Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 5, 1939.
“HAZELINE
FAIRY TALE EVENING
Dress for the debutante in flowered crepe, The bodice is ruched, and has three matching rows of ruching of the hem.
China And Glass Care
FASHIONS
PARIS.
CRINOLINES and glass sandals. Could you imagine
anything more romantic?
Yet glass sandals such an Cinderella might have envied have tripped their way into the evening fashion story. Fairy slippers they are, made of crystallite, which is unbreakable.
They are fastened to the feet with straps of silver kid, and if you don't want to
slip the first time you wear them you just rub sand- paper on the soles.
حالي
*
NEWEST crinoline frocks
are lovely. They're
made of clouds of foamy
tulle or lace or flowered crepe, and worn over petticoats of lace and chiffon."
Most of the crinoline frocks for young girls have tiny puff sleeves set in their proper place or half-way down the arms to reveal bare shoulders.
Older women have strapless decolletes or tiny shonl- der straps.
To remove this,' make n paste of soft soap, sturch, and a little lemon juice. Smooth the Infected area with this, leave for twenty-four hours, and then
your very best china cups are on duty, always pour the milk in first. AN you mond broken china, and Otherwise the cup may develop a d:- class-ware? A little knowledge fect known as "crazing." The symp of this type of first-aid is very use toms of this are little fine lines which ful, and muct you have mended a are actually cracks and which play cherished article successfully, you havoc with the appearance of the will probably get the fever, and turn china,
CAN
put the china cupboard optimistically
in search of further material.
Naturally
If a cup does get attacked this way,
A really bad "ease" never store it anywhere damn.
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needs professional treatment, but for Ugly dark marks are liable to appear an ordinary breakage a home-made round the tiny cracks.
cement is all that is needed.
Careful Staring
Blake this by beating the white of an egg and mixing it with plaster of Remember that the best china needs Paris into sinooth paste. The careful storing. Tissue paper sand- article should be first washed and the wiched in between plates and saucera derelict pieces put to warm unill will prevent scratches. If the china is stored on shelves instead of in #
Use a knife to spread the cement, cupboard, wrap cach pile in transpar- and sprend It evenly and moderately, ent paper. This will keep out dust. Fix the pieces together again and and there will be no unwrapping to wipe off any superfluous paste with a get at certain pieces.
What about glassware? Tils, too, damp cloth. Then We the chino up with tape to help to keep the repaired can be dottored at bome. Alum pletes in position, and leave to mends gloss beautifully.
Melt a harden.
little in a metal spoon, and watch that the Groiten edges of the derelict plece are quite free from dust before apply-
Bending Breakages
If you are doctoring a piece of ing it. Actually, repaired articles of ching which has broken in several this type can be safely washed after- parts, one piece at a time should be wards.
Joined on and left to harden before Then did you know that waterginas, altempling the next. A little all just as it comes from the tin, wi paint to colour the seams and match niso do the trick? Paint the water- the ching would be a clever iden If glass on to the broken edges carefully, you really mean to make a good job and leave to dry. This "convalescent" of the repair.
will stand ordinary light work, but no Delicate trifles of china can be re- hot water for it, please! paired with colourless nail varnish. If you panic at the thought of wasi1- Brush it lightly on to the broken leg any mended glassware, clean it edges and piece together. It will be with methylated spirit. Use a piece quite a strong repair and the join of cotton wool, and for hollows and will be hardly noticeable.
riches excavate with a very soft Even the best china is liable to cer- brush dipped in the spirit. Lala ailments-mildew, for instance.
Madge While
The hooded facket and fall elronlar skirt of of wido striped scallesi, in nhades of brown with a blouse of white looped mohair. make a grand outfit to wear aboard ship.
Evening dress. in pink nei with black lace apron. The blue satin bow
is reminiscent - -
of the chate-
laine.
Should A Husband Tell?
An evening frock in two colours-fuchsia, and mauve,
The Joys Of Middle-Age
COMEONE has said, "To know how
to grow old is the master work
of wisdom, and one of the most diffi- cult chaptera in the art of living."
Many of us miss the joys of middle- age because we are so afraid of grow ing old. We won't talk about it and we keep on trying to keep young, and camoufinge the fact that our mile stones are steadily mounting up.
Yet every age has its own joys, and we can't afford to miss any of them hanging on to the tails of the joys
by
of a period we are done with.
