1940-06-26 — Page 14

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 26, 1940.

Miss Observation

GIRLS, getting mako-up taped now not pinks, not orange, but apricot. Healthy reddy-brown lipstick. Suits most girls too.

GIRLS at home wearing new flower hats look best with rose-pink lipstick,- not mauve or cyclamen any more. New powder colour: Cameo,

KNEES latest thing to get beauty culture in U.S.A. Half hose worn for cycling.

SHOES getting flatter. Three one typists counted wearing neat low heels in yesterday morn- Ing.

BLACK on decrease; grey, camel, navy with .bright touches popular for girls' business out- fits.

WALLFLOWER red- brown shirt and hat make, navy or grey suit

look very slow.

colour scheme

Paris.

Latest

from

GIRL FRIEND wear- ing new pastel cout im- proved-literally-out of recognition.

Was look-.

BEAUTY

ing for medium-brown girl in medium- brown straight coat; never recognised gay irl in light blue-and-brown plaid. Tip or mouse-coloured and unenter- prising: Go pastel.

STOCKINGS are still worn silk and; sheer; but thinnest cotton ones sold out from my favourite store.

or

· STOCKING COLOURS: With flan- nel grey and camel, light sunton. With browns, rose belge. With navy black, stockings toned to accessories.

RIBBONSHIRRING : This year's version of last year's passion for; dirndl-gathers. Ribbon and Lastex yarn shirred in one operation; used as; trimming for frocks, blouses, various other clothes, fur nishings. Grey chiffon blouse trimmed six horizontal rows red ribbonshirring, high-spot of recent exhibition. Can be done by homo,dressmaker using shirlastic thread in shuitle Instead of usual machine, silk.

DE-FUZZ, new American word for taking hair off and here: Electrie legs. Favourite methods, there

razor, wax plasters,

SAXE BLUE (short for Saxon?) remains English- woman's favourite colour. In any range of dresses; or cottons saxe blue sells out first, yellow last, said repre- French first choice. sentative of a big wholesale firm. colleague tells him, is stili, black every time, even in

summer.

Prelly hands and malls-that's the ambition of most girls once they become beauty-conscious. And one of the best ways to encourage this worthwhile beauty trait is to give her a mani- curo kit:"She'll find It's fun to keep her natis polished and shapely.

Manicure Kit For Young Girl

By JACQUELINE HUNT

LOVELY LINGERIE FABRICS IN every mother's life there comes a day when she

WILL NOT SHRINK QUCH a number of brides-to-be are busy Stitching for

"DON'T you think they are love their trousseaux, for ly?" she exclaimed. "I made them dainty lingerie is an expensive item when myself in one of the now Grafton bought ready-made, and the money you have anti-shrink lingerie fabrics, which guaranteed never to shrink, to spend will go so much farther if you can re make some of these garments yourself. stretch or lose their colour."

And she showed me some lengths Besides, you can choose your own fabrics, of these materials, which she was go- colours and specist designs, Look, for instance, ing to make up into other pretty at the very attractive ensemble of nightdress and clothes; some plain, some patterned matching jacket you see in the sketel

-ull equally charming and in the EXQUISITE DESIGN

delicate shades which are so fashion- able for lingerie.

TREATMENT

THEIR design is simplicity itself, and their exquisite loveliness is due to the soft, delicate

crepe with a tiny all-over pattern of pink and blue roses Rnd irue lovers' knots on n

[OME beauty cullure will make

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not spend a few ininutes every day

lovely ground, in which they have been made.

soft pink

One of

friends,

my

who is

getting married.

showed them

10

me with great pride

the other tiny.

Recipes Bring Eggs To Table

By JUDITH WILSON THE wise housewife T

should not neglect this good protein food in her meals. Either the brown-shelled or white-shelled egg is a store house of protein, minerals and vitamins. truc

Оле of the lovely Grafton anti shrink fabrics in a design of rosebuds

and

lovers' knòls has been chosen for the trous- seau nightle on the dainty left, and the

Jacket to go with it.

For Your Lapel

AMONG the latest dress acces-

sories are brooches made in you look more beautiful so why the form of military epaulettes. They are of glit and have shiny are just the in acquiring a charming appearance. gold fringes. They

in your fapel, on Top left: Take care of the ugly thing to wear hard lines which appear round the pocket flaps or upon your shoulders. nose and mouth. An effective mas-lengths to match made of flexible gold are necklaces, of choker sage is illustrated above. Use light tappingt massage with on up with a large double epauletic molit

in front-aiso complete with gol ward movement.

fringes.

