THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30,.1946.
WOMEN'S INTERESTS
INVISIBLE MENDERS
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Thirty-One Divorces In Every
Art Of Cooking May Soon Be Obsolete!
By SARA YOKLEY
United Press Staff Writer
When the amazing now raytheon radarange is marketed for use, a woman will be able to slip an
The art of cooking long adver-; At the prevent the the radarange tired as the way to if man's heart, | Is being made only for airlines, noon will be obsolete.
hotels and lunchstands, and costs home US$1,250. Its uses are limited to cooking foods which are small in bulk and require only one minute under the magnetron tube-pre- cooked meals, frozen foods and sand- wich stand fare, such a hotdogs, hamburgers, biscuits and cakes.
Hundred Marriages entire packaged meal, prepared by
In U.S.A.
expert chefs, in her radarange and that dinner is served vere
minutes Inter. This latest invention designed to keep women out of the kitchen cooks last year al-time record rate food electronically by a magnetron the US Pulle medal service re-tube, the basis of all radar. Energy purts.
There were 31 divorces for every 100 marriages in the United States
wedding bulls were While the ringing for 1,818,331 couples In 1945, another 562,000 marriages ended In divorce courts.
The divorce figure was more than twice the average annual total for the period 1037-30, and was 25 per cent ahead of 1044. The Health Service noted (but marriage And divores are closely tied to economie and social upheavals.
"Dear
the
Is beamed from the tube through a
horn" and concentrated into
only controls on food. The
the range are two push-buttons and
mer which automatically shuts the unit off when the food is done. The range grills frankfurters in eight to ten seconds, baken ginger-bread and
seconds biscuits in 29
and cooks with juley hamburgers complete sliced onions in a pre-cooked roll in
36 seconds.
BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS
! Posed for Lois Leeds.
A cute bow coiff ure for Teeners!
TEEN TOPICS
out you could apply a tiny bit of vanishing cream for that nice dull
Lois Leeds--Please finish.
tell me how I can pretty up' my
hair. I don't look well with
flowers in my hair.—NANNY." "Dear Lols Leeds-I am 14 years
old. My hair is straight and
nol
A simple, classic coiffure becomes very attractive. I can have a per "dressed up for the evening date
maneut if you approve. Do you? perky tailored
by the addition of a
bew, perched just above the ear. You can have costume matching
L.B."
Yes, I do! It will make you hap
But, the radarange of the future will cook everything except bolled eggs-the liquid in the eggs causes it to explode when heated so swiftly --and will compete in price with electric and gas stoves.
to
The woman who knows how took will like the radarange because it will cut her "kitchen ume" from hours to minutes. She can place
roasts and hams, which now require several hours cooking, on a revolv ing "spit" and Corvo them ten minutes later.
Perfect cakes, uniformly light throughout, can baked in a minute or twe, and raw. vegetables will be done in seconds.
Chels at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York already are experi- menting with packaging lavish din- ners for airlines which will be frozent and Inter coolted in one minute by radarange. When the range is made available to housewives the Waldorf; will expand their packaging service 30 that women all over the stnica will be able to "dine at the Wol- dort."
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The frozen food industry also will package entire dinnera in paper con- tainers, eliminating the problem of dishwashing. This will enable housewife to order an entire week's meals over the phone, store them in her refrigerator and serve up a fancy dinner in a matter of minutes.
or
The only drawback to radar-cook- ed food that it differs in
appear- ance from food cooked by gos
Because of the speed of electricity. cooking there are no crusts on ment or bread and the colour is slightly different. Brends and cakes nre whiter almost dough coloured, und meut comes out a slight grayish brown. Scientists and food experts nt raytheon, expect, however, to which will produce preparations
tint form crusta synthetically and breads and meats a normal colour.
SHOES-
Lower Heels Fancied
By Claire Cox
United Press Fashion Scout
A simple but beautifally cut white evening
gown displayed at the "Britain Can Make It" exhibition in London. Gowns at the show are setting the current styles.
