From California COMER this
boxy suede Jacket will - sesmed detail and polished wood but- lons.
NEW GLOVES
KATHIER glover are warmer this time than they were 1st year,
Chief point of interest about them is that the fur trimming. usually shown round the out- side of the wrist, has gone In- side, and most of the autumn #loves this year have a fur lin ing at least for the whole length of the wrist,
new
There are some particularly smart now desyna. The "point" where the fingers Join the hand 105 disappeared. The gloves 120 semi-goun!let- slipped, open slightly down the sides without a fastening, and arg trimmed with a
art geometrical design.
Monday,
HONGKONG TELERGAPH
October 23, 1939.
Can You Bake Cakes?
¡OST housewives' are good 'pisin ly 'closed until the prescribed time coals, but there are surprising- kas slöpsed and then remove the
MOST
ly few who can make a enke with cake.
niny high prospect of succosa, Too
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often the result turns out to have Test with a cake-tester or Info sunk in the middle and to bo "and" for the sake of satisfying yourself In the centre. There is usually an that it is done, but if the directions excuse for these defects: somebody have been closely followed, this will opened the back door or the kitchen be the case. window or did something or other highly detrimental to enke taking.
Success in baking cakes is 99 per cent, caro and only one per cent. luck. The first thing to make sure of is that the cake will not stick to the tin.
Grease the in thoroughly using either a pastry brush or a piece of paper. Dredge it lightly with flour after greasing. Pat waxed paper to it the wall and bottom of the tin.
Exact Meamire
to Incusure
Cool the cake on a wire rack.
M. W.
Short Cuts
The next essential is the Ingredients exactly. Approxlia- ate measurements may be all right). for plain cocking but they offen constitute all the difference between
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Afier cleaning ratian, grass and willow furniture with a nilst brush or vacuum cleaner. It
wanted with a scrub-· blag brush and thick fuke-warm soapsuds containing a Tillic borax. Rinse thoroughly and set In sun to dry.
Pluk woollen for little dinner
success and failure in cake making. Jackets is a Molyneux suggestion,
Mx the ingredients thoroughly, asing either a wooden spoon or a mechanlent mixer. The shortening. should be worked until it is soft and smooth, then the sugar should be blended In gradually until it is soft and smooth, then the sugar ahould be blended in gradually until it la thorougily incorporated. Eggs: should be beaten
until yolks and whiles are well mixed and should then be sirred in the fat and sugar mixture, until the whole is smooth, light and effy.
Flour, buking-powder, anel salt should be sifted together and should! He added to the first mixture before the milk After the milk has been added, too much beating is a dis- advantage. The balter should be stirred lightly enti Is Just blemled | and
roure. Add the flavouring and then pour quickly into the enke
n. Ailing it only two-thirds full.
Put in Open Immediately
With the convex alde of table po, spread the batter from the centre of the tin towards the edges, leaving! a slight depression in the centre. Put it into the oven im- mediately. If the mixture is allowed to lund at room temperature for even a short time, the haking- powder begins to do its work. Ipnore the telephone, Dhe knock on the back door, and every threatened Interruption until cake la rafely in the oven,
Une buttered crumbs on puddings and casseroles. Thla not only gamishes but gives a delicious nutty flavour to such dishes.
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Always remove my meal Juice table. Inen before stains laundering. Such stains may be re- moved with clear lukewarm water.
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To add rest to cold meats and salads serve a side dish of pickles, any kind, sweet, sour or am.
To make malty bacon more palatable. parboil for two or three minuten. Then pour off water, pat bacon pieces dry with fresh towel and crisp in hot fry- big pan as usual.
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A quick way to remove tarnish from silver is to set the pieces soak- ing in potato water in an aluminium pot for about an hour.
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Electric appliances will give beiter service if oiled periodic- ally with a good grade oil.
When making griddle cakes, the griddle is not
the hot enough ÁK
With her back to the mirror thla model ulsplays the front and back of the corset designed along the lines of the original Paris Mainbocher corset which was brought hero recently on the Normandie. The corset, oceatuales tight-fitting, giving the form a stem-lined torso. With this styla comes a controversy on the aumber of bones or the amount of facing necessary for the new wasp-waisted, round-hip silhouette, WI the English women sacrifice their comfort for a try walsi, stems to be the question.
To Wear A Corset Or
Not, That's The Problem
By ELEANOR GUNN
other ton of the entes sliten before the NEW YORK-Who remembers way back to the days when cor-
Pay strict attention to lime and temperature and see that there is ample vircuintion of alr round the enke. Keep the oven door resolute-
Your Beauty
Renew Your
Equipment
TN preparing for autumn beauty I
good plan to start off by
revising your beauty box completely. Economical Supper
First of all, bo ruthless about such things as old, nall varnish and stale cream, and only keep what you are really going to use.
