Swank Frocks
made practical
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1988.
301
Does YOUR BABY Cry?
Your baby does not cry for fun. It is his only way of: telling you that something is wrong, Colic, indiges tion, sour stomach, diarrhea and constipation are a few of the minor ailments that may upset your child's system and spoil his disposition. Castoria is the medi- cine prepared especially for these simple children's ailments, so do not experiment with strong, harsh remedies intended for adults. Use only Cas. toria. Your child will love its pleasant taste and there are no harmful after-effects.
CASTORIA
The medicine mado especially for children
YOU LI LOOK
Look at the frock wlich teoman is
the
older wearing
on the left of the picture at the top of the page. Its stately, important effect comes draping, its from its elaborate Chin-high, boned neck, its red fox mug pinned with gardentas.
The same ideas are carried out more simply on the frock you ser here, designed for the mother of the family to wear at a New Year party. It is made of dark green
long-steered, with marocain, softly draped high neck,
Mug is in deep green velvet and on the muf and on the right shoulder are sprays of holly ber- ries made with red beads and sur- rounded with silver leaves,
Sauce Recipes
Girl it the middle
at the
top of the
of
page is wearing an claborate dress white satin, neck eireted with gold chains, wide shoulder stropa curv- ing over to the back, crossing bukim and tying in front in a fringed cash.
The sush appears in the same way on the dress here, good for a married daughter. But a much simpler way of putting it on is to attach the two ends to the bodice, cross them over in front, bring them round the waist and tie to Jall as before.
Dress here is in deep purplu orchid colour, sash in pale pink, and the two ends are hung with orchid silk pompoms.
When
You're
Giving A Dance
MAK
or
PARTY
by keeping your clothes clean.
ZORIC
with
Odourless Modern Methods give clothes a "just like new" look.. popular both scxes. This coupled with expert press- ing makes ZORIC-cleaned clothes outstanding over those cleaned by any other .method,
THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.
(AKE up your mind first to be, someone must take on the of all whether it is to duties of Master of Ceremonies -preferably the host himself, be a party for young people but if not, a friend of the family for a "mixed" evening. In who can be relied upon to make
the latter case you must things "go with a swing." provide an additional room He must see to it that every-Kowloon Works. Phone 57032 with plenty of easy chairs one has partners, and not spend Hong Kong Depot, Phone 21279 where the older guests can until he has made sure--that the evening enjoying himself take their ease, gossip, or everyone else is having a good play bridge.
time too.
Remember that the young The Bajet
dancers enjoy "silting out" oc- Half the success of your even- casionally (the favourite spot
being the staircasel) so do en- ing depends upon the food und sure that your house is free drinks, so do go to a lot of trou- from draughts. A lot can be ble of your own powers, hire a done with the aid of strips of catering firm to provide every- velvet nailed to the bottom edges thing for you. Lemon
(and The young girl on for your doors, and heavy eur orange juice, ice-cream
right in the picture at the top of tains which can be drawn across plenty of it!) as well as wine, Sherry, and port must be on the the page is wearing open doorways.
the
a gold lame frock, skirt box-Don't "Freeze" the Guesta pleated all round, and short tolero pleated to match.
Mones,
menu.
and
Dancing makes for hunger, so dozens of small sausage a have Your dance can never be Gold belt is studded with green and red success if you are one of these rolls, caviare and anchovy sand- "fresh air" fanatics. A dress wiches, trifles, jellies and blanc- "Individual" fruit ingroom with a howling gale manges. Using the idea of the pleated blowing through the window dishes, served up in grape-fruit an excellent balero, the nineteen-year-old of may be healthy if one is clad in glasses, are also the party here has her made in top-boots and heavy furs, but idea.
Small trays of chocolates, scarict face cloth, pleated from a for filiny dance frocks a North plain yoke. She tonars it over a Pole atmosphere is not to be de- bon-bons, and sweetmeats can simple tehite crepe frock, skirtisired.
be placed in odd corners. cut with large unpressed bor
So, if you do not passess cen- The supper interval should be picats, waist deep and swathed.
tral heating, be extravagant for quite early in the evening, as ¡once and have a fire in every this is an admirable opportunity bedroom as well as one in the for the guests to become hall (a small electric or gas fire quainted with one another.
