THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1948.
BEAUTY. FASHIONS. HOME
Keep Your Wardrobe Looking New
By ELEANOR ROSS
BEAUTIFUL hats coming bent or out of shave may be gently
up for the new season, hats that are well worth the bit of trouble it will take to keep them looking as nice, na fresh, as crisp, as when they were first lifted from their tissue paper wrappings. Notice when you get the hat home, how it was nested in tissue paper when you return the hat to its box.. The tissue in wadded in a certain manner to hold vell- ing crisp and in place. It stuffs the crown and is so placed that it may be drawn around the hat making a sort of inner box.
Care starts with the donning of " hat. Don't just take it out of the box and put onto your bend, Silp the hat on carefully, from the front, for a flattop hairdo; (com back to front if you sport bangs.
Hints should be brushed or wiped after each wearing. Use a soft brush or plece of velveteen on felt or fabric hats. Fabric stretched over buckrum takes a good cleaning with an art
French gum eraser, chalk, rubbed in and brushed out, in one quick operation, does a good Job on
sustel felts, the type that are so popular this season, especially In off-white shades. Or you can go over the entire hut, very lightly, with fine sandpaper.
Use cleaning fluid to keep ribbon trims fresh, and don't forget to re- move powder and perspiration from the Inner head. band with cleaning fuld,
frequently,
Rainspots on Felt
Don't cry over rainspotted fella. Dry them out, and then, with a gen- tle, circular motion, use a piece of chamots or fue sondpaper to banish the spots. Occasionally steam felts, velvets and other napped materials. Hold the hat well above the spout of a steaming kettle and brush very Hightly.
Revive clusters of flowers by shaking gently over steam. Feath- ers and large flowers that become
How To Cure The Problem-Eating
Child
By GARRY Cleveland MYERS, Ph. D.
WHEN the child is served far too W
large helpings he is likely to turn out n "problem-catlng" child." Indeed, he nt two, three or five may be served large helpings of several foods all together. When this same child was only six or eight months old probably had a particular foot pushed into him beyond the time when he enjoyed it, and often so fast he could not masticate and swallow-it-comfortably:
If I could Ket over to young mothers this simple rule, "Only one food served at a time
very, very small helping very
they
would rurely face eating problems with the chlid. Well, they might try one food at a time, for a while atlonst, and suppose the helping is small. But "small" may mean to teaspoonful, even Д
them
Inblespoonful.
not
I want it to mean more then an eighth of a teaspoonful, merely big enough to be visible.
Two-Year-Old
Suppose the child is two years old and you give him a tablespoonful of mashed carrots he docan't ke and you end his meal if he does not clean up these carrots. Ile may hold out and have no more food til the next meal. if you hold out. The chances are you won't hald out. Yet how much easier it had been for him and you if the amount had been no bigger than a lima bean. In case the child were older the small helping would all the more certainly and quickly lead to the desired results.
or moro
Suppose there are two other foods you wish him to have at this meal. As soon as ho has inished the very small portion of the Brst, give him a very
small portion of the next, and So on. Better not choose more, than one or two disliked foods at any. meal. Soon the child may be begging for mare of the food of which you have given him so little. Be sure the child gets no seconds til ha has run the gamut, and that a second helping is no larger than the first.
Large Second Helping
l
you
but Ormly Anger-pressed as aleam them. Curl petals around a pencil the same way. Ribbons usual- ly can come off for a bath.
Press out kinka with a warm iron, and use scissors to trim frayed edges. You can trim up flower petals, too, Re
iden
droopy vells by pressing be- tween two sheets of waxed paper. Or rinse them in sugar water and stretch smooth to dry. Veils not attached to hals should be wound around a cardboard-cylinder when not in use.
If you've never Kone in for hint trimming, it is a good idea to invest
Billo something in home ribbon, flower or two, a quiil, and try your hand at remodelling and retrimming a favourite felt hat. You may be pleasantly surprised at a new and most useful and Interesting talent.
Both brushed wool and brushed rayon need a good brush-up to fluff the surface
after
laundering. Before this is begun, the plecca must be perfectly dry. They should have been dried away from artificial heat, and should be flat so there'll be no stretching. To speed up the drying process, roll the pieces in a few clean, absorbent Inwel for a minutes after rinsing.
An Idea
Do the men In your household wreck linen towels when they clean razors or razor blades? One reader offers a good idea.
She makes little razor towels and hangy
wash them amnek by the
bathroom. cach
The
basin lowels
Ja
are made out of outing flannel, squares
WOULD-BE ACTRESSES
Mrs Ruthel Provet, instructor, points to an imaginary accident to get the reactions of applicants for admission to the New York School of Performing Arts. The girls are (left to right): Anne Krumbein, Inge Becker and Phyllis Weln.
STIRRING TIMES!
MAKE YOUR CHRISTMAS PUDDING NOW
that are hemmed have a loop all around and then attached. A yard of outing flannel will yield at
lenst
a dozen of these useful tinen-saving towels.
From the same friend comes nn- other sensible. suggestion. If there Isn't time to wash and dry beverage glasses after an evening party, fill rach one with soapy water and letly pudding existence. Fland. They will be twice as easy-
HERE are many varietics of that sweet which is known as a hasty pudding, but the Christmas pudding is not one of them.
to wash in the morning if this is
balls (or Christmas puddings) if you want to?
Anyway, it s high time started talking about such things.
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that I
A month is no great time for a plum pudding to mature in (a year really better), but it is sheer It should be the most leisure waste of labour" and material to make and cot it In a matter of hours.
