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Wednesday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January

18, 1939.

They Said Crinolines

Were Coming.

In.

de.

For some months now signers have said that hoops And they are coming back.

certainly have, and not only as a freak fashion, either. Re- cently you saw pictures of the Queen and the Duchess of Glonu- them: the cester wraring Duchess of Kent has a black crinoline dress tog,

Here are three crinolines; yam may not feel you cun Navi- wate the honest-to-goodness hooped dress, but why not sway ant in one of the other tun modern, more feasible versions? Their fashion details are he faic.

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drawn

by

ROBB

Wakes with a smile-ALWAYS

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Getting A Fire

To Go

YOUR thoughts have turned now

from blue seas and warm sands to cosy armchairs and a blazing firs Too often fire is pravoltingly diealt to start, and tempers get hot while the grate remains cold. Try these four ways of lighting a fire; one of them is certain to suit your firs grate.

For each nehod be sure that the! Brewond and paper are thoroughly i dry, and put a few cinders and small. knit of coal in the bottom of th grate, as fire burns down as well as upwards.

Put a sheet of lightly crumpled newspaper in the grate. Wrap each plece of thewood Separately in wax paper Inken from food packages, pile the wont crosswise, and euver well with all knobs of cual.

Soak two large pieces of coke in a jar of parafil overnight. Place these in the rate. stack the coal lightly above, and light at once.

Fold a single sheet of newspaper stantwise from corner to corner, then fold over in one inch width until you have lung narrow strip. Tie this once in the centre, turn it over und tie ngalu. Make a good supply of these knuts and dry tharoughty before using. Put live or six in the grate and heap small coat over them.

The fourth method is

man's way, atow but sure. Crumple lightly a sheet of newspaper in the bottom of the Greplace, and set it alight. With coal tongs place on the sticks of firewood. Wait until the wood is well alight, then gently put the coa!! on, slowly piling it up, small mous Arst, then larger ones, as the first pieces become alight.

devices old-fashioned

to

Two "draw up" the Bre are not to be des- pised draw in and bellows. The draw tin is a sheet of strong metal with a handle in the centre, and should be large enough to cover the whole freplace. Stand it in front of the Are for five or ten minutes, und the he will burn up very quickly. A little persuasion with a strong pair of bellows will soon have the same cheery effect.

Cleaning Chintz And Cretonne

o get the best results from the washing of cretonnes, it is neces- their

sary to be very careful in

cold

A

USEFUL HINTS

STALE loaf enn. be, made like

new by first lightly sprinkling

it with milk, and wrapping in a paper bag. Put in a fairly hot oven for five minutes, then remove the

and рарег

return the lout for a similar time.

If too much salt has been added to soup

Or

gravy, stir in a little stigar, and the unpleasant taste will nut be noticed.

When trying dish, use clarified dripping or salad of to minimbe the odour, and wait until a thin blue vapour rises, for this Indicates the rht time has arrived to put in the fish.

If the oven cuntaining meat be- i comes too hot, reduce its tempera- ture by placing a bowl of water Inside, for the steam will eventually moisten the air had so prevent the meat burning,

Before cooking a joint that appears to be tough, rub it with vinegar and allow it to stand for an hour or two before cooking, as this helps to make it tender.

oil

are

If a few drops of olive added to the water when washing chinois leather gloves, they will not ly the leather will be preserved, become hard or stiff, und incidental-

white wax, for not unly does it make Try rubbing a clothes line with

It waterproof, but it lasts longer and

is easier to keep clean.

Ash trays will not becoine dis-

handling. Material that has never

This was the crinoline as they wore it ing, wide-hemmed skirts. This dress is in coarac been washed bore should be well seventy years ago-and as a few brave white lace with a curved boned bodice. The snaked beforehand in cold water, to

It is made of black skirt is held out on a stiff taffeta petticoat; the which kitchen salt has been added women are wearing it now, in the proportion of a handful to a faffeta with a quilted, strapless bodice, pointed top tier is gathered to the waist, stiffened by gallon of water,

down uter a billowing, circular skirt. Hoops horsehair net underneath to stand out in folds.

This type of semi-crinoline dresa is good for Very soiled cretonne curtains and hold the skirt out to its full width; looped covers also need soaklig in water before beint washed, and it flounces of taffeta and lace run round the skirt, small people (the Duchess of Gloucester und will help to free them from grime following the lines of the hoops. Hem of the the Queen wore dresses rather like it recently), coloured if the interior is lined with Bodice and waist are light-fitting as far as the 1 Alter cleaning suede gloves with if borax is added to the cold-water skirt is gathered into the bottom flounce. bath, as well as to the worn soapy Here is the latest-of-all version of the hips; from there the skirt springs out in stig benzene, hang them outdoors to dry, crinoline line, just out in America a ticred folds over a stiffened petticoat. The dress is inthen brush them with a wire brush On no account must soap be rub-skirt. Don't attempt tiers unless you are pretty forget-me-not blue slipper satin, with a ruffle of to bring up the pite and give them bed on the fabric. It should be gently squeezed and rubbed with tall, but if you are then go all out for them. They dark blue lace round the bodice, up and down reaby fresh appearance, the hands in two lathers, made with are a good deal cusior to wear than the spread- round the hips and edging the petticoat.

water used for laundering the cre-

tonne,

sonp without soda, till it appears to

be perfectly fresh and clean. Then

ready for rinsing, Arst in warm,

and then in cold, water, Drying

must be away from sun and fire, and ironing should be on the wroni

side.

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GUARD THEIR EYES

tepid water and drop a small counter or marble in it.

Then tell him to put his face in

Chiniz is best dry-cleaned, either THE

professionally or at home, by rub problen of keeping a

bing gently with clean cotton wad-1 smali ding which will remove all loose interested dust so long as the surface is still baffling. glossy,

child amused

often is

Besides the obvious precautions and of seeing that when he is reading For writing he s siling at the right pretty height, in the right light (which should always come from behind So whet Ave-year-old Johnny hin), and is dealing with a good If washing becomes essential, it learns to renti and write a bit, or clear print, you should make a rule must be done in good soup Inter do little jobs by himself, it is a treat that at first the child doesn't work followed by. a warm and cold rinse.

more than an hour a day. Strong, very stiff starch is required for his parents.

to restore the glaze. A tablespoon-

But it is important to remember ful of starch is mixed to a cream that these first years of reading, with two tablespoonfuls of water; to studying or doing any sort of close this is added one tablespoonful of work at all may easily be a strain

your child's eyes. white wax, finely shredded, and half n

a teaspoonful of borax dissolved in

Encourage him to rest his eyes when he is not working.

Tenching children to wash their eyes carefully every day is really on important as teaching them to brush Up to the time he is four or five their teeth. You can start by bath- a very little hot water. One pint of years old, Johnny has used his eyes ing them with a piece of cotton wool bolling water is added and the chintz rather vaguely. He has done a lot soaked in cye lotion, but the best In then rubbed well with stares and of staring at the sky, for instance: way is to use an eyebath. You can ho has watched people and animals get lotion specially recommended hung to dry.

ls sold Before Ironing it mual be well and things, but as a whole rather for children's eyes which damped and folded, then pressed than in detall.

with an eyebath thrown in.

It's not always easy at flent to

get a small child to open his eyes

his

in an eyebath. One way of start-

with very hot irons, wiping it first Now, when he learns to read, with a damp cloth. A polishing-write and do little sums, he is also tron in best for getting a good glaze. learning to concentrate both

. W. B. mind and his eyes.

ing him off is to fli a basin with

tlofoil.

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beauty

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