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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY,

NOVEMBER 14, 1938.

an

HE tea-table needs THE

autumn and the fire- light. It is only a ghost of itself in summer. A wasp- infested ghost.

one

No takes it seriously then. A cup of tea is some- thing to be swallowed between games. But in autumn it be comes the game itself,

To play it at all well, one must at least be able to make ten. This is where a large number of players get

A

nice

of

cup

tea by

autumn fire

disqualified for a start.

And they ure not all beginners by any meatu.

TERE are the few simple HE

rules for making lea.

Heat the tempot with some hot water. Then pour off the water and thoroughly, dry the pot. Allow a heaped teaspoonful for each person, and an odd one for the pot,

Use water which has only just come to the boil. The surpris.ng but zontalematerin differrena jiwem two pots of tea made from exactly the

In

same ten is often due to a difference |

of bolling. Long-bolled times water simply does not work.

Let the tea infuse for at least four m.nutes.

car

Do not allow your kettle to get furred. For a few pence you buy little fur-collecting gadgets to put into the kettle,

After tea, rinse out the pot and dry it thoroughly.

BITS TO

CUT OUT

Marrow Slices

turned into an excellent

quarter of an inch

"My Hair Is Up...!"

FOLLOWING FASHION'S TREND

FTER weeks of patience and expensive and their most amusing A

persaverance and not a litue liais. They azzured me, wath m pain to my arm muscles-I thought courege was waning, that I looke

had mastered it. My hair, I intan. periectly right, so smart, so ultra- I tried it again this morning, and, chie behold, it went up, right on top in

And so they sent me out into the Howardian style, according in world, with the hat to match the fashion's decree, and with next to no hair and the heart that was anking ends to smooth flat with brilliantine, Tw.cs I had to dive for window and the curls pinned high wntre i mirrors, just to make sure; w used to have a plain, sizex parting.

had to do things to the vel in clook- rooms beneath the piercing eyes D. other women in more civis

civilised hats and more civilised coiffures,

The first friend i mat frankly raped, "It's smart, dear, but a bit endy. Perhaps in a week or two..." I dodged into a shop door to avoi the next friend and went suddenly blind and deaf when an acquaint- ance appeared on the sky line. 1 knew what she'd say in Le bus go- ing home:-"My dear, who do you think I saw in town wearing one o

hair those crazy hats, with her drawn up like a grandmother'a?"

To say I felt triumphant was shocking understatement. At last 1 looked ike those women in dress advertistments. I felt ready for every Edwardian hat that was ever crtaccu, ever hold-on dodge, like combs all-over-the-face vell, every ipped through hat crowns and in- Visible elastic nets.

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Men

do

and

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With my ears and nape of neck all xposed I felt a bit cnuy, bu i maue up my face cunningy went downstairs.

"How

like you

it-rather Madame Recamier don't you think?" I suggested to a startled husband. So. right in fece of the trame ! I suppose you women must keep dived for the early bus and found t different corner anat. That rush dd it. in changing yourselves into people," he sald, laughing good the dark window I could see humouredly.

whiskers of hair falling loose from

"KODE to the elastic and the brillantine. nre getting resigned fashion, even string fashions like could see the other women's eyes and Edwardian heads and Victorian mouths crooked

ked in a smile. I could figures.

feel the hat slipping and my cheeky getting redder and redder avery moment, until I arrived homo remembered what 1 had read only the day before: "Women are tiring: of the Edwardian coiffure, and are

It for more practica fortaking styles."

It did not take a long time to brush my hair down again!

Choosing a Hat

I went shopping in town. Miracul- ously, the hair stayed "put." Or did it? I felt people staring at me in the bus, and one rudo little boy giggled, But the girls in the hat shop were more than polite. They salled out to meet me like a convoy at sea. They produced their most

Knitting Hints

cela)

and

Anne Blythe

RECOMMENDATIONS

AVOID THESE PITFALLS

THE most beautifully knitted far- PECOMMENDATIONS to friends!

lightly? you have

ment, executed in perfect taste, Is it a sore subject or can it be will stand no chance if the finishing touched on

in this unprofitable touches are not beyond reproach. ever dabbled Here are some useful points to watch sport, you will no doubt have realised its pitfalls and become a trife em- bittered. in your knitting.

The Inexorable law of the boome-

First of all, start with a profes-rang applies here as elsewhere. Re- sional touch straight away by ksit-ommendations, even the best Inten- ting into the backs of the cast-entioned ones, have an unhappy knack stitches with a pair of needles thre. of returning to you and giving you a

nasty jar. sizes larger than those you will use

Some friends are nice about it, to knit the jumper Itself. This gives and do not actually blame

you when anu a firm and specially strong found something you have recommended to them turns out don, but certainly your stock goes down and their ap- preciation of your intelligence is avining but complimentary.

tion.

Can you make a really neat jon in your work which does not ental.

Take the simple matter of a book. In a chutty moment you tell some- VERY small marrows can be any finishing off and defies detec- Lion?

one that such and such a book is NOW these rules are all very vegetable by cutting roundwise in No well If you have the rigasilces about a

Try this method. Take one of the very readable, absorbingly interes!- tea and the right water. But large

on your friend's library list. Goodl numbers of peopis pass their whole think and simmering gently until ends to be joined and thread througing to the last page. Down it goes I nearly done. Then strain and fry in a darning needle. Then insert the But the sequel is not so good. For lives without tasting a really good butter. There is no need to peel the needle down the middle of the other future inquiry reveals the regrettable -up of tea because they have never marrows unless the skin has grown length of wool to be joined pushing fact that your friend found the book realised that they are using a tea really tough.

it down for at least three inches and very heavy roing, in fact amazing- which does not agree with the water

ly dull. Politely Incredulous Proserver

drawing it right through and out of osculates of their district.

