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Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 5, 1939.
THE
Oh grandmama!
*H tight frilled bodice and the flared crinoline skirt have come straight out of the old family album, but the figure
is her own. Great grandmama could never have achieved this elim athletic line without the high-pressure help of a sturdy lady's maid, but she achieves it by watching her diet and her drinks. Her cocktail for example is always a Gimlet because she knows that the girl who insists on Rose's Lime Juice today aroids a headache and a Rubens contour tomorrow.
Dino at the
Parisian Grill
Good Food
Fine Wines
DINNER & DANCE MUSIC
by
The Blue Danube Trio
Oranges in Sweets
GOLDEN RECIPES
* from
Film Star Menus
& Salads
By Mrs. Bardell
'VE always called oranges the A.B.C. fruit because my doctor tells me that they are the richest of fruits in these vita-
mins.
Hollywood film stars were among the first to-recognise the value of orange juice in their daily diets, and their example has largely in- fluenced the general public. Even baby has his small daily ration of this golden elixir of life,
Everyone knows by now that the Rfe of a film star is most strenu ous one, and that they cannot undertake all the hard work en- talled and yet be super glamour girls unless they take every care of their diet and inaintain their vitality.
It is the Hollywood orange Juice habit, as well as the innovations that they have introduced in salads, that has rone a long way to create the present enormous demand for oranges.
Before giving you any recipes, how- ever, I must mention an important paint often overlooked about oranges. The peel contains concentrated vita- mla Iucch
In order, value. thevelate, to get the full value from oranges you should tie a modera qurézer when you are wanting orange juice, so that
que es the pecf us well.
It is not merely the vitamion that you will get, but also the pleasing Havour from the orange jee) offs
Sweet Orange Salad
Here is the recipe for sweet orange salad as shown in the pantograjab
oranges,
Ingredients: 6 tume Outspan
pint water, 30% euster sugar, 2 small dessertsp: of lemon juice, Glaré cherries
Peel the oranges, remove the white pit, cut into area, and put sto n salad bowl. Pour the water into a saucepan, add the sugar, and stir, and boll for five minutes.
Add the lemon juice, pour over
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17,000 10th Sept. 17,000 30th Sept. 0,000 7th Oct.
20,000 14th Oct.
0,000 28th Oct. 6,000 4th Nov.
14,000 11th Nov.
15,500 25th Nov.
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TALMA
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All vessels muy call at Malta,
BRITISH INDIA APCAR bailings (SOUTH)
8,000 8th Sept.
10,000 7th Oct.
7,000 23rd Sept.
10,000 21st Oct.
8,000 4th Nov.
the salad very cold decorated with gineó cherries,
Children's Cake
An orange cake is always welconte.
Ingredients: jib. self-raising flour, 4lb. margarine, alb. sugar, 1 egg, the rind and fulca
of two oranges, a pinch of salt. Bent the margarine well with a wooden spoon until very creamy and pate, add the sugar and again beat well, add the beaten egg and flour, the rind and Julce, Beat again, then turn into a prepared cake tin, and cook in 1 moderate oven for 1 hours.
For party this cake can be leed
Paris Points
GROOMING THE FOUNDATION
OP · SMARTNESS can
PEOPLE do not turn to look at a
well-dressed woman. If people store, she is not well-dressed or too spectacular for good taste. A well- dressed woman needs perfect groom- big. There must be
nothing Swettenham, haphazard
aut-of-place. Hatr Penang Rangoon & Calcutta, must be immaculate, nalls must show daily care, feet must be perfectly shod, huslery of the very best.
S'pore, Port
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B. I. Apear Ling steamers have excellent accommodation for lat and tod Class passengers.
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7,000 3rd Nov.
7,000 2nd Dec.
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INDIA
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Hong Kong to Bydney-10 days.
SAILINGS TO BHANGHAI & JAPAN.
7,000 6th Sept. 17,000 14th Sept. 10,000 14th Sept... 20,000 28th Sept.
10.000 28 Sept. 0,000 29th Sept. 7,000 4th Oct
Japan.
Shanghai
Japan. Shanghai,
Japan.
Shanghai & Japan. Shanghai & Japan.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. Parcel measuring not more than 5 cft, will be received at the Company's Offer up to noon on the day previous to railing.
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Arenta
or
Barbara Road "suns and sips" in her Hollywood
garden.
Pouring the sugar syrup over orange salad.
and decorated with marzipan oranges and fruit plices.
Popular "Duf"
On cooler days, hungry children will like this Buet roll with an orange flavour. It's "different."
Ingredienta: lb, self-raising four, Joz, shreddedi auet, a pinch of salt, oz sugar, the rind and juice of one orange. Mix together the salt, suet and flour, add the sugar and the grated orange rind. Stir in the juice and sufficient cold water to form n stiff paste. Form Into a roll or ball, tie in a cloth, and bait for two houra
Turn out and serve with a little hot orange marmalade poured over the lop.
Whole Fruit Snow
These are often served in Hollywood, Peel some oranges, removing all Mix sugar with white of egg and
pith
Royal Dates
whisk to a stiff paste, Thread a needle with strong thread and pass through the oranges, then dip these in the nugar egg mixture and tie firmly to a Blick.
