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This shirtwaist frock with pleated skirt in large broken plaid in plum, Hime, green and red is in silk weave, are metal edged.
The self-buttons
A Needlewoman's Hints
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If two buttonholes are made op- posite, then two buttons joined the cuff-links be used. They are easily removed for washing, clothes go safely through the wringer and froning is cusier,
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 17, 1939.
He Married Again
By URSULA BLOOM
"HE has married again," said the
He had been brave enough to try horrified neighbour. "His wife to remake his life, and to steer for not dead a year and he has married whatever remnant of happiness he aquin; her best friend, too. A funny could find ahead.
fis solitary state would never have sort of friendship, I must say!"
Had Re-marriage is not always such an helped his dend wife one whit. fruit to the memory of a dead huse the been able to judge she would band or wife as people suppose, have legged him to find some hap- Quite often it can be taken as some piness, any fragment of happiness, in thing in the nature of a compliment, the best possible way for himself. I for at least it shows that the widowed am sure of it.
partner hos found that partnership is
The loving wife is not resentful;
so happy an estate that he cannot the only wants the best for her hus
band. Loneliness is the most com- live alone.
plete unhappiness that any man can It is intolerable, and ten times
Widowhood is the most lonely con- meet. dik in life. I was a widow for more no when he has known a sweet eight years, so I speak with a very companionship. real and bitter experience of it. I know what it is ice.
Durint the whole of the time you are never allowed to forget that you are suspect. Everybody expects you to remarry, and is prepared to jump down your throat if you do!
Curiosity
They are only too ready to link your name with anybody they can find. Sympathy becomes submerged In curiosity. That curiosity becomes
Variety With New Potatoes
NEW potatoes lend themselves to an infinite variety of interesting treatments. From kora d'oeuvres, muyonnaise where moistened with they malte a popular appentance, to the fritters in the sweet course they the most versatile of vegetables. Lyonnaise potatoes are delicious. one of the most hurtful things -This dish requires 1 lb boiled pota aginable.
toes. 2 tablespoons chopped onion, a and 2 tablespoon chopped parsley ozs, butter or dripping.
"But to mRITY her best friend!" said the outraged neighbour, who could only look upon this particular point as being an additional Insult. "A nice best friend to have, I must say,
Fry the union in butter u golden, remove and keep hot walle sliced potatues are fried quickly. Add the onion and cook together for a min-
rve sprinkled with chopped pars-
ley.
If this is looked upon from a diftite or two. Shake well to mix, and ferent angle it takes an entirely dif- ferent shape. That Is the trouble. To the unthinking world there is only one angle and one shape. They refuse to see beyond it.
the fact
This neighbour did not appreciate that simply because this was the best friend, she understood the unfortunate husband's lemn better than anyone else.
She knew his happiness with his
Out of Perspective
For utato pancakes, grate raw po- tato into cold water, drain thoroughly and
breakfast- batter with one cupluls. Make a
little is, two tablespoons four ant silk with reasoning to taste. the grated potato to this batter and drop spoonfuls Into hot butter or lard in the frying pan. When brown
theasure into wo
with cheese sauce.
Stuffed
Packing For a Holiday
Add
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The girl who crockets is happy as the fashion for fishnets sweeps along beaches and play centres. For next to nothing she can spin off her hook grand fishnet accessories that take time at all to make and that see her through all sorts of sports moments. Here, for example, is a playtime ensemble of beach hat, bag, and sandals.
Aunts Are A Nuisance
AUNTS."
The
They return
the stern
DUTTONS will not teur readily Brom children's garments if each button is sewn on to a short plece wife, she knew how bitter his lona on each side serve as i accompani- of clastic and then the elastic own must be, and the sense of frustra-ment to meat dishes or as a savoury on to the garment. When the buttion which necompanies that loss.
potatoes make a useful tons are tugged roughly the elastic A man turns automatically to his
Juncheon or Supper dish. They
sald an eminent entreaties when she conxes thele will stretch and thus save the buttons wife's best friend, because she can from being wrenched off. Not only talk to him of the past; she under- should be baked in their skins, the inside scooped out with a pointed
authority in psychology re- parents to let her "have" them for But pity their ufor- will this prevent hotes where the stands readily the full tenderness of
she is not spoon and filled with the pulp fla-cently, "are a inenace, and ought to the holidays.
tunale mother when Jint and Mur- buttons tear way, it will save the his relationship before:
youred with gra
grated cheese; with cold be abolished." constant replacing of buttons.
