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An Imported gingham in a plaid design is used for a ~ back dress with matching Jacket. Shirred defail is used for collar and cuffs.
Buying Clothes
T
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 28, 1940.
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*HEY'VE all got their sea legs. Now 'e up to the noble army of knitters to see that they get a nice long pair of stockings to wear under those high sea boots.
These are a great boon to all who go down to the sea in ships, be it aboard a destroyer or a trawler, and "you"may"be" cure you are knitting something well worth while and very welcome.
Hero are the instructions making them:---
for
Materials-14oz Double Knitting wool. (Natural or light grey.) Four No. 10 Knitting Needles with points at
enda
Abbreviations—K.~Kult;
both
P. Purl; fog-together; pasa-piss alip stitch over: t.b.l-through the back of the loops.
Cast on 2 stitches loosely, 20 on cach of the first and second needles, and 20 on the third needle. Work 20 rounda
In rib of (k. 1,. p. 1), decreasing one Allch at the end of the last round, Proceed as follows:
1st round. k. 0. k. 2 tog, k. 5, re- peat from to the last 3 alitches of the round, k. 2, p. 1.
2nd round.Work in plain knitting to last stitch on third needle, p. 1.
Repeat 2nd round 21 times.
21th round.-* k. d, k. 2 tog, k. 4, re- peat from to the lmt 3 stitches of the round. k. 2, p. 1. Repent the 2nd round 22 times, also after the 47th round.
17th round. k. 6, k. 2 log, k, 3, re pent from * to the last 3 stliches. k. 2. p.
70th round.- 1. k. a tog., knit plain to the Inst 4 glitches of the round, k. 2 tog., t.b.1., k. 1, p. 1.
71st round.Work in plain knitting to last stitch of third needle. p. 1.
Repeat the 71st round six ilmes **. Repent from ** to **, six times, then the 70 round once.
Work 30 rounds in plain knitting without shaping (still keeping the purled stitch at the centre back).
In the next round, kalt plain to
NUCCESS in buying a the last 2 stliches of third needle.
S
smart ensemble often depends upon the mood a woman is in when she goes to buy it from a shop.
If she is feeling tired, or not in her usual spirits, she will "per-| haps be too wenty to be bothered to concentrate, and if her mind is not on the subject in hand, she will let herself be satisfied with
k. 2 tog.
To begin the heel.-K. 10: all the last 10 aliches of the round on to the -other-end-of-the same needte (those-
20 stitches are for the heck,
Divide the remaining 20 silches on to two needles and leave for the instep. Work 31 rows on the heel altches in attenute rows of purl and plain always slipping the first and knitting the tast stitch in every row),
To turn the heel: k. 13, allp . . 1. paso, torn. *P. 7, p. 2 lug, turn; k. 7, slip. I. p.3.8.0., turn; repent from until all the stitches are worked on to ghus completing the heel. 81lp all the instep siltches on to one needle.
something that is not really suit-e row again: kalt back stitches able for her and she will never look well-dressed in the garment she chooses.
Equally foolish is it to make the mistake
hurry. of shopping in a Sometimes this is inevitable; an un- expected engagement may occur which calls for a new frock. But if this has to be chosen in a ruch, and due consideration cannot be given to its choice 14 is beller to wear un old frock that has the merit of sulting its wearer,
Know What You Want
Another point in the successful buying of clothes is to know what you want. So
drift
my women
into a shop, desiring to purchase t hat. dress, or coat, or all three, without having any iden concerning colour or style.
It is true that it is the business of the shop assistant or dressmaker to show a customer as many varieties of style as possible to help her in her choice, but if the customer has no ideas of her own, an array of frocks will
often
confuse rather ปากก simplify her choice.
If she can give some idea of the colour and style the prefers only variations of her specified require- ments will be shows, and, the choice being thus narrowed down, the pur- chaser will not be wearied by look- ing at a callection of clothes she finds are unsulled to her type.
Bear in mind that, if you are tired, the girl who, serves you may be equally weary, and she may find an overwrought, helplessly vague cus- tomer a little trying, und
const quently her services may not be as helpful as would be the case under happler circumstances. Shop Early
When possible, make the morning your shopping time, H you are not an office worker, and leave the lunch “Hour and the evening to those wonent who cannot shop at any other time owing to their work. In the morning you are fresh and so are the shop nasistants.
