THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 10, 1940 Bringing Up Father
DADDY-THERE'S A GENTLEMAN
TO SEE YOU THE SA OF THE LEADING
POLITICIANS
OF THIS TOWN –
HE'S ONE
CAN. HE BE A POLITICIAN
AND BE A GENTLEMAN-
TOO?
AH-MR. JIGGS-'
1 CAME TO GIVE, YOU THE KEY. TO OUR BEALS- TIFUL CITY-.
HE'S A POLITICIAN ALL RIGHT- THAT'S ALL THEY DO GIVE AWAY-
AH-MR JIGS - IT'S ABOUT DINNER- TIME. IS. IT NOT?
WE EAT AT TWELVE O'CLOCK-IT'S.
ONE NOW-
By George MacManus.
DID THE GENTLEMAN
GO, DADDY?
YES - HE WAS A.POLITICIAN
ALL RIGHT-
Capt 1940. King Festused Syndicate, The, World nights reserved.
A PAGE FOR WOMEN
Don't Panic; Keep To Routine
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Life has become unusual for one who is hurt, prepare, also for of doors find it difficult to get every one of us. We must make the doctor.
about in the dark. One in every adjustments. We must adapt our man wants to help her family, blindness, which is due to lack of Every intelligent and kind wo- 10 persons suffers from night, selves to a completely different her neighbours, and the nation. a purple pigment secreted nor- way of living.
First she must keep herself fit by mally by a membrane-the retina In this column I "speak to regular and nourishing meals. at the back of the eye.. So, eat many types
She must women-house-
exercise at regular plenty of vitamin A, which is times. She must take, such vita- necessary for the, supply of this wives, business and professional min value food as dairy and gar- pigment. Eat plenty of vitamin B women. It seems to me that the den produce. These include brown bread, garden produce-- best advice I can give to you is green leaf vegetables, which are so that you may maintain good to determine on "regularity", by able in any form of night blind- Sugar is also a good food, if you rich in vitamin A, especially valu- mental and physical resistance. which I mean that we must all, ness. in spite of excitements and, for
can get it for the jams and jel most people, extra duties, try to.
Many people who have to be out lies so valuable to the housewife, maintain the routine of our lives.
For.. example, regular meal times. These perhaps should be
HOUSEHOLD. HINTS
half an hour earlier so that, we Sew on buttons over a darning wringer. This is equal to press- are "forwards" in everything we needle, and when done pull out ing, and does not shine the cloth. do now that the black-out has the needle. The buttons will be It takes four minutes in all, shortened, the day.
found to be much looser than.
It is very satisfactory to see in those, sewn on in, the ordinary The dirtiest frying pan will the faces of most people the ab, way, and will not pull off as come clean if soaked for a few sence of fear. I would
easily. say to
minutes in ammonia business and professional women,! Bacon will go, as far again if
nammonia and water. "Carry, on with your work and treated as follows:
A lump of soda dissolved in the you will not worry so much about After cutting off the rind, dip blue water prevents the blue from the future." mode
Teach rasher in flour, and fry quick-marking, the clothes.
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I would say to those who feel the strain or nervous tension. The flour prevents the bacon. To put out a chimney fire quick- which afflicts super-sensitive neo- runamg too much to fat, and also ly, put some wet paper on the plc in any crisis-family, national improves the flavour.
fire, and the steam will quickly or international-try deep breath- ing and at the same time think!
Eat a peppermint toffee just be- put the chimney are out. what you can do, to help others. fore taking medicine, and you will
not taste the medicine, however A small piece of orris root! nasty,
placed in the copper will impart
You may be able to give up ani hour or two to take charge of the children of a friend or neighbour.
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a lasting fragrance to handker-. You may offer to do the door and! Lizard skin shoes that have be- chiefs and lingerie. telephones at certain times for a come discoloured can be quickly doctor depleted of his staff. If cleaned with a few drops of per- you can drive a car your duty isioxide of hydrogen. Apply with a Don't put jam, into. jars that small sponge, and rub lightly keep, however much the jar may have had fat in them; it will not You should try to get regular They will be ready for wear in have been washed. hours of sleep and rest, especially half an hour.
obvious.
if you must work hard in offices,
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shops, or inthe, home.... Let me Before frying cold potatoes, Saucepans in which porridge beg mothers of evacuated children slice them and well dredge. with has been boiled, or anything, which to leave them wherever they have flour. This not only causes the sticks to the bottom, should be fill been sent by the authorities. potatoes. to brown more quickly, ed, with cold water directly and Apart from war casualties, there but also improves their flavour, stood on the side of the stove are many accidents on the road.
where it is not hot, It will bel You may be called upon to help. A good trouser press hint is to found that the, whole. will comet at any time. You ought to kriow fold: the trousers, carefully.. and out easily from the bottom of its how to prepare a room for any put the legs (only), through the own accord in about half an hour.
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