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Maddening Moments
SHORT CUTS TO BEAUTY
· A QUICK MAKE-UP FOR EVENING.
It is going to be a big night, and you want to look your best, so your, makeup must be brief bud perfect
if there is not time to give your self a full beauty treatment. First' of all,
that your creams, powders, rouge, etc., harmonise with whatever colour you are going to wear, and have everything laid out ready before you begin.
Cleanse the fake with lotion or eren, removing the surplus more carefully than unsal Omit the mastags, is after this the face
(always takes a little time to settle
dowa
strawberries Spray the ineo with a fresher, without
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cream
EUSTACE FITZJAMES was a good husband and a kind father, and his patient weeding of the front lawn was at once the pride and cory of the neighbourhood. Yet here you ace him like a volcano in eruption. His wife looks down. His son looks down. The maid creeps from the room. No wonder! They have just offered him cheese without his "Ovaltine" Rusks. Looking down is the very least they can do. Just - think what he's missing... that flavour... that scrunchy crisp. Dess. that general melt-in-the- mouth deliciousness .⠀ . Can you blame him? Could you put up with cheese without them? Isn't it enough to make any man smash the plates, throw the cheese to the goldfish, and dine at the Club to-morrow? Of course it is, and you'd do just the
same
OVALTINE'
RUSKS
AFPRIISING ‹ DIGESTIV®•&• NOBEISHING
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TO-DAY'S RECEIPTS.
'Barley CheesÐ.
Put half a pound of pearl barley
after the cleansing, using an or
| dinary scent spray: Witch haze! or
simple tineture" of Benzoin dilated:
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1932.
TO
WOMAN'S PAGE
CHOOSE THE RIGHT HAT.
ANALYSE YOUR FACE;
This article may help women of with very cold water is a splendid different types who and some dif ficulty in choosing fashionable hats which really suit them.
fresher.
An Important Item.
Now apply the powder founde Lin. which is the most important item of quick make-up if your powder is to lie smooth and all the evening. Blend the cream into the skin and go on smoothing it in nntil the skin fools dry beneath the fingers. Powder swiftly with a fresh swansdown puff, and is more quickly applied than then use a powder, rong, as this
and cue.,..
Finishing Touches.
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Brush the lashes
Moisten the eyebrows and laabra with water or grene, and lightly eroam the lips. with mansenrn, pinch the eyebrows int shape. and smear the lids lightly with the shadow. Last of all se your lipstick to good, pur- pon and carry a fresh puff dipped. in powder for a final touch when you arrive
into a double snurrpan, after well NEW EYELASHES
washing. Cover with water, Tand
WITH THE OLD
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AND THEY ARE NOW REAL
HAIR,
let it cook nasil water is all ab norbed and the barley in soft. Sprinkle in some "pepper and salt. Out up two meat cubes, and add. together with a little more water, and cook a little longer. Then add two ounces of butter and four Ounces પૂ chem. Cook again, surring well together until all is horoughly mixed. This is a very tasty dish. It is nice if left to get
No longer, therefore, is woman cold in dish, cut into slices, and antisfied with that mystery and served with salad. The better theonchantment which Nature, she has barley is cooked the nicer it is.
Potato Puffs.
Fashion, in its latest whim, has decided that women's eyes-for all that the poeta have sung about 'them-need still
adornment.
more
of Art's
been taught to believe, has implant- ed in her eye.
It all began with the simple ape- black, Then someone thought of sticking band of eye-lashes on to the eyelids."
Two pounds mashed potatoes, 1 ourite of margnaine, & cupful of warm milk, the yolk of an egg, and salt and pepper to taste. Mix the ingredients well-four the hands and make into balls. Bake ia aing dripping-tin, in a moderate oven, for 20 minutes, basting frequently,
The truth is that choosing
hat successfully nowadays calls for nimest expert knowledge. And how many of us possess it? We don't stay our faces sufficiently.
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That Mirror of Yours.
his point, but the fact remains that I can hear masculine laughter at.
she average woman has only a Yague notion of why certain hinta salts her, because no matter how much she may regard her face in thu mirror, she has never really analysed its points."
The Brsb essential is to capitalise your defects instead of ignoring them. That is, if you have a large use, don't try to hide it, beneath
BEADS...
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Now Paris has gone one better HINTS FOR CLEANING THEM, still and devised a means of plant-
artificial lashes in the eyelids. The inahes are not real hair at though no one could guess it The grafting process, I am assured, is simple and painless and not very expensive.
Bond necklaces. will repay thorough cleaning. As the various kinds require different treatment. the following hints on their care will be helpful.
Amber beads should be washed in Three lengthe of lash are avail-milk and then polished with a able very long for stage, and screen chamois leather. purposes, shorter for the ordinary Coral will look fresh after a wearor, and quite short for older treatment of olive oil, Rub the women, They can be hnd in beads all over with this and then almost any colour-n very dark blue polish with a chamois. is snid to give the best results.
"Green hair has been worn in the past: perhaps we shall soon Bees green eyelashes planted among those of the wearer.
BEAUTY HINTS.
Pearis, other than real ones, should not be cleaned except by polishing with a silk handkerchief. Roul pearls will keep in better condition if they are put into & box of powdered magnesis every week or two. They should be left in this for 12 hours.
To clean, ivory beads, mix some powdered whitening into a paste with lemon juice: Spread this over The skin which is reddened by the beads and leave until dry, when
over-exposure to the air requires
constant feeding with nourishing
they should be polished with a soft duster. If the benda aro carved,
crown and oil for several days. use a soft nail brush, Avoid water for at least three days, Glans or china beads should be washing with a ekia lotion, clean- removed from their string, and sing cream, or milk. Do not at wanted in warm, soapy water. tempt-a-bleaching treatmamt until
the natural oil which has been dried out bas been replaced. -
For Wooden Ones.
