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MODELS

MADE IN SCOTLAND

WITH THE COLOURS OF THE HIGHLANDS BLENDED ·

INTO FASHION:

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1949.

WOMANSENSE-

NEW YORK IN SPRINGTIME

Have an Eye for Romance

AT BOND STREET W

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Available at Hong Kong's Leading Stores.

.SPRINGTIME

GAIETY--That

is the theme of the New York models. On the left is a brillant coral and Persian blue silk print dinner gown with a **lowing wing" streaming scarf. The oitier romantic gown, of petal pink lace, has its floral pattern outlined in black embroidery. Four petil- coals give badly to the full skirt.

Women's Hats

Tell Their Own Stories

HAT is going to happen wo-

W men's hats now? This question

the

Woman's Part In Industry

Finds Strong Booster

Courtesy Untersal Pictures

Lovely eyea, enchanced by just the right amount of make-up are a strik-

HAVE you

ing beauty feature of Morio Blar Louise Allbritton.

By HELEN FOLLETT

an eye for romance? motors. This closing causes puckers that the in the surrounding tissues. Once

Then don't forget

on the

and

beauty of your soul orbs is largely turkey tracks are established, it is no easy matter to erase them Why In the expression. Turn lights. To do that you must have will women bring beauty griefs up- splendid

on themselves? It is senneloos. Time health, physical

you must keep the mental, and

does enough damage. Why help the mean old guy with the long whilto brain works clicking. Animation is

whiskers in his nefarious business? on eye brightener. Good nature is a factor. Keep your blinkers sunny; don't let them be clouded

Bathe the eyes night and morn-

with warm

water, then ing; first with cold. If they smart or burn, or have been subjected to a dusty at- mosphere, use a tonie lotion. Your druggist will supply you with ove that is safe.

The human eye is a marvellous piece of mechanism, yet the average

them less woman #lves

attention than she gives to an old sewing mas chine. She reads on trains when the motion legies the print. She sews dim light, and for that bad

Don't rub your eyes. If there is in R

Sometimes sensation, as an itchy BY ELIZABETH TOOMEY

habit she should be soundly spanked. She motors along white roads that happens, wring a heavy washcloth place over your NEW YORK movement for women. She puts it reflect the glare of the sun without out of ice water.

wearing dark glasses. These aids soul windows, hold close to the flesh for eye vitality and until it is warm end glowing. Small JOMEN will play a much more simply.

are necessary "Women have an economic staketo prevent turkey tracks from form- pads of gauze don't caver enough of the tissues to cause complete re- America's major industries in in our country," she said. "They g

laxation of the tiny Abres that sur~ Glaring light causes the lids to know what's being done with their close partially to protect the optie round the eyes.

We went part in

the next decade if Mrs Wilma have a right and an obligation to

Soss has her way.

money,"

Mrs Soss, u pelile blonde who has startled big business with her She hopes eventually to put out Ideas of

economies, brief, interesting news of big bus- says simply, "Women control the iness in a form women will like to money, and money talks."

women ad

Mrs Soss organised the Federa- of Women Shareholders in

America Bigsiness, Inc., to see that

women got appointed to beards of major industries.

was put by Mr James Laver, one of the greatest living experts on the history of costume, when he spoke

"There are more wome than at a recent London display of mil-

Steel, linery organised by the Millinery men stockholders in U. S. Information Centre. Me Laver, who General Motors, International Har- is Keeper of Prints and Drawings Telegraph," she pointed out,

vester and American Telephone and

"but and Albert Victoria

Museum,

none of these companles has a wo Londen,

the traced

history fashions

man on its board of directors to re- in headgear as an ex- pression and mirror of changing present the women stockholders." Conditions. "Today",

said Mr

Concerned About Widows Laver, the field is open to the de- signer, that_sensitive_medium who contacts sooner than anybody else The Spirit of the Age and is able business woman. to express it".

Taver

Hats And History

read. If they own stock in Big Steel, they'll be able to get a concise ac- count of the annual stockholders meeting.

Occasionally, Mrs Soss gets a call from a big company wanting to put n woman on the board. "I'd like to have a file of women qualified to serve on those boards," she said.

How do men feel about the idea? Invariably they're charmed by the woman behind the movement and the facts she can Impressed with list to show the economic power of feminine funds.

