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Coronation Year Ball
Under the distinguished Patronage of His Excellency the Governor Bir Alexander Grantham, G.C.M.G. and Lady Grantham.
at the
SKYROOM
LUNA PARK
on
FRIDAY
25th SEPTEMBER
from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.
TICKETS $25
Please book your tabios
front of lift, Gloucester Arcade.
In
In aid
of the Hongkong
Society for
the Protection
of Children,
weak
EYES
CAN RUIN
YOUR WORK!
When your eyes uche, work suffers.
To soothe and strengthen them, bathe
eyes regularly with Optrex
Eye Lotion. It washes away
Just, relieves eye muscles -makes eyes sparkle! Doctors recommend it.
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PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Į
Copies
of photographs
taken by the South China Morning Post, South Chins
Sunday Post-Herald. and Chiza -Mail Staff
Photo-
graphers are on view - in the Morning Post Building
ORDERS BOOKED
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1953.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
LOOKING FOR A BREEZE? You'll find one in front of an electric fan. The two-specă design shown in portable and has a
safely grille.
ALUMINIUM-BAČKED DRAPERIES do something about the weather. They reflect back the sun and help, reduce Interior daytime heat.
Parker "51"
COOL IDEAS
By JOAN O'SULLIVAN"
FOT! Hottor! Hottest!
H These three words
take an active part in any self-respecting summer vocabulary. To use any one of them, all you need do is make a pertinent comment on the weather.
It's quite true, as Mark Twain guld, that people have been talk- ing about the weather for years. But now, Mr Twould be gratified to know, they're finally doing something about it.
Instead of aweltering through the summer, manufacturers. have come up with some cool ideas for beating the heat.
First of all. there nre -air conditioners that take the mercury down degrees. One of the new room models circulates dehumidified cool air quietly, Heretoforo such units have rounded remotely 11kc + Jet plane warming up
for the take-off.
For the Bookcase ›
This new model is also hide-away design. If you place
I in window, the grille pro- jeets
thas the по farther drapery line. Or, if you ilke, aluminium backing that you can pop it into a bookcase, year round daty. In winter, cabinet or storage wall.
In they keep cold out; in summer, either of these cases, however, by reflecting back the sun, they there must be a duet that will reduce interior dayume heat. it will undoubtedly remain a
this
This is just a small portion
reach outside
nir. For
AIR-CONDITIONING UNITS are getting more decorative. This amart, qulefly-operating model fits attractively into a bookshelf.
docs humidity. We have to agree with Mr Twain, they're Bill talking about it. And, comes a completely air-conditioned age,
topic at intense conversation -** after all, it may cool off indoors but it will still be hot outside.
reason, the Installation should of proof that people are doing be made along an outside wall, something about the heat and where the duct wit
will be as wide
budgets
as the back of tho unit, Those with amaller may and electric fans are their worm weather solution. These come in a variety of styles. Particularly good if there are small children in the home, is a fan that's concealed behind a grille so closely spaced that tiny Angers can't squeeze in catch the blades,
Two-Spood Switch
Bod
This fan is portable and can be used on a table for quick room cooling, on the floor as an air circulator, or in a window
Tricks For
where it will bring in fresh air. T
Home
Dressmakers
army
By ELEANOR ROSS
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
From a Transport's Galley
HE commissary
Was They should be seasoned well-stocked with food brolled on both sides 8 inches from birt heat until well Ravaud, together. with his until medium well-done-about Chef Patissier. and his 12-14 min, for flels or steaks thick, Baste with Maitré d'Hotel wont aboard cut 1 inch
or margerine the United States Navy molted butter
procesa. during to brolling Ship Upshur at 7 am nt (The Blow are usually secure the invitation of her Master, into snug rounds by a strip of When tiene, arrange Captain Kenneth G. Towne, bacon).
