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THE CHINA MAIL
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1934.
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Suggestions For Fancy Dress EVENING
Delightful Costumes Easily Made
CHEAP MATERIALS OFTEN VERY EFFECTIVE
Quite apart from the parties for which the invitations state fancy be prepared dress, people should
ideas. Some dress with faney people produce quite astonishing results at moment's notice for churades. But when it is a ques- tion of dancing, a little more at- tention Ln Construction. per- manence, and comfort is Indicated.
It is curious that men, as a rule, are so reluctant to "dress up," not only because it is perfectly ob-
that they
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vions
preciate
can quite
the effect they produce when it is good, but because
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fancy dress affair often giver them
ordinary
the chance of dancing in infinitely greater evening dress.
comfort thun
Vary Your Costume
Unless you have found a fancy dress which really becomes you
better than anything you have ever worn, and therefore do not mind how often you wear it, it is much more amusing to wear a dif- ferent one every time.
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With little imagination and ingenuity this need not be a difficult or costly ambition to live up to.
Many dresser may be made of extremely cheap materials.
ver
The very modern gypsy wears a dress and hat of that tinselly metal cloth you can buy for very little at any firm which denis in theatrical) BT. The dress fits closely the hips and flares widely at the foot, its flares aliffened by bands of green, black and red American cloth.
Round the neck and arms and in the ears a lavish display of jewel- lery is made possible by raiding a haberdashery counter and securing ring upon ring of safety pins.
The shawl can be made of almost anything that will drape well und stand the weight of a deep fringe:
that is not covered by the shawl.
Effective Materials
HANDBAGS
Lace With Jewelled Clasps.
VELVET OR FAILLE SILK TO MATCH GOWN
There are some charming shapes in evening handbags in London. A
very simple one in velvet or fall-
le silk is excellent to us with a dinner dress if you have it in the same colour. Oblong in shape, its the top is slightly gathered over fastening, and although so severe, in finish it is most attractive.
Among the very costly ones there are some exquisite examples in petit point with clasps of semi- precious stones, A very unusual
fortable and much more effective white one is made in a circle, its than the would-be-exquisite crea-rim thickened with three rows of arranged pearls and its opening tions which do not quite succeed..
One of the joys of fancy dresses like "Aapjack." You could only which are designed by or for the carry the most slender kinds of individual wearer in the scope they cigarette and powder cases and give for using gay and often very diminutive handkerchief, but it is
extremely elegant. inexpensive fabrics.
Menu
Suggestions
TIFFIN
Baked Clams on Half Shell Cut Lemon
Battered Mashed Potatoes Beefsteak and Kidney Pudding Ladies Cabbage Cinnamon Putts
DINNER Blanches Soup Mackerel & la Maitre d'Hote!
Chicken Vol au Vent Chump of Veal a la Daube Creamed Chifflower Straw Potatoes
Nut Cream. Custard Sauce Blanche's Soup
For To-morrow
meat and tie up tightly. Put the bone into a pan with the herbs, the anchovy, mace, pepper, and stock. Cover the veal with slices of fat bacon and lay a sheet of paper over it. Cover the pan closely simmer for 2 hours, and remove bacon. Take up the veal, remove all strings or skewers and DuL on a hot dish. Pour over a rich brown sauce.
Ladies Cabbage
1 firm cabbage, boiled and left
Lo get cold, 2 unbeaten eggs, Lablespoon butter, 3 or more table-
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Nut Cream
Best Dressed in U. S.
No less an authority than the World Fashion Court at Paris ha awarded Mrs. Harrison Williams, New York society woman, a' place among the ten best dressed wome in the world. Here is Mr. Wil liamu, wearing ■ Summer pajaZIK, ensemble. She is the only American named among the ten.
SMART LEATHER MOTOR COAT.
Beige Pigskin With
Wide Skirt.
COLLAR AND CUFFS OF BROWN VELVET
leather
Deep Greens
And Browns
What Fashion Leaders
Are Wearing
For informal occasions deep greens and browns are worn a good deal, also a deep shade of red. Princess Nicolas of Roumania chose a light blue wool skirt and Jacket with a darker velvet blouse and Miss Marion Davies, for her own private wear, selected a sports suit of brown tweed with matching marocain. blouse, the Jacket trimmed with skunk, while Mrs. Cole Porter took back with her to America a grey wool sult with a lighter grey angora jumper, both the jacket and jumper trimmed These with fancy nickel buttons. three notably well-dressed women' went to Molyneux for their sports things.
The Early Morning Cough!
You have probably grown so used to that early morning cough that it is treated as a matter of course, and therefdre not treated at this But if you continue
sooner or Jeter it may neglect develop into something, much more serious.
all.
