11
THE HONGKONG
NOVEMBER TUESDAY, TELEGRAPH,
1, 1938.
Two Delicious
Cakes
THE first recipe I am giving you was given me by a elever Vien- nese chef, and the flavour of the cake you can make from it is unique and delirious. The cake keeps
You must always
Spare Time for your Looks
BEA
one. Press down the cuticles with
other attention.
apt, I know, many odd minutes in which to use EAUTY articles are
to give the feeling that one has your thumb every time you use the glycerine jelly on your hands, and to work desperately, all day and every they will probably not require any cause of keeping If you do much housework and enamel USC day, in the sole
Half an hour for gardening. don't
polish. Nothing is more shabby than oneself beautiful. exercise, twenty minutes for hair treat- chipped ennniel, whether it's basins ment, quarter of an hour for face massage, and so on ten minutes for manicure ... far into the night.
or nails.
Your hands will look much more cared for if you just keep the nails buffer and use 24 polished with a while penell under the tips.
In the last two years I have acquired a hus- EYEBROWS band, house, a garden, a baby; have kept my
tweak file and often.
Have
job, and lost my mald to an entirely undeserving THE thing with eyebrows is to young man. In fact, I have learnt what it means. "not to have a moment" during the day, and to be them professionally shaped once, and too tired at night then if you never let them grow out will give you to look a must pick of hand again they
2 pair of very litle trouble. Have in the face.
So I have worked eyebrow tweezers on your dressing-
table and
another in your bag. When- DUL, not without trials and
errors, ever you comb your hair or make up programme for your
tweak. grooming which will it a bale needs tweaking,
one hair be- operate with the Don't wait until the absolute minimum comes two, or three, or four, because of time and effort, then you begin to lose the correct tine of the brow.
BATH TIME, if you're a busy woman, is probably the only lime during the day when you have a chance to relax and think about the care of your complexion. Make it your daily beauty time. When you've finished washing, cleanse your face and pat in nourishing cream. The steam from the bath will help it do its work.
for at least a monit, so it is a sWell-Mannered Men Have Gone
ly good one to have in yoor cupboard
for the unexpected guest. Here is the recipe:-
Ginger Cake a la Vienne
O azs sugar, 6 ozs butter.
Goza flour, 2 ozs rice Dour.
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BUT WOMEN ARE TO BLAME
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AT
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look at your eyebrows. $1 TIFFINS
Household Hints
SMALL clustic band pushed up Klycerine jelly. So under the heads of heavy flowers
A that after washing such as dahlias or carnations will up at the sink you support them
can finish by rubb-snapping off.
and prevent them
ing some of the Silk garments should not be folded Jelly on your hands before being put away. Roll them while they are still loosely on a cardboard cylinder cr moist (important tight roll of newspaper wrapped in silk will not point). If the tube tissue paper. White wert upstairs, it's discolour if covered with blue tissue ten to one you paper. wouldn't bother to
water.
When washing blankets which are go up and use it at to be stored away, dissolve a block
of camphor in the rinsing This thoroughly camphorizes the water and keeps moths at bay.
An inexpensive floor polish which non-slip is made by bottling to gether one cupful each of turpentine, vinegar, inseed oil and painter's Hannel clear varviish, Rab on with pad over the woodwork or linoleum
The saine applies to doing the flowers in the downstairs cloakroom, washing baby's things in the
..tube at every tap, and
it becomes a habit
you'll
nur-
Anxi SKIN
frankly,
enters to a woman, although even this MY complexion programme, all alarmed about men's manners. ifle courtesy is not so universally takes place in my evening bath. ten years ago. It's comfortable place, and one's Have you noticed how appoiling they observed as it was
there, anyhow, so no extra time is This does not apply As for such attentions as walking on becoming?
a pavement when lost. so much to the over-forties who can the outside of
woman, or opening The rock-bottom essentials for remember the days when men were accompanying a
some doors for her, they are becoming so keeping; skin in good condition are: gentlemen and still preserve semblance of courtliness and good rare that one is touched to the core
nurmers of the when they happen. average young man are deplorable
1 oz ground ahnonds, 1 lemon rind are (grated.)
1 teaspoon baking powder,
1 teaspoon ground ginger.
Half teaspoon each ground cloves, breeding, but the cinnamon and salt.
