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for your comfort
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REMEMBRANCE DAY
Remembrance Day is dedicated to those in the Services who fought ao gallantly and endured so much between 1914/18 and 1939/45. it la alco an occasion when Britons distant parts of the Empire and foreign lands turn their thoughts to the Mother Country and fool that they share that great tradition which she has created and we splendidly maintained throughout the centuries.
It is now more necessary than ever before to secure your gene- rous support for Earl Haig's Fund for the Disabled of the two World Wars, Their need is great, and the Cammitted of the British Legion feel that you would wish to be prominently identified in the endea- vour to alleviate the distress of so noble a band of physleet sufferers:
Remembrance Day will be celebrated
on 7th November.
Poppies will be sold on Saturday,
6th November.
Cheques may be made payable to Percy Smith & Co. Windsor House, Hongkong.
ORANGES
ONE BOTTLE
LEMONS
MYNOR
FRUIT CUP
MAKES A
WHOLE
BALLON
PINEAPPLES
PASSION FRUIT
ALL TOGETHER IN THIS...
delicious fruit drink
From Australia comes famous Mynor Fruit Cup, blended from the fresh juices of oranges, lemons, pineapples and par sionfruit. The wonderful taste of Mynor reflects the sunny orchards where the fruit is grown: Bottled undeş ideal, by- gienic conditions, Mynor Fruit Cup is rich in healthful frút-juice vitamins,
• Mynor Faurt CUP makes the ideal baza for
cocktails and long ihiris-quenchors.
MYNOR
FRUIT CUP
MADE IN AUSTRALIA BY MYNOR PTY. LTD.
Distributors for Hong Kong and Southern China: THE DARY FARM ICE & COLD STORAGE CO, LTD,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1948.
WOMANSENSE =
Ironing Starts In The Washtub-
IT'LL be a happy day for the housewife when an ironer "is as commonplace a piece of household equipment as a re- frigerator.
But in the meantime, for count- less women there is still the weekly ironing to be tackled, And since the job has to be done, it is just plain good rense to go at it as ex- pertly, as smartly, as possible.
An old hand at the game avera that ironing starts in the washtub: that with extra care given to wash- Ing. rinsing and wringing clothes, as well as hanging them on the line, you save time and energy later over the ironing board. So start by get ting out much dirt as possible, which also means by getting all soap out.
Keep 3 inch suds on surface of water. (Suds hold dirt particles.) Two to three soap solutions are rec- quired, depending on diet in gar- ment. Rinse clothes in 3 or 4 walers, or until last rinse water is clear. I Roap is not entirely removed. fnbrics look scorched when ironed, Abres wenken, garments
tooner.
Propor Rinsing
wear out
Rinse clothes, in washing machine (If you use one) 4 minutes for the Örst rinse. In hard water areas, soften first rinse water with com- mercial water softener. Wring clothes, well after each losing. If you rinse clothes in a tub, remove the clothes before draining the water, or suds may deposit on them.
To avold
wringer unnecessary wrinkles, feed clothes into wringer as straight as possible. Fold pleees lengthwise that are wider than the wringer, straightening them as you feed them into the rollers. Loosen tension on rollers for heavy ar- fieles, to prevent deep creases. When starching cotton and linen. divide clothes Into 3 groups for heavy, for medium, and for light starch. Dip
in that order, diluting solution each group is finished,
.
Hang Correctly
bs
Some fabrics become "Imp" when old: Inces, sheer rayon dresses and- blouses, cotton table linen, pillow- cases. Sizing gives limp fabrles new body. and
makes ironing them easier
Add 2 to 4 cups 100 basle, starch mixture to last water, or use gum arable, available in most drug stores. Use 2 tablespoons to a pint of water, and cook until clear.
So They Say..
of
Most women are frustrated in their love lives, so they throw all their
women's energies into
clubs... Let's not kid ourselves, girls. isn't much fun trying to get along
It
without men. -Cornella Otis Skinner, actress and author,
Modern man has become a moral muttonhead.
-Mra Clare Boothe Luce, author,
Ibsen was a soaker. Beeilioven was
n sanker. On the other hand, some great thinkers, poets and saints have been abstainers.
tecto-
George Bernard Shaw, taller, arguing whether writers atlain. prenter creative thought if they abstain from alcoholte stimulants:
BURBERRY'S OVERCOATINGS
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Clothes & Accessories of Distinction
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Tel: 30281 - Ext. 392.
