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DARK, CHIC SIMPLE

You

easy to make basic frack for one hundred and one

occasions

make it in dull black crepe, then

OU will probably agree that it is about time to start making something new for our autumn and winter wardrobe. So to-day's illustration shows a bolero-dress which I think will give excellent service for many months

to come.

If you've never tackled any dressmaking before this is the Lype of garment to start on-and this is the time of year to start, too, for the shorter evenings mean that many more hours are spent indoors. If you are an old hand at home dressmaking don't think this simple pattern is beneath your notice. It is the very thing on which to exercise your ingenuity in introducing some! touch of originality as far as trimmings and finish are concerned.

I suggest you make both gar- ments up in dull black crepe, for black is the most important foundation shade this season. It is a most adaptable fashion, marvellous for It provides a background for all sorts of ef- And fective colour contrasts. it always looks good.

If you are one of the few people who just can't wear black then choose some very dark- toned shade like purply black or scal brown, cither of which is an almost equally good foil for colour contrasts.

The dress itself, as you see from the smaller drawing, is short-sleeved. As such, you may say, not very practical for cold days. But the addition of 3d the bolero in matching fabric Facing transforms it into a useful long-

sleeved frock with the added ad- vantage that If you get hot in

the cinema or at a tea-fight you

can slip off the bolero and feel comfortable.

FROM the

dingrams

THESE THREE PATTERN SECTIONS MAKE THE FROCK

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One-

Pince

Piree

Froal

Back

shown you will gather where the spots and notches are that the dress is made from shown. And, believe me, this is three pattern sections only; one time well spent, for it means piece for the back, one for the you will get your darts, tucks front and a small section for and joinings exactly right. the front facing.

vary the

trimmings

Frock and bolero as shown or 39-inch contrast fabric, un- and will therefore give variety Thus cutting-out can't take take the following quantities of less you are size 42, when you to the look of the same frock. long; neither can the stitching 36in. crepe: size 30, 3% yards; will need 1⁄4 of a yard. and seaming. You will proba- nize 32, 4 yards; size 33, 34, 4%

bly spend most time in between yards; size 35, 36, 4 yards; these two processes putting in size 38, 40, 4 yards; size 42,

A girdle of dull sealing-

NOW for some sugges wax-red crepe and a composi

trim- tion clip (in some novelty

tions about

tailor's tacks or chalk marks 45 yards. Plus yard of 35 mings that are easily movable shape such

Tell Him He's Good!

A

SHORT time a bachelor

friend of mine, about By DALE

years old, became CARNEGIE

forty

me hope. That made me want to

him he had a fair for It.

as a bunch of grapès) dyed exactly the same tone of red. Red accents on black were a special feature of Creed's show and will be in the highlights of colour schemes this year,

a

self for the r time at a bridge A two-colour corded ribbon table. All because I was told I had belt as shown on the dress in the a natural flair for it and the game smaller drawing. Then short was made to seem cusy.

lengths of the same two ribbons could be gathered into tiny engaged, and his fiancee per-

SPEAKING of bridge reminds rosettes, mounted in a horizon- suaded him to take some improve."

me of Ely Culbertson. tal row of three or four on Culbertson's name A 4 house- belated dancing lessons.

hold word, yet he never would have narrow strip of book muslin and TELL a child, a husband, or made a profession out of the game safety-pinned in position at the The story of those dancing an employee that he is if a young woman hadn't assured throat, holding the two points of the front opening together. lessons is very interesting. stupid or dumb at a certain

thing, that he has no gift for in philosophy and sociology but he the two shades of a

In 1922 he tried to get a job teach- We're getting used to combining "The first teacher I engaged

fuchsia probably told me the truth. She it, and that he is doing it all couldn't. said I was all wrong: I would just wrong and you have destroyed Then he tried selling coal, and he flower, but they're still smart Jand will be for many months to have to forget everything and be- almost every incentive to try to failed at that..

Then he tried selling coffee, and [come. gin all over again," he told me. improve.

he failed at that, too. But use the opposite technique; "That took the heart out of me,

It never occurred to him in those Buy some silver tissue col- I had no incentive to go on. So be liberal with your encouragement; days to teach bridge. Ile was not laring about two inches wide,

make the thing seem easy to do: let only a poor card player, but he was cut, on the bias the other person know that you also very stubborn. *The next teacher mny have have faith in his ability to do it,

He asked so many questions. been lying; but 7 ilke it. She said that he has an undeveloped fair for and held so many postmortem nonchalantly that my dancing wan lt-and he will practise until the examinations that no one wanted a bit old-fashioned perhaps, but the dawn comes in nt the window in

to play with him. fundamentals were all right, and the order to excel.

quit,

Then he met o pretty

bridge

and tack it round the front edges and neck- line of the bolero so that it folds back in a long collar effect. År- range the ends so that they teacher, Josephine Dillon, fell in taper off into the rounded love and married her.

corners." Wear a very narrow For example. I recently spent the She noticed how carefully he silver kid belt on the frock. "The first teacher had discouraged week-end with Mr. and Mrs. analysed his cards and persuaded me by emphasising my mistakes. Thomas, and 1 was asked to sit in him that he was a potential genius This new teacher did the opposite, on a friendly bridge game.

at the card table. She kept praising the things I did Bridge? I? Oh, no! No! No! It was that encouragement right and minimising my errors.

atone, Culbertson told

assured me I wouldn't have any That is the technique that Lowell trouble learning a few new steps. Thomas uses,

You have a natural sense

Not me. I knew nothing about that

and

Make another girdle, this time of blue-green chiffon, and tuck a little matching length of chif-

It. No! No! Not Impossible! that caused him to make a profes-fon in the neckline. "Why, Dale, it is no trick at all," sion of bridge.

