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PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
TURNING WORK INTO
FUN FOR CHILDREN
By ELEANOR ROSS
TTS a genius of a mother youngsters just wouldn's co-
who can evolve I operate.
A little thinking about the formula for turning work matter, 0 Uttle shrowd into fun for ker youngsters, paychology and things have been And any time one comes arranged. across such a formula, we think the miracle should be passed along.
We
For Charity
Now she puts the teak on any other basis-she remarks that One young mother
she wants to send some toys to heard about recently has the sick children in the hospital, got the business of closet cleaning well under trol.
con-
and do the youngsters suppose they could find some things in their cheets they are too old to play with any more, kid stuff for them, bud Ane for
sick Like most others, she suf- youngsters? fered through years of trying to look-they enjoy the feeling of Of course, they'll make her children clean ouf
helping. their own closets and put to good use the things they had outgrown or discardod. But that sounded too much like work. and dull work at that, so the
Household Hints
A Kudden gas pipe leak can be temporarily stopped by pressing moist soup over the danger spol and letting It harden. Remember, however, that this is only u temporary parich, so cull a repairman at
once
•
•
and
Kallting
crocheting needles are not immune to dirt, even though it doesn't show. Give needles a good washing
You'll In supp and water. able to work faster with them when they're slick and clean.
•
be
Then mother decides that it's time with clothing
to fill the "good will bag"- that lan't being worn any more, Do the young - stors suppose they could further got together some of the gur- ments they've outgrown and that would be serviceable for less privileged children?
So, in response to this wily appeal to their better nature, out come a lot of items that are
cluttering, up the closets and doing nobody any good.
Spotless Discards
The toys and
* CONVENIENT LIVING ⋆
THE IMPRESSIVE EXTERIOR of Design H-244 includes a recessed entrance accented by decorative side windows. Inside the house, shelves 'have been built into these windows. Here, figurines can be displayed with attractive effects inside and out.
A SUNKEN LIVING ROOM is one of the many interesting features of this three-bedroom home, The cabinet near steps holds books.
By Joan O'Sullivan
clothing must, of course, be clean and in good shape before being passed on to other children. So would brother get a pall of soapsuds and scrub sister puts up the toys, while away the clothing to be washed? The next step, naturally, is ta admire the newly created roomi- ONVENIENCE counts At the far end of the Extra sheer nylon stockings ness of the children's closets,
most to the lady of the kitchen there's a little nook nood
head- gentle care, To
there's some wash, and then
adhouse. That's why the with 講 built-in planning place them in a tightly closed shaking over all that dirt
and
today's page
ia desk. Here, letters can be jar half filled with mild
freshly home on wurm dual exposed on soupsuds Shake jar for cleared shelves. Before the day sure to rate nods of ap. written, bills sorted and the homemaker can even settle minute, then empty saids. Iluse is uver, if mother works it right,
Smartly Proval from homemakers. those closets are in the same way.
down in a comfortable chair scrubbed and dusted and put in
Design H-244 is the with a good book while her the condition she had in mind For easter soap and water all the timel
or her cake And it has been a answer to the housekeeper's roast cooks scrubbing of floors und wood-
pleasant business all around, prayers. Just look at that bakes. work, attach a soap dish to the
kitchen! It has everything side of your scrub
Now pall. This
and
well everything's eliminates groping for the soap think in the bottom of the pail,
arranged.
•
the
if sumebody of a formula work on Father!
will just that will
A WORTHWHILE HOBBY
THY not make a lampshade? The one with Regency stripes in the picture (right) would go well in
and it is an easy
a simply decorated room shade to start with.
You will need an oval lampshade frame; yard of striped silk or satin, 36ins. wide; 2% yards of gimp; 1% yards of fringe, in. wide; a card of white bias binding, and a reel of cotton.
amounts and These are only approximate should be checked when you buy your Now here is how to make the shade.
1
6.2 G9 cu. ft.
2
Prices from
$ 950
up
ORIENTAL ENGINEERING COMPANY
408 Bank of China Bldg.
Tel: 24790, 37768.
frame.
Bind all the frume with blas binding, except the metal support for the light.
Stretch the material, on the cross, over half the shade. Pin at the top, the lower edge. and the side struts. Overcast all the edges securely to the frame. Trim the seam allowance at the sides only. Repeat for the other half of the frame.
the frame Pin the gimp down the side of
Sutch invisibly. covering the raw edges.
Turn the seam allowance at the top and lower edge over to the right side and whip stitch, then trim the seams.
5
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6
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DIARIES
Sew the fringe along the lower edge of the frame.
THERE'S FUN·In making a lampshade like this one with the Regency stripes, nud pride in it afterwards. But choose your shade
rest of your · FOOH.
Sow the gimp along the top and lower carefully; remember, it must fit in with the edges,
To Get Rid of
That
Feeling... Try This
Co
of British food,
The kitchen вратев snack bar with the living. dining area. It's ideal for informal entertaining.
There's generous cabinet and shelf space and a good- sized broom closet. Appli- ancos are placed to save steps.
area
The laundry-utility with its two built-in clothes hampers is adjacent to the kitchen, a good arrange- ment.
GARAGE 22-420-4
MASTER BED ROOM 15411-4
PATIO
TERRACE 10-022-0
BED ROOM 14-1*110-7°
ICHEN
HALI
HALL
DEN-
BEDRM, BATH
ENTRY)" 'LIVING
會
DINING
PORCH S
THE WORK AREA of Design H-244 is Bure to please homemakers. A planning desk and a nook are part of the streamlined kitchen,
Ideas
Your
to Enliven Bathroom
By Hazel Evans
London. boats and other nursery TOW do you rate your accessories.
