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BEAUTY
Cream in Your Coffee
By PRUNELLA WOOD
A
SERIES of fashions called Cafe
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY," OCTOBER
1948.
FASHIONS HOME
Russek's
Parfait, and making an entire collection for all hours of the fashion day in the The coming season, contributes this smart little town wulf. softly rounded short jacket is creamy shade of belge; the full skirt with the smooth hips is deep coffer colour.
Not only the city girl, but also she who goes out to meet life-from-the-country or has a vacation date by plane or train, will find this model a flatterer, and one, moreover, which can accommodate a great variety of quick-change accessories.
Women At The Change Of Life
By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
TOMORROW'S GADGETS FOR
Be Sparing in Use of Perfume
THE HOME
By ELIZABETH TOOMEY, New York. Tomorrow's housewife will be "the woman from Mars," judging by a look at some of the wondrous new gadgets on the market.
The electric. whiskbroom actually
Is an electele carpet sweeper with n whiskbroom stroke. The brush makes 1,750 sweepa a minute, with a lever that adjusts to clean naps of any thickness. Even the broom that's operated by hand has had a rejuvenation. Manufacturers have
a broom with developed
plastic static brisBes that generates electricity to trap the dirt.
Automatic Tin Opener
Butomatic tin The
opener is operated by electricity, and is de- -nigned to handle any type of tin. A touch of the contral knob locks the tin Ita place and starts the automatle opening. The tin stays in place until you can alp the knob back to release it and shut off the motor at the same time.
electric
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Courtes Coty
Uso an atomizer when applying perfume or cologne, for diffusion of scent.
By HELEN FOLLETT
a
of
TAY the heavy hand when you hands because hand kissing was
apply perfume. The right custom.
Whatever you do, don't put it on scent, properly used, is an integrat
in warm hair, especially part of woman's glamour. and your
A little exercise in the glamour is the first requisite of the weather.
sunlight will cause the glands lady of fashion.
the scalp to be over active. The will cliemicals laid upon the flesh change the character of the per- fume, and not for the better. When going to a dance, put a few drops on the hem of your skirt,
development Another that will appeal nise to the man of the house is a small unit to mag- Wo- nelise tools for repair work.
magnetise men can use the unit to
bul scissors for picking up pins, the most common use will be for magnetising screwdrivers and ham
both thumbs and mers to save
into any tempers. The unit plugs home electrical outlet.
That old flooring with the rough boards and wide cracks can be with a new
For a long time rose was consider covered completely
claims to Rivo n ed old fashioned. Now it is here floor paint that
again, as befits the quaint styles that linoleum-like finish to any type of
have been dug out of the past. It is say flooring. The manufacturers
the breath be to thickly be
supposed spread can one coat
cracks In floor romance, the most potent of scents. to cover enough
out
It rough
belongs
to the particularly boards and to smooth surfaces. Made to use either inside brunette. Blondes should select gar- den, y of the valley, Jasmine or or outdoors, the paint (pavinoleum)
in two types for either any of the more delicate aromas. comes wood or concrete and metal floor- ing.
Homo Fire Alarm
than a
A portable home fire alarm sys-, lem sels off warning that sounds Jike a car horn when the tempera- ture. ear
detectors, one of the reaches 170 degrees. The manufac- turers say the alarm unit, equipped with eight fre detectors, is big enough to protect a home up to 2,000 square feet and requires no
current to operate large flashlight,
Hang the alarm unit in any room 110- and plug it into the nearest volt Plectric outlet. The eight fre delectors (fusible metal clements mounted in plastic) are hung where are dangers exist. The metal ele- ment melts and breaks the circuit, sounding the alarm horn.
more
of
HOME HINTS
To take out grass or flower stains. rub fabrle in thick, hot suds. If the stain still remains, use hydrogen peroxide or a chlorine bleach. Very first bad stains should be softened
Do you know that there are spents peach. with a fruit basis; orange, cherry, which, when blended with floretted essences, are devastating? There are oriental offerings that smell of leaves in a forest, charac-by rubbing with grease. teristie of the outdoor world.
