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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,

NOVEMBER 18 1938.

Removing Stains

MANY

articles

of

clothing:

Q

household goods are ruined or prevented from being "best" by an urly stain which just won't wash out in the ordinary way.

To remove collet starins, the article should be first rubbed gently with a tittle glycerine, then it should be rised in tepid water and ironed on tie wrong side with a medium hested Iron until it is dry.

Do not use hot water for cocon stains, but

immediately with sponge cold. Tea stains are best removed by sleeping the stained article in borax and water.

For il fruit-stain, apply powdered starch instantly, allowing it to remain until it has absorbed the discolora- Some. tios, then brush off and wash. times salt and lemon julee bring out if it is nn old one, rul

and allow

the stain, but if it

to

Iard or glycerine over stand for an hour, after which bull- ing water must be poured through.

a very obstinate one, chloride For a of lime dissolved in water is very effective.

Grease can be removed by washing in borax and water, but if the article is not washable, apply powdered French chalk and hold the material hot iron. The heat will tell the grease and the chaik absorb Itab off the chalk with a linen rag

over

If wine

it.

spill on linen, the stained

FLOUNCES

FRILLS and FURBELOWS

"You can't get away from them

Details of Small Sketches

reading from top

Short top coat in brown and yellow check, worn with a far, braid trimmed toque.

Olive-green dinner gown, with poke bodice anci basque line outlined with coloured tassels.

Velvet bow in an up kair set, velvet neckband with cameo, lace fan, short lace gloves.

Tight-fitting black woollen jacket with Peter Pan et collar over a full skirted black frock. Seal muff, toque.

Black velect dinner dress, black velvet hat, athed in cerise velling.

portion should be held in belling milk Decorative Sweets for the Children

the spot disappears, then wash-)

ed in soap and water; or if this is not

effective try salt and lemon Juice,

fnk and Act Marks

HE

Ink-stained fabrics with a heavy Banana Glory ile are treated with salt moistened) - with milk which is left on for several

TERE are, some attractive sweets of a sharp knife, and scoop out the

that are delicious to cat, and pulp, removing pith and plps.

Stand the oranges on a tray or very easily prepared: -

dish. put a little of the fruit into each orange, Fill ench with the jelly! cream and put in a cold place to set.

Decorate with chopped pistachio) nuts, and serve on a bed of chopped Jelly.

Six bananas.

Bours; It is then brushed off and the One gill cream.

Six tablespoons tinned pineapple

fabric sponged

with clean

Repeat the process if

water. necessary. Oxalic acids or salts of sorrel wi remove Ironmould stains (also Ink- stains In linen), while

another

method is to cover the spot with salt,

tow

Juice.

Three pineapples slices. One tablespoon ruin, One gill cream custard. Mash bananas

and mix with

squeeze a drops of lemon juice sweetened whipped cream. Then stir over, and leave to stand for half-an- by degrees into the cream custard.

mur, after which time rinse through Add rum

a weak solution of ammonie and till well blended and stir quickly

wash

Slean

water.

Chocolate and Evo

Four ozs block chocolate. Three eggs.

Sponge Anger"

Chopped blanched almonds, Three as coster sugar.

Break up ehgcolate and put in

In

Cut pineapple slices in halves, chop bowl to melt over hot water. Separ Sponge white clothes with am-cach half (or cut up with scissors), ate the eggs, and beat the yolks with monia and water to get rid of grass and place in foot of sundae glasa. the sugar. Stir this into the melted stains. Coloured things should be Cover with a inblespoon placappie chocolate over the water till blended and thick. Whip the whites stiffly well moistened with paraffin ori juice.

Line little glasses with be- and fold in. Divide the custard mixture glycerine, which is left on for an hott, then rinsed in warm water and tween the six glasses, sprinkle n Hitle halved and split sponge fingers, and afterwards washed in the ordinary crushed meringue over cach, and fill with the mixture. When set, doborate with few pistachio nuts or sprinkle with finely-chopped blanch-

ed almonds. Clothes splashed with mud should coloured cocoanut.

Strawberry Cup ·

way.

be well brushed when dry and then Orange Cream Baskets sponged with water in which pote

does have been boiled."

Turpentine

platna.

will remove paint

Clothes in the weekly wash some- times get scorched, so to remove the mark, rub the place with jules of a raw letón and allow to dry in the direct rays of the sun if possible.

Scorch marks in slika arid woollens should be sincared with borax and alycerine, left for an hour, and then carefully washed.

Six arm weet Granges.

Ona pirit milk.

Hall-pint packet orange jelly.

One pint packet orange

jelly

Chopped pistachio nuts.

cream.

་

One pint packet strawberry Jelly. Quarter-pint cream. One tin of strawberries. Dissolve jelly, using strawberry syrup, and enough water to make up set, one pint. When beginning to

fold in tho Make up jelly cream and Jelly, whip until stiff, then

cream (whipped) Crush strawber according to directions on packets.

Wipe the oranges: cut the rind in ries, retaining a few. Place in in- the form of a cup with a narrow dividual glasses, and plle whipped handle across the top. Remove half jelly on top. When sel, decorate with the rind of each orange, except that whole strawberries.

