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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 17, 1939.

Like mother, like

daughter.

SHORT CUTS

Cauliflower will remain white and give off practically no odour while cooking in half 'mlik "and" water. The liquid may be used for soup or gream sauce,

A kitchen table is made handler by attaching wheels or casters. Then li may be wheel- ed from stove to sink or cabinet, or wherever, needed or conveni- ent for 'sise.

They both wear the same style of frock- and like it. They look and feel good, so take.. a lesson from them.

gives small daughter a thrillingly “grown-up". feeling to dress liko you. It makes you feel young and carefree to dress like her.

So why not try the experiment, and hive. Identical frocks made for you both this spring?

Ridiculous, you may say, I want, my daughter to develop her own Inshion

senso, and not copy my loste slavishly. But it is by letting Her copy you that you can best teach her how to dress herselt.

Very few girls have any Inborn fashion sense. They have to learn what makes them look emarl; or dowdy, by experimenting with clothes during their teens.

Many Mistakes

And if you look back on your own teens you'll remember what an ex- persive lesson' that 'was,

How often you made mistakes; buy- ing a frock just because you liked the Pattern of the material, or a cont because you had a vague

idea

A would match the frock

.and then

on arriving home found that you looked frightful In both of them, and, anyway, that they didn't match efter all.

"And that is probably just what your daughter has been doing lately. If she copies one of your frocks, on the other hand, she can be sure that she is getting one that has a smart line, and is in really good taste.

She wil

will watch the way you wear your "win" frock, the type of accessories you match to it, and almost unconsciously she will absorb her fashion lesson. Even if she is so young that she has not yet started to buy her own clothes, the lesson will be a valuable one for her.

Pinafore Stylo

The simple full-skirted style of frock that came in with the Parla spring shows is just right for this "twin" act

it's not too sophis- ticated a style for daughter, not too youthful a style for mother.

This sketch will show you how attractive you can both look in this type of dress. It is a pinafore in navy blue taffeta, with A full. straight-cut skirt, gathered Into a tight waist belted with stitched tar- tan ribbon in red, white, blue and yellow.

The sleeves and round gathered collar are white organza, attached to a thin white silk slip which is separate from the dress so that it can be easily detached and laundered. The gunza-trimmed hem of the slip shows below the frock.

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Yellow straw "sallor" hats go with the frock, trimmed with plaid taffeta ribbons.

...have You

TRIED MALTONIC

You have!

.but have you tried

MALTONIC

with AN EGO,

with HILK!

A raw egg wall mixed with HALTONIC makes an idea! light breakfast...

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with MEAT EXTRACT: This combination provides the fullest nourishment in a mort: ngrembin` form,

with SODA WATER! A sparkling and palatable.

refresher,

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MALTONIC -cannot-be made

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drink HALTONIC duty throughout the

EWO MALTONIC

MALTONIC IS

NON-ALCOHOLIC OBTAINABLE AT ALL LEADING DEPARTMENT STORES, COMPRADORE SHOPS AND "DRUGGISTS

or from JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Tol. 30311.

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Frits

Investment Bankers and Brokers

Members of New York Cotton Exchange

Chicago Board of Trado

Winnipeg Grain Exchange

Commodity Exchango, Inc., New York

Canadian Commodity Exchange, Inc., Montroal. New York Coffee and Sugar Exchango Manila Stock Exchange

Hongkong Sharobrokers Association Shanghai Stock Exchange.

SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, MANILA AND SINGAPORE.

Cable Address: Swanstock

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Chiria Bldg., Hongkong.

Hankow Rd., Kowloon.

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A willy interpretation of an old Freuch fablo is shown in this dress of printed silk. Red wind- milla and while baby bonnetə are Montlered over a ground of black. The bodice and sleeves are knot-. fod and draped and the fullness of the skirt is concentrated; in inal an Cat I never in wha -blown silhouette,

HOUSEWIVES, did you know

that the best tea makes the bluest blaze when you throw a little on to the firet

that the best quality olive oil is a light green or a light golden yellow?

that when in doubt about mush- rooms, you should put a clean silver coin in the pan in which they are cooked? If they are really toadstool the coin will

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become discoloured. .. that pure coffec held in the palm of your hand and press- cd firmly should fall apart when the hand is opened?

