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For the

girl

with a good figure

TO-DAY'S illustration

shows an easily-made

· Summer frock cut on Princess lines. Now Prin- cess styles are smart and very much in the fashion picture this season, but I may as well say at the out- set that you need good figure to wear them effec- tively. If you've got a spare tyre above your waistbelt then this style is not for you.

Front

NLY

Sipeve

three sections Now stitch the centre-back are needed for this seam and make the six back frock. They are shown in the waistline

Stitch back and shoulder

.

the

Most young people to-day, diagram-front,

dart. however seem

scams, Stitch the to have good alcove. First cut out your side seams, leaving the left un- figures. Take a walk at luneh- fabric according to the lay-out der-arm open where directed. time down a City street teem- given in the illustrated guide Turn up the hem. ing with business girls; or that accompanies each pattern,

ing into their work-gates in the morning. You'll find that about nine out of

every ten have

Finish the underarm closing

notice young factory girls turn, and mark in the notches and either with a zipper or with a perforations with a soft pencil continuous lap of the fabric and on the wrong side of the fabric. press studs. Bind the neck Then stitch the seam that edge and short front opening. lissom figures, walk well and front. These centre front and

runs straight down the centre Add a hook and worked loop as

fastening at the neck edge. wear their clothes well. So I back seams, by the way, help Crease the top fullness of the feel that a Princess frock should the frock to hang well. Flared sleeves into three miniature in- skirts made this way don't tend Verted pleats and tack in posi- tion. Stitch the sleeve seams, set the

have wide appeal."

can make the

to ride up over the knees when bind the edges, then The one Angrave has illus- altting down in the way that sleeves into the armholes. trated takes only the following some flared skirts do. lengths of 36in. fabric: size 30

Wear a pretty scarf in some Then make the eight darts soft contrasting fabric, folded and 31 bust, 3 yards; size 32 that shape the front waistline over in front and with the ends and 33, 3% yards; size 34 and and bind the neckline slashes pulled through the slots. If sleeves and if you use a 54-inch 35, 31⁄4yards; size 36. 3% yards; will be pulled when the frock very narrow one in a colour to you will only need from 2% to size 38, 31 yards.

is ready to wear.

Pet to-day than ever before

EOPLE think more about

in history, and it isn't entirely fuss. We are fast reaching saturation point-a zone where population curve meets food supply with a question mark, and we have got to take stock.

YOU

same frock with long

through which the scarf ends you want to wear a belt get a fabric for the long-sleeved style JAM

match the scarf,

You need these Minerals

CALCIUM for-Strong bones. Proper nerve condition. REST SOURCES--Milk, Cheese. Edu There is usually a cause for fads Turnin

nip tops. Spinach, Cauliflowers. Beans Kale. in food. Present day "protectives" Nuts -

are leanings chemical make-up.

Professor C. C. Furnas, of Yale University, in collaboration with

evolution

or

point

2% yards.

table boilings and cunned conserves, for it is in the juices, peelings and outer leaves that mineral wealth is stored. Loss of blood from meat means loss of iron, so here

ugnin we revise our ideas.

"Civilisa tion has suffered immeasurably by

curse of

say the Fur- The purity

throwing away of the

не

the

nases.

is

20,"

but

MAKING

HINTS

an iron

Good teeth. Prevention of rickets outer coats of the cereals, the brown FRUIT for jam making should be

yolk, of the sugar, the outer green leaves

uniformly ripe, sound and fresh, Celery. Turnips of vegetables, the thick peelings of and, if home-grown, it is best picked arc Nature's warning for making PHOSPOURS for-Strong bones Good teeth, Buliding of body in which they are cooked, and the dew has risen.

fruits and vegetables and the water on a dry, sunny morning after the up on minerals. Bereft of the selec nasues, five faculties of our primitive an- Whole-grain cereals. Pens.

Prevention of rickets. BEST SOURCES-Ego volk.

Beans.

Cheese vital organs and blood of animals. cestors and renred on refined foods Chocolate.

Carrots. Spinach. Peanuts.

All These re

Make sure the fruit is free from Liver.

the principal reservoirs dust and dirt, and remove all stalks.. shorn of their natural vitality, there IORN for-Blood-making. Cell-building. BEST

of to the laboratory for Blood. Molasser (unrefined cane

minerals and SOUCES-Liver

vitamins. Make Harder fruits like apples and goose- sorghum). Whole-grain cereals, politely

usc of them

whenever you can berries may be washed before being Prunes. Apricots. Spinach. Oysters. Lean meat.

do Potatoes Lettuce.

Egg yolk. Asparagus.

preserved. meant to make food Jam is much more likely to burn COPPER for-Utilisation of tron by blood cells. BEST SOURCES-

Pintabl but over cooking starts in an enamelled pan, and so one of Mrs. S. M. Furnns (former instruc Liver. Shrimps. Oysters. Nuts. Leafy vegetables. Peas. Whole grain. ample,

trouble. Over-heated fat, for ex-copper, brass, or aluminium should tor of dietetics

LODINE for Proper functioning of thyroid gland. BEST SOURCES interni at Minnesota Uni-

brings decomposition and be used. Oysters. Shrimps. Clems, Sea fish. lodised salt. Vegetables grown on urge versity), presents the whole halr-

rebellion. The hair solt of good iodine content.

minimum cooking in limited always stir with a wooden one.

authors

Never use raising story in "Man,

Bread and

spoon, but Destiny" (Cassell and Company, 10s.

liquid and

vessels to save

Do Covered for we are taking more from d.), na illuminating volume on the the soll and returning less than any say. Handling on the torch of Dr. Patable, ent it raw and cat it all" scum itself being much thicker.

