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Face up

IF only our faces would behave

like the flowers, and blos- som into fresh, radiant skin

But they won't. On the

contrary, they seem to give us move trouble now thon at any other time of the your. They are apt to look dull, tired. lifeless

-3s unflower-

by Justine Glass

likean they inic is ubwebug_by_blotting paper. possibly. can. This oil is very nourishing because Our faces need a treatment of of its high vitamin content. bleaching and toning.

The kirt should be eleansed The skin loses its appetite. That's thoroughly with the lation. No to say it is not in a condition absorb grease must be left on It. Then the nourishing greams we give it apply the mask. Leave it on for fif- The less likes the tens it is able teen minutes. Then rinse off with a to take and so on. A vichus circle, superfatted soup and a little warm you see.

water. No cream or make-up must

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be used on the skin for an hour after

THAT circle will have to be broken the mask has been removed.

before we Can display con- When you do apply make-up you plexions in keeping with Bowers, can put your skin into its spring out- The skin must be tuned up so that it will use its rations again, and dis- colorations will be removed.

Flest, pore-deep cleansług is invers- Kary,

t. You can use foundation creun which will make it look as glowing

and clear as the newest bud.

You can get this cream to match your own colouring. It covers face i Next comes a reconditioning mask, and neck like sutin-texture protective This should be applied twice weekly, kin. Ita action is also bleaching and One lagredient of the mask Is It helps to make and keep the muscles practically identical with the com- dem. And it illsguises blemishes position of the skin. It is restorative but this, of course, is only necessary fund reinvigorating. A vegetable wax motil the mask has taken effect. 1 is another item on its formula. This do want lo enphasise that while this wax blends with the oils of the skin cream is delightful and beautifying and dissolves Impurities, It Is cleans- alone, It is not sufficiently remedial ing and bleaching.

1 correct "tired skin.", it supplies!

A third Ingredient is avocado oil, the Anishlug touch to the good work which is absorbed by the pores is done by the mask

Useful Hints SHORT CUTS

THE glass stoppers of pertuine hot-

Did you know that if eretonnes are

les and hath salts Jars often rinsed in solution of bran water) brcome dilleult to unserew. Give | after washing, they will take up just The stopper a few gentle tape with magh starch to give them a new another glass article, when I will

appearance" turn easily,

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po clean photographs without in-

Jury to their surface, rub light-

ty over with cotton wool dipped in methylated spirit.

CHOULA #il silk curtains have be

come stiff, spotige with warm soapy water, and when dry rub with salad oil.

CREAKING hinges can be made to work smoothly if rubbed with a concile end,

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a cupboard is domip, a plotetut of quicklene placed in it

will! The quickly absorb all disture. quicklime must be renewed from time

to time.

TUCH labour

MUCH

be saved it

woodwork and windows are left

to dry thoroughly before giving the

#nal dry polish.

TO

10 mend a hole in an umbecila, open it out fully and stick a piece

of block adhesive plaster over the hole after wefting the patch with cold. water. To be invisible the plaster must, of course, be attached to the inside.

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WHEN you wish to make a fa- vourite tale, biscuit or hot bread recipe calling for sour milk and And there is none, try this femon-- soured milk. Place 11 tablespoon: lemon Juice in a standard measur ing cup. F to the 1-cup mark with fresh, sweet milk. with evaporated milk, which has been diluted one-half with water. Tais milk may be used exactly like nat- ural sour milk or butterinil: in any baking soda recipe. There will be no flavour of lemon, and your cake will have a fine groin, a firm, moist! crumb and a crisp brown crust.

KEEP a small quantity of olive uil in a jar with a pastry brush and use it for greasing cake tins and iclly moulds. Very little is needed, the process takes next to no me and there is no danger of the cakes and Jellies sticking.

Meat brushed over with olive oil before being roasted requires no ac- ditional fat, unless it is very lean beef. The oil improves its flavour loo, and if it is at all tough makes it! tender.

BATTER pudding will be very if two teaspoonfuls of light ground rice are added to the four before mixing.

The flavour of fried tomatoes will be much improved If a little caster sugar is sprinkled over them.

F. dried fruits, either apricots or prunes, tre soaked in bolling water intend of cold, they will swell to twice their usual nize.