J. C. part that forms the handle, by means

Isobel

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mode is so dominated by an Edwat-

FASHION writers know it. But the position is that the whole when they are beaten, dian-Victoriun influence that they They made up their mind simply can't get away from it. not to say Edwardian again. There are other things. There are Alexandrian and Victorian suits and jackets over dresses. Pink were going to be barred over dark red, cerise words.

the marvellous colour mixtures in

over black, strawberry and navy, clunamon and peacock.

There is the sumptuousness and

They had resolved not to men- tion crinolines, flounces, leg-of elegance of fur-trimmed day suits, muiton sleeves, fitch furs, vel- jewel-embroidered evening clothes vet neck bands, ostrich feathers, that give a king's ransom look. velvet jackets, bunches of vio- lets at lapels, high-boned necks, bustle drapery, chenille tassels, embroidered dog collars, bows in

Dirndl

Skirts

hair, urchings, frilled hendings, ERE are the full, gathered-at- hair-as-mother-wore-it, muffs, waist diend! skirts which most boned corsages, reticule pockets, designers feature, but which, please, fans, lockets, mittens, moires are only for the long-legged, almost and all the other pieces of old- flat girls. time fun which are drawn and described in this page.

There is the new dolman sleeve line which is definitely in for sults, Other country and formal coats, the rather long striped jacket over a plain skirt, and the vogue for fur fabric,

Hartnell's show. Remember, he THEY thought you were as tired made clothes for the Queen which

of reading about this sort of made Paris alt up and look, thing as they were of writing about

Details of

Things

Large Sketches with Violet moire of-shoulder loops and bours of bright pink, Pink petticoat.

Back

rich

Mr. Hartnell offered us grandeur, elegance, inagnificence. Rich, fors swathing afternoon suits, Red foxes on olive green.

Gorgeous Jewels worn with crino- es. A black dress with a violet Jacket carrying an enormous spray parma violets at a lapel, very

Edwardian.

Tust view: crinoline, with a tight little jacket, tying with bow at front. Tiny evening hat THE whole

trimmed

aquamarine

ostrich feathers.

Nervous

Gesture

thing seems to be revolutionising woman's walk, carriage, attitude, gestures. Women are sheep about gestures.

When every other woman porled her hale low at one side, the other long waved piece used to fall over her eyes, so the gesture was born of pushing it aside with the back of a hand. Do you recall?

When all women wore little low- brimmed felt hats, they would pull them off from the front, and run their fingers through their hair,

The movements

were nervous, casual, the tempo Jerky, hurried.

Not So

Casual

VOU can't treat high Edwardian hair so casually. It has to be petted, cosseted, and once it is fixed. and it takes quite a time, you are jelly careful with it.

So you hold your head still, your more movements slow down, are careful. more graceful. And -affects the whole carriage.

this

are

Mannequins wearing the new Ed-

clothes wardian and Victorian showing us how.

One beauty at Stiebel's who got all the "Abs" because she wore all the star strapless dresses and crino- lines, and had dimples in her shoulder blades. walked with the

of

age. quiet prace

a leisured shuttered her fun, lowered her eyes.

Are Your A "Window Dresser" ?

"A

PITY that young woman treats that you are well-turned-out, and window in a competition," the young it won't avail you one jot if "win- man remarked at a dance. "Other- dow-dressing" Is your sole object. wise she is quite an attractive person. You must be human, too. Clothes But so long as she persists in using count-yes, but not to the exclusion all her endeavours to draw attention of everything else. to herself, I'm afraid there's no room

find

All the modern aids fo

beauty

left for a display of her real char- Accentuate Your Personality acter or feelings. And one docsu'! feel like taking the trouble to out what those feelings really are." which the woman of to-day is for- or tunate enough to possess will be of The woman, referred to was typic absolutely no use to you unless you ally modern, with an office job and a use them to accentuate your person- fale amount of intelligence. Unter- allty-not to hide it. If you make tunately, that intelligence was being

a

catch

directed solely towards one object of your face a perfect mask-how your fleeting the glorification of her own person can anyone ality. Every cent she earned went thoughts? As for figures which are to the hairdresser, the beauty par- used as clothes pegs, well, they look charming in an illustrated magazine, lour, and her dressmaker. Her spure but are dreadfully uninteresting in a Ume was spent in studying how to drawing-room. muke herself more beautiful. When-

The woman who uses conversation ever the walked out, people turned round and said, "What perfect also merely to create on impression didn't mind is heading straight for a socal down- fashion plate!" She what they said, so long as they did fall. Most people have an uncanny, knack of sensing when you are "gut- turn round,

Everything

alde ting it on," and don't remain inter- artificial that could give her she had, as well as a cated in your for very long. perfect carriage, good skin, clear case, they would rather hear your eyes, and shining hair. She lacked opinions on life, and what you intend only one thing-vitality. For she doing with it, rather than a lot of was so intent on creating a "tir" the second-hand Information.

all very never left anything of herself tify that sile. Every ounce of energy well, th a shop window. When it vrent into creating a lovely picture, comes to dressing up your own per- And she folled realise that, once sonality, take care. It will very people had looked their fill, they had quickly bury the real "you" under a had enough. No one ever wanted to heap of gorgeous but empty trap-

pings.

know her.

No-window-dressing is to jus-

Of course, it is pleasing to know

In my

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