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Young and Gay
SHORT CUTS
To make a delicious sauce for baked apples or gingerbread, use one tablespoonful of water for cach three marshmallows, melt- ing over a slow flame,
When measuring molasses, grense the cup with butter or lurd before hand to prevent it, sticking to the
mauuring "cup"
To prevent scorching when baking, place a shallow pan of water directly on the floor of the
OYCH
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Tu prevent spaghett! or macaroni from sticking to the pan, cook it in a colander or slove placed in the pan of boiling salt water.
Points To Remember
BY
DY fastening the strings of baby's D bonnet with press-studs insicad of sewing them, they can be easily removed and washed separately.
Culko, prints, and lace curtains may be dilleult to wash when new owing to the line in them, but if soaked all night in warm water In which two or three handfuls of salt have been dissolved. the time will be freed und the task made caster,
1f-your-leather-belt-requires-an- ather notch in it, heat an old sleek' kaltting needle at one end, and when red hot burn another hole in the belt," for by this method It will appear as neat as the origlaul holes.
If ten cloths are inclined to leave particles of fluff on china and glass
thei when they are dried, wosh
It thoroughly before giving them
rinse through thin starch. When dry a beautiful finish will be pro- deed on china and glassware.
G. G. T
Here are two new Piccaninny frocks with contrasting
tops and skirts. The one on the left has a pleated skirt, the one on the right a flared one.
HOLIDAY FROCKS
July 17, 1939.
Do You Live By Competition?
MRS. X. lives where competition
the keynote of life. Left to
..for Teens and hobbles. But either
Twenties
A
Ll good things go in threes, s
they
aby, and
hern are three frocks to remind you of sen' breezes art golden kunde.
herself she would move through this world quite contentedly. She might even develop a little personality and show an individual note in her clothes, house furnishing, and hor she cannot think for herself by nature or she has spent such a long time allowing her friends to think for her that she has lost the habit. She is just one of million other modern housewives, kept alive and "up-to-date" by the constant competition with other wo- ment
MAINTENANCE CLAIM
Allegations Of Adultery Made
By Mother-In-Law
Allegations that the complainant had misbehaved herself and had committed adultery were made by Tse Yeung-yam, mother of the defendant, when a summons brought by Koo Shiu-wah, 23, against her husband, Lam Fung-lung, for desertion and wilful neglect to provide reasonable maintenance, was heard before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy on Saturday,
Young nirls in their teens and
Everything she buys, does, says or twenties will welcome these charm- thinks is done because somebody else Ing "little girl fashions" that are the is doing H and she must keep level occasions in the company of seven of from his wife to place dance-girls nt
at all costs.. vogue this summing
Troplent hues of red, yellow, blun and green are the favourites, but whatever you choose, see that it en hantes the colour of eyes, hair and skin,
lines
The new sweetheart neck shown in No. 1282 is very popular this xen- son. for its attractive heart-shaped most becoming This brightly palterned frock speaks of youth and galety with is pert ti bows on the riceves and at each side of the walki
SLIM THE HIPS
•
She does not even attempt to dis- use the fact in her conversation. "Do you know, Mrs. So-and-So has bought a refrigerator? I simply have to get one too. There is no reason why I shouldn't; our income 1s as good as her family's."
Mrs. X's code seems to be: "If other people have such-and-such must have it too, No other woman is going to beat me at anything." Fads and Fashions
Because of this desire to keep level with everybody she has sent her children to schools that she cannot Full puff sleeves and a swinging really afford. She has taken up skirt give you a nice shapely waist-games she did not like, lets that
her, line through which the ribbon Is disagreed with
Inds and threurted. A grand
frock for
the fashions that offended her husband. Alimly-built gri
Indeed the has been so busy keep Keep in mind that plain fabrics ing up the pace of having everythin are more slinuming than patterned, that everybody else has that she hus long ago lost all sense of propor- and give more height, so if you are
tion. Her house is overfumished, worried about your hips select No.
and her day over-crowded, yet she is 1203, made in sunshine yellow.
not one bit happler with each poses- sion, for no sooner has she gained it than she hears of something else she "must get," and the agony of being behind hurts nil over again.
'Chat row of buttons down the front gives length and the fullness of skirt is smoothed out over the hip line with tiny inyerted tucks.
The third design, No. 1284, is every woman's dress. It suits the slenders, has height making lines If you are short, and that buttoned front lakes inches off plump hips,
Try it in crease restating coltons or linens that are fast to sun, sea and washing: It will tub and tub again.
RUN don't walk-to your verandah for sandwiches and spiced iced coffee, or have a plate supper of salad and sandwiches, when the weather becomes sultry these spring days. The breeze. will cool you outside as a cold drink will inside; so spice your iced coffee and make sandwiches to munch on, with easily prepared fillings such as those suggested below:
LUNCHEONS
Stuffed Tomato with Cottage Cheese and Chives Chopped Watercress Pinwheels Olives and Celery
19ot Buiterscstch Roli Coffee
Fresh Fruit Salad Bowl with Lemos French Dressing Cheese Cornucoplas Chocolate Cake Sandwiches* Spiced Iced Coffee
How to diagnose the competitive enmplaint? Just pause for a mo- ment next time you want to say: "1 ought to such-and-such too; so- and-so has one." Say instead My fe is something individual and dis- tinct from every ather woman's. A would be an insult to my home and marriage to set it up in competition with somebody else's. Let me stand alone and find happiness by stan- durds of my own making,
Appealing to the eye as well as the appetite on a sultry spring day, this snack of spiced Iced coffee and fancy sandwiches will delight your family or guests. Below are hints on how to make the fancy sandwiches,
cold water for percolator or boiled ter.