It is nice that every woman does not like the same perfume. It would be pretty dull it the whole world of women carried the same perfume. One of the joys of wearing your favourite is because it makes feel different from your sisters. It invests you with a little mystery and a touch of excitement.
you
Nearly every woman has a pet Idea as to how perfume should be used. Some put it in the curve of the arms, athers place a few drops back of the cars. In the old days it was rubbed on the back of the
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
&
Menu From India
WHEN I went into the test-kitchen until boiling.
con
rapidly. Serve
the
Chet was nowhere to be sprinkled with mineed parsley, found!. Suddenly there was e rap
One
of concentrated chicken on the door and there stood before soup with rlee or noodles, muy be me a figure resplendent in a cloth- dituled with 3 c. water and used as of-gold coat, trousers, and slippers. a basis, desired, Dark eyes finshed in a haughty, heavily bearded face, topped by a golden turban in which gleamed n precious jewel.
IT has Jong been a puzzle why have revised ne usually intenst not respects to Madame Allen."
twinkle in his
some
women should suffer so are
fed during the change of life. severely during the change of life while others have
practically no thu trouble at all. Adinittedly, glandular changes occurring at this time demands readjustment of the entire body, but since the changes themselves are the sune for all science believes women, modern that the variation in their effects is due to differences in the type nervous system and its ability withsland stress and strain.
ព familiar
eyes.
"Why, Chef, what's the meaning of this?"
Veal Curry
Order 2 to 3 lbs, knuckle of veat. Remove the membrane; dice the The splendid apparition bowed, meat in inch cubes. (Save bone and Cara- The Maharajah of Rajputana pays trimmings for soup stock).
melize (melt)
sugar 1 tsp. I C
in a frying pan. When golden brown, add sliced onion, c. diced tart apple and tsp. curry powder. Stir until well mixed. Adil 1 tbsp. It is for this reason, perhaps, thot
butter or margarine,
then add the "It is my costume for the tele- the use of glandular extracts, known
vision show which we as estrogens, do not do much to re-
are giving veal. Stir until scared and light lieve the symptoms which occur tomorrow night, I shall be the brown. Add 1% top. salt, 34 tsp. Maharajah who comes to dinner.” pepper and the grated rind 1/4 during the change of life in all in-
Here's an Interesting menu that lemon: pour in 4 c. boiling water. stances. It has been noted, too, that
straight from India. It's Cover and slminer 11⁄44 hrs., or pres- patient who seems to be getting comes
when Kure cook 20 min. 15 lbs. Thicken of along all right when the estrogens worth trying out especially
with 3 lbsp. Gach flour and lo are employed often will have a re- you have a party.
Curry powder, which Is the margarine creamed together and turn of the symptoms when some-
Thus, a quarrel famous seasoning of India-is a mixed with a little hot Ilquid from thing upsets her. with her husband, some worry or blend of various familiar spices the cooking veal. Stir until boiling tbsp. shredded Infection may bring on the symp-packaged and on sale everywhere again. Then add 2
cost. 11 has the coconnut and c. top cream or loms despite the fact that estrogen at reasonable
property of making any savoury soured cream. Serve with Aluky is being given.
inexpensive, food Inste good. For plain or yellow rice, Pass cocoanut trouble our dinner have who
using Women
pinin relish salad. during his Une aced several forms knuckle of veal In the East Indiart
mntiner. Often, reassurance of treatment. and mental treatment are helpful.. Certain preparations may be em- played to control the upset nervous These include ergotamin
and belladonna,
pheno-
A woman who is bighly sensitive
and easily upsel may have cymp- toms early during the change
of
life, often before the periods stop. In fact, she may get sitnilar symp~ toms during each monthly perfort.