Soiled wooden bends will soon be Almond oil may be allowed to elenn again if they are rubbed in soak into the skin for as long na powdered magnesis and polished possible, or an almond oil and egg with silk.
yolk mask givon. There are various A pasto necklat can be cleaned by cooling lotions which will nothwashing in soapy water. After the skin One made from berwashing it should be rinsed in clean zoin and cucumber and perfumed water, dipped in methylated spirit, with lilao: another from almonds, and hung out of floors to dry. honey, and oucumber..
Pasto must not be rabbed at all," -
an enormous "brim," Believe me, it in the trimming."
Avoid the Pretty-Pretty.
will look larger still. Flaunt it beneath brims which turn off the i face, and try the effpot of angular for her, as for the woman with the But hoavy trimmings are taboo brims and akilful tilts In the general effect, the angle of your The latter definitely needs a brim- heavy face and rather square jaw. noso won't be noticed any longir.
On the other hand if your noso
med hat with a diagonal sweeping ling. No straight brims for this is of the button variety, wen small but definite brim, which will type And she should choose, too, make it look bigger than it is. Aquarish crown which will balance woman with a small, peaky face will the shape of her face. And wall-atudied angles helpful too, ceither on a hat with a little turned up brim or one of the cloche type. An oval face, even if it is thin, and one with high cheekbones can carry of the new turbana per-
!fectly.
And there is one last hint. If
you are no longer young, give up yearning for "pretty" hats of any description, unless you are of the excessively fluffy type, and aven Hats with a rather chic, hard ap- then bo judicious in your choice.
pearance will be far more becom
woman,
Now for the plump. round-faced
Flat orowns are not forg Sho needs a round crown her which follows the line of her face. Brims which turn a little of the HOUSEHOLD HINTS face, if they are not too narrow agd. skimpy, will quit her. But her 1 great standby is the cloche with a diagonal line to give length to her! inea. A fold in the centre of the brim or slightly to one side will help to break the lins a little and make her face look stil! longer. Converging lines on, the crown of n has will give an impression of length. This effect can be attained
VAGABOND SCRAVES.
HOW TO WEAR THEM.
Almand Meringues are an vri. dinary meringue mixture, but add ginal party sweet, Make an o2- to very swo whites of eggs 2uz. of ground almonds, folding this vory lightly in just before cooking.
Beet Ten Custard is a nourishing dish for invalids and small child-] ren, and makes a wulooms change "from ordinary beef tea. Slightly whink two eggs and gradually add toncupful good beef tea stir- ring well all the time and adding a little ink and pepper to taste.
Turn into small buttored moulds, covered with creased paper, and The vogue of the vagabond scarf stand for a minute or two before steam until sot. Let the custard lends an air of gaiety to the sporta turning out, otherwise they are girl's outfit. Most women like to liable to break,
have half a dozen scarves for overy suit and to change them as often a possible.
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The
Coal Fires with ugly tiled sur- rounds may be transformed with a little sheet brass or copper. This need not be expensive, for brass is ent to the right shape and
"sprang
into the sides, and an- on the bargain counters of the big other piece is made to cover the shops now one can find plenty of floor-viles. The total cost of one spotted. striped, and checked silk such renovation amounted to 05 materials which would make ideal Fig Sandwiches are f popular KLärven, These should, if possible, item for a pienio lunch or tea. be cut on the cross, since this in. Mince some dessert go with half their quantity of seedless raisins, erenses possibilities of treatment.
add some finely chopped blanched The sport girls would find such a almonds, and mix in a good sprink- scb" useful for bringing a lasting of lemon juice. This filling in aenson's jumpar suit up to date. best with whole-meaf broad and Studied carelessner is the right butter.
note in this case. The scarf might
be tied in a loose knots so that! Grease en cont collars may be
the folds hang gracefully, or simply removed casily if eucalyptus oil is be twisted round the neck.
A scarf should never be tightly tied, even when worn with a cost
applied. Rub gently with a soft
ag.
or jacket, for nothing induces used for garments that have been double chin sooner.
And only
Irons, especially if they have been starf of thick silk with the ends they are put away,
starobed, should be cleaned before Wash them in spread wide looks smart when tied hot Hoapy water, to which a ten- as a cravat; thin silk too often spoonful of ammonia has been add-
creases together "and" allows ณ ed. glimpse of bare throat to be seen on either side of the knot.
If no sturch has been used, the usual rubbing on wire gauze, is suf ficient to clean the iron.
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Lace Curtains will last longer if they are placed in a pillow slip be- fore patting them in the copper. This obviates the risk of tearing theme when using the copper stick.
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Orange Tes makes a delicious Bummer drink when it is iced. Allow half an orange and one tea-: spoonful of tea to each person.. Squeeze the oranges, add pint of i boiling water, bring to the boil again, and infuse the tea. Fill up with boiling water, stand for five minutes, and pour off Allow to get perfecly cold, and servs with a small lumap of ice in each glass.
Pique frocks should be ironed on the wrong side to bring up the pattern. Remember to use a slight- ly cooler iron for linen than for cotton, 4, it scorches more easily. And when washing out voile frocks roady for the summer, put a little vinegar in the rinsing water and use very little starol to make the material crisp.
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Rice balls for schoolroom pud- dings can be made in this unusual way. Cook 3oz. of rice in one pint of milk until tender. Add 1oz. of sugar and chocolate flavouring or vanilla essence. Whes cold form into balle, dino in benten egg, topa in breadcrumbs, and fry, Bugar, and serve with custard or chocolate BOUOO.
Stock, provided it is strong, can be made into a filling for sand wiches if a little gelatino is added. Then allow the liquid to cool, and it will set into a jelly. Season to taste.
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