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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 3, 1940.

Persian colours influence fashions, as shown here. The dress with the full skirt is in

colours, Persian print in gay The blouse that reveals a strip of mude waistline

In the Oriental manner.

Linen Lore

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INEN is

Item an important every home and deserves the most careful treatment if it is to have

life.

Is long and useful

This especially true Just now owing to the rising cost of new material.

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When buying new inen hold it up to the light so that any undesirable)

threads knols or broken

will be readily seen.

Note also that the threads in first quality linen criss-cross evenly and run straight neross from one side lo the other.

Another test for good linen is to give it a sharp tug in alternate dires- tions without tearing it.

Good unton cloth which is linen mixed with hemp is splendid for sheets owing to its wearing qualities, To lest qually, fold it over and then run the Anger-nail along the crease which will appear quite faint when the fabrle is again opened out if the material is a good one.

SLIM STYLES

THE fact that you are obliged to

discriminate in your choice of styles If you are "not-so-slim" is to

somo

extent an advantage, for this necessity for careful consideration is a very great help in acquiring the clothes-sense that puts you in the ranks of the well-dressed,

If you have so ample a figure that: you wisely refrain from certain ex- treme fashions, do not allow your self to be unduly timid or conserva- tive. There are many good styles that can be so cleverly medied that they are quite as well suited to the stout woman as her slender sister,

Nothing Shiny

Never buy shiny materials for your frocks or sults. If you are aiming at

slimmer

effect. Dull-surfaced

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Inbrie, in bluck or neutral shade, will prevent your figure being too clearly outlined. For the same object of camouflage, give your preference to plain materials rather than to those bearing large patterns,

Stripes, however, are a good choice, especially if you see that they are narrow, and that their direction up and down, or diagonal. The effect of stripes strategically used is so definiely slim- ming that you will wear your striped spring suit or summer frack with a confidence hitherto unknown,

Skirt-hems, we are warned, are to be worn lilither, but use your dis criminalion, and, ignoring the deereei of shortness, wear your skirt at the length that seems to look right for you, and that will not be extremely briet.

If you are decidedly round in face, be wise and pass by the very tiny. brimless hat. If you are tall in pro- portion to your Inches, choose a mo- del that is wide rather than high. und, should you be both plump and short you will find that a hat with some helght puts you in Inve with your looks.

Nothing Tight

An easy it is essential If you are to wear your clothes with grace as well as comfort. An appearance of bring squeezed into frock, coat, shoes," or gloves, far from disguising plump- ness, only draws attention to ft.

In the case of evening frocks, you may score over your slender sisters by having neek and arms just nicely tounded. But, supposing that have excreded this degree of plump-

you

ness, be discreet and have long sleeves to your frock, or wear one of those becoming sleeved cunters.

Choose your clothes deverly, and you need never suffer from the over- | stout complex. Lel the dress and

style help you to be slim.

IL W. S.

Swedish Apple Charlotte

The fashion for big pockets, which came out of the last Paris openings, is seen here in resort-

The

beach wear,

extra-long Jacket of very casual type, cut up at the sides in shirt tafl fashion is the right length to so- commodate such large pockets. Model is in medium blue shark- skin.

Cottage Cheese Is

Rich In Food Value

By JUDITHI WILSON

MANY delicious, ment-like dishes

cán be made with cottage cheese. Derived from sich milk, this dairy by-product does not get the credit for its food value that it deserves. In a class with lean meat lind eggs, it is said to be more valua- ble than either in material that builds muscle, blood and bone. As a basis for the main dish of a meal, cottage cheese will materially reduced ex- penses. It may be used to advantage, also, in soup, sauce, salad or dessert. Here is a dish that makes a ne main course for a meatless dinner.

