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Saturday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January

14, 1939.

BRAND'

D'S

Getting Cold

-It's What's Wrong With Winter?

WHEN do you feel best-dressed, summer or winter? Personally I would plump for the soft, warm, furry fashions, collars that frame your face, colours that brighten your eyes, all the lovely, luscious velvets and brocades.

You can get a cut and a dash into good tweed or woollen stuffs that you can't hope for with light materials; they hang botter, it better. It is true, cer- tainly, that thick materials must fit well to look good, but a plain cut should look after that.

It is a good idea, by the way, to have the bottom of your thick dross finished with a tiny turn-up and several rows of machine stitching; it looks slicker than a deep, bulky hem.

There is a lot to be said for high necks and long sleeves too; not many of us have the arms and necks to stand a lot of showing off.

Let your clothes look warm as well as feel warm; wear bright reds, purples, grape colours; ribbed sweaters, And look your most shaggy tweeds, furry gloves.

appealing, particularly if you are small, snugged up in a fur jacket.

In fact, make the most of the winter, not the best of it,

Should A Man

Knit?

Asks A Modern Girl MY brother is an athlete; a large

muscular young man without a spark of domesticity in his make-up. Yet he has learned to knit his own socka!

A very good job he makes of them tuo. He can turn a neat heel and Kraft a seamless toe with the best woman knitter in the world. On when wo are all

winter ev stening to the radio

round the fire

from the

and he has just come skating rink, he takes out his knit- ting and begins work like the rest of us. He will even do it in pubile, in a hotel lounge, in the reading- room of his boys' club, and nobody laughs! The Idea of a man knitting may be funny to you, but the sight of it is not

Indeed, since he started knitting my brother has begun quilte a fashion among his friends. Knitting needles were treated as a joke first of all. then as a challenge. Now they are inken seriously. "I wonen cun del

it, why can't we? Let's have a shot Brighter Breakfast

at it anyway, I dare you to knit

a pair of socks in the next sixCRAMBLED haddocks make weeks!"

My brother, however, did not

a

pleasant change for breakfast.

learn to knit as a joke, The "exer- They are prepared in the following

cine" was prescribed for him by n doctor, when he suffered from nervous

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Way:

Beat three eggs well, pour balt YIIS breakdown.

nerves the liquid into a soup plate and dip...

of bread. went to pieces, he could not be it into it four thick slices

Read- peace, could not concentrate.

Fry them golden brown in a little ing and writing proved hopeless; hot butter and put them in the oven brain work quite out of the question. or between two plates over bolling "Teach him to knit" said the doctor, water to keep hot. Meanwhile Bake "If more men learned a soothing a pound of smoked haddock, mix occupation like knitting there would with the rest of the beaten eggs, fry be stendier nerves in the world."

in butter, and serve on the tried bread,

A Fascinating Business

Fish sausages are unusual. Flake

anl

So, despite laughter and masculing a pound of white fish tinely, put it protests, he sat up in bed and into a basin and add a teaspoonful struggled with the needles and wool.

of chopped parsley, a tencupful of

t breadcrumbs, nud Socks were prescribed as something ne light to handle, simple, and mono- pepper to taste. Add a beaten egg tonous. They kept his eyes and used with half a teaeupful of inilk, both hands decupled, forged him to mix all together and form into little it still and keep his attention on Causage shapes. Brush them with something creative. From the start beaten egg. roli in crumbs, and try he was fascinated: by the time he rich brown In deep tal. had turned his first heel he was a

enlined. If time is short in the morning confirmed knitter. Nerves down and his general health im- the sausages can be made on the fried when re- proved. But he didn't give up knit- previous day und Ling. 11

was atisfying kind of quired. The same applies to oatmeal Job: He really liked it and he felt fingers.

that as a spare time occupation it To make oatmeal fingers, melt un was definitely good for him.

in

fushioned sallor. Shepherds

In the long dark

ounce of dripping in a pan.

salice.

the meal to

are

To

Keep Your

Toes Warm

an

THESE Acw pyjamas CTE

American idea, quaranteed

to protect you against short blan- kets, not-enough blankets, sliding mattresses, and slipping elder down.

