THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1987:
Victoria
Chappelle brings you
TALE OF
ECCENTRIC trimmings include Military Embroidery — Squirrel- Tails or Charms-on hats which are as high or as low as you like.
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F you think that the political situa- If you the situat
in hats, you are mistaken. They are simply getting a little crazier, that's all.
You trim your afternoon hat with her- baceous borders, squirrel's tails, or military embroidery, and festoon your sports hat with the family's collection of lucky charms. Sa
long as the line of your headgear
sharply outlines your hair .or
your profile, Paris gives you a free hand with trimmings.
flowers
you
SPAKE the flowers and spoil the hat, suys the French milliner. And if don't believe me, look at the Louise Bourbon hat at the top of the page; there are about ten different flowers on it in a riol of gorgeous colours. They Include dephiniums, dahlias, zinnias, fuchsias, pansies, marigolds, daisica. roses, and two more that I've that forgotten. Don't tell me delphiniums and roses are best apart, that pansies and dahllus don't mix. They do in Paris. At the same time; it. is not the mixture that I'd recommend to the amateur milliner-it needs hand,
flat caps
П master
NEXT down the page you
on
have ca from the same milliner, which ought to be a winner next spring. In felt, with a peak, it has gold the military embroidery band; and is the kind of cap which King Edward VII. wore as a youth. It has an obstinate flatness - very much like the littlo otter - skin and velvet
Don't
Believe
It!
papwath
a
TRIMMINGS
looking plain? then look to your
CIRCULATION
My car suddenly stopped dead. 1 one of the finest ways of dispersing
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stared within.
says the Doctor with an air of inefficiency, hoping
to be known hump,"
as the "downger's
While I was still poking
Patting is not the only means of for something to turn up, something bringing the blood to the surface and health(or, rather, someone). did turn up in encouraging it to flow freely, Alter-, and hygiene which we accept us the shape of a young man, who, nate hot and cold compresses are said with a another method, and these can be after a brief glance, everyday facts nee
used with great success for reducing nonsense, ac~
puffiness under the eyes. cording to Dr. August A. Thomen, grin, "No petrol"
MANY of the ideas about
emlaunt lecturer in medicine at New Fortunately, for we were on A Soak tvo handkerchiefs or pads
York University. To-day he poses further fallacles, such as:
That some
Jolats.
people
CX
have double
So-called double-jointed indivi- duals, as certain acrobats and con- tortionists
persona
are called, are merely who have permanently stretched the ligaments which hold
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by Jean
-country road with
no filling station of wool, one in hot water and one in for miles, he had culd, and apply first one and then the other. Hold them directly under- a spare tin, and in two minutes I neath the eyes and press very gently. was on my way, Continue to alternate them for a reflecting that the minute or so, then dry on
u soft worst disasters towel, taking great care ΠΟΙ to often spring from stretch the delicate skin. Finish by the simples1
patting in a little nourishing skin Causes.
food to counternet the drying effect; true of the water treatment. With nothing is this morE
to the beauty those than with regard
of problems which beset us as we grow
together the ends of bones forming Cleand
the various Jainis. The stretching results from the repeated contorilons usually practised from early child- naturally hood, and
Rives people much greater freedom motion than is had by the average older. Individual.
There is no such thing as double joints in human beings.
I
from the PARIS mid-season Shows
cap which the lady on the right-hand side of the page is trying on.
high hats
IF you want to be really high hat-there's the felt Arabian Nights' cap from Suzy (third down on left), trimmed with five little fur tails. Be careful what fur coat you wear this with-furs don't mix any better than drinks..
I don't like my hats trimmed with
Good
A
NEW DRESS?
well, not exactly
, it has just been.
but almost as
ZORIC CLEANED
what are apparently little dead birds THE STEAM LAUNDRY Co.
(and actually are the product of some clever fingers in a busy workroom),
but if you don't mind that sort of
thing, three with outstretched wings
on the front of a high or low felt cap look now.
long quills
DID I hear the word quills7 Women wear- ing them in Paris avoid taxia.
(nice, low-slung affairs like private cars), because cach time they take a taxi they ruin their foot- length quill against the roof, and it gets expensive. The iden over there is longer and better quills; you get some idea of what I mean from the Erik hat on the lower right of the group.
charms
VHEN you're tired of your charm bracelet, you can wear it festooned across the front of your Homburg hat (see the Agnes model tower centre). Under its protection safely walk under ladders, look at the new moon through glass, and do all the things that you usually try to avoid though, of course, I know that you are not really superstitious!
Housewife's Scrapbook
to gently
you can
\XPERIMENTS have been made prepared vegetables, add a very serve all the salts and nourishing low heat for about half an hour. vitamins an often lost when vege- Serve the vegetables with the tables are bolled. The staff of the liquor they have been cooked in. experimental kitchen where re- search has been taking place have discovered that far better results are obtained by using a fat in a closed Haucepan, and hardly any water. Here is the foundation recipe for all vegetables:
sheet of
The lid of the saucepan must it tightly, so that none of the steam escapes. Put a grease-proof paper under the lid, if necessary, to make it at very closely."
Among the vegetables to which this can be applied are cauli
green flower, cabbage, spinach,
"Cut the vegetables into small pieces, shreds, or dice. Put them peas, carrots, french beans or into a saucepan with 1. oz. mar scarlet runners, broad beans, to- garine and a few tablespoonfuls motors, marrow, onions, brussels only of water to each pound of sprouts, potatoes and lecks.
