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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 5, 1940.

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Household SUMMER DESIGNS Meatless

Hints

STRIP of olied silk stitched under chair backs and loose covers will prevent greso marks fabric of o from disfiguring the sulte.

Lengths of waterproof material cut from old rainconts should be On on to the under sides of cushions designed for garden use. This backing ensures that the cushion 13 damp-proof

A teaspoonful of starch added to vase of tulips will prevent them from drouping.

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Paint stains on material should first bo dabbed with turpentine and Finally, then dipped in animonia,

wash out using a biqaching, song powder,

·Save egg shells If you have a gar- den. Crush and pound them, into powder for use as necessary Ume in the soil..

To sinarten up a skirt with an ugly "bag" at the back, place on a skirt board, wrong side up. Lay a wot cloth on the offending part and, with a very hot iron, press heavily several times. This treatment shrinkts the material back into shape.

A

wooden rolling pin simplifes this "grooming" of con! sleeves, Cover the pin with a thick layer of towel- Ing.

inside the crushed

place

sleeve, and press over a damp cloth.

M. L. B.

Herring-Bone

Embroidery

JERRING-Boning

HE

in

brightly- coloured wools makes a striking trimming for hand-mitted Jumpers, seurves. pixie hoods, and the backs of gloves, if the latter are all knitted and four purl rib, In a four and the herring-boning worked alone

For example, the purl rows

brown svarf, nigger

cast stitches, which will give eight plain Fibs, and seven purt ribs, which

should be worked in

emerald herring-bone. Tows.

orange

A lounging costume in spun. rayon with wavy stripe colour-

for እኔ on 50

ful print for the

combined

slacks,

with

boxy

solid - colour

Jacket

inve

in alternate

of the scari

Finish the ends with tassels of nigger, orange, and emerald.

Iferring-boning, worked in ent- broidery cotton or silk, between the pin-tucks on the back of a pair of fabric gloves, briglilens them up. ^ contrasting colour should be used.

Try the stitch, too, for the yoke of a baby's frock, or coatee. first sewing pin-tucks an inch apart, then using pink and blue herring-boning alternately. Striped cotton cushion

are also enormously im proved if brightly-coloured horring- boning is worked along the white stripes.

covers

Laraine Day, 11m actress, with style in greeta summer candy striped red and white slik Laricx sult.

If You've

Your Hair,

UF'S

Little girl siyle in a play dress is one of the newest ideas for play dressen, This one is of gold and white silk and rayon with a completely circular skirt,

Decided To Dye Let Expert Do It

By JACQUELINE HUNT

PROBABLY nine out of ten women experience a feeling of desperation when they discover

their first gray hairs. A youthful spirit rebels at the white-streaked hair which is a symbol of age. The first thing that occurs to most women is dyeing.

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It wouldn't be so bad if hair turn- colours. These can be controlled by don't try to bleach it to an angelic Colour that is too soft, silvery proper liming to give any shade you shade of yellow. ed overnight inte frame for a fresh, pretty face, but want. Best of all, many of these deep or vivid will show up the faded it seldom happens that way. In- dyes are combined with oils, so that tones in your skin and eyes, and will stead, the hair gradually becomes the hair is not coarsened or left make them appear older by contrast. faded and dull. Gray appears in harsh in appearance,

Choose a neutral tint a dusty blond streaks-usually around the hairline: Let me warn you, however, not to or muted brown. Then, do all you in front, where It is most notice try to make your hair the shade it can to bring out the nice tones of

蟲 girl. And your complexion. was when you were able.

A pretty patchwork collar can be made from odd scraps of silic or velvet. Turn in the edges, then tack the pieces on to a foundation cotton collar, so that the latter does not show.

Outline each piece for herring- At the same time, changes take boning, in black or nigger thick place in the face-subtle changes that silk, taking care that the stitches goare not always easy to see. The skin loses Its fern, clear look. The through both the patch, and the foundation. Tack & lining to the expression itself seems to harden." right side of the collar, machine Most women do not sca this, how- round three sides, then turn inside ever. They see only the fading hair out, and press.

