THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST ·1, 1953.
PRACTICAL
What To Do When Children
Children
Swallow Bones And Pins
By W. W. BAUER, M. D.
Mash decline to eat them
ANY people who like difficult to be sure when all'
because of the fear of bones. Swallowing a flah bone is not always due to careless ness. Many bones are so fine in structure, so like the colour of the fish. and so deeply imbedded, that it is
bones have been removed.
But rapki and careless cat. ing favours trouble. Child- ren are prone to swallow fish bones, and so are those with dental plates which cover the entire palate, mak ing It Insensible to their presence.
Impressive Handbag
Stoolean gove
By ALICE ALDEN
HOMECRAFT
The OUTSIDE of Your HOME Keep Wood
The
́By JOAN O'SULLIVAN
THE outside of your home is important all year round,
THE
but especially go in summer when warm weather draws you out to enjoy the sun or the shade,
That's when you're apt to dis- Swallowed objects, including provement either on the hous cover that there's room for im- fish bones, usually make itself or around the grounds. trouble once they get into the stomach. They may Judge, in the throat or the gullot, where they give discomfort, and may ordinarily, if the swallowing of cause perforating Injuries, a foreign body is looked upon aimly and without parle, it will reappear in due
iven time for the operation of natural proceSIS,
It
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What Not to Do
"The Home Owner's Com- picto Outdoor Handbook" has a 141-page, nection devoted to con- struction. Here you'll find in formation and how-to-to dota on building terraces, driveways, walks, walls, fences, freplaces,
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court, | worden pools. tool houses ind garagee. Smaller projects, such lės outdoor furniture, children's. | play equipment, dog houses and garden necessaries, are covered too.
Flower fanclers
and garden- ers will be interested in part "Growing Things" two of the volume, which covers Various types of gardens are discusse raising flowers, fruits and vegot with detailed instructions on abies. Lowns, trees and ahrube come in for comment, too,
was
formerly common practice to feed bread and potatoes in quantities to who had swallowed something
K out of the ordinary, and
it
makes anybody in the family more resigned to the situation, may be advimble, The ono Importing point is no laxatives, Nothing to stir the intestine to exceptional activity.
X-rays are aften reassuring, and in some instances may be a diagnostic necessity.
Safety Pins
Children, of course, can be expected to put things in their mouths and from time to time they inhale them. But adults should know better." Yot mothery hold safety pins in
their mouths while pinning Up
For those who'd like to raise pigeons, rabbits or poultry. there's section on husbandry,
The final
portion of the volume, Devoted to outdoor gamos, tells how to build and 10 such recreational facilities tonnia, badminton and shuffle-board courte, It Biso covers archery, croquet, volley- ball and, horseshoe pitching, giving the rules of each game.
the baby; baby squirms, mother Household Hints
gusps, and--presto. A few such instances are probably inevit».
A picture needs to have its able, but most are dus simply face washed now and then. A to failure of ordinary common dust-streaked picture should be sense. The mouth is for food-taken apart so that both sides of not gadgets.
the glass can be washed. Use When somebody has swallow-wall-paper cleaner on the mal, 1st or inhaled something, shail for give the picture a new mat, we turn him up pound his Wash metal or wood frames with back
seldom does either
her thick soupsuds, rinse and dry. A good or har.a. Shall we reach now backing may be needed to into the throat and try to get (keep out dust. the object? No.
Calm the patient and get him to a phy- sician.
If there is actual acute choking, as by an object lodged in the larynx where breathing is obstructed, there is only thin
When you
are faced with brushing heavy paint, enamel, or facquer, don't try to cut it down
to clo-the operation with thinner. You will get better imcheotomy. This results if you warm the finish
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HANDBAGS are either little with the overalze pouchy bag known affaks or else they are big im and doce a bang-up job for is no Bist ald job. It demands. Instead. If the can has diready pressive,
over the - shoulder resort-wear. This one is fashion- tlu services of a physician im-been opened, submergo the lower
ed of an exclusive, imported, mediutely. types, Either style is good, when honeycomb mesh fabric that is
much better to avoid it is hacmoplsed with the co- quite interesting, and hat auch desperate situations by tume, and when the bag is of long wide single shoulder strap keeping non-edible objects out fine quality. Josef is excellent and a wide zipper opening.
of the mouth.
ICING SIDECORATION:
BASE
REMEMBER THE PAPER ICING TUBr DAD SHOWED US LAST YEAR ?
VE DISCOVERED YOU CAN CUT
THAT INSTEAD
OF THE PLAIN
END
IT UKE THIS-
IT'S CALLED
A LEAF
TUBE-
MAKES DESIGNS THIS-
How
OR YOU CAN CUT IT LIKE THIS FOR
A STAR TUBE
FOR THIS
SORT OF
DESIGN
YOU'LL WANT TO USE THIN, TOUCH PAPER-- WRITING PAPER, OR BETTER, PARCHMENT PAPER
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IT'S EASY to build play- things for children. Shown nbove`` is ́n ́ ́ teelerfolter that's fun for youngsters.
