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WATER
IS GOOD FOR
PLANTS:
USE BATH SURPLUS
IN THE
GARDEN.
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1954.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
Caring For New Blouses
LOUSE fabrics aren't seem this
B what they
senson.
YOU
N
of an
Compact
I knights were old, when they tapecially charm
was a castle a nice, big {drafty one. Give us a com- pact. comfortable modern house any day of the week! The two homes featured today aren't palatial, that's for
sure. But they have more conveniences than any of the castles where King Arthur hung his crown.
Plan H-301-KF
10,415 cubic feet.
and
comprises
The living room of the other house, H-206-KF, may prove who more pleasing to families to in for a lot of entertaining, it's nu L-stumped room with one
her reserved for dining.
Ka
undoubtedly
Area
If they
look like Swiss
A top-to-bottom picture batiste, they're probably a
window highlights the ilving blend of a synthetic fibre
dining section A graceful trellis, a plant- aren, while the And if and pima cotton.
ing box lied with greenery arranged so the table would 10
be best placed in he pique, they appear they're very likely embossed and a pretty picture window front of another large window
The khchen
la casily cotton.
If you think that's make Design II-301-KF, at
reached from the dining area
who n an embroidered fabric in the top of the page, some-
di sired, family body's idea of home, swer blouse
right in mvais passed.
can be served Home.
the kitchen, since it has space look again it's apt to be a prtul designed to look like embroidery. Che synthetic fibre looks like woul crepe, and rayon looks for all the world like hnen. I' amusing to guess and ver tainly
this fashionmble deception does assure wet)- derful variety.
Essential Qualities
A
for
it's the
The floor plan is simple, with large ruomi areas, a perfect design stung couple starting out or for the ulder folks who are cooking ahead to retirement years.
Both bedrooms are well Hghted by corner windows that command delightful garden views, As for closet -paste, vaut a room has a wall. length wardrobe,
located bt:- The bath is
It the bedrooms, taera
Hat it will al- tips be the aims a battant de igrees and manu- facturers host in mind that a bluse, to be vaj ved, must be 1 wash, drape gracefully. and regone farve, if any, iraung, Even before the blouse-makers get around to plug, they think opens on a hall that has ac-
For in trims of wastadaily, Texas to both living room and we've become a blouse-und-sk 1.
skirt kitchen, and what a wonder- suit designer fully sunny work. generation
aren the thusks
Hi Te that will be wo and cule special show of the biose.
Very sheer blouses have their place, but the trend is towards the spaque, to the sumple reu- son that a blouse that's not too revealing has tree opportunities Trg places.
Sf the blouse latter is!
with a suit necklines 14
A good rute or washing any blouse wakin soapuuds, and if 11 requires mand-pressing, this should be done while i's damp Let the gynlletus drip dry on towel-packled bangers. Smooth ruffles, cartrige pleats carefully, Embossed cuttons Tweed IKJ
nishing than
mute
บ
drip- drying. And this season those who Toney tucked blouses can Indulge their perference to the hilt. Many garments have tiny baby turks the expensive KOOR- ing kind-knitted sight in You Just can't wash them out!
Pure slik blouses will. course, always remain favourites i with many women. Some carry Lag recommending dry clean. the ing, but the washable sines, silk crepes
and such, are easy enough to launder warm suds, wurm rinse water, and straight to the ironing board while still damp.
Windows over the sink flood the kitchen with light, make it
place
the for all a pleasunt countless cooking chores that hhutneshaker's day. To the right of cabinets and appliances, room for breakfast there's table. To the left, a door leads to the basement stairs and to an exit to the yard.
The
front entry Lakes you
the living right way which, for such a small house, is surprisingly large. A picture
POTTI
window and a fireplace make it
AN
for a dinette act.
A hallway, running the width accesible of the
house andİ
from either kitchen or living- dining room leads to the bath uz both bedrooms.
The house comprises cubic feet,
18,000
Joan O'Sullivan
Comfort
A STUDY IN CONTRASTS, the exterior of this home, H-301-KF, features a glass wall at left of the entrance. To the right, a dado of brick veneer
topped with white frame and a row of windows.
L
BEDROOM 12-0" x 11"-4"
BATH UN
BEDROOM 10-8"x11"-4"
HALL
LIVING ROOM #9'-4′′ x ¡l'-3"
19
KITCHEN
15-3′′ x 10'-6"
PLANTING BOX
EL
PORCH
kitchen HOMEMAKERS WILL appreciate the H-301-KF. Light and airy, it has many cabinets, as
well as space for a breakfast table,
of
IN ADDITION to clothing closets, the house pictured at top of the page provides spechi! closets for linen, brooms and outdoor wraps.
For Sedentary Workers-
EASY-GOING VACATION
By W. W. BAUER, M.D.
