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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1949. gr

WOMANSENSE

FLATTERING

Figure-finttering stripes come Into their own, as modelled by this San Francisco miss. The suit is of gabardine,

ORCHIDS ARE

1949 diet builds the Juno Woman'

by EILEEN ASCROFT.

LONDON. XCELLENT shopping, service by big London store is a Fashion Ad- vice Bureau. ·

A fashion consultant and Bix. trained assistants are always ready to plan inter- changeable business outfits. help choose inexpensive trousseaux, suggest colour contrasts for accessories" or.. give advice on cleaning, re- pairing and alterations.

Assistunta from. the Burcau can conduct you right through the store and serve in every department.

FIRST PICTURES from Parrs of the Jacques Fath collection are released to-day. This coot is made of natural tussare silk, three-quarter length, The unusual collar'is to large it forms on extra cade

news

COULD YOU BARE YOUR SHOULDERS? difficult figures from stock.

can fit

christened It has

the six

1190

ter.

AIR EXPORTS By JILL MORRISON main figure type attractive which may be

a box

Sussex,

"Dianu" for tall wo-

duroy

cor-

Be Sensible in Buying Shoes

Perfect for resort wear are theso sandals of brown and whito kid with a medium heel.

BL HELEN FOLLETT OKIRTS long or skirts short, it When you go shoe-shopping. does not matter, the feet keep an eye out for comfort in must be comfortably and beaut- walking as well as locks. You fully shad. Even the teen-agers can find both ease and style if have decided that it is best to you will seek that necessary have lady-like feet instead of combination. Let us hope you stuct lacinders that are ment and and one-half inches. Economise slouchily dressed

They resist heels that measure three

classic In feeling, dispel the on inches and you'll be better off. notion that every high school Extremely high heels can bring is a tomboy, that doesn't trouble if you wear them all the girl

are how she looks. Let us re- time. Joice that the silly period of blue jeans and shirt tails waving in the breeze has gone.

too

mode.

When walking, keep the head balanced, chest lifted, and ab- dominal muscles in a state of mlid contraction. Let the arms swing easily and lap up plenty of fresh air; there won't be such

a drain on the rouge compact,

Customers going abroad can obtain advice on clothes suita- ble to foreign climates and

Most popular stock hip mea evening.. novelty touch, expectant mothers can have

is now 381.2in. inspired by Paris, is sackcloth, special fashions shown to them surement In privacy.

bigger than before the war. A for sports conts, beach American stores have offered well-known beauty specialist bras and casual belts.

Increase down to an this kind of service for years, puts this TWO INCHES MORE over-starchy dlet. She advises WHALE ROLL-CALL

-exercises. massage.. TERE are more reports on DUYERS in all parts of the special

Wax baths and a giant rolling whalement roll (new item country report that women machine to roll away unwanted on our menu) from five office uro plumper than they wero inches.

girls who shared a tin for prewar.

their lunch with rolls and but THE JUNO TYPE

(1) Not unpleasant, but GOOD

for difficult

don't like it.

Too much of a lift at the rear comes from a figures

(2) "It is better than some

of your foot will throw the body London store which claims that of the saw-dusty stuff we get

out of balance, especially if the It

hecla roters specially for out of in the modern sandwich.”

slant cause the foot to the ordinary measurements and (3) "Has a a flavour similar to Very appropriate for this sea- down et an angle of thirty

Bearly 80 percent of the

This angular German or luncheon son of the year is the model with degrees or more. old

the of prewar days," sausage

the extension leather sole; it has position brings strain on has a strong tasten nice tailored look. It keeps metatarsal bones, crowding them (4) "It

preferred by your feet warm and comfortable even lower. Tocu nre forced and you'll be less likely to get a into a huddle, and carry most spotlight

such as "Juno" for some people." names.

