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THE HONGKONG ·· TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 17, 1938.
Nursery Expert answers Sickroom Problems Making The Most
OST children like the flavour of pineapple and a
tin of chunks or rings can be made to go much farther round if used in conjunction with overy- day food.
PATIENT Improving!
Little Missis gives the dog a taste.
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Try it with PINEAPPLE
Let's start off with recipes for the children. Adding pineapple to rice in capital way of getting them to cat this. Rice is so good for them that they really must be encouraged to like it.
This is how I serve "Sunshine Rice," and my family look on it as a treat. There is never any left over.
Bring one pint of milk to the boll, add 2łaz, of washed rice, and cook in a double saucepan until creamy and soft. This usually takes about two hours. Cool slightly, stir in a beaten egg and cook gently for a few
minutes. Pour into a hot glass dish and add the pineapple chunks, stirring them into the ricu.
Fine Feathers In Bread Pudding
Fashion's Favour
Made with lel-over bread and butter, -Arrange the allees of stule bread and later in a buttered piedish, sprinkling cach layer with sugar and pineapple. Add some nalt to pint milk, heat. pour it on to a beaten egg. Strain to the pledish, grate a little nutmeg the top and soak for half an hour. Bake in a moderate oven.
THE "longest ostrich feather cap THE
in the world" and a feather boa
colours of the In embodying all the rambow, were features of a London, dress parade recently held in the. presence of the Duchess of Kent.
Sponsors of the parade were the South African Government, playing hosts not only to a great assembly of well-known people but also to a
wonderful collection of Jarge and
South! ostrich feathers from the African farms where the industry is centred.
The dress show was the culmina- tion of the come-back being nebleved by ostrich feathers, the culmination. 159, of this suminer's revival of the! lovely, gracious Edwardian fashions!
feathers into which are sweeping favour once more.
In shimmering sathu, gleaming paillettes and elegant lace the man- the flower- nequins gilded over fringed platform before us. And in presentation gown, day or evening creation. the ensemble,
and Aseat
foaming. was the loveliness of ostrich feathers of every hue and style, wedded to exquisite
crowning grace
Pineapple Jelly
There will be no pineapple Jelly you make it let to clear up, if in this way,
If you serve it with cream and swert biscuits this becomes quite a party weeL Children, of course, leve it.
Empty the contents of a large tin of picapple cubes into a large jug. Strain the juice into a saucepan, and make up to not quite a pint with water,
Add a pint pineapple jelly square, dissolve it in the water and stir it well before pouring into the mould, to make sure alt dissolves evenly.
When the felly is dissolved, puur a tle into a mould and leave to set. *hen arrange a ring of pineapple and pour over a little more jelly and con. inue with pineapple plugs and jelly, leaving each layer of felly to set before
Greaseproof Tips
adding more pineapple. Put a final layer of jelly.
Stand in a cold place to set.
Pineapple Sauce
A pineapple sauce makes a plain steamed pudding taste better.
Blend 2 level teaspoonfuls of best cornflour with a Rttle of the pine- apple juice, add a pinch of salt.
Boil the rest of the juice, pour on to the blended cornflour, add some sugar and boll and stir for 5 minutes.
plain Serve with a steamed pudding.
Cold Party Sweet
For a cold supper party sweet. Cut five small sponge cakes in half, spread each with apricot jam, and place together. Arrange them in a glass bowl and pour over a dissolved pcapple jelly.
Leave to scl. then decorate with the shredded tinued plueapple and bianched and spiked alnionds, Decorate with whipped cream.
New Winter
Fashions
FASHION creators have excelled
of
themselves this season in de- rigning clothes which delight the eye and stimulate the imagination woman. All the colours of the rain- bow, the warm, rich tones of autumn leaves, the shades of flowers in a
rict of
Postel suminer garden, a shades in blues, treens, and yellows, and sparkling silver and gold are at her command, and the styles are suited to her individual preferences.
An interesting display of new win- ter fashions, culminating in a bridal procession, was given recently in SMALL store of greaseproof Edinburgh, when a wide variety of materials and designs and enhancing A paper in the kitchen can prove its ints, dresses, and furs were
T
Of Needlework Protect the health
ONE
1s that
NE of the pleasant things about
nutumn and winter needlework comes into ita
Drawn curtains
own.
and dancing fre-
Tight are such Incentives to get out
our workbags
and go ahead with
some attractive needlework.
