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Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:
February, 15, 1939.
Housewife's
Bookshelf
wiptable By like.
cover and spiral
"Recipes from Hungary." Evelyn Bach Published by Cob- stitching to keep it open at the right den-Sanderson.
humblest dishes over there.
nuge THIS friendly Httle volume should find a place in many kitchen
On
Keep Your Best Frock
Clean
DURING the week-ends
If your frock is patterned; however, I suggest you make most of us like to wear the apron up in plain fabric our best frocks as often with a deeper tone of the same
as possible for then, more colour as trimming.
than at any other time in the year, visitors seem to drop in unexpectedly.
The secret
of radiant
beauty
Take a little "HAZELINE SNOW" on your finger-tips and gently massage it into the skin.. The smooth and
lovely complexion which results will reveal to you the true secret of radiant beauty.
HAZELINE
A BOLERO effect is
Glass jars from
All Pharmetica
end Siners
cleverly given to the bodice of the apron shown in the
Yet, there are all sorts of odd centre of the drawing. This is jobs to be done during the done by the curved seams at week-ends. So it's useful to each side which are emphasised have a pretty apron at hand by two rows of simple embroi that can be put on quickly when dery, Similar embroidery trims necessary when you slip out the hem and all the edges. into the kitchen to make some It is quite easy to work with hot coffee and sandwiches for out 34 transfer-just zig-zag the callers, or when you sweep rows with dots between the up the crumbs from the carpet points: Full Instructions after your children's tea-time given with the pattern. guests have gong.
Arc
Natural colour tussore with
The three aprons illustrated the embroidery in cherry red, here are all made from one pat- green and bright blue would tern. And they can all look look attractive.. (dainty as well as prove service- able if you make them up in As you
Unwanted Advice some nice materials.
By A WIFE
FLOWERED
THE third illustration |
shows another slim- line, for there is a long
can see from the back views in ming the small drawings, they cover panel let in down the centre front. Make it of some plain your frock pretty well.
soft cotton fabric so that the artificial
trimming is thrown up in good DO not hink I am one when I say that I prefer to do things
silk crepe would be relief. that, I don't my own way, and know how. I prefer to and out or nice for the first one, trimmed
Here again the trimming is a than have people with contrasting fabric or bins myself rather
the rows of horizontal stitches haps the same colour as shooting advice and suggestions at fold tape in a plain colour-per- simple bit of handwork-just frock you will most often wear worked one below the other and will look it over. It's cut on very good spaced evenly. It
two in lines, with slimming side seams good done
front is softly alternately on a mid-blue or a
wing-coloured background.
me.
me say at the
outset that
SIMPLE things seems different libraries."
done a new way. This came
"Enquire Within." By Elizabeth upon me even more after dip- ping into Evelyn Bach's new Craig. (Published by W. Collins,
Sons and Co., Ltd.) book of Hungarian cookery.
lut the threshold They have a elever way with thee To those
of household affairs, and people who are apt to do so geher 'Take pancakes for a
everyday batter, the others who are finding that all have Starting with
the following practice is never fully proven, world: they are genuinely anxious to into which the slight fulness of colours-say yellow and green î fellow-creature comfortable the bodice autor prescribes
here is the happy housewife's see Aling for Brain Pancakes:
work the right gathered. calf's
way. They are also capable, for two effgs, salt and pepper. Skin the ABC, compiled by that popular and doing a job of
suggestions are frequently brain (after the usual preparations) writer Elizabeth Craig.
As she tells us in the foreword, their
but what they have and cut into small pieces: fry very finely chopped onion in bulter, add she has planned these 2,000 prac-worth while.
ne
moment.
half-onion. brain,
the best hearts in the
the brain, salt and pepper and two fleat ideas for quick reference in not realized is that trait in most of until done. Fill the time of trouble, and she also includes which makes us jb at univited Cuks. Fry
Edvice. pancakes with this mixture, fold a good deal of semi-technical in- and dip in egg and breadcrumbs and forination that fry in hot butter." Truly a hunger- labour and making recipe.
average
even
in
the
often zaves time,
money home. From renewing Heres her prawn filling sug- lap washer to tying your husband's dress tic, there is the right answer gested for another occasion:
in reliable, conclse form. "Two rolls, few mushrooms,
salt twa' papriku,
dessertspoons ** Shell
the prawns and cut up the most. -Soak the rolls and stew the mushrooms in butter. Mix well together, season with paprika and add the cream.
cream.
Full the pan- cukes with this mixture, roli to- gether and dip in
When Packing Parcels
THE
crumbs and fry in butter and brend-T advice generally given
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by way of being a I myself am woman friend, who is a Brst-class creditably good cook. Recently
the week-end to stay cook, eune with me. Well, I dreaded her en- trance into the kitchen. I would see her keying herself up for command. Her eyes gleaned with enthuslasan. At her own duties such; a capable deserved the
would have Banner
but these were my greatest credit. duties, and all I wanted from her those who send gifts through the was passive observation. Her cr- tical and helpful manner, though Was simply 21 admirably meant, the post is, "Choose non-fragile articles, for a loss Nor are we at
with easy to pack." sweet course. Palatschinken,
But you may know someone with thurn in the flesh, their cheese stufngs, are real Hun- garian pancakes, so try them for a specal ineal sometimes.
ing made with pork,
And so on,
nf "1
a good way f "t can tell you a special love of dellente china or
egg-whites glass. And it is hardly satisfactory beating
quickly. If you and yourself with a sand-to send her the money and tell her shouldn't put milk in scrambled eggs I were you!" "Spangecake spoils The
excellent an Chinese have wich loaf to dispose of and a large to choose her own.
