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P & O-BRITISH INDIA (APCAR) AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
(Companies Incorporated in England.)
Taking Cargo on through Hills of Lading for STRAITS, JAVA & BURMA, CEYLOR INDIA, HANIAN GULF, MAURITIUS, K. & 8, ALCA, AUSTRALABIA, INCLUD IMO NEW ZEALAND AND QUEINBLAND PORTS, RED SKA, EGYPT, KUROPE, ETC
Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 25,
1939.
When Giving A Party
Fur Trims a Winter Coat
FACTS TO REMEMBER
PENINSULAR & URIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMER AN ordinary hostess who gives her
(Under Contract with HM. GovernmeZE).)
ali wamela koay call at any ports on or of the roule,—and the route and all malling are mubject to change or deviation with or without notice.
Steamers
**BHUTAN
"LAMORE RAJPUTANA
*BEHAR
RANCHI
1 SOUDAN
Tons
From H'Kong about 0.00020th Jan., 0a.m.,
0,000 2nd Feb. 17,000 4th Feb. 6,000 11th Feb.
17,000 18th Feb. 7,000 25th Feb,
17,000 4th Mar. 17,000, 18th March 4,000 25th Mar.
RANPURA RAWALPINDI
+*BURDWAN
Cargo only Calls Casablanca
SHIRALA
TILAWA
10,000 11th Feb.
BANTHIA
0,000 25th Feb.
TÄLMA
SIRDHANA
Destination
B'bay, M'seiller, Havre, Lidou Hull, H'ba, R'dom & A'werT Straits, C'bo, 'bay & K'chi. Bombay, Marseilles & London M'sellles, Havre, L'don, Hull Hbg, R'dam & A'werp.
Marseilles & London. B'bay, M'sailles, Havre, L'doa Hull, H'bg, R'dam & A'werp Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.
D'bay, Muelles, Havre, L'don, Hall, bg, It'dam & A'werp. All vessels may call at Maita
BRITISH INDIA APCAR BAILINGB (SOUTIL)
8,000 28 Jati., 10.30 n.m.; S'pore,
10,000 11th Mar.
10,000, 25th Mor.
Port Swettenham Penang, Rangoon & Caicutua
DO.
DO.
DO. DO.
BL. Apter Line Bjeamers have excellent accommodation for 1st & Indi clam passeILKET EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN BAILINOS (SOUTH)
NELLORE
TANDA
NANKIN
7,000 3rd Feb., 11 a.m. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, 7,000
Sydney, Melbourne & Hobar
4th Mar.
1,000 1st Apr.
Regular monthly sailings from xong to Bhanghai & Japan & 'kong to Australia
SANTHIA
Hong Kong to Bydney-19 daja.
BAILINGS TO BHANGHAI & JAPAN.
8,000 2nd Feb.
RANPURA
17,000 3rd Feb.
TALMA
10,000 18th Feb.
RAWALPINDI
17,000 17th Feb,
*BURDWAN
SIRDHANA
CANTON
SHIRALA
0,000 18th Feb, 10,000 2nd Mar.
10,000 3rd Mar,
8,000 10th Mor... Cargo only.
Japan,
Shanghai & Japan. Shanghal & Japan. Shanghai & Japan, Shanghal & Japan. Japan.
Shanghai & Japan. Shanghai & Japan.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice, parçais measuring not more than & cft. will be received at the Company's Office up to des s the day previous to mailing.
Connaught C.
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EMPRESS OF BRITAIN
from
HONGKONG, March 11th
A New way Home on your 1939 Leave, visiting,
MANILA, BALI, JAVA, SOUTH AFRICA, ST. HELENA, SOUTH AMERICA, TRINIDAD, CUBA. NEW YORK
THENCE TO SOUTHAMPTON.
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parties in her own drawing- room can get along quite nicely with- out un expert knowledge of acous- ties.
But once her party grows beyond the mint type, once she takes a room
a hall or hotel, or even gives o inusical party in her own home, there are one or two selentifle facts about people in the muss that are useful to know.
