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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 5, 1939,

HAZELINE

FAIRY TALE EVENING

Dress for the deindiante in flowered crepe. The bodice is ruched, and has three matching rows of ruching of the hem.

China And

Glass Care

FASHIONS

PARIS.

RINOLINES and glass sandals. Could you imagine

anything more romantic? ̈

Yet glass sandals such an Cinderella' might have envied have tripped their way into the evening fashion story. Fairy slippers they are, made of crystallite, which is unbreakable.

They are fastened to the feet with straps of silver kid, and if you don't want to slip the first time you wear them you just rub sand- paper on the soles.

NEWEST crinoline frocks

are lovely. They're

made of clouds of foamy

tulle or lace or flowered crepe, and worn over petticoats of lace and chiffon,

Most of the crinoline frocks for young girls have tiny puff sleeves set in their proper place or half-way down the arms to reveal bare shoulders.

Older women have strapless decolletes or tiny shoul der straps.

To remove this, make a paste of soft soap, starch, and a little lemon juice. Smooth the infected area with this,

leave for twenty-four hours, and then

remove.

on

When your very best chian cups are duty, always pour the milk in first. CAN you mend broken china and Otherwise the cup muy develop

glass-ware? A little knowledge feet known as "crazing The symp of this type of first-aid is very use- toms of this are little fine lines which ful, and, once you have mended are actually cracks and which play cherished article successfully, you havoc with the appearance of the

probably gel the fever, and turn au

elina.

will

out the china cupboard optimistically

In search of further material.

If a cup does get atlucked this way,

Naturally really bad "ease" never store it anywhere damn, as professional treatment, but for ugly dark marks are liable to appear

neody

an ordinary breakage a home-made round the tiny cracks.

cement is all that is needed.

Make this by beating the white of

Puris Into il

Careful Storing

an egg and mixing it with plaster of Remember that the best china needs smooth paste. The careful storing. Tissue paper sand- arliric should be first washed and the wiched in between plates and saucers derelict pieces put to warm until will prevent scratches. if the china is stored on shelves instead of in a

dey.

Use a knife to spread the cement, cupboard, wrap each pile la transpar- and spread it evenly and moderately, ent paper. This will keep out dust, Fix the pieces together again and and there will be ho unwrapping to wipe ofl ny superfluous paste with u get at certain pieces.

damp cloth. Then Be the chinn up What about ginasware? This, 100, with tape to help to keep the repaired can' be doctored at home. Alum pleces in position. and leave to mends glass beautifully. Melt a handen.

Mending Breakages

little in a metal spoon, and watch that the braken edges of the derelict piece are quite free from dust before adoly-

If you are doctoring a piece of ing it. Actually, repaired articles of china which has broken in several this type can be safely washed after- parts, one piece at a time should be wards.

Joined, on and left to harden before Then did you know that waterglass, altempting the next. A littlo oll just as it comes from the tin, will paint to 'rotour the seams and match also do the trick? Paint the water- the china would boya elever idea if gluss on to the broken edges enrefully, you really mean to make a good job and leave to dry. This "convalescent" of the repair

will stand ordinary light work, but no Delicate trifles of china can be re- hot water for it, please! paired with colourless nail varnish. I! you panic at the thought of wash- Brush it lightly on to the broken ing any mended glassware, clean it: edges and piece together. It will be with methylated spirit. Use a piece: quite a strong repair and the join of cotton wool, and for hollows and will be hardly hollcenble.

riches excavate with a very soft Even the best china is Iluble to cer- brush dipped in the spirit. tain allments-mildew, for instance.

Madge Whiley

The hooded jackét árið fall elronlar skiri of of wide siriped woolfen in shades of brown with a blouse of white looped méfair make a grand 'óuißi, to`wear aboard:shió.

Evening dress

in

pink net

with black lace apron. The blue satin bow

is reminiscent of the chate-

laine.

Should A Husband Tell?

A

HOUSE-to-house canvass in Eng- to the husband's presumed Income. land has revealed that many One reason why husbands do not wives do not know how much their tell their wives is because

women will talk. It a wife knows her hus- husbands enrn.

As one husband who has never kept band's income, it is almost certain a financial secret from his wife, I am that her friends (and their husbands) prepared to concede that there is a know it 100.

to be said for the opposite angle. lot to

An evening frock in two colours-fuchsia and mauve.

The Joys Of Middle-Age

COMEONE has said, "To know how

to grow old 's the matter work of wisdom, and one of the most diffi- cult chapters in the art of living."

