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THE CHINA MAIL.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1934.

TUREN: APPUNTU ICHIESTERA][1

111 The WOMAN'S Page tit

To Clean Jewels At Home

Simple Process Restores Sparkle.

Now that real jewellery is com- ing into fashion again there must be many people who possess valu-! able trinkets and gems which have lost their sparkle and lustre owing to tarnish and who would like to make them appear as new.

For the necessary cleaning pro- three jeweller's brushes, rouge, whitening, and sawdust are required, all of which are obtain- able at any jeweller's

shop

Fill a medium-sized

material

saucepan

with water keep bailing), cover with a shallow bowl to prevent es- with of steam. Fill bowl cape sawdust. Mix whitening to smooth paste with water, smear a little on the article to be cleaned, brush un- til all tarnish

is removed. Mix

rouge to a smooth paste (use spar ingly), and brush articles until very bright. Hold jewellery, when reating cleaning. with left hand firmly against table on which work Fill a bowl with

is in progress. hot water.

A dessertspoonful of aimonia and soap flakes. Care!

munt

lather.

be taken to form a

good

Hold Jewellery under water

while brushing with clean brush,

Evening Grandeur

The charmin, evening gown worn by Esther Ralston, screen player, it of white satin. It fentures a narrow cape effect edged off with a fringe in front and droped in back to be fus the waist line. The skirt is alk either alde and inserted wit).

fringe.

伊椭

BLACK REGAINS POPULARITY

Colour Relief Needed For Day Wear.

VIVID HATS AS CONTRAST

Women's interest in clothes is Even

women

have

not merely a personal one. restricted budgets cannot diminish their eagerness to keep in touch with the world of fashion and learn what well-dressed elected to wear. It is this interest that has made names like Lanvin, Chanel, Vionnet, Patou and others household words to women the world over, including France.

Now that the Paris season is on

Of

its way, it is evident that black has regained its old and impregnable position in the "elegante's" ward- robe for all formal day wear. course, it is not the somber, fune- real black we knew a few years. lago.

Suggestions

TIFFIN

Steamed Pomfret ·

tapping back of selling lightly to Menu remove all dirt Squeeze each article tightly in soft sponge and drop into the hot sawdust. Keep covered, allowing five minutes for} drying. Next remove all sawdusli with remaining clean brush. This method will enhance the brilliancy of all precious gems and their set- tings.

HAT STYLES ARE PROLIFIC.

Black Given Touch Of Colour.

As to what is the this memon, is a

Le answer,

smartest hat difficult question

Shrimp Sauce

Baked Mashed Potatoes Fried Rabbit with Tartare Sauce Saute Harirot Beans Persian Pudding

DINNER

Custard Sauce Empress Soup

Pillets de Soles en Blanchaille Roast Partridge a l'Anglaise Boiled Smoked Tongue Com and Tomatoes Stewed Boiled Potatoer Milk Sauce

Fried Rabbit with Tartare Sauce

The smart black outfit, this sea. son demands to be relieved by a subtle touch of colour or lame, or else the very fabric is skillfully in- terwoven with good or silver threads to offset Any possible "dead" look. The colour can be combined in the dress itself, in the form of a blouse, a collar and cuffi net, a bow or any other theme, or the ensemble may be all again black but worn with a vivid-hued

hat.

For To-morrow

sift over them 2 ounces of flour, In a double boiler put 2 quarts of milk on to boil, and when boiling put in the onions. Stir well, and huil for 15 minutes. Mix together the yolks of 2 eggs with 2 Leus- poons of grated cheese, pat them; into a saucepan, and an them! strain the soup. Blend well, and reheat, but do not boil or the eggs will curdle.

Fillets de Soles en Blanchaille Skin and let 1 large or 2 medium sized soles, shred the Al- or eut lets as finely as possible them into fine strips the size of whitebaits. Put them on

a cloth, with sprinkle over

Hour, shake

Herald of Spring

American beauty crape is the lovely material used in this evening gown which angments the Spring ward. robe of June Barnes, screen player. The time V-neck is outlined with o The ruffle of the same material. gown is form-fitting to the knees. broken only by a narrow belt at the natural waistlina,

Little Touch

Counts To-Day

Unusual Accessories In Profusion.

METALLIC CLOTHES GAY

It is that little -in life or love all the same l

touch that counts or fashions-it's And fashion this winter simply palpitates with the touch that sparkles or has colour. It doesn't matter whether you are! sewing at nights, remodeling the old frock or are going out positively to splurge on the buying of a new dresa-same trick will make you interesting to look at- and it is our little touch.

very

There just isn't any end to the crooked frills and unusual flowers and oddly shaped collars that im- And aginations have invented. then there are the clips and the coloured gloves and barbarie new.

of bracelets-particularly those

glass. And there are the quaint brooches-and the belta. And best of all there are the unusual

fashion fabrics which

praises highly used in these days.

There are the metallic cloths which make such gay collars-xil. ver and good, often stitched, and used around the neck. And there: are the green and red velvet gloves' which and echo in a hat or a scarf. And there are these excit- moons ing clips-blg glass new 1-toads on a glassy leaf-bare of Imfrrors-circlets of jewels and all the rest. And they attach them in more and more unexpected: places, such as at the top of longi gloves-on the edge of a fur coat collar-on a lapel and in the hair

as well as at odd corners of the neckline as before.

Miss Amelia Lee's Keep your eyes open for these

Re-appearance

Chinese Lady Pianist At Helena May.

