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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 20, 1938.

New Glamour Of The

Of The Night

The Spanish Trend In

Evening Dress

of sap-

Evening gowns become quite an train. This silhouette accentuates event as the Paris season advances, diamond-shaped incrusts with soirees and galas providing phire-blue velvet disposed skilfully opportunities for elegant Pari- over the surface to make its wearer siennes and personalities of inter- look extra stim,

social national glamorous clothes. The dramatic

fame to wear

pose on

Waistline' swathes are featured on black as well as pine green evening lainage day-wear frocks of tradi- gowns is a new departure, but one tional Molyneux cut and style, but that does not interfere with classic they are coloured in patterned styles of modernised type in rich silks. They appear like handker- It is this com- chiefs folded on the straight with petitive spirit between classic and tie ends simply lopping over in modern that makes evening soirees front. and gala nights in Paris so inter- esting.

brocade and fame.

Some of the former gowns "go" almost completely Spanish. One of successes, for ex- Paquin's great

of black silk ample, is a gown

bow posed to- jersey with a flat wards one side front on the hip and from where a moulded corsage on to transparent rises upwards yoke with long sleeves attached.

Mantilla And Rose

This transparency is concluded

"Next time you have to mend gloves, put a clothes peg (the long, old-fashion- ed ones) into the finger. You will find the mending very easy, as the needle cannot catch on the other side, and you won't sew the fingers together!"

DO YOU LIKE FLANS?

You need not until Christmas to enjoy mincemeat. And remember there are other mincemeat dishes besides mincepies. For instance, this one is delicious. z

MINCEMEAT FLAN

2202. 5oz. self-raising flour, butter, 22oz. granulated sugar, 1/2 lb. Robertson's mincemeat, one egg, two tablespoonfuls milk, cherries and almonds.

- Method: Melt butter, then add sugar and egg; beat well together; add other ingredients and mix to a sponge consistency.

Place in well-greased fian tin and bake twenty minutes, then fill with warm mincemeat and de- corate with almonds and cherries.

WAXING FLOORS CORRECTLY

Preservation Measure That Saves In Upkeep Work

Wood floors of mellowed beauty are the result not so much of mus- cular effort to-day, as they are the result of intelligent application of take methods and devices which the drudgery out of housekeeping. modern Fortunately, not only are methods less demanding of physi- cal energy, but they produce better It is and more lasting results.” possible now to achieve with very little effort a hard, dry, lustrous finish-one that fairly gleams.

MADE WITH A BAR OF MILK CHOCOLATE with naphtha or

Quick leing.

chocolate.

First of all, let us consider the matter of washing the floor. Wash- ing the floor with soap and water, spots or in the case of stubborn

other cleansing agents, such as washing soda, is or Actual should be the initial step. Grate a milk chocolate Keep several bars of milk choco-

and many are the bar coarsely and sprinkle over "scrubbing" with soap and water by a mantilla fixed to the head by late on hand

of & coloured rose. Mainbocher brings delicious wonders these sweet milk small cakes which have been iced is to be avoided, as when the soap with pink, white or orange icing, is worked into the wood floors the

alkali will react on the finish

deterioration. some of the glamour of old Castille bars can perform. For example:

while the icing is still soft.

the floor and cause to a gown of fine black lace with

Melt over hot water 1 cake milk

Nut Clusters

Water tends to darken the wood, so with bars of gleaming gold paillettes

and The most delicious of nut clus- this process should be done glittering across a trailing back chocolate, and spread while warm

if possible or layer cakes.

care,

with panel of heavier black and ecru over small cakes,

candied ters can be made in a few minutes. utmost with nuts or A squared Decorate face lace combined.

elbow-length fruits. Or try icing tiny cakes Pick over whatever nuts are pre- the dirt should be removed decollete enhances

In contrast with plain white icing flavoured ferred. Melt the milk chocolate merely a cloth dampened with luke- sleeves of the lace.

and over hot water, and put in just one warm water. delicately with mint,

Throw in is a black velvet down moulded to very

with melted milk kind of nut at a time. in a fish-tail cover when set

half a cupful and stir around in the melted chocolate; then take out with a fork and place in little piles on waxed paper. Raisins, popcorn, candied cherries, and candied pine- apple may be coated in the same

the figure ending

Jel. 28151.

CLEARANCE SALE PROCEEDING

Bargains In The Men's Wear.

PLAIN and FANCY

SLIPOVERS

from

$5.00

PULLOVERS WITH SLEEVES

from $12.00

CARDIGANS

from

$15.00

BARGAINS IN ALL DEPTS.

52525252525 LANE CRAWFORD'S

The House of Quality & Service

way.

Milk chocolate ice cream is sim- ply delicious. You simply freeze vanilla ice cream as usual, remove the dasher and work in one cake of broken milk chocolate for each quart of ice cream, and pack in ice and salt for two hours before serv- ing.

Milk chocolate bars may also be

or creams.

used to make sauces for puddings

Soften, add a tables-,

water poonful or two of boiling and your sauce is ready to use.

Colette

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If you are flat chested,

DO

"escape that dan- gerous low neck- line with a bow, or flowers across the front of your evening gown. Jabois, or fall sofi collars and bulkiness

through shirring. tucks, etc. are for day- good

time.

DON'T

wear evening dresses which have

lutely pain neck lines, or during the day frocks and blouses that have no en the trimming front. Fashion this accentuates #23501 the bust so even when you're making the best of yourself, you can still be up to the minute. ♬

The First Coat Should Be Thin When the floor is thoroughly dry, then one should apply a thin coat of wax which may be either in paste form or liquid. It has been found that a thin coat of wax polished to a high gloss is a better protection for the floor than a thick one. After dry, the wax has had a chance to which usually requires from 20 to 30 minutes, one should polish to a hard finish, unless the wax is of the liquid sort that requires no polish- ing. There

several makes of this no-polishing wax on the market to-day.

are

good liquid

This waxing is the housewife's protection against harmful mars in the wood. Among other joys of a waxed floor, too, is that if soiled in be spots these spots can merely cleaned and the additional wax ap- plied will be easy to blend with the spots These worn older polish. are best cleaned with naphtha, be- thus cause once a floor has been waxed, these spots should not he scrubbed with water..

Waxed floors should not be sub- jected to chemical or oil mop clean- ers, since these tend to leave a film. The cleaner, furthermore, may be such that it will soften the hard Usually, just a glaze of the wax.

dry floor duster will remove dust and finer dirt particles. will be all the care necessary.

all

This

Next A Coat Of Paste Usually, it is a good idea to use least semi- the paste polish at annally for an all-over waxing, and then the liquid for recovering and renewal of soiled spots. The paste polish must-of-necessity be given a high polish, to be sure that a hard surface is produced, one that

will dirt.

be impervious to dust and The liquid wax polishes come in either the non-rubbing or rubbing type, and in the case of the former it is important to give the sufficient time to dry before walks on the surface to be that no scratches or mars are made in the wax.

wax

one

sure