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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 13, 1939.

VICTORIAN SAILOR FROCKS

NEW SKIRT LENGTH TO BRING NEW LINGERIE STYLES?

PARIS.

TF someone had told you last winter that this summer you Might be wearing a sailor frock, very much of the type Victorian small girls wore," you would not have believed it.

But sailor frocks for grown-ups are being shown in the spring collection of one of the most exclusive Paris couturieres, a woman who is famed for the designing of clothes, which are both distinguished and smart.

The frocks are in navy, with a navy sailor collar in the same material piped with white, and a full skirt. They looked charm-. ing on petite, girlish mannequins,

Other navy frocks had corselets and braces, and were worn over fine white blouses, the kind of schoolroom frock they wore in the early nineteen hundreds.

Sitish are us feed quite seventeen inches the cond

"Little" dresses were quito seventeen inches off the ground, showing the knees of the wearer as she walked. Incidentally they were all worn over, white petticoats.

There's no doubt about it, if these styles catch on, lacy pelti- conts will have to be worn, and they'll cause a general revolution of underwear styles. Maybe we shall have abbreviated versions of the lacy lingerie worn by the Edwardians.

Another fashion surprise-white silk stockings are coming. in again for daytime wear. They were shown partnering white frocks worn under navy coats, and with navy frocks piped with white,

With each collection the silhouette seems to get younger than ever, only one or two of the famous houses having remem bered that a woman cannot always remain seventeen-or look it!

More Compliments Please!

leave it. You

Do you pay people compliments? "Well, I'll have to

Are you more generous with don't seem to have what I want." touquets than brickbats? If so, take In social life, too, compliments are a bow. For a woman who can pay rather scarce. How pleasant, but compliments easily and with ain- how unusual, to hear a woman make cerity is a woman worth knowing, same such remark as this to another. She stands out from the crowd as a "You made these cakea yourself? lovable warm-hearted generous crea- Heavenly! Lucky man your husband lure ready to praise and acknow-is!! Little things, but they give lodge the good in others.

Vitality to friendship and help

So may people rush into speech woman to keep on her toes.

But perhaps compliments reach

when it is a question of scolding or blaming some one else, but preserve their lowest ebb in the family circle. praise in Members of a family so often take cach other entirely for granted, that

a curious relicence when duc,

Such a pity this! For don't you compliment or pretty speech be- Rgree that praise acts as an incen- comes almost a shock.

Live? When some one pays us band who falls to compliment his sallor dress compliment we try to live up to it, wife on her cooking or the new frock in navy We feel that a certain standard is expected of us, and a word of en- she has made herself, but is it not crepe with couragement or appreciation makes often a case of the kettle calling thei that standard seem easier to attain. Pan black? Aren't we women Junt

***** es alock?

We are all teady to blame the hus- A delightful

Yet again and again that little

word of praise is missing. How Rare in the Home

aften, for instance, does a mistress say to her mald, "Mocy. you really

How often do we compliment our]

are a treasure. You do your works menfolk on looking nicely turned

beautifully." Far more likely is she vul?

remark,

to

Finished

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How often do we remember to carly, say. Thank you; you really are a

Mary? i can't imagine that you've blessing." when the man of the

done your work properly."

In Business

house volunteers to do something useful with hammer and nails, laun- der the dog, or spring clean the clocks?

It is the same in business life. In most offices, compliments are about inclined to forget that a

Some grown-up daughters, too, are compliment

as usual as snow at Christmas time, is just as blissful to a mother and The chief who praises his clerk is just as encouraging as one paid to a rare specimen indeed. Well done, herself. And brothers and sisters Miss Modern! Very well done in- would have far more influence with deed!" would probably cause Miss each other if they indulged more Modera to Dwoon. Whilst "Can't often in you ever do a thing right first time?" might cause her to wince, but she

no" criticism. would nt least feel on ground.

tomillar

compliment Instead

of

are so many of us shy at

Why is it that wel out 20 few compliments?

hers?