At one side of silce, arrange coffee and into the pot if you have a row of stuffed olives. Sprend in a drip percolator. Make your colles
OUTDOOR SANDWICHES
come
Mr. M. A. da Sliva conducted the the sometimes lives with his sisters or case for Koo. Lam was not repre-his friends,
charges
In Cabarets sented. He denied the against him.
So you are unable to say whether goes out Koo was cross-examined by Lam on is true that your zon 'Saturday. She denied she was fond (dancing every night in cabarets and of going about with other inen, and places dance-girls at his inble at $10 denied allegations by the defendant per hour?I did not give him the that he had seen her on severni money..
So you think he gets his money. eight men. She declared that Lam knew where she was living after she table? That may be so.
Tse, on further questioning, said separated from film.
she did not know..what a dinner auif A subpoenaed witness, So Kam-was, and had not seen one in her sank, who had previously given house. In any event, she had not evidence that he had seen a notice on given money to her son to make,one. the staircase landing of defendant's
If I adduco evidence Mr. Silva: house pruhibiting members of the Uhat your son, few days ago, had Koo family leaving or entering the dancing girls at his table for two house, denied that he had kept hours at a cost of $20, you would say company with the complainant either that money was not from the allow Before or after her marriage.
Lance you gave him?-I can show you evidence of the things I have pawned. At the close of the prosecution's Questioned ns to whether her son, case, Lam said he had no evidence to husband of herself had shares in the ТБО give on his own behalf, and called Honghong Rubber Factory. his mother.
denled that any of them had, but The Yam-yeung said her son was added that during recent years the obedient to her. She alleged that, Factory had not paid dividends, after Koo's baby daughter hadAsked how she knew, if she was not died In 1938, the girl began a shareholder, Tee replied that her
all ber "boy
few bringing
friends married daughter possessed a
the annuni home at 56 Belcher shares, and their
received to
Town. Witness report. Street, Kennedy alleged the men were Koo's Mr. Silva: Have you been giving sweethearts, because she had seen your son the money with which he them embracing each alter. When ing been paying temporary main- she objected to the girl's behaviour.tenance to his wife?-1 pawned things Koo left the house. Witness further to get him the money. alleged she had seen Koo in company You are a partner and one of the with men in the streets and in the biggest sharchoklers in the Yee Hing Chung Sing bathing pavillen,
Knitting Factory in Shamshulpo, are Tse: have seen her in bed with you not?- m a shareholder, but I
have only $2,000 worth of shares,
Did you not inherit a considerable His Worship: I shall have to warn sum of money form your husband for you that if I find you are telling lles yourself and your son? I received about that, I shall send you to prison nothing from my husband. He lett ngo, and I have not for two months with hard labour me five years
heard from him since. without the slightest compunction.
Tse began sobbing at this point, and T&C: I am telling the truth. She stayed in bed with men the whole the Court was adjourned for a few day in my house. All the people in minutes to enable her to recover. my house saw this. She paid no at-
men.
Magistrate's Warning,
tention to me at all.
On resuming. Mr. Silva suggested to Tsc that her Allegations about
un Koo's conduct were absolutely
Tse denied this. Mr. Silva: When you arranged
Me. Silva: You are certain your daughter-in-law is nothing but the true. most promiscuous women?--Yes.
And that it is no doubt due to your the marriage between your son and bad temper that there was n rift bei Wah-hing, your second daughter- tween your con and her? I have a in-law, did you consider Keo com- pletely out of your family and no very good temper,
Not Kil-Fat Wife
What caused trouble between your longer your son's wife?---No. son and your second daughter-in-law, the one chosen by yourself?-Her behaviour is just as bad.
Why did you arrange 2 second
Just as promiscuous?-She mis-marriage then?--I was ill at the behaved herself with my male re-time, and wanted someone to look After me. Koo had refused to re- Intlyes.
In fact, she slept with men in bed turn. in your houre also?—Yes.
So much so that when she gave
LI Wah-hing was not married
to my son as a kli-fat wife,
In spite of the fact that their union
te was in nccortionce with kit-fat care- monies?-There was no ceremony.
birth to a son,, you would not cognize the child as your grand-Nobody was invited to the union.
son? I did not say that
Do you recognise the child as your that time? Yes, he was earning $83 Was your son in employment at grand-son or not?
And though he was supporting Koo
Toe gave several evasive answers, per month. and was told by his Worship to answer the question directly.
Tse: I am not satisfied the child
is my grand-con.
Mr. Silva: And for the! reason you threw her out-of-the-house? did not chase lier out.
