1938-05-28 — Page 2

HOW TO FACE SUMMER WITH Blouses

A FRESH, BRIGHT LOOK Treatments For Tired Women:

LIVE cosmetica

Rose - Pink

Make-Up:

a healthy foundation. Toning-up treatments that make for freshness, clear skins and bright hair are described m detail by Jane Gordon, who says women need not have the fired look that la destructive to beauty.

Your Guests Should Like These Meringues

Ingredients: 4 egg whites, Box. castor suger, few drops colouring and flavouring as required, sweet ened whipped

cream, fruits, nuts, icecream or sauces as desired.

Method: Whisk the egg whites to a very stiff froth, very gradually add two-thirds of the sugar, and continue whisking til mixture holds its shape, add flavouring and colour- ing as required, then fold in the

with remaining

Shape sugar.

meringue dessertspoon

force

oiled, through a bag and tube to thick greaseproof paper on a baking tray or board. Bake very slowly for 60 to 30 minutes till firmly cooked and the meringue readily leaves the The meringue may be served paper. plain 05 Joined with sweetened flavoured whipped cream just before serving.

Meringues Glacen-Bake mein- gue os previously on a wet board covered with greaseproof paper and when cooked crush the centre or remove the soft centre with a spoon, leaving meringue In Oven to thoroughly dry. When cold full one with ice cream, cover with a second

und meringue

with serve

fresh crushed strawberries or chocolate or other suitable sauce.

Nut Meringues--Add blanched chopped almonds, Brazil nuts, pen- nuts or assorted nuts to meringue mixture before shaping and baking as previously described, Finely chopped dates, chopped crystallised cherries or other fruits may be odd- ed as desired,

Cocoanut Meringues—Add 1 cup

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GREAT many things en spoil good looks and WORTH'S

Kreatest beauty, but her

enemy is redness. [C

took anyone

the trouble to work the statisties I be- lieve it would be found that more than 90 per cent. of women who live or work in large towns suffer, to a certain

from chronie Uredness.

extent,

Next time you walk down crowded street or find yourself in

during the 'bus, or a little

rush hours, look at the women and you will probably be shocked by the realisation that almost every one of them is without any nuturul colour in her cheeks, that her eyes have no sparkle, that many have very dark shadows under the eyes, and that most of the women's shoulders droop from fatigue.

CHRONIC TIKEDNESS

Work is not responsible for this chronic tiredness. Even long hours

I'

Newest In Blouses

to

you want a very special blouse for your brund new suit, you will search for a material which is original,

harmony though In colour and design you are wearing.

You might

have sleeved blouse cut from woven with

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In

the

costume

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Ray, short- Jacquard horse-and-jocked

in

design.

New printed crepe-de-chines glow with unusual square designs bright colours.

San-toy, showing a very simple criss-cross pattern of brown, pink, navy on white, or black, IN crease-resisting and something quite

or

new.

Buttons Vogue

of desiccated cocoanut with the final O-DAY'S buttons vogue is not

addition of sugar and proceed us for TDA

merely decorative-the buttons

plain meringues.

Mushroom Meringues. — Shape plain meringue mixture through a bag and plain tube on greaseproof paper over a wet board, forming small rounds the size of mushroom caps. Sprinkle with powdered chocolate. Form short lengths through plain tube to resemble mushroom stalks. Bake slowly, ind when cold place the stalks on the caps.

IT APPOINTMDKY

really do fasten the new frocks.

Brightly coloured flowera make charming bultons on a novy coal- dress, which fastens over an under- skirt of gaily pleated silk.

Melon-coloured wool marocain is worn over a blue-and-white striped silk slip, and here the waist, and the wrists of the sleeves fasten with gilt leaf buttons.

Cotton reels are other novel but- tons

By JANE GORDON

mental or physical of strenuous work will not harm a healthy, happy

womon, but The womon whose

physical and nervous system is be-

become low par will

tired at the slightest provocation.

No matter how much or how

little money you may spend taking care of your personal appearance, it is money wasted unless you co- operate intelligently with the beauty treatments and provide the cosmetics with a healthy foundation,

IF

RIBBONS LEND COLOUR

London, May 7. divided, over the FASHION

flower question-some women still wear posies on all and every frock, and hat; but others, having hnd, perhaps, too much of the flower theme already, are banishing them entirely from their wardrobe.

