1940-06-15 — Page 7

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 15, 1940.

"Chins Up" For Flowers

NOTHING is quite so tiresome and disappointing as

flowers which refuse to stand erect. There are all sorts of glass or wire flower holders to be bought, and you should make a collection of them if you have flowers in your home regularly, but often a home-made holder answers the pur- pose.

For example, to make a support for flowers in a tow bowl, you can melt down old candle ends and pour the wax into the bowl. When it is still soft, make holes in it with a pencil or knitting needle. Thus you can make the support any size you like with holes just where you want

Pebbles are always useful as sup- ports, and also for covering a glass or wire holder, so make a collection of conveniently shaped and prettily coloured stones and keep them in the scullery ready for use,

To support flowers In a toll vase, a good method is to use a slice of

which is impossible with potato. ght holder.

Cut it

it to it the neck of the vase and bare the necessary holes through it. Don't, of course, attemp! this with a fragile vase but instead use a piece of old lootah, Cut it to

Perforated in lits also make good Dower supports. You can paint them green or any other colour to match your bowls. Then if you are arrang- the size required and enlarge the Ing very tiny flowers in a shallow holes in it with a knitting needle, if bowl, it is a good idea to use large bone buttons as holders, sticking the stems into the holes.

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With A Pinch Of Soda

necessary. Put it in the neck of the vase if the heads of the Bowers wil} hide it, otherwise it is less con- splenous I pushed down to the bot-

tom.

Never cram the bottom of a vase with leaves, They will only turn slkny and smell disagreeable. And,

Tla not generally known that, however you arrange your flowers, quite apart from its uses in bak-always remember that at least a ing, bicarbonate of suda ta lavaluable third of their stems should be under in the kitchen.

A paste of bleorbonate of soda and water will remove scorch mories from linen or silk. To prevent | woollens from shrinking, add a des- sectspoonful to the Fast rinsing

water.

IRA

To remove grease stains

from

water.

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SHORT CUTS

A blanket ny be judged for warmth by holding it up to the light.

carpets, apply some bicarbonate off the light does not filter through.

soda with a piece of flannel, using you can be sure it is airlight.

the finger tips to rub it thoroughly In. Finish off with n brisk brush- ing with a small faid brush To. clean a greany bath or sink, sprinkle allitte bicarbonate of seda on a cloth and rub on. The grense will come away lammed lately.

To clean white paint, dissolve one

A patch for a papered wall hould be torn, no! cut. Then when pasted Into place, the fibers of the rough edge blend In neatly with the surrounding

wall paper.

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dessertspoonful of bicarbonate ol A plain frame is best for a pleture soda in a quart of water, and rub having a great deal of detali, so as this in with soft Aannel. Rinse not to detract from the picture with lukewarm water, and polish self. with a soft clean duster,

A sovereign remedy for many digestive upsets is a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda dissolved in n tumbler of boiling water.

To make up a good antiseptic lotion, dissolve a teaspoonful of blcarbonate of soda in a pint of bolling water.

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Where swelling has forced a door latch out of line, put a square of cardboard under the hinges am latch plates and R will catch again,

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Served with a fruit salad, dates illed with cheese or nuts are a de- lectable treat.

SMART

STYLE

SCRUBBING

Hamburger Recipe YOUR ARMS

WHEN is a hamburger not a

hamburger? That's easy. When it comes from Hollywood --where even the hamburgers are produced on a de luxe scale. And no cracks about accent on the ham. We's referring to the numerous "drive-in" restaurants about Hollywood which adver tise the manufacture of square- burgers, nutburgers, turkbur gers and astonishingly-beef- burgers.

From A Famous Restaurant

teaspoon English mustard tablespoon salt-

1 teaspoon black pepper

2 tablespoon Worchester sauce

chicken

broth 2 cups 2 teaspoons chicken fat But when they really want ham-

broth thorough- Mix meat, egg and burger, the stars go to that favourite

Andly, then add the rest of the ingredi- restaurant. the Brown Derby.

full coffee cup 10 you needn't mutter indignantly in ents. Use one

of homburger. your beard. We know you've smake one portion

the

The Derby serves this with their Derby

exolle with sociated

special sauce, made this way: sounding dishes, prepared solemnity and served with ceremony. You're right. The Derby serves 'em and the stars eat 'em.

with

level tablespoons flour

2 level tablespoons butter

Place

2 cups well-cooked veul or chie-

kenbroth

1 tablespoon English mustard

2 teaspoons sauce Diablo

1 tablespoon Worchester sauce 14 cup catsup

2 level tablespoons butter Boll ingredients together, then add little chopped parsley. Pour over hamburger, then serve piping hot. Parsley may be used to garalsh it preferred.

