A
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 17, 1951.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
Your Sewing Strapbook
Mary
Lovely Birthday Gift For
Your Little Girl
SURE-enough muff, a neck- plece cozy and warm to cud- die her chin, a pill-box hat in her size these delight a young Indy.
And what could be more ap-. propriate for a birthday present, especially when you can make all three articles (fake fur, rayon Ratin lining,
thing)?
British girl goes seeking
fame in U.S.
AND SHE GETS A START PAINTING TIES the owner
work by the crude sign hanging in the window: "R U an Artist? Have YOU got the urge to PAINT! IF SO, COME RIGHT IN. YOU'RE WELCOME,"
From FREDERICK COOK; New York
A
BRITISH girl artist, who minus seam allowance.
Centre
.came to New York six padding on wrong side of lining months ago in search of and tack or stitch It to lining.
fame, has found it where When done by machine, slitch
she least expected it-In across lining and padding at intervals to hold together RS the window of a Broadway Lay right sides of fake fur and penny arcade, painting tles
eight hours a day. lining together; seam, leaving un opening large enough to turn right side out.
in A.
Clip seams at intervals of 2": cut away surplus at corners. Turn right side out and close opening with slip stitches.
For pretty, 20-year-old Patri- cla Lyons, of Bowring Park Avenue, Liverpool, the stares of the thousands who stop every day to gaze at her through the window are fame enough for
Make a little strap of the fur the pres unimportant bealde
fabric and whip It to one edge of rearf, as shown tn illustra-
lion.
Muff. Cut laing for muT 21⁄2" narrower and 2" shorter, or 11" Cut muff padding 1⁄21⁄2" x 10". smaller than lining all around.
Centre padding on wrong side or stitch it to of lining. Tack Kining
་
Two Tubos
Seam 11" edges of lining to- gether and also the 13 edges
thus padding, every of fur fabric,
forming 2 tubes. Grey or Whita Buy yd. of imilation krim mer in grey or white.
Straighten fabric. Lay It flat, wrong side up. Chalk out muff, scarf and pill-box, as diagram shows.
your Measure carefully SU proportions will be correct. These are good average dimen- sions. Scart can be nude longer, If necessary.
Scart. Cut three thicknesses of padding same as outside,
13/2" Muff
-18"
Gather each end of fur tube
Inside fur Insert lining tube tube, wrong sides together. Draw size of lining tube. up gathers Turn ends in toward each other and slip-stitch together.
hulband to Pll-Box. Stitch circle. Notch seam. Press seam open. Tum right side out, Stlich lining pleces in same way. Press.
Insert ning inside hat, wroni! sides together. Tum bottom edges in toward each other and silp-stitch together.
30"
6" Scarf
52"
Hatband 20°
Padding
A Dior Facsimile
By PRUNELLA
WOOD
Rusetts
They are
a tveck the steady £12
makes with her art.
she
Unpredictable What does absorb her alten- tlon is the great variety of her work, and the unpredictability of American male leste in illus trated neckwear,
In the past few weeks she has painted on ties everything from late model cars to bright blue dragons and pink racehorses.
Now she is awaiting the or- has rival
of a customer who promised to bring in two live feopards and have them repro- duced on ties.
Like her five co-workers (a a South Pole. Russian, t
and an American, a Japanese American Indian) Putricla, was
take up
the first inspired to
DIPLOMACY
Wearing her
national costume, Miss Astrid Robez- Latvia, gruntaleks from attends the first night of Vai Gielgud's "Iron Carlain," at tho Embasy Theatre,
Was
who wanted HAPPY NEW YEAR painted across his tlo,
"A man with a mink farm wanted a blue mink on his tie
of a taxicab fleet wanted pictures of his cabs; Q tobacco firm ordered les ilus- trating their own cigaroties; ani- other organisation wanted ties ornamented with bottles of soft
milkman wanted drinks; a tle showing a bottle of milk."
