HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1925. (FEATURE SECTION.
DRINK
MALTED
MILK
WOMEN'S INTERESTS
BE SURE
IT'S
NESTLE'S
This alluring creation, with the richness and shimmer- ing magic of its metallic lace trimming, has come to usher in the spring mode. Another smart evening cloak of gaily coloured, figured material, and lined with rich sheeny fabric, is lying across the chair at the side,
SCARF TRIMMED HATS.
The scarf is destined to return
TRIFLES OF INTEREST.
An amusing innovation is the in a new form this season, though after having played an important old Persian fabric handbags made part in the fashion world, for so to match the little breast pocket long one was inclined to believe handkerchief, both being bordered that it would be laid aside for with bands of galon.. awhile. Hate thie spring will be Novelty yokes sro making decorated with scarves twisted their appearance on some of the round the crown at the side. Also advance summer models. One the smartest thing will be to have frock had a yoke made of pleats, a. scarf matobing in details of another was cut with long ends colour and trimming the hat to tie in a soft bow in front.. worn with it.
A hat seen recently was trimmed with tiny roses made of different coloured wools, and the scarf was made of crepe de China in the same abade as the straw. of the hat, and finished with a band of the same wool
YOSBS.
THE SLENDER LINE.
The slenderizing line of this silk gown, printed in navy blue and white, should endear it to The the hearts of all women westce, and front panel are of pleated georgeleo crepe and there is a collur of ecru lace. It is caught together at the front with an ornament of beads and two long tassels.
A pretty novelty in a black lace frock with a wide pastel-sbaded ribbon threaded" under the lace, tied on each side in a big fat bow. Enamelled fobs are worn with smart crepe de Chine frocks, also carved stone buckles which hold draperies or fasten a belt.
BEAUTY OF OSTRICH FEATHER
|DANCING AS AN EDUCATION.
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The vogue for ordinary ball- room dancing is so overwhelming Once upon
a time ostrich that one is apt to forget that feathers played as important
there are departments of the part in the decking, of beauty as pastings which are well worth the silke and satins and fine laces, cultivating on other than purely which under now names, per social grounds. Ballroom dan- haps are unalforably of beauty's cine will keep you young, but it tradition. Cinderella wont to has no place among the arts, or the ball with ostrich plumes in among those activities which go bor powdered hair, and when we were young wo did not dream that faathors'could over lose their proud place as the right thing in the way of elaborato (decoration." We wore curled ostrich feathers ourselves on our leghorn hats on Sundays and other days whon | children were expected to take care of their clothes.
Incalculable fashion has brought in close-cropped hair and untrimmed millinery. There are no picture hate to cry aloud for adornment by the ostřich feather. It was meant to droop along with ringlets, it seems, and cannot successfully shade the slender neck which is révoslod by the Eton bob. Little hats are -made entiraly of feathers and feather mounts are used, but the ostrich feather is not seen In its gonuine, historic pictures. queness, That this fashion will be revived is, however, the opin- ion held in the Trade Commiss- ioner's Department of the Union of South Africa,
THE RETURN OF "FICTURE" HATE:
Onco more the rumour is hoard) that Paris is bringing back the big hat. When the large hat seriously returns it will be feather-trimmed. Thon the ostrich farms in the Dominions will get busy again, and a disting- uished and romantic industry will flourish as of old.
It would be wrong to say that ostrich feathers have been out of fashion. They have been used for
gigantic fans (too "luxurious for the great majority of us), vanity- bags, trimming for evening frocks, imitation flowers and foliage, Little pink rosebude, pale lilies of the valley, a purple blossom resembling a passion-flower, and other designs, have been fashion-! ed in feathers.
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VERY SMART.
This new Paris dress hds a Iarge phosphorescent flower, just below the waistline, ge its only decoration.
THE DIET FOR BEAUTY,
No matter what her age, the woman who aspires to a clear, smooth, peach-like complexion must include plenty of fresh fruit in her daily diet. For fresh fruit is as essential to beauty as it is to health, and it is the safest and surest way of preventing those ugly little blotches on or beneath the skin, which invariably make their appearance in the spring.
The best time to take your fruit for promoting beauty is in the morning. Before breakfast, if possible if not, the fruit should. form the first course at breakfast. Grape fruit is excellent, especially for those who wish to preserve the alim, youthful figure which is so fashionable at the moment. Apples are also beneficial for olearing and improving the com- plexion, and oranges are capable of storing the bottled sunlight " which we need.
It is an excellent plan to make a rule of taking one meal daily which is entirely composed of fruit. The business woman would make that meal lunch. She will And that she works better and feele brighter after a luncheon composed of fruit than after one of meat and vegetables.
One of our prettiest actresses once confessed that her secret of keeping her figure so alim and supple was a dish of stewed fruit taken fasting the first thing every morning. The fruit, she said, must bo frosh, not dried, and it must be eaten fasting. Rhubarb, apples or any fruit in season will
do.
Try it and see. In a few weeks
you will be delighted with the, result. You will not only feel in batter health, but your com- plexion will be clearer and your
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Here are pictured two afternoon models which stress the now so fashionable shortness of skirt,
WHEN USING PERFUME.
room.
THIS WEEK'S RECIPE.
LEMON FUDDING.