Hbathroom? Do you re-
gard it as a clinical cup-
Promote an old fire-
Sunlight from a huge board to retire to for brief side chair to bathroom top-to-bottom. picture win periods each day, a pre- status by covering it in dow floods the sunken liv. historic monstrosity with a bright terry towelling, with And or a room cushions to match. ing room, recessed by two hissing geyser,
make yourself a set of stops. This room has
you are proud to own, gay
yet some cotton rugs from plaited large raised fireplace hearth and colourful,
where to relax in, and steam lengths of material and a built-in bookshelf.
into rounds, away the day's worries?
or a thick luxurious one from strips Many people suffer from of cotton fabric, tufted
through Canvas
but
There are three bedrooms, with ample closet space in each. The master bedroom too-small bathrooms, has a private shower and even these can be improved. two big closets. Elsewhere, wall washbasin, or one there are two linen closets designed to fit in s and a
cedar closet, plus takes up far less room than several clothes closets:
the pedestal kind.
Another idea is to copy
2
corner
ing.
GOWN
or sack.
COLOUR SCHEME
Accessories that make the bathroom livelier aro green plants in metal holders. An idon that appeals particularly to
A spacious, covered ter- race extends across the rear the Americans and install a children is to install a tank of of the house to form shower instead of a bath- tropical fish on the window-still, or to give the room a coluntul sure to choose # covered walk from the two-but be
look in a more sophisticated car attached garage.
model with an anti-scald way, find an old Victorian glass Design H-244 comprises valve!
jar, and fill it with lemon and orange-shaped tablets of soap,
18,984 cubic feet.
Monday Morning Continental Dish
meat)
1 medium sized onion
1 tomato
1 ox fat
1 teaspoon salt 1 full teaspoon papriką 1 gill water
of
A CONVERTED ONE
Choose bright colour-schemies Or if you haven't a bath to enliven the room -- Stamere room at all, you could make pink, deep aquamarine, or Delft one out of the smallest box blue and while, Put pictures bathroom, coloured room by using caravan sized into the equipment which is special- not covered with glass. A ring prints that have been varmlabod,
ly acaled for the pur- door-knocker on the wall by pose.
the bath makes decorative holder for a towel, If your bathroom is un-
People's attitude to balha comfortably large, as differ tremendously. In digs in often the case in converted a country town, I once
a
naked
As you tipped
de "Bira's houses, you can give rein my landlady if there was a bath London, to book at home the food they French, Spanish and Italian cooking, try Mrs
Hungarian Veal to your imagination and in the house. I was told with CONTINENTALS have have eaten abroad,”....
VERUNNUR tyail as Hungarian. recipe for
ako takone only tun Goulash.
include all kinds of fur great pride that there was. changed their opinion In the past we avoided using pupil, at a time, so that, as she For this you will need:
ture.
IT'S SOME BATHI exotic sploss and funky sauces
8 oz
oz veal (or any kind kind
Make yourself a dressing- not because we didn't care for Put it in her attractive Hun-
table from I have this on the best of them, but simply, he desin, zustan accent, she can teach
But when I baked for a bath, two small my landlady showed it to me overybody, everything” authority from Mrs Elias bessuse we didn't know how to
cheats, spaced with a knee with reluctance. It was in the beth de Biro, a Hungarian prepare them.
hole between, topped by other lodger's bedroom,
་ ༠ who knows - continental
Fach course conalate of
sheet of plate glass with tako a bath you had to bevelled edges. cookery inside out. Bhe ex- a villfor. She has been welled twelve iomeone, in each of which
the water. The glass
upstairs, as there were no be fixed in place with the bucket, into the bath, the
Laps. plained to me last week why in London for six years. Little she give instruction for a com- Chop the onion analy and try can continentals no longer se. Mrs de Biro is full of activity plate four-course meal. At the to a golden brown, the hot fat. chromium- plated corner water cooled Worse than that, cuse us of insularity, lack by the higiene dal closes has Take off the bass and add the pieces, and the whole fit you had to bala it, out after-
ortabllmed in City you'me down mod me what of Imagination and the sheet to work on behalf of have cooked og And if you have papriks, sell and tomato fut in ment placed or front of a wa stuck in a rut approach to writing housewives
noc fallowed her beachings|| you pieces. Put it back on the heat. cooking. We are, she says,
First, came, á book of Hun- may pay in umexpected antalons Ada, the many out dia cuban, wall mirror.
add the water, and learning at last the Con-
the me
you have anished. Sur starian recipes, all of which tinental approach,
of courage you will have Simmer gently in
· could beʻrade'from ingredients' warned how to cook soup, entre, until gutunder, ". Hsford" serving, I objainable in Britain Garage most dishy and pastry) in turalve, you can mim in woman mur millie
but this is not essential.. Server Then, for those who had more different ways SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD, - "Brush poople now holdes time to care for learning about you, and that you tend to walbelled Tylos or brotina
KOWLOON „much fibre, on: the - Cór
Cooking 29 turned basin cook the same inca meraba macaryot
m's4Monday she points out. "And when kitchen into a Bchool of Con- over again, or they return they want to be able tinentál. Cooker to teach morning feeling infects, your
1954
DAY, POCKE
APPOINTMENT
HALF PRICE
HONGKONG
from
well!!
Covered
Die baltos to be beaten. I tried the routine oda might, and berkt misérably into thei
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HELEN SYME auding colluto!
down
goll the furniture