Scour all your jury and bottles,
Dishes
HERE are some easily prepared A supper dishes; they are appetis-
and lay in a fresh stock of cotton Ing. sustaining and economieni.
wool and tasuos, emory boards and orange sucks. Wash your powder puffs, or throw them away. Hove a good look at your hairbrush. If it seems to bo gelling soft, treat your- self to a new one. Now tootli and nail brushes are inleo likely to be a definite aid to beauty, and made sure that you have a good hard toofah. Sterilise your eye-bath.
Egg Madalcius
2.exp
A rushers of bacon.
2 dessurtspoons milk. Seasonings.
Cut the rushers of bacon into very small squares and put them in a bowl with the milk and seasonings. Add the eggs and unix very slightly with a fork.
1
Hentile fat in the frying pan, and and put a dessertspoonful of the mixture into the fat. Cook for a few minutes On each side until golden brown.
Now for your new stock. Autumn moans colder weather, winst. probably fog, so plenty of good skin 'cream is needed, Tollet oatmeal,is also a good investment, for soften- ́ing water and for an occasional Ince pack, mixed with warm almond oil.
Cleaniinoan la very important now as at all umos, and a cake of good soap is just na essential as cleansing cream or lotion, You can économise
Serve very hot with Angers of tonst either Tried or plain.
The quantities are for four per- onx, Mdeuroni Timbale
in skin tonic, for cold, weatlier bracer Two breakfast cups cooked ma- the skin more than anything else, caroni.
but invest in a first-rate hand cream Ono break Inst cup thick while whatever you do.
sauce,
Half breakfast cup cooked minced
There is a now 'olly all shampoo beef or ham. which should have a place, too, and soo that you have a good supply of
cutiele oil.
Four tomatoes,
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Mix the macaroni with the while
Grease a round fireproof casserole and ne
Be kind to your eyes, and in addi- sauce and season well.
tion to oye-lotion, get come of the the foot and sides with the macaroni now eye-mul. They are seen in mixture (leaving sufficient to cover a flat, attractive jar which holds the top.) Fit the hollow with twelve, already saturated in an eye alternate layers of the minced beef
and thinly sliced tomatoes.
Iotion.
Something special for the hair can also Be Included, preferably a really good tonic. If this is massaged into the scalp about three times a week, all the nuisance of dull and falling hair should be averted through the autumn.
R. I.
LEMON SNOW
PREAK down 4 dessertspoonfuls of
cornflour with 4 teacupfuls of)
water. Add to it the strained julco
caroni and heat in a hot oven for Cover with the remaining mn 20-30 minutes.
persons.
Suficient for Potato and Egg Gratin
Two breakfast cups mashed pota- | toes.
Four cats.
Three oz grated cheese, Tablespoon chopped parsity. Milk, it required,
Scaronings,
under side is baked.
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suede
Front fulness In coat. There are unpressed plenis released below the walatine. Note the pocket flaps. The cont has no fastener, and wraps over with a selfbelt.
Hints For The Housewife
sets were not discussed publicly and when the mere mention of them occasioned blushes?
Corsets, pro and con, are now on everyone's tongue and on some torsos. Windows are filled with them and gaping crowds of amused inen and interested wo-,
men all but slop trame.
ORANGE FLUFF
Most makers of chic clothes insist that one must wear corsets and stress the stem-like waistline, the hour-TRAIN off the juice from a small glass figure,
Un of oranges and add the fulce even swelling hips}
and bosums Muinboetier certainly of a fresh orange to it. Heat the and use to melt n turned back the clock, tipped over strained juices
the hour-glass, or something because packet of orange jelly, making up; he's the one to blame for coreets. the quantity with water.
His have those silk lacings at the bocit but then yati would, of course, remember about them.
When the Jelly is cold and almost setting whisk vigorously till light and fluffy. A stiffly-beaten while of What About Hips?
egg or alle whipped cream folded Designers are divided, not about in at Bie Just is a great improve- the waistline, which all agree must inent.
be small, or appear so, but about) Turn the fif into a glass dish and the hips. Some like 'em controlled, decorate with small sections others like them to "owing out,” as
the phrase goes.
Whatever one's personal reactions for or against the corset, it just con't be dismissed. Some sort of corset is
·#-necessity-and-the-shops report-wo- men in a perfect dither over them. Everyone wants see whether or not they "can take it," but above all, what the corset docs for them. My guess is that the corsetèd Aguro will be the cholce for evening but for the moro active hours women will manage to get along with garment that confines but] "gives them comfort as well as con-
Appropriate Blylte
tour.
And speaking of the styles the corset takes us back to the crino- Une evening type which Queen Elizabeth of England wears so suc- cessfully, is repeated in new versions in the Norman Hartnelt collection.. Some of these frocks are reminiscenti of the Louis XII and XIV epochs.
