B. I. F. NEWS for WOMEN
By GRACE WILSON INTERESTING new items
for the home captured my attention at the better- than-ever British Industries Fair.
A basket nursery chair, for instance, low-scated and arm- less for easy handling of baby, complete with deep drawer in its base for oddments.
Heavy blue bubble-filled glass fruit bowls with table lamps to match.
n dinner table... fashion-
Glass swans for the centre of
able ornaments
these
ut
the moment.
A lef-art for the serious auled
Everything at hend
"tray", designed
mixer
a solid woodery
on
and
to hold wood-stoppered vinegar bottle, wooden condiments containers, a glass mixing bow!
PHEN there la serabling brush
with a flexible back
Mate strong rubber and
tre
it in specially shaped to allow of scrubbing in awkward corners with- out causing damage to paint-work, etc.
There are other flexible-backed brushes for overy purpose, Includ 'ing car washing, the toilet, and the
cleaning of upholstery and clothes
By GLORIA
Stripes
STRIPED balero over a simple frack, or a fitted hip-length jacket if you prefer it.
THE averago "woman's dressing TI
table drawer
just does not bear looking intol A lot of mud-7 Tale can be saved if the drawer is
will+ partitioned. Any carpenter
Line the Tat it up quite cheaply. Talvisions with old siik no that +they
easy to keep free oft loose powder and dust.
are
Surprise Dish
PAIN PERDU
ANYONE who is ill, of who feels SOAK some slices of
the cold intensely, will appreciate
a compromisc for warmth which is a Crosa belieen a smooth sheet and a cvay blanket. It is guaranteed to wash, boll, and wear well.
THER items I liked
were
the
0TH
pastel-coloured dotted glass bed table lamps with drawn net shades selection at the Fair, together with
to match-part of Queen Mary's wide
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some painted waste paper cans and a hand-painted lemonade set long handled trny.
A new accessory for the hund- bag looks like a large lipstick ruse. It contains ย spill-proof powder compartment at one end and a soft puff pulls out from the other Re- quistio amount of powder la just shaken on to the puff through Б sprinkler.
white bread cuti
from a small cottage loaf (leave the crustst fon) for ten minutes int #milk to which you‡ a littlet have added sugar and a little rum, sherry or marsala.
T Take each piece out, dip it Fin beaten egg yolk and fry on‡ both sides in a little foamingt #butter till golden brown.
Serve with jam sauce or golden syrup warmed in saucepan.
Recipes for
FORK
a
are here
T
HE
new
striped
materials are
to be seen
A good way of using up left-overs is to make a
SWEET CURRY
everywhere FOR this curry you should or
sweetened with brown sugar.
just
now - in
malt vinegar, and slightly
allow loz, of Patna rice Add a teaspoon of mustard oil it for each
wash, person;
you have some by you and a dash Koen paprika. Sleed pimento silks, cottons, drain, and dry the rice thor- well, too, if you like it. Scuson to and woollens.
needs tasto with salt, and when all is well oughly. The rice
blended and cooked turn into a hot If you are longing to twice its own weight of dish.
Turn the rice into a hot bowl and buy some, here are a water for cooking.
dust it with sleved hard-boiled egg few ways of making up
Measure this amount of water yolk or powdered saffron, coco- and and in it cook shredded your material -
ANOTHER way of cooking the very gently, for fifteen
into fry it till It la pale freshening up your nat wardrobe into the bar- minutes. Use about one table cold and transparent before boiling spoon of coconut to each por- it, and then again, by cooking a pinch of saffron threads in with_the_coco- son's ration, and cook it in a nut, which, when strained off, will double saucepan.
give a brilliant saffron-yellow hue to
gain.
LUNCH
Planned by Countess
"FORK" meals are a practical
and economical way of entertaining one's friends. They certainly are a boon to small households, and have the advantage that the elever organiser of a "fork" meal gives her guests the impression that she is inviting them to a real one, yet it has none of the latter's formalities, etiquette, or exigeneles,
Guests are ushered into a room
buffet is where a "help-yourself" laid out-everything can be enten ,elther, with fingers or a spoon and fork. Service can be dispensed with --just as it is at a typically English
breakfast and guests can choose for
themsolves. Each dish or pinte should, however, be carefully labelled with a small flag, stating the nature of its contents.
The meal can be either hot or cold --preferably a mixture of both. But the hat daher depend on the facil ties available, in the. household. I hot dishes are served they can be
kept hot on a spirit lamp or hot plate-or, better still, in the double pan of a chafing dish.
Here are suggestions for "foric" meal relishes, both hot and cold.
Mushroom Croquettes PEEL and remove the stalks from
Morphy
crumbs, and fry to a light golden
A
LITTLE over blouse
in the brightest and gayest of stripes to wcar with your black suit.
