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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1937.

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Be your own Fashion Expert

HOW to KNOW your STUFFS

T'S easy to be well-dressed if you can have your clothes designed and made by the first-class fashion houses.

But if you're planning your wardrobe your- solf you have a lot to learn before you can produce,. their effects of style and smartness.

First of all you must understand the basis of fashion-materials. Every season brings out sheaves of new fabrics; you must know which to choose among them... which will wear... which is the most suitable to use for different cuts and designa. which will keep its shape.

Test it this Way

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FABRICS you'll be looking through now are the woollens and suitinga for dresses, overcoats, suits, tailormades. Suitings are in a class by themselves; you will use them for strictly tailored suits and coats.

You need a material with a strong, close, heavy surface which will keep its shape and line, stand up to bad weather, and show off the cut of the suit. Choose a cloth that might be used for a man'a suit and you can't go far wrong.

Here are a few tests you con apply to make certain you arc getting what you want. Suppose you are choosing stuff for a suit you'll be wearing every day

Hold a length of the mateilal up to the light; the transparency will show you the looseness of the weave. Handle the stuff and avold the very loose-mesh fabrics, they will quickly loose their shape.

Then pull n thread out of the

width of the fabric (better do this with a small pattern, or you'll be rather unpopular in the shop) and see how tightly ench thread is twisted. The tighter is, the harder to unravel, the more likely it will be to keep its shape, because the threads will go back after stretching.

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Silk lining Helps

IF you're buying for

frock, treat yourself to one of the new rough, pebbly or patterned woollens, and face the fact that they are bound to stretch a bit.

THE-BRAY

One Invaluable rule for helping dresses keep their shape is to ine the shit with a band oi, suy, jap silk, cut lengthways, reaching about half-way down the skirt. This takes the pressure when you sit or

bend.

Another good tip is to put small slikken hem round the skirts of frocks made of very soft materials, them such us angora, to prevent clinging to the calf of your leg.

Always line coals with a heavy silk to make them hang well.

Semetimes

material-the good rather woolly-looking sort-fluffy up and looka shabby when you've been wearing it for about a fort- night.. That needn't discourage you -wear It for another fortnight and you'll and it looks quite all right Again,

When buying Silk

of can apply some You

these rules 10 silks. Make up your mind whether you Want real silk or artificial. When you're buying silk handle it well. Real silk feels soft and warm in the hand, and has a faint squeak when you rub it together. It should hardly crense at all..

Rub it up in your fingers; if it's crisp and has a faint shine, you'll know that it's loaded, won't wash well.

There's an easy way of telling the quality of artificist slik: take a plece in your hands and pull it both ways. The threads should hardly move, and what movement! there is should be even.

Stuff that pulls badly one way will obviously stretch in wearing.

Lacy Milner

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Plan of life for a 3-MONTHS

BABY

|VENAGE weight at 12th week.

12 pounds; average height, 24 inches; average gain in weight per week, 6 ounces. DIET

Five feeda a day at four-hourly intervals. Usunt hours 6 n.m., 18 am.. 2 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. Quantity of food goes by baby's baby's weight. Give 21 times

Thus, 12 poundage in liquid ounces. pound baby requires 12 x 24-or 30 liquid ounces of food over fe nee feeds.

To make modified cow's milk for three-months old baby take, 11⁄2 Limes boiled milk to one of boiled water. To that add one level tea- spoonful of pure granulated sugar to each pound of weight. Thus for 12-pounds baby give: 18 ounces milk, 12 ounces water ant 12 level teu- spoonfuls of sugar,

Also needed: Three drops concen- trate. Ash liver oil and three tea- spoonfuls of diluted and sweetened orange or tomato juice. Give this during woking interval between 2 jp.m. und 6 p.m. feeds.

SLEEP.

OLD

Requires nineteen hours out of the Twenty-four. Should be awnite and not crying for at least two hours. CLOTHES

Three layers of fine wool or fine alk and wool materials not longer than 10 inches. Vest, simple pet- ticoat and down. Long woollen bootees and light woollen suit for out of doors. HYGIENE

Clothes should be washed every other day. Ten napkins during the twenty-four hours is the Average requirement.

FRESH AIR

Cold dry air is the most healthy for ny babies. Keep Indoors In worm but fully ventilated room dur- ing heavy rain or fog. EXERCISE

Should be allowed to kick with vest and pants on before bath time and during afternoon for twenty minutes, at least.

Have you ever tasted

CELERIAC?

The

NURSERY and the KITCHEN

By

Ambrose Heath

CARAH said: "I wonder how many

SAR mothers are always racking their

brains to find something specially ex- elting for the nursery; how to

dis- guise rice pudding or fapioca pudding and to make the chlidren's dishes niore interesting and amusing. I ex- pect most of 'em give it up after a bit (nnd go on disting up the same things day after day, Couldn't you Mr. help them with a few suggestionė, Heath?"

So this is what we selected together as a few tips. Tapioca Apples

100K three Lablespoonfuls of

large tapioen in plit of milk with a favouring of the yellow part of a lemon peel for 'three or four hours, using a double saucepan i possible.

Take, half a dozen medium-sized cooling apples, pare and care them and cut them in quarters, and stew them in a little syrup. When they and the tapioca are done, pul hall the taptoen in a reproof glass dish, then add half the apple, then the ather half of the taplóca, the other half of apple, and cover with a good nyer of apricot Jam. Put in the oven for 20 minutes, art it is ready.

Chocolate Junket

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DUT into a saucepan a pint of milk, two ounces of sugar, and a quarter of a pound grated chocolate, Stir this mixture over a low fre until it is luke-warm. and then add two tablespoonfuls of touch of rennel and If you like a vanilla essence. (If the chocolate is this out). vanilla-favoured, leave

Let the junket set in a glass dish, and decorate it perhaps with little blobs of whipped cream.

