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-how to keep

to keep (and

cool day & night

DRESSING to keep cool is easy enough in the country,

shorts or a cotton frock are the answer.

a town the problem needs more planning.

In

Here are a few rules as to general styles and cotours for clothes which will counteract the effect of stuffy offees and hot pavements.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1988

STYLES

tight at

First, avoid anything approaching a Sacrifice komfort to smartness and your heated looks and temper will give you away, for nothing is worso on hot day than that breathless feeling of being crammed into your clothes.

For that reason, a frock is always cooler than a blouse and skiri, however thin; a skirt is bound to clasp your waist.

Have the armholen of your frocks made wide, or set into the shoulder (a kimono sleeve is most comfortable of all); bodices should be loosely draped; skirts pleated and swinging., Shirtmaker feel gum- frocks look trim and mery: casual semi-sports frocks with tucked bodices and buttons up the front.

Blackcurrant Shortcake

flour.

41⁄2 ozs butter.

21⁄2 ozs of sugar.

1 yolk of exp

of ground almond«.

Ib black currants.

טו

Sugar

14 gills cream.

To make the shortenke beat the butter and sugar to a soft of cream. Work in the yolk egg. Add the flour and ground almonds. Work these in by hand. Divide the mixture into out into rounds, three. Roli prick well. Bake in moder- ate oven til golden brown. Allow to cool.

Mash the blackcurrants. Whip the cream. Add gill to the currants. Sweeten to taste. Arrange this mixture on two rounds of the shortcake. Build up the three rounds in layers. Deegrate with the remainder of

whipped cream the very cold.

Server

Nursery Fingers

pur 2 oz butter, 3 table

spoonfuls milk, and 5 ezs Barbados sugar into a saucepan. and dissolve them slowly.

Then bring to the boll, and bol till the mixture thickens, keeping it well stirred. Take it off the fire and continue to stir till it becomes quite cool.

Now dissolve oz grated

1n * 2 chocolate

teaspoonfuls milk, and then stir it into the mixture along with 2 ozs chop- ped almonds or walnuts.

Have ready seven sponge fingers, split them, and then sandwich then together again with a thick layer of the pre- pared mixture in between.

B. M.

Cookery Corner

M

ANY folk like the flavour

A sleeveless frock and no coat is not as cool as it sounds, berause

the sun beating down on your bare TAs won't improve them or your temper. A better idea is to wear short bolero with long a joose. sleeves over a short-sleeved frock,

Go all out for neat, sleek lines; avoid formal jewel- lery, nearves, bits of trimming that may Took fussy and Hurried, The new net Aloves would give your hands a chance to breathe.

of cucumber but cannot eat it in salads because it

doesn't agree with them.

To them I recommend cucumber ple, as this fresh favoured vegetable is much

when more digestible cooked. Hero is the recipe for this tempting summer dish:

Blice cucumber and two small onlons, and simmer in milk and water for twenty minutes. Melt a nut of bulter is a pan, stir in a dessertspoonful of cornflour, a pinch of salt and pepper, a tablespoonful of grated cheese, and pint milk. Bimmer and stir until the mixture thickens.

MATERIALS

The best choice for

a town frock is prob-

ably light, unloaded

k. Next come linens and coltens, | pique and light-

weight. foulard."

Sprinkle a pic-dial with bread- crumbs, then with grated cheese and again with more breadcrumbs, add the cucumber and enlen, then pour over the while sauce.

Sprinkle with more breadcrumbs and cheece, and lastly a little finely chopped parsley. Bake in a moder ate oven for twenty minutes. Regulo mark 4.

Tasty Fry

Another quickly prepared savoury la made with cucumber.

FTY aliced cucumber and onion in dripping until nicely browned, then drain and pass through a slevo. Put the mixture into a saucepan, add a knob of margarine, salt to

the trimmings-collar and cuffs per- haps-shculd be detachable Ind made in duplicate so that they can COLOURS A hot day maltes go on clean and crisp every day.

you long to go

out in clear, pastel colours. The If you don't wear navy or black, thought of a white dress attracts try dark green with white or brown you like a strawberry ice.

with pale yellow. Red may sound

But as you have probably proved, hot, but it is supposed to be sun- an hour or two in shops, buses or resisting. You may have noticed offices on a hot day and your light that Indian women often wear red frock is light no longer. The hot- suris

ter the day the more dust and dir! And n final hat-tip-If you line there is to cling to you.

the brim of a light straw hat with Actually, the coolest-looking com- a piece of dark material you will blue with find it shades your eyes and cools blantion of all is navy white trimmings. The frock must your appearance.

be a lightish navy; the really dark shade looks dead in the sun. And

CUCUMBER PIE

-& other green recipes

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taste and a pinch of cayenne. Str in four tablespoonfula brown gravy, thicken and serve with thin slices of lemon and finely chopped parsley,

Cucumber Mayonnaise

Delicious cold supper dish. Bilco this pecled clicumber and mix with minced ham, tongue or cold minced meat or chicken. Season

well with salt, pepper and a pinch of mustard: Pour over sufficient mayonnaise to cover, then sprinkle with finely chopped parsley.

Serve with polato crisps or rolls and butter. Cream cheese can be added, if liked.