You could also make this two-

Lowell replied. "There is nothing So, if you want to change people piece up in black wool stock-

41You

resentment

of rhythm,” abo assured me. 'You really are a born dancer,"

to bridge except memory and judge without giving offence or arousing "That flattery was far from the ment.

inette. In this case you would truth, but, at any rate, I'm now a

once wrote a chapter on use encouragement. Make better dancer than I would have memory. Bridge will be easy for fault you want to correct scem easy wide. For trimmings choose the need from 2% to 3 yards, 54ins. been if the hadn't told me had a you."

to correct; make the thing you want, natural sense of rhythm.

And presto, almost before 1 real the other person to do s rm easy to leather, suede, or wool embrol- "That encouraged me. That gave ised what I was doing I found my do,

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WHY I HAVE NOT MARRIED

By A Bachelor of Thirty

UITE frankly, I should like to get I have reached on

Qmarried.

nge when I am rather tired of so- talled bachelor freedom and often find myself thinking about a home of my own, a wife, a baby and garden. But, equally frankly, I am Reared stiff of the average modern girl. She is so utterly elegant from head to toe and wears such an air of sophisticated smartness that would never dare ask her to marry an ordinary working chap like me and to take on the duties of an or« dinary wite nad mother.

I know that "polse" is reckoned nowadays as 11 feminine virtue second only to cleanliness, and I have the greatest admiration for the beautiful air of cool self-posses- ston that the, modern girl wears, but it is rather difficult for a wife- hunting bachelor to get behind the mask and find out what a girl is really like.

took one of my sister's friends out to dinner recently, and she was so intent on preserving an air of sophisticated detachment that she did not smile once, not really warm- ly and humanly, the whole evening. was like trying to entertain #

it

marble

the

the statue. I have not vaguest idea whether she enjoyed herself. "Thanks fearfully, she sald when I took

IL'S her home. been a marvellous evening."

nothing in her voice or

there was there

but

face that told me whether she meant

hnd

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it. At any rate, she certainly froze the first fine feelings of pleasure that her

undoubled prettiness aroused in me, which may, of course, have been her idea! She was

no clear impenetrable that I got impression about her or anything.

Then why oh why, does the average girl of 20 to 25 seem to think It is bad form to talk about anything that is not trivial or superficial? am not going to be so rash as to any that she is incapable of doing any- thing else. I have a younger sister whose brain is definitely more neute and penetrating than mine or my father's, and she is a pretty average specimen of young womanhood. Interesting and Entertaining

When she is at home she can talk most interestingly and entertainingly about almost any topic under the sun, but to hear her at our tennis club you would think she had not got two Ideas in her

In her pretty head. quite sure the devastatingly about bright and witty remarks clothes, and boyfriends, and Alms, which form the bulk of her couver- sation there, would be enough to any man oly matrimony it he

put

izad

ad not pierced the social mask.

sure that, if it were

I am

nocly fashionable to look

bored,

smart, and sophisticated, many bachelors would quickly take a header into matrimony--always providing.

of course, that someone would have us! But who could face 40 or 50 years of married life with girl who is, outwardly, blase and bored at 207 know that 1. personally, would gladly delight my nother's heart by settling down if only I could And a girl who did not look altogether too "precious" to do the washing-up.

Cooking Hints

To prevent fruit from boiling out of a pie, place a straw or paper funnel through a hole made in its centre.

Hub a piece of relery on the hunda after peeling onions, and it with en- tirely remove the odour.

When using an aluminium sauce- pan for boiling eggs, remember to add a few drops of vinegar to pro- vent the pan from discolouring.

Lemons that are not required for immediate use will keep fresh if stored in a bowl of cold water that is changed every other day. Wurm and

the fruit slightly before y

the Juleo will flow more

Before breaking eggs into a basin, rinse in cold water to prevent them clinging to the sides. When beating eggs for meringue, add a pinch of salt for it will considerably lighten your labour.

"After frying fish, fl the pan with wates and drop in a hot cinder, when af odour of cooking will be removed from the pan.

To ascertain if an egg is fresh or Blåte, hold it up to the light, when it will be fresh if quite clear, but have tiny black marks if otherwise. If your mincer is rusty, put in a lump of lard and after turning the handle, leave the mincer in a warm place. Pour boiling water through the mincer afterwards, and all rust will be removed.

It is a good idea to meit suel in the oven and stare in jars unul re- quired. Not only will it keep for a long me, and save the labour of choppinit, but it will be found easier to cut when treated in this way.

To prevent old potatoes from bo- coming discoloured when they are bulled, add a slice of lemon to the water.

Potatoes can be baked very quick- ly if Arst placed for a short time in salt boiling water, then dried, and placed in the even.

When cooking greens, ack a little vinegar to the water, for not only will it improve the colour, but li will also bring out the finvour.

Add a tablespoonful of fine cat- meal to an ordinary milk pudding, and it will make it delightfully creamy, apart from improving the flavour.

G. G. T.

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THE HONGKONO TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1938.

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