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Paris Goes for Woollen Nightgowns
Lingerie designers held a show in Paris recently. And for the first time they made woollen nightdresses a feature of high fashion. Sounds old-fashioned-but the new nightgowns are as gay as they are warm. They are made in every variation of wool-wool muslin, wool chiffon, wool lace-and coloured in shades like periwinkle blue, rose pink, cyclamen and hydrangea. Here are two of the newest designs in detail:---
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Wool and satin again, in a white lacy wool dressing gown lined with ice blue satin. The sleeves are elbow length, edged with flounces, the skirt long and very full. The neck is drawn up with a thick cord, a drawstring belt hangs in thick tassels from the waist.
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 30, 1938.
Nightgown in lilae wool mustin. It is tailored to fit
and trimmed with satin.
The roll-over collar has a satin bow at the neck, long sleeves are caught with satin at the wrist. The sush is satin, and satin appliques curve across the front of the
bodice.
Another
nightgown
is
made in pale yellow wool voile, high-waisted, with Tiny draped sleeves k{ { belted and piped with mutch- ing satin.
Your Control Child's Reading
"JAMES, how often
Wool dressing gowns are not a new idea, but their make-up nowadays is more jeminine and
have I told Most mothers realise that staying you not to ride your bike over Indoors retards growth, and is un- the vegetables? I don't know what healthy. Few realise that a surfeit your father will say. Come Indoors of reading will definitely retard the
growth of the child's mind. al once!"
"But I don't know what to do In- doors, mummle."
"Haven't you any games you can
Reading gives the reader second- hand experiences. What children need inosi is a first-hand, personul knowledge, of the things about them. Particularly, neurly all the scholastic work is second-hand knowledge.
play?"
that I can "No, mummie, none play by myself."
Well then, why can't you read a book like your sister Barbara does?" Too Easily Satisfied
It is natural for a mother to pre- A child's mind that has too much for her child to read a book rather reading will tend to become narrow than
to trample over vegetable and easily satisfied. His "good patches. So the legend has grown taste" will deteriorate because he that
who reads books all will not want to read "classies" the child
child who plays in the garden all books seem to ruin "good taste" more day, who never rests for a moment. than good books improve it, is a "dimcult" child.
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Don't Scorn Second-Best
womun? I mean the type who wants everything of the best, and if she cannot get that, she prefers to
Do you know the all-or-nothing fertly happy with second-best..
Some people go as far as to go in only for "best" friends, that is, they are only interested in people who have nothing rather than put up have achieved things, or in people wier who with second-best.
are important or impressive in other ways. Now, there is a good deal to be said for having interesting and striking personalities as friends, but we should not overlook the fact that, very often, we can derive as much. if not more, interest from folks who are quite insignificant. Some people remain unsung, yet they may have rich, Intelligent minds in spite of that, and more lovable natures, too, and what a joy it is to make contnet with these things!
It is a sign of a wide and resource- ful mind to be able to adapt your- self to things which do not happen. to be at the top of your list of de- mands, and to be able to find their enjoyable side. For wie will deny that there is deep pleasure to be had out of the unspectacular things of life?
The all-or-nothing person gener- ally courts only the spectacular or the striking. Each possession must be more striking than the last, and sensation must succeed sensation. The result is frequently boredom, and sometimes financial difficulty.
You know the woman who shocked at the idea of buying a cheap hat or stockings. If it hap- pens that she cannot afford to give her customary price for them, she will endure misery in her "good"
old things
rather than come down
4 peg and wear something cheaper. A love of good things is not an affection but, At the same time, with some women it becomes a sort of fanaticism, blind to all rea- son and commonsense.
but
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With a philosophic mind and, metaphorically speaking, a dashing snap of the fingers, one can be per
Household Hints
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How To Choose DETTOL
A Coiffure
HAVE you a full face or a stender
one? In order to choose a style! hairdressing successfully, first consider your contours zo that their line may be followed and your best points emphasized.
If nature bas endowed you with a thin face, 'nvakt on all-curled coif- fure as it tends to give an mankhuis "maciated loolt. Ruther Relvel #1 tyle deeply waved neross the fore- head from a low parting. Walth is achieved by curls or rolls slightly Gufling out over the cars,
The full face may be stenderised by a rather high side parting. It the tale is shart it should be brushed back to reveal the temple and I long, should be brought forward in ensual waves.
