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SANITARY TOWELS

For those to whom

quality counts

for more than anything

MANUFACTURED BY ST. ANDREW MILLS LTD. LONDON

Beautiful

Materials

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1952.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

A

nne Edwards reports on people, food, and fads from A to Z

AUTHORESS Fleur Cowles (American editor.

journalist, and wife of a publisher), holidaying in London recently, gave two fresh answers to two old questions.

QUESTION 1: "What helped you most in getting to the tap of your job?" She said: “I think it's because my husband and our greatest friend, Bernard Baruch, always treat me as if I am much cleverer than I am. It's a great help towards improving."

QUESTION 2: "Isn't it a great advantage, when you write a book, to have.# publisher as a husband?" She said:-

"I didn't tell my husband I was writing, it, but when it was nearly Anished 1 gave it to him, to read. And I rather put him on the spot,

"He would hale to hurt my feelings, but he would hate me to do anything foolish, So i think he was rather relieved to And he liked it."

B

ATH luxuries on the market for the first time since the war are bath mitts — small bags of towelling filled with almond cream soap, which foam and lather when you, dip them in water. Expensive Leven though you can use them gain und again) ut 129. 3d, each.

COLOUR to look out for

(and to Insist on getting) is the colour you find in an English TOSE garden. Att shades from

www

by

Latest choice selected quality of Ladies French Woollen Dress

Materials manufactured

Messieurs J. L. Marmor, Paris, Limited stocks at bargain prices. Inspection cordially invited at

P. B. Dhabher & Co., Ltd., 4th

floor, Union Building,

Have you tried Air-wick yet?

NEW DISCOVERY KILLS UNPLEASANT INDOOR SMELLS

THIS WONDERFUL new produg, Alt-wick, kills unpleasant indoor smells. Frying and other cooking smells, bathroom smells, stałe tobacco umells-Air-wick kills unwanted smells throughout your house.

Alt-wick contains chlorophyll-the wonder- ful substance that keeps growing plants fresh und green-scientifically combined with over 125 other natural compounds. Air-wick is. something quite new. It doesn't just cover up unpleasant smells with a stronger one; it really gets rid of smelisin the air!

Ah-wick in sumpte to use. Unscrew the cap, pull up the wick, and place the bottle on 4 high shelf above the source of sinell, Air-wick starta tu evaporate and smells vanish. It's the wick that does the trick,

Air-wick

SOLE AGENTS:

ана

WICH

DOLI THE

THICK J

TALAN & CO., LTD. SHELL HOUSE TEL. 31176

JAMS

Chamico

household cleanser hygiene and hint az ala handa

CHEMICO household cleanser Hygienic and hind to the hand

FOR COOKERS

FOR COOKING UTENSILS

FOR BATHS & SINKS

FORTILES & LINOLEUMI

Sole Agents: TALAN & CO., 14D,

Tel. Ji

Shell House

A

A.

(E)

palest wild rose pink through Zoded brownish pink,

to the deep red of a cabbage rost, were used in Paris for wool sults and silk coats, for om brolderics and

for evening dresses,

.

JOURDAN (LOUIS).

tor who is said to be handsomest

Frenchman

olive; has a refreshing point of view

DECORATION on a din- about his own

ner table produced at chort notice the night the hostess' got buck from the country — waa a fiat, silver dish heaped in the centre with wild flowers, and with a single lighted candio at each corner.

EARRINGS

ARRINGS creep up on

looks.

"I hate be- ing told I'm handsome," he

suid. "It is

so diminishing for a man. what you tell a woman."

to the ear. Latest are, a, curling, of sparkling rhinestones curving along the outside edge of your zeer -(see-picture) --

KISSES

ac-

the

It is

LISSES those linger

passionate censorable screen kisses are purely pro- to Vera fessional, uccording Ralston, film actress... "I had a

with Fred MacMurray the other

passionate love scene to play FRANKIE LAINE Rave was she said, "so Fred asked my husband it he would like to go out while we did the kissing, "My husband said: 'She's all yours, Fred; until six o'clock." "

an honest answer to a question tnost singers would dodge when I said: "You know, I always thought from your records that you were coloured."

"That," said Frankle, "is the greatest compliment you could pay me."

GADGET I'd most like to see back on the Import list is a garlic crusher. With one the squeeze you can get all Julee from ■ whole clove of

without messing garlic

your hands. They sold for 10s, 61. in Sobo a few weeks ago,

HAI

AIRSTYLES are getting rumpled. Watch for the new ruffled cut on ihoso

carefully posed fashion photographs from Paris. Note the carefully ruffled telage, the deliberate dishevel ment, the loose curl arranged to hong over the forehead with

ohl such care,

INVENTION that saves a len-minute battle with the tin opener 'came my way with a lin of soup. Just one jab, and you can prise off the lid. Sardine canners please copy.

