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The medium sized sailor with kettlo odge, above, is of navy reglisse, with low crown of stitched taffeta to match, and tied on with a band and bow of the silk.

The youthful bonnet type illustrated below is of black baku, with the brim edge at white Venise lace.

Cookery Hints

Helpful Hints

IF you have not a special threader

I for your sewing machine, put

apot of while paint on the foot just behind the needle and the eye will show up quite clearly and be easy to thread,

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Mustard and cress can be grown In a sponge hung in the kitchen window. It should be kept damp and the window left open when pos- sible. It can be gathered every day and fresh seed sown.

When making sandwiches, mix a little mustard and salt with the buller or margarine before spreading the bread. The flavouring pleasing and is evenly distributed.

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To remove distemper and white- wash splashes, rula with a reg soaked in hot vinegar. It will remove all traces if it is done quickly. This is a hint wurth remembering when đọ- ing redecorating later on.

"Put"a" knot in the Rex of your vacuum cleaner just where it is at- tached to the handle. This will save the flex wearing at a point where there is great strain on it,

Bacon will not shrink in frying if

it is first dipped in Bour,

mük has boiled over on the stove, wipe it up at once with cloth dipped In soap suds. If this is dione nu marks will be left that will be difficult to get off luter.

Rub nive oil over stainless steel articles occasionally. Then polish with a dry chamois. This will keep the bright and shining.

Twirl the blue bug in the water in which glasses are washed and they

BUTTER is best suftened by filling will sparkle when dried and polished.

u basin with boiling water, emptying it, and turning it upside down over the butler-diah.

A ittle salt rubbed over a hot fry- lagun before frying pancakes will event the mixture adhering to the pan.

Clothes which have become dis- coloured and yellow from keeping will be made quite walte again if soaked overnight in warm water to which a dessertspoonful of cream of tartar has been added.

When preparing apples for coolt- A teaspoonful of cream of tartar, Ing, pour boiling water over them too, added to each gallon of water and allow them to remain for a few minutes as the peel easily comes af, and with much less waste.

Finely grated lemon rind will enrich simple puddings and cakes in which the juice of the fruit is not required. In fact, the latter should not be added to cake mixtures as it It liable to make them heavy:

in which faded curtains are boiled wilt make them pure white. Boli until all the colour has gone.

To cover up scrutches on polished wood, apply a little lodine with a Leave for a day. small brush. and then polish with fumitare cream.

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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 31, 1940.

in the

Tub

A Shampoo in

This little girl has hor fluffy locks thampooed with a minimum of effort in the bathtub. Her hair it brushed to remove the dust,

· dampened, then a foamy oil shampoo worked through the strands. The lather in rinsed away with a hand spray, hold so the water runs backward and will not get into hor ayos.

Sometimes she has a bath at the same time-letting the soapy

·water run out then rinsing both hair and body with a showering of warm water from the spray.

Brown & Savoury

NOW

for kidney. It's not so EX- pensive us some folk think, for. it's all good, nourishing meat. A little of it goes a long way and makes any soup, stew, pudding or pieˇlu" which it is added rich; browa and savoury

Ox kidney-you can buy it whole or by the half pound-is used for stewing and for those appetising steak and kidney puddings.

-If Flavoured

with Kidney

make an excellent meal.

Ingredients: 4 sheep's kidneys. 2 rm tomatoes, Alb. pulatoes, mar-

Maybe you've had to complain gartne

that the kidney is us rare as six- Sit and split the kidneys and pences in a Christmas Pudding, but grill them slowly with the tomatoes, beware of going to the other ex- The latter can

be put on at "half

Says

Mrs.

ireme or you'll spoil the flavour, time" as they will cook more quickly Bardell

fut

Chop the kidney-up-small-so-thu-Peel, then chip the potatoes-diy-

them well and is well distributed.

try in bolling Kidneys need a little more all until golden brown.

meats to offset their rather Drain well, so that they arrive on

thes

mast

int inste. And, mast important! the table crisp and brown. they need slow cooking if you want

them to be succulent and suvoury Herb Flavour Cooked too quickly, the fibres hurden

This nourishing

soup made with

kidney is extra

good if accom- panied by fluffy

dumplings.

Here's a nourishing soup made with kidney and served with dumplings to make a meal of ii.

