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THE CHINA MAIL.

MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1934.

111 The WOMAN'S Page f

Variety In Coats Featured

Sleeves Seen In Many New Forms.

HIP-LENGTH TUNICS

The big coat is made a feature here. Some of the couts tend to- wards elaboration. A big cost, for instance, has collar and revers ex- aggerated inte four big blobs which seem to radiate from the neck. These fold and wrap so that the throat can be snugly contained.

Revers offer a good deal of scope. They may be made to start from the shoulders and reach to the waist in rounded form Large pocket flaps echo the line. A wool cont Inay have leopard-skin sleeves--there ta much leopard about this year..

Down one side of the belted coat? are three large rings. The collar Is really a scarf which is twisted round the neck and the long ends of which pass through these rings. Safety-pins are another form nf ornament.

Sleeves are a feature here, des- pite the large number of long, nar- row, or slightly leg-of-multon varieties which are

worn

Menu Suggestions For To-morrow Afternoon

TIFFIN

Spaghetti and "Ham Cakes

November Casserole

Creamed Cauliflower

Buttered Curly Kale Chocolate Bread Pudding

Hard Sauce

DINNER

Lentil and Tomato Soup Fish and Cheese Patties Roast Wild Goose Apple Sauce Chestnut Fritters

Potato Chips Meringue Mincemeat Tart Spaghetti And Ham Cakes

2 oz. cold cooked spaghetti, 4 oz, ham, 2 or 3 tomatoes, 2 tablespoons cheese (nely grated), seasoning, gill

1⁄2 oz. butter, 1⁄2 oz. flour, stock, egg and breadcrumbs. Skin one of the tomatoes and chop it

jup: Melt butter, add flour, atir in the stock and chopped tomato, and bring the sauce to the boil. Stir in the ham previously minced also the chopped spaghetti, and grated cheese. Season to taste, spread, mixture on plate to cool. Divide into 4 portions and form them into round cakes. Brush with egg, coat with breadcrumbs and try till golden. Decorate each with a alice of tomato lightly baked and garnish with parsley,

November Casserole

1. chestnuts, 11⁄2 lb. stewing} steak, 11⁄2 desecrtspoon flour, 1 pint) water, 1 pint diced celery, 2 onions, pepper and salt. Cut up the steak into a casserole. Add the water, and mix it with the flour. Season stir it round then put the casserole Dresses with hip-length tunics into the oven and bring to the boil.

with something like a narrow bib at the afternoon, morning, and sometimes threat finished with two dahlias. evening frocks,

A plain evening froek with a belt are many. They may have long or Put the chestnuts in cold water and and a knee flounco has enormous short sleeves and often a pleat boil them for 10 minutes, then re- gathered "Rowers" of the material, down the side of he skirt. They move a few at a time, and take off which are clapped on to the shoul- may be worn with stock ties, with the shells and inner brown skins. ders and pressed round them to jabots, and with loops of a con-cut celery into dice and peel and

look like large alegres,

trasting material.

THOSE "MORNING” EXERCISES

simber very gently until the meat

boll again and let them A Little Sometimes Done and chestnuts are quite tender.

alice onions. Add these all to the Three-quarter sleeves are seen in

A huge bow may also be plaster casserole. Bring the contents up a black and white dresa, while what ed over their fronts. Sometimes a to the would otherwise be a high-necked. broad line of white where the low short-sleeved evening dress with a neck would be in an evening frock. train, becomes half and half with This collection depends largely on the shoulders cut away, leaving a fistinctive detail of which there strap of sleeve round the arm and are many examples.

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Chocolate Bread Pudding

1 cup stale breadcrumbs, 2 cups bofled milk, I aquare chocolate, 1/3 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1⁄2 teaspoon sait,

1 teaspoon vanilla. Soak bread in

At Night.

DO MANY WOMEN REALLY PERSEVERE?

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Styles Attractive

Beautiful Materials Predominate.

MEDICI COLLAKS SEEN-N

Some of the most attractive of the new season's collection are those destined for the afternoon. Here the great plainess is carried out in beautiful materials and is mitigated a little by long sleeves slightly bigger at the top but not ler-of-mutton.

The small, high collar is enhan-1 ced by a large U of gold chains which decorates the front of the jdress as though it were a shirt bo-

com.

A velvet dress may have a sort)

of wide, V-shaped guimpe-some of the dresses would be entirely nun- like if they had full skirts instead, of straight ones. A bow that sticks out behind beyond the head some-i times finishes these necks.

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BLUE RANKS HIGH IN POPULARITY.

Many Shades In Paris Offerings.

