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Removing Stains ·
MANY articles of clothing
or
household goods are ruined or prevented from being "best" by an ugly stain which just won't wash out in the ordinary way,
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remove coffee stains, the article
should be firat rubbed gently with a fittle glycerine, then it should be rinsed in lepid water and ironed on the
wrong side with a medium healed iron until it is dry.
Do not use hol water for cocon stains, but sponge immediately with cold. Tea stains are best removed by steeping the stained article
and water, Borax
in
For a fruit-stain, apply powdered starch Instantly, allowing it to remain until it has absorbed the discolora. tion, then brush off and wash, Sonie- times salt and lemon juice bring ou! the stain, but if is an old one, rub lard or glycerine over it and allow to stand for an hour, after which boil- ing water must be poured through.
For a very obstinate one, chloride of lime dissolved in water is very effective.
Grease can be removed by washing in borax and water, but if the article Bal washable, apply powdered French chalk and hold the material over a hot iron. The heat will melt the
grease and the chalk absorb Hub off the chalk with linen rak.
If wine is spilt on linen, the stainedĮ portion should be held in bolling milk) until the spot disappears, then wash- ed in soap and water; or if this is not effective try salt and lemon juice.. Ink and Acid Marks
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TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1938.
FLOUNCES
FRILLS and FURBELOWS
Details
"You can't get away from them
o f Small Sketches reading from top
Short top coat in broton and yellow check, worn with a far, braid trimmed toque.
basque
and Olive-green dinner gaten, with poke bodice and
line outlined with ecloured tassels. Velvet bow in an up hair set, velvet neckband teith cameo, lace fan, short lace gloves.
Tight-fitting black woollen jacket with Peter Pan scal coltar over a full skirted black frock. Svat muff, toque.
Black velvet dinner dress, black velvet hat, surgthed in cerise velling.
Decorative Sweets for the Children
TERE are some attractive sweets of a sharp knife, and scoop out the
thai are delicious to eat, and pulp, removing pith and pips. very easily prepared: Banana Glory
Six bananas. One gill cream. Six tablespoons tinned pineapple
Juice
Ink-stained fabrics with a beavy pile are treated with salt moistened with milk which is left on for severdi ours; it is then brushed off and the fabric sponged with clean water. Repeat the process if necessary.
Oxalic acids or salts of sorrel will remove Ironmould stains (also ink- stains Hnen),
another 'in
while
Mash
mix with method is to cover the spot with salt, squeeze a a few drops of lemon juice sweetened whipped cream. Then stir over, and leave to stand for half-an-by degrees into the cream custard. hour, after which time rinse through Add rum gradually, and stir quickly in a weak solution
ammonia and tiil well blended.
water.
Three pineapples alices. One tablespoon rum. One gill cream custard.
bananas and
Stand the oranges on a tray or dish, put a little of the fruit into each orange. Fill cuch with the Jolly! creath and put in a cold place to set,
Decorate with chopped pistachio) nuts, and serve on a bed of chopped jelly.
Chocolate and Evo
Four ozs block chocolate, Three eggs.
Sponge Bngers,
Chopped blanched almonds. Three os coster sugar.
Break up chocolate and put Inj wash in clean wat
Cut pineapple slices in halves, chop bowl to melt over hot water. Separ- Sponge white clothes with am-each half (or cut up with scissors), ate the eggs, and beat the yolks with monia and water to get rid of grass and place in foot of sundae glass. the sugar. Sur this into the melted stalos. Coloured things should be Cover with a tablespoon, pineapple chocolate over the water till blended and thick. Whip the whites stiffly arifulch. well moistened with paraffin
Divide the custard mixture be- and fold In, Line little glasses with glycerine, which is left on for an
our, then rinsed in warm water and tween the alx.glasses, sprinide a little halved and split sponge fingers, and afterwards washed in the ordinary crushed meringue over each, and fill with the mixture. When set, decorate with few pistachio nuts or sprinkle with finely-chopped blanch- way.
ed almonds. Clothes splashed with mud should coloured coconut.
be well brushed when dry and then Orange Cream Baskets sponged with water in which pota-i
foor have been boiled.
Turpentine
will remove
Six firm sweet oranges.
paint
One plat milk. Half-pint pocket, orange jolly. Оле pint packet orange
jelly
Chopped pistachio nuts.
and
étains.
Clothes in the weekly wash some- tlines get scorched, so to remove the mark, rub the place with juice of a raw lemon and allow to dry in the direct rays of the sun if possible,
Search marks in silks and wocileas should be smeared with borax and glycerint, left for an hour, and then cacefully washed.
J. C.
cream.
Make up jelly cream
Strawberry Cup
One pint packet strawberry Jelly. Quarter-pint cream. One tim of strawberries.
Dissolve jelly, using zitawberry syrup, and enough water to make up: one plat. When beginning to set, jelly, whip until stift, then fold in the according to directions on packets. cream (whipped.) Crush strawber
Wipe the oranges: cut the rind in ries, retaining a few, Place Inin- the form of a cup with a narrow dividual; glasses, and pile, whipped handle across the top. Homove hall Jelly on top. When set, decorate with the rind of each orange, except that whole strawberries. ipart that forms the handle, by means
Isobel
FASHION writers know it. But the position is that the whole
models so dominated by on Edwar- when they are beaten, dian Victorian Infidence that they They made up their mind amply can't get away from it. not to say Edwardian again. There are other things. There are Alexandrian and Victorian suits and jackets over dresses, Pink were going to be barred over dark red, cerise over black, words.
the marvellous colour" mixtures in
strawberry and navy, cinnamon and pencocic.
