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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1951..
PRACTICAL
HOMECRAFT
£4,000,000 WORTH OF BRITAIN'S ANTIQUES ON SHOW
long white beard and
HAZEL MAY
on television.
LONDON. ocension. The old gentleman THE household gods of with
our grandfathers and ferocious aspect who leans 50
heavily on his stick has studied recites her- life with the family. pearl with burnished stell great-great-grand- the Tang horse for at least ten The oldest exhibit is a piece, mounta. It has views of Vienna fathers are assembled in a minutes and won't be disturbed, of pre-dynastic Egyptian pottery an lid and sides, and all
oki. while a frail old lady is enchant nearly 5,300 years of.
Best the fittings
and nre of gold fascinating exhibition
cd by a gold repeating watch gitt for a sad friend would be silver-tiny embrokery scissors the Art of Gracious Living and chatelaine which has been the five-inch biscuit figure of rodkins, thimble etc. Little jar
the nnnual Antique lent as Д
exhibit by Pu-Tai. God special
of Contentment, and boxes which make up tr Dealers Fair, opened re- Queen Mary.
showing the god convulsed with contents are of mother-of-pearl ན* remember my mother most infectious laughter.
A second tray has a set of paints cently at Grosvenor House, wearing one just like it, she
The
Chinese
antiques are for painting on silk. Another This £4,000,000 - array of says, but most of the bystanders among the most attractive and casket is in the shape of a grane unusual, The Ming. Kang Hs, plano with a built-in musical treasures gives our Festival are too busy to listen.
and Chien Lung boy which plays when the d visitors as clear a pieture
A patient art dealer tries to Yung Cheng of
an American that periods are all represented, but is opened. This is to be shown English life through the centuries explain to
the largest and most ornamented
apark
from china there is as any South Bank exhibition.
dressed, silver candlesticks are not as variety OC Imagine elegantly-
beautiful jode. bowigged cavallers
a perfectly in valuable as
plain amethyst wrought into beautiful scated
pair of the George shapes, Jacobean miniature
pottery, and heavily decorated
carved
The The American huy's ivory. On one
dazzling tiny stick of Rigantic chairs
Jacobean I period. dining-room table! And think the big pair.
writhe a score of minutely Jewellery at the Fair is under- of an exquisite Regency lady
tandable at a time when dealerr rfect dragons.
is provided are Inundated with family gemt Ample evidence with powdered hair perched on
of the 18th century vogue for sold to help their owners meet, gracefully curved fender stool.
Chinese "chinoi- the rising with its gay striped upholstery.
living everything at the
British furniture-makers dell- ly low compared with those for All
in the trade jargon when Jewellery prices are consequent- these come to life Fair.
"One 17th century Inkstand on
berately copied Chinese furniture many other types of antiques,
One of the most sensational and china, view has a glass bottle with
Most likely to n
to appeal 10 pieces on view is an enormou three-holed stopper for the sand paper.
feminine taste are the exquisite diamond-encrusted spray with once used as blotting There, in a corner, is a set of
needlework cases. The loveliest contre flower nodding on a wire belongs to four George III candelabra used
Queen Mary: spring and shimmering with al Viennese casket of mother-of- the colours of the spectrum. at the banquet on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo,
at
The Fair is as attractive to the
layınan in antiques as it is to the specialist. While the precise value of a rare Sheraton mahogany bowfront bureau or a sixteenth century con stoo! may elude the layman, he esn- not fail to be dazzled with such an array of beauty-furniture, clocks, silver and Jewellery, bronzes and porcelain. The prices will probably make him reel, especially when he reflects that a sum that would take him and his wife to an expensive hotel on the South Coast for a week is required to purchase a Rockingham group featuring a girl with n poodle three-and Älve-eighths high.
Yet I am assured that even
There are many curiosities in the collection. Among the George I gold snuff box which. we would like our Food Minister It was presented in to mote. 1845 by Queen Victoria French butcher, M. ftolland Aine, in appreciation of his excellent beef!"
A 1050 oak chest has three the first of B carved panels, cavaller on horseback, probably Charles II; the centre showing the eagle carrying off the infant
who
to be Ganymede created King of the Gods; and a third depleting a bird among flowers. Above the panels are
was
words "Watch and Pray" arut the wo below "Live wel and die wel, 1050"- But the inscriber was evidently afraid that the re- cipient might
take the first
part of the latter injunction too literally, so he added warningly, "Repent, the Lord is at hand.
