THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1938.
30 minutes
to look your best
GIVEN time, looking your best is merely a matter of fussing enough over small details of clothes and make-up.
So that women who cau spend their mornings at the dress- maker, their afternoons at the linirdresser and beauty parlour, coming home in time for a short rest before dressing for a party, should, and usually do, go out looking like a million dollars,
Which is irritating, to say the lost of it, for those of us who are so busy that we can spare at most half an hour for getting decked up.
Excuses will not Work
THE truthful excuse that "I was kept late at the office" or the Men will shop, or whatever it is, doesn't work for a woman. sympathise with you if you are looking tired or rather draggled, but who wants sympathy anyway?
No, even if you have worked nine hours you mustn't look like it. To compete with these women who've spent all day getting ready for the party when you can spend thirty minutes is not so easy, but it can be done.
Plan your Background Right
TAKE
MAKE a few tips from cubarel or chorus girls, who have winke 1 asked one of them maybe x changes in sixteen minutes.
how she did it.
First thing, she told me, was to make certain beforehand that the background of your clothes und your make-up is richt.
The evening before a party have or less to routine.
There's nothing
a look over your frock to see that more soothing than routine and it'
it doesn't want sich anywhere, important you should feel soothed that it's clean, pressed, ready to step and confident atend of flurried or instu.
See that your bale is fixed and
only needs combing out into shape,
harassed.
You want to sell the wien that
other
that your nails are neul and polishest, you are going to feel and look your that your underclothes and stockings frat to yourself as well hre in good order.
prvople.
Bath
10 MINS
Dress
10MINS
Make-
up
TOMINS.
cleansing lotton. (Not cream; that In, would energe as a shine later.) conte First, then, when you If you don't have to worry about
Do your neck over with The any of those things on the evening look at the clock, and see it in half-
And
your of the party itself it leave you past seven and you're being fetched cleansing lotion, too.
dirty give more precious minutes for essentially at eight, don't let yourself feel hunt- hands are particularly
them a quick rub over with some last-minute fixings.
aimond all. It fetches out dirt quicker than anything.
Quick-change Routine
THESE stud be done. sair the quick-change girt, mare
for time.
uff Light a cigarette, take your clothes leisurely, turn on your buth,
and, while it is running, take all the make-up off your face with some
Surprise Item
Chocolates By Instalments
THAT used thing it is to have to eat the last lingering
Wolate from uch-treasured box, en drew that it
may be some time before you can bring yourself to buy some more. Either you don't go urar your favourite shop, or you don't just feel like them when you do, or you want your money for something else.
Chocolater by instalments do away with all that noNKENSE, All one has to do is to buy enough chocolates to last, any, a year. Ok, no! You're just But you don't take them all away. allowed one normal-sized box, and the rest are delivered to your house at specified periods throughout the pear so that you can replenish that buz. Good for yourself, and lovely as a gift.
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Tie your hair up in a net and leave done your Your the net on till you've make-up. Don't duwdle in bath, but give yourself a minute or two's relaxation, with your eyes shut.
Clouds of Powder
AFTER you've bathed
and
dressed (powder your neck and arms before you dress, by the way) you've probably go about ten minutes left.
Get to work on your face this way: First, skin: a dash of astringent, then foundation lotion or vanishing cream, then rouge (powder rouge is quicker), en clouds of powder, any surplus being taken off with a soft brush or cotton wool.
then
Nexi. run your eyebrows over with an eyebrow brush and a touch
Don't Waste
Goodness
left have
your You may
rether marmalade making late, but don't waste the goodness In the pips. Suppose you have a dozen oranges as your basis, put the pips in a basin and pour over them a pint of boiling water.
Let them stand for some hours then (preferably overnight). strain off the water into your pre- serving pan with the other ingre
You will probably and it has set into a jelly. Most people mix the raw ingredients of mar- malade and let them stand over- night before cooking.
dienis.
Keep Those Rinds
PREPARING
A One Servant
DINNER
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IT is a great mistake to
think, because you have only one servant, that you can- not ask your friends who have many servants to dinner with you. If you make simplicity the keynote of your meal, and do not attempt to compete with the elaborate menus of your richer friends, you will be able to Elve just as successful n dinner.
Choose dishes you have had before, or try new ones out on the family first. Avold anything that needs a lot of attention, and do as much beforehand as possible. are some short cuts
Soup
Here
THIS can be made the day be
'Never fear'
You can take precautions to prevent germ Infection from cuts and gearCS.
'DETTOL' is three times more effective for killing germs than pure Carbolic Acid, yet it is non-poisonous and gentle on the skin; so use "Dettol Immediately as a infeguard against germ infection.
'DETTOL'
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FOR THE FINEST
fore, or buy one of the excel- DRAWN-THREAD
lent brands of tinned soup which only need reheating. A good consomme can be varied by the addition of cooked vermleelil, heads
of tinned asparagus, chopped cooked celery, or just sherry. A delicious clear tomato soup is made by cutting a pound of tomatoes Into thin slices with cold water. atic covering Season well and simmer for 20 minutes, mashing with a
wooden spoon to get out all the goodness. Strain and mix with twice the qui- ilty of strong consommo.
Fish
FRIED fish has to be done at
the last minute and is rather smelly, so choose a baked dish.
BAKED FILLETS are par- Rub ticularly easy to prepare.
any white fish with a piece of lemon and then dust with gensoned flour. Brush with beaten egg, cont with browned crumbs, and put into Pour over a fe grensed in. melted butter and bake in a mode- rate oven (Regulo Markt 5) for 20 minutes.