On your odd taste in a pity, because quite

leaves Thla ser:s

you feeling IF you have been giving your the wool, sipping the thread close literature, nexpensive teas can be bought

nails a rest from varnish to the place the needle emergid. which are specially blended to suit even if only overnight-wipe a

meult sorts of water,

little varnish remover over them be- Gently pull both sides of the wool Differing Tattes fore varnishing them again. It will outwards until the two ends are

not peel.

and

very small.

she

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trouble is not then stay on much longer, and will mingled together, and give a na. supper, dish from a recipe you have Corporation, Ltd.

Hard, chalky water is the worst offender, and the entirely overcome by getting the right ten. The technique of making it becomes a trifle different.

Fit is made according to the rules laid down above, must be allowed to infuse for six ninutes to get the right flavour.

Another way of making tea with hard water is to pour the boiling water into the pot first and then sprinkle the tea on to it, allowing it

o infuse for seven minutes.

The whole point of this method is hat the chalky deposit gets a chance o sink to the bottom before the tea comes into contact with the water.

Luncheon Sweet

HE season's cooking applcs

THE are coming in again, and

De-

Again, if you recommend a tasty twist with the fingers to make the acquired, will it earn you a hnto? join perfectly smooth...

No! Your friend's murmurings abeul high standards in epoking accom- Here is another method, equallypanied by raised eyebrows, will at a dish of them baked will make a effective. Unravel the ends of the once show you just what she thinks

of your ideas on suitable food. delicious luncheon sweet. The chil-wo strands of wool to be joined for

feat again! dren will enjoy them best if you fill about two inches. If it is 4-ply

But if there is one recommendation or wool, break off two strands from the core space with demerara brown coffee sugar, with a knob of each end of wool, if 3-ply, only which provides more of a death pang butter on top. Sprinkle a little more break off one strand from each end. than others, it is recommending holiday haunts to friends. Nobody Now place the ends together and does this sugar and butter round the baking will have a nice,

willingly, dish, and you

you may be roll them between your fingers unt. trapped Into it. You return from the unravelled strands are woven short holiday in ecstasy and tell the caramel to serve with them. slowly, then they will not burst.

Into one unbroken thread. Cleanser

For the Sleeves

NOTHER bugbear of the Hair Brightener A

tea-table

the

tough

muffin.

This is caused by the misguided practice of cutting open a muffin and Lousting it in halves.

A mufin should be toasted whole, and then cut round the edge, torn apart with the fingers, and buttered.

Bake

necessary.

but

people next door what a delightful place you struck. This duly regis- ters, and next time they decide to follow your example,

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wound that. IF you have

you are dressing at home, add a good tablespoonful of hydrogen-shape top of sleeve by casting all If your sleeve instructions Bay,

But their holiday proves far from peroxide to the water in which you

n success. Of course, they hold you bathe it. This will gently cleanse two stitches at beginning on the faintly responsible. Mrs. B. interms row," slip the first stitch, knit the the wound of all poisons before you next, pass the slip-stitch over and you in a chatty letter that the people

ut on the bandage.

not amusing, the service third cast off the next stitch in the usual rate and the food unexciting. way. By doing this you avoid

worsel Like a terrier with a

bono obtain DESSERTSPOONFUL of "stop" and

a much nater

the returns briskly to the charge at ammonia added to the edge.

your first meeting. "My dear." she bowl of water in which you wash

Instead of joining your pieces to

"en't understand your en your hair will help to cleanse the

oversewing w.th wool, thusiasm over the place. You must calo thoroughly and leave you with gether by

them, being careful to be fatally easy to please. A horrid a delightful feeling of freshness, It machine

This place I call

Even if you recommend an inno will also brighten the colour of your match the thread exactly.

and enables nvoids bulgy seams hair. You can use it with any of light adjustments to be made, 11 cent plant for the garden. It rounds your favourite shampoos.

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fellow gardener informs you coldly Authorised Capital Remember, too, if you are using that she has followed all your in- Paid-up Capital IF your breakfast bacon is

Reserve and Undivided

Profits Inclined to be too salt, white wool, that the finished article structions to the letter. And the re

uit? Hardly an orphan bloom, and I

you prefer tea buns, heretreat the

rashers as you would a must be spotlessly clean. If there is is a recipe for them. plece of bacon for boiling, and put any suggestion of grubbiness any she gazes resentfully at your own

where

some sprinkle Sift lb. four and half a tea-them in cold water before cooking magnesia on the solled part and roll

powdered happy bed of colour.

Be warned! If you value your spoonful each of tartaric acid and Three de four minutes are enough. tuo in a glean cloth. Leave over- peace of mind, and you want to keep bicarbonate of soda, Rub in 3 oz. of

Dry with a clean cloth before pute night and in the morning shake the your friends, take a vow never to butter til it is free of lumps.

ting under the grill or in the frying Add 3 oz. currants, 11⁄2 oz. sifted pan. You will be delighted with the powder out, then you have a snow-recommend anything. Bellere me,

it will repay you. sugar, and half a teaspoonfut of result.

white garment once morel

Madge Whiler carraway seeds. gether. Beat

up an egg with a gill of milk. Make a hole in the flour and pour this in. Mix thoroughly and lightly. Grease a baking sheet, divide the dough into small lumps, and bake for twenty minutes.

Mix all well to Cucumber Tip

Home Page Cook

For The Ball-Room

Chandeliers,

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WHEN

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