THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26; 1987.
Paris ideas on
ports
Sport
weaters
and éven if you're no sportsgirl they're good for days like these
PARIS is all crazy about winter sports.
Another very new and Parisian sweater is the one knitted in very rough black or navy blue. wool (on the right). Choose a nice pattern of flowers leaves, and re-embroider it with thick white
I have not acen a single shop window, from or the most glorious stalls of the "grands boule- thread (cotton "perle"). vards" to the simplest little shops in some narrow street, which does not exhibit a collection that makes you thrill with the desire to rush off, a pair of skis under your feet, Into the glorious sun and snow.
Here is a delicious sweet dish. Let us give it the shape of the traditional French Christmas lög.
The great point' about, winter sports clothes, The first point will be to make a mash of eyen if you can't go winter sporting, is that they chestnuts. Prepare two pounds and four ounces give you all sorts of good ideas for count-butter the size of an egg, teaspoonful of sugar and of chestnuts, four glasses of milk, two pieces of clothes.
a pinch of salt. boil for half an hour in the milk, to which you After having peeled the chestnuts let them have added sugar and salt.
Everybody nowadays with a little practical sensa can have an equipment at very little ex- penae,
Knickers, boots, waterproof, coat you will easily find. Their chief quality will be simplicity, But with those rather stern clothes you must show a little personality and gaiety in your choice of all the accessories.
I say heaps of most exciting sweaters, jac- kets, and caps. This year the thin sweater England has the secret of those thin, warm, snug sweaters-is of first necessity...
A
through the sieve. Wet it a little with re- Pass the thick mixture you have obtained
maining milk and mix the paste with the butter.
The first part of the work is finished. For the second part get ready on your kitchen table four ounces of chocolate, two "egg-sizes" of but- glass of milk.
small bowl of whipped cream, and small
ter, a
Now set to work again. Let the chocolate melt in the milk on a very low fire, mix it with butter to the preparation. the mash of chestnuts, and then gradually add the
The one on the left is bright purple with a small collar. Over it is worn a charming hand-knitted turquoise blue sleeveless Work the thick paste for a minute or two. jacket. The zipper and the thick embroidered Then forget all about it for six hours. Take a weal plaits are purple, too. Of course, if you mould of a longish shape; spread over it a thin already have a sweater of a different colour, you licious paste, and leave it in a cool place for a good layer of oil.. Wipe it off, Fill it with this de-i can knit a jacket of another shade.
hour.
Don't be afraid of the clash of colours. For Take it out of its mould. Set it up on a dish, example, a navy blue sweater, if you are fair, will decorate it with crystallised violets and holly, and look very smart with a-pale-yellow-jacket, -trim--put the cream all around. med with navy blue.
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Beauty Bureau
"Marjorie"
"I am twenty-three years old, and people tell me I have very nice skin. (I am never troubled with blackheads jor pimples except on my back, where
have one or two all the time.
Don't Believe It!
-says the Doctor
POPULAR fallacies
about
ex-
health and hygiene are ploded by Dr. Ailgust A. Thomeň, eminent lecturer in medicine at Now York University, in this new series. To-day he deals with the general beliefs:
That singeing the hair helps it to
grow.
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VOCALION CELEBRITY RECORDS OF "SWINGTIME"
WITH FRED ASTAIRE
502 THE WAY YOU LOOK TO-NIGHT.
THE WALTZ IN SWINGTIME:
500-A FINE ROMANCE,
BOJANGLES OF HARLEM,
501-PICK YOURSELF UP.
NEVER CONNA DANCE.
and
The supposed reason underlying CHARLIE KUNZ NO. 23 Medley On Rex. 8938.
the singeing process is that thereby
the ends of the hairs are closed, thus į preventing the nutritive juices from exuding.
But as Dr. J. E. Lane, Professor of Diseases of je Skin" at Yale, "well Bays: "Singelng the hair is of no value for this purpose, for the simple rea-| son that nothing ever ouzes from the ends of the hair. What singeing docs : Ido, and it does nothing else, is to make the ends of the hair affected by the heat more brittle."
That tuberculosis la highly infec- flous, and very easily contracted by adults.
Tuberculosis contracted in this manner is extremely rare, and some experts actually question is possi- bility.
