Cake
Belongs
at EVERY meal
and in every picnic basket too!
BIG CAKES •
FANCY CAKES
Delight your, family and guests by serving a variety of cakes.
We are
justly proud of our reputation for quality and purity and, incidentally, the vast variety we bake..
SMALL CAKES
FRUIT CAKES
ICED CAKES PLAIN CAKES
CAKES OF EVERY FLAVOUR
CAKES OF EVERY SHAPE
all with the same standard of quality and purity that has
the built reputation of THE COLONY'S BAKERS -
Lane Crawford's
LANE CRAWFORD LTD.)
FOR THE
FINEST
DIAMONDS *
GRANT
TAI HANG JEWELLERY
Sole Agents for,
LIBERTY DIAMOND WORKS LTD.
Johannesburg.
Room 707, 7th Floor, Bank of East Asia Bldg. Telephone 21306.
New Shipments of _TIENTSIN_CHEMICALLY WASHED G PEKING ART RUGS Arrived.
Now on display at
Peking Art Rug Company
221A Nathan Road, Kowloon. TELEPHONE 59049
A PERSONAL GIFT?
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1951.
PRACTICAL
Your Sewing Scrapbook
Brides
Mary Brooks Picken.
dislike
MAY
Striped Jersey Bolero-For Sports Wear
DOLERO Jackets of striped
Prsty parts, They are easy to make ind elfogtive In Wear with with n herts And a T-shirt rious and skirt. lyd. of 54" triped jersey plus . yd. plala for binding.
are favoared for
Chalking Out: Straighten fal- ric. With a fold toward you pince
A at halfway point on to told and measure shoulder wnást to left of A, as diagram shows. Bis 1/6 neck plus 11⁄2" above A. C is 14" to left of A.
The smart MEMOVOX precision -alarm wrist watch is just what you are looking for, Every time it rings it will remind him of you.
ΔΔΑ
On Opposite Fold Place D stright above A and E and F are on apposite fold. cach 2" from D. G. is 14 arm- hole plus 1 to left of C. Bis on opposite fold straight above G: I is bust plus 2" above G. Draw chalk lines B-1, B-F.
Draw line from 1 to 1, draw line from I straight to left edge. Locate J1 to right of eige and 1 down from dotted line. Extend 3" diagonal line down frem shown, curve.
to edge of bolero, as and mark underarm Cut shoulder line B-E of back. Place back over fron and cut sleeve of front.
Curved Lines
On centre front, measure to right from A 4 neck. Curve ine to B, as shown, and cut on this line In B. then to C.
<-- lyd
4 BUST+2" 01 Back
Front
<-SHOULDER TO A FOLD
WAIST
21
of
hottom
and sides Curve front as shown. Cut front along folded edge, Cut fold at best- tom of sleeves, front and back.
To Make: Макс a tapering dart in each shoulder front, 4" Ease 13g and 1" wide at top. back shoulder line on to front) houlder Eine so sleeve lines come out even at bottom, Seam: shoulders together, using a 3"
scam.
Two Banding Strips
Cul banding la two strips 21⁄4" wide. Beginning at front neck- line and continuing down front, baste strip of banding on, right| side of banding right side of bolura. Base this around curves, and finish at front neck-
in and cut banding off.
Turn and baste edge of band- ing back so that finished band will be 4" wide; turn raw edge in 4" and slip-itch it, down.
M
AY is still a not-very-
popular month for wed-) dings. Miss A. M. White, who has been making London) wedding bouquets for "more! years now than I care to re- member," says that the 1951 bride
AS super- is just stitious as her mother.
Styles of bridal flowers have changed a lot, No longer the white traditional shent of Hlies: and trailing satin ribbons are out of fashion,
"Many June brides will carry handsprays of gardenias and Hephanotis," says Miss White.
One of the most unusual wed-
can remember: ding sprays she was of baby unripe tomatoes lo motel exactly a sand-coloured'
OLGA MURPHY The essence of chic
by Miss Phyllis Fanting for her wedding to de- signer Digby Morton.
dress worn Bind neck same way, allowing band to extend over ends of centre front bands so all raw edges are concealed. .
Bind ends of sleeves. Stitch underarms of sleeves. Clese a neck with button and loop. with hook and eye.
First Cosmetic Ritual -Keep Your Powder Puff
some
or
Recent bouquets with a touch! of the unusual were
white camellias flecked with gold car ried by Atlas Indrani Coomarss- wamy, daughter of the Acting High Commissioner for Ceylon, and
white a prayer book of Eucharist Willed to mafch the design of her dress for Disa Caroline Rice when she became
Clean Lady Plymouth,
SUMMER BEAUTY WITH summer holidays start- ing most ncwa-worthy
commettes are cool as snow,
Three of London's top models, be whose business is to beautiful, pans on their personal
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HOMECRAFT
It's Faster With Music
A German Arm has developed a hair-drying hood with built- Be In loudspeaker which can connected to any radio-receiver. The manufacturer, Robert Mathies, of Hamburg, says this will help entertain beauty par- lour customers. The drying hood, made of plexi glass, is also said to apply a "whirlwind drying method, The hair
alsed by the tuction of a pro- peller and then treated with hot nir.
at
Picture here shows the new Plexi-glass Hair Dryer with the built-in loudspeaker, scen right on the low end of the hood.
