ROUND THE SHOPS
One bears of Enari Coats and of Happy
coats, bridge coats, and kimonos
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24TH, 1926.
CHRISTMAS DECORA-
TIONS.
Alas, for the long-lost cheerfulness of though the depths of winter were upon holly. It is not only the clumps of us. It is not so much the definite cold as the draught that annoys, and to have scarlet, there is something about the colour, texture, and general vitality of one of these delightful garments handy the leaves, which makes the tree supreme is such a boan. This morning the sua shines bravely, but there is a cold nip in the wind and the verandak is the ideal
All
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A Christmas decoration, In Hong Kooy what can we do to replace bolly, ivy, and the great bundles of mistleto
The
WOMAN'S PAGE
BEAUTY CULTURE.
She has the bear's ethereal grace, The bland hyena's laugh, The footsteps of the elephant, The neck of the giraffe.
I love her still,. believe me, Though my heart ita passion hides. She's all my fancy painted her But oh! how much besides:""
It has often been said that the Chinese have two topics of conversation, and that the favourite is Food. If they ever liste to our artless dinner table patter they subject of peace and plenty into one of disease and diet, for verily where is the maiden who eats without comment what and when she will
spot to sit and sew if the little faan which will soon be pouring in to market must wonder why we pervert their own! hoari coat is wrapped about one. these garments conform to the demand towns in England? If the gardens runs to a large wild Magnolia, this shrab with, or without, its white flowers can be used with good effect, it ench bunch or circle
that warmth shall bear no relation to
clamp over the main pictures, a circle around a bowl of red flowers for the dinner table is a suitable background to red crackers, or artificial holly.
weight. Only the lighest silks and wools are tolerated. I sawn particularly nice one at the Pioneer Store. It was genties kept compact. A tight, tidy, little in colouring and sat modestly amongst its highly roloured "relatives, who gloried in lovely reds and bluey and greens. The little gentle grey coat had the wares of the sea in every gradation of grey, and cream, and black, woven as a design both for its outer and inner side. There are i dress lengths to match now, and shaded kimonos, and shawls.
A new selection of white and coloured ander-clothes were ga view, and they are made in first quality satin, which washes well. They are ambroidered, and have attractive scolloped borders. 、 ^.
One other useful thing I noticed was a new selection of ship: brocades in havily metalled cloth. It is a simple matter to
have a well-mit slipper recovered by a Chinese shoe-maker in one of the most attractive broentes,
Heary black sotia is embroidered solidiy with silk in autumn leaf colours, This is an excellent example of the new flare with fisted "princes" linea.
FURNISHING.
In decorating for a Christmas party, it 13 as well to remember that the hall is an important room. To come in from cold and perhaps blustering chair, or motor, ride and be welcomed by warmth,
The Pirates of Penzance churu were not an unfashionable as they pretended.
a large bowl of flowers or irce branches,
& bright cushion in the dark corner, is just as valuable an aid to change of mood, as any of the more usual, artifices. Many a woman at the latter end of Christmas day is tired with "manage- meat." Servants, children, giving and receiving presents, expressing goodwill and answering notes has possibly reduced her to that state of mind in which she would prefer to go to bed with a book, than turn out into the cold; it is to ecunteract this exhaustion that I would pay great attention to the hall, and if possible have a log fire in it, and if not, turn on an electric heater just to produce a glow.
Hearing cries of "Oh! Poppa, look at that!" I went into the Sign of the Lantern. It mast; indeed, be a glorious by attractive, but incongruous, additions, to be a round-the-world tourist at Christ cannot be over emphasized. Should your Christmas gifts include a cushion, a lamp mas time, and have plenty of money to shade, a waste paper basket, rag, a spend on the best of this Colony's screen, or a piece of porcelain, it may, or may not, be an odd-man-out in your treasures. Casting care, aside they are
room, but no matter, here, in this shop, indifferent to the moans of the baggage can be found something more of the same room steward, and return to the land of type which will immediately give import ance to the new acquisition, and advice their fathers like Wise Mea from the on all the grades of colour and line can East laden with gifts. I wondered if be obtained either in the shop, or on the liners had thought of providing the Peak and in Kowloon by special
"Few things are arrangement.
