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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1952.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
BRIGHTENING &
By JOAN O'SULLIVAN
IT'S all right to be a copy
cut when it comes to de- corating. In fact, some- times it's a good plan to look at model rooms design- ed by professionals and pick up some ideas for your own home.
If you really study de corator rooms you'll discover It's the little touches that make them outstanding.
Take bedrooms, for example. Some people think a bed, bu- reau, spread and, drapes are all takes mare that's needed. I
It takes
than that, however. sume little touches, Four model bedrooms
we suw recently uwate this point nicely.
One was a roomful of roses, Feminine without being frilly,
It featured matching bedsprend patterned with and draperies Ailigree circles
with roses. for centres, Made of sturdy, long- lusting Jacquard weave cotion, the spread top in kreen on white was edged with a white snow- ball fringe. A dust ruffle green carried out the scheme.
The little touches includes floral print hung over the bed.. two graceful Provincial lamps, a vase of roses on the dressing table and a wooden valance at the window that was shapetito carry out the curved French Provincial line of the furniture.
BEDROOM
WHAT MAKES THIS BEDROOM ATTRACTIVE? It's a number of things, including the green and white colour scheme set by the bedspread and draperies and the decorative cornice cut in graceful curves,
umu!
light for reflectors and candles provided tray. Little touches like these bookcase to provide added wall decoration,
made it a room where you could reading in bed.
In all these rooms, decorat Cheerful and cozy, another In the modern munner, a Me sleep or relax,
Another bedroom, designed ing expenses were modest, bedroom in early American and Mrs bedroom was done in
the tricit and style featured bay window a severely striking navy and for the young man of the house, What turned
colour schieme, attractively draped with three white
The was trim and tailored with a made the rooms unusual were patterned with enctus-strewn bedspread and colour, co-ordination and those pairs of draperies two pairs on simple spread.
ensemble.
Splattered little touchest the middle window, half a pair-lacky-white squares on a navy drapery
a colourful for each of the end windows. The draperies matched atterned sheer, white curtains. A com- lag.
wash-und, matched draperies that linoleum provided
a window hung with and very practical floor cover- Of particular interes! able cotten spread
red dots with soft
and fortable boudoir chair next to here was the headboard, easily coloured trimmed with snowball fringe. a ccasional table provided a made with knotty pine, Knotty A cory tea table and Grandma's place for some midnight book- pine wall covering and a corner comfortable rocking chair were browsing. Next to the bed, a bookcase set alop a cabinet motit. As a ucar the windows. Two framed table with a pull-out shelf carried out tho
spot to put anal touch, a wall silhouettes were hung above the furnished a
lamp was the side of the bed. On either side, mirrored snack or a cigarette and ash attached to
SOME DO'S AND DON'TS IN
PROTECTIVE COOKERY
how to get the full nutritive value from your food dollar.
New York.
By GAY PAULEY
It's not what you cook but
the way you cook it cook quickly. This reduces the which counts if you are to me the vitamins are exposed
to water, hent and air. get the full nutritive value. Avoid violent boiling; re- from your food dollar.
duce the heat to the lowest tem-
To help the home-maker perature required to maintain bring her cooking methods up steaming.
Dage
Tanges them.
on
oir destroys
salad well ahead and adding the dressing at the last minute, prepare the salads just before serving and add Ähe dressing immediately.
"The dressing helps preserve the vitamins," the home economist said,
Don't use soda in cooking vegetables. Don't to the latest selentiße standards.
let in covered utensis een Westinghouse's home economist, 4. Cook Julia Kiene, has written a 32- with well-fitted lids. Do not vegetables, fresh from market, kitchen stir, for stirring only puts extra stand at room temperature and
them any don't handic handbook
more and how best to use air in food and
than necessary. Don't
soak some vitamins,
or salad greens in The publication, available. Vegetables
water for any length of time. o.. headquarters, also listed water-soluble vitamins-United zonie "dos" and "dont'a" of Press, protective cookery..
•
The bulk of the pamphlet is from the company's Mansfield. That dissolves the minerals and given over to a discussion of protective cooking, meaning the retention Di vitamins and
ninerals in mest preparation.
*Do wasti leafy vegetables Mrs Kiene says that if the such as spinach before cooking diel is properly planned and but don't add water for cook- the
meals
carefully cooked, ing. The moisture which eling most people do not need to to the leaves is suficient. supplement their vitamin in- *Do start frozen foods cucic- lake with plis.
