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THAT LITTLE
PARTY?
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Mummy, can't I have a party!" Directly some small person, asks that, Muminy knows she is going to be busy.
Arranging a party for the kiddies is not always an easy task, so perhaps, if you are arranging a party, I can offor a few suggestions which will help.
Wise mothers will plan their parties with an eye on the day- aftor effecta
Now, if you bear in mind the fact that most children like pretty things to eat more than they do rich things, you will find your task is ensier. Novel shapes, plenty of
· colour, and stiffly-whipped and piped white of egg to take the place of dream will make your party look jolly and yet be safe from the effects of too rich food:
Here are a fow hints about the kind of things to have Sand- wichon, both sweet and savoury, mado of brown brend and white broad.
Savoury fillings. Fish pastes or potted ments. Cream cheese with a little mustard and cress. Sieved egg and tomato. Ham sandwiches, or brown bread spread with ment extract Sweet sandwiches-dates and nuts minced are delicious. Dates chopped and mixed with grated chocolate provide variety; and why not bananas with chopped walnuts, sprinkled with a little sugar and whipped cream 1 Boiled chest-nuts, sieved and then sweeton ed with sugar and a tiny little amount of cream, makes a good
filing.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1932.
WOMAN'S PAGE
Big Bargains DRESSES!
UP-TO-THE-MINUTE
BABY FASHIONS.
OF THE NEW SEASON'S FASHION STYLES.
WOMEN DO NEED HOLIDAYS.
hall with tales of marvellous new clean-alls which do everything in a house but cook the dinner.
Another intruder, I can hear her
A tiny pair of sun-bathing TO REVIVE THEIR SENSE OF groaning; another thief of time, and
HUMOUR.
breeches, hardly large than a pocket| bandkerchief, is now an important part of baby's wardrobe. Mothers are shown how unke these ultra- modern baby clothes in London's Why," wails Materfamilias, as Howest babies' club. In a few she contemplates the handrod and weeks time, when the sun-bathing one tasks to be accomplished on season starts in eatnost, happy the eve of departure, why, ob, babies will be playing on the roof why, do we ever take holidays ??? high above the Thames dressed in this delightful Lido kit..
Baby fushions have undergone as radical a change during the past few years as their mothers'. Gone nre the bulky woollies, the tightly fitting necks, the strings and the unalterable garments which 'must be made to last a little longer, even though shrunk and uncomfortable."
Of Adaptable Out. Nowadays a garment that is made for the two-month-old baby is still doing duty for the two-years-old toddler. It may sound incredible, but so well planned are the newest baby patterns that with a few ad- justments this is actually possible.
• Cakes.-Always · avoid cream cakes if possible, if you are having a. large Christmas cake; I would Auggest also an assortment of dainty There is, for instance, the baby little cakes, iced if you like, but boy's bodice and pilch, which is Biscuits and made of flannel and is the only without any cream.
undergarment required in summer. meringues (finger-shaped ones) all. The little bodies is doubled-breast appeal to small people.
ed for the early months and can be Jelles-Jellies are such a real let out later, the simply bound neck can be enlarged, the sleeves let down, and the trousers lower- ed. And it is made out of a couple of flannels previously worn under the long clothes.
help at party time that you won't need me to tell you how to use them (there are such beaps of dif- ferent ways). Their colours alone are a tremendous help with the decorative scheme of the table.
Strings
Loose, low necks and wide arm- holes are essential to all these Fruit Fruit sundaes are nice garments, Tight armholes are apt and cooling, and it served with to cause pressure on the jugular stiffly-whipped and piped white of vein and lead to open mouths and egg on top, instead of cream, they subsequent nose. trouble. are better for children. I always banned because they may impede find kiddies love, small creams-the circulation, and, except for vests, idea of having one all to them the best. English flannel is used in selves" is a great attraction, preference to knitting because it is These can be made in a variety of easier to wash without shrinking flavours, and I generally use half each of custard and jelly.
Every little frock and suit has its pocket. Inside is stitched & tiny button, and evory handkerchief bas a buttonhole to correspond, One layer of wool in summer, three in winter, and as little else as possible
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Chutney sandwiches are useful for tea. Found some ham or cold boiled bacon together with enough chutney to make the mixture bind. Spread on buttered toast or bread.
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Dried peas and beans cook much better if salt is not added until
towards the end of the boiling time. If the water is salted at the be- ginning of cooking, it is lialbe to harden the skins.
this Anne's day off, and the Smiths arriving any moment, and the guest-bedroom looking like a bleak apartment on the fifth floor of a French station hotel.. And Mrs. Smith has everything so dain- ty in her own house. And she was such a dear when we were South, and I did so want to show her some return hospitality, but it's so difficult managing, and I beg your pardon, what's this about
Furniture which is heavy but is something I've lost! My dear man, I've lost nothing at all lately unless not provided with castors can be strain last Saturday, and that was easily moved when the room is all my husband's fault. What I shall lose, though, if you keep on standing there hindering me, is my temper.
Yes, it is devoutly to be hoped Mr. Harassed is about if ever Mer- cury disguised as a gentleman pedlar appears on Mrs. Harassed's doorstep.