Household Uses Of Shellac
By ELEANOR ROSS
As always, we turn to sheltae
CHECK TEETH DECAY BY PROPER PREVENTION
By HERMAN N, BUNDESEN, M.D.
WILL your teeth last as long To prevent pyorrhoea, the use as you do? The answer depends of a proper, well-balanced diet is to a great extent on the care you important. It is important to give them, particularly during have hard foods in the diet, the
It is chewing of which he middle and later 20's. during this period that most stimulate the gums.
eople show the first signs of extremely important to visit the ayorrhea, a disease which brings dentist regularly, at least twice remature loss of teeth to so a year, so that the accumulation many.
helps
to
It is also
of tartar may be scraped away
is and the gums put in proper is condition.
It
Fortunately, this disorder asily checked if treatment egun in the early slugry. rally starts as a simple inflam- nation of the gums, known as ingivitis. This is caused by a deposit of tartar, a hard, ement-like material, along the zum margins:
To
TOOTH SURFACE
overcome the gingivitis rem this source, the tartar inust
se scraped away by the dentist. The tartar not only collects on gums, but underneath as well. the tooth surface outside of the fere it irritates the rum tissues and causes trouble,
There are two kinds of pyor- hoes. In ons kind there are no outward signs until the teeth begin to get loose. This type, it is thought, eccurs mostly among prople whose diels are lacking in the necessary minerals and ¡vilamins.
CHIPPY
makes tea in a garden more comfortable
to preserve ever so many sur- faecs, besides the usual wood, floors. A thin layer of sheline appiled to linoleum will not only add to the life and beauty
If the condition is not cor- We are all for those hand- clean oul the
change purse
of linoleum, but will make a
for waxing, reeled, what are known az handbags with leather polish up the mirror and there
perfect surface
he latter is desired. Similarly, pyorrhoea postcels often form. linings for such an interior Is you are,
it one of the backed hooked Pyorrhoea is a much harder easy to keep clean. Does seem
to treat than simple o shame that so many of us While we're at it, we find 18
rugs or carpets in your home is condition losing its "body," number of gum inflammation. are prone to become so at-
a good idea to replace all com- fached to a bug that we go on pact powder puffs with new or
coats of shellae applied to the back of the rug or carpet will carrying it time after time with clean ones. Funny isn't it, too, tips:
add both to the life and dura- nary a thought to its innards, how so many of us are pranc
of the of bility Olga Murphy: Essence So once-in-a-while-it-is-good-to-go-in for expensive-cosmetles:
floor covering.
to set aside Ume to
chic is simplelly. And the use of shellac helps in over and keep on using the 10
same summer handbags and give them a real old soiled powder puff? Maybe Don't overdress, over make-up keeping the rug flat.
we become atinched to thera. or overent, Gloria Clarry: The
weather the
Wooden Toys more hotter the
wooden Make-up should
drink sometimes be put on water
If baby has some
TARTAR ON TEETH do as
pro- is done la toys, a clean skin and applied with eight glasses a day. I find it
and apply clean pads or puffs. This goes cooling and good for complexion fessional nurseries,
The other kind begins as an for the big bath powder puffs and tigare Sylyla Shelley has several thin coats of shellac to accumulation of tartar
just one word for it-"Relaxa"
shellac The good and the tiny compact ones as
the playthings.
teeth, which pushes further and will create a smooth surface and further under the gums. Sooner should baby be inclined to pop or later this tartar reaches the the toy in its mouth, there'll be or
Booth socket
jaw by Into the A shellac finish will take a heap bone. As more and more of the of chewing before it is finally hard tartar gathers and pushes penetrated, and by that time, further and further toward the
surface can
root, the bone draws away from the
be Anished
the tooth and what is known as pocket forms, This pocket, if
condition is ouse the
neglected,
cleaning.
Good Shaking First comes a good shaking, after all contents have beer. removed, and then a
f1
1
SHOULDERS SLOPE
brushing reaching Into every well as the regular jobs. Htion." cranny. Give the lining a good you become attached to your going uver with
cleaning powder
puffs do remember fluid that is. sule for coloured that all cxcept the feathery Icather as well as for fabric. down ones can be washed againį
and again, and it is no task at all to clean them regularly.
REMINDS
WARNS
WAKES
The 17. Jewel MEMOVOX is available at
Hongkong's leading jewellers, and watch deaters both in steel and 18K gold.
JAEGER-LECOULTRE
Memovox
Soak In Water
or
on
with
HE tray part of the garden tea table is 20ins, by 15ins.. and has a la,wooden edge
ins, deep all round,
of the two handles cut out shorter end pieces of edging.
