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care
"Beauty
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The Lady Daphne Straight
A lovely face given happy promises about You. Never bo haphazard about the cream- ings that do so much to keep your skin solily lovely, fastidiously clean. Use your „Pond's Cold Cream this casy way: Cream Cleanse-swirl Pond's Cold: Levani ali
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1949,
WOMANSENSE-
Mix Mates
WAS
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By VERA WINSTON
WASHABLE mix males are a W real boon to the summer wardrobe, be It budget or bountiful. This group is made up of a top, a skirt and jacket, The also shorts (not shown). fabric is Hac coloured cotton broadcloth. The bodice has its
In
Middle-Class Daughter and what it costs RUTH BOWLEY
to educate her
By
about £236 a year. Six years! stay at such a school wit come to £116. Allow another L200 for clothes and pocket money and at the very frost a parent
£1810,
MIDDLE-CLASS parents girl's board school that costs of out of pocket to the tune
less than £40 a term for board-
Some parents ease this heavy cost of educating their and tullion.
burston by taking out educa- children a crushing burden: Many cost twice as much; and' tional Insurance policies
. no every parent soon learns, know n doctor's family that boys' public schools are.. dearer than ever. All this there are many "extras" on the look out an educational Insur-
is familiar enough. But what of the middle-class daughter?
termly account.
ance on the birth of their first Here is a term's bill from a child and IL worked out Like well-known girls school near this. London which lias 180 boarders The sum assured was £10,000 school that glves in good the period for paying premiums The cost of educating A all-round education, prepares was 14 years, The talni an daughter is not nearly so well girls for school certineate and would be puld out in instal- publicised as the cost of edu- university entrance, a school for ments of £200 per 12 cating a con. Yet daughters are the daughters of professional starting at the end of the 14- at least as numerous as sons and folk. nowadays they have to be equipped to
earn
their own | livings just as much as their brothers. But what of the bills? Rightly or wrongly the middle class will not send its children
to the State schools. The kind of education offered by the fee- puying schools remains
cos- ventional necessity.
Fers (tultion and board, ine, laundry, sub, for text, books, library, MERCEDNOTU. ETI materiais)..... Laboratory fre Games anbadription
C4
$5 0 0
2 12 0
Sanatorium fee
10 F 12 0
Qt-of-pocket
'expenses
ahoe
ChairdreLLET
repairs, school outings,
church collections, breakupes1
year-period.
The annun premium was £07 5s. The income-tax abate- ment was £12 3s. Thus the net anhuul east was £55 25.
THE GRADUATE Education costs do not cruse when a daughter leaves school. You may want to send her 10) Oxford or Cambridge.
If you
do you will need £360 to pay
Entrance fee (frat term for her three-year stay at
Piano and dancing
woman's college (At n residential university the cost would work out at about £150 a year).
Keep Your Complexion Lovely
Coorley Deretter
Never neglect nightly creaming of your face because It's the best way to ward off wrinkles. After applying cream, tissue off residur, leave on light film.
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Though the rising cost of this education hng to be met out of diminishing incomes met If_in
By HELEN FOLLETT Amenities are sacrificed. The car may be cold: holidays spent
often
Ippens that at home; the wedding sliver sent
Wrinkles ars hateful. They the auction rooms, capital
woman who is blessed with won't appeur drawn on grandparents
At this school Ap-
of fine kept But a degree alone does not n lovely complexion proached; educational insurances In addition to all this a girl still take her teacher's training is undergoing taken out.
la
FROM 5 TO 22 Somehow or other the money
own little collar above the bare tack, and is suurty buttoned in front.
The skirt, on its wide waldbrand,
done
How much money pressed boxpleats. The waist-19 found.
altor must be found for a daughter length Jacket has a
Her education begins when she collar, and the shorts are box is five years old, and
usually pleated all around.
finish until she is does equipped to earn her living at 22 The first step is to send her 10 kindergarten. This costs about term in the country. London are higher-20 ruinens a 3 term, mornings only, are not un-
NEW NOTE IN BRIDAL FASHIONS
BOSTON.
THE modified Empire treat- ment in waistlines is used in the majority of satin and Jace bridal gowns. Petal, droped and portrait necklines take the spotlight.
n
a fees
known
not
- Totel
5 15 0
.475 12 0
a reduction of
if the flesh
18 пла
toned by creaming
Jaws of health, gets needs clothing!, pocket money or her secretarial course, or
changes and plenty of slut pas good enting and maintenance in the holidays. get a Social Science Certificate, not for the better, She has habits and 'ff one doesn't let
School clothing can be a very
The
cost varies
that widely, belleved heavy item. Now that rationing Nurses now earn as they learn. not necessary, and the skin has both
cosmetics were the worry bugs bite. The daily is a complexion help is over, schools are tightening Teacher trainees get substantial gone dry for lack of up their rules,
these because it hustles up circulation Any old cont Government grants. A kinder- soothing emollients. Perhaps and good circulation creates
garten training costs
been using beautiful colouring. athe soap she has The headmistress of a well- term in residence. A nursery wasn't quite the right one. One known school on the East Coast college charges £200 for an 18-musi jook into such
It Isn't Just reckons that a complete outfit month course. for new girl now costs £100, training costs But enterprising mothers, clever #25-£100. with their fingers and in their choice of dressmaker, economiso.