Ingredients: o: kidney, 1 carrot, 1⁄2 tursip, 1 onion, 3 small potatoes, and the ment becomes tasteless and Another savoury stew, flavoured 102, flour, los, dripping, 3 pts. water, 1 teasp. vinegar, 14 teasp. ketchup, rubbery.

Sheep's kidneys are best for grill with a shallot and some sweet herbs salt and pepper.

Ingredients: 3 or 4 sheep's kidneys,

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Ing or frying. if they're frozen when loz, margarine, 1 teasp. flour, pt. Wash and ew up the kidney, prepare and slice the vegetables. Meli -you buy them, thaw them out slowly stock, 1 chopped shallot, 4 teasp, the dripping in the saucepan and fry the onion.

in a warm place before coolting (save sweet herbs, 1⁄2 teasp. salt, and a Dip the pieces of kidney in the flour and fry lightly. Then add the the juice for gravy), then cook shake from the pepper pot.

water and vegetables, and simmer for three hours. Rub all through a sieve, slowly.

Skin and cut the kidneys into In. re-heat and add seasoning and flavourings. Serve with dumplings cooked And, new homemakers, if you've slices. Roll in seasoning made from separately in a saucepan of boiling water. Some of the picées of kidney not cooked a kidney Before, laite the the herbs, chopped alilot, salt and may be kept back before aleving and served as a garnish. outside skin off first. If you make a pepper. Fry a light brown in the tiny slit with the point of a kille margarine, then remove to Just where the fatty plece is, you'll plate.

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hot-

find the skin slips off quite easily, Add the four to the margarine and Cut out the small bit of fat. It when nicely browned add the stock will come in handy to grease the pan and bring to the boll. Put in the with if you're frying the kidneys, or kidneys and simmer slowly for 20 it can be melted down with other minutes. Serve with bolled carrots fots.

and potatoes. Succulent Stew

Stewed ox kidney is very flavour- Lome. Here is the recipe:→

Ingredients: 1 ox kidney, 1 onion,

1 pt. stock, 1oz flour, 1 teasp, sugar, 1 teasp. mixed mustard, seasoning. loz. margarine

Wash kidney well in cold salted water. Cut away the fat and centre, and slice thinly. Heat the sugar In

a pan until brown, then add the mar- garine and melt.

Fry the kidney and onion in this, atle in the flour and add stock, Cook gently for three hours, then add sea- soning and mustard.

Devilled Kidneys

A favourite way to serve sheep's kidneys is to devil them and to serve them on toast for supper.

Make the devil' paste first, with 2 teasp, made mustard, 2oz, margarine, 1 tearp, chutney, black pepper and alt. Work all the ingredients into the margarine with a knife.

Skin the kidneys, cut them open, spread with the devil-paste and grill over a crear fire. Serve on rounds of hot buttered toast spread with /chutney..

Grilled with Tomatoes

deliled: Kidneys (dished-up with grilled tomatoes and chipped potators

Pale pink" combining bands. of plain anddot; embroidered Swiss organdio makes this

· litfo:frock-in the 2 to 6 ramgo,- with beading across the neck- line drawn with blue ribbon.

Making The Most Of Your Linen Store

Silky Hair Is A Beauty Asset

By JACQUELINE HUNT

NEXT to being beautiful her-

self, the most thrilling thing that can happen to a woman is to have a beautiful daughter. It rarely "just happens" that a child is born pretty and grows up that way-it's wise, loving care from the cradle through the trying 'teens that makes a girl grow up good-looking, charming and self-confident.

dis- Mothers sometimes become couraged because their efforts do not

But

in show immediate results. keeping a baby Immaculately clean. in carefully supervising her diet and elimination and by correcting or forestalling smali defeels that might cause trouble later on, you are build ing the finest, most fasting kind of beauty,

And there is one thing that will immediate and gratifying show an effect on the child's appearance. Hair!

nicest Lovely hair is the thing a little girl can have. It can offset a plain face, freckles, clumsy hands with stubby nalis or an

arouse awkward carriage. It can pride in her looks which will en- courage-brushing and massage us she is able to do this her-

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selt.

