1938-02-23 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 3, 1938.

Smart Talk

A small outlay of cash, plus a With your new raincoat wear a large outlay of imagination and rubberised print kerchief peasant originality will often result in an fashion around your head, and a extravagantly smart appearance. matching one as a scarf, at your

Why don't you give the impres-throat. sion of advance spring chic by twisting one or two of the new strands of pastel beads around the high neck of your simple black frock?

Make your friends ' envious of your daring and style knowledge by wearing vibrant purple spiked. with red.

A two-toned satin scarf will bighten up the most ordinary looking neckline and is just as ap- propriate on a wool as a silk frock.

With

the

fashion air, the newest inspirations

sequins permeating

are sequin jewelry. Little balls of | gold sequins in bracelets or clips.

Take Vogue's advice and wear a flat, black pancake of felt on your head with your new bright colour-with ed frocks.

In the spirit of the holidays, flaunt a new charm bracelet made' of tiny syphons, squirter and all studded in multi-coloured stones,

The ultra touch to your lounging costumes

mules edged in wide sequin bands, matched to coloured sequin bracelets.

A subtle new suit and topcoat duet

suit. in brown tweed

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International

Cookies

Recipes From Other Countries

Each country has its own special-¡1 ised cooking, designed to meet the 1 Jewelry can't be too fantastic needs of its people, and yet there 1 and in the inexpensive group come is hardly a land that does not have some very smart

bracelets a recipe, which fits into the menu clusters of paste rubies, of other countries as an unusual 1 sapphires and emeralds surround- and tempting addition. This is espe- 2 ed by rhinestones and forming cially true of that delight of every most dazzling dangles.

child, cookies, and no mother can have too varied a cookie jar. Here are a few international cookie.re- your cipes: you jumps ahead. Try a dubonnet trimmed bonnet type of bright blue straw.

winter suit will put

A bright spring hat with

Belgian Cookięs

Melt

1

cup butter with

11⁄2

cups brown sugar. Do not allow. mixture to boil. Add

1⁄2

teaspoon vanilla. Beat-

Purple alligator in tailored shoes, matched to a pouchy, cylindrical 2 bag, will make a new costume out of your casual town suit.

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1⁄2

1

In contrast to the high hat de-131⁄2 flecked in green, belted in pale votees, join the "low hat". group beige leather to match a pale beige (some of the smartest. designers topcoat.

have squashed their new hats to pancake proportions)

CABARET SUPPER DANCE

Some unusual entertainment is promised at the Cabaret Supper Dance which is being given by the Central British Association in the Rose Room of the Peninsula. Hotel to-night.

In addition to a "funny item": by a well known local comedian, there will be two vocal numbers, as well as three exhibition dances

wear Я

skull fitting, ow, draped turban of gold silk jersey with your black dress and gold jewelry or pastel silk jersey with your dark furs.

eggs thoroughly. Add to the sugar and butter. Dissolve teaspoon baking soda in tablespoon hot water, and add soda to

cup dates with

cup valnuts. Add

cup grándulated sugar. Add

4

cup flour mixed with

1⁄4

teaspoon salt and

teaspoon baking powder. Add eggs well beaten to the above mixture. Put batter in flat, greased pan and bake about 20 minutes. Brush with thin white icing while still warm. Cut into squares.*

Beat

German Lebkuchen

egg yokes well. Add

cups brown

juice of

lemon. Sift

cups flour

sugar and the

1/2 teaspoons baking powder

teaspoon cinnamon

cups flour, sifted. Combine the butter mixture with the flour 1 mixture. Add

Roll

2 pound blanched almon

the dough about 1⁄4 inch thick. Cut into 2-inch squares and let stand overnight Garnish with an almond in the centre of each square. Bake in a moderate oven for 15 minutes.

Chinese Chews

Whatever else you do, don't date yourself by letting your coiffure Here is a cookie dear to the heart dangle down. Upward is the trend of most children because it and the more becoming the "high"chewy." It is made as follow:

line the smarter you'll be.

