THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPE, MONDAY, MAY
Bracing Fashions
THE
American college girl is prob- ably responsible for the braces and skirt fashion which has re- appeared for spring and summer wear during the past few years. She's a practical young woman who likes to look smart, but not at the expense of comfort. Often, too, she has to live on a very slender income while work- ing her way through college, so her expenditure is limited.
These braces-frocks meet the demand for economy, smartness and comfort.
Angrave has illustrated here some ver- sions, They are essentially for the girt in her teens and carly twenties.
FIRST style shown in a simple four- gored skirt with wide belt of self- fabric and plain, straightforward braces. At the centre front the belt is punched with But eyelets through which a cord is Inced.
you haven't to do that up every time you dress, for the skirt really fastens at the left side.
Made of wool fabric it would look lovely with the guimpe in gally-striped material.
It could be either a plain bloek
stripe like that shown here- say, navy and white with a navy skirt. Or you could make the guimpe from one of the lovely multi-coloured striped ninons that have just appeared in the shops. Don't shudder at the thought of working on ninon, for this is made from synthetic yarn and has more gubstance than the pure silk variety, which is not really practicable for everyday wear.
Or મ multi-coloured pique
would look good.
is worn without a belt. The you can use the same pattern braces in this case are shaped, for the square-necked pinafore so that they give width to the top bodice shown in the second shoulders.
of the four small drawings. For This style takes the following this style you will need from quantities of 54in. fabric: sizes 1 to 2 yards of 64in, material. For this version of the skirt
30 to 31, 1 yards; sizes 32, 33 And if you want to make the you would need the following (or blouse) you will need from and 34, 1 yards; sizes 35 and guimpe up with long sleeves a wristband you lengths of 54-inch-wide material. 1. to 1% yards of 35ín, fabric. 36, 11⁄2 yards; size 38, 1 gathered in Sizes, 30 to 34in. bust, 14
will need from 1% to 2% yards The skirt on the second figure yards. yards; sizes, 35 to 36, 1% in the drawing is cut with a
If you want your skirt to be of 39in, fabrid, yards; size 38, 1 yards.
high waistline, rising into two held up by something more For the short-sleeved guimpe points at front and back, and substantial-looking than braces
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WHAT do we have walls for?
The outside walls of a house Ara no longer fortifications against our enemies-they are fortifications against the wea- They are there to in- sulate heat, light and sound.
ther.
Heat we try to keep Ja in the out In the summer. bathroom especially if there are Light we like to let in without let-
1 To leave razor bladen about the winter and
children in the house. You can getting other people see in. Sound we a little tin to put used blades In
try to keep out.
To clean your shoes on your feet and lay the cleaning things out
So much for outside walls. The
on the best carpets and rugs. You builder looks after these.
Cupboard Walls
carried on the walls.
Susan Gay
house. If they are to be built right up to the celling it is generally necessary to have a row of cupboards specially made to go along the top and fill up any gup there may be. But since these walls do not carry the weight of the ceiling they need not go right up to it.
Between a bedroom and a dressing. floors, and of the furniture we put a cupboard wall up to the level of
room, for instance, we might build on them. The roof. too. must be the top of The door. The
interrupted ceiling will make the But what
So an inside wall has two func- rooms seem larger. We can do the room from same thing in a small house or fat will make a much better job of them of the apuce inside these wolls-the tions-to, insulate one
between the dining-room and the other and to curry a weight. But living-room. We have sensation of the weight-carrying part of In a house, walike a church or is of no use to us, or at least, it has greater spaciousness, and, since we To forget that while she does cinema, or the Albert Hall, we want only a negative kind of use in pre- are unlikely to use these rooms at her best to please you in matters to insulate one piece of indoors from 'venting the house from falling down.
if you take them off and clean them "indoors" that the builder has made?
in the kitchen.
of taste in dress, it is not always another; we want to make rooms, possible to please you completely.And this division is the only useful Or to think that men know all there thing our inside walls do.
is to know about hats. The final
chalce should always rest with her
for she has to wear it.
wall
the same time, it does not much matter if we hear in one room sounds made in the other.
of the room.
In a large living-room we may, perhaps, wish to separate one part TN a modern house there is from the rest without appearing_to A floor, of course, is only a wall
no longer cny need for in- break up the room too much. For that happens to be horizontal. But side walls. If we make our floors example, in a large living-room with To lounge about the house in old floors weigh a lot, and therefore them up just by the edges by the replace at the other we would like of reinforced concrete we can hold French windows at one end and a 4 clothes for longer than is neces- sary. If you must, at least have a some of the walls the outside walls outside walls-unless they are very to
make the Breplace end more shave and do your best to look as always and some of the inside walls big, when we may need a few pillars, intimate. We could do this by build-
have to carry the weight of the respectable as possible.
