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NEW PERFUMES IN
VOGUE.
The Modern Girl Will Approve.
Walk In Morning And Get Slim
A Habit Worth Cultivating
PROBLEM OF EXERCISE
Surplus fat has been the cause of in for a little extra slimming, those more unhappiness than can be well foam baths are really -very imagined..
efficacious, and they don't leave youj Very often fat is absolutely un-exhausted like a Turkish bath does necessary and can easily be got rid so often.
| of, although it is unquestionably an
Localised Fat.
RUSSIAN DISHES PROVE POPULAR:
At Excelsior.
superfluous flesh will fade away even ner menus will be prepared dally by more quickly.
the Chef at the Excelsior. Guests
hereditary affliction, and people with Localised fat has not got much to fat parents are more prone to it do with food; it is more often a Distinguished Gathering than others. But even so, it is not matter of a bad circulation. Fat the actual fat itself that they in-legs. and arms can be treated with herit, but the tendency to produce it, hand massage, and also with one of Light flower perfumes for day and therefore if they take the mat- the really excellent reducing lotions use, heavier and rather sophisti-ter in hand before the fatty ten- on the market. Those wooden rollers ed the first Russian. Tiffin and
A distinguished gathering attend cated ones for the evening, are the
dency has had time to dominate will work marvels with fat calves Dinner served at the Excelsior ARE INVITED TO INSPECT OUR smart woman's choice to-day.
them, they will be able to keep them and "beefy" arms, and will do away Restaurant, 22 Des Voeux Road She finds among British perselves reasonably slender. STOCK OF
fumers' newest productions an op-
with that ugly mottled look which Central, opposite the Government propriate one for wear with every cases of illness) if sufficient exertion.
Fat cannot accumulate (except in is the direct result of a bad circula- Radio Office, on the occasion of the outfit.
opening of the Excelsior, on Tues-: Ever tweeds now
have their cise is taken to prevent it forming,
Don't omit to weigh yourself | day. special perfume, a "heather mix- you eat and then do nothing to every day, and, if possible, before
Several typical Russian dishes ture" which suggests the fragrance dissipate the energy thus formed, and after your walk in the morning, appeared on the menu and called of peat and heather-blossoma car-you are bound to become fat, but if of course, If you can bring your-forth universal comment compli- ried on a moorland breeze.
you eat reasonably and exercise self to drink a glass of hot water in menting on the culinary accomplish- For
more formal yourself really well, you will never the early morning instead of a cup ments of the Chef. UNC with
have cause dresses, favourite flower scents:
to worry about your of tea, it is all to the good, and the Special Russian Tiffins and Din- are butterfly orchid--(made from curves. English wild orchids)-tobacco- In these days there is plenty of flower, and essence of the winter-eating and no fasting, and in addi- flowering Korean guelder rose. tion practically no strenuous exer- A "spring-time" acent blends cise, unless you happen to be a golf the sweetness of all the year's first fiend or a swimmer. Even people flowers-violets, hyacinths, snow-who hunt in the winter laze a good drops, and so on..
deal in the summer. The ordinary Young girls can use on all oc-woman gets up for breakfast at ning casions a distinctly simple, very jo'clock, takes a walk which is a light scent, which is fragrant saunter, writes letters, attends to without being definitely sweet. her household and her various busi- Among new perfumes for even-ness affairs, eats a good luncheon, ing is one, sweet and yet elusive, perhaps takes another saunter in inspired by a famous picture in the the afternoon, and so to tea, dinner, Louvre. Another » sweet at the and bed. first sniff, but leaves on the air a Now, If you are inclined to be fat tang. Auggesting amber, and you will follow this simple ad- chypre and incense.
vice you will find that you can easily The woman who prefers flower keep yourself within bounds without scend can have shoulder spray or subjecting yourself to any drastic corsage pasy of artificial flowers form of dieting. In fact, you need imbued with their natural sweet-not diet at all in the strict sense of ness-rose, orchid, violet, or lily-the word. uf-the valley.
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HONG KONG HEIGHTS
For the information of visiteri the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:-
Island.
Victoria Peak
Feet 1,828
Signal Station
1,774
Mt. Parker
1,734
Mountain Lodge
..! 1,725
The Eyris
1,728
Peak Hotel
1,805
Talkoo Sanatorium
1,000
Mt, Davis
877
Bowen Road (filterbada)
297
Mainland.
Foot
Talmosban
8,124
Kowloon Peak
1971
Bringing Up Father.
being
Morning Routine.
But this is a cure for over-weight, who were present on the opening remember, not one, to make you day congratulated the Management ridiculously thin, weighing seven very heartily on the happy Idea of stone when you ought to weigh introducing these novel dishes and nine.
food into the Colony,
Menu Suggestions For To-morrow
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A Dinner Menu. Fowl Timbales
Candied Sweet Totatoes Buttered Spinach Bread
Butter
minutes. Pour into shallow, greased pan, bake 20 minutes in moderate oven. Cover with top-
tablespoons flour
ping.
Topping.