TRIPED and flowered crepe de Chine "top"
to a frock
that's
looking
tired.
tablespoonful of finely chopped raw onion, 1 tablespoonful of capers, and 1 of tarragon and chervil (when
the following sauce: Soak 2 herring roes in a little milk, put in a small saucepan and cover
obtainable).
Coat with colour in a deep pan of very hot fat or oil. These can be served either hot or cold. Tomatoes au Cratin
Strain off the coconut, and cook your rice. You'll find it good.
An excellent thlekening agent for the rice in the coconut water, In vegetable and fish curries is onts. about twenty-five minutes time the If you happen to have any porridge rlee will have absorbed the liquor left from breakfast, design a curry and be perfectly cooked. Spread it for its using up; If only a small vege- on a cloth on a hot dish and allow table and egg curry mixture to serve
dry gently in the oven.
on toast as e
TOU can make the curry with snack. You
fish, kidney, liver and ham,
eggs, prawns, herring,
LI nakcy
pr savoury
supper
TOR very hungry people double
the allowance of rice. This fish, or all mixed vegetables, but is the sort of dish you should make its busia la the same. Heal in a pan a ment of. It's always better to pre- oil or nut fat, and gently fry chopped pare too much rice than loo little. onion and
apple, shredded carrot and And, by the way, curry is best caten swede celery and suitanas.
with a spoon.
When rich looking and brown, Alternative flavourings (which are add fingers of banana (about two also digestive aide) to use with your each}, Ampli flowers of cooked currles ore: powdered nutmeg, mace, cauliflower, and the curry powder coriander seed, tamarinds in alnited in milk and lemon juice serve, aubergtries, pineapple.
con-
THE QUEEN
SETS
OUR
A NEW
FASHION
sunray stitched.
UR heads must be capa- in blue, and another in green, trim One tip of ostrich risoned with feathers, the centre front. In addition, there bedecked with rainbow is a band of ostrich strands in green and blue round the toque, while n colours. and set off, with veil of heavy green net covers the billowing veils this season, hair at the back and is drawn up to The new hats, our favourite
tie in a bow at the front.
tonic, hark back to tranquil 4 Close-Fitting Model
An ostrich-trimmed hat is also in- times. They evoke images cluded in the selection the Duchess This is a of Windsor made recently. of peace and plenty, and
Atting off-the-face closely help to create it for the in- small
model. 1 is entirely covered in dustries that are being given small feathers ruded from midnight
la healthy lift-up by our more to pale blue. Over the hat goes a
elaborate headgear.
In this connection, the Queen han once again given a lead to fashion.
tulle vell in the former shade.
From the same milliner comes a flat sailor hat in One black straw, worn over the brow and completed by three ostrich feathers in pink, pale blue and royal blue, which cluster at the back and fall over the hair. The Queen, who has always But the hat question has not ended had a strong liking for ostrich when trimmings have been discussed, feathers, has already shown Huts are not only more elaborate, that her new spring wardrobe they are larger altogether, with wider brima and a more important look. includes them. Recently she They have a sweeping air in the way wore, for a London engagement, they swing up from the face or dip graceful toque with a large, full over the brow. They are not afraid ortrich feather set low down on the of novelty, although there is a ten- and plate centre front of the crown and falling dency to favour sailor
styles. softly back over the entire hat.
The emphasis on trimming is the fenture most arresting in the spring Flatter Hats for Summer
Scarcely a
a model, apart from hata.
Taken all round, hats are flatter.
..
those intended for sports, is free of
The art of the But if you are wise in their wayr
ornamentation. milliner, fallen into neglect in the you know that this is not really news recent era of caps and berets and but only due to the fact that while untrimmed clrawe, is having a real felts like going high-hat straws by nature fall fat. Winter hats are tall, heyday.
Crowns are cut out of bats to admit summer ones low-crowned, as a rule. In some cases this season the flat- cunning arrangements of ribbon and
ness is so acute that there la
not
with cold water. Bring to the boll and simmer for a few minutes til
Drain and rub through a tender. CHOOSE small. Arm tomnloes.