"Unfortunately," she added, *Whe three most destructive clements to vitamins-water, heat and air-are necessary in most cooking processes,
Vitamins Can Be Saved
know the rules, the If you booklet continues, you can re- tain the vitamins. Here are the four basic ones;
ing while still frozen, Vitamin "C" is lost during thawing. *Peeling Not So Good
Potatoes and other roct vegetables have most of the nutrients near the skin, so they should be pared as thin as possible, or even better, cooked In their jackets,
OLD-FASHIONED CHARM in this Coloniat bedroomi. · Bay windows get some special treatment with an unusual drapery arrangement.
room.
NAVY AND WHITE for this modern bedroom-sitting A bedside table with a puil-out shelf and a
boudoir chair add to the comfort.
ONE LOOK WILL TELL YOU that this is a boy's room. The knotty pine... headboard, bookcases and cabinets have masculine' charm. A cactus-strewn spread and drapery set seem just right to go with them.
More New Uses For Plastics
more
MORE colour, beauty, but less time and effort necessary for upkeep that's the happy story of new plastics in the home.
By ELEANOR.ROSS
use are A old
prints in plastic table mats that can bo had to match up with chair sets, curtains, rafting, The new white plastics de- even aprons, signed for practical
New Offeringa far cry from just plain
New all-white kitchen white.
Back in the kitchen for In the short space of six
canniɛlers, for instance, are moment, to take note of new plastle housewares and Cut carrots and other long years,
glven a textured
appearance: plastic shell coverings, new be- Their furnishings have become part vegetables lengthwise.
but coure no hammer or tacks are American which formalises them, *1. Use little or no water, On cells are long and less of the and parcel.
will escape
'n whit from needed to keep this shelf cover-. an electric range one-fourth food
into home, starting from scratch as doesn't detract value
just plain utility pieces and
ing in place. A cont of prezure- and the speed with which one wipes sensitive adhesive on the under- One rule which many cool progressing to new uses
surface, 2. Start your cooking fast and bread is this: Instead of fixing beauty. Plastics have been in them clean with a soapy cloth. side seals it to any
strumental in banishing the New and handsome fa a line of Since it cleans with that famou | laboratory..- look from the black and while mixing bowls, swish of a copy cloth, we think that it would do beautifully for kitchen, doing away with all- decorative and useful.
and ilning drawers
storage white, and bringing bright reds,. Out of the Idlchen-and onto boxes. 腐 greens, yellows and bluce for a cheery note,
cup of water is enough to cook cooling water. vegetables for a family of four.
SMEDLEY'S
per 1-1b. Jar $1.55
per 1-lb. Jar $1.55.
Blackcurrant Jam per 1-16. Jar $1,55 Raspberry Jah Apricot Jam Strawberry Jam Cherry Jam
Gooseberries per A.2.tin $1,80・・ Bramble Jelly
per 1-16. Jar $1.65
per 1-lb. Jer $1.75 per 1-lb. Jar $1,40
DAIRY FARM
THE DAIRY FARH ICE & GOLD STORAGE CO, LTD.
of the
New Off-Shades.
the party table come "glasses," Something new in plastie tall, thin and elegant, for hat boxes that interests us is beverages, parfaits, for shrimp one with a wicker like weave, chests und seafood pervice. And there It is being used, too, In
Life's Symphony
To live content with small
means; elegance
to
luxury,
scck rather
than and refinement
rather than fashion; io be worthy,
respectable,
no
and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think, quietly. talk gently, apt frankdy; to listen to stars and birds, to open babes, and ages, with heart; to bear all cheerful-
tin all bravely,
Gwalt ly, occasions, burry never. In
"ward, to let
ino⋅
Brow up through the com- mos,
·undiden and elour **
on, This is to be my symphony,
(William Henry Channing)
a
Not with noka
Be not too earnest, load,
or violent in your con-- verzalion, Nilence your op- penent with reason, not
-(Sir· Matter: (fale)
And now, along with the are new place mats fashioned of and hampers for a luxury look conventional buco, come new off-shades, such, as spruce blue, ccy woven plastic, to help set in the bathroom, nnd the colour
·with notsa.` range goes.in for such vibrant canyon clay, forest green and a fine table that is eastly cared shades as flame in addion to even chartreuse,
fer. There are plaids and floral the more conventional colours.
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