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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 21, 1939.
For Seascapades
These Tennis Parties
Sewing Aids
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shine, our beaches won't want for colour this summer. Every bathing girl can have all the colours of the spectrum in her swim suit, and what could be more exhilarating than gorgeous tropical colouring as a change from
the trim, prim office clothes in dark colours that Miss X and Miss Y wear most of the year round for daily-breading..
We advise them to indulge in all the colour. they can on holiday, for colour should be as much a part of the summer change ns sen breozen and sunshine-it accentuates the contrast from the daily round.
So this year, Instead at conventional navy and white, black and red, and so on. choose n suit that will give some South Sea Island glamour, full of coral reds, azure blues, palm greens and nun-glow yellows,
There all-wool "bathers" have been printed by quite a now process, so that a very wide range of colours con be used, and they are absolutely fast 10 sea and sun.
Firat comes a ault with green ground floral pat- leened in coral plak, blue, yellow or white, It's made with a instex bust line and front skirt. The tastex bust tine is Dattering to the figure, as well as giving at and comfort.
Next cult Is printed with all the under-the-ses glories of a tropical island? There are seaweeds of many colours, and fish of a dozen shades and shapes. This also has the lastex bust line and back and a front skirt.
The cross-over brassiere top is specially attractive on the third bather. This is in white, with an all-over design of colourful galleons, and elastic at bust Une, back and legs makes for perfect At.
Last, and gayest of all, is a suit with coral ground patterned in palm trees, South Sea maidens, Bowers and birds, in dazzling array. The white wool-ribbon shoulder straps are adjustable, the wool-ribbon being slotted through to tie in a bow in front. It also has
Iced Coffee
HERE is a singular belief inherent tance to be favoured. But the tigers ¡A FEW Items, not generally found is iced coffee. This can be
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der the trees in five minutes, fecting that the first lot, whese fun it is to play again, are having very much the best . having run their open- in set to 34 games,
In work baskets, may be usefully
snatt seams on thin materials. The ordmary dorning mushroom is too big for children's socks and other smut Hems. A large empty cotton reel serves the purpose well.
clastic at the bust line and o front skirt.
The little line sketches show you just what The back of each or these purc wool Wolsey sults looks like. They're grund both for sun and sea bathing
Skilful Mending
DELICIOUS hot-weather drink TT is annoying when a favourite pair of stockings suddenly in most hostesses that they have of the last set are selected, since the included. For sharpening scissors, a made with the least trouble simply springs a ladder, or a large hole, or only to get their husbands to trucs set was so stort, and the same thing square of emery, paper is ideal. A by inking a small tin of cafe au lait when a well-liked dress of coat gels wavering white les apon the fawn, happens again, and everyone is un-nal file is useful for tucking under and diluting it with cold water ac- torn, for the creet nei, buy
repair is generally } dozen tennis
coning to the directions. Pour the obvious unless we are very careful baths, and command the first dozen,
diluted cafe into a cocktail shaker about it. people who come to her mind to
or large, stoppered jar and shake Here are several ways in which Proine over for tea and tennis," in
with one or two spoonfuls of vanilla mending may be almost invisible. order to ensure the most successful
ice-cream until frothy.
A mended Indder is less noticeable kind of social and sporting afternoon. They du play again and keep it up At the bottom of the basket keep
Pour into tull glasses, adil a dab when a very small tack is made on Personally, I dislike tennis parties, till tea tine, having now learned the a smill tin of talcum powder. A of whipped cream if fitted, and serve. the wrong side, then the laddered although like the majority of us, crafty tricks which keep a set go-little sprinkled on the fingers now If it is not required at once. keep part cut away as closely as possible fron that very first afternoon when ing. Thien, when tea is over" (a and then, particularly when sewing the mixture in à refrigerator or ice I respond to the wheedling, "Do draughty business under the tree).out-of-doors in hot weather, pre-box. Add the cream just before
having a few people the inevitable happens and the host.vents them from becoming sticky.
serving. come, we're along for tennis on Saturday, Itching to be at it, cries. "Now, In a prominent position near the continue to rally to the call without what about a men's four, ch?" ~ The top of the basket ~ keep magnet
smile on my face. And yet, how ladies settle into their choirs. TheThere is no quicker way of recover absurdly funny it all is.
high spot of the day hins arrived. |ing inst needles and pins than by You accept you don-your-clean-The--gods-are-at-thelr-Frolics-A-pushing-it-round-the-basket-or-over! dermels; take train or car, end arrive men's fourt
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to the stitching. On the right side it looks like a fuw, which is less obvious than a darn-or we hope so! Always use a very fine needle and mending-silk that matches perfectly, and trim with a sharp pair of cm- broidery scissors, being careful not to.cut-the-stitelios,-or-another-lad~-]
der-will start.
Holes in the heels and toes may be patched if you always keep handy a few old stockings of various shades, and use them to cut patches slightly larger than the hole to be mended.
Trim the rugged edges of the hole.
to find the traditional scene. There isher of Batis la the court all rolled and, uincked: there is the net slightly sagging and And the men, however bad they calling for that solemn business with may be, are conscious of what is two racquets; there is, the non-play- expected, of them, and with stert Ing hoslegs sitting under ʼn tree with
hot, sticky evenings, don't take gusto they proceed to slash, lunge. her supposedly non-playing husband, jump, crouch, strut, slam, drive, and
UT some lean, cooked ham into a cold bath, it will only make Place the patch under the hole, and who intends to be in on every post-dash the perspiration from their eye-
small pieces and put them into you holler. Take a tepid one just run-stitch it all round, about one- inch from the edge, brows all to no great purpose beyond a battereit fire-proof dish. Sprinkle before you go to bed, and then pat eighth of an Theke, too, are your fellow-part- that of causing the odd rabbit out will dots of butter and put in the seme eau de cologne over your en-making the smallest possible stitches tire body. Use 4 fresh-smelling on the right side, and, of course, ners in the rout-the tigers (craggy to take up a position in the road with even to heat through.
