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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Beauty Bureau

Here are general problems for which useful answers been worked out.

have

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feeling stiff?

NE result of nervous strain

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in to feel very "Light" and

congested in the head and shoulders. This is because in

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trouble with your hair?

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trouble with hands? your

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December 13, 1938.

Household Mending

SOME "SHORT CUTS"

DEPAIRS to the household fnen, cushions, carpets, and curtains are usually wenrying tasks, co here are some short cuts designed to effect quicker and better mending.

Careless people will ignore the tapes on towels provided for door hools, and long, jagged tears the frequent result. Instead of

try- ing to repair the rip by hot, tack loosely together, without overlapping. and place in the sewing machine. Then sew backwards and forwards and up and down with strong thread. The resultant darn will hardly show and will be extremely firm.

The machine is useful again for repairing love or net curtains.. Cut out a piece of paper and pin under-

trouble with neath the tear, drawing the two

your face?

MOST women suffer sooner or

later from trouble with

edges of lace togeher. Sew In the same way as above, afterwards re- moving the paper. This method is also useful for table linen.

Never throw away old sheets and

pillowcases, but retain the good parts for patching. To make these patches In worn sheets, cut away the frayed moments of stress one tends to HAI

[AIR reflects more quickly NOW is the time for all good their face. Either the face is edge of the tear and place the new

women to protect

their not beautiful enough, or the skin materia) over so as to overlap at least hold the head very stimy than anything else the hands from redness and possible 'is course, or it gets flaky, or is in the edges on

two inches on the right side. Turn and the blood cannot flow physical and mental condition, chilblains.

both sides and freely

Most women pay too red, or too pale. up the spine to the

machine or hem. If you are tired, ill, worried or more attention to their face nerve

back centres at the of the neck. The result is a bored, your hair will be, too. So you do anything to your face than their hands, yet every time headachy feeling, stiff neck and begin by improving your health you should spare a thought for even rheumatic pains.

and spirits, and go on by paying the poor old paws, which, after As a matter of fact, it has been found that people who keep a little daily attention to your tear than the face, and yet are all, have even more wear and their neck and shoulders very hair and scalp.

just as much in evidence, supple sekiom suffer from rheumatic congestion. Of course, this goes for the whole of the; body; if it is kept generally supple and well limbered up, it'

is far less likely to be prone to rheumatic complaints.

Needlework

Notions

W

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Coal Economy

greasy if it gets a

Your skin is not necessarily bit shiny round the nose and chin. That is a condition normal to faces,

most

As many women do not know what a greasy skin is, here is simple, test to find out whether or no you have a greasy skin. Wash your face, and go to bed without putting anything on it. In the morning wipe it with a picce of tissue paper. If there are greasy marks on the paper,

E must have fires, but there are briquettes, or it can be well wetted various way in which wood and and mixed with water and thrown on then your skin is naturally und can be appreciably savcel. the back of an open fire in place of

It is worth while, for one thing, to cinders. If made wet enough, it grensy. purchase for about a dollar, the "cakes" beautifully, and will keep firebricks which are shaped to fit the ore in for several hours if one is uncks of any kind of grate, and they going out and does not wish really do sive a tremendous amount unnecessary waste to be going of coal in six months without during one's absenec. in this case, diminishing the heat given Out by two or three large shovelfuls of li can be safely put on top of an al-

WHEN mending the Bogertips of the fires.

on

Plain carpets which have become worn (most commonly at the hearth) can have the faded parts removed and edges drawn together to make a smaller, but good looking carpet. It is done in the following manner:-

Cut out a strip to the necessary width running the full length of the good" part, but leave about four or carpet. Do not cut right to the dve inches of the faded patch on either side.

Now draw out all the threads until Ave inches in length. Tie you have two matching fringes some each of these opposite threads together in a strong knot, at the same time bring- that no join is discernible. ing both pleces of carpet together so

The knots are tied underneath and Lends can be left loose or cut off. This melhod of repairing carpets is an excellent one for getting longer ser- vice, and with a little practice can 99 be effected very rapidly.

"Catherine-Wheel"

Cakes

gloves, drop a thimble into the

A good muny people can Save ready well burning fire, and upon finger. This provides a firm sur- money riding the ashes each morn- arrival home a cheerful bluze can be face on which to work.

ing, too, if they have not bothered to obtained quickly by merely poking American cloth, now widely used, do this int previous years. Ad- if un, Pai it down hard with theTHESE are particularly attractive for curtains, table coverings. and mittedly it is a dusty and unpleasant shovel when putting it on. fancy dress, is apt to stick 10 the job when dune in the ordinary way, nuchine tread. Tissue paper placed but it can be done with

anal children without rich enough to upset them.