SMEDLEY

as you like them

BLACKCURRANT JAM per 1-lb. jar $1.55

RASPBERRY JAM

APRICOT JAM

STRAWBERRY JAM

_CHERRY JAM

BRAMBLE JELLY

per. 1-lb. jar $1.55

per 1-lb. Jar $1.55

· per 1-lb. jar $1.65

per 1-ib. jar $1.75

per 1-lb. jar $1.40.

at the DAIRY FARM

-THE BRINY VANM tër & COLD STORAGE CO, LTD.

Sley's

Smedley

STRAWBERTY JAM

Smedleys

SWIST STYLE

LINGERIE idea someone

eught to have thought up be- tore is the new nylon bra, with strops that can be hooked any- the strong lace where into edging, so you can wear it as a ueck, halter neck, or heart

over the shoulders. straight Price, 169.

MINT

į

INT chopped and sprinkled on the lettuce with oil, sugar, and black pepper - makes the freshest-tasting salad.

•

NANCY

CUNARD was photographed in the smart-sni heyday wearing a head-hugging helmet covering the hair. All the rage in 1932 (see picture) and now all the rage agalu in 1952.

Needlecraft

Angora Anklet

Corner:

TT'S time to start thinking of some warm woollles. To

IT'S

begin with, try a pair of easy-to-make anklets. Boft and Fuzzy Wuzzy as the name of the angora with which TARZAN bikinis are the they're knitted are these warm little anklets, easily made

and trim to look at.

for Mediterranean new allure beaches. Brief. amber satin, with a pattern of leopard spots.

UMBRELLA shop in the

City displays a placard and, on idea some other shops might care to copy. "We loan you an umbrella," it says, "while you leave yours here for repairs." "

N

k

st (8)

rnd.(s)

ABBREVIATIONS Slice 2-1014

knit

yo

purl

$1

skitch (es)

round (8)

улга over ..slip pass slip stitch over knit .stlich

together tog

...this symbol. indicates the directions immediately following are to be repeated a given number of tirites in addition to the original.

*

"Werk even" means to work without Increasing or decreasing,

keeping established pattern.

(10 gram MATERIALS:

Bechive Fuzzy Wuzzy Angora

bails): balls.... Royal Society Aluminium or Plastic Double- pointed Sock Needles, 1 set No. 3 (3 mm. size),

GAUGE: 714 sts measure 1 inch; 10 rnds measure 1 Inch. Starting at cuff cast on 60 sts. Divide sis among 3 needles. Join, being careful not to twist sto, Work in ribbing of k 2, p 2 for 0 inches. Now work in stockinette st (lit each mnd) for 1 inch. HEEL....With 4th needle, k 15 sts from first needle, turn, slip 15 sts from 3rd needle onto other end of 4th needle (90 ste on heet needle). Divide the remaining 30 sta between 2 needles to be worked later for Instep. Work back and forth over the ELVET slippers to put heel sts.only as follows: Ist ROW: 'Purl across. 2nd ROW: $1 on when you get home come, k 1. Repeat from * across. Repent the last 2 rows untli 28 to the shops this month. Flat. rows have been completed, ending with 1st row. leather-soled, soft, and pretty, they are made. in black velvet

.5.

and trimmed with a bunch of pink strawberries or sequins. From 335. (See Picture).

TO TURN HEEL: 1st ROW: K 17, k 2 tog, k 1. Turn. 2nd

ROW: Slip 1, p 5, p 2 tog, p 1. Turn. 3rd ROW: Slip 1, k 0, k 2 tog, k 1. Turn. 4th ROW: Slip 1. p 7, p 2 tog, p 1. Turn. 5th ROW: Si 1, k 8, k 2 log, k 1. Tum 8th ROW: S1 1, P

0,

WIFE suing for divorce Rog, L. Turn 10th ROW: SI 1, 13., v. 2 tog, P.1.

Arlene

p 2 log, p 1, Turn. 7th ROW: SI 1, k 10, k 2 fog, k 1. Turn. Styi ROW: Si I. p 11, p 2 tog. p 1. Turn. 9th HOW: SI 1, k 12, (prettiest girl in the Turn. 11th ROW: S 1, k. 14, k 2 tog, k 1. Turn. 12th ROW: SI world") Dahl was honey-1, p 15, p 2 tog, p 1. Turn (18 sts remain). mooning in London 15 months INSTEP... 1st ROW: Kalt across heel sts, with same needle ago with husband Lex (Tarzan)

(fst needle) pick up and knit 10 sta along side of heel; with 2nd pretty she Barker. So with her rippling red hair, needle, knit across Instep sta; with 3rd needle, pick up and knit 10 sts along other slds of heel, then knit.9.sts from first needle, peach skin, and blue eyes. So There are 25 sts on first and third needles and 30 sts on second "I shan't let films wreck my well-meaning she was with her needle. marriage." So full of sex ap- pral, she was.

was.

