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The woollen evening gown is much discussed. It may be smooth like! featherweight broadcloth or slightly rough, as in almost transparent wool jvoile. The disadvantage of a wool- len evening frock is in the texture; it is not silky enough for artificial light. Velveteen evening gowns are open to much the same criticism.
Velveteen looks hard in the even- ing, though it makes up very well into coata and wraps. Crushed velvet, on the other hand, drapea exquisitely and does not need much elaboration.
So far feathers have been the most suitable trimming. The most upstanding neck trimming is the velvet raffle on afternoon and even- ing gowns; made of large bows in series it is fixed on the shoulder line with metal clips.
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Heavily lacquered satin is liked for interior pyjamas, a black satin pair worn with a multi-coloured iballoon-sleeve blouse of fine knitted wool being an unusual and practical, {version.
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The dainty silk and rubber fold- ing cases so much used now in place of the more ordinary sponge. bag, soon become soiled and stain- ed if laid down at the edge of a They last wash-basin or bath.
longer and are handler to use if they are fitted with loops by which they may be hung up. Loops to match the ease may easily be made from ribbon, binding, or strips of silk, and one should be stitched to each side of the case, so as not to Interfere with its opening. If the case is soft and tends to sag when hung up, it should be stiffened with
a length of whale-bone, fitted inside each pocket and stitched into place.
Autumn Stylists Revive
Art Of The Bow
Dress Designers Inspired By The Picture Galleries
Menu Suggestions| For To-morrow
Breakfast. Orange Juice
Cooked Wheat Cereal
Soft Cooked Eggs Buttered Toast
Lucheon
'Cream
Coffee
Crackers
Vegetable Soup Sugar Cookies Peach Sauce
Tea Dinner.
Chicken Creole on Casserole. Butttered Spinach . Bread
Butter
Beef Salad in Gelatino
Fresh Gingerbread Coffee
Chicken Creole En Casserole
2 caps diced, cooked chicken..
2 tablespoons flour.
1 teaspoon salt..
teaspoon paprika.
1⁄2 cup chopped celery..
2 tablespoons chopped green pop- pera.
1 cup chicken stock.
2 cups boiled rice,
2 cups tomato pulp.
Sprinkle four over chicken, pour Into buttered casserole. Add reat of Ingredients. Cover, cook 14. hours in mederate oven. Serve in casserole.
Beet Salad In Gelatine
1 package lemon-flavoured gela-{
tine mixture.
2 cups boiling water.
2 tablespoons vinegar.
2 tablespoons horseradish.
1 teaspoon salt.
2 cups chopped beets.
1 tablespoon chopped onions..
1⁄2 cup chopped cabbage..
Pour water over gelatine mix- ture, stir until dissolved. Cool and pour into mould. Chill until stiff. Unmould on crisp cabbage leaves," top with salad dressing.
Fresh Gingerbread. 1/8 cup-fat.
1 cup dark brown sugar.
2 égga.
1 cup water. As a
1⁄2 cup molasses, ·-
1⁄2 teaspoon salt.
211⁄2 cups bour...
1 teaspoon soda.
1 teaspoon baking powder.
2 teaspoons cinnamon.
1 teaspoon ginger.
1 teaspoon cloves.
"Fashion has it that the bow is to country malden, and of sky-like queen it amongst the coming modes. blue. The mob eaps of the period It is to perch coquettishly upon our made excellent backgrounds for the shoulders, crown our heads, adorn bow at its most provocative, and the our elbows, and, indeed, to make its lace headdresses of the grande decorative appearance at all points dame, after peasing their tapering of the sartorial compass. For the ends round the throat and back bow la again being recognised as again, finally ended up a becoming the feature that it is and the inex- career in a flattering bow either un- of Ingredients, beat two minutes. pensive agent for chic that it may der or at the side of the chin, ac- Pour into shallow, greased pan. prove itself," writes Louise Stables, cording to the views of their wear Bake 30. minutes in moderately
slow oven. Serve fresh. In the Daily Telegraph.
❘er.
We have the authority of Art for Can it be that in time we may the revival of the bow. Velazquez come to. tie up our shingled heada has demonstrated conclusively in in something of the same manner? his portraits of Spanish Infantas Among modern artists, there is how delightfully right a whole ar- no designer who knows better how ray of stiff little bows can be, when to punctuate a stage costume with they extend right away from the de- the pertinent, or impertinent, bow colletage of a bodice to the hem of than George Sheringham.
a gown of stiff coral and silver bro- I remember how in his setting of cade. They may be uniform in "The Duenna," at the Lyric, Ham size, these bows, or they may gramersmith, under the management dually grow larger with a beautiful fo Sir Nigel Playfair, he used the precision, as they range from north bow to immense advantage. It to south of the costume, and it will introduced the note of orange to be difficult to decide under which the apple-green costume worn by system they appear the more at Donna Louled, holding back her trüctive.
paniers in formal little half-dozens, The eighteenth century loved its 'and giving to the pointed bodice bows, too. Sir Joshua Reynolds the vertical line, that was needed in painted bows con amore, sometimes the front, It gave infinite style in enriched with embroideries and Its different sizes to the white-and- galona, as in the case of the bow black of her maid, and punctuated sewn to the elbow sleeve of the ela to a nicety the vast expanses of borate dress worn in his portrait of hooped skirt surrounding the form Lady North in the collection of Bir of the Duenna herself.
Philly Sassoon, sometimes Just And since the modern dreas desig-
ust knotted from a soft ribbon, as in ner is now definitely in the cate- the case of his pictures of less 80- gory of the artist, we may expect phiacated aittera.
to see the bow exploited this sea Morland dearly loved a bow, pre-son in similarly effective and be ferably tying up the waist of a coming ways.
Bringing Up Father.
1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg, Cream fat and sugar.
SOUPS faste
better with a
few drops of
Add rest
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OWING TO THE WONDERFUL RESULTS OF OUR CHRISTMAS SALE WE HAVE DECIDED TO EXTEND IT FOR ONE MORE MONTH TO ALLOW OUR CUSTOMERS TO BUY THEIR CHRIST. « MAS PRESENTS FOR THEIR FRIEND IN HONG KONG. AS WELL AS THOSE IN THE HOME LANDS.
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