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EVERY SATURDAY,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1947.

WOMANSENSE

Robb SEES THEM IN HOLIDAY CLOTHES

FULL-PAGE FEATURE

S people back home. leave for their holidays, Robb Is sketch-reporting what they are wearing-glamorous and otherwise-beginning here at Airways Terminal, London. This was the scene recently.

Cooks Go

To School

In Paris

Paria.

The most famous cooking school in the world is hidden behind a faded blue shop facade, piles of books, and old-fashioned potted ferns on one of the swan- kiest streets in Paris.

The school is the Cordon Bleu whose #diplomaed chefs and recipes are known by gourmets around the world. It is housed in an ordinary. looking shop on the fashionable Rue

Inside St. Honore.

the shop, whose rickety wooden, shelves these food-rationed days are bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard, a mirrored door leads to the school, a single classroom. Some 00 enger pupils turn up notebooks in hand, at three in the afternoon to sil on stiff-backed chairs arranged th descending

rows like a theatre. The students watch the master chefs pre- pare poached eggs grand duke or crepes suzettes at the model kitchens In front of them. OFF

Any TO SWITZERLAND—

ono can enroll in the classes the

Bleu, also her friend wore

Cordon

and grey at 1. wool coat with bishop sleeves. The sorts of people do. There are society

without servants women

in this post- the new puff-line sleeve and

blue brilliant red.

war world who want to learn what ૧ away fared Jacket. The pillbox on the skirt. Her big black shoulder

their prewar cocks knew. There are hat Was trimmed with ostrich bug bada special compartment

JUST IN FROM NEW YORK-Young brides hoping to find just the feather.

at the back Nited to carry tlckels,

she wore a nigger wool

tight sult templing recipes for their new "OFF TO PARIS-wearing the passport and foreign currency.

blue, with white pique cuffs and round-husbands." There are apprentice new coolle-type crownless plc-

scarf necked blouse. Her hat, a high cooks who take professional

swathed turbon-also nigger brown. OFF

and watch.

Ενισ motion Plerre ture hat trimmed with gay. coloured feathers. The hat, black: the loose

calf Mengelatte, chief Cordon Bleu in- ating travelling cont, stone.

structor, makes,~

OFF TO PARIS-in a grey and

1 white striped linen suit with

3

- OFF TO ...SWEDEN-lo a grey striped three-piece suit. stripes were used cleverly, hori-

the top. The scarf-patterned with The flowers.

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cut-zontally on the jacket and vertically This B.O.A.C. girl looked very corset belt and skull cap were

with

TO DUBLIN This hat was made of spotted black net a large black velvet bow at

New Recipes For Your Salad Book

By Dixio Taylor

The homemaker's book of knowledge contains a long chap. ter on salads, perhaps the most versatile of all classes of food.

The term applies to a variety of combinations and flavours, and salads may be used in many ways. Certain types aro an Arst course instead

appetising.

lemon

tomato juice, vinegar, and

refrigerator to set. Juice. Put in Serves four.

Clear tomato asple made as above Is an excellent first course,

If you want a more substantial dish, add tinned pens from

which or

the

liquid has been drained

green beans and serve with product looks

annaise. The

of soup, especially nice when it is set in a especially in hot weather. Others ring mould and brought to the table aro a delightful alde dish with timin whole, the centro being filled with or dinner. Some make a sultable sliced hardboiled eggs and mayon- and hearty main dish for lunch or tea, and still others serve as sweet,

Although a lettuce base is asso- ciated with most salads, health ex- perts say it is not advisable to use uncooked greens In Hongkong For during the cholera Season, that reason

concentrating We aro today on salads made from "safe" ingredients.