One lemon, I cup sugar, 2 egge. tablespoons flour, 2 cups milk,
1 teaspoon salt, graham crackers, 4 tablespoona powdered sugar.
Beat yolks and whites of eggo
It is the fashion in those days eyes brighter, while it will check for women to choose individual any tendency there may be in perfumes and to keep to one only your constitution to put on for boudoir, bedroom and bath- weight."
The scent in the out-glass best guarantee of physical fitness flagons on the dressing-table, the one can have. It involves, bow-soap, bath salts, fase and taloum separately. Mix flour and part of milk to a smooth paste. Add ever, a good deal of serious powders, the sachots in the application to things outside the lingerie drawers and with furs. Add sugar and ramaining milk, juice and grated rind of lemon. dance itself, such as the study of all disseminate the identical do- Pour this mixture onto the well- soulpture and music and more licate odour which the wise
than a dip into the literature of woman has made so personal. bastan yolks of eggs. Line the the subject. Some of the best Perfume stains one's clothes, bottom and sides of a pie dish schools of ballroom dancing have and the scent grows stale. The with graham crackers, pour in custard and bake in a slow, oven. a classical department, but you right way to use it is in drops until firm to the touch. Beat should assure yourself by previous behind the ears, as the clover whites of egg until stiff and add inquiry that you are placing Frenchwomen apply it, and a yourself in export hands.
The ideal classical dance cul- ture is designed to give women & chance of expressing themselves in idoal turme. As a change from The newest jabot frilla are of
the unvarying ritual of the ball the same material as the frock it solf, and lined with a contrasting the evening, but in the form of cal or specialised dancing for this. room they are well worth atten-
narrow bandeaux, sot colour. They either fall 'woll-bo-
with The grace and poise of figuretion, but dilettantes and half low the waistling or are caught diamante. The ostrich feather, attained by the classical dancer heartod to express itself, should droop. is remarkable, and is about the wanted.
up on one shoulder.
THE SIMPLE OUTLINE.
The very fashionable frock still suggests simplicity above all things. Its outline is almost child-liko, ita almost in- evitable tunic is vory straight and long, giving the wearer an ox- tremely supple look, and the skirt whether narrow or flared, is de- finitely short.
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"Lace ruffles and cuffs are in the right tradition with the simple, frock, and it will be considered quito correct to wear along coloured gauze scarf, if you wish, and to alter the draping of this constantly in the manner of Grecian girls with similar dra- pories.
Many frooks are" petal pointed; indeed, the skirt may be elaborat- ed in all sorts of ways so long as it does not lono its ossentially straight line. The right kind of flurod skirt fand we all want to beware of the wrong, which is ugly) is porfectly straight til within a few inches of the hem. when it suddenly flutes put in a pretty, flower-like fashion, rather as if the flare wore caused solely by the movements of the wearer.
Fichu cuffs as well as fichu collars-appear on many frooks.
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Chinese ombroidories on silk frocks aro quite suggestive of the decorative panels that have pro viously been seen framed and hanging upon walls::
But the full beauty of the the beauty ostrich feather, which we seem to have forgotten, is the feather in its full length, with its delicately stirring fronds making a slight but definite to the delovopment of body and
of motion." "postry
You will have to turn to classi- feathers are worn on the head in
Ostrich mind.'
WOMAN'S
"CROWNING GLORY"
enthusiasts
not
very little rubbed over the palmi powdered sugar. Contique beat- of the hands. A spray on hand-ing until mixture is stiff enough kerchief and, perhaps, hair com top of pudding and brown in a to hold its shape. Spread over plates the toilette.
quick oven.
Stockings, gloves, lingerie and frocks are permeated by pretty sachets laid among the folds, and little bags of cotton wool soaked in the acent tied are
to clothes hangors. Sprayed on to the tissue paper which enwraps her hats, it is imparted faintly to them also.. Small sachets Down under pillow-slips and cushion covers are subtly apparent when the weary head is laid on the soft down.
It is very bad taste to use a cheap and heavy scent. Perfume abould suggest the freshness and beauty of a garden of flowers.. The smart woman chooses a acent which is a blend of raro and sweet ingredients.
SLIM SILHOUETTE.
There is not any distinctive difference in the silhouette of the new models now being shown by the big houses. The outline will remain as slim as it has been for many seasons past but a little extra fulling will be introduced by means of folds and pleais con- conlod at the sides of the skirt THE QUESTION OF LENGTH. As to long h, this is a problem which everyone seems to be solv ing to her own individual satis- faction. The wideskirted póriod. frocks are being worn: low down. about the ankles; the straight silhouette frocks of bonded crope goorgotto and cropo do Chine stop a few inches higher up, whilst the Ivory latest of all frocks leave off at the knoes. At a reception given recently at the Elyseo, in Paris,: were noticed several wearing frocks which were no longer than this, so that from the back it was quito impossible to tell whother hoy were. real
grown-ups or schoolgirls of 12. Moreover, these frocks were 80! narrow that a elit had been made Lat each side to allow the wearer enough space in which to walk, for tho akirts themsolvos wore not as much as a yard round.
"GIBSON GIRL”.
A modern "Gibson girl" is Majel Colenum, who has been Belceled as ond of America's Sho most beautiful women was added to the list whon eix artists named her. In addi tion to having the most beauti- ful hands in the country she has won first prize in two. mid-west beauty contests,