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WOMANSENSE

Fashion In Diamonds

DIAMONDS ON DISPLAY Models wear Boucheron's "Aigrette," his bandeau' and clip, and Sterle'a tara in a show by jewel merchants at the "Tiara Ball," in Paris.

Deep Back Cloche

At

Favourite

London Export Showings

LONDON.

THE small close fitting shunted en bonnets with high to yellowy ones, and slate grays.

The Velvet

Touch

ONE of the first popular ideas

to click in the fashión zone and one with a long pro- mising future in the coming autumn

THE VELVET

TOUCH on a dress,

This means any dress from a tweed or wool jersey to a lace or velvet. Some velvet con- trast in more than a touch, but it does run the gauntlet from veivot in a mere pocket feb and button rims to velvet for the enttro skirt or top of a de sign.

Here aro a few examples with typical velvet touches from the better dreas market in New York.

1. Velvet ribbon borders the handkerchief capelet of a versatile afternoon cocktail dress from the uptown collec- tion of Raymond Marinelli. Removable Rauntlets of the crepe come with it.

2. Velvet flared revers and cufts give a black crepe nome- thing new. Wearable allmness concentrates fuiness In centre front, Buttons are rhinestone,

3. Velvet for the torso top, taffeta for the skirt in a black

in contrast dale -dtest,

The nunali Troy collection.

4. Velvet "neckline bolero" and velvet band in black for *his strapless black Ince short wening dress from Milment. It comes with a black taffeta slip.

5. Velvet on fallie in the buttons and stand-up collar of a princess line coat dress with concealed slash lip pockets,

Household Hint

If cane

seals

of chairs

Eng

Hands Need Applications of A Good Lotion All Year Long

If hands feel tired, do this exercise to relax them, says Violiniat Doro- tha Pawers: Pull each finger against its "opposite" "till fingern alido apart.

By HELEN FOLLETT

LEANLINESS is the first law well as manner of movements.

( of beauty, and nowhere is They do not have to be anato

watchfulness

attrac- necessary mically perfect to be moro than in the hands. It is impos- tive. sible to be too fastidious and The hands, show the effects the boss of the

kitchen, of neglect in no time at all. handling food. washes her Left to their own wilful ways height. There are also some tez ranging from deep, bottle shades

hands many times a day. That the skin can become coarse and means that the natural oil, pro- discoloured while a little atten- and duced to keep the skin surface tion will keep it smooth squared crowns.

Many of the members of the cloche with deep' back,

soft and supply

smooth. Some large hats appear in Incorporated

Society

Is washed white.

Unt Neglected hands mean Something in the way of and very narrow brim bar- few collections mostly in velvet their own millinery but the slightly, you can take up some

Away

supply the the nails lose their lovely, rosy ing the forehead and sweep- or felt styles which dip to the following millinera partielpated of the sinck by dampening the lubricant must

may dig lustre.

become brittle, upside need. So, for that reason, ing down to the right side is right. One black felt cartwheel in the collections: Olga Matti cane. Turn the chairs

over into your

good-looks budget, break at a touch. These coral- the predominant hat in the hat worn with a black afternoon at Matill, Renee Pavy at Charles down, place a wet cloth

dreng embroidered at the neck Greed and Michael Sherard, the cane. Remove it after half get yourself a first-class hand coloured falons need creaming

are helpful, tuo. winter export collections of with gold thread had workings Rodolf at Digby Morton, an hour, but let the chairs re- cream: Lotions

Friction the cosmetic inte Simono Mirman at Bianca main the Incorporated Society of of gold covering the crown.

upside down until the They're ane. Use them lavish-

ly. But, once or twice a week, he nails and the surrounding cane dries completely.

cuticlo Helmet shaped caps are used Mosen. London Fashion Designers, with formal wear, mostly made

give your paws a

By keeping the grand old Hesh. verhauling with an oily cos soft it can be lifted gently with an association of 11 top of velvet, satin or lame, and

the orange

and wood stick

to never have dress-muking houses, just completed.

The sweep to the right is often accentuated by trimming being placed at that side, or by the brim being widened or picated.

The second most popular share is the beret.

This style ranges from minute

with trimmed

pasacinenterie" embroidery, beaded circles or sequins.

