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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH," "TUESDAY, MAY 31,
WOMANSENSE
What Has Clothes Rationing Done To The British Woman?
BRITISH clothes ration-
ended. At last,
good design and material be-
RAFT, A PERFUME
COLLECTOR
By PATRICIA CLARY
cause they couldn't sell the HOLLYWOOD-George after nearly eight years, By MELITA SPRÄGGS cheaper clothes while the ration British women can go into
money,
What have these cight years of rationing done to British clothes habits?
sun sults, and beach wear.
Women have learned to con- centrate first on essentials. Stockings have always been a
10.
11
Raft
11. delights in being Incon- sistent, and he claims that it he'd been consistent he never would have got anywhere.
of
Roft la a gregarious person and loves company. But he's never had a party at his house.
"Closest I ever came to it," he recalled, "was having six people over onco for. Thanksgiving
system was in operation.
The uillity clothes aystem, à shop and buy a new ward-"
wilch began to get under way robo If they have the problem-since there are silll when
hen ralloning was introduced very few nylona on the market, so suddenly in June, 1941,
hag Most young people go with been an important feature
It's the inconsistencies out stockings altogether in the the success of clothes rationing, human nature that make people Bummer. At a
high school I This was vinited recently the headmistress which manufacturers were given says.
understand out from the crowd, Raft the scheme
He himself is so incon- sald she had the greatest dim- First, rationing cuts out frip culty in getting the girls to wear mass-produced, tax-free clothing. ought to loom
special supplies of material for stent that, by his theory, he peries. For eight years British stockings, even in winter. Girls which had to receive the ap- Empire State Building...
up liko the women have had to do without have stayed in socks" up 10 fashion et ceterns-deinty sum-- the of
proval of the Board of Trade. mer blouses, my lingerie,
Seal of approval "CC41" has Many grown-up workers, pa- become a symbol of value for evening dresses, summer san- ticularly housewives, factory money. The scheme is to be dala, fancy gloves, tennis socks, worker, shop and milk bar al continued even though clothes new swim suite, play clothes, tendons, have given up wearing are now ration-free: the end of
stockings while probable they'll not easily give clothes rationing means to Bri
A quiz as to what up the habit of going without fish women most often bringe hose.
the reply: "It will be good to dinner."
to Wardrobe As Whole have come wool for knitting
galn."
For eight years very Ratloning now taught us to few women have had coupons consider the wardrobe as a to spare to buy knitting wool, whole before buying new though they have made use of clothea British women co-ordin- unrationed yarns for knitting. ate their wardrobes very much.
Many women, too, have been he eats steady as when he cats more carefully than in prewar waiting to buy new underwear, except Leap Year, when he eats
cheap days of
unrationed Rayon and cotton garments until steaks 360 days. While he can clothes.
now have been heavily coupon- mix excellent seasonings, he "I have a master plan. I con- ed.
cats bla cloaks with nothing sult this and my colour chart be- Housewives cari now restock more than salt. fore buying anything new," their linen
with cupboards office colleague told me. This things like sheets, towels, and careful planning is all to the teacloths without using their good now that coct of clothes is own or their family's clothing so high and one must look into
e coupons. one's budget instead of the ra- tion bonk
The End The main items in the ward- robe, like woollen sults, winter the end of rationing. But it has
There has been Jubilation over canto, woollen dresses, have-tak- more because it means the end en the bulk of the coupons. No of an irksome, wartime control. coupons could be frifiered on There are few who can afford a buying cheap major Items. One buying spree, though most will
to look on these as back- buy some garment just to cele ground to the wardrobe, to be brate something we have looked trimmed up onew each year, or forward to for so long-prefer-
concentrated on frivolous,
Wardrobe Winner
By ALICE ALDEN.
COLOURFUL PURE
altered to new styles. Manufac- ably something frilly and very
turers have
SCHOOLDAYS 4,000
YEARS AGO
WANT to know what going Kramer remarked dryly, "The to school was like 4,000 text does not reveal the spot on years ago?
which the cane was to be lald but Jn all likelihood it was the
Raft is a wonderful cook and he specialises in exotic dishes. But he seldom invites anybody to eat them. And for himself,
Likes Perfuma
When You Wear Formal Dress
Courtesy Ballia Carnegie A pretty neckline is essentist when you wear formal dress. So cover up tiny skin blemishes with make-up lotion. Choose one that won't rub off.
