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SOFT-FRONTED

DRESS SHIRTS

WE HAVE RECEIVED.

A SMALL STOCK WITH.

ATTACHED OR LOOSE

COLLARS IN SIZES

14% to 161⁄2 ONLY.

OPEN ALL DAY, FROM

8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

UNTIL CHRISTMAS.

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AND

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PLUS

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By VIEILLE CURE do CENON, France

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1948.

WOMANSENSE

Around The Strip-tease suits

Town

-with Mercia Hillaly

‣LONDE, bluo-eyed Nicholas Bon of Lt.Cdr.

BRodney,

Rodney, was a year old yester- day, and friends of his went on board the Concord to wish him well and celebrato with him at his Christmas party, given in his honour by, the crow.

Cdr Rodney joined in the spirit of the party, and came down dressed

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à Chinese to Join the "Fairy Queen" (the Chief Stoker) and tots of pirates and funny men who kept the children amused.

The Chief Bloker looked ilkó cross between Britannia, with her long trenzen, and a yellow butterfly. However, he drew many a laugh as ho wandered around amusing the children, who were slithering down the breeches buoy, aiming at Aunt Sally, or gazing at the Christmas tree or the wonderful goldfish foun- tain with water spouting over the mouth of a gun (well-disguised) and ** real goldfish swimming about

Tea was followed by several Silly Symphonies, just before Father Christmas called in with his toys to round off a happy evening." Only one little child took real offence at the chief clown's bulbous, nose, and refused to have tea, following him around with large wondering” eyes filled with tears.

camera

The Tamar put on a good show for Navy children at tho Pelty Officers' Mess yesterday. An Ad- mirol clown set the party going as he let down a shower of balloons, while a funny man with a comical, collapsible

sct took "pictures." Bunting, snow on the window and ʼn well-lighted Christ- mas tree were all every effectively used, for atmosphere, and the "boys" even went through endless trouble to make Д lighted plaque for

mantle. with good wishes in lights.

Father

n

the

FASHION NEWSREEL

Christmas wandered MERMAID GETS A

around tea time with gifts of sweets and toys, and with theco the kiddles seltled down happily to a couple of funny films.

Frazer,

DIP AT LAST

By PATRICIA CLARY HOLLYWOOD-Adele Mara, who

water.

steal the show

by PATRICIA LENNARD

TRIP-teaso" fashions are nows from the spring shows now current in London. They are ultra-feminine, often lacy, intensely practical because one outfit serves two purposes. And both the outfits sketched hero by Sigrid are right at the top of popular fashion trends for spring,

Top left is a sober-looking terials play or beach outfit in white pique. Notico current fashion, detail: brass buttons from neck to hem, larbed cap sleeves and sides of shirt hold with a belt to the waist."

Strip off the funic and you find short shorts of the same pique, and the first of the Gibson Girl. beach bodices; strapless, carefully boned and therefore-pullproof. It is made of white, broderie anglaise, in am- broidered layers of scallops, each layer emphasised with a tiny bow of white allk.

Skullcap Bride

Choosing The Right Lipstick

Courtesy RKO Radiò Picture For a neat outline, Movie Biar Jacqueline White likes to

'uso a lipstick brush. -

By HELEN FOLLETT

are

By this method you won't have untouched areas as may happen when you pass, the rosy penell over your mouth portals.

I may interest you at this season of over the red cream, rest your anger

of the year, when there are com- on your chin to steady it, forms. plexion changes, when fashions pleasing curves with the brush Fol- strike a new note, to observe Hipstick low the natural lines os closely as Below left is the bride from the offerings. You may be surprised to possible. Then fill in. Frederick Starke show wearing a find how

many different colours there white brocado dross with the fichu neckline that every manufacturer B. Also you may wa

wonder just what shade is best for there is making for formal wear pest

Divided into types year. Rising from the neckline is a glimpse of heavy star-patterned orange rods, clear reds, pink reds, fuchslas and... · orchids, brown reds, lace, matching the skullcap head blue reds and deep wine tones that dress.

ure deep blue reda. Well bat a cookle you never realised there were so many, each one distinct in its way. tidy attempts and that's just too bad because the most important rula The blonde should choose a pink in make-up and hairdo is neatness. red, as a rule, although she can get No scrambled tresses, no emonty away with fuchsia if the skin has a blushes, patchy powder applications golden cast. The brunette has a or uneven lip borders. wider choice, depending upon the colour of her complexion that can

This glimpse, however, proves, to be a blouse, for the bodice of the wedding dress is a tightly-bultoning jacket.