Jealous of that which he gave no
As a mother of young children, af- garet return home, a pampered and to who only Children's garments and others re-readily to his first wife, because she chopped meat and a little onion quiring frequent laundering should is big enough to understand. She puree with flaked smoked haddock:flicted by a large number of sisters insufferable pair,
and stators-in-law, or with chopped cooked ham and
and a
who, of course. time and stern discipline can restore nal have pearl buttons sewed on lo knows him well.
constitute my family's aunts, I con- their former thoughtfulness and good the ordinary way. They are likely It is not a disloyalty with which bacon roll on top.
For polato piglets, core some medi-sider this the most sensible statement manners.
Then there is with made by a paychologist for a very
type of to get broken when put through a she steps into her friend's place, but
raw potatoes and stutt 1121 A very generous loyalty, wringer and the jagged edges will maybe
Bake un a grensed long time I believe the aunt tribe aunt. She feels a strong sense of damage the material.
which is prepared to see her mother-sausage meat.
children, and is brought up, sheet, turning occasionally. Serve should be divested of their self-styled duty towards the
convinced privileges of auntship, less children properly
that their parents are AI. L. 1. and to put some luttered remnant of with a green salad.
to hindrance greatest
the ruining them. The children dislike happiness into a life which has been
of proper development children her to accept her invitations in the is the middle-aged molden aunt. tally scarred,
It cause of peace. peace. in a long time since she was a child
home as boisterous herself, and she has never hud any reactionaries, or inferiority complex dealings with children since. Unless cases, according to their nature, she is a woman of unusually wide Aunt, one finds. has made no secret needs a certain amount of fore, her small nieces and nephews. Yet never had any communense-a fact PACKING for any kind of hullday sympathies, she does not understand of the fact that your poor father she is pathetically interested in them which clone accounts for bls unfor- thought and care, and you must be
mother."
Aunt has insisted on the board. especially watchful that you do not and fecis much more possessive about tunale match with "your poor dear
them than their parents. anything. Once forget
is not
to replenish city
She is of two varieties the stern consumption of rice pudding and ou it
Both types are dan the absence of noise at games, and elther your wardrobe or your beauty and the kind.
broken the children's tempers by gerous. A really kind maiden aunt A limited supply of beauty Dax.
water on all their can do all will be to
careful throwing vold nother's preparations. certainly,
and on the boat, but you can be training in one short week. Even in hopes and values.
an hour or two she can achieve an Similar Fallings fairly sure that just the particular thing we happen to want won't be amazing amount of damage.
So sit down before you "Darling, would you like a cake? ents-have to contend with these start, and make out a comprehensive Or some sweets? Or perhaps a nice types-the opposite extremes in the list: then you can tick them off as drink of lemonade?"
wide range of the aunt tribe. All, "Of course, you may dress up in you to and forget all about them as soon as they are packet
my best hat, dear. And you'll flud except the very young, aunts, in a Kreater or lesser degree, have the my tur coat in the wardrobe."
fallings-possessiveness. And You don't want to go to hed yeil same.
curiosity. All believe that the up- do. my pet. Go bringing of their nieces and nephews nicely and Auntie the pictures to-morrow."
Rubber buttons, of which there are now ul colours, shapes, and alzes, are excellent for garments which are frequently in the wash-tub.
Buttonholes which are to get a lot
of tear and wear wit last much longer if they are worked before cut- Mark the opening and machine ting. along each side twice. Buttonhole nurchining. Leave stitch over the Just enough space between the beads meeting in the centre to permit cut ting along when finished: Button- holes worked in this way will keep
their shape.
For Summer Frocks
When making summer frocks do not sew the buckle on the belt, Put the belt through in the usual way and finish with two press studs. The buckle can be easily removed for washing and also the same buckie cun be used for several frocks.
If a piping cord is boiled before it
is inserted when inaking cushion and loose covers, the cord will not shrinke and so pucker the material when the covers are washed.
When making curtains it is always worthwhile to hem selvedge edges. The curtains will hang better and will last longer.
Clean worn-out tablecloths make good dress covers, It made into tong bags with the bottom end left open. The top should have a hole through which the hook of the hanger can puss.
of
Stiff fronts and cuffs of old even- ing shirts, if cut up, make excellent garden labels for roses, &c. They do not readily teor under stress weather. They can be used too for parcel and luggage labels. A hole should be made at one end for In- serting the siring.
A piece of soap kept in your work baskot, is useful for sticking pins Into and for running thread through. before sewing on buttons.
When machining fine material, it will not drag if a layer of tissue pa- per is put between the layers of is easily re- materjal. The paper moved afterwards.
II. E.
Cooking Hints
DU
URING hot weather it is a good plan to hong meat up, as soon as it arrives, in bat wrung out in vinegar as flies and other insects dis- like this smell and consequently keep nway.
