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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1955, 7
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
*A STAR WITH IDEAS ★
Yolande Donlan, star of British and American pletures and in privato 11f0 the wife of producer Val Guest, displays what the modern housewife is wearing this year. The striped trousers are surmounted by a stitched linen jacket. And this is jst the nort of outfit for deal- ing with grilled stenks on a charcoal fire. The Donlan recipo is to put the steaks in oil with a drop of wine and a little chopped onion. This prevents them from getting dry on the fire. --Express Photo.
Need
What Determines The
Of Caesarean Section?
By W. W. BAUER, M.D.
64TYON'T be afraid of a
This be perhaps one of the
"Dnesarean section," most spectacular of all opera-
Heclion.
Many such women have lust their lives trying to give birth to their babies, while others have been seriously and permanently jured. Babies, too, have been
uf
saya Dr Charles Posner of tions, resulting as it now usuall New York. It's good advice, does in a living baby. It is when you need a Caesarean e-saving procedure when the lost es a result of anpossible
ar the birth conditions.
tosa v But don't be too baby cannot be born
normal manner. This muy be both mother and baby
was enger for one, either, unless
unt rela- the need is definitely estab. because the bony structures of common
times. recuit
The lished.
the maternal pelvis (hip-bono tively
development of a short cut by girdle) do not provide a passage
surgery was natural solution Caesarean section gets its name of sufficient size to allow the
to this dilemma, and its from something That probably normal baby to