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FRILLS. for the

FORTIES

HERE are many sit-by-the-firo Parties at this time of year, as

well as invitations out to an evening of bridge or music.

Mothers will do well not to leave the matter of a new fruck any longter, as in A few weeks' time they will be in the throes of spring preparations.

To-day I am concentrating on frocks for the woman of forty and over, who is on the plump side and wants to look aim and elegant.

In the first place, the slimming pro- portions of your gure depend on the style and trimming of the clothes you wear. It's not just a matter of choosing lines that go down. If one's figure is frankly outsize.

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A designor will deliberately soften the lines of a frock with a well-placed frill or two, knowing that with an angular woman corners will thus be rounded, while the same draped effect will take

riches off the fuller figure.

Fabrics, too, are a great factor in obtaining a slenderising effect. Non- patterned materials are

the best;

although small, carefully chosen designs

are quite silm looking.

I have selected two special designs

for the fuller figure. Both are easy-

to-make silmming designs.

A good tip to remember is to have your hat to match your frock if you When

are wearing it under a coat. you throw back or take off your wrap, the matching effect of hat and dress emphasises the lengthening line.

On the left, the model has a dis- tinctly slenderising effect, as will be seen by the deep V in the skirt. Frilled culls and jabot give light re- lief to the dress and would look nice mude in pastel georgette.

Of course, if you like a little glitter, you could buy a lamé coltar for this dress to give it a more glamorous note.

Shown on the right is a pattern cut with a straight panelled skir! back and front. A particularly at- Iractive collar with lang revers is used to trim the bodice. This will make an excellent best frock, and you have a good choice of fabrics.

Velvet is axurious-looking, but you have to be careful not to spet it. Maro- gain or soft, clinging crêpe materials are a more practical proposition,

Lunch Menu for

6 people

Crab Cocktail Mutton Cutlets

Creamed Potatoes

Green Peas

-Apricot-Rice.-

COCKTAIL.-Mix up together, a tablespoonful each of salad of, leetchup and Worcester sauce, a dessertspoonful of vinegar, a tablespoonful of chopped cucumber, and a dust of cayenne pepper and salt. Fill into six small glasses or plates with two or three pieces of tinned crab in each. Serve rolled brown and butter.

MEAT. Divide two pounds of chined best end neck of mutton Into cutlets, and bat out with a heavy knife. Pour about an ounce of oiled butter over, coat with breadcrumbs and fry till brown in two ounces of hot lard in a medium-sized saute pan. Arrange them overlapping on the potato down the centre of a dish with tinned peas at each sidd or all round. Pour gravp over made from trimmings of the meat friest, then simmered in cold water to covET.

SWEET.-Simmer four ounces of blanched rice in a pint of milk, two

Soft ruffles slim fitling linos, plain fabrics-taa- timo frocks for mother.

Good Cooking

By Mary

Grace

Why No Babies

By A Young Husband

YOUNG married people

of this age are subjected to a great deal of criticism by politicians, prominent members of the clergy, and others on their supposed

apathy towards having a family and its consequent result on the strength of the nation.

As one of them, I'venture to put forward that this slight on modern youth is too serious, in its implications to remain un- challenged by its victims.

To begin with, are these worried gentlemen not greatly responsible? Nearly every speech made by n prominent man contains references to his personal opinions on the pro- ximity of war. In most churches, sermons and prayers again bring home to us the depressing possibility of European conflagration.

Do these people, who take the question of war in its broadest sense --the safety or otherwise of the country as a whole-realise the very frightening and wholly personal insecurity this talk brings into a home where even the insecurity of one's job is a constant fear? War Widowa

To a young married couple with a child, barring the exceptional few, a large bank balance is an impoasi- bility. What future is there for a young wife whose husband is killed in war?

The Great War showed that, and is still showing it. At best she can hope for a small pension and an In- surance which is greatly reduceit, harely enough to keep herself in greatly reduced circumstances- certainly not enough to feed, clothe, and educate one or two children to the standard that is their right.

Many must think as we do-that War is inevitable, even if it be 20 years of, and the boy we have brought into the world will be blown out of it in his prime, dying the By Ambrose Heath widely-advertised "glorious death" that makes the words # sinful mockery.

COD STEAKS

THESE can make an admirable light dish and, believe

me, there are other ways than frying them. But if they must be fried, then try serving them. with fried onions and decorating them with lemon and gherking.

