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CHINA MAIL, AUC 10 1937

GET THIN ON BREAD AND

CLEVER IDEAS

CLEANING POTATOES: As soon as you buy potatoes, turn them straight into a large bowl of tepid water. In a few minutes they will be quite clean. Let them drain, and turn into the usual con- tainer. Then you will only have to peel the potatoes dry when pre- paring the meal, and put into cold water until required.

TO CLEAN SILK SHADES: Before washing silk shades, brush the dust off, and then swish them up and down in a bowl of soap suds, slip the line through the top bar if drying them out of doors, For leave them standing on a wood- en table if indoors. You will not need to iron. them, as the silk is stretched tightly on the frame.

MIND Your MANNERS

BUTTER

A Twenty One Day Diet For The Would-Be

Shim And Agile

With the return to simplicity in, tea, which serves as a stimulant. dress, in beauty, and in food essen-One lump of sugar is allowed ip tials, it is more than ever important the tea

that women young and old should At seven o'clock, bread with but- look gracefully active, and more ter again, with milk or pure tomato than ever possible for them to do juice, as preferred.

So.

off

On retiring, bread with butter. Here is a twenty-one day diet Between meals drink as much which is simple, very inexpensive, cold water as liked. Fresh butter and easy to follow. Like all diets, is suggested, rather than salt. it requires willpower and stick-to- So, without fuss or bother, with- it-iveness, but the results are so out cooking or preparation, you can worth while that you can grit your now slenderize to heart and figure teeth and bear it. After the first content. The diet costs on 200 battle of going without favourite (average $5.50 a week dishes has been overcome, moreover

This diet can be followed over

it has one very delightful advantage. any period without any sensation of No feeling of hunger is experi-hariger, and there is no suggestion enced, and it becomes a distinctly (of weakness, lassitude, or DEZVOUS pleasant regimen to follow. You energy being burnt up.. are free to take as much water each

Test your knowledge of correct day as you please, which helps the social usage by answering the fol- complexion too, and there is no need lowing questions, then checking to take life more strenuously in or against the authoritative answers (der to slenderize.

below:

1. What sort of clothes may woman wear to a garden party?

2 How does a garden party dif- fer from an outdoor tea?

3. Is there always dancing at garden parties?

and

A specialist and a well-known biologist passed on the diet, then three women asked to test it for three weeks, giving their mea- surements and weight at intervals throughout the period.

Imagine It!

4. Socially is a widow “Mrs.

The basic principle, the chief food Brown" or "Mrs. David Brown”?

of this latest of slimming diets is 5. How does a married woman bread with butter Tea, milk and sign her name on a social note?

water are included in the diet, but -What would you do, if-

are not essentially part of the diet. Someone whom you cannot place] The bread and butter should be walks up to you at a social func-taken five times daily—two full tion and says, "Don't you remem-slices of bread at each meal, with ber me?"

plenty of butter. The bread can be

(a) Say, “Why, no, I don't know toasted twice a day, if desired. It

you."

makes little difference to the reduc-

(b) Pretend to recognise the tion.

person and continue the con- versation.

(c) Say, "I am sorry, but for the inoment I cannot think of your name."

Answers on last Column.

The Schedule

At breakfast take half a pint of milk with the bread and butter

At noon, bread with butter. At four o'clock in the afternoon, bread and butter, with one cup of

Huge buttons in three or four grad- uated shades of the dress colour make a smart trim- ming. The buttons tied in place

are

with loops of the dress materials. For example, a pale blue crepe has large but- tons on the bodice ranging from palest blue to navy, tied in place by narrow strips or blue crepe.

Answers

1. An afternoon dress or a long informal with hat and gloves.

2. Usually the garden party is more elaborate and the guests "dress up more.

3. No, only if the majority of guests are young and the hostess to desires.

4. "Mrs David Brown”

5. Her maiden name followed by her husband's name as, “Luck Ward Franklin.”

Best "What Would You Do" solu- tion(c) is safer than (b). You might be called upon to make an introduction.

ture, letting each complete and cor- rect the other. She knows just how to enrich puritanical or fus- tian simplicity. Above all, she knows how to eliminate super- fluous trimming whether provided in embroideries, jewels, or colours. She has something of the Chinese sense of decoration in dress.

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Proprietress Mrs. M. Gardiner

Joan Fontaine's fresh blonde beauty is well set off by her white. cape suit of hand loomed shetland. The cape, hip length, has an at- tached scarf with rounded ends, tied ascot fashion. The squared shoulders are highly padded. She wears a bine rough linen sports blouse, saddle stitched in maroon.

GAY HATS

ACCIDENTS IN THE HOME.

Cuts, scratches, bruises, burns, scalds and other minor injuries may happen in any home, especially where there are children.

- KEEP SHE-KO HANDY A box of She-ko kept in the home will come in handy for the prompt, curative treatment of all such injucie

tiseptic, cooling, soothing and com posed of a blend of the very finest

ealing ingredients, She ko is an

ling pintament

EQUALLY GOOD FOR SKIN COMPLAINTS

The tailored suit, the tailored dress and jacket, worn with magni- ficent furs, and a hat as demure or as romantic as you like, is what one sees at the races, at, tea- such as eczema, ringworm, itch, sores of all kinds, pimples, boils, ulcers and parties, and even at weddings this external piles, She ko is obta month. The furs silver fox and medicine dealers everywhere. sables.

The Frenchw an is as clever in arranging her dress ensemble as in for a meal She mind cut, colour, and tex-

makin

SHE-KO

Soothing Carative.