(5) "Not too

which is bad. but 1 red nose,

of the body weight that which there is don't think I would buy it." your shoulders and neck.out-size. BY air to the Prince Chalerm-NEWEST fashions

unfair. nothing more terrible in the way Bbol of Siam recently went London, anys so, Paris says so. ner,

"Venus" for average,

of beauty griefs. Dressy shoes પ smali, "Helena! of choice orchid plants I say: Can you take this spot-"Phoebo"

that have lean, slender lines sent to him by a nursery at light? And does the rest of your the woman with the hour-glass COUNTRY STYLE

have no relationship to the old- THERE is a new children's Crowborough.

fashioned pointed Within gure stand up to the emphasis figure, and "Chloe" with the next few weeks, on almost which fashion is putting on it? small bust and big hips.

shop, where many of the gar-There is extra room at the ball your It is certainly more attractive ments are made by old crafts-of the fool to allow for the extra all BOAC-Qantas services leav-

In case your neck

the treat-to ask for "A Juno, ing London for Australia there weak point, here's

please" women in the country.

tapering at the Joes. than "Please show me your will be rare orchid plants for ment:

Scrub the skin with circular outsize fashions." Australian fanclers.

These plants are exported by movements, using a soft British nurseries

not only to brush, soap and warm and Siam but Australia

to Massage the neck every night

wih dollar and other hard currency one night

NE of the best things about knitted a bleaching

the spring collections being for cream, the next with skinfood. ONE £1 Worth

to £500 per. if

shown by the wholesale houses with socks to match only cost you have

Is the

of materials LISC

Silk, un- 30s.

hand-embroidereti plant, the orchids are packed use acne lotion, on your neck.

production bil and shot sets make charm- ybe the skin of your neck available for mass Maybe

ing christening gifts. a for years. is all right, but you have carry

There are also some amusing their own reserve of moisture-roll of fat at the back. Do thin: Seersucker for day and even-

wooden wall figures bent, the orchids in a "folge bulb" With urins

clasp the eing dresses. Broderie An Austrian above thr roots. For their hands together in front of you. giaise frocks, stoics, hats and for nursery walls and well-

they need Journey

ex Lower the head until the fore-

gaberding sulis designed nursery furniture. protective

The head touches the backs of the parasols

Sea Island cotton shirt cept

COMPLAINTS DEPT. orchids arrive by air at their ancers. Keeping the forehead blouses wool jersey destinations in # matter of pressed against the fingers, lift coa

weight

a new un- WHY are utility baby gar-

lecks." pepper. Bring to a slow boil. of in weeks, or the elbows and push the head crushable material rayon.

ments minde days instead

of such bad, look at the

exclaimed as the Chef un-

Then

cream together 2 tbsp. months, if they had up and back. Don't overstrain. liberal use of grosgrain, io quality wool? Latest example possibly

butter or margarine and 2 tbsp. travelled by surface transport. Repeat six times.

silk and lovely pure crepe de ...a 0s cardigan shrank packed a bag of vegetables.

flour. Add

hat c. of the only kix favourite unwearably

MadameTM* chine. popular

"You like lecks.

Soup and stir until smooth. Hybrid Descendants

queried the Chef. "In France Ther return to the kettle of is silk shanlung for day and careful washings.

they are one of the most popu- Mr Hugh

a Scot by Low,

cook and stir until soup and lar vegetables. We use them in birth And distinguished

boiling point has been reached, sauces, soups and stews, and founded the Stuart botanist,

and the soup bubbles all over. sometimes we steamboil like Serve garnished with a unle asparagus and serve with

minced parsley, or a combina- nice drawn butler sauce."

tion of minced parsley and ten- der lops of the leeks. "Leeks are also used exten- sively in England and Wales," I added. "They belong to the onion family and are very easy to grow. And their green tous are just as valuable as the leek bulb itself. You can just cut off the tops if you like, and let the bulbs grow more green tops."

arcas.

in special lightweight boxes.

emmels. Orchids, ke

uttle noss.

