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Mary Grace chooses
THE
RIGHT HAT..
VERY season the fashion-
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mongers shake us out of a com- placent mood, and send rushing helter skelter through our wardrobe wondering why our clothes seem wrong. This time hats and winter coats are causing the trouble, especially coats.
The uniform shawl-like, soug Atting collars of the last few years have dis- appeared. Fur collars have faltened out. Revers are shoulder wide maybe, but the collar, as a collar. has narrowed oli to nearly nothing at the back.
It is only luxurious fox fur that enables us to snuggle down into the enveloping depths of a coat collar.
As we have lost those
face-traming
collars, hats will have to be considered angle, from
altogether different
an
In order to help you, my artist has demonstrated in the accompanying sketch three typical collar lines with their appropriate millinery.
You'll admire the sliver fox, lovely silver tips enhanced by the black density of the darker parts of the pelt. Velvet is its com- plement, so, in the hats now to be seen in the shops, we find soft pull-on beret or cap shapes in this attractive fabric that At closely to the head.
No air spaces, mark you, otherwise your collar will tip your hat forward or side- ways. It's the angle that counts, and the upward slant of the high front must not be spoilt.
There is an Eskimo touch about millin- cry trimmed with fox talls. The newest way is to wear them round the edge of a flat turban shape.
After town come country coats, with their loose casual lines, belted or unbelted to sult Individual tastes. Widespread revers, but collars narrow off towards the back and pull up closely into the neckline. Here, again, a style brimless at back is most comfortable.
All-round brims are allowed with flat or low, close fitting necks and collarless de- signs. Many of these no-collar models sport a tiny edging of a favourite pelt. The star turn of the season is Perslan lamb on black cloth and felt, and in the third llustration is shown a small flat collar with a hat designed to give the necessary width and height to the top part of the figure.
A fur so soft and supple as Persian lamb Is particularly amenable to hat trimming, and many spiral shapes wind upwards with felt and this favoured fur cunningly worked together.
Supply Par.
sion lambto
match the turn-down
collar trims
droped
felt hat.
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for your
FUR
COLLAR
Sky-high barel of black valve-a fitting companion for a soft, deep roll of silver fox.
Surprise Dish
AMERICAN CREAMED BEEF
DICE and fry three rashers of fat streaks bacon
in a saucepan. After they have cooked for three minutes, add 1tb. finely chopped (but nat minced) Taw #leak. Stir in one tablespoonful flour, and when it has browned add some milk, stirring all the time.
When the mixture has got to a porridgy con- sistency, season well and let it simmer for twenty minutes, then draw aside and break in a beaten em. Stir well together and pour the creamed beef on to squares of hot buttered toast.
This makes a delicious lunch dish for two prople. Serne with grilled or fried tomatoes.
HESTER VALENTINE
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Boys and girls have
feast-days in Japan
N
Clear-cut lino of a brown felt
offsols a leopard skin collar.
RANDOM
RECIPE
RAISED PIE CRUST
You
QU need 1lb. flour, 14 tea- spoonful salt (If not self- raising use only'14 teaspoonful baking powder). *
Bozs. fat (bacon fat, nut but- ier, or clarified dripping).
From Jozs, to 8 ozs, water (2 tablespoonfuls 1 ftuld 'oz.).
Four bolling water on fat or heat up water and fat.
Sleve flour and salt. Adð fat and water. Stir with a fork to form an castle dougli, Knead on floured board and leave, to enol. Knead again and roll out thinly.
One egg yolk may be added to liquid in place of loz. water
it liked. This crust is crisp, but does not break or crumble.
Next best thing
to keeping
a
cat
IF you are troubled by mice in your house, sprinkle essence of peppermint thing they detest-about their fa- vourite ground.
Block up their holes, too, with large corks dipped in water and cayenne pepper. That is more than a gentle hint. Subterfuge comes next. A mouse will risk anything for bacon rind, raw ment, tallow and fat of any kind, fresh, and tousted cheese. These tasty bits will attract them and lure them into the trap.
As far as possible handle traps with sticks, so that they Before resetting scald with boiling carry no human scent. water.
Ten to twenty mice can be caught in a night with, a trap that stands twelve inches high. Appetising food is placed behind iron bars and the front door left open.
Savoury Snapshots
In
SAVOURY_tonth seems to be A more in evidence these days
han the proverbial sweet one. any case savouries, especially quick- ly prepared ones, can "pep up" an dull meal when unex- otherwise pected guests call for lunch or dia-
ner.
Croutes a L'ivanhoe
Kome
bulter Toast and
rather thick bread enough to eut into the number of fingers required, allowing one for each person. Place a boned sardine on each) And make hot in a quick oven,
this Cover with cheese cream. For alice thinly about two and a half ounces of cheddar cheese and put it in a slowpan) with Ewo tablespoonfuls of cream or of madr tinned inilk, a teaspoonful mustard and plenty of pepper. Stir over the fire il smooth without bolang.
