1938-04-08 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 8, 1938.

Madcaps

Hats Go In For Crazy Glamour

The millinery that has come out up to now is simply nothing com- pared to the new top stuff that is now on view. This latest crop of Spring hats is mad!

However, while these newest -hats give the gate to sanity, they're very pretty about it. They go in

for crazy glamour, and I, for one, like them

There is a pleasing and restful absence of hats that shoot up in dizzy peaks and wedges, with hard, machine-sewed drapery around the bottom, and of shapes like the tops of stovepipe. hats the monstrosi- ties, in short, which have made up the crazy hat group these past

seasons,

Frilled Toques

The latest millinery goes about the business of enticement with fattery: soft colour, brims, veils and flowers. There are impudent frilled toques around which remind me of some of those fateful women of old court life in France, gals who made a life work of

glamour-a private life work.

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The way the' Spring style set-up

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MADE WITH CHEESE

Milk And Cheese Soup

This is delicious, and is very good for growing children and old peo- ple, who do not care för meaty soups.

For each person allow 2 gills 2oz butter; oz flour; 2 espoonfuls grated cheese, pep- per and salt to season. Melt butter in a pan, stir in the flour until well blended and smooth. Add milk, stir until boiling and allow to cook gently for 5 minutes. If any lumps form it is better to put soup. through a sieve and reheat it. Lift pan to side of fire, sprinkle in grated cheese, allow it to melt, but do not boil soup again. "Add pep- per and salt to season. Serve with fried squares of bread, or with fairy toast handed separately.

Ham And Cheese Souffle

Chop up very finely 4oz. cooked lean ham. Heat 22 gills milk in a pan. Break down loz. flour to a smooth paste with gill milk, add this to the hot milk, stir over fire until boiling, and cook for three minutes. If at all Jumpy rub through a fine sieve, then return that tilt over the face and is held to rinsed pan and reheat. Re- on by a bandeau at the back of the move to side. of fire, stir in ham; head. It is made of black straw. 402. grated Cheddar cheese, also 2 A black veil with a dotted border egg yolks, slightly beaten. Season is tied over the face and makes a to taste with pepper, salt, and

little made mustard, Remove pan

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looks, clothes for daytime are going other sign of being in the swim. to be very simple, well set gar- An example of the latest thing in ments; and the hats are going to mad glamour hats is No. 2, a big provide the dramatic climaxes that disc made of golden straw cocked make the whole thing worth while. to the right side of the head and

I know a fascinating Parisienne tied on by black velvet ribbon big bow at the back who says that if she can find the around the back of the head. right kind of hat to wear, she'll Green silk flowers cover almost the grantly glamorous.

No. 4 is a frilly toque that's fra- from fire and fold in two stiffly guarantee that no one she meets entire left side of the head. A cuter rim of rose, then orchid, then mixture into a greased souffle

It has an whisked egg whites. Pour the (she means a man) will ever look gold straw bag, tied with black wine red, all made of grosgrain fireproof dish, and put this dish below her shoulders to note what velvet, goes with this Erik model. else she has on. It seems to me

ribbon. Marjorie Dunton makes in a tin with a little water. Bake that this is just what the new

the bag to go with it of wine red in moderate oven until firma

and Spring hats are out to do to keep the great Louise Bourbon, master and trimmed with pink grosgrain or any savoury bottled sauce may No. 1 is a new Spring model from suede, shaped like a sewing bag well risen Serve at once. Tomato the critics from getting busy below colourist. It is a the shoulders.

straw hat of ruffles. vet ribbon and trimmed burnt gold banded with brown vel- buttercups, marigolds and yellow with

roses massed at the front of the CTOWIL A brown lace veil is hung over this girlish bat.

Anyway, whatever their purpose, those big, fiat hats I have just been looking at are something to wish for. They have flowers massed under one side of a tilted brim and their colours are enchanting.

Brown Lace Veil

Girls who are most effective and shape from Erik This is one of No. 3 is a woman-of-the-world deadly under a demure facade are the new flat, thick-brimmed hats served this Spring by girlish brimmed straw hats that droop over the back hair and are trimmed with childish field flowers like buttercups and cornflowers.

Bright Feathers

FOR THE CHILDREN

Here is a pudding which is specially suitable for, and popular

The Paris milliners are using with, the children. feathers, the flat, soft kind called

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Pour a capful of hot golden minoche, to trim many of the new syrup into a baking dish. Beat hats. They are usually in bright three tablespoonfuls sugar and a colour on black hats. Rose Descat tablespoonful margarine or butter Covers flat pancakes with these to a cream, and stir in a well-beat- feathers and tilts them over en egg, half a cupful of milk, and bandeau that almost covers

thea cupful of flour sifted with two back-of the head.

teaspoonfuls baking powder and a Crowns have collapsed. Some pinch of salt. Pour this mixture CrownE are moderately high, but into the syrup-lined dish and bake there are absolutely no superstruc-for half an hour, until it is well tures at all, and to wear one here browned.

is to announce that you're not style conscious. Many of the crowns are very flat. Lots of brims have a swollen look-thick, which is an-

ARE YOU LETTING YOUR FIGURE GO?

sprinkle with

To serve, turn upside down and or chopped nuts.

desiccated coconut

And one more sweet recipe-this time for making common or garden baked apples into something very special-indeed.

Wash and core the apples in the Why is it that after middle age some usual-way. Chop up a cupful of people go all out in the matter of their seeded raisins and put them in a figure whilst others remain slim, lim-water, a tablespoonful of butter and ber and youthful-looking *

As often as not, one of the chief saucepan with two tablespoonfulst causes is defective elimination of the sugar, and half a teaspoonful of body's waste Habitaal over-eating ground cinnamon. and drinking, and failure to take ragu- lar exercise are likewise to blame.

Cook for a moment until the mix-

It is because they dispel constipation ture thickens, then stir in a beaten and restore daily regularity that up egg, though this is not essential Pinkettes are so useful to help keep Fill up the centres of the apples the figure in restraint. At the same with this mixture, put them in a time they aid the liver, stiamiâte di- gestion, banish biliousness and sick fireproof dish, and put a few headaches, clear the skin of pin of brown sugar and butter on top of

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