DARK, CHIC SIMPLE
easy
to make basic frock for one hundred and one
occasions
make it in dual black crepe, then
You will probably agree that it is about time to start making something new for our autumn and winter. wardrobe. So to-day's illustration shows a bolero-dress which I think will give excellent service for many months
to come.
If you've nevor tackled any dressmaking before this is the type of garment to start on—and this is the time of year to start. too, for the shorter evenings mean that many more hours are spent indoors. If you are an old hand at home dressmaking don't think this simple pattern is beneath your notice. It is the very, thing on which to exercise your ingenuity in introducing somet touch of originality as far as trimmings and finish are concerned.
I suggest you make both gar- ments up in dull black crepe, for black is the most important foundation shade this season. It is a most adaptable fashion, for it provides a marvellous background for all sorts of cf- And fective colour contrasts. it always looks good.
If you are one of the few people who just can't wear black then chooso some very dark- tuned shado ke purply black or scal brown, either of which Is an almost equally good foll for colour contrasts.
The dress itself, as you see from the smaller drawing, is short-sleeved. As such, you may say, not very practical for cold days. But the addition of a the bolero in matching fabric Faring transforms it into a useful long- sleeved frock with the added ad- vantage that if you get hot in
THESE THREE PATTERN SECTIONS MAKE THE FROCK
the cinema or at a tes-fight you can slip off the bolero and feel comfortable.
One.
Om-
Place
Piece
Back
FROM the
diagrame
the vary trimmings
shown you will gather where the spots and notches are that the dress is made from shown. And, believe me, this is three pattern sections only; one time well spent, for it means piece for the back, one for the you will get your darts, tucks front and a small section for and joinings exactly right. the front facing.
Frock and bolero as shown or 39-inch contrast fabric, un- and will therefore give variety Thus cutting-out can't take take the following quantities of less you are size 42, when you to the look of the same frock. long; neither can the stitching 35in, crepe: size 30, 3 yards; will need of a yard. and scaming. You will proba- size 32, 4 yards; size 33, 34, 4%.
A girdle of dull sealing- bly spend most time in between yards; size 35, 36, 4 yards;
and a composi- NOW for some sugges- wax-red crepe these two processes putting in size 38, 40, 4 yards; size 42,
tions about trim- tion clip (in some novelty tailor's tacks or chalk marks 14 yards. Plus % yard of 35 mings that are easily movable shape such . bunch of grapes) dyed exactly the same. tone of red. Red accents black were a special feature of Creed's show and will be in the high-lights of colour schemes this year.
Tell Him He's Good!
A
...
By DALE
CARNEGIE
SHORT time a bachelor friend of mine, about forty years old, became engaged, and his fiancee per suaded him to take some improve"
me hope. That made me want to
belated dancing lessons.
self for the Arat
оп
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time at a bridge A two-colour corded. ribbon.. table. All because I was told I had belt as shown on the dress in the a natural air for it and the game smaller drawing. Then short was made to seem easy.
lengths of the same two ribbons could be gathered into tiny SPEAKING of bridge reminds rosettes, mounted in a horizon- mo. of Ely Culbertson. Ital row of three or four on Culbertson's name is a house- hold word, yet he never would have narrow strip of book muslin and TELL a child, a husband, or made a profession out of the game safety-pinned in position at the The story of those dancing an employee that he is if a young woman hadn't assured throat, holding the two points of lessons is very interesting.
him he certain stupid or dumb at a
the front opening together. thing, that he has no gift for ing philosophy and sociology but he the two shades of a fuchsia In 1022 he tried to get a job teach- We're getting used to combining probably told me the truth. She it, and that he is doing it all couldn't he tried selling conl, and he flower, but they're still smart
at that. falled
and will be for many months to Then he tried selling coffee, and come. he failed at that, too. opposite technique; It never occurred to him in those
"The Arst teacher I engaged sald I was all wrong; I would just wrong and you have destroyed have to forget everything and be almost every incentive to try to
in all over again," he told me. improve.
But use the
"That took the heart out of me.
quit.
next teacher
ability to do it,
had a fair for it.
Buy some silver tissue col-
the bias and tack it round the front edges and neck- line of the bolero so that it folds back in a long collar effect. Ar-
I had no incentive to go on. So I be liberal with your encouragement; days to teach bridge. He was not laring about two inches wide,
make the thing seem easy to do; let only a poor card player, but he was cut, on the other person know that you also very stubborn. "The
have have faith in his may
He asked
so many questions been lying; but I like it. She said that he has an undeveloped flair for and held so many postmortem nonchalantly that my dancing was it-and he will practise until the
examinations that no one wanted to play with him. teacher, Josephine Dillor, fell in taper off
Then he met a pretty bridge range the ends so that they
into
the rounded Thomas uses.
love and married her. For example, I recently spent the
corners." Wear a very narrow "The Grat teacher had discouraged week-end with
She noticed how carefully he silver kid belt on the frock. Mr. and
Mrs. Analysed his cards and persuaded
at the window in
a bit old-fashioned perhaps, but the dawn comes in fundamentals were all right, and she order to excel. assured me I wouldn't have any That is the technique that Lowell trouble, learning a few new steps.
me
by emphasising my mistakes. Thomas, and I was asked to sit in him that he was a potential genius This new teacher did the opposite, on a friendly bridge game. She kept praising the things I did
right and minimising my errors.