COTTAGE CHEESE LOAF 1 loal bread

2 CEES

teaspoon salt

cup condensed tomato soup

2 tablespoons butter, melted

2 cups cottage cheese

1⁄4 cup chopped stuffed olives

1⁄2 cup soft butter

DINNERS

Cream of Oslery Soup Coltare Chress Loaf

Buttered Spinach Baked Onions

• Lelluce and Watercress Salad

Apple Pie

Coffee

Liver and Bacon

Buttered Carrois

· Escalloped Potatoes Sliced Tomatoes

Date Cottage Cheese Flo

Coffee

1 cup evaporated ralik or thin

cream

134 cups (1 lb) cottage cheese

1 cup (4 pkg.) sliced

pasteurised daten

Grated rind of lemon

2 egg whites

* tablespoons finely chopped

nuts

To beaten egg yolks, add sugar,

the

Carefully trim the crust from the apices, salt and milk. Mash cheese loaf of bread and cut a slice about with a fork or rub through a coBTEC 4inch thick from the top to make aleve. Cut dates in pieces with wel a cover. Scoop out the crumbs from scissors. Add both cheese and dates the inside of the lost, leaving to to first mixture, mixing well. Fold 1. Inch on sides and bottom. Beat in grated lemon rind and the egg. ска slightly; add 2 cups of the bread whites. Pour mixture into baked crumbs which have been scooped pastry shell and sprinkle

nut from the inside of loaf, the salt. tomato soup, the 2 tablespoons melted meats over the top. Bake in a very moderate oven (325 degrees F.) until butter, cottage cheese and olives. the custard will not adhere to a silver Fill hollowed-out louf with the mix- knife inserted In the centre. This lure and cover with the top. Spread takes from 30 to 40 minutes. Serve lop and sides with cup soft buller. Bake in a hot oven (400 degrees F.) for about 30 minutes. Serves to

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For an extra fine dessert, this pie is recommended.

DATE COTTAGE CHEESE-PIE-

baked pastry shell

2 egg yolks, beaten

CUD Surar

4 teaspoon elnnamon

1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg 1⁄4 teaspoon salt

Food Problems In

Hot Weather

HOT weather is often the despair cool. In the same way, earthenware of housewives. refrigerator milk coolers of a shape to slip over will help to solve the problem, but the milk bottles are invaluable. They cold water, if you cannot have one of these other should be immersed means of storing your food will have then put wet over the bottle.

Every larder should be equipped to be found.

of muslin covers and The ideal pantry should face north, with plenty

bought very cheaply, So that the sun can never shine these can be directly on to it, but often we find mode of mosquito netting stretched larders facing south or west, to fit in over wire or metal frame. Small with perforated zine with modern building schemes. In meat safes, this case, it is a good plan to hung sides, and hooks at the top for hang- up a plece of sacking or garden mating the joint, save their cost over and ting, well soaked in cold water, dur- over again. ing the hours when the sun's rays

the larder window,

very cold.

Serves 6. COTTAGE CHEESE DEET SALAD

3 to 4 tablespoons vinerar

teaspoon MURAT,

Salt and pepper

2 cups grate or ground raw

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PRESENTS

A POPULAR CLASSICAL PROGRAMME

"Traviata." Preludes to Acts 1 & 3...New York Phil. Sym. orcli,

.Mischa Elman, Violin,

Stokowski and Philadel. Sym, orch.

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Legende. (Wieniawski)

Meditation "Thais,"

DB1584

Finlandia (Sibelius)

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DB1354

Cavatinn.

Humoresque

DB1902

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Cavalleria. Mamma, quel vino e generoso,

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Dress the ment' with vinegar as RATE some stule broad into are hottest. Sometimes it is possible soon as it arrives, and then hang it crumbs and try them a golden to plant a bush where it will screen in the safe, pincing this in a brisk In very hot weather, current of air. brown in melted butter or margarine,

good plan to half cook the meat! Peel, core, and silee

Good ventilation is essential. The it is some cooking

kept be

open, as soon as it comes, then complete apples and stew them with suger to window

and cooking later when i is required. of finely perforated sweeten till they are a thick puree,

Put the apples and crumbs in al-zing, which is in itself a cold metalted meats, beef and mutton, keep

should

and B. plece

Although Bnen ran be guaranteed ternate layers-in-a-greased ple-dish. and non-conductor of heat, nailed better than white meals, such not to shrink it is advisable to allow † having a layer of crumbs on top, and across it keep out the flies Dark veal,-poultry and lamb..

two-inches-in-the-yard should there

be no guarantee. Even a good quali-bike for ten minutes in a moderate-blue or green muslin can be used in Ways with Vegetables

ty fabric will not give the best service unless treated carefully afterwards,

and this especially applies to washing | and ironing.

