeks to imitate
Lustrous Oil Permanent Hair Waven shark's skin, and does it very well.
which are Large, Soft and Natural. This is being used for sporting
CHARGES MODERATE.
A VISIT WILL CONVINCE YOU.
PYJAMA BUTTONS.
Pyjamas have a habit of return- |
Artistic Finger and Marcel Waves, Oiltammies with bands of red to matching from the laundry with the but- Treatment, Shampooing. Henna Pack (any colour), Hair Cutting and Mani- scarf showing a straight band of tons either broken or doubled up so cure for Ladies and Gentlemen. Con- red jersey cloth. The scarf is easy badly that they must be replaced.| scientious, Artistic Work by European, to make, having a slotting well Most wives know how vexing it is Expert, Mr. Alexander.
placed so that one end can be pass to find, at very busy time, that ed through to grip it firmly round)
a button is not only missing but the neck.
that a chunk of material has; vanished with it. This entails half an hour's patient and entirely un- necessary mending. If the sult: has been bought ready made there is the further annoyance of having nothing to match it. An invalid friend of mine used to cut off allį the buttons before the wash and
PHOTO-SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras."
Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
ZIESS and BUSCH
FIELD GLASSES.
+
Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited.
A. SEK & CO.
Tel No. 28459.
26A, Des Voeux Road, C.
Hong Kong.
TEDDY BEAR'S OUTFIT.
attempts are made to push it back,
and it is far better to persevera
sew them on again afterwards. Thisj Every time little Lady Mary with orange sticks than achieve
MENDING HINT.
When a dress is made at home or
gave me AD idea which has Cambridge, who is seven years old, quicker but transitory results with by a dressmaker, it is a wise plan saved me a good deal of irritability has a new outfit, a piece of the a cuticle knife.
to keep any pieces of the material during the last twenty years. I cloth is sent home so that she can There are special cuticle creams that may be left over, not only for remove the large pearl buttons and have her teddy bear dressed simi-to be bought, and bleaching lotions possible renovations, but for mend- work small button-holes in their|larly.
which will help to regain and pre-ing purposes. It may be that the frock tears in some conspicuous Unless the mails are perfectly place. No sewing silk or cotton,
places. To sach large button I then The teddy's coats are made by serve pretty nails. attach a small one with strands Lady Mary's clover "nanny" Just
of linen thread long enough to form before the little girl, left London to shaped, it is better to avoid any however closely the colour may a stem. This is strengthened with spend Christmas at Sandringham a pronounced colour effects or an ex-match, can fail to show, but if a buttonhole stitches and the ends blue tweed coat and hat were sent cessively high polish. Instead, see fow threads are unravelled from a of thread tied together with a reef to her, with a piece of the tweed that they are scrupulously, well piece of the same stuff and used, in knot. It is à simple matter to fix for teddy,
kept, and be content with just the a needle, for drawing the tear to- the small button In its button- He also has a red coat, which he slightest emphasis of their natural gether the result will be almost in- holes and remove it for washing.dons when she wears her red outfit. colour and gloss.
visible.
ing their own nightcaps, partly be cause it is difficult to buy one that fits a particular head and partly because so many caps or nets are uncomfortable in the region of the fear as soon as the head touches the pillow. Most people do not like the car included in the cap, and many do not even like it behind the ear, because of tho pressure of the
head upon it Very becoming nightcaps can be made of thin ecru cotton, crocheted closely to make a sort of poll and then adjusted to the head as the work proceeds. The cap is made a little on the lines of the tam-o'-shanter, but with no superfluous fuliness. It should be crocheted down to the line that in- cludes the hair round the head and that is not uncomfortable when the wearer is asleep. When the poll is finished the crochet can grow very large in mesh, which makes it lighter and less rough in surface. It can then be finished off by means of a neat band of the crochet, through which a narrow ecru coloured satin ribbon can be run. It should fit closely enough for the ribbon to be pulled up only very |slightly, but also with no tightness.'
BONZO
BONZOS 4IFT: TO THE HABITUAL
BORROWER
AN IMPOSSIBLE
PUZZLE
WHERE HALF A DO CAN BE CLEARLY
SEEN,
By George Studdy
BUT CAN'T BE
OT AT
HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
The Annual General Meeting will be
held on FRIDAY, March 4th, at 11 am,
in the Sanitary Board Room, 3rd Floor,
Post Office Building,