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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1930.
THE
WHERE
DOLLY
YOU GET
VARDON
ALL YOUR
HAT
SHOP,
NICEST
HATS.
PAMELA
FOR SUNNY DAYS
We shall unpack fo-day
COLLECTION OF SUMMER FROCKS FROM PARIS.
FOR EVENING WEAR, EXQUISITE GOWNS OF NINON AND FRAGILE SILKS, FOR AFTERNOON, VOILES, NINONS, AND GEORGETTES, FOR MORNING, LINENS & ORGANDIES.
13, Queen's Road Central.”
FELIX HAT SHOP
7, ICE HOUSE STREET.
Is Now Showing a Collection
of New Spring Goods
AFTERNOON FROCKS
EVENING FROCKS FROM PARIS.
PIONEER SILK STORE
CHINA BUILDING & PENINSULA HOTEL
YOU WILL NOW BE PLANNING YOUR. SILK FROCKS FOR SUMMER WEAR, WE HAVE THE MOST DELIGHTFUL RANGE OF SILKS FOR YOUR ÉVERY NEED.
Call and see for yourself.
In the Ladies' Salon
FOR PRESENT WEAR
FROCKS AND JUMPER WASHING SUITS OF
SILK.
SMART IN CUT AND REASONABLE IN PRICE
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
(MEZZANINE FLOOR).
LADIES' SALON
TEL. C. 4567.
WOMAN'S PAGE.
SPRING
HAS BROUGHT ALL SORTS OF DELIGHTFUL VARIA- TIONS TO THE MILLINERY
MODE:
YOUR HOME AND MINE.
THAT DELICATE. MATTER
OF SAUCES.
Let us get down to bedrock at ance, and begin with the founda tion of all sauces, the panada. This is a very simple thing to deal with it handled according to rule, but unless you keep a sharp and intel- ligent eye on it there is no count- ing the number of tricks it will play.
To make the panada, take a rea- sonable amount of flour, a rather small lump of butter (or, if ne- cessary, margarine), and some milk, or milk and water,
Over a low light melt your butter in the pan, and then almost before it is quite liquid remove it from the light and stir in the flour," ad- ding about a dessertspoonful (not more) of the milk
Keeping a clear head and a deft wrist, bent up the mixture, work- ing with the spoon all the time to prevent it from sticking to the sides. or bottom of the pan. In a few minutes the mixture will form into a ball, leaving the sides clean.
Now the liquid must be added, and at this point the very greatest care is necessary to prevent lumps. Add the milk almost drop by drop, letting the sauce boil up each time and stirring continuously until the milk is absorbed into the smooth
THE RETURN OF NEW DECK CHAIRS. pate
SILK FROCKS.
If you are going Home on cave soon, you will want a deck chair, The beat has come so quickly and you certainly should see the that many of us were caught with hammock chairs" which White away, Laidlaw's are now importing out a supply" of those ascful sleeved from Arundel. They are of good jumper suits or frocks of washing British workmanship and the fea silk which we find so useful in the ture of them is that, unlike the ordinary deck chair, there is no Spring and Autumn Though upright which you have to fix to good many woollen suits are still arrange the height. The chair is so worn they really are too hot for constructed that it adjusts itself to your weight so that you get comfort in the middle of the day, adequate support if you sit nearly and the news that a collection of upright or fie almost flat, and you mid-season silk frocks has just can change your position without been unpacked in Lane, Crawford's getting up to fix the chair. For Ladies' Salon will, I am sure, be those who like a real upright chair is another new invention, also made of beech wood and green canvia. Most of those I saw were jumper. This chair-in shape rather like an suite and had long sleeves, though armed table chair has a swing back there was обе most attractive which balances in the same way as sleeveless suit. This was in pinky the hammock chair according to the tan silk trimmed with geometric pressure you put on it. Folding strappings and diamonds of beige aluminiuma camp stools with green and apple green.
A sister suit, canvas seata will be useful for the with sleeves in this case, is af beige children on deck. washing silk strapped with tan and green. This was not, I thought,
welcome.
quite so smart but certainly a BON VOYAGE! casier colour combination to wear.
A most attractive two piece en- semble in lemon yellow has a sleeve- less frock which boasts the new "san-tan neck at the back. Over
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it is worn a loose jacket of silk stockinette hemmed and bordered With the frock material. Very smart is a jumper suit in dark olive green with applications on the jumper of a paler shade. Two white dresses caught my eye. One is of wathing crépe with a wonderful arrangement of stitched down pleats to give a very close fitting hip line, below which the skirt futes out in a charming way. The other, a jumper, suit of heavy Canton crépe, has a pleated skirt, and a quite plain jumper" with two crystal buttons at the neck.
BROWN AND GOLD.
SOME NEW "FELIX" FROCKS.
At interval, remove the pan and beat the aauco well for a minute or two with the side-to-side motion. used for beating batter. The more. a sauce is beaten the smoother and glossier and whiter it will be when finished.
The amount of liquid you use is
according to how thick or thin you require the sauce to be. When boiled for the last time, take a teaspoon and season very delicately with salt and pepper. It is very important to get just the right pro- portion of the two.
