THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1987.
The
SPRING BRIDE
chooses-
HER GOWN in glass-spun silk, very 1936, and with a high silvery lustre, if she is
a young woman who prides herself on being up to the minute. Or she can have a thick heavy efepe which moulds itself to her.figure; a frothy white net which veils a slim satin slip; or a gown in heavy moire which "stands by itself," as her grandmother's did.
She can include several of the fashion "high- lights" of the season in her bridal attire, but the gown" must be kept simple for theatricality has gone out of date. Sketched here is a suggestion.
In satin, with a skirt closely fitting to the hips," widening below, and with a dared panel inserted in front, this dress is full of interest. Note the sleeves of gauged and ruffled net on the outer side from wrist to elbow; the front with tiny class bows down the double row of piping; the neck trimming-a double ruffle in nét,
HER HEADDRESS in real flowers but not necessarily orange blossoms,
A tiny posy can be pinned on the front of the halr with the vell streaming out beneath It. Alternatively, she can wear a flat oval cup of flowers; or have blos- soms closely massed on her head with a spray falling down her back over her veil.
Victor Stichel dresses the bride in his new collec- tion in thick crepe, dead-white, and gives her a head- dress composed of a plaited band of thick cords in front of which three marguerlics of white ruffle are posed. Beneath her chin in a spray of fresh white flowers.
And why not something different in vella? Instend of the usual tulle, lovely though it is, the bride might have a long wide vell in epaque dull-surfaced crepa to match her dress, catching it together beneath her chin with a posy of flowers.
HER BRIDESMAIDS' FROCKS-in taffeta, rustling
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 girls, however slim and willowy the grown-up bridesmaids like to look. But for the latter, why not short shoulder veils beneath Boral coronets placed on the top or slightly to the back of the head? Tie their bouquets on the top of Jull gikau! BICKE, M- stead of letting them carry then. The children can
wear floral bracelets,
And Her Mother Wears a dignifled ensemble
with Д small -and
By Victoria Chappelle
THESE two brides. maids wear 'full skirted gowns of flaret het in nuenă poa "aliades and lullet cops.
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FN crêpe, printed with a small design, this outfit for the bride's mother includes an attractive gown with wlde revers faced in a shade to match the print and a loose coat with full three-
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RECIPE for Lardy Cakes, please. INGREDIENTS for Brandy Snaps,
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(Miss) C.
Sleve 4 oz, of flour with 4 oz. bak-
ing powder, rub in 2 oz. of lard add
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(Mrs.) C.
Warm 2oz. buiter, ndd 2oz. cach
2 teaspoonfuls of sugar and a sprinkle sugar, treacle, and flour mixed with
of currants, mix with enough water shall teaspoonful ground ginger, Drop spoonfuls on greased baking sheet, bake in fairly hot oven, and roll round greased handle of wooden spoon when slightly cooled. How can I make
to make a stiff paste, cut into squares and bake in a hot oven. HOW are Cream Leaves made?
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(Mrs.) B. Beat 3 eggs with 4 tablespoonfuls sugar, add.6 tablespoonfuls flour and
Cream? Melksham.
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(Miss) S
the grated sind of a lemon Beat! pit the mille in flat chamelled pan with an egg beater until light, then and leave for 24 hours. Put the pan 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
pretty print or a one-colour crepe. If she has a fur THIS bride wears a small posy above her forehead, but sheet. Bake in a moderate oven for crinkle, leaving the sides of the pan cape she wants to wear, she needs no coat; other- equally charming would be a thick flat crown of ten minutes, lift with a palette knife, and bubbling very slightly, take it off and roll round a greased spoon the fire and leave for another 12 wise, one of the new loose coals with interesting sleeves, flowers.
a Ash slice or saucer. and a dignified hat which sets off her profile and her A neckband of flowers might be substituted for the ruff hundle. When cold fill with whipped hours. Then skim off the cream with hair should be her choice,
shown above and plain sleeves worn.
cream.
Lady Mary Pakenham on
LETTERS of thanks? Easy.
I never boast-nothing is
further from my intentions, but if
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
CAN I have a recipe for Australian
(Mrs.) C.
Jack?
Streatham.
Melt doz of buller with 4oz. of sugar, beat in 8oz. of rolled oats and press into shallow greased ting. Bake until golden_brown--about 20 until
Ittle boy was getting on at school. minutes. Leave in the tins
cold, then cut into fingers.