By JACQUELINE HUNT

FN your summer improvement campaign, do not overlook With short sleeves your arms. appearing in street frocks and with the bathing suit and playi clothes you cannot begin too soon to get yourself in trim.

WEDY Lamarr,

Metro-

HGoldwyn-Mayer star, wears a

lateiking evening gown of heavy crepo In black and white. Note the cut of the gown and the slimming effect of the panel of black in the skirt. The large leopard skin buckle and quaint locket add distinguished touches to the ensemble."

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Renovation Ruses

LOAF of dough, which should

Do everything possible to firm be ordered in advance from the

Issues ог build abby arm

up bukur, is an excellent and economical scrawny ones_so_the_arm contours cleaner for wallpaper. Rolled into flattering. Improve the skin conveniently-sized bulls, the dough

with colour and texture

improved will absorb dirt and dusi like magie, circulation and eliminate the 80-and each ball should be renewed as called "permanent goose-flesh" that It. becomes soiled.

ure

so many girls complain of None of

To remove grease spots from wall- these faults is difficult to correct papers, apply fuller's earth and am- monia mixed to a thin paste. When you are persistent.

dry, brush off.

To Improve skin texture use one

Soiled marks round bell-pushies or of the cream or lanolin type soups. Wash your arms well in the suds, light switches ore often too deeply Gail recommends this recipe for then take your complexion brush or engrained to eradicate. They may any informal cecasion from Hinch to hand brush and work up a stiff be concealed by pasting a wallpaper midnight. She also likes to serve it father. Rub well into the skin, using spray or border motif neatly round at plenies around the grill In her circular massage motion with the the metal plate.

tones the skin and Push on old sponge along the In which case the mest is brush. This

the Derby serves that, too, with just in hot oven. Melt butter in double gardenstead of fried, You can, Ifspeeds up the circulation. Let some handle of the brush when white-

1 cup milk (scant) But just as

flour on pic tin and brown often they order hamburger. And as much dignity. They know its boller, add browned flour gradually and blend well.. Add milk slowly worth.

One tried and true hamburger fan Sult and pepper to taste. To this is Gail Patrick, whose husband, Bob mixture add the following: Cobb, is "boss" of the three Derbies. Gall

was seen on the set of RKO Radio's "My Favourite Wife." In which she plays a leading role, and was asked for that recipe to give to She did and here it is, reduced

you.

to something less than Derby pro- portions:

2 pounds ground sirloin 1 raw egg

Which in what makes i de luxe.

running

you prefer, grill-it in your oven as of the soapy lather dry on the skin washing or distempering ceilings.

from five to ten minutes, then re- This

wash prevents the you would chops or steak.

warm, then down the arm. move by rinsing with cold, water. This treatment alone Tapestry chairs will look like new will Improve the appearance of the if they are beaten and plenty of dry bi-carbonate of seda rubbed in.

Black Satin Causes Stir In Fashion Circles

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By ELEANOR GUNN

aring,

If the elbows are rough and dis-Leave for two hours and brush out coloured, soak for ave minutes in with a stiff brusli.

and

or

wash

warm soapsuds, or in a lotion mode Oxydised silver articles can be from two and one-half ounces each cleaned in A few seconds by rubbing glycerin and rose water, the juice of with rag dipped in saturated a lemon and onc teaspoon borax. solution of sulphate of

soda. Scrub

Το gently with a brush, rinse,

nn eiderdown quilt, use massage a rich lubricating cream in good lather in tepid water, squeez- TEW YORK—A recent Paris letter gloves, are often in colour.

some of your softening handling and pressing as for woollens, has me all a-twitter with news At home for dining, and al galajeroom into the elbows.