By HELEN FOLLETT
Put
the
WHEN you slip into that new
Your arms, ladyt One excel- format of yours that hasn't lent way of keeping them in tip- sign of a shoulder strap, it top condition is to friction them may occur to you that your neck, with a hand lotion just before shoulders and arms have not had you go beddy at night. Those the attention to which they are milky sem!-fluid preparations entitled. Consider the surface are particularly agreeable for of the skin carefully. It should that purpose as they dry at once. be white and velvet-smooth. If Creams are likely to soll the bed you have not creamed your neck linen, The actor used to be a profes- every time you have sional fighter and a Jockey, fragrant emollient on your face You'll need a creamy cosmalle Nobody ever got away with there may be a colour divorce, for your elbows. There just calling him a sissy. But he the neck being darker. Your doesn't seem to be any beautiful on expensive perfume neck ham't done anything to be elbows. The sklu is likely to be collection, scatters his favourite cut off from the cosmotic least, coarse on one's arm hinges und bottles through his house and What about your shoulders? the little crinkles and wrinkles changes the scent in his swim- Let us hope that you never let that are sometimes present do ming pool daily.
them fall forward. If you do not add to the sum total of arm that little thing you may develop loveliness.
Either toilet lanoline or cocoa- Most people consider Raft the bulge on the uper portion of shady tough guy he plays on the your neck. One sees that defect butter can be used for massaging even among young girls. A the elbows. Less expensive than But in the Roy Del lovely back is an elegant posses- the luscious cream you apply to Kuth production "Red Light" ion. It makes for distinction of he flatly refused to do a scene appearance. It is, of course, suited to the
your complexion, on better because it went against his dependent upon correct carriage palm of your hand,
purpose. Oll the principles. Raft was supposed that keeps the
place the muscles strong other elbow in it, give the flesh
a rousing thumbing.
Ecreen.
to throw candelabra through a
church window. He wouldn't and realllent,
do it until a Catholic priest called on the set and persuaded sin would be
hit to him. attached to him.
י,
Although he came from New York's teeming Hell's Kitchen
From the day of a school- sume that has been reserved boy in those days, hardly throughout the ages for that tenements, Raft has decorated
The
his own home with rare and
anything has changed. You purpo text goes on to tell how beautiful antiques. were punished: for being the boy awoke catly in the late, or for talking. When morning, asked his mother for the teacher was out of the lunch and got two rolls." But apparently, desplie his precau- tion the was late anyway.
boy The boy was caned, not
room.
the
Probably the best example of his inconsistency is that Baft has never yet seen himself in movies, and he doesn't plan to
CAPE-STOLE ENSEMBLES
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
How To Afford
Luxuries If
The Food Budget Is Skimpy
The teachers were tough maybe even tougher than to- day.
for that, but late for breaking until the day he retires. The schoolboy's reactions off a piece (apparently off a were reported by Samuel Noah: tablet) for talking when
"Then I'm going to get all my
till very fine, soft Kromer of the University of teacher was out of the room, for movies," he said, and I'll send We can afford to have many Then mash
little luxuries in our menus and smooth. Next, beat 2 eggs Pennsylvania. They were read "standing up and for leaving a week running them all off it wo are careful to buy light and beat in 1/3 e sugar, by him for the first time to the the room when the teacher was from the first to the last." moderately-priced foods and 4 tsp. salt and the grated rind American Oriental Society at its absent-Associated Press,
United Press.
use them as an actual part of a 1⁄4 lemon. Add to the bread suk 1500 onnual meeting
here
In
meal. For instance, sardines are mixture. Four Into a buttered, prints... designed...along classle. New York,..