In a separate house, and was a spend- thrift, you still thought your con could support a second wife?-Li aig her meals with me.
In other words, you were going to support her?--Yes. was then not
Is it correct that in February, 1038, as hard-up as now. Koo Shiu-wah lived at No. 8 Kee
Questioned by his Worship regard
And
the time.
the
Cheong Street will your son? Yes. ing Koo's alleged adultery, Tee said
And the reason, I suggest, why the her daughter, a male relative two left your house and lived outside herself were in the house was because you were causing trouble When she saw what Koo and In their married life?--As a mother, man were doing, she scolded both of them, and they left the house. Tso I could not do that,
Can you suggest any reason why added that a woman friend of her's they should leave the house and live couid testify to seeing Koc out in the together outside?-Since he would company of men. not listen to me, I allowed her to live outside.
At the conclusion of her evidence, his Worship remarked that he would have to investigate her allegations.
Mr. Sliva agreed, and said his client
Threatened Sulełdo His Worship: You allowed her? Would welcome an exhaustive investi- Why did she live outside-Because Eation.
defendant's Lam Ho-po,
clder she did not like to live with me-islater, was then called. She testled When I scolded her, she threatened to having seen Koo in bed with a to take poison and commit suicide.
On the occasions you saw her la man. Her attention had been called.
to this by her mother, While her bed with men in your house, were
as usual and when the coffee is made strips to end of slice any favourile
they in the same room as yourself or mother scolded the two, witness tele- pour immediately over ice cubes in prepared meat spreads hat
In a different room? They were in Phoned to her brother to inform him
of the incident. tall glasses, Serve with plain or ready to use in stnall pots or jam.
The hearing was adjourned to 2.30 Was this in the day-time or night? whipped cream. We've found that Starting at the olive row, roll the my son's roon while he was away.
p.m. to-day. men usually prefer plain cream; so brend to the end. Secure with airing
Was the door open or closed? The you might keep this in mind when ur toothpleks; or roll in a dampened-In the day.
cloth and place in the refrigeralar to serving iced coffee.
chill. Cut crosswire into thin pin- door was open, but there was a sun-NEW GLEN SCHEDULE
blind screening it. wheel rounds when ready to serve.
Did they have their clothes on or Hongkong to be Homeward For fresh Foft
the ribbon sandwiches, use For cornucopias, use
Calling Port bread rather lengthwise strips of white and your off-All I could see when the breeze white or wholewheat
they were holding each other in bed. thinly sliced. Spread with softened favourite dark bread. A sweet nut slightly parted the blind was that buiter and with various flavours of or fruit sprend is frequently com- cheeses that come ready for spread- bined with white for sandwiches of ing in glass jars. Garnish the cor- this typo. Spread with softened but-Yes. When I saw what they were terday afternoon of the Glescarn, a nucopias in different ways-with ter and your favourite filling. Cream alices of olive, aprigs of watercress cheese combined with nuts or pre- serves makes a nice filing for this or parsley and so on.
type of sandwich. Put the strips of To make pinwheel sandwiches, bread together, first a strip of dark 12 heaping tablespoons calen
remove crusts from a loaf of bread bread between two of light, then re- Make coffee by your favourite and slice in lengthwise allces. Spread verse, having white between two method, putting the spices into the slices with creamed or whipped but dark. Silee just before serving.
SPICED ICED COFFEE
3 pieces 2-inch stick cin-
NAMON
12 whole cloves.
C cups water
Jimmy's
$1
TIFFINS
at
Also A la China Bldg., Hongkong..
Carte
Hankow Rd., Kowloon.
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The old Glen service was. through
But did they have their clothes on? With the departure for Home Yea-
new Glen Line schedule came into Was she with different men?-operation. Glen Lino vessels former- doing, I was filed with thama. Sometimes. Sho would be sitting in ly omitted Hongkong on the Home the parlour with many of her men run, but henceforth there will be a friends, when she would call one of Glen Line sailing from Hongkong them and go into the room with him.jevery 28 days.
How many people lived in your house?-About six, not including Hongkong to Shanghai and Japan on the northern run, but from Japon servants. I have no servants now.
And the reason you have no ser direct to the Philippines on the run Home. Now not only Hongkong, but vants now is because you are hard-atso Marsellica and Casablanca are to up? Yoz
added to the ports of call in the Glen You are so hard-up that your son, service, now being out of employment, is un- On this new schedule the old ships able to get anything to support hij of the Z-class-the Glenogle, Glenbeg, wife? We have no money at all. Glenshiel, Glenapp, and Glengarry—
I suggest the story of your being will ultimately be replaced by the hard-up is merely an excuse for your more comfortable Y-class, of which son to cease giving maintenance to the Glencarn was the first launched. his wife?--Ho is a spendthrift. The Breconiltre artel Glenorchy, have two date, but I have let them building in Hongkong, are also Y- out to people. I have also given up ships. my telephone.
The Breconshire is due for Does your son go out every night? trials on July 10. There will be a board on -I don't know everything about his celebration reception on
July 21, and she will sail for Shanghai movements,
But is he at home at nights? Sinco and Japan between August 8 and I cannot give him money to spend, 12.
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