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PRACTICAL
Housework For Home-Owners
By JOAN C'SULLIVAN
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HOMECRAFT
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FRINGE CROCHET STOLE Approximate size: 11 inches by 58 inches NUG as the proverbial bug in a rug is this fringed stole that's perfect for wear over your new woollen dresses or your first autumn suit. Make it to match or to contrast--but DO make it. and wear it on endless occasions! An ex- tremely easy pattern to crochet. MATERIALS: Afghan Germantown. 5 skeins. Plastle Crochet Hook, Size 10.
GAUGE: 7 sts 2 inches.
( 44. dr in 3rd st from hook, 1 de la each re- maining st of ch 43 de-ch 2 counts as 1 de PATTERN-ROW 1-Ch 2, turn, skip first de,
1 de around stem of next dc, inserting hook from front to back; 1 de around stem of next de, inserting hook from back to from; repeal from ⚫ end 1 de around stễm of next de, inserting hook from front to back, 1 act space before h 2 Repeat last row until 54 ins. from beg. Fasten off. Steam to inches by 58 inches. FRINGE: Wind yarn on a 219 in cardboard. cut one end. The a 5-strand fringe in each space between sts on both ends and on end of each row on sides. Trim fringe evenly
FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE
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elading repairs. ploming. piastering, roof. g and painting. Furniture and upholstery is consider. e. 1 Interior woodwork-
irur projects. electrical ap-
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There are right sections devoted to instructions for Pairs requiring Winet- Working hand at
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Painting, you produce an interesting Cat texture by
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terials, and painting and decorating supplies.
Home insulation is cover- ed in still another section and there are several chap- ters on the control and ex- termination of insects and other pests.
The volume more than lives up to its name.
It's a Home Repair "omplete Handbook that's guaran- teed to make a handyman
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The publish is are so pleased volume that they've With this
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Jet, "How to Make Your Home plastering and masonry Worth Mine","
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Colourful Table
PEN
the season
An eggnog bowl is the tradi- tical centre of the holiday re- freshment table. The recipe is as traditional as the custom in
at house Christmas should be the gayest gathering of the year. many families. The man of the Whether it's a table set to house doesn't consider the holl- freat the Christmas carol- days have begun until he puis lers or a party planned for together his special mixture of
milk and LER, the and spirits. The neighbours, make refreshments colourful
as the season.
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WHEN HOME APPLIANCES need repairs, the chapter on fixing household Items offers constructive advice on irons, toasters, etc.
IF DINING ROOM CHAIRS took shabby and worn, save money by covering them yourself. Make a pattern with wrapping paper.
Bul
cream, sugor
for the family without an eggnog specialist, here's a
space repea: this symbol indicates that the directions Immediately
following are to be repeate a given number of times in adition to the original. "Work even" means to work without increasing or de- creasing, keeping established pattern.
A
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these symbols in- Minota dicate that the directions immediately following are to
be repeated a given number of times in addition to the original.
All stitches within are to be worked in same stitch or place.
recipe for a really special party LITTLE
punch bowl.
EGGNOG BOWL
6 egg whites
3/4 cup sugar
G egg yolks
1 pint heavy cream,
whipped
1 pint milk
1 pint whiskry
2 tbsps, rum
Beat egg whites until stiff and add 1⁄4 cup of sugar while beut ing.
Beat egg yolks until light
HAND-MADE GIFTS
By ELEANOR ROSS TT'S fun and a great big piece If an und der to trive some little gifts, small things, perhaps, but coming truly from the heart, and therefore
very much in the Christmas spirit. Little stocking stuffers, perhaps,
and fluffy, adding remaining but none the less welcome are
cup sugar while beating. Then
В set of spley sachets.
To make, mix together ounce of ground cloves,
an cin-
foid beaten egg whites and yolks together. Add whipped cream and mix. Add milk, namon, powdered nutmeg and
kit-
seeds. Sounds In pich cheny, but it adds up to a very
and
olle
in-
will
whisky and rum. Stir thorough caraway ly, chill and serve cups with grated nutmeg pleasant odor, sprinkled over top. Recipe will cidentally, that the moths full 15 punch cups,
stay away from. Sew the mixture Old-fashioned beaten biscuits into pretty little satin or taffeta served with ham are ideal ad-bags and there you are! Simple ditions to the buffet table,
BEATEN BISCUITS
1⁄2 cup lard
4 cups flour
1 teasp. salt
1⁄4 cup sweet milk and
1 egg white, beaten
water mixed (ice cold)
little slippers, when treated to some mull-coloured sequins and a bit of gold or silver thread, come out anything but simple, and make a nice gift.
If you are at all handy with a crochet needle, there is your cue
for some very smart Conceits. How about a stole in a beautiful colour? Do it in a simple knot Rub lard, flour and salt to-stitch in one straight piece and Remember that you are. is a terrific scason for stoles
gether before adding milk and there water. Then add egg white,
this
or
well beaten. Place dough оп and girls like them in every wooden bread board or marble fabric and colour. A stole
with heavy | evening cape done in Irish wooden mallet for 30 minutes crochet would be fashionable
and dough blisters
and
useful, 100.
slab
and
beat
quite smooth. (An alternate to
until
the
custom
dough
then
of beating the ribs to make is a velvet
is to knead the dough,
put it through the meat
muff. You can get the
to wark
at department and
grinder two to three times, using find it easy to
stores and you'll
cover. Velvet 1 at each end
the very coarse knife.) Roll out trimmed and tied
to 1⁄2-inch thickness. Cut with with silk cords, would please a biscuit cutter into small biscuits teen-ager, we are sure, as would and
stick lightly with fork. a matching store-bought velvet Pake in moderate oven (350 belt to which you have degrees) about 25 minutes. sequins or pearl beads,
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