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The Perfect make-up Fouħdation

by

Helena

Rubenstein

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HOLLYWOOD STORE

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has just returned from U.S.A.

with all the latest New York Models-

in

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Etc.

OPENING AS FROM TODAY

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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1948.

Woman Today

SHOPPING QUIZ

Just how much do you really know about the mor- Achandise you buy?... how many of those portinent questions can you answer? Give your- self one mark for each correct answer.

Am Temple. JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN

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I'm selling for Australia, Ihare | turously to the unknown-to try- been looking forward cagerlying out your strengifi, your cour- to this, having a job and # age, your initiative in new parte. With nine marks you're good | 7. There arc only four:

home waiting for me there. -with 12 you're unusual-diamond, emerald, ruby and

But so many people are saying "You won't like

"You'it with 14, you are unnaturally apphire.

hack." Itnowledgeable

that I 8. A measure for gold, giving trial you were, and down-

begin to feet its proportion in an alloy; also a

depressed. I'm right menace to shopkeepers.

Strit of weight

affected. by other not tisually Answers on this page.

precious

people's opinions, but now find stones.

wondering inself

whether

2.

1. I sheerness in stockings determined by thread or gauge?

If you asked for 111⁄2 thrend stockings, would It then that they are woven from one whole thread and one split one?

A. Who was the first lady wear silk stockings?

4.

What is virgin wool?

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5. What is the most versatile fabric medium?

6. In writing paper, what is the difference in appearance of

old" and "vellum" paper?

7. Can you name five precious siones?

ค. What is n carat?

None four ways to cut a lapond.

for

9. Square, emerald, baguelle have made the right decision. £ and marquisc.

have so much to look forward fo, yet I don't feel cheerful. But

need faith7W.G. perhaps

10, These are all naines laces.

of

them, The

If you listen passively to these decriers you are bound to be de- pressed, but if you turn the answer back on them they don't touch you. To their "You won't like it a cheerful grin and. A "Well, I'm going there to see". turn the tables nicely.

You'll enjoy seeing your Cheerfulness making them all up

Instead of feeling their Job's

comforting dashing your spirits.

"What makes a friend? Apre- _that_query in your column, I think thal nothing

11. Measuring from the "base of the thumb seam, count up the from their own experience? Have Do there people know anything number of inches to the desired they been out there themselves? length of the glove, If four Ask

Will Do of answer inches, ask for

a four button probably be something that they beats Montaigne's definition. In glove; if six, six button, etc.

12. (0) Silver with 125/1,000 Pure silver is per cent, purity, most unmanageable.

(b) Gold.

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13. (a) Rabbit, (b) heared sheep, (c) Freakishly pale offspr ing of silver or blue fox parents. (d) Muskrat dyed and sheared.

14. R.C. Henderson, hats; I.

10. What do the following Miller, shoes; Berlei, corsets; names all have in Common Nelison, slippers; Sun Glo, knitt- Torchion, Binche, Bruges, Chantling wool; Cole, swimsuits. ¡y, Macrame, Valenciennes?

1. If you were ordering long gloves by mail how would you ask for the exact length without sending your arm neasurement?

13. (a) Do you know what you are buying when you ask for

terling silver?

What is the most malle- (b) able of metals?,

C What nafnis give its the following furs: (a) Conry, (b)

| Mouton, (c) Platthitan Fax. (d)

Hudson Heal

14. Match the following naine. of productions and their well- lenown makers:

RLC. Henderson 1. Miller

Berti

Neilson

Sun Glo Cole

Swimsolts Knitting worl

Shoes

Hals

Corsets Silppers

Answers To Quiz

1. By threat.

2. No, a "threat is a definite measurement of thickness. 14 Threads menns the equivalent of 16 times this measuring unit.

3 Elizabeth, England's Virgin

Queen.

can

4. Wool that has never been made up into any fabric before.

it 5. Rayon, since

be woven in

almost any finish and texture. and cumbloed withi many other yarns.

Household Hints

BUTTER, SHORTENING AND FAT

To cut hulter cleanly. blade of knife with waxed paper or heat in hot water.

cover

To measure less than 1 cup of shortening, pour cold water (the amount being the difference be tween the amount of shortening called for in recipe and 1 cup) und ndd into measurlug cup shortening until water reaches top of cup, For example, if ti cup shortening Is desired, pour 1 cup cold water into cup, add shortening until water reaches top and pour off water before using shortening,

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To clarify fat, add slices of potato to melted int and try until potate is brown. The potato w absorb any foreign flavours and will collect some ment.

of the sedi

To decorate bulter dip a furkį into hot water and run tines across squares of butter. Garnish 4. Vellum is smooth-surfaced with a tiny sprig of parsley,

parchment: tid paper has almost imperceptible little parallel lines running through It.

