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SATURDAY,

SEPTEMBER 26, 1931.

NEW FELT MILLINERY.

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CHARGES MODERATE.

A VISIT WILL CONVINCE YOU.

THE CHINA MAIL.

The WOMAN'S Page t

A ONE-ARMED FASHION.

News that toreador hate of black velvet will be very fashionable this Autumn comes from Deauville.

At the smartest restaurants, either pyjama suits or the most formal attire is equally correct.. A pyjama suit in Lido blue with white jumper and one of the newest hata composed of white crias-cross bands, showing a great deal of hair, was worn by one woman, while her companion had donned the latest version of the cape-coatee.

This was in white ermine, worked

in semi-circular strands, with a

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single armhole, through which the

ICE CREAM.

WOMAN'S DRESS.

The following recipes for ice Almost the chilef matter' of In- cream should be satisfactory: Half terest on earth is woman's dress, an ounce of powdered gelatine, one

writes John Leith in the Evening quart milk, half a pint thick cream,

sce pictures of half a pound of sugar, one teaspoon News. Daily wo ful of vanilla essence. Tako suffl-women in all sorts of garments. cient boiling water to melt the Thus Į learn that a great sugar and gelatine. When cool add

ia woman's dress

the cream, milk, and essence. Mix revolution well and freeze. The following Is is beginning, the short frock a recipe for custard ice cream: Two giving way to the long exgs, one cupful of milk, ono table-

spoonful of sugar, the thin yellow ono or vice versa. Anyway, what, rind of a lemon, one pint of cream. ever the fashion was yesterday, Is Beat the eggs well, heat the milk dead, will be burled to-morrow, and with the sugar and the lemon rind, the twenty-years-ugo fashion has but do not let it boil. When quite

done a come-back and our ladies, hot pour it into the eggs, stirring well. Put the mixture into a jug enthusiastically adopting it; will and stand it in a saucepan contain continue to look charming, alluring Ing hot water on the stove. Stir feminine and so forth, aa indeed the mixture until it is as thick as they have always done, and do. good cream. Be very careful, how- ever, not let it boll. Pour it In-

They tell me that there are dress

to a basin and let it get cool, stir shows to which people may go: ring it from time to time to pre-performances in which attractive vent a skin from forming. Vanilla young women parado about in the may be used instead of lemon for newest dress notions. I understand flavouring if

that men may attend such shows, preferred. When quite cold, add cream.. Mix provided they are escorted by their thoroughly and put it into a own womenfolk and carry a cheque freezer.

Other good flavouringa

book I've not been to one....

But I've seen a dress parade that are made from real strawberries or lots of people haven't seen, never strawberry Jam or from passion fruit. Pineapple makes good water ices. The recipe is as follows:

Pineapple Ice.-Bruise half a pound of fresh pineapple in a mox tar, add half a pint of water and

right arms passed, the ends being one pint of syrup, poes through a drawn up on the left shoulder to sieve and freeze. To freeze a water form a loose tie-over.

this side was left open, the whole fitted perfectly to the figure, giving a very slimming line.

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will see. I used to see it daily, in the open air, and I wasn't escorted by anybody and I didn't carry a cheque book, Riding over from. Jos to Naraguta, Nigeria, a three-four miles canter along the soft red road, one passed an amazing collection of women's wear. And the women were wearing, It, moving about in it, what time the sun shone and the cool little breeze of early morning brought snatches of scent from sweet-smelling flowers and herbs in the bush greenery that atretched endlessly away.

I remember a European woman who rode every morning in a light drill habit: Another who startled us rather in a white kit-polo breeches, boots, and so forth: others who wore ordinary tropical clothes while running in the car over to shop, Then there were brown 'wives of Government clerks; they cycled or walked, dressed In the style of Streatham-a little severe,

that style.

women,

were

Strings of pagan women Although ice requires longer than to freeze

a cream ico. The water and syrup carrying yams and things to mar ket, dressed in a little garland of should be bolted and allowed to get quite cold before using. If frait leaves, some earrings, and a neck- And stout Yoruba syrups are used instead of fruit lace or two, juices, less sugar will be needed, women, real cost black mammics," and although the mixture requires the ones the songs are about, dress- to be sweeter than if unfrozen, ed In-nightdress-like garments, of

flowered cotton. extra sugar must be added sparing- Where the bathroom has a colourly, for if too sweet the mixture will scheme as carefully chosen as any not freeze smoothly. The follow-coloured with straight hair and the other part of the house, here is an ing recipe is for syrup which is daintiest feet and hands, brass

ON THE TOWEL RAIL.

opportunity for the new towel sets.

Then slim Folah women, copper-

A cotton chenille bath mat in two flavoured water ices: Put 6b of slipping along at a good four miles shades of a colour may be blue one week, and beige and orange

sugar and six quarts of water on an hour to market butter and milk. the next, Then there are towels edged to boil over a gentle fire. Let this Apart from the bangles, these with thò

boll for a quarter of an hour; beat Fulahs wore not much clothing, same colour. For the guest, one can buy

the whites of two eggs, mix with though not less than is the thing a supply of towels in a delightfully soft mixture the water and sugar, and. boll here and now for an hathing.

used for a basis for various fruit bangles at wrist and neck and ankle,

of artificial silk and cotton. In pale colours and dark borders they may match the general scheme of the room.

JELLY-FISH STINGS.

Jelly-fish stings can be quite pain--- ful, and often give rise to a red and Irritating rash. Hot water applied to the sting relieves the pain at the time: Afterwards apply some vine. ger or acetic acid.

gently for five minutes.

Lastly, the Hausa women, veiled, all wrapped up in rolls or silk or cloth so that they ought to have looked like full sacks on the move, only they didn't:- Any woman who can wear that kit and look graceful, ad the Hauss woman does, is-well, she's remarkable, even for a woman! That was the dress parade I used to see, two or three miles of it any fine morning--and I fear that a dress show in London or Paris would look tamo alongside, it There is also, of course, the matter of the cheque book.

CHINA JEWELLERY.

Earrings which the jeweller is pleased to call "summary" consist of a cluster of china flowers on the end of a short gold chain. These flowers are just lightly tinted, and it is usual for the maker to attempt to Include a different colour in each Dower. Pearl earrings are not so novel as the china ones, but they are very flattering. Do you know that, when having a photograph taken, pearl earrings are far more effective than cornellan, jade or any other stone whose surface is com- paratively dull?

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