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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 20, 1939.

FASHION PARADE

1919 - 1924 - 1929 - 1934

1939

have You! TRIED

WITH MILK

MALTONIC

You have!

.......but have you tried

MALTONIC

with AN EGG)

with MILK!

A raw egg well mixed with MALTONIC maksu an ideal light breakfast. ~

Plessant to take and strengthening.

with MEAT EXTRACT? This combination provides

the fullest nourishmane in a mort 'agresible form.

with SODA WATER? - A sparkling and palatabia

refresher.

„WITH SODA WATER 7

MALTONIC

cannot be made better, but it con

be made "different."

For

hoolik, vergy

and anoyment

drink MALTONIC

dally throughoul the

year t

THE clothes of 1919 look almost as out of date to us

now as the clothes of 1899.

"Good heavens, did I really wear that?" you say, looking at a plcture of yourself in a skirt which reached to your ankles, a waistless coat which draped neross, your hips, and a hat which was well rammed down over your ears,

length skirt narrowed to a soca-

water bottle silhouette. It was worn over a black salin waistcoat

embroidered with buff and blue wool, 1924 You weren't smart un-

less your cont was a loose cross-over, tightly swathed be-

Dressing was a tiresome and expensive business during the low the hips and tying on one side, years 1919-1929. You could never be sure of being able to it was still made of gabardine, oud was certain to be trimmed with Rear last year's coat again this year; skirts and waists flow up braid. Skirts were still long and and down; panels went out and pleats cume in; deep V necks tight, but now allt up the side. turned into high round neeks; top-heavy hats dwindled to close- Atting caps.

1929 Short skirts

1934 You

at Jast, and if you look closely But look at the mannequin procession from 1920 to 1930 and you will at this suit you'll see a lot of points see that certain definite lines came into fashion, stayed in fashion, and are that go into suits to-day: a pleated: still in fashion to-day.

skirt, for instance, well-defined waist, Skirt lengths, for instance. In 1929 evening dresses were short in curving hipline and high neck. front, long at the back--remember? Gradually the front came down to Evening dresses had that peculiar the floor, too, and for the last eight years has stayed there. Day skirts line: long tail dipping to the floor have hovered up and down between twelve and sixteen Inches from the at the back, knee-high in front. ground-but, after all, that was only a matter of altering a hem or two.

Clothes have been more and more

wouldn't have built

to fit the natural lines of the

guessed this frock was women they clothe (so nuts to the nearly live years old, would you? It people who say that fashion gets looks right up to date with its off- BRUSHI over the bottoms of fruit crazier every year).

the-shoulder neckline, Atting bodice, tartlets and flans with white of You can see a definite trend in real flowers.

full-fronted skirt and a necklace of eng. This will prevent the juice stuffs, too: fur day they have got sinking in and softening the pastry woolites, shangler, more workman- To re-heat a rteamed pudding, cut like. For evening more rich and It into slices, place in a greased and showy covered basin, and steam for half- art-hour,

COOKING IDEAS

When using skimmed milk for milk

Take a glance down the years.

You shop in a slick 1939

sult in wine red wool- len, with high round neck, curving hipline, and short, easily fuit skirt.

You dance in almost a crinoline.

puddings, a small piece of butter 1919 murt uit was made with a low off-the-shoulder neck, of dark blue gabardine, sitting waist and spreading skirt of should be added to make up for the The nearly knee-length coat had a ice-blue slipper shtin. Black Incr lack of fat in the milk,

If bread has gone stale, hold the suggestion of a high waist; the ankle- trins the neckline.

loaf over stean from the litle for

a few moments, then place in a hot oven for fen minutes. Dry on n wire tray.

Salted almonds make

3 useful addition to the dinner table. Blancli and dry the nuts, roll in olive oil and fine salt. and bake in u stow oven til crisp. To make devilled almonds, add a Bttle cayenne to the sall and oil..

M. L. B.

The sharp contrast of white braid against navy blue wool flonnet is' striking on this prin- cess robe with white composition allde fastener closing down the front. The neck is cut to stand un slightly at the back; the braid trimming is used at the wrists and at the pocket edges; the skirt is flared.

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That "Just Sitting" Habit

RE you devotee of the "just do we think intelligently? Not at sitting" habit? It is that ten- all. The mind goes round and round dency to sink down by the Bre. or on the same small toples. Frequent- in sunshine, or in any other fairly lywe start nursing a grievance or comfortable place, ostensibly only moping over some little misfor- for a brief spell, then to sit and sil, tunes, until they begin to loom so intending to get up every minute, large that fe seems unspeakably but with one's resolve getting weaker hard to bear. This habit then be and weaker with every wasted mo- comes one of the finest Incentives to

nent, until one finds that not only depression!

the ininutes but the hours have flown.