Place across the oven, and heat very
slowly to dry and set the oranges. And now two recipes which dhould come in handy when there are children in the family.
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A delicious orange foot" is inde with the juice of five large oranges, ono tablespoonful of sugar and the yolks of two eggh
Mix altogether and stir over gentle heat until the mixture thickens; do not let it boil. Serve in custard glasses,
Delicious Trifle
Easy to make, this trifle will disap pear quickly.All you need to make it are six sponge cakea, two oranges, 1 pint of custard, jam.
Spread the cut up sponge cakes with Jam, moisten well with the orange Juice and placo. some slices of orange on the top. Cover the whole with the yellow custard.
Fragrant Jelly
I predict a short life for this felly. Put pint water, 3oz. loal sugar, the rind of three oranges and foz, 'of gela. tine into a stewpan. Whisk over heat until the gelatine is dissolved and simmer for about ten minutes.
Strain Inte a basin and add half pint of orange juice and the juice of two lemons. When beginning to set
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pour into n glass mould. If the weather la hota ifttle more Kelatine
than Kiven above will be required.
Now for two season- able salads. This one partnering orange and mint flavours is very popular with the stars
Accompany
cold meat dishes,
to
Geasonable Salad
Peet some fresh oranges. and separate them to natural segments. Then place in a bowl in layers. sprinkling each layer with sugar nuda itti finely chopped mint. Minke a sugar syrup by holher together a breakfastcupfull of sugar with half that quantity of water. Flavour it with femon Juice, and sherry, I Bked
Pour it over the oranges in the bowl. let the salad go quite cold, then garnish
with a few mut leaves.
Orange and beetrant combine to make another delightful salad.
Skin the tequired amount of oranges. remove white pith and break Into natural segments Peel and slice thinly cooked beetroot, and wash a crip lettuce,
Put some of the lettuce leaves on a dish and the orange regments in a circle on top. Arrange the beetroot down centre, filing slices overlap.
Add a garnish of finely mineed parsley and serve with salad cream.
Now, antly. a suggestion for those who pride themselves on turning out a good omelette, and who sometimes serve sweet ones as a second course.
When you've cooked your mielette ghtly pleaseD cover one half with warned orange segments, sprinkle with mugar, folii̇over quietly and serve at once. Delicious!
Rose Revivers
MAKE your roses last longer by re-
membering to cut a plece off the end of their stems every morning, so that the flowers muy absorb the water caelly.
To prevent roses from drooping plunge them hend ddynwards in very cold water euch night.
When tall-etemmed roses will not
keep upright, put them in swathings of newspaper pinning it round them
as though they had a sore throat, but
not quite covering their heads right.
up. You'll find them firm und fresli
when unwrapped in the morning,
This also keeps them in bud for a longer period.
An ice-cube dropped into their | drinking-water is good for the roses
every day.
When the flowers are drooping slightly a grain of spirin to a quart of water usually "cures" them.
Those blooms with short stein which refuse to stand up or sit down should be stuck through course wire netting. Bend the wire in your Janet
| receptacle can make it at any
you please.
Don't forget that rose-heads are very pretty floating in shallow bowls, especially if you make a mound of wire-netting and cover it with a mass of them. Remblern respond to this treatment.
V. B.
HOME HINTS
CAVE your Jars which have screw- covers and not the lids to the underside of the larder shelves, and [then screw, the jars on to the tds. taken Not only are the Jars enlly down and replaced, but they save valuable space and cannot be knocked. over.
When typ down jam-pot covers, first damp the string, for then the
knot will not slip, and as the string. dries, so will shrinks and tigthen.
or jars is difficult to take off, use a If the metal cup of sealed bottles.
piece of emery paper under the hand, for this gives a firm grip and makes removal easy.
Badly strained Ivory-handled knives and forks are best cleaned by rubbing them with eul demon dipped in palt.
the,
A few drops of ammonia added to winter when washing pantry shelves will help to keep ants away, whtle a little sprinkled in the cup- board will exclude muthis.
After sweeping a carpet wit a vacuum cleaner, wipe It over with a cloth wrung out in three parts hot water and one of vinegar, as this treatment quickly freshens the colours.
G. G. T.
Hour-Glass Waists
These exercises were sketched in the gymnasium uf a famous beauty expert who has evolved them specially to cater for the new fashions. They're easy, once you've procilsed them a little, extremely good for the waist and the tummy, as well as for the general circulation. In all of them, keep your back straight, with the tummy it. Do each exercise 20 times, avoiding jerky movements of any kind. You will find them caster and more amtying if you do them to the muale of a waltz.
It is in- First exercise is the one on which all the rest are based.
Stocking The Jam tended to teach you a good standing position, with a flat back, control
Cupboard
NOW is the time to remember that N the storing of jam is almost as important as its making, .-.-.-.
A shollow cupboard is the best if, however, only a storing place. deep one is available, a few labels, pasted along the front of the shelves in sections, will save time when a particular kind of jam is required.