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When washing linen, choose pure mild soap and wash in a heavy Inther, Squeeze the

through soop the linen lastend of, rubbing it as this treatment is liable to roughen the de- licate dore. Do not use too much! blue and certainly no starch, and it. the weather permits, bleach the linen afterwards on the lawn. Removing Stains

If table linen is always to appear spolless

to new will and equal naturally require occasional attention lo remove any unsightly stains.

Tea stains should first be smeared with glycerine and after the affected port has been spread over a basin, pour boiling water through it from a height. Ceffee stains will also res pond to the same treatment. but glycerine need not be used.

Frult marks should, however, be soaked for an hour or two in milk before bulling water is poured

through them, walle stains caused by chocolate should be sprinkled with powderal born and soaked for wenty minutes before being treated! In a similar manner to coffee stains, Remember that stains will be re- moved more casily if they are treated immediately they occur.

Ann Thorogood

Try Simmered Sausages

Most women connect anusages with breakfast or supper, allied to the fry- ing pan or grill. It is interesting to note the different method-simmer- Our American ing-employed by

they con- lun-

cousins, and from which coct the following appetising

cheon dishes:-

to

Place required number of sausages -in pan of boiling water and simmer

Donut 10 for about minutes. Remove

a petal- ashet and arrange around shaped flower made of halved pears filed with cranberry, red-currant, or other such sweet rolish and decorate with parsley.

oven.

Serve with ú pouring custard sauce.

Chinrise Track

Shown is the chemise dress, much discussed type for Bam- mer, and in this instance done sheer crepe, with ingeris collar and revers and turn-back cuffs. Note Que Long bodice Ilae,

akit, plenteil - smoothly all around.

Cook a chopped onion and treen pepper in melted margarine until ten- der. Add sufletent, cornflakes ac- cording to the number of participants

cupful to each person-chopped in a moderately Place on platter nimente

icat around simmered sauenger, 'and reasonings.

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-M. W1 Xm thoroughly and surround on serving de with simmered sausages.

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Ellos required number of oranges

Tematocs are easier to slice if you -ih skins in half and notch around the use a saw-edged bread-knife. Even skius for decoration, Pour one table-le rlpest tomatoes wii cut into spoonful of honey over each, Itent smooth, even allces this way...

place of zine if it is kept scrupul

All perishable foods should be oulsy clean.

The walls and woodwork should be bought in the smallest possible quan- titles. Butter should be taken out of printed with washable enamel, which its paper at once, and pressed into a can be wiped down daily. Shelves are best made wood, cover them with cooler or clean basin. Salad greens willte oilcloth, and a slab of marble will keep crisp if washed and drained, then placed in a large bowl covered

on which specially perishable things entirely with a plate. Vegetables can be placed.

Keep Flies Away

should be kept in a wire bisket so that the air can reach them from all sides.

The golden rule is absolute clean- Green and root vegetables do not liness, and all larders should be "mix" together, so keep them care- washed out daily during hot weather fully apart, or both will deteriorate.) with water to which a little mild dis- Stem vegetables, such as asparagus, infectunt has been added. This helps should be wrapped up, as the light to keep away flies and other insects. spoils them.

Careful and regular inspection will Tones, soups, and stocks should be do much to prevent waste of food, reheated every day, and on no ac- Anything that is in the least bad or count replaced in the pantry until sour must be removed at once, or it quite cold, as the slightest steam from contaminate the rest. them is likely to cause rapid decay

will smel ware is the best for among other food stuffs.

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This frock is in rayon shark- skin with By front, fulness at centre front of the skirt and a navy grosgrain belt with white dots,

Jewels To Match Colours

DB2185-6 Symphonic Variations (Caesar-Franck)

Cavalleria Intermezzo

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A Look Through The "Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

Jund 1, 1890. The Emperor of Germany has directed the bullding of a yacht, to be the largest of her class in the worid. It is wald the Emperor will, when the yacht is ready, pay a visit to the United States."