Season highly Make a neat round incision in sieve into a basin.
the with salt and pepper, and add 1 te- flowers. remove the top of each, and
mustard. Then pulp. Mix in a basin with a few spoonful of made Anely chopped boned anchovies, a stir in gradually 3 tablespoonfuls of few slices of Italian salamat sausage, olive oil and i of vinegar. half a teaspoonful of chopped capers to every tomato, half a teaspoonful of tine breadcrumbs, with a little olive oil. Season with sult and pepper.
and moisten Prawn Mayonnaise
CUHELL the prawns and put three- M
quarters of them in a salad bowl Stuff the tomatoes with the mix or in small individual paper cases,
ture, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, put Chop the remaining prawns finely in n. buttered dish, maisten cach and mix with a few chopped, boned tomato with a little oll, and bake in anchovies, 1 or 2 chopped gherkins
for about 25 and capers. minutes. These can be served cltlier hot or cold, and are easy to eat with a amall spoon and fork.
moderate
oven
Chicken Mousse pur lb. of
Add these latter ingredients to a silly made mayonnaise dressing, and mix with the prawne. Cheese Tartlets
cooked chicken through the mincer and mix
HOP the cheese, finely and mix with a little butter. Fill tartlet with 3 or 4 tablespoonfuls of thick white sauce, favouted with 1 table- cases of puff pastry with the mix- spoonful of mild Hungarian paprika. ure and bake in a quick oven till 'done. Sprinkle with inely chopped Then add gradually, beating well, ollves. These can be served elther just under 1⁄2 ounce of dissolved
1⁄2 pint of whipped cream to which hot or cold. gelatine has been added. The mix- Apple Chips
ture should be very light. Put into
small individual paper cases and PEEL and core the apples-they set or lee or in a cold place for should be sweet dessert one several hours till set and firm.
and cut Into very thin slices, in the same manner as for round potato chips.
1lb. of mushrooms. Chop them finely and coolt in a little butter till tender about 10 minutes. Then mix with Ib., of finely chopped ham and molston with a few tablespoonfuls of Salade Chanoinesse thick white sauce, flavoured with n squeeze of lemon fulco,
Fry in a deep pan of very hot fat
Let stand tili coli and sufficient/ IX fib, of cooked and flaked dry or oil to a light golden colour, drain
stir to shape into anali corks. Then roll in flour, coat with beaten yolk at egg, then with fine while brend-
A unit cod in a salad bowl with thoroughly, and put in the oven for
4 or 5 small, thinly sliced cooked a few minutes to get quite crisp. polatoor Garnish with alicea of They should be sumelently dry to hard-boiled egg. Sprinkle with 1ent with the fingers.
uny
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1938.
It will pay
to
300
you
our new shipment
of ECONOMICALLY PRICED
from
HATS New York
Just unpacked ox "Pros. Taft"
PASTEL COLOURED SPORTS SILK HATS
WHITE FELTS SMART STRAWS
CACE STRAWS
from $5.00 03.
from $7.50 to $ 9.95 from $8.50 to $15.00 from $9.50 up.
Also on Display latest Volls for HATS or TOQUES
MODE
ELITE
(At Cordon's Mezzanina)
Kayamally Building
Queen's Road Central,
FINGERNAILS Will Sparkle
CUTOR
TUITY
with CUTEX
CUTEX LIQUID POLISH IN ALL NEWEST SHADES Tinted No Made the fashion by Cutex
When smart women want, the orrect shade of polish, they avoid experimenting with infertor polishes and uncertain dyes, They select Cutex, known all over the world as the leader. They know Cute will wear for days without peeling or turning an ugly colour, and that they can depend on the correctness of its shades.
Be sure to get cenuine Cutex-Imitators will be prosecuted,
CUTEX
(3)
Catex at new low prices.
CUTEX
Liquid Poilsh
SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA W. R. LOXLEY & Co. (China) Ltd.
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"Trade
Tiny models perched on the head way in which the hate can stay on- are little more than an excuse for the head of their own accord.. This the feather that catches the eye; for has led to a craze for chin-strapa, THIS MONTH'S REX & PARLOPHONE RECORDS
which of all recent fashions wing the veil that hangs to the shoulder first prize for being hard to wear. or twines scarf-like round the neck.
Let Go. •F.T, F1020-Dipsy Doodle. F.T.
Jubileo. FT.
..NAT GONELLA & HIS GEORGIANS.
Quick Step Medley, (latest Q.S. & F.T.) F1037-Waltz Medley, (latest waltzes).
F1038-Once in a White,
Ribbon also ties round the back of F1025-Snake Charmer. FT. the head, holding the hat and hair A Toque of Varied Plumes
in place and breaking in becoming The Duchess of Kent's milliner-way the long lines of the head. one of the most celebrated in Parls For sheer practicability, however, is one of the users of interesting the best solution of all in the Ught Among her mast schoolboy. cap of straw. that grips forms of trimming.
two modelo the back of the head and has the recent creations are trimmed with the fashionable ostrich peak attached to it in front. In this fenthers. One is a toque made of case the trimming is centred on tho red, green, blue and while plumes, peak, and usually contrives to accent the tips in front, with a hair-net of the forward movement of the bnt. allk containing the hair at the back. Alternatively, the brim sweeps up The other is also a toque, with a from the brow. The hat Is worn forward movement. This is express. back on the head. ed in midnight-blue organdle entirely
Christine DawBON
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