BAKED SCALLOPS are also delicious. Simmer fillets of fish in milk with a little butter until plump,flake, put in the deep shells, In which they thicken the liquve
Cover were cooled and pour over with buttered crumbs and bake for 15 minules in a good oven,
WORK
LINGERIE HANDKERCHIEFS
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AND
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SOLE AU GRATIN. Either $1
steam or bake some fillets of with butter and lemon sole juice, then arrange neatly in a re
Pour cheese sauce over proof dish, the fish, and brown at the top of the very oven or under the grill. A
be bought good cheese sauce ready prepared. Heet the opened tin in a saucepan of hot water before pouring over the Ash.
car
Meat
CHOPS PRINCESS. Get some your butcher to bone
into neat chops and tie them rounds. Cover each with sausage ment, and put into a well-buttered tin with some pleces of butter, Bake in a moderate oven (Regulo Mark 6) Mushroom for about half an hour.
or celery sauce is good with these, and a quick way to make it is to add some chopped cooked mush- rooms or celery to a small tin of the cream soup.
of vaseline; emphasise them with eye TN almost every household, since the pencil. Eyeshadow for your eyelids, introduction of the "Eat more
VEAL CUTLETS. Trim some mascara for your lashes,
fruit" campaign, oranges and lemons are used for food and drink, but why
pieces of fillet of veal, flatten waste the remaining rinds?
Berelt of pulp and juice, lemon with a cutlet bat, dip in beaten skin will cleanse the hands from frig egg and then in fine breadcrumbs all good mixed with powdered herbs, salt, and vegetable stoins, as housewives know, but perhaps they pepper, and a little grated are not aware that it is equally good rind. Coat well beforehand so that the egg has time to harden, then fry in butter on both sides and serve Tomato sauce with rolls of bacon. or grilled tomatoes are a good accem- pantment.
Put a touch of cream under your eyelashes first, then any stray spots of black will come off at a touch From there to your mouth and a firin outline with red pencil and fill- ing in with lipstick. Lost, your hair; nip off the net, and it should need no more than a quick brush and a for cleaning brass. Used in conjunc-1 comb-over with a tall cqmb,
tion with a little common salt, it will both clean and polish, and there is no risk of green discoloration in the crevices. EASONS for this order of
Many aluminium utensils can be make-up explain themselves, kept clean and bright merely by boll- If you made up your mouth before ing in them plain water to which a your eyes you might smear it when piece of lemon rind has been added. A kettle will keep free from fur, getting at your eyelashes; hair must wait the end to avoid getting it treated in this manner, and it is an excellent way to remove tannin from mussed or powdery.
Watch the Sequence
A dash of perfume from a scent-teapots.
Empty urunge and lemon rinds, spray, a quick close-up look in a lund mirror to see that there's no cut up small and left soaking in cold lipstick on your teeth or eyeblack water for two days will, when volled, on your face and you can go to your with the addition of the fresh juice seme preserving party looking and because your of a lemon and looking, feeling as if you've had sugar, make a very appetising and
inexpensive marmalade. time on your hands and spent it on your looks.
A few rinds placed, in a jug and covered with celd water for a few hours will produce a very beneficial
Lucy Milnertonic water, good for the blood, and
a refreshing drink in hot weather.
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POTATO CAKES are ex- cellent with any of these dishes. Mash 1lb. cooked potatoes with very smooth, oz. of butter unul work in Goz. of flour and a generous pinch of salt, roll out, cut with a round cutter and put on a cake tray.
minutes. Bake at the top of a hot oven for 20
Sweets
COLD CHOCOLATE CREAM. 8oz. plain chocolate in a double boiler with 1 pint milk and 2oz. sugar, Add 4 beaten egg yolks, stir until it thickens, then strain in 1oz. melted gelatine, Cool, fold in the stiffly whipped egg whites, and put into a souffle dish, with a band of stil paper pinned round the top. Decorate with whipped cream and crystallised violeta.
Patricia Russborough. Plano. APPLE CREAMS. Stew 2lb. Patricia Rossborough. Plano, apples, cut without peeling, with Joe Daniels Hot Shots. a piece of lemon-peel and a gill. Joe Daniels Hot Shots,
of water until tender. Rub through .Ivor Moreton & 11. Kaye, a sleve, sweeten, to taste and mix Billy Thorburn Orch. with custard made with 2 cggs and Blily Thorburn. Orch. pint milk and a gift of whipped cream. Add 14oz. melted gelatine, .Nat Gonella Orch. ..Nat Gonella Orch, fold in 2 stiffly whipped egg whites, Not Gonella Orch, and tint pale green. Put into grape- decorato with .Nat Gonella Orch, fruit glossce and
whipped cream and gluce fruit. Ivor Moreton & D. Kayo. Ivor Moreton & D. Kaye, Harry Roy's Tiger Ragamuffins. Harry Roy's Tiger Ragamuffins.
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a cold one, such as Harry Roy's Orch. CHOOSE
wachovy eggs, trimmed with Harry Roy's Orch.
fillota,
and Harry Roy's Orch. anchovy Harry Roy's Orch. pieces of tomato, or bundles of Joe Daniels & His Hot Shots. celery, stuffed with creamed cheese Joe Danlets & Hin Hot Shots, mixed with chopped walnute, and arranged with a strip of pimento round each bundle. Or have n selve- llon of three or four kinds of cheese on a wooden board, with some celery and a good selection of cheese bis- cults
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