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THE CHINA MAIL:

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1952. }

JARISIAN

ELEGANCE O

COMBINED

WITH

Geneva's

Skill

Popular with smart women the world over, every Jaeger-Le-Coultre creation is a joint product of the firm's workshops and studios bath in Geneva and in Paris.

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Merry Christm

FROM MOTHER AND DAD

By JOAN O'SULLIVAN

TAKE a peek at Santa's

post and there's mo doubt you'll find many letters from little girls who write: "Dear Santa, Please bring mela doll house."*

That's an easy order for mothers and dads to. Al because you can make a doll house out of an old bureau drawer. Give it a coat of paint, dress it up with gay peasant designs and it's sure to make your daughter's Christmas com- plete.

If such an undertaking sounds appealing-and its

a fun-to-do project--now's the time to get going.

Here are some instruc- flons:

Set the drawer so that

JUST WHAT SHE WANTS for Christmas-a gay little house for her doll famliy. Mother and fathe

the delightful present from an old bureau, drawer and some small pieces of wood.

make

'aides and bottom are Inside rooms green, rose and with the basic stroke in different perpendicular, using its blue.

colour brush with soft bristles lis

arrangements.

To paint the woman, start.

circle for her head, a

enough below to gauge

length for the width of the All the peasant décorationé house. Add a gable roof were painted with dri easy-te with a made from two pieces of master teardrop stroke. A water heart for her bodice, a dot at board. Fit in a triangular suggested. And remember it's either side for hands, a wavy piece at each end to fill in the gables. To divide the interior of the house into three

rooms, cut two par- titions from plywood or old boards.

Now you're ready to paint, and that's where the fun be gins!

folk art--so you can let yourself go.

Choose gay colours. Make the birds on this dollhouse bright yellow and the heart and swirl designs multi-colour. Two shades of blue make latticed windows and door.: Gay green is used for shutters. The floral motif is done in two tones of red..

We suggest a Christmas red

The figures beside the door roof and white walls for this are not as intricate to paint as delightful doll house. Make the they might seem. Both are made

the length of her dirt. Next, paint a large mass for the skirt, adorn. It with a heart. Make each arm with a weeping stroke, Eyes and checks are dots, and the mouth'a tiny heart. Hair is made with the same stroke as the skirt ruffe,

Each side of the man's Jacket Is made separately with curved

are formed strokes. Trousers with an inverted heart

Fashion Looks Back 280 Years

For New Hat

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NE of the

ONE

nowest feminine fashions, the "Jellybag" hat, can be traced back at least 280 years by the Army.......

At the Royal United Ser- vico Museum, in Whitehall, a new exhibit of hussar uniforms shows a red fur- edged fellybag hat as part of the original Hungarian hussar uniform.

This type of het evolved into the busby whleli, with the Hùn- garian style uniform, of the early 19th century, wda copied by Brilah hussars,

The Muzeum's Licut-colonel P. 5. M. Wilkin- son, said: “Wo have tried, to show, with pletures and ex- planatory notes, how this type of uniform, including the buby, came into Brush uke,

The first regiments to adopt it were the 7th, 10th, 18ths and 18th Light Dragoons, in 1800 although all light dragocha: had copied the jacket in 1784. After Waterloo they discarded the for the shake, but the busby for

bushy returned to favour in the middle of the last century.

A distinctive feature, of the

early, burby was the wearing of

a

wing

cloth which hung on

the crown from the right hand sidça survival of the original Jellybug hat.

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FATHER'S JUB requires a little time and not too much skul. All he has to make is a gable, reot and partitions for the inside of the house......

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START WITH"Á CIRCLE to make the woman's head. Make a heart for

the bodice, dots for hands.

EACH SIDE of the man's jačket is made with d curved stroke. Trousers dife an inverted heart.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE a professional artist to tackle the trim on this doll house. Even a beginner can master a basic teardrop stroke, which is used to:

make all the colourful figures,

DELICIOUS HOME-MADE CHUTNEY

Dihhot Vegetable Soup In-Bowls Croutons

Let's get busy and make 3 c. cider vinegar. Simmer au make 2 qts. Fine-chop 2 cored, up several kinds of chutney covered 18 min. Then, add 1 sweet green peppers, 1-small. not only for our own use, tbsp. salt, 1 c. tinned shred pecled onion, and 2 peeled sipe

ded pineapple and juice, 2 c. tomatoes. Combine with 3 but for Christmas gifts. brown sugar, tap. cayenne cider vinegar, 1⁄2 tbsp, salt, 1 c.

Pupper, 1 tbầp.:

minced ginger chopped raisins 34 2. any tart 3 tbsp. crushed mustard Jelle: sugar, 1 thep. ground seed, and the grated rind I ginger, the find. 3⁄41⁄2, lemony and lemon and the juice 4 lemons, the juice 3 lemons, and fe tap, Simmer about 1 hrs, or until cayenne. Simmer about 139 krs, thick and the consistency of or until thick liko jam. Sél hot fam, Transfer to sterilised fars in sterlised fars, filing to over- All to overflowing and seal. towing. Makes to 10 half-pt. Mickes 12 to 15, half-pt. jars. Jars,

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Kreipes Serva. Four- Tomafo. Chutney. Peel and fine-chop 4 qts, ripë tomatoes. Add 1 qt. fine-chopped wi tart apple,

fine-chopped

Pear or Apple Chutney

Pare, core in onion, 11⁄2 c. chopped raisins and pears or apples,

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fine-chop 18 Ada 11⁄2 c’minecă mint when or enough to making tomato chutney,

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