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THE CHINA MAIL.
FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1933.
1t1 The WOMAN'S Page tit
Safeguard Your Dry Cleaning At
Health on Holiday.
You cannot exercise careful super: vision of your food on holiday as you can at home. In any case the change of food, water and air often upset you for a few days. A safeguard against stomach and intestinal troubles is easily obtained in Pinkettes. This natural, all-vegetable laxative cleanser- away any harmful substance eaten be- fore it has time to do barm. Keen yourself it on holiday by an occasional done. Pinkettes are obtainable from chemists everywhere.
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FRESHENING FROCKS
How apick and span we should always look if we devoted one eve- ning every week to cleaning and renerally looking after our clothes1
But not many of us are able to give our clothes this con- tant attention, and then just as we are going out we find there is some little flaw which manages to spoil our whole appearance. It may be a grubby collar, a dusty coat-but whatever it is if you can spare ten minutes before going out you can put matters right and go out feel- ing that your appearance is not
letting you down.
The first thing, of course, is to sce that your clothes are properly brushed. A dry brush often leaves the material still looking dusty, but if it is slightly dampened with water containing a little methy- lated spirits, dust and any threads or hairs adhering to the material Seeds, Religious Goods, Toys, ele.disappear in a marvelious way. No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, Don't forget that it is easier to P. O. Box No. $20. BONG KONG. brush clotnes if they are spread over a hard surface. such as a table.
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Use Spirits. Methylated spirits alone will re- move watermarks very successful- If a garment has become spotted with rain, just dab the marke with methylated spirits on ja clean cloth, and then with an- other clean dry cloth, continue to dab until the marks disappear.
FASHION LEADER FAVOURS GREY.
Skirts Pleated For Fullness.
RUCHED NECK LINES.
SUMMER BEAUTY
HINT.
Vinegar For Sun-kist Maidens.
Keeping Clothes Aired
Inside as Well as Outside Must Be Dried.
Well-aired clothes are necessary to good health and hygiene. How many women realise this fact.
..
They will put sheets and pillow cases to air in a lump before the kitchen fire-hanging them on guard or clothes-horse at night- and go to bed serenely sure that their duty to the household, so far
as airing goes is adequately per formed.
The fire is low and soon goes out. The outsides of the sheets, towels and pillow cases are aired, true, but what about the insides? Even at the risk of a certain amount of creasing, every sheet, every pillow case, every garment that has been washed should be turned inside out and the whole of erch subjected to the drying in- fluence of a fire or a warm room.
Damp sheets spell colds, bron. chitis, rheumatism, Influenza and other ills, while damp body-linen accounts for the same sort of) troubles..
On Bright Days.
If the day is a bright dry one, clothes should be allowed to hang in the sun, for sun and wind not only dry but also disinfect lineas and wollens.
When the clothes are aired and ready to be put away see that, the chest of drawers or cupboard in which they are stored is not placed
ļagainst an outside wall...
You cannot guarantee that such ja wall will be dry, and, if it is not, Summer is coming on and sun-la certain amount of moisture must i tan becomes a problem. Most penetrate to the clothes. Greasy coat collars should also
Maggy Rouff is working hard
one wants a golden tan, every be brushed, but with petrol or
Always have furniture in which there are non-inflammable cleaning spirit, with grey for the summer season. but
many who cannot clothes are stored in a dry, warm your room, and Never use petrol unless you can use She puts with it striped-grey and risk staying in the sun too long. position in the
For those the best aid is a vine-linens and wollens will keep aired. it out of doors. By brushing on the garnetred necktie silk, this material
drying-woollens after cleaning spirit or petrol, much less being used for short loose jackets gar rubdown. Vinegar makes the When is absorbed by the cloth, the smell with horizontal stripes. The skirts sunburn 'turn a deep brown, but washing, do not put them before a does not linger and you can wear are cut straight with deep box only a small amount should be big fire. Moderate heat with an Too much vinegar won't old bath towel Beneath them to the garment in quite a short time, pleats opening out from the knees used.
The best way of getting rid of a petrol or other cleaning smell is to
hang the article in a warm room.
to the hem in fanshaped fullness; do the trick. the pleats behind are deeper and
fuller than in front.
When morning skirts aro
not
absorb the moisture is best.