The cupboard should be a cool, dry one. Jam
warm at- kont mosphere soon ferments, and if there 15 my trace of damp about, it equally !soon goes mouldy.
int n
Glass Jars, though more expensive to begin with, are an improvement on the old opaque-type, for with them you can see the contents easily. If the jam begins to be discoloured, it
No details should "Jump" at you.HERE in a delicious sweet:- Every costume must strive for har-11
Stone carefully some very large, mony. Appropriateness is more im- portant than material, line, colour, or soft dates, and stuff them with thick expense. Wearing the right thing at apricot crushed macaroons, and fry is a sign that fermentation has set in. the right time is the real test, never them lightly in butter. being out of note with the occasion, Serve piled up in avoiding the experience of self-vanilla cream sauce as an accompupi- | consciousness resulting when clothes ment.
are not right for the occasion.
The Parisienne as a rule has the keenest interest in clothes of any woman In the world. She loves clothes, loves being well-dressed and, consequently, has the keenest kind of sense about her appearance.
Concerning Steeves
Sleeve-tops are changing, many are gathered slightly into an "arm-
The only way to put a stop to this is dish, with by re-bolling the jam, adding a little
sugar
Cleaning Papier Mache
NOT
A little mould on top of preserve i that is good and firm docs not nccessarily mean that the jam cannot be used. If the mould is removed at once, the preserve will remata perfectly fresh and wholesome if covered over with a piece of paper which has been dipped in vinegar or falcohol.
Jors should never be crowded mache shelves, and one pot should not be placed on top of another. It ale is
JUT everyone knows the best way
of cleaning papier articles.
ず
preserves will
on
of your tummy muscles, your shoulders up, and a proudly raised chin.
1.
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Sit upright, knees bent though you were about to sit
Lie flat on the carpet, knees raised, feet premcd down Armly, arms by sides. Push your on your heels. Throw one arm out cheat out. keep your tummy in. straight, the other arm crooked. Now contract the muscles of your Now flng your bent knees from one scat, pushing your heels mean- side to the other, pivoting your while into the carpet. Be careful body from the waist as you do so, to keep the back flat (no arcking, and moving the armis to the same no letting daylight be seen beneath side, but crooking the straight one, I and head flat.
straightening the bent one.
keep
much
D. N.
Lean backward. reziing both elbows, with legs out-
On
A paste made with flour and olive allowed to circulate freely round the
Apply jare, eye" which is curlously placed at afoil gives satisfactory results. low shoulder-line, but to gathered it with a soft rog, and rub hard. better. that a wide chest and shoulder effect Wipe with another cloth and finishi
spare plect of silk is obtained. The long, tight, "mitten" with a sleeve, which buttons the length of handkerchief. the wrist is back once more, and there are a good many tight elbow ones,
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Waists will be important enough different.
favoured, and the styles are widely
to worry women about their corsets long before they mer millinery. In addition to the Colour plays a great part in sum- choose their new frock
Tight
sallora, boaters new classic
and lacing? Not a bit of it! It simply means that most of the afternoon and Bretons, which are the successes of a good many evening dresses look the season, there is a definite French as if they had been wrapped round interest. The Chechit, the fez, the un colonial Influence based on tropical the torso, and without a well-fitting turban, and, in fact, every type of corset, this line looks too horrible colonial headgear is being shown, and for words. In addition, small! waists are so flattering to the aver along with thess, jaunty helmets and
foroge caps.
aps. The latter are deve- age feminine Agure, that every de-loped in fine linen straws, while the signer is using them again in modern-native headgear is also frequently in tlon...
fine new silk jersey, in plain or versions lending brightly-striped Ribbons are also the fashion this added local colour to a colourful season, and they are being worn in trend. profusion. Indeed," a
woman can
Sports hats have rather high wear ribbons from the crown of her head to the hem of hier evening dress. sloping oval crowns and upturned Her ribbon belts for day frocks and brims that jut forward and are much broader ribbon sashes for evening wider in the front than at the back. dresses, are great fashion accessories. The large "auriole" hats are being worn for back on the head. There Colourful.
are some smart little toques and bonnets seen, and these have two Sporting clothes are being mostly long scarves that cross at the back made up of several Rema. Coats, of the neck and are tied in t'big bow |skirt-irousers, waistcoats, blouses, under the chin.
and capes, or topcoats, are all
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Sit upright, outstretched legs together, arma crooked. Now stretched. Now raise teft leg, cross lift the right hip from the ground
I over the right, and hit the floor and as you do so pivot your body. with it. Do this twelve times, then to the right from the waist, Then straighten, crook right leg, and be- lift the left hip and pirot to the gin again, pressing it over to the left. Actually you will find your
self moving along the ground. left.
Stand with feet.
Slowly raise the right leg and 5. starp the bed-rell with the 6. for it on the bed-rall on right hand, Slowly push your level with your body; now stretch. body outward, raising the left arm the left arm towards pour out. slowly above the head and towards stretched foot, and as you bend the right shoulder as you do so, your body towards it, raise and and Inclining your head towards curve the arm and incline the head your right shoulder.
as described in the last exercise.