Paar Salad Orange Meringue Pudding Coffee
1⁄2 cup sugar
5
2/3 cup orange juice
2
egg yolks
1
Fowl Timbales,
1
cup diced fowl
teaspoon salt
I
tablespoon butter
I
cup bread crumbs
2
egg whites, beaten
2
eggs
4
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
I
1
}
1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
tablespoon chopped parsley tablespoon chopped celery
1⁄4 teaspoon chopped onion
cup milk
tablespoon lemon juice
tablespoons confectioner's
Bugor,
Blend half cup of sugar with flour, add fruit juices, yolks, salt
The perfume, instead of
Have a cup of tea when you are merely sprayed on, is painted on called, then get up and go for a with tiny brushes; this process
good walk for at least an hour, and makes it last for montha.
mind that it is a walk and not a Perfume cigarettes-in boxes of three-make a
stroll. You should try to maintain
and butter. Cook until very thick. novel gift. The
Stir constantly. Cool. Spread on a pace of four miles an hour, using ename! "cigarette" sheathes а metal spatula covered with
every muscle, and next day you will
top baked pudding, cover with Bolld
1 tablespoon butter or gravy- too perfume, to
know only
well that those which the coloured muscles have been used. At the end tered Individual pans, set in pan
Mix ingredients. Half all but meringue made by adding the con- "¡fectioner's sugar to egg whites and "cigarette tip" forms a handle.
of three days you will be inventing of hot water. Bike 25 minutes in beating until creamy, Bake seven excuses to yourself why you can't moderate oven. Unmould carefulminates in moderate oven. get up and go for your walk, but ly, surround with creamy sauce or
ENAMELLED SATIN.
do not weaken, Keep on, and if leftover gravy.
you are really very stiff and de- pressed by the evening have a mustard bath.
The secret lies in the fact that
Candled Sweet Potatoes.
boiled parled sweet potatoes)
1⁄2 cup dark brown suger
1⁄2 teaspoon salt-
2
tablespoons butter
1⁄2 cup water
you are exercising before you have eaten, and that is worth three walks taken after breakfast, You can have a perfectly ordinary breakfast, Sprinkle with: sugar and but toast instead of bread in advised Add butter and water..
A DAINTY PUDDING
1
Mousse Aux. Oranges.
Use 2 eggs, 2 oranges, 2 oz. Arrange pelatoes in baking pan, sugar, 1⁄2 oz. gelatine. Whip the
salt. yolks of the eggs with the sugar.
Bake 25 and the grated rind of Half au
You with not be very hungry for minutes in moderate oven. Baste orange until light and creamy, Juncheon, because your breakfast will have been later, and you will potatoes several times during bak- Add the strained juice of the two
ing... probably be satisfied with plece 'of fish and some vegetables.
J
Orange Meringue, Pudding. 11⁄2 cups flour cup sugar
3. teaspoons baking powder
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
egg
more
I
Of course, it you can manage an: A new fabric for blouses Is other good walk in the afternoon, known as chamelled satin. It has so much the better, but don't overdo a surface like a cire fabric, but ist until you have become heavier and less shiny. It is said hardened. By walking, alone, real to wash perfectly, and is used for walking, you can keep your weight lingerie fittings in white and with at almost any normal weight that great effect in lacquer red high-| inocked shirts for tailored suits. you wish. If you feel inclined to go
1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla 2/3 cup milk
3 tablespoons fat, melted Mixingredients,
beat
oranges.
'Dissolve the riclatine in a very little water, and strain on to the (mixture, bent until it begins to set, then mix in lightly and gradually the very stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Turn into e pretty glass or china bowl or into custard, cups, decorate with a little whipped cream, and sprinkle over some fine twolly chopped angelica,
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling, such an harbor, plow, and altho,
12.
41
112
13
14
16
18
119
129
23
26
10
34 35
[40]
31
36
41
43
45
47
148
149.
50
52
54
155
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) | VERTICAL (Cont.) 39-Close by
surface resembling{41-Crimson
HORIZONTAL
1-Having a Blossy
ice
6-Explosion
11-Repair
13-Baner
14-Exist
18-An English titia
16-incite
17-Musical note
18-Bummit
26-The nostrila
22-A
of piece furniture
23-A lady of Arthur's
court 25-Fondla
for fastening
■ shee 27-A heavenly body
29-64gment 30-Purified
31-A vegetable
31-Bird homa
36-Tie
47-Berica
42-To harass
44-Before- 145-Half an
46-Epoch
em
of hearing
50-Banst 52-Hoarded 54-Hard 55-Dispatchon
VERTICAL
1-A framework of
bara
2-A fruit (pt.) 3-Because
4-A kind of lettuce 6-ireland (Port:)
-Bosseches 7-Loiter
·B-indefalte article
1-C*031
10-Exchange 13-Shar
13-Join 10-Deep hole 21-Lines again 22-Hinder 24-Venturad 26-Londed 23-To steep, a flax 23-An enclosure ・31-Laks
"Laks in...
Bwitserland 32-Final 34-Observe
[86–Covered with' tar
36-The staff of life. 37-To close with wax 38-Golf mounda 40-Parunes
42-A slope (Boot) 43-Makus lac ---~~-~- 46-Printer's measure
(pl.)
48-Fish egg
51-Into
63-Royal Navy (abbr.)
The solution of the above with a new cross-word puzzle wili
appear in to-morrow'a issue...
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