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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 23, 1939.

This reversible coat combines

an Imported blanket plaid and gabardine.

PINAFORE

GIRLS

Fashion for

the Teens

chosen by

Mary Grace

66▼JOU have plenty of nice

Yrses for mother and twelve-year-old Peggy, but why nothing for me?"

Well, girls, perhaps you have the right to grumble, you are rather neglected, so here's the latest fashion news for you. Dress designers just now have a young-girl complex, and every woman should look as young as possible, so sweet seventeen will have everything on her side.

or

A neat little high-buttoned blouse.

slightly open at throat,

skirts

hort and dark coloured with 11 matching hat, and blouses that pick up the colour of your hair or eyes. Plaids and Checks

are

Itats ore important. There many pretty pull-on styles that are most attractive, No exaggerated high crowns, they are all of medium height, but a feather in your cap

PLENTY of

SAUCE

HOW mean most housewives are Pineapple Sauce

24 mall with sare! Usually boattul has to go round the whole of the Latrie.

Favourite sauce for a good "duff." Ingredients: large lemon, to cornflour, 14oz. sugar,

pist milk, a pinch of salt.

Ued in sauce pineapple make; de- licious flavouring,

School- girl pinafore I rock in chestnut brown with a boyish shirt in striped slik.

are Kay

eut material an

please, and your quill can be as long Ingredients: 5 pint of crushed as you wish.

a good As to materials, there me Yet Peliciously fruit flavoured tinned pineapple, 2 level teaspoon- sauces are easy and inexpensive to fuls of cornflour, 2 teaspoonfuls of variety for your choice. Nice wool pint pineapple juice, hopracks for just now, they will give later on make it's just a matter of planning, sugar,

you excellent wear, and pinch of gait.

and Blend the cornflour with a little of hilly plaids that Orange & Lemon

the pineapple Juice, add the salt colourful and jerseylaine printed on the girl who makes her Boil the rest of the juice with the the cross, good idea this as it is not orange, crushed pineapple, pour on to the easy for

blended cornflour, and the sugar, stir clothes at home

The cress. and boil for 7 minutes.

And now to describe the two pina- fore frock which I have selected. Put the milk into a saucepan with

The one on the left. No. 1236, is pic- the sugar, and the thin peel of the

Excellent served with a cold sweet, tured with a front and back view. lemon and orange, Bring to the boil,

You will require 2oz. butter, 2oz. Many of the newest designs are eut and leave to infuse for 20 minutes.

Mutor, 2 tablespoonfuls of high at the back, which gives ou Blend the cornflour with a little cold easter

creamy blancmange, 1 tea- altogether neater line to my mind. milk, ld the sdt, pour on the boll- thick,

Note. too. the wide buckled belt ing milk, add the salt, pour on the spoonful of vanita essence.

Cream the butter and sugar well which will give you the fashionable boiling milk, return to the pan, boil

the blinemange and waisted look. and stir for 5 minutes. Cool, adel together, add the orange and temon juice, slowly vanilla esence, and whisk until a

creamy consistency. reheat, strain and sedive.

Mock Cream

your car for loveness if you want your upswepl

coiffure to gleam with perfection.

This brush has the stift

tristics made of genuine Siberian boar which promise to keep wispy ends in place and give the desired effect of solznce feml- ninlly, as designed by Keni of London.

Dino at the

Parisian Grill

IF

Fing Wines

Good Food

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you have any beauty problems, why not try Mrs. Baten's Boauty Salon which has a reputa tion of being the most rollable in the Colony, Peninsula Hotel.

Tel. 58081, Extension 34.

a.m.

This design will look most attrac- tive in light navy if you are blonde, and there is a most delightful shunde of chestnut brown for the brunette that will show up the bright tints of her hair.

Stripes or eliccks for the blouse, they will both be equally popular. Peasant Style

1236

For the second No. 1237, I have! thesen a pescant style pinafore top that is cut square at the back as well as the front.

It is shown in a plaid woollen material, but would make up nicely in a pretty crepe.

With this is short-sleeved blouse for evening dates, but I have also included a tong plain sleeve so that you have a practical everyday design at the same time.

Fashion's Trend

LIVERYTHING in the Puris dress

Ger he smalcina

1. is in a state of being braided. bound, and decorated with soutache bruiding, white and rotoured, and trimmed with feathers, stones, and nail-heads..

There is nothing that cannot be brought into the fashion picture when once the idea has presented it if to the imaginative French.

Scroll designs are favoured in many ways. They may be seen in white upon boleros and

Tea Connoisseurs

"said the

4400 you come

Mothers!

and Increases and enriches the -natural flow of milk.

Maltonic is prepared under the most hygienic conditions and is

recommended by the Medical

Profession.