I admit, as anyone else must, that

Losing the Power of Action

we must sometimes find time to A period of it not only depresses; stand and stare" and waste a little it acts as a brain-softener. It makes time, but that is quite a different fuddled and slow and mentally lazy. The brain begins to feel like!

unsuccessful suct-

thing from the settled sitting habit. articularly An hour or two frittered away light- I acts as a break and a relaxation, Pukling. In addition, and this is particularly worth noting, every task

but those repeated and prolonged which awaits us appears insuperable. periods of apathetic loading act as a we completely lose the power of vital distinct brain-softener. In the for-

ner case you are the mistress, and can control the occurrence, but in

activity.

Now supposing you are unlucky

the, inttee instance, the habit has got enough to have developed the habit,

En hold of you and you are its slave.

and you decide to cure yourself of here is 5 comforiing

You know how it starts. You step it. Then

up to the fire and hold out your thought. All psychologists will tell hands to the blaze for a minute or you that mental ills are easy to cure. two. "Delicious!" you murmur, "I'll They are easy to contract and easy just have a few moments." And you to cure. sink down in an armchair or on the be Arm and strong in your resolve.

But the point is you must į hearthrug and almost immediately The most important thing to remem- Jose count of the moments. There is ber is never to allow a lapse unill probably some work waiting to be you are cured, done, or you had intended to go out, but your wlli-power becomes less and less in evidence, and there you stop.

A Tendency to Laze

you will have

Until you feel that you are cured, to be exceptionally severe with yourself. It will mean an effort to first, but it will be well worth it. Your will-power will get) stronger, and the bad habit weaker,:

It is not only by the fire that "Just until finally you will find that you sitting" grows on you. You have have a complete hold of it.

probably observed someone going

out into the sunshine, armed with

both working tackle and excellent. intentions, then starting on that "Just

a few minutes" and prolongng it to

an indefinite period.

In fact, she who has

the un- fortunate habit can and many other places and occasions for indulging it, which only goes to prove what a hold

it can get; it is always somewhere in

Anne Morne

On The Wind Swept Prairie

Cushing, Okla.

It was cold. Lacking underwear,

the mind, rendy to assert itself. the Cushing high school debate conch And what do we do while we are used to school with his pyjamas sitting still? Do we plans anything, undernonth his clothes.

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Charm-Attribute Of Age

A Calm Mind

CHARM is an attribute of age. And later when we ure married, The first time I had that said "Why can't I have a servant yet? to me I was furious. Like most Why should I have to walt, und do eighteen-years-olds I never doubled this, that, and the other?" Against that i was young and charming. these reactions charm hús not R Now that I am some (1) years older chance. I begin to see the truth.

Youth in attractive, and tog often We dub #charining. That is why

Another woman in the same cir- we are 80 surprised when a charm cuinstances will develop charmingly. ing young thing" grows Into

Why? Because her reaction to the erotchety thirty-five. cause she did not have it to lose. routine tasks

She has not really lost charm be of life is happy. She brings to the annoying, irritating, worrying things

Charm grows with experience and is churn-an unselfish mind.

what is the root of fashioned by understanding. That That is why I agree that charra is does not mean, kowever, that he an attribute of age-age, that is, that loveliest quality a woman can possess has left the 'teens and twenties. can be won by rule of thumb. There But it does not come automatically is no saving to yourself. Now I with the years. Only those who will acquire charm. For that I need have lived in sympathy with others understanding so will read the have it. lateat work on psychology."

Youth may have generosity, good

It simply does not work out that nature, high spirits, good fellowship. way, for there is another dominating and a hundred lovely traits. Middle factor, and that is our reaction to ge may have tolerance, good will, life. It we react bitterly when the compassion, and a thousand arms of rosy dreams of youth fade before kindness but charm' is a gift to those reality we shall become querulous who love learned to live in under- and discontented. "Why should I standing with others. have to help with the washing-up?"

Dorothy Cameron

UFS

Here is an attractive all-white, cover-all-jacket of corded collon, diagonally lined to emphasise thin waisi, edzed in border of pink and blue with toque to match. The cleverly designed cost, worn at St. Petersburg, Fla, by Miss Jane W. Cetion of Wa- shington, has a sipper front. Underneath are worn tight, form- Aiting silk swimming trunks. The graceful greyhound is an so- cessory.

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