THE CHINA MAIL.
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1934.
1t1 The WOMAN'S Page th
Silken Fabrics In Great Variety Hats Of Bygone
Taffeta Specially Popular.
CHECKS WIDELY WORN
It is pleasing to think that the vogue of silken fabrics in great variety is with us again. Once
we were apt to only associate' silk with expensive and formal styles. To-day, however, silk is used in all ways.
warm
Taffeta, is specially popular; the tailor employs it for the plainest of coats and skirts, worn.. with (1 pique light-coloured blouses waistcoats. Suits of this kind are ultra-smart. For the first spring days plenty of black taffeta, varied by dark navy and brown, will be seen. The bright-colour- for little ed taffetas are chosen
cloth worn under dark
dresses
coats..
pear in
Checked taffetax and surahs up- in dresses, but many nearly all cases they have plain dark coats of differing weights to these them. Many of go over coats are unlined. This is a use ful mode, and one is pleased to see it revived, for it permits of ligh ter, more spring-like, garments be-: ing worn by women who otherwise would he chary of the seeming ex- travagance of the brighter fracks. the small Very attractive are patterned surahs, and they are ideal for the ensemble. Checks in green and white and red and white are gay for dress, with a short or when long matching coat, and necessary euch thin materials can cloth wrap. well take an extra Floral designs in surah are pretty. though less of the tailored charac ter.
Black-and-white appears crisp and attractive
ever. White!
erepe in conjunction with
black
satin or crepe de Chine is general-
ly the most chle choice from
collection for the afternoon semble.
The Jet Dagger ·
any. OH-
A black crepe charmeuse coat and-skirt has a decorativa emboss-
ed while silk waistcoat held
Chic Beach Checks
The beach girl of 1934 is le
be a gorgeous creature in fetching cheeks, according to Mae Clarke, creen player, who displays a chic bench su here. Blue and white is the entour motif.of the check. ed jersey cloth. It has Jersey straps crossing the sun back.
GLOVE FASHIONS FOR SPRING.
Silver Initials On Black Suede.
large black jet, buttons, and with fashions ordained by
Day's
Interesting Study. Of
"London Display.
A STUFFED HAT
In exhibition of bygone hats at the London Museum was inspect- {ed.
This little collection of no more than a
is attracting dozen hats un astonishing amount of Text.
inter-
One can only conclude that old hats are "news," and resolve
to store up examples of one's own headgear against the day when it will have a historic interest.
Surely our modern hats will some day look quite as funny and incredible as these relics from 1850 and 1914!
Bonnets of 1850
Eight bonnets dating from the century early and mid-nineteenth
саве. occupy the top part of the The earlier models are of straw, with poke hoods standing out round the face, but by 1875 they to diminutive dwindled have affairs heavily trimmed with plush and lace, pearls and flowers, and jeven birds and insects.
by!
of Here are some
with the new
the glove! Paris for ensembles.
If
it is worn a white ostrich collar, wear
with a esp entirely made of strands] They are even more elaborate than of the ostrich. A large jet dag those worn
for last season, ger brings in the black touch. The colours are often quieter, this shoes and gloves are of white counterbalanced by the wealth of suede, strapped with black cords. trimmings used.
A Stuffed Ilot
|SEAMLESS HIPLINE. IN | NEW CORSETRY
Bulgeless Garter Hat
The seamless hip is an impor- With tant new note in corsetry. no seams there can be no possibi- lity of a line showing through the most tightly fitted frock. In these garments the fabric is given a dia- xónal pull at the sides which makes boning entirely unnecessary. The restraint of the garment lies in its Ifashioning. This garment comes not only in sizes for smaller wo- men, but in large sizes as well.
New Garter unsightlines of a garter Att- a tightly
The showing through
ed frock has long been one of the bugboos of the corsetiere. The spring reason introduces a new type of French garter which eli- minates all garter bulges. They are made of a doable faced satin webbing of lastex.