PHONE 24848

for the British Empire. Mrs. Lily Morris recolves the M... decorations and several prominent Chinees are awarded certificates of Honour,

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5 YEARS AGO

June 3, 1939 Fire is adding to the horror of tho |situation in Quetta, according to the latest reports filtering, through from the scene of the earthquake disaster yesterday, In addition to the 44 Royal Air Force men klied in the

between 20 and 30 are reported. The total European casualties in the earthquake are 100 killed and 200 Injured. The police force of the city is almost annihilated and the Air Force Inszen have been heavy. The alty Itself is completely razed. Indian casual ties have not yet been estimated but it is feared they will be extremely heavy,

White larder use, as it does not break, is Milk is always the greatest problem casily cleaned, and can be boiled now in hot weather. It should be scalded FASHION experts have worked out "Lo-Temps" says the liquidator of the the jewels that will match or tone Panama Canal Company has appointed

U.S. Wyse conduct negotiations look- {***** and then, a great point in its favour. at once, and poured into a scalded

best with the new summer colours, Ing the formation of a new company. Bogs or bowls of powdered charcoal, jug. If the bolled taste is not liked, and have prepared a chart showing and that Wyso goes on a mission to the Vol. X No. 1 placed about the shelves, ure splendid the milk jug should be placed in for keeping, the larder fresh and saucepan of water,

and the water the result."

new shudes Lovely brought to the boil. Eneh jug should Earthcaware butter coolers are be washed, scalded, and then rinsed worn with accessories of turquoise or useful and quite inexpensive. They in cold water after use, and milk blue tourmalines. These stones, In have glass containers for the butter, should be kept away from any foods and being constructed on the vacuum that have a strong odour. principle, keep it always fresh and

sweet.

M. L. Stallard

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Government of Colombia to obtain an

of blue are extension of the time of the concession. THE

Another expedition will shortly leave

the form of drop earrings, heart- for Cocos Island on which it is. beloved shaped pendants, or brooches, are as that treasure a buried. Two or three sultable with afternoon frocks and expeditions have gone from Valparaiso suits as they are in the evening, on similar errands, but they have proved

Gems such as rubles and amethysts famed for the now experiment.

Aboul $10,000 has been ob- go with rich shades of red, rust, and copper.

Waistcoats of red are fastened with

prostless.

25 YEARS AGO

June 3, 1915. tiny gold regimental builons, the On the right bank of the Yeer we car- crest picked out in bloodstones or ried Hill No. 17 tak we also captured a fly prisoners and amethysts.

three mitrailleusez. labyrinth taking 100 prisoners. A collet necklace of green onyx or jade goes with "gringoire," a soft

"The Times" has been prosecuted under yellowy green colour Introduced by the Defence of the team Act for Paris designers. Tiny emerald ear-publishing an uncensored letter from rings also tone, and

Major Richardson, the noted trainer of fanshaped blood hounds, headed the reed of cont brooch of cabochon emeralds clasps pullon. The letter said that raw re the waist of a dinner dress of "grin-crusis were being called out in France. wittle scores of able bodied men in Eng- goire" silk crepo,

land were complacently doing nothing. The cornelian is an original stōner. A. H. Bodkin, on behalf of the Council, snid he teller was with mauves and lilac Treasury

calculated to suggest to Frenchmen an shades. Little forage or officers' caps absolutely fake impression that complete of curved cornelion are used as but-indifference regarding tile war exiled in ions on tailored tweed aulis.

Great Britain. The case wes, adjourned.

to

wear

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Amber and yellow tourmalines go with dresses In warm

Router correspondent at Headquarters gold tones.

describes a unique event in Flandera, a Bracelets of polished amber set in gymkhana in which, the Indian roep Platinum are worn on the sleeve of took part some miles behind the fring a prihose yellow evening gown.

REMEMBER

Hne. French, British and Algerians were Sinong the spectators. A most interest- Ing feature was the wonderful display of trick riding by the-Indian cavalrymen in which the finess of the Indians-both man and horses was amphe demonstrated. THAT brooms which have become All are particularly keen to come to grips

limp are given new stiffness it with the enemy. washed in salted water and left stand-

ing head, upwards to dry.

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10 YEARS AGO

June 3, 1030) Hongkong namen, appear in the King's. Soap fakes and powder will go Birthday Hongurs List these Including further if grease from plates, frying-] KF. D. W. Traiman, who receives the pans, etc., is wiped off with news- CM.d. decoration and Mr. 11. Dyer, paper before washing up.

who becomes a Commander of the Order

January, 1940

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