For instance, did you know that from a sound point of view, a room full of women is more "dead" than
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room full of men? Women, with their loosely-dressed hair and elabor- ate evening dresses nbsorb round and detract from the clearness of
A hall singer's or speaker's volce. that seems all right empty or with an audience of men may be dull and diflcult when it is filled with women. More care must be paid to acoustics for women, and more care must be paid to heating.
It is a strange fnet, but true, that while women con retain fent longer than men, they do keep it to them- selves. Men 'radiste bent, so much so that ten men give off as much A room warmth ng a sanall radiator.
or a hall for a male audience may become insufferably warm in an hour or two, and it does not require the some degree of artificial heat as the Ame roun for an audience of women. In a private house both acoustics and benting can be varied remark. ably by the type of furnishing the hostess has chosen. Music is dulled considerably by thick carpets fitted to the walls and by heavy folded cur- tains. A plno or a gramophone standing on a carpet does not give the pure note of the same instrument with its feet on the polished floor. Music in the drawing-roon is clearer on a summer evening when the net curtains drape the windows than in the winter when the dark velour is [j1.
Undraped windows throw back sound; heavy curtains suck it up like
A. B.
4 sponge.
Tea As Tonic
TEA
EA is a wonderful beverage pro-
vided we use it properly.
It is a stimulant and serves a good purpose I taken in moderation, but without trimmings" is more; it lea
13 remedial.
The man who called at our house complained the other day of "a head like to split."
A cup of good strong tea would put him right I told him and offered to prepare it.
"No, ten wouklu't do any good." He'd bad it twice that morning nl- ready.
How often did he take tea in a day?
"He had it at six o'clock when he
UFS
Soft, fine wool plush in gray-green tone is collared with lux- arlous gray fox for this new Parls coat. The hat is green felt with a black vell.
Good Breakfast Dishes
HE question "What shall we have kidney and remove all fatty portions. for breakfast?" is frequently a Place in a double saucepan, and cover perplexing one, but here are recipes with water, then add the seasoning for a few novelties that are sure to and cook for one hour, Thicken the be appreciated once they are tried. gravy slightly, and pile the mixture A popular Norwegian breakfast on the rounds of hat buttered toast. dish is to mince inely a good-sized A dash of cayenne grently en- the favour of this dish, onion, and fry in some butter till bances brown and tender. Now add 4 ozs though it may be omitted if pre- of ham (also minced), and 2 ozs of ferred. holled rice, together with a dash of A tasty breakfast dish is fint made by placing on a well-greased dinner got up; at breakfast, after timin, when curry all together until quite hot. plate layer of smcked ham well then pile on a hot dish and serve sprinkled with fine oatmeal. Now with quarters of hard-boiled eng. break over three or four eggs as re- Instead of curry powder, pepper may Le used.
he finished for the day, and agoln at dinner,
Five times!
"Bul the wife has it twice oftener than that. She has a cup in the fore- noon and a cap when the hairns get hame in the afternoon," he remarked.
How did he take his ten?
"With plenty of sugar and milk," Did he ever try to take it without élther when he had a headache? Oh, no! he couldn'--but he'd swal- low powders or tablets,
Generally speaking, we take a our food too hot; but a cup, of fairly strong, really bot ten taken in good big guins with a pause betwein each gulp is most beneiletal in cases of headache or sickness.
In cases of nervous or sick bend-
achr, hot tes, without sugar and milk
(or cream) will almost invariably effect a cure. During influenza, the palate sometimes becomes vitiates and many people turn from leu, but if they would fry to take it plain they would and that it would not nuuscate but act as a stimulant. When con-
Monkey Is Back
Monkey is a pelt seldom seen until recently, when a ravivai pat under. way. Here is a monkey cape, giving an idea of the slick, shiny quality of this jet black fur.
Fry
powder.
