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The bridesmaids chose gay garden colours-

ASHION experts com- mand. brides to obey by wedring white on their wedding day and the brides reply" I will."

So here comes the bride. Lovely in her all-white gown and flowing vell, with her attendants in their colourful dresses- perfect foil and background to the bridal cos- tumo.

This is a year of all-white brides, so the fashion dictators tell us. Both Worth and Lan- vin, famous French designers, favour a V-neck.

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Others prefer a square, or just a alight cowl at the throat. sultable style for the very young bride is a very full skirt Just renching to the toes, a bodice but- toning down the front and a small Peter Pan collar.

Wedding Gown

Summer brides will like to know these points, as all girls picture themselves in the role of the brides, and without headdress, volt and bouquet n wedding is robbed of much of its picturesque

array.

This article is devoted entirely -to-day to the wedding gowns of the bride and her bridesmaids. I have designed a wedding dress that also has a future.

Either dull faced supple jerseys or satins Boft brocade with a faint are suitable. pattern as well as moire, but these are not Buch

a practical proposition unless you choose a frock in a period or picture style.

The half figure sketched shows the latest style of wedding vella, although many brides prefer yards and yards of tulle.

Halo Headdress

A hulo henddress suite most typen of faces; thia can be built up to a becoming height with aprigs of orange blossoma,

A mob cap of net encircled with a wreath of Bowers or a posy are attractive alternatives.

When it comes to deciding your brideanaido" frocks, keep in front of your mind that they will have to be worn afterwards.

A delightful iden la to have each one in a different shade, especially if you live in a small town; a bevy of trocks all in the same colour at a local dance or party will stamp them brides- maids' frocks.

Tiered frocks of tulle with little puff serves In sweet-pen shades of blue, lavender and pink will look delightful, and If you need an intense vote ut colour introduce this into their bouquete. Taffeta frocks with pleating Introshined call

The Bride wore

WHITE

Short transparent

wedding vells arc

new for summer 10cddings.

The

pown you ace will be toorn after the honeymoon

dinner, dances and parties,

are

for Victorian posics. Apple green, azalea pink, Russian lac, cornflower blúc shindes that spring to my mind and are in keeping with this kind of bouquet.

Perhaps you are having youthful attendants, then choose frilled chiffoń or crisp tucked organ- dlc. They will make lovely party frocks Inter, and in lily of the valley green. cowalip yellow or

helt pink are delightfully fresh looking,

Many and long are the' arguments as to what the bridesmaids shall wear on their heads. Wreaths or little floral Juliet caps give an attrac- tive uniformity of style.

It is so much more difficult to find a hat that

is going to please everyone

A charming idea I noticed the other day was

n pony of flowers attached to a Uny skuli cap with velvet ribbons tying under the chin, For Future Wear

Reinember 100 that frocks can be decked up with ny Bowers at neck, sleeves and waist to

match the headdresses, or even as bracelets.

And now just a word on the future of the wed- ding gown. The wise bride will select a style so that by the removal of the cleeves, and after N visit to the dyern, it returns to circulation as a new evening dress for gay social happenings ahead.

Here's a Surprise Dish

LAM

CUTLETS IN ASPIC

CIMMER a little chopped mushroom, parsley, shallot and thyme in butter, being careful that the buster does not broum. Season some rather thin enticts and cook them very gently in the butter.

When they are well done put them to cool and press them between two dishes, Cut some red and green pickles into fancy slupes.

Mask each cutlet in a good white sauce in which a little gelatine has been dissolved, and decorate with the cut pickler.

Pour a thin layer of aśple jelly in a pan, and, when it has act Arm, lay in the cutlets. Add some more asple to set them firm. When this has rot add a third layer of aspic.

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Allow this to get quite firm, then cut out the cutlets and dish them up on a border of vegetables net in aspic.

Cold cooked pens of French beans can bà put in the centre.

Bits to

cut out

Safe Strainer

BUTTER muslin should be

MARY GRACE

Twist some stiff brown paper into rolls; put one roll down each side. und one down the back of the chair and they will keep the cover firmly in place.

