1940-06-05 — Page 24

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 5, 1940.

Household SUMMER DESIGNS Meatless

Hints

A STRIP of olled silk stitched

under chair backs and loose covers will prevent grease marks from disfiguring the fabric of a zuita.

Lengths of waterproof material cut from old raincoats should be sewn on to the under aldea of cushions designed for

garden

use.

This backing ensures that the cushion Ja damp-proof.

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

Paint stains on noterial should first be dabbed with turpentine and Finally, then dipped in ammonia. wash out using a, bleaching soap powder.

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

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

A wooden rolling pin simplifies the "grooming" of coat sleeves. Cover the pin with a thick layer of towel- ling, place Inside the sleeve, and press over a damp cloth.

crumpled

M. L. B.

Herring-Bone Embroidery

TERRING-Boning in brightly- HC Wools makes a striking trimming for land-knitted Jumpers, carves, pixie hoods, and the backs of gloves, If the latter are all knitted in a four plain and four purl rib, und the herring-boning worked along the purl rows For example, for a nigger brown scarf, cast on 56 stitches, which will give eight plain ribs, and Boven purl ribs, which be worked in orange and erald herring-bone, in alternate rowa. Finish the ends of the scarf with tassels of nigger, orange, and emerald.

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

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A lounging costume in spun rayon with wavy stripe entour- ful print for the

combined with

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boxy jacket-

solid - colour

with

Larning Day, fim actress, greets summer

atylo in candy striped red and white slik lastex sult

Little girl style in a play dress is one of the newest ideas for play dresses. This one is of gold and white silk and rayon with a completely circular skirt.

If You've Decided To Dye

Your Hair, Let Expert Do It

By JACQUELINE HUNT

Try the stitch, too, for the yoke a baby's frock, or conteer first sewing pin-lucks an inch apart, then using pink and blue herring-boning alternately Striped cotton cushion of age. The first thing that occurs to most women is dyeing.

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 |

covers are also enormously im- broved if brightly-coloured herring- boning is worked along the while stripes.

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

Outline each plece. for herring- boning, in black or nigger thick silk, taking care that the stitches go through both the patch, and the foundation. Tack a lining to the right side of the collar, machine round three sides, then turn inside out, and press,

H. E.

Helpful Hints

EAUTY treatment for short-

Bred for us muchas more ekin-wipe them down with in old piece of damask linen. They'll gilk

ten.

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Puddings cooked in individual basins will be done in less than half the time taken by one big pudding, Keep a deep tin near the kitchen. stove and drop spent matches in this. Will help out the wood when light- ing Bros in the morning.

With the revival of the short, quaro reefer and loose-hanging jackels in slacks costumes, the appearance of a smock in the same fashion is interesting. In lapestry blue linen, it has fine pient clusters over the shoulders And Cyclamen linen licking massed like braid on the furn- over collar and pocket bands.

It wouldn't be so bad if hair turn colours. These can be controlled by don't try to bleach it to an angelic ed overnight into a soft, slivery proper timing to give any shade you shade of yellow. Colour that is too 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 pils, 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. Inded and dull, Gray appears in harsh in appearance.

tresks-usually around the hairline in front, where it is most notice- able.

At the same time, changes take place in the face-subtle changes that are not always easy to see. The skin loses its firm, clear look. The expression itself seems to harden. Most women do not seo this, how- over. They see only the fading hair

Meals

THE following is a tasty vegetable

plo:--

Take 8. leeks, lb, tomatoes, lb. carrots, 1 stick celery, 1 lb. pota- toes, i oz. margarine, 1 oz, flour, plat milk, 4 oz. cheese, pepper and salt,

Slice the tomatoes, scrape and dice the carrots. Well wash the locks, and divide into quarters. Wash and cut celery into short lengths. Peal and cube the potatoes Put all the vegetables into a saucepan, . cover with cold water, season with popper and salt, bring to the boll, and sim-

Strain. mer 20 minutes.

Melt margarine in a saucepan, add flour, and cook a minute. Stir in imilk, and cook till sauco is thickened. Season. Grate cheese and add to

sauce.

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

Creamed Parsnip Ple

into

Cul Bomo

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

Macaroni and Tomato Ple

Four ozs. marcaron!, 2 onions, 1 oz. margarine, a little chopped parsley, pepper and salt, pinch mixed herbs, i tn tomato pulp or purce.

Cook the macaron! in boiling salted- water till soft. Drain, and pour cold water over it to prevent the pieces Fry the from sticking together. onions in a little of the margarine.

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

hot.