Whether you are, an old hand at the game or an enthusiastic begin- hints are usually ner, embroidery fascious when it comes to planning HE young mother who out the shades of silk to be used in has had very little to do a plece of work? Are you aware with sick-rooms often that mid-shades of greens, pinks, or finds herself completely blues, placed against a darker back- bewildered by some instruc-round will appear quite pale? But tions, given as routine trente put these colours against a lighter
inuch deeper. ment by the doctor who has had ground and they will at once appear occasion to visit her child. Steam-kettle Required
My daughter, aged three, has occa- sional attacks of bronchitis, and the doctor has ordered a steami-katilo in her bedroom. How can I carry out these instructions?
strong For line stitches, fairly shades are the best choice, but for Alting in" purposes pin your faith much to paler shades. They are more effective.
Purples, vivid blues, and the new chades of red, such as fuchsia, deep You will need a fire in the bed-burgundy, "shocking" pink, and the deeper shades of mauve, are topical for embroidery colour
news, but purposes do not lose your head over them if you are working a mixed colour scheme, or they will swamp the rest of the shades.
room in the first place with an fron trivet screwed to the bars to take the kettle: these trivota can bo bought for about Bd. A steam-kettle isa in kettle with a specially long spout ending in a flattened mouth- plece to disperse the steam.
If none can be procured, use ordinary largo tin kettle with те straight spout. Fill with boiling water and add two teaspoonfuls of felar's balsam, unless the doctor has speci- fled the use of some other soothing preparation.
Let the kettle simmer quietly on the trivet and up overy two hour or so with more boiling water.
The use of a kettie of this kind is
very soothing in all cases of affection of the respiratory system, when the werm, molat and aromatie atmosphere in the room will give relief.
Light Sleeper
My title boy has been very l with premnonia: at the height of his ness he hardly noticed when more fuel was put on the fire in his bedroom, but now that he is convalcacing he is dis. turbta ruch time we attempt to mend the are during the night. How can this be avoided?-Temporary Sick
Nurse.
PAKE out the ash before your patient settles down for the night spreading a newspaper before the grate so as to save the dust from mg about the room. Then pack sali csal on the glowing embers in the grate, and finally add a couple of aliovcifuls of well-damped conl-dust.
Built up like this, your fire will need no attention for several hours. Then wrap up pieces of small coal in new- paper parcels and place them in read
ess by the fireplace.
One or two of these can be lifted on to the fire in the early hours of the morning without any noise.
Not Fat Enough
The doctor has ordered a fattening diet for my daughter, aged 14, chose height is sit. Zin, but who only weighs fist. 2barroic.
The Favourite Foundation Material
Linen is public favourite No. 1 as a foundation material, and, if good embroidery silks or cottons are used, it will return triumphantly from the washtub ilme after time.
Washing is a process for light fingers. Soak and dob up and down but avoid rub- as much as you
bing. And use powdered borax (in the proportion of 2 ozs to 10 gallons of nearly boiling water) instead of thorough, soda. Rinsing must be and the water must be warm only. A touch of blue in the last rinsing water will brighten the colours.
ironing embroidery, whether a Anished piece of work or after laun- derlag, remember to use the iron on the wrong side with several thick- nesses of soft cloth under a clean Ironing sheet.
PTT-
background, With a satin broidery should be ironed first on the right side (to gloss up the satin and tite slik einbroidery) and then on the wrong side (to throw up the embroidery Into relief.)
a damp cloth.
Applique Work
Do not use
Applique work is very decorative and gives the artistic woman a good deal of scope for her creative ins- tinet. But often with an important is difficult to baste piece of work the pieces in their respective places. of ench over the back Try brushittle thin starch and piece with a then place enrefully into position. Leave until dry, or press dry with a hot iron. The starch will not harm the material at all, and will come out after the first washing.
And here is ก
useful tip about transfers. When a transfer design is to be stamped on to a piece of to lient un work there is no need iron.
Place the transfer sheet in pusi- then damp cloth with mothylated spirit and apply it to the back of the transfer until it is molstened all over. The result will be a beautifully clear design, and, what is more attractive, the same transfer sheet can do duty several times in succession.