And so in a modern house all we inga wall only 2ft, high across part need nsk of our inside walls is that they shall prevent us from seeing have a thick carpet and comfort- On the Areplace side we would and hearing what is going on in the able arm-chairs. but roundt the
French windows
we would have lighter furniture, which might be moved to the garden in fine weather. The wall itself would consist of WE can, in fact, make our cupboards for WE
various
purposes--a walls hollow-make cup- one, perhaps, to house a radio set, cocktail boards of them. Many kitchens in another arranged as o modern houses are separated from cabinet, a third for books, and per- д toy cupboard for the their dining rooms by no more than hapa a wall of cupboards. But such cup children. boards have up till now been "built- in"-designed and made to it the particular house.
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DELICIOUS WAYS WITH LAMB
LAMB cous meats, suc
AMB, properly cooked, is one of
culent and tender. However, or- dinary roast lamb is a horling dish when it is included too often in the menu, so here are some different ways of dealing with it.
You will like 'stuffed lamb chops. For six or eight chops you must pre- pare a stuffing of eight small chopped; mushrooms, four teaspoons of minced pimento, a sharp knife and split the. meat practically to the bone, after- wards grilling one side of the chops only, when you have stuffed them with the mixture. Make some fairly Į large pleces of toast, place these in the baking tin, and put the chops on thein cooked side downwards. Boke in a quick oven.
You should also try these appelis- Ing Individual lamb pies:-Take two cups of chopped cooked lamb and s minced onion, and brown them in a frying pan with a little butter. Then add a cup of cooked potatoes, half
a cup of unned green peas, quarter of a cup of cooked carrots which have been dleed, one pint of stock, a sprinkling of sauce, and salt and pepper to taste. Cook until well healed. Tum into individual ple dishes, cover with mashed cooked potatoes sprinkled with grated cheese, and bake until brown. Serve piping! but,
Lamb and Tomato Pic
To make a tasty lamb and tomato pie you will need sufficient slices of cold meat for your requirements, three large potatoes, half a pint of stock, half a pound of tomatoes, halt) t pound of mushrooms, 1 targe browned chopped onton, and some breadcrumbs.
Prepare a greased ple-dish and pul in alternate layers of meat, tomato, raw potato, onion, mushrooms, and seasoning. Then add the stock and finish with a luyer of potatoes. Sprinkle with bread-crumbs and a little dripping. Bake for about an hour in a moderate oven.
This is a good way of making Iamb cossernic:-Melt two aunces OL dripping ond brown two pounds or lumo chops in this.
Take the out and then brown one und a hair ounces of flour in the fat, and slowly pour on three-quarters of a pint or stock. Take a bundle of asparagua and cut each separate atlek in halt and add the lower parts to the brown sauce. Bring to the boil and add the lamb chops, season to taste, and add your favourite brand of sauce- only a few drops of this.
Bake in a moderate oven for about an hour and a half. Roll the rashers of a quarter of a pound of strenky -bacon and bake for 15 minutes. Bozi
the
tender, then asparagus until garnish the stew with this, and also with the bacon.
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BREATHING
FOR BEAUTY
BREATHING exercises
arc
the simplest yet the most magical beautiflers. Regularly performed, they clear the skin, brighten the eyes, and invariably improve the figure and carriage.
Here is a breathing exercise which, If done before an open window, will banish a morning headache:-Place your hands on your ribs, and take in slow breath to n count of four. You should feel your ribs pushing against
hands. your
Hold the breath for two counts, and then slowly breathe out to another four. Repeat this exercise three or four times, relaxing for a moment in be- tween.
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walls, some of the cupboards
upright or on their sides. There are These cupboards are made of un- niso hanging cupboards made twice stained oak and are wax-pollshed, us big-dtt. high-and bookshelves Some are flited with flush doors and half as deep-in-which may be
with roller rome
shutters. The placed back to back in the "wali." backs are flush panels of oak. Care-
fully arranged, they make an attrac With this assortment--and ative and varied wall-surface, and though the cupboards, like bricks, they allow us to get the most oul are the same size, they are fitted up of our walls. Inside in many ways-cupboard
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Try this exercise for Improving | your chest contours, and filling up collar-bone hollows:-Fold your arms at chest level, grasping an elbow with opel hund.. Now draw a deep breath, at the same time' raising your folded arins to shoulder level, pulling against the grip on your elbows. Then slowly breathe out, lowering your time, and relaxing your grip st the aume umo,
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