"more
Every course brings letth a chorus of sighs in exact ratio to its succulence, and cries of "No, no, I mustn't!" is the invariable reward of the anxious hostess. About eight months ago a local celebrity took herself to foreign parts. She was a plump, jolly, kindly soul, full of the best intentions She was not stock aize. (degrading term). About six weeks ago she passed some friends in Pedder Street,
innocence all
Thes asked and in her if she was feeling stronger, and what had been the matter with her. With some acidity she explained that her health was perfect, and that the had taken of the odd twenty pounds by the simple process of a non-fattening diet, and the regular consumption of twelve lemons a day! Having assured us that we could all go and do likewise, the went on her way, and we on ours, each secretly rowing that the lemen treatment had no attraction for us. It will undoubtedly reduce weight in the most obstinate case, but at a cost to skin, and youth, and vitality; to temper, to kindliness, and to everything that anakes life worth living.
IN THE GARDEN.
Reports on the growth of flower seedlings grem pessimistic, and much disappointment is felt when whale month goes by with practically, no im- provement in the plant. The few warm days may have started new energies, but they have been quickly followed by a cold wind at night on the higher lavela
This hat and scarf could be made at home quite easily with the aid of a stencilling equipment.
Calendulas
tricks beloved of the
FOOD.
When life loses colour, when there is no appetite for further adventuring. I suggest eating a juicy red onion. A body Ieu too long on daintics grows stale. Asparagus and artichokes dressed by Khowing cooks, served on fine china, with dull-gleaming silver are the poetry of food but the time comes when a vague memory of other things stirs one to revolt. against the rennement of couking so de sired by the Chinese chef Earth speaks to Earth, and says:Please give me at onion!* Properly to enjoy a white onion it should be eaten raw between slices of home-made bread, and the niceness of our rchnement makes it almost a necessity to go to the open spaces for partaking of the delicacy. Dwelling too long with the aesthetic starves a healthy body, in the open space there is the tang of the earth. the song of the bird, and they are very lovely in Hongkong, the young pink tipped growth appearing over the hills, the bite in the air: all these are meat sad drink to the spirit of labour which must maintain its vitality, by nature's ways even should they verge on vulgarity in the opinion of those who cannot cast care aside. Bodies are not separated from souls until they pass through the churchyard, and until then they profit by a taste of the plain fare of bread and onions, simple straight talk, and delving people.
When we have lived too long with the reixote and the austere, when we have stayed too long with our dreams, striven too hard, strained too far, it is no time for further starvation. It is time to turn to Mother Earth and the simple satisfy ing things of blithe and hearty living. In other words it is time to banish the fetish that onions are impolite and enjoy then this way and that way, but most of all silced,' and laid between the bread and batter, with a covering of hard boiled
Scalloped Mushrooms.
The following recipe for scalloped mush roona is so much worth while that even if the fresh ones from Fanling are unpro- surable, the bottled variety are quite suc cessful in this sauce.
Two cups of mushrooms, 2 cups of coarse stale breadcrumbs, cup of melted butter, teaspoon of Tabasco zauce, 2 eggs, hard cooked eggs, 1 cup of rich anik. Seasoning.
