THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11th, 1927.
·PYJAMAS, MALE AND BOOKS OF COOKERY.
FEMALE.
AND PHILOSOPHIC SAUCES.
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The
WOMAN'S PAGE
THE SHAWL.
The Bowers
FOR
THE RACES.
MORE AND MORE BAGS.
initial on the pocket on been devoured. The anonymous in darning stitch.
CUSHIONS.
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So much could be written about Were the horrid fact possible, the
the local product, and so many
Of all spft furnishings cushions modern man would rather die than Two new cookery books are an warnings could be given of quality, admit to wearing a sightshirt. Heiden! gift, and just as good com- and design. Quite recently I saw
For long enough there has been
are amongst the most attractive to looks ridiculous, and knows it, and paniona on a journey as they are an entirely new ideas, which had while protesting loudly that sach an
talk of uniform for women, and make at home, and fow additions when he first realized the atrocity, at home. The first is "Clarissa"
su pleasantly brighten an atmos come direct from Spain, and been idea is ridiculous and undesirable | phere of which the owner has tired. he was too shameful to do anything "The Old Cook," with a pre-etually made to order there and in every way, the manufacturers and less than completely cast eat the face by A.B. Walkley and there is scen in the making. mote, beam, and even the eye itself. nothing old in it. Here are no Cantonese shawls are shipped to produce, much the same result by So many and buyers strain every effort to
Square or round cushions can be Thus, by revolution, same he to lists of recipes, but gentle essays on Spain and from there reshipped as the strangle hold of fashion. Two more original shapes can easily be bought ready for covering, and the Forsch. Hnd be followed the men, how to enjoy, and how to prepare, a product of that artistic country years ago in the Riviera, one saw made up in lining, stuffed, and then tality of the female, he would have nearly all the perfect food in the that one has to enquire into the the streets and restaurants teeming covered with the desired material. shortened, the one garment into a
world. Alas, there are less than credentials before purchasing. The with women whose clothes were 23 Use a amock, and added partly hidden alive and rational being could
two hundred pages, and no fully particular garment was made of uniform as
closely woven material for trousers, but no suddenly he tore close the cover until each word has thick silk net embroidered all over group. White crêpe de chine pleat-hape cut two circles for the enda any Chinese family making the lining, and for a bolster it up, and about thirty years ago | writer being French, has suffered were from the smallest possible up copied, and improved op, the in-translation, but surely something
ed frocks, each embroidered with an about nine inches in diameter. The oriental gurments called Pyjamas.quaint and leisurely has survived to about eight inches across, and breast, each carrying a
the left size of the straight piece that joins Woman smiled at his funny little the process, and so simple is the simply scattered over the entire sur leather bag, and for the hat there of the cushion, and the simplest scarlet these circles will vary with the size foibles, and lengthened her aigh-tensy atcomplishment to many dishes
language that it gives an air of fare. The effect was lovely beyond were but two alternatives, either plan is to tack it on all round, and ties till their ends could be tucked that the average English housewife description, and there is no reason red or white, and, fitting the head then cut it.: round her feet, in winter time, and leaves undreared. But why? In why any woman, handy with a aweep the floor gracefully when she struggle is the necessity to tear up quite a small sum..
this, and so many arta the first-needle, should not make one for colour fashion has changed to beige, material tack the selvedgo | edge like a skull cap. Since then the Beginning from the corner of the walked. Then came, the war, and one's predadices, and beliers that Sole au Gratin and Chicken a la
and bois du rose, and the next com-round one of the circles, taking Sainte Menehould are every bit ra
bination is almost certain to be care not to ease or gather it. When good served at home as when Par-
pavy blue, and deep rose, and here the ends meet cut taken in a drafty restaurant,
there may be a slight extravagance straight leaving a strong turning the stuff off ways providing the same directions are faithfully followed, and the
and variance for the black and for the length of the pillow. Tack spienre remembers that a dish in
white combination is laying claim the cther end to the second circle, o cften a mood and nothing more,"
to the kingdom which explains why it is difficult
which will exactly it, and tack up to recapture the flavour of one we
When I visited Lane, Crawford's the straight seam on the side, leav have enjoyed long ago elsewhere, and also the appetite and appre-
Ladies Department the force of ing & bole for the stuffing. The tiation suppled by youth. It is
these truths was made plain. Hid-gap is easier to fix if it is left in we who have changed
den away in a drawer were one the middle of the seam rather than dozen of the most beautiful bags at one end. ever been in Hong Kong. All of them original in colour and shape, a sofa, or very large chair. Cut Oval cushions are attractive for perfect in workmanship, the linings your two oval piecca and join them auperb, and better than all these with a strip on the straight. This things to the thinking buyer is the allows, for more decorative effects fact that they were made entirely in the outer cover than if you join- in England. This trade, that has ed the cuter edges direct, and it been the monopoly of France for so gives a finished shape to the long, has now come on to the marcushion. The best local filing is ket in every respect an equal to kapok, price about eighty cents a the continental competitor, and that catty. It is a good plan to rub the is good news indeed.