reasonable. In price and will shallow, gt-sized baking dish. Unca
325 offer a good wardrobe
prove a good "buy.""" That" is," If "and" bake slowly 4 hr. of Kramer's r
paper, contained his
they are used as the real ford to 350 F. Remove from the oven; staple, right for all but impor full translation of д 10 line
they are, instead of an accessory spread lightly with 4 c. straw- tant daylime activities the live cuneiform tablet acquenco found
tidbit. long year. Filling the bill on all in
Gerry, raspberry or apricot jam these counts nicely model,
nice for resort or wear Kramer, Clark Professor of at home. In green, gray, toost
Assyriology at Pennsylvania and and royal backgrounds, it has a curator of the tablet collection, striking cobra design in con- finished the translation work be- trasting colours. Interest is fo
gun by Adam Falkenstein, a cussed on the oversize pointed German scholar and by Thorkild collar, the slcoves of happy-Jacobsen, director of the Ozien- medium length, and the invert-tal Institute, University of Chi- ed pleats that give the skirt cago, and Ronald Witilams, his front fulness.
Nippur in the Tigris this Euphrates valley,.
-(London Express Service!
ussistant.
Art & Food Mix which exquisitely
In Paris Cafe
uplifted, superbly rounded. The bandeau
version bas à fashionable deep-V front, the 4-inch-banded
A"Inter-Lude” « neckline which is less extreme.
"There is a Maidan Form for Every Type of Figural”.
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¡HE sequence, translation, in doubtful renderings were underlined by Kramer, tells how a Sumerlan school- buy entered his "tablet house,"
Paris-Camille Renault la where he was to learn to use a
a 300-pound cook who serves stylus on clay tablets to become
his patrons a "well of love seen a cuneiform, or wedge writing
Renoir," scribe.
and
"ham a la
Ho ate his lunch, was "assign-
by Waticwick a la Rubens" In ed oral and written work,” came |
his own private art gallery.
Renault, who belloves in home.ured and wanted to go to mixing his art, has a small res-sleep, first telling mother, 9 taurant In Puteaux, the red | must not be late (tomorrow) or suburb" of Paris, where be my teacher will cano me."" keeps a collection of pictures Oriental Society member. that would be the envy of most smiled polltaly when professor art museums.
now famous artists, he names
Patron and friend of many TWO-YEAR-OLD his house specialties after the BLOOMS STAY
great names in art. A "well of love seen by · Watteau,"* for example, is a pasty with custard Inside.
The walls of his restaurant are hung with paintings by auch well-known artists as Plopsso, Derain, Cleve Gray, Macario Vitalist, Coret and Monticelli
The portly former" cook ́of the French military hero, Mar shal Pierre Lyautey; prides him salt on being able to recognise talent early. It he thinks an
FRESH
England, Stockport. - WIK iho crown of roses placed two years ago on the status of Our Lady in St. Mary's church all garden-fresh, a third crown of yellow roses was placed on the
statue.
The phenomenon of the un- usuni roses has attracted world- wide attention and the crown ing ceremony was 'so popular that admission had to bo ro-
· artist' shows" promise, he may stricted to ticket-holders. Thou- be willing to lend him money tands unable to attend waited and food and in return usual-patiently outalde. the red brick ly gets a painting.
church to see the statue later.
The Rev. James Turner, pas-, In a room abova his rastor of the church, stated some taurants he has several hundred time ago that if the two crowns, unframed paintings, many of kept their unusual preservation which bear the names of now he would have a third crown
no famous, well-knqwa painters. placed on the statue,
Ha shows them for the en- The English, Hierarchy" has joyment of his friends and pas, made no official pronouncement trans who he thinks will up on the phenomenon of the roses. preciate them. "He also keeps | However, the popularity of the a choice library his friends..can | shrine increasul :from, day-to usoUnited Press.
day.
THE CAPE COSTUME is very much a part of the fashion picture just now. This neat Interpreta- tion (on the left) is in navy blue crepe,.
The slim skirt. has one pleat centro back topped by three covered buttons, The, cope has, a vent in...... back which is also topped by three buttons. Belting ribbon borders the front edges giving' the peaked 'collar effect stiffness and body. The lining matches the blouse which is of red, white and green cropo. Link buttons fastening the cape collar. This is an ideal outfit for town wear...
PRINTED CREPE in lavender, green, yellow and purple in an-interesting flower print is the theme for this pretty dress (on the right) that is topped by a cape-atolo.