CONCERT ON THURSDAY

EVENING

Miss Amelia Lee will give

her

on

amusing bita of inspiration—if : you do not already. You will find them at some email corner of just! afrock in shop window-a dress on the street--a sketch in a casual; magazine picked up at the hair- dressers everywhere,

of Schumann, Schubert and Liozt, every piece that Chopin wrote, and 1 young rabbit, 1 egg, 2 oz. but-well, and put them in a frying bas

21 Plano concertos, a large number| are styles to There

sauce, ket. Heat up the fat, plunge the

of them being played from memory. suit every type and every face, breadcrumbs, tartare

On Thursday, her programme from Marcel Rochas off-the-fore-seasoning. frying fat. Wash, wipe basket with about half the quan.

and first Hong Kong plano recital commences with a jand dry the rabbit, cut it into neat tits of fish into the hot fat.

Chopin group, head brim to the visored beret.

golden brown Thursday next at 5.30 p.m. Al-including a Mazurka, a nocturne Agnes has launched the hat cut ints, and fry in butter and salt, fry until a pale

heen heard from and two studies. The second group' Take up. drain well, sea- though she has the curled the pieces to root, then trim colour. out at the back to let

Dip them in beaten egg and crumb, non with salt and cayenne, and time to time on the wireless, it is a consists of a miscellaneous set of coiffure show and there are any number of draped turbans, fur when set, dip in oiled butter, and fry the remainder of fish in exael- year since she played at a public pieces by Finnish and Russian com. Dish up and concert here and her re-appearance posers, including a particularly berets, all-feather toques adorning and crumb again. Place the fly the same manner.

fascinating serveis awaited with much interest.

concert waltz by pieces in a frying basket, and fry garnish with parsley, and. the heads of pretty women.

Apart from the facile technique Glazounoy. While many black hats are scena golden colour in clarified fat or hot. Thinly cut brown bread and

possessed by thin young Chinese)

half of the pro- Hard, drain, dish up on a hat dish, butter may be served with this. they nearly always have

Roast Partridges a l'Anglaise lady, her playing has evoked much gramme is devoted entirely to touch of contrasting colour but blue, garnish with friend paraley, and

This Procure a brace af partridges comment on account of the high Rachmaninoff's piano concerto in C green and red hats are beginning serve with tartare sauce.

Grill degree of musicianship ahe dia-minor, which has been described dish is sometimes garnished with and prepare for roasting. more frequently, pro-

them and baste well with ofled plays and the fact that she finds as the most popular plano concerto bably because the modistes have strip of fried bacon.

butter. They will require about it ensier to play with her eyes shut of the present day. The orchestral decided they would offset the pos

30 minutes to cook, and need occa- from beginning to end of her per-part of this work will be played on

done, un-formances.

In second piano by Mr. A. M. Bowes- sional lasting. When sugar, 1 pint of milk, 1 egg. Wash truss, dish up on a piece of fried It may be mentioned that, in the Smith.

bread, garnish with well-washed course of her brief musical career, The recital is one of the regular; juntil quite tender. Stew the dates and picked watercress and fried Misa Amelia Lee has played most Helena May Institute winteri

in a little water until they will bread-crumbs.

of Bach's piano works, all Beeth-series and admission is at the pulp. Remove all the stones and

oven's sonatas, the principal workslusual popular prices,

to appear

Bome

Persion Pudding sible monotony that the vogue for 1% ib. of dales, 2 02. black ensembles might create.

CIRE SURFACE FOR NEW MATERIALS.

of rice.

the rice and boil it in the milk

mash up the dates. Mix in the Mincemeat Log Pudding sugar with them, add the rice and Make a nice suet crust, roll-out Black Satin Favourite the egs. well beaten up. Butter avery thinly, and spread a good mould, put in the pudding, and thick layer of mincement all over A great many materials for the steam for 1 hour. Turn it out, with the exception of about half coming season will have a cire aur-strew sugar over the top, and an inch all round, which should face, but this is best for darker serve a nice custard sauce.

be well moistened with egg yolk.' designs. Black satin-cire is firet'

Empress Soup

Roll it into a nice thick roll the favourite, as satin is such an ad- Chop up finely 2 onions, and try length of a jam reley, place pud- mirable between-season fabric, them in a saucepan in 2 ounces of ding in a steamer and steam for Many new straw hats will have buttor, keeping on the lid of the 2 hours. When ready turn out the polished surface.

When a nice golden brown, and serve with sauce poured over.

pan

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YOU KNOW THE

OLD WORCESTER

SOUP TUREEN

THAT'S BEEN HANDED

DOWN FROM

GENERATION TO

GENERATION,

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YES!

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but ette readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic swelling, such as harbor, plow, and altho

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to

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architectur

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plant 24-Pondle 20-Coal containera

26-Wide-mouthed

pitcher

28-Curve 20-Provoked 30-Youth

32-To weary 35-A writing traple ment (pl.)

36--Joined 33-Early part of the

day

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20

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139

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147

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53

HORIZONTAL (ConL) | VERTICAL (Cont.)

40-A rodent

41-Lesce freshnes

43-A female degr 44-Conjunction 41-Obean M6-Bow the head

43-Secretery of flats

(abbr.)

49-Melody

·50-Appendage 62-Gaine

·63-A paper measure

(pl.)

VERTICAL

1-Fettera 2-A negativa 3-Girl's name 4-Heart

B-Ireland (Poet.)

B-Crimson

|11-Amist

13-Destiny 16-To give temporary

Use of

18-Best

In church 20-Decided

21-Part of a fish 23-Repairs 126-Obscurs

27-Residence (abur.}

25-A wager 50-A Shakespearean

character

|31-An insect

23-A measure of

length

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34-Greek god of lova 35-Not poetic

37-Canvar shelter 39-Bird homer 41-Agitates

42-Float

7-Recording Secretary 45-Merriment

(abbr.)

9-Acti

10-Grate

47-Expira

149-Treasurer (abbr)

61-Mualcat note

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