ON the populated future the the juices. "If it is sanitary and not begin skimining too soon, for it

autliors have much to

only froth that rises at first, the diet from prehistoric group has ever done for an extended thelot-the of Limes to present day, with accent on period of time. Already vegetables prophet, who stated "the problem of a

pre-vitamin

sound advice. French the problems of our time. Primed from some localities

For the present we are let off with

Stir carefully and almost con- are decidedly food is it with stimulating humour

ond below-par in such essentials as iron the way of collaboration via want." The "should" fems are the jam that is poured upon a cold plate

chution "First chemical one"--they

eat what You Unually while the fruit and sugar authoritative enthusiasm, it compels and calelum."

are bolling together. When a lttle attention.

min Isolation and food concentrates. tables and eggs. They should com- pouring into the

protective foods-milk, fruit, vegesels in a few minutes, it is ready for Calcium struggles are traditional Comment

Commenting on «CATURATION point," we even with savage tribes, when preg. of human digestion for concentrated per cent, of the menu.

on the incompatibility prise at least a third, preferably 40 learn, a stage on the nunt and nursing mothers often nutrition they add, "There is going

See that the for pots road to starvation, but malnutrition reduce unpalatable leafy foods to to be a shift in the nutritional cen-

ure warm and dry, and fill to within a quarter of is neur enough--we already know ashes for use as seasoning to keep tre of gravity-between the animal

I food plan for adequate

TERE Is the one-day adult an inch of the top. what it means. We either eat the pace with biological demands. Iron

and

When tying down the covers, Ors! plant worldà. wrong foods or Insufficient of the brings a similar tate.

Because they nutrition-2 servings of fresh fruit damp the string to prevent the knot right ones, and nowadays the right

products, enlly less expensive plant or juice, servings of leafy vege-aging, and when dry it will shrink not always what they soil goes deeper than a mere plying

modified for hu- tables (green or succulent), properly Naturally the mineral question for man need, will comprise an increas 1 serving of meat

SK8.

become proportion of our

(organs once a week) of chemicals. The close relationship

nutriment."

or cheese. One This mineral struggle the authors between soll, crop, and stock is in- centrales,

Well-we attribute to wo main causes the evitable. We are getting soil con- made

and the intest

table,

1 serving arrival, march of civilisation, in discarding sclous over here, and experiments ingredients, offers rich vitamin and

of grain cereal. from 16 selected vegetable Whole wheat bread and butter. primitive selection and simpler pre- have

been made on "Natural" Ines, mineral yields in very compact and vegetables,

Finish out with Additional leafy parations of food, and our own mis- such as the Indore process of green assimilable form. Leaders of pioneer or dried), additional whole cereals

cooked fruits irented solls.

(anned manuring, which converts animal expeditions and endurance tests find and whole wheat bread.. Root vege and vegetable wastes Into fertile these helpful as well as feeders of tables, rlee, macaront, etc. "It is not at all impossible that as.humus. Fertile years of depletion pass by, our foods aerate, and trap sunlight energy for

solls open but, families,

If you are still hungry and not will become more and more deficient valuable work on plant and unimal lot. In the section "Save the sets, sugar and candy,

Kitchen cults are responsible for overweight-Pastries und rich des-ind. Then cream together 1 oz. in the necessary traces of minerals nutrition.

Juices,"

oncs иге seem.

COPIES: OF

PHOTOGRAPHS

by "Staff Photographer” appearing in the

"SOUTH CHINA MORNING POSṬ”

and

"THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH”

may be purchased at the Business Offico

"The Hongkong Telegraph"

Morning Post Building, Wyndham Straet.

already deal in con- (whole), I serving of sto. Pint milk!

we are reminded

of the

Washing Tips

vege-

Q. G. T.

FRENCH PANCAKES

staty

REASE twelve small, dat, round butter and 1 oz, custor stigar, and ANN MARVEL beat in the yoke of an egg along.

with 4 oz. flour. Add another Then the washing is put straight and the juice of half

joz. flour along with 12 through the wringer and rinsed.

Then

Jasily fold in white of bralen HAVING used to be rather a

AVING the laundry work done hold linen, there

. For fat articles, such as house-the mixture into the prepared tins.

the egg and pour are very useful Bake in a hot oven for about ten dimeult undertaking, but nowadays

rolier irons which do the work in a Turn on to a sugared paper, put a minutes, til well risen and brown. with the help of the excellent wash-twinkling. You can fron all sorts of little hot raspberry Jam on each, Ing machines, both large and small, other articles on them too, with a

and sandwich two rounds. together. which are obtainable, the problem Jittle practice.

B. M. indeed amplified,

*

*

The airing problem is sometimes of Hot water and senp powder or little difficult, unless you have an

BISCUIT RAREBIT Rules дго machine, and swished about to form water

Pind washing airing cupboard fixed over your hot HOT, sustaining, and tasty, biscult

raroult makes Д tank. But much may be dish after a long day when time and good supper

a lather.. Then the articles are ac achieved with the help of a slatted energy for lengthy preparation are ranged around the centre of the washer and the machine is set to alrer, suspended from the kitchen lacking.

work.

**

celling.

•

Dip plain cheese biscuits of the puffy or flaky variety in milk, ar- range them in a greased fireproof

Even hand-propelled machines re There are also airers which consist dish, and sprinkle them with grated quire but little energy nowadays, of a series of "spokes" for holding cheese. Pour over some thick while and the work is clean in about three the washing, and which fold up in sauce, sprinkle, with more cheese, to ten minutes, according to how quite a small space solled it is.

minutes.

and bake in a quick oven for ten

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