THE CHINA MAIL,
APRIL 19, 1980.
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Peggy Sage
DON'T CRY OVER SPILT INK
By Margaret Sherman
The British Navy has always been a weakness with me, and never more so than the other night, when swift action on the part of one gallant naval-type saved my evening-and my now * white ovoning dress-when a waiter mistook me for a wine-glass.
Good red burgundy stained my skirt. The waiter trembled, seethed, but the young lieutenant murmured not to worr," grabbed salt from everywhere, and applied. it to "the offended silk.
We made several applications until. nothing remained but the mere suspicion of a blush,
be sure that the crystals are clearly labelled and far out of reach of tiny hands,
Count
your calories
By "YUKİ”
Many have been asking for something definite about calories that little term that's used sO often when people get together and talk food. Here, then, is the information you're seeking.
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Ancient
art of embroidery
Women of this generation are often good knitters, but they are rarely such skilful needlewomen as Queen Mary and her contemporaries.
The Royal School of Needle- work in London, which had 150 people on its staff before World War II, now has only 50. It was which this famous institution to Queen Mary owes her Instruction in the gros point stitch in which she excels-and in which she em- broldered the carpet she has given to Britain to be sold for dollars.
To begin with a definition a calorie in the Oxford Dictionary (the one which its in my pocket) is termed a unit of heat." But to go a little further, it is the scientific term for the standard
It was the war which diverted unit of heat contained in food, students into other employment, Therein lies a moral, Swift
For tea stains
and it's much the same as talking but girls in Britain are now be- action is a first essential in deal-
Dissolve the crystals in hot about the units of heat (petrol) ginning again to attend the School ing successfully with stalns. They arc much more costly water, as required, in the ratio needed for putting the "put-put" for training in plain. needlework no of Vauz. of crystals to one pint of into a motor-boat and the speed and the ancient arts of wool and removed if they are given
Once water. Iron-mould is an all-too- Into a speedboat.
Bilk embroidery. time to fix themselves. fixed, they are stubborn things. frequent stain, a hasty one, too,
a two-year course, and after a not only destroys If you're the speedboat type further year of practical work, Ten, collee, ink, wine, and fruit because it
fabric but spreads to other you'll need more calories than the can qualify as teachers of needle- stains on coitons and linens re-
motorboat type-and if you're a
Britain's spond kindly to an immediate salt articles.
doing an exten work recognised by Ammonia is a real friend and speedboat typo treatment,
is especially good for tea atains amount of racing you'll Ministry of Education.
even more. Understand?
In the case of tablecloths and
on blankets and other woollens, nther whites, cover the stain with a liberal helping of salt, and as Use one teaspoon to about one
If you're a fairly hard-working the salt discolours scrape it off quart of water and dip the affec- and apply more. Then pour ted part into it, then rinse with business woman you will need to holling water from a good height clean, warm water and dry in the cat food which will supply you on what remains of the stain. air if possible. The same solu- with 2,600 to 3,000 calories a day. Afterwards rinse with soapy tion is good perspiration For moderate work, or a day in the house, 2,300 to 2,500 should water and finally with clear, maris.
And again, if Finally, I would suggest one of see you through. warm water.
the linen bleach preparations for you do no work or are having a will need only 2,100 stubborn and old stains, such as rest, you
or tea-but for white calories per day. ink, coffee, cotton and linen only.
Overdose
Similar stains on clothes and heavier materials should be sponged persistently with warm water. Fast, washable coloureds can take a little lemon juice for the removal of final traces before being tubbed.
of.
To meet the emergency stain-accidents at home there are several alds which are good to have by you. Carbon tetrach- loride is enc.
This is a grease solvent and obtainable from your chemist in its natural form or In various
for
Double trouble
The majority of stains arc Most of us, however, seem to double ones-grease and sugar, have an overdose of these calories grease and colour, sugar and every day, and like overdoses of colour, to name the most common anything, sooner or later there domestic ones.
Students take
The Royal School of Needle- work was founded by Princess as 1872. Christian, one of Queen Victoria's daughters, as long ago
Queen Mary, Today, Princess Alice of Athlone, sister-in-law of herself a good needlewoman, is the School's president.
Some of the most exquisite em- broidery executed at the Schoo! has been made for the corona- tions of Edward VII, George V When King and George VI. George VI and Queen Elizabeth were crowned in Westminister Abbey in 1937 the embroidery on the canopy held above them dur-
are going to be repercussions; ing the ceremony was made at With £ grense-plus-colour they will probably take the shapo the School. stain, procesa one is to remove of an extra layer of fat which is the grease first, Suppose it is going to be much harder to get The magnificent gold embro- cod liver oil-common enough rid of than it has been to acquire.dery on Queen Elizabeth's purple where there are bables in the
velvet train was also made at the proprietary brands. It is non-
house. Apply carbon tetrach-
To prevent such a mishap, it's a School which thus maintains the this ancient and much more foride first to remove the oll, then
perfectly simple matter to high traditions of efcient than benzine.
methylated spirit to do away arrange your meals according to craft. Borax is another useful stand-
discoloration. their calorie value-tot them up by, and one teaspoonful dissolved with the yellow
on your cuff sleeve as you go
Inflammable
in pint of hot water makes After that, a normal wash.
would be ruinous.
F
over-generous
When it is grease plus sugar- | along.
bread, sauces, frled food, and a gentle bleach for the treatment Junior's bread, butter and jam in of stains I have already men-
Now that you know just how exotic mixtures with a bit of tioned, when they do not respond your lap use clear lukewarm completely to the salt method, water to dissolve the sugar, lot many calories you're eating when everything thrown in, for they It can be used safely on fast this dry, then apply your solvent you ask for a second slice of cake, won't do much else for you ex-
to get rid of the grease.
perhaps you'll think twice and cept supply an colours, where stronger bleaches Let me close with the unkindest take a walk to the fruiterer's for amount of heat units which will Oxalic acid is a strong bleach cut of all-ink on your best car- a nice, low-calorie orange la- later appear as a spreading seat
pet.
or a bulging waistline. At once, blot up excess ink, stead. which effectively removes Iron- working towards the centre of mould from white cottons and
stain, then sponge im- Just because some goods which All the food values necessary the
found in linens. Since it is a strong polson,mediately with lulcewarm water. you've always been told to eat for the day will be
Next wash carefully with seem to contain a high amount of cereal, meat or fish, wholemeal pint of warm water to which two calories, it doesn't mean that you bread or rye biscuit, fruit, veget or three drops of ammonia are should cut them out of your diet. abies, egg, cheese, butter, augur added. This should do the trick. Please don't! They contain im- and milk, and these will supply too: portant minerals and salts that your amount of calories, are absolutely necessary for your Therefore, the remainder of your good health.
meals for the day and for those want to odd times when you nibble at something, should be chosen from the low calorie
Renommée
resses
RECIPES
PARSNIP FLUFF Two-pounds-parsnips,-1-table-
spoon margarine or butter, 1
High calorie food
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