Batter puddings will be lighter t two teaspoonfuls of grounds rice are added to the flour before mixing

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YOUNG carrots may be cleaned by sprinkling a quantity of or- dinary salt on a clean coarne cloth and rubbing each carrot separately.

OLD

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LD copper molds make attractive

.containers for flowers.

Equal parts of turpentine and linseed oil result in a furniture polish

which, with

slight amount of rubbing, will give a wax-ilke polish to wood.

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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 18, 1940.

They all Like

Sailors

-says

Mary Grace

H

For

ERE arc

of three the smartest "sallors," first favourites in the hat world.

wind - swept promenades, A dingy trunk can be restored to there's the soft felt turn-up, American respectability if the torn places are navy style. Note the white edging first glued back and if the whole of petersham-ribbon with fly-away Lunk is then given a cont of hard) end. varnish. The varnish, Incidentally,) will make the trunk waterproof.

One housewife saves all her eggs shells for 'the weck and en wash day puts them in the baller with the clothes. The lime con- tained in the shells acts as a splendid bleach for the clothes.

Town girl chooses a big black "Breton" to show off her sleek head and sideway curts. Sophisti

forward Llit cated that

and sweeping brim.

Last but not least is the Nelson touch, in the line of the flat square crowned sailor, with swathing of blue chiffon and swinging ends.

Red-turn-up-softor-fut

the top) with white petersham edging. A sophisticated black "Bretos," and a prey Nelson sullor ofth blue chipon athie.

That's the season's favourite. It sults both young and old.

There's a special art in putting on a sallor hat. On the back of the head they look just comic, but tilt them forward to shade an eye

and they are attractive at once.

Saflor hats call for neat hair- dressing. A smooth sweep across the back of the head and no untidy ends. This is where the invisible hair-net does yeoman service. And

JUST JUNK

by Minnie Pallister

A

N old curiosity shop in a tiny London street drew me in to

-inspect its antiques.

To the unseeing eye the stuff in the shop looked just junk. Everything was dinimed by dust and neyleet, na il bid come from sale rooin or cupboard.

But when a discerning customer tool; a dirty wooden box of a grimy Vase home, and washed and polished, then the beauty stone out. The box was made of exquisitely grained wood, per- fectly put together and ned, the por celain vase shower flowers with the colours fresh and glowing as on the duy an artist painted thein

The quality of the material and workmanship stood up to many years of hard wear or neglect, a little scaur- ing and pollaking brought it up again in all its beauty.

Crisis Courage

People are often surprised in times of crials to see how some people They never thought much of rise to the occasion. How many women just now nre doing unaccustomed work, pre- siding over familles of difficult chlidren, running clubs and canteens. showing nil sorts of talent no one know they possessed?

The quality was there, but it needed a pollah. A sudden emergency noted like the bath of warm suda, or the briskly applied scrubbing-brush-It brought up the grain.

a band of matching ribbon to hold Only Thoughtless

the hat in place is smarter than. the thread of fine elastic.

By the way, when buying a sullor, see that the crown la not too wide or high, if no, it will have an ugly top-heavy look which is most ageing and unbecoming.

Match Your Slip

sce

Hara you the cutting-out diagram also finished panties.

RADIO STATION RAID ĮJAPANESE

Religious Fanatics Attack

Post in Java

Bandoeng, June 17.

and the

-14 YARDS

GREETINGS

Rome, June 17. The Japanese Minister of War, General Shunroku Hata, and Prince Kar-in, Chief of Staff, have sent a Early yesterday tour natives sud-message to Il Duce stating-"On the denly attacked the wireless stallon at Priok, which is under ruilitary occasion of Fascist Italy's entrance guard. Two guards and two attack into the war wo wish from the bol els were killed in the two lam of our honrty that you-and-the altackers arrested,

Italian armies of lund, sen and air It is balloved the attackers' action may continue your glorious ithdition was motivated by religious funati- of achieving great and swift

lorles,”—United Press, elam-United Press.

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see the little model in the, sketch.

It is quite simple, yet the design is per- fect. It would look nice in either plain or patterned material. There are ever so many new pretty materials in the shops. now suitable for lingerie.

Follow The Diagram

Now look at the diagram very carefully and see how the panties are cut out from 14 yards of 38. wide material. You will need In addition 14 yards of narrow lace-that is, of course, if you prefer lace edging, but they would look just as nice with neatly rolled edges or very narrow binding made from cressway pleces.