GRILLED

But do not

Some people prefer this fashion to frying. Cut them an inch and a half-thick, and first, if you like them more flavoursome, let them lie in a mixture of olive oil, lemon juice, chopped parsley, thyme, pepper and salt. But in any case, before you grill them, dip them in olive oli or melted butter, and grill them alowly on each side, basting with a little of the fat you use.

them until after they are grilled and serve them surmounted by a pat of anchovy of maltre d'hotel butter, the first being butter mixed with anchovy essence, and the second butter mixed with chopped parsley and lemon juice, Or serve a Tartare Sauce.

FOR THE

RECIPE

BOOK

HAM BAKE

scason

A LA BOULANGERE This is how you get them in a very famous Paris restaurant. Take a large steak from the middle of the Ash, put it into a shallow fireproot dish, surround it with quarter of raw potatoes and half-cooked button onlons. Season with salt and pepper, dot all over with butter (or smear

with more butter. When it is done, and serve in the same dish. sprinkle it with chopped parsley,

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Incentive What possible there be to create Life which must be so brutally destroyed?

The People's Power

How is it possible that the people will permit another war? What power they hold Without them Have war would cease to exist. they not yet been sufficiently educ ated to its horrors, Its incredible stupidity

Before long all this talk of im- pending evil, and the harrowing re- suits of modern warfare abroad, will produce a state of neurosis that will lead to another age of unfor tunate war babies, whose physical and mental disabilities will be the further target for remarks about a C3 nation.

Wearily we wonder if we shall ever be permitted to settle down and live in the security of peace, with

no

fear of separation and sudden death, to rear our families in hap- piness and with the knowledge that they will have their chance.

Admittedly there are some irres- ponsible, Insincere young people who are definitely in the minority-and

in all generations?

surely there have been similar casea

ounces of sugar, and a few drops of essence of lemon until it is tender and Take a slice of gammon about It with melted butter), and bake it nearly all the milk absorbed. Air in a beaten epp and put in a buttered) inch thick. Mix teaspoonful of made in the oven, basting it pretty often I prefer parties to parentage, but they border mould, cover with buttered paper and bake in a moderately hot oven for half an hour (Regulo mark No. 5). Turns out, and arrange apricots

210 mustard with a tablespoonful of (warmed up) from a small tin, overlapping, round the top, and pour ces caster sugar, and rub well into the the juice heated up, sweetened and flavoured with essence of lemon to ham, Put into a covered fireproof taste, and thickened with a heaped teaspoonful of cornflour. Sprinkle dish with about 1⁄2 pint of milk, and with blanched chopped pistachio nut,

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64117EAR wool next the

skin,"

W exhorted our grandmothers; and wisely, because wool regulates body temperatures, guarding against overheating as well as chilling.

Well grease & cocottes or ramekins, Melt 20. of butter until it ails, then

When choosing between two wools, add a teaspoonful of flour and blend well. Beat up 2 cogs with 2 table-rub the fibres between the fingers us spoonfuls of cream, add to the butter experts do, and choose the softest. and flour, and stir over a very low Strength is also important. Hold the

between finger heat. Add 30%. of prated cheddar wool tightly cheese, and stir again, but do not let thumb and strum

length. it boll or the eggs will curdle. Sea-

and

the tensioned

A good wool is elastic and should son with cayenne, put into the cocottes and put in oven (Regulo stand tight stretching while a strong

Mark 7) to brown.

LEMON SOUFFLE

wool will give quite a tuneful note.. Many wools lose their elasticity because they have been too tightly wound. Always Insert two fingers Makes delicious party sweet. under the winding strand and this Imported eggs can be used. Wipe 5gives a firm but soft ball. temons, and rub on them for, of Avold knots in your next jumper Tump sugar until all the yellow part in this way. Splice the ends to- of the lemons is on the sugar. feat gether by untwisting them about Ipt. of milk to boiling point, strain three inches and lay plys of the new on to 'beaten epp volks, then return | wool Inside the opened-out plys of to a double boiler with the sugar, the other. With a deft rub the ends and stir over a low heat until it are then fastened securely together. thickens. Do not let it boll Adid Neck-lines and cuff-lines of knit- 1oz. of melted gelatine and the juice ted garments often sag untidily of the lemons, and cool. When after their first washing. To keep nearly cold fold in the very stigly them trim stilch a matching piece whipped egg whites. Put into a glass of ribbon round the Insides and press dish, and when cold 'decorate with) with a warm iron. a border of whipped cream.

M. L. B.

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In any case, they have a better excuse now than ever before-cat, drink, and be merry, for to-morrow you may be blown to bits. So they

say.

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THE, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1988.

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