Blouse and ski go on together for dinner, dances, etc. The full wedding dress, of course, can always be worn again

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

The best ironing board covor is made of firmly woven, lint-free cot- ton, often in twill weave. The cover should fit smoothly over the pad, and should be washed frequently, using a commercial chlorine bleach

Fo

+

The lightest inaccuracy in ap plying colouring to the lips marks a woman as lacking fastidiousness. In. daily observation one sees many un-

If the lips are thin, the pencil can

be pale, rosy, creamy or golden. For go over the white surface ever so her there must be a certain amount slightly. The colour can be fairly of experimenting. The girl with the vivid, though fire engine red-liko olive skin can elick to her raspberry silver eye shadows, and green-mas- lip tint and look, ravishing.

carnis definitely out. It shows up

The lipstick brush is a cute and every complexion defect and that is useful little trick. Stroke the brush not according to beauty Hoyle,

Let's Eat

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

Soup Served from a Tureen

season to taste with 1 tsp. salt and 1⁄4 tsp pepper.

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hundreds of Carollers will bring the spirit of Christmas

to Government House bathing suits without ever going in tomorrow evening when they call the water, has finally gone into the on their rounds in that neighbour. I water, without a bathing suit, hood.

lenda Miss Mara, whose figure itself Ideally, to "cheesecake" ort, Two thousand school children has posed for 4,000 pin-up pictures will sing carols af. the Roman' in' almost us many different bathing Catholic Cathedral today, following suits,

Mias Mara has been excerpts from the Messiah" to be

sea on the sung by the Hongkong Singers in boats, over the sea in aeroplanes to remove scorch stains. under the direction of Mr Donald and under the sca in submarines,

She's done

conceivable every

thing with a swimming pool except go in Do not overwork your, refrigora. Who is Barnaby Twist? Not just it. the man who wrote the script for

She has sed

a du

board for by putting hot food in it. or. by "Red Riding Hood," now playing and near a diving board. She has packing it with foodstuffs that do at the Y, for he has contributed sub- toss

tossed beach balls and posed under not need refrigeration. Wash the sionally towards Radio Hongkong beach umbrellas. She dipped her interior with water and baking soda entertainment with a number of right foot, in one picture, almost each time you defrost (which should

is still going con and radio dramas,

it sweet completely in the

For be done

to keep it regularly) strong. Some of his work will ap- another, she stood on a rock in and clean. Arrange the foods in the Chef came into the test

kitchen with a shopping bag pear in the Christmas week broad- the middle of the stream,

refrigerator so that there is

room for circulation of air. Follow the full of groceries in one hand, and COB's.

But never, did Miss Mara got wet.

manufacturer's book of instructions a huge package in the other. He Paradox Ended

set the bag on the table and in on care and uso, and keep the re- The paradox ended when Refrigerator connected the year round.packed the groceries,

"What's in the big parcel?” I in- public cast her as a half-Dutch,

quired. ball-Balinese native glri in "The Witch" The Wake of the Red

what is it?" I persisted. opening scene calls for her to be perfecting recipes usually results in bathing, native style, in an island money saved. Planned menus help The Chef hesitated. Then with lagoon and to be discovered by in economy. You will able to take

added, "Perhaps Gig Young.

advantage of "specials," to plan for had better have dem tech we well oled parchment paper, with Whether they be in a. DeMille leftovers,

and to provide

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more was a crackle of paper, a cloud of each and to form handles,

the edgo hanging over an inch at gold bathtub

er a wooden bucket. variety in your meals. Cooking abill. excelsior and there it was, the most strip of aluminitan toll. (This makes most movie baths are utilitarinn. ty is a help in cutting food costs be- unique soup tureen I ever saw. A it easy to lift the fah from the pan Miss Mara hopes to give bathing a cause Inexpensive foods, skilfully soft warm carth-brown background after baking without breaking.) new tool

prepared, are often preferred to with a design of leaves of green Flace the fish in the pan, Over it "I tried to bathe," she said, "as higher priced ones for flavour, health corn growing up the sides. And on though I'm doing it for shoer fun." Ivalue and appetite appeal.

brush 3 top an ear of golden corn for a

tbsp. maltodt margarine handle.

mixed with the juice of 1⁄2 lemon. lemon. Place in a hot oven, 400 F, and Informal Dinners

bake about 15 min. or until it be "It is for you, Madame. The corn heat to 375 F. and bake 12 min, to gins to brown. Then reduce the is a symbol of the U.S.A. And the pound. Baste twice with e.. thought you would like to use it at Informal dinners when you servo carine has been melted. When done,

hot water in which 1 tbsp. mor soup from a tureen,"

Bix

You know him better perhaps as Jack Shepherd. He hails from Portsmouth. He acted in repertory theatres there before the war, and wrote some very highbrow stuff, for the princely

sum of ten-and- stage Bper. Script, for

amalour

and In Salisbury Middlesborough. He also dramatised novels for Western Regional BBC and and wrote musical sketches dramalle work for Navy entertain- ment during the war. That's the only time he went to sea..