For High Checkbones
To set off a face with high check- bones and pointed rhin, have the halt dressed back from the eyes, the ears being partly or wholly revealed. Tight cards piled from nape to crown Jend balance to the profile.
For Unse fortuante possessors of classical features, the centre parting perfect. They will look serene and beautiful in a great range of styles, from the simple to the pie turesque,
When lines run downwards in the not-so-young fore, an upward style of dressing which lifts the hair from the sides, is rejuvenating; while to disguise a ined forehead, nothing could be prettier or more fashionable than the new, softly curling veron ef the frinste.
Το detract from over-plumpness round the jaw and chin line, wear the hair well back from the ears and brush it smoothly into long rolls. | White and Grey Hair
White or greying hair can be really beautiful if well tended and Immaculately groomed. Avoid the slightest suspicion of straggly ends or exaggerated style, but do not be afraid to alter your present style. Others may suit you even better, i coiffure is incalculabię,
On # festive occasion, the frock; to be worn must be considered when choosing coiffure. For instance, the Edwardian high-piled curls, co- quettishly holding a rose, would be appropriate for £1 wide skirted Period or crinoline gown; and, the suavely cut tailored frock would de- mand its equivalent in a sleek, at- most sculptured head.
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WINTER is an expensive season
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for the housewife, and it is worth noting all the money-saving methods which can be used in the kitchen.
To prevent bread from becoming the bread box mildewed, sprinkle this with white paper before putting with a layer of salt, and then cover!
the leaf in.
When stewing prunes, add a plece, either of lemon or orange peel, or, as an alternative, about a dozen sul- tanns. As
ot any
these
nd- ditions absorb the acid from the fruit, less sugar will be needed, and, incidentally, the flavour is much im- proved.
Another method of saving sugar when cooking frult of any type is to add a teaspoonful of pure glycerine. Only half the usual amount of sugar will be required if this is done.
When trying, add a teaspoonful of
Then what about the woman who ruins her chances of marriage by wanting to accept only the best? She 15 Intolerant of every short-vinegar to the pun, and this prevents coming in the men she meets. Yet the food from absorbing too much Is she quite sure that she is entitled Int. to stand in Judgment and, in any case, is she wise to do so?
Try to make the best of second- best, if this happens to be your lot. Don't deny yourself hoildays clothes in order to have a very.ex- pensive carpet or radiogram.
or
Learn adaptability and have the courage of your convictions. Every thing you do and buy may produce some cffect or have some result, whereas doing nothing means stag nation and complete closing up of
l opportunities.
Anne Morne
POINTS ABOUT POTATOES
no make old potatoes white and vinegar to their cooking water a few mealy, add a teaspoonful of minutes before they are drained.
leave to dry. Used for the fur- ulture, It will both dust and polish the wood at the one operation.
Dry truslard, rubbed on the hands, takes away the odour of onions.
Before icing a cake sprinkle some Hour on the surface which has to be
Oid potatoes, being soft on the iced, and this will prevent the leing outside, are inclined to boil down from runulag.
unless covetully watched. To pre- If a vanilla bean is left in the vent this, add a cup of cold water. sugar for It will give the sugar o' to each pint immediately the pota- delicate flavour. This is particular-toes become soft externally. ly useful for sugar which is to be cold water sends the heat to the used in cake making.
centre of the vegetable so that they cook evenly and without waste.
When making mincemeat, try nud ing the Juice of an orange and one or two spoonfuls of marinalade. The flavour is much improved if this is
done.
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When mashed potatoes are quired, 116 of boiled potatoes will give just over two cups of mashed
the
Rub a buttered paper over wooden spoon before putting it into a cake or batter mixture. This pre- vents clinging and waste.
Tea will go further if it is heated in the oven for a few minutes be- fore use. Another method of ob- taining strong tea with the minimum of leat is to add very little suger to the teapot. This helps to "draw"
the tea.
ber roller of the wringer, a tem- When a crack appears in the rub-
porary repair can be effected at home if the cracked part is bound tightly with adhesive tape. This will pre- vent the crack from spreading.
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BANANA SWEETS
IF you And yourself racking your brains to know what "sweet" to serve for a change, you will find the following suggestions useful:—
To make banana trifle, you will need four sponge cakes, six bananas, one pint packet of jelly {any favour), one pint of boiling water, n
pistachio nuts.
