1940-06-26 — Page 24

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 26, 1940.

Miss Observation

IRLS getting make-up taped now;

Gr not pink, not orange, but apricot.

Healthy reddy-brown lipstick. Suits most girls too.

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

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

cycling.

SHOES getting flatter. Three to 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-

· Ata.

WALLFLOWER red- brown shirt and hat make navy or grey suit look very slow. Latest colour scheme Paris.

from

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

Was look-

BEAUTY

ing for medium-brown girl in medium- brown straight cont; never recognised' gay girl in light blue-and-brown plaid. Tip for 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 suntan. 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 home dressmaker using shirlastic thread in shuttle instead of usual machine silk.

DE-FUZZ, new American word for taking hair of Electric legs. Favourite methods, there and here: razor, wax pilasters,

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

summer.

LOVELY LINGERIE FABRICS

Pretty hands and nails-that's the ambillon 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 nails polished and shapely.

Manicure Kit For Young Girl

By JACQUELINE HUNT

FABRICS IN every mother's life there comes d

WILL NOT SHRINK

shrink,

QUCH a number of brides-to-be-are busy

stitching for their trousseaux,, for "DON'T you think they are love- dainty lingerie is an expensive item when y?" she exclaimed. "I made them myself in one of the new Grafton bought ready-made, and the money you have anti-shrink ingerle fabrics, which to spend will go so much farther if you can are guaranteed never to

stretch or lose their colour.' make some of these garments yourself.

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

all equally charming and in the EXQUISITE DESIGN

dellente shades which are so fashion- THEIR design is simplicity itself, and their able for lingerie, exquisite loveliness is due to the soft, delicate

TREATMENT

Ho

JOME beauty culture will make you look more beautiful so why

One

crepe with a tiny

all-over pattern of pink and blue roses And true lovers' knots on a lovely sofi pink ground, in which they have bren made.

One

friends,

Recipes Bring Eggs

To Table

care,

This will soon

day when she 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 casual 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 hands,

If you really want to teach her to cuticles? What about those nails? What about the skin texture? Naw do the job thoroughly, buy her

or perfumed is the time to take advantage of her fragrant hand cream newly aroused interest in her looks and lotion or both if your budget and starting doing things about them, allow, Little girls like big ones-- On her next birthday or as a reward place these things within her reach, love pleasant odours and if you for the good grooming steps she has place aiready mastered, give her a man she soon will be helping; herself to cure kit for her very own-one them after she has washed her

hands.

ellminnic containing manicure scissors, a chopping, a condition that is common flexible nail file, an einery bourd, a nail white pencil, a stick for push-to all children.

For luxurious, once-in-a-while back the cuticle, nt Ing.

Land, nleest yet,

there is a fragrant nail oll 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 growth. Of daily rout Show her how to stimulate healthy nall

e. hold that file and and how to use it course, you should do this for your- to shape her small nuils roundly, self regularly! The easiest way to Great THE wise housewife leaving a tiny pin of white. Show do it is to saturate flannel strips hen fingers while preparing for the rest should not neglect this her how to use her nail brush under with it and wrap those around the good protein food in her to soak her hands in warm soapsuds of her complete manicure.

soften the

Appeal la Her Vanity meals. Either the brown-shelled for a few minutes to

cuticles. Demonstrate the pushing If your daughter is really a prob- or white-shelled egg is a store: back of the cuticles with the little tem child, preferring to dig in the house of protein, minerals and stick gently so the nail root will not sell, climb trees or jump rope to be injured to cause unlovely white keeping herself dainty and feminine, vitamins.

to her vanity. spots.

try appealing Polish Brings Fride

Perhaps

there are little girls who Buy her some paste polish or even can resist the subtle argument of bracelet, but a cake of the dry variety and dab it a long-coveted ring or on the nulls yourself the first time they are rare. These needn't spoil applying the buffer vigorously. But her outdoor fun, but they will make from-tips-toward-the cuticles with her more careful-perhaps even to the grain of the nails, not across. the point of remembering to put on After she glimpses the lovely lustre gloves "Just like mother" when she that results you won't have to do makes her garden.

Later on when she has her first any arguing about that part of the process in the future. She will be long party dress, you can add as a pleased with the magic reward for her faithful handgroom- Corked by the little nail white ing a bottle of liquid nail enamel in pencil so there will be no more a soft delicate.plnk for use only on grimy nail tips. The time to use the these special occasions, of course.

Is

Of miy

who married,

lo

kelting showed them me with pride the other day.

of the lovely Grafion anti - shrink fabrics in a design of rosebuds and

trus

lovers' knots has been chosen for the trous- seau nightle, on

left, and the

the dainty

Jacket to go with .

For Your Lapel

AMONG the latest dress acces- Asories are brooches made in the form of military epaulettes. They are of gli and have shiny Just the In equiring a charming appearance. gold fringes. They are

in your lapel, on Top left: Take care of the ugly thing to wear hard lines which appear round the pocket flaps or upon your shoulders. There are necklaces of choker

not spend a few minutes every day

nose and mouth. An effective mas- length to match made of flexible gold

suge is lustrated

above. Use

{

light tapping massage with an up-In Iront-pise complete with golf with a large double epaulette motif ward movement.

fringes, Below: Relax the mind and body completely for some minutes during the day. This is as effective as any

Musical Boxes

nowadays than of heretofore.

benuly treatment. It makes to TASTES, seem less sophisticated tired lines and that worried look disappear.