RED
RYDER
NOW'D YOU LIKE
A NICE PAYIN' JOB SO YOU CAN PAY YOUR SALOON
BILL POP
ARE YOU KIDDIN, JAKE,
By ELEANOR ROSS
Dilute with 2 to 3% quarts water The face, use feaspoon gum arable to one quart of water. After cooking, dilute with one quart water."
Time and effort are saved In sprinkling and ironing if clothes are correctly hung and later removed from the line in the proper way Before hanging each garment, shake it well to remove large wrinkles, To reduce the number of wrinkles to be ironed out later, fold flat picces, such an sheets, tablecloths, bedspreads and such, when remov ing from the line. Pince 'at the bot- tom of the clothes basket.
If sheets have been lung cor- rectly, with the right side outside, removing and folding from the line
easy. Remove the clothespin holding right solvare edge. Grasp the sheet at the right seivage, draw over to the left, removing the mid- die clothespin as you go. Place one hand at the told, the other at the selvager at the line level. Lift from the line with the sheet folded in quarters
TRICKS TO MAKE THE OLD LOOK NEW
A
N keni If you have a bead box full of broken necklaces and strands of pearls, string them all to- nether and Anish with a one-half inch velvet ribben. Ör mako- a +60-inch string and twist, and loop it around In any old fashion. Look up bits of înce and satin. Cute and venteen are "in" again and very interesting for changing a basle frock.
Hollywood designer Renie adds a up for looking most attractive in the old or new clothes.· Renie feels that interest around the necks is in- portant to frame the face. An ud- usual collar for a tailored dress, a soft frill for an afternoon frock, a different costume jewellery arrange- ment for the "date" dress; are all tricks which Renie user in her movie clothes. And these tricks work well also for everyday clothes.
Yes, scarves are "new". Try to get several in different colours and designs. You can play around, with them and learn to do wonderful tricks. Scarves make wonderful girdles and hip-swathing is very pretty. You can use basic dresses, necessarised with scarves and always look different!
Young Wool Jersey
By PRUNELLA WOOD
Townley, Frocks
CLAIRE MCCARDELL, whom one might call the designer's designer, as well as the prophet for a great many youthful fashion sweeps, designed this two-colour wool jersey. dress. a typical performance with its simple manipula- tion and casually presented bulk and fullness. Claire is not one to niggle; for her the straight line of fabric.as it is woven, gathered, draped, buttoned, to the figure, without a lot of blueprint.
Skirt, is orange colour, bodice lemon yellow; the deep cowl uses both colours, and pokes out above the shoulders behind, in a funuel shape drape."
NO, FLO TESCOTT WANTS TO HIRE A NEW STAGE COACH GUARD/
Soft Job
I FISGERED THERE WAS LA CATCH IN
ITS THE LAGT GLARD GOT
SHOT/
KEEP THIS UNDER YOUR HAY, POP BUT I KNOW SOME BOYS THAT MIGHT BE ROBBIN
THE STAGE/
Getting Rid Of Those Wrinkles
to
Gustd
against wrinkles by keeping up your circulation with
beat and cold.
By LOIS LEEDS
InnasuÇe faco and CO many times this question is is pink. Next,
asked "What is the best way throat with a piece of ice. If your sensitiva cover O skin ts delicate or Ket rid of wrinkles? "
or. gauze when course, the best way is never to let the ice with cotton them develop. If you are careless using it.
When you have thoroughly stirr.... about your appearance, lines start, then grow deeper. Worry about ed up the airculation, wrinkles will never be necessary if CEB9
cess cream with tissues and pat the good quailty which you start young enough.
Use hot and cold applications to hazel. Many women cannot use this.
circulation.
because it results in stimuinte
ice treatment
If that of the skin and healthful living, with the breaking of small veins. plenty of sleep, will help to prevent is your case, then after using. The wrinkles.
hot water treatment, dip the cloth
Lubrication
Here is a tried and true trent ment to start before your face be- gins to show signs of age, Cover your face and throat with a rich face cream. Wring out a cloth in hot water and place on face and throat, Do this several times until the skin
A BOOK THAT
A CHILD SHOULD READ
By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Ph.D.
THERE'S N book nobody reads
through.
to
Many a person who has read hun- dreds of printed books, has rarely paid attention
this book of Nature with is earth and water, sky and clouds and sun and stars and moon; birds and beastà and all the sights and sounds and smells.
