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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 milkand water. The liquid may be used for soup or cream sauce.

A kitchen table Es made handler by attaching wheels or casters. Then it may be wheel- ed from stove to sink or cabinet, or wherever needed or convenl. ent for use.

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 like you. It makes you feel young and coretree to dress like her.

So why not try the experiment, and have identical frocks made for you both this springtone

Ridiculous, you may say, I want my daughter to develop her own fashion sense, and not copy my taste slavishly. But, it is by letting her copy you that you can best teach ber how to dress herself.

Very few girls have

any Inborn fashion sense, They have to learn what makes them look smart, or dowdy, by experimenting with clothes during their, teens.":fa

Many Mistakes

pensive lesson

And it

You look

back on your own teens you'll remember what on ex-

that wass How often you made mistakes; buy- ing a frock just because you liked the pattern of the material, or a coat because you had a vague Iden it

match the frock would

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

And that is probably just what your daughter has been doing lately. It she coples 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,

of

She will watch the way you wear your "twin" frock, the typo occessories you match to it, and almost unconsciously she will absorb her fashion lesson. Even if she la so young that she has not yet started to buy her own clothes, the lesson will be a valuable one for her.

› Pinafore Stylo

you how

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

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

sketch will show attractive you can both look in this type of dress. It is a pinafore in navy blue taffeta, witth a full, straight-cut skirt, gathered into n 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 or- ganza-trimmed hern of the slip shows below the frock.

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

have Your TRIED

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with HILKE

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With SODA WATER? A sparking and palatable

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SODA WATER

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health margy and agjoymen drink MALTONIC dully throughout the

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willy -Interpretation of an sia French fable is shown in Thi Arise of printed slik. Red wind- mills and white baby bennels are mostieréð over a ground of black. (The bodice and,sicaves are knot- A fed mandatenpect and thò;fulinem/ #the skirt be concentrated – la: - from) so that it givės, a wind-

Klawzi zilhouette.

HOUSEWIVES, did you know

that the beat tea makes the bluest blaze when you throw a little on to the fire!

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 aclcan silver coin. in the pan in which they are cooked? If they are really toadstool the coin will

become discoloured :

that pure coffee held in the palm of your hand and press- ed 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 then pressed, the contents are suspect, as the tin cannot be airtight?

Preserving Family Life

(By LADY MARGARET FULTON)

ACCORDING to sociologists, the Rts which are to be derived from science, or medicine may be just us!

human, insillutions

the family-is threatened, with, de- struction,

For years, it seems, we have heard that family ties are disappearing, that motor curs, Alms, flats, wireless, servant-shortage-almost any excuse will do-are destroying family life.

Whether or not the sociologists are right, there seems little doubt that our attitude towards this institution has unmistakably altered during re- cent years.

are

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'Depicted above are new treat- ments in knitting bags and knit- ting or sewing stands. Both are made of woven stripped lea- therette in multicolours. Getting away from the wood handle, the Innovations feature will 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.

family life?

capable of possessing material, In- Time was when educatlon of chil- stincts as her more domesticated dren, particularly during the forma sisters, but when she feels that, she five years, was for the most part the has an ever-increasing value in busi- responsibility of parents. educational methods are revolution as she will continue to desire

is economic independence. Parents cd,

almost bound to re- A legate more of their children's up-whoal woman, however. (kome and the family is true enough, | may be as capable of but even in families where there are bringing to outsiders. The school has loving her children and family, lite children there is often a complate become more and more the centre for as

ng a woman

of the domesticated, lack of contact between them and a child's social activity.

It their parents, ช

becoming more home-loving type. She may, Even when children are very many ways, be more understanding, and more a custom for people to seek young their tastes are influenced by But if, as we are often told, mar contacts that are made are social, pleasures outside the home. Any It is true that many customs and opinion of school teachers rather rlage is a career, and worth pursuingther than family, contacts.

obtain as they grew older: their con ployed mother must be divided in her Con leglisation solve the growing duct and character being patterned allegiance to her heme and her problem of how to keep the best of on lines laid down by teachers and career.

Without denying the needs To try to preserve the family leaders of their school organisations, In

generation? merely because it is a relic of the

institutions at one time regarded as

the vor

very foundations of our social Hife, are now considered obsolete,

the

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parents. Similar

conditions for its own sake, then a fully-em-

family the

a result, by the mo they, reach, Influence cases this division has its of tho, new

cultural foundations of the social adolescence and maturity their start- and order may not be a practical pro dortis and alma have little in

poslilon, but there seems no good with those of the family on d for a woman who has export they retain the family because there

- reason why It should not be brought

order, economic and social.

Benefits Not Appreciated

Tho Totalitarian states claim that on the stability of the home,

principal occupation enced years of pro-marital economica success and had an Insightdato life, mood... What is the ultimate effect of up-to-date to fit in with the changed cfucution on firia? Ne va is this divided allegiance, may produce his country who would wish to sco Probably there are few people in a sense of frustration, a feeling of Undoubtedly it gives them'a broad resentment, a sense of injustice and, a curtailment of the freedom and outlook on life. ↑ It teaches them in- possibly, 'n desire for freedom,

rights of British women, dependence, but I often creates de-

won, even though such a step. bo. instrumental in

In solving the

the pro- biem. We may have read that vast: num-

event the family la bers of married couples are taking obstinate Institution because It La

In

any event, tho

la an refuge in hotels, boarding-houses, and human; but the sooner we restore the service-flats in order to enjoy the Idea of it as the true foundation of new.amenities, and that the baby car individual and racial health and is displacing the baby,

happinez, the better it will be for the British nation.

Why should this long-established sire for careers, and occupations A Floating Population institution be found wanting, no which, though they muy not exclude longer to supply the needs of the pre-marriage, will certainly tend to delay sent generation? Is it because our

social.machinery has become so cosh Careers No. Drawback to Marriage' plicated, that society has so increased.

A woman who eventually develops we can't longer appreciate the bene a first-rate ability for commerce, art,

Its hold ovór öur Individual Ilvės,that:

• That this tendency destroys the

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