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HONGKONG'S CLIMATE can play havoc with your skin and to keep it clear, and healthy two things are necessary wise selection of preparations and a perfect understand of the way to use them.
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THE CHINA MAIL; WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1950.
Woman Today
Crinoline style
Jacques Fath of Paris putu fur armbando on bla evening stoles this season, and accentuate this one, of Puce. taffeta, with a diamond upper-arm bracelet from Boucheron. The dress is cut on princess lince, with acquined-embroidered top over a voluminɔus skirt over a celnoline base.-AP Photo.
Relax and grow younger
By Sally Young
Whether you call the world The person giving the massago busy or dizzy, it's a cinch that should put a bit of oil on her we all should take time or for palms so they will glide firmly relaxation. One of the best but enstly over the skin; always ways to relax is to have a pro- use an upward motion. fessional massage.
After
£ good back massage, If you haven't the time or your start oui the fingers and the hands beauty budget does not cover a massage salon, have a member of rubbing upward to the shoulders. your family give you a restful Now the feet and legs. They taka rtibdawn. After a warm shower, quite a beating during the waking streich out-preferably on a solid | hours, 50 spend quite a bit of surface and easi all cares from time on them. First the feet, then your mind.
the ankles and on up the legs and thighs. Wipe off the surplus oil und once agair give the body a good brisk rubdown, this tima using witch hazei.
let Yard
I your natural loveliness
To capture and retain, the softness of a youthful skin
you must keep it deeply clean, supple and fine-grained.
Begin tonight with a Yardley Cleansing Cream, massage with Night Cream,
and stimulate with one of the Toning Lotions.
Tomorrow your mirror will say 'How right you wera'1
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Even-it-you-live-alone-you-can give yourself this home massage, Take a warm shower so that you come out good and warm. Then wet a Turkish towel with a good quality witch hazel which has
Deen chilled.
Princess Margaret
wore rose
By Louis Petrie
I don't think there's any doubt about it, pink is Princess Margaret's favourite colour. And the 'tone she generally favours is a soft indofinito roso, appropriate to her second name.. This was the colour of the lovely crinoline net dress which she wore at a recent Hunt Ball. I was privileged to attend at Perth, in Scotland. Like most of the Royal ladies' evening dresses, this dress had the shoulders gently draped with frills and the neck in a wide oval.
Gems in a blightly stronger | Princess. I'm told it was at her tone studded the whole of the own request she was present this bodice in diamond squares
much of year--she enjoyed it so about two inches, and scattered before. over the skirt to within a foot of the ground. Sheer Almy net formed the rest of the hem, which just brushed the floor.
Though crinoline in fullness, her dress had none of the 'enge' stiffness of some crinoline styles. It was soft and graceful and swished high as she swung in the gay rhythm of the Scottish reels. her shoes scc
I simply couldn't, for there was always enough dress there to hide her
But
fcct.
I noticed, however, that many of the girls present favoured low heels.
Brilliant affair
And the previous night she at- tended the Angus Subscription Dance, which used to be a favourite social event with her parents when they were the Duke and Duchess of York... all very Atting from the one member of the Royal family to be born in Scotland.
Of all the lovely dresses that graced the scene at Perth, I saw none of ultra-modern persuasion. Thero wasn't a single short frock. not even a ballerina length. And, as for the tight hobble hugging silhouette, well, it would have Iooked completely out of place and I sensed too much good taste for such a blunder.
Princess lino
The ball was a brilliant affair. Diamond tiaras sparkled all over
Nearest concession was the the place, but not on the dainty Princess's head. Her hair, which princess linealim to the hips from there. seems to be growing slightly and flaring_gently darker, was simply brushed from This I saw in a pale blue brocade a side parting into a loose all-fastened in a close row of buttons round turn-up without curis or down the back. waves. A most becoming frame for her quaint pointed features and big blue eyes.
when
in
With lots and lots of net, bro- cade and velvet ranked anong
The the most popular,
Mar- chloness of Lansdowne, hostess Then most of the ladies were of a fine home at Melklour, long white kid gloves. So did
had a french-grey the Princess
she arrived Perthshire,
brocade gown, cut straight wrapped in an ermine coat, but front and with fullness at the she wasn't long in discarding
back. these. I don't think she likes
Black velvet, crush pleated, being bothered with gloves. Was the
same at the races the and with broad shoulder straps previous day when she carried ending in tabby bows, was the her brown gloves most of the choice of Lady Mansfield, whose tiara was the most spectacular of time.
sitting like a crown on her fair hair.
It
of
Errol,
а
With the huge hall packed-it had been redecorated in a warm pink as if in compliment to the The Countess Royal guest I didn't notice Peeress in her own right, had a
Princess whether
Margaret becoming halo in which pearls makes the same deep graceful were prominent, and her ermine curtsey to her partners as I've evening wrap was studded with seen her mother do in eightsume tails. reels.
Of completely topless dresses I didn't see one. There were But I noticed the pretty way off-the-shoulder... styles with a she looks up and smilingly thanks
her partners.
frill or band catching the arm, and others with cascading stoles And, before I pass on to tell from a single shoulder strap, but you about some of the fashions not a severe bare top.
The younger set still prefer the which caught my eye, I would picture dress. Lady Anne Coke, like to mention that Princess fair and pretty grand-niece of Margaret dances as if she enjoys the Countess of Airlie, wore dancing.
while the beige broderie anglaise, The serenity and sadness that Countess of Cadogan had bands insertion on an expression often linger in her
through which a see-saw motion us thought you disappear in the exhilaration of! of ecru ace
the music and movement,
Grasping the towel at feither end, pull it across the body with
were polishing shoes. After you
and
organdie dress
have rabbed the entire body, not she smiles in the natural happy/ Elowed a rose foundation.
forgetting the feet and legs, leave the body moist with the witch hazel while you stretch out to rest.
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way which dancing teachers al- do advice which in others, alas, Ways
encourage their pupils to too frequently results in a hard, glassy grin.
Maybe the Perth Hunt func- Cooling as a mountain breeze! tions will become an annual}
calendar event in the
of the And just as 'relaxing.
New
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RECIPES
Prune and apricot upside-down cake
3oz shortening, Soz
sugar, prunes, apricots.
brown
Zaz shortening, 4 oz sugar, 2.
8 oz elf-raising flour, 4 cup
milk, Vanilla.
Melt the shortening and brown sugar in a 6-inch cake tin. Arrange the prunes and apricots on top of the caramel mixture to form a pattern.
Cream
the shortening and sugar for the cake. Add the whole eggs, one at at time, beating well. Stir in alternately the sifted flour, milk and vanilla,
Spread the mixture over the fruit. Bake in a moderate oven, temp. 360 deg. F gas, 423 deg. F. electric, 4 to 1 hour.
Pumpkin pie
cup crysiol sugar, cup browa sugur, 2 tablespoons flour,
teaspoon salt, touspoan ground ginger, 1⁄2 teaspoon cit namon." teaspoon allspice, cup milk. 11⁄2 cups mashed cooked pumpkin, 3 eggs, 1 table
1 tablespoon
1
Epoon short rind
grated
pastry case.
and
- orange :: Pince the nigars, spices into the top of a double saucepan.
Add the mlik gradu- ally, stirring until the mixture is smooth, then add the pumpkin.
Cook: gently over boiling water for 20 minutes, stirring, and add OCCASION. ally. Separate the eggs
yolks to
the alightly-beaten Return to double
And
melfastening and
Cook B
the
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Allow the mixturo 4 181 Four into pantry's Kinu a moderate Love
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