At last the latter came.
Dear Father,
=
Whitstable. You ask if the bat arrived. It has, IS Tangerine Curd simple to make?
(Mrs.) W. Love from John.
Yes. Just heat together in a double
Qaz. boiler 4oz. of butter,
cister sugar, the grated rinds and juice of 4 tongerines and stir until smooth Then add 2 beaten eggs and con
mixture tinue stirring until the thickens.
This is beautifully short, but wo can go one better still. We can be ultra-sophisticated. and, subtly im- plying that our friends are so la- tuitive that they understand every- thing without descending to vulgar Even Words, we can model ourselves on present day novels and merely write the sensitive heroes and heroines in
Dearest!
Thank you!
left to get through, though it rather two teapots and an abstract design, deplored, but there it is. depends how you count, whether you and s kind of unbotanical tree and Horace Walpole, king of all letter call penwipers, Christmas cards or a picture which I had to turn into writers, had to suffer from it, reckon calendars as presents, a dark night scene very quickly
It is a pity that the writing-table before the children saw it.
"You distress me ininitely by
showing my idle notes, which I can- "That's rather a sudden' pull up, is covered with stockings. Loal your So away with the blotter, and not conceive can amuse anybody ain't it, Sammy?""
"Not a bit on, it; she'll vish there we had a lavender-bag Christmas; though it will mean a wait every My old-fashioned breeding, impels the year before, *a handkerchief time I get to the bottom of a page, me every now and then to reply to was more and that's the great art of
a the zotters you honour me with letter writing" Christmas; this year it was a stock- 1. shall probably be wanting
writing, but in truth very “unwill- ingly
ing Christmas.
cigarette by then."
I shall address all the envelopes
It is also a pity that the ink has been removed to such a safe place first and then all I shall have to do
knee.
In spite of his
old-fashioned
that no one can remember where it is write letters for them, hoping, breeding he probably didn't mean a is, but I can manage with somebody's trusting and praying that I don't word of it, but it Ands an echo in fountain-pen and a blotter on my put two into one envelope. It may many a heart to-day.
mean reopening them all after I've
And talking of the masters of the stuck them up to make sure, but I shall probably be doing that in any pen, how do they cope with letters of thanks? Not always too well; When Henry James was given a What extraordinary fountain-pens case. I'm funny that way. other people do have. This one has. How wonderful it was of those super dressing-case he tied himself hairs growing out of it. The words come out large and black and fificen people to send me presents. Into knots for four long pages. He 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 wiltten before as its magnificence had made things like "Beware" or "Your un return "I am covered with shame. kindness has killed me, I am leaving for ever," or "Dig here for treasure. Hell-Fire Jack."
I really loved everything I was him lil, but he was recovering and given, even the useless things. Tears hoped, soon to return to London, where the "monstrous object” would of gratitude are liftmy eyes.
again "confront him.
The trouble with nil literary cot Quickly let me transfer my grati Dosition is Mood. When the novelist Trollope owned up that he got tude to paper Perish 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 Pubile were very properly so shocked virtues." Hang on to gratitude. that his sales dropped which not
only shows the respect in which the Muses are held in England, but also,
He then called it the scourge of
his life and the blot on his scutcheon. And then "Ah, Walter, Walter,
that, you oughin't to write anything "Dating," I write. I always begin why do you do those things? They're
unless you are in the Mood.
"you are victor, winner, masterias
"Darling" unless I am definitely magnificent; but they're not-well, or permissible or for- W And now I come to think of it, I keeping to the third person. But In discusenble 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 cause surprise at the ether It will face a long, long me.... and may bale needing setting, I doubt If anyone over sat down to write And as I have just discovered that You've done it, you've brought it off letters of thanks more heavily hand someone has made a shopping list and got me down for ever.... capped than 1
on the bacle of my sheet of note This la, too long and too candid for paper I must start again any, aysordinary use in the home.
Isn't as if one's letter was a At the other end of the scale is the Perhaps I should get on better tete-a-tete heart-to-hearter between letter of the son of some friends of without any blotter, was full of oneself and the kind donor. The ming, Hikinarents, stalloned for nice new blotting paper and I find habit of reading letters aloud at the away in the East, week after week have drawn on. It an elephant and breakfast table cannot be too much anxiously walled to hear how their
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