THE HONGKONG
NOVEMBER TUESDAY, TELEGRAPH,
1, 1938.
Two Delicious
THE
Cakes
first recipe I am giving you was given me by a clever Vien-
nese chef, and the flavour of the eake
you can make from it is unique and delicious. The cake keeps
Time
You must always Spare for your
Looks
BEAUTY articles are apt, I know, many odd minutes in which to use
use an
one, Press down the cuteles with to give the feeling that one has your thumb every time you use the glycerine felly on your hands, and to work desperately, all day and every they will probably not require any
other attention. cause of keeping you do much housework and the sole
enamel day, in
gardening, don't Half an hour for oneself beautiful.
polish. Nothing is more shabby than exercise, twenty minutes for hair treat- chipped enamel, whether it's basins
or nails.
Your hands will look much more ment, quarter of an hour for face massage,
buffer and use n polished with a ten minutes for manicure . . . and so on cared for if you just keep the nails
while pencil under the tips. far into the night.
In the last two years I have acquired a hus- EYEBROWS band, house, a garden, a baby; have kept my
Is to
job, and lost my maid to an entirely undeserving THE thing with eyebrows
tweak tie and often. Have
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 mud pock of hand again they
very little trouble. Have a pair in the face.
So I have worked eyebrow tweezers on your dressing- without table and another in your bag. When- nut, not triain
BATH TIME, if you're a busy woman, is probably the only time 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 steath from the bath will help it do its work.
for at least a month, so it is a special-Well-Mannered Men Have Gone
ly good one to have 'n yoor cupboard
for the unexpected guest. Here is the recipe:-
Ginger Cake a la Vienne
0 ozs sugar, 6 oza butter.
6 ozs four, 2 ozs rice flour.
1 teaspoon baking powder.
1 teaspoon ground ginger,
Half teaspoon each ground cloves, cinnamon and salt.
2 UTS Quarter-lb sultanas, served ginger, 2 ozs peel, 1
pre- large
and
deplorable
10
and errors, ever you comb your hair or make up for your face, look at your eyebrows. tweak. programme grooming which will it a hair needs twelding, operate with the Don't wait until the one hair be- absolute minimum comes two, or three, or four, because of time and effort. then you begin to lose the correct
line of the brow.
HANDS
THE idea here is
that wherever
you have a
tap,
there too you must
Household Hints
tube of SMALL elastic band pushed up
lavo
itlycerine jelly.
So
ជ A
under the heads of heavy flowers that after washing such as dahling or carnutions will|
and prevent them
up at the sink
the
can finish by rubb-support thei
olt. snapping ing some of
Silk garments should not be folded Noil them jelly on your hands before being put away. while they are still loosely on a cardboard cylinder or moist (important tight roll of newspaper wrapped in White silk will not point). If the tube tissue paper.
all.
The same applies to doing the flowers in the downstairs cloakroom, washing baby's things in the
a tube at every tap, and you'll find it becomes a habit
very
SKIN
nur-
paper.
by
to-
were updairs, it's discolour it covered with blue tissue Len 10 опе you wouldn't bother to When washing blankets which are go up and use it at to be stored away, dissolve a block water. In the rinsing of complier
camphorizes the This thoroughly water and keeps moths at bay.
An inexpensive floor polish which
bottling made is non-slip gether one cupful each of turpentine, oil and painter's vinegar, linseed
ish, Kub on with a flannel clear varnish. pad over the woodwork or inoleum When the floor mop becomes worn, cover the head with an old beret und it will have a new lease of life.
Instead
collars of pegging clothes line, run a plece of string through the buttonholes and tile the ends the string to the line. This prevents soiled marks on the collars
of pers. and-saves the use
Bacon which is not freshly cut sometimes has a strong odour and hardens up. To restore its freshness, dip the bacon for a moment in n bowl of boiling water, then cook in the
usual way.
1 A good cleanser,
A good skin food.
3 A good astringent, and the busy woman has no time to dabble in anything but essentials.
to a
BUT WOMEN ARE TO BLAME
UITE frankly, 1 am Qamed about men's manners little courtesy is not so universally takes place in my evening, bath.