Many of us miss the joys of middle- age because we are so afraid of grow Ing old. We won't talk about it and we keep on trying to keep young, and camouflage the fact that our mile- stones are steadily mounting up.

Yet every age has its own joys, and we can't afford to miss any of them by hanging on to the tails of the joys of a period we are done with.

Nothing is to be

"to be gained by trying

to look and behave like women who are years younger than we are.

Girls have a good time nowadays, and many mothers are apt to feel a bit envious when they remember how their own precious girlhood wasted.

Was

they worked for their living it was often at something intensely un- nteresting. If they stayed at home they did uninteresting fobs and had very little money to spend.

Nevertheless middle age has many more pleasures than It used to have some years ago, so why spoil one's middle age by harking back to the memory of days which can never be ours_pgain"!

A Time of Happiness

Middle age should be a Joyous time for married women for, they are free of the worry of bringing up children. Their families are probably making their way in the world and settling down in homes of their own.

Then there is a chance to cultivate a hobby. Many women have longed for a garden all their lives, and sud- denly find it is possible to have one and devote time to caring for it. And

just

think of the joy there is in garden! Perhaps while their children were young they had little time for mak ing friends, but when the children need their care no longer they can

A

When two wives start confiding in and if I were starting married life each other, the amount of a husband's pick up the threads of past friend- anew I should keep all news of my Income is quite a minor

secret. In ships. catnings to myself.

many instances, husbands occupy a Actually, the practice of conceal- position in which it is undesirable for friends have ing income from a wife is more com- their colleagues and friends to know mon among the rich than among the the amount of their earnings and as poor. The wives of wealthy men a requisite, almost a primary, step in rarely know to within £10,000 the the maintenance of this secrecy they nmount of their busbands' incomes, have 10 withhold the information There is no reason why they should, from their wives. They receive

an ample allowance are

never short of money, and the exact Little Advantage to Wives amount the husband receives every What good does 1 do a wife to

year is no business of the wife,

know the amount her husband carna? Among the poorer classes, where From my experience, very little. If the margin is very small, the husband there is any nonncial worrying to be is often forced to reveal his income done, It in self defence as an "empty-pocket done, it certainly does not help to lustration of his inability to make dave two people worrying over the erds meet.

same problem.

Not a Mean Trait

Wives are more easily alarmed over Anancial dimeuilles than hus- bands and the man has the added

It is a mistake to think that hus- burden of having to gacify his wife. balds withhold information about If there are no financial dimeulties, their income because they are men. there is nothing for either partner to Often the opposite is the case, and worry about, and there is no reason women who have accidentally dis- why a wife should know what her covered their husbands' earnings have husband's income is.

also discovered that their houяckeep- In theory it is a very fine idea to ing allowance was a higher propor- start off married Hfe an a basis of tion of the total than most women perfect mutual confidence, share and receive.

share alike, what's mine is yours,

Nor does a husband's silence pro- and so on, but in practice there is nu ́tect him from arguments with his wife benefit gained.

about the amount of her allowance, Wives are better off without this The wife who does not know is far Interesting piece of Information, al- more likely to ask for more than the though many of them do not realise wife who does know. Imugination it. always adde a pound or so 'n week

SHORT CUTS

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When adding cream

or milk

to mashed potatoes make sure to scald li first.

D. C. J.

Bride Mines Ring

MELBOURNE.

When Mrs. Kalherine Allen decid- ed that her wedding ring was not Always use freshly boiled weler large enugh to be symbolle of what in making coffee. Water which marriage really meant to her, he lins remained in a heater for any; simply went to the Bendigo Hold length of time becomes flat tasting fields and dug up enough gold to per- and is certain to spoll an otherwise mit a jeweller to fashion hor ring. good cup of coffee.

into what she thought it to

They are sure to find that some old dropped out of their lives simply because, like themselves, they have had too much to do. And very soon they will find that they have many interests in common.

Middle age can be just as romantic and happy as youth if it is approached in the right spirit.

AL W.

A wide pleated front sofiena. this tailored autt-shirt of yellow rayon crene, the pleats outlined. with saddle stiteling in a co- tasting shade.

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Under the Distinguished Patronage of

His Excellency Sir Geoffry Northcote, K.C.M.G.. and Lady Northcote

at the

PENINSULA HOTEL

on

Friday, April 14 at 9:30 p.m.

Cabaret Show

and Bridge Room

TICKETS $4.00 EACH INCLUDING SUPPER.

Obtainable at the Hongkong:

and Peninsula Hotels.

Tables may be booked at the above hotels.

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