1948-10-09 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 0, '1948.

BEAUTY FASHIONS HOME VICTORY'S

Striped Wool Dress

By PRUNELLA WOOD

Tina Lescr

TINA LESER, designer, chooses a wool of subtle colouring in stripes to make a soft frock in which the fabric stripes play a role of design.

The fabric is a pinkish taupe in background, the narrow stripes bronze green. The fabric folds back over the hips to meet a back skirt fullness, Miss Leser's pet skirt in her new collection, and one which in various adaptations runs in many fabrics used in the collection.

Plastic Contact Lenses

Instead Of Glass

ful for

the

cause

CHENILLE MADE WITH

NEW WEAVE

NEW

By ELIZABETH TOOMEY NEW YORK-Chenillo bed-spreads now can look liko velour and decorate a window as gracefully as a bed, Buyers at the national" do- meatles and linen 'show took a long the second look when they KRW spreads, because the new weave is the first significant change in the ehenille business In the last 25 усагл

Super-fine lufung glyca the aprende a velour finialı, yet they can be washed as easily as the old-type chenille. The manufacturers have made solid colour

with spreada closely-packed rows of the ilner tufting to capitalise on the silky Onisti.

A double spread split, hung, - at the window makes n riel-looking drape that doesn't require a lining.

Showers Brightened Shower curtain designers have gone all out both in colour and ma- terial to brighten up the Dath- rooms. The latest thing in shower curtains on display at the linen show were hand-screened prints on em-

plastic. The embossing gave orded effect and a heavler quality to the plasile, so it hung in smoother foids.

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To enhance the pleated effect, the cytleis that held

the hooks concealed and a reinforced strip added at the top to keep the curtain from drooping between the hooks.

Tufted bath rugs have kept pace with shower curtains in colour at icast.

although the newest design seems to be no design. Solid colour in closely-woven rows are to be among the biggest expected to sellers this year. One

manufac- turer has used a colton loop hath rug in solid colour, but with alter- nate rows of cut and closed loops to give a shaded effect.

Plastic Disguised

Your Hands Tell Tales on You

Courtesy Cutr

Keep your hards looking lovely by applying, fresh nail polish at lonxi

once a week.

By HELEN FOLLETT

you do everything possible to and then makes for the health and make your hands lovelier, well-being of the pink shells.

Don't fail to have polish match smoother, more expressive? You

observe your lipstick. Colour harmony is an shouki. Other individuals

observe important factor in dress and gen your

they hands, us

cral

The appearance.

shades of mitts are your face. Your little

poilsh and lip tint are both getting always right there, for everybody

lighter. softer, more subtle, The to see. Neglect them, let them look as of beizened make-up belongs the least bit grubby, lot the polish to the past; it does not conform to go patchy, and you are bound to

the quaint fashions of the moment. be self-conscious.

Household Hints

You register a wide range of emo- tlons in the expression of your eyes. the pose of your body, the tilt of

Common baking soda is excellent your head, but your hands also be

character. If you are for removing stains from ennmelled eak your

Sprinkle take the more utensils.

i dampened fastidious, you wil perfect care of them. You will are cluth with son and rub gently un-

nail brush frequently when wash-fit the stain disappears. Ing them,

especially if you ресл working in your garden.

ni

have

will use a lotion once a day. Once

·Make a mixture at powdered chalk

For the dining room there will be plastle table mats and lunch cloths that have been cleverly printed to look like almost anything but plas-or twice a week you will give them and alcohol and use this mixture to the leavings of your facial massage, remove yellowish stains from plano will friction the fragrant emollient keys. If keys have yellowed from Into the knuckles and the cuticle juge this trealment will not help..: that surrounds the nails.

