Dresses for
NOME of the most delightful evening gowns in the Paris Collections this season are, quite frankly, "crinoline
dresses.
Those of you who saw Greta Garbo as the Lady of the Camellias will have a fair idea of what these are like- for that is where the inspiration came from.
Molyneux actually uses the crinoline frames of the period, and ane at least of his dresses, in pale green heavy satin, is complete with three-cornered lace shawl, while kid mittens, and fan.
[AGGY ROUFF showed, among others, a
crinoline
M govn in heavy satin, padded and buttoned all over
like an old-fashioned upholstered chair.
Bul these, for practical use, are, after all, only charm- ing fontuales. For ordinary women ilke you and me, evening clothes are just as easy to wear as ever they were, as you see from the three Papworth has sketched in this page, The two-in-one dress is specially good.
ITERE are the most important fashion points to note:
H Lengths Ground or slipper length (by which I mean
just touching the front of the shoe) or with the skirt very slightly raised in front.
Bull-
Skirt widths Easy to walk in. lesa princesa línie. Straight skirtų, with all fullucas brought to the centre front. Full- uena disguised in pleats. Victorian types of skirt. Slim skirts with the variations of the tunic,
Decolletage Every
type, including
square, off-shoulder, heart-shaped, cross- over-und high, and variations of the halter line.
Sleeves & few short sleeves, often in- yculously done.
.
Waist-lines Normal and higher, wern- sionally an experimental law one, wad Lan- vin's daring double waist-line with one Harms belt where it should be and an- other wide contrasting band encircling the hipa.
Jackets and wraps Baleres fa trans- form your evening dress inta a dinner frock. Short-fitting jackets-and blouses (nne sketch). Some longer ones. 017 the redingote style, Long Transparent ones, fitting full-skirted couts.
net
Materials Heavy satin, crepe satin, silk and wool feracy, gros-grain, faille, satin- backed moire, lace marocain, chiffon, plain and printed, embroidered and printed crepes, tulle, taffetas.
Trimmings Sequins of all kinds, charm-
aus bouquets of flowers, tace.
After Dark
APRIL APPETITES
sieve.
pepper, two yolks, and half a tea-
PPETITES are quickened by tables and rub the pulp through a AP
Add a nut of butter, salt and increasing fresh air and out- door exercise for the good fare provided by this fickle spring month, and all households have the opportunity of more varied food,
Eggs Are Cheap Perhaps the outstanding fea- ture of the month is that eggs are really plentiful and cheap,
cuplul of evaporated milk or cream. Fold in the stiffly whisked whites, and pour the mixture into a greased china souffle ense, which has a band of greased paper tied round It, or into a greased fireproof dish or ple- dish. Bake in a moderate oven 20- 25 minutes until well risen and set.
Sharp Sauce
Serve with sharp sauce made and it is possible to use them as follows: Cut lb. apples freely in puddings and cakes and into small chunks without skin- also as a substitute for meat. Now ning or coring, and cook with a Is the time to preserve
In them waterglass, and to make a store of very little water and sugar until well Add. two tablespoonsful lemon curd. Why not make a souffle pulped. occasionally at this season, when it tinned tomato pulp and boll up. or strainer, will be quite an inexpensive item? Press through a sieve Here is a recipe for a delleious and re-bent and serve in a hot sauce- most nourishing luncheon or supper dish which is out of the ordinary,
Lentil Souffle
boat.
Vegetables
Vegetables are rather a pro- Soak a teacupful of lentils and blem, as the early spring varie- stew them until soft in a lttle ties are expensive and the winter water, with a small sliced onion kinds are becoming scarce and and carrot. Remove the vege- old. Spring cabbage and
purple
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New evening blouse-wrap in heavy satin. Worn over an evening frock like a jacket. Full- sleeved and very bloused.
Two-in-one dress. You untic your apron front and turn it to the back, then do the same to the bodice-thus showing the black lining only.
A
Long tunic line. Note the flowers tucked into the décolletage. Good for the woman who is too thin
are broccoli
useful sprouting "greens," and it is possible to ring the changes on haricots and butter beans served with a sauce quickly made from Unned tomatoes, these are very appetising. Dried flageolet beans are less well known, but are only slightly more expensive and very delicate in flavour. Wash and soak
them overnight. but they become tender more quickly than haricots. Drain, toss them in a little hot butter, and serve with chopped parsley senttered over,
Salads Again!
sileed
A cool green salad is most tempting to an appetite which is rather juded by winter's heavy food. Watercress is at its very best, and the little forced cabbage lettures are becoming cheaper.. Add beetrool, radishes, thinly spring onions and diced cold new potatoes. Or, make a delicate salad by garnishing some leaves from lettuce hearts with slices of orange or grapefruit and bananas, and hand- ing dressing consisting of cream used) flavoured with lemon julee und
(the "Home-made" variety may be
seasoned with salt.
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RICH CHINESE TAKEN IN RAID
DELIVERS HOLY WEEK MESSAGE.
Rev. H. W. Baines Talks
'Of Christian Aim
Yesterday, Palm Sunday, was the first day of holy week, and in his sermon at St. John's Cathedral the Rev. H. W. Baines suid:
Not many minutes ago our children walked round the Cathedral singing "Ride on, ride on in majesty," and carrying palms in remembrance of Palm Sunday. What tradition is this? Suppose a stranger came to the door ond looked in during their procession what would he take all to mean? Let us imagine that he has come in and asked and we have got to give an answer. This
This is
custom w reply, of Christian disciples, hallow- ed by many centuries of repetition on this first day of Holy Week. It is only the first of many things we do during this week, symbolic acts of our response to something that happened in Jerusalem about 1900
years ago.
answer.
the
we
But what is the unforgettable event which you and your children com- memorate faithfully in your Holy Week? It must surely be very un- usunt. It certainly was unusual, we Did you ever see 27 1331 spend his life entirely for the benefit of his fellows? Why, yes he would say; that may be unusual, but not A surprise rald by a party of de- unique. Ah, yes; but it is much tectives led by Detective-Sergeants more important, we go on, to realise J. Allen and R. MacVey on No. 424A that in his case not only spending Des Voeux Road West, Inte on Fri- himself in life was his way, but when day evening, led to the discovery of that road of teaching by example a gaming establishment patronized and precept had folled, he sealed the
ing of his life in his death. offering by well-to-do clients.
Nobody can help admiring that, Eight men were arrested, of which
the stranger would say, but surely t two, Lo Si-yun, 42, described as a rubber planter, and residing at No. conduct often true of the finer
spirits among men. Many, for exam 30 Robinson Road, ground floor, and Ho Chu, 39,
were ple, have given their lives for their Servant-boy, 1 charged with keeping the place as a country before and since common gaming house. The other
ap-
hero.
Their noble deaths have into
memory. Why has this commemora six, whose professions included those tion of yours lasted so long? Be of teacher, broker, sollcltor's clerk, cotton merchant, land owner
and cause, we answer, this life and death compradore, were charged with engagement, although it is like those others of which you speak, has about gambling.
a quality which sums up and None of the men, however,
in- peared before Mr. H R. Bulters at cludes them all. Jesus made claima the Central Magistracy on Saturday for what he did and suffered which when their names were called. Lo the insight of the finest spirits of all forfeited ball of $890, and Ho. for-
the ages since have felt compelled to felted ball of $200. Each of
the accept. other six gamblers had their bail of $10 estreated.
NOT, HIS OWN, FATE Sergeant Allen sald that a sum of What claims are these? That his $1,108.30 was seized from the table. life and death, in their increasing Of this, $105,30 was ordered to be loneliness, were not his own fate so placed in the Court Poor, Box, while much as the mightiest activity of the the other $1,000 was ordered to be Eternal God In Ume, forgiving the placed to the General Revenue of the sin of man at tremendous cost Colony
bridging the gulf between man and
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God, triumphing over the powers hostile to man, including man's Inst enemy death, and bringing the New Age the power of the Eternal World -into the world of brokenness, cor- ruption and death,
Thus the wonder to which our
worship this week witnessee, its message, is that it brings together Eternity and
and Time, Heaven Earth, God and man, in a wonderful unity. So that in the acts of com- memoration with which this week is filled we are doing more than re- membering a herole friend: we are seeking in representing the drama on the last act of which Palm Sun- day ruises the certain to share again and to spread abroad the redeeming and victorious spirit of Him who enacted it.
ter.
As the original Holy Week pro- gressed, the crowds supporting Jesus dwindled, until by Friday the Palm Sunday concourse had, become His mother and a few women who would not leave Him or her, and one of the two thleves crucified beside Him. Father forgive them, they knew not what they did. We know much bet
Would that the number of private and in public devotion may those following Jesus this week in
swell till if they all could come and come, His churches could not hold them.
"Say, The Lord hath need of them,"
And the Lord hath need of us not only to bear im public testi- mony to our loyalty, but also to pay the reckoning of response to all He did and gave to us; to bring oursciver with all our longings for peace and
single.
prosperity and justice, and con- lion personally until we have.cx- feasing our own need for, His salva- posed every
enemy to His greedy jealousy, self-worship and Re love-foor, cruelty, cowardice, palling them to His triumphed over them.
Crosshai
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