YOUR daughter is a little above the average height if she is only just 14. but she is much underweight. She should weigh about 1021b. now, instead | tion, of only 861b.
If you will write to me privately I shall be very pleased to send you a special fattening diet to help her to put on weight,
in reply to your query regarding gairs. I advise you to have her ex- clucted from strenuous games for the urrent.
a
Madge Whiley
SIBERIAN FURRIERS
OF BUBBLING WELL ROAD, SHANGHAI
ALL FURS: PERSIAN LAMB, DYED SQUIRREL,
CARACUL,
to
be
BROTHEIL, etc.
the effect of every model they adorn-invaluable to the housewife in many shown. The displays are
given to-day and to-morrow. el or accompanied.
ways. Here are some of them:-
of greaseproof A number of three-piece suits, A folded plece style, from tiny, paper, well-floured, makes a good consisting of a loose-fitting -length close-fitting tailored toques to im- substitute for a baking board. No coat over a tailored jacket and skirt
Hats in All Styles
Hats of every
PONY,
MODERATE PRICES
Coats - Capes strubbing is necessary as the paper were shown. Some of these three-
piece suits were in checked tweed, were in self-colours. while others The conts of some, which patterned, were worn over self-coloured jac kets and skirts, and vice versa.
worn with burned after use. Inense pleture models
મ new ankle-length gowns, had
Dustbins keep much cleaner when dignity and becoming softness given! to them by the clever use of feathers. lined with greaseproof paper which These feathers
clustered over the is changed once a week. crown, stood poised of the back or
Greaseproof paper covers prevent front of the toque of, swept richly over crown and brim of cartwheel cookery books from getting solled designs.
They picked up colour contrasts Any fried foods placed on grease- fashionable shown in the accompanying gown proof paper for one minute before trimmed with seal on the siceves and completed the effect of ostrich-serving lose all sogginess and be-and coilor, trimined costec or feather cape.
Enu de nil feathers, five feet long
and: lovely as seafoam, composed an exquialte full-length
evening capo.:
It was worn over a matching gown
of shining duchess satin.
gown.
and sticky.
come erlap and appetising.
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Tomato Crystals
Black was the colour of some smart long conts trimmed with black Persian lamb. A black coat, also in was bouele material,
An Interesting black coat of face cloth was fried with ocelot. fur fabric, and was reversi- ble, no that it was really two coats In one.
One, of the evening dresses shown featured the new corsalted waistline,
DISSOLVE a pint packet of lemon and among the materials for evening Jolly in slightly less than 1 pint wear taffeta predominated, although crepe, marocain, and lame of boiling water. Pour a little satin.
Nearly as long was a pale grey cape, formed of horizontal tiers of ostrich feathers falling nearly to the of the jelly into the bottoms of small were well to the. fore.
Among the attractive selection of ankles over a matching grey chiffon individual moulds and leave to set.
Then place a thin slice of peeled fur coats was one in the new ro
It featured built-up Peler Pan collar and A short day ensemble had a tiny tomato on the jelly and add a little munce-dyed musqunsh. hat on which perched an unusual more jelly. Leave to set again and a and attractive bow formed of ostrich continue in this way till the moulds shoulders. Another fur coat, in as- trakhan, and for the fuller figure, are full.
had a brown fur collar, making feathers.
When set turn out on to crisp let-striking, but very effective, contrast. A small cap almost-covered with
smartly-taliored fur coat plum-coloured tuce leaves and decorate with chop-Another mass of lovely
was of American broadtall In the aj pod hard-boiled egg. ostrich
"coachman feathers accompanied
B. M.
new double-breasted tallored wool day dress and cont.
style. It had a a collar of contrasting acey fur. A number of beautiful
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you have any, beauty problems, why not try Mrs. Beton's Beauty Salon which has a reputa tion of being the most reliable in the Colony. Tel. 58081, Extension 34, Peninsula Hotel,
fur for evening or day wear,
capes for were also shown.
Many of the smart hals worn by the mannequins matched their dress, auit, or coat, The fashionable · Ed- wardian styles, of hats, with high crowns and vòll trimming, added the correct finishing touch to the grace- ful ensembles worn.
SEAL,
Jackets
Orders and alterations by our experts.
Mrs. Willy
ROOM 334, WANG HING BLDG. 10, QUEEN'S RD. C.
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