Taking another needle, knit the re- maining 4 stitches of the heel and knit Ep 14 Rches from the nkle of the heel; with a second needle knit plain ncross the instep stitches; with a third needle kalt up 14 stitches from the side of the heel and the remaining stitches of the heel
K2 rounds without aaping. in the next round, kail phat to the Inat stitches of the first needle, k. 2 tog.. k. 2: knit plain on the second needle on the third needle, k. 2, k. 3 tog, t.b... knit plain to the end of the needle. Repeat the last three rounds
Sale-time bargains often provide attractive additions to the wardrobe. but here again the test results are obtained by applying method to your buying. Know what bargains you intend to and before you visit the sales. If other items strike you wille you are here that is all to the good, but if you go with the den of Anding n hat, pr a cont, or some dress material, go and find it but do not wander aimlessly and Idea-lessly round the sales or you may misa alight, but most shops have "daylight" really good bargain)
lamps so it is possibis to match Choosing clothes or
or trimmings in colours by tila lamp if real daylight the right light is important. Remem-has passed when you do your shop ber that evening clothes will be worn ping. mainly in artificial light so do not
Three-art summer. LOCES- sories the Chinese coolle bai, A paranoi with watch handle and asiriped fabric bag.
Always try to buy shoes in the choose them in daylight. Naturally morning before your feet are tired; day clothes should be chosen in day-
until 13 stitches re mala on the Arsl and third needles.
Continue without shaping until foot mensures (tram where the stitchca were knitted up al the alde of the heck-in, for an 11-inch foot; 8in. for an 11. foot: Bin. for
12-inch foot,
Shape for the e 115 fellows:-
1st round.-Knit plain to the last 3 stitches of the first needle. k. 3 teg k1; on the second needle, k. 1. k. 2 tog. 1. knit plain to the last 3 stliches, k, 2 to 1; on the third ncedie, k. 1, k. 2 tog, t.b.l, kolt plain to the end of the needle.
-Wear
THESE!
*says
the
Knitting Editor
Sea boot
stockings
are a boon
to all who
80 down to
the sea in
ships.
2nd round-Knit plain.
Repeat these two rounds until sliches remain in the round. In the next round, work the first needle without shaping: on the second needle, k, 1, k. 2 tog., t.b.l, knit plain to the last 3 stitches, ka tog, k 1.
Blip the alltches of the third needle on to the end of the first needle. Graft the toe stitches Work another Stock ing in the same manner. With a chimp cloth and hot iron press carefully.
MARMALADE
in the Making
AERE'S- good news for Marmalade"
H
makers. Oranges we in the Tested Recipes
shops and suger is avaliable for those who like to All som jars with their favourite breakfast preserve.
By
Mrs. BARDELL
Women can bring their preserving pans into action right away. Those who have complained lat their Pour into warm, dry Jars marmalade has not been a success and the down with grease- proof paper coated on both
in
the past win be rewarded in both sides with white of an future if they follow carefully tested egg, or with the special air- recipes.
tiglil cellophane covering you can buy.
Here is a good standard recipe which has stood the test of time.
Oranges & Lemon •
oranges. Cut cross
To six Seville aud remove pips. Tie the pips in a muslin bag lemon add lb. and bull in a pint of water for an waler.
Wish and wipe dry 12 Seville This recipe is easy to follow:
ari one oranges sugar and 6 plats
hour.
Skin the oranges, cut up the skins into very fine slices, and cut up the pulp.
Weigh the pulp and rind and put
into a pan. To every pound of fruit add three pinis of cold water, then stand for 24 hours.
Wipe oranges and lemon, cut into quarters and remove pips. Cover pips with 1 pint cold water.
Cut the oranges and peel into very thin strips, add the water and allow to stand for 24 hours. Boil the rind, water, and pulp together until tender. Add the sugar and water from pips, and boil rapidly for 15 to 30 minutes. Test by putting a little on a cold
Add the liquid strained from the piste. Pot and cover. pips, pour all into preserving pan. Afixed Frult and boll gently until rinds are tender.
seven
Leave for another 24 hours, tlich Try this for a change.
Wash
and dry
Seville weigh, and to every pound of pulp
21416.
