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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

March 29, 1939.

Preparing for

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Spring Clean

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

Take note of mattresses and sugging springs which need attention.

Father will like to be consulted about the new curtains.

Most important! See that equipment is in good order.

LONGER, brighter days, ace hole bone y

first house being turned upside down father made with soap flakes and is chirrups of the birds. trying out when the campaign starts,

companied by

Discomfort at home, even in a

It is added to a warm worked into the pile with a nail brush, No rinsing is necessary.

their voices in the garden, never fail to arouse thoughts of cause, has a bad effect on tem- Lighter Woodwork

jrs of husband and family. The homemaker herself gets less tired if

spring clean, even though this isn't the bogy it used to be.

It's as if when all the polishing and painting, 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.

Doors and woodwork were stained she has everything worked out in with creosote when we first moved advance and can take the spring to this house, but we would like to clean in her stride.

have them painted this spring- Porthcawl. TF you give the woodwork

Newly Wed

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Brush Hair For Beauty

THERE is beauty in your hair.

Bring it out with vigorous brushing and proper care. Now 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 silly or atrinity and duli depends on the attention you give it not on your latest haircut or a re- cent permanent.

Doctors say that hair is us healthy as the person it adoras, so if your conscience tells you that you have shampooed and given yourself hot all treatment enough and if you have brushed and brushed and still your hair is dry or ally and full of don- druff you had better see your doctor or a dermatologist.

Check Your Health

Nervousness, insufficient sleep. worry, mensin, and dietary faults may account for your sick scalp and ndling huby, and all of these should be treated under the direction of a physielan. Once any physical ab- hormality has been correeled

you will see an immediate Improvement in the condition of your hair.

In the majority of cases, however, sensible living, regulur shampoos, an Deensional oll 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 bend. Begin ni 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 lightning- corners, and the metal curtain run-like stroke of the brush, stop and wipe the bristles on a clean, Iintless ner is xed to the underside.

towel to remove any oil and particles The finished pelmet is tacked, of dust or cuticle pluked up. along the front edge of the board. Spare Room

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Wash Brush Dally

Finish by luffing your hair with your Angers and short strokes of the brush to air the scalp and remove any remaining specks of dust. To We want 10 turn our third bed-re-arrange your eciffure, brush the It hair down to your head, the under TUOMI

A spare

layer of hair first them the top furnished with oddments: mahoganyers. Next, brush your waves or wardrobe, cane armchair, oak wash-{quirks upward or back in the direc- stand and diran. I have some green tion they should go and set them with your lingers and perhaps one linoleum. Any suggestions?

of the new hairdressing combs to TART by distempering walls and help you roll the end curls Into

eiling soft apricot pink and place. paint the woodwork pale apple! Wash your hair brush every day green. Leave the wardrobe its pre- it possible-nt least twice a week sent mahogany colour or enamel if you haven't time to make this a event. Swish the brush to match the woodwork, Toke the dafly back off the washsinnd, cover the through soapsuds three or four times, top with plywood and drape it with and rinse in clear water. If your DECIDE first what decorating or and spelling the print.

a chintz or eretonne petticoat for hair is excessively olly or troubled with dandruft give your brush n repairs are necessary and get Pelmet v. Frills

dressing table.

sterlising bath several times during these done before you start on the

same the week, Let il sonic a colution Curtains would be of the #pring clean: Also arrange for the I want to change from frills to sweep in good time.

pelmets with my new curtains. How chiniz: a tiny flower pattern on a of one teaspoon formalin to a pint cream ground. Enamel the chnir of warm water. Then shake the ex- You can save yourself trouble if do I fix them?--Fareham,

apple green and have a green Stted cess water from the bristles and dry you make out a fist of repairs, and

Turkish towel. another of cleaning meterials and HAVE a pelmet board fitted to cover for the divan. Two green and the brush, bristles downward, on a

each window. It is a simple beige rugs would look cosy.

an

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

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cienner, a vacuum

Food Tips

Add crisp raw cauliflower flaverets to canned orange and grape-fruft segments, and serve with tart dress ing for a "quiek satod."

any inops or dusters to be bought.

I spread the spring clean over af

Use the canned orange-grape-frult | fortnight, leaving one weekday and Julce combination to thin mayonnaise Saturday and Sunday clear in each or mix with French dresslig. werk for "breathing space."

Saute finely minced mushrooms This arrangement would enable and green pepper's in mazola, and you to do the three bedrooms, bath- thicken slightly with flour and gream room-mid-landing in the drst week; Spread on bread: allees and toast living room, dining-room, kitchen! quickly,

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

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Spilt tiny Anger rolls, take out the wards. itside and spread with highly sea-

soned mayonnaise. Then place Treatment for Tapestry

smoked sardines in the roll shells and decorate with strips of plekle or olive. Serve very colil.

Is it possible to clean tapestry upholstery at home?-Motherwell.

Mix 2 tablespoons freshly grated horseradish with 1 egg yolk; add cup muzoln, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, salt and paprika, and serve on pet fish salad for a "new one"!

Vionnet user pockets workert Into panels for a softly belted suit with roll; collar and bor pleats.

or run is good for general cleaning, but there is also a car- 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 bluos and oranges, drawn from the, blue and orange of the New York State flag. The blue strikes & new colour note in ne mesh linens; orange a smart in mixed tweeds. Plait and striped taffetas keyed up to orange are advanced for evening wear, these being given more import- ance than those keyed up to the blue.

Selection of Just the right cast and intensity of contrasting colour to combine with a selected costume shade will be important this spring. An example this year is found in the wide variety of yellows which huve Been brought forward to use with black, nnd various shades of

vy. As

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

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

Skirts are still swirling, flaring. lowing. If there was my suspicion that the world of American fashions was tired of the spreading skirt and hankered after a narrow line, cur- rent. New York fashion Upsters dispel the idea. Fullness all around, voluminous rippling width, front fullness, back ares, loose pleats, gathers, and newest of all-side full- Wear fullness over the hips.

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at either side, with enough fullness to widen the illhouette and leave the Tront and back flat. It's a formal fashion

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