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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1949.
WOMANSENSE=
Unusual Colour Accents
By BARBARA BUNDSCHU
TAKE a costume in cinnamon
or nutmeg or tay belge, light it up with the colours of a sunlit April garden, ond you have Mary style expert's re- cipe for a spring outfit.
The completed product, dla played in a recent showing. looked just s food with basic $24 dress as it did with a stunning $140 cont
Д
Gayest of the colour nolen wan the
broken yellow felt, CRK-yolk cap copied from a Dior original and inatched to a bunch of egg-yellow carnations tucked in the pocket of brown and white wool sult.
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The cool, shining green of a daffodil spear was the colour necent for a fitted pale belge coat which buttoned down the back from waist to hem like
A greatcoat. Russlan officer's matching natural straw sallor with a spot of green trimming
umbrella with and green pale bamboo handle were decoration.
AL the
A simple V-necked dress in tobacco brown wool was trim- med with a wide pointed col- lar of white pique and a while carnation
shoulder. on onc The matching brown straw hat had a white band. The model's gloves matched the dress.
A bright full-blown
red poppy pink rose
or a were
equally effective colour accents.
And next
to them was black-A dash of pepper that warmth of
brought out the
many of
browns.
the pale to darker
A short dinner dress in pole
belge lace had a tremendous bow at base
KNOWS FIGURES Today's actresses are easier to clothe than fuller-ligured beauties of the past, says Mary O'Brien, studio wardrobe head, as she measures Hollywood starlet Monn Freeman,
U.S. Women Favour
Too Much Salt In The Diet
By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN.
T
is interesting for a doctor to watch people as they sit down to the dinner table. About the first thing they do is pick up the salt shaker and uso It liber- ally without even tasting their food to see whether it is salty enough Birently. And this, of course, is bad habit for there are certain disorders in which n. limitation of salt in the diet 13 important. Among these condi- tlons are certain chronic kidney disturbances and long-con- tinued heart trouble.
Investigations have shown that when the heart is not working not excretet by normally, salt
Remove Surface Dust on the Hair with Thorough Brushing
Court themą Bemed Co.
To keep well-groomed during the day, take a small brush and comb- with you.For easy carrying, these two came in a falilo drawalsling bag..
By HELEN FOLLETT
the kidneys as it should be. The use of a diet low in salt is neces- sary in the treatment of n failing heart. Otten, it the heart has been damaged but
maintains FASTIDIOUS housekeepers out fingers and thumbs, keep normal clrculation, restrieling dust their furniture every the fingers stationary, do cir- the
Works salt intake
to day, but they may help
should also cles with the thumbs. ward off heart failure. And "dust" their hair by using a diligently along the halr Ilnes once started it is not dimcult to brush vigorously. It should be at the eldes; It is there that the
the scalp, growth first thing. reduce the amount of salt used brushed away from
never against it.
On and still have appetising foods.
The lovely
the night before gloss that results is well worth shampoo, apply hot mineral. the trouble and the glory You can put it on with a small
a more brush, a pledget of cotton or a.
Pilrt It is large medicine dropper.
the hair In various places, coddled, responds apply the oil along the partings.
Salt Restriction Restriction of the salt in the diet may be carried out in three crown will behave in
amiable ways.
manner when
the
Then give your scalp a rousing How often you will notice a mauling. Let the oil remain on
hair that looks dull over night. lifeless through lack of
one
The average person uses about being arranged. It loves to be three to five grams of salt daily, petted and or about 1/10 to 1/6 of an ounce. quickly. This amount can be easily re- duced to 1 to 3 grams daily head of by two simple procedures: Firal,, and
No matter how chic the With oil present, the sham- care. by eliminating the midition of
extra thorough. it does not qualify. poo must be
using salt to foods at the table: second, colffure,
a spraying. or No
matter if it is long or short, Begin with
1 quld by avoiding highly-salted
as straight or curly, it must be water fairly hot. sult-preserved foods, such as ham, bacon, salled fish, ancho-kept free of dust and the scalp sonp is used, there should be- vies, olives, salted nuts, potato must be in, a healthy state. To three applications, each chips, and meat sauces, and third, keep hair well-groomed during removed with a strong current:
a faille
drawstring of water. A creamy agent will in two applica- to still further cut down the the day,
small do the work with a amount of salt in the diet, all bag equipped
comb is a smart tions. salt may be eliminated in the brush and
A vinegar rinse will leave cooking. This will reduce the accessory to take to business.
clder salt intake from 1 to 12 grams sports or social events, or just the shafts soft and silky. Add
for the burenu drawer,
three inblespoonfuls of dolly.