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being spring-cleaned if a little soup is rubbed over the haas of each leg.
Gas cookers require special care to preserve their. if they are original spick and span appearance. When drawing a hot pan or kettle away from the flame, see that it does not overlap the enamel sur- round, as this sudden direct heat is liable to discolour the enamel and make it difficult to clean,
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A Valuable Commodity. For she is quite sincere in her assertion that she has lost nothing. That is the awful bit about it. We mias our watch if we mislay it; we Ham toast is a tasty and quickly make a terrible fuss about an ab- mada supper dish, and a good way sent brooch, or a ring. But we lose of using up cold ham. Mince or our sense of humour and become chop the bam, together with an devitalised and dull as ditch water onion, a tomato, a little fresh without ever raising a single pro-parsley, and seasoning to taste, tést. If anyone dares to hint we Fry all together in a little batter, 'don't see
a joke to readily as and turn on to rounds of hot butter. We used to stare owlishly at ed toast. the speaker and matter,
It's
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all very well for you to be Jally can be made to go twice frivolous. You've not got our as far for an emergency sweet if responsibilities." If the foolhardy white of egg is added to it. Make
one proceeds to retort, "All the a pint packet jelly in the usual way more need to take those responsibi- and when it is getting stiff and just lities happily," we seethe inwardly beginning to set. with indignation, and compress our lips, for if we said all we'd like to BRY
well, there would be. nothing left of our opponent after the blaze but a little burnt-up black cinder!
Fruit, of course, always makes a
No, Nobody can help. Nothing nice splash of colour on the table,
can, restore, that which we've lost so choose rosy apples and white
Actually, women take holidays but a holiday. Only the winds of and black grapes, and as many
because they need them. They freedom can refill our drooping other fruits as you can manage A is the rule for the toddlers. .. need them if they are to acquire sails. Only safe Farbour in some basket of fruit always looks attrac- And while mothers learn how to again all that which in the husal sunlit haven can direct our minds make these fascinating little gardrum of everyday existence they, to a joyful course. Quite sudden- Drinks. Small folk generally mente, fathers can make them have lost. You often see advertisely, one morning after a few days get, terribly thirsty at parties, so selves useful by building, cradles ments in the papers for sapphire of idleness, some foolish remark re have plenty of home-made lemon- under expert instruction i
tive.
ade, orangeade, raspberry cordial
all these are pretty-coloured
drinks. Straws to drink through
add a spice of excitement.
Bwests should be handed round at intervals, but if you want to keep your small guests happy don't overdo it,
FROM: THE BEAUTY
COUNTER.
laughter
Odd we're getting so little by the post, these days.
Not odd at all. You paid all your bills before we left."
Laughing at Life,
rings and silver fox furs lost be lenses the dammed-up fount of our tween such and such a place, but you never see advertisemente pro- claiming the loss of the most vale able commodity of all. You don't see, advertisements for this come dity because no outsider can help its owner to regain it, There is Cleansing tissues may now be positively no use wasting money in Crackers-No party would be a bought in pastel shades to matchserting a paragraph to this effect Not really humorous, that retort, party without brackers, and if the décor of bathroom or bedroom, in the newspapers: Lost since but it made me shout with laughter. these are lovely coloured ones they. The colours of tissues and boxes January last, somewhere in Hill-So, at the moment, do all the fec will add to the attractiveness of are pink, mauve, ses green, and head, a lively sense of biour blest jests in the illustrated week your table.
yellow...
Please return sume to Mrs. Harass lies. Bo do all the droll incidents All you need is a deep cardboard Also to add to the cheerfulness ad, Fodup Terrace, where the finder that occur Not that they are par hatbox, which should be covered of the dressing-table are bruzb-and- I will be handsomely rewarded.” ticularly droll. They are not. It with either gold or silver paper, comb sala with chromium-plated Oh, yes, without a doubt the is just that having been on holiday, with stars in gay colours gummed bucks. They have the advantage of finder of so priceless a thing would I have found that which I had lost. on here and there. The box is then not boing required to be cleaned,
Honestly, although you loathe tra- filled with bran or wduet, and land may be obtained in various
"velling, and all the petty-discom- the fish take the form of tiny gifte, bright enamels set off by the pint
forte attendant apon changing yous well wrapped up in gaily-coloured ing, a
abodo, although you return home papers with strings to match. Womon who use different colour-
Mercury on the Doorstep. dog-tired as lose of us do, and with Place all the stringes together odd lip-stick for day and evening
still-heck from draughty: train, after the fish have been duly buried, will find the new two-coloured atiald It is quite likely that no reward and a blistered skin with overmuch and slip them, through a small ring. very handy. One side is a definitely would be proffered by the lady her exposure, to sum,, it is well worth Let each child choose a string and lighter shade than the other, but self. Indeed, I feel sure she would, while if the most valuable posses then-off we go, and you'll find you both are blended together so that eye the finder with the same, eni- sion in the world is restored to you have no shy guests to think of after they appear to be one, and take mosity as she eyes those glib young |---I mean, of course, the ability to that
Jup no more room.
men who worm their way into the look at life and laugh,
he handsomely rewarded by Mrs. Harnased's long-suffering husband" and family,
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