If practicable. 1-2 eggs should be hard-bolled, chopped, and sprinkled over top of mixture.

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Nutritious Nuts

JUTS are a valuable food. They are among the few vegetable products which contain much fat.: Choose a neutral tint-a dusty blond Almonds contain 55 per cent. of fat, Let me warn you, however, not to or muted brown. Then, do all you braziis 67 per cent,, and walnuts 64 try to make your hair the shade it can to bring out the nice tones of per cent., and they are also rich in was when you were girl. And your complexion.

Vitamin B.

a

The "Toastwich"

and feel that, if only they could THE toastwich is the American name for a kind of grilled sandwich

keep its youthful tone, all could be

saved

Dyeing Must Be Expert

a very tasty morsel indeed!

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

An excellent way to eat them in to chop them up fine and use them aA bandwich fillings for offee lunches or

You can use them afternoon teas. mushrooms

To prepare it, cut from a cluse-¡fuls rabbit roughly chopped, also if

textured white or brown loaf some possible a few

cooked

slices about 4 inch thick, Spread finely chopped. Heat without actu- If you have reached this unhappy with margarine on one side, and put ally bolling and use. "Stage," look closely to the matter two slices-together-with-any-of-the

nt dyeing before you leap. Seo if undermentioned Allings between, Ham and Egg Filling there are not good points that can then put under the grill till crisp und be developed, even dramatked, that golden. will take the attention

from your

Toastwiches will appeal to the braying locks. Do what you can to economical housewife for yet another make your hair as healthy as posal-reason-very small left-overs may be ble. Adopt a smurt hair-do and let used as Ollings: nature have her way, for she is Salmon Filling:-Drain well and bound to have it in the end.

remove all skin and bone from the

you

Chop 4 lb cooked tried or boited, and

ham, either hard-bolled

tered alices of bread and grill as gs. Mix well, spread between but directed above.

with chopped olives or celery hearts, with cream cheese, sliced bananas, marmalade, lemon curd, stoned raf- sing, dates, figs, preserved ginger, or grated chocolate.

You can chop them lost by nutting Then mix them well with the other filling and them through the mincer. spread generously. You will need very little butter on the bread.

Chopped nuts with honey or raising make an excellent filling for baked In a pan melt 1% oz margarine, apples. Then, too, you can make

Egg and Parsley Filling

M. II.

judice against dyeing,

I say this, not because of any pre- contents of a small tin of salmon,

but because then melt 2 ozs margarine in a pan, stir in 14 oz four, and add gradu- delightful le pastries with a filling huir tinting, when done as it must add the salmon, flaked, and cook for ally 3 teacupfula milk. When thick of apple, raisins, chopped nuts, and be done to give satisfaction, is ex-a minute or two. 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 hard-boiled eggs, and a quired

desserispoonful finely chopped par-}· the means of of nutmeg. are beyond

Simmer a minute longer. Now stir sicy.

To make silver polishing cloths, many of

dusters pluce two new

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

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

bread, sprinkle over each some hair dyeing is the only answer. You

grated yolk of egg, cover with second plate powder mixed with a cup of ammonia. Stir well for two minutes, must provide for it in your budget Mock Chicken Filling

slice of bread, and grill.

dry then hang on-a-ling to

.when and Armly resolve to take the time

Melt 3 ozs margarine in a 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 four, make fillings yourself, spread the intervals-about every three weeks Mix well, and gradually stir in 2 bread with "bought meat paste. a long period. for most women.

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 Bre.

overly.

Once you have decided that dye ing is the only solution for you, to an expert. Here are some points you must keep in mind: Expert dye- ing requires knowledge of the action of the preparation to be used, skill In judging the quality of the hair,

in and sklil applying the pre- paration

Insist on know- ing what type of preparation wil be used. Insist on having a strand of your hair dyed Arui, so you can see how the colour will look. Insist on having a skin test, to make certain that you are not one of the individuals who aret uilergle to certain dyes. Never, never attempt any kind of colouring or restoration" at home.

Types of Dycs-

Vegetable colourings аге camo- mile and henna. Pure vegetable heena will give pure white or light hair a bright red, shade. On dark- er hair, the shade is 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 at intervals.

Pure regiomile gives a lovely gloss and brillance to graying hair that is already light in shade. Often its uso: is preferable to any other colouring preparation. Its bleaching properties are slight, and it is often used oven on dark hair to give softness and slicen.

The synthetic dyes which are used to-day in better beauty shops give n complete

of "natural" range

Stir in 2 egg yolks and 3 teacup-

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