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Fishnet, tho perennial favourite for summer acces-' sorios, goes back to the sca with decorativo motifs of sallboats for a looped-bow bandoau.

Above is a twisted ban-

Three Quick Tricks

WHEN you're very tired

and want a quick facial treatment to pick you up, a pick-up mask is one of the first things to think of. Whatever kind of skin you have, it emerges from the mask clearer and fresher than ever.

...

For dry skin; Take threo table- spoonfuls of ordinary raw ont- meal and add sufficient olive oil to make a paste' of medium con- sistency. To this paste, ndd two teaspoonfuls of glycorine,

For sallow or freckled skin: To three tablespoons of oatmeal, add; cuough olive oil to make a paste, plus two teaspoonfuls of glycerine, add the juice of one-lemon and a half-teaspoonful

benzoin.

of tincture of

For oily skin;' Mix 4 tablespoons of fulter's cart, 1 tablespoon pow- dered orris root, 1 tablespoon corn meal, 1⁄4 teaspoonful afcohol, 1 fea- spoon glycerine, and enough witch hazel to make a pack of desirable consistency.

The

use

of these moska is simple: Firal, set about getting your face and neck scrupulously clean, removing dust and inake-up with cleansinif ergam, tissues, und soop and water.

Spread on the mask preparation evenly, over the cleansed face and neck. Then He down for a few min- utes while the mask is doing its good work. Remove the mask with tepid water, rinsing thoroughly, and finish- ing with a dash of cold water.

deau, also with a back loop, Care Of Silver

done in the multicolour

dotted fishnet which is very popular for summer,

To Clean Refrigerator

SILVER needs, very special care because it is a soft metal. It

will tarnish less quickly If you rinse

it carefully and dry it with a clean

by electrolysis; that is, by bolling the

silver in a salt-and-soda solution in

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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

HERE is something any child lovas to do for himself— pour rich, good-tasting_molasses over, buttored bread. Ho thinks a molasses sandwich is fino after school. Mother know's it's one of the most nourishing foods she can give him after a long day at school, and to help him through his strenuous play hours.

Mother Finds Molasses

Aids Appetites

By JUDITH WILSON

July 1940.

Perfume Is Smart

By: JACQUELINE. HUNT

HAVEN'T you some time

or other had the experi- the ence of putting on smartest. suit or frock in your closet, your loveliest hat and newest -accessories and still feeling, disappointed with yourself? Your mirror re- veals a figure you can be justly proud of you look healthy enough, there's nothing wrong with the way you have applied your make-up-but something misses fire. The sparkle, the in- definable something that sets you apart, is lacking.

Perhaps what you need is vitamins, not for your health, but for your personality, Perhaps you need the aubtle reassurance of the right per- fumo. No brilliant colour scheme is so gay that a dash of stirring per- fume, won't improve it. No print is zo daintily floral that on aura of

honeysuckle won't lend. significanco, Navy and white will look more girlish with a crisp, sweet perfume; while black and white bo comes smarter with a sophisticated fragrance.

Wistful o

If you adore feminine clothes with ; dressmaker detalls and soft tailoring, if flirtatious petticoats rustle under your skiris and your hats aro minin- ture flower gardens, you'll

need o perfume

accent auch ng lilac to em- phasize their feminine daintiness and appeal. Lliac is a fresh, Ught, de- licately sweet fragrance that lends itself to round and suits, yet distin- round-the-clock wear. It's nice with prints and sulls, you guished enough to be worn with your evening clothes. It's a lovely per tume for warm days, surrounding you with a gentle fragrance and de- lighting those who come near

you. With Talloreð Sults Carnation is another perfume for

with summer, smart

tailored sults tay and flirtatious ensembles; enough for prints and full-skirted

Carnation is

d

organdie frocks.

spicy scent, but it is cooling. Loo,

towel. You can remove the tarnish WHAT is as common as flowers on hats and baseball

១៤. on the corner lot? Spring fever, of course. The an aluminum vessel. Then finish by Symptoms of this malady, languor and loss of appetite, FOR the weekly cleaning of the ra- a soft cloth. However, this inches To bring back rosy cheeks and renewed pep, the diet should con- polishing with a piece of chamods or are common these days among children and grown-ups. frigerator, use mild soap suds cannot be used for silver with dark with a little soda odded to help re-indented portions that are part of tain foods rich in iron. move extors. First take out all the the design. Some women prefer the food. Then remove the shelves and brighter finish given by a good grade refrigerator dlahes and wash them, of silver polish. But be sure to use as well as the inside of the box. a polish that does not scratch, and Finally rine-with clear water. put it on with a soft cloth or brush.

