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T

13

to

16 is difficult dress

HIRTEEN to sixteen-year- olds are very hard to dress, Length of leg makes them self-conscious.

They are beginning to feel.grown- up, and to take an interest in their clothes. They should have pretty ones, 'neither too young nor too old..

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FTS just as bad to be tricked.

IT'S

out with furs and flowers, fine silk stockings and high-heeled shoes.

Simplicity, good colours, youthful styles that have grown-up touches. These are the things the thirteen-to- sixteens want. Their school coats and hats and stockings make them tired of black and navy.

For daytime skirts and pull-overs of cardigans are excellent; so are woollen frveks. Stockings always cause much tribulation. Our thirteen-year-old is still in socks with turnovers, wool gen- erally, silk for parties.

The older girl has long stockings and a very small suspender belt Most days she has thin wool stockings thick country silk oned for occasions, a ner pair for parties.

She he just got her first long party frock. It is ankle length and made of ice- blues with a very full skirt. The bodice

and gathers down the

front with There is a

all bright red velvet buttons. close-fitting round collor, The sleeves are puffed.

HER

ITER shoes are red, with low heels, velvet cross-over lies, and she banda her hair back with red velvet. The thirteen-year-old has a brown hair band and brown dancing pumps.

They feel very grown-up about their bedtime rig-outs, for they have green wash- ing satin dressing-gowns and peach satin pyjamas,

Rose Marie Hodgson

WRONG

• This jouỶ. teen-year-old ts off to a grown-up party. She steps out in high-heel- ed shoes, has fancy gloves, silver fox, and orchids. Her hair is curled round her face, and she has an elabor- ete handbag.

WRONG

Fifteen-year-

the

the

old on the left is dres sed in expensive mou- se-coloured tweeds and straw hat wreathed by forget-me-nots, The other two

(on right) come off better. Sixteen-year-old ragian coat, bluish tweed, with skirt to match, and nigger brown pullover, nig vcr brown felt hat, same colour

Thirteen-year-old bright tan frock with

box pleats in

the

age

Velcour

RIGHT

child

Is Your

SHY?

alos;DERHAPS the solving of these two little family problems

Oranges and Lemons

THERE is no better time than the

present for putting plenty of oranges and lemons into the menu. Both fruits are rich in the vitamins in which the winter diet is poor.

Both are blood-purifying, and con- sequently germ-scaring.

To make orange pudding cream two ounces of sugar with four ounces of buller or margarine. Add the grated rinds and julee of two or- anges, four ounces of brend-crumbs, two ounces of flour sloved with a teaspoonful of baking powder,

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beaten egg, and very little milk, Mix well, steam the pudding for two hours in a greased basin, and БОГУС with marmalade-flavoured

sauce.

Orange Ple

A

Mix a tablespoonful of cornflour Ismoothly with a little cold, add

cup and a half of bolling milk, add a cup and a half of boiling milk and boll till smooth. Add to the mix- ture, when cool, the grated rinds and juice of two oranges, and two beaten

eggs. Line a ple-dish of plate with short-crust, brush it over with egg, and pour in the mixture. Bake first briskly, and then gently,,

till set.

Lemon Chocso

Wipe three lemons, grate the rind und squeeze the Juice. Add one pound of caster sugar, four ounces of butter, and melt gently. Then add three beaten eggs and cook in a dieuble bolfer til thick as honey. Pot and use as Alling for cheese

cakes or sponge sandwich.

make lemon meringue sleep four ounces of bread in hot milk and when soft beat up with the yolks of two ckas, two ounces each of butter and sugar: Put the mixture: into

dish lined with pastry and brushed with yolk of and bake, Arst briskly,

and

gently, till set. Cover with a meringue made of the egg-whites whisked till stift with an Junce of caster sugar and the juice of a lemon. Put in the oven till it is golden-brown.

II. W. S.

The

Quick Ways With

"Left-Overs

MINCE

INCE left-over pieces of white fish finely mix with a little white sauce, add seasonings, and bake the mixture in a pic-dish till hot through and browned.

Cold lamb makes a tasty hot-pot if sliced tomatoes are added and a

will liberal allowance of cooked chopped

be of use to the "Parents' Club." woollen ipped

My eldest daughter was dreadfully shy as a baby. Her front and pockets, we father and I never had any pleasure taking her out; she would

skirt, grey socks, tan shoes cry if any one looked at her, much less took hold of her. As the next baby showed similar signs, we racked our brains to try to

and hat.

RIGHT

liere is G thirteen-year-old po- ing to a school friend's party. Her frock made of golden brown corduroy. It is'a sim- pie princess style with round collar. Jour small pockets, and corduroy-covered but-

tons.

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jham Streat sen

find a cure.

When baby began to sit on the Both little girls disliked cheese, floor we used to prop two little but I hit upon the idea of making mirrors on a level with her and she "cheese toast."

would watch the reflection, und then,

when she could crawl, she used to I make ordinary cheese sand- go and talk to the "Ba-ba," as she wiches fairly thicky thick, and tonst called herself. Gradually she lost the outsides. French fashion. We her shyness and is now £t most have no trouble to get them to ent friendly little soul.

cheese now.

HE

Sunshine For Beauty

YEALTH and beauty go hand in Going a step further, the sun and hund. To-day that seems al- its stimulating effect are recognised most too obvious to siale, yet not as an excellent cure for blotches, until recent years has the age-old spois, and skin eruptions. Even und craft of beauty culture insisted en cases of nche and

eczema are

good health, fresh ale, and frequently cured by it when other

ness.dict as the essential founda- remedies have failed. Poor

com-

tions of beauty. Previously art was plexions recover In a marvellous almost opposed to Nature, so far as way. fernining beauty went.

