1938-06-07 — Page 2

"After

they've

said

Good

Night"

Sandra

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Tuesday, JUNE 7, 1938..

The

PICNIC Storme

POINTS Hongkong

always has pink

or blue pyjamas

She takes of her blue chiffon

evening frock and

BITS

Save Strain

Drown

hy

ROBB

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Suve

The

--puts on pink jamas and pink

kali dressing-gown.

CUT

OUT

Some Tasty Savouries

IBAD boxer, or eroulades, are

useful for plentes. A good sup-

ply can be made at once and stored in airtight Uns until required..

an inch Cut a state loaf into slices and a half thick, then divide into cubes measuring about three Inches square. Cut off all crusts and scoop out the centres, leaving crumb walis neh thick, and a crumb base half an inch

'ANDRA STORME has a favourite same thickness, Brush the boxes

SANDR

all over inside and out with melted butter, and bake in a hot oven till

hard and brown like rusks. Cool

wire tray.

ice blue chiffon evening gown that she designed herself, as she does all her clothes excepting dressing gowns, them of a

Any sort of ment, cheese, fish, egg, which she likes to pick up bargain-fruit, or vegetable filling can be used. hunting.

The best way is to take it in cartons and fill the bread-boxes on the spot.

empty,

The pleated bodice cut seductively in two parts is held up by a narrow band of since they are easier to pack when silver lame which makes straps over the shoulders and down to the tow back waist line.

"Yes, it looks good," agreed Sandra, "but you wouldn't know how uncomfortable it is when I sit

down."

halter-necked frucks. It pays you to do

well cone sitting down in them at fittings, as

to make standing up and walking around, they won't puil.

"When come in." says Sondri "I always w to make a cup of tea in the kitchen and talk over the party. So It's around two-thirty before 1 say my good-night."

A Hans Mixture

A ham mixture that can be cut into slices as required can also be packed into a carton, or small basin Miner no carton is available.

hom about three ounces of lean

nely, and work it into the same quantity of fresh butter, adding the THAT is always the difficulty with these yolk of a hardboiled egg and a dash

of pepper.

well, then Pound

arrange slayer at the bottom of the carton, sure placing allees of new potatoes about a quarter of an inch thick i top. Repeat these two layers until the carton is full, fishing with a layer it desired, the of the ham mixture, top can be decorated with rings of her the left-over egit white, pressed well

inte

the mixture to keep them in "It's pince,

New potatoes stuffed with grated cheese, minced meat, laked fish, or paste make good plente savouries when appetites are keen and diges- tions good. Boil the potatoes in their skins, then remove the skins, and that allow the potatoes to get quite cold.

out of the Scoop a small piece too-mitidle of each and the cavity into with the mixture chosen, smoothing

it dov

down to make it level with the potato. Pack the potatoes neatly into a square carton or tn.

baskets make Mustard-and-cress

Then she goes to her bedroom, takes ot frock. puts on her pink satin dressing-gown "I'm rather proud of this, says Sandra.

I like the length. are of my Bond-strrel bargains. It's a change to wear a dressing-gown that darsn't trail on the floor.

The waist is meant to be very tight stung, but I've not had time to take It In yet."

It's a practical dressing-gown because shurt sleeves and bodice alone are quilted, so It is warm without being bulky.

Sandra's slippers are white clipped wool cups on comfy sules, the kind you can walk and use in the bathroom without spoiling.

BE

the

EFORE going to bed Sandra brushes her

fair curly bobbed hair, goes twice

good containers for salads, which are over welcome adjuncts to plenic meals.

er face with a wad of cold-creamed cotton-won! Jellies, trides, and blancmanges, if to take off all make-up. (She

wears dark red they are firm enough, can be carried lipstick in the evenings, bright red in the daytime, in the half-rinds of oranges and blue eye shadow to bring out the bright blue of her rope frults. eyes.) Then she brushes her teeth.

Sandra's pylamas are made of pink crepe-de- Chine, short sleeved, beited and collared.

SS. on the breast pocket herself.

She sewn

tight Because I'm "I hate turning out the nervous," Sandra says, "so I always do odd jobs in my nalis. bed first. Alternate nights 1 manicure Dark red varnish is best because it goes with every colour truck."

Other nights Sanden writes letters, sews, readis Nut Coward plays in bed

"I wish he'd write some more, I've cnugis op with Bun now, and I've nothing to read," she com Platns.

crease

SAVOURYTM CUSTARDS

THEN a light nourishing dish is required for lunch or supper. try a savoury custard. Ham custard is a general favourite.

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Cheer Up Your Flowers

LOWERS, like their human owners, each have their favourite pick-me-up."