The frock has a simple, round, low neckline and short sleeves. The skirt has gathers on either sido of the front centre, ⠀ -
The simple purple linen cape stole is lined with the print and also has a belt and collar of the figured fabric. Two flap pockets, placed slantwise on the stole ends, strike a practical note. The sunshade is
fashion accessory.
A small tip of sardines is or preserves. Cover with a enough for elther a hot or cold meringue made of the remaining appéliser for four persons. If egg whites beaten stUT with Ķ to be hot, carefully open tho'tin tsp. cream tartar, 1 tsp. lemon so the fish will not break, and juice and 3 tbsp, sugar. Return turn them with the oil. Inton to the oven and baka 12 min, nt shallow pan. Add a few drops 325 F. or until the meringue fa of lemon juice, heat and transfer delicately browned. Servo fint do half slices of toast, with lemon or cold. or bread and butter pickles as a
garnish.
Chill the Sardines
A Now, Savoury Pudding
In Europe, savoury puddinge aro traditional to serve with
If the appetiser is to be cold, meat and poultry. For years, chill the sardines, and use them homemakers throughout the Old to garnish individual plates of World have foun: It thrifty and crisp cabbage and radish 'slaw, satisfying to accompany. meat with radishes as a garnish, Re-, with- substantial, appetising member that when a substantial supplement: suet pudding in first course is served, it is not Erîgland,
Italy, spaghetti In necessary to provide as much potato pudding in Centraf "main-dish" food. Tils, helps to Europe, farina pudding in prevent meal-monotony, and in Russia. So for tomorrow's meal troduces the surprise element let's buy a fina, fat hes, reason- that is as welcome to grown-ups able in price and enough for two to children. Besides, It's meals; braise it top of stove-or more fun to preparo meals that in the pressure cooker, and serve are a bit different.
It with savoury forina pudding and plenty of gravy,je
Dinner
Sardine Appetiser Pumpernickel
Brolled Fish with Lemon and Paralled Drawn Butter Sauce
Whipped Potatoes Sweet-Sour Beeis Queen of Puddings"
Coffee or Ton Milk (Children)
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1Order a 2-lb. fish, if whole fish
Tomorrow's Dinner is
French Onion Soup Braised Chicken
Gravy,
Savoury Farina Pudding Spinach Casino Apple Charlotte
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or Tea Milk (Children) Savoury Farina Pudding › Scold 2 er mille, in a double- boller. Stir in 34'e white fatina mixed with c. milk. Continue Is to be brolled; or use 1 to 1% to cool and stir until beginning. lb. fish, fillets, Suitable whole to thicken Cover and steam 35 fish are mackerel, bluefish" or min; then add 1 tbsp. butter or small shad. Order the Ash margarina. Next, beat 2 eggs cleaned for brolling, head and until frothy. Add tsp. salt. tall removed, Brush elther Aah Surallile of the faring mix- or Allets with melted margaring turd into, the eggs. Then le or vegetable fat. Place skin this Into the farina in the side up on a fine-meshed rack in double-boiler; cover and coole 10
min..
without surring a 'pro-heated broller 3 ́in, from
the heat, and broll until TIME Longer Charlotte.
brown; baste once with a little. This should be arranged In- margarine or vegetable fat dividually in large sherbet cupa Dust with salt and pepper, or, glasses; Ino, these with Then, turri, using a pancake halved lady Ingers or with. turner and wide spatula, Finish strips of sponge or pound ente broiling, flesh alde up, basting Half all with chilled apple salics. onco with a little molled fat; flavoured with 'elnnamon; top" dist with salt and pepper/ A. with sweetened whipped cream. whole fish takes about 18 to 25, flavoured with vanilla, or with min. to broll; a fish fillet lakes „plato apple snow whip, Garnisla | from 8 to 10 min. Serve with each with a bit of red cherry. cut lemon or with parsited Serve at onces de conèi 20 drawn butter sauce,
Trick of the Chafi
Queon of Puddings To cut lemon for a garnish so Crumb enough, stale bread to it can boequeezed without make 1-packed-down cupful of moistening the angers, do not crumbs. Add 2 c. milk; cover alice, "Instead, cut in wedges, or and let stand at least 30 min. In sighths lengthwiro.