Sparkling Gems

JEWELLERY

tets duirty much quicker than you soulded and dried before may realise. Try washing it with being used for straining, etc.. And, soapy water to which 10 or 15 drops by the way, if you want to strain of sal vointile have been added and egg white through quickly, just gather up the ends of the muslin and squeeze,

Tight Covers

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you will find it gets a new sparkle.

Table Tops

CHASED brasswork-such as

n Benores table is best

into the brass. When

Loffen work out of place rubbed

chairs cleaned with half } lemon well

it

and look untidy and crumpled. Try looks clean rinse with warm water, this simple way of keeping them dry, and polish well with a chamois

set.

leather

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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1988.

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What to do 'DETTOL'

on the Wedding Day

T

HE' marriage of his daughter creates a special duty for father. He escorts the bride to, the church.

On arrival she takes his right arm and they walk up the centre aisle, to join the waiting bride- groom at the chancel steps.

Mother comes into the pic- ture, too. She drives to church before her daughter and their guests,

During the ceremony she occupies a seat right in front, on the left of the centre nisle.

But before the ceremony is her busiest time. She attends to all details, such as sending out invitations, arranging menus, table decorations, and the dis- play of presents in the recop- tion room.

Busy Best Man

The best man is indispensable. Before the ceremony he must help the bridegroom to make ail arrangements.

Application for banns to be read, paying fees and car fares, securing the wedding ring and all docu- ments connected with the cere- mony,

During the ceremony he takes his place on the right of the bride- groom, taking care of his hat and gloves.

He must produce the ring nt the correct moment indicated by the clergyman. At the conclusion of the ceremony he escorts the chler bridesmaid to

the vestry, where they alyn the register.

Chief Bridesmaid

No less important than the best. man is the chief bridesmaid. She should be with her friend early on the wedding morning to help with alt details.

She then joins the other brides- maids and they drive to church well in advance of the bride.

When the bride arrives the pro- cession is formed, the attendants following the bride and her father up the aisle.

As the bride joins the bridegroom at the chancel steps the chief bridesmaid takes her place on the Aˇˇ!^^3^÷2ˇˇws bride's left, the other bridesmaids

GOOD NEIGHBOURS

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ANY of 129 have becn amused lately by the B.B.C. -spelling boca. They are new to most of us, although in the pioneering days in Canada and the United States they were a popular form of entertainment.

I sometimes think we might with advantage revive other forma of "Beca," for they express the real spirit of neighbourliness.

I have just read with pleasure a book by a Canadian author who, went West" with as a small girl, her family to settle on the rich farm lands.

Life would have been impossible - if people had not stood by each other in the night against snow, bad harvests, long distances, lonely prairies,

There were no shops, and no doctors within call.

It was not a question of minding one's own business, but of minding everybody else's business. When à young man was to set up housekeep- ing, there was a “Housebuilding Bec." All the young men in the district gave a day of their Inbour, felling trees, clearing a atte, and preparing the trunks to make the wooden walls.

The girls gathered at the house of the bride-to-be for a quilting party. All brought a contribution to the feast, which always wound up the “Bee.

At busy times, men went to cach other's farms for the threshing or women for jam-making.

Many hands made light work; every-

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grouped behind her,

She takes care of the bride's gloves and bouquet, and later helps her to adjust her vell, or renders

The Reception

one took a turn, and accepted help in any small service necessary. their turn. The author told how onen e weasel burrowed under the hen run ond killed all the hens which were to miso the chickens for the new farm. The following spring half dozen neighbours drove up, cach with a ten and la brood, to start the mother off again.

Once, when the writer's sister lay at death's door, a man staggered in through the snow, simply saylug, "I heard you had a sick child; I have a ittle knowledge of medicine, so I came along."

I had taken two days for him to

reach them,

We are all so self-suficient in these

day with shops round the corner, roads and busca, amusements ready made, that we forget to be neighbourly.

MINNIE PALLİSTER.

Now we come to the reception. Bride and bridegroom arrive first at the reception hall, followed by the bride's parents,

The bride's mother welcomes the Buests, who theu pass on to con- gratulate the happy couple.

The bridal pair alt together at the

principal table,

table, the bride on her husband's left.. On his right is the bride's mother, and on the bride's left her father.

There is no speelal rule for seat- ing the remainder of the guests, Butqid friends of the family and relatives of both families Join the party at the bridal table.

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