B.B.C. BEAUTIES
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Now that television has come the I.B.C. has to think of the looks of Announcers as well as their voices,
When Your Fingernails Are Fragile
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great many people, men as well a, women, suffer from fengile uable that either brent or peel off in Kretions. Even doctora cannot easily discover the cause. Often it is cause your system lacks enleium, and it would be verris while for you to try a calcium tanic for a month or s Meantime, give them a twice weekly weaking in warm nitve ell and, before walag nail varnish, polish them first with a paste polish. Do Hot xrissars or any metal instruments on them simply an emery board for liling. Also, when filing them, be careful that you Ble an even edge. you file more from on top of the il than from underneath, as it in very easy to do, you are enrouraging .layers them to grow in Inyera that will incline to peel off.
UNITY in the Kitchen
Homemaker's
Diary by
P
LANNING JANET
every.
thing in furnishing,
Isn't it? งาน
JAY
in the kitchen more than anywhere in the house! Modern kitchena nre sometimes so small that at fret sight you would- wonder where all the equipment is to go, yet they are more practical in
way than the every bigger ones.
Leas unnecessary walk- ing, and you can't help being ddy when you know that leaving things about te geing to land you in a hopeless muddle.
And here is where good planning comes in. "Since and tgbour-saving are to
rather overworked words; telescople seems th best description of the unit furniture designed for the small kitchen.
DRESSER *nits. com.
prising a slideboard with cupboards and drawers and aletres above supported by steel rods, are Atted along the trail in this up-to-date kitchen. Note the wrejut cabinkt för large saucepans.
Equipment which used to be two or three bulky pieces of furniture is now Telescoped into one compact unit; a un cabinet cun progress by the law of multiplication into a complete fit- sment occupying the whole of one wall, There is also furniture that you can take to bits, rearrange, and nid to if you move to a larger house.
I am leaving such things as cookers, wringers and washers out of this talk, because all the modern, one seem to have solved the problen of getting maximum efficiency into minimum space. Let us begin with the nerve centre ile kitchen, le ̈kπFlief” enbinet.
Wedding Presents
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Whitaun weddings are not far off. and a fitted cabinet is a grand uten if you are looking for a collective family present for the bride. The girl who is planning her new kitchen can begin with a small cabinet and add side unita to it afterwards.
One of the most attractive cabinets live neon lately in Incquered In colour with pisin black handles, and it
DON'T STAY
IN THE
SHADOWS
TAKE
DR WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS.
Young girls often outgrow their strength, and excessive demands are made on the blood stream, which becomes impoverished and incapable of supplying the nourishment required to keep the organs active.and. healthy. As a result many a girl enters womanhood in an anaemic condition. If this is allowed to continue a general breakdown in health is almost sure to follow.
Wise mothers watch their daughters during these critical years for any symptoms of annemia—to see whether they tire easily, are pale, nerveus, trritable, despondent-and at the first signs prescribe a course of Dr. Williams' Pink Pilla, for they know that these pills have a splendid tonic effest because of their power to create abundant, new, rich, red blood, so necessary for good health.
Innumerable delicate girls the world over have derived the greatest beacfit from this renowned remedy for anaemia. By their purifying, enriching tonic action on the blogd, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills bring back colour to pale chicks, sparkle to dull eyes, strength to wenk tired limits, vitality to the whole system, and thus restore health and happiness, For the special ailments of women there is nothing better than Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and they are equally good for debilitated, enervated, depressed men. Obtainable from chemista everywhere.
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can be extended sideways and up to the ecil.