Chop

up

Linoleum The Versatile

Take that substantial

1⁄2 teaspoon allspice

1⁄2 teaspoon salt. Add to egg mix

ture. AddTM

cup finely chopped dates. Add cup chopped walnuts. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake in a shallow pan, in a hot oven, for 15 minutes. Then lessen heat and bake for 5 minutes longer. When cool, brush with

a thin white icing, made as fol- lows:

Icing For Lebkuchen

Blend together

cup confectioners' sugar tablespoon cold water

sugand

orange

tablespoon lemon or

juice, until very smooth. Spread

Cut in either

on

strips or in squares.

Jerusalem Cookies

Mix and sift

cups flour

in

teaspoon allspice

1⁄4

1

teaspoon cinnamon and

3

but un activate the back of the linoleumida of special interest. One dance sightly kitchen table that you have with a soft brush-moistened will be demonstrated for the first hesitated to discard. Paint the water----which produces a time in Hong Kong

soapy the famous legs a gay colour, add a few con- paste, by means of which the ma- American "Big Apple Dance.” trasting horizontal stripes and terial can be laid directly- and

Light refreshments

will be finish up the scarred top by placing quickly to the floor. This assures served about 11 p.m. Music will be over it a smooth, sleek piece of a uniform bond,” eliminating loose supplied by Fred Carpio's band.plain colour linoleum-and what spots. It is expected that about three have you? A table in a new trous- hundred and fifty people will be seau, ready to withstand the strain present.

of kitchen activities.

teaspoon salt. Add

Jong

eggs slightly beaten. Add the juice of

lemon. Add

tablespoons honey and

1⁄2 cup chopped alm

Panels either pictorial or orna- mental can be inset in the centre corners of a linoleum floor, and And is cleaning those kitchen often the architecture of the room Egg shelves a tiresome task that is too is the keynote of their design.

DO'S AND DONT'S easily put off? Try replacing quick-

1. If your chin is advancing DON'T wear hats that slope sharp ly back and give you that scalped- at-the-top look which further em- phasises the prominent chin, but →→ DO have hats point definitely for- ward: Dress hair soft and wide at the temples.

ly soiled papers with strips of lino- leum, cut to fit and with a swish of a damp cloth, the shelves are clean and sparkling.

into a smooth dough, Roll out 4-inch thick Cut with coolde cutter. Brush with

white. Bake in a moderate oven 15 minutes,

Blend

Dutch Cookies

pound butter with

1⁄2 pound flour. Add

2 pound brown sugar

For the game room floor, game layouts may be delightfully worked into the general floor design checkers,, shuffleboard, ten-pins, toss game or any favoured game In the breakfast room linoleum is requiring a set plan. And what a colourful and economical for the lift this treatment gives to that 1/2 table top. And that row of flower- dark basement or dingy attic room! pots on the window sill-how fre- How its gay colours will charm quently a too-generous supply of your guests or the children on a water overflows upon it. One an- rainy afternoon! swer is a linoleum surfacing.

And, speaking of the children-- 2. If you wear glasses DON'T

outstanding improve, how they love the Mother Goose emphasise them with a turban, ment in the manufacture of lino- characters, airplanes and ships, unless your hair frames the face leum is a new type having a special birds and animals that

can be Necklaces, too, are taboo! But DO factory-applied adhesive on the worked into the floor design of their wear at least a one-sided brim, back. This is a ready-to-lay product rooms! And a labour saver for softly waved hairdress, and if you which greatly reduces both the mother, too, to have linoleum wall- go in for

shadow, choose a time and the effort necessary to do covering, from which smudgy little violet shade.

the job. It is only necessary to hand prints are so easily removed.

1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon and

teaspoon cloves. Work all to gether until it resembles a pie crust. Pat into a pie pan, but do not roll. Put in ice box over- night. Blanch

pound almonds. Chop almonds fine. Add

4 pound raisins..and

4 pound citron. Mix well and put through chopper. Put this mix- ture between two layers of cold crust, and round off top as for pie. Bake in moderate until slightly browned. Cut in triangular pieces.

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