THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 19, 1988.
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Still Smart Choice
How Paris Uses Astrakhan
On Winter Suits
Black afternoon frócks reach the Paquin merely inserts a white top of their form in the mid-season. square diagonally pointed and belt- Jersey has won out as first favour- ed› across at centre front waistline ite next lainage matt crepe and sa- of one black jersey model. In añ- tin. These frocks are severe in other, a' jabot of flat inspiration en- character, but they escape looking tirely made of seed pearls is intro- sombre.
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WATERCRESS SOUP
As food is mncreasing in price so rapidly I am giving my own original recipe for what is a very cheap, nutritious and quickly pre- pared soup.
I use watercress, which never seems to be used except as an ac- companiment to bread and butter or as a garnish. Watercress is
· particularly nice just now_
One lb. potatoes, 1 large, onion, 1⁄2 pint milk, 1 saucerful finely chopped watercress, 1 oz. butter, salt and white pepper to taste, 1⁄2 pint water.
Chop onion finely. Peel potatoes and slice them. Boil potatoes and onions in 1⁄2 pint water, till they can be mashed up in the saucepan with the water in which they are boiled.
Add butter and watercress. Stir well and add milk to make all like very thick cream. Season with salt and white pepper, and simmer for 10 minutes, occasionally stirring to keep it from sticking. Serve with fingers of dry toast.-H. E. H., Newbury.
duced. This is a solo item in decor- ation on another black frock with the pearls swaying in countless rows between vertical lines and fix- ed by little pearl loops.
Flat jabots of gold and jewelled soutache braiding are a Worth idea. Jewelled colourings in metal thread lurk beneath shawl collars of black fox ending with matching motif at waistlines of sleekly fitted black coats. There is a gold em- broidered plume slanting across
the front corsage, and as most cor- sages are high it makes an attrac- tive display. This applies also to gold soutache braiding. across shoulders and down outer arms of another long-sleeved lainage frock. The coat completing it has two cor- responding vertical line motifs of gold placed towards the front sides of big patch pockets. It buttons down the front on an almost straight three-quarter length of cloth, while the back is of black musquash rising into a Medici col- lar.
Musquash appears also in a "cape of identical length showing a jersey cloth lining turned back into
flat
The
Upper Costume in Heavy Black Wool by Captain. Molyneux. Long Cape Has a Little Collar of Black Astrakhan -and the Skirt –of the Frock Is Banded With Black Braid of Varying Widths, The Perky Beret, Also From Molyneux, Is in Black Felt With Bow of Same Mater- ial Lower Long Jacket of Cloth Embroidered in Black Braid, Worn With a Frock of Black Wool Jersey. A Blue Bow on the Black Felt Hat, and the Blue Gloves give a touch, of colour, From Mainbocher.
full-length revers quilted all over Catherine Parel is a mistress of in a looped crescent design. It com- individual ideas and makes a quan- pletes a black jersey dress cleverly tity of afternoon frocks that are designed with a bias seam back entirely different. They have a Pa and front, where a graceful godet risian hostess air which makes them falls beneath a swathed belt en- ideal as cocktail-dinner and cinema twined with red to match the tail frocks for wearing beneath any ored ribbon trimming on a highish coat or wrap suitable to these occa- black felt hat.
sions,
Black suits with astrakhan trimmings are among the successes of the Paris season, This Bruyere model 2 shows astrakhan bands round a tunic- depth jacket, carrying out a dropped shoulder movement, and encircl the barrel-shaped cloth muff to match.
"Do you find your glass towels some- If you find baby rather difficult times leave 'fluff on your glass or when trimming his toe and finger nails, china ? Then dip them in weak starch wait until he has his morning nap and water after washing; you will have no then cut them. No more fear of scis- more trouble.”
sors slipping then?”.
"When making a cake never beat the "When lining your cake tin for bak- mixture, but lift it on the spoon to let ing, use the corrugated paper from the air into it. If you are doing it biscuit tins or chocolate boxes instead right you will hear the mixture faintly of the usual greaseproof paper. pop every time. This Hint was passed prevents scorching and is more econo- on by a first-class cook.")
mical,"