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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1953.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
Picture Places
By JOAN O'SULLIVAN
ENTION art, and men-
MEN
tally the averagė per- son takes five giant stops backwards, "I don't under- stand it," he mutters blank- ly, maybe adding defen- sively, "that long-haired stuff's not for me."
Well. Basil Petrov disagices with 'em. And if anyone' kilows long-hade' art, he's the man wh |does. As manager of the contem- porary department of an inter- nationally famous Gallery OB New York's 57th Street, he daily handles all the modern paintings that mystify the masses. Despite his
Mr status as a sprealist, Petrov maintains that art's Everyone. He's full of suggestions for bringing art into the hone as a decorative feature.
"You don't have to be an ex- pert to enjoy art,” he points out excitedly—it's a favourite negu- ment, and one he warms to. "A!! you have to do is like a painting and, of course, you'll enjoy i
upholstery rug and
As far as art criticism in that's Me Petrov maintains that people should be their own erities. "What you think of panting -that's the important thing," he "After all, it's going to
HUYS.
hing In your house. You'll the one looking at 1, your judgment be your kulde,
drapery
sugges-
out in the
You can
colours in the room.
Another (legorative
carried Petre Ledeno. is the use of many-shaped frames. combine frames of all sizes and shapes for an arrangement, M Petrov says, but of course the Ahal result must have balance.
Don't Overlunk the kitchen
And when I comes to main- and the bath when it comes to ings for the home. Mr Petrov paintings.
Both these rooms
says a house is full of picture apt to get the short side of the decorating budget, and why plures. His ow?
OWN! apartment
alive with canvases. He and his should they? A bright painting attractive wife, Betty, have hug will work wonders.
them in kitchen, living room, bedrooms and bath. And there na doubt but that they're decorative.
Mr Petrov, who enjoys after- ing advice in decorating, say that many a good colour scheme has been keyed to a palating, In his living room, for example,
* *
Neecheas to say, Mr Petrov riginal tuintinggs--
faveurs
that's Dis business-and he offers a good argument in their favour.
"One original painting-po
the
portrait of his wife by matter how reasonable it is, no Thoping Stephens. an English matter how little-known forlist who has al painted the artist will always be ex-
Duke of Windsor, President
clusively yours," he points out. Elscnbower and General Mac-use you like it, it has in- Arthur, sets the scheme, greens, gulds and even the
The s
j
value and it will bo, a -a-kind thing, a conver- of the lips are picked up for nathan pirce to be proud of”
BETTY, WIFE OF PETROV, ARRANGES a vase of tiger lilies on the kitchen serving cart. Their brilliant colours complement a gay French poster-painting.
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FRAMES OF MANY SIZES and shapes combine to make an unusual_wall_arrangement in Basil Petrov's combination study and bedroom.
A SINGLE PICTURE decorates the sofa wall. The Petrovs produced a decorative effect by using tall lamps and masks on either side of 11.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
ART CAN BE DECORA- TIVE, and this setting Petrov, of a proves it, famous New York gallery, has used paintings to give colour and interest to a bare wall. The centre painting, a pertrait by Thomus
Stephens, who
has painted the Duke of Windsor and President Elsenhower, seta. the green. gold and red scheme for the charming
traditional room.
Housewives' Quiz
The following were some of the questions sent to Mг» 1. D. Allen, food expert, after her ice.ure on food to 800 housŮM wives in America.
Q. Da you recommend that the meata which am bought at the meat market should bo stored in the deep freezer
A. In large quantities only, and
if the meat in low priced. However, it is a shopping time- saver to buy meats for a week or two at a time and deep-freeze for that period.
Q. What quantity of meat does an adult need per day?---
A At least one generous sorving, or its equivalent in asti, eggs, or whole milk cheese.
Q. What is the valus of ples- Enro cookers outside of tho time-saving element?
A. Pressure cooking retains full nutrients, including vitamins and minerals,
Q. Is cabbage hard to digest? A. Not if it is shredded very fine, eaten raw or cooked only seven minutes.
The following dinner was voted the favourite at tho tecture:
Tomato Julto
Dinnor
Chicken Fricassee on HonBiscuit
Mashed Potatoes
Cheese Towed Balad Bow
Chocolate Sundies or
Pumpkin Pi
Coffee Tea Milk
Chicken Fricassee on
Cook
a
Ham Biscuit
Waters
Pris
stewing hen in water to cover, seasoned with 3 beeg bouillon cubes, sliced carrot, 1 and
sliced
onlon.
a
celery leaves 2 tsp. salt. When done, half- cool, Remove the skin; cut the meat from the bones. Strain the broth and with it make 3 c. thick gravy. Add the chicken, meat; serve on split plain or ham bait- ing powder biscuits.