Among the prettiest models is a black velvet with a wide embroid- ared band in eyelet insliton, used In the skirt and again at the decol lete. Another. In duchess sailn In violet-blue, is embroidered in large Louis XV bows, accompanied by a matching waistlength jacket.
Other evening gowns are made with bank fullness below the walst- line, or with fitting hips with full- ness below, especially at back. a silhouette definitely accepted at this time.
One of the sensational features is the "Winged Victory" shoulder, a idea. It is shown in town sults with jackets moulding to the
walst and with deep föred peplum.
WHEN innking egg sandwiches,
rub the shelled hard-boiled egg Rosevienne through
a sieve, senson, and form Into a paste, and use in the usual manner. The mixture will be much finer and casler to spread,
Add a teaspoonful of milk to the water in which cauliflowers are be- In bolted. They will remain much witter.
Before scrubbing Nink boords or wood shelves rub well with the in- - side of half a lemon-leova for a few
Mix 2 oz of grated cheese with the minutes and wash in the usual way. at 2 lemons and one teacupful of potatoes, season, and molsten with a¦ For very stubborn slaina make a Buxar. Pour all into a pan and stir little hot milic if necessary to make paste of cleaning powder and lemon Over the Gro. Ull the mixture bolls, them into a soft consistency. Grease Juice and leave on the stained wood and continue to boll for a few a shallow fireproot dish and sprend) for an hour before washing. minutos to cook the cornflour. Then the potatoes ovenly leaving four Let it cool little, giving it an occa-hollows. Break an egg Into each the "bure" of un alurin clock in the stonal stir to prevent a skin form-hollow, sprinkle with the remaining early hours of the morning. Try Jing, and fold in the «ilffly whisked grated cheese, and bake in a hot pincing the clock on a chilia pinte
whites of two ofits. Pour into 0 oven until the eggs are sel
the "burr" will be very much glass dish, and sorve with cream.
Jouder.
Most people become accustomed to
Arched Eyebrows
If you wish to give your eyebrows inore of an arched lock without any radical plucking, try brushing up the hairs in the centre with a cream type mascara or soapy water. Allow the hairs to dry in place. This gives the eyebrow a more arched appear- anco and the new natural arch wil Inst until you wash your face next,
orange.
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Scarves are worn'square or long, checked or plaided this autumn. The upper of these iwo la a 27-inch square of green fino woollen, in a drop-stitch effect, woven with' fringed edges, The long scarf is a chamois angora in a basket weavo treat- merst with solid edges and triaged ends.
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Lord Londonderry Nails A Lie
Belfast,
THE Marquis of Londonderry recently acotched rumpurs that he had been interned as a spy. He did so in a telegram to Mrs. Templer, wife of Licut.-Col. W. F. Templer, of Loughigall,,County Armagh, who wrote informing him thât rumour was busy with his name.
Lord Londonderry, in his tele-
from London, gram
stated: "Most grateful to you for your letter.
"Please tell anyone you like that rumour is a completo lie. That I am engaged on war work
in County Down, County Dur-
ham, London, and also Luton, and that I am returning to Northern
Ireland either to- morrow or the next day,
"Please make any use of this tele- gram you like, and if you can trace the rumour to any particular person I will immediately commence legal proceedings. (Signed) London- derry."!
: DISTRESSED
Lord Londonderry, who sought to secure better relations between Bri- tal and Germany, had among his guests at Mount Stewart (his Irish seal) some years Ko Herr von Ribbentrop, the Germun Foreign Minister, who was at that Ume Gar- man Ambassador in London.
Called Up
At 87
AN old man of 87, his chest
a mass of modal ribbons, was helped into the depot of a Lancashire Regiment. He asked to s00 the C.O. * sarved with your grandfather at Poona," ho said, "and now I ́hava boon rallod up again—- at 87." It was true--the old man had 'recolved a mobiliza- tion order instead of his grand- Bon.
Jury Duty Leads to Jail
Since the outbreak of the war friends of Lord Londonderry have| ELYRIA, O. (UP).-Edward Mil- been distressed and bewildered by aller, 28-year-old Avon farm worker, crop of rumours. These have painted arrived here to do Jury duty, Lord and Lady Londonderry, who but instead spent five days in have mado no secret of their soclai' the county jail, Miller stretched a friendships with high polition! per-¡10-minute court recess into half an sonnges in Germany before the war. hour and Judge Guy D. Findley found
Lord Londonderry made a special imposed the sentence.
him guilty of contempt of court and trip to Munich to observe the situa tion first-hand when Mr. Neville Chamberlain paid his flying visit Inst Londonderry sald: "The world should September. He has also written af be told that we are tired of the book, entitled "Ourselves and Gor-browbeating we hre getting from many."
Germany."
On June 10 of this year, speaking Appreciation of his public servlees at the 30th anniversary dinner of prompted Mrs. Templer to write the Handley Page Ltd. in London, Lard letter,
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