TO SHAPE INSTEP: 1st RND: Knit around 2nd RND: With first heedle knit across to last 3 sts, k 2 tog, k 1; on 2nd needle knit across; on 3rd needle, k 1, sl i, k 1, p.s.s.o., knit to end of rnd. Repeat the last 2 rnds alternately until 15 is re- main on first and 3rd needles. Now work without decreasing until piece measures from back of heel--7 inches for Size 1; 71⁄2 inches for Size 92; 8 inches for Size 10 and 84 Inches for Size 10%, or 2 inches less than length desired.

And then there was Lex. So handsome he was, so well mean- ing, so full of sex appeal,

How well endowed they both were with all the things that are not needed to make a mar- riago work. How short of the

TO SHAPE TOE: 1st RND: On Brat needle knit across to one commodity that helps most last 3 sts, k 2 tog, k 1; on 2nd needle, k 1, a 1, k 1, paso, knit to last 3: sla, k 2 tog, k 1; on 3rd needle, k 1, sì, k 1. X FOR ex-Queen Narri-

psso, knit to end of rad. 2nd RND; Kait around. Repeat the man, photographed on the most last 2 mnds alternately until 16 sts remain. With 3rd needle, ki spotlighted holiday for years. 4 sts from first needle (8 sta on 2 needles). Break off yarn, iraving She shows that, in spite of a 12-inch length of yarn. Thread through u. needle and weave millions spent on Paris clothes sts together. and fabulous jewels, she can't do better than the rest of us when it comes to finding a belt that fits and slims her andple waist. She is wearing the same around cheap elastic belt that five million other women are wearing. (See picture.)

WORRY GETS

LESS WORRYING

YOUNG chicken and 215. UODENAL and stomach are 19 times as curaron among

the

D

F

of garlic provided proof of the ulcers are more likely to men as among women.

have more theory that if you eat enough be due

Surely to something

woachi wrong garile no one can detect

with our diet than to any in- worries to contend with in war- The than men? sald OACHIDS, costing

sinell of It afterwards. Roast

crease in the tension of living, time from the chicken is butter, stuff it

a professor told. the British professor. small with some

of the garlic, and 25. for a spray of four

Bel- Association scientists in rest to roast in the

"It may well be that ulcers ones, can be sent anywhere by leave, the

Last, a new orchid service,

are due to some harmful dietary the The smell from the oven is

impairing After

8,000 coristituent survey of a

the stomach wall, PRINCESS MARGARET's delicious the

taste is even patients in hospital with per vitality of fiat-the one she bought better, and-well, ask your best forated ulcers, Professor F. making it liable to acid diges

W. friend. ready-made-

Illingworth debunked the tion. "mental tension" like this:

has been a

boon to co-

pyists. You

can buy it

now at any price

Invel, down to 303.

"

Qvore from netress LIB

Damita, who dropped Into Lon- don recently: "I have had some Parla dresses, and they were so uncomfortable I couldn't breathe, 1 couldn't lift my arms, I could hardly furn my head. But, ohl they were so ravishing- beautiful it was all worth

Jy

while."

RECIPE worth trying is

an open pastry tart with egg- and-milk custard, topped with silced and peeled peaches and

a sprinkle of sugar.

SIGN

IGN OF THE TIMES is

a toy balloon. The *basistant handed me one free when i bought a child's eptton frock In a big store...

pan,

ZYLONI

JYLONITE happily for this column the Americans be

now

**If

80, the mala stórach be more susceptiblo 'to

*

Doctors believed that a great

increase .in. ulcer must wartime

was caused its effect." cis it with a 2, not, as we do, trouble In London

anxiety the extra by

OVET When the professor discover- with an X-sun-spEER

increzzo ed that perforations rise to being made in Amerlea have bombing. The same

Glasgow, where peak in December He thought lenses to match the frames in happened in mint green, demi-blonde, cocoa. there was little bombing, and he had further evidenge for his

where thero was food or drink theory. and ebony. And if American in Sweden,

But later he found the pook Women can buy them why none. shouldn't we?

The anxiety theory does not had nothing to do with Chrikt -(London Express Béroics.) explain why perforated ulcers mas or bogmanay:

BEEF AND TAIPE HOTPOT

THIS

·TRPELL,

HIL THE

BAR

out

CUT VAID DERFOTRAK INTO SMALL PIECES AND

BROWN THEM IN A

- LITTLE FAT

NOW PUT IN A CASSEROLE 1 ONION AND CARROT CHOPPED up

AND ON THƠM THƠ BESP MIXED WITH VID

TRIPE ALDO CUT IN SMALL

PUCHO BEASONING WITH SALT, PEPPER AND CELERY. BALT

PUT 2 TABLESPOONS OF WATER INTO THE FRYING-PANU STIR ANO, DORAPE VIITH A SPOON TO LOOSEN THE JUICEO'

FROM THE MEAT.

POUR INTO THE. TANA, CASSEROLE

COVER TIGHTLY AND COOK BLOWLY ON THE STOVE OR THE THE OVEN PORNE 11 HOUSES

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