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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 11, 1989

Ubrers, Supreme

Beauty and You

– PATRICIA LINDSAY.

3. This new heated oil salon treatment for brittle nails is

a welcomed innovation in a manicurə!

Brittle Nails Require Special Care

Fundamentally, brittle nails

Salt Virtually A Necessity

Bỹ EDITH M. BARBER

"The condiment of condiments?he weed discreetly

and to

SPECIAL STRING. BEANS 1 pound string benne. 1 onion sliced.

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qara thua Plutarch described salt. The fined taste. A good cook will test Greeks at one time consecrated salt dish for seasoning and not depend to the gods, while the more material entirely upon measurements. Romans' named one of their splen |did, roads the Salarian Way in its honour. Röman soldiers received their pay in salarium or salt money. Rebellious provinces were punished by depriving them of the privilege of buying this commodity.

are,akin, and it is offered in many of

athe leading department store salons

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caused by diet deficiencies, but great deal can be done by external and beauty salons throughout the treatment to keep them from break-country.

ing and ruining the appearances of your hands.

Your hands are immersed,

one

at a time, in a rich, mulsified oil

For years manicurists have been of a creamy appearance, which is experimenting with oil treatments heated in a thermostatically con- of one kind and another, and those who truly know nail care, urge you

trolled heater. While one hand is to massage warm oil into your cuti-being manicured the other is being cle and on your nail each night.

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Or massage oil well into your en- nicely lubricated in warm oll! 'And tire hand and tie it up in a pretty so efficient is the process supposed cotton glove while you sleep.

to be, that one weekly treatment

Now the oil treatment has taken a new step, inspired by fashion

tends to prevent nails from being which has put our hands in the brittle and to correct the dry condi- limelight with new fingerless mitts, hunks of lavish jewellry and t vogue for the vivid and luscious new colours in nail lacquers.

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tion.

Each of us desires flexible, healthy. nails so that we may wear them of fashionable length, smartly shaped

Split nails are an. incongruous with milady's new roles of clegance as the boyish bob or skirts above our knees!

ovally. It is now "look to your

And we also expect our hands, Madame," and "particularly nails to take the "hard knocks” we to nail care!"

give them without breaking off. INNOVATION IN TREATMENT So special care is required, parti- The new oil treatment of which cularly now during cold weather I speak, does for the fingernails when even steam heated homes con- what an expert facial does for the spire to make our nails dry and

flaky.

For A Natural Wave ditioning manicure

Done the Sommer's Machineless Way

Telephone 26824

Ahana Beauty Parlor

-MOWAYS - NAİ ASKINA. Alesandra Buikling, Rooms

2nd floors (AN

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If you can afford such a recon- 86 described here you will save yourself a lot of exasperation... Your nails will got, scientific lubricating. Check up, also on your calcium and phos- phate intake to be assured that your nails are getting the nourish- ment they need from within. Such consideration will keep your, hands fashionably lovely and they will speak of the meticulous beauty who owns them!

1/2 cup. sliced mushrooms. 1 egg yolk...

1/4 cup cream:

1 teaspoon minced parsley. 1 teaspoon lemon juico. Salt, Paprika. Pepper. Nutmeg.

Wash beans and cut into inch

one

Prisoners were sometimes sen- tenced to be served food without salt. This not only deprived them of flavour, but resulted in serious physical consequences when they were also deprived, of meat.

While it is possible to live with-pieces. Add onion and mushrooms, out salt, if meat it eaten in liberal quarter teaspoon sugar. Cover and

one-quarter cup water and quantities, most of us would find it difficult to take enough food to

cook over, low fire until beans are satisfy us if we had to do without parsley and lemon juice. Add this tender. Beat egg yolk, add cream, it entirely. And seldom would we mixture to the beans and stir until enjoy our meals in its absence. Of course, it it true that many of us! use so much that we ruin our BAKED SALT MACKEREL palate for other flavours. You all Soak mackerel overnight. Drain, know me and women who dredge will with flour and pepper. shake the salt-cellar over food be- Arrange in a greased pan and half fore they taste it. I call this prae-cover with rich milk. Bake in a tise an insult to the cook Taste moderately-hot oven, 400 degrees first, and salt. afterward if F., about fifteen minutes, until fish necessary.or if you think it is, is tender. Add one-fourth cup of In cookery: there is hardly any-cream and cook ten minutes more, thing that it not improved by n (Copyright, 1999, By The Bell touch of salt which, however, should Syndicate, Inc.)

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hot. Add seasoning to taste. Serve.

BY SPECIAL REQUEST À SECOND SERIES OF

GAS COOKERY DEMONSTRATIONS

at

THE GLOUCESTER BUILDING,

1st. FLOOR.

Will commence as from MONDAY. 3rd APRIL. 1939.

Demonstrator: Mrs. R. A. RODGERS.

SPECIAL CLASS for LADIES

MONDAY and WEDNESDAY.

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10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

(Fee $5.00 for 8 Lectures)

CLASS for COOKBOYS and AMAHS. FRIDAYS 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.

(Fee $2.00 for 8 Lectures)

Enrol before 25th March to secure a full course

THE HONG KONK & CHINA GAS CO., LTD. CENTRAL SHOWROOM:-

KOWLOON SHOWROOM:

GLOUCESTER BUILDING

Phone 24704

246, NATHAN ROAD

Phone 67841

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