Caramel Rice

INTO a double saucepan put INTO

two ounces of Carolinn rice the intely with a pint of milk and grated rind of a lemon, and let it cook until all the milk is absorbed, which will take about two hours on a very slow fire. Then let it cool just a Hitle and add two beaten eggs and sugar lo taste.

Meanwhile have ready a caramel mixture, made by cooking two ounces of loaf sugar with about two table- spoonfuls of water until the sugar is a golden brown and not too dark. Roll this caramel round the sides and bottom of a tin dish so that it is coated all over and quite hard. Now put in the rice mixture, cover with a greased paper and steam gently for three- quarters of an hour. Then turn t

Tand picketed por un rabbit ASK your greengrocer about it. Celeriac is a root vegetable without and of ve

ple is minde

gout, too.

The pancakes сап be made (very thin) before the mical, and cach one rolled up and stuffed either with jam or fruit purec or

some of the mince-meat that may

be over from Christmas.

Keep

them hot in the oven and at the last moment powder them with Ane castor sugar or with icing supar and pass them quickly under the grill You may have a jam sauce or white wine sauce with them if you wish,

kay,

The cream cheese is made savoury by being beaten up be- forchand twich,

chopped parsley and a tiny fraction of very finely minced onion, or with a judicious addition of mixed herbs.

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If you want it cold, let the tin coul

a subtle flavour rather like velery, but it has the advantage of a little before you turn the mould out.

It is very good served with roast meat or Strawberries and Cream nover being stringy. chicken.

Brush and wash the roots (they cost about threepence each): peel them and cut up into fairly small pieces, not more than half pieces you will find, rather like the eyes-in potatoes. Soak the an inch thick. As you do this be careful to cut out the brownyones, about half a dozen, and put pieces for an hour in cold water.

or

Then put them into an enamel

earthenwore saucepan

Alled

with boiling water favoured with salt, and boil it they ате soft. which will take at least an hour. Then drain, preserving the water for soup.

or

Press the vegetable through a sleve with 白 wooden spoon vegetable presser. Put the celeriac back into the saucepan, keeping the flamme very low, add salt and pepper and quite a bit of butter to taste. Add as much creom ns you can spare, failing that milk or bechamel sauce.

The water celerine has been bolled in, with celery or onions or carrots, makes the foundation for n delicious soup.

4 Questions for Wives

What is the secret of making good wint sauce?

What are the essentials of a good larder?

How can you prevent baked custards from curdling or becoming watery?

4.

ANSWERest some uses for empty jam jars.

More mint than vinegar. Most people serve it the other way about. Be lavish with your mint and with the sugar, To sprinkle the mint with a little castor sugar helps the chopping.

2. Your larder should face north and must be directly ven- tilated from the outside air. It should be filled with a wire gauze window; shelves are best made of marble, stone, slate, or any other cold materia).

3. Place the piedish in which the custard is prepared in n baking tin quarter filled with cold water. If you bake the custard in this instead of directly on an oven shelf, it will not become watery or curdle.

4. The modern Jam jar with screw or patent top serves many good uses. The larger glass varlėties are ideal for stores of sugar, tea, coffee, rice; the smaller onca for herbs, seasonings, or for first Ald Items: bandages, safely pins, boracle crystals. A large stone jar will hold your supply of sodn or soap-flakes, or is a handy receptacle for floor cloths or brushes.

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WHAT! In winter-time? Here is an ingenious sub- stitute. Chop up some bananas, ripe them into a basin with a good cover

Ing of strawberry jam. Make a puree of them and spread in dish. Cover with a gill of whipped cream.

Two Leek Dishes Cold Chocolate Custard

Lecks au gratin

Cut up a pound and a half of the white part of some leeks In rounds about half an inch thick, and cook them for a quarter of an hour in boiling salted water. Drain them enre- fully and thoroughly, mix them with three-quarters of a pint of Bechamel Sauce, season them, put the lid on the pan, and let them cook gently for half an hour.

Then pour them into a shul- low @reproof dish, sprinkle over them some fine whlie breadcrumbs, dot them with butler, and let the dish brown in the oven for about twenty minutes.

Leek Salad

It is not generally known that leeks muke quite a good salad. For this small lecks should be used, and their white part only. But they should not be cut up just cooked whole in bolling salted water for half an hour.

They should then be drained, arranged in their dish when cold, and dressed with ordin- ary French dressing or a dress- ing or a dressing composed of oll and vinegar (three paris ell, one part vinegar), suit, pepper, and chopped capers, chives, chervil, and parsley.

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ALBROKEN DOWN SYSTEM. This is a conilislyn for disease) to which many namorare given bat law really understand, It is simply weakness-a break down as it ware, of the vital forces that surisin the system. No alter what may ba štucnoser (they are almost numberless), ším symptome are much the same; the more prominent belog sleeplessnese, KOBLE of prostration or weariness, depression i aphits and want of energy for all the ordinary affaire of it. Now, wast alone is essential in ench case is increased vitality-rigour, vitat Miremth and energy to throw off these merb'd feelings, and as night succeeds the day this more certainly secured by a dentse di, THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.

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DISSOLVE SİX

1

ounces

of chocolate in a pint and a half of milk, zweeten to taste, bring to the boil and boil for five minutes, being careful that it does not burn. Let it then gel practically cold and ndd the yolks at five eggs and the white of one beaten together. Butter

and a mould, pour in the mixture steam for an hour,

Turn out when it is cold, and de- corate it you like with splintered Serve Д cold blanched almonds. creamy chocolate sauce with it if you care to.

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