I got so family to feed you will find Pusztaj
Immediately." Loaf a satisfying yet savoury offer-way of packing fine glass and china if you don't put it into the oven ware. They dip each piece in cold Austered expecting her hits and an- water and twist tissue paper round ticipating her remarks that I made It is then the most foolish mistakes, which no With its colourful, yet workman-It while it is still wet.
wrapped in crumpled newspaper. doubt further convinced her that 1 The damp tissue paper, put on wiin
helpless soul who urgently needed her, nid. a formis à protective pad,
Choose a box to fit the contents as nearly as possible and all up the odd corners with crumpled paper.
Suedes have been giveu pram! nence In display recently. Here, reading from top to bottom, are -four types that have been fea- jured. At top is the butcher boy true of jacket, belled at front and looks at back, and below is three plece ensemble consisting of suede jackel, short suede top- plaid of the cox faced with the akiri. The suede, vest, over su Rotkrivenler: with hulew: sirinod skir, also the boxy VANTRENATO
dagga
was
I once took a friend of mine up to see my sleeping child. He had
il
Narrow strips of paper pasted diu-cold, and he was breathing rather gonally across the frames of pictures heavily. "Oh, dear!" and mirrors will prevent them from my cracking by vibration.
Always dampen
string
volunteered friend. "He shouldn't be breathing like that. before him into the
You must get habit of doing deep
using it to tie up parcels. There is breathing exercises,"
That was un-
no danger then of it coming undone.doubtedly a brilliant suggestion, but, Be sure to label "Fragile" all par- call me perversz or what you will, i
resented her ndvice. ecis containing breakable articles.
Characteristics
WHEN THEY ARE TOO PROMINENT
We all have definite characteristics gives #
single confidence, looks but quite frequently we are pathetic, and sighs mysteriously and when human nature is tecretly rather fond of them. It is meaningly only human that we should like our discussed, and generally tries to give the impression that she is "deep," but selves a bill
misunderstood. She, too, is dis- There is a danger, however, when tinetly chilly.
of her body. out of place when she is sitting, never allows herself to be- never make the slightest faux pas.
contrast
At the left is a dress intended for spring wear, combining white and hunter green crepe. The dress is finely pleated from neckline to hem, except for the moothly fitted corselet section. Sparkle on sheer is the story for the evening ensemble, developed in white net posed over white taffeta, and embroidered in aliver sequins in starfish and scattered arrangements,
Even enthusiasm can be overdone.
dle for uenuse. And they chide you share their hysteria.
we begin to overdo our characteris- None of us likes people who are so very misguided way of achieving most reproachfully it you do not tas. There is woman, for in malve, that they give themselves "dash."
Further, if you pre kind and gen- stance, who has a great deal of polad, away at every turn, but, at the same but she has so much of it that she is time, we do like a little warmth, a Can anything be more pathetic than tle, don't become maudlin and se almost like an leeberg She never Hille personal confidence, and a little the person who goes in so much for a doormat; if you believe me tigh gets excited, never allows. hen she response to our own warm, impulses. "enthusing" that she loses ail critical and self-control, don't become tough;
Other women
one meets admire sense and thinks everything perfect, if you consider it human to be a little exoticism. Again, a spot of exoticism whether it is the hospitality of every inefficient, don't become feckless! Such people are usually sitiveness, don't carry it to the paint the slightest unkind Another type of woman belleves horizon with it, the result is some-given to flaunting their enthusiasm where even
Keep your characteristles by all naturalness. She hates studied what like eating a dish of very hot is your face. They exclaim and re- word hurts. - behaviour of any kind and, if the curry. One such woman, though the mark about every detail, of scenery that they will poined one sits like a statue, she hers in British to the backbone, has, on through which you are passing, or means, but don't "overdo" them.
they, let you know self alta like a loose-limbed rag doll the principle that French women are which has been carelessly thrown fascinating, adopted their excitable down. Further, she is abrupt with and gestleuiating marner of speech. people. for she does not believe in
tray the sightest emotion; In shoth adds colour and piquaney to lie, I hostess, or overy "show" she goes and if you rather cherish your sen-
in
think, but if you daub your whole to see?
the necessity of elling the wheels of Glorifying Uniidiness.
ocin intercourse; she is painfully trank!
The Mustery" Woman
A quality which, Is exasperating when overdone. in untidiness, andạ quite a lot of people do overdo it, at so much because they are in Then there is the "mystory", wo trinsically untidy, but because they that it hows "dash" and man, the type who likes to be an belleve enigma. "No one understands ine," "serious" if you use a file-box; she murmurs, or "I don't like being they advertise the fact that they one of those people who me qually nover knew where to find this read." "To achieve the effect she is gloves. otgolf-sticks; and they glows day mind, she talks very little, never in a gapore strewn, room. It seats, a
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