Low orchid house in 1830, and the family subsequently search

nail

water

SACKCLOTH, TOO

On Your Tocs Even with shorter skirts, the spotlight is still on the ankles thanks to ankle-strap shoes. The appearance of thick ankles is helped by dark stockings and

ed throughout the world for a fairly high heel. Actual tes

specimens,

Soine coming surements can be brought down new

and down if you use running up and to which their cinira as an exercise. Du it on from countries

descendants are hybrid

now Later

In exported.

the last your toes. century Sir Hugh Low, British Minister int Perak, Peninsula, himself botanist,

And when you're alone, clo It brings into Malay backwards.

use to their advantage-mus- a famouscles you didn't know you own- sent home collections. The family still carries an the nagement of the nurseries.

Skirts that are smooth at the and sides show

ק ו1

Tb life of the young orchid front begins as a seed on a plece of bulging thighs. Slim them this jelly in flask. After ten years way.

In

Grip the back of a chair with

In a 70 degree temperature the right hand for support. Fut

humid atmosphere, and oc-

#

A

Lovely old-fashioned gingham and ginghom pinafores,

dungarees and matching walsiconts for boys, and plna- Hand- skirts for girls

cable stitch sweaters even

baby

fore

the smallest

after

The Birth Bill:

13 brave

brave wives.

prove the case

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

Leek Soup for Dinner

$1

1

Curried Vegetables with Eggs

Steam-boil or

pressure cook thick lbs. cabbage cut in slices, 1. lb. string beans, sliced lengthwise, and 1 lb. carrots, which have been preted

Meanwhile, quartered,

and hard cook 4 eggs and prepare the i like to ball the very small

curry sauce. To serve, arrange lecks about 15 minutes, then

the vegetables on n platter- serve cold with French dress- the cobbage in the centre, the ing and a sardine for an up- carrots at one end, and the petiser. They are also excel beans opposite. Pour

over lent chopped and cooked in cur

curry sauce. Carnish with nests. cheese sauce for macaroni-or of rice containing the hard

cooked eggs, which should hot and cut in halves.

More than 200 MPs have taken action to stop the British Government killing the Analgesia Bill which would give mothers aids to make child-birth painless. Here is the story at an experiment which brings support are the left leg behind you, grasp casional transplanting, the rate ankle with the left hand

to the arguments in favour of the B1: blooms are finally produced. Then

comes the compensation and pull at it. Swing the le

six forward, grasp

Bill the ankle in

to provide, "dol" (from the Latin word for plant which flowers

THE months in the year and, pro- front of you and pull it up. Do

analgesia in childbirth pain: "dolor").

It was with this pain meter to serve over poached eggs on toust for luncheon, or for a perly treated, may last for 100 this six times. Repeat with the raises again the argument that Drs Hardy and Javert set

about the seriousness of the out

the pains of vegetable dinner. In France we them very good for childbirth. The volunteers were consider pain.

warned beforehand that they the health." Science lips now rallied to the would suffer the pairs of burn

Essential Minerals DI. to those support of the mothers, in an ing in addition Ingenious series of experiments inbour.

"Indeed they are good," reported in a medical Journal” two American doctors, James D.

BEDSIDE TEST

agreed. "For lecks contain an

years.

other leg.

VICTORIAN TRAVELLERS

Two models, in Victorian costumes, wait at a London 'railway station for a train to the Ideal Homes Exhibition where they appear in a fashion show.

to measure

1

They

as

Hardy and Carl T. Javert, have As each of the volunteers unusual amount of Vitamins B measured the pains of women reached the time of delivery the and C. as well as catelum and In Inbour. They had the co- doctors set their pain meter up other essential minerals. operation of 13 brave young her bed. Following each are really a vegetable tonle mothers-to-be, who volunteered by

labour pain, they irradiated the well as a savoury." to undergo additional test pains back of her hand and asked her so that the suffering of future to tell them which was

the

mothers might be appreciated stronger, the labour pain or the a soup," said the

and alleviated.