To keep cheese fresh and prevent It becoming mouldy, wrap in a clean cloth dipped in vinegar and squeezed almost dry.
When oranges are used for u-fcult salad, difficulty is sometimes ex- perienced in removing the pith, but It the oranges are first soaked in bolling water for five minutes, the peel and pith will come away quite easily.
Before cutting up mint for savec. sprinkle somo granulated sugar over: I for then it can be chopped up
quicker and finer. much
To prevent a cauliflower becoming discoloured while boiling, add half a teacupful of milk to the water in which it is bolled, and it will then retain, ita colour,
If dry, shrivelled lemons are put Into warm water, and then boiled for a few minutes they will have a plon- tiful supply of gulen,
G. G. T.
This faithfulness to the grave is, something which no thinking person can possibly denand: it is increly a ease of not thinking deeply enough. The needs of the living must always come before those of the dead, and in its resentment against an entirely imaginary insult, the world is only too ready to see this problem out of its proper perspective.
Some weeks ago I heard of a cuse of remarriage to the deceased wife's friend.
I felt at the time that many people would tail to appreciate the realities, the call of tormenting lonc- the husband and known something liness, the more ugnifled because available,
better
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Here is a type dress that is seen everywhere these warm summer days. It is one of the dotted fashions, and, as illustrated, la done in two colours or two shades of a colour. It is seen in pale and navy blue crepe, in light and dark green, in pink and rose, in rose and wine, etc., and it is the contrast idea that popularises the dress; plus the fact that it's a comfortable one-plece shirtwaist type..
Play Clothes
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Some unlucky children-and par-
Mast of your time will be spent un Oh, but please.will take you to on every important step in the child-
There are typical extracts from the ren's lives, and they expect their ad-
vice to be followed. kind aunt's conversation. Cajoling,
There are. I must add, a few de- bribing, and ruining the digestion, lightful exceptions-women this type of aunt has another unfor- lives are a proof that aunts need not tunate quality-flattery.
be abolished altogether. They could "Isn't Margaret's complexion won-
whose
the deck so informal clothes like slacks, playsults, sun-frocks and, course, swim-suits will be the order of the day. One puis of flannel trou ers with a variety of coloured shirt, extra skirt ti one play-suit with an backless cotton dress with couter, and two swimming suits should be nm-derful? ar Jim's so brilliant--he's be helpful and charming members of ple. Then a walking dress will be
vinced that parents are not neces necessary for days ashore, and don't always, tou of his class," she will re-ciety, if only they could be con- sarily fools; if only they believed forget at least one large shady hat,
noses of the said Jim and Margaret, that it is for parents to decide how Take us many evening dresses as you
a child should be brought up, and if can, and be ingenicus In this con- Popular with Young People
only they agreed that when nieces nortion: one plain gown with per-
OI course, she is popular with and repliews grow up their lives are haps two contrasting coatees, and a variety of accessories can be made nieces and nephews, who support her their own. to look entirely different for as many us six occasions.
Each set of accessories should be packed together, so that you don't ind afterwords that something vital to complete your outfi has been left behind.
Essential Footwear
Shoes, being heavy and not very easy to pack, are best kept to a mini- Rubber deck shoes are essen-
mum.
tini, and a smart wardrobe should contain a pair of lounging shoes with
mark to her friends under the very
SHORT CUTS
Did you know that candles will; more slowly if thoroughly burn chilled first in the refrigerator?
A soft hair floor-brush may be washed in lukewarm water to which's Utile aminonta lits been auded.
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Did you know that yellow soap,
tie tops and thick cork soles. Really rubbed over the place where a doot
comfortable walking shoes are ad-sticks, will.ense it up?
visable for shore trips, and for even- ing wear one o rtwo pair should be slipped in for use in the cabin.
By far the most important place in your beauty box should be taken up ny sun tan cream and oli and cala- mine lotion. Eye lotion, too, is advi~ sable. for you will appreciate a cold bath for your eyes after hours in the
sun.
Take plenty of eau-de-Cologne and talcum powder, too: a friction with the one and a thorough dusting with the other will freshen you up In very hot weather.
You will need a little brillantine or oil for your hair, too, as the sun will dry the natural oils out of it. And put in all your usual make-up -you will need every bit of it for sophisticated evenings both ashore and afloat.
R. H.
PEPSODENT TOOTH PASTE and POWDER IRIUM
CONTAIN
FOR GREATER CLEANSING POWER
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To toughen the straws of a new brovni, soak the broom in a hol strong salt water solution.
In pan-broiling steak or chops. be sure the pan is kept hot, and turn
meat constantly.
the
Wien two water glasses stick together, separate them by plac- ing the outside one in warm water while cold water # poured Into the inner class.
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