Friction of the scalp is - vinegar to a washbowl of warm. In some cases. It may even be
important fan water, pour over the head with necessary to cut the salt down portant, more
women realise. Spread a cup. below this level. This is necom- plished by carefully selecting NEW YORK. in the ecuntry make clothes at foods which have the smallest bought amount of salt in them, using TOME-MADE clothes home. Last year they
are on the increase in more than 90 million patterns in unsalted bread and butter, and retail stores, paying more restricting many foods to which the United States- thon $21 million for them. salt is added during their preps='
news ration, such as baked products face, mount it on white organ-more than twice as many Patterns sold dy. Let the organdy hang out are being made as in 1939, papers and magazines are es- containing baking powder. This And the ladies say that if mated to equal the store sales type of restriction will reduce to make its hem and cuffs and
total of the solt intake to less than grand of clothing doesn't figures-for a sparkle the whole with the price
and $48 gram a day. aquamarines-gloves, slippers drop further, they plan to make 102 million and a great stone in a pearl more dresses at home this year choker at the throat.-United than lost.
bach trafree best the bar Home-made Clothes.
of its
Topaz deep neckline.
to the jewels were clipped edges of ILs cap sleeves.
Another short dancing dres In my beige net was, shown with bright red satin slippers and
stole of one-sleeved " matching red infeta.
Or
Press
take
fine brown some
Don't Make Your Child
Tell Lies
30
This
By SAM DAWSON
estimates that about one billion yards of cation, rayon and wool fabrics
laid were
otit
Amerienn dining tables last year
by and snipped
housewives' shears.
Boom to Textile
too
million.
through
patterns
Children also sew
13 hours
many
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY.ALLEN
An Economical Casserole
SI walked into the test-kit-
A chen the Chef was, jusi
Spanish Cole Slaw. Crisp and fine-shred enough
He set it on a 3 c. Add a fine-shreddedi
They considerably longer than it does he deco those cases in which ghetti and a tin of tomato. There Add 2 tsp. salt; cover with-boil-
it
advisable. There are is though for dinner for a family
ing
Symptoms Disappear Patients with early signs of Thread,, bulton, omament and may be just another sewing machine mokers also heart failure are usually placed sewing on the first level of restriction, headache for the makers of benefit by the home
increase of late that is, they get about 1 to 3 habits, on the
of salt diny. tore clothes, who have been
Often taking out a big brown ensserple white or savoy cabbage to make. years because of the increased rama
their complaining about business now
will disappear symptoms within a few weeks. At a later from the oven. for months. But It is a boon cost of store clothes. to the textile industry, which
date, should the symptoms re- tray on the kitchen table and re- cored and seeded green pepper, appear, the salt intake may be moved the cover with a flourish. 3 tbsp. fine-shredded crisp car- "Voila, oxtail and spaghetti en rot, and if possible a diced
firm tomato. Toss with tomato- Even the teenagers are get-decreased to the second level of
1 grams a day, and eventually casserole," ting in the act. Home sewing it may be desirable to keep the
"How good it smells, and how juice French dressing seasoned" increased more in this age wroup salt level as low as possible.
and 1⁄4 tsp. tempting it looks. I'm gind it's with chili powder,
powdered basil if convenient. last year than in any other, the There is no evidence that a lunch time," I said, hungerly.
Oxtail and Spaghetti Casserole National Needlecraft Butenu re-stringent restriction of salt will "For the meat in this casserole. Wash and disjoint 1 large or porta.
tead to any difficulties. Of course. Madame, I used two and a half
tbsp, fat. Brown all over in By GARRY C. MYERS
A dress with set-in sleeves the low calt diet should be em-pounds oxtails. And I combined 2 small oxtails. Place in a kettle.
theployed under the direction of a them with a half-pound of spu The fabric innkers are talking takes A teen-ager. on
physielan THE infant early sizes up our
c. Put make. to
water, using about THE
degree of integrity through about ways and means of en- average,
couraging home sewing.
on the market of four people, and enough left on a,ld and simmer until tender of salt substitutes out
(or use 1 c. water and pressure- the measure of our consistency.
the ready-made industry her mother. Yet 80
Mean- When we let him cry it out in y
cook 25 min. at 15 shouldn't fret much about every 100 girls interviewed by which contain no salt but make over to use for a thick soup for
the food more palatable. These a second meal,"
buy time break 11⁄2 lb. spaghett this instance but allow him to
The textile men reason the bureau said that if clothing can be used by persons this.