"Actually, they

the recognise need for woman's representation on ale sald smilingly? major boards." "but boys will be boys. They hate to give up the idea of women as fragile things with 110 economic.

Mrs Soss ̄lm't—alming at the She is concerned about the woman who's been left a widow or who has inherited stocks or money and Ands herself with no idea of what happens in the com- 'know-how.!! panies she owns

Hundreds of letters from widows who feel lost in the economic world they find themselves Into which thrown come to the tiny oflice of the federation. Mrs Soss makes no attempt to act as investment coun- sellor for such women.

Mr Laver passed from the veils

al- "Women stockhollers have of the Middle Ages and elaborate head-tresses of the Tudors, to investors, but

ways thought of themselves us in- And

they're actually own- the first proper hats for women about the time of Queen Elizabeth.ers," she said. Just before the French, Revolution bats really the first

extravagant were worn by women. These, Air

pointed

out,

were extremely lorge, ne women's hats tend to be come before some major upheava) alendency noticeable again just be- fore World

Soon after War I. Tore

"We want to see that economies great social upheaval, however, wo- excessively become men's

is explained to them in their own hats small and at clase over short hair.

language, and then that the quali- The mid-Victorian poke-bonnet was Red women get a chance to serve mentioned as illustrating a period on the boards of major industries," of submission to male authority,she emphasised. particularly

in

д

conjunction with

pinched-in waists, very full skirts and flat-heeled slippers.

of the

78 percent. Women own privately-held wealth of our coun- try and inherit about 68 percent Hots, sald Mr Laver, were a little of all estates, the federation con- mad during the 30's, and during tenda. Too often, according to the the troubled 40's many women wore federation officials; they turn their to a lawyer or an over no hats at all.

power executor and lose their inheritance.

Today It would seem that there is a revèrilon from war-time un!-- formity and to judge from the new hats in London the widest variety of styles are, competing pularity.

IN

·

Economic Suffrage

Those are wants for pu

Mrs Sosk the cuses to prevent. Her idea been called an economic suffrage

has

Choosing Colours To

Greet Your

Visitors

Perennial Polka Dots

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

Tasty Watercress in Salad

Chef opened the refrigerator sprinkled with lemon juice and Took cut a dish containing chopped cress. And it's nice added to spinach, or to a butter sauce for or a cream sauce for the remnants of a boiled tongue.

"Not much here to make a lunch- cauliflower,

potatoes. Let's try cress eon salad, Madume. But we have a celery

dinner menu.. little left-over cooked macaroni we with cabbage in our can mix with it and some stalks of I bet it will taste wonderful!" celery I will dice."

"And how about adding water- "Excellent, Madame, that will give cress," I suggested.

cut the crisp stems In short pleces to mix the salad real pep. I will

little French with the salad, add dressing and mayonnaise, and I will bed of serve the salad itself on a green leafy watercress tops. In that way 1 whi get twice the value from one bunch,**

Dinner

Tomato Julce

Whole Wheat Crackers

Lamb a la Mode Whipped Potato Cabbage with Watercress Whole Pench Compote Coffee or Ten Milk (Children) All Measurements Arc Level Recipes Serve Four

Lamb a la Mode Combine 1% c. mild vinegar, 1 c. water, 2 tsp. whole allspice and 4 bayleaves. Fresh Watercress

Put in a sauce pan and "This is wonderful looking cress," boll 5 min. Cool: pour over a 4 to 5 I observed. "Such large green leaves, Ib, section leg of mutton or lamb, or use rolled breast of mution or fresh!" and It's so

lamb from which as much fai ng "You know cress in a delicate plant, and it ncerin good care." the possible has been trimmed off. Add "At once when I 3 Bellum-sized mild onions sileed, Chet observed.

and 1 1 sliced, peeled section garlic bring it from the market. I untie if desired. Cover and refrigerate 24 the bunch, and remove any yellow

ม

meat several times.

leaves. Then I wash with cold water r Turn the under the fine kitchen spray, I put so it will be well seasoned with the the meat. it in a colander to drain for a few liquid. To cook, drain

Dust with salt

and and pepper finish drying on minutes. Then I

roast in moderate oven, 375 F. absorbent paper. I put the cress in

to 3 hrs, or until tender. a quart jar or refrigerator dish with for 2

Baste occasionally with some of the a tight Atting cover, and place it in

spiced liquid. When done, pour off the refrigerator. It keeps fresh and the fat from the liquid in the pan, green for several days. When I was Then add to the nan.. 4 tbsp. flour In France we used to gather blended with 3 tbsp. cold water and a boy in watercress from the brooks. But the leaves were very small. This ans larger lewes and it is cress

Where does it much more tasty, come from?"