Vienna Kidney Toast
1
quired, keeping the yolks whole, and season well with pepper and salt, then add another layer of hom sprin- kled with oatmeal. Cover the whole with another plate and cook in a hot Yake B ozs of ox kidney, three of oven for about thirty mlautes, ac- four-rounds of toast, season with salt cording to the thickness of the hamm. and pepper to taste. Cut up the Remove top plate a few minutes to
valescent, how enjoyable a cup ten "just as one likes it" will be.
crisp the whole.
of
Sausage Toast
This is sure lo please the younger Leu
generation. It is, also, simple to | prepare.
There is fle beneat from when taken five, six, or seven times a day; it is more likely to upset the digestion.
Taken in moderation, there
First Iry 8 ozs of sausages, skin them, then cut into rings or in slices are lengthwise. Make several rounds of worse things than a cup of good lealoust, butter it well, season with salt
and few better.
II. B. B.
Modes and
Manners
QUESTION: "ilow is Swiss cheese) caten?L. L."
ANSWER: Hard cheese, Ameri-| can and Swiss, are enten with a fork.
QUESTION: "At that time should
a formal dinner begin?-D. L."
ANSWER: Most fortual dinners begla at about eight o'clock.
QUESTION:
"Would it be proper to serve chablis at dinner with a main course of lamb?-Mrs, IV. C."
well ANSWER: Chablis goes with lamb or veul, roast turkey or chicken. Indeed, that is why it is) considered a correct wine for any of the meats named. Other, wines which may be served with lain are sparkling burgundy, zinfandel, claret.
QUESTION:
"How should 4 bridesmaid dress at a wedding where the tride is dressed in travelling. cluthes.-B. K."
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ANSWER: The bridesmaid should Wear tailored clothes. She
wear a corsage bouquet,
mny
" QUESTION: "Should a dance pro- gramme be flied before or during the dance?-W. E,”
ANSWER: Either way is cor-3
reet.
WH
THEN you are maiding soup with tinned tomatoes and milk, add a pinch of bicarbonate of soda. If you do this it will prevent the acid in the tomatoes from curdling the milk.
White sauce will never go lumpy If, before mixing in the milk which I poured on the flour and butter, you allow it to warm before stirring it: up.
Fish cakes, rissoles, and other fried foods that are mixed with egg often break untemptingly during the cook- Ing. This will not happen if you use aly this white of an egg-instead of | the whole of it.
and pepper and a little made mus- tard, then lay the prepared sausages on it and sprinkle the top with grated cheese or with nuts. If cheese be used, return to oven, and when the cheese is coloured, dish and serve j piping hot.
I. P. H.
Wine Crepe
This dress in wine colour crepe, the iltife buttoned jacket
· in striped metal.
“Makes me fit and keeps mè well”
'KEPLER' Cod Liver On
with MALT Extract makos
and keeps children at and
well. This vitalising food is
delicious in flavour and rich
in Vitamins A, B and D
KEPLER'·
Liver Oi!
COD with
MALT Extract
Flygienically-sealed bottler of two sites, from all Pharmacie and Steres
CO. BURROUGHS WELLCOME &
221261
(Tk= WALLCOME FOUNDATION LTO.. LoNeon, Kr.)
LONDON AND SHANGHAI
The Correct Shoes for your Children are
P
Clarks
They ensure the healthy natural growth of young
and active feet.
BROWN SHOES with Arch Support
In smail and large sizes up to 2.
Guernsey SANDALS
In all colours.
For children and small ladies.
up to size 3.
Most Moderately Priced at-- THE TREASURE SHIP
Pedder Bldg. 3rd. Flr. (opp. H.K, Hotel). Tel. 34232,
Tol. No. 24310.
The Day of all Days
Preparations for your wedding are not complete without plans for
a picture record of this happiest
event of your lifetime. Let us
make the necessary arrangements.
THE MING YUEN STUDIO
6, Queen's Road C. (3rd Floor); opposite Dairy Farm's Fountain, Q's Rd. C.
at
REPULSE BAY Hotel
Geo. Pio-Ulski's String Quintette
overy SUNDAY for Tiffin 1 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.
Fred Carpio's Dance Orchestra
every WEDNESDAY for Dinner
9 p.m. to:1 a.m.
A la Carte & Table d'Hote
THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.