Do not delay; to-morrow morn- ing. Immediately the cough begins, slip a Respirold into your mouth. You will find that the antisep- Lic, aromatic vapours released while the lozenge slowly dissolver will soothe the threat, break up the phlegm in your bronchial taben, and lof your cough has
ceased. cost
attractive
cold
4 yolks of eggs, 4 oz. walnut beige. The skirt is wide enough to meat, 1/4 oz. gelatine, 6 oz. sugar, wrap round the knees on a
pint milk, 1⁄2 pint cream. Chop day, and the waist-line is zipped walnuts, pour the boiling milk on in beneath a trim belt. them, cover and leave to cool. Beat
Re-
Nobody afflicted with an early morning cough should be without Respiroids. They are helpful also in preventing as well as relieving colds, and as a promptly effective treatment for sore throat. spiroids are obtainable at all medi cine dealers, or at $1.20 per bottle post free, from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 451, Klangae Road, Shanghel
spoons of rich milk. Pepper and It is difficult to make a Buil some vermicelli, heat 2 alt, Boil the cabbage in 2 waters. cont looks really interesting, since and the suggested upper arm tablespoons butter, add 1 table-When cold, slice fine and mix it leather does not lend itself much
corn-flour until boiling, with a unbeaten eggs, butter, milk, to frivolous treatment. spoons add 2 or more cups of milk. Stir pepper and salt to taste. Stir well,
is a motoring But here You can get gingham in brilliant until it thickens; take out a cupful place in a buttered baking dish. which is BO ingeniously trimmed
look Cartons for Scottish fantasies. And pour it over 2 unbeaten eggs, dust with crumbs, add small pieces that it would Many of the artificial silks either Return to the remaining soup, sea of butter and bake until brown. against the smartest background. In the first place, It is made of intended for the kind of dress that son to taste, heat but do not let Serve hot.
Add vermicelli. Serve im
supple pigskin in a lovely shade of the fastidious among us would not boll. choose ordinarily, or originally de-mediately.
Mackerel a in Maitre d'hotel signed for furnishings, make gor-:
1 medium mackerel, 2 oz. butter, geous gowns of the Middle Ages and also for the Seventeenth and 2 oz. maltre d'hotel butter, salt,
It is the collar and cuffs which cayenne, watercress. Clean, wash Eighteenth Centuries.
always and fry the mackerel, cut of the the yolks of eggs with the sugar, make this coat particularly attrac- Head-dreas, which are
are of deep such an important factor in fancy head and fins, make a deep incision add the cream and the nut mixture. tive. These dress. and are the most powerful neither side of the backbone and Bring to the boil only, take off velvet. The collar is gathered in-
A put a little salt, cayenne and
Klave add the previously softened to the revers, and can be drawn up ways of changing one's ance, can also be contrived out of poonful of clarified buller into
gelatine and when melted, turn beneath the chin when the wind is these incisions. Put the mackerel into a rinsed mould, leave to cool. extra chilly. The deep gathered; the most unexpected materials.
Sometimes it is necessary to have on to a well-greased gridiron and Turn out when set and serve with cuffs fasten tightly round the
Thail under the grill until brown foundation of thin cardboard, but
ja custard sauce flavoured with a wrists by means of press-studs. If a more decorative effects is wanted, not always; and a really lavish one side, then turn and brown tablespoon of chartreuse.
a couple of wooden buttons can be POSTAGE STAMP CATALOGUES display of jewellery in easy to on the other side. Serve on a hot dish and put the maitre d'hotel
from used instead of the studs. butter on the fish and garnish with watercress. Serve hot.
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achieve for very little money Lo- day.
Cinnamon Puffa
6 oz. flour, 1 tablespoon butter, pint milk, 2 oz. sugar, 2 large eggs, vanilla flavouring, Mix the four smoothly with the milk, add,
The movies are a great help when one is at a loss for fancy Chomp of Veál a in Daube dress ideas. There must be many 5 or 6 lb, of the chump end of the (the sugar, the melted butter, beat] ladies who have wondered if they loin of veal, 1 anchovy, I pint of the eggs and the flavouring. Beat; could look 1.5 lovely 118 Ann vea] stock, 1⁄2 lb. of veal force- together and heat in a double sauce 6 pan, stirring until the mixture will Baleyn if they followed the lines of meat 2 blades of mace, 4 or her dress or hairdressing.
small slices of fat bacon, 8 to 12 leave the sides of the pan.
Turn
A congenial party with a sense small dried mushrooms previously out on a buttered slab, cool, and I small cut into rounds or squarea. Dip of burlesque could easily contrive soaked in boiling water. to go as the Noah Family; although bunch of herbs (mixed) 12 pepper-Into a fritter batter and cook in very lovely fancy dresses are a joy corns. Cut off the chump end of deep fat until a golden brow to the eye on the right people, the the loin of veal, take out the bone, Drain and serve very hot, sprinkled, funny ones are usually mire com-stuff the hollow with good force-with sugar and cinnamon.
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our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic analling, such as harbor, plow, and altho
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12-Tax 14-True
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15-Goal 20-Country In Asla 22~A
A vegetable
23-Plats (abbr.) 24-Ever (Contr.) 25-Affirm
27-A beverage
28-A send covering 29-Demons
$2-Enclosure 82-Myself
24-Fifty-aix (Rom.)
35-Fog-horn
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44~ Laud 46-Wide-mouthed
pitcher 148-Eagle
49-Moved rapidly
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2-A pastry
3-A mader
4-Depart 6-Солвите
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18-Rugs
20-Bottom member of a
ship (pl.)
21-A tree
24-Man's name
26-A descendant
27-To
operate a flying machine
30-Evenings (Post) 91-A taste 52-Peaked 33-Companion 36-Tear 27-An
An event PR-Tian
41-Brain 43-Energy 40-A metric land
Measure
147-Musical note
The solution of the above with a new cross-sora przste will
appear in to-morrow'e izsue.
"TAG-END" DRESSES FEATURED
**Tag-end" dresses are to be fea- tured extensively in the apring col- lections in Paris.
These "tag-enders" are meant for wear at cocktail parties and throughout the evening till mid- [night.
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.
POP
The Test.
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OF OUR
COUNTRY?
-WHY! WHEN I WAS YOUR
AGE
I KNEW THEM
All!
YES! BUT THERE
WERE ONLY
TWO OR THREE
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