Choice Meats have his way in the next very that almost no woman has n prices went higher they would
"Now Madame, will you please incl
inch lengths, and boil û min. in instance, he senses Similar
even more clothes of
or baking dish a good-sized vaguely our want of integrity.many clothes as she would like, make
afford more. If home this year than last. if she could
explain this to me? Why is it that salted water to cover. Next, oil "No"
go into the meat market, casserole. Place in when
It a when
a layer of I see the housewives always oxtail sections, a layer however,
of The bureau twenty times before doing any she runs up a couple of dresser shr at home more cheaply than
with the A thing.
looking into the case he observes Us lying
the greatest amount of can buy them at the stare, she thut
choice meats, like the porterhouse ghetti, and then a layer of mash- nineteen times.
will still go shopping. for her home sewing is done by women between 20 and 30 years of age,
steak, the lamb chops, the rib el juicy linted tornatoes mixed
with c. chopped onion,
1⁄4 tsp. roast, the legs of lamb, the mlik wit
bayleaf, 12 women with two or three chil-
tsp. get-fancier irocks. gels
Comunercial makers of house dren, and living in cities in the
fed roasting chickens? But the powdered case with the hearts, the liver, namon. Cover with a second lay- ver powdered clove and 4 tap, ch- rebuke or physical pain when tiresses may not appreciate this he touches or appropriates home sewing argument. forbidden object this time but the textile men reason that
Reasons
the they give for not the next two, ten or twenty
woman has- more dresses
increase in the amount of their times; or when he finds that theme-made
or bought--the a forbidden.
hoine sewing include: high cost will being exposed to
fabrics the nation more
demands of clothes. thing with no one present to
have consumed, and the lower of store
since the war, or intercept, rebuke
punish,
at larger families inventories of goods
and better fabrica, before he has learned to avoid the
he mills and converters. such things automatically,
by
Textile men are not the only suchoses to benefit by the spurt in things when no one is looking home sewing. Surveys show that about half of the women
Later
we say
When the toddler begins ting into everything und
svon comes
touching or
deceive to
handling
rays,
who
liave difficulty in adjusting to the blond diet, The proper salt substitute will be advised by the doctor.
Neckline
10,000 to 25,000 population Interest
But range.
the
White ground
designs come
in style
Pattern sales have morc than doubled In the lost nine years, according to a survey by McCarin Erickson Advertising Agency for the Simplicity Pal- tern Co. Interviews with 5,144 women In all parts of the country gave the agency following insight into their home sewing habits:
The
Popular Fabric
the
home
than
south has more seweis, proportionately,
Citles between other sections,
and 2,500
50,000 population
than either the
We parents are also very eager that our growing child shall not deliberately take or use things he clearly knows are What parent is not not his. mortified on the frat discovery that her child six, nine, or Afteen has deliberatoly stolen money from her purte or the purse of a guest or stolen some ablect
person's from another premises? The parent's emo- tions then may overwhelm her
The rise of sheers is making have more and she may see in her child a buddling criminal and worry cotton and washable rayon fabric smaller or the larger ones. Andi what her. adult friends willstylists increasingly conscious of 39. percent of sewers belong to thni light fresh look in preparing the lower middle incomo group think and say.
new prints or coloured woven Nearly half of them are in the fancies for summer. As a re-23 to 44 age group, 80 percent sult,
white grounds are pre- are married,
81 percent The most natural thing for mised a big play and second have children, under 18.. the parent to do is to put her collections anticipate this de-
Most women prefer to make child an trial to force him to mand with big variety of white
and ekirts dresses. Blouses, confess and Incriminate him- ground designs.
About a self. No better way to practise
Usually the patterns appear in apro.ts come next.
third make pajamas, but only and make him him in decelt
vivid colours to contrast more
14
will percent
Try
men's rendy to sical more.
sharply with the frosty white of
Cotton Is shirts.
the most These ideas are 211
Natural Thing
and
As the child grows older and the surface, is more often out of sight, we most effective in silky looking popular material, and the quali
wash- are more tempted to hold na cottons that include broadcloths,ca women look for first in buy- Inquieltion on his return,
as cotton taffetas and rayon shoning cotton fabrle are when the youth returns from a lungs that have the appearance ablilly and colour fastness.
