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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
October 31, 1939.
Crochet these for your autumn frock
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WITH half an ounce of wool, you can give an autumn outlook to last season's frock by making for it the crochet collar and cuffs shown here, in place of the organdle or linen set you have worn with it all summer,
MATERIALS-Half an ounce of 2 ply wool. Steel hook No. 3.
COLLAR.-Make - rather loose chain of 141. Work 2 rows of 139 double crochet, turning with 2 chain. Now a row of Solomon's Knots thus: "Draw a loop of just over in. on hook, wool over hook, draw wool through loop. making 3 long strands and 1 stitch on hook.
Now hook under strand on outside left, draw through, making 2 stitches on hook, wool over, draw through, making a d. e. You have now made one Solomon's Knot.
Make another the same, miss 1 d. c. along the row and work 1 d. c. into
next d. c. Repent from to the end, making 69 double S. Knota.
Turn with 3 S. Knots and catch with a d. c. into top of first knot, then ** make 2 S. Knots and d. c. into top of next knot. Repeat from ** to end." Repeat the last row & times always turning with 3 S. Knots.
8th Row. Mako 1 S. Knot, 7 chain, slip stitch into 1st chain to form a picot, 1 S. Knol, entch with a d. c. into top of next knot. Repeat from * to end. Fasten off.
Pin to shape and press with a hot iron and damp cloth, then make two ties by crocheting a rather loose chain of 100 and working 2 rows d. e.
Fasten oft, leaving an end for stitching on at neck after pressing.
CUFFS. Work as for collar, but begin with 63 ch. and 2 rows of 61 d. c., then 5 rows of 30 double S. Knots. The 6th row is like the 8th in collar. Omit ties.
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Semolina "Dressed Up"
CEMOLINA is a favourite pudding with old and young, but how nuny of us have tried serving 1 in these following ways?
Steamed Caramel Sentoline
For caramel:-
3 os ton sugar,
g cold water.
Squeeze lemon Juler,
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Place 2 ozs semelina and 3 teacups water in a pan. Add the grated rind and julce of Vlemen and 2 ozs sugar. Sür over a gentle heat till boiling. | Simmer five minutes. Cóof slightly, then heat t spongy. Pour Into Riass dish.
Semolina Sunflower
Heat 1 pint milk, and sprinkle in 2 Place the sugar, water, and lemon ozs of semolina. Cook Ma clear. juice In an iron pan. Cook Lill fley Add 15 oz of butter, 2 ozs sugar, and are brown, but do not burn.
a little vanilla essence. Pour Into Pour into a mould (plain) or cake two wetted sandwich tins, and leave tin previously warmed, and turn till yet, Turn out. Arrange steed the mould round and round till the peaches on euch round to resemble caramel coats it evenly.
sunflowers and decorate round the For pudding: Hal 1 pint milk, edges with whipped creaĪTE, Sprinkle in 3 ozs nemolina, and stir with peach syrup. till bolling. Boll five minutes, slir-
ring all the time. Remove from fire, Cheese Pudding
add sugar to sweeten, nnd a few drops of lemon juice to flavour.
This is make.
Serve
a very easy savoury 10 Simply heat three-quarters |
Sile in the yolks of two eggs, and of a pint milk, sprinkle in 2 oz Instly fold in the slimy baten semolina, and when the grain is clear, whites.
ndd 11 oz cheddar cheese (grated), Pour into prepared mould, and a pinch of pepper and mustard, and steam gently three-quarters of an hour. Turn on to hot dish, and the beaten yolla of two eggs, Mix any caramel remains in mould, add well, then Instly fold
henten whites.
attle hot water and pour round pudding.
Semolina Suom
This makes a very sweet, and is delicious stewed summer fruit.
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Pour into greased glass ovenware dish, sprinkle a little cheese on top. and place on a few pats of butter.
Bake in a moderate oven twenty inexpensive minutes, tiil of a golden brown colour,
with any Serve at once.