Boil oranges, preserving sugar.
two sweet oranges, two quickly for three-quarters of an hour, lemons, and a grape fruit, Cul in or unili a little will set when tested halves, remove pips, cut into slices. a cold plate. Stir frequently removing the pith from the grape
fruit. while boiling, and skim off froth.
on
Dainty Things For Baby
of
MOTHERS, however predical they bindings all round.
Ahave to bestillike to have pret-Cots-Become-Frilly- ty things for their babies. They
As for the cols for very new babies, simply refuse to allow dullness or drnbness to conc
to the filly within reach of these have reverted baby. So we see all sorts of cininty affairs of some time ago. But the things made to enchant the mothers fella are alfaya removable and wai-
able, very young people.
An excellent idea, If you are Little boots with small patent slide trimming your own cot, is the one fasteners up the front have a line of given me by a young mother quite fur around the tops and are made of recently. She bought a length red kid—just na serviceable as brown organdie twice the size of the tot measured all round. Along the fold Tiny quilted satin slippers look she made a double ine of stitching- lovely peeping from lenenti even the an inch and a half from the top, and most severely practical frock Fur the other line an inch below it. This slippers are equally attraclive and made a casing for a plece of tape warmer, of course.
Biba aro now the daintiest affairs, into a double frill
which could draw up the organfle made of pastel-tinted organite, often which was easily opened out for around the cot, embroidered, and decorated with 'awwushing. crisp little frill, Comme de
Col and pram bankels, warm and a designot many coloured. Bower The outer frill stie embroidered in soft are hand-knitted paste), heads, settered sparsely over the coloured wool. Therd are covers, too, surface, a made-in-the-same-way, with satin
ones.
Bits
DON'T let's go too matter-of-fact.
A few extra minutes and a few extra conta can transform an every- day frock into a gay affair.
Frilling always suffers heavy reduction in the sales, yet a yard of it can be quickly shaped into a collar and cuft set. French
women aro adopt at these frilly touches that catch the eyes of the passing males! In "flower" baskets you may see an organdi they, too, bru good charmers, and So are wide-ended bows in coloured tinsel or rainbow alik worm under the chin like a Toby bow.
Don't be afraid of the shiny rem- nants, the quaint shaped buckle or synthelle necklace. They may not be real, but they are genuino brighteners in the dull, dark moments of to-day.
Apple & Ginger
Preserve
IF you are fond of a ginger flavour
iri preserves you'll like economical recipe.
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quantity of apples, peel thinly, remove cores, and cut into thin slices. When
you inve
four pounds, put them into a pan with 1 pt. water.
Cook-till-soft and then rub througir Mepsure this and return to a sieve. the pan with alb sugar to every pint of pulp.
Cook slowly until the sugar has dissolved, then bring to the bail and skim. Add the juice and grated rind of a lemon and 4 oz. preserved ginger cut small. Boll and stir until it will set readily on a cold plate.
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Pour over four quarts of cold water. Add the pips tied In a muslin bag and leave for 24 hours. Next day boil for an hour, remove pips. then leave for another twenty-four hours.
Boll until the rinds are tender, then ndd 101b. preserving sugar and boil for nearly an hour, stirring occasionally, to prevent burning. Test and pol as usual,
With Ginger
A favourite in some households. Take six large Seville oranges, peel them and slice the pulp thinly, To each pint of pulp add a pint of cold water, bring to the boil, then con- tinue to boil for 11⁄2 hours. Measure out Ilb, suger to every pound of pulp and juice. Slice 14. preserved ginger, then add sugar and pulp and boil gently for an hour.
R
Rules for Success
FEMEMBER""these easy ruler
and your marmalade "will be
a great success.
Marmalade won't "jelly" pro- perly if it is not boiled rapidly after the sugar has been added and dissolved thoroughly.
20
a
The rat boil should be slow, that the rinds become tender. Then leave for 24 hours before adding sugar, Now bring to the boll again, keep bubbling unill
will act on a cold plate.
cloudy, mushy appear- ance,
with its consequent loss of flavour, means that the frull has been allowed to stand too long after the cold water was added. It should stand exactly 24 hours minute longer, And don't forget to weigh the pulp 'and ring accurately before add- Ing the water.
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