They had resolved not to men- tion crinolines, flounces, leg-of- elegance of fur-trimmed by sults. There is the sumptuousness pid mutton sleeves, fitch furs, vel- jewel-embroidered evening clotheb vet neck-bands, ostrich feathers, that give a king's ransom look. velvet jackets, bunches of vio-
lets at lapels, high-boned necks,
: bustle drapery, chenille tassels,
embroidered dog collars, bows in
*Dirndl Skirts
hair, urchings, frilled headings, HERE are the full, gathered-at- hair-as-mother-wore-it, muffs, waist dirndl skirts which most boned corsages, reticule pockets, designers feature, but which, plense, fans, lockets, mittens, moires are only for the long-legged, almost and all the other pieces of old- flat girls. time fun which are drawn and described in this page.
There is the new dolman sleeve line which is definitely in for sults,
Other country and formal coals, the rather Inng striped jacket over a plain skirt, and the vogue for fur fabric.
Things
Hartnell's show. Remember, he
THEY thought you were as tired made clothes for the Queen which
af rending about this sort of made Parls sit up and look. thing as they were of writing at it
Details of
Large Sketches
Violet moire
Mr. Hartnell offered us grandeur, elegance, magnificence. Rich, rich furs swathing afternoon sults. Red foxes un olive green.
Gorgeous jewels worn with crino- with lines. A black dress with a violet off-shoulder loops and jacket carrying an enormous spray bows of bright pink. parma violets at a lapel, very Pink petticoat.
Back view: TILI! crinoline, with a tight little jacket, tping
with bow at front.
Edwardian..
Nervous
Gesture
Tiny evening hat THE whole thing seems lo be trimmed aquamarine revolutionising woman's walk, - ostrich feathers.
carriage, attitude, gestures. Wornen are sheep about gestures.
When every other woman parted her hair low at one side, the other long waved piece used to fall over her eyes, so the gesture was born of pushing it nake with the buck of a hand. Do you recall?
When all women wore little low- brimmed felt hats, they would pull
and them off from the front, their fingers through their hair.
run
The movements were nervous, casual, the tempo jerky, hurried.
Not So
Casual
You can't treat high Edwardian hair so casually. It has to be petted. cosseted, and once it is fixed. and it takes quite a time, you are Jally careful with it.
more
So you hold your head still, your movements slow down, are careful, more graceful. And this affects the whole carriage.
arc
Mannequins wearing the new Ed-
clothes wardian and Victorian showing us how.
One beauty at Stiebel's who got all the "Ahs" because she wore all the star strapless dresses and crino- her lines, and had dimples in shoulder blades, walked with the quiet grace of 1
leisured uge, fluttered her fan, lowered her eyes.
Are Your A "Window Dresser" ?
PITY that young woman treats that you are well-turned-out, and Aherself as if she were a shop carn the admiration of others. But window in a competition," the young it won't avail you one jot It "win- man remarked at a dance. "Other- dow-dressing" is your sole object. wise she is quite an attractive person. You must be human, too. Clothes But so long as she persists in using count-yes, but not to the exclusion all her endeavours to draw attention of everything else.
to herself, I'm afraid there's no room
left for a display of her real char- Accentuate Your Personality
acter or feelings. And one doesn't
feel like taking the trouble to find
All the modern aids to beauty
out what those feelings really are." which the woman of to-day is for The women referred to was typle- tunate enough to possess will be of absolutely no use to you unless you ally modern, with an office job and fair amount of intelligence. Unfor- use them to accentuate your person- tunately, that intelligence was being allty-not to hide it. If you make directed solely towards one object of your face a perfect mask-how anyone catch your fleeting the glorification of her own person thoughts? As for figures which are
ality. Every cent she earned want
can
to the hairdresser, the beauty par- used as clothes pegs, well, they look lour, and her dressmaker. Her spare charming in an filustrated magazine, time was spent in studying how to but are dreadfully uninteresting in a
drawing-room. make herself more beautiful. When-
The woman who uses conversation ever, she walked out, people turned round and said, "What a perfect also merely to create an impression fashion plate!" She didn't mind is heading straight for a social down. what they sald, so long as they did fall. Most people have an uncanny turn round,
knack of sensing when you are "put- Everything that artificial aida ting it on," and don't remain inter- could give her she had, as well as a cated in you for very long. In my perfect carriage, good skin, clear case, they would rather hear your eyes, and shining hair. She lacked opinions on life, and what you intend only one thingyitality. For she doing with it, rather than a lot of war so intent on renting a "stir" she second-hand information, never left anything of herself to jus- No-window-dressing is all very tify that sur. Every ounce of energy well, in shop window.--When it went into creating a lovely picture, comes to drossing up your own per And she failed to replize that, once sonsuty, take care. It will very people had looked their fill, they had quickly bury the real "you" under a had enough. No one ever wanted to heap of gorgeous but empty trap«', know her.
pings.
Of course, it is pleasing to know
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DETTOL
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