#

There

.

Musical Boxes

Below: Relax the mind and body completely for some minutes during the day. This is as effective as any beauty treatment, It makes the tired lines and that worried look TASTES disappear.

Top right: A rubber brush for acrubbing the face is one of the best methods of toning up the clrculation. It should be done every morning with quick upward movements.

T

secm less sophisticated nowadays than of heretofore. We find amusement in all sorts of sample little things.

Bacon

DINNERS

Potato Omelette

Chopped Spinach Hot Muns

Bulter Refrigerator Ice Cream Cookies Coffee

and

Mushroom-Eres and Noodles Buttered Carrots Balad of Mixed Greens Pineapple Taploca Pudding Coffee

The protein in both the yolk and white is necessary for the growth:

the repair of body tissues, ne- cording to the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agri- culture. The minerals found in the yolk include lots of iron (in which ordinary diets are likely to bo low) and good supplies of calcium and phosphorus, Egg yolks ulso contain vitamins A, B-1, G and D; the whites! ore rich in vitamin G.

Since the case in favour of enting- more eggs is such a good one, here are several recipes for tempting

dishes.

TOMATO AND EGG RAREBIT

tablespoons butter tablespoons flour

cups strained tomato

1⁄4 teaspoon dry mustardy

teaspoon salt

Leaspoon pepper

hard-cooked cras, chopped

1 cup grated cheese

Melt butter and mix in the four. Gradually add tomato, stirring con stantly until mixture thickens. Then add sensanings and eggs, Cook 4 minutes. Add cheese and cook until cheese in peited. Serve at once on tonst.

POACHED EGGS PROVINCIAL

hands.

realises that the little girl who yesterday was her baby is beginning to think about being to-morrow's glamour girl. Toward that end she's becoming hair-conscious, complexion- conscious and hand-conscious. Unless you are a very casuai mother you have already taught your daughter a soap-and- water complexion ritual and simple comb-and-brush routine. But what have you done about her hands? Teaching her to keep them clean is good as far as it goes. But latter is just before drying her it isn't enough. What about her If you really want to teach her to cuticles? What about these nails? What about the skin texture? Now do the job thoroughly, buy her a is the time to take advantage of her fragrant hand cream or perfumed newly aroused interest in her looks hand lotion or both it your budget wallow. Little girls--like big ones— doing and starting things about them. On her next birthday or as a reward love pleasant odours and if for the good grooming steps she has place these things within her reach, already mastered, give her a mani-she soon will be helping herself to hus washed her cure kit for her very own-one them after she

This will soon eliminate containing manicure scissors, a good, hand a condition that is common flexible nuil fiie. an emery board, a chepping, a con nail while pencil, a stick for push- to all children.

For luxurious,,

TOW

ing back the cuticle, and, nicest yet, Cure. there

You

once-in-a-while

is a fragrant nail ol a good looking buffer.

Next teach her to use these in which you can warm and apply to plements in a simple but consistent her fingertips to soften and help daily routine. Show her how to stimulate healthy nail growth. Of hold that file and and how to use it course, you should do this for your- self regularly! The easiest way to small nails roundly do it is to saturate flannel strips to shape her leaving a tiny rims of brush under with it and wrap those around the her how to use her nail the nails and around them and then fingers while preparing for the rest to soak her hands in warm soapsuds of her complete manicure.

Appeal to Her Vanity to soften the for a few minutes cutleles. Demonstrate the pushing It your daughter is really a prob- back of tlie cuticles with the little tem child, preferring to dig in the stick gently so the nail root will not soil, climb trees or jump rope to be Injured to cause unlovely, while keeping herself dainty and feminine,

to her appealing try

vanity. spots.

Polish Brings Pride

Perhaps

aps there are

little girls who of Buy her some paste polish or even can resist the subtle argument n cake of the dry variety and dab it a long-coveted ring or bracelet, but on the nails yourself the first time-they are rare. These needn't spoil applying the buffer vigorously. Buff her outdoor fun, but they will make from tips toward the cuticles with her more cuteful-perhaps even to the grain of the nails, not-across the point of...

