THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1951.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
SETTLE ON A GOOD COLOUR SCHEME when you're decorating. This kitchen combines a clear blue and geranium.
By JOAN O'SULLIVAN
TAVE you
HAY
a handyman around your house? A husband who likes to fix things and usually winda up leaving things in quite a fix?
No sense in papering or paint- ing until you've chosen the shade that will do the most for your
There are room.
shides not becoming to bruneltes, blondes, red-heads and other types. When painting. choose colours that flatter you.
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Buying paint may pose a prob- lom to the woman who's never
this in
department
dabbled
bofore,
Of course, before you can get -to-work-papering-cr-painting, there are a few preporations that must be made. Surfaces must be clean. You may have to patch cracks, or make some other repairs.
HERE'S A helpful hint for home decorators--use 2 cardboard to protect walls when painting.
IF YOU WANT to sand shelf edges, screw two blocks together and cover them with sandpaper.
COCONUT PANCAKES
GOT GOME MORE DESICCATED COCONUT/- ADORE IT
NEW
Chignons Are Like Girdles
Women Shed Them In Hot Weather
YORK-Chignons are like girdles. Women shed them in hot weather,
Such being the case, a mil- Jinery-repreamtative-has-pre- dicted the passing of the chig- non hat, the one designed to be worn above or around the hair buns, currently popular,
Mary Kelley, head of the -Millinery Fashion Bureau, said dozens of designers stressed the chignon hata in their early spring lines but the figured that after Easter, and with wormer
weather, hat shapes would
change to fit new hairstyles.
"There won't be much la- terest in chignons, once the weather warms up, unless It's
Basic Rules For The Perfume Buyer
There are a few simple basic ruies which should operate whenever one is buying perfume.
(1) Always try the sent on your skin. There is a chemical inter-action which means that no given scent smeils quite the same on two different people
(2) Always try a light perfume bafore a heavy
one.
(3) you haven't found the one you want after try- ing four or five, stop. That ls as many as the average sense of smeti Can $- simulate before one's power of discrimination becomes unrellable.
FOR AN INFORMAL room, one decorator suggests knotty pine panels for the fire- place wall. The other walls are painted to match the terracotta stripe in the
plaid sofa. Draperies are in similar shade.
By GAY PAULEY
for_evening wear," Miss Kelley said,
-Hairdressers- agreed. spokesman for Charles of the Ritz beauty
antong said como warm weather, women elther will cut their hair shorter or cise put their long locks Into an upsweep."
Another hairdresser, Albert of Fifth Avenue, thought that by the time worm weather
come, women would be wear- ing the "Grecian goddess look," in which short curls are brushed up and out from the nape of the neck. He added that those who retained the chignon would move it atop the head,
"None of that hot, sticky mass of holr at the nape of the neck," said Albert,
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Other Ideas Even with passing of the chignon hat, the designers will be full of other ideas. The
beach has inspired the milliners Tatiana du Plessix nnd Laddie Northridge. Miss Du Plessix goes all out for sand-coloured straws, trimmed with sea shells, alerfish-or- coral---branches. Northridge makes one largo number in black műan and shapes it like a conch shell, *""Hothouse Look"
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Most designers made hata with what they called the "for- ward look," built to set welt forward on the bond with the front of the crown edging the halrilne,
Most spring hair are small.
She explained that dress and suil designers put a lot of full- ness in back of skirts this spring. "And," she added, "hats will just have to get larger to ba'ance all that bulk below."
Flowers are in such profusion with most milliners that one de- signer described the look for spring 1081 as "the hothouse look."-Unied Press.
Your Sewing Scrapbook
Mary Brooks Picken
Net over Taffeta Skirt-With Camisole Top
TRASHION approves of the clasticised camisole top. are shirred with elastic Some thread-row upon row of shir- ring to make the camisole the
- a skirt of another colour may be worn under the overskirt on occasions,
Hem in the overskirt should be made with one turn of the net, then machine-stitched on paper. A narrow machine- stitched or band-turned hem Is suficient for the underskirt. Finish the placket openings with hooks and eyes or snaps,
In case you have forgotten how to make a 3-gore skirt: Take a skirt length plus hem of 50% rayon taffeta, Pin sel- vages together, with fold to- ward you.