Tall side cupboards can the hind to natel 11. tied with shelves or with Full-length storage space for bruins. and there are three more separate cup. * boards which can be fitted over the top, useful when you are in need of extra space for things not in regular
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Almost the same thing can be done with the whitewood cabinets. Add a Lall narrow cleaning cupboned to onr side of the enbinet and you have valu- obic alorage space that takes up little · ~ "ONLYA ̈FOOM.There is a new kitchen cabinet, too, which has a broom cup board on one side and another con- tairing a fold-up Ironing board on the
other,
Kitchen units save waste apare in corners, too. There is a new cabinet designed to fit into a corner, with matching mide cupboards which will extend the fitment along the two olde walls. The cabinet costs £4 12s. 6d. in. whitewood, and the side cupboards £1 178, the pair
A full length corner cupboard, cost- ing 37A, G., is fitted with hooks, racks and shelves to hold all your cleaning equipment. It is made of good, clean deal. rendy for painting: carriage is 2s. 6d. extra.
Roomy Dresser
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Even dressers come in units nown- You can get a fable-height unit Clit3'8 consisting of deep drawers, and then buy a glass-fronted cupboard unit to put on top of it. Two or three of each of these units inske up a really roomy dresser for the bigger kitchen,
Units are also useful in the kitchen. living-room, where there is little room for a sideboard. A cupboard unit with a
Cascade of Curls
AIR, luffy-haired girls will delight
J the pretty hairdressing, which
is especially suitable for hats that up
dawn over the right eye as the
pretties come
on the left side.
Soft waves nu
ick on the right from the centre
froth of light. baby curis
un
the other elde
Naves my hint 改器
severity.
These drop fu a
ittle. cascade
down one side,
and stray coquettistely on to the fore- head.
The whole hend has that charming look casual carelessness that is, in reality, carefully arranged!
This centre parting is particularly suitable for the girl with an oral face and a fairly low, broad forehead.
But, na this style is always more noticeable than a alde parting, do re. member to see that it is kept straight .and neat.
VITAMIN SALAD A WAYWARD spring. appetite can
be tempted by this vitamin salad. Cook some old potatoes in their Jackets, then peel and slice them whilst hot. Rub the inside of a salad bowl with a cut onion, then place the sliced potatoes in rings in the bottom.
Next, arrange a border of peas, runner beans, and some chopped beet root. Sprinkle with salad dressing, and garnish with hard-boiled egg and bone- less sardines.
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set of drawers alinched is 37% Bd. cont plete, and you could supplement ! by putting me of those handy inllboy chests to balance the other side of the cupboard The shallow drawers or these chesta me useful for table linen and kitelten oddments.
Ideas in Fables
COMPACT
EQUIPMENT
..for large and small rooms
and two ather deep drawers, one o which is metal net and Atted with : adiding 3.
A wooden leaf which is supported by a patent rigid bracket' doubles the air! of the table top. Another table, with out leaf, but with three drawers AUG
cupboard underneath, costs 27s. 6d. While on the subject tables. If you Want extra spare for pishies or kance pana but have no room for a perinn. nent table, you may like to know about a handy little tap fitting measuring 20 by 14 Inches which you screw to the wall.
Oak or Mahogany
The bracket whleli supports it in automatic, with no springs or ripports. and there is no risk of the table fetting you down at the wrong moment. It costs 121. dd., with an extra shilling for post, and there are larger sizes at prices up to 178, 0d,
The same table is available in soitt nak or mahogany, an idea for extra sideboard space in the diuing room.
The kitchen chair which turns into n pair of steps and vice versa is a pleer of kitchen equipment which is par ticularly useful if you have high cup- boards la reach. It costs Os. 8, in wlutewood. And there is a pair of spring-cleaning steps which stow awny perfectly fat when not in use. These start at Cs. Id. and go up to 14. u.. according to the height and number of
The word telescople" wns suggested to me by a most compact kitchen table It has an enamel top; a eupboard with a shelf occupies one end of the solid base, and at the other there is n pull- out-chopping board; a cutiery-drawer»---steps.
BOOKS OF THE
Dame
DAY.
Ethel says
Good-bye, Music"
FEW months before Elgar's death Bernard Shaw wrote a letter to "The Times" re- garding the commissioning by the B.B.C. of the composer's Third Symphony. "I suggest," he said, "that we make a note not to wait
until our next great composer is 70 before guaranteeing his bread and butter while he is scoring his Eroica."