Menu Suggestions For To-morrow
TIFFIN
Maryland Croquettes. Mushroom Sauce Potted Pigeons Candied Sweet Potatoes
Saute Parsnips Prune Whip Custard Sauce DINNER
Cream of Cauliflower Soup Halibut a la Poulette
A yellow velvet bonnet of this period had the following rimming not!-two it or on it-believe stuffed humming birds, an imita- tion butterfly, and a dragonfly with glittering wings, a large spray of
the whole Breast purple pansies, and thing tastefully set off with mosses of dyed grasses.
Styles of 1900
It was rather a feat of faith to were believe that these bonnets
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ever actually worn, but when came to the hats of 1908 and 1914 memory reinforced the faith.
Lemon Slices
hard-boiled eggs, 1 lemon, parsley. Clean fish and cut in 8 fillets. Add seasonings to melted butter, and put dish containing butter in sau cepan of hot water to keep butter fillet melted. Take
up each separately with a fork, dip in but- small ter, roll and fasten with a wooden skewer. Put in shallow pan, dredge with flour, and bake 12 minutes in hot even (400 de- grees F.) Remove skewers, arrange
of Grouse Saute Chasseurjon plate for serving, pour around Green Peas au Gratin
Roast Beef Salad
Ambrosis
Potted Pigeons
Bechamel sauce, and garnish with egg yolks rubbed through strainer. egg whites cut in strips, lemon sitcos and parsley.
6 pigeons, 1 quart stock, sall Breast of Grouse, Saute Chasseur pepper, flour, lard, cup butter,
2 grouse, butter, salt, peppar, 1
cup dour, dry toast, parsley, stick celery, 3 slices carrot, 2 Clean, stuff, and truse pigeons, slices onlon, 2 sprigs parsley, 14 There's no question that there place upright in saucepan, and add bay leaf, 4% tablespoons flour, spreading carwheels, one of them stock. Cover and cook slowly for cup stewed and strained tomatoes, | nearly three feet across, were per-2 hours or until tender. Remove salt, cayenne, lemon juice, 1 tea- ched on the piled-up tresses of from stock, cooly slightly, sprinspoon finely chopped parsley, 7/4
tinned mushrooms, cut kle with salt and pepper, dredge cup jsome beauty of that period.
That immense black straw plat-with flour, and brown entire sur slices. Remove breast from grouse 2211 with heavy birds' wings face in lard. Make a sauce with land fry in butter. When partly with salt and butter and flour cooked together, cooked, season and stock remaining in pan, there pepper. Break grousè in pieces
with cold stock should be 2 cups. Place each bird cover
on slice of toast and pour gravy water, add carrot, eplery, over all. Garnish with parsley. in pieces
Prune Whip -
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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 as harbor, plow, and altho.
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1-Held
4-Mott
7-Girl's name
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10-Adapt
or
onion.
cover with cold stock jot water, add carrot, celery, onion,
2/3 eup stewed prunes, 5 egg parsley, and bay leaf, and boil up-|
cup. whites, 1⁄2 cup sugar, 1⁄2 tablespoon't stock is reduced to '% lemon juice. Rub prunes; through Make sauce of 3 tablespoons but- a strainer, add sugar, and boil 5ter. flour, atock from grouse, and minutes (the mixture should be of tomatoes; season with, salt, cay and lemon juice to taste, Best erg enne, ja good consistency)."
whites until stiff, add prune mix-and add chopped paraley and Arrange grouse on ture gradually when cald, and mushrooms. lemon juice. Pile lightly on but-serving dish and surround with
dish, buke tered pudding
25 sauce. minutes in slow eyen (300 degree F) Serve cold with soft custard. Cream of Cauliflower Soup
It would seem that the well- Silver Initials are "written" un dressed woman can never improve the back of the black suede gloves on the magpie alliance. It is cerut the top, and the silver piping in while tain to be the French-woman's anal continued round the edge, choice, however much she may the white suede gloves have neatl Birt with other. light rulour mixed initials of the printed type cut out
in black velvet and appliqued. with black.