Now you have your plain white foundation sauce, and, you are ready to serve it either as a cost- ing or a pouring sauce, according to the amount of liquid you have used.
For boiled mutton, add finely- chopped capers to the white sauce. For fish, add parsley chopped as finely as possible and made special- ly green with a douche of boiling water. For onion sauce add an onion previously boiled, drained. and chopped.
SMALL THINGS TO KEEP LITTLE HANDS AND BRAINS, EMPLOYED.;
“Súton finds some mischief still for idle hands to do"!! Idic brains are nearly always planning mischief.
Columbus discovered America:
Cook discovered
BOVRIL
WHITEAWAYS.
NEW SPRING SHIPMENTS
NEW SUNSHADES.
SUNSHADES
+
RAFFIA SUNSHADES
A now selection of smart Rafa Sunshades. Short handles. Nice designs.
$9.50 to $14.50
ART SILK and COTTON SUNSHADES
Plain and Fancy.
$10.50 to $16.50
ART SILK DRESS MATERIAL A plain and openwork equare design in self colours. 28 inches wide. :
$2.75 Yard.
NEW SCARVES: NEW MILLINERY.
INSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED.
BOOK SHOP & BIBLE DEPOT.
7, WYNDHAM STREET,
For the voyage
Books and play things for the children, NOVELS FOR YOURSELF,
#
BOOKS FOR HIMSELF"
SUN SHADES, TENNIS COATS, AND A
NEW MATERIAL.
COATS FOR LIVING LENCI DOLLS.
Some attractive art silk in a
Bome sun shades made of raffia would be over white frock for matting and trimmed with rafie ship-board wear flowers in all sorts of pretty colour effects, caught my eye when I went fancy weave and a thin, summer into Whiteaway, Laidlaw's this weight has also just come in. It is. week. They came from Italy and in a wide range of colour and costs are quite extraordinary attractive, only $2.75 a yard. - Such a sun shade could be used equally well with a frock of print A big collection of summer frocks ed cotton, voile, or georgette, and
was expected by the French "mail two big points in their favour are this week by Famela, and will I that they are light and inexpensive. am told, be on view to-day. I do They run from $10.50 to, I think, not know exactly what this collec
tion comprises, but I understand 814.
Then I saw something else which that there will be frocks for morn-
I told you last week about some of the very attractive frocks, which the Felix at Shop. had imported for the Races-and all those I men- tioned have found new owners, and were most of them to be noticed among the smartly dressed crowd
Such a lot of people, seem to be and books in large letters with at Happy Valley. There are two or three more however which I did not going home this Spring, that one simple words Transfers and scraps, see last week One of these is made wonders who will be left in Hong and the albums in which to put of a figured brown and old gold Kong in a month or two. Many of them,, Paints and chalks and paint crepe de chine with the narrowest those to whom we shall be saying ing books, play wax, and cutting I thought, must also have come ing, afternoon and evening wear, touch here and there of black good bye" within the next week out books of dollies and their ward from Italy, since I was reminded and that they come from some of piping. The interesting feature is or so are taking their children robes, simple embroidery cards and at once of the famous Lenci dolls. the best houses in Paris. The col- the waist line, which is high at the Home with them, and not a few kindergarten hand work outfits. But I learnt that it was from Eng-lection should certainly be well sides and back and quite low in mothers are feeling a little troubled All these things can be found, at land. That was a box of most de worth seeing at the earliest opportu front, giving a particularly smooth at the thought of taking entire very cheap prices at the Book Shop lightful tennis costs made of thick nity. close fit over the hips. A handkercharge of their turbulent nursery and Bible Depot in Wyndham flannel and trimmed, as are the.
The Pioneer, Silk Store are now folk when "amah" is left behind, Street. If you are a mother and garments of Tenci dolls, with chief scarf completes the neck.
The old saw which found favour have a sea voyage before you in borders and applications of thin showing a large collection of silks Scarlet washing silk is used for a trim little dress with a three tier among the "nannies" of my own the near future, go up one day past felt in bright colours. There was for summer frocks and undies. The & white coat bordered with bluc hot weather lins come so, quickly ed akirt, and is relieved by a mar- nursery days, Batan finds some the flower stalls, and spend a row vest of pleated beige georgette, mischief still for idle hands to do," dollar or so on things of this des- with a cluster of little round that there is no time to be lost in For those who prefer neutral tones is as true-to-day as it ever was, eription which will help to keep pieces of felt in red, green, planning your summer wardrobe, is a dress of silk voile printed in and the mischief may be serious on your little ones happy and safe grey brown, pink and blue. There board ship. Wise mothers, there while on board: are two tiers to this skirt which is fore, are buying and packing all You will find there a wonderful longer back than front, and a jabot sorts of small objects to keep little selection of children's books of all of pick and blue georgette finishes hands busy during the voyage. sorte and will, I believe, be sur the bodice.
Books of pictures, alphabet books, prised at their very low prices.
and yellow applique near the hem and you should take advantage of of each front. Mustard yellow is this exceptionally fine display of bordered with white, white with tan silka: A big shipment of Bhanghai and lemon yellow. These coats are silk embroidered under wear, and intended to slip on after tennis, but printed two and three piece pyjama how very bright and pretty they suits, has also arrived.