Choose

Get an ordinary pyjama pat- tern, with long sleeves for pre- ference

and with wide legs. warm wool material, striped, or in smart contemporary colours like violet, cyclamen or rock-pink.

£

When you are cutting out, cut the trouser teg five inches longer than in the pattern. Turn up 1. for the hem, and machine round in the ordinary way. Run another row of stitching in, fram the lower edge. Slot narrow elastic through between the two rows of stitching so that the in over forms a little frill. Make the elastic just tight enough to grip your ankle gently.

When you are out of bed, the trousers blouse marily above your ankie; when you are in bet, you put the frilled ends down over your toes.

WIVES ALWAYS WIN!

act

Says A Husband

A Sunshine

Personality

"MOODNESS," you shiver, "just

look at the awful weather. It enly I were rich and could go away for the winter. But I've just got to endure the cold, and the depressing dampness unit spring comes round again."

And you draw your chalr up to the fire, and bring out your knitting, and make up your mind that every- thing is for the worst in the worst of all possible worlds.

Now, admittedly winter is not the most cheerful of seasons. But do you ever realise what an impression you create upon your husband when he returns home at night?

You have not bothered to put on a pretty frock. A visit to the hair- dresser is long overdue. You have snt over the fire so long that your face looks like a

pink and shining apple. As for your expres- sion-anyone would think you had forgotten that mouths were made to stutie!

very

And you don't, or won't,"cheer up. It is winter, so you have every excuse for looking as wintry as Or so you think. Actually, it is

She knows how soothing a beauty parlour can be, and how attractive a shining coiffure. Even winter does not stop anyone from combining the two!

TY wife and I have just had our and thoroughly enjoy it. He wel-possible. My I enjoy de fever Add If you think all that is funny and

ed to his sense of humour when he adopt, because even If there is no sun grotesquely modern, let me remind quarter of a chopped onion and half the most illuminating experience of all the witty sarcasms which appeal the very worst attitude you could you that kuitting for men is no new pint of water. Simmer the onion my life.

shine inside. for ter minutes, then stir in two That turbulent half hour taught heard them rolling off Jones's sharp shining outside, you can make sun- thing. Sallors and fishermen have

After a squabble man usually! knitted their own jerseys and socks andfuls of medium oatmeal. Add me more abait women (and wives tongue last week at the club.

A Powerful Influence seasonings and allow

in particular) than I had learned in

feels so pleased with himself that he' for hundreds of years, and there cook slowly until all liquid has been all my previous, placid existence. nothing effeminate about an old-

It is amazing how one bright per- started last night jovially shakes hands with his op- The quarrel absorbed. Then spread it out to slightly more than half an inch in when I sat down to read the evening ponent, and proceeds to forget all son can cheer up everyone around her-yes, even the surroundingst famous knitters.

thickness on a large plate, and when paper, and Joan started reading the bout it.

But what happens when a man has She does not need to be pretty, or anonths of winter it is their most

cool cut into narrow oblongs. Fry riot regarding husbands who comforting occupation.

In hot fat and serve with Tomato think more about politics then they a quarrel with his wife? In the first expensively dressed, but she has a and has done famous Many

men, statesmen,

do of their wives' comfort and need place, it is ten chances to one that pleasant expression,

he gets a "raw deal." Being British, her best to hunt up all her brightest writers and explains of Industry

of entertainment own hose; so Breadcrumb omelettes have knitted their

But the real cause went deeper and a gentleman, he always allows clothes and wear them with on sir. have Empire

outgrown the his wife to kick-off first, and he She does not sit around, but is up ploneers, explorers, change from the ordinary kind and than this. We had

the inevitable and doing all day long, light-house keepers. Tho Chief more economical just now while cgearst thrill of married bliss, and we listens patiently to Scout and that all boys should leam are dear. For one person, soak half had not been married long enough to monologue about "making so many to knit. What a pity they don't. a slice of bread in milk, mash it have reached the stage of mutual sacrifices for a mun and see what They miss a lot of real satisfaction, with a fork, add a benten egg, and tolerance which makes for peace and you get for it." the pense of creating something pepper and salt to taste. Fry in quietness in the home. Everything The Advantage of Tears useful, and the nervous soothing and smoking fat, first on one side, then was just right for a good, hearty