Very thorough rinsing is required. Quick Embroidery Black-outs or

of what chic women are wearing.premiers usually given for somet At least once a week the entire | A cupful of vinegar in the final rinse no black-outs, they war charity, women are beginning arm should be massaged with brightens colours. Dry' out of doors are wearing extremely good clothes. to wear long dresses again, but prac-tubricating cream. A good time for on a breezy day and air before the CHARMING method of ein- The most sensational choice is blacktically all are sleeved and very little this is when you have your weekly are. A broidery now in vogue consists satin; the suits or dresses it is used decollete. With a black Schleporelt manicure. Leave the exam on for

Old leather furniture Can be of stitchery and applique combined for are less of a sensation than the sheath, short-sleeved and high at ten minutes or more, or if you have beautifully cleaned by brushing with the youthful Princess Ponia- time for It, use a hand and ann a weak solution of soda water fol- in a delightfully easy and simple fabric. The fabric is a "real" old towski-wears a red-Kerchief-twisted innsk to bleach and refine the skin lowed by a rinse with soft water and

fashioned satin, not as stiff as slipper

around her head and tied in a big texture. Follow with an application polish. A basket of flowers worked in this satin nor as limp as crepe salin.

Suits are style, for instance, will have the

also

out by a taffeta of cream or lotion if your skin tends much worn and knoi stiffy held

Shubby leather upholstery is re- basket and foliage outlined in stem with them blouses that are definitely lining in the same shade of brown to be dry and sensitive. If you have vived when washed over with a used cream alone, wipe off the ex-cloth wrung out of warm water and or similar stitch, while, the flowers formal and regarded as just the right as her hair.

or fifteen minutes, vinegar. Restore the polish by beat- are formed by of silk and velvet,

sewing on

Molyneux's black dress with pear-cess after ten blooms thing to wear for dining out. Long

sleeves and built-up necklines are ly paillette embroideries over the then dip strips of gauze bandage or ing up two egg whites with a dash another slim dinner thin pieces of cotton in cold sin of turpentine and rub in with a These aro not appliqued round the the touch that makes them all akin. shoulders is edgo the usual way, but are just For those who like heavy fabrics, gown seen; and there is a two-piece tonic and wrap around the arms to flannel. Polish with n slik duster. SL L B. sown securely through the centre, next after satin is crepe marocain, afternoon dress at Maggy Roull with tone and firm the tissues.

After ordinary daily cleansings, a leaving the flowers standing up and chiffon for those who don't slim but plented skirt, which several

Kneeling, with both hands flat on slightly. A "high relief" effect is Black still is the very breath of life clients have ordered in floor length. simple application of hand lotion is

any Parisienne.

It is of marocain, cut to the throat sufficient. Be sure to work it well the floor, firigertips pointing toward My trouble and skill,

"Way.

and buds made

thus obtained with the minimum oli to informant says that black re-and long-sleeved; and there is heavy into the skin. Take this opportunity each other, back flat and head up-

and inassage the upper start bending the elbows slowly, This will help Extend the right leg in the air and bend forward until your chest

Deep purple pansles with velvet mains the great majority choice for gold embroidery, in a design of big to knead petals, blush-pink roses in silk, and dresses, sults and coats seen at the links like a wine walter's chain, arms thoroughly. tiny pink and blue forget-me-nota cocktail hour or at night clubs, but down the front, ending in a square prevent flabbiness and fleshiness, are among the most popular dowers hats

for this new work.

that you So if you do not feel have the time, patience, or necessary ability for elaborate needlework try: this easy way painting flower ple- tures with your needle.

Any doral pattern can be used, while the contents of your scrap bas kot in the form of discarded, "bution- holes" will provide you with the flower heads for the opplique part of the workmans

If the dowers are very crushed, Just press them out carefully and lightly with a warin iron before you use them and they will look as good) da--new,

D. IN

and

accessories,

especially of rich embroidery.

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The big muscle underneath the touches the floor. Return slowly to upper arm has a greater tendency first position, and repeat extending to become soft and flabby than the the left leg. Repent four times, rest one on the front. It is sott or if and repeut again-twelve times al-

there are fatty deposits there, aper/al | together this is the season when

exercises will help firm and reduce

It. The following exercises are good, you'll set your policy about suntan not only for the upper arms, but for ning. Give your arms the same improving your bustline.

consideration you give your facs. It Stand with your right hand palm you want to wear short sleeves and placed on the wall at shoulder level. swim suits and still keep your skin Using resistance

throughout this as fair as possible, make up the exercise, push forward slowly, bond parts exposed. A good liquid pow ing the elbow When tite-arm-is dor lotion that matches

trick for bent to a right angic, slowly straigh plexion powder will do the ten the arm to the starting position. you. If you are in favour of tanning, Repeat with the left arm, alternating then alt or crdam your arms so they. first with right and then left. Re-will tan evenly and painlessly to peat ten times- altogether.

match your-complexion..

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