Ketting mouts a woman, although even this MY complexion programme and furr Posing is required.
years agd. It's a comfortable place, and one's Have you noticed how appalling they observed as it was ten 1 oz ground almonds, 1 lemon rind are becoming? This does not apply As for such attentions as walking on there, anyhow, so no extra time is
so much to the over-forties who can the outside of a pavement when lost.
The rock-bottom creentiuls for (gruted.)
remember the days when men were accompanying a woman, or opening
some doors for her, they are becoming so keeping skin in good condition are: still gentlemen and Renn
preserve
good rare that one is touched to the core: semblance of courtiness breeding, but the manners of the when they happen.
It used to be a recognised thing, average young man are and rapidly going from bad to worse. In my not-so-distant youth, that
suppose we women have, a young man saw his young woman certain extent, brought it on our safely home after a dance or, a visit | tablespoon treacle, 1 oz chocolate, selves. During revent years, we to the theatre, but it seems, in these dessertspoon coffee essence, 3 eggs have been insistent thut men hall emancipated days, that girl-friends they are put in a faxi milk, if required.
treat us as their equals. "Let's all are lucky
we said, and rent home with their own taxi- Cream the
butter and sugar, be goal pals together," Steve the flours, salt and spices. Cut "None of this pedestal-worshipping fare to pay!
was playing bridge fairly late the the ginger and peel into small pieces stuff or treating us as if we were and mix with the cleaned sultanas made of cotton-wool," with the result other evening and missed my last bus all those home, and Although It was after that man has enst aside and lemon rind.
troublesome little courtesies and at- twelve and the street lamps were out, Grate the chocolate and mix with tentions that tradition demanded of my male companion allowed me to him und is sinking back into a walk home alune, Just because I was
stale of utter
ess tender-hearted enough to say, "Please urimitive
selfsimess
don't bother to coffee and
come. I'm self-absorption.
It is enough essence, and n little beaten eg No woman nowadays, of course, frightened of the dark." Beat thoroughly, then ad remainder expects a man to give her his seat 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
the four. Now add half the Hour to the creamed butter.
Mix in the treacle
in the fruit very lightly. Pour into man has to work longer hours for Room for Improvement
the
oven
But than the average man, less pay
As for men's table-manners.
H
not
a greased and papered tin and place ane average woman cannot help I shared a table at an hotel this sum in a moderate oven, for one and a
joke when thinking
It is beyond a
mer with honeymoon. couple and, thoroughly
healthy-looking young half to two hours.
lit ten man pushes past her and seizes, the it every meal, the bridegroom seized bread, or vegetables, or sugar before Note:-Have
I were served. minutes before putting in eake, then only vacant seat, leaving her and two either his bride or lower to half strength for the first other women (one old enough to be And he is not an isolated case. Watch way for yourself at any large restaurant half-hour. Then lower still further his mother) to stand all the til cake is well risen and dry in home. centre. Cool on a sleve.
Then before putting into your cake in wrap it in greaseproof paper. This keeps it moist.
A New Gingerbread
A Question of Pride
are
You can't go far wrong by using soap. Most well-known Beauty Houses incude a soup aniong their products, or, alternatively, baby soap is extremely clean ing and soothing, and makes anbe easily seen and quickly removed.
First excellently close lather,
thing when you get into your bath, lather face and neck for about a minute.
The steam from the bath will
A rag bag made of netting in th valuable when a patch is required in a hurry. The required material can
M. L. B.
Care Of Cutlery
by then have opened the pores so the time is ripe for slcin food. Massage gently in, always work- ing across any lines or wrinkles, W nat with them. No message long-with
need to the pores
open, the food sinks in quickly.
EYES
WHEN stains are dificult to re- rub nove from steel knives, hard with a piece of raw potato and Dery they will quickly disappear.