inside with a dry cake of soap as
A cope added to the two piece costume is now favoured by some leading designa
The jacket and trimming lords are of Farma violar kasha and the rest of the costume of lighter mauve.
for some of us, air-raids, when the said little ladies had to hop into lifts, and sit in cellars half the
Chicken a la Saint Menehould.. Singe, draw, and truss a chicken. Put it in a casserole with a piece of butter, a glass of good white- wine, salt, pepper, garlic, a sprig of parsley, shallot, and two cloves. Cook on a slow fire sad, wher made, add the Dutch sauce to the which should be gently browned with egg and breadcrumbs just before serving. Dutch sauce. For this you need four very fresh yolks of egg (six in Hong Kong) half a pound of butter, and a tablespoonful of water. Pat these three ingredients into an earthen pan, and stir them together until the butter slowly melts The sauce should become thick like mayon- naise, and when it has risen, you add, after the salt and pepper,- vinegar, or lemon juice according to taste. With the dish may well be served potatoes and mushrooms Choose small potatoes, and when they are cooked put them in a stew pan with spring onions, Chinese dried mushrooms which have pre- viously been soaked in bouillon, chopped shalloty, and a piece of Butter Warm this and add season- ing, pinch of flour, and moisten with the mushroom bouillon. When it with the yolks of two eggs. the sauce is sufficiently cooked bind
The Bishop sleeve appears in jur. Amart ccat for chilly weather.
The only strangeness seemed to the damp does not affect the silk be in their being hidden away in a so readily, and the stuffing cannot secret drawer, and the solution was find a way through. The outer quickly forthcoming: "Oh, we can
not show them before their frocks can be finished in a variety of ways arrive! These are for the races, with tucka, ruchings,, or a careful and everything must be in perfect keeping. The ensemble is every-
combination of colours and may be thing." One improvement that is finished with tassels or Iringa A entirely new, is the placing of the heavy card is a tidy edging, or mirror on the outside of the bag.
place, and the piped cushion re-
held securely in a fob. This avoids plaited strips of the silk.. Piping the necessity of opening, and dis-is always used. It keeps the colours closing the total contents to the inquisitive gaze of the cavalier, touch here and there adjusts the lice of hair, and eyebrow, and in these days powder is of auch quality that it is unnecessary to repowder ofted.
tains ita shape better than the un- cared for sack. It should always be used on either side of a band of ruching.
Some bags were of black moire with the satin stripe mich wider shops with frequent sales that it is . There are so many Hong Kong than heretofore. There were some
An
Doubless the reader thinks" what a waste of white of egg, and I night, with complete strangers, and but Chestnut gateau is
detest meringues"." So you may, iù a biting wind
a very Many other different matter, and your xix of hardships, and much that was excireight whites quickly disappear. ing, and amazing, came the way Boil your chestnuts. When they of the little ladies, and the legacy are copked, take them from the
the modern pyjama, almost
water one by ono with a spoon, and ubiquitous amongst the Hair of skin. squeeze them between finger and First they copied man exactly, thumb until the pulp drops into a taking the best he could give, but deep dish. This done, moisten with the muddlers meddled, and med water, sweetened with half its dlers muddled, until today there
bulk of sugar.. are good pyjamas and bad, and the thoroughly. The sugared water and thread of every soft shade could be envelope bag of black silk entirely shade to match. With these two
Mash and knead good are the joy of our lives. Full a smooth paste. Dissolve ten bars purchased quite easily, and the the pulp of chestnuts should make Oxford trousera in heavy black of chocolate for two lbs. of chest design can be transferred on to the crêpe de chine pleated neatly into. a baad about the waist (1), boundnuts in a very little water, so as to silk from any book of embroidery. make a thick cream. When it is
The net must be of the strongest and finest and cut from new stock before the damp has got at it. bagful of odd ends of fine silk
A
at the full trouser ends with con- nearly cold air in the whites of The same effect could be obtained trasting colour, or material, and your cas left ever from the for by buying a Spanish lace shawl at
recipes; a lump of butter,
thia likewise serves the reyers of the of rum, and spread Port Said, and embroidering over
double-breasted coat.