Hair Must Be Clean

Keep her hair immaculately clean. This is easy in baby days, but when her hair is longer, tangled and grimy from play, shampooing.Is a real job. If you find shampooing your child's hair over a wash basin unsatisfac tory, try this new technique which is Jess harrowing for both you and the

Use e youngster.

bathtub. A spray with a good, long

hose, folded

washcloth

to

protect child's eyes from suds, a liquid oil shampoo which produces # foamy Inther

out in a hurry, yet rinses easily even in the hardest water, a bath towel, a couple of hand towels

and you're all set.

น the

Brush her hair thoroughly first to loosen dirt, lot and particles of the dead cuticle and to stimulate circulation Be sure to select a good shampoo. A combination oll and cleansing preparation like the foamy oll shampoo' or a soupless" olive oil

How to Shampoo

16 year some of us and the new them, then the worst of the pity-shampoo treatment is good. Both pilos. of bed linen in our cup-slips may be darned or even patch-produce n. thisic, rich inther. boards rather smaller than usual, ed, and used as a permanent over- and it becomet

than cover for the licking, the ends bring even more umally necessary to make use of sewn up. every bit of half-worn nen, and to git as much extra wear out of it as is possible.

Hero perhaps our grandmothers, who regarded thrift as it virtue, even when not a necesalty, can teach us

For the shampoo, have the child Thin blankets may also be turned sit in the tub, holding her head back sides to middle, but for this purpose, and covering her eyes with the folded real silk buttonhole twist is better, washcloth. Using the spray, wet the than wool or cotton, being very hair with warm water, holding the strong and having clastic qualities spray against the head so that the water flows back through the hair. Then pour a little shampoo directly

a thing or two. They always turned Blankets In Layers their sheets "sides, to middle" when

As the selvedges of blankets are on top of her head. Work up a rich,

they were getting thin in the centre not as strong as linen ones, over- foamy lather, massaging the

scalp

They tore them down the middle, sewing is not always suficiently gently with the fingertips and work- pinned the selvedges together, and strong. It is better to lay the binniset in the Buds through the entire oversewed them from one end to edge to edge, to take up a quarter length of hair. Rinse in the same manner you originally wet the hair. the middle, and then from the other of an inch or so of selvedge of one Repeat the sudsing and rinse again chil to the riddle, so that the work side, then turning the needle and talk with tepid water. was not "drawn" unevenly. Then ing up similar pieces of the other Squeeze, the surplus water out of the, child's hair. Wipe her face and the sides were neatened by narrow side.

Several. blankets can be laid on wrap one of the hand towels around top of each other, with a piece of her head turban fashion while you pretty fabric covering them, the dry her off with the bath towel.

hems,

This Pillow-Silps

If the shiests are badly worn, It] edges tucked under, and the whole may be necessary to cut the warn quilted together by machine, #trips-off-the-sirles-Allôr the conize.

This makes qulo a urotul, boa-t

has been over-sown, before hemming them, thus turning the double, theel cover, and it can be as attractive !! Into single size.

you please, necording, to the cover you choose, which can be bound with

If you have pillow alps which are a colour, or decorated with a self-

so thin that the ticking.which.halds).frill.

the feathers becomes vialbie through!

M: B."

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Neath the Shanty moon.

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Mr. Jones.

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60019 Song of the Islands

60070 Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. D34,

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2008 Old soldiers never die.

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Oscar Rabin and orch.

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complaints comes from the trades- men who have to cut off the little eardboard coupons with scissors, "If they were only perforated, likë stamps. .""

Rationing and ration cards are among the Briton's standard jokes. "Don't think much of this ration Bays Mrs. Bucket to Mrs. Broom. "I put the bit marked sugar-bi-my-tea, and it weren'i sweet at all

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We British people cat much less we did. Think of the gar- gantuun meals of Dickens's day! I remember the usual dinner at tiso country house where I spent much of my youth. Soup at one end of the table: fish at the other; a Joint and two entrees; a sweet and a Cruelly long savoury, and dessert.

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Better things are at hand too. Already tender, green asparagus has appeared on some tables. Whit Sunday is marked on the garden-. or calendar as the day when green gooseberries should be fit for cating Whitsuntide in early this -year, and the your has been a hard one. But the Rogation days at Ascension week, when the Church blesses felds and gardens, have brought & warm rain and sunshine. The sugar ration in being saved up. to ent with green gooseberry tori.

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