It is excellent, however, for stains.

c. Table mats that at first glance seemed

be made of woven straw

•

turned out to be a photograph of the Woven fabric covered with plastic. A lunch cloth that looked from a distance

Shape your nails with long even like delicate Ince was in reality plastic printed with strokes of the emery board, work-

You can use small pieces of left- an Italian Renaissance lace design, Ing from sides to centre. Don't do

OVET materini combined to

make But even something

file down stable as

little choppy strokes or DA a linen show has to have a few far at the sides; cutting into the material may be used for half the children's pajamas. A plain-coloured novelties catch the faney of the

flesh will cause it to become thickjacket or for one leg of the trousers year it housewives. This

was a аргов made with two generous pockets that heid two quilted mitts. It is a right to use a cuticle

The mitte take the place of reg-

cream atop polish; it is all wrong ular pot holders, and though they to put polish on a creamed surface: look a little unwieldy, there would be no chance of a burn lifting hot dishes from the oven. They protect the entire band and wrist.

an

and heavy.

it just won't stick. If you will buff your nails before putting on the Incquer, it will stay smooth and even longer. A little, friction now

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN.

Food Quiz: What's a Cobbler?

"MADA

call 'cobblers"?"

Other Fruit Dishes

C

sur-

[ADAME, I am somewhat puz- Wash 2 good-sized ripe tomatoes, Taled about the American dish and cut in 14 in. slices. Arrange lo criss- which you call 'cobbler'. Sometimes nests of leftuec. Top with -By Herman N. Bundesen, M.D. have eaten it made with a soft cross strips of matjes herring and crust like a cake: sometimes it has # few thin strips of pickle. Pour over French dressing containing SINCE the war it has been fucior. Stage stars, movie nctors, top of American plecrust. Once

possible to make contact and public speakers find them use- have cuten it with a crust of the plenty of chopped parsley. lenses out of plastic materials mining engineers, aviators, boxers, the other night it had a topping of the first reason; chemists, baking powder biscuit dough, and

Eggs Hollandaise instead of glass. This has and athletes of all types, for the rich crumbs. Are all these what you

rounds of toast, or toasted Spread simplified and improved the fit second.

English muffins, lightly with ham so that patients can wear them When properly Otted, contact

with poached spread. Top

Cxgs: "No, they are four separate and cover with mock Hollandale sauce; for a longer time, with the lenses not only cannot be detected result that more people are us- results insofar as vision and com-real cobbier, made in the American rounded with a macedoine of left-

but, in most cases, give sat'sfactory distinct desserts," I explained. "A dust with paprika and serve

tradition, consists of a 2-inch layer over ing them today than ever be- fort are concerned them a solution of sweetened, stewed or conned fruit ned or frozen mixed vegetables, or heated mixed vegetables fore. Contact lenses fit directly In order to wear

To be a cobbler, well-seasoned with salt, pepper und over the cornes or front part of must be placed in the eye between in a baking dish. the eyeball.

the lens and the eyeball. Apparent this must be topped with a thick melied butter or margarine.

Mock, Hollandaise Sauce: Mell ly there is no one solution which cake-like batter and baked.

butter or margarine

In Contact lenses are necessary In works well for all people. In some

#double an eye disorder known as kerato-

solution may

boiler top. Beat 2 eggs and add 1 smarting conus, in which the cornea, or front

and tearing.

1⁄4 tsp. salt and 1% top. tbsp. flour. None of these symptoms may ap-

"Now I understand about the cab-

Stir in 1 pepper. part of the eyeball protrudes un-

vinegar tbsp.

And duly. Scarring

pear for several hours,

lemon Chef said. "But what 1 tbsp.

the but when bler." the

Juice. Add to of the cornea also POUN makes

stirring about the other baked fruit dishes melted butter, contacts

but they do the lenses must be promptly

constantly: obligatory,

then slowly stir in 1⁄4 c. bolling many near-sighted people not af removed. They must also be taken with the different toppings?"

piecrust water, and cook and stir until thick. dicted in either of these ways wear out if cloudiness of vision dovelops, used over the fruit, we have a deep If the sauce, should show a tendency

