1939-11-03 — Page 8

Tell me,

doctor

About disinfectants—for. personal use, I mean. Surely h is unwise to use strong, staining chemicals that have to be micastrod so carefully! What is good that is really pleasant as well... ? *

Nothing better was ever discovered for women than 'Dettol, the modern antiseptic. This highly efficient killer of germs will not stain linen, and is clean and clear, pleasant in smell and an excellent deodorant. 'Dettol' is non-poisonous, and is gentle and tender on human tissues. Ask your Doctor - Buy a battle from your chemist and be ready.

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Can You Write Letters?

TN modern times the loss of letter. Iar about phraseology and porgraph

writing as an art has been widely ing: let your diction be vivid and deplored; but now with the minimis personal as in daily life, and never ing of telephone conversations and mind !! a certain laxity creeps Into the necessary parting of many friends, your style. letters become again an important means of communication.

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It is often a help in this breezy and Individual kind of letter-writing to Letter-writing is an art: if you onlt the formal opening "dear So- would establish on intimate and per- and-so." Frequently when one has Donal contact through the written written that the first sentence bo- word with scattered friends, you will comes a problem; rather start as you have to avoid every stilled phrase would a conversation. and give free rein to your pen as the ink flows on to the parchment.

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Those letters are going to be the sole bond between so many people In It is extraordinary low voluble you the coming months that it is worth n may be when you run up against a little thought to develop this friendly long-lost acquaintance, and how art. If you can find the right way sterle you become of 'anecdotes and of expressing personality on your personni huppenings when you start paper, stamp and envelope need no to write to an absent one. First of longer enclose a cold formule, but all it's rather a good idea to go about will become an individual and warm with your eyes and ears open all day, contact which can bridge endless and to store up and remark all sorta mites.

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of le incidents Interest So-and-so.

An Hour for Writing

Amusing details of your reaction and those around you to the new circumstances in which you And yourself, and all sorts of minor in- eldents will illustrate far mare truth- fully the Hfe around you than a well-

phrased but forced account, expressly

written.

To Make A Bright Belt

BELTS, you may think, are a small

Item in our dress and quite unimportant; on the contrary, they can give a smart, well-finished look to the plainest of frocks.

Then, set aside a certain time of the day or week for letters; have a small table or desk set somewhere in privacy, and even if guesia overflow Why not try to brighten up a dark your other rooms, take pen and paper frock? Make a belt in wool, and the to your bedroom bureau. Don't over-brighter the wool the better it will look the importance of a pen that look, Brown and yellow, or pink and Hows continual dipping may dry up green make a good two-colour con- your eloquence. Thien just imagine trast.

your pen friend is with you in the

room, and begin to detail those in- It is a simple matter to make a belt eldents as you would if you were from wool, All you require to start talking. No need to be too particu-is a crochet hook, and one or two balls) [of wool in whatever colour suits yourį

dress.

ON ironing day put the dish towels First of all crochet a chain the size

of your waist. Add an extra two inches for folding under at each end

November 3, 1939.

Marshmallow Dainties

under the Ironing sheet and they will be beautifully ironed and ready to fold away by the time the ironing of the belt. Now start to work in is finished.

double crochet until you come to the, When you are sewing pull needle end of the chain. To keep the work and cotton through a piece of soap.fat go twice in to the last stitch in

the This prevents collon getting the row. Now carry on along the tangled and makes for easier work- other side of the belt. Keep working Ing.

BOX of marshmallows in the like this until the belt is the desired width. This you will decide for your-lurder does not mean merely that self; you may want it narrow, or you there are delicious sweetmoats that may wish it to be very wide.

Boldness Is Over-Done

TULARE, Col.

Of all places to drive n stolen car,:

a youth made the mistake of driving

When you have the desired width turn in the ends and her with strong throad the same colour as your wool If you have any wool left you could use it instead of thread,

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Short Cuts

Meringue will stand up higher a generous pinch of baking anda is added to the beaten egg whiftes.