Mr Shepherd is slim, tall, has a limp from the war, and smokes a pipe.

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Baked Fish With Herb Stuffing

Purchase a 2 to 3 lb. haddock, cod, catfish, white fish, carpor snapper, Clean, rinse, drain and rub lightly with salt. Fill with an old- fashioned herb stuffing. Fasten

elen the: pins,

Time spent in planning meals and mathat is something. for Christ opening together with poultry t

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How To Wash

Painted Walls

plece."

and if necessary lace them up clean white siring. In an olled base ning pan, place

picco

of

or use a

of the

Merci, Monsieur! Thanks so remove the fish by means much.

It'a a real conversation paper or foil; slide it onto a heated platter and serve with a curry "May I suggest that now the gravy made from the residuo in the- tinned green peas are so inexpensive pan. wo could have a green pea and Herb Stuffing: Combino 1 c.

and stale bread crumbs with 2 tbsp. tomato soup with cheese croutons; Ane-chopped salt pork (put through or a nice minestrone, or red kidney isp, thyme, 1 tbsp. paraley,

the food chopper), 4 tsp. marjoram, bean soup. And of course it is per-

doodle soup; or a green

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fect for the French onion soup, It tbsp. Ono-minced onion,

well

is very easy, and at the same time beaten egg. (Grade B or C) and 1 economical to make good home top. anchovy paste (optional)

Curry Fish Gravy

soups," "When, there is n big tureen like Strain the pan Juice from the ash- this of steaming hot soup on the into a double boiler top. Measure table, it looks to plentiful, everyone and add enough boiling water to knows they can have seconds," 1 make 1 c. Mix 1 egg yolk will continued, "and for one course at tbsp. flour, tap, curry powder,

福 least the servings don't look skimpy, tsp. salt and a few grains pepper, as they often do now-a-days with Stir into the fish liquid. Pince over the high cost of eating."

Dinner

Green Pea and Noodle Soup'

Cheese Croutons

Baked Fish

Herb Stuffing

Curry Fish Gravy, Baked Yam-Sweet Potatoes Tinned String Beans Stewed or Tinned Peard Oatmeal Chocolate Nut Cookies Coffee or Ten "Milk (Children), All Measurements Are Level Recipes Serve Four

hot water and cook and stir about

3 min. or until creamy. Then add

tbsp. parsley.

1

Oatmeal Chocolate. Nut Cookies:

Sift together 1 c. all-purpose four, tsp baking soda, and: 11⁄2

14 sp. salt. Add 34 c, softened mar garine or shortening, e.. Hight brown sugar, 1 egg, 1⁄2 tsp. vanilla and 2 tbsp. milk. Beat about 2 min. until smooth Then fold int

raw rolled oats, a: (6 package of chocolate chips,

and coarse-chopped nutments

Groen Poa and Noodla. Soup

kind. Oil a cookie sheet or big in-, Turn the contents of′1 (No. 2.4) vorted baking pan. Drop on the tin inexpensive peas into a good dough from a teaspoon, placing the sized stuce pan. Add 2 c. cold water, cookies 11⁄2 in. apart, as they spread When you wash painted walls, 31⁄2 tsp. sugar and 1 allee onion in baking. Bake 12 to 18 min. In o you often find some stubborn spols. Bring to boiling point and simmer moderate oven, 876 F.S that won't come off. Try using a 20 min. Rub through a aleve, then Trick Of The Chef mixture of soup Jally, and whiting, relicat. To thicken, cream together ag any specialists. To make this, use 1 tbsp. butter or margarine with 1To make cheese croutona, aprend half a cup of soap flakes, chips or tbsp, flour, and add 1⁄2 e. of the hot white or entire whant brend on both granules › to a quart of that water, soup liquid. Return to the kettle of sides with buller, oz margarine. Cutes Let imixture cool, thom bent with an soup and cook and stir about 2 min. in half inch slices. Dust with fine. Gag boater until it looks like a vol- or until thickened Add 2 c. whole grated sharp":"choose," place in an voty icing. Last, add six tablespoons milk and le, cooked, thin noodles, olled pan and bake gölden brown ins of whiting and mix well.

Bring almost to, bolling point, and a hat, oven.