Dame Ethel Smyth, the Grand old
Woman of English music, has passed, that time mit by eight years-she is 78. but, anyway. It is too late. For now she is cleaf.
"So good-bye music... ale writes, bravely but pathetically in her new Book, As Time Went On Longmans. -Green--15%)..........."A_few years ago," she says, alight but authentie deafness and began to Ket between me music... Then, only a few months ngo, what is called distorted hearing set in
Damo Ethel's books rank among the greatest autobiographies In the lan- guage, and in all musical literature only Wagner's Meln
and Leben Berlioz nutobiography challenge them In interest and vitality. Her latest volume has all her well-known quali- les of lively conversational character- isation, humour,
and Judgment.
sympathy
There are glimpses of Brahms and Henry James, memoirs of Vernon Lee and Lady Ponsonby, records of good talk and hosis of interesting lettera, Including a number from Henry Brew- ster, that originally-minded philosopher who was several times her librettist
But the book carries with it also a reproach, not hilterly but quite frankly expressed.
For Dame Ethel had had a fair deal, her books might never have been written, but we should have been richer by a great deal of music.
Up to the time of the B.B.C. Fes- tival of her music in 1932-n gesture which the Corporation has signally
"If she had had a fair deal, her books might never have been wrillon."
failed to follow up-Dame Ethel had ind only 10 English performances of her main choral works. Her operas and instrumental pieces had fared even worse, and only one gramophone record of her musić had been made.
Her Mass, a work which storms Heaven with the vigour of her later Suffragist activities, was first pers formed in 1993, and walled until 1924 for its second hearing!
"My trouble," she writes, " was never that the pubile found my music dim- cult. I always found that they under- stood and liked it when given a chance of hearing it-but Faculty Ther ward for the commercial musical machine] wouldn't have it at any price."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1936.
ARRIVED!
BIG BROADCAST
SONG & DANCE ALBUM
No. 7
&
FRANCIS & DAY'S 9th
SONG & DANCE ALBUM
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3,4).
(two words,
4 Merely an interim arrangemen 8 Teo flimsy to take in n parent.
11 The place in Ireland that sounds
like a leg-top.
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12 Usually kept in suspense for a
time.
13 Port nu gentleman could drink. 15 Label
16 Flew high, reminding
Excalibur.
17. Deer.
in Wash down with a will.
20 Done.
22 Nut
123 Tests
one of
any will be right here,
27 Transmitter of the denser type. 28 Bossert.
49 Document.
Hide what's left when
from the hillsidic,
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131
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8 What mutton should be cut in
(two words, 6, 0).
One in the eye nearly makes n youngster.
10 Between them a sailor, an artist, and a cheat make an untruthful Assertion.
A serial production.
14 Ran like a two-year-old.
17 German team.
18 Does one have to line up for
these
gardens.
21 This word sounds like 28., 23 Duck.
24 Topped.
My ties may anney a golfer. 127 Support for a moment.
30 Foolish American synonym, 131 Island.
Yesterday's Solution tukenS EVENTLESS STUN AZARIENHTOKONE
32 Might be a holiday; home, but
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(hyphen, 6, 5).
regarded
fac
32 Didn't believe it could
doubled.
34 Haan red head. Stuek, eh?
DOWN._____
1 Small company guards for the
Limorotia.
2 Frequently visited by tourists
after a canter...
3 May be the villain of the piece,
and, of course, In it.
5 Mistakes, are inevitable when. one goes wrong in upholding the alternative;
6 Chinese Dynasty,
7 Means leading to obvious ends.
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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The total Expenditure in 1936 on behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated at $26,000, against which the Income to date is $12,000 only.
The Society asks for the balance of
$13,000
to continue its work.
c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co,
P. & O. Building,
All one can say is that a FacultyMr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.. that cannot appreciate the spiritual Intensity of such a work ne Dame Ether's "The Prison," oz respond to the richly humorous vitality of "The Bosun's Mate," must favo been Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o Banque de L'Indo, Chine,
Hongkong.
always deaf.
STUART FLETCHER.
TOGEA WELL
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