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any

recipe,'

Soak raisins, dates, currants and might be served at any time. As angs for five minutes in a little boiling matter of fact the box has grown water and they will blend better with from a small one to a fine large one other ingredients in where the housewife has learned something of the delightful ways of

brahmallows in cookery,

Just a few recipes will show seme Now make two small choins and of the more strategic uses for this fashion them into loops, Sew these airy sweet with the gelatine base. one right up to a parade here. ac on to one side of your belt, and on Try them, and you will get a pleasant cording to police. An officer handling the other side sew large buttons, surprise. the crowds, noticed the license plate, which you can buy for a few pence arrested the driver in front of hun-at any store. Now all you have to Rich Marshmallow Frosting dreds of onlookers and took him off) do is fasten the loops over the but-

to the city in only a few steps tons, and your belt is ready. away.

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It's smart to wear flowers thila season, Smart women adore this luxurions arrangement of gardenias to wear on a beigu twill coal. Note the matching wristlet to wear on the glove.

Use double boiler for this cake frosting, Place in the upper pan 1 cup brown sugar, 1 egg white, pinch of sall, 3 tablespoons cold water. Rent until well combined and then place over boiling water. Bent steadily until the mixture rises up in peaks (7 minutes,) Remove from heat and add 12 marshmallows, quartered. Fold in. Cool thoroughly. Beat cup butter until very light. Add cgg yolk and beat again. Add tenspoon vanilla. Fold the cooled sugar mixture very lightly into the egg yolk mixture. Spread on cold

cake.

Marshmallow Dainty

Before cleaning behind radiator, spread * dampened newspaper underneath it to catch the falling dust,

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When hanging out the wash, sew a clothespin bag onto a clothes hanger and push it along the line as you hang the laundry, so that you won't have to stoop for the clothespins.

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To prevent skins of apples from wrinkilag or bursting in baking, all the skips beforehand In three or four places, to allow the steam to escape.

When Sun Tan Fades

OMEN who have acquired a be W coming cont of tan during the summer months and are trying to lose it again as "quietly as possible, will find a slighur Jaundiced look Whip until stiff 1 cup cream. Add can be avoided by using a deep b marshmallows, cut in small amellin coloured face powder with picces. 1 tablespoon sugar, plach of rouge and lipstick of a 7030 tan salt, 1 cup drained small pineapple shade.

cubes. 2 sliced bananas 1 cup

chopped nuts. Flavour to taste with

Earrings, loo, can be used to tono

vanilla or other flavouring extract. with the changing complexion. Tiny Line small dishes with sponge fingers stud earrings of platinum are ideal and pile in the marshmallow mix- for wear with hair bleached by the turc.

Stand In a very cool place for several hours before serving. Garnit each serving with a halved cherry.

mun, and at the same time do not emphasise the fan of the skin.

For evening wear sapphires set in shallow platinum frame and

If desired, halved cherries may re- clipped to the ears or fxed in the place bananas, and finely chopped, curls on the forehead, contrast well Serve, hot or cald, on sponge pud-with the rosy-coloured make-up de- manded by fading suntan. These ding, gingerbread.

gems should be worn with. deep blue eyeshadow.

Ginger Marshmallow Sauce

Place in the top of a double boller 1 cup warm water and 10 chappedi marshmallows. Cover and heat until the marshmallows have melted. Add 4 tablespoons sugar and a pinch of fait to 3 lightly beaten egg yolks. Sur the marshmallows and waler into this and return to double boiler, Sur

Air Castles In Soap

and cook 2 minutes, Remove from TOLEDO, O-Thirty pupils in the heat and add 3 tablespoons finely sixth grade at Washington school chopped preserved ginger in syrup have turned from blowing soap and teaspoon grated orange rind. bubbles to building castles. In their Serve, hot or cold, on aponge pud- study of medieval architecturo, they ding, gingerbread.

carved from scop a reproduction of a M. 0.

castle.

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Silhouettes for evening making fashion nows this autumnit. Here the high waisted Empire line with floating, back panti lends height to the wearer. Black is used for this long sleeved din. ner gown with the flattering de- colletage qullined in dull gold braid. A side view is shown in the figure on the wall.

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Dr. Barnardo's Humes benefit by £63,000 under the will of Florence Edith Wearing, of Wimbledon, who died recently, leaving £70,000. Es tale duty amounted to £13,425, and the only other bequest was one of £100. The gift to Barnardo's was in memory of her parents.

This wool jersey dress has un- pressed plate all around. It kan s'plum skirt and mous green blouse. The belt is red spode with a coin purse in centre front. slido closed

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