Three cupfuls granulated sugar, cupful corn syrup, 4 cupful water, 2 eggs (whites only), nuts and flavouring.
Boil sugar and syrup with water till it threads on spoon. Beat the whites of eggs to stiff froth in a fairly large bowl. Gradually pour in the candy, beating constantly.
Add the nuts and flavouring. Beat till creamy. Pour into tin to cool. Cut into squares.
Natural lynx fashions this smart and bulky jacket. Over a simple sports frock of red jersey the coat has in-format charm and may also be worn with dinner or evening clothes. constantly denounced modern fashions, especially the scanty, short styles, and often told us that when she first came to Shanghai it took fořty yards of Chinese silk to make an afternoon dress. For evening, she said, one might exceed that amount, For ourselves the petticoat idea at present is to be confined to evening wear, but, from the waist downwards we are going to be as bouffant as possible. In our modern way we are going back to the Empress Eugenie styles. In the evening we shall not have to watch our hips so much as formerly, but our fashion dictators tell us that we shall have to pinch a bit round the waist—more than a bit in fact for slim waists, apd hourglass figures are to be attempted.
We saw the recent inspiration for the bouffant mode for evening in the dresses worn by the Queen in her visit to Paris. The Queen's gowns incidentally, have caused a tremendous sensation throughout the fashionable world. Her gowns and her smile have done more to cement friendship of nations than Acts of Parliament, we hear. The Acts of Parliament need not concern us in these columns, but American dress designers have one and all gone back home full of approval for Hartnell's creations, and their many points of fashion interest. The Queen herself does not aim at being a fashion lead-
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