And remember a small but Jean be used for this purpose.)
Winter Wisdom
NC-
It should be the special duty of important point-ash trays! No parafin smell willlone of your family to attend to Follow these simple tips and FVERY cook should endeavour to WINTER brings its own problems, ply a light.
attain proffeleney in the art at Wand enreful planning is needed be perceptible, as the salt neutrallses
throughout the you need have no qualms as to Sauce making-ot quite as fleuit If the housewife's work is not to be the odour. The parafin must be re- the heating on art as the number of sauces increased.
newed each day, and the block of evening and to see that nobody whether your dance is really go- would lead us to suppose--for most
ing to be a success. may be expected to lost for feels too cold--or too warm! easy and effective salt of them ure variations of a simple method of heating a bedroom. Pro- about a fortnight before, it crumbles | However small your dance is
Here is an
foundation recipe.
cure a block of salt from the local away. Once
the foundation recipe is drysuiter, place in the grate. and mastered, suuce malting is easy.
pour paradili over it until it
It there is any suspicion of damp-
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the clumpness.
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A good sauce should be:-(1) Free thoroughly soaked. Leave for about camphor in each corner. In about
in a room, place a block of smoothly. The remedy is to turn it the while article will not be stained from lumps, (2) of a coating consis- ten or fifteen minutes and then ap- weeks's time the camphor will pro- over, and leave the under part ex- in patches, teney, (3) well
(1) correctly (
bably have disappeared--and su will posed to the heat of the fire for a In frosty wenther tortoiseshell and seasoned and favoured.
Cook gently for
four farbe or
few minutes. Then wipe with a soit horn-rimmed glasses should always Here is the recipe for the founda- minutes stirring all the time.
be placed in their ensea at night. It To make a fire burn with a stow duster. tion ce sultably flavoured, Various ingredients can be added
IL can be served with fish, boiled meat, to the fundation sauce-giving dis- and stendy flame, throw a handful
Even in this electric age, we have left exposed to the cold they may fowl, vegetables, &c.
tinctive favours-but it is important of soda on the conl.
sometimes to fall back on the home- become brittle, and then they will Allow one ounce of flour, one to remember that ench sauce should
ly candle. If there is any dificulty be inble to snap easily. in getting it to fit the sackut, plunge end of the candle in hot water for
ounce of butter or margarine, and a give flavour and plquancy to the Dealing with "Sticky" Cards little
pepper
and salt to half a pint dish without overpowering the na of quld. The quid may be alt tural flavour of the food,
llere are milk, half milk and half water or half milk and half stock (fish meat, tions to half a pint of foundation ticky" and unpleasant to handle. a minute and it will then fit perfect-
&c.)
The Simplest Method
suggestions:-(Propar-
Rauce.)
Anchovy Sauce Add one spoonful of anchovy essence
tea-
them
and
dust
When playing cards have been much used they sometimes become
To make them as fresh as when new ly.
out alngly an 11 table and over with a talcum powder. Clothes in Frosty Weather
A nicely whitened doorstep is very dimgull to achieve in wet and frosty
of ensuring a permanent whiteness. weather, but here in a good method Mix two parts of powdered whiting with one of powdered glue, and boll
la a pint and a half of water. Apply
to the step with a palat brush.
Both sides must be treated. Now When preparing clothes for long The simplest method of making a omit the salt. Serve with fah. collect the cards and, shuffle theming out on a frosty day put a hand- ns follows:-Mix the flour to a very Caper Sauce-Add one table- for a tew minutes. The powderful of salt in the final rinsing wa In cold weather, the problem of smooth cream with a little of the spoonful of coarsely chopped capers, foils away, leaving the cords fresh ter cold liquid, add the rest of the liquid (Pickled nasturtium seeds make and smooth to the touch. slowly, stirring all the time.
excellent subsiltule.) Serve with
Add butter and seasoning and stir bolled mutton. until the sauce bolla and thickens,
Edith Rhodes
This prevents the articles from window-cleaning will be very much freezing on the clothes line, and, in simplied it a little paraffin in added In very cold weather the sewing-the case of white clothes which are to the path of warm water used, A. W. muchino sometimes refuses to run! being "blued," the sall ensures that
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