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Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 10, 1939.
Aeroplanes Inspire the New Hats
Too Silent Wives
COME women envelop themselves
Maier allence when they cou sider they have a just and lawfull grievance.
HATS are growing wings,
and this new style is so distinctive that hatters and hairdressers have got together on a new hair style to suit them..
Here you see three of Erik's new models and the hair dressing that Erik and Antoine are sponsoring. The brims have the broad
new
spread of aeroplane wings and are short back and front so that women can both see and ba
seen.
Marlene Dietrich, has chosen the wide-brimmed black hat
at the top. She wears the veil very long and twisted round
her neck and the only trimming on headed hatpin.
the hat is a large gold-
Valls are worn in new ways, as seen on the other two models. They are attached to the crown of the hat and swathed round the head, sometimes across the face and sometimes not.
G. M. B.
LET THEM MAKE THEIR OWN SWEETS
HERE'S nothing children home from school like better
The proverb says fant silence is .golden, but on occaslona it becomes one of the most inhuman and most annoying things that human nature can devise. We all know, of course, that it is right to keep one's tempering, your children should be able to manage. under control, to maintain one's
and the result, even if it gets stuck to the saucepan, will taste nicer to them than Bond-street chocolates.
Here are some which, with a little supervision over the boil-
Fruit Fondants
One lb. of loaf sugar;
1 gill water;
Shape up into balls, then roll in the coconut.
Russian Fudge
One pound granulated sugar, One large in of condensed milk (unsweetened).
dignity at all costs and to avoid say ing those cruel things that people do my when they have lost their term- pers. But even a virtue so admir- able as self-control can be overdone, ad it a wife thinks she has been
1 dessertspoon glucosa indly treated, a little outburst of (glucose for cooking costs 5d. per good, honest temper la infinitely pro- nound). ferable to that awful, frigid silence Any kind of chopped nuts (whole that chills the spirit of other people, ones if lliced), seedless raisins, dates,
essence. crystallised ginger and cherries. Put There is no surer way, of course, water and sugar in the pan together, of punishing an undutiful husband. stir until the sugar dissolves.
It reduces any normal, good-temper- Add the glucose, bring to the boil. ed, tractable husband to a quivering and continue to boil until crystals
ot frayed nerves and impotent form.
mars
anger in less than ten minutes—and, Remove the pan from the heat and for that reason, it is
Is a barbed and dangerous weapon to use. So often, allow fondant to cool. Turn on to it can turn what should be no more wet marble slab or into a large than an unimportant little if into basin. Work mixture with a wooden a major quarrel with a nasty, jagged spoon till creamy; keep free from edge, whereas a few harty words cracks, then work in the nuts and would have cleared the domestic air frults. If liked, the fondants can be worked up into balls, and halved in a moment and brought the sun- nuts placed each side gandwich
shine out again.
In this world of ours, and bumani
fashion.
nature being what it is, an occasional Chocolate Truffles good, wholesome row is a wonderful
Two tablespoons of water. Three ounces butter. Vanilla
Dissolve the sugar in the water. Add milk and butter. Bring to the boll, then boil for half an hour, until when tested in cold water the fudge forms a ball. Remove from the heat! at once, add vanilla, then pour into buttered tin and mark into squares. while warm.
Lemon Toffee
One pound granulated sugar. Four ounces buller.
Juice of one lemon. Essence of lemon,
Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the sugar and boll up slowly. Stir for a few moments while it is boll- ing and add one teaspoonful of lemon juice.
tonic. It is the finest insurance: Four-ounce block of plain ebneo-
descent to that painful, fate.
Continue boiling until it "threads," against a cat-and-dog existence
that some Two ounces icing sugar. married couples “enjoy."" It is only
One and a-half tablespoons of un- add the rest of the lemon juice and a few drops of exgence of lemon. the D
over their sweetened evaporated milk. people who brood
Turn out on to a buttered tin. Hall
vanilla grievances and lock themselves up in an injured silence who get this way. Desiccated coconut. Anger and bitterness will out, and if it does not come out normally and rationally, it breaks out la ceaseless Gickering.
Anu Epoker
teaspoon
essence.
Melt the chocolate. Do not allow
FILLETS OF SOLE WALEWSKA
Ideas In Economy
CONOMY is frequently misunder-
ECONOMY fould not be regarded
us a household bogey, for economy carried out on proper lines is an im. portant part of the ministration of every houschald, no matter how large or small the income.
Economy does not mean saving and scrimping
money only. The saving of time and energy are of great
of
This nice, and economy in
will
bring leisure and gond temper as dividends.