Top right: A. rubber brush for We find amusement in all sorts of scrubbing the face is one of the best s'mple litle things. methods of toning up tie cleculation. It should be done every morning with quick upward movements,

Perhaps that is why So many people are bringing out from retire- ment musical boxes of various kinds. One very popular one is in the form of a cigarette box. It has a chinn td, attractively decorated with painted. figures. When it is lifted the box plays an amusing thkling Hittle tune.

Colours Harmonize

YVYAN Donner, the fashion com- inontator, recently appeared at an aftertioon party in a soft olive green frock with matching sallor hat teimmed with pale yellow and fuchsia Nowera, A short snood held the hat over her dacic curls. Her lipstick was, thatched, to the fuchala-red of her flowers; her complexion powder a clear, rusy tone to make the

costume colour more flattering.

By JUDITII WILSON

DINNERS

Polato Omeletle Bacon Chopped Spinach

Hot Muffins Butter -------

Cookies Refrigerator Ice Cream

Coffee

Mushroom-Eggs and Noodles Bultered Carrots Salad of Mixed Greens Pineapple Tapioca Pudding Coffee

The protein in both the yolk and white is necessary for the growth and the repair of body tissues, ac- of Home cording to the Bureau Economies, Department of Agri- culture. The minerals found in the yolk include lots of iron (in which ordinary diets are likely to be low) arid good supplies of calcium and phosphorus, Egg yolks also contain vitamins A, B-1, G and D; the whites are rich in vitamin G.

Since the case in favour of eating more eggs is such a good one, here are several recipes for templing cur

dishes.

TOMATO AND EGG RAREBIT

2 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons flour

2 cups strained tomato

1⁄4 teaspoon dry mustard

1⁄4 teaspoon salt

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1⁄4 teaspoon pepper

4 hard-cooked eggs, chopped

cup grated cheese Melt butter and mix in the flour. Gradually add tomato, stirring con- stantly until mixture thickens. Then add seasonings and eggs. Cook 4 minutes. Add cheese and cook until cheese is melted. Serve at once on

toast.

POACHED EGGS PROVINCIAL

Poached eggs, two per person 2 large onions, chopped

1⁄4 cup cooking ell

2 cups tomato sauce

the nails and around them and

Handkerchiefs Are Used

As Novel Dress Tops

By ELEANOR GUNN

the

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

deserBes ing event. It about dresses, the folded-over rush women make for these shodes bodices of which are made when they receive the slightest en- couragement. The time seema 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 you will, with a little practice, And that it can be draped into a good-looking dress top. The skirt

As previously reported, cottons are worn would be plain. You will find having their hey-day, among them also that handkerchiefs may be made check gingham which seems a par- Into aprons, using either one or two ticularly happy choice now

cheeks are better than ever. large ones.

Whatever your colour choice, let it be gay. The need for gay clothes was never greater and women can do their bit by wearing them.

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Another tricky little novelty is the) apron with matching shawl. One such set made of open fishnet cotton' is fringes around the square apron and shawl with contrasting wool.

If you turn pink instead of tak- The ect looks very well over a plas sports dress for, as I've tried to put ing on a healthy tan under the sun. across, shawls and aprons are very then use a heavy tinted cream or a new for sports or play clothes but good liquid powder that will protect are also worn for. galu occasions.

And use a soothing cream at

you.

Pinch of thymeked eggs by How about providing shawls for your night. Make Bauce for

sauteing onions in. oll until begin ning to brown. Add tomato saure and thyme, and simmer until on- ions.are soft. Poach eggs and serve with sauce poured over eggs.

POTATO OMELETTE

to on milik potatoes

1.oup

2 teaspoon onion juice

11⁄2 teaspoon sall

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4 ergs separated

Dash of popper

Combine mile with mashed pota-

toes. Add onion juice, pepper, and! salt,

having brides- bridesmakis it you are makis in your family this June?

Ever so often purple, orchild, and such shades wistarin, violet suddenly appear and conquer the is one town. "Wistaria hysteria,"

2 tablespoons butter. tablespoons flour

144 cups milk

Seasonings

Vib. noodics

4.CERS

WATCHING RUSSIA

London, June 25, In the Commons to-day Mr, Dalton, Minister of Economie Warfare, stated at question time that the decine lu importa of war materials through Vindivostok had continted. How ever, he was still keeping a constant watch on that trade.

Mr. G. La N. Manders, Wilt you

Mr. Dalton: I'll gladly give that

Mixin beaten NE yolks. Soute mushrooms In butter; ve un dissurance that you will co- Fold in stily beaten egg whites, sprinide with flour, add mille and operate in the closest possible manne Four Into greased pan and cook acasorilugs to taste. Cook 3 minutes with the Ambassador at Melców?> until bottom is brown Then place Coble hoodies in bolling called water under broller to brown top, and until tender and drain. Place noodles serve with bacon, in greased baking dish, making 4 ansurance. This, of course, is one of depressions. Break, eggs into de- the matter which have already taken- MUSHROOM-EGGS AND

pressions. Pour snucé, over eggs and up with the Soviet Authorica bake in moderate oven until eggs are. Reuter;

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V1b, mushrooms, chopped.

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