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Sparkling Influence
In Mad Hat
Spring Millinery Amusing and Original
The proper mad hat will give even your calmest winter clothes a bubbly effervescence. A sparkle And what a new hat does to you personally at this time of year is brighten up your outlook Makes the whole world look like a better place..
That is a mad hat can do all these things. And if you are like all the other women in the world you are out in search of a drastic change. Something to knock the dullness and SAMENESS out of things. I prescribe a mad hat as the positive answer.
THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 17,
Photo taken at the Y.W.CM cookery classes last week." ·
YOUR CUP OF TEA
What are the effects produced by
Chinese Ladies Take Keen Interest In
IN THE NAME OF MILLINERY tes-drinking? The research depart Cookery Demonstrations
ment of the Empire Tea Bureau ad-
But it must be "mad.” And that dressed a series of questions on this
newest
models
kind of hat is not hard to find at subject to doctors in Birmingham, In no way is the complete change Simpson Bros. makers of Simp- the moment. Indeed not! There Liverpool, and Manchester. "An that is taking place in the lives of son's Self-Raising Flour, Messrs. are lots of them. Even if you analysis of the replies showed an Chinese ladies more marked than Oxo Ltd. -makers of Oxo Cubes- aren't in the market to go gay overwhelming agreement that tea by their enthusiastic attendance last and the Gas Co-who installed with spring millinery-you will at decreases nervous fatigue, improves week at the Y.W.C.A to attend the their least be highly enlightened if you the capacity for physical and men-Cookery Classes, which were held Regulo. know some of the amusing and tal work, and that its gentle stimu- there every afternoon. original things I've seen in thelating properties are beneficial to name of millinery this spring.
people in health For instance the big brimmed sombrero made of plain, ordinary, Sir Alfred Pickford, Chairman of Nothing the Empire Tea Bureau, said: "Doc- And it makes a marvelous hat. For beneficial effects on body and mind those who are going, away to the of tea as a gentle stimulant. They sunlands to forget it all.
give impressive weight to the con- viction that tea has no rival in its powers to overcome fatigue.” -
natural coloured
done to reine its either tors almost unanimously report the |
For town The maddest of the caps is a black pillbox that has a “shocking" pink bird right smack on the front-and a pink net snood to cover all of your hair in the back. A perfectly fascinating chapeaux. To be worn by a dash- ing miss, certainly. And because the hat would be the focal point,. it should be worn with the sim- plest of black frocks, only. And no trimming, not even jewellery,
·
come
Even the most ordinary of sail- ors (always a favourite springtime) is given a new touch. You can wear a wide piece of veil- ing tied round the crown-and hanging down over the face for all the world like the bee-man's net that he uses when he goes to steal the boney from the hives. This veil has a band of grosgrain ribben on the bottom edge just to give it! weight enough to hang smoothly.
INSPIRING PILLBOX
down
The pillbox seems to give design-
ers lots of
which
back of the
like the one in
band across the
to hold the tiny.
•hat on decorated with bright rib-
bon bows
of m
back
locks.
dozen or more bows
Sing around the
with your curly cute decoration
that is decidedly flippant.
Another pillbox is taken directly from the old Chinese--for the de- signer, probably with her tongue in i her cheek, has taken a long hank of black silk and let it hand from the top of the hat for all the world like an old Chinese cues
Hats for spring are more normal as to crown-no more, high peaks. The pillbox the up-turned brim hat and the bowl hat-are probably the best styles.
Instructions were given in cooking A few years ago who would have imagined Chinese ladies concerning and baking, from the simplest things so apt themselves about how to cook foreign to the most difficult, and style cakes and pastries, meat dishes were the ladies that many very de- and soups, and studying how to re-licious and dainty dishes were made. gulate exactly the heat in their gasMany ladies also brought their own problems to the classes and it may cookers!
be assumed that their families will Yet this they did with marked en-be not unaware of the demonstra- thusiasm at these Cookery Classes tor's good advice to these ladies! which were sponsored by Messrs.
MAD BUT FLATTERENGSTÍOS spells sophistication when draped with broidered in big chenille dots. Multiple wrist are again in high favour.
The classes were organized by Mrs. Church on behalf of Messrs. Simpson Bros. and Messrs. Oxo Ltd. whose publicity is in the hands of The Advertising & Publicity Bureau Ltd. The response to the announce- ments of these cookery classes at the YW.C.A. was unexpectedly large, and owing to the limited accommo- dation available, several ladies were disappointed in not being able to at- tend Mrs Church consoled them, however, with news of similar de- monstrations and cooking classes
now being held, for a fortnight at the Gas Co.'s showrooms in Kow- loon.
It is certainly most. interesting to mote such a new tendency towards Western ideas amongst all these leisured Chinese ladies as exempli- fied by this very keen interest in the art of better cooking.
Many of them, in thanking Mrs. Church for the opportunities pro- vided at the YWCA classes, insist- ed that they would now be making a hobby of cake making and cook- ing
Such an attitude is indeed an eye opener to those who always averred that Chinese ladies could never be interested in such things and would never interfere with their servants m the kitchen.
The Classes at the Kowloon Show- rooms of the Hong Kong & China Gas Co., Ltd. opened on Monday
with an attendance of 132 ladies of all nationalities.
As the mumber
was so large the classes were split.
into 2 sec
days, and Frida
ays, Wednes beginners and
ys and Thursdays for the