'mnother" when she

After she glimpses the lovely lustre) #loves Just covering to put on

have to do makes her garden. that results you won't have to do

Later on when she has her first any arguing about that part of the procesa in the future. She will be long party dress, you can adi as a

the equally pleased with magic reward for her faithful handyroom- worked by the little nall white ing a bottle of liquid nail enamel in pencil so there will be no more a soft delicate pink for use only on

rimy nail tips. The time to use the these special occasions, of course.

Handkerchiefs Are Used

+

As Novel Dress Tops

By ELEANOR GUNN

EW YORK-Evening shop's announcement of this interest-

the

Nesses, the folded-over ing event. It about describes dee

bodices of which are made when they receive the slightest en- couragement. The time seems ripe from handkerchiefs, are for a revival of them, but "green something new. Take a hand-grow the fashions" in another shop kerchief that is from 15 to 20 whose windows play up, among other inches square one of the many greens, a "deep hot-blue-green." beautifully printed ones-and Whatever your colour choice, Jet you will, with a little practice, it be gay. The need for gay clothes was never greater and women can And that it can be draped. Into a do their bit by wearing them. good-looking dress top. The skirt As previously reported, cottons are worn would be plain, You will and having their hey-day, among them also that handkerchiefs may be made cheek gingham which seems a par- into aprons, using either one or two ticularly happy choice now

checks are better than ever. large ones.

Another tricky little novelty, Is the apron with matching shawl. One such set made of open fishnet cotton is fringed around the square apron and shawl with centrusting wool. well over a plain

Skin Protection

that

If you turn pink lostead of tak-

Poached eggs, two per person] The set looks very iried to pusing on a healthy tan under the sun,

large onions, chopped

/4 cup cooking oil

2 cups tomato sauce

Finch of thyme

sports dress for,

您

I've

across, shawls and aprons are very then use a heavy tinted cream or a new for sports or play clothes but

are also worn for gala occasions.ood liquid powder that will protect Make sauce for poached eggs by How about providing shawls for your you. And use a soothing cream at sauleing onions in oil until begin bridesmaida

Perhaps that is why so many people are bringing out from retire-ning to brown. Add tomato sauce [ment musical boxes of various kinds.

One very popular one is in the form of a cigarette box. It has a china lid, attractively decorated with painted figures. When it is lifted the box playa an amusing tinkling

ttle tune.

Colours Harmonize VYVYAN Donner, the fashion com- mentator, recently appeared, at. an afternoon party in a, soft olive. green frock" with matching anilor hat triittined with pale yellow and fuchsin flowers. A short snood held the hat over her dark curls. Her lipstick was matched to the fuchsin-red of lier Howers; her complexion powder #clear rosytone to make the costume colour more flattering.

and thyme, and simmer until on- ions are soft. Ponch eggs and serva with sauce poured over eggs.

· POTATO OMELETTE cup milk

1 cup mashed potatoes

1 teaspoon onion julce

V1⁄2 teaspoon salt

Dash of pepper

4 eggs separated Combine milk with mashed potai, tock. Add onion Julce, popper" and;

in. beaten egg yolks, salt. Mix Fold in stimly beaten egg whites, Pour into greased pan and cook until bottom is brown. Then place under broller to brown top, and serve with bacon.

MUSHROOM-EGGS, AND

b. mushrooms, chopped

you are having brides- malds in your family this June?

Ever

SD

often purple, orchid, violet and such shades wiatarta, suddenly appear and conquer the is one town. "Wistaria hysteria,

2 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons flour

11⁄2 cups milk

Seasonings

V1 lb. noodles

Souto

butter:

night.

WATCHING RUSSIA

..

London, June 25. In the Commons to-day Mr. Dalton, Minister of Economic Warfare, sipted at question time that the decline in imports of war materials thiroogh Vladivostok had continued. How ever, he was still keeping a constant watch on that trade. 1

Mr. G. Le M. Murder: Will you In mushrooms

give an assurance that you will co- sprinkle with flour, add milk and operate in lie closest possible menner: seasonings to tuale. Cook 3 minutes, with the Ambassador at Moscow? Cook noodles in belling salted water| until tender and drain. Place noodles Mr. Dalton: I'll gladly give that in Hrchsed baking dish, making. 4 assurance. This, of course, is one of depressions. Break eggs into de- the matters which have already taken pressions. Pour entice over eggs and up with, the Boviet Authorities. bake in moderate oven until eggs oro Reuter."

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