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Preparing for

EVL

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

the Spring Clean

* Make space for new clothes by getting rid of white elephants.

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Take note of mattresses and sagging springs which need attention. Father will like to be consulted about the new curtains. Most important! See that equipment is in good order.

Discomfort at home, even in #1

war

ONGER, brighter days, ac little advance planning will save the upholstery, it is added to a

companied by the first house being turned upside down lillier made with soap flakes and is

when the campaign starts.

worked intÐ the pile with a nail chirrups of the birds trying out

brush. No rinsing is necessary. their voices in the garden, never fail to arouse thoughts of a spring clean, even though this Isn't the bogy it used to be.

It's us, when all the polishing and palating, soapsudding and scrub- bing have been done and everything

is shining like a new pin, we have really pushed Old Man Winter back Into his place and the sunshine has

come into its own once more.

with top

and vacuum cicaner, a

od vase, has a bad effect on tem- Lighter Woodwork

pers of husband and familly. The homemaker herself gets less tired if

Doors and woodwork were stained she has everything worked out in with creosote when we first moved

take advance and can

the spring to this house, but we would like to clean in her stride.

have them painted this spring

Newly Wed

Porthcawl,

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woodwork give the I was married inst summer, so am initial coat of good aluminium new to housekeeping. Can you help paint before, the undercoating and me to work out a spring cleaning inishing paint, there should be no risk of the creosote working through Before you really get down to I programme?-Coventry.

and spolling the point. ECIDE first what degorating or

repairs are necessary and get Pelmet v. Frills these done before you start on the spring clean. Also arrange for the I want to change from frilla to sweep in good time.

pelmets with my new curtains. How You can save yourself trouble it do them?Farcham.

Food Tips

[AVE pelmet, bourd Atted to each window. It is a simple

Add crisp raw couliflower flowcrets you make out a list of repairs, and to canned orange and grape-fruit another of cleaning materials and HAVE segments, and serve with tart dress-uny mops or dusters to be bought. ing for a "quick salad." ;

I sprend the spring clean over a

Use the canned orange-grope-frult fortnlight, leaving one weekday und julce combination to thin niyonnaise Saturday and Sunday clear in each: or mix with-French dressing week for breathing_apacu..

Saute finely minced mushroonis This arrangement would enable, and green peppers in mazola, and you to do the three bedrooms, bath- thicken slightly with four and cream. room and landing in the firs! week; Spread on bread seca and toast living room, dining-room, kitchen; quickly.

and hall in the second week. Work from the top of the house down-

Split Day Anger rolls, take out the wards. inside and sprend with highly sea-

soned mayonnaise. Then place Treatment for Tapestry smoked sardines

the roll shells

and decorate with strips of pickle or Is it possible to clean tapestry olive. Serve very cold.

upholstery at home?-Motherwell.

Mix 2 tablespoons freshly grated

horseradish with 1 egg yolic: add HOT brun is good for general

cup intizola, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, salt and paprika, and serve on Aula for a "hew one"i

Vlonitely usce pockets Sworked Inta dnela for a softly belted, suit th roll collar and box

cleaning, but there is also a car.

pet shampoo which can be used on

Wear Blues, Oranges As New Colours

New York.

As a compliment to the New York World's Fair, French and English designs are playing up blues and oranges, drawn from the blue and orange of the New York State Bag. The blue strikes a now colour note in fine mesh linens;; orange is smurt in mixed tweeds. Plaid and striped taffetas keyed up to orange are advanced for evening, wear, these being given more Import- ance than those iteyed up to the blue.|

Selection of just the right east and Intensity of contrasting colour to combine with a selected costume shindie will be important this spring. An example this year is found in the wkle variety of yellows which have been brought forward to use with black, and various shades of navy.

As reported previously. slightly greenish tones of yellow are favoured to combine with black. But gold and the more subtle whent yellow are used with the light navy which the exclusive costume houses pe, showing.

Returning from Europe with now ideas for spring, millinery repre- sentatives single out, cognite" is a new colour in straw. This shade is described as a golden cast of light brown, It is recommended for its novelty, and suggested for individual emphasis.

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Skirts are still swirling, faxing, flowing. If there was any suspicion that the world of American fashions was tired of the spreading skirt and hankered after a narrow.", Hine, tcur

Now York fashion tipsters dispel the idea. Fullness all around, voluminous rippling width, front fullness, neke flares. loose pleats, galkers, and nevest of all-side full ners. Wear. fullness over the hips at either side, with enough Juliness to widen the allhouette and leave the front and back, flat, ils n' formal

March 29, 1939.

Brush Hair For Beauty

THERE is beauty in your hair.

Bring it out with vigorous brushing and proper care.

Nów that the up and down con- troversy appears settled, you can concentrate on the thing that really matters the health and texture of your topknot. Whether your hair is shining and silky ur stringy and dull depends on the attention you give it not on your fatest haircut or a re- cent permanent,

Doctors say that hair is as healthy 34 the person it adorms, so if your conscience tells, you that you have shampooed and given yourself hot oil treatment enough and it you have brushed and brushed and stil your bufr is dry or olly-and-full-of-don- druff you had betler see your doctor or a dermatologist.

Check Your Health

Nervousness, Insufficient sleep. worry, uncinta, and dietury faults tany account for your sick scalp and alling hair, and all of these shouki be treated under the direction of a physician. Once my physical ab- hormality has been corrected you will see en immediate Improvement In the condition of your hair.

In the majority of cases, however, sensible living, regular shampoos, ani occasional oil treatment (even for olly hair) and 10 mniutes of brush- ing night and morning with a clean | brush will bring about a miraculous

change.

Perhaps the main reason for brushing your hair is cleanliness, First, brush the back of your head from the hairline to the crown to stimulate the circulation. When the scalp has a warm, tingling sensation. go over the entire head. Begin at the middle of the back and, separat- ing the hair into one-inch strands, brush each one with brisk upward wooden shelf with rounded or square strokes. After each third fightning- corners, and the metal curtain run-like stroke of the brush, stop and nur is fixed to the underside.

wipe the bristles on a clean, ntless Howel to remove any oli and particles

of dust or cutlele picked up.

The finished pelmet is locked along the front edge of the board. Spare Room

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Finish by fluffing your huir with your fingers and short strokes of the brush to air the scalp and remove any remaining specks of dust. To We want to turn our third bed-re-arrange your coiffure, brush the hair down to your head, the under buto 4 spare τούμ

the top layer of nir lest then furnished with oddments: mahogany layers. Next, brush your waves or wardrobe, cane armchair, oak wash-curls upward or back in the direc- stand and divan. I have some greention they should go and set them linoleum. Any suggestions?

with your Ungers and perhaps one of the new hairdressing combs to the end curls into START by distempering walls and help you roll

celling soft apricot pink and place.

Wash Brush Daily paint the woodwork pale apple) Wash your hair brush every day Keen. Leave the wardrobe its pre- if possible--at least twice a sent mahogany colour or engine! if you haven't time to make this a event. Swish the brush to match the woodwork. "Take the daily back off the washstand, cover the through soapsuds three or four times, top with plywood and drape it with and rinse in clear water. If your a chintz or cratonne petticoat for a hair is excessively olly or troubled with dandruff give your brush a dressing table.

sterlising bath several times during Curtains would be of the semel the week. Let it soak in a solution chintz: a tiny flower pattern on of one teaspoon formalin to a pint chair of warm water. Then shake the ex- crcom ground. Enamel the apple green and have a green fitted cess water from the bristles and dry cover for the divan. Two green and the brush, bristles downward, on a

Turkish towel. betge rugs would look cosy.

week

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