platter. Top U.S.N., for "Oparation Beamise sauce, and Farnish
U
Gourmet." The problem: to with heated
the
toas,
Wit
tinned or cooked
use, in preparing a luncheon, fresh or frozen asparagus, and only the foods stocked for sauteed fresh or tinned mush- daily use in the ship's gal. room caps, grilled half toma
of fresh and a bouquet ley.
watercress. With
of co-operation
Bearnaise Sauce: Add 1 poet- Commander L. W. Le Forge, ed sliced small onion to Jr., Director of Supply, the tbsp. mild cider vinegar and 2 ship's chief steward, and
then. torragon vinegar; cook 2 ship's chef, Ravaud's men " min. Meantime, beat the yolks the to" for the production of the of 3 eggs and strain in finest "chow" ever served on a
vinegar.
Sel over hot water transport. M. Ravaud, i hasten and stir continuously until the
to add, is o Zamous epicure mixture thickens. Remove from and host of Le Biarritz, one of the hent. Beat in 4 thấp, but- New York City's leading the
time; work French restaurants.
In aday's column featuring the highlight of the menu-unusual dishes, simplified for the home kitchen.
MENU
WC are foods
ter, 4 tbsp. at 1st cach portion thoroughly be tore adding the next. Season with 1 tsp. salt, and 1⁄2 tsp. cayenne. Serve at once,
L'OMELETTE SURPRISE
SOUFFLE
Cover a wooden bread board with waxed paper. On it placo
9-in. layer of sponge, cuko, Sprinkle with 2 tbsp. un- diluted Rolls
concentrated orange
Consomme Rosale Filets Mignon with Bearnaise Sauce Asparagus and Mushrooms Tossed Green Salad
L'Omelette Surprise Soume Coffee Ten Milk All Bleunirements Are Levsi
Recipes Serve Four
CONSOMME ROYALE
julee. Top with 1 pt. of car- vary frozen ton ice cream
hard and cut in 1-in, slices. Bring the ice cream almost to Dot
the edge of the cake.
2 tbsp. undiluted concen-
This is hot consanime garnished orange Juice. Top with
ed with custard royale, Tinned rate
condensed consomme recording
diluted omelette souffle mixture
and
to directions on the in bake in a very hot oven, 425
F., until the souffic browns, is satisfactory To serve, ladle into soup
plates and garnish about 10 min,
Note: M. Jean Ravoud uf with squares or diamond shapes the Biarritz and all
grant chefs of custard roynie and a very
use Grand Marnier in place of little fine-minced parsley.
Juice -the concentrated orange Custard Royale: Bent the
used in the above recipu, 4 of of home some of the wool Jersey THE
eggs until thick. Add and yolks
Omelette Bouma Afixture: important in winter. 2/3 c. consomme; strain Into a
Put the take out stuffy air. It has a sewers is increasing tweed so
1 of two-speed switch and
whites in one bowl and To apply the bias seaming cover shallow bowl. Cover with waxed Separate 4- eggs. be each season, and each sea- con
Set in
of hot the egg yolks in edge with adjusted for vertical or horizon-son, too, women are show-
water and bring slowly ไป Ing off garments that have μhicknesses.
pin,baste and stlich through alloiling point; reduce the heat bowl. Beat the egg whites wi- a real professional air about idea. The screens and windows them. can be adjusted to any height
usted
ventilation, Per- for
tal air flow.
Screen aluminium
windows
tre
mode of another cool
As
зелт
paper. binding. then
For Tight Weaves
a pan
# Secon
Then gradual
t.
powdered sugar mixed with 1 tap, flour, Add tsp. vanilla. Beat and fold in the egg yolk together to with 2 drops of olive oil help blend the souffle and hold rise it will it together so the higher. Use os
the preceding recipe.
and simmer 30 min. Remove almost stiff. from the water.