£5 per term is made for sisters. Fel a job today. A girl must will find, to her dismay, that so the
lexture and exquisite colouring massaging, if one has respćet
won't do.
by buying clothes secondhand and altering them.
·
HER WARDROBE
in
L400
will be able to~nold"
d-dow interesting Job at about
creamy A secretarini Certain 11 is that the complexion cosmetic alone that corries on
the anything from that remains fair and lovely is youthful
for campaign
retaining appearance. The the one that receives attentions
manipulations necessary for its application is of unfold benest When a woman reaches the If massage
restore
lle
mintters.
#
At the age of 23 a university that are iis due.
ןןןן!
do
year. She will have had period when her age is a deep, withered arm--and it has been the best conventional education dark secret-she wouldn't tell done--it
свл certainly A safe generalisation is that possible according to middle- you if you were to threaten Irer much to invigorate facial fibres
that have Though extras £40-£50 is needed to provide class standards. And it will life-she may suddenly become
Inlo a state of gone cost her a girl with her wardrobe at have,
parents ap-aware of the fact that her face semi-dissolution.
Don't on school. is going back on her, her com-
overlook the benefits boarding school. A day girl will proximately £2465
college and training year. need fur less about £20
fees, plexion is not the good friend of cold water. Use soap and Pocket money need not be a Clothes, travel, keep it home of the yore-years. She is an- worm water on your sacred heavy item. Most schools advise are extra.
No not more than 30s, a tern.
wonder families are small.
-(London Express Servicej
The average fee is 10. guineas. This grows with the girl when she goes on to a private school, to £18 or £20 a term, ex- uding exiras. are not compulsory, the tradition st01 Ingers that girls should be able to dinnce, to play the piano, to ride. Extras cost two to six guineas a term.
n school Education at such Scallops are used toften will cost with normal extras, around wide necklines. Plung- between £18 and £20 a term ing necklines contrast with by the time the girl is in her high, Jutting shoulder portions teens.
that frame the face. Off-the- For many parents of the pre- shoulder necklines are some- fessional class, especially those times draped from low plunge with two or more children, this to shoulder with imported face. is the maximum that can be The entire bodice of some spent on one daughter's educa- models L
tion. Abercon
But if they wish to send covered in
face which is also carried to her to a boarding school, how
much must, this cost them?
shoulders and sleeves. The leg o-mutton sleeve is a new note In this bridal line, seen in 19 tatin Empire gown with
and net bodice.
Jace
side
THE GIRL BOARDER
A girl's boardurig school today can cost as much as, or even more than, a boy's. There are fewer endowed schools for girls than the there are far boys. There is less chance of a girl winning on train carry through the Ince entrance scholarship, There is a treatment-on--shoulders-and greater conventional demand for
Lace panels down the front and middle back of the
bodice.
Household Hint
Never let your sliver lio after 1 has been used. Wash in hot soapy water as soon as possible after a meal; see that
extrus, and often a more varied and expensive uniform.
that
Excluding those special schools gre endowed for the daughters of clergymen, oßlcers of 1.M. forces, orphans, etc., It
ail food. crease and ather AS SKIRTS
mafter Bre removed. Funse thoroughly in very hot, clean water, dry immediately on soft, clean cloths, being
sure that
the pieces are perfectly dry bo fore putting away.
The beautiful Lady Daphne Stralglis
every night and every morning as the Lady Daplue Straight does, with Pond's.. Get Pond's Cold Cream today!
POND'S
consing).
Mors women
the Parlia any other face creams.
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GROW SLIMMER
HE current fashion trend is
THE
to ก slimmer, shorter silhouette, tapering to the hem, according to Alex Maguy, Parisian dressmaker. Where there is fulness, it is carefully controlled in pleats godets, maintaining д slim look when the figure is stl.
Hemlines
and
Hemlines remain headline news, for they are gradually Inching up, an average of Inch shorter in his midseason collection than they were for spring. A further development is the sharp difference in is.the.
length between
street
dressy clothes as much as
2 Inches shorter for street wear.
In- dividual lengths vary, with the garment, but 13 inches from the floor is regarded as a good average.
and
0
the
This designer maintains decided preference for padded shoulder, declaring that ling ja "not esthetle,
the sloping
not young." Padding is held to be "absolutely essential" for the tailleur, which has set-in sleeves, and desirable; for the top coat, which has raglan shoulders.
The emphatic shoulder line. combined with the straight and narrow skirt, gives the trian- gular silhouette, which Mr Maguy fetis is coming in strongly.
