For the
girl
with a good figure
TO-DAY'S illustration
shows an easily-made. summer frock cut on Princess lines. Now Prin- cess styles are smart and very much in the fashion picture this season, but I may as well say at the out- set that you need a good figure to wear them effec- tively. If you've got a spare tyre above your waistbelt then this style is not for you.
Front
ONLY
Sleeve
Back
out
the centre-back
the six back Stitch
the
NLY three sections Now stitch
are needed for this seam and make frock. They are shown in the waistline dart. Most young people to-day, diagram-front, back and shoulder scams. Stitch the however seem Lo have good alcove. First cut
your side seams, leaving the left un- figures. Take a walk at lunch- fabric according to the lay-out der-arm open where directed. time down a City street teem- given in the illustrated guide Turn up the hem. ing with business girls; that accompanies each pattern,
or
Finish the underarm closing notice young factory girls turn and mark in the notches and
perforations with a soft pencil continuous lap of the fabric and either with a zipper or with a ing into their work-gates in the on the wrong side of the fabric. press studs. Bind the neck morning. You'll find that about
Then stitch the seam that edge and short front opening. nine out of every ten have runs straight down the centre Add a hook and worked loop as
fastening at the neck edge. wear their clothes well. So I back seams, by the way, help Crease the top fullness of the feel that n Princess frock should the frock to hang well. Flared sleeves into three miniature in- have wide appeal.
skirts made this way don't tend verted pleats and tack in posi-" tion. Stitch the sleeve scams,
lissom figures, walk well and front.
These centre front and
Y same frock with long
can make the
to ride up over the knees when bind the edges, then set the The one Angrave has illus- sitting down in the way that sleeves into the armholes. trated takes only the following some flared skirta do.
Wear a pretty scarf in some lengths of 35in. fabric: size 30 Then make the eight darts soft contrasting fabric. folded. and 31 bust, 3 yards; size 32 that shape the front waistline over in front and with the ends and 33, 3 yards; size 34 and and bind the neckline slashes pulled through the slots. If sleeves and if you use a 54-inch through which the scarf ends you want to wear a belt get a fabric for the long-sleeved style 36, 34yards; size 36. 34 yards: will be pulled when the frock very narrow one in a colour to you will only need from 2% to size 38, 3% yards.
is ready to wear.
2% yards.
PEOPLE think more about
diet to-day than ever before in history, and it isn't entirely fuss. We are fast reaching saturation point-a zone where population curve meets food supply with a question mark,
match the scarf.
these
You need Minerals
tive faculties of our primitive an- Whole-grain cereals. Pens. Beans. cestors and reared on refined foods Chocolate, shorn of their natural vitality, there
table boilings and canned conserves, for it is in the juices, peelings and outer leaves that mineral wealth js stored. Loss of blood from meat means loss of iron, so here again we revise our ideas.
"Civilisa
of
JAM MAKING
HINTS
Good teeth. Prevention of rickets: outer couts of the cereals, the brown UIT for jam making should bel
..
Carrots. Spinach. Peanuts,
Liver. IORN for-Blood-making. Celi-building. BEST SOUCES-Liver are leanings to the laboratory for Blood. Molasses (unrefined cane chemical make-up.
These
of
tion has suffered immensurably by the curse
say the Fur and we have got to take stock. CALCIUM for-Strong bones.
nases. "The throwing away of the Proper nerve condition. BEST SOURCES-MIK. Cheese. Egp There is usually a cause for fads Turnip tops. Spinach, Cauliflowers.
uniformly ripe, sound and fresh, yoth of the sugar, the outer green leaves Beans, Kale. Celery. Turnips f in food. Present day "protectives" Nuts.
of vegetables, the thick peelings of and, if home-grown, it is best picked are Nature's' warning" for making
PHOSPOURS for Strong bones. Good teeth. Building of body fruits and vegetables and the water on a dry, sunny morning-after-the up on minerals, Bereft of the selec- nssues. Prevention of rickets. BEST SOURCES-Egg yolk. Cheese, which they are cooked, and the dew has risen.
vital organs and blood of animals. Milk
Make sure the fruit is free from are the principal reservoirs dust and dirt, and remove all stalks. minerals und vitamins. Muke Harder trults like apples and goose- or sorghum). Whole-grain cereals, politely do so."
use
of them whenever you ean berries may be washed before being Pranca. Apricots. Spinach, Oysters. Lean meat. Egg yolk. Asparagus.
preserved, Cooking is incant to make food) Potatoes Lettuce.
Jam is much more likely to burn COPPER for-Utilisation of fron by blood cells. BEST SOURCES
palatable, but over cooking starts] in an enamelled pan, and so one of trouble. Over-heated Shrimps. Oysters, Nuts. Leafy vegetables, Peas, Whole grain. Tro
fal, for ex copper, brass, or aluminium should Mrs. S. M. Furnas (former instruc- IODINE for Proper functioning of thyroid gland. BEST SOURCES pic, brings decomposition and be used. tor of dietetics at Minnesota Uni-
rebellion. The authors the whole hair-usters. Shrimps. Clams. Sea fish, lodised salt. Vegetables grown on internal versity), presents
of good iodine content.
urge minimum cooking in limited raising story In "Man, Bread
liquid and covered vessels to save ON the populated future the the juices. "If it is sanitary and begin skimming too soon, for
authors have much ad.).