Jokes' popular
#
These were few formalities,
Joke ties (at 105 each) are me. Sho Miss Lyons told
mock, a handful of brushes, a products shows a horse land- given an artist's bright red popular. Ons of Miss Lyone's palette and paints, and told to ing by a bookmaker's stand start painting. Her first subject placing a bet. Another shows a
clinging was a set of false teeth on a tie, drunken man
lamppost
Crazy, requests
That was just a beginning."
she said, "Every request since then has seemed črazler than the last. There was a bartender
New For
to
П
It costs £3 to have a photo- husband, girl graph of wife, friend, or dog copied in colours
on a tle Demand is heavy.
-London Express Service)
PATRICIA LYONS Blue dragons, pink horses. London Expreza Satulos,
Beauty Cream Rough Hands
By G. Grafton Green After cach had been worked in thoroughly he placed his hands in a basin of clean water and the dirt rolled off as though impell- ed by an invisible force.
EVERAL housewives had the surprise of their lives when they attended a in London demonstration recently. They saw a man squeeze some pink paste out of what looked like a large toothpaste-tube, rub it well into his hands, then cover them with blacklead.
new hand-creams which surprise came when he are being exported all over the are now generally plunged his hands in water. world and
available in Britain. They are In a few moments all the the answer to the housewife's blacklead had floated off, complaint, voiced in a score of leaving his hands as clean different languages, that it is and unmarked as they had impossible to do housework and
keep her hands looking been when he started.
sentable.
open up to the housewife a The effect of all this was to visto of cleon hands no matter what dirty household jobs had to be done. And that, in fact, is what has been brought about by The two
Sull more remarkable was ★
what followed. Another ap- plication of paste and the man put his hands into a bowl of con- centrated mulphuric acid with no ill-effects. He covered his hands in turn with tar graphite, and car oil mixed with carbon black."
Woman to woman
цве
pre-
These two basic creams for domestic
have. been evolved from the barrier creams which Britain pioneered during World War II which were the means of saving thousands of praple from skin diseases when
by SUSAN DEACON
Do husbands really want slim wives?
WOMEN, dieting down to the
last ounce of raw cabbage, find that they get no encourage- ment from their husbands.
IF A WOMAN refuses potatoes or brend it is enough to cause a major scene in most families.
A MAN WHO leaves This wife holding one drink the entire even- ing will simply pour liquor down her throat if the so much
as suspecta that she is dieting. And a diet is a very difficult thing to keep secret,
dǝ
THE HUNGRIEST man. however in- terested
he is in his own plate cannot fail to notice when his wife is munching raw carrola and water' biscuits.
TRON Curtain ambassadors fought shy of attending the Orst night of the play "Iron the Embassy Curtain" at Theatre, Swiss Cottage.
SL
ambassadors received invitations four accepted, one declined, and the Russian Am- bassador did not reply. But not one turned up.
There were two empty seats for the Polish and Bulgarian from the envoys; a secretary Czech Embassy sat in the seat reserved for the Ambasador, lu, or do they suspect that a new and in place of the Hungarian slim gure will need new slim Minister sat a former Indian clothes? Army captain.
No Bob
Parisian models grooming themselves for the fashion pre- views, still showed a preference for short colffures; but the "Little Boy Bob" is out,
Hair will be worn off the face, with the
ears exposed, for dayime.
At night an attachment al the back of the neck-a clip or attle ribbon-wili securo something" to the head,
WHY DO MEN object to women diet- ing? Is it becauso they are afraid they will be made to join
Longer jacket
used
ORGANZA is the material of the season (it is often for coats). Runners-up are alub materials, birdseye tweeds, and lots of chiffon and lace.”
Highlights of the collections
were:
From Harts. A biscuit, coloured fine atrato spring hat Eye-velis are out this epotted selling decorates the back of
the hat
LACHASSE: Tailored lace coat velled with black chiffon.
STEIBEL: White net strapless evening dress,
bustline covered in sprigs of mimosa.
is longer, with a bell-shaped black
basque,
$1900
THE biggest spring fashion
change London designers DIGBY MORTON'S tangerina show is in the suit jacket, which and black organza coat over a dress, and HARDLE AMIES' black and white hounds- MOST SKIRTS are cut in a tooth checked Redingots
Hardie with a black velvet half-collar. line. straight, alim Amios ahows in-like godets
Gulpure Lace or which flare from the imees.
