CHINA MAIL, JULY 18, 1987.
Planning Your Summer Wardrobe...
INE wools if you still feel cold.
Fin lime yellow or a deep arbutus
pink.
Silks in all the royal, loyal colours.
Alpaca and tussore are tailoring
news.
Wear a chintz bolero over your plain frocks.
A HATS ARE WHAT YOU WILL
Will
0%
the wisp in
tulle.
Feather high or pancake flat. Any- thing is trimming. A vegetable garden, two yards of tartan, hum- ming birds. Cloches are back,
WE
ARE THINKING OF WEEK- ENDS
Forget your skirt and wear a culotte for sports.
Look out for peasant 'kerchiefs and pareos for the beach.
Look out for giant gingham sun- bonnets.
Sun-suit plays grand dame. Zipped up the back,, a gallant skirt over brief shorts, and they are smart enough for shopping.
COATS ARE ALL REDINGOTES
No wrapover, no collars, not many buttons. Worn with prints. Or with skirts to match and crisp blouses.
Blouses are full of new tricks. They tie, they button, they lace on the shoulders. They can be worn back to front and so lead double lives.
Organdie, plaid chiffons
and
The old-fashioned rick-rack used to trim grandmother's frocks is coming back as a quaint addition to this season's frocks. Joan Fon- taine, screen actress, wears a sports silk frock of rose quartz rick- racked in brown, and girdled with a thin belt of brown patent. nosegay, is of raffia flowers in pink and brown.
sheer linens make splendid blouses For The Garden
TOWN - SHOES - DECIDE TO STAY
SENSIBLE
Dark colours and dull surfaces as a foil for bright clothes. **Out of town we wear grass green
or scarlet.
Her
3 NEW WAYS WITH ORANGES
Stuffed Oranges. Take the halves of orange skins left over when the juice has been squeezed out. Cut the edges into a zigzag. Fill with pieces of fresh ginger, or if the dish is for children, with grapes cut in half, slices of banana, etc. Lay a slice of orange on the top, and decorate with whipped
cream.
skins
Another idea is to fill the with jelly or orange cream, or in- deed with other flavoured creams, and grate nuts on top.
A glass
Oranges For Slimming of fresh orange juice taken regular- ly morning and evening makes the complexion clear and sparkling. For those who wish to slim, orange juice taken without sugar is excel- lent and very healthy. It is a good idea to hand found orange juice to your visitors before dinner on a hot summer evening.
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器
Orange Salad.-A
refreshing
salad can be made this way: Peel the oranges, taking care to remove the white skin, as it gives the salad a bitter taste. Cut oranges into thin slices, using a fruit knife, place the slices in a glass bowl, layer by layer, and over each layer sprinkle The salad is improved by gugar. Drop Biscuits
sprinkling grated nuts or almonds Biscuit jars have a way of empty-over it, and a little rum, brandy or ing, especially if there are children raspberry syrup improves the taste. Leave it for one hour before in the house, Drop biscuits are al-
serving. Cinnamon Biscuits, 2lb flour, ways easily made and most delect- the same quantity of butter and able to eat. brown sugar, 2 egg yolks and 3 teaspoonfuls of ground cinnamon.
Party
Rub butter into flour, add sguar and cinnamon to make into a paste ex-with 1 egg yolk. Roll the paste thin-
Toeless sandals have thick cork zsoles, and need practice to walk in.
Straw shoes are new and iceedingly nice."
Match your hat and carry flower basket with cotton frocks.
ly, cut into rounds and place on a a well-greased tin. Brush the biscuits over with beaten egg yolk. Decorate with blanched almonds and bake un-
SMALL GIRLS ACQUIRE A NEW til crisp and golden brown.
SIMPLICITY
No hats except for church.
Scotch Shortbreak. The suc- cess of this simple recipe depends
vizéContinued at foot of Next Col.)mainly on the butter chosen being
SHE-KO
FOR SKIN COMPLAINTS AND SKIN INJURIES.
Soothing, cooling, antiseptic ar rapidly healing_She-ko is, a curs ointment of unsurpassed merit. *
Keep She-Ko handy in the home for promptusage in cases of cuts, scratches, bruises, burns scalds, and all minor injuries to the skin.
For skin troubles such as eczema, ringworm, itch, dry and running sores, pimples, boils, ulcers, foot sores, sores, as well as for piles, the ficant, healing
quickly becon
old
properties of She-ko
pparent. Get
of She-ko to-day; sold by all chemist
of the best quality. Take 602 flou, 4oz butter, 2oz castor sugar
a pinch of salt.
and
2 cups flour,
1⁄2 teaspoon salt.
1 cup butter or shortening
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup chopped nuts
CRAB CUTLETS
as
Atin of crab can be turned into an appetising hot supper dish follows. Chop up the crab meat finely. Melt an ounce of butter in of a saucepan, stir in an ounce flour, add a teacupful of milk, and stir until a thick sauce results. Season with lemon juice, salt, pep- per, and nutmeg, stir in the crab, and when well mixed turn on to a wet plate. When cold make into 1 teaspoon vanilla
shapes, dip in egg and breadcrumbs, Sift flour, measure, add soda and and fry in boiling fat until golden sift three times. Cream butter, add brown. Arrange on lace paper and
1 cup rasins
2 tablespoons milk.
Beat butter to a cream, add sugar and flour. Knead all together sugar gradually and cream thorough garnish with lemon and parsley.
ly. Add eggs, one at a time, beat- and fill two sandwich tins with the mixture. Prick well and ornamenting hard after each addition. Add with peel and sugar comfits. Bake nuts, raisins, milk and vanilla. Fold
in a slow over a light brown colour.in flour mix well. Drop on baking |
Leave in tins until cold.
with
Streamline coats in the royal manner. Sleeveless frocks shoulder frills.
NECKS ARE IN THE NEWS
Slender Vs and shallow by day. At night out
pire.
sheet. Bake in a hot oven (400 degrees F.) about 15 minutes.
English Monkey
English monkey is
strong- sounding name for a dish that is made mainly from bread, milk and cheese, but that is the name it has squares
gone by for a couple of generations: and-out Made this way it is a nice dish for
a hurry-up meal...
fles on dark frocks School-
ollars
cuffs. allantly Line a skirt with a scarlet peter- sham ribbon at the hem.
Experiment with three-quarter sleeves, full and ruffled from elbow
shoulder.
Buy a new foundation garment. Acquire glamour with new lin- be ruthless with those
all
might
ake
aly garments, which
'come în" and never do a
når plan and stick to it.
Orange Whip
Wash two large oranges and pare the rind off them thinly. Squeeze out the juice and measure it. Put a lemon jelly into a basin, and melt it with as much hot water as will make a pint with the orange juice. Put in the orange peel and leave to juice. When cold and beginning to get cold, then strain in the orange
with an egg-whisk until frothy. set, take out the peel and whisk-
Whisk separately the whites of two eggs to a stiff, light froth. whist Then pile up on jelly and together until it is a still light froth. Then plle up on a dish and garnish with pieces of skinned or ange which have been sprinkled with sugar. A delicious summer sweet.
soft. Melt butter, add diced cheese. When cheese has melted add soften- ed crumbs, beaten egg, alt and Toast strips.
and [pepper. ** Cook three minutes Soak bread crumbs in milk until pour hot mixture toast strips.
jar mild American cheese.
1⁄2 teaspoon salt.
4 teaspoon pepper.
1 cup bread crumbs. 1 cup milk.
egg.
1 tablespoon butter.