If the Ild of a saucepan is greased, Jones: if diced potatoes are wanted,little whipped cream, and a Lew the contents will not boil over. then 1 h boiled is equivalent to two
As a substitute for cream, beat up and, a half cups of diced. the white of an egg to u froth, add
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Dissolve the jelly square in the a small lump of butter, and mix and only 1 per cent. fat are, con- slightly. Stee
Potatoes being 80 per cent, water boiling water and leave to cool thoroughly. Then stir gradually so trary to popular opinion, excellent sponge cakes into a glass dish. Feel stir in the rest of the milk and leave prer like a sausage roll, Bake in a
crumble the is to obviate curdling.
for slimming purposes. Roast pork is delicious
They are the banumas, mush them up with a served with slices of orange instead rich in mineral salts and vitamins fork, and spread evenly Inclinations,
over the for at least an hour.
hot oven until nicely brown (15 to stage when they read as many books it is ʼn good idea to set aside one
which supply
Feel the bananas and cut them in 20 minutes.) the body with heat cake. Add the prepared jelly, and of apple sauce. The oranges should
halves, Mell a "walnut" of butter oblain. The they can
and energy. stage hour only. Immediately he has be vut into thin
leave in a cool place until set. slices, soaked for should be a short one, and is quite finished his reading hour he should Im an hour in lemon Juler, a little Potatoes can lie steamed without cream and chapped pistachio nuts.
Decorate with sweetened whipped or margarine in a baking tin, pour Individual Jellies natural in the normally developing do some hobby work for a further
in the butter, and lay the bananus in MAZE, salt and pepper, and then steamer If they are prepared and Banana Butter and Rolla
1. Bake in a fairly hot oven for served in Individual glasses, and it is Banana jelly looks most attractive child.
hour,
pliced round the joint.
inid in the centre of a large pudding
half an hour. Serve hot with sugar However, there are some children If your child is stullous he should Flowers are scarce at this time of cloth and a saucepan Ild placed upon
A simple to make, who fail to grow out of it quickly, be encouraged to be creative during the year, and, by way of making them.
Served with sugar and lemon and lemon juice.
Allow four bananas, one pint of Julee, banana baiter is crisp and de- and three or four years of their this hour, Let him write a poem, them Inst longer, add litle salt or
Banana rolls can be served hot or boiling-water, one pint packet of red home life are spent Indoors reading study music or art,
soda to the water, renewing this the top of the ld and place this.
either way, they are jelly, Dissolve the jelly square in Tie the corners of the cloth over Belous.
cold, but, To serve three or four people, tempting. ench, day the water is changed. school and
the hot water and leave until it be with the potatoes securely held allow four ounces of flour, a pinch A. W.
You will require about half
in to show signs of setting. beneath on a simmering pot for of all, one egg, half a pint of milk, pound of short or flaky pastry, three lengthened a
about an hour. This ensures a great three bananas." the child gets older, but even at the age of thir saving of bent and labour.
Sift the flour and salt lato a basin of four bananas, and a little rasp to the jelly, and whisk thoroughly
berry Jom. teen or fourteen it should be limited
If new potatoes are immersed in and fanke a well in the centre. Pour Roll the pastry out fairly thinly; ture and leave in a cool place until“ to an average of two hours a day in a bowl of salted water they can be in the beaten egg and a little milk, cut into pieces about three by four set. Decomte, if Hand, with a ten- the holidays, and one hour in the scraped more easily and the fingers and mix lu the flour gradually, When inches, and spread them with jam, spoonful of sweetened whipped term time,
will not be stained.
It is mixed to a smooth batter, beat Place half bananas on the pieces of cream. a. W..9.
M. L, D. thoroughly for a few minutes, then pastry, damp the edges, and fold
Edith Rhodes
It he is at a day
s
books.
The danger is that the mother will home work to do, it is as well to complacently allow this to go on, dispense completely with the hour She will say that books keep him out for rending and to make the hobby of mischief, and that I cannot hurt hour compulsory.
him to improve his mind by read- In the holidays when your child ing.
has almost unlimited free time there
Too much reading, however, is find for the development of a child's time to an hour. body, and of his mind,
is no object in restricting his hobby
The time allowed for reading can
bo
Sileo the bananas thinly, add them
Fill up small glosses with the mix-.
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