Fresh Air In Home For Good Health

By CLAUD NORTH CHRISMAN, M.D. RESPIRATORY ailments seem to be on the increase and many scientific industries are striving to meet the problems of helping alleviate the sufferings of those who find the usual air supply not to their welfare. Frankly there is little we can do, so long as we continue "to"crowd together ir cities, keep from the skin rough perspiration, up an abnormal rate of living and greater discomfort is the result. habits, and spend our days While the body is unable to dissipate where the air is burdened with its heat, there may be an actual rise in temperature. Certainly with the smoke and soot.

increase of circulation to the skin. This does not account for tlie in- the heart beats faster and the re- creasing number of Infective dis-spiration also is speeded up, but with cases that are air-borne, are a corresponding full In the measure acquired by cluse contact with those of the blood flow Itself. already infected.

person suffering

or

Natsed condit

any

Here is good news, pointing to a more tasteful and enjoyable spring tonle for the whole family. Accord- Ing to latest selentific research find- ings molasses is shown to be one of the richest food sources of iron. And, best of all, Its iron-richness is not! last in cooking. This means more puddings, gingerbreads, cookies and molasses muna tonic that shouldi not be at all hard to take.

DINNERS Nicat Loaf Braised Celery Scalloped Potatoes Lettuce Salad Molasses Brown Betty Coffee

Baked Fish Fillets, Lemon Slices Buttered Beets Baked Potatoes

Shredded New Calibage Balad

Coffee Warm Gingerbread

Molasses can be used on cereals in place of other sweetening, or us a spread on bread and muflins. Used plain as a sauce over ice cream is a thought for dessert. Children who dislike plain milk. shake with molasses: Add 1 table degrees F.) 5 minutes, or until spoon of molasses to a glass of milk ces 8.) 25 minutes, or until done and stir in molasses. Sprinkle with Yield from 10 to 18 two-inch muffins. a dash of nutmeg. Serve with a drinking straw to heighten appetite

1⁄4 cup shortening

appreciate a milk Fill greased mumin pans 2/3 full. (400

appeal

MOLASSES BROWN BETTY

"tablespoons butter

2 eggs, beaton

1⁄4 cup sugar

1⁄2 cup molasses

teaspoon salt

elnnamon

1 quart pared sliced apples

teaspoon eln

fine dry bread crumbs спря

cinnamon.

GINGERBREAD-

2 tablespoons brown sugar

well beaten

1 exs. We

1 cup molasses

24 cups flou

1 teaspoon soda

1⁄2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ginger

1 teaspoon cinnamon.

cup

1 cup boiling water

Cream together shortening sugar.

which makes especially suitable for summer wear. Finally, men love: It. If this is your perfume choler, have it in cau de Cologne, too. You! can use the latter in

many ways to refresh your

ord complexion spirits at the end of a tiring train

Fide, to prolong the cooling effect of

· your shower on a hot day, or to dash Into the rinse water after your sham- poo to give your hair the freshness

of flowers

You may like the idea of using one perfume the rest of the year, but at this season, at least, do not be afraid to experiment. You'll find so

many that you

will want to ones, lovely have one for each favourite dress or suit. This 19 possible. too! Even the Anest perfumes come in small flacons. You will find it economical to buy perfumes that way-you'll use every drop of them. Larger botties are sometimes allowed to sit on your dressing table until some of their precious contents have evaporated or until light and loose stoppers have permitted the perfume to deterio- rate.-

How to Use Perfume

Be as careful about the way you tise your perfumes us you are about choosing the right perfumes for your

$1 TIFFINS

at

Jimmy's

Also A la

China Bldg., Hongkong.

Carte

Hankow. Rd., Kowloon.

HIS MASTER'S VOICE

PRESENTS

A VOCAL PROGRAMME John McCormack

DB 177 Ave Maria.

DB 578.. Ave Maria.

(Bach-Gounod).

Angels guard, thee,

(Schubert). Angels Serenade. (Braga). DB 340 Drink to me only, with thine eyes. Ah moon of my delight.

DD 325 Evening song.

(Blumenthal), When my ships come sailing home.

Chaliapino

DB 932: Song of the flea,

Barber of Seville.

DB1465 Doubt. DB1347 Faust.

Stenka Rasine. Le venu d'or.

Vous faites l'endormie.

Lawrence Tibbett

DB1084 De Glory road.

DB1298 Carmen.

Edward.

DB1478 Barber of Seville. Largo al factotum."

Dalle Maschera,, "Eri Tu."

"Votre toast je peux." "Tre shirri una carozza." DA1200 Lover come back to me. Wanting you.

Tosca.

(New moon),

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY.

Marina House

19 Queen's Rd., c.

The

Hongkong

Phone 24648.

Telegraph

Tenth Annual

Amateur Photographic Competition

June - September, 1940.

Two Silver Trophies Awarded by ILFORD LTD.

For the best and second-bast entrics.

Four Silver Trophies Awarded by EASTMAN KODAK CO.

