NANETTE NOTICES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 158, 4 June 1940, Page 9

NANETTE NOTICES

HERE AND THERE. - ißy “Nanette.”) Make-up on the Ice. Residents in an ice country can always stand a brilliant make-up. This applies equally to whether you are enjoying- Nature’s elements or the man-made ice-skating rinks in the cities. Orange tones are suitable, such as orange rouge and lipstick with tan powder. Bright colours should also be worn —definite red, white, green," black, etc. Paisley Designs. The rich appearance of Paisley designs makes them a favourite with fashion experts, and they are very attractive when introduced as quilts.

You can get them as coverings to pure down quilts in various colours at Hutchins’ Furniture AVarehouse, 493 Main Street, priced at 29s Gd single and 37s 6d dpublc, and they’re so cosy and light. * Queen’s “Useful Experience.” “During the last war, wlieii I was in my teens,” the Queen -told a close friend not long ago, “I had the task of catering for more than two hundred wounded Tommies billeted at my par-, ents’ home, Glamis Castle. So I think ■ I can claim to have some useful experience in making the most of wartime food, allowances 1.” New Designs. It’s not nearly such an effort to get out of bed on a cold morning if you have a warm dressing gown to slip on, and I’ve seen most attractive uesigns in winterweight dressing gowns at the Scotch and Hosiery Shop.

the Square. The housecoat and wrapover styles are both smart and are obtainable in blue, green, or beige. * A Fashion Personality. Miss Hattie Carnegie, probably, the most dominant fashion personality in America, began business twenty-six years ago in a small shop on Broadway, New York, where she designed | and made everything in the place personally. To-day her salon is still the fashion centre for well-known women who' patronised her when she was only a new young designer with very definite ideas on clothes, and with a flair for forecasting modes. June Specials. Just imagine, those lovely coats at which we have all been casting envious eyes have been drastically reduced in price by Slater’s, the Square, for Juno! Seasonable coats with luxurious fui collars, mostly large , sizes, are now £5 os, and imported English furtrimmed coats are only £4 4s. There are even coats, at 49s 6d and all mil- : linery is at special prices. *j Corned Beef. j 1 Gas can be saved when cooking I ! corned 1 beef (to he eaten cold) in the [ following way : AVash and place the I beef in a saucepan of cold water. Add ’ a tablespoon of vinegar, bring •gradu- ! ally to the boil, then boil for 10 minL utes. Then remove from stove, wrap , saucepan in sugarbags or hessian, and 1 put a weight upon the lid to keep ; in the steam. Leave all night. Beet cooked in this manner will retain its full flavour. [ Gloom Chasers. Occasional frivolity never hurt anyI one, and,’just now, a gay evening w.il- - probably do you good. But to be really : carefree you must prepare properly, so ; have a shampoo and a new hair-do j or a facial treatment and make-up : from Sylvia Kirk, the beauty expert. > Broadway, and feel and look like a ’ new person.