The best opinion on the subject is wonder if you could give me advice that adult tuberculosis occurs in per Ham-healthy-in every other way ex-
cept if I go out to strange people's sons who have been infected with the houses get a very red face. be-germ many years before the outbreak iteve It la nervousness because of the disease. It is due to a re- really shake inside."
Inteotion.
A CNE is apt to altack However, the evidencó so far pro-
the back, chest or face
because these are the parts where duced seems to indicate that the re- the sebaceous follicles are largest. Intection comes from within. You need to wash your back night and morning with fuke-warm water
It should be more generally known
and a rubber sponge, using a good that the average consumptive is not complexton soop. It is probable that a menace to adult society; that he is
the
menace only to infants, and de- initely less dangerous to children,
spots affect the parts of your back where it is difficult for you to a apply fiction yourself. If this is the case, get somebody to wash it for you. If there is any sign of a pim- To prevent infection, new-born' in- ple, dab it afterwards with calomine fants must be rigidly excluded from lotion. This is also convenient to put on when you are wearing an evening all association from the consumptive, dress, as the lotion leaves a powdery while children of over ten years of surface оп the spol. Drink two tumblers of barley water a day and age and adults need no special mea- eat plenty of green vegetables. isures.
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Many people think it's
a dull vegetable, but HESTER VALENTINE
tells you how-to-
Make
marrow
interesting
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Tel. 24648..
Make a
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make a little marrow rum.
blemishes), ripe marrow.
For this you will need a very large, firm (ie. with no
One that is far too tough for cooking QUEEN'S BUILDING. and that you cannot cut through with a kitchen knife. It is best to leave it on the plant till the last half of September, it should be thick-skinned and hardy by then,
Now get a saw and remove the top of the marrow very evenly, scoop out all the seeds and pulp, and stuft it-chock-full of demerara sugar, Replace the top and seal it on with ordinary medical sticking plaster off Do you want to know how to put pink a roll. Make a bag from any spare bit of strong material, put the marrow Buy some rouge-in-powder and ou on your checks and look absolutely and hang it up from the coiling in a cool, dry place,
Take It Out in Two Weeks
Another idea for a woollen, sleeveless pull- over is black, very thick, and embroidered with compact oval woollen spots (middle picture) natural? These spots, with a little dot in the middle, may water; you can find both of these at any por- be yellow if the sweater you wear underneath is fumers. yellow, red if it is red. These pullovers are very Dip
In about a fortnight you should take it out, remove the plaster, and a piece of cotton wool first in the rose all up again with, sugar (much of which will have eaten into the marrow comfortable and can easily be taken off if the sun water, then in the little box of rouge. Rub in anesh). Seal the top on once more, and hang the bag back on its hook. gets too warm:
amall quantity of some of the paste you now have In a month or six weeks the sugar will have eaten through to the rind, And be sure they will always come in beautifully. Wait for it to dry and powder your juice has started to drip), and let the "rum" run through a mustin-covered on the cotton wool on your cheeks. It will spread and Juice will start to drip out. This is the time to tap your marrow. Take it out of the bag, make a hole in the bottom (or wherever the handy, even if you do not go ski-ing face. and skating to Japan, You can wear them on up.
You will look fresh and not at all mado funnel into bottles, Cork lightly at first, then tight down in a few weeks any skirt on a cold morning,
time (when fermenting has ceased), and keep for at least a year. If HELENE GORDON you can be strong-minded and walt in 1938 you'll be under the table the
first glass.
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Stuffed Marrow
It is not possible to give exact proportion for this excellent dish, as they depend entirely on the size of your marrow, amount and variety of "left-over" material at your disposal, etc, --
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First of all, you must peel your marrow, cut a small piece off the top and scoop out the pulp and seeds with a tablespoon..
-Now for the stuffing: put any teft-over evoked meat through the min- cer with some odd crusts of bread and any bits of kidney, bacon, sausage, or mushroom. left over from breakfast. Add peyper and salt, chopped onion, fat pinch of curry powder (if liked), and a "lablespoonful of tomato ketchup. Mix your ingredients well, together with a litile gravy, or milk
if no gravy is available Fill and Fix
Fill the marrow, with the stuffing and fx on the top with skewers and string Heat some dripping in a baking tin, put in your marrow and bake Ull tender (about an hour)" in a medium oven, basing frequently. Serve with a good gravy, made from the dripping, little four and seasoning,
• plach of curry powder or a few drops of tomato ketchup, and stock or water.
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