Printed silk gauntlets look Turquoise like the faded pinks
plat- and yellows, is charmingly allied effective in the small black
spreading across its expanse was with black for the early spring.
Įtern on a yellow ground, while the
probably once described as a fetch-
4 cups veal or chicken stock, 1 feature of the navy blue gloves
ing creation. And the black togel below is the unusual stitching on immensity with its preposterous large cooked cauliflower. cup ARE the back.
trimming of white lace, wired to butter, 1 alice onion, 1:stalk celery,
eut in inch picces, bay leaf, One of the most interesting sug-stupendous heights, was gestions for completing the after- A swagger cout, with the new noon ensemble is that of the silktionably the hit of that garden cup flower, 2 cups milk, salt, pep
COTTON TWEED
ENSEMBLE.
full revers and front belt, carried mittems, elbow length of
out in off-white cotton tweed, is blue. ". worn over a simple dress of the iron-out-flat type. The dress is
buttoned down the back from neck
to hem and tied on the shoulders,
party in 1908.
royal
FLOWERS ADORN DRESSES.
unques-
per. Reserve half a cauliflower. and rub remaining half through War Period Hats
įsieve, Cook onion, celery, and wine- On the other hand, the coloured Bangkok straw from, 1914, bay leaf in butter 5 minutes. Re- with the droping ostrich feathers move bay leaf, then ad flour and curling gracefully over the edge stir into hot stock; add cauliflower of the huge brim, was not really and milk. Season with salt and
and reheat. artificial unlike one of the 1934 models pepper, then strain, add flowerets,
Halibut a la Poulette One ponders a little. In it pos A contrast is made by having flowers will be worn just above the we have just seen
11⁄2 pound slice halibut, 1⁄4 cup nome afternoon the belt and hematiching in dark left elbow on
sible that the tiny fanastic over- brown. This colour also lines the dresscs.
shoulder upturned brim of the
A model seen recently was made trimmed bonnets and the colossal melted butter, 1/4 cups Bechamel frock is a good idea for the sum of black taffeta, and the mer outfit generally.
the materia} forming the bows being in one with the frock.
Bringing Up Father.
Posics
were
of
real
or
cream rosebuds,
BAD ENOUGH TO BE STUCK IN THE HOUSE WHEN IT'S RAINING, BUT. MR. YOUHO, THE MUSIC-TEACHER,·· HAD TO BRING MAGGIE SOME NEW SONGS. I HOPE SHE DON'T SEE YEM
% tear. flowers cartwheels will all return to fav-sauce, 1⁄4 teaspoon salt,
our if we only wait till the wheel spoon pepper, 2 teaspoons lemon
Julco, few drops onion juice, lor time makes its full circle?
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BY GOLLY,
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
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12-Moved rapidly 13-Three (Roman)
14-Rend
16-Golf mound
17. Add
19-Balnte (abbr.) 20-skil
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44-Constellation
48-Walk
48-Grimson
111-Make lace
12-Chief actor
15-Erect
17-Part of the body
42-A measure of weight 18-Twelve (Rom.
50-Consumed
51-Betare
52-To steep, as flax 63-8pokan
54-A period of time
(pt)
21-Fifty-two (Rom.) · .\..
23-Kingdoms
26-One who sings
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29-Additisk to one alde. 1-Part of the lus";
of a house
30-Japanese coln
31-Parmits
24-Deposite sleut
27-Half a sobre
38-Consume
39-Royal Englis
garden
2-Final
S-Colors the facs
artificially
20-Apportion 22-Insert
24-Elongated fluh 25-The whols 27-Said to a horse 28-Entomology (abbr) S1-Drochas lap Full of molature
32-Full 33-Trapped
planted
35-Etruscan god
36 Crack
40-Greek letter 41-Molatons
4-Talke (slang, U. 8.) 41-By
I-Newt
6-Expires
7-imitate
9-Evil
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44-Greek god of war
48-A rodant
47-A vagokakta
149-Not wat
The solution of the above with a new cross-word pussie
will appear in to-morrow's issue,
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