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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 2, 1939.
If You Admire The Duchess of Kent's Hats..
-Then these
are for you
Because they are similar in style to the liats she herself usually chooses.
The Duchess of Kent's beauty is such that she could wear any shape of hat and get away with it, but her favourites seem to be modern versions of the Edwardian bonnets that her great-aunt Alex- andra, whom she so much resembles, used to wear. And it is from the huis of Alexandra that Aage Thaarup, the designer, got his inspiration för these three models,
If you have fallen for these hats and would like to follow the Duchess's lead, but have doubts whether Alexandrian bonnets would suit you, take a look at yourself in a mirror, Decide whe- ther, like the Duchess, you have a long oval face, clear-cut regular features, high check-bones.
Besides these, you will need a dash of sophisti- cation for these hats are not for the very young girl-and impeccably well-dressed hair. having it styled specially to suit
the bonnet, in long ringlets al the back.
Try
This navy coloured saflor with a narrow upturned brim ta made in Cellophane straw, and trimmed with a elister of pink and white moss Toses. Long streamers of navy blue veiling fat from the back of the brim over the hair, and float down almost to the waist. (They can be fied road under the chin, if you wish).
LEFT. A silk togue with a dis- tinctly military air about it. It's set at a jaunty augle over the cycs, has a high pointed crown from the prak of which cascades a Lifeguardsman's, plume of stranded aliks in many
colours.
CHILDREN'S TEARS TROUBLE SIGNALS FOR MOTHER!
When word about a child's condition-the inner
"ATCH that crying! It carries a message louder
condition. Healthy children smile. Others will, when you give them CASTORIA, the ideal laxative. It's not only pleasant to tako-children love its taste-but it's safe, gentle and effective in action. Because it's made especially for children, CASTORIA will not 'gripe, bind or jur their delicate systems like some adult laxatives.
When the younger members of the family are upset, nervous, show algns of catching a cold, are "bound-up" Inside GIVE THEM CASTORIA, the safe laxative, Keep a bottle on hand always in your home.
CASTORIA
THE CHILDREN'S LAXATIVE
"YES,
I'LL
SMILE
FOR CASTORIA!"
In millions of American homes CASTORIA is a steady grout, used for all chlidren from babyhood to 11 years. It's a friend of the family becaɑva It contains no castor all at hermful ingradients. Miny doses in each battle. Una es nended, it keepя.
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ostrich feathers curl blue coftly over this exquirite model which is a modern version of the Ewardian, bonnet. The flat founda- tion of white straw curves up at the side, to show a smooth sweep of brushed-up hair.
Homely Hints
the silk straps of your under- wear Bre constantly slipping from your shoulders, substitute nar- quw velvet ribbon with the pile next To the skin in place of silk.
When pressing a pair of dannel trousers, cover them with thick rown paper, sprinkle well with Warin water, and press with a hot ton; this treatment is superior to using a damp cloth.
Keep a spll key ring In your handbag, for it will be found invalu- ablo numerous occasions when shopping, as the strings of a number: of small parcels can be, slipped on to it, and carried on one finger.
American cloth is ideal for lining kitchen drawers, as it is orally Warhed, and does not curl un it fastened down with drawing pins.
When cleaning shoes, allp a paper i
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Accessories
bud over the hand before putting it ACCESSORIES to a suit or dress a pint of water in which a teaspoon-
inside the shoes, for by this method
it will prevent any polish rolling the hand I will also protect the shoes llning.
When hearth or floor tiles do not look clean after ordinary washing, dissolve two tumbs of sugar in the Juice of a lorge lemon, add to the tiles, All the flains will disappear.
O, G. T.
are like parsley on a dish. They ful of powdered give it atmosphere.
urable has been dissolved. Stretch and pin into shape and leave to dry leisurely.
wash
Etceteras planned with cure and then cherished can raise a humble Fancy "fronts" for wearing with a outẞt to a much higher level. Select town suit, and little collar and cult ed casually and then worn merciless sets of pique, linen, or any of the ly without thought of an occasional rolton family, should be booked for basin very often. Use uverhaul, they lower the tone of an the cutfit, no matter what its initial af- Teamy suds for boiling, and a pinch at borax will give them a pristine tractions.
whiteness. A good starching fot- Let us begin with artificial flowers, lowed by ironing almost immediate- What a crop this summer! Morning. jy will produce and retain the neces-
out into bloom, giving charm to even the most taltored ot Lace Trimmings outils. But artificial flowers need to R
Cooking Difficulties afternoon, and evening, they come sary stiffness.
Solved
be kept fresh. Wilting ones are in- Lace trimmings must be washed lightly, and never rubbed. Let your Keep artificial flowers in a box lices dry before ironing. Use the when off duty so that they will not point of the Iron and smooth from: get crumpled by pressing against the straight edge to the outer edge; jarments in tlic wardrobe. And and always on the wrong side. preen them a little before pinning Summer slices of white or coloured
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ragged and broken appearance this is generally caused by loo-quick boiling, the movement of the boiling water tearing the egg white.
The water for poaching eggs should them on. Tiny leaves and petals, ten or fabric respond to a good be just below boiling point, but when soon get crushed even by wearing.
the eggs are put in the temperature
is lowered, so it must be calsed again, For Frayed Edges
but not to the full boil, and the eggs cooked till the white is sci.
spirit cleaner to revive them. Ro- Stripes move all dust first, then sponge with
go
the cleaner, Dry in a current of air, two-ways in Frayed edges call for the attention Fabric shoes past their first youth this
slim-
for
of sharp selssors. Clip them off to can be rejuvenated" by cunning making nenten them. When flowers and "embroidery."
Use coloured silks frock
naves begin to lose their crispness, and a light darning stitch, Give the
be hold them over the steam from a heels a cost of lacquer after. the Ithe fuller
It perfect symmetry is desired, Inexpensive egg poacher may bought in any household store.
Lumpiness in sauces is caused by the milk being added too quickly, Its always wise to add any quid gradually.
kettle. I will restore them. If embroidery is finished. This will re- figure.. they are dusty, dip them in a clean- store their self-respect,
Satin evening shoes should never fuld before the steaming busi-
be put away with dust on. If left ruins the fabric. For white flowers use a liquid there it simply while shoe cleaner, which will give "Wash" them now and again with them a now lease of life.
warm soapsuds and a rubber nali-
news.
Insumelent stirring while the souce
A vell needs to be handled with brusli, scrubbing afterwards. with is coming to bolting point will also cause lumps to form. Should the kindness if it is to have a long and clean water.
successful career. Let It Брепа A white leather handbag should be sauce not be smooth, take an egg
"resting" hours rolled on to a card- spotless, Make a paste of benzine whisk and beat vigorously of the board cylinder or thick roll of paper, and bran and press it down over the Are, and lumps wili usually dis- appear,
To prevent pastry fans becoming sodden brush over the surface of the
pastry cuse with a little whisked white of ceg. This forms
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film
which will defy all efforts to penc➡ (rate it, if you let it stand a few minutes to harden before pouring in the. Alling.
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If you have trouble with fruit Julebbing out of your ples, aprinklette cornflour over the fruit before putting on the top crust. This will improve the flavour as well as preventing the juice from bolling out.
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Lare vells can be shampooed "care- leather. When it has dried, brush it fully in a tepld lather. Rinse in off lightly. clear warm water and stiffen with
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loose, pleated sleaves in this keep-cool dress
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