II. E.

Helpful Hints

BEAUTY

treatment for short- hatred for coats, such as mole- skin-wipe them down with an old "piece of damask them. They'll gif

ton.

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Puddings cooked in Individual basins will be done in less than half

Keep a deep the near the kitchen stove and drop spent matches In this. WH help out the wood when light- ing Ares in the morning.

The "Toastwich"

and feel that, if only they could THE toastwich is the American name for a kind of grilled sondwich keep its youthful tone, all could be - very tasty morsel indeed! saved..

Dyeing Must Be Expert

To-prepare-it, -cut-from-a-close-fuls-rubisit-roughly chopped, also if textured white or brown loat some possible a few cooked mushrooms slices about 4 inch thick. Spread inely chopped, Heat without actu- If you have reached this unhappy with margarine on one olde, and putally boiling and use. sture, look closely into the matter two slices together with any of the Hain and Egg Filling of dyeing before you leap. See if undermentioned

between, filings

nature

THE

Meals

THE following is a tasty vegetable

pic:-

Take 3 leeks, 1b, tomatoes, lb. carrots, I stick celery, 1 lb. pata- toes, 1 oz. margarine, 1 oz. flour, plat milk, 4 oza, cheese, pepper and salt.

Silce the tomatoes, scrape and dice lecks, the carrots, Well wash the and divide into quarters. Wash and cut colory. into short lengths. Feel: and cubo the potatoes Put all the vegetables Into A Baucepan, cover with cold water, season with pepper and salt, bring to the boll, and sim- mer 20 ininutes. Strain.

Melt margarine in a saucepan, add flour, and cook a minute. Stir in milk, and cook till sauce is thickenet. Season, Grate cheese and add to

nuce.

Stir in vegetables, pour into Bre- proof dish, and bake for 30 minutes in a moderate oven.

Creamed Paranip Pic

Cul some cooked parsnips Into cubes, and put them into a greased ple-dish with sprinkling of salt, Pour pepper, and powdered herbs. over them a small quantity of white sauce, then cover with a crust of well mashed potatoes, softened with -a-little-dripping and milk. Bake in a moderate oven till thoroughly hented and nicely browned, from 20-30 minutes.

Macaront and Tomato Pic

Four oza, marcaroni, 2 onions, I oz. margarine, a little chopped parsley, pepper and salt, pinch mixed herbs, 1 Un tomato, pulp or puree.

Cook the mocaroni in boiling salted water til soft. Drain, ami pour cold water over it to prevent the pieces from sticking together. Fry the onlons in a little of the margarine.

Mix the macaroni, the tomato pulp, seasoning, parsley, and fried onion logether in a pan. Add remainder of margarine, and stir till thoroughly hot.

It practicable, 1-2 cugs should be hard-boiled, chopped, and sprinkled over top, of mixture.

NUT

Isobel

Nutritious Nuts

They

JUTS are a valuable food.

are among the few vegetable products which contain much fat, Almonds contain 55 per cent. of fat, brazils 67 per cent., and walnuts 01 per cent, and they are also rich in Vitamin B

.

Indeed, nuts are so rich that they should be treated as part of a meal rather than as "something to chew" want between meals, unless you indigestion and an increase in your weight.

An excellent way to eat them is to chop them up fine and use them as

or afternoon-tens. You can use the with chopped olives or celery hearts, with creain cheese, sliced bananas, marmalade, lemon curd, stoned rui- sins, dates, fs, preserved ginger, or grated chocolate.

sandwich flings for office lunches

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there are not good points that can then put under the grill-til-crisp and- Chop cooked 796m, either

You can chop thern best by putting Un developed, even dramatised; that golden.

fried or boiled, and 3 hard-boiled will take the attention from your Toastwiches will appeal to the

them well with the other filing and graying locks. Do what you can to economical housewife for yet another $685. Mix well, spread between but-them through the mincer. Then mix

tered slices of bread and grill as

You will need our hair as healthy as post-reason-very small left-overs may be directed above. innke your hai

spread generously. the time taken by one big pudding.ble. Adopt a smart hair-do and let used as fillings:-

very little butter on the bread.