TALKING
SHOPPING Let's
Face It...
that
TALKING of cosmetics, I remem But three shades of powder and ber the tale of Bob "Dazooka" a pot of cold cream are an anachrom Burna's Aunt Phoebe. "Sheisin to-day, like Aunt Phoebe. never used make-up,” he declared, Ignoring mushroom "and she had a skin like a peach. sprang up during the war. I select Yellow and fuzzy."
ed five leading brands of cosmetics Away back with Aunt Phoebe, as basis for this review. These five there was very little make-up, any-makers between them market 38 way.
of lipstick-or. at least, naturelle or rachelle face powder shade-names, which are good enough chalk white, bright pink and belge. to cat. And there was cold cream for those who bothered. The more mixed
daring
the
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The pre-war vogue for cyclamen lips If a girl wanted to get shine
oft and exotic make-up was rightly in- face, she rubbed a plece of terrupled by its own incongruity chamois leather or her sin before with the times. Now, everything is powdering. Papiers poudres, or rosy. little books of rice-paper sprinkled Face-powder made by these Ilve with face-powder, were quite an beauty specialists comes in 30 Innovation: you tore out a leaf and shude-names; one maker hus pow- colours or brilliant shades of drama will be easy to fix in any way that their heads to look taller, but they
Women pile their hair on top of pressed it to your face. pler and you will: Dnd that your hair
der in two textures and two per- But by 1039 the two basic cos- held
fumes. Eye-shadow and you please. But you must take care ave, buying shoes with lower heels so metics-face powder and cold cream are necessarily limited to subtleties mascara securely by little crystal ring. of your hair and your through which the anchoring bob pin Frequent shampoos and daily brush the men who sell shoes.
permanent, they will look shorter, according to-had multipiled into a complicated, in blue, binck green and brown, but goes wrioticed. The young crowd and the young glamour models are are important. making this bow idea a fashion must,
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"Dear Lois Leeds-I wear sux ull winter but my legs look so rough und, realy. What can I do? I am 15 years old.~T. N. T.”
Scrab your legs and knces
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"Dear Lals Leeds-What odour in bath accessories should I buy for my 16-year-old daughter? She is blonde and very pretty and dressy MAMMA."
A sweet flower oriour; such as Lily
or
heels-
BY PATRICI A LENNARD
The trend toward lower and almost no heels at all-predomi- comprehensive flow of products from nated n1 the recent National Shoe Show.
American thousands of English, French and The styles American manufacturers. were a forecast for next spring and Autumn, and a refiretion of what women are wearing this year.
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one firm already as a pre-war eye- shadow on the market-blue flecked with silver.
Creams, lotions, masks. powder foundallons and her skin prepara- To-day a review of cosmetic coun-
flons are. however, bewilderingly Many women still are interested ters ands something approaching plentiful. With a normal skin, you in sucrificing their arches to with of the Valley. Apple Blossom
wear pre-war plenty. True, you cannot have the choice of a cream founda- hot, Buday water, then rinse in cool | While Ruse or Rose Geranium.
spike heels, but the National Show yet walk into a shop and be assured tion, a liquid foundation-emulsifi water. Dry thoroughly and massage
Retailers Association summed up the of buying a particular brand of lip co altuation when it said that there is stick in a favourite shade:
lip-ed or with powder residue, or a instend
end | powdery-looking, cake. All "an increasing demand for medium heels and retailers should allocate a coa permanent supply of all makes, can be bought tinted in skin
cosmetics tend to come in big quotas Those with dry skins can use richer greater palrage to this group than from individual firms--so that cach creams and lotions. And those with week sees a different maker doml-jolly skins choose a vanishing type
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L. E. Langston, executive vics pre-nating the shelves. aldent of the Association, predicted that women next year probably would go conservative—at least from the ankles down.
That means, nccording to the As- sociation, they are going to wear:
1. Fewer high heeled shoes with wedgies (shoes that are two-thirds sele and make women walk as though
their feet were flatter than they are).
2. Fewer very high platforms about one inch (which means more sole but fatter feet),
3. Fewer nail heads (glorified nails hammered in shoes).
4. Fower heavy clogs (just what the name implies).:
5. Fewer cloth casuals.
6. Fewer two-tones treatments.
And fewer balleta (like the [dancers,' only women walk around the streets in them),
Instead, they will favour "spring pumps," which have open heels and straps to hold them on, sandals, and "opened-up" types of shoes.
Most of the dat heeled shoes will have closed toes and heels, and the favourite materials will be patent) leather, plasties, suedes, calf, kidskin, fabrics, reptiles and gabardines,
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of cream, usually recognizable, by its silvery texture, which gives matt surface, or a liquid foundation, or again, the solid cake.
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This cake inake-up, by the way, seems to be current in the beauty battery. I have found at least three similar brands, and two other firms make a like foundation in the form of a cake of thick stir cream. All these are skin foundations used by day before applying powder. But at night beauty runs riot.
DS
In all Ave makes of cosmetics re- viewed, there is no such thing. honcat to goodness, cold cream. Not these days. Instead, there are skin foods, akin balms, issue cream, anti-wrinkle cream, pasteurised and medicated zeams, muscle oil, pore cream, eye lallons and cream, and youthifying hormone creams,
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