Here is the recipe for à jellied Perfection Salad which is a stling accompaniment to a ham or ronst park dinner:

JUMUIKA MITANDORTEN LAZIMIKAMA

The Hongkong Telegraph has received several contributed re- pipes in recent weeks. It would Welcome other contributions from readers, Only dishes for which the ingredients are available in the Colony should be included. Address your Bug- gestions to the Waman's Pare, Hongkong Telegraph,

1. package lemon jelly (1 pint)

cup crushed pineapple

pineapple chunks

1⁄4 cup grated raw carrot

or

0 olives, sliced. Make the jelly as per instructions and put it in the refrigerator. If you are using crushed pineapple, drain carefully. When the jelly is cold but not set, stir in the pine- apple, carrot, and. ollves. Serve with a tart mayonnaise."

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naise. Serve it with toasted cheese sandwiches for a light in or tea.

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A reader has contributed recipe for Continental Fruit which is a delicious sweet:

prango apple

banana

jelly

cup sugar

-egg

1 cup milk

this Salad

2 cups boiling water. Cut the fruit very fine. Add the sugar and one cup of boiling water and stir well. Mako Jelly with the second cup of boiling water. Beat cg with milk and add to the Jelly, Lastly put in the mixed fruits and stir well. Put In refrigerator to set, t

The reader suggests serving this sweet salad With milk or cream.

smart In her trim navy

uniform,

"

OFF TO SWITZERLAND— wearing red, white and Her tall boret was red; her blue and while check; her navy blue sult had a battle-dress jacket with loose wide-cuffed sleeves.

Close-up of someone getting a close-up. Miss Shirley Graham Allen, of Sandburst, Kent wears a little black bandeau, flower decked and A blossom-print dress.

Styles For

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Her sling bag tan and white skin.

AIMS OF WOMEN'S

COUNCIL

Jn

oll

notes

Students can take as many lessons, us they want. A single class costs HK$4. A series of 120 lessons lend- ing up to a diploma costs HK$200.

Most. Students Fronch Most of the students are French with a few Americans and British women mixed in. Women outnum- ber meh Ave to one. This summer the Cordon Bleu will give a special six-week vacation course for

foreign visitors which will start off

5011 with bolled

Tags and work up to delicate pastry recipes like

like Napoleons. Few of the current students ap- The Hongkong Council of peared to have the qualities which Women, which will hold its in- chef Mengelatte claimed

were neces« to bec

become a world-famous chef, augural meeting on August 7, great chef must have such a re- is an effort to co-ordinate activi-nca palette he can count with his

of The tongue ties of women's organisations on a filet mignon. He must have the

grains salt used to se and to encourage greater parti-physique of an athlete to stand over day. He should cipation of individuals and not wear glasses because they will fog groups in the Colony's civic life. up on him at the crucial moment

be when · ថ preparing a daming sauce. Preliminary responses indicate that Of course a great chef must have an. many women are interested in the excellent memory to retain the hun- idea, and leaders of the movement in-irade."

dreds of recipes which are his stock- expect a good attendance at the first general meeting, to take place at the Duddell St. Y.W.CA. at 5.15 pm. on August 7.

The sponsoring committee includes Mrs Hunter Brown, chairman, Mrs W. L. Calcraft, and Mrs Lambert

Kwok.

A general committee is to be clect-

the hot stove all

School 50 Years Old

sea-

and

Cordon Bleu

In its 50 years of existence the

has produced thou sands of excellent domestic

few professional cooks and not a world-famous

school chefs. The was started in 1895. It has since changed proprietors several times. The continuity was maintained by

the chef Henr Pellaprat who

taught classes at the Cordon Bleu

ed at the August 7 meeling, and or- for 32 years but who has now re-

Fat Women anlations have been asked to sub-tired to edit the school's

By GERRY HILL

mit nominations to Mrs Caleraft

or magazine. Mrs Lambert Kwok by July 81.

The states:

Purpose Outlined

invitation to the meeting

food

school.