First Prizes in each of the four Soctions.

$250 CASH PRIZES $250

SECTION-ONE-

General Pictorial: Land and Seascapes: Architecture: Street Scenes, etc.

type and for the clothes you wear. 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50.

Apply perfume just after your warm

and bath: you'll require less and the

Add egg and molasses. Sift effect is more agreeable and more

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and receptive to the fragrance,

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SECTION TWO

Melt butter. Combine with beat-together flour, soda, salt, ginger and lasting. The open pores are more Portraits: Informal Close-ups: Human Studies. en eggs, sugar, molasses, salt and cinnamon, and add alternately with recep

in the fruit. Put a hat water to nrst mixture. Bake in mingles with the ofis of your own 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50. -Stir layer of crumbs into the bottom of a slow oven (325 degrees F.) of the heart

well buttered baking dish. cover minutes. with a layer of fruit. Repeat until the materials are used, having crumbs on top. Dot with bits of bulter, Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F.) for 15 minutes. Good served hot or cold.

Because of all these factors the ale from conditioning industry is growing at or blood vessels will and undue con- an unusual pace, and a former pro-ditions in the atmosphere most un- hibitive price is being scaled down comfortable.

Great

care must be and appliances Improved. Before observed when giving special baths long most of us will be able to have or packs to such patients, lest the in- an air conditioning plant of some sort ternal changes should conflet with for bur own use:

the outer circumstances with unfor-

Question of Humidity tunate results.

This observance of air conditions

year

In the majority of our homes has much to do with the success of and places of business, the question troaliments in the popular spas, or of hutidity is more important than in the approved steam bath establish many of us realise. The absence of ments. A significant report has just cufficient moisture in the alt we been released after a five breatho might account for p yast of the relation between air conditions study number of headaches, sinus troubles, and lung conditions, in the Boston and catarrha wilch we are foolishly Cily Hospital. There are many more taking for granted.

lesions and embolisms when the Since we have been considering humidity runs high, hence we try to blood pressures for a column or two, get our lung cases to seek a clear, wo might look at air conditioning dry atmosphere. from the standpoint. Without ques- tion, the body, like any internal com-

bustion

ed

bring about

functions best at

temperature. Any mark-

in either direction will

also ma

mariced physio-

EYE LOTION

eye lotion, you can make a safe and satisfactory one yourself by following these simple directions:

logical changes. Why do typists, IF you run short of your favourite seamstresses, and others whose occu paticar tends to be monotonous hold their wrists under the cold water faucet? Why do many people com- plain on entering a close warm room, "Oh, I'm smothering"? -

Bolt two cups of water und add one-half teaspoonful ench of table salt, bicarbonate of soda, and boric neld. After these have dissolved,

The undur high temperature, or add teaspoonful of glycerine. When low humidity, or vice versa, has caused. uncomfortable body changes, the solution has cooled, pour it into An increase in body temperature, or a clean bottle. Bathe the eyes fre- the effort of the body to rid itself of quently with this solution, using an its heat formation, sends ыр the eye cup. blood pressure.

the

the

As a special treat for tired ayes, We init the best explanation in oak cotton pads in, this lotion, ice- fact that the skin is the chief cold, and plate over the eyes while source of heat dissipation of you stretch out on the flat of your body

must be provision back for fifteen or twenty minutes. made for conduction, or evaporation

This soothes and rests the eyes and into the air. We Bush in the pro- gives them a bright, wide-awake Speice of Unusual heat because the lock.

Thero

y is attempting to equalize things!

some of the blood

by tertingg throuhe tapillaries, while are visibleborough the skin. This pro- cess taken away, the supply of bloote Internal organa; vÉD];

may

becau

Pleats Return

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The return of pleated skirts. sense of fatninicas favoured by Paquin who shows a number of printed afternoon suits made with box-pleated skiriak. These lantsuits, Incidentally have a new looks

**Perspiration Bagoriant

If the humidity of the air la infance the Jackets are opened almost it creased above hormal tee la- to the waistline where they are terference with normal evocoration fastened with a single button.

MOLASSES MUFFINS

2 cups sified flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

teaspoon salt

teaspoon soda

2 tablespoons sugar

cup molassCH

cup sour milk or buttermilk

2

tablespoons melted

shortening

SOFT MOLASSES COOKIES

1⁄2 cup lard or other shortening.

metted

1 cup molasses

2 tablespoons warm water

beaten

1

3 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

teaspoon

1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger

11⁄2 teaspoons cinnamon

and

skin to

to take

on an individuality that makes it different on you than on anyone else.