When he thinks his turn bas When her husband returns in the mental rhyllum that only knitting on the other, till nicely browned. squabble to ease the tension in the

arrived his wife bursts into tears evening, he is immediately made to can bring.

Shape ke an ordinary omelette domestic atmosphere.

husband just stands feel at home. His wife's gay chat- W. B. when the mixture begins to set and The quarrel "incif was a trivial and the poor

serve quickly on a hot plate.

affair, but the aftermath was dis- there, feeling anything but a gentle ter and the laughter in her eyes, He links olf to refleet quickly makes him forget the de- W. D. astrous, and I know now why the man.

average wife lavariably sets the balt gloomily on his caddish behaviour,pression which is probably to lempt her poor, unsuspecting bus and to wonder, perbaps, about the way from Iceland. Obviously it is band into precipitating a squabble, unsportamonlike behaviour of wo- not going to be allowed to penetrate

his home. I used to think that husbands ac- men.

But this moral victory is only the The plain fact is, winter makes of docliity [quired, a peculiar form,

after a year or two of married life, start of the womanly campaign. most of us too lazy to bother about BAR

DANANAS tried in the bacon fat Fish and macaroni form another but I realise now that it is purely The next morning sees a subdued our appearance or our home. Once and wiser man getting up to make you have conquered this inertin and make good companions for the interesting partnership. Any port and simply self defence.

the breakfast, and for weeks he is really made up your mind to be a morning rashers. Apples cut in of flisted white flah will do, but

treated Ikea convict until he has sunshine perzonality, the rest ky easy. paid in full for all the things he did If you don't believe me, just give Women do not regard quarrels as not get a chance has the same, In- yourself look as nice as

the plan a trial for a day. Make emotional safely-valves. To the Every quarrel has

possible. averago wife, a quarrel is a domestic evitable ending. The husband. Is refuse to sit down and mope, and Place a dab of butter on each asset which she uses very profitably made to do all the household tasks think of all the good times you have pletely with sliced apples. Repeat fillet, sprinkle with pepper, salt, and to the detriment of her husband's he abhors until, finally, he realises had in the past and will have again

* "boss-in-his-own-home" complex, that in verbal warfore wives niways in the falure.. these layers until the dish is three mixed herbs, roll up and stand onShe will dissect it, brood over it, and win. If he is wise he resolves, In No woman has any logical: reason aven and leave for half-an-hour, caron! between the niets and pour analyse it until she extracts the last future to refuse to bite at the for letting the weather get her down. parts full, then put it in a fairly hot end in a casserole. Put the

cunningly laid bait and so prevent So Taco up to it, right now, and try Meanwhile beat two eggs, add two over the whole a beaten org mixed particle of profit out of it.

The average man can indulge in any further quarvela where his op" the effect of a sunshine, parionality! with a gill of milk. Bake in the ounces of grated choose and pour

an occasional bout of verbal fisticufts ponent fæ such an odds-on favourita, uta over the apples, and ham. Return oven till the egg is set.

Good Cooking Companions

the disht to the oven until the cheese has melted and the eggs have set. They will take about ten minutes.

rings are also tasty with fried bacon,haddock in beat because of the con- "A Quarrel is a Domestic Asset" and they are excellent roasted with venient size of the fillets. Allow 1 ham in the following dish:-Arrange1b, to 1⁄4 lb. of macaroni,

which

n layer of sliced ham in a piedish, should be boiled in the usual way. Sprinkle with minced onion and

brown breadcrumbs, and cover com-

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