If you try to cure open pores by Cosmetics, used since the days of sunbathing you should apply protec- the ancient Egyptians, covered up tive creams to counteract burning the natural skin. Even to our grand- and blistering of the skin, mothers, hair-dressing meant padding The sun also plays its part in and wiring and disguising the natural nourishing the skin. Feeding creams hair. To an earlier generation it are driven into the skin for better meant powdering R, too.

by being applied before you sit in To conform to the fashionable the sun than by older methods such canons of beauty the figure was for as putting them on at night or before centuries before our time pushed and your bath. pulled and squeezed about to

the

The back also benefits from sun- shape favoured at the time.

shine. Most of the frequent spols, Nothing shows the recent revolu- blotches, and bad texture of the skin tion ideas have undergone more than of the back are caused by a natural our modern cult of the sun. First sluggishness of the blood there. For we sought the sun for its health- this the root cause is that there are giving properties. Bodles like the few blood vessels in the back and National Association for the Preven that the muscles are thin there tion of Tuberculosis led the way in both facts which lessen the circula- urging upon the public the absolute tion that keeps the skin clear and necessity of fresh air and sunshine fresh-looking. from infancy upwards, in health and The sun sitmulates the back and in sickness.

therefore cures its particular troubles.

Now the sun has been promoted a Banish Goosefterh further stage. It is one of the most popular beauty, treatments of the

hour. Its rays are sought with the For similar reasons, the stimula-

same zeal that goes to the making ton of the sun's rays remedies

gooseflesh,

in cities they are beauty's "Public Enemy Number One," and nine out of ten of us have to combat them.

Stimulating the Skin

The pores of the

another trouble caused

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onions. I should only heated, not recooked,

be well

Colt mutton is good cut up very

small, cooked for a few minutes in white, onion, or parsley sauce, and served on toast.

Left-over greens made hot in little dripping or fried with mushed cold potatoes make a tasty dish,

Cooked beans, peas, and potatoes can be rubbed through a sieve and used

to make nourishing purees or served in white or tomato sauce on slices of toast.

Another way of dealing with a remnunt of steamed pudding, instead of reheating it in slices, is to crumble -it-odd-n-little-milk,-press-it-down. into an old greased cup, and re-steam It for about half an hour. It should be served with a good custard or white sauce.

IV. B.

QUERY

Mrs. J. W., Barnsley.

"A Mother," Perthshire, writen that she is worried about her lit- tle girl, aged eighteen months, who, when she cannot get what she wants, bangs' her head hard on the floor.

HEAD

banging and head rolling are quite common habits in young children. It does not mean that there is anything serious the matter, The cause, in nearly every case, is cars or from a digicult tooth.

They should be taken to their doctor so that he may examine their ears and teeth. It is most important that a doctor, and not the parent, should treat the car, as children's car drums can be cast- ly damaged.

Parents' Club Doctor

LOST HER FAT AND WON A HUSBAND

Reduced 43 lbs.-Looks

Years Younger

Any woman who succeeds in losing 43 lbs. of excess fat would naturally find herself to be more attractive to

"I am a dancer," she writes, "and

of appointment at beauty parlours, mainly by bad circulation.

One of the chief and newest sun

The feet also find sunshine cures is for open pores. These are one of the commonest of all come and invigorates them.

beauty treatment. It strengthens plexion troubles and one of the most annoying. To those of us who live Lying on the face sunbathing is her male friends. That was certainly

usually regarded a bn attitude the experience of Miss D.D. symbolical

carefree of complete indolence. But actually this favourite stitude on the sands does an im-

I put on weight so much I could not mense lot of good to the figure. It get work. I started to take Krus- is one of the best ways of toning up then, and found with the first bottle city dweller's the muscles of the stomach and I had reduced about 10 lbs. I per- three complexion gets clogged with grime, dlophragm, which are apt to get severed, and in Just over dirt, and make-up that has wilted in relaxed in the course of a sedentary months I was down to 8 st. 5 lbs., stuffy rooms, in

after being 10 st. 11 lbs. I have. the cffort to Bre. breathe, those pores which are second For the sake of health as well as Kruschen for anything. But best

work now and would not be without to the lungs in this function, beauty, do not, however, let the sun-all, since Kruschen cured my obesity, only

of become enlarged. The Uny muscles light make your skin harsh. The sun that control them stretch and weaken is apt to dry up the natural oila and, I feel quite sure this would never I have become engaged to be married, through their exertions. Open pores if that happens, the rays lose their have come to pass had it not been result. As the clogging matter be- effect. Moderation In sunbathing for Kruschen Salts. I am now 7 st. comes embedded in them, blackheads and the use of protective creams 10 lbs., and look years younger."-- come on the scene.

prevent this happening, wrong

(Mis) D.D. The effect of the rays of the run Exercises, whether done for the on the skin is to cause a deep stimu, sake of fitness alone or for allmming, Kruschen Salta do not reduce you lation of the skin and underlying pre best done in the open-air overnight. But taken regularly over Uissues. This stimulation enables the Strenuous exerclzo) is, however, | a period of time—with 'a: modified pores to throw oft tho" slogging best done in the indirect rays of the diet and genuo exercízo, half: a-tax- matter and, function normally again, son. The most satisfactory place to spoonful in a gines of hot water every "The-heelthy: 'peripiration caused by choose is one, where the rayscalant | morning; before, breakfat will take the heat of the mun helps on the goost oft ■ blank walkway unhealthy, Dell, and restore.

10. D. your Bgures to it knormu svedr

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1937.

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