Nothing is to be gained by trying to look and behave like women who
ace years younger than we are,
Giris have a good time nowadays, and many mothers are apt to feel a envlous when they remember how bil envi their own precious girlhood was wasted.
If they worked for their living it- was often at something intensely un- interesting. If they stayed at home they did uninteresting jobs and had very little money to spend.
vertheless middle age has many
more pleasures than it used to have some years ago, so why spoil one's middle age by harking back to the memory of days which can never be ours again?
"A"Tinië "of" Happiness--
Middle age should be a joyous time for married women for they are free of the worry of bringing up children. Their families are probably making their way in the world and settling down in homes of their own.
П
there is chance to cultivale The Many women have longed
for a garden all their lives, and sud- HOUSE-to-house canvass in Eng- to the husband's presumed Income. denly find it is possible to have one land has revealed that many One reason why husbands do not! and devote time to caring for it. wives do not know how much their tell their wives is because women And just think of the joy there is in husbands carn,
will talk. If a wife knows her hus-o gardent
Perhaps while their children were
As one husband who has never kept band's Income, it is almost certain a financial secret from his wife, I am that her friends (and their husbands) young they had little time for mak- ing friends, but when the children prepared to concede that there is a know it too.
When two wives start confiding in need their care no longer they can lot to be said for the opposite angle. and if I were starting married life each other, the amount of a husband's pick up the threads of past friend- anew I should keep all news of my Income is quite a minor secret. In thips. earnings to myself.
many instances, husbands occupy a They are sure to find that some old Actually, the practie of conceal- position in which it is undesirable for friends have dropped out of their Ing income from a wife is more com- their colleagues and friends to know lives simply because, like themselves, mon among the rich than among the the amount of their earnings and as they have had too much to do. And men a requisite, almost a primary, step in very soon they will find that they poor. The wives of wealthy rarely know to within £10,000 the the maintenance of this secrecy they have many interests in common.
their husbands Incomes. huveto withhold the information of
Middle age can be just as romantic nmount There is no reason why they should, from their wives.
and happy as youth if it is approached They receive an ample allowance are
in the right spirit.
never short of money, nad the exact Little Advantage to Wives amount the husband receives every What good does it do a wife to year is no business of the wife.
know the amount her husband carns?
Among the poorer classes, where From my experience, very little. If the margin is very small, the husband there is any financial worrying to be is often forced to reveal his income done, it certainly does not help to In self defence as an "empty-pocket have two people worrying over the Illustration of his inability to make
same problem.
ends meet. ·
Not a Mean Trait
Wives are more easily alarmed over Onancial dimculties than hus- bands and the mart as the added It is a mistake to think that hus- burden of having to pacify his wife. bands withhold information about If there are no financial diflculties, their income because they are mean, there is nothing for either partner to Often the opposite is the case, and worry about, and there is no reason women who have accidentally dis- why a wife should know what her covered their husbands earnings have husband's Income is. also discovered that their housekeep- In theory it is a very fine idea. to ing allowance was a higher propor- start off married life on a basis of tion of the total than most women perfect mutuil confidence, share and receive.
share alike,what's mine is yours.
Nor does a husband's silence pro and so on, but in practice there is no tect him from arguments with his wife benefit gained.
about the amount of her allowance. Wives are better off without this The wife who does not know is far interesting piece of Information, al- more likely to ask for more than the though many of them do not réaliso wife who doćs" know. "Imagination it. always adds a pound, or, so a week
SHORT CUTS
When adding cream' or 'milk
to mached potatoes make sure to seal it first.
-D. C. J.
Bride Mines King
MELBOURNE.
When Mrs. Katherine Allen decid-
ed that her wedding ring was not Always use freshly boiled water large enough to be symbolic of what invemaking coffee," Water which marriage really meant to her, she has remained in a heater for any simply went to the Bendigo gold length of time becomes Bat tasting fields and dug up enough gold to per and is certain to apoll an otherwise mit a Jeweller to fashion her ring good cup of coffee,
nto what she thought it to be.
M. W
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ANNUAL BALL
Under the Distinguished Patronage of His Excellency Sir Geoffry Northcote, K.C.M.C. and Lady Northcote
at the
PENINSULA HOTEL
on
Friday, April 14 at 9.30 p.m.
Cabaret Show
and Bridge Room
TICKETS $4.00 EACH INCLUDING SUPPER. Obtainable at the Hongkong. and Peninsula Hotela.. Tables may be booked at the above hotels.