When enten In haste by over-
donc, as it prevents the formation eager youth the result may be dis-
The only reason why I give my recipe is that I know of no better one. It is old and tried and
cx-
of sticky sediment that is so hard astrou If, however, it is made in cellant. I have only had one com-
to dislodge once it has settied.
Curc.
Another Hint
porary.
but is usually only tem-
a hurry, the result wil
will be both permanent and deplorable. Queer things can happen to
Christmas From a housewife comes a list of puddings made at the last moment. questions that we have attended to They are apt to get mixed up with plus a good idea for work clothes the Christmas shopping, and may When work-clothes have be-turn up as bulges in the stockings come grease-spotted, she has found of small boys in place of the long- that
a simple procedure will make awaited footballs, the task of cleaning much simpler. The grease-spotted:
areas are sonited in kerosene for half an hour or so. and then laundered. This is a good ilp, too, in households where boys Biker with bicycles, er men with the family car.
If any one says "Don't be absurd! You cannot get a football into a stocking." all I can reply is, "What
of all on earth is the use marvellous, unladderable stockings, if you cannot cram them with tool-
Apply Rouge With Light Hand
Courton Yardley
If your face is very wide, minimize its width by applying a little rouge to
your ear lobes.
By HELEN FOLLETT
there
plaint about it in my life.
That was from a Indy who re- ported that the pudding looked a very nice pudding while it was in its basin, but that on emerging thence it looked just like a plain.
Briefly, the thing collapsed or was
a flop.
The Ingredients
S had obviously totally sub- merged the pudding in the boil- ing, and filed it full of water. The basins should, of course, be stood in the water with their rims well out of it. A most important point. Here are the parts which inake the splendid whole:-
shredded beef suct,
1 ld. Demerara sugar.
1 1. currants.
1 lb. sultonas.
16. raising.
1 lb. mixed candied peel (using
more orange and
citron)
2 lbs. breadcrumbs.
b. almonds.
1 teaspoonful sali.
temon
1 teaspoonful mixed spice.
3
CHUS
At least a gill of brandy.
than
the
and halved Having stoned raisins, chopped the peel, and blanched and chopped the almonds, you put all the ingredients into a basin and
stirring them keep on until they are thoroughly blended.
Give another, good stirring, and encourage the time-honoured cus- tom of inviting every one within reach to share in the ecremony. It gives your arm a rest.
Now cover the basin with a cloth and let stand on one side until next day.
Then divide
the mixture into conveniently sized buttered pudding basins and boil for twelve hours.
on Christmas The time required Day will be another three hours.
Before
leaving the puddings for mineo equally Indispensable ples, let me calm some possible misgivings by saying that I have not omitted flour from the recipe by mistake. I have left it out on purpose.
the
To Make Mincomcat
THE mincemeat is another old and trusted friend, for Christmas does not seem to me a time for rash experiments.
When the forefold and horrify- ing epoch of tabloid meals arrives,
trick they have been used a reasonablo 1. hope that Christmas dinner, at BLUSHING, about the only
woman can't learn, time, Solled pads are responsible lenst, will still make tables groan. seems to have done a disappearing for many cases of blackheads. They The other sort of meals should make
So the rouge compact cante grind atmospheric dust
morale.
A
one
Into the pores when one does a little touch- up of the sacred phiz.
them groan enough.
The mincement consisis:----
1 lb. raisins.
1
4 lb. sultange
lb. currants,
2 lbs. shredded beef met.
1 Ib. Demerara sugar,
b. mixed candled peel.
Even to give the child three, five pet. or seven, who usually cats well, too into action. It makes for freshness Inrge a second helping is bad. And of appearance, gives accent to the If the child is allowed to serve complexion, boosta bimself a second see that he takes pleasing appearance of the lady in
Always, before applying your only a small portion. Always when the looking glass, with whom paint, get the skin in proper condi- he has more of any food than he must live one's whole
life Тонд tion. If it is excessively dry, usa cares to finlah you are tempted to makes for higher spirits and, belleve an olly foundation, rubbing most of commend him to finish it, which it or not, it makes for better health. it away. If olly, you may prefer would be bad.
When
gives the a woman looks like a wreck, the pan-cake type that There is many a child over six she feels terrible, and life is bitter. flesh a smooth conting
Read direc- or ton finicky over food. Expect
Those round red apple splotche# tions carefully on all those items. The rind of one lemon and the him to eat of every food served the
The ala- The correct means of application is Juice of half a lemon. are no longer acceptable. family. If alther Father or Mother ters have developed into make-up important if results are to be glam-
At least
gill of brandy. alickers,
Peel and Quaint attire, resurrected
core the apples and chop them finely, as also the mixed
serves, the child should be naked
to serve himself of certain foods the
to my how much of any food, just from the past, enlls for the kin so the portion is visible. In some cases the child should be allowed a complexion that the pretties
Ninatles sported, all creamy he does not like very well.
Dots while with Just a a bit of colouring,
by What you are driving nt
supplied
naturo, to graciously cultivate the bobit of eating what You'll find some intriguing pow- is served and all of it. Be sure, dors on the counters now, delicate therefore, that the serving is a fleah tints, soft gardenin-like ones, nail as the child desires it to be blonds and other, shades. Do not Often such a food soon became a make a hasly choice. favourite. The simple secrat is very, Have a flock of lamb's wool pads, so you can toss them away when
vory, small helpings.
orous.
Half a small nutmeg.
lb. apples 31⁄2 teaspoonful salt.
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