"You have a natural senso
Make another girdle, this time Bridger 17 Oh, no! No! No!
of blue-green chiffon, and tuck Not me. I knew nothing about
a little matching length of chif- 11. No! No! No! Impossible! "Why, Dale, it is no trick at all," son used him to make a profes-fon in the neckline.
Lowell replied. "There is nothing
of rhythm, she assured me. You really are a born dancer." "That flattery was far from the ment. truth, but, at any rate, I'm now a better dancer than I would
have memory. been if she hadn't told me I had a you." natural sense of rhythm.
at the card table.
It was that encouragement and that alone. Culbertson that
told
of bridge.
me,
So. If you want to change people
You could also make this two- to bridge except memory and judg- without giving offence or arousing piece up in black wool stock-
resentment "You once wrote a
jinette. In this case you would chapter on---use Bridge will be easy for fault you want to correct seem easy wide. For
encouragement. Make thenced from 2% to 3 yards, 54ina. 'to correct; make the thing you want
trimmings choose derics in vivid colourings.
"That encouraged me. That gave ised what I was doing I found my do.
And presto, almost before I real- the other person to do seem easy to leather, suede or wool embroi-
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WHY I HAVE NOT MARRIED
By A Bachelor of Thirty
QUITE frankly, I should like to get have reached en
morried. I
age when I am rather tired of so- called bachelor freedom and often And my elf, thinking about a home of my own, a
wife.
a baby and garden. But, equally frankly, I am seared slift of the average modern girl She is so utterly elegant from head to toe and wears such an air of sophisticated smartness that would never dare ask her to marry an ordinary working chap like ma and to take on the duties of an or-
ry wife and dinary
T
know that
nowadays
SQ
is reckoned feminine virtus
second only to cleanliness, and I have the greatest admiration for the.
beautiful air. of cool self-posses- sion that the modern girl wears, but it is rather difficult for a wife- hunting bachelor to get behind the mask and And out what a girl is really like.
I took one of my sister's friends out to
to dinner recently, and she was
It
so intent on preserving an air of sophisticated detachment that sho did not smile once, not really warm- ly and humanly, the whole evening.“ it was
like trying to entertain a marble statue. I have not the vaguest idea whether she enjoyed herself. "Thanks fearfully," sho her home, but
sold when I took been a
marvellous evening,"
"It'
there was nothing in her voice OF
50
face that told me whether she meant I. At any rate, she certainly froze the first fine feelings of pleasure that ber undoubted prettiness had aroused in me, which may, of course, have been her Idea! She was Impenetrable that I got no clear impression about her or anything.
Then why, olt
why, does the average girl of 20 to 25 seem to think it is bad form to talk about anything that
trivial or
or superficial? not going to be
be so rash as
as to say that she is incapable of doing any- thing else. I have a younger sister whose brain is definitely more acute and penetrating than mine or my | father's, and she is a pretty averago
specimen of young womanhood. Interesting and Entertaining
When she is at home she can talk most interestingly and entertainingly about almost any topic under the sun, but to hear her at our tennis club you would think, she had not got two ideas in her
her pretty head. I am quite sure the devastatingly bright and witty remarks clothes, and boyfriends, and flims, which form the bulk of her conver- enough to put any man off matrimony If he had not plerced the social mask.
nation there, would be
about
I am quite sure that, if it were not so femininely fashionable to look
bored, smart, and sophisticated, many bochelors would quickly take
hender into
matrimony-always
providing, of
somcono would have course, that son
us! But who could 40 or 60 years of married life with a girl who outwardly, blase and bored at 207 I know that I, personally, would gladly delight my mother's heart by settling down only I could find a girl who did not look altogether too "precious" to do the washing-up.
Cooking Hints
To prevent fruit from bolling out of a ple, place a straw or paper funnel through a hole made in its centre.
Rub a piece of celery on the hands after peeling onions, and I will en- tirely remove the odour.
When using an aluminium sauce- pan for boiling eggs, remember to add a few drops of vinegar to pre- vent the pan from discolouring,
Lemons that are not required for Immediate use will keep fresh if in a bowl of cold water that stored js changed every other day. Warm the fruit slightly before using, and
flow more freely. breaking eggs into a basin, it in cold water to prevent to the sides. When clinging beating eggs for
meringue, add
the
Befo rinse re
them
Pinch
of
salt for it
lighten your labour.
EL
will considerably
After frying fish, fill the pan with
and water
drop In a hot cinder, all odour of cooking will be removed from the pan.
To ascertain if an egg is fresh ur stale, hold it up to the light, when It will be fresh if quite clear, but have tiny black marks it otherwise. If your mincer is rusty, put in a lump of lard and after turning the handle, leave the mincer in a warm place.
Pour boiling water through the mincer afterwards, and all rust will be removed.
It is a good idea to melt suet in the oven and store in jars until re- quired. Not only will it-keep for a long time, and save the labour of chopping, but it will be found easier to cut when treated in this way,
To prevent old potatoes from be- coming discoloured when they are bolled, add a slice of lemon to the wiiter.
Potato can be baked very quick- ly it first placed for a short time in salt bolling water, then deled, and placed in the oven.
When cooking greens, odd a little vinegar to the water, for not only will It Improve the colour, but it will Also bring out the flavour.
Add a tablespoonful of fine daf- ment to an ordinary milk pudding, and it will make it delightfully creamy, apart from improving the flavour.
G. G.T.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1938.
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