OZS bit
Quarter-ib sultanas, 2 served ginger, 2 ozs pee, 1 large tablespoon treacle, 1 oz chocolate, dessertspoon coffee essence, 3 milk, if requires!.
It used to be a recognised thing.
1 A good cleanser,
4
2 A good skin food,
3 A good astringent,
and rapidly going from bad to worse, in my not-so-distant you, that a and the busy woman has no time to suppose we women have, to a young man saw his young woman dabble in anything but essentials. certain extent, brought it on our safely home after a dance or a whit selves. During recent years.
we to the theatre, but it seems, in these have been insistent that men shol enumcipated days, that girl-friends treat us as their equals. "Let's all are lucky if they are put in a taxi we said, and sent Cream the butter ul sugar, be good pals
Sieve the flours, salt and spices. Cut "None of the destul-worshipping fare to me with their own taxi-
and lemon rind.
all those home and, the street lamps were out,
to pay the ginger and peel into small pieces stuff or treating us as if we were I was playing bridge fairly late the and mix with the cleaned sultanas made of cotton-wool," with the result other evening and mixed my last bus
that man has cast
cast aside
and although it was after troublesome little courtesies and tentions that tradition demanded of my male companion allowed me to walk home alone, just because I was hin and is sinking back into
bother to don't
come. I'm
Grate the chocolate and mix with Now add half the flour to the four. the creamed butter,
at-
primitive state of utter selfishness tender-hearted enough to say, "Please
Mix in the treacle essence.
and coffee and self-absorption.
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and " Hittle beaten ens No won nowadays, of course. frightened of the dark." It is enough Beat thoroughly, then add remainder expects a man to give her his sent in to make Sir Walter Raleigh turn in of flour and eggs. The consistency a crowded bus or train, although, in his grave! should be a stiff dropping one. Next this unfair world, the average wo-
stir in baking powder, and lastly mix man has to work longer hours for Room for Improvement
in the fruil very lightly. Pour into less pay than the average man.
a greased and papered tin and place one average woman
half to two hours.
Note:-Have
the Oven
Lit
But
at every meal, the bridegroom seized
and no further polishing is required.
to a
When the floor mop becomes worn, cover the head with an old beret and It will have a new lease of life. Instead of pegging collars of clothes line, run a piece string through the buttonholes and the the ends of the string to the line. This prevents solled marks on the collars and saves the use of pegs.
Bacon which is not freshly cut sometimes has a strong odour and hardens up. To restore its freshness, lip the bicon for a moment in a You can't go far wrong by using bowl of boiling water, then cook in
Most well-known Beauty; the usual Houses incude 口 soap among A rag bag made of netting is in- their products, or, alternativci, valuable when a patch is required in baby soap is extremely cleans- & hurry. The required material can ing and soothing, and makes an be easily seen and quickly removed.
M. L. B. excellently close lather.
Боар.
First
thing when you get into your bath, Inther face and neck for about a minute.
The
cam from the bath will by then have opened the pures so the time is ripe for skin food. Massuge pently in, always work- ing across any lines or wrinkles, FIOL with them. No need to massage long-with the pores open, the food sinks 13 very quickly.
Leave
Care Of Cutlery
WHEN stains are difficult to re- move from steel knives, rub hard with a piece of raw potato and they will quickly disappear.
An unpleasant tour often clings to fish knives and forks after they If they are the skin food on until have been washed.
a
As for men's tuble-manners, cannot help shared a table at on hotel this sum in a moderate oven for one and thinking it is beyond a joke when a mer with a honeymoon couple and, thoroughly healthy-looking young!
Jo have Anished your bath.| rubbed with the rind of a lemon, all Then wipe face and neck with trace of it will be removed. ten muh pushes past her and seizes the bread, or vegetables, or sugar before
Never put the handles of knives a damp cloth or flannel, and minutes before putting in cake, then only vacant seat, leaving hes and to either ms bride or 1 were served.
dab on astringent or witch hazel, luto water when washing up, as this lower to half strength for the first other women (one old enough to be And he is not an isolated case. Watch
Uve WDY for yourself at any large restaurant Finished-and it hasn't taken lon- tends to discolour and loosen them. half-hour. Then lower still further his mother) to stand all
or cafe and see how slipshod men ger than your bath would have taken They may be whitened and cleaned till cake is well risen and dry in | home.
are becoming about the way they in any case. Your morning bath by rubbing wis a slice of lemon. To centre. Cool on a sieve.
eat and behave at table.
hould not be more than tepid, and Ughten handles which have I don't know what we women can you should souse your face first with loose, fill the shaft with a stiff paste
cold water-really cold,
Then before putting into your cake
in wrap it in greaseproof paper.
ls keeps it moist.