If fresh, remove stems from mushrooms and peel them. Peel caps, sprinkle the gills of each mushroom lightly with salt and pepper, and allow to stand while making the sauce. Spread the crumbs in a dripping pan and beat in the hot oven. Add tobasco sauce and the batter. Sprinkle a layer of crumbs in a scuffle dish which is well buttered, and add the mushrooms, either whole, or sliced thin, together with the white of the two hard boiled egg. Continue in layers until all the mushrooms are used, reserving enough crumbs for the top of the diah. Mash the yolks of the hard boiled eggs and stir in the two fresh eggs after well beating.. Slowly add the milk while stirring con- stantly. Season to taste, and pour this mixture over that already in the baking dish. This sauce should be distributed as evenly possible, and the dish shaken to casure that the liquid permeates the whole substance. Cover with, the remain- ing breadcrumbs, and bake for twenty minutes in a moderately hot ovea. there is a cover remove it for the last five minutes that the top of the scallop may be browned.
until the level is six inches from the top. During the summer months, after the Ducentowers bave finished the sail can be taken out and aired for a few days, and mixed with a little-fresh mad from the Canton River. In this way the soil is safe from the delugings of rain, and is not carried away the sea as BO often happens on the Peak. The to- matses grown in this way are very easy to train, and by judicious pruning of the leaves can be kept in full fruit for a Jonger period.
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IN MADAME FLINT'S
dressing of liquid manure placed round the outer edge of the pot is very help- ful to Linaria, Antirrhinum,. Fausies, Nasturtiuns, etc., and all the seedings planted out in the border, if they are: about four inches high should be coming into budy they are much improved by a circle, or back ground, of dark leaved Nasturtiums, and Inter ou, when it comes to cutting them for the house, this combination is all the lovelier. for a dull-surfaced black bowl. Marguerites are now about ready for pegging down. This is one of the many contortionist Chinese jahrung, and one of the few that is justified by results.
Tomato Plants. There are two distinct schools of cabinets for exhibiting the purchases. refreshing than a room completely re- Each cabinet to be individual," of organised, and this need not be an ex- technique dealing with the growing of course, and by this means inter-tourist Fensive mood to indulge. Providing the tomatoes. The shallow method is to all bargaining might be indulged between walls have been distempered in some a ledge of the hathouse with a depth of neutral tone, curtains can be dyed or 18 inches of rich mixture, and force the changed by the addition of a broad band roots to spread into a fan, and thicken,
and the more usual one is employ deep EA skin lacking in freshness and M But to return to the Sign of the Lan of colour at the bottom, or the top, and rather than lengthen. The opposite plan, this alteration must be backed up"
R delicacy is really nothing to be A concerned about. We are now tera, as I did, when the crowd had and eccentuated by some other medium trenching, as for celery, and prepare a moved on, I found it quite unruffled, and to repeat the theme. The Lantern" depth of four feet hot bed for the at a premium, and the most economical.
"ALMOND PACK bedecked with glory. There is no excuse has some very lovely glass bowls, fruit seedlings In Hong Kong rich earth is ST, undertaking on
plates, etc., and vases in French glass method of growing sweetpeas, moon- for the over-detailed, untidy, and under- of lively hue. The addition of a green flowers, or tomatoes is to obtain a num
TREATMENT coloured furnishing that one so often sees and bronze cushion, a green French glass ber of discarded drain pipes of-porce in Hong Kong. The Austion Room is a bowl full of orange flower arable lain, about three feet deep, and either plimentary runner on the rear will boon and a pitfall ell in one, and is. 80 transform any dull corner into a um apt to lead one away from the original parlar. Furniture in tenk and black colour scheme. The importance of keep wood can be made to order under super be delivered from Tientsin within two months of the order.
porta.
partially, or entirely, bury them in the Leave a well-drained foundation and fill most sheltered, corner of the garden. the drain pipe with the best mixture of
ing a well-defined treatment andefiled vision, and rugs at $2.80 sq foot can leaf-mould, pig manure, sand and soi) ↑
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We have just received another consignment of Smart Hats from London and Paris at moderate- prices. Also a large selection of original Calendars, Xmas Cards and attractive Novelities suitable for Xmas Presents.
THE SIGN OF THE
LANTERN
York Building, Chater Road (next door to Kelly & Walsh), Tel. C. 1834.
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