THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1937.
The
SPRING BRIDE
By Victoria Chappelle
THESE two brides- malds wear full skirted gowns of [larak net in sweet pea alades and Juliet caps.
PENINSULA HOTEL
Sunday, April 4th
Commencing at 9 p.m.
MILITARY
BAND CONCERT
by the BAND OF THE IST. BTN. -THE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS
by Kind Permission of Lt.-Col., J. Muirhead, M.C. and Officers.
HER GOWN,
a young woman who prid minute. Or sho can have moulds itself to her figure veils a slim satin slip; or as "stands by itself," as her gran
She can include several lights" of the season in her bri must be kept simple-for then date. Sketched here is a sugges
In batin, with a skirt close widening below, and with a front, this dress is full of interes of gauged and ruffled net on the to elbow: the front--with tiny A
double row of piping; the neck ruffle in net.
HER HEADDRESS-in ren
necessarily
very 1930, and ustre, If she is
ring up to the
crepe which net which
A tiny posy can be pinned on the fron with the vell streaming out beneath it. A
noire which
on "high-
| the gown ne out of
the hips, hserted in sleeves- rom wrist down the
a double
but not blossoms,
the hair natively,
she can wear a fai oval cap of flowers; orave blos- soms closely massed on her head with a spray falling down her back over her vell.
Victor Stiebel dresses the bride in his new collec- Hon in thick crepe, dead-white, and gives her a head- dress composed of a plaited band of thick rords in front of which three innrguerites of white raffla are posed. Beneath her chin is a spray of fresh white flowers.
And why not something different in veils? Instead of the usual tulle, lovely though it is, the bride might hove along wide veil in opaque dull-surfaced crepe to match her dress, catching it together beneath her chin with a posy of flowers.
rustling
"the
HER BRIDESMAIDS' FROCKS-in taffeta. richly as they follow her along the aisle; in chiffon, floating gently round them; or in printed net, splashed with glamorous flowers. Full skirts are always best for the little ulr's, however stim and willowy grown-up bridesmaids like to look. But for the latter, why not short shoulder vells beneath floral coronets placed on the top or slightly to the back of the head? The their bouquets on the top of tall gilded sticks, in- stead of letting them carry them. The children can wear floral bracelets.
with #! small and
IN crepe, printed with a small design, this outfit for the bride's mother Includes an attractive gown with wide revers faced in a shade to match the print and a loose coat with full three- quarter sleeves, set into a cuff. Her hat has a becoming sweep of the Urim.
ANNE SELBY answers YOUR COOKERY
QUESTIONS
RECIPE for Lardy Cakes, please. | INGREDIENTS for Brandy Snaps,
(Miss) C.
West Drayton. Sieve 4 oz. of Rour with 4 oz, bak-i ing powder, rub in 2 oz. of lard add 2 teaspoonfuls of sugar and a sprinkle of currants, mix with enough water to make a stiff paste, cut into squares and bake in a hot oven.
plegae.
Exeter.
(Mrs.) C.
Warm 2oz. butter, add 2oz. each sugar, treacle, and flour mixed with half teaspoonful ground ginger. Drop spoonfuls on greased baking sheet, bake in fairly hot oven, and roll round grensed handle of wooden spoon when slightly cooled,
make Devonshire
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Cream? Afclesfiam
HOW are Cream Leaves made?
Ashford.
(Mrs.). B: Beat 3 cuts, with 4 tablespoonfulé sugar, add 6 tablespoonfuls flour and the grated rind of a lemon. Beat Put the milk in flat enamelled pan with an egg beäter until light, then and leave for 24 hours. Put the pon drop teaspoonfuls of the mixture fair-at the side of the stove and heat ly far apart on a buttered baking slowly to 100 deg, which takes about an hour. When the cream begins to
And Her Mother Wears a dignified ensemble
pretty print or a one-colour crepe. If she has a fur THIS brute wears a small posy above her forehead, but sheet. Bake in a moderate oven for crinkle, leaving the sides of the pan equally charming would be a thick flat crown of ten minutes, lift with a palette knife, and bubbling very slightly, take it off cape she wahis to wear, she reeds no coal; other-
and roll round a greased spoon the fire and leave for another wise, une of the new loose coals with interesting sleeves. flowers.
la fish slice or saucer, and a dignified hat which sets oft her profile and her A neckband of flowers might be substituted for the ruff handle. When cold fill with whipped hours. Then skim off the cream with
shawn above and plain sleeves worn. hair should be her choice,
cream.
Lady Mary Pakenham on
LETTERS of thanks? Eury
I never boast-nothing is
further from my intentions, but it
I was going to boost I would say,
I was particularly good at writing
them.
Here I am, three days
after
Christmas, with an hour to spare,
so I may as well polish off the lot.
It seems I have only about Afteen
THANK-YOU
LETTERS
left to get through, though it rather two teapots and an abstract design, deplored, but there it is.
little boy was getting on at school. At last the letter came.
