16
Thursday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 22, 1938.
Mothers! HOW TO DRESS UP AS FATHER CHRISTMAS...
and increases and enriches the
natural flow of milk.
4.
Malconic is prepared under the
most hygienic conditions and is
recommended by the Medical
Profession.
E
PROTECT YOUR BABY DRINK MALTONIC DAILY!
Baby's health depends-now and
In the future-on the food he
receives during the first months.
To ensure that Baby is given rich and uncontaminated milk, a wise mother will drink Maltonic daily; it fortifies her body against sickness
EWOMALTONIC
露身健和怡
MALTONIC
1.5.5
i
NON-ALCOHOLIC
Obtainable from all Compradores. Dispensaries or from
JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD., Tel. 30311.
One
tells
the
other-
they
really
do
like
Hosiery...
A grand and glorious gift she will always admire ... the answer to your gift problem and suggested by GORDON'S as the gift for "her."
Daintily packed & delivered on Christmas morn- ing, if you wish.
Gordon's, Ltd.
for gifts of quality
The Experts
Tell You Their Secrets
IS your husband an intend-
ing Father Christmas? The professional ones in the big stores say that only com- petent actors make good Father Christmases.
It's important, you see, to gain the confidence of the chil dren, and to be capable of win- ning them over from a state of open disbelief. You've got to have the patter.
Father Christmases this year tend to be large men, aged from sixty to seventy, which is all it should be.
If you're being a Father Christ- mas, it's no good looking like an ordinary man. It's worth spending a little money on your beard and wig, Crepe hair may look all right to the grown-ups, but It doesn't fool the children.
Make it Lifelike
THEN you must put plenty of grease-paint on your cheeks, remembering that drive through the now. The hood sometimes righ- tens the bables, so it must be easily pulled up and down.
Belted gown, hood, and shoulder- ape ought, of course, to be red flannel or serie or some woollen stredged with witile fur or wool.
So Santa Claus of 1938 ought to be tall and broad, genial of expres- sion, somewhere around sixty years old. To reach perfection he should have grown and trained his beard for about five years,
Your husband may not 11 this bill at all, but then the children are probably tolerant, and like him to have his fun on Christmas Eve.
This housecoat with its allde fastened front has a lastex back which gives easy skirt fulness. The scalloped close collar is solid colour with white rickrack. Navy percale patterned in a spaced floral design.
Cotton wobt
Eyebrows
cotton wool
Beard 16 to 2gus-
Belt, American cloth-buckle silver painted cardboard-
Pillow
Red
flannelette
If you're walking a Santa Claus outfit murself you will need five yards
of red fannel for the cost and hood, white fur or cotton wool for edging the hood, You can make a white beard, wig, and boots for a small sum; if you have got Wellingtons already they are just the thing.
New Floral
Pictures
IN these days of small fats and
restricted space, there always room for a lavish display.
not
The new wat vases that are so popular now will help you to get over 1s difficulty. Your flower groupings will come into proper perspective again when hang upon your walls.
will
Choose vases that
contrast with your wallpaper, or you will lose If the beauty of your pictures. On-white or cream holders are best for dark walls, and coloured ones for plain cream and buff walls.
Do not overload the vases with flowers. They are made In such in- triguing shapes and culourings that it is a pity to let the flowers hide their attractiveness. Do not build your arrangements too high, either, or they will look top-heavy, and not at all pleasing.
Four or Ave single chrysant- hemums, a few anemones, or some late roses will look charming in a wail vase. Be careful, however, that you choose your blooms as carefully es your vases, so that they stand out against their background.
Sprays of berries, leaves, und sprigs of tern and heather pre ident material with which to make these new flower decorations. And a few twigs, stripped of their leaves and placed against a light wall, will have all the grace and dalntiness of u
Lemons To Your Japanese print.
Aid
As most of the vases taper towards the bottom, you will find it helpful to twist some rabbit wire across the
top of the vase before putting in the flowers. This will keep them in
T this time of the year lemons
come into their own. There's position better. nothing like piping hot lemon to ward off colds or to soothe and send them pucking,
D. I..
Don't boil your lemon. Brew it.) talised honey, and
pure glycerine Squeeze the Juice of a lemon (better with enough lemon juice to fill up still, two) into a tumbler and All It) the cup. Leave It on the bedside up to within an inch of the brim table with a teaspoon so that your with boiling water.
