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You

must have

A Little Black Frock

because

-you can wear it on

hundred different days in a hundred different with short coats and long coats, with belts and sashes, with collars and scarves, with necklaces and bracelets... or just absolute-- ly plain. Men will always think you, well dressed, and toomen will envy you the different ouifits you have for every occasion. Here is the supe of frack: black wool marocain, high-waisted and moulded to the figure, quite plain at the back, slightly full in front. Neck is plain and cut high; sleeves are gathered in to just below the elbow. You can wear

THE HONGKONG

RY 18, 19383

OUT TO LUNCH with several strands of pastel- coloured pearls, two gold clips, and a long gold chain hung with gold shells. On one wrist a thick gold cable bracelet, on the other a bangle of twisted old gold and copper and a wide gold band.

BITS TO CUT OUT

Rules For Custard

WHEN making a boiled custard with eggs (two or three eggs-to-a-pint Fof milk), pour the beaten Teggs into warm milk, and not‡ the milk into the eggs. Then‡ put the mixture, with sugar: Ito taste, into a jug, stand in

a pan of boiling water overt the fire, and stir one way only Funtil it thickens. Don't let it boil. If you follow all these rules your custard will +not curdle.

To give the custard a special flavour (such as lemon), let the Emilk stand over a gentle fire with

chosen flavouring in it and+ the infuse for about twenty minutesi before you add the eggs.

Use Glue

to washi your own blankets add-F

IF you prefer

a little glue (a small teaspoonful) Í

to the rinsing water. It will giver Can extra sheen to the blanket andt

make it look like new.

Soft Chammy

your chamois soft

MAKE

leather pollsher

and pliable by adding olive oilt (hall

a dessertspoonful) to the rinsing water. Squeeze and hangt out to dry. When dry rub well

For Flouring

you flour your

fish

Dand liver on a plate? At better way is to put some flour int a paper bag and shake the sh

For liver gently in it.

It will be

covered evenly and you won't have to wash up a floury plate.

CANTON AGENTS

for

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Shameen, Canton. Tel. 13501.

TO THE OFFICE belled with a

wide band of emerald green crepe, closely draped, but held with a whole- bone at the back to keep its width, fasten- ing oft in a short frill.

TO A BRIDGE PARTY with a short sleeveless bolero made of coarse white lace. (Both boleros lace being stop-press

fashion news.)

and

́FOR A DAY'S SHOPPING with an astrakhan collar and belt and little peaked cap to match.

TO A WEDDING under a bright lamé wrist - langth coat, striped black, gold, and red, severely tailored and very smart.

TO A CINEMA with a bright magenta coloured corduroy jacket; quite short and simple, with turn- back revers and long straight sleevesi hung with two rows of tiny silver bells instead of buttons.

Mummy taste too

it's good

'OVALTINE

SURPRISE your Puss

last-minute

GUESTS

THERE are only two

things to do when your husband rings up on Mon- day night and announces-- not without a certain amount of sheepishness-that he'd like to bring home some friends for dinner. Either tell him to take This friends to the club and re- tire to bed with a book and a poached egg on a tray or buckle

to.

If you're a nice wife, of course, chopped parsley. you'll buckle to and make a rald on the store cupboard,

with some original

quick-to-make dishes

cover a threepenny bit, a pinch of The second course I suggest is an- other standby in our home as it is well -as tasty. It's Greasa the inside of a fireproof. economical in dish, Heat the butter in a pan, fry called-- the roes lightly, and then arrange

An original first course is difficult them attractively in the dish in Fricassee of Veal to produce at a moment's notice, but rows, one on top of the other. Add

here is one which I have found from the lemon, chopped parsley and THE Ingredients:- Ilb. of ple veal, a fairly wide experience, is а Erated shallot to the butter in the 1 small shalict, pint of white favourite with guests, It requires pan and heat for a few minutes, sauce, juice of a lemon, some button few ingredients, is quick to make. Pour over the roes and cook in a mushrooms, and 6 pieces of streaky and our "home-made” name for it quick oven for five minutes.

15-

Pimento-Pie

bacon.

The entire dinner can be prepared in well under an hour and will be Cut up the veal into small pieces, found to be particularly popular put them-into-a-saucepan with the shallot and some stock, and allow HE ingredients for a party of four with men.

to simmer for o good hour. Make a are: 4 hardboiled eggs, pint If you have not the staff or the white sauce with the stock, and then of white sauce flavoured with salt, money to return hospitality on the reheat the veal in the sauce, adding pepper, 1 oz. of parmesan cheese and some scale as your richer friends, the lemon juice. Place in an entree

a tablespoonful of economy cream, then choose a dinner that can be dish and garnish with rolls of bacon, and small tin of pimento.

partly prepared before the guests button mushrooms, and diamond Boil the eggs hard, cut them into arrive. Three courses is ample croutes of fried bread. thin slices and arrange them in a nowadays, providing thero is plenty Serve with nests of mashed gressed fireproof dish. Preparo the of each.

potatoes fried in breadcrumbs and white sauce, adding the cream and

Alled with a teaspoonful of spinach

Place

Fish is an expensive ilem on a

as a third

course a

and pour over the CBR menu, so those who wish for a fish a la creme. in a medium oven for ten course will welcome the speciality I suggest minutes. Meanwhile cut the pimento of our home, which costs about six sweet that can be prepared during into long strips about a quarter of pence for four people. We call it the afternoon.

an inch wide, and

before just

scrv-

arranged in chessboard fashion.

ing, decorate the ple with pimento

Mock Sole

Follow this course with cold roast TNGREDIENTS beef, sliced and arranged on a dish,

Pineapple Royale

are: 118,

of you will need: filleted herrings, breadcrumbs,

One ripe pine- apple, 1 gill of thick cream, · 1 garnished with watercress. Serve and tartare sauce. Cover the her- tablespoonful of therry or cointreau. with it potatoes baked in their

rings with breadcrumbs and fry in Cut the top off the pineapple and jackets and a winter salad.

fat as you would sole. Serve on a lay it on one side. Scoop out the Most men prefer a savoury to a fish tiiah, garnished with water Inside of the pino with a blunt kit-

chen sweet, and here is one which is a slices of lemon and parsley.

spoon, taking care not to little more exciting than the usual

The tartare sauce is simply mado damage the sides or base of the pine. sardine on toast. Its name is-

Chop the fruit very finely, add the yolks of two eggs quickly cream and sherry, and leave in a in a basin, adding slowly drops of basin in the refrigerator until Just before dinner is ready. Then put oll and vinegar until the basin con-

Baked Roes

as follows:

Beat

the

FOR four people you will need: tains enough sauce for the number back into the pine, place its top on Half a round of herring rocs, 1 of guests. Add one finely chopped and serve in a glass bowl filled with tablespoonful of lemon juice, 11⁄4 oz, gherkin and you have an excellent butter, enough grated shallot to tartare sauce.

COMMON SENSE TREATMENT

You must Remove the cause of: RHEUMATISM, PAINFUL JOINTS, LUMBAGO, SKIN COMPLAINTS,

ULCERS and SORES

BY PURIFYING THE BLOOD.

'Clarke's Blood Mixture is the surest way to health as it removes the CAUSE of the complaint from the blood and restores vigour and vitality.

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