Let the cusly beat in 1/2 tard sland in the bowl until cold, then turn out and cut in- arc expensive models bręczy
In some lightly woven fabrics to squares or diamonds. manently attached, the units copied down, very often at first
FILETS MICNON don't rust or corrode and
is are glance there little to dis- the seam may be clipped to
Whether flicks Imignon or width of a quarter of an inch, the original and tinguish between
arc used, removable for cleaning,
Stitches small steaks then overcast. Heat-resistant draperies are a and the "knocked off" garment, must be close together to pro-method of cooking is the same. prize-winning design in theas it is called in the trade. But feet the small scam. This gives cool-off cutegory. These parti- just examine the construction a softer finish to a Ane gar- cular drapes received one of
of the two garments and the ment. A curved seam is good the 1883 Trial Blazer Awards,
the for yokes, waista, as well 05 found in iven by the American Home story will bo
for armholes Clip edges to Fashions League.
finishing that holds the dress or
prevent puckering or pulling. coat or suit, together, for the then overcast them together or finishing is part of the
con- separately. struction.
Heat Reducing
On the Toom side, the draperles have a colourful print on chintz They are lined with,
Sloovo Finish
Just turn a sleeve inside out und note the finish, When a tine dressmaker handles sleeve, she leaves two rows
A
shrinkage bastings over the cop of a set-in sleeve after she hus
са
When one edge is longer, in the case of a sleeve top, case IL in with the shorter edge. Pin first, holding the fullest part toward you.
Keep In Shapo.
Lemons
in directed
Are
Useful
TULL of precious vitamin C maintain resiliency and helps
for good health, full of counteract shrinkago.
The flavour as they are, lemons are
lemon has ploniy ready to do a good job ground other uses in the laundry, we have discovered. For one it is a the house as well.
of
We were chatting with un good idea to use full-strength expert on household metals, lemon juice on white wash end he told us that one way to fabrics to remove lipstick Оп coloured wash clean copper or brass, and an stains.
casy way it is, calls for rubbing fabrics, dilute the julee. the surface with a cut piece of Taped seams appear in fine icmon and salt. Then wash
1
Removing Stains To do a good job of bleaching with lemon juice and spread on tho in the sun. To remove fruit, ink or rust stains on material that is both washable
placed it. There she presses the garments, for a taped seam is carefully with warm water linen or muslin, moisten
one of the most effective ways polish with 1 dry cloth. seam with both sides facing in the same direction. With a pair of keeping a garment in shape, clean aluminium bots that have
woven become dull or binck, just ass the Tape seams on loosely of scissors she
clips into
fabrics and seams that have with water, add a siced lemon scams at the fullest part of the
great strain, to prevent stretch- and boll. curve,
maintain full scam allowance, the raw edge is finished in one
Simple Trick
RC-
ing. Walstlines should always Cut glass is very fashionable and colour-fast, rub spots well with lemon juice, cover with be taped, while armboles, yokes again, and it is good to knciv To prevent ravalling and to and necklings are all the better that u cut lemon rubbed on cu salt and place in the sun peat process if necessary. for taping..
gines will remove the greyish- When cotton, linen or rayon ness that is apt to obscure its has been greyed or yellowed by of four ways, If the fabric is In a circular-skirted garment brilliance.
improper washing and rinsing, sturdy, the type that will not there may be a sagging of back
add
the julco of one or two tray, then seam may be pinked, seams no matter how carefully Fabrics that ravel easily require it is hung, unless such seams And a good laundress tells us lemons to each three quarts of
More permanent type of are taped.
Machine-stitch the but there's a simple trick for rinse water," finish.
Bilk Overcast
blankets
Lingerie, seams
beautiful sew it with amall keeping Dr
washing udiequate
for sheer fabrics if running, stitches to open seam when they're being washed, All rinse every third time in water small, loose siltches are used. on both sides of seamline. If he does is to use lemon juice to which lemon juice has born
both sides of seam are pressed in the rinse water in the rallo added (one tablespoon Bias binding is best for un- in one direction, one row, of fof the Julce of one Jemon to julee to each gallon of water). lined
of blanket, You' And that this gives fo fabrics and for heavy, stitching, close to scamling, is each two pounds loosely woven fabrics such as sufficient..
This simple expedient, helps to and brilliancy to silk.
aro
In
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new
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