Good Cooking
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By Ambrose Heath NEW PARLOPHONE, BRUNSWICK
PRUNES
seems to be only once in a while that we come across a really good
way to cook them.
Idish, of prunes, be it may be worth while to put down here the best 2338
In the first place, ask your grocer to give you, the kind of prune known as 20-30. This number refers to the size, and you cannot do better than these. Having got them, see that they are quite clean and then soal The them In warm water for about an hour, not much more.
In the same way, considerable re Most of these cun be traced to let can be brought to the feet when
quite obvious reason, one of they are aching or tired. some the most canimon being that of slug- method is simple but Invigorating.
Now put them into a stewpan with the water they have soaked in Įgish circulation.
(or, better still, half the water and half red wine, claret or Burgundy): Fill one basin with hot water and You should allow three-quarters of a pint of liquid to half a pound of This, although very few people one with cold. Dissolve about a That it is more dangerous for realise it, is at the root of all man- handful of Epsom salts in each, and! adult to have whooping-cough than
ner of things. To mention a few dip the feet first in the hot and then a child.
This is the reverse of the truth, sallow skin, falling hair, superfluous in the cold. The fallacy probably arose becouse Aesh, tired feet, puffiness under the adults are more capable of appre-eyes,
prunes.
(Afterglow. F.T.
RECORDS
JUST ARRIVED !
(Girl in the Garden. F.T.
2281
(For Love Alone. (I Never Realized.
F0188
(Shades of Hades,
(Ups and Dowas. F.T.
F6177
(M-o-t-b-e-r. Vocal.
(The Rosary.
F0170
(Swinganola. Swing Music. (Hick Stomp.
(Leis Make a Wish. S.F.T.
(Close To Me, Waltz.
F394
(Crazy Valves. FT.
(Trumpetuous. 8.F.T.
(No Regrets. Vocal.
Now for the same amount of prunes, add from one to two ounces of granulated or castor sugar, more still it you want the juice very YTURY:F600 or perhaps it is better not to add the sugar until after the prunes are While the Epsom salts draw out cooked; it is a matter of choice.
Then finally, as a flavouring, add ought to be done in about an hour, the impurities and help to counteract
F004 clating the unpleasant character of Do not misunderstand me. I am any tendency to rheumatism, the a small piece of cinnamon stick or but they may take longer if they are the symptoms
not saying that bad circulation is the alternation of hot and cold water a piece of lemon or orange rind. It not such good quality. Prunes of is Whooping cough most deadly only cause of such troubles, but there encourages the circulation in such a is important to see that there is lesser quality will need longer soal- before the age of five years. The is no doubt that by stimulating the way that the feet inevitably feel aider, the person, the less serious the blood flow they can nearly always younger. disease, except in the very old, who be very greatly helped. readily monia.
contract bronchial
prets-
Hip
or
That pressing the upper placing a key or ice at the nape
stop a nose-blend.
Fully 09 per cent.
Half troubles can often be traced When your skin is looking sallow to sluggish circulation. Much can be or dull, the best way of enlivening done in preventing hair from falling It is by simple patting. Soak a pad and colour from fading by as little
enough liquid to cover the prunes ing, too. during the whole time of their cook-
too much, then a spoonful or two of water can be added.
Ing. If it shows signs of decreasing WHEN the prunes are cook-
ed inke them out of the pan with a skimmer or a spoon with holes in it, and arrange them in their
BRING the liquid very gra dish.
dually to the boil with the
of cotton wool in cold water and as two minutes dally "moving fid on the pan, and when it is boil- Remove the peei or the cinnamon
will tonic, and the it on to the end of a the scalp.
rubber patter.
of all nose-
bleeds stop of themselves whether anything is done for them or not. Hence, any form of treatment will receive wholly undue credit,
"
I say moving, as against just rubbing, because in this lies a world of difference. ·
ing put the pan on the side of the from the liquid, and now, if you fire and let it just simmer very, very have not already done so add the until the prunes are sugar. On a good fire let the liquid gently there soft, but not at all pulpy..
boil until it reduces to a thickish
then pour this over From the time that the stewpan is syrup:
Start by patting up the neck, from The correct way to get good results the coller bone, first on one side and is to place, the fingers underneath first put on the fire the 20-30 prunes prunes and let them get cold, The only way that pressing the then on the other. Now place the the hair at the base of the scalp, jpper lip could possibly help would patter under the chin and pat along and work slowly up to the crown, De by slopping the flow of blood to the contours... the nose, thereby permitting a clot
to form more readily.
The treatment
shifting the scalp to and fro as you ga.
Pat round the chin from the cor..
Sometimes the skin is tight, and Illogical, how-ners of the mouths. In and up to the this it is that prevents the blood aver, because the blood vessels which 100.
from coursing, through as it should. supply the tone are deep within the
If you continue with this each Regular massago loosens it and en-
face fauite removed from the upper night and morning you will find that ables the blood to flow freely. lp), and beyond being influenced by your skin, which may baya bean People troubled with goose-flesh,
from without,
looking dult, 1a 'quito transformed, which is a common complaint in the Prkey and the ice likewise re-
winter, can improve it greatly by calve credit cause the bleeding - Drisk-paiting at the back of the brisk rubbing with a loofah until the
Ingek and at the top of the spino-leakin is; in o/glow, bewaa slops voluntarily,
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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.
THE SOCIETY ASKS FOR
$25,000
In 1937 to continuo its work for alck and destitute children,
Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. A. McKELLAR, O.A.
c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co.
F. & C. Building.
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,
Hongkong
November 10, 1990.