Sweeten with a spoonful of honey or golden syrup-brown sugar is al- most as good. Your patient (or sus- pect) should have hot lemon every night and at eleven o'clock in the morning.
patient can help himself to a little whenever his throat worries him. It is heating and strengthening besides being good!
And for you, even though you are fit so far, fi is worth making a habit of an early morning torlifer-hot or cold lemon instead of early morning
Ginger up his morning orange tea. Juice with a squeeze of lemon, and give him ton with lemon as a protec To buy good lemons, choose those tive change from tea with milk that have smooth and waxy skins Here is an old-fashioned recipe for} (good for grating) and those that are coughs and throats. In an egg cup heavy for their size which means thoroughly mix equal parts of crys-they avo extra Juley.to:
So much depends on the way
you pack
presents
You may think that there is
nothing to do when you have bought a present except to pack 1. Exactly. But the packing is very important.
Obviously the gift must be packed safely if it is to be sent by pust. It is true that one of the pleasantest things about receiv ing a present is the surprise, but it's the wrong sort of surprise It your friend finds that you have sent him a parcel of fine white powder made from particularly expensive coffee service.
Remember that # parcel sent by any form of transport is bound to get મ fearful buffeting at this time of the year.
The first essential, therefore, is some sort of wadding to absorb shocks. One of the simplest and most effective materials is cor- rugated paper.
Falling this, crumpled news- paper is one of the most efficient shock absorbers.
Whatever packing you use, the Impariant point is that the pre- sent should not be loose within the parcel.
Beautiful and original packing can add enormously to the attrac tiveness of a gift. A few pence spent on the trimmings of even a half-crown present are a good in- vestment If
If you measure the value of a gift by the pleasure It gives. Now a few practical points. Never skimp white tissue paper. A few cents will buy an enorm ous quantity at your local station- ers, and it makes any present look twice as expensive.
The box is very importont. I the shop gave you one, well and good; if not, buy one. For two. pence or threepence you can get an attractive box in gilt or silver. Christmas Beals tire another thing to make a present look smart. Use them both on the in- ner and ouler wrappers. It you want your surprise kept until Christmas Day itself, you can get scals with "Do not open December 23" on them.
CHRISTMAS
您季 BIFIS
THIS IS OUR FIRST CHRISTMAS' DISPLAY, AND WE HAVE TAKEN SPECIAL EFFORTS TO ENSURE IT BEING IN EVERY WAY ATTRACTIVE
OUR SHOWING OF
HAND-BAGS
WILL PLEASE YOU
EVENING
AND DAY
BAGS
COMPACTS
GLOVES
SILK SCARVES WOOLLEN AND SILK DRESS LENGTHS
NOVELTIES
THE BEST SELECTION IN HONGKONG
Lucille
18, QUEEN'S ROAD, C.
TAI PING BUILDING
CROSSE & BLACKWELLS Concentrated
ENGLISH SOUPS
Are Thefftest m the world KIDNEY SOUP
FALL STORES
TOYS
night
TOYS TOYS
it from Santa's Big Bag
•
JUST IN TIME FOR XMAS TO MAKE YOUR LITTLE. ONES HAPPY. DELIGHTFUL, NEW, COLOURFUL, INEXPENSIVE TOYS IN A GREAT VARIETY FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES, XMAS TREE LIGHTS, BEAUTIFUL SOFT TOYS, DOLLS & ANIMALS, WOODEN TOYS, PAINTED BLOCKS, MEALTIME SETS. FASCINATING GAMES, WORK BOXES, ETC., ETC.
苹
We have scores of suggestions for children's gifts. Calf and Sco
OPEN ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON
THE TREASURE SHIP
IF
.
Pedder Bldg. Sed Fir. (opp. JLK. Hotel). Tel. 34232
you have any beauty problems, why not try Mrs. Botan's Beauty Salon which has a reputa-
tion of being the most reliable in the Colony. Tel. 58081, Extension 34.
Peninsula Hotel,