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HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH

July 21, 1939.

For Seascapades

These Tennis Parties

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Sewing Aids

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or shine, our

beaches won't want for colour this summer. Every bathing girl can have all the colours of the spectrum in her swim suit, and what could be more exhilarating than gorgeous tropical colouring as a change from the trim, prim office clothes in dark colours that Miss X and Miss Y wear most of the year round for daily-breading,

We advise them to indulge in all the colour. they can on holiday, for colour should be as much a part of the summer change as sea breezes and Bunshine-it accentuates the contrast from the daily-round,

Se this yeur, instel

of conventional navy and white, black and red, and so on. choose a sult that will alve rome South Sen Island glamour, full of coral reds. azure blues, palm greens and sun-glow yellows.

These all-wool "bathers" have been printed by quite ʼn new process, so that a very wide range of colours can be used, and they are absolutely fast to sea and sun.

First comes a sult with green ground floral pat- terned in coral pink, blue, yellow and white. It's inde with a lastex bust line and front skirt. The lastex bust line is flattering to the figure, as well as giving it and comfort.

Next sult is printed with ail the under-the-ses glories of a tropical island? There Die seaweeds of many colours, and fish of a dozen shades and shapes. This also has the lastex bust line and back and a front nkict.

The cross-over brasslere top is specially attractive on the third bather. This is in white, with an all-over design of colourful gallcons, and elastic nt bust line, back and legs makes for perfect fit.

Last, and guyest of ulf, is a sult with coral ground patterned in palin trees. South Sea maldens, Bowers and birds, in dazzling array. The white wool-rlubon shoulder straps are adjustable, the wool-ribbon being slotted through to tie in a bow in front, It also has

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the bust line and a front skirt.

The little line sketches show you Just what the back of each of these pure wool Wolsey suits looks like. They're grand both for sun and sea bathing

Skilful Mending

DELICIOUS hot-weather drink is annoying when FEW items, not generally found THERE is a logar belle inherent tunce to be favoured,

a favourlie But the tigers in work baskets, may be usefullys iced coffee. This can be pair of stockings In most hostesses that they have of the last set are selected, since the included. For sharpening scissors, a made with the least trouble simply springs a ladder, or a large hole, or suddenly only to get their husbands trace set was so short, and the same thing are of emery paper is iden). Aby taking a small tin of café au lait when a well-liked dress or coat gets wavering White Ikes upon the lawn, † happens again, and everyone is un- nail Ale, is useful for tucking under and diluting 11 will cold water ne- torn, for the repair is generally erect anel, buy a dozen tennis der the trees in five minutes, feeling small sons on thin materials. The cording to the directions. Pour the obvious, unless we are very, careful balls, and command the Arst dozen that the first lot, whose turn it is to ordinary darning mushroom is too diluted cafe into a cockfill ulinker about it. people who come to her mind to play again, are having very nich big for chlkren's socks and ollier for large stoppered for and shoke Here are several ways in which come over for fen and tennis,” in the best of it, having run their open- small items. A large emply cotton with one or two spoonfuls of vanillu mending may be almost invisible. order to ensure, the most successful ing set to 34 games.

reel serves the purpose well.

Ice-cream until frothy.

A monded, ladder is less noticeable kind of social und sporting afternoon. They do play again and keep it up At the bottom of the basket keep Pour into tall glasses, add a dab when a very small tuck is made on Personally, I, diske tennis parties, ill tea time, having now learned the a small tin of talcum powder. A of whipped cream if liked, und serve. the wrong, side, then the laddered although, like the majority of us, crafty tricks which keep a set go- little sprinklect on the fingers now If it is not required at once, keep part cut away us closely as possible from ihn very first afternoon when Ing. Then, when tea is over" (a fand then, particularly when sewing the mixture in a refrigerator or Ice-to the stitching. On the right side I respond to the wheedling, "Do draughty business under the tree), out-of-doors in hot weather, pre-box. Add the cream just before it looks like a flaw, which is less

having come, we're

few people the inevitable happens and the host.vent them from becoming sticky, serving.

obvious than a darn-or we hope so! atont“-för? tesnile on Saturday," Itching to be at it, cries. "Now, In a prominent position near the

Always use a very fine needle and continue, to rally to the call without wins about a men four, eh?"! The top of the basket keep" a mognet.

mending-slik that matches perfectly, za šmik" of my; fave. And yet, how ludies settle into their chairs, The There is no quicker way of recover-

and trim with a sharp pair of em- absurdly inuitull is..

high spot of the day has arrived, Ing lost needles and pins than by

broidery scissors, being careful not The Rods are at their frolles. A pushing it round the basket or over

to cut the stitches. or another lad- der will start, inen's four!

the door.

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You accept! you don your clean fannel Like in or car, and areve to and the aditional scene. The la the coural rolled and marked: thene Sightly sagging and thern Ind

And the then, however bad they

enlling for that solemn business with many be, are conscious of what is two racquets; there is the non-play-expected of them, und with sterf ing hostess sitting Under a tree with gusto they proceed to slash, lunge, her supposedly non-playing husband, jump, crouch, strut, siam, drive, and who intends to be in on every possi-dauli the perspiration from their eye- ble fat,

brows all to no great purpose beyond There, fou are your fellow-part- that of causing the odd rabbit out sers in the fabyyp tigers (craggy- to take up a position in the road with looking fellows on important landing net for fishing balls out blazers);

tigresses (brown,f the stream.