Dear Father.
!
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CAN I have a recipe for Australian
Jack?
(Mrs.) C.
Streatham.
Melt 4oz of butter with 4oz of sugar, beat-in Boz-of-rolled-cats-and. press into shallow greased tins. Bake until golden brown-about 20 until minutes. Leave in, the tins cold, then cut into fingers.
You ask if the bat arrived. It has. Tangerine Curd simple to make?
Love from John.
"This la beautifully short, but wo can go one better still. We can be ultra-sophisticated and, subtly im- plying that our friends are so in- tuitive that they understand every- thing without descending to, valgar Even words, we can model ourselves on present day, novels and merely write
Dearest!
Thank you!
Whitstable.
(Mrs.) V. Yes, just heat together in a double doz. caster boiler 4oz. of butter, sugar, the prated rinds and juice of 4 tangerines and stir until smooth. Then add 2 beaten eggs and con- tinue stirring until the thickens.
mixture
depends how you,count, whether you and a kind of unbotanical tres and Horace Waipole, king of all letter the sensitive hernes ad heroines in 7 SHOULD like a recipe for rasp-
a picture which I had to turn into writers, had to suffer from it. call penwipers, Christmas cards or reckon calendars as presents.. a dork night scene very quickly
It is a pity that the writing-table before the children saw it,
"You distress me infinitely.
showing my idle notes, while "That's rather a sudden pull up, is covered with stockings. Last year So away with the blotter, and not conceive can use anybody ain't it, Saming?""
""Not a bit on it; she'll vish there we had a lavender-bag Christmas; though it will mean a wait every My-old-fed breeding impris the year before, a handkerchief time I get to the bottom of a page, my now and then to reply to was more and that's the great art o
de letters you honour me with letter writing." Christmas; this year it was a stock. I shall probably be
writing, but in truth very unwili- Ing Christmas.
cigarette by then.
ingly...
wantin
-
It is also a pity that the ink has I shall all the envelopes been removed to such a safe place first then all I shall have to do
In spite of his
old-fashioned
that no one can remember where # write letters for them, hoping, breeding, he probably didn't mean a is, but I can manage with
trusting and praying that I don't word of it, but it finds an sche in fountain-pen und uiter on my put two into one envelope. It may many a heart to-day,
mean reopening them all after I've
knee.
And talking of the masters of the
stuck them up to make sure, but 1 shall probably be doing that in any pen, how do they cope with letters! of thanks? Not always too, well, When Henry James was fiven zu What extraordinary fountain-pens case. I'm funny that way. other peoplo do have: This, ong has How wonderful it was of those super dressing-case he tied himself hairs, growing out of it. The words came out large and black and afteen people to send me presents. Into knots for four long pages, Ho sinister, I feel it is used to writing-When I think of the ones I sent In 'first'of'all said that he hadn't written things like "Beware!" or "Your un return I am covered with shame. before as is magnificence had made kindness has killed ane.. I am leaving I really loved everything I was
him ill, but he was recovering, and for ever," or "Dig bore for treasure. Holl-Fire Back.. FERRE MEANT PAR given, even the useless things. Tears hoped soon to return to London, where the "monstrous object" would Esbeek of gratitude are, in my eyes.
The trouble, with all literary.com
position is Mood. When the novelist Quickly let me transfer my grati- gain confront him. Trollope owned up that he got tude to paper. Perists the thought through a quota of words every day that gratitude ryhmes with platitude. regardless of Mood, the Great British "Gratitude Is the rarest of human Public were very properly so shocked virtues," Hang on to gratitude, not that his sales dropped; which
only shows the respect in which the
Muses are held in England, but also
He then called the scourge of his life and the blot on his scutcheon, And then "Ah, Walter, Walter,
that you oughtn't to write anything. "Darling." I write. I always begin why do you do these things? They're unless you are in the Mood. Darling" unless I am definitely magnificent, but they're not-well,
or permissible or for And now I come to think of it, I keeping to the third person. But in diacupsable don't beleve I am in the Mood, this particular case I think "darling" givable. At least, not all at once. What with, Indigestion and a cold might causo surprise at the other It will take a long, long time,...
you are victor, winner, master.. and my hair needing setting, I doubt end.
If anyone ever sat down to write. And as I have just discovered that You've done it, you've brought it eff
and got me down for ever..NA letters of thanks more heavily handle someone has made a shopping list
on the back of my sheet of, note This is too long and too candid for capped than I
paper I must start again anyway. ordinary use in the home.
WD At the other end of the scale is the It isn't as it one's letter was Perhaps I ahould.
hould get on better tete-a-teto heart-to-hearter between letter of the son of some: friends of without my blotter. It was full of oneself, and the kind donor. The mina/Hin parents, stationed for nies new plotting paper and I and habit of reading letters aloud at the away in the East, week after week hava drawn on it. an elephant and breakfast table cannot be too much anxiously walled to hear how their
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