1
Short Formal For formal wear? the Noor length dress is considered out- inoded. Even the ankle. Tength gown is. losing ground. to the short formal, 12 incltes from the floor. The latter, if not
A girl's eduention then, ot a typical boarding school will cost
other one that is paying the complexion at bed time. In the middle class penalty for neglect, Tissucs morning dash on cold water. have softened. The skin cover- After the drying apply on lug is a tile too large for the astringent, loilon ff the skin 15 underlying Abres, so I falls oily, a foundation cosmalle if into lines.
Painted Cotton Sheer
Bloomingdale's
By PRUNELLA WOOD
warm. V neckline danged with a split
it' is dry.
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Meal That Will "Cook Itself”
-WHEN-I-looked-into-our-lite.
was
nowhere to bo ceen. A heavy kettle on the stove was simmer- lag gently; it smelled as though beef and vegetables were braising. I lifted the cover. Sure enough there were short ribs of beef, potatoes and Onions nearly done.
I
he's
Dinner The Chef's Tomato Juice Cocktail
Braised Short Ribs of Beef with Vegetables Eraised Potatoes Braised Onions Hot or Iced Coffee or Tea Milk (Children)
All Measurements Are Level Reciper Serug Four The Chef' Tomato Juico. Cocktail
To make tomato juice cock-
"I looked into the refrigerator. At one side slood a tall glass Jar filled with what looked like beet relish. "I bet the Chef tail with a very Ane Bavour, combine 2 (No. 2) tins tomato, has used some of the young beets from the garden," 2 medium-sized chopped green thought,
tastiri,
zid
peppers. 1 chopped onion, the added horse-radish to make a
chopped Upa 1 bunch celery, 3 nippy relish
with the sugar, 2 tsp. salt, 2 bay- to go
thap. braised beef.”
Icaves 6 whole cloves and 4 On the top chelt were
ere peppercorns; simmer 10 min.
Strain through custard cups filed with a de- u
fine slove (uso Belous looking concoction.
remaining pulp in a coup or casserole). Add 1 tsp. tabasco. Serve very cold. in emoll glasses. Makes over a quart.: Short Ribs Of Boof With Vegetables beef and ask the
Purchase 3 lbs short ribs of butcher to crack them in three sections. Remove as much fat as poB- ible. Brown the ribs all over In a large deep frying pan without adding any extra fat; "I told him the short ribs then pour off all fat that has nearly fried out except 2 tbsp. Add 1
A Surprizo
And that___ quar! ́ glass jar seemingly filled with tomato julce contained a surprise. Not plain tomato juice, but a zesty, tomato cocktail that was most appetising.
But where was the Chef? made one guess; in the flower garden.
and
done,"
vegetables AFC
A simple dinner on lop of
the stove like that almost cooks
large sliced peeled onion,
Thd.
thyme, 4 tsp. salt and-
Pau
stock
or
self, Madame, and It does not pepper, make the kitchen so hot. When up
from cooked
liquid drai
drained braiding meat or muidng a pot and simmer vegetables. Cover hrs., or until the bafora It will be done.
minutes smalt
roast, the CCECL 19 Blow-cook- ing and to use a heavy kettle ment is fork-tender. Thirty-five so it will not burn. I ke to add. 6. small peeled onions, and put under it one of those new
peeled metal hent dispensers with the substitute carrots if desired. It potatoest or perforated surface. It spreada celery in at hand add 1 d. cut in
the heat very
evenly, so the foods do not scorch. That is 1 inch piece and finish cooking..
Ta a very useful gadget for a serve. put the short ribs in
the small amount of money,"
centre of a large plattor. Surround with the vegetables.
"By the way, I tasted that to- and make a gravy from the mato juice cocktail you had liquid in the pan, in the refrigerator,
Very
To Pressure Cook: Read tho different from plain tomato preceding direétiona^ The (short: Julce."
riks may be browned in the
"
"It is made by a recipe I got pressure cooker, then put on from one of my colleagues: the rack. Add the seasoninge when we were in New Orleans and 1
1 c. libt water. or liquid last winter, Do you like It?" dranded from cooked vegtables. Bring to 18 lb pressure and An Appotisor
process. 25 min. If vegetables for the meal are to be cooked will soon be, Mr Maguy affirms, and moonile evenings is bertha collar.
"Yes, the snappy seasoning with the short
ribs
cool the Again, the silhouette meets bis this sheer cation model, with There is an accent of width turns it into an appetiser. I'd cooker at the end of 15 teat of youthfulness. The short its allover scroll pattern, hand at the hipline, which minimises like the recipe for the columu, min. pressuring;, put in the evening dress with deep; wide painted with either hot pink or the waistline....the lattor Why not serve. it in cocktail vegetables, bring again to 15 lb decollatagaTM will be the im- turquoise blue. The skirt is Bashed to match the colour of glasses with an olive' in each, pressure and process 10 mln.. portant style for winter.
daricing lengtli, the wide, deep the scroll painting,
and pass checsa crackers." longer.
definitely accepted everywhere. FLYAWAY frock for