Pour over the fingers, pap under a hot; gri for a few seconds and add a touch of coralline pepper. This amount of cheese cream is enough for six to eight fingers, and makes quite a good savoury without the sardines.
tiam Croutes
Add two ounces of chopped cooked ham to the cheese cream given above, and pile on to buttered toast, or rounds or hagern
with of tried bread. Garnish parsley, finely chopped if you have time. Beetroot Cosen
Cut cooked bootroot into length of about two inches, stamp out with a fluted cutter and then again with a smaller plain one, as to make hollow casen, I Replace small pieces in the bottom and A up with shrimps or any cooked white fint; and a little mayonnaise. Small cres would serve as garnish, splaying jauntily out of each case, roughly shredded cucumber.
Savoury Biscuits
of
some
Butler sone cheese_biaculis and spread with erem cheese. Place some chopped olive in the centre, and dust lightly round the cage with coraline proper. Or in
and stead of cheese, use fish paste, garnish with chopped olive and chopped hard-boiled egg. You can, of course, una
Margery Fyvle
Trick With A Thimble buttered brown bread instead of bisculta,
SOME of the most perplex-
ing parlour tricks сат
be done without any elaborate ap-
paratus.
of them.
The thimble trick one
This is how It's done.
Put a thin piece of cloth over the
Devonshire Omelet
YOU must have heard people iny all the things out in front of forefinger of your left hand. Slip a multe this on Y talking a
dolla. the
When everything
is thimble
over
tils. Take off the
lot about Japan ready, the girls put on their best cloth-und the thimble is stil on Intely. Do you eyer, wonder clothes and call upon each other and your finger. about Japanese children, how receive their friends, they are treated, and what sort
of holidays they have?
As a matter of fact, the children's
festivals in Japan are red-letter
two
omelet, prol, core. lurge cooking apples. Put them into a pan with three tablespoonfuls water and two tablespoonfula caster sugar and cook until they become a soft pulp. The explanation is that there are two thimbles. One is slipped over
Then add halt an ounce butter, tablespoonfuls powdered ma- THE Feast of Flags is the your finger and kept hidden in the
earouns, the beaten yolks of three boys' red-letter day; that closed hand. The cloth is adjusted eggs, and enough powdered cinnu- days. Every year the Festival of is held every year on May 5.
and the other thimble placed over mon to flavour the whole agreeably. the Dolls is held on March.3. This On that day the streets and festival has been held for 1,400 houses are decorated with flags, and the first one. As the cloth is taken fold in the ally-beaten whites of yours, and in every household where every boy is given tiny figures of off the top thimble is carried away there are girls the dolls which have the great national heroes. Ancient belonged to the family for genera- spears, swords, and bows and ar- with it and the other remains. tions are all brought out and set up rows, which have been handed down in the different families from one In a special room,
Then-the-girls-mako čaker, cook generation of boys to another, are of the thimble in the cloth without rice, and, brew a sweet wine, and brought out and displayed.
any one seeing it,
Mix all well together and lastly
the eggs. Pour the mixture into a well-buttered ple-dish, dredge the
top with caster sugar, and bake in
If you are clever you can dipose hot oven for shout 20 minutes till
Directly a mouse enters, this door shuts automatically; and he has to race up a metal tunnel, only to drop fatally into a tank of water beneath. The force of his fall opens the trap doors again.
Poisons that make a mouse dle in agony are not only cruel but dan- gerous, because household pets are not_immune. But there's a kinder balted vermin poste."
te which dogs-and- cals will rarely touch.
It
ол
is spread rather thickly small pieces of fish, Inrd, dripping or Butler. To safeguard your pets. have all traces of the poison and all vermin found dead removed first thing in the morning.
Safety-first Method
COLONIES of mice can be
wiped out by another safety first destroyer that is harm- less to any form of life except rats and mice.
These creatures eat and love it, the but later, having passed on effects GI it to friends and relatives, they crave for fresh air and water. Thus nice by the score perish far away from the house and as pain- lessly as possible,
Authorities declare that mice will often plague certain districts, leav Ing others alone. Owners of new Rats, offices and estates in speelal areas are consequently call- ing in vermin "death squads."
these
The men work on a yearly con- tract if necessary, coming weekly at First, and then once a month.
as
A small Bat or house can be en- tirely rid of pests for as little two guineas. But if you and the mouse family have the same taste in residential districts a yearly con- tract may be needed.
This way your home can be kept olber free of mien, Fats and any household pests for as little as five quinens a year.
EMPRESS INDIVIDUAL WAYE
EXPERT OFERATORS
1st Floor Exchange Bldg. Phone 12509.
Marie's
It is nicely pulled up and lightly BEAUTY CHOPPE
frowned.
RM.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Monday, JanuARY 10, 1937.
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is filled with regret each time she looks into the mirror, regret that her face is drawn and sallow, her lips and cheeks are pale, her eyes Jack lustre, and her figure is thin and angular. Moreover, the anaemic girl suffers from headaches, is quickly tired even
after taking
light exercise, and sometimes she is on the verge of despale when the various treatments she has taken have failed to do her good,
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