THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,/MONDAY, APRIL 1838
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SUM yourself Up
the current craze, asking your- self searching questions. Mark this questionnaire honestly and you will learn a great many home truths, Such, for instance, as that poser under "Personality Points" about your laugh. For it is my firm bellef that a pretty laugh is one of the greatest assets of charm.
If you were perfect you would be able to give yourself ten marks out of ten on every point. Not perfectly beautiful, that is, but per- fectly endowed with beauty sense. Because beauty is very largely a question of attitude. Whether you really think about the right rinse to make dull hair gleam again; whether you use your hormone cream right down to the bottom of the far; whether you remember your daily dozen as well as keeping "a"bright eye open for newer excitemental
So sum up and bruce up! If you score any- thing over 120 marks you have beauty possibilities for Summer, 1938.
TOYS
for the tots
LADY, of course, puts everything.
Bedible or otherwise, straight into
his mouth if he gets a chance. Since you can't watch him every moment of the day, be careful to give him toys (1) that he can't swallow, (2) that won't polson him.
A good toy for him to a little animal made of brightly coloured beads, vegetable dyed and guaranteed not to chip.
It has cory velvet head, and bells for toes which tinkle when it is touched. Price 3s. Ild.
FOR teething time, by for the best
thing to present him with is a ring of tvory. It can't possibly hurt him, and it's soothing to the gums. The newest ones are sold in an huglenie cellophane box, with hand- painted ld. Pice 43, od,
Yes-Total
Fashion's Gay
TERE is an interesting revival in mi- Linory--the scarf draped panama. Always a becoming form of head. gear, it has a habit of reappearing in the hat salons from time to time. The model is in white panama and the veil at the back and scarf draped round the crown are in white crepe de Chine.
WHY be serious over a maiter so, W brief and trivial as a summer dress? asks Schiaparelli, and sho answers the question with her "cir- cus" collection which is gay enough to rejoice the saddest heart.
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Plain Hitle silts with straight skirts and tight-fitting jackets fastened with plumed horses' heads, elowns' faces and clowns wearing crumpled top-hats.
'Graceful young men on the flying trapezo, swing across the front of a tall straw hat, others swing around a necklace. Very bright blue crepe is printed with sad clown faces, pink crepe printed with black clowns and concertinas is used for another sim- pie De little trock, and a mauve satin Bolero is embroidered with prancing white elreus horses and worn with a black dress.
THE newest evening gloves aro 3s abiped 'like gaiters, and made of (white or black satin, buttoped with different coloured boot bátlóns. They Are worn with the more formal even-
and write. yourself down
How Many Marks out of Ten for each of these Questions? A "Yes" means Ten marks, a “No” means none: and the in-betweens will set you thinking.
Face
Hair
Do I flatter its shape by clever make-up?
Is my complexion smooth and flawless?
Does my nose remain matt?
Is my throat as young as my face?
Is it silky to touch?
Do I take care to keep its colour?
Have I tried a new style in the last six
months?
Hands
Are they smooth and white?
Do I use a nail-varnish that makes them
look-white?
Are the cuticles irreproachable?
Figure
My
Do I hold myself well?
Are my shoulders straight?
Is my hipline in proportion?
Do I study the back and side views, as well
as the front?
Perfume
Have I chosen a perfume which I Love, and
which, therefore, expresses me?
Having chosen, do I use it consistently but
not insistently?
Personality Points
Can I say "Thank you" and "No, thank you"
with equal grace?
Is my voice soft and pleasant?
Oan I accept a compliment charmingly? Am I as pleasant to cross old ladies as to
charming young men?
Can I keep a conversation gay without
facetiousness?
And serious without sentimentality? And, most important of all, reproach without
making scenes?
No-Total
Outlook Produces
Host Of
Of Novel Ideas
....
Circus Modes Include Clown Face Prints And Crumpled Top Hats: "Gaiter" Evening Gloves: Ascot Organdies:
Paper Lace Trimmings.
Plain tailored suits in dark cloth are fastened with enormous choco- lates, gum drops and every imagin- able kind of sweet. Among the new hats are some tail and battered top hals in felt.
Favourite colcurs
tan. arc
all eyclamen, and pervenche-blue,
clear of pink. deeper shades
green, wine and heather
the
Chindoc
mauves.
The plain skirts are topped by tight-fiting Jackets of brightly caloured shepherd's plaid most in- tricately piped with a contrasting colour. Severely tailored jackets in
Seen at Paris
Displays
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White chiffon striped with black has wide scarlet belt.
Black atraw bowDŠ de- corate yellow suit.
Top of the black shantung is made of white "paper" lace.
dark materials are worn with striped or checked surah dresses or printed crepe frocks. A black sult with a short jacket banded with insertions of lace has a black skirt and a black crepe de Chine shirt patterned with
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Insertions of brilliantly coloured lace, yellow, green, wine and royal blue
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NE of the most amusing prints is the dark green foulard patterned with little bottles with a ship inside each bottle. This dress is plped in cyclamen. pink..