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powdered noses, and a couple of ruc-

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Hot Weather

Hints

Holes in the heels_and_tors_may.. be patched if you always keep handy a few old stockings of various shades, and use them to cut patches slightly larger than the hole 10 be mended,

N hot, sticky evenings, don't take. Trim the ragged edges of the hole. small pieces and put them into you hotter,. Take a tepid one just run-stitch it all round, about one- UT some Jean, cooked ham into PU a cold bath, I will only make Place the patch under the hole, and

Inel from the edge, buttered fire-proof dish. Sprinkle before you go to bed, and then pat eighth of an with dots of butter and put in the some eau de cologne over your en innking the smallest possible stitches tire body. Use a fresh-smelling on the right side, and, of course, even to heat through.

matching Have ready some chopped dates variety of bath salts or bath essence. using

silk. Run-stitch During the daytime, lighten your again round the extreme edge of mixed with #beral quantity of any of the breakfast cereals and pile this make-up. A good lea is to dilute the hole, or silp-hem the edge to the šlnewy ladies with) rafled socks, un- Then it is. over, and everyone

You will find this method much starts having return matches, and it over the ham. Return it to the oven your usual liquid foundation with a patch, using very small stitches,

and more prevented from becoming too greasy. Incater

durable than a quets apiece), the nondescripts like is recalled that the women haven't, to heat and to crisp on the surface, little skin tonic, so that your face 1st oneself (a,job lot of men and girls had a four, and they have one, and

Give the feet a cooling treatment. darn. in white), and the rabbits, terror- more return matches are played.

Rub leed astringent on the heels and Stockings that have shrunk in the stricken youths and muldens with oc und treshly asserted men's fourting themselves into hats and coats arches, and spare a little time to foot in the wash cun have a new toe tagonuf sucquets and an appalling gets going.

und core, grow quille boisterous and massage them before you reira at plece added in the same way, consciousness of the hungry tigers

night-It is well worth it. Twilight Inlling Bnds the finale lo uppish in their confidense.

Tears in Clothes and their mates, nearby.

all tennis parties in progress-a And the hostess says, "Well, it has! Don't try putting new make-up

Whe dashing single between two been nies, and all. You must come over old-it "invariably clogs the worst rabbits, who, taking the op-nguin." And, oddly enough, we_dolfskin.

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Spun Racquets

For a while the talk is general,portunity afforded by everyone put- and then the host says, "Well, what? about starting?" Everyone starts edging away from the court depre- calingly, at the same time intent -upon being in the first set. Then, after everyone has said "No fear, not the frat set for me," racquets are spun

and four players find themselves facing one another with twitching snilies. Then the chorus begins by the first to say, "Well, how'll we play? I'll tell you frankly, this is my first gume this year.

Racquets, are spun again for part- ners, and again to decido about ends, and the attacking pair thrust balls at each other imploringly, with "You

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and the tennis party opens according to ritual with a ma- jestic double fault.

The set wears away, and the playera chuff one another, and the host fatches balls from flower-bed and road, and the other guests listen politely to their hostoss and gnaw their nails us the vantage set of deuce games potters to 15-14, 10 all, 10-16, and on, on, on:

But at last it is over, and `ngale nobody wishes to play, and all cry earnestly, "I alt this ons out," and raquels are twirled, and another sot- begins, and the host, still out of it, goes on fotching stray balls, and the whole thing is over in about five minutes, a deceitful tiger, and tigress having been opposed to two perfectly honest rabbits who were just as bad as they said they were, and who wander dazedly off the court,

Then the hostess says, "Now, who hasn't played? You haven't Miss Sim, and typu :haven't, Mr. Crano, but everyone~ olsè tins.", "At once bashfulness sets in-again and reluc

and serve at once.

B. M.

Anne Brook

Red, white and blue rayon jersey blouse and sah with while corded" sharkskin · siseku are shown at the left. The hostess weary shirt -and ̋macks of yellow sharkahden tho' giri at the right combines sisaks of, aquis spun rayon with, a plaid shirt of the same fabric.

Jagged tears in clothes can be tended practically invisibly in this way:-Turn the garment inside out [and lay flat on the ironing table, with the damaged part upper- most. Carefully draw the edges in- gether so that the broken ends of the threads come together, but do not overinp. Pin or tack them through to the Ironing blanket to prevent slipping, they secure with strips of adhesive tapé, cut balf an Press inch longer than the tear. lightly with a warm iron. If care- fully done the mend will be invisi- ble on the right side.

A hole can be putehed In the same way if you have n place of the ma- terlat. Be careful that the grain of the patch follows the same direction as that of the garment. It is best to cut the edges quite straight all round the hole.

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Take the patch in position on the wrong side of the garment. Turn over to the right side, again, then, with matching cotton, or botter still with strands of hẻ netun material run-stilch along the taking the gruin of the material, alitches through the double material, and just over the edge of the hola. Mako very small stitches, and work from the right side so that you can keep your lines straight. The patch shouldbe about a quarter of an incl Jarger all round, this provides for Dny pull on the patch, Don't pull- the stitches too tight.

When finished, turn to wrong side, and press with warm fron over a damp cloth.

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Matel up the holes, then tack in Press woll on the wrong ́aldo and position all round. Over-sew the the patch will be invisible. That is Holes can be patched inviably in we thicknesses together, keeping to much better than darning a large net curtains, have a plece of, the lines,

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