Isobel
Growing Old Gracefully
This is an age of perpetual femin- she is well before pre-war vintage, Ing youthfulness. It is sometimes and to loses her sincerity. She is difficult to discover whether A continually acting a part, fighting a woman is the mather, or sister, of losing battle with the the young girl who holds her arın BO affectionately.
Years ago, a woman might as well have been dead and buried as soon as she reached the "appulling age af forly, but to-day, the slight prets tiness she may have possessed in her girlhood is often enhanced and trans- formed into beauty by the charm of her personality.
Age has enriched and mellowed her; she no longer experiments with clothes,
make-up, and perfumes; she knows her type and she stressed her most striking features,
Keeping the Mind-Young
There is only one way to keep time at bay (which does not mean stupidly ape youth), and that is to cultivate a young mind, never to lose interest in new things. For some women, fe only starts being the varied ad- venture it is, when they have reached middle-age.
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fter make-up and colffure more suitable for a girl in her teens; the concentrates on dieting, beauty culture, and clothes, but she soon looks worn and anxious. Burning the Candle at Both Ends
She burns the candle at both ends, without realising that whereas younger woman can stand the strain without wearying, after a week or so she, herself, cannot. No amount of forced laughter eun bile her droop- lug spirits.
The woman who wears well does not worry about the effect she creates, as long as her appearance pleases herself, she is satisfied.
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She wears suitable clothes. has no fear for her, and the only wrinkles she has are those caused through happy laughter. Her young family
seek her companionship: "Mother is so sporting the is ready for anything," they say,
She does not proclaim her age from the hilltops, but she never tries to give a fulse impression of extremo youth. Her mind is so young that she will never grow old.
There is one type of woman who is foolish, and that is the one who endeavours to deceive people about her real age, by wearing absurdly youthful clothes which merely ac The saying that, "A woman is as centuate her age. She gives others old as she looks and a man as old as the Impression of being ten years he feels," is true, but the fact remains older than she really is."
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She guards her conversation care the feels old. fully so that no one can guess that
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·Heather mixture or red and pale bine la Imported tweed gives a lavender cast to the jacket of this sports ensemble. Thes pale blue dress of sheer wool is trimmed with red siltching. The hat of matching suede,
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Navy and white ensemble, the coal navy woollen, wern over a navy and wille printed crepe. White pique revers, while gloves, while sad bag, and white daisy toque, are crisp detalls.
Helpful Hints
IF new silk stockings are washed in warm water containing a spoon- ful of sugar, it will strengthen them: and so help to prolong their life.
Should blankets shrink after being! washed so that they are not wide enough to tuck in at the sides of the bed, stitch-a piece of unbleached colico along each side and this will overcome the trouble.
Save the wax wrappings from cereal packets and when steaming a pudding cover the tops with this paper instead of a cloth, for it will keep the pudding quite dry.
Try putting a lump of alum in the drawer containing cutlery, for it will keep the forks and spoons quile bright, even if not used every day.
When baby's pram or col cover wears thin in places, give it a new lease of life by sewing pleces of coloured flannel or felt, cut into animal shapes, over the worn parts,
If any acld from a wireless accumulator has been spilt on a carpet or tablecloth, cover it Im- mediately with milk and so prevent
hole being burned.
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Sew the halves of about six press- studs to the hem of your dance frock, and 50W the corresponding Janlves to the inside of your little higher than the hem. Fasten the press-studs when it rains, and your dress will not becamo wet. solled.
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To remove scorch marks from Inen, wring a cloth out in peroxide, lay it over the affected part, and fron until
dry.
Chamois gloves will retain their colour much better if washed in water in which the peel of wo oranges has been bolled,
Face cloths and sponges ahould be regularly washed and bolled In vinegar and water, for then they will always keep freak!
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The stripes and checks, so rampant in the recent fashion showings in Paris are used by Creed in this ruit, navy and white striped Bannel over a navy blue silk blouse. Rose Valols design- ed the blue straw with white grosgrain ribbon.
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