Is only froth that rises at first, th an illuminating volume on the the soll and returning less than any say. Handing on the torch of Ber-alatable, cat it raw and ent it all" evolution of diet from prehistoric group has ever done for an extended thelot-the
scum itself being much thicker. pre-vitamin French times to present day, with accent on period of time. Already vegetables prophet, who stated "the problem of
sound advice.
the present we are let off with uinually while the fruit and sugar Stir carefully and almost con- the problems of our time. Primed from some localities are decidedly food is a chemical one"-they point want." The "should" items are the Jam that is poured upon a cold plate a cauilon "First cat what you are boiling together. When a little with stimulating
and below par in such essentials as iron the way of collaboration via vita- protective foods-milk, fruit, vegesets in a few minutes, it is ready for humour buthoritative enthusiasm, it compels and culetum.”-
min Isolation and food attention.
tables and eggs.. They should com-
Professor C. C. Furnas, of Yale
University. in collaboration with Liver
and
Destiny" (Cassell and Company, 10s. for we are taking more from
scem.
·
10
-use
Never
an iron always stir with a wooden one. Do spoon, but
Calcium struggles are traditional Commening on the in concentra rise at least a third, preferably 40 pouring into the Jars.
and
the animal
pint milk
and become quite taut.
G. G. T.
CATURATION paint," we even, with savage tribes, when preg-
of human digestion for concentrated per cent, of the menu.
See that the poty are warm and cam, is a stage on the nat and nursing mothers often nutrition they add, "There is going
dry, and to within a quarter of road to starvation, but malnutrition reduce unpalatable teafy foods to to be a shift in the nutritional cen- HERE is the one-day adult an inch of the top.
HERE is the one adequate tre of gravity between the Is near enough-we already know ashes for use as seasoning to keep
When tying down the covers, first what it means.
We either eat the pace with biological demands. Iron are inherently less expensive, plant or jules, 2 servings of leafy vege-slipping, and when dry it will shrink plant worlds. Because they nutrition-2 servings of fresh fruit damp the string to prevent the knot wrong foods or Insufflelent of the brings a similar tale. right ones, and nowadays the right
products, properly modifed for hu- tables (green or succulent), 1 ones are not always what they Naturally the mineral question for man
soll Hues deeper than a more plying ing proportion comprise an increas
will comprise an increas. I serving of meat (organs once a
week) or cheese. One of chemicals. The close relationship Well-we already deal in con- (whole), 1 serving of starchy vege This mineral struggle the authors between soil, crop, and stock is in- centrates, and the latest arrival, table, i serving of groin
cereal. attribute to two main causes the evitable, we are getting periments ingredients, fe selected vegetable Who went bread and butter.
over here.
Finish out with-Additional leafy parations of food, and our own mis- such is the Indore process of green assimilable forma. Leaders of pioneer or dried), additional whole cereals primitive selection and simpler pre- luve been made on "Natural Tits ingredients, offers rich vitamin and
yields in very compact and vegetables, cooked fruits (anned treated solla.
manuring, which converts
animal expeditions and endurance test find and whole wheat bread. Root vege ..and vegetable wastes into fertile these helpful as well as, feeders of lables, rice, macarent, etc. "It is not at all impossible that as humus. Fertile soils open oat, families.
If you are still hungry and not years of depletion pass by, our foods aerate, and trup sunlight energy for
Kitchen cults are responsible for serts, sugar and candy.
overweight--Pastries and rich will become more and more deficient valuable work on plant and animal a lot. In
the section "Save the in the necessary traces of minerals nutrition.
Juices,"
we are reminded of the
march of civilisation, in discarding
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and
PHOTOGRAPHS
by "Staff Photographer" appearing in the
"SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST"
and
"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"
may be purchased
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Morning Post Building, Wyndham Street.
made
Washing Tips
des-
FRENCH PANCAKES
REASE twelve small, ilat, round tins. Then creams together 1 oz. butler and 1 oz. castor sugar, and ANN MARVEL beat in the yoke of an egg along
with 1 oz, flour. Add another Then the washing is put straight and the juice of half a lemon.
fot. flour along with 4 teacup milk through, the wringer and rinsed.
For Bat articles, such
HAVING the laundry work done hold linen, there are very
used to be rather. n Bicult undertaking, but nowadays,
Then
en lastly fold in the stiffly bealen white of the egg and pour as house-the mixture into the prepared tins.
useful
Bake in a hot oven for about ten Turn on to a sugared paper, put a minutes, till well risen and-brown. little hot raspberry jam on cach, and sandwich two rounds together.
B. M.
roller frons which do the work in a with the help of the excellent wash- twinkling. You can from all sorts of ing machines, both large and small, her articles on them too, with a which are obtainable, the problem sittle practice. Indeed simplified.
+
The airing problem is sometimes a
**
Hot water and soap powder or little difficult, unless you have an OT, sustaining, and tasty, biscuit
BISCUIT RAREBIT flakes are put into П washing airing cupboard fixed over your hot rarebit makes machine, and swished about to form water tank. But much
good supper, may be dish after a long day when time and
a lather. Then the articles are achieved with the help of a slatted energy for lengthy preparation are ranged around the centre of the washer and
work.
lacking.
the machine is set to airer, suspended from the kitchen Dip plain cheese blacuits of the
celling.
puffy or flaky variety in milk, ar- S Even hand-propelled machines re-
runge There are also alrers which consis: dish, and sprinkle them with grated them in a greased Areproof quire but little energy nowadays, of a series of "spokes" for holding cheese. Pour over some thick white and the work is clean in about three the washing, and which fold up in sauce, sprinkle with more cheese, to len minutes, according to how quite a small space,
and bake in a quick oven for ten soiled it.
mitatos..
Freda Collins,'
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1988.
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о
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