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bank teller to his more leisurely start, breaking a kong trip with a short may in next door neighbour, the a pleasant place, brings one to physical education teacher, the chosen scene more refreshed. "on my vacation I'm having There is, moreover, merit in A real workout. Golf, gradual psychological iransition tennis, mountain climbing, trom work to play. In some in- stances, where there has been maybe. Swimming oh, great fatigue at work, a day or you know, the works. What two of rest at home before start- are you going to do?" ing out may contribute more to
"Well," replied the phy- sical educator, "I think I'm just going to be lazy, for a ̧ change. Oh, I may play some tennis and do some hiking, but not too much." He yawned. "No, not too much."
What's wrong here? And what's right?
the success of the vacation than is lost through delay in getting
the chosen playground.
Take It Easy
Unless you are used to them, strenuous games like tennis or prolonged golfing should be in troduced into the vacation
Brud ally, working up from a
single or nine holes of golf to
and strèstuous; more prolonged exercine. An athlete in
in prime
Fet
A TRELLIS at the entry of H-296-KF should tempt gardeners. It's just the place for ivy or maybe rambler roses. A planting box under the top-to-bottom picture window has landscaping possibilities.
A Surprise
From Seville
mountain in the
WA
a surprise for
The teller, sitting in his cage long hours dally-many more condition may be able to knock than what is commonly regarded off a tennis match before break-
tast, climb a
as bankers' hours--is going to ens pack into his two or three weeks' morning, do 18 holes of golf in ANT vacation enough activity to tire the afternoon, and dance most of
out a physical educator in good the evening (and that's not much Spain for it
Quite
likely he
dinner? Let's go to:
a sizzling,
his vacation at an early hour, heard boasting about). But the called PORK a la SEVIL- have spicy surprise from Seville after being up late the night office worker, especially beyond LANA..
athletic trim,
* of an exaggeration compared will start out the first day of with some vacations I
before to complete his prepare the age of 30, is simply asking tions. He has to get up early,
he tells his irritated spouse and for trouble if he tries it. May-
bo disaster.
rebellious children, because they
have a long way to drive to
This is roost loin of pork with emnali new potatoes sprinkled
or cucumbers.
There is a growing feeling with oil and chopped parsley to their destination. So every- that the best vacationing plans and placed on a bed of small body
starts out Hired and especially for the worker in cooked marrows irrkated, snapping at each middle life and beyond, is not A tomato sauce is served, and other and at other drivers. A one big vacations splurge an- for this you'll need:--
nut
Aibo start for a joyous vacation, mually of relation, such as our, one chopped clove garlic, a muumber of short 1oz. butter or margarine, loz.
to my nothing of being a setup for an accident.
kong
of
Don't Start Tired
weekords. In the case
plovesnal workers, self pist tomato puree, bayleaf,
a midweek afternoon mail picco parsity, to breake the sequence and Melt butter and fry chopped Persons with sedentary occu- case the tension of continums garlic in it. Stir in the flour occupations carefully, (To make the puree pations do themselves no good, T
Realisation of some of
these rub 1lb. fresh tomatoes stowed
and may suffer sirious harm., 19 goals may require some fairle in a 1tle water or a arpill tind
too
#trentICKL vacation, At the they return tired
and
# physical very least, FOOD,
drostic revisions and industrial
in commercial of tomatoes through a
to tho practices, and Add the puree gradually to
having lost the benefits wh a “frill" something Boil for 10a misstiles and strain
they should have derived from
a sensible vacation. In the
But
add chopped green
fried
BATH
BEDROOM 10′7′′x10-3"
STOOP
KITCHEN
CL
GL
HALL
DINING RM
BEDROOM 13'-7′′ x30°•][".
LIVING ROOM
11"-9"x16-3′′ ENTRY
PLANTING BAN
PORCH
FOR A SMALL HOME, this house has such deluxe··· features as a large bath equipped with a vanitory counter and a linen storage unit,
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
of all, revisions in our Boue and butter. Bring to the The idea that a boil. Add bayicat and paraley.
This Finally higher age brackets, too much nice to have but reaved Sox activity, may bring about part the lucky few, cllow hard. pimentos previously attacks or strokes. Aging joints did it must if moon is to log foll
physical barkh and muscles have lost their emotional balance
and
excking
When you give the kitchen bottom Moorists weet: Banane Fritters for a new Unotbum cover, you moving the elasticity and recuperally poweringly competitive and fast-Pool baratas, alles in half
can move the refrigerator and furniture..
chemode. CROBO-OT your place without warring the floor
with add
to a greater or 300g exderit:
*Finlab. with
thin
*- A sensible vacation need not The physical educator had the sand soul in liqueur ole heavy objects back into
start with a long drive the very riatt idea. He www planning a favourite), Dip benance If you use an old blanket an a, Grst day, One of the Larane", slow-pacid maer-going Vacaton; thick batter" favoured ateurship companies has a Milan Complie the diet that physodity Equeur, and fry in hot fad unti
to the difees that those at the he could barre endured the moga Polden. fun...of 'n vacatábai, doostată" "Ani picture
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