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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
October 31, 1939.
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ITH half an ounce of wool, you W tu hive an autumn outlook to
last acson'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 a rather loose chain of 141. Work 2 rows of 139 double crochet, turning with 2 chaln. 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 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, You have now made making a d. c.
one Solomon's Knot,
Make another the game, miss 1 d. c. along the row and work 1 d. c. into
next d. c. Repeat from to the end, making 69 double S. Knots.
Turn with 3 S. Knots and catch with a d. c. into top of first knot, then ** make 2 S. Knots and d. e, into top of next knot. Repeat from ** to end. Repeat the last row 6 times always turning with 3. S. Knots.
8th Row. Make 1. S. Knot, 7 chain, slip stitch into 1st chain to form a picot, 1 S. Knot, catch 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. c.
Fasten off. leaving an end for stitching on at neck after pressing.
CUFFS.--Work ns 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"
SEMOLINA is a favourite pucking
with old and young, but how miny of us have tried serving it in these following ways?
Steamed Caramel Semolina
For caramel:--
3 ozs loaf sugar.
till cold water.
Squeeze lemon juice.
Place 2 ozs senelia and 3 temups Add the grated zind water in a pan, and Juice of 1 lemon and! 2 ozs sugar. Sti: over a agenttr heat till bolling. Stramer ve fuinules. Cool slightly, Pour into then beat til spongy glass dish.
Semolina Sunflonore
Heat 1 pint milk, and sprinkle in 2 remolina. Cook ul elcar.
Place the sugar, water, and lemon ozs of
juice in an iron pan. Cook till they Add 1 oz of butler, 2 nzs sugar, and ure brown, but do not burn.
a stile vanilla essence. Pour into
Four into a mould (plain) or cake two wetted sandwich tins, and leave Arrate ceri Un previously warmed, and turn set. Turn cut the mould round and round till the peaches on each round to resemble suntowers and decorate round the caramel conls It evenly.
eriges with whipped rrean. Serve
For pudding: Heat 1 plut milk. Sprinkle in 3 oza remolino, and attr with peach syrup. titt bolling, Boll five minutes, stir-
ring all the time. Remove from fire, Cheese Pielding add sugar to sweeten, and a few drops of lemon juice to favour,
Sir in the yolim of two eftge, and lastly fold the stimy beaten whites.
This is very essy savoury make. of
Simply heat three-quarters pint milk, sprinkle in 2 ozs semolina, and when the grain is clear, Pour into prepared mould, and add 1 1⁄2 oz cheddar cheese (grated) steam gently three-quarters of an pinch of pepper and mustard, and Turn on to hot dish, and the beaten yolks of two eggs, Mix
beaten whites, any caramel remains in moutd, add well, then Instly fold in the stiffly
hottr.
A little hot water and pour round pudding.
Semolina Suato
Pour into greased gloss ovenware dish, sprinkle u little cheese on top. and place on a few pats of hutter.
Buke In a moderate oven twenty This makes a very inexpensive minutes, till "öf "gulden brown colour-
any Serve at once. sweet, and is delicious with stowed summer fruit.
Isobel
Growing Old Gracefully
THIS is an age of perpetunt femin she is well before pre-war vintage, ine youthfulness, 1 la sometimes and so loses her sincerity. She is continually acting a part, fighting a whether discover difficult to woman is the mother, or sister. of losing tattle with time. the young girl who hokls her arm so affectionately,
Yours ago, a woman might as well have been dead end burled n soon as she reached the "appalling age" of forty, but to-day, the slight pret liness she may have possessed in her Kirlhood 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 the stresses her most striking features. Keeping the Mind Young
coliture Are Her make-up and more suitable fer a girl in her teens; she concentrates on dieting, beauty culture, and clothes, but she soon looks worn and anxious. Durning the Candle at Both Ends
She burns the candle at both ends, without reallsing that whereas a younster woman can stand the strain without wearying, after a week or so she herself, cannot. No amount of forced laughter can hide her droop- ing spirits.
The woman who wears well does not worry about the effect she creates, ay long as her appearance pleases herself, she is satisfied.
Time
She wears suitable clothes. has no fear for her, and the only wrinkles she has are those caused through happy laughter. Her young companionship: family
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There is only one way to keep me at bay (which does not mean stupidly to opt youth), and that is to cultivate a young mind, never to lose interest In new thing. For some women, life only starts being the varied ad other is so sporting-she is ready venture it is, when they have reached for anything," they say. middle-age.
She does rent proclaim her age. woman who is from the hilltops, but she never tries There is one.type
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who to give a false impression of extreme foolish, and endeavours to deceive people about youth. Her mind is so young that she her real age, by wearing absurdly will never grow old.
The saying that. "A woman is as youthful clothes which merely nc- 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 that a womain only looks old when older than she really is.
She guards her conversation care- she feels old. fully so that no one can guess that
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leather, mixture or red and pale blue in imported tweed gives a lavender cast to the jacket of this sports ensemble. The pale blue dress at sheer wool la trimmed with red atlieking. The hat of matching sundo,
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Navy and white ensemble, the coal navy woollen, worn over a navy.and.white printed crepe. White plque rovers, white gloves, white mo bag, and white daisy toque, are crisp detalis.
Helpful Hints
IF new silk stockings ure 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 called along each side and this will avercome the trouble,
Save, the wax wrappings from cerent 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 quite bright, even if not used every day.
When baby's pram or cot cover weare thin in places, give it a new i lease of life by sewing pieces af coloured flannel or felt, cut into animal shapes, over the worn parts.
H By acid from 3 wireless accumulator has been spilt on a carpet or tablecloth, cover it im- mediately with milk and so prevent a hole being burned..
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Sew the halves of about six press- studs to the hem of your dance frock, and sew the corresponding halves to the inside of your cont
ttle higher than the hem. Fasten the press-studs when it rains, And your dress will not become wet or Rolled.
To remove scorch marks from linen, wring a cloth out in peroxide, Iny if over the affected part, and tron until dry.
Chamols, gloves will retain their colour much better it washed in water In which the peel of two ertinges has bebit bolled,
Face cloths, and sponges should be regularly, washed and bolted th vinegar and water, for then they will always keep fresh.
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The stripes and checks, so rampant in the recent fashion showings in Paris are used by Creed in this sult, navy and while #triped flannel over a navy blue silk blouse. Tout Valbts design- ed the blue straw with white grosgrain ribbon.
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