"It's cultivated cress, Chef, grown in water. It's because of these watercress farms that this valuable green vegetable-herb is now avail- Able all over the country."

tsp. quld gravy seasoning, Gradually add 134 c. boiling water or chough to make a plat of gravy. Stir constantly.

Cabbage. With Watercress' Wash and cut up enough tender cabbage into 2 in. strips in, wide, to make 2 qts. Meit 2 tbsp, buiter or margarine in a heavy frying pan.

Then

1

"It is what you call a "pepper. Add the cabbage and saute, stirring upper of many sainda

and other constantly until the fat in absorbed. foods that would otherwise not be Don't let the cabbage brown. Ada so interesting," said the Chef.

1/4 tsp. salt and c. water in which "And it's just, as important a chicken bouillon cube has been or use chicken stock. pepper-upper from the standpoint dissolved. commented, "This

hen add the stems cut from because it contains generous amounts bunch of well washed water cress,

cook

a briske heat of Vitamins A, D, B2 and C-and and

Kenlly over magnesium,, sulphur

and about 5 min., or calelum,

until crisp-lender, and not moment more. Stir in I 1 tron, besides

tsp. corn-starch blended with 2 tbsp. cold water, and cook, stirring with a fork until the liquid bolls. Then ourse-chop and mix in the tender leaves from the bunch of water cress, Serve without further cook-

Whole Peach Compote

24

little Combine sugar, with 1

c.

3

Prescribed Watorcross "Now I understand why years ago the old French doctor used to pre- the houses of the future, colcur customers off their food, and that

neribe watercress for my grand- schemes will be all important. white walis in an office make typists

By VERA WINSTON father," said the Chief, "My mother The kitchen will be painted in a irritable and inefleient. It is re

ured to chop it fine and serve it to cool shade to CITset the heating from ported that several air-lines havo

IN search

in soup. She made a clear con- ing. con-ISE SHOPPERS reduced nir-sickness be even whil TODELS cooking. Living

new clothes generally try to romme and barely heated the water neutral or warm cream; bedrooms siderably by changing the interlor

One select apparel that will fit in nicely cress in it. I used to have will be Unted in restful colours colour schemes of aircraft.

at home, as does bowl too," he chuckted reminiscent water in a qt-sized sauce pan; holl pale primrose: line cinima to have had half the for Spring wear Breen or

It is of such as

"and it fasted so good! We must min. Then add 4 tsp. almond ex- ly, bathrooms in blue, green, cream or number of air-sick passengers since this urbane little number.

they redecorated their aircraft in pure alik, the colour scheme gray, a never overcook watercress. For extract if convenient. Drop in & peeled,

when I make a water cress small whole peaches. Cover and sim pink,

green and blue instead of yellow pale tone for the ground, and decomplete. I hent the chopped cress mer until they are tender, about 20

per gray for the polka dots. The Nor will the hall be overlooked, and brown. for this is an important part of the Before very long a team consisting bodice has gently rounded shoulders only very lightly in butter before I min. Turn occasionally to cook even-

tech-cut in one with the short sleeves.put in the fold. And when I beat it ly. Chill before serving.

Trick Of The Chof house where a guest will be made of designers, selentista and

To give whole peach compote de-, to feel welcome or not! And warm nologists may be set up to deal with There are two waistbands, one be- into the whipped potatoes to serve at the with sealt, I do not cook it at all. bustling and ono colours give the greatest sensation the whole question of the functional low the

white cooling colour. At any rate, the normal waistline which is marked The heat from the potatoes is lelous favour and delightful colour,

adid

1. kyrup of welcome. All this has been use of worked out by the British Colour Brilish Colour Council, working by a narrow self belt. There is enough."

with drained from Unned or frozen straw- "Watercreas combines well at the small turned- Council. The Colour Council has with the British Council for Innelt bow-tio discovered, for instance, that yellow dustrial Design, intend to do their down collar and unpressed pleats many other vegetables," I observed. berries; serve with strawberries da

on the graceful skirt,

"For instance, silced buttered beets a garnish. walls in a restaurant are apt to put best to get that team worlding.