It

Ask any saleswoman how, many Chiefly lack of practice I think! compliments come her way.Prob- Lots of us are inclined to feet self- ably she will be able to court them conscious when we pay a compli- on one hand. For instance, after ment, however deserving it may be. trying on unsuccessfully a whole re- So we ict giment of coats, how often does a

alide customer say to the assistant who ing that compliments are valuable.

Lot us make a point of remember has fetched them nit out. Thank They bring out the best in people. you for being so patient with me. They stimulate, and how they en- You have helped a lot? Instead it courage!. is quite probable she will remark,

Madge Whiley

very variety of sailer will be worn this Springwith small and medhra brims and a variety of trimming. Pique téim for feita la sombiking very now which do a fresh, crisp, touch to partol stades tere is one of the nowor tett saltors în zuinla- ture blue with; MiZylToctivo.com kwaling Band of white pique.

white

embroidery

on the collar

and sleeves.

Many of the fashion points for 1939 are shown in this frock. There is the short, full skirt, fil- ting snugly at the waist; the loosely-tied, feminine bow where the collar meets, and the youthful-looking "little girl" sleeves.

A Recipe Index

the time.

I not been exasperated occupied in preparing, cooking, and

DON'T suppose the woman existe cost against each, and lime after time searching for certain dishing-up, and on the other a brief recipes which she knows are "some description of the course to be fol- where in her possession, and which lowed.

happens to want in a hurry. Once the essential points and They may be in any of a hundred principles are clearly set cut the or more books in a bookcase where they were so carefully put for con- and one variation suggests another,

items fall into their places naturally, venience (7); they may be

reposing

she

In a kitchen drawer, among accounts

Only one recipe should be written

or pasted upon a single card, so that

on a file. They may be dirty from each can be taken out separately for disuse or from too much use and use and returned to its place, and

-being decorated with the spots

from

of

the

it

date

actual recipe taken from a favourite recipe gets tom or them; leaves get loose and lost a dirtied, a few minutes suffices to

'not necessarily denoting care copy it out on a clean caroun

card or bring lessness, but simply the natural re- up to suit

of wear and fear and a some- for, one recipe, they

If two or more cards groter

arośbecozenry.. what ineffective and

of course, haphazard

Hayal be attached by a clip method.

There is, however, an easy way many possibilities and individual This Is only a skeleton iden of to end these trials and save many tastes. The actual working of the

precious minutes, and here is how system is simplicity, itself.

It can be done.. A card index file,

such as is used in all up-to-date

offices, can be introduced into every

kitchen with great profit.

Ordinary Cards.

not

Mary Colvin

Useful To Know

oroughened

that have got

Salad Season

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HINTS AND RECIPES

T this time of the year the gen- eral ery is "Eat more salada." Salads are excellent for all meals, for people of all ages, for invalida, for workers, and particularly for young people.

A salad provides exactly the right amount of nourishment and can, of 'cource, be taken with cold meat,

cold fish, and even with cheese. distics,

Let your salads be more interest- {"ing this year"" "Don't get the leiluçe=" watercress-cucumber-tomato.complex and make your salads of these things only,

Salads should not be thrown 10- gether, but carefully prepared and made to 'look' attractive on plate or dish. Cucumber can be served in the form of dies as well as

slices, In and the same applies to beetroot. Indeed, it is more cusily digested when cut into cubes than when sliced.

It is not necessary to spoil a salad by the

the use of the outside leaves. of lettuce, for these can be used to invour a number of other dishes.

One will find that a grated onion will add greatly to the favour of a salad, while a little raw cabbage and

a few young carrots grated raw will make any salad more of a meal and less of an accessory to other things.

A Good Recipe

Mothers!

and increases and enriches the natural flow of milk.

Maltonie It prepared under the most hygienic conditions and is rocommended by the Medical Profession.

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PROTECT YOUR BABY DRINK MALTONIO, DAHY? Baby's health depends--new 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 daily; Is

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cubes,

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