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Nursery Calm

COMETIMES it in dificult in i:ese

strained days to preserve the balanced calm of the nursery atmos- phere, when youthful eyes discern in pictures the horrors of aerial wor faro, it seems impossible to give our children that enrefree, midlaturbed, period of childhood, which is their rightful heritage. •

It is just in this depressed Eme that we can usefully recall that lovely line, "courage, gaiety, mind-thre quiet mind." and we should con- sciously strive to gif these to our children,

Most babies are naturally courage- our and their courage will grow with them, if they are allowed to be in- dependent, if they are not fussed over by nervous parculs, whose very fussiness develops in the youthful mind many nameless fears.

It is not always easy to refrain from nervous excitements, but when wo realise what a deterrent and in- enlculable effect it can have on the mentul system of the child, we should count "ten" before we set impulsive- ly. Let us see, then, there are no hamperng "nerves" In the nursery.

A Precious Gift

And laughter-galety-what a'pre- clous gift to carry in one's wart; encourage

mirdi. your babier to laugh and be gay with them. If you can laugh at yourself, they will learn the value of humour and how to smile at their own follies,

It is perhaps hard to romp and be gay in the nursery when your own heart is worried, but it in wonderful how uplifting childhood's laughter can be; natural gaiety and a light- hearted allitude to We give the children the right background for healthy growth.

To our family we can ensure also # "quiet mind," a brain untormented by strange, strangling fears of in- pending happenings, If we help them to live from day to day, sheltering Them deliberately from alarmist con- versations and imaginations.

Whatever our doubts, our depres- ions. It is our first duty to encourage the happy natural development of our children so far as lies within our power, and I w: consciously develop in them "courage, girly,

Those Aloxondra curls are crowned with a broad brimmed hat in opal gray. Bunches ...of violate are the

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 1, 1939,

Hair & Hats—

Back to

Flapper Days...

only trimming.

Shoulder Curls

Velvet Bows

Chip Straws

and the quiet mind" we are on the Four-Fruit

right bath.

C. R. M.

Cooking Tips

WHEN making coconut pyramids,

Marmalade

A PRESERVE that is as health-

giving as it is delicious is made with a grape-fruil, an orange, a lemon, and a large cooking apple.

press the mixture lato a moist- Pet and see the fruits finely, re- ened egg-cup, invert it and tip it out moving peel and plps. Cover the on to the baking tin, when a perfect-sllees with cold water, and leave ly shaped pyramid will result.

Worm a lemon in the oven before using it for cooking and double the amount of Jufee will be obtained.

them for 24 hours. Then boil them until the apple slices turn to pulp. measitre, and allow a cupful of pre- serving sugar to each cupful of fruit.

If when making a fruit cake there Boil steadily for half an hour one, egg short, try a dessertspoon-longer, or until a little of the mar-

ful of vinegar for it will be found malade sets on a cold plate.

quite satisfactory substitute..

Turn into fars, and cover while

If tissue paper is wrapped round still hot.

a cracked egg before bolling, it will

prevent the white escaping.

Suct will keep fresh almost in-smoothly spreading the chocolate as definitely if frat melted in the oven It melts.

and stored in jars, and it has the Add a small piece of orange peel additional advantage of being much to the water in which a sweet pud- caster to chpp when treated in this ding is being bolled and it will col- tect most of the surplus grease, be- Before spreading a sponge sand-sides improving the favour of the wich with jam, lightly butter euch side Brat and the jam will not be

way

absorbed.

Iver will be greatly im If nosited in milk before

When frying chipped potatoes, frying; while steak in a similar con- sprinkle a little ordinary baking dition is best treated by laying it for powder in the boiling fat and they half an hour on one side, and a fur- will be beautifully crisp and brown. ther half hour on the other in a An unusual aiting for a sandwich mixture of three tablespoonfuls of cake can be made by putting a bar olive oll and one tablespoonful of of milk chocolate on both layers as vinegar. they come from the oven, and

G. G. T.

Latest flapper style with back bow and sausage curls at the sides.