... that if you press the bottom of a tin of preserved meat or other food and it makes the same. “plonky" sound as an oil-can when pressed, the contents are suspect, as the tin cannot be airtight?

Preserving Family Life

(By LADY MARGARET FULTON)

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Depicted above are new treat- ments in kuliting bags and knit- ting or sewing slandi. Both are made of woven stripped leal therette in multicolours. Getting away from the wood handle, the innovations feature silk,spun corded handles or celluloid.

The stand is covered with vel- veteen and has an inside pocket for accessories. The bag also has inside pockets.

CCORDING to sociologists, the Bis which are to be derived from science, or medicine may be just as

oldest of human Institutions family life?

capable of possessing -maternal in- the family-is-threatened with do-

Time was when education of chil- stincts as her more domesticated) dren, particularly during the forma- tisters, but when she feels that she For years, it seems, we have heard tive years, was for the most part the has on ever-increasing value in busi- that family ties are disappearing, that responsibility of parents. To-day, ness she will continue to desire motor cars, films, flats, wireless, educational methods are revolutionis- economic independence. servant-shortage almost any excuse

ed: Parents are almost bound to re- will do are destroying family life. legate more of their children's up- who professional woman, however, home and the family is true enough, marries may be as capable of but even in families where there are Whellter or not the sociologists are bringing to outsiders. The school has loving her children and family life children there is often a complete right, there seems little doubt that become more and more the centre for as a woman of the domesticated, their parents. It is becoming more lock of contact between them and home-loving

She may, type.

in very many ways, Lu more understanding, and more a custom for people to seck

But if, as we are often told, mar-pleasures outside the home. than the opinion of school teachers rather Flage Is a career, and worth pursuing contact

contacts that are.

are.mado ure social, parents. Similar conditions for its own sake, then a fully-em- rather than family, contacts. obtain as they grow older; their con- played mother must be divided in her Can

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It true that many customs and Institutions at one time regarded as very foundations of our soctul life, are now considered obsolete.

To try to preserve the family marely because it is a relle of the cultural foundations of order may not be a practical pro- of the social position, but there seems no good reason why It should not be brought up-to-date to fit in with the changed order, economic and social.

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As a result, by the ilme they reach influeny cases this dut tards and aims have little in common enced years of pre-marital economica. wife's principal occupation is adolescence and maturity their stan and for a woman who has expert they retain the family because there with those of the family.

What is the ultimate effect of this this divided allegiance, may produce

success and had an insight into life, Probably there are few people in

motherhood. education on giris?

**n: sense of frustration, a feeling this country who would wish to see Undoubtedly it gives them a broad resentment, a sense of injustice and, a curtailment of the freedom and outlook on life. teaches them in- possibly, a desire for freedom. dependence, but it often creates de-

site for carcers and occupations A Floating Population. whicht, though they may not exclude We may have read that vast num- marrings, will certainly tend to delay

Why should this long-established institution be found wanting, no longer to supply the needs of the pre- sent generation? Is it because our social machinery has become so com--- plicated, that society has so increased Careers No Drawback to Marriage

Its hold over our individual lives that A woman who eventually, develops'

wo can no longer appreciate the bene a first-rate ability for commerce, art,

rights of British women, taboriously won, even though such, a step might | be instrumental in solving the pro- blem. bera of married couples are taking obstinate Insitution because it is In any event, the family. Is an refuge in hotels, boarding-houses, and human; but the sooner we restore the service-dats in order to enjoy the idea of it as the true foundation of new amenities, and that the baby car individual is displacing the baby.

rhd racial health and That this tendency destroys the happines, the better it will be for the

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