If your tulips are drooping just when you want them to look their best, be sure to have their spectat

ocktail at hand.

Aspirin is popular among a variety ot flowers, but tulips, roses, chry

und dahlias respond santhemums, especially well to it. Put a tablet in the water, and watch the flowers stand up like beacons a few moments later.

Carnations are partial to # very small pinch of boric acid, and u similar quantity of sugar, or soda, has a cheering effect upon daffodils and narcissi.

work

Fry an onton and four ounces of finely-cut ham and drain them. Bent

If you have none of these silmul- three eggs, add a pint of milk and

onts handy, and your table decora- the fried onion and ham. Add sen- isonings in taste and bake the custard tions look limp, try the effect of a Serve copper coin-a penny dropped Into in a moderate oven until set.

the water will sometimes in the dish or on buttered tonat.

Fish custard is particulary suitable wonders.

so flowers fulle Why do some Hours, salt, buking whenever the iron makes a

They

fresh may need

their stems power, Sud cream of tartar into a in the material the practice is to dip for invalids and children. Make the

four ounces of cooked while Bsh, water, a clean vise, Whisk the whites of eng up a tinger in a cup of water and smooth custard as before, this time adding quickly?

home-inely faked, and a little chopped re-cutting, or perhaps they have been standing in an overheated room It saves time if you use 34

parsley or watercress. as small a compass as possible when dry ingredients, adding a few drops

made sprinkle instead. Bore holes being washed. This prevents undue of essence at the last,

When thoroughly mixed, pour into in the lid of any metal screw-cop strain being put upon the threads.

an ungreased horder cake tin and bottle or Jar you can find and fill the ways. bake in a moderate oven for about bottle with water. forty-five minutes.

LACE OR NET CURTAINS basin.

wl last longer if kept in very stiffly, stir in the sugar and the the crease out-using both hands.

Parsley Preserve

PARSLEY will keep fresh for several days if you wrap it

in a damp cloth. It will keep much better this way than by placing it in water.

Anything Fishy?

Cheese custard can be made in two or in a draught. Either, or all, of Either cook it with salt and these reasons may account for their But if you are sure that all pepper, sprinkle grated cheese over state.

yet another cause for A bottle with a narrow neck, such the top, and toast under the grill, these things have been attended to,

Jangidness. as a lemon squash ar sauce bottle, in or add two ounces of naked cheese there better than n broad-necked sweet to the custard before cooking. bottle from which the sprinkle can-

ΤΡ TF you have no separate fry not be accurately directed.

The

pan for cooking fish only, sprinkler makes ré-ironing creases a wash the pan when done with and one-hand job. Wush it well in salted water rs1- then fill it with cold water to which hot for preference, as this tends to a tablespoonful of vinegar has been Strain Remover

added. keep a brighter green.

Angel Cake

Let it stand for a while and fish. odour wil vanish.

the

INGREDIENTS: 11⁄2oz corn- Time-saver

INGR

flour, pinch of salt, whites

of live eggs, little vanilla essence,

HE

EUCALYPTUS oil is a stain mark even on the must delicate

remover which leaves

no

materials, so it is best to try this, first always when in doubt.

When light or traglle material is ERE'S up that will save

you time when next you heing treated it is essential to use of tartar have to iron a dress or a blouse in a two or three clean pieces of rug ini

hurry before party. Ordinorily, ruccession unill the stain is out.

teaspoon of baking powder, 10%.

flour. teaspoon creum

fiozs, caster suger.

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VOLCANO ERUPTS

Filipino Leave Towns Near Mayon

Manila, June 0. Procnutions are being rushed to evacuate the inhabitants of 14 towns nt the font of Mount Mayon, B,274 feel high, a volcano in the province of Albay in Luzon Irland.

Buti Mixers

Some flowers are not good mixers and will droop quickly if they dis like their vase companions. Others are actually quarrelsome and will Cause their unwanted associates to dreop and die, so it is wiser to keep these particular blossoms by them- sciven.

Sweet peas, wallflowers, stocks, and Elles of the valley prefer their own company, and will soon fade if mixed with other flowers.

Mignonette should always "live alone, it is most antagonistic to other plants, and will do them harm, Roses will keep better if all are

Consider the little fods and fancies

The volcano, which is noted for of the same variety in one bowl,

perfect cone, is reported to be in of your flowers. They will more cruption, emitting dense clouds

its

smoke, fire and huge boulders.

of

than repay you with their fragrance

The town of Legaspi, which he and beauty. been endangered by the eruption, is

sald to have been practically desert-

ed.

Legaspi is 200 miles south-east of Manila, Refugee camps are being established for the homeless and the

authorities are taking. precautions

G. O, J.

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