E

PROTECT YOUR BABY DRINK MALTONIC DAILY! Baby's health depends-now and

In the future-on the food he receives during the first months. To ensure that Baby is given rich and uncontaminated milk, a wise mother will drink Maltonic dally; it

fortifies her.body against sickness

EWO MALTONIC

身健和怡

MALTONIC IS NON-ALCOHOLIC

F.33

Obtainable from all Compradoras, Dispansaries

or from JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD., Tel. 30111.

得

1237

Plaids are all the rage to-day. À plain short sleeved blouse piver just the right contrast with a tarian pinafore skirli

USEFUL HINTS

JSE tissue paper to put floor polish

US

on the linoleum and finish off with a soft duster. Gives a lovely polish, and the paper can afterwards be used to make excellent firew lighters.

When gravy has been over-salted, add a pinch of brown sugar. This rounteracts the salty taste.

*

Coal is saved by using lumps of from Scotland?" pumice store with it. This gives and can be used American brightly. tremendous neat, "Well, maybe you can tell me this-over and over again. 1 it true that up in Scotland they

than they do drink more tea Hussa?

Well. is it true? I am not quite sure, for the official statistics of the tea trade tell us only that tea is the national drink of Russia. Great Bri

an, and Australia.

A tea traveller I once met that his best customers in this coun- try ived in the West Highlands. But he would not say that they drunk more tea than the housewives of the Midlands and the North of England. the however, that He remarked. Scottish women demanded a higher | quality, evidently working on

the

policy that good tea is an economy

in the long run.

He suspected that Scottish, house- wives semetimes brewed the tea

twice, or

by i ness by the fireside, and (greatest sin of all) insulted good tea drinking it as an accompaniment to meat, fish, and even bacon and egg! In the Wrong Setting

Once he had been in A Scottis lown on a "Games Day," and be- enuse so many country folk were in town the owners of the local res- taurants cut the ordinary luncheon off the menu and served instead n afternoon steady stream of "high teas" of fried Ash and chips and tea! The tea tra-

was horrified. My American friend would have said: "I told you so!"

couts, or in the brightest sequins upon the hems, shoulders, and veller-a most worthy Englishman— waistlines of evening gowns. Plaques of brightly-coloured celluloid flowers are used on the front of belts, and tiny composition flowers are grouped into collir trimmings and edgings.

Applications of colour resemble printed designs in some models, and insets of fire lace are likewise fa- voured.

Sequins trim a great number of evening skirts and completely cover the bodices of some of the evening face and tulle dresses.

are

Chiffon scarves in bright colours wound round the песк and fall to the ground in vivid splashes of colour on darker dresser.

Lace and embroidered muslins are used for afternoon blouses, and trim mings. Variety

Hets

A variety of Ines make their ap- pearance in the hats being shown in Paris Just now.

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For sports wear there are fells with two points in the crown, divided by rental pleat and possibly folded gusset In the front of the brim na well as crowns whlelt teper up in small square tops encircled by bands of ribbon fa contrasting colour. The range of styles for street wear Is wide, and Include boat shopes trimmed with tall cars of wired rib-| bon. As well as barels with high stiffened fronts. Scottish designs appear her and there, and the halo goes up and up, and by way of com- pensation grips Tower at the back of the hew

Pill-boxogies are being seen made entirely of flowers, in shodica of violet, yellow and purple with brims, and a phly model · seen, consists of a fitind Cown of ruched black taffetas, with a pus pink: brim: made. In overlegoltig" "Melt pelali, while, a short,

from the centre SPENNEY,PR

But if we are a nation of mighty tea-trinkers, how some of our no- cestors must turn in their gravesi

Less than a hundred and fifty years ago, this tea babit was nothing more then a stupid modern notion "which couldn't possibly lost." In 1790 the wise ment of Scotland were much concerned over the immoderate use of tea and they kept on nssuring themselves that at the price (tea was 4s a pound in Scotland in 1790 and sugar was 11 a pound) it never beeume a fashionable could

beverage.

the eighteenth gen- Even earlier tury it was publlely condemned as "un Improper diet, expensive, waste- ful of time, and enleulated to render the population weakly and effemin- ute."

In 1744 a body of Ayrshire fariners entered into a bond against leb and swore to leave It "to those who can afford to be weak, indolent,

and useless.'

But tes! Like time, tea marched on, out of the exclusive circle of the jard's drawingroom and the stylish salons of Edinburgh, Into the kitchen. and bothtes of the farthest parish. Strong men drank it, and women and children. There are now women in Scotland who drink tea as often as a dozen times a day.

Yes, maybe the American is right. Tea could not be called a historic Scottish drink, but we seem to have adopted it pretty thoroughly.

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The bracelet length sleeves in this frock are emphasized in ruching done in colourful print. The half-size frock is in black rayon crepe, the metal pin in three colourE.

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