"Take your choice as to the tech- nique you use for applying it. You may spray it lightly over your en-

SECTION THREE

Still Life and Table Top Studies..

tire body, after bathing. If you do 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50.

this, however, do not add more later on or you're apt to get too much. You may spray it only over throat, arms and chest after you have dress- ed for an evening party, or you may apply it by touching the freshly bottle dipped red of the perfume

Mix together shortening, molasses along the arm from wrist to the warm water. Add beaten egg. inner part of the elbow, put a drop Sift together dry ingredients and add behind each ear lobe, on the temples To first mixture, Mix thoroughly near the bair-line or a bit on the

cach

movement

and let stand about 10 minutes. Roll nape of the neck. Another trick for soda and sugar together. Beat egg, thick. Cut with round cookie cutter. of your gown so

Sift flour, baking powder, salt, out on floured board, to 1/3 inch evening is to spray some on the hem add molasses, milk and shortening Bake in moderate oven (400 degrees wafts an clusive cloud of fragrance Add egg mixture to flour mixture, F.) about 15 minutes. Makes

4 about you. stirring only until four is moistened, dozen cooldes.

This hat has already established itself as the most popular type for sum- mor. It is of burnt sown braid, somi-fine, banded with brown, grosgrain Hb- bon. At the front, the rib bon is laced -rust-and- falls in

green:

Ribbon

back.

BANGORGE

1 cup flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

Few gralus salt

eup melted shortening.

moltazes

1'err

Z squares unsweetened

chocolate, melted

1 cup nuts, chopped

Blot Or Scrawl

Prints

PRINTS In scrawl and blog pat-

terns are an Innovation among the small prints which are featured

Sift flour, baking powder and salt in the Faris midseason openlugs. fogether,

Introduced by Molyneux, these printe Mix with remaining In- gredients in order given, and boat polica dots and decidedly, newer- are reported to be as wearable, as thoroughly. Spread mixture evenly

an cake pan that has been lined with looking, blthough polka dots 'con-

Unue as an important fashion,

alled

paper. Bako in slow oven (325 degrees F.) about 15 minutes.

Remove paper from cake at once and CHARITY EXHIBITION cut cake into small squares with

sharp knife.

Plaid On Organdie

*

About 70 uninf

paintings, examples of both Eastern and Western art, are now on view in St. John's Cathedral Hall The

exhibition is in aid of the Brillah War Organisation Fund and is held under the joint auspices of

the

of Club, Arlists

Art

Guild and the

submitted are

Halleta, appliques, to Eivnite are cele ol paintings are devoted of pastel plaid mostly studietings

studies of

kindle skirt make, an effective and to acquery, and more solid subjects, wearable, wide-skirted evening drew The most expensive work is un, dil shown by Lelong. This idea, shotid, palating by: (G. V... Smirnoff titled appeal to the smart matron, who "Hongkong Shanghai Bank." It is want to wear a white organdia but orleed at $500, tam wanish sophisticated effect in place The exhibition will open from 10 of en ingenus one:

de.m. to 7 p.m., to-day,

„...

SECTION FOUR

(Craftsmen's Section)

The whole of the work entailed In the production of overy entry must have been done by the competitors who will be required to make a declaration to this effect. Each entry must have pasted on the back a special entry for obtainable on application from The Hongkong Telegraph or from, the Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, Photographic Society. Subjects at the discretion of competitors.

1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20, 4th. $12.50.

RULES

The following Rules will govern the Competition:

1 The Competition is confined ex- clusively to *On Cour photo- Krapher.

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1-No employee' or member of any.

So the photographio trade is permitted to compete. 3The prizes will be awarded to tha campelitors sending in what-ars adjudged to be the best photo graphs in each“. Section,Zách cairy must be accompanied by a form which will be published! during the period of the Com petition, and which must be pasted on back of entry The right to publins "any 'dr all of the entries: roserved to the Hongkong Telegraph.

-All photographs entered "must" have been taken in the Colony. of Hongkong, Photographs which hayw bean - Kiranty: eltered: in other Competitions ara, ineligible No responsibility will be acceptod for non-delivery of loss of or damage to entries:

SECTION

NAME

ADDRESS

7AÚ, entries to be either - black,

· saple, or toned pletures,, and-mad be mounted. Coloured photo- graphia are moligible. --Pictures subreitted fri' sepia tonés. 7. should be accompanied : DYNAS

smaller print ta' Black and white. : 9-No picturs to entered in more

tre than ones. Section. 10,»«Mounsa to be only white or creaIE,

must be of one of the following. sizes:-IDMI, 18XCRO, ZAMAN SA 11.-No correspondence will be ablerad into in connection with the Coma-

11-Members of the Blaffe of the Hongkong Telegraph, and the South China Morning Post are not permitted to compote,AN 13The decision of the Judges shall

24-At the conclusion of the "Come.

petition, entries, wiff: be returned to competitors on application (was the Telegraph offices within Oeven'.

ENTRY FORM:

Blazio ure block letters and paste this on factions * and

(of jeach: Entry