Velvet & Feathers

Long haired felts are mostly used for these winter hats, with velvel as the next most pre- dominant media. Feathers

used for almost exclusively

ranging from single

are

untrimmed felt berets to large vullis, to bunches of

black velvet styles which

Perslan

Hoppy are often trimmed with braided con feathers and whole birds. motiis.

Iamb berets One light green felt cloche has appear in several collections four small humming birds rang- worn with conta or sults trimmed with the same fur, such on its brim. Stockinette or chiffon Ja sometimes used as one which is covered with

draping. sequin studded velling.

Higher Crowns

Thirdly, there is a group of hals featuring height in the crown. These include turbans and toques in felt and velvet draped and twisted to obtain a spiral effect, and trimmed with feather brushes to give further

for

The aw

hate usually tone with the ensemble with which they are worn, or with the predomin ant colour when used with a mix- ture fabric. Black is nearly al- ways used with black, or where a contrast is used it is usually a very bright colour such as bona. na yellow or flame red, Colours most worn are black, all toast brown, greens shades, tobacco

PRACTICAL POINTERS

TO PREVENT ALLERGY By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D. LLERGY or hypersensitivity During infoney er during ill- A is rapidly becoming one of nes, the development of allergy today's foremost. medical prob- may occur because of undue ex- lems. It is estimated that in the posure to substances which com- United States alone there are monly produce oversensitivity. between 14 and 20 million people such as feather pillows or stuffed who suffer from one or another toys.

of Its varied forms-hay fever, There would appear to be some astina, hives or excruciating tendency for allergy to run in migraine headaches.

families. In such cases, it would seem important to protect the child by using rubber mattresses and pillows to replace cotton and feather stuning, and to have

Though allergy has its roots in individual make-up, doctors to day believe that there are certain vulnerable periods in life when

It is more likely to develop than furniture made of wood, metals at other times. It these periods or plastics instead of other types can be guarded ugainst, allergy of materials. The rugs shoula may never develop even though be tightly woven so that a great the individual has a predisposi- deal of lint will not be formed. tlon toward It.

Bofore Birth

Contact with animals, such as cats or dogs, may sometimes be responsible for allergic symp- toms.

It has been stated that allergies can start in a baby even before

While it is true that in some birth, because of foods which the

becomes Лебя expectant mother

includea in cases allergy her diet. Thus it is important for severe as the child grows older, mothers to avoid over-indulgence in the majority of instances this occur. Therefore, it is

employ a well-balanced diet.

does

in any one particular food and to important to have the child care- fully studied by a doctor as soon as any symptoms of allergy develop. The physician

will

Balloon-Like Building make a check-up to determine

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the substances to which the child may be sensitive, so that they can be eliminated from his diet them can be or contact with prevented. Sometimes It J possible to desensitise the child Laboratory by giving him injections of collapsible, gradually-increasing amounts of balloon-like building, mode of substances to which he reacts. glass cloth and rubber which is supported by air,

BUFFALO, N. Y.-The Cor- nell Aeronautical

has

The

developed

flexible, spherically-

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Helpful Drugs

There are a number of drugs

shaped building JA without avaliable, known as anti-hirta- beams, girdera or columns. It mines, which are helpful in the is held up fully inflated by anty treatment of allergies. It is .076 pounds

of air pressure, thought that an excessive amount less then it takes to blow up

of histamine is formed in the ་་ n toy balloon, Lashed to

body during an allergic attack concrete base, it will erect in winds up to 140 miles and the anil-histamines tend to the excessive hista- neutralise an hour,

mine and lessen the symptoms. The glass cloth house stands The physician will decide as to

weighs

1,000 30 feet high,

the drug to be employed. In pounds and has a diameter

of each case. It

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conted Abreglass

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the symptoms can be obtained.

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and

Printed Chinese Silk

By PRUNELLA” WOOD

Cabe Hawes

THIS cool and colourful frock is one that Hawes con- cocted on her own inimitable lines of functional simplicity, to meet the heat and ennui of long tropical summer months.