Diagram Shown Hero
Following diagram shown here, measure to right-of. A 7′′ for B. C is straight up from B
hip plus 2“. Ei la 7′′ to left to D. FIs 4 hip plus 2" below E. With a yardstick, draw a line through C and F to edges of fabric. Cut on this line.
shape and size needed for the Bring Ene D-E around to
Individual. Others are cut meet line C-F from shirred fabric, top and
and stitch, bottom
leaving opening on left side for edges hemmed, zipper
placket. This brings a straight put in at left underarm, and presto-the camisole, is ready to sewn to Join a bias at sides,
wear. Usually these are made
from the separate
skirt and just long enough to hold to place inside the skirt's waist-
band.
Three-Core Skirt
The skirt in this instance fa a three-gore skirt cut from one skirt length (waist to 'hem, plus 21⁄2′′) of 50′′ taffeta, The overskirt la mode of two lengths of 12" nylon net, Beams are at the side, placket opening on left..
Both skirts can be caught in with one walitband, or they that can be made separately so
with bias ceam at centre back.
Even the bottom and top edges of altist. If waistline is too large, dont fullness in on -each side of centre-front--and centre back. Finish placket and hem as described above,
A New Use For Vitamin B-12 How To Dye
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Household Articles
By ELEANOR ROSS ·
Try freshening up the look of After the machine has com things around the house by dye- pleted the rinse, remove article ing bedspreads, bed linen, slip from machine and job is done. covers, drapes, shaggy rugs and bath mats, and doing the job in an automatic washing machine, if your household Includes one. It is fun as well as being
To clean the machine after the dyeing is done, all it with étean water and let it operate on the last
Finso only, using a small amount of soap if neces-
VITAMIN B-12, latest of the a whole new field of usefulness which are present in liver ex- 'vitamins to be discovered, was in our fight against disease, tract. Choline is part of the Isolated some time ago but is
When dilmols are given a diet vitamin B-complex, while only just beginning to make high in fat, large amounts of methioning is one of the amino itself felt in the clinical world the liver, a condition which, if foods. Thus,
this substance are deposited in acids which make up protein If is proving continued,
possible that gradually destroya many of the Meetä ascribed to powerful substance, with this
certain choline may actually be due to actions on certain of the body's animals were given
amall vitamin B-12. processes which are as amazing amounts of B-13 over periods as they are hopeful.
varying from one to two months, the amount of fat deposited was First tried against pernicious only half of what it had been annemia, a severe blood disorder previously, even though the fat in which not only the number in their diet was continued at of red cells but the amount of the same high level, their colouring matter is don- Animals on a normal diet, gerously reduced, it is now
contalning only, a limited amount known as the most potent of of fal; "deposited: the practically" devold: "of' vitamins and between. 24 and 3680 depth of colour you desire, the substances which combat animals on a very high fat diet B-12903
amount of fat in the liver as the this discuse, It is equally with the vitamin B-12
valuable in certain other serious anacmins.
USE OF FAT
More recently it has been found that vitamin B-12 is a stimulant to the body's use of fat, a quality which opens to it
MAKE A PANOAKTI BATTER, WITH ***
BOX FLOUR A SMALL PINCH
OF BALT 1003 AND....... SEPINT OF MILK
AND THEN STIR IN I TABLESPOON OF THE COCONUT
cult job at all. budget-kind, and it lan't a diff
your washing machine is Senceed
automatic type, simply according to the fore Kaing directions,
·under
But you will have to stop the machine from me to time -and-soo' it, tho article has been dyed to the
IN SOME FOODS Vliamin B-12 is found to some foods. It is present in large quantities in glandular Start off by weighing while meats, such as liver and kidney, it is dry, the articlo to be dyed.. and lesser amounts are found By way of proportion in muscle meats, cheese, eggs, 12 oz. use a box of dro; between and milk. Plant foods are: 13 and 24 oz, use 11⁄2 boxes,
3 boxes. This applies for
In this substance we apparent The results with this vitamin ly have a vilamin of great im- were about the same as those portance, not only in its effects obtained when the animals were on pernicious anaemia, but-alpd. given fat diets with Iver exact from the standpoint of projecting The liver.extract seems to have the liver against the depositing benefletal errects in preventing of large amounts of fat which, the storage of fat in the liver, be of course,” results in liver cause of choline and methionine damage.
FRY THE PANCAKES IN THE USUAL WAY
BAND 'WHEN THEY'RE DONE -- OPREAD. HALF.
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made of acetate raran or ilk or viscoso, KRYOU." nylon, you should uno 3 times. the foregoing amounts. Also If you me dyeing an seticio of any fabric in dark colours, It is best to use this same | In- creased amount of dye; or black, use in addition one box's
"extra
Amount of Water
been obtained, then rinno the When the right colour has article as usual, member that
Always ro a dyed Marlicio than it will when dry. looks darkóz when it is wat
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an for regular washing, and
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