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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 22, 1939.

If you are going to keep your hair up-

SUFRE'S No doubt about it-up-swept hair

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is dying as high fashion, and wisps at the back of the neck won't be a problem for most of us much longer.

But there are many women who haven't felt as good for years as they have this winter with their hair on top of their heads.

If you're one of them, make up your mind -fashion or no fashion--to go on looking your best. But you'll have to take even more trouble with your "up" hair now the rest of us have given up the struggle.

This "trainer" will be a great help in making your hair go the way it should go.

You can wear it for sports occasions, on evenings at home, and it is grand to wear in bed if you don't like the ordinary hair-net.

Get six inches of wide-meshed artificial wilk net, two yards of narrow satin ribbon ta match, and a small piece of "millinery muslin."

Cut the muslin to the shape of the dia.. gram, like this:-

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Then cut out two ellipses from the fishnet folded double.

Place the three ellipses together the muslin sandwiched between the fishnet. Now run two rows of rather-stitch all round, draw- ing up the ellipse slightly along the sides, rather more at the corners. Tack the satin ribbon over the edges as a binding, and machine securely.

Sew ribbon strings firmly to the ends. Now brush up your back hair with setting lotion and tie your "trainer" in position.

Here we have only one of the many menus in which left-overn are lifted to new heights of dellelousness by the addition of canned peas. It's a platter of creamed chicken and biscuits attrac- A grand way to serve left-over Uvely garnished wlih peas, egg silcen, radishes and parsley. chicken or turkey.

Curried Peas Tasty With Chicken

Baked Ham With Honey Makes Tasty Dish

You probably keep a few cms of

the commoner vegetables such

Then

sonings and served as they are or in may be added to the chicken mix vegetable cups.

ture, or heated separately and served

Here are reelpes for canned foods, your family will beg for:

CURRIED PEAS AND CHICKEN

4 tablespoons butter

6. tablespoons our

Few grains salt

Few gralas pepper

1 to 2 teaspoons curry powder

3 cups chicken stock

1 No. 2 can peas (drained),

2 cups canned or cooked

chicken, cul in pieces

as an accompaniment.

PEACH DESSERT BOWL

1 No. 2 can peach halves,

can southern style coconut Almond flavouring

Chill

New Way with Vegetables

which

would

otherwise

be

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new way of cooking salts vegetables which will eliminate poured away. waste and preserve their nutritive Try this inethed first with ordin- qualities.

ary everyday vegetables Brietly, It consists of cutting up the what a difference it makes to the vegetables and simmerlar them in a davour of cabbage, cauliflower, and When pens and beans are little water to which a small sprouts. Very

antily of margarine has been in srason oak them too in the new added. The preparation may take 12 way.

little longer than usual, but the extra Onions and Tomatoes trouble pays for itself, as the vege- tables once cooked, are ready to

to be

Then why not experiment and try some variations on the vegetable

served at once without draining or there? drying or other finishing touches.

to cuch

Cuz the

Having decided, for instance, that the vegetables are volted

you will have tomators and onions almost entirely in steam, it is alig for lunch, you prepare the onions tial to use a saucepan with u tightly and first cock them for 15 minutes, Atting Ifd, so that none of the steam escopes,

If there is any doubt about allowing 1 cz margaring and four

water af tablespoonfuls of it, wedge the ld with a sheet of

les pound of sliced onions. The vegetables greaseproof - puper. ure then left to simmer, and the tomatoes in quarters and add them,

ounce of margarine,| Liquid In which they cook-und with another which is served with them-retains but no water, after the onions are half-cooked. When they are ready, alf the valuable Julecs and mineral man

serve them with the liquor, which contains all the vitamins and pre- serves

the full uvour. The result

When Talking

To Children

is delicious.

RECENTLY the headmistress of a Very Juicy

as

You can cock every kind of greens and root vegetable by this method, and you vary the amount of water necording to the one you choose.

vegetables, such will-known school complained spinach, tomatoes, and vegetable of the modern giri's lack of voetbui-marrow take less water that root ary and ascribed it to the poverty vegetables, and you sprinkle them of their conversation at home. Un-with a little salt, but use much less doubtedly, reading and education than if you were boiling them in the strengthen our command of kogu-ordinary way.

te, but nothing is better than inter- A Tasty Winter Dish esting conversation for increasing,

our fluency.

left

A fine dish for winter is vegetable How do you tackle this question casserole made from carrots, furnips, of the children's vocabulary? The swedes, and

diced. potatoes, all number of women who Indulge in celery cut in rings, cabbages cut in baby talk or who insist on talking slices, and Brussels sprouts down to the chlidren is happily whole. Weigh these and allow 1.02 dwindling; there still remain many, of margarine and three tablespoon- however, who

ho either talk over youthfuls of water to every pound of vege- minutes. ful heads, or who refuse to engage tables and cook for 35 the family in real discussion

¡Strain off the liquid. Increase it to To draw out the children in inter- half a pint with cold milk and make esting

verity

you must Orsta sauce to coal your casserole. discard a

complex or any desire to be merely an all-knowing: Krown-up; then talk can become an

exploration where ninusing

cach chitl contributes to the discoveries and in which naturally the gulding influence remains with you.