The fabric is one of the slickest and coolest ever loomed, old-fashioned China silk with a leaf print in' sulphur colours printed to order for Hawes by the Tilletts The fold of self-fabric in the deop V, tho chartreuse suedo cord which serves as a bolt, the cool, two-tone grey stripes of background over which the acid fire tinte fall in leaf motifs are all attractive detalla,

suffer

Well kept hands, with beau- you'll tifully cared for nails, are un from hangnails that are enough questionably an asset, also an to drive the calmnest woman index of their owner's habits. mad. Do that every night after stered com- They should move with grace. anointing your Artists will tell you that soft, plexion with a fragrant emol- small, dimpled hands are

noi hent. As hands as interesting

If hands feel tired there aro that

can do speelal exercises you look strong and capable.

that will relieve fatigue, The hands can be almost as strengthen the hands and keep expressive as the face. Types them lovely looking.

of beautiful hands are found in One of them is done as fol- all races, classes and conditions lows: Pull each finger, against of people. There is a great its "opposite number" till they'

diversity in size and shape as slowly slide apart.

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

A Common But Tasty Seafood

while

AS you can see Madame. day the Chef and I worked out "As the pool a very in the test-kitchen two spectar

one for successful clam digging. We clam recipes,

• New clarm pic,

the other went to several places and had England very good luck, This pall in for a Long Island clam foaf hơ

tasted entirely filled with the hard had

hllo on the clam- shell clams, And this other ming party. pal contains three kinds, some gested both noft shell clams to steam, and your choice. And if you live cherry stone clams to serve on Inland where fresh clams are the half shell, and a few razor not available, you can make back clams which are simply either dish with tinned clams. delicious.

I tasted them at 2 Asherman'n shack where

wife fried

hiy

some for us.

Ho

took out a

took out handful of

the

So we have sug- for dinner-iako

Dinner

Cantaloupe

razor-back clams, In colour Deep Dish Clam Pio er Clam.

they were a bluish-slate gray much like a murel, but they were about 4 inches long, an inch wide and the shall came together in u very thin edge that suggested a razor.

"Andro has given me a clam knife with which I can open them. I shall then remove tha clams from the shells, dip them slightly beaten CAK and cracker crumbs, and saute very

butter gently m

about minutes-but no more; for

oysters and other delicate fish,

Loaf Buttored Beets Com-on-the-Cob Tomato, Cucumber,

Green Pepper Salad Compole of Cherries Jeel Coffee or Tea Milk (Children)

and

All Moarurements Are Level' Recipes, Servo Four

Doop Dish Clam Pie Use 2 (12 oz.) tins clams, or 1 qt soft shell clams. If the n colander, set latter, place in over a kettle containing 1.c. bot

clams must not be overcooked, water, cover and steam about 5'

or they will taste liko

"They'll be delicious fried

min. Drain, and reserve the liquid. Cut the necks from the for lunch. Chef. But what a clams. Roll clams in 3 tbsp.. we ever going to do with 50 four mixed with top, pepe many clams? They're enough

and chop Then peel for a regular party?"

medium-sized

onion and, place, very good suggestion," in a good-sized frying pan answered the Chef with ene with 8 thin slices of bacon, cut, thusiasm.

"We can have in squares. Sauto slowly to clam chowder supper party on gether until the onion in yel- and the Bacon lightly, the terraco to which, you can Invite all the: neighbours.

"A

crackers and

For

Rub shallow cas÷

.A

the menu I suggest two courses: serole with bacon, fat and put clam chowder with big plot in a layer of the clams Cover for with half the onion and 'bačon watermelon for w

to mixture. Then put in the re- I will maining clams. Spread on the and bacon,

decaert

And

Madame

please the different tastes I will make two kinds of clam chow remaining onion

Pails Of Clams

der. Boston style clam chow and pm in the clum liquid. der that is made with mlik, and Prepare a rich baking powder also the Manhattan clam chow- biscuit dough; 'roll to 14 in. der which contains tomatoes" thickness and shape into small- rounds. Cut a small picco out of the centre of each biscuit, The Chef picked up the palls to the steam can escape, and of clama and started toward place on top of the plo so they "I am going almost touch. Bake 20-25 min. the cellar stairs, to put these clams in the cellar in a hot oven, 375-400 F. na tub with some fresh water

Trick Of The Chef end a handful of cornmeal." he said.

cornmeal To open clams, to be cooked. they will open their shells and place in a Rettle, add enough throw out the sand, which will hot water to cover the bottom,

littleuatifi make them more pleasant to cover and steam cat."

the shells soparato so you can with the thent apart · We had lots of fun at the pry clam chowder party. The next fingers,

cat tho