It · 1 annoying when A

Kood

| cushion-cover has had hole burned

in It by

cigarette. The only way

to remedy this is to remove, patch. and embroider in silk or woo! to

to match the general design, thus cover- heining up the join. In the case of plain material it can of course be reversed 110 tis- Wood Unnecessary on both sides, of the material will comfort at all if the clader-sifier is -****

so that the repair is not so obvious. prevent thin.

Wood can be saved by using paper

Rub 31⁄2 ozs of butter into 6 ozs of

If riddled over an open dustbin and a

you fit all your cushion covers with When a tiny crochet edge is to be farge piece of old sheeting laid over lighters. If greasy papers in which our and 2 oz of custor sugar, Use zip fasteners they will be very easily added to handkerchiefs table the sifter as one riddles the cinders, butter, bacon, suet and so are an egg yolk to bind, and knead well removed either for washing or napkins, the neatest effect can be

wrapped, are saved

mending- Then divide the dough into two parts, placed obtained with the aid of a sewing Reduce the Bili

beneath the paper lighters, no wood working into one part a tablespoon-

Q. L. machine. Use

is necessary at all.

ful of cocoa. Roll out both pleees) into squares of equal size of an

or

Chick needle,

on

and

corner to corner. The rolling

unthreated, and adjust the tension The sheeting, if large enough, will to make the stitches far apart. This naturally fall over the outer sides of lighters is to roli separately

The quickest way to make the inch thick. Place the cocoa piece on greased tin in a moderate oven for provides the holes rendy for the the dustbin 201 dat all dust is

automatically prevented from rising uickly several sheets of newspapers Be a swiss coll.

top of the pinin, and roll up finnly 15 minutes, or until lightly browned. crochet hookt.

if embroidered work has become into one's face or going anywhere should be done as tightly as possible,

from

Thero cakes should be mode if possible on the same day as they are puckered, lay some clean blotting else, but Into the bin.

Cut the roll Then datten the roll with the hands using a sharp knife, and bake in a

into 1⁄4-inch slices, to be eaten, paper on the ironing board and Enders saved in

Wis way Cand tie it un into a stiff double knot

W. B. dampen it evenly all over. Lay the reduer the coal bill by a quarter, with the ends well tucked in.

material on this, stretching it to its quite original shape and securing it

in methods position with pins. Cover the choke

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Are

from other apart

saving alupted. They do hol With practice, dozens of these discriminatingly Bighters can be tande in a spare lem puckered part with a handkerchief !imixed with the coal, and can always minuten. About five Or six Dre and rest on this a large iron. Leave be thrown wholesale on the back of needed for each fire, when no wood all night, and in the morning the on open rate where intense heat is used. Place small pieces of coal puckers will have disappeared.

Jand fame are not so much needed or top unmixed with slack, and a To draw the threads from finen jas towards the front.

bright fire will be obtained almost s before hemstitching so that they will The slack, too, can always be quickly as with wood. nol snap. take n ́damp rag and dab utilized. along the thread to be removed. I will then pull out quite easily. Strengthening Shoulder Straps

Lingerie often tears where shoulder straps Join the lace. To prevent this, make R buttonhole- stitched-loop on the bem, just below the lace, und long enough for the ribbon to pass

through, Sp the

ribbon through, make tiny hem over the loop, and then ratch the ribbon at the top of the lace edging at each side only.

a

few

To make a beach bag combined with bathing towel, stitch short length of tape opposite each other at intervals along the sides of A towel. When this has served its purpose after the dip, the bathing kit | can be stowed Inside and the sides tled together to form a bag. A bone handle at either end would facilitate carrying.

Old pillow-slips, cut through the centre, make useful covers for the hacks of camp chairs. Finish the cut edge with a hem of blanket- stitch and, if desired, embroider simple spray on the cover in silk or wool. A small cushion can be held In place if tucked under ils cover, and it will add greatly to the com- fort of the "ounger."

When mending holes in table linen, reinforce with a small piece of net. Starch and iron this, while damp, over the worn part of the linen. Then darn through the mesh of the net, following its lines, on to the linen. This makes a very neat and secure job.

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