The magazine is published cach month for 6,000 eager restaura- teurs

and - housewives all over the world. Twice a year Pellaprdt London.

comes out of retirement" to give ' a special cooking class at the school. Louis Mintz is a peculiar sort of fashion designer: For him,

"In consequence of the larger part The greatest chefs in Paris crowd

classroom to

overflowing no svelte hips, wasp waists nor which women are being called upon on these gala occasions. smooth curves. "Laugh and grow affairs of the Colony, it has been has been in charge of the

to play in the social and civic

Since Pellaprat refired, Mengolatle fat," his escutcheon proclaims. felt that by forming a Hongkong After teaching all day In his

Mintz recently gave Britain's first individual women

Council of Women, the efforts

topped of starched white uniformie goes up Heartler salads for a malu tin "outsize" fashion show, catering for various existing women's organisa- to. Montmartre to try his hand at his

and of the * tall chef's hat, or, ten course are made from cook-corpulent British beauties, Hotions could be co-ordinated ed fish, meat, or fowl.

estimates there are Tinned fish makes an easily pre-3,000,000 of them now and he ex-consequently made more effective." to dinner which is cooked by his wife. pared salad, but you can use any pects more. Hongkong fish which has bren steamed.or belled, boned, and cool- ed. Try this Saimon Salad on your family:

Tin salmon, for 2 cups other

fah)

。

→

4 hard-cooked eggs

1 cup chopped cucumber

cup vinegar

His

+

more thon

Pink Champagne

Rouge-en-Crame

Lipstick

Powder

(In round

two-piece box):

Tho most enchanting yot sophisticated make up Holona Rubinstein 'over, created. It makes your complexion irresistible.....gives lips a deeply vibrant colour. Onco. you try it you'll want to wear it with everything.

it's Gay... it's Young .........nt's Romantic "¿"4

it's by

Helena Rubinstein

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Tel. 31261

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off by

Betty's engagement ring...

and own restaurant. Then he goes home

"She doesn't cook anything fancy," Mengelatte sald. "She

cooks in licious!"United Press. simple French family style. It's de-

"The Council Intenda to seek amllation with the International Council of Women, and Mrs Hunter Brown, member of the larger body, represent it at the Interna-

will

models' hio measurements ranged from 44 inches to 60. Their bosoms were taped at from 40- to 40 inches. Dresses were designed tonul Council's conference In cleverly to conceal, and certainly

United States in September. not to reveal, nature's gifts to the girl. Big girls were advised to be proud of their large expanses of

Red salmon is best, but the in-bosoms and hips. ned pink type may be substituted

Colony.

the

All Are Eligible

Under the Hongkong Council women over 18 are Frocks easy to get into and out plan, "all since it is readily available in the of with lightning zips instead of eligible as individual members, and Tomato aspic is served either as

women's organisations and elubr a first 'course or as a side dish. Tho Drain the salmon, bemove bones, awkward buttons, and the belts to bazie recipe:

and break into small pieces with allow for that customary but üres can be affiliated and send an "elect- ed member to represent them at liquid a fork, Peel and chop the eggs, some change in the waistline Agured the Council's meetings, Amilation

in the show. Skirts were sight has to be applied for, or gored, with a Httle fullness, at

the highlight, to help hide

ganisations will support. this ven- rolls of flesh and give a girl what it ture by becoming alliated mem

bern.

2 cups tomato julce or

strained from canned toma- toes

1 tablespoon sugar

4 teaspoon" anit

cup vinegar

1 tablespoons lemon juice

2 tablespoons granulated

tine soaked in 1⁄2 cup

water.

floh

and

Stir eggs and cucumber into

Add' mix well. vinegar and mayonnaise and salt taste. Toss repeatedly with

and It is

to

the the bottom. The Monger line was hoped that Hongkong women's or-

those

two

forks until all the ingredients are combined thoroughly.

taken. .

gela-Fish salads should be served cold One of the models was proud of

Alms of the local group will be cold and should not be mixed until 10 her 49-inch best and 85-inch hips. similar to those of the International or 15 minutes before they are to She had qut her 190 pounds into a Council of Women. These are ex- Heat one-half cup of the tomato be, caton. The recipe above makes pastel-coloured day dressnot plained as follows by Mrs Cateraft, julce with the sugar and salt. Add substantial servings for four to six black for her with sequin embroi- formerly secretary of the Wolver the soaked, gelatino and allr until persons Chipped potatoes are an dery to cover her re." Gathers hampton branch of the National dissolved.. Mix in the remaining excellent accompaniment."

around the prominent bust Tent Council of Women dignity and youth.