THE PAIN METER

They also taste magnifique in

Chet. "For · thought we could burning pain. They then ad example, I Justed the intensity of the heat have for dinner a cream soup until the woman reported that of potatoes, lecks and plenty of. the burning pain was exactly as parsley." strong as her labour pain had

"Perfect for the first course of

Dinnor

The experiments have proved that the pungs of childbirth are as real as those of a grinding been

The experiments showed that a garden dinner," I said. toothache and frequently reach the maximum of pain that a beginning with barely percep

tible pains accompanying the person can suffer.

On the subject of measuring onset of Inbour, the severity of pain Drs Hardy and Javert are the pains rose, steadily. About authorities,. They are the men halfway through the first stage Who Invented the pain scale in of labour the pain passed the the first place. Their pain meter halfway mark in the dol sente, (or "dolorimeter,

us they call "a severe pain" in the estima- it) is a beam of heat rays focused on of the doctors. Af this on to the skin of the back of the point most of the women asked

for analgesic relief. hand for three seconds,

By regulating the intensity of the heat beam the doctors are able to determine how

much

hent it takes either to cause just the

BURNED HANDS The women who carried on to end of the experiment

a pricking sensation or to give registered the absolute maximum of pain sensation (between 10 the maximum degree of pain a

They and 10% dols) in the necond person can

experience.

Cream of Polato, Leck and Parsley Soup Vegetable Curried with Eggs Flaky Rice

Tossed Lettuce with Nuts Ginger Fruit Squares Orange Sauce Coffee or Ten Milik (Children)

All Measurements Are Level Recipes Serve Four

Cream of Potato, Look And

1 Parsley Soup

be

Vegetable Curry Sauce: Melt 1 tbsp. butter or margarine; add 1 small, peeled crushed section of garlic, and 1 medium-sized onion sliced; slow-fry 2 min. Then stir in 14 tsp. curry

pow-

der and 1 tbsp. flour. Slow- fry 1 min. Last stir in 1% c. liquid drained from the cooked. vegetables; cook and stir until boiling point is reached. Season to taste with salt and popper,

Tossed Lettuce with Nuts

Wash and crisp 1 medium- lettuce and shred sized head into bite-sized pieces. Use the green outer leaves as well as heart leaves. Toss with 14 <. and savoury French dressing sprinkle with 3 tbsp. coarse- broken walnuts ar pecan meats, or sliced Brazil nuts.

Savoury French Dressing Combine tsp. minced parsley, 1 tsp. minced chives, 1 tsp. minced pimiento, isp. salt, tep, sugar and 4 tsp. paprike. Adelc. mlad oll and beat In 2 thap, cider or wine vinegar. This is sufficient to dress 2 salads.

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Ginger Fruit Squares

C.

or

Use a plain gingerbread res elpe, or 1 package gingerbread found that the heat which causeil stage of inbour. These women Combine peeled, sliced mix. Add to the flour 1⁄2 maximum pain was appro- Buttered burns which rolac potatoes, 2 sliced feeks, includ- raisins or diced dried g ximately ten and one-half times bilaters on the backs of their Ing the green lops, and I c. quartered dates, and finish as Transfer to shallow as strong as the heat which just hands.

"These resulla hand the lle to boiling water. Add tsp. salt. usual.

and bake in Cover

coole until and

the pun caused pain, so they divided their scale into ten and one-half those childless "authorities" who vegetables are tender, about 20 moderate oven, 350 F. about 30

belittle the pains of child-

a through min. Then rub

min. Serve warm or cold, cut in

with birth.

orange parts and called each division a

scalded milk, · ́squares,, aleve. Add 3 c.

• The Journal of Clinical

George Glenwood 1⁄2 tsp. celery sell and tsp. poured over. Investigatioii.

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