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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST

YOUR WEDDING GOWN

AND TRY

THESE!

Poached egg on spinach. Top- ped with cheese sauce, sprinkle with crumbs, and brown "under griller.

Add green peas to scrambled gg-Serve on rounds of fried bread

Flaked haddock with cheese sance Serve on buttered toast with tomato-sance.

Devilled spaghetti with salad.

Gooseberry Charlotte

There is a most heartening adaptability about the modern wedding dress. It may be slender and clinging or it may be made with yards and yards of billowing organdi or net. It may hark back to the fairytale romances of the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Centuries. It may surge forward to to-morrow, or stop somewhere between with a hint of Puritan demureness or of Elizabethan flamboyance. You de- cide on the one in which you will look your loveliest, and what your Attendants must wear in order to and there fit into the picture- you are.

Clinging Or Billowing?

Satin or crepe, silk jersey or lame for the statuesque and cling- Line a tin with apricot jelly. Aling type of gown; organdi, organza good way to make the jelly adhere for chiffon for the floating and evenly to the sides is to rotate the billowing. White is worn more than anything else, always, but Ar- there are

tin slowly in a bowl of ice

range halved tinned apricots, cut quantity delicate pastels too,

side uppermost, all over the inside of the tim, all fill in the crevices with chopped pistachio nuts. (A fine skewer is useful for this job). Set with more jelly.

Fill up the centre with a mixture of 1⁄2 pint gooseberry puree and pint stiffly whipped cream, to which 11⁄2 oz melted powdered gelatine has been added. Turn out and make a border with chopped jelly.

Health And Loyalty.

of off whites (chosen ac- cording to the underlying tone of the bride's skin), and sometimes silver or gold.

Your Severest Critic

It is a wife bride (or her mother) who considers her silhouette with frank, almost brutal, appraisal fore deciding upon the design, colour, and fabric of the dress.

Is she too thin and has she not yet learnt to walk like music? Then she must have yards and yards of organza or chiffon flaring from a tight bodice with full, long sleeves, and a quite plain, but very The full, flow- voluminous, veil.

High above the New York streets when the cocktail hour is

in session, the girl wears a navy silk marquisette appliqued with white linen and a white eyelet and navy felt hat while the man donS a natural colour silk Tussah suit with a white silk shirt and a rough silk tie

In many of the principal countries of ing skirt will give her absolute sible to have a slim fitted jacket the world to-day physical fitness is freedom and conceal any awkward-which merges into the rest of the being stressed as a national duty for ness of movement. The full, softly dress under the veil, and when this

all loyal citizens and physical culture

is an important part of the training of falling sleeves will help her to for

get about arms and hands.

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JAM TORTE

You want at least one delicious

sleeve. This one is always good for a second helping and you will

ger than she likes yet 8 dress which needs no subse- and inexpensive dessert up your The first essential for good health is good blood, because the nerves and all the organs and tissues of the body wants to wear white? Then she quent alteration of any kind.

If your train has been made of be no end gratified when you hear depend upon the blood for nourishment should choose a lovely reversible and only when it is rich red and plenti-satin, used in panels and mostly an ful can perfect health be enjoyed.

the matt side, to give all that many yards of chiffon you have the the family telling friends what a

wherewithal for one of those long wonderful cook you have. Realising this, a British physician, an

1 tin jam M.D. of Edinburgh University, evolved length and slenderness that panels

parent evening coats. If it was of a formala which by building up the can emphasise so cleverly. You and fall and temptatious trans

¡lace but not of the heirloom1⁄2 lb. butter oxygen and iron content of the blood avoid using the shiny side, parti-} has proved invaluable in restoring!

2% cups flour health and strength to anaemic, runcularly over hips and down the

will make you a cape or a tunic or down men and women. This prepara-front, but you can use it safely fortype which must not be cut tion is known the world over as Dr-yoke and sleeve tops to emphasise

an elegant if slightly absurd little Williams Pink Pills.

width where it is permissible. The

jacket. Are you wholly satisfied with your

Slippers can be satin or of silver you are physical condition, or do you envy the train will give length and grace, good health of others? If the latter, too, and what is still known as a but should not-unless

have of Dr Watteaur pleat

Sometimes of happy in anything else - will be more

exaggeratedly-high heels. Those esultant imgreat assistance in lending height

and dignity.

completely heelless little bootees.

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Cream the butter eggs one at a time, beating

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are hearing so much about are, stantly. Add sifted flour and bak-

wever, just as unsuitable unless

ing powder. And put in last the have practised walking in flavouring. Spread thin in greased A cleverly cut sandal is pan and spread with jam. Cut more becoming to most feet and strips of dough (using extra more comfortable to wear than a court shoe

Sometimes A Problem The choice of the bridesmaids' dresses can cause heartburning

Be Practical About It

consider is The next thing to how well the wedding dress will men, lend itself to future appearances. I do not suppose this has ever been easier to arrange than now. There are so many high in front and long-and anguish, or joy and justifica- eeved dinner dresses, and if you tion for a girl getting a frock she want the slit or deeply cut-out really wants dreadfully but back you can have it. It will be wouldn't otherwise feel she ought overed by the train or veil on the to indulge in. Given a little con- sideration on the part of the bride, day itself.

to day's bridesmaids are in luck.

Dresses that will go with the dress in type if

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