Ham Biscuit From The Chof Add to the mixture for baking powder biscuit after the short- ening is chopped in, e, înc- minced cooked ham.
DO ALL GOOD MOTHERS GET TIRED OF TRYING?
By Dorothy Berry
ARE YOU tired of trying
But fashions in upbringing Not
change with the years. to be a good mother?
long ago we were repressive,
I think I am, sometimes. Bables were fed by rofe, and
I long to walk out, leaving left to cry in the wholesome beds unmade, rooms un- fresh air.
Older children called parents dusted, the morning's dirty their line round the bath, pans carved the furniture with pen-
by
Christian names, boiling over, the pudding knives, and swore Jike
-nestled
In the oven turning black, embittered navyles.
Now our babies are the butcher hammering un-
and the back dour demand, and-- heeded at
fed at their own nursed, and all the shopping un- zealously at the first wall.
--- picked..-up
done.
I have
been buffeted back
No longing, though, for South and forth in this ever-changing Seas,
or even Switzerland. I "expert" opinion.
want to take slow, dirty, clanking
Lain 10 some town unknown and there creep into the gloom of a station hotel.
Mr. Berry has suddenly become a star radio
speaker
of warmth arid humour. She is married to a bank clerk; has
two children.
D
Funny side
ESPITE all this my children not make scenes In
ladies in
public or knock down old They bus queues. entertain themselves and are obedient if given a little time.
con
They are kind and affection- ate, do not show-off, and spo the funny side of life un- failingly.
On the other hand. they
1 see the dim vestibule, all expect to be fed, clothed, and Giles and brown paint, and the cared for, while they grumble lounge with big brass pols with incessantly. aried up plants,
They quarrel. They expret
In my imagination 1 crawl to me to be on hand to listen to the end of this quiet lounge, them when they feel expansive There I sit in a silence so deep and to fade away unobtrusively that it lays a healing hand on when, they do not. hy humming nerves.
Dialogue
Over food they are -fussler than pampered old men, for they have never been made to been None will ask me whether eat anything it has
they should pat on Welling-carried away without fuss, in tans or shees (and then argue obedience to alt the doctors, over my verdlet),
nurses, and welfare clinics. No one will come to tell me how annoying someone else has
They laughed
been and how saintly has been I CALLED the children to me
their
behaviour by con- own
No one will
and gave them a crisp little Gathered pockets in a Bttle To remove lipstick stains trast.
talk about standing on their girl's dress will puff up nicely from your good liners napkins, know I don't like steak pie," or a person in my own right, with say "Oh, you own feet; and about my being after laundering, you stuf rub with lard, then wash in " im't fair," or "But all the moods and dislikes of my own.
thom with clean tissue paper while ironing.
hot soapsuds. (Do not use 80 first, as it may set the stain.)
If stain sili visible, bleach
(use a three percent solution)
•
other mothers let their children do it,"
Did they to off silent and Before I had children 1. knew burst into delighted laughter thoughtful? Gracious, no. They how they should be and reeled off merrily.
Just
A
In selecting lampshades, re- with one part hydrogen peroxidin member that those lined with
brought up; and it seemed to to 20 parts water. Rinse well.
I think that all they need of white or off-white give two of
me so obvious where all three times as much light af a
y me la that I should be con- friends were going wrong sistently adult in my treatment shede which is lined with * If you
cannot remove a indulging their children one dark colour.
them, Should a dari tight ring from your finger, try moment and squashing than consistently childish.
cf
and allow them to be shade be more harmonious with
It doesn't seem lot to have your decor, see that it is lined with white if it is to be used over a reading light,
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holding your hand in ice cold the next soap suds for a moment, ami The upbringing of my children learned, in usually the ring will slip off was to be as perfect as thought motherhood. rosily,
AND FREL AND CORN 4 OR & COOKING
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MINUTES
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THE CLOTHS,
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LIGHTLY WITH I KOE FLOUR ag
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