A low mahogany table, with leather covered
top, opens to disclose a pair of library steps. and there is a Commonwealthi which almost exactly skillet in
modem pressure resembles a cooler! The sportsman will be to find one of the amus earliest cricket bats in existence,
resembles nothing
this overtaxed country the British still greatly exceed amused foreign buyers --- even those traditionally rich Americans at whose approach the art dealers tre supposed to tremble!
Visitors to the Fair them- selves help to provide the atmosphere which makes this such a characteristically British
FALCONER'S
will create Jewellery
for you.
LITTLE THINGS THAT PLEASE....
'I'on'
JAEGER-LECOULTRE
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much as a caveman's club. There is an enchanting Louis Carnet de Bal in diamonds and gold enamel dated Pairs, 1778. book, presented to her at her Queen Mary has lent a birthday twedding and containing mi
ures on Ivory of several members of the Royal Family, The cover is of tortoiseshell bearing the armis of England and of Teck in gold and enamel, Iwith the title "Leaves of
Remembrance" in diamonds.
An 18th century silver lustre mug given by a sorvant to her mistress is inscribed: "Presented to Mr Mary Spence as a small emblem of esteem composed by Marion in the 21st year of her [servitude"! A doggerel poem
ABOVE: The Queen lent this pair of ormolu two-branch 'candelabra of tree and foliage design on shaped plinths, each relieved with two native figures of decorated lacquer on bronze,
AT RIGHT: Also lent by the mantel clock, Queen is this. which once decorated the Red
Drawing Room at Brighton Pavilion. It is in a cir
circular
case
of Chinese antique black Lacquer, decorated with floral design on En ormolu rustle support, relieved with and Chinese native male figurines of decorated Isequer on bronze.
THIS IS THE DRILL
FOR A HOLIDAY
AS AN ASCOT-WEEK
went
ROYAL GUEST
tends to be domestic.
away.
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Anne Edwards
Your Sewing Scrapbook
Mary Brooks Picken
How To Perk Up An Old Dress For Evening
IF you have "tired" dress in
navy, red, green
black,
tiny dress you no longer quite like cut top off at the waist- line, face the top and make a mug-Biting camisole. Tako
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Buy 2 yds, of 72" nylon net and make a circular skirt and bolero, as our diagrams show and you will have a dress to wear when you want to extra-special nice.
Cut Edges Together For the skirt:
Hall
Folt
Jook
material In
lengthwise, Pln cut edges together. Mark centro of cut edge A. From A to B
of
one
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Cut
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Measure up from G length you want alecves to come on chalk or penell and mark two
and J are arcs, as shown. Cut ca these arm and locate H.
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from D to left to
to edge of paper, left side 7" a placket on
to Dmw a a line straight up from D. deep and machine-stitch it prevent
aline straight to the left its stretching. Stitch Draw a around waistline 4" from edge, from I to connect with this Unc.. to prevent stretching, and notch
Draw line to
to curve front of edge. For waistband use a rib- bolero, as diagram shows, then bon binding saine as you use on fold paper on line G-H and cut
back samo
curving as front, the bolero.
the underarm as shown, but back uncut on fold leaving line.
Cat collar pieces, out, as shown, from pieces cut away at
A scam the
back D necessary in centre
on collar. Lay paper pattern corner pleces left from skirt and cut out your bolere.
Paper Pattern · To cut bolero: Make a paper pattern, penciling it out as fol- Idws: B is shoulder 10 walst length less 3" to right of A. C is armhole plus 2" to left of 3. Dis bust plus 3 above C. E is 4 neck 10 left of B
Collar
36
THJ
14 Bust +3′′)
Front
Back
Fold
underarm.
Seam shoulders and under- arms. Bind bottom of sleeves and edge of jacket and collar with 127
wide
ribbon.
nylon Baste the collar on, easing neck- line of bolero slightly so it can- draw. Stitch collar, then turn and silp-stitch row ed to to cover the scam.
edge
Width of fabric
1/8 Waist meas.
BA Shirt length.”
LAXATIVE DRUGS ARE
OFTEN ABUSED
By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
When ONE of the greatest of current
enemas are used, so abuses is that of the laxative often the material employed for drugs. It has gone on for years making the enema is glycerin or and it still continues despite all soap. Both of these substances attempts to educate people to are extremely irritating to the a better way of handling the lining membrane of the bowel, problem of constipation.
and their frequent use may lead So many people have a fixed to long-continued inflammation.