Placid Woman
On the other hand, the stable, placid woman may go through the change of life without hardly any symptoms at all.
system. tartrate, barbital
Proper Diet
We arc
Dinner
Vegetables Hindustan
Dow-
minced minced
Melt 2 tbsp. butter or margarine; in it slow-fry 1 alleed, peeled, good- Bread sized onion. When yellowed, add 1 Indian Chicken Broth
Veal Curry Oriental Rice medium-sized eggplant, (if available) peeled and cut in Inch cubes. Cocoanut Relish Salad
Simmer 5 min. Then add 12 pods Vegetables Hindustan
cleaned halved okra; 2 peoled, Tomato Chutney It is also interesting lo note that
Melon with Lime Wedges
chopped tomatoes; 1 tsp. salt: women who lend to be gloomy and
Tea
tsp, pepper and tsp. curry Milk (Children) depressed at the time of the regu
A cocoanut. Felith saind is often der. Cover and simmer about 40 far monthly periods will have similar symptoms at the ume of the
The estrogens are helpful in mony passed with the main dish. This is min, or bake in a moderate oven,
as follows: Dice two made
Hood- 350 F change of life. Those who are i-
instances. In mild cases, however,
Tomato Chutney. Inoized tomatoes; combine with a fine- tery or irritable and tubject to
w!II
needed. not bo
and
Scald 10 lbs. firm, ripe tomatoes. stomach upsets, will they headache or
cold add. Plunge at once into
winter. usually find these symptoma more moderately severe cases, the drugs shredded sweet green pepper which quiet the nervous system may a little chopped green onion;
the skins; chop the noilecable. at the time of the change.
Add course.
3 which be employed, and in severe cases the tart Franch dressing to moisten and
fomatoes In short, basic weaknesses
estrogens are used. It is suggested sprinkle generously with shredded
cocoanut.
sweet green peppers, that the estrogens should not be con-
"Chutney sauce is also good with peeled onion, 2 c. chopped raisins, Linued longer than a few months. The other druga, also, should be stopped the curry," remarked the Chef. "We 1/3 tsp. cayenne pepper, 1 tbsp. within three to six months and used have plenty of ripe tomatoes in the powdered ginger, 1 tbsp. salt, 3 c. garden. This moment I shall go cider vinegar. 1 c. nny tart jelly, only as required.
after them and make a big kettle 1. sugar, the grated rind o 2
will Of course, there should be treat of tomato chutney, It Boulder, Col-One of America's
be lemons and the juice of 4 lemons. leadlog writers for young people ment aimed at getting rid of such marvellous with our veal curry, and Simmer about 1 hr. or until almost For example, to use 'n relish with cold meats," ns thick as jam. When the chutney thinks the effect of comic books on symptoms as occur.
All Measurements are Level gets quite thick, botter slip bromides under your doctor's direc young minds is "deplorable."
Recipes Serve Four
nabestos mat under the kettle. of tion may be used for restlessness, Mrs Florance Crannell Means
help get rid of Boulder said
prevent scorching. Transter comic books give Proper diet may
Indian Chicken Broth. To 5
chicken bouillon (made ing hot to sterilised jars. Fill to glamorised a ple- symptoms due to stomach and bowel youngsters too
Arthritic symptoms,
chicken
cubes or canned over-flowing, and seal at once with ture of the adult world. Problems, disturbances.
and aching in
the from she contended, are solved too easily that is, pain
Trick Of The Chof in camic Scion
joints, may be relieved by massage, chicken broth), add 2 tbsp, minced storilised rubbers and tops.
onion, 1 tbsp. minced parsley and
To make oriental rice, plain-cook Mrs Means conducted a workhus, ony woman who has diffi 1 small, shredded, swoot green ahop in Juvenile literature at
life pepper. Cover and simmer about white rice as previously directed the cully during the change of University of Colorado's writers should have a sureful study made 15 min. Season to taste with salt in this column; adding a baylenf
In 1945. she received by her conference
physician so that the most and pepper. Thicken with tbsp. for that "oriental perfumed" flavour, or cornstarch stirred and a tap, saffron to make yellow the award of the Child Study. Asso: effective method for getting rid of arrowroot
smooth in 2 tbsp. cold water. Stir in 'colour. clation of America.
her symptoms may be employed.
Comic Books Deplored By Juvenile Export
an
10
boll.
One teaspoon of mustard added to deo- soapy water will thoroughly dorize porcelain enamelled refrigera- ior Interiors.
A good rubbing with camphorated oll will remove a white "bloom" on dark woodwork which is caused by
sleam.
Always rinse a mould with colu water before putting gelatin into it.
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