The bureau's survey dale. But as he clearly knows and feel of silk. his parent did not see and hear
in
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the calves' bruing, the kidneys, the er of oxtail sections, more tripe and the oxtails, at all these spagheill and t
the turns up the nose and passes
by.
I tomato. Continue in
Does the housewife think this way until all ingredients are Cover and these meals are not good enough used. Dot with 2 tbsp. butter or
savoury drippings. for her table? Or is it-pardon- bake 50 min. in a moderate oven, tez-mol-that she does not know 375 F. Uncover the last 10 min. how to cook them?"
to brown.
"Well Chef, to answer you
Fried Parsnips frankly, most homemakers do
Scrub parsnips, and plain boit not know how to cook these meats,
that we call variety in salted water until tender, (or cut meats; they have had very little allowing about 45 min.
in halves, lengthwise, sinsh the experience with them."
"But the European homemaker thick ends and pressure-cook 5 has been using these meata for min: ut 15 min.). Cool, peel and Kenerations with satisfactory cut crosswise in half inch silees. results," retorted the Chef. Brown in vegetable shortening serve very hot "Some of their finest dishes are or bacon fat;
with or without a sprinkling of made with the variety ments."
Not Always To Blame "Well Chef, that may be true. But you can't put the blame en-
tho
femon juice.
Fig. Pruno and Nut Tart Combine 4 lb. raisins with 14 housewife. b. pulled or layer figa which The fault is just as much have been thoroughly washed. with the men.
tirely an
cals.
Many a home-
Let
maker would like to try these Add 1 pt. boiling water.
But when she puts the stand 50 min. Then add tire grat- dish on the table the man willed rind 1⁄2 lemon, juice 1 lemon, often refuse to taste it. To him. sugar and 1 tsp. dry gin-
Her.
Cover and simmer until 'meat' means steaks, chops, tender. Then coarse-chop. Mean- and roasts, or else a stew, which time. make up nut-pastry again has to be made of a fami- line a "ple plate with it. Dust Har meat."
"Can it possibly be because of with 2 tbsp. fine dry bread, cake or cooky crumbs. Spoon In the the unskilful cooking of the fruit mixture; cover with criss- dish?" ventured the Chef,
ПЕ
or
cross strips of nut pustry and "Could be: but at the same bake 35 min. In a moderate, time
man should he sport aven, 370 F. enough to encourage his wife Nut Pastry: Sift together I e- By VERA WINSTON and give her another chance to flour, top. baking powder and
snake it better. And I do thinks, 14 dop, salt. Add 1/3 c. nuts. about the Chef, that it would be very nico
almost to ground INTEREST centres
a powder. neckline in almost every type when the cooks a dish he es- tinuched filberts, walnuts alco of dress, and especially in the vecially enjoys, if he would pecans are all suitable. Add c. unusual prise her a bit, instead of just shortening or 3 tbm, lard, and Coloured woven fancies make turns up the fact that 95 per-after-ive design. An him while he was away from a point of showing up a wide cent of all housewives do soine neckline is the focal point of this cobbling it up." her, he soon learns to tell only area of white in lightly handled sort of sewing at home, although attractive cocktail or informal what he feels is safe to tell and, plaids. This design technique
43 percent of them only mend dinner dress, a nice choice for the junior type of figure. The therefore, la lie when it is most recommended not only for sum-
off-shoulder cap sleeves can be expedient to do so. But every mer, but is considered desirable and darn,
This statistic is thrown in tacked up for less formal went time he thus practises in deceit for early autumn back-to-school
the information of The bodico is fitted, flaring into him or college wear. Ginghams are solely for relationship between
who chronically rounded hip fullness and a full and the parent has been harm-among the cottons behind this the husbands
missing skirt. The fabric la navy blue ed and his motive to do rightiden as good promotion for class and their shirts are
Hiridescent laffeta. buttons.Associated PreJS. away from home has weakened. room fashions.
the
Dinner
chop it in with a pastry blender. Keep the mixture flaky. Add B tbsp. boiling water; mix lightly with a fork ond cool before
Spanish Cole Slaw Hot Twin Biscuits Oxtail and Spaghetti Casserole rolling. Oven-Fired Parsnips Celery Fig, Prune and Nut. Tart Coffee or Tea MUE (Children) All Merurements are Level Recipes Serve Four
Trick of tho Chof For special Interesting flavour for oxtail casserole, add 1⁄2 top..
oregano or thyme.