Have ready come chopped dates variety of bath salts or bath essence using matching slik. Run-aliteli looking fellows with Important a landing net for fishing balls out
mixed with n liberal quantity of any During the daytime, lighten your again round the extreme edge of blazers). the tigresses (hrown, of the stream.
of the breakfast cereals and pile this makeup. A good idea is to dilute the hole, or silp-hem the edge to the sinewy ladies with rolled sockw. un-
Then it is over, and everyone over the ham. Return it to the oven your usual #quid foundation with a patch, using very small slitches, powdered rosen, and a couple of ree- starts having return matches, and it to heat and to crisp on the surface, ittle skin tonie, so that your fuce la You will find this method much quets aplece), the nondescripts like is recalled that the women haven't and serve at once.
prevented from becoming too greasy, neater and more durable than u oneself (a job lot of men und girls | had a four, and they have one, and
Give the feet a cooling treatment. darn. In white), and the rabbiis, terror-
return matches are played, stricken youths and inuidens with oc- and a freshly assorted men's fourting themselves into hats and coats tagonal racquets and an appalling gets going,
and cars, grow quite boisterous und consciousness of the hungry tigers
Twilight falling finds the Anule to uppish in their condense. and their mates nearby.
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Rub iced astringent on the heels and Stockings that have shrunk in the arches, und spare a little time to fool in the wash can have a new tõe massage them before you retire at plece added in the same way. night-t is well worth it.
Tears in Clothes
ali tetinis parties in progress—a And the hostess says, "Well, it has Don't fry putting new make-up dashing single between the two been nice, and all. You must come over old-it Invariably clogs the worst rabbits, who, taking the op- again."' And, øddly enough, we_doljskin. "
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For a while the talk is general, | portunity afforded by everyone pul- and then the host says, "Well, what)
atorts about starting?" Everyone -edging dway from the court depre- catingly, nt; the same time intent upon being in the first set, Then, after everyone, has suld "No fear, not the it set for me, racquets are spun and four players find themselves facing one another with twitching smiles. Then the chorus begins by the first to say, "Well, how'll we play? I'll tell you frankly, this is iny Brot game this year,"
Racquets are spun again for part- ners, and again to decide about ends, ond the attacking pair thrust balls at each other imploringly, with "You serve. first," und "No, renily, you and the tennis-party do, please," opens according to ritual" with a ma- festle double fault..
the
The set wears away, and players chaff one another, and the host fetches balls from flower-bed and road, and the other guests listen politely to their hostess and gnaw their nails as the vantage set of deuce games polters to 15-14, 19. all, 16-15, and on, on, on.
But at last it is over, and again: nobody wishes to play, and all cry earnestly I'll elt this one out," and racquets are twirled, and another set. begins, and the host, still out of it, goes on fetching stray balls, and The whole thing is over in about Ava ninutes, a deceitful. Ilger and tigress having been opposed to two perfectly honest rabbits who were just na bait as they said they were, and who, wander dazedly off the court.
Then the hostess says, "Now, who hasn't played? You haven't, Miss Sims, and you haven't, Mr. Crane, but everyone else has." At" enco bashfulness sota.in ngain and reluc
Anne Brook
Hed, white and blug rayon Jersey blouse and wash with white corded sharkskin slanke are shown at the left. The hostess wears shirt and slacks of yellow sharkskin, theʻgiri ni the right: combines álseks of squs soun rayon with a plaid shirt of the same fabrie
Jagged tears in clothes can be mended practically invisibly in this |way:-Turn the garment inside out and lay flat on the ironing table, with the damaged part upper- most. Carefully draw the edges to- gether so that the broken ends of the threads come together, but do them not overlap. Pin or tock through to the ironing blanket to- prevent slipping, then secure with strips of adhesive tape, cut half an inch longer than the teur. Press |lightly with a warm iron. If core- fully done the mend will be lavisi- blo on the right side.
A hole can be påtched in the same way if you have a piece of the ma terial. Be careful that the grain of the patch follows the same direction as that of the garment. It is best to cut the edges quite straight all round the hole.
Take the patch in position on the wrong side of the garment. Turn over to the right side, tuck onco again, then, with matching cotton, or better
with strands of he petual materini run-atlich niong the grain of the material taking the atliches through the double naterial, and just over the edge of the hole, Moke very small stitches, and work from the right side so that you can keep your lines straight. The patch shouldbe about a quarter of an Inch larger all round, this provides for any pull on the patch. Don't pull the stitches too tight.
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tion. This should be, about a quar-} Use sharp.embroidery damp cloth. Torn Not Curtains
Holes can be patched invisibly in
scissors for ter of on inch larger, all round. į trimming. Match up the holes, then tack in
Press well on the wrong side and position all round. Over-sew the the patch will be invisible. That in two thicknesses together, keeping to much better than darning a largo the lines.
surface, but it is essential to see that
net curtains, it have a plece of the same net, and matching cotton Afterwards carefully cut away the the holes correspond, and the Unes Cut the edges of the tear straight looss edgos on both sides of the run straight. Lay curtain flat on the table, right patch. För better security a second
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