Having established

yourself

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this footing of friendly family inter- the peaches thoroughly. course, at table or round the fire- Drain off the syrup and arrange side, you will have no difficulty in the halves in a glass serving dish, choice of subjects.

Some topics Flavour the syrup with a few drops arise naturally, others crop up from almond extract und pour over the Your evening paper, from news the peuch halves, Sprinkle a mound of children have brought home from coconut in the centre of the dish.school, from "inds" they have made This makes 5 servings.

In their walks.

Then you, as director, have the | skifirl objective task of keeping thei CARPET CASUALTIES

conversation going, inviting opinions, toast PARTIES are great fun for the king Tommy what he thinks about it, seeing that Joan contributes her children, but often hard on car-share, helping out with your own! pets. Candles look delightfully fesenwledge very subtly convey. ive, but candle-grease on the carpet Discussion Games looks most unsightly. A carpet

Heat butter, add flour, salt, pep-. as tomatoes. peus, corn and sweet per and curry powder. Add chicken potatoes on your pantry shelves for stock gradually and cook over hot

but any time you water,

until emergency use,

stirring constantly, want a bit of praise from your thick. Add peas and chicken and family with little effort, try serving heat thoroughly, Serve on

vegetabits dressed same canned

dressed and garnish with a sauted mush- up to bring out ther "personality." room cap. If desired.

Canned foods can be served Just as they come from the in, but in more fun to turn them into party dishes, and since the preliminary work has been done for you, it takes little time to turn out the dninfest dish.

Here's a tip for the homemaker:

ink of the purpose for which the fruit or vegetable is to be used be fore making your selection from the grocer's shelves,

If you want canned peach halves. for instance, you will and that some brands are sweeler and tenderer and best used just as they come from the ean or in uncooked dessert combino- tona, Firmer truft is better for brolling

sauteing or turning into dumplings or cobblers,

BAKED CANNED HAM

1 small ham weighing aboni

314 pounds

1⁄2 cup honey

14 cup brown sugar

Claves

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spotted in this way can be cleaned Or you can suggest n by placing a clean piece of blotting "enversation pieces"; ask the chil- paper over the spot and pressing dren for Interesting subjects for dis- firmly with a hot fron. Repeat with cussion. They will probably choose elean plcees of blotting paper until something they have been reading or lemove the hora from the tin, the grease is absorbed by the paper.hearing about; even the "under лп idea. Not score the fat and stick with cloves femove the last traces with a rag schools may have about J inch apart. Spread with moistened with benzene other only does IL broaden the minds of everyone who joins in the talk, but sugar. Bake in a hot oven 30 min- If the children have an artistic it opens also a new vista for youth- ufes to heat, the hun thoroughly and bent you may be faced with oli paint ful rendera. ginze the outside. This will serve stains or black ink stains on the car-

generously,

the honey and sprinkle with brown

CREAMED CHICKEN

SHORTCAKE

cups well-seasoned chicken

gravy or cream pance

3 cups fleed cooked chicken 1/4 cup mushrooms, sliced and

Banted. In butter

grease solvent.

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will be alert in their future

pet. Git paint stains can generally reading to note, "now there's an in- be removed with a clean rag mois-teresting Ideo we can discuss, or] tened with turpentine. As the rog there's a new word I can introduce." becomes solled replace with a clean Everyone will, of course, make piece.

own rules about the length of Black ink stahus, if treated while such person's dissertation, and only fresh, may be removed by pouring limit their subjects by the children's If you expect to add canned peas

a little milk on to the apol and rub-obvious interests; wise mothers will to casserole dishes or stews, select

bing with a clean rag until almost avold lurid, senantiulini, or war- firm, average-sized peas often de

Waffle sections or hot biscuits dry. Next make a paste with milk scare topics. To stimulate their algrated as "June" or "Early June."

Combine the gray, chicken-and' and salt and rub this into the spot. vocabulary award a good mark to Larger peas are best for soups or

and Remove with a clean rag moistened the one who works in correctly the Umbales while the tiny peas called mushrooms, litat dhoroughly

serve on hot buttered waffle see-with milk,

largest number of new wordsl "weol" or "sweet wrinkled aro steest dressed with butter and sen- tions or buttered biscuits. The peas

1 No. 8 can pesa

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Q.-W.

G. R. M.

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