To Cut Out

VOU cut them from single material, and you will find it great help if you first cut a poper pattern of the back, front and gusset to the dimensions given on the diagram. Be very sure to get the measurements correct in every case.

BACK

Pin your pattern in r place on the material, In the positions shown on the diagram-the front piece at the top left-hand corner, the

nt back plece

the lower right-hand

cor-

ner

And на

and the

gusset

placket pleces from the apposite

2 corners of the fabric. Cut 3 straight silt 074In.

deep at the centre of the lower hiệm back and front to

take the Russel.

You will notice that the panties ore cut "on the cross" of the material, and this in the secret of their per fect fit.

Bitch up the side mama, 10 aving a placket in. deep on the left-hand zide. Fix in and neaten the placket strip and face the waist with cross-way strips.

Next fold the gusset in built so that it is triangular in sbapo and fix with the points of the triangles at the top of the 034-in. sill at bück and froni, the fold at the base of the triangle being in a line with the pantie leg hema.

Flalph off the hems, add the lace or other trimming and the side, fasten ing, and you'll be delighted with the Illie garment. : In foot, I'm - aure you'll want to make others in differ- ent fabrics and, colours.

Probably none of us shine as much We let the dust of as we should. neglect settle noiselessly on Thoughts and minds and tongues.

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But when we get down to it, and get the best in ourselves on top, we can feel we're really worth-wille people unce more.

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Keep Bathroom Clean

10 room in the house demands absolute cleanliness more urgent- ly than the bathroom. The presence of diet in this room in- painfully apparent and indientes indifferent homekeeping as well as ignorance of health principles.

WHITEAWAY'S

THE HOUSE FOR

FURNISHING FABRICS

Freshen

WITH

your

Outlook

NEW CURTAINS

Cretonnes 48" & 60" wide From $1.25 to $6.95 yd.

Jaspe 48" wide $1.75 yd.

Taffeta 48" wide $2.50 yd.

Cotton Slub 48" wide,

$2.25 yd.

Repps 48" wide $2.75 yd,

Brocades 50" wide.

$3.95 yd.

Printed Linen 48" wide

From $4.25 yd.

Fifteen minutes of systematic care every day should insure sanitation provided everyone who

the bathroom helps to keep it tidy and. clean.

Uses

Noorough airbon; is the first step.

all fixtures should be washed with

floor soap and water, the mopped or scrubbed, the woodwork dusted or wiped with a soapy cloth, and fresh towels and washi cloths substituted for the soiled ones on the rods.

Parsley Point PARSLEY bought from the green- grocer and not used up at once can be kept fresh for weeks in a dampened glass jam jar covered with a small rotind piece of damp sponge.

Squeeze

fresh out the sponge in cold-water every day until the pars- ley is used.

Mustard and cress, watercress, and lettuce can be kept fresh for a few days in the same way.

A modern successor to the Kimono, this dainty negligen Jacket is out on smart Enes.

THERE HAS BEEN MUCH CONTROVERSY RECENTLY

REGARDING THE BEST WAY TO HELP THE OLD

COUNTRY IN ITS HOUR OF NEED."

ONE WAY WOULD BE TO STRENGTHEN

LANCASHIRES WAR DRIVE FOR EXPORTS.

PART OF THIS DRIVE IS REPRESENTED BY

THE FURNISHING FABRICS ADVERTISED, YOU WILL

FIND A LARGER AND MORE INTERESTING SELECTION

THAN EVER BEFORE.

Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

WRIGHT'S

Tar

SOAP

Soop

ALSO USE WHICHIET'S

COAL TANI TALCUM POWDER Especially purified for

* use in the Nursery.

WRIGHT'S 'COAL - TAR OINTMENT Ideal for all Skin Blemishes. WRIGHT'S COAL TAR

BHAVING BOA Antiseptia & Soothing,

FOR DAY LONG FRESHNESSA

Owing to present conditions in Europe. the Gift Scheme on Wright's Cool Tar Soap Wrappers will be discontinued in Hong Kong a from 30th June 1940. Au applications for gifts together with wrappers must be submitted to the under- signed before that date. Gifis applied for cannot be guaranteed as available. Agents; Gilman & Co. Lid,

For VIGOROUS HEALTH

AN UP-TO-DATE PHOTOGRAPH

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