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THE CHINA. MAIL.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1932.

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OVER

STOCK

New

The Woman's Page

High Mode Ordained

Tendency Of Last Year Remains

HIPS MUST BE SLIM

There is plenty to think and talk creator has found clever ways of] about in the new styles-not that adapting the new high mode. There the changes are radical at this early are soft drapings at the waist, mode stage of the Autuma output. (Paris with the assistance of shirring and is yet to be heard from regarding tucks, that suggest high lines with- its Winter inspirations.) Many out actually insisting on them. In tendencies heralded last Spring have evening gowns diagonal treatments become actual trends, and if you sweeping from bust to hip leave one recollect what they were, you will in doubt as to the actual level of the ess do your dally dozen with added waist line, but not as to the chlo energy, for hips must be reduced to of the gown.

a minimum and diaphragms flatten- It is this doing things with gowns Led. Nothing must divert the at-that gives style its particularl

favour this Autumn. A dress that{

REDUCING MAY BE

DANGEROUS.

Menu Suggestions For To-morrow

A Dinner Menu. Fruit Cocktail

Pork Chops und Sweet Potatoes

Buttered Carrots

Bread

Cranberry Sauce · Asparagus Salad

Hartford Election Cake Coffee

Pork Chopa And Sweet Potatoes.

Gola pork enops

G peeled potatoes

I teaspoon salt

1⁄4 teaspoon pepper

teaspoon celery salt

4 tablespoons tour

2 tablespoons chopped parsley 1 cup water

Fit chops into buttered casserole,

top with potatoes... Sprinkle with dry ingredients, add water. Cover. bake one hour in moderate oven. Uncover 10 minutes to brown top.

Cranberry Sauce.

into an ideal afternoon frock-aj The word "alimming" must have style which, in the opinion of the ben one of the hardest worked in writer, has grown out of the cock- the English language during the

The subject haa. tall hour, to say nothing of the need last few years.

4 cups berries

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and althu.)

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2 cups sugar

11⁄2 cups water

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to all appearances seems to have no Linclination to be other than a model}

Wash berries, add water.

Cook

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of correct evoning, form can by) changing its upper arrangement, or blouse if you will, be transformed)

"Fattening

." Just As Hard.

have burst.

over moderato fire until Add sugar.

skins

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20 21 22

23 24

Boil

quickly five minutes. Cool and

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27

Berve.

Hartford Cake.

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(An old-fashioned recipe)

36

cake compressed yeast

4 tablespoons lukewarm water

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11⁄2 cups warm milk

2 eggs

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Add fat,

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of economy. The above-the-waist been discussed in every home, and Interest and the straight-line skirt advertised at every corner. for day and evening wear make this the point which seems to be gener possible, as well as the fact that ally overlooked is that "alimming". methods cannot be practised with ankle-length covers a multitude of hours, ranging from dusk to mid-safety, by everybody.". night. Blouses, little jackets, cape- There is, of course, the woman lets help to give evening gowne whose health and figure would he their charmeleon-like character.

HATS PRESENT A

PROBLEM.

New Shapes.

a

1 cup fat

2 cups sugar

2 cups ralaina

1 cup dates

1 teaspoon nutmeg

teaspoon mace.

1⁄4 teaspoon salt

4 cups flour

24 spears cooked asparagus

1 cup sliced cucumbers

2 tablespoons chopped pickles

2 tablespoons chopped onions

2 tablespoons chopped pimientos 1/4 teaspoon salt

considerably improved by special (dieting and excrcise, because over-

eating and laziness are her fail- Mix yeast and water. ingal But there is also the type' sugar, milk and eggs. for, whom "slimming" course cup flour, beat well. Let rise in could be neither good nor beauti- covered bowl two hours. Add fying. In fact it might prove a rest of ingredients. Pour into two Russian Influence In positiva danger to her physical greased loaf pans, let rise until wellbeing Nature nonds into the doubled in size. Bake one hour world both thin and fat people. No in moderately slow oven. amount of fattening food will HATS at the moment present a:

Asparagus Salad. problem. If a hat is very shallow greatly increase the weight of the at the back it has to be adapted for former without upsetting the di tention of the eye from the upper those who find it unbecoming; and gestive system, and no inindi-ious part of the body, on which sartorial while it is.pleasant, after a period any effect except a bad one on the "reducing" of the latter will have ingenuity is focused.