Chopped nuts with honey or raisins livelgr

Salmon Filling:-Drain well and Egg and Parsley Filling way, for she is bound to have it in the end. remove all skin and bone from the

make an excellent alling for baked I may this, not because of any pre- contents of a small tin of salmon, In a pan melt 11 oz margarine, apples. Then, too, you can nake Juctee against dyeing, but because then melt 2 ozs margarine in a pan, stir in 1 oz flour, and add gradu- delightful little pantries with a ling hair tiating, when done as it must add the salmon, flaked, and cook for ally 3 teacupfuls mills. When thicit of apple, raisins, chopped nuts, and be done to give satisfaction, is ex-n minute or Iwo. Add salt and and creamy, stir in the chopped spice. pensive. The upkeep and time re- pepper to taste, also a slight grating whites of 2 hort-bolled eggs, and a

are beyond the menus of of nutmeg.

dessertspoonful, finely chopped par- quired

Simmer a minute longer. Now stir sley.

To make sliver polishing cloths, many of you.

dusters In place two new

boiling your profession de-in a teacupful milk, and the yolks of If, however,

Spread the mixture on slices of water and add one tablespoonful of mands a a youthful appearance, then 2 eggs well beaten. Stir till thick.

bread, sprinkle over cach some plate powder mixed with a cup of hair dyeing is the only answer. You

grated yolk of CGE, cover with second ammonia. Stir well for two minutes, must provide for it in your budget Mock Chicken Filling

alice of bread, and grill.

then bang on a line to dry when and firmly resolve-to-lake--the time

* Melt 3 ̃ozs ̈margarine In b' pan, and [Note: If you have not time to they will polish silver perfectly for necessary for

retouches at regular stir in 4 level tablespoonfuls flour. make Blings yourself, spread the long period. Intervals about every three weeks Mix well, and gradually stir in 2 bread with "bought" meat pastc. breakfastcupfuls milk, Bring slowly You will find the result very tasty to the boil, then add seasoning to and a change from the ordinary, sand- taste, and remove from fire.

With the revival of the short, ¦ square reefer and loose-hanging Jackets in stacks costumes, the appearance of a smock In the

me fashion is Interesting. In tapestry, blue linen, it has fine pleat clusters over the shoulders and oyclamen linen "miltching tanswed" "Ilke-brald⋅ on the turn- over collar, and pocket barsis.

for most women.

Once you have decided that dye Ing is the only solution for you, O to an expert. Here are some points you must keep in mind: Expert dye- ing requires knowledge of the action

skill of the preparation to be used, In judging the quality of the hair,

skill

*upplying the pre- Jusist on know-

In

an evenly.

ing

what

of type

will be used. Insist

prin

on

a strand of your hair dyed first,

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will

BO you can see how the colour look, Insist on having o skin test, to make certain that you are not one of the individuals who are allergle to certain dyes. Naver, never attempt any kind of colouring

or "restoration” at home.

Types of Dyes

Vegetable colourings ore camo- mile and henna. Pure vegetable Jenna will give pure white or light hair a bright red shade. On dark- er hair, the shade in correspondingly darker, Henna, expertly used, will not harm the hair, and many inter esting effects can be obtained with it. But the stain soon wears off, and the entire head must be treated again nt

falervals.ile gives a lovely gloss

Pura

and brilliance to graying hair that is already light in aliade. Often its use is preferable to any other colouring preparation. Its bleaching properties are slight, and it is often used even on dark hair. to give softness and The aynthetic dyes which are used to-day in botter beauty shops give of "natural" complete range

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Stir in 2 egg yolks and 3 teacup-

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KEPLER'--

Isobel

Liver Oil with

MALT Extract

The Natural Vitamin Food for Infants.

Children "and Adults

Give them the nourishment they need and watch their strength and vitality increase.

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The dinette smock In KAJIY printed in a design of cup, saucer and pitcher, and is available in blue, red and black, Tixis print is also featured in a dirudi apron,

· á· house, coat, and a coal "dress, and the group. is called the "dinelle ensemble.".

What is the

secret of Glamour

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