Return To Fashion

NO

NOT since the "Naughty Nineties" has the blouse been featured so strongly in feminine wear as in this

The

Farin new of 1938. yenr fashions do more than Include the blouse us on article of attire; often whole ensembles have obviously been created around the central fea- ture of a particular bleuse. This is particularly true of jacket sults. Often the blouse strikes the keynote for the harmony of details and accessories.

The summer blouse is presented in great variety this season. In sheer linen, to accompany a severe talior- made costume, it may be as low-cut many an evening gown. Fine 10 your taste chiffon, lace, or tulle is used for the strictly tailored types of blouse. One specially attractive item is n shirt blouse In mousseline trimmed with lace, suitable for wear with aftemoon suit.

If you are, however, still flower-as minded give vent brilliantly.

Twisis of felt in musturtium colours make a fiat posy surrounded by bright green felt leaves.

primroses

The attractiveness of cut from silk with a dewy-surface

ensures their popularity.

you are one of these habitually tired women, try to diagnose the cause of the trouble and then

about sei

putting it right. Eat your food more slowly, chew each mouthful thoroughly And cnjoy every meal. If you are prone to colds and flu, take plenty of Vitamin R

Ribbons For

Colour

not re-

IBBON trimmings are

strleted to evening frocks. They day. A foods every

These include

also bring colour to day clothes, and carrots, the outer leaves of lettuce, sometimes they stiffen the brims of bananas, dates. toumtoes. green hats, the fronts of boleros and the stand-up collars on butter and asparagus, milk,

cag-edges of little

three-quarter coats. yolk. Lack of these foods is respon-

well-known dressmaker sible for lowered resistance to infec-

this season, chosen dark colours as tlun. A tendency towards anaemia the basic tones of her new models. enuses great tiredness, washed-out putting loops of bright red ribbons and circles under theat the points of V-necked navy blue complexion, eye--the diet should then include afternoon frocks.

She uiso suggests electrle blue velvet

hair-bandeau when her petunia Jumper-sult is

Vitamin C foods.

ribbon

neress

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These are oranges, lemons, grupe worn.

Orange ribbons streak fruit, tomatoes, and raw green vege- tables. Those who experience dif-new black silk pill-box, hat, and an Watteau hat narrow flculty in obtaining regular Internal a dark blue. cleanness need a high residuo alet white ribbons are an integral part

and

I have of the scheme. abdominal exercises. Just worked out a new chart dealing

with this problem.

If it is of interest

to you, send me a stamped and ad- dressed envelope.

SCALP MASSAGE

woman, you

Straight From Paris

that is carefully core-

Clever handwork and intricate de- tally add interest to many blouses. Miracles of hand-tucking, shirring, delicato smocking, button-tufting:

OF embroidery:

pleated. Kathered ruffes: rosettes, Jabots.

Buted,

traped plastrons. pierrot collars-all these Incidentals Kive variety to the new summer blousen. Paris is showing little Generally.

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suits and sturdy enthusiasm

Organdie, chiffon, washable cottons, and luce are the favoured materials,

New Crochet Styles

Irish crochet blouses are strongly featured for hot weather wear. They are equally at home with morning suits of

Ot tailored linen

more dressy afternoon modela. Usually these types are more or less simple, short-sleeved models with a tendency to be decollete. Decoration 19 ub. tained from lowered patterns.

Lingerle blouses trimmed with tiny vertical ruffles give a pleastog effect of lightness, They have low, round necks edged with mintature

rumes. For more mature women & plainer blouse of hundkerchief linen helps to make

mid- a charming stimmer outfit.

For young girls the note of inno- cence is strongly emphasised by such details s pulled sleeves andt

type of MART new dresses are achieving delicate, hemstitched yokes. If you are the nervous

should learn to relax and stop worrying. This is a matter of self-control. Lie down for half on hour during the day.

less.