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pair of wooden butter paddles and To make butter balls, seald a place in lee water about 1 hour. Measure butler by tablespoons, to make balls uniform in size. Have butter arm but, not hard and roll lightly between paddles with clrcular motion to form balls. Drop on to a chilled plate, on to cracked ice or Into Ice -water.·

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have heard or read-third-or fourth-hand stuff.

nutshell, he sum it up beauti fully: "If I am pressed to say Look forward happily to the why I loved him, I feel that I good things you know are await-ean only erpress myself by a- ing you and look forward adven-swering 'Because it tode he, be-

cause it was 1:"-G.C.

The latest from Vissna-A delightful black taffeta long- #leeved evening gown, close- buttoned from the high neck to the waist, with a flowing overskirt In black striped Imperial yellow satin.

cooking utensils, add tablepoons ammonia to the dish water.

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Meat, ur chicken

be may floured easily by placing in e paper bag with flour and shak- ing well.

To keep bacon from curling. snip edges with shears before cooking or broil between racks.

When preparing small bits of meat, place them on skewers.

SUGAR.

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Itens five years in German PO. W. camps, a very un- picasant but otherwlie valuable experienez. I learnt two pieces of wisdom there which might Felp VONT correspondent; 1, "Good friends are better than troner" 2. If you want to have a friend, be one."-TV W

Life is a strain trying to keep the pence between my husband. and eight-year-old daughter. She grew up while he was in the L.A.F. and he is always finding Jault, telling me the child will alcops come between u48.

I think the best, plan would be for me to take the cluld, find a job, and make a home of our aton. I'm not huppi. I'm sure tre shall never be happy to- gether, but he sp

this.-D.M.

agree to

Dieult situation it's true, i Mother has had the entire train-

of the Ing

child and resenta criticism. Father sees tralls in the child he dislikes, and seeing them go uncorrectedt transfers his dislike to the child.

But do you give up as easily as all that.? There's auch a thing as tuking your failure with you, setting up the pattern of retreat before diMculties.

Running away won't help any of you. I can see problem after problem

arising for each of you- for the child especially.

What are the faults your hun- band Ands in the child? If you will give me further details on this I might be able to help. Sa many Service parents have had this problem and pulled through successfully.

The family are al me to make your encumber 'relish again this year. They think it is unbeat

ble as a sundwich filter. But Temember the agony of chop- ping up the onions. Pl oblige the family if I can ind the secret of onions without fears. Do pou

To keep brown sugar from. becoming hard, place it in appen to know ?-DW. ́glass jar‍ ́and-cover-tightly.--

The experts say...that holding

a piece of bread or a match stalk

between the teeth, or just keep- ing the mouth open and breath-

To make sweet pickle fans, To moisten brown sugar which cut pickles Into thin

parallel has already hardened, place a slices almost to the end. Spread slashed, apple or 14 apple in jaring through the mouth cloes it. and press uncut end earfully to hold fan in place.

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with sugar or place sugar to one aide in a contaber, arrange silces on other maist bread To prepare a quick french of very dressing boat I cup vinegar and sule; cover tightly. 1 peeled, crushed clove of garlic tobolling. Strain, aud salt, FRUITS. pepper and dry mustard and store in corked "bottle. Add to oil whenever dressing is needed.

To save time prepare a quan- tity of white sauce ai one time, pour into quart jur, cover, store

in refrigerator and use as need

ed,

FISH AND MEAT,

To make fish firm and white. add a little lemon juice to water while boiling.

To avoid unpleasant odours white cooking Ash cover, with browned hulter or lemon juice.

To

remove fish

odours from

MASON'S

O.K.

SAUCE

Piquant & Appetising

This delicious sauce i not only a fine Tonic but a true digestive. Excels with chops,......... steak, veal, cutlets, cold meat, Ash, etc.

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But I wouldn't like to say it does it" for more than a few minutes. In a long chopping ses- sion the onions would win.

To make orange or grape-fruit lemons, heat before squeezing. segments, pare with shaip kulfe, slide" knife blade along To keep limes fresh, placc each segment wall to centre and them in a jar, cover and store In turn out segment with a slight refrigerator. twist of the knife.

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To avoid wrinkled skins on To peel grapefruit and oranges | baked apples, slit in a few places ensily, let them stand in belling before baking. water about 0 minutes before peeling.

To prevent dried fruits from

clogging the food chopper add a

few drops of lemon juice. before grinding.

To keep lemons fresh place glass jar, All with water cover tightly,

in

and

To cut fresh bread costly, cut

Τα

obinin

most juice

from with a hot knife.

Doing fine on *KEPLER!

"On the go" all day and growing, too:

no wonder children need extra nourishment. Give them *Kepler and see how they thrive and gain weight-it is rich in the vitamins their growing bodies need. Its malty- · aweet flavour is so pleasant too. Adults will find 'Kepler! a real strengthener in convalescenos.

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