lateBavaria:
Such is the general foundation, on a cake foundation, first a layer the rose pattern in the black lace. but-on-it-have been built all those of chestnuts, and then a layer of Worn na an adjunct to a black becoming additions, which are chocolate alternately, being careful already a habit in the West. Before to leave the gateau with a covering
ehiffon frock it was a great success, going on to bitter experience it is of chocolate cream. One more word" As well to describe the newest from Clariasa." She quotes Bril-
The original idea of the native Pyjama: Paradoxically, nothing
designer, in Canton was very crude, is more charmingly feminine than
and no attention was paid to per- these pyjamas; a graceful green
spective, or to contrast in colour. mousseline coat,, berdered in white
he huge cabbage roses still exhibit. mousseline with green stencilled arum lilies, painted in soft, palo
ed in the local shops, would be colours; the full trousers are of white mousecline, and when the coat
more acceptable if they were simply is removed for, aleep, a straight illustration of the garment desgrib left in the rose design without far. white jumper, bordered with large ed above, but her remarks provided ther claboration of peacocks and
white orums is disclosed.",
At this point in the tram, my reveria was broken by the clear ringing tones of the very young lady behind me. I had been vague- ly conscious of her breathing down my neck, in her enthusiasm for the (Continued on nest column.)
Mutual appreciation of good food has a more marked influence on happiness than anything else in married life."
new line of thought: 3
for Christmas, they look like The long fringe is not suited "to "I had some ripping pyjamas green leaves, butterflies, and beetles.
Repulse Bay oa a gala night; every carriage and figure, and often Alison got some too, but I think becomes a nuisance when uncontrol. she ought to give them away, no led. It is still possible to get a woman over thirty should wear shawl made to order through any Pyjams! Out of the mouths of of the good stores, and the weight babes and
apdaise can then be selected.
"
in velvet finished leather of pale an easy and inexpensive matter to fawn, and some of neutral colour fad a large remnant for a dollar ecwhide, or imitation snakeskin or two, or two small ones for the grained with red, or blue. original bag way of envelope shape
same price. The Pioneer. Store entirely worked in cross stitch in keep a box of short clean remnants, raffia on canvas, brown, green, and and "The Bign of the Lantern" red being the chosen colourings. One cannot describe them all, but will always undertake the making covered with a floral design execut-
would not be fair to ignore the in any shape, and supply a lamp-
ed in pon-painting. I did not find accessories and a change of a pic familiarity breeding contempt or ture one corner of the room can be ter to leave that scintillating garden of bag to be adored by some other. indifference, it was a difficult mat made quite new without wasting
time or money.
SALE.
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50% DISCOUNT
OFF USUAL PRICES.
York Building,
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AT THE SIGN
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"DULCIPEL'
Keeps the skin fresh, cool and fragrant
Counteracts the effects of perspiration
Exercises a tonic effecton the skin
Prevents and cures "Hongkong Foot."
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AT THE RACES
Hostess and Guest alike will receive keen scrutiny on this most im-. portant of Social Occasions.
Indeed, is it not part of your pleasure to court observation, secure in your knowledge that you
are looking your best?
Once again Lane, Crawford's Ladies'
Salon is to the fore with "a wonderful collection of Smart Race Gowns, Wraps, and Hats, which, in justice to yourself, you should view at once.
LANE CRAWFORD'S LADIES' SALON, Mezzanine Floor, Exchange Building.
SHINGLING WAVING MANICURING
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To visit the
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