Shiny patches will also respond pleated they are shaped to flow as Menu Suggestions For To-morrow
to the right kind, of brushing. Use the materials are cut. Little jackets
Ja mixture of one tablespoonful of when taken off reveal dresses with
(Serving three) Breakfast. Grapefruft
lammonia to one pint of water and bodices which have many devices
This pro to give use a really stiff brush.
a graceful width to the vides an excellent temporary cure. shoulders and to cut the straight Ready Cooked Wheat Cereal Cream Shine on material means that the line of the back, as when
a tuck!
Coffee Butlered Toast surface has been worn away, 50 runs at a sailor-collar line from the
Luncheon the water and ammonia treatment shoulders, or frills stand out from Peanut Butter Sandwiches Tea will have to be repeated from Lime the shoulder line and run down the Diced Chilled Fruit Sugar Cookies ¡to time.
Dinner. back to the waist. The neck lines For Gloves.
are softly ruched and fastened to-Creamed Celery and Egga Somerset
or
Buttered Carrots
Bread Butter.
Lenox French Dressing
Coffee Cherry Cobbler
Is there anything more annoying gether in front.
The ruche may be narrow than to have several slightly soil-i
one quite thick so as to form a ruffle. Lettuce ed pairs of gloves and not really spotless pair to wear? Pull One is made of grey and red neck- one your gloves, button them up, the silk. Sleeves may be sbort and and then, starting at the finger-full with cuffs turned back, with
drills tips, rub them all over with an
and ruffles, with looped ordinary piece
of india-rubber, draperies, or plain and of three- Have a really big plece and sea quarter length widening at the hem.
that it is clean and soft.
There is also a special kind of rubber, sold by chemists, which is used for cleaning soiled felt hats. This is very useful for removing ordinary dirt, but if it is the back of the bat which has become
Silk fringe maker elbow sleeves on
a pale-blue blouse; over it goes. a. bolero with black silk fringe sleeves.
FOR SHINY SILVER
Solid silver can be quickly clean-
2 tablespoons catsup.
1 tablespoon chili sauce.
Mix ingredients in deep bowl. Beat two minutes. Chill. Beat and
serve.
Cherry Cobbler.
2 cups stoned cherries.
2/3 cup sugar.
1 tablespoon flour.
1 tablespoon lemon juice. ·
1⁄2 teaspoon salt.
2 tablespoons butter.
1⁄2 cup water.
Blend cherries, sugar and flour.
Creamed Celery And Eggs Somerset Add rest of ingredients. Pour into
3 tablespoons butter.
4 tablespoons flour.
2 cups milk.
2 hard cooked eggs, sliced.
1⁄2 cup cooked celery.
2 tablespoons chopped, pimientos
4 teaspoon salt.
1⁄4 teaspoon paprika,
4 teaspoon chopped onions....
shallow, buttered baking dish.
Crust.
11⁄2 cups flour,
1 teaspoon baking powder.
4 teaspoon salt.
5 tablespoons lard.
1/3 cup milk.
Mix flour, baking powder and Balt. Cut in lard with knife. Add
Melt butter. Add four and when milk., When soft dough forms pat greasy it should be brushed in the ed if boiled in a solution of bicarb, mixed add milk and cook until it out and fit over cherries. Make same way as a solfed cost collar. soda in an aluminium paz. A che creamy sauce forms. Add rest of three holes in top. Bake 25 mín.
mical change takes place and the ingredients. Cook two minutes.
A creased frock or a pleated silver is made like new, while, the skirt which is losing its pleats can aluminium is not affected. be quickly freshened even if you
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haven't time to get to work with and the pleats falling back into an iron and a damp cloth, Just place. An even better plan for a shake it thoroughly for ten very crushed truck is to hang it infnutes in front of a hot fre and up in the bathroom, turn on the watch the creases coming out and hot-water tap and close the door.
Lenox French Dressing.
1. tesspoon salt.
1 teaspoon dry mustard.
1 teaspoon celery seed;:
1 teaspoon paprīka.
4 tablespoons sugar.
utes in moderate oven. Serve warm or cold
DRYING HINT
Hang your frocks up by the un- derarm seam, just near the sleeve. They will dry without losing shape
5 tablespoons vinegar.
34 cup anlad oil,
lat the hem.
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