The Redingote coat, unbelted Anglais is used for rover facing and waist-Atting, la
again on navy suits. Evening dresses are as-you- halter- or please. Strapless neck, wide-akirted or straight, COLOURS are brighter. A lite tangerine with black. Lots
in
broderie
PATENT LEATHER 15. 11 popular trimming....Hats are small, often a pillbox shape worn straight.
OUT....Dolman aloeves, all-
printed crepes -- and
of yellow and navy blue with und pleated skirts, Eye vells
velvet white, Glamour colours are royal or sapphire blue with bottle green,
black.
{London Express Service)
they worked in arts factories. One in for any kind of wet dirty dry work; the other for
The wet barrier cream work. gives complete immunity to the hands for about five hours, no matter how many times they are washed or how many different which they art liquids into plunged.
wet
The dry barrier can be ap
plied on top of the barrier if necessary, or used alone. The minute the hands are plunged into water the dirt ac- cumulated by gardening, house- hold tasks,
or even painting rolls off as
though by
magic. While either variety of cream is on the hands it is a barrier not only to dirt, but to germs, And equally, bacteria present in cuts on the hands are sealed in and unable to infect foodstuffs which are being handled,
1041 skin
The story of this remarkable product goes back to when the incidence of diseases in war industrica was high. In some of them there was os much as 40 per cent, loss of labour due to illness. That was when Mr Albert Alberman came into the picture. He was firm of managing director of manufacturing chemiste which produced range
a
of. world- famous
We cosmetics. "What
want," said Britain's Ministry of Supply, is not an ointment to treat these occupational skin discases, but something to p
.pre- vent them."
A
Fow
are born beautiful....
can, achieve beauty
with the Elizabeth Arden Basic Ritual'
Clean....Ardens cleaning cream
for dry ur normal skin; Liquid Cleanser for oily skin.
Refresh....With Ardena Skin Tonio.
Smooth....Ardena Velva Cream for
normal akin, Ardena Skin Food for dry skin.
Arden Astringent Cream for ally akin.
Elighteth Arden
Sole Agents Lane, Crawford's
EXCLUSIVE
FLORISTS
Bouquet
DELIVERIES
IN THE
ANYWHERE
COLONY
CARNARVON HOTEL,
R D.
KOWLOON TEL: 52021
4 A CARNARVON
So beautifully right ...
No other watch winds it-- self as smooth, as quietly, and without interruption as does the Eterna-Matic. For no other watch contains the ingenious patented bail
bearing winding principle.
FRENCH adaptations, or in`
this case, true copies.
above, is cf
have been a highlight of the current fashions in good This one, American shops.
course a Dior facsimile, recognised by any- one with even offhand style Ila vertion Interest. Bak in shown here, the price tag is hundred dollare original
ed to the
bought in Paris, and
literally *** budges: buy
ង
wout dreas diretos drown of
is, the sheath
black lateta, wiin detachable
COCONUT PYRAMIDS
HOW DYOU
MAKH
COCONUT PYRAMIDS?
RATHER TLIKA.
DSAR
apron overskiri, BÈLá sp the MAGAROOND,
light walsh, and - handwrnely
pocketod.
WHISK
2 503 WHITES STIFFLY-
AND ADO 5·0 OZ COCONUT 6 oz SUGAR ‚1' TEASPOON CORNFLOUR
AND 12 TEASPOON
VANILLA
SHARE INTO PYRAMIDS, AND
BAKE ON AN GREAGED "TIN IN" A COOL OVEN
TILL A PALE: FAWN COLOUR.
TO SAVE BUGAR YOU COULD MAKE
THESG COCONUTA MACARDONS
OONDENEED QUE MILK JA
JUET MIX/M TOGETHER 802 COCONUT, YETIN SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK AND I
TEASPOON VANILLA
DROP THE MIXTURE
ON A GREASED TIN IN DESSERT SPOONFUUS ABOUT.
1 INCH APART
AND BAKE IN A MODERATE OVEN
ABOUT TO MIN,
BEARING!
ETERNA MATIC
RST: WATCH TO WIND ITSELF ON A BALLS.
Agents i ED. A. KELLER
CO., LTD.