of severe and untrimmed shapes, Broad shoulders, soft draperies, to return to trimmed hats, trimming

general health. raised belts, hips and waist conceal is not free from difficulties. Many ed in straight lines-these are some hats which look well enough when of the conspicuous features that worn with big fur collars cease to which, though it may not present arrange you will note when you begin your look well without them. However, day fashions, is quite different French dressing. Fall shopping. They are exaggerat-now hat succeeds new hat, and a from the fat which needs disper ed enough to be smart, but not great deal of interest is taken in sing. enough to be disturbing. Many a the business of making, pulling, If Nature has formed your body |patting, perking, and adapting them on plump lines, it is essential for

to heads.

It to be kept "up to standard.” The SOME of the mors becoming engine which does not receive the shaped show a Russian influence proper amount and kind of fuel and suit older women; others, with soon runs down. It is just the the tilt of the nineties and a trim- same with the human body, which ming over one eye, are like bonnets must be supplied, with the neces without the strings, and demand saries for rebuilding Its used-up carefully waved and dressed hair. tissues.

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All the new hats, except a few old- Often you see a "slim" figure ac- looking new tams and Jersey and companied by a sagging face and facecloth caps, appear to have some emaciated wrists and ankles. This kind of trimming; and all are turn- simply means that the natural ed up or shallow at the back to healthy state of the body demand show the hair.

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od a certain measure of comfortable "fat". The removal of this fat has caused the skin of the face to be

1⁄4 teaspoon paprika Chill ingredients.

on lettuce.

Combine and Top with

CLEANING NEW SHOES.

come loose and the wrists and an- When cleaning new shoes for the kles to loose firmness. Even more first time. It is frequently difficult The French were right to put serious consequences may follow If to make the polish adhere satisfac "la moda in the feminine gender, the "banting" is not stopped. torily. Before cleaning the shoes, in their eminently logical language, Find out whether you are one of whether they are black or brown, for she certainly is all woman; even the "lean or fat kine." Discover, they should be rubbed lightly over when, as this season, the prides her what should be your normal weight with the cut half of a lemon. Leave self upon having turned practical in perfect health, and try to live the lemon juice to dry thoroughly and economical with a vengeance. In such a way that you keep with bofore attempting to polish the she is subject to a few delightful in its limits. This is one of the shoes. After this treatment the Inconsistencies that are not the least secrets of physical and mental shoes will polish easily and bril among the secrets of her charm. fitness,

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HORIZONTAL

1-A person of rank B-Qives

12-City in Nevada' 14-Satisfy

- 15-Piece of God linen 17-Plural of penny. 19-A beverage 20-Abmance of sound 26-Unit

26-Consum 28-Mistor (8p.) 29-Dry'

30-Ralf-road (abbr) 31-Grain steeped in

water until it hàn sprouted 33-Small pastry 35-A church (abbr.) 35-Before

27-Small rug

88-8corch

39-Stagger

41-Uncooked

43-Adult males

45-Pronoun

47-Watched narrowly

49-Guard

50-Pronoun,

St-Roman poet.

HORIZONTAL (Cont.) ́¡ ́ ́VERTICAL (Cont.).

63-Directed

65-81ide

[37-Snare

21-Island (Poet-)

18-Clip

22-Permit

68-The first fruits of a-in no manner

[benefice" (Eool.

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100-A beverage

81-Unsulted

24-Crowd

27-Stained

29-Waits upon

32-Adorn

63-Varesi used at the [34-Scarcer'

Eucharist.

65-Dimpive

67-Nudo

[68-Term

61-Forsakes

VERTICAL

1-Conquers 2-Grand X-Born

'4-An Insect (pl.)

E-Towards

7-Bone (Latin) B-Back of neck 9-Consumed

10-Course of thought 11-Moved vary fart- ₤19-Ajar

|18-Listin"

40-8clence of sound

42-Alienate the..

affection of 43-Constructed

44-is sorry for 48-Level: 48-Nolas

49-Fult of moisture |50-Measure of longth

52-Notes: 54-Part of a ship |36-Tardier...NA

58-MythologloatTM king

(8can.) 59-Mineral springs 62-Foot-like organ, 64-Motric land

menaure

65-Toward

67-Exist

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