May Be Corrected idea that a daily bowel move- ment
$
absolutely necessary for Constipation may be corrected good health. This is not truc by proper diet, taking plenty of and is falsity has been proved fluids, exercising, and forming new
over and over again but to no the proper habit. The
'scientific prepariions, such as met
avail. Despite all demonstration to the contrary, lulose, have been quite people continue to believe that in bringing temporary relief toxic wastes are absorbed by the until the condition is permanent- bowel and continue to take un- ly overcome. Constipation may often only be made worse by the necessary laxatives.
Unfortunately once this habit abuse of laxatives and enemas. is established, stronger and stronger remedies are needed and before long, severe bowel irritation occurs.
It's Started The laxative habit may stari
A milit degree of constipation,
Flour Bag Dresses
Washington.
TE twenty-five young own one you're welk
men and women of the But most of the conversation HAT you can expect to en-
WHA
joy: Flowers in your glossy magazine set who
bowling down the "The Queen," said a recent room if you are a girl, and for of the dally visitor, "Is madly cosy, and men an array green rhododendron lunes before long she has you telling papers. Excellent sherry and very often during a hospital stay. to. Windsor one afternoon her about your pigs."
champagne at dinner. Sitting
The National Cotton Council in the Royal Box at Ascot in due to inactivity, is natural for recently proviewed 35 garments faced a gratifying but.
a cloud of reflected glory, and persons confined to bed, but this made from catton feed and flour alightly terrifying five days IHAT you are expected to walking with the Princess is at the Castle.
know: THAT the right time to arrive is after tea, and equerry puts on her five-bob-hav a daily bowel movement.
have a
from swimming to dancing, are On no
each-way bet for her. And in The acutely ill patient may only included of the right time to leave is be- occasion
In tho "Cinderella their life did it matter quite fore lunch on Saturday. THAT the. evening-the- mid-wecke
be made worse in many instances sacks" wardrobe with patterns so much that they did. the you will have footmen in scar- dance, or Canasta or charades, by the strain of emptying the illustrated for children as well as right thing at the right time, let livery to wait
round a On you. or a session
the pianol bowels, as a result of
ud-s
the But at least the routine as As THAT women wait until they with Princess Margaret.
ministration of harsh purgatives. plece group and adults. Two- dresses, afternoon dresses, cot week guests of the King get near the door and curtsey
Often, In addition to laxatives sundress and bolero ensembles, and Queen seldom changes. in bunch to the King and Summing it all up when she enemas or the injection of fields dusters, children's aunsuits, skirts the men stay behind for port. got back last year, one of the into the lower bowal may be and blouse9, and even square. bread Windsor guests announced: "Oh, employed. Enemas are useful dance WHAT you take: A different THAT you write your
outfits are among the butter Letter to dress for each of the four and
the Mummy, it was tremendous fun when a real Indication, exists for types of wearing apparel. The days at Ascot, and a different querry
lady-in-waiting at the time, but I realise now them. However, this indication designs include big. Hawaiian you or if you how frightened. I was
ig unusual in people with a prints, polka dots, stripes, plaids, hat too if possible. A different who invited
London Express Servicej normal colon
and modern abstracts," evening dress for each night, are an old friend, to the Queen
across the paddocks, while her forgotten, and the patient is bags at a fashion show.
given laxative so that he may Clothes for every occasion,
other
with a slightly more
cite for the mid-week
at the Castle.. Cotton
grand
dance
frock
or
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You take a valet or ladios" {mald 'if'you, have onc. 'Ond young lady reports that sho anco apologised to the house- keeper for not bringing [maid, and the ' woman' • „said, "Oh, that's quite mil right. Thoyre often more trouble than, they're `worth."',
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CHOCOLATE WHIRLS
THAT A NEW
SORT OF ROLY-POLY MUM ?
•NO, IT'S TO BE
'CAKES, DEAR
MAKE 210 SHORT-CRUST.
· PASTRY--- AND ROLL IT OUT TO A STRIP ABOUT \-12 INCHES BY
9 INCHES
NOW CREAM
TOGETHER...
20Z MARG'.
Fiez COGGA POWDER.
AND SOZ CASTOR SUGAR
SPREAD
THIS
ON THE
PASTRY
ROLL
LIKE
ROLY
POLY
AND CUT DOWNWARDS INTO 9 OR IO
SLICES
LAY THESE
FLAT ON A
BAKİNG
SHEST, AND BAKE ABOUT 20 MINUTES
IN A
MODERATE
EL OVEN AAN
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