Savoury Pickle

Cold meat with these pickles- that's good for supper.

feel and lica five cucumbers thinly, lay them on a dish and sprinkle with salt, a pinch of cloves and a pinch of mustard seed. Leave for 24 hours, ilten spread on a sleve and drain well (about five days)..

Place the cucumber in glass jars and cover with spiced vinegar mado by boiling a pint of vinegar with 10%.

Lucy Milner

By Mrs. Bardell

bruised ginger for ten minutes. Tie down closely.

The right-flavoured sauce adda zest to inny dishes. Here is an un- usual relish made with cuctimber. It will add a piquant flavour to a cut- let of cold salmon.

Simmer a small cucumber antil solt, then rub through a sieve when cold. Add two tablespoonfuls of white vinegar, atenspoonful of onlon juice and three tablespoonfuls of thick cream.

Mix well and serve sprinkled with chopped parsley,

Picnic Fare

A capital plenie dish.

·Be sure të 'hard boil some egga, then strain away the water and cover them with cold water. Then the shells will remove easily.

Sprinkle the eggs with salt and pepper, and Bghtly cover them with Glied butter, Then cover with thin alices of cucumber, and finally wrap in a small lettuce leaf. Serve with buttered rolls.

Tasty Sandwiches

Cool and refreshing are cucumber

sandwiches.

Remember to cut the bread thin. This applies to the cucumber, too. Thick slices will slip about.

A light sprinking of salt and pepper and a drop er two of salad cream are well worth adding to give them the finishing touch.

CANTON AGENTS

for the

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WM. FARMER & CO. VICTORIA HOTEL BUILDING.

SHAMEEN, CANTON. TEL. 13501.

drawn

by

ROBB

1 The child keeps coot on a hot summer night by wearing a white cotton pyjama suit bound! with blue. The loose jumper top

Sole Survivor

has a square neck, short sleeves Tells Of

alit up the sides, and hem slit to match. The tronsera · øre -three- quarter length, and bound with blue to match the binding on the jumper.

Gas Attack

Canton, Sept. 8.

Out of two battalions of 500 om- Her mother is also wearing n

cers and men cach that retook and pujama suit, but hera is built held two heights known as Chu- on pinafore lines. The back is cut chung and Tu in the Julchang sec- low shoulder strape button on in tor, Klongsi Province, only one ofll- frunt. It's made in light blue silk, cer, and he the commanding officer easy-fitting, with wide, bell-shaped of one battalion, is alive to tell the tale of the gas attack from which lega.

all the rest succumbed. Particulars In General Li Han-

13 Nightdress made of unloadedre contained

yun's report to General Yu Han-

white milk, with soft draped

bodice, ankle-length skirt slit up to now, the Kwanglung Generalissimo. the cca. Pale green ribbon shoulder straps cross at the back. Two pale green ribbons tie round

the waist in the bower.

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(Made in Sweden)

Addo-X is a new member of an old well-known family of adding machines and is built on the 10-key system.

WANG BROS. & CO.

Sole Agents:

10 Pottinger St.

Phone 2388O.

COUNT THE

As related in the account of the Waan Tung News Agency, the coun ter-attack which succeeded occurred

on the second of this month. Ал cast wind was blowing, carrying the noxious vupours

Chinese into the positiens, overcoming all in the front line. The promptitude with which reserves came up, they wearing gas masks, however, defented the pur- pose of the Japanese, and the on- coming waves of their troops were thrown burk and the heights both held,

Before the army doctors could get to his side, nearly every one who had breathed the polson gas was be- yond human aid. The few stretcher enses were too far gone too to pull through even with the best of trent- ment. Battalion lender Linng breathed some of the fumes, but he Is responding well to medical treat- ment.

Both of these battalions were from Kwangtung, part of the 134th Divi- sion commanded by General Wa Chan-chung. Three months back they were moved into Klangst from the East River district of Kwang- tung.

General Yee has telegraphically enquired the names and home ade dresses of the 1,000 fallen heroes. A sum of $600 will go to the familles of each. Few of the dead were veterans, but were men caught in the draft after the war started.

MISCELLANEOUS CARGO

The R.M.A. Delphinus, of Imperial Airways, which roached Hongkong

"Tell me, doctor

Are you sure? I can't believe that all this should have started: with a tiny cat on the finger! There must be some way of prevente ing such awful results Tell me, what ought I to do?*

The sinallest cut or scratch is enough for the germs of blood-poisoning to enter. There is only one way to prevent their invasion: they must be killed-at once. Dettol,' the Modern Antiseptic, can be applied im- mediately. Dettol' is gentle and tender on human tissues, non-poisonous and non-staining to the skin- yet death to gerius. Your chemist has 'Dettol

THE MODERN

DETTOL ANTISEPTIC

DETTOL

Reckitt & Sons Ltd. (Pharmaceutical Dept.), Hull and London, England, Agent-Imperial Chemical Industrics (China) Ltd., Hong Kong

Chiffers

beg to

announce

that there will be a

Very Great SALE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

September 9 & 10.

BEFORE REMOVING TO THEIR NEW SALONS

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Marina House, 19 Queen's Road C.

Tel. 24648.

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Need

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THE

on September 6 from Bangkok, STEAM LAUNDRY Co.

carried one of the most remarkably miscellaneous freight cargoes to be

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EVERYWHERE

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