#2 line

You see this fashionable effect in If you live black frock softly shirred across at home, take this rest after your the corsage so that many gathers D high neckline. Capelet lunch; If you work outside the homo, form take it when you get back, and im-sleeves on this frock are set well over the tops of the arms and, at shining half-hour by smearing skin food or anti-wrinkle the throat, appears o little frill of

If you have white organdie. cream over your face.

hair shampooed at a hair- your dresser's, treat yourself to a

prove

the

The same careful coreless line is

Sleeveless blouses of white silk pique are also featured. Their Reverity is often relieved by amusing bow trimming.

Among, the high-necked models frilly Jabot blouses ure seen most frequently. One type is done in organdie with (1 "pigeon-breast” Jabot embroidered or edged with

H. W.

tuce in another colour. course created in a Paris model frock in of scalp massage or high frequency. The satin bodice with

satin is mixed

Lage of vire.

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Summer beauty

ser-

which

the

wool. short

effect. The skirt

and very woman who is willing to sleeves are in one, the top of the ANY

spend on making herself at to bodice being gauged into a narrow face the spring should take advan-shoulder-yoke of black wool. A waist, the satin bodice ends in a awathed such part of this frock is as slim as Each woman should have her skin pillar, and entirely of the black diagnosed and the individual treat-wool. ment she requires decided upon and explained to her. Then her skin should be cleaned with cleansing eream. If the complexion is young and dry, one massuge cream is used, it older and ined a special anti- wrinkle

used, or if the ally ' medicnted

Is cream

complexion

Is

There

is another crcum for freckled, discoloured and weather- beaten

complexions. While the

treatment is in progress the client

should be taught the special mas- Aids digestion

sage movements and the treatment

explained to her so that she can do

ABAXE

It for herself at home. The correct Whitens the teeth

lotions are used, pads wrung out in

eye Jofion are placed over the eyes,

and a special lamp used on the face Sweetens the breath

for five minutes. Herbal skin tonic

is used and after the massage the

face is made up with special founda-

tion cream and the new make-up.

FLATTERING SHADE

ONLY

The client should then be given juts "Chiclets" bring

or bottles of preparations used, in-

cluding cleansing cream the correct these results massage cream, tonic, foundation, plus one special corrective prepara- ilon, according to the client's needs. which may be a muscle tightener, a redning lotion, anti-wrinkle lotion, sample of beauty grains, and pow der.

The new shade of rose-pink rouge and lipstick Batters a tired, pale face us no other colour con.

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Snacks On Toast

NEXT

TEXT to sandwiches, smali snacks of good things served on crisp toast make just about the quickest and most conveniently prepared food.

Tongue squares, for instance, are excellent. Toast some smali squares of bread (try never to make your toast snacks clumsi- ly large or otherwise dificult to handle), butter them well, and sprinkle with grated Par mesan cheese (or any other fairly dry cheese will do.) Chop up some cold longue and pile on

Season each square.

and garnish with chopped pars- ley. These are equally good, hot or cold, but there should be na medium statel

Here is another tasty snack. Slice

some tomatoes. Benson them well and arrange ол slices of toast-cover with grated cheese or a rarebit mix- ture and place under the grill until the cheese melts, bubbles, and runs down the sides of the tomato and toast. This is par- tlcularly good served with

bacon.

Grilled Sardines

Grilled sardines with a few drops of lemon juice and touch of horseradish make pretty good fare even if you have epicurean tastes. Place three of the small fish on each square of lightly buttered toast. Add your seasonnig, grill dis creetly, and serve right away.

This snack is full of flavour: -Spread a layer of peanut butter on some squares (rounds if you like) of toast. On this pince some slices of fried apple and top with pieces of fried, streaky bacon. Do serve every- body quickly so that this treat may be eaten whilst really hot. Four asparagus tips topping squares of toast afready de- corated with slices of hard- bolled

tzg make Inviting snacks. Serve hot with a little melted butter poured over, or cold with mayonnatac.

Two or three leaves of lettuce or endive dipped in well.. seasoned French dressing with. u layer of crushed egg yolk and tomato pulp mixed make an excellent toast sandwich.. Toast the bread on one side only and the contents will "elay put" much more con- veniently.

M. F.

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