Strange as it may seem, many n boy and girl growing up in the open country has rend but little from this book, while a good many elty children going occasionally into the country read page after page with eagerness.
from
In as much as most school books are written for city children and teachers tend to teach only these books, country boys and girls don't learn at school to read much from Nature's book. Vory Icw. teachers anywhere have been educated in appreciation of the things of Nature nl about them constantly.
Children should love and ap- preciate and enjoy Nature. know the names of many plants
flowers but
and trees and
about them,
Names
face
with o
remove CX-
which has been
into witch hazel chilled In the
a skin stimulate and toner at the same time.
When you apply creams or lotions. always uso on
Icebox. This will will act as
to face and throat upward motion. When little, loose pads of fat begin to form along the lawline, do this. Close the fingers. and place the index fingers along. the front of the jaw on both sides, In front of the pads of flesh. Using the thumbs with an upward motion, roll the flesh. You literally pinch off the fatty pads.
Don't
awalt a certain age before starting your treatments, age has little to do with it. A soft face will need treatments sooner than the bony type and the most important time to watch your face is when you have dashed into a diet to remove those few pounds.
Flavour Is
All That Matters
By ALICE DENHOFF
Here is a group of recipes. un- related except for that most impor- tant attribute, flavour. No matter how simple the dish, how inexpen- sive its ingredients, it will prove to he mighty good eating if it is well flavoured.
When the dish of the day is a meat. stow, don't just serve a pinin stew, and let it go at that. Dress it up a bit with flavour.
French war brides have delighted" their American in-laws with a stew
They that is a household dish in France, meat stew glorified by the piquant accent of stuffed olives. Serve it with a crisp green salad with an oll and vinegar dressing, and a dessert of fresh fruit.
ttle
of the
thought Have you ever psychology of knowing nantes ol similar the persons, and of how psychology of learning the names of things and creatures of Nature? One can't have a very close, warm. friendly feeling! towards a person face to face until one can address him by his name. I'm sure that you and I enjoy the birch tree or the onk more than if I were Just u tree; the oriole or wren more than if it were just a bird; and the rose or delphinium more than if it wer just a Sower. The name suigests personality.
Of course, just to memorise the name would not assure apprecia tion of the personality. Yet know- ing the name is a part of the emotional experience related to the personality. "Hand in hand with her he walks, Face to face with, her be talks." So wrote Whittier of the Barefoot Boy'n friendship with Nature.
Wonderful when the young chlid entoys 'sounds not only of birds but also of winds, thunder; water falling from the clouds, dripping from the roof, rolling over rocks and pebbles; of the whippoorwill, screech owl, peeper, tree frog, buil froni pecially after dark. Although some children gain such apprecia- tions on their own, sucli enjoy- ments are contagious. Nature tends to Influence the chilch to be kind, gentle, and pure. That's how the poels put 34.
By Fred Harman
I'LL PASS THE WORD ALONG THAT YOU'RE A GOOD HOMBRE AND THEY WONT
HURT YOU!
THAT SOUNDS REASONABLE 21. TAKE
NEW EXPENSIVE
To serve 5, have one-Ib round: heef cut in one-Inch cubes. (You see this isn't ап expensive recipe.). Brown the meat in 2 tbsp. shortening, Add one e. chopped onions, cook until golden brown. Add one c, each chopped green pepper and chopped" celery; cook until tender. Mix in 11- oz. tin of condensed cream of tomato- soup, diluted with an equal quantity of water, 36 c. stuffed olives, tap. silt and tsp. pepper. Simmer in covered pan for an hour, stirring oc- casionally. Serve in deep plates over bolled new potatoes.
For a flavoured left-over chicken or turkey, dish, good enough to star na a main course in any meal, pre- pare a pilafl
Melt butter or margurine in skillet, add 2 c. cooked rice; brown untry. Add -ox tin condensed cream of tomato soup, undiluted. Add also one e. diced cooked chicken tbsp. Worcestershire sauce, tsp. salt and 1⁄4 tsp. pepper, Simmer mixture- for 5 min.
Rupert & Mr Punch-29
When Loby nas disappeared Algy tries to get through the crack, but too narrow for him. While pushing hard he loosens many pebbles under his teet. This makes the great boulder against which he a preking move, and he backs away intright, misses his Tooting," and topples backwards down the steep path. Meanwhile the boulder settles firmly grush the face of the rock. .ompletely closing the gap. **This I awful cries Rupert: There's: no way out. We're trapped"
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