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"GENDARME” BLUE FAVOURITE

If any one colour can be picked out from the maze of the midseason colour offerings in the current Paris] openings, it is blue. The favourite, Morning exercises seem be for the moment, is called

"gen milk 30 minutes, melt chocolate, called "morning" because that is darme" blue. It is a navy blus, Add the sugar and enough milk the time when they are usually not slightly lighter and greyer than or- from bread and milk to pour. Then done.

dinary navy, and is the colour of add to the mixture the remaining |

the coat, only, of the gendarme's sugar, salt, vanilla, and egg beater

At night before getting into bed costume-the trousers are Hight - էէր, Turn into pudding dish and the morning exerciser

sometimes blue. bake 1 hour in a moderate oven,

Serve with hard sauce,

Lentil and Tomato Soup

achieves a little. She thinks of Molyneux's blue is very

bright,

her walat, of the back of her neck; much lighter than navy, much more she wonders whether her arms are like royal blue, and is much used 1⁄4 pint lentils, one onion, 1⁄2 pint as thin as they were.

Koor evening clothes. Vionnet sets tomato soup, seasonings, pint In any case, other people are back on her old favourite-light lentil liquor, water. Wash the duing morning exercises, Thus blue dresses worn under navy lentils and soak them for a few goaded and beaten into action, she coats. hours. Then cook them till tender, counts six times or twelve times,

Ausgustabernard uses a blue that! adding the onlon peeled, a little as the case may be, she rises slowly is almost white, for evening dres salt to flavour, and enough water upon her shoulders and pedals ses, and calls it procelain.

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to covar them. Drain them well rather hopelessly into the air; she also has another blue that she uses, and save the liquor in which the lies on her back and concentrates for scarfs, shoulder straps and the lentils were boiled. Put the left on that crease round the waist like; it is very much like the blue

over tomato soup into a saucepan, and she may even do honey-pots in Della Robblas. add the cooked onion (chopped) sideways as well as backwards and and the drained lentils. Season forwards. with salt, pepper and celery salt But as for morning exercises- and stir in a quarter of a pint of there may be strong-minded people the lentil liquor. Bring the soup who really occupy the half-hour

thick thin down with milk.

Fish and Cheese Patties

to the boil. If soup seems tou before breakfast with regular exertion. One does not often meet them, nor do most people give the 6 patty cases, 3 or 4 oz. cooked leant impression that they have flaked fish, lb. butter, 1% ton-been able to carry on the processi spoons flour, 1 gill milk, 1 oz for more than the first few days, cheese, 1 egg yolk, seasoning. Left-

over fish can be used for this dish. Have ready 6 puff pastry patty

A QUESTION OF GLOVES.

Should They Be Worn With Evening Toilet?

Whether gloves should or should not be worn with an indoor even- ing toilet is still a matter for dis- cussion.

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HORIZONTAL

-Hatred -Frugality 11-Large like

12-Shower

14-Enlarge 15-Directed 17-A constellation 19-Choose

21-Ordnance (abbr.) 23-Large cank 24-Free from disass

Germa

26-Three (Roman) 27-Evangelist (abbr.) 20-Prefix. Apart

30-Musical aludy 32-Fall to follow sult

when abla $4-Hanga 15-Greek god of war $6-Pales $7-One who stares 41-Blood-sucking fly of Africa"

45-Lock of hair 46-High (Mus.)

48-Not the dime 49-Organ of hearing 50-Term

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| HORIZONTAL (Cont.) | VERTICAL (Cont) 53-Caple

64-Prefix. Upan

55-Asunder

30-Look

167-Rub cut

30-Make amenda

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take out (Print) 66-Remarries 65-Place of uttar

darkness (Class. Myth.)

VERTICAL

2-Cry of a cat 3-Anger 4-Pieces of baked

clay

Howied 6-Bhort treations 7-An Island in tha West Indies &-Edge

9-Feminine suffix 10-More herato 13-Bends by radio

14-Chief of avit spirite

18-Acting

16-Rage

20-Herols poem

22-To traverse in a

vahlele ¡24-Encroach

25-Red

28-Approaches

31-Assault, as of troope

}13-Ever (PoeL) 24-Strike

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30-Nest of an eagle 40-Giri's name 142-Plural of thla

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44-Boy's name 148-A tres (pt.) 47-A prolonged deciamatory outpouring |B1-Relieved

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TAFFETA FROCKS. FOR EVENING.

Long Tight Sleeves On Smart Model

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Swish and a taffeta frock sweeps But those who prefer the hands through the room with its luxurious casen. Melt the butter, stir in the led cheese. Add seasoning to taste and arms covered are choosing rustle. flour and when well blended add and the flaked fish, heat the mix-white kid or peach-befgo gloves done in wine-red taffeta with

A lovely dinner frock in the milk and bring this sauce to ture thoroughly for a few minutes, with an all-over design in open-plaided design in gold metal thread. the boil. Boll it gently for a few stirring well but do not let it boil. work. They make a particularly There are long tight sleeves and a Iminutes, take it off the stove and Heat it in the hot patty cases and effective accompaniment to an all deep V-decolletage in back.

stir in the egg yolk and finely grat-serve.

black velvet gown.

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