The
is carrying surface screwed and glued in. from the bottom of the edges to allow a lin, semi-circle to be cut out to lake the crossbars of the leg frame. (See smaller diagram)
The folding leg frame is mode
in, thick, and three in
tlowel stretcher rails, The hun dle and lower
INTER will come early to no fear of dangerous splinters. the tooth where the root cal up of four legs, each 18ins, long
the shops this year. Buyers hope to catch Festival trade,
Fashion pointers from early autumn models reveal big but 1cns and few of them; bulky fabrics and bright colours for
whitc
To wash puits shake out as much excess powder 019 pos- sible. Soak for half an hour in coats. important sleeve interest and versions of Dior's "chicken- sudsy water that is lukewarm.
shoulders and Romove
without leg sloping from water
and raglan sleeves. squeezing
pressing, transfer to clean, lukewarm HITSUN WEEK HAT suds Swish through the suds Winy, tip-tilled of green until
cleon and rinse two or three times in clear, lukewarm chartreuse straw with a
Wrap in a clean turkish silk ribbon and "chignon" of blotting the towel chormous white cabbage roses ne puffs until most of
was worn by Princes Gourielli - Tehkonla (cosmetics the water has been remov❜d. Let pulls dry on clean towel or queen Helena Rubinstein) when cloth, turning them from time che arrived from New York to to time. When completely dry, open her new London salon, soften them if need be, anger- ing gently.
REFRIGERATOR
ICE CREAM.
DO LET'S MAKE SOME ICE CREAM,
MUM, HERE'S MRS AS RECIPA
THE
THE
DISSOLVE
TO
(World Copyright Reserved- London Express Service)
1 TEACUP MILK 2 LEVEL TEASPOON OSLATINE
2 TEACUP SUGAR 11⁄2 LEVEL TEASPOONS
FLOUR
1 EGO.
1 TEACUP UNSWESTENED CONDENSED MILK VANILLA OR OTHER
FLAVOURING.
THAT'LL MAKE. ABOUT. I PINT
BLIGHTLY BEAT THE ROG-YOLK, AND ROD TO IT THE: FLOUR, AND SUGAR MIXED
POUR ON "THE MILK (GRADUALLY STIRRING ALL THE
•TIME
RETURN. ID RINS
again.
If you are going to do any painting work around the house
sets ir, Infected this, spring it is well to know gradually becomes deeper and that radiators, fire escapes and infection
not material accumulates, and there other metal fixtures will
is a bad odour to the breath. show rust bleeding through a new paint coat if treated with
A BAD TASTE orange shellac.
The affected person also hel Baseball Bat
a bad taste in his mouth, and Soon enough, Junior will get the teeth loosen in their sockets out that baseball bat for a little and oan be pushed backward and
Naturally, warming-up work of his own forward easily. Buccessive coats of shellac
and chow is lost. Onze the Con- create a finish that can really great part of the ability to bite take a beating. Sand the bat ditions reaches this late stage, no lightly between coals and then treatment seems to do any good bull to a high gloss. It's a job except to have the teath that any lad should enjoy doing. Iremoved,
THE TINNED MILKS INSTEAD OF_WHIPPED CREAM; SO START OFF BY PUTTING THE TIN INTO A. PAN- WITH ENOUGH COLD WATER TO COVER IT
WHI
THEN BRING TO
COOL
THE BOIL,
FIRST
IN
COLD
WATER
AND BOIL FOR 2 OR3 MINUTES.
AND
THEN
THE
IN
FRIDGS
AND FINALLY FOLD IN: THE WHISKED CONDENSED
.MILK
THEN MEASURE
OUT A TEA- CUPFUL, AND WHISK IT QUICKLY IN A BOWL
THERE'S YOUR ICE
'CREAM MIXTURE READY FOR FREEZING IN THE FRIDGE TRA)
ALL RIGHT, OBAR.
(Joining
Two
LWO
one rail
the outside
Bre
legs) Here you see rafi 18ins. long to glued in and allow for the.
of nailed, and side thickness
of troy cut out to two legs, either
Rt on rail.
side, the other lower rail is only
101⁄2ins.
no li only had to fit through: two Inside legs.
half-way up, large enough to Bore holes in each leg nearly take the rails and make a good
frmly. tight fit, then glue the rails in
The two legs which come in- side on the handle rail are not glucri to the rail, and the hole in the leg should be large enough to let them move more freely,
-London Express Service.
Beauty Tip För
The Smoker
cls-
Constant smoking. will colour your tech, try brushing them with hydrogen peroxide. Clean them first with tooth paste and then pour a little of The peroxide into your cupped palm. Dip your brush into this and clean your tooth again.. you are a heavy smoker, rinse your mouth cách morning with an antiseptic to gourd agairist an unpleasant breath.
Bust Exercise
If you have a too heavy buit try this exercise: Stand ordet with the fingers of your left hand clasped in your right hand Just in front of your chest. Now make little pulling move- ments as you were trying to pull the left hand logeer Tropi thair sockets,
at the same time slowly raising the arms until the hands are above your head.
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