"If plain American them merely for the sake of appear has been in contact with

as it often does after the solution

dish

pic. This differs from a true to separate, beat vigorously with a ances. For others in occupations

the eye cobbler also in another way. The where spectacles

for several hours.

rotary beater. might easily be

deep dish fruit used in making broken, safety is

Fresh Peach Cobbler the determining

Works Satisfactorily

pie is usually raw, and sweetened

Peel, stone and cut 1 at. fresh and flavoured as in making a re- One solution is made up of saltgular two-crist ple, When we make caches into small pieces. Add 34 tsp. cinnamon, 14 5. Kronulated cooked fruit is always sugar and c and baking soda. This has, the nd- cobbler,

water. Cover and vantage of

being simple, and in usexl."

Simmer until the fruit is tender. most cases. it seems to work

"Now I understand. The fruit for

15 about min. Meantime prepare satisfactorily as any other.. As Ithe cobbler must be cooked first The magic of "black light" have

can

sald, however, none of the because the cake topping would the topping. To do this cream to- gether 2 tbsp. butter or margaring detect an old egg more quickly than solutions so far suggested seems to

bake before raw fruit would cook with 14 c. additional sugar.-Bent you can crack one, Westinghouse be completely successful.

through. But with the deep dish and add I egg. Sift together 1 e. tests show. Trapped in the Invisible

slow and our ple, the cooking can be Contact lenses

tsp. baking powder and 1/3 ultraviolet, roya of black light, the

should not,

the raw fruit will cook tsp. salt. Add alternately to the first as a longer p

tender." gelity suspect shows up purple rule, be employed for patients over

mixture with 1/3 c. milk. After while a really fresh egg glows scar forty or fifty years of age, nor for,

the slowed fruit topped the peaches are tender, transfer to those who do not have a severe with baking powder blacuit," I con- an oiled 3 in, square baking utensil. eyesight disturbance, unless they tinued, "It's really n baked fruit Cover with the batter, surending it are suffering from a disorder of the dumpling. And when the fruit is smoothly with a knife first dipped cornea which requires their use. covered with rich crumbs made of in hot water. Bake in a moderato Of course, contact lenses must be four, sugar, butter and spice, it's oven, 375 F. about 25 min, or until carefully fitted by: ably the colour switch occurs when Ho will decide. In eye specialist.scalloped fruit-the modern name is the cobbler is tolden brown. Serve

All instances who- frult crisp".". ther or

warm with top cream, peach hard not they aro

aro necessary and

sau or whipped cream, shell, explained Willett what type of solution should be

with them. en-employed.

For most parsons,

Bad Eggs Can't Escape "Black Light” Tost

1ot.

.

The outer shell of a hen's eggs and its protein covering are fluo rescent, which makes the egg glow brightly under ultraviolet than a coloured Easter egg. Presum-

more

oxidation causes a chemical change

In the Wilson,

Westinghouse lamp

Ordinarily, Wilson

gineer.

added,

un-

tho, uso

as

of

refrigerated eggs kept under aver eye glasses is quite satis- i

The patient who decides to usa

time get used new

type of lenses, and he be disturbed becauso [there are difficulties at flent. `

age temperature and fuorescence contacts must remember that it may gradually from scarlet to purple in eight to ten days. Pro- require, some perly refrigerated eggs retain their frophinose and scarlet fluorescence should not longer.

Dinner

Tomato Herring Salads Dark Bread

Eggs Hollandalso on Toast Mixed Vegetables Potatoes Lyonnaise Fresh Peach Cobbler Hot or Iced Coffee or Tea Milk (Children) ' All Measurements. Are Level Recipes Serve Four

Hour

Trick Of The Chef

To make fresh peach sauce, oleva enough cut up. ripo pesches to make 1⁄4 c, pulp. Cream 1/3 c. butter or margarino with sifted confec tioner's sugar and 1⁄4 tsp, almond extract. Then stir in the peach, pulp alternately with 1 additional confectioner's sugnr.

and a print for the other.

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