T
FRILLS.. for the
FORTIES
HERE are many. sit-by-the-fire parties at this time of year, aa
well as invitations out to an evening of bridge or music.
Mathers will do well not to leave the maller of a new frock any longer, us in a few weeks' time they will be to the
throes of spring preparations.
To-day I am concentrating on frocks for the woman of forty and over, who is on the plump side and wants to look alim and elegant.
In the feat place, the slimming pro- portions of your ngure depend on the style and trimming of the clothes you wear. It's not just a matter of choosing Ines that go down, it one's -figure is, frankly outsize.
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A designer will deliberately soften the Hines of frock with a well-placed frill or two, knowing that with an angular woman torners will thus be rounded, while the same draped effect will take inches off the fuller figure,
Fabeles, too, are a great factor in obtaining a slenderising effect,
patterned materials
are the
Non-
best;
although small, carefully chosen designe
are quite slim looking.
I have selected two special designs
for the fuller figure. Both are easy-
to-nuke slimming designs.
A good tip to remember is to have your hat to match your frock if you
are wearing it under a coat. When you throw back or take off your wrap, the matching effect of hot and circes emphasises the lengthening line.
On the left, the model has a dis- tinctly sienderising effect, as will be
seen by the deep V in the skirt. Frilled cuifs and jabut give light re- Het to the dress and would look nice mude in postel georgette.
Of cat. If you like a little gitter. you could buy a lanté coller for tat dr 15 to give it a more glamorous het ». Shown on the right is a pattern cut with a straight panelled skirt back and front. A particularly at- frnctive collar with long revers is used to trim the bodice. This will make an excellent best frock, and you have a good choice of fabrics.
Velvet luxurious-looking, but you have to be rareful not to spot it. Alaro- cain et soit, canging eripe, materials pre a iness prical progoaltion,
Lunch Menu for
6 people
Crab Cocktail
Mution Cutlets
Creamed Potatoes Green Peas
Apricot Rice.
COCKTAIL-Mix up together a tablespoonful cach of salad oli, ketchup and Worcester sauce, a dessertspoonful of vinegar, a tablespoonful of chopped cucumber, and a drist of cayenne pepper and salt. Fill into six small glasses or plates with two or three pieces of tinned crab in each. Serve rolled brown and butter.
MEAT-Divide two pounds of chined best end neck of mution Into cutlets, and bat out with a heavy knife. Pour about an ounce of oiled butter over, cont with breadcrumbs and fry till brown in two ounces of hot lard in a medium-sized caute pan. Arrange them overlapping on the potata down the centre of a dish with tinned peas at each side or all round. Pour gravy over made from trimmings of the meat fried, then simmered! in cold water to cover.
Soft ruffles,
slim filting lines, plain fabrics-lea- timo frocks for mother,
Good Cooking
COD
By
Mary
Grace
Why No Babies
By A Young Husband
YOUNG married people
of this age are subjected to a great deal of criticism by politicians, prominent members of the clergy, and others on their supposed apathy towards having a family and its consequent result on the strength of the nation.
As one of them, I venture to put forward that this slight on modern youth is too serious in its implications to remain un- challonged by its victims,
To begin with, are these worried gentlemen not greatly responsible? Nearly every speech made by a prominent man contains references to his personal opinions on the pro- ximity of war. In most churches, sermona and prayers again bring home to us the depressing possibility of European conflagration:
Do these people, who take the question of war in its brondest mense
tho safety or otherwise of the country as a whole-realise the very frightening and wholly personal Insecurity, this talk brings Into a home where even the insecurity of one's job is a constant fear? ·
War Widows
To a young married couple with a child, barring the exceptional few, a large bank balance is an impossi bility. What future is there for a young wife whose husband is killed lu war?
The Great War showed that, and is still showing it. At best she can hope for a small pension and an in- surance which is greatly reduced, barely enough to keep herself in greatly reduced circumstances— certainly not enough to feed, clothe, and educate one or two children to the standard that is their right.
Many must think as we do-that war is inevitable, even if it be 20 years of, and the boy we have brought into the world will be blown out of it in his prime, dying the By Ambrose Heath widely-advertised "glorious death" that makes the worda a sinful
STEAKS
THESE can make an admirable light dish and, believe me, there are other ways than frying them. But if they must be fried, then try serving, them with fried onions and decorating them with femon and gherkins.
GRILLED
Some people prefer this fashion to frying. Cut them on inch and a half-thick, and first, if you like them more Bavoursome, let them lie in a mixture of olive oil, lemon juice, chopped parsley, thyme, pepper and salt. But in any case, before you grill them, dip them in olive oil or melted butter, and grill them slowly on each side, basting with a little of the fat you use.