A New Gingerbread
quire:--
4 as flour, 1 oz cocon.
teaspoon baking soda.
A Question of Pride
man's
EYES
worn
the
be
tulum and water. Insert
hot
allow it to dry, and I will quite frin. Wush: silver spoons and forks in soapy water, and rinse in hot
be
One hus, too, become quite ied to the sight of u small, frail woman do about it-unless we make sure, staggering along with a heavy shop that, despite all provocation and in-
arma cilement to the contrary, our ping-basket or a baby in her while a great, hulking man strides manners are so impeccable that the
and self-indulgence This delicious rake, topped with unencumbered beside her but it is pierce thick soft leing. iterally "melts in the limit when men pretend that wa- roure him to a sense of shame. Good OR starry eyes, keep a bottle of clear water. To obtain a brilliant lution and on eyebath in the pollah, put a pinch of borax into the your houth." To make it you re-men prefer it this way! "The wife manners, they say, have brought
wouldn't like me to carry her bas many a dificult thing to pass, so let bathroom, and get into the habit of rinsing water, and rub them with a heard one man say recently, us, therefore never do anything like giving your eyes a bath every time chimois leather when dry,
or you clean your teeth. It doesn't take Silver egg spoons have to hair in pubile, level ket
"she thinks it looks stily." That is combing our
Women have to say puffing smoke in people's face, or a minute, and you will soon do I cleaned constantly, as silver is very
automatically.
sensitive to sulphur which eggs con- fall rubbish.
their talong with our mouths full, or any
teln, A damp cloth dipped in sali these sort of things to save
und rubbed on the status will speedily own pride, because they know only of those other mannered littic
Ket their things that offend, and perhaps
renove then. too well they wouldn't
Sliver which is not in regular use baskets carries anyway.
If it is THE same principle works. Have is apt to become tarnishedt.
a nail file in your writing desk, rubbed very lightly with linseed oil, your bag and in the bathroom, as it will reminin bright and shining. well as on your dressing-table. If and be ready for instant use should i you don't always have to go and occasion require. fetch a nail le you will find a good
14 level teaspoon ground ginger,
1 level teaspoon cinnamon.
3 oz margarine,
0 ozя syrup.
2 ozs brown sugar.
1 whole egg and 1 extra yolk.
OLA
1 gil milk.
For the icing you need 10
miracle will happen and men will It is still fairly common custom become gentlemen again! for a man to doll his hat when he
icing sugor, 1 egg white, vonllin one and a quarter hours.
essence, water.
sleve.
the
To make the cake measure syrup into a pan, and add the mar- Karine and sugar. Sur till melted, then allow to cool.
Sift the flour, cocon und splees into a bowl. Mako a well in centre, and the syrup add eggs. (benten) also mixture. Beat well and acl half
the milk.
Cool In
A. D.
Help Kidneys
To make the icing. Steve sugar; Don't Tako Drastic Drugs
the stiffly whisked
Your kidneys have nine million tiny und mix with white of egg, adding one desserispoon tulee or filters which are endangered by drag. 2- cold water and a few drops vanilla. neglect or drastic, state fadder wank-
ware! 18 kidney trouble or Bent well for a few minules. The new makes you suffer
Getting Up icing should be stiff enough to hold Night Leg Pains, Nervousnses, Bizsi- noma Btiffness, Rheumatism. Limbago, its shape.
Circle Under Eyes,, Hwallon Ankies, , don't dalay, Neuralgia, Burning Itching. Barting. Vigocovery called Acidky or Loss Try the Doctor's new Cyntax (Bles-Lexidneys, Bitarts work in
Hoothes, tones, clean", me fietsen new health, youth and In hours, Gyalex contų fitlle and is guaranteed to tad your mi
days or money back. At all
Decorate the Lep of cake by forcing the leing through an leing pipe, just Dissolve the sodo in remainder of guiding the pipe from end to end till milk, and stie into mixture. Turn It is covered.. mixture into greased loaf tin and Allow the Icing to set for a few bake in n. moderata oven for one to hours before cuiling the cake.
and heal
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