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THE CHINA MAIL

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

1934.

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Care Of Finger KNITTING VOGUE

Nails

Mistakes That Are Too often Made.

ADVICE ON THE USE OF SCISSORS

Finds Its Apotheosis revers, are belted with leather, and

In Knitted. Coat.

GREAT ROLE PLAYED BY

have large, conspicuous buttons to Jänish the double-breasted effect.

Belts and buttons play, a' grest} role in the knitted cost. lending it firmness and substance.

With these tonte ge caps to match or in one of the colours of the coats. A black and white cost, for instance, might have a black a foolscap on a

BELTS AND BUTTONS The kaltted coat is perhaps the apotheosis of the knitting vogue, and this is short or long, and knit-cap that is like

short scale. Hing sometimes becomes jersey.

finger nails. Here the corduroy suggestion is

Amateur manicurists, and far too many professional experts do more

Knitting, further, must not be harm than good to the A single visit to the Hand and rife. That is to say, the costs are forgotten in its partnership with Nail Culture Institute in London efter ridged with the stripes run-stuff," Woollen dresses may have a Plain colours are knitted collar-cum-yoke and sleeves certainly opens one's yes to the ning crosAway!. dangers of careless or inexperi. generally used, and there are good knitted from high up the arm. A enced manicuring. Better to let coats in the mulberry and wins black suit with a short coat may

colourings.

have scallops of knitting down the one's nails alone as much na pos sible and use simply a file (even Small reefer jackets are made of opening. The main point in all that sparingly) than to bungle solid knitting. Some of them are knitting is not to succumb to de- sharply pointed in black and white stripes, with the coration, except in colour, and to white nearly invisible. They have remember that line must be mala-

runs into the tained. a big collar which

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At the Institute, one learns that the very worst time to manicure the nails is after they have been soaked in water. And this process is a generally accepted prelude to

However, we A manicure. all wrong. Soaking merely swells the tissues, and a great deal of damage is done by working no swollen tisates. Again, nover clean the nails with an orange Certainly, stick or a nailbrush.

do not tackle them with scissors or anything else which is sharp.

Menu Suggestions For

TIFFIN.

Tomato and Sausage Croutes Jugged Rabbit Scalloped Potatoes Red Currant Jelly Cup Puddings Apricot Jam Sauce DINNEL Ham Soup Clam Salad Sauce Tartare

Qualls In Puff Pastry

Boiled Spiced Beet Polata Dumplings

Apple Porcupine

Tomato and Sausage Croutes.

8 large even sized tomatoes (ripe

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croutons should be handed round with this soup.

Qualls in Puff Pastry.

Bone 4 quails, stuff them with liver stuffing and braise in a cas- serole dish with a little rich and well flavoured stock. Take up, let cool, and cut each bird in two. For boning the quail do not remove the legs or feet. Enfold each quaj). in a round piece of puff paste, leav-1 ing the feet out, brush over with egg, and bake in a fairly hot oven a nice golden brown. Place a little white paper frill upon the feet of each quali, dish up, garnish with fried paraley, and serve.

Potato Dumplings,

1 lb. steamed or boiled potatoes,

the per and a grate of nutmeg, 4 oz.

Grecian Mode

Sylvia Sydney, serem star, perfur the Grecian offact før avoning wear. Here she wears a gown of shot blan crepe, girdled with a long sash of dark red crepe. The Grecian thou! dar jina terminates in flowing ties, The dress Marus to a 'amali train,

Secret Fashion Bureau

When the nails are dirty, uno a cup sponge and dip the fingers in a bowl of warmed water, which is softened and lathered with super- fatted soap. The cuticle must not be pushed down, after washing the hands. This discourages the ten- der, new nail, which is just start. ing to grow. And, 'now, a word of but quite firm) 1 lb, suusage, bread- advice to the woman who liken the crumbs, chopped parsley, stock, 1 modlahly pointed nail tip. She egg yolk, and B fried bread croutes, peeled and sieved, 1 egg, salt, pep-|-**** must not achieve this by cutting Wipe the toamtoes, low into the corners where, the stems, cut off the top portion of flour, 1 teaspoonful baking powder,] nail meets the flesh. The nail each and scoop out some of the gill milk and a little water. Put A secret fashion bureau is 'the must be allowed to grow naturally pulp portion, without breaking the the potatoes Into a saucepan, add suggestion of the Queen's – dreas- right up to the finger tips and then skin. Skin the sausages, put them the flour and baking powder and maker for enabling Brtish textiles shaped ns desired.

in a basin with the tomato pulp, a mix thoroughly with a little milk, to lead the world. hundful

aland seasoning of salt, cool then di- of breadcrumbs, and

"Advance information on future little stock. Fill the tomateca with vide into 10 and shape into dum-fashions six to twelve months ahead with bread. plings. Porch them for 10 to 15 is indispensable in the production this, aprinkle over crumbs, and bake in a hot oven minutes in boiling salted water. of dress fabrics," according to Mr. for 15 minutes. Dish up on croutes When done, drain, and serve hot. E. H. Symonds. "The bureau of fried bread, garnish with par-plain or with some nicely acasoned would be the intelligence depart- sley and service.

POP

Cup Puddings.

4 oz. butter, 4 oz. sugar, 2 eggs, lemon or vanilla essence, 4 oz. ground rice, 1 oz. best flour, and 1⁄2 teaspoonful baking-powder. Cream the butter and sugar, beat in the eggs, add a few drops of flavour- ing essence, and lastly and lightly the flour, ground rice, and baking- powder. Fill into greased cup or bouche moulds, and bake in a mo-; derately-heated oven for about 35 minutes. Turn out on a hot dish, and serve with Apricot Jam Sauce. Ham Soup.

1⁄2 lb. lean cooked ham, 1 good sized onion, 1⁄2 pint Spanish Sauce, |1 oz. butter, 1 oz, flour,`1 quart good stock, 1 gill croam, 1 small glass of sherry or Marsala wine, and seasoning. 'Feel and slice the onion, melt the butter, and fry the onion for a few minutes without: browning. Stir in the four, fry it to a light fawn colour, add the estock, and stir till it boila, ⠀ Let it | jaimmer gently for about. of wa hour. Season to taste, and pass through a fine aleve. Return to a |clean stewpan and keep hot. Pound the ham,and sauce in a mortar, pass through a hair slove, and add it to the soup. Bring to, the boil,' stir frequently, and add the cream, Serve Immediately. Small fried

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Shoe-beels can still be studded with diamonds or steel, and even- fing buckles, eyelet-holes, and strap-

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Silver, gold, and gunmetal kid can have striped trimmings in talleta or velvet.

Shoe Jewellery is restrained, cut being all-important.

Day-time shoes have lower heels, but those for night are higher than ever.

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What They Tell

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