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Removing Stains

articles of clothing or Mousehold goods are ruined or prevented from being "best" by an ugly stain which just won't wash out in the ordinary way.

To remove coffee stains, the article should be Arst rubbed geally with a e glycerine, then it should be ained in tepid water and ironed on the wrong side with a medium heated

on until it in dry.

Do not use hot water tor сосод akhlas, but sponge immediately with cold. Ten stains are best removed article in sleeping the stained borax and water.

out

rub

For a fruit-stain, apply powdered alarch instantly, allowing it to remain unul it has absorbed the discolora- tan, then brush off and wash. Some-

mes salt and lemon juice bring the stain, but if it is

is an old one, ard or glycerine over it and allow to sland for an hour, after which boll-

ng water must be poured through.

For a very obstinate one, chloride. of Ume dissolved in water is very. checure.

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

If wine is spilt on linen, the stained martion should be held in boiling milk until the spot isappears, then wash- in soap and water or if this is not effective try salt and lemon Juice. Inic and Acid Marka

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1988.

FLOUNCES D FRILLS and FURBELOWS

"You can't get away from them

Details of Small Sketches

reading from top

Short top coal in brown and yellow check, worn with a fer, braid trimmed toque.

Olive-green dinner gown, with yoke bodice and basque in

tine outlined with coloured tassels.

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

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

Buck velvet dinner dress, black velvet hat, Aathed in cerise veiling.

Decorative Sweets for the Children

H

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

that are delicious to eat, and pulp, removing pith and pips.

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

dish, put a litle of the fruit into each orange. Fill each with the Jeily! cream and put in a cold place to set. Decorate with chopped pistachio nuts, and serve on a bed of chopped jelly.

Six bananas, One gill ercam.

Six tablespoons tinned pineapple juice,

Three pineapples alices. One tablespoon rum. One gill cream custard. Maah bananas and

Ink-Blained fabrics with a heavy Banana Glory aatte are treated with salt moistened | with milk which is left on for several hours; it is then brushed off and the fahrle sponged with clean water. Repeat the process if

If necessary. Oxalic acids or salls of sorrel wilA irommould stalno (also ink- remaro elains in linen), while another method is to cover the spot with salt, muecke a few drops of lemon juice sweetened whipped cream. Then stir stand far half-an-by degrees into the cream custard. ayer. and leave haur, after which time rase through Add rum gradually, and stir quickly in a weak solution of ammonia and till well blended. wash in clean water.

mix with

Chocolate and Egg

Four ozs block chocolate. Three eggs.

Sponge lingers.

Chopped blanched almonds. Three ozs caster sugar. Break up chocolate

and

put in Cut pineapple slices in halves, chop bowl to melt over hot water. Separ- Sponge white clothes with am-cach hall (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 glass. the sugar. Stir this into the melted stains. Coloured things should be Cover with a tablespoon pineapple chocolate over the water till blended

molatened with parallin well

or Jule

and thick. Whip the whites slimy be- and fold in. Divide the custard mixture

Line little glasses with glycerins, which is left on for an four, then rlased in warm watce and tween the six glasses, sprinkle a little halved and split sponge fingers and crushed meringue over each, and fill with the mixture. When set, afterwards washed in the

decorate with few pistachio nuts or sprinkle with finely-chopped blanch- coloured cocoanut.

rçmeve

Orange Cream Baskets

Six firm sweet oranges. Que pint milk.

orange

jelly

ed almonds,

Strawberry Cup

One pint packet strawberry Jelly. Quartor-pint cream: One tin of strawberries.

Clothes splashed with mud should be well brushed when dry and then por god with water in which pola-

have been boiled,

will Turpentine

paint

Half-pint packet orange jelly. steins.

Ono pint packet

Dissolve felly, using strawberry Clothes in the weekly wash pornoś

syrup, and enough water to make up times got scorched, so is remove the cream.

one pint. When beginning to ket mark, rub the place wilk julee of a Chopped pistachio nuts.

Make up jelly cream and jelly, whip until stiff, then fold in the and allow to dry in the raw lemon

cream (whipped.). Crush strawber according to directions on packets. direct rays of the aun if possible.

Scorch marks in silks and Woollona should be smeared with: borak' and glycerine, lett for an four, will then caveruity washed.

J.O.