FOR THE ·
RECIPE
BOOK
1
But do not season
them until after they are grilled and serve them surmounted by a pat of anchovy of maitre d'hotel butter, the first being butter mixed with anchovy essence, and the second butter mixed with chopped parsley and lemon Juice. Or serve a Tartare Sauce.
A LA BOULANGERE This is how you get them in a very famous Paris restaurant. Take a large steak from the middle of the nish, put it into a shallow fireproof dish, surround it with quarter of raw potatoes and half-cooked button anions, Season with salt and pepper, dot all over with butler (or smear Take a slice of gammon about it with melted butter), and bake it
HAM BAKE
mockery.
:
incentive What possible
can there be to create Life which nuust be so brutally destroyed?
The People's Power
How Is it possible that the people will permit another war? What power they hold! Without them war would cease to exist. Have
they not yet been sufficiently educ- ated to its horrors, its incredible stupidity
Before long all this talk of im- pending evil, and the harrowing re- salts of modern warfare abroad, will produce a state of neurosis that will lend to another age of unfor tunate war babies, whose physical and mental disabilities will be the further target for remarks about a C3 nation.
Wearily we wonder if we shall ever be permitted to settle down and live in the security of peace, with
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fear of separation and sudden death, to rear our families in hap piness and with the knowledge that they will have their chance.
Admittedly there are some irres- ponsible, insincero young people who',
SWEET.-Siminer four ounces of blanched rice in a pint of milk, two ounces of sugar, and a few drops of essence of lemon until it is tender and nearly all the milk absorbed. Mix in a beaten cag and put in a buttered luch thick. Mix teaspoonful of made in the oven, basiing it pretty often prefer parties to parentage, but they
and serve in the same dish. sprinkle it with chopped parsley,
border mould, cover with buttered paper and bake in a moderately hot oven for half an hour (Regule mark No. 5). Turn out, and arrange apricots mustard, with
a tablespoonful of with more butter. When it is done, (warmed up from a small tin, overlapping, round the top, and pour over caster sugar, and rub well into the the juled heated up, sweetened and flavoured with essence of lemon to ham,
Put into a covered fireproof taste, and thickened with a heaped teaspoonful of cornflour. Sprinkle dish with about 1 pint of milk, and with blanched chopped pistachio nut.
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Wool Wisdom
66\/EAR Wool next the skin." W exhorted our grandmothers; and wisely, because wool reguintes body temperatures, guarding against overheating as well as chilling.
When choosing between two wools,
Well grease & cocottes or ramekins, Melt 20. of butter until it oils, then add a teaspoonful of flour and blend well. Beat up 2 eggs with 2 table spoonfuls of cream, add to the butter and flour, and all over a very low Heat. Add 30. of grated cheddar cheese, and stir again, but do not let it boil or the eggs will curdio. Sea- with cayenne, put into the cocottes and put in oven (Regulo stand tight stretching while a strong
son
Mark 7) to brown.
LEMON SOUFFLE.
rub the abres between the fingers ns experts do, and choose the softest. wool tightly between finger and Strength is also important. Hold the thumb and, strum length.
the tensioned
A good wool is clastic and should
wool
the
will give quite a tuneful note. Many wools lose their elasticity because they have been too tightly wound. Always Insert two fingers Makes a delicious party sweet, under the winding strand and this Imported eggs, can be used." Wipe 5 gives a firm but soft ball. lemons, and rub on them Co. of Avold knots in your next Jumpor Jump supar until all the yellow part in this way.
Splice
enkis to- of the lemons is on the sugar. Heat nether by untwisting them about Ipt. of milk to boiling point, strain three inches and lay plys of the new on to a beaten egg yolks, then return wool inside the opened-out plys of to a double boiler with the sugar, the other. With a deft rub the ends and stir over a low heat until re then fastened securely together, thicken. Do not let it boil. Add Neck-lines and cuff-lines of knit- loz, of melted pelatine and the juice ted garments often sog untidliy of the
lemons, and cool. When after their first washing. To keep nearly cold fold in the very atimu them trim stitch a matching plece whipped egg whites. Put into a plan of ribbon round the inaldes und press dish, and when cold decorate with with a warm iron.
a border of whipped cream.
M. L. II,
COUNT THE
"TELEGRAPHS"
EVERYWHERE
are definitely in the minority-and surely there have been similar cases in all generations?
In any case, they have a better excuse now than ever before-eat, drink, and be merry, for to-morrow you may be blown to bits.
So they
any.
Exquisite Footwear
NIGGER - NAVY
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1938.
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