An unpleasant odoar often clings to fish knives and forks after they If they are have been washed. rubbed with the rind of a lemon, all it will be removed. trace of
Never put the handles of knives Into water
when
washing up, as this tends to discolour and loosen them. They may be whitened and cleaned by rubbing with a slice of lemon. To tighten handles which have loose, fill the shaft with a stiff paste of powdered alum and water. Insert the blade, allo it to dry, and it will be found quite firm.
until Leave the skin food on
bath. you have finished yout Then wipe face and neck with Rannel, and a damp cloth or tab on astringent or witch hazel, Finished and it hasn't taken lon- or cate and see how slipshod men ger than your bath would have taken becoming about the way they in any case. Your murning bath eat and behave at table.
should not be more than tepid, and I don't know what we women can you should souse your face first with One has, too, become quite used to
make sure, cold water-really cold. small, frail
about it-unless we do the sight of a
Woman staggering along with a heavy shop- that, despite all provocation and in- ping-basket or a baby in her arms citement to the contrary, our own while a great, hulking man strides manners are so impeccable that they ani man's self-indulgence This delicious cake, topped with unencumbered beside her but it is pierce
lotion and an eyebath in the thick soft leing. literally molts the limit when men pretend that wo- arouse him to a sense of shume. Gott eses, keep a bottle of
"The wife manners, they say, have brought your mouth." To make it you re-men prefer it this way!
to carry her bas many a diffleult thing to pass, so let bathroom, and get Into the habit of wouldn't like me quire:-
0 ozs flour, 11⁄2 oz cocon. 4 level ket," I heard one man say recently, us, therefore never do anything like giving your eyes a bath every time "she thinks it looks silly. That is combing our hair in publice, or you clean your teeth. It doesn't take teaspoon baking soda.
have to say puffing smoke in people's face, or minute, and you will soon do it
automatically. all rubbish. Women
save their talking with our mouths full, or any these sort of things to own pride, because they know only of those other ill-mannered little get their things that offend, and perhaps a too well they wouldn't
miracle will happen and men will baskels carried anyway.
It is still a fairly common custom become gentlemen again! for a man to doff his hat when he
11⁄2 level teaspoon ground ginger.
1 level teaspoon cinnamon,
3 oza margarine..
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2 ozs brown sugar.
1 whole egg and 1 extra yolk.
1 l milk.
For the icing you need 10
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leing sugar, egg white, vanilla one and a quarter hours.
essence, water,
Inlove.
Cool in
A. B.
Help Kidneys
To make the cake measure the To make the icing. Sieve sugar, Don't Take Drastic Drugs syrup into a pan, and add the mar- land mix with the stifly whisked Karine and sugar. Stir till melted, then allow to cool.
Sift the flour, cooon and splees into a bowl. Mako a well in centre, and add eggs (beaten) niso the syrup mixture. Beat well and add hall
the milk.,
Dissolve the soda in remainder of Turn milk, and stir into mixture. mixture into greased loaf in and bake in a moderate oven for one to
white of egg, adding one dessertspoon cold water and a few drops vanilla, Beat well for a few minutes. The leing should be stiff enough to hold Italiape.
Decorate the top of enke by forcing the Icing through an icing pipe, just guiding the pipe from end to end till it is covered.
Allow the icing to set for a few hours before cutting the cake.
Your kidneya have nine million tiny tuties be ters which are endangered by neglect or draatio, irritating drugs. Be ware If kidney trouble ur Haider weak- nesa inaken you suffer from Getting Up near Buffnows, heumatollen Ankian, Lambagu Nights, Leg Pains, Nervousness, Dizz Circles Under Eyes, Neuralgia, Burning Itching. Rmarting. delay, Acidity or Loss of Try the Doctor's Tealled (Biss-tor), toothes, tunen, cleans, En 1 E and finals sick kidneys. Henri youth and
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worn.
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Wash sliver spoons and forks in hot soapy water, and rinse in hot polish, put a pinch of clear water. To obtain a brilliant rinsing water, and rub them with a
Sliver en spoons have chamois leather when dry. cleaned constantly, as silver is very sensitive to sulphur which eggs con- tula. A damp cloth dipped in salt and rubbed on the stains will speedily remove them.
Silver which is not in regular use THE same principle works. Have is apt to become tarnished. If it is nail ale in your writing desk, rubbed very lightly with linseed olt, your bag, and in the bathroom, as it will remain bright and shining. well as on your dressing-lable. It and be ready for instant use should you don't always have to go and version require. fetch a nail file you will find a good
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