Wipe the oranges; cut the rind, in rics, retaining a few. Place in In the form of a cup with a narrow dividual glasses, and pile whipped handle-peross the top. Remove half jelly on top. When set, decorate with the rind of each orange, except that whole strawberries.

Isobel part that forms the handle, by means

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mode is so dominated by an Edwar-

FASHION writers know it. But the position is that the whole when they are beaten. dam-Victorian InBuence 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 salts and jackets over dresses.

the marvellous colour" mixtures in were going to be barred over dark red, cerise over words.

Pink black, strawberry and navy, cinnamon and peacock.

They had resolved not to men- tion crinolines, flounces, leg-of- elegance of fur-trimmed day suits, There is the sumptuousness and mutton 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 collara, bows in

'Dirndl

Skirts

hair, urchings, frilled headings, HERE are the full, gathered-at- hair-as-mother-wore-it, muffs, Tist dirndl 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 fat girls. time fun which are drawn and described in this page,

There is the new dolman sleeve line which is definitely in for suits,

Other country and formal coats, the rather long striped jacket over a plain skiri, and the vogue for fur fabric,

Hartnell's show. Remember, he

Things

THEY thought you were as tired made clothes for the Queen which

of reading about this sort of made Paris sit up and look. thing as they were of writing about

Details of

Mr. Hartnell offered us grandeur, elegance, magnificence. Rich, rich fur swithing afternoon suits. Red foxes an olive green.

Large Sketches Gorgeous jewels worn with crino-

Violet

moire with lines. A black dress with a violet off-shoulder loops and jacket carrying an enormous sprey hows of bright pink, parma violets at a lapel, very Edwardian.. Pink petticoat.

Back view: rust crinoline, with a tight

little jacket, tyling with bow at front.

trimmed

Nervous

Gesture

thing seems to be Ti evening hat THE whole

wälk, aquamarine revolutionising woman's ostrich feathers.

carriage, attitude, gestures. Women are sheep about geatures,

When every other woman paried her hair 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 Ihale so casually. It has to be pelted, cosseled, and once it is fixed, and it takes quite a time, you are Jolly careful with it.

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

Mannequins wearing the new Ed- clothes arc wardian and Victorian showing us how.

One beauty at Stichel's who got all the "Ahs" because she wore all the star strapless dresses and crino- lines, and had dimples in her shoulder blades, walked with the quiet race ot 3 leisured age, Buttered her fan, lowered her eyes.

Are Your A "Window Dresser”?

PITY that young woman treats that you are well-turned-out, "A as were earn admiration But window in a competition," the young it won't avall 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

left for a display of her real char- Accentuate Your Personality

acter or feelings. And one doesn't

feel like taking the trouble to find

All the modern alds to beauty

out what those feelings really are." which the woman of to-day is for- The woman referred to was typle- tunate enough to possess will be of ally modern, with an office job and a absolutely no use to you unless you fair amount of intelligence. Unfor- use them to accentuate your person- tunately, that intelligence was being ality--not to hide it. If you make of your face a perfect mask-how directed solely towards one objec can

catch your feeling anyone the glorification of he owned went thoughts? As for figures which are olity. Every cent she earned

to the hairdresser, the beauty par used as clothes pegs, well, they look lour, and her dressmaker. Her spare but are dreadfully uninteresting in a charming in an illustrated magazine, Ume was spent in studying how to

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

Everything that artificial aids ting it on," and don't remain Inter- could give her she had, as well as a cated in you for very long. In my perfect carriage, good skin, clear case, they would rather hear your cycs, 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 "silr" she second-hand Information.

-All very Nowwindow-dressing in- never left anything of herself to Jur- tify that sir. Every ounce of energy well, in a shop window. When it went into creating a lovely picture, comes to dressing up your own pers and she failed to realise that, once sonality, take care. It will very. people had looked their fill, they had quickly bury the rest "you" under a had enough. No one ever wanted to heap of gorgeous, but empty trap- know her a Melons de spirits pingi.

Of coures, it is pleasing to know

O.L

'Do not neglect it

'ORITOL' is a safeguard againn the risk of jerm infection. It an efficient non- poisonous antiseptic which can be used for cleansing cuts or other injuries.

'DIMOL' is a clean, gentle, pleasant fluid, neo-poisonous yet highly efficient as a geren killer. The way to prevent blood-poisoning. ctc, aby killing the germs that are the cause.

'DETTOL'

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