BIRDS & FLOWERS

-in Bonnet Land

THE flowers that bloon

In the Spring have every- thing to do with hits this season. Many nadels aroa-veritable flower: garden. Styles have a flavour of the early nine- teen hundreds in keeping with the present trend for Atting waist- lines and spreading skirts,

But it is the angle that matter to- day, for no hat is worn quite on the straight,

At the top of the page you will see sketched an easy wearer. It comes down well on the right side and has a most becoming sweep of brim,

Small straws are worn at a forward tilt, especially the chip sallor anes, with no leanings to the left or to the right.

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1930

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Thowever, is not Way with sedately trimmed

a Sailor

with a band of rib- bon. Far trom it. A cloud of bright cerise velling or a trail- ing bouquet of honeysuckle is far more in keeping.

For the baby blonde or brunette who likes curis fastening with a ribbon at the back. there are delightful bonnet shapes tying with velvet ribbons or bright veiling In a large bow under the chin,

A particularly youthful style is the Josephine bonnet, fitting cap-like to se head with an enormous upward brim framing the face. In fact, millinery is designed to suit your hairdressing.

-For summer daya, when the new flower- printed dresses make their appearance. there are wed mushroom straws with minule crowns decked with flowers

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grasses and cars. More sophisticated styles havo verbena, pleasant-eyed narcissus and geraniums, intermingled, whilo small white birds in pairs are an increasing fancy for the more acdate"

Fruits and their blossoms are used in profusion, and you will probably see a sinall bunch of carrots or onions finishing off the petersham bow on a nent spring sailor.

First in the order of favour 1 placa a burnt chip straw. Such a practical model. for the one-hat girl, it goes with a suit, A. long coat er.dreas with equal equanimity a mere chango ef trimming from ribbon to. Dowers will do the trick.

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Two little girls in the new gypsy fashion mood are pictured here. The street dress combines navy and white, green and white, and

· red and white polka dots in its tri-colour treatment. The dinner gown uses white, red sint green- doited. cilk. In both costumes, the head kërchiol may be bulloned onto the watsiline to form an amusing-enspender in front and collar in back.

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P and back from the brow front, down towards the nape of the neck at the back-that's

dressings for 8pring.

But that is only the beginning of the story. Coiffures, mange right through the history book, from 10th century styles, to Victorian ringlets and the pre-war flapper bow.

That high Edwardian dressing was found

to be too ageing for mast women to adopt as a permanent style, so fashion has swung round to the other extreme and is going to make us too: in our teens again.

New dressings follow the line of the head closely and there seems to be R tidying up campaign. Maybe, those wisps at the back we endured last season has made hairdressers deter- mined that their customers should turn a neat hend to the world in future.

# 7HICH style you

Tip-Tilted W choose is partly

Hat for Ringlets

a question of the length of hair you have to play with and partly to do with what kind of hot you favour. For the ringlet style shown in our top sketch you need quite long hair at the back and you must wear a hat tipped for- wards to show it aff.

It's a lovely dressing for youthful wearers. In front a wreath of curla gives heigh and you'll notice that, with the kind of hat we show, the coiffure is quite safe.

At the moment the rage of Amerien (and it's rapidly gaining favour here), is the "Perukter dressing. They've given it this namo because it's modelled on the way the old Peruklers dressed their hair. In front it has a row of close curls on either side of the centre parting and the back hair is gathered into a black ribbon just

you see in our sketch, This style suits bruneties especially well and you need only a few inches of hair ot the back to do successfully

Women who don't like to be tied to oue kind of hat, are conservative in their ideas, will like the third coiffure we show. Here again. the hair is swept upwards in front, but roll curls give a soft le round the neck.

Here's how to woar the new chip straw sailort Tilted well forward to show the tiers of smooth roll curls at the back. Trailing honeysuckle and knots of ribbon are woll in keeping with the wild flower fashions of to-day:

0 sandwich inv with rich,up with fresh or tinned grapes and

ahort crust pastry and prick It return, to the oven till nearly cooked, Straits Settlements

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well. Then Alt with greased paper. Cover with à meringue made withi and beans and bake ull set in a fairly whites of eggs and 4 ounces of hot oven.

"THERE 'were more Morris ears caster sugar. Diedge heavily with sold in the Straits Settlements during Remove the beans and paper and caster sugar and return to the oven the month of November, 1938, than: put in a thin layer of marzipan. Fill to brown the meringue.

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