NOW'S THE TIME to enjoy a terrace. This one was built with old weathered bricks, Attractive flowers and shrubs add to setting.
DINING OUT in the backyard is delightful in warm weather: To make cooking easy, here's a fireplace and table that you can construct,
KEEP IN TRIM
FOR THE ROSE GAR- DENER, a lovely trellis, such as this one, la the place to show off prize
roses.
HIP TROUBLES TAKE
DIFFERENT SHAPES
LIM skirts and slacks call
for callipygian`lines.........
a term which sums up the situation neatly for it means shapeliness. It appears, from the letters at least, that--not-all hips... have. callipygian form.
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On the contrary, hips can square off at the top, bustle out rearward, droop, or just spread." The smooth way to deal
with
these hip irregularities is rolle ing. The trick is to shift the mgle of roli to bring pressure to bear where needed.
The first roll deals firmly with the window-box spread and the fatty pods flanking upper hips.
Posliton: Lying on back with knees bent.
Movement: Roll
from that
By
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Roll Merrily.
Floors Gleaming
By ELEANOR ROSS
TOTHING is handsomer
Nthan a gleaming Wood
floor and, by the same token, nothing pulls down a room more than a shabby: scarred floor.. Even if there is but a border show- ing around a rug, if that is not well cared for, the effect- is just as bad.
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Neglect soon shows up on wood flooring, which means constant caro is needed. Wood is naturally porous, so it thust be well protected at all times. Wax, of
the answer 性 course,
If that cover to wear-off, then soll will penetrate the wood and it will gradually scar to a point when nothing will do but i A finlahing job, which usually hor to be done professionally. So the only way to avoid this and to do right by a wood floor is to keep it constantly protected with
WRX.
Electric Pollshor
rc-
1 Applying wax takés very
litlló trouble...you just rub il on with a cloth or a lonx handled applicator. It's the polishing that is the real hard work. The easiest way to pollah a floor is with an electele polisher.
A thin coat of wax, well polished, gives a hard, dry finish and a high lustre. But before applying wax, all dust should be picked up with a vacuuin cleaner. Then put on an even coat of paste wax or ·šelf- polishing wax.
Even Coat
E
· A good way," to apply ` paste wax is to use a thin film of it en a damp cloth, folded to pud The wax should be appiled thoroughly before
In an even
When
left to dry
and
buning
plugging in an electric. floor polisher, be sure that lim
the switch is in
position. Guide the polisher over tite floor In stendy forward and backward strokes, moving it with the grain of the wood and keepingt i moving continually. ·
No need, either, to add mere wax every time a polisher is used. A dry buffing will re- move scuff marks and work up a beautiful gloss. Dally vacuum cleaner dusting plus an occa- sional buffing with an electric polisher will go a long way to- ward keeping ʼn wax finish in good condition.
Special Cleaners
You'll find that the finish will gradually wear thin and become solled in heavy traffic areas. For prompt action, and to avuld 10- moving all the old wax and starting fresh, get one of those special cleaners for wood floors. Such cleaners contain spécial dry-cleaning solvents that re- mave, soll, and they leivė * light wax
im that bulls up easily.
If you do not have access to
an clecirle polisher, this type of building up a work-saving wax
is a painless way of
Movement: Slowly and heavily rock-a-bye baby. Always keep position, across that squared- roll along one thighline, back the rolling action slow and off portion and on over to touch across hips to other thighline, heavy when sort muscles thigh to floor at side.. back Roll 25 counts, later more. This meet the hard surface of the across the upper hips and on literally Irons out all thighline floor. something has to give, protection for your wood floora
over to touch the thigh on bulges.
floor.
and naturally it won't be the
Slow rolling is more To banish the general spread, floor.
effective. ་་ fun to rall÷rall: from
a
still different
It is always helpful to follow Homework Partisans.
a rolling scasion with brisk
In the music of a slow walls. angle.... Shift the position, changing Position: Bitting on door, action to stimulate the circula
MIAMI.. Fla. -A survey of the angle of roll slightly to leaning back, but with les don - finish with the side students at eight schools showed bring pressure to bear a little extended straight out in front; scissors, a
40 percent of the pupils do not lower down.
of body,
Position: Lying on side, legs mind homework. More than half Postion: Bit on floor, leaning Movement: Now Toll rhy- straight down.
admitted that the extra; asign slightly back, still with knees thmically nerous - hip spread, Movement: Shuttle into ments at home helped their have arms out at pushing with one hand, bracy action, moving the legs in closerocen ability, Seven percent sides, palms un floor to act as ing with the other. The per crisscross action, one forward of the studente said. fafly that brace and propeller.
feet rhythm for this roll is and the other book
..owing. They hated H.”.
bent
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