"WHEN RATS ANNOY"

Bothered by rats?`,

Most house and fist residents are at one time ar another and precautione against the dangçrous rodouts are necessary,” at all times...'

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!

Here are some tips from the rodent control unit or the Medical Department on how to keep your home free from rati,

1. Hoop your premises clean, well. lit and ventilated.

2. Stop up all hotes and fill in hollow spaces.

3. Put all garbage and refuse in dustbins and keep lids on

* tightly.

"T

4. Koep food protected in suliable rat-proof, containers.

In other words, the department adds, "keep your premises'. In sound repale and obey the ordinary rules of common seRED hygiene."

If

KareIf you see evidence of rais, get a cat for tabby remains

the best protection the householder has against the porta. the problem becomes serious sck the Rodent Central Unit for {ndyloo on extermination zeiheda, dan sal die antige

→

Britain

Great

sad life for the designer "It works for the welfare of who takes up the case of the fat women and children, and for the girl. The Board of. Trade makes removal of all disabilities of women,

no provision for extra bulk nor does whether legal, economic, of social.

It provide extra, material, so the It is a strictly non-political and designer must, make do with what non-sectarian organisation, and it

throughi he has. A day dress uses up a yard functions

the National countries who are and a quarter more material in out- Councils of the size" than in an ordinary size members. ';"

Heartbroken letters from all parts Each National Council of Women of Britain persuaded Miniz to take elects delegates who form the com- up the cause of the fat girl. Now he mittees of the International Coun turns out more than 2,000 dresses ell. They meet annually, at which a week and hundreds of fat women time resolutions sent in from are on his waiting list. He Bald various countries are debated. ---- Scotland, scenied to have.

Ave more big- dimensioned women than any other part of Britain.

The resolutions which are ac cepted are then circulated among The old saying, "Nobody loves a the National Councile, whoso. func- fat girl," didn't seem to ring true. Lion it is to urge thele respectivo There were wedding rings 'on the governments to pass legislation to Angers of practically all of Mintz's | Incorporate the demands ·" ka“ ex- proud04-Inch hipped, benuilos.——| pressed.../in....the.Laccepted resolu« United Fress.

ilona"

WIMBLEDON HATS

· Maple-ledt ear drnament änd hat of massed tea roses, and velling, worm'at Wimbledon by Sirs Dan Maskell, wife of the tennis coach. Eelow, a modified- sallor trimmed with peasant embroidery.

She's Engaged!

Betty's complexion is translucently clear

Betty is another Fund's engaged girl with a lovely complexion. She uses Poud's Cold Cream like this:

Sho antooth the cream over face and threat Fats to soften and ro- lease dirt, make-up. Wipes off. She rinses with moro Pond's for extra cleansing, and softening, Wipes off.

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Follow Belty's care with Pond's Cold Cream every morning, every night. You'll see why engaged girls. Like Betty and society women like the Countess de Petitevillo choose Pond's.. Cold Cream.

She's Lovely! She uses Pond's!

5,000,000 People

In Tokyo

Prince Once 'Most

Angelic. Imp'

The latest census places. Tokyo's

The World Book Encyclopedia population at 4,707,230, which in-notes that the original meanings of cludes 2,474,100 males and 2,323,004 ably, "Depart used to mean xo- | many words have changed consider- females. The number of householda parate or divide. The old English within the metropolis is estimated at marriage service once read "tilt death. 1,104,050,

do us depart," A "lig” was once a Addio to whose music the coun

country. As the statistics cover only regis- folic danced. tered residents, Tokyo's entire p

"Imp" used to mean a young

shoot Then it came to mean sons. Is believed to execed: 6,000,000 bealth of the Prince of Wales at one prayers offered for the

pulation, Including unregistered per child,

ot a

* The official population figure is time referred to him as "that most angelic imp. The word cab is a above the 4,500,000 which is const short form of cabriolet, which origin dered Ideal under the government's ally meant a leap or caper like that population distribution programme. For a wild goat.

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