It is in the kitchen that drudgery should be eliminated, and the chief economies
Make practised. littleonomical use of floor and wall
to get hot. Stir in the sleved icing DREPARE llets and place in a sugar, also add the milk, vanilla essenec, #other well.
Now add shallow casserole with and work all to onion, salt, pepper, a bouquet of No cooking is needed. herbs, small pleces of butter and a glass of white wine. Cover with Jid and cook slowly for about 10 minutes. Removing fish and keep It hot. Strain the liquor in which it was cooked, and thicken with an egg yolk. Do not boil. Pour this sauce over Rah.
Bootch plaid hat and bag of pure silk in red, while and bine sliveïdhe all black orist. The hai is banded with blaólk gribe
Garnish each fillet with a piece of lobster meat, a tiny crescent of puft stry, and a slice of truffle. Brown slightly under grill and serve at once.
CHICKEN SPATCHCOCK
PLIT a young chicken, season well, paint with butter, and cook under a hot grill for 30 minutes: Baste with the butler.
While this is cooking put two tablespoonfuls of Worcester sauce with an ounce of butter into a jar. Melt this in the oven and atr well, and serve in a sauceboat. Garnish chicken with sprigs of watercress.
JAPAN'S UNEMPLOYED
the ΟΙ
of space. The main purpose
the preparation kitchen is for food. It saves much tune to have a place for everything you need to prepare meals, and a proper stock of the necessary articles.
Kitchen Equipment
It is an economy to have the kit- chen equipment grouped so that the minimum number of steps is re-
the quired in carrying out
many kitchen tasks. A china cupboard placed next to the kitchen sink, and a saucepan stand placed under the draining board make washing-up an casler maller; also table near the cooker saves many journeys.
Care
of cleaning materials is a form of cro
economnetised.
which, though small, is rarely
So many housewives get into the bad habit of
cleaning materials
0
tra.. using coulds are
ex- un- un-
corked, so that they evaporate or get knocked over; pastes are left with their lids off and get hard and use- less.
Large handfuls of
and soap and rown into the washing-up seda are thrown into
Wage Index Highest For water where smaller quantities
Fifteen Years
Tokyo, Feb, 0.
The number of unemployed in Japan stood at 374,000 at the end of last year, according to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The figure includes 22,500 workers who have been forced to change jobs as the result of the rise of munitions industries. Ex-employees of com- panies and-factory, hands reached 88,300-Domel,
Record Wage Index
would be just as
as efficacious, if not more so, as too much soda takes the
sint and gilding of china.
When it comes to food, few house- wives aro economical. It is no economy to buy cheap food, which has little real nourishment, and to look upon good food as a luxury. But it is equally bad economy to buy good food and then not take the trouble to cook it properly.. Using Odds and Enga
A great source of waste in many households is the throwing away of nutritious odds and ends. Remains of meat, fish and vegetables can be
Tokyo, Feb. 9. The average labour wage index bas] reached the highest point for the past utilized in making comntiesa tasty |:13 years, according to a survey made
by the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce) disne
dishes. Study a good cookery-book and Industry, Continuing-its steady
and you will find methods that will rise since last August, the Index make left-overs into the most, in- dishes., Bones and ment Aging at the end of December as can be used for stock number of 100 for 1bas, gravy, and remnants of bread and
This figure showed an Incrous of cakes made into puddings, 50 per cent. on that of November and 11.9 per cent, compared fewith the 'index for December 1937, Doniel.
at 122.9,* compared "with" "the basla
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if you have an electric cooker: economies by using the heat left when the current is switched off. At breakinat me prepare the vegetables-
HE SAID...
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SHE DID.
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Madame Wang Ching-wei's Brother Arrested
Word was recently received in
10 the Shanghai
effect thut £ brother-in-law of Mr. Wang Ching- wel, dismissed Kuomintang slates- man who favours pence with Japan, has been arrested In Mengtze.
He Chen Chang-tsu, director of the Acro Manufacturing Factory in Kunming and brother of Madame Wang Ching-wel, popularly known as Cheo Bi-chuan, one of n few women members of the Central Executive Commilice of the Kuo- mintang.
He is alleged to have fled from his post carrying a largo sum money. His disappearance was re- ported on January 10 but quickly o Military Affairs Council ordered all branch offers to look for him and he was eventually arrested a tow days ago in a flying school in Mengtzo.
Ho will be court-martialled.
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or meat for the luncheon and have them in pots or casseroles ready to place on the hot plaies when kettles and pans are removed,
Economy with coal can be effected by placing a few lumps of chalk or broken brick at the back of the This throws out's good heat." cleaning the grate in the morning stove tha ah and cinders and return the cinders to the fire. They burn brightly with a good foundation. The ash should be kept. in der for we in removing stalny on dishes and pâne.
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