INDIVIDUAL SAVOURIES
8 is an exoclient dial for one
Tuba
person, or mispaber of theso Individual Savouries can be made for the family.
Cut up some bolled onion, or. any other left-over, cooked vege- Lable, season and line with it the bottom of individual, fireproof dishes which must first be greased. Sprinkle with Htlo rated
horse-radisha.
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Cut up some bacon left-over cooked meat, and ar- range a thin layer on the vege- table. Sprinkle with little salt and
znoro pepper and
grated horse-radish. Next break, an err into each. Sprinkle this also with salt and pepper, but no horse- radish. Bake in the oven till eas xels. Remove from the oven. prinklo with grated chiecac, brown under the gril, and serve at once.
If you do not want to cook the savoury in an oven, fry the bacon or meat, and posch or "boll" "the eKz; arrange quickly, while bot In the dish, as described then sprinkle with cheese, sad grill.
Anne Mome
New Pastry Discoveries
IN order to make your pastry "distinctive," try the follow-
ing new varieties-coenut short- cake pastry, orange or lemon pastry, and egg: and cheese pastry.
Coconut shortcake crust has a delightful nutty flavour, and is suitable for any sweet filling.
Mix well together 8 ozs. flour,
a good half-teaspoonful baking powder, a heaped teaspoonful castor sugar, and rub in till erumbly 4 oza, margarine,
Add three tablespoonfuls finely desicated coconut, and mix to a little stiff, smooth paste with a beaten egg and water. Roll out fairly thinly.
Line some patty-ting with pastry -prick a few holes in bottom, then add any desired filling. Bake in a moderate oven 20 minutes. ORANGE OR LEMON CRUST
This will blend splendidly with apple pie.
To 8 ozs, flour allow 5 oza, mar- garine, teaspoonful baking pow- der, z 2 teaspoonfuls castor sugar, a good plach ground ginger, a slight sprinkling of grated orange or lemon rind, and sumclent strained orange or lemon juice to bind the mixture. About 3 tablespoonfuls should be enough.
Mix all ingredients except the fruit juice and margurine. Then rub In margarine till the mixture is like fine-breadcrumbs. Mix to Д sun paste with the fruit juice.
Cover your apple ple neatly, and moderate oven 10-20 bake in minutes, till of a pale golden colour. EGG AND CHEESE PASTRY
This is particularly savoury. It-js
covering for sausage rolla. It also goes well with most meat and fish to fillings.
Some of the afternoon coats have light and flaky and is the perfect
of
bunches of fleld flowers and curs corn and wheat on the revers match the same pattern printed on the crepe de Chine dress. Not only colours but materials are mixed. One suit has a black taffeta knife-pleated skirt worn with a bright blue chiffon blouse and heather pink tweed jac- ket.
FASHIONS Jaunched by important
houses include
multi-coloured dresses and coats. A coat, half red
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The requirements are 12 ozs. flour, der, pinch of salt and cayenne
heaped teaspoonful baking pow pepper. 8 ozs. margarine, a heaped tablespoonful finely grated cheese and 2 hard boiled eggs. The cheese should be dry-so that it grates smoothly and the eggs must be chopped finely.
Mix flour, baking powder, pepper
margarine and add the grated cheese and chopped eggs. Mix to a siiff dough with cold water, roll into oblong shape.
and salt, rub in 2 ozs. only of the
an
and half blue, was worn over a black lace wool dress; a long evening taf-
Place half the remaining mar- feta coat in green, blue and yellowgarine in small dabs on half the panels, with violet and green sleeves, paste, fold over, and roll into was worn over a violet chiffon dress. oblong shape
more. Repeat process with the remaining mar-
once
A chiffon dance frock of cyclamen garine, and blue panels has a silver belt. A FOR SAUSAGE ROLLS long flowing evening coat of chiffon
an
If you are making sausage rolls, in broad bands of blue, green and roll into a long strip about 4 inches pink has a black crepe top and is wide, place the skimmed sausage worn over a black and white printed meat (which should be flattened dress,
slightly with the rolling pin) on to one half of the pastry, fold over other half, moisten edges with milk. press lightly together then cut pastry Into 3-inch lengths.
Another new fashion is little pink satin corsets-laced down the front,
worn over a full-skirted dance frock
This method of preparation saves of white lace, with a gathered white the trouble of shoping
cach roll lace bodice. Dog collars. an inch separately, and the sausage meat is wide of embossect gold and diamante This pastry requires a really quick spread more evenly over the pastry. are worn with the more sophisticated oven, in order to make it rise well, frocks. Hats of stiffened tulle with and be delicately finky. turn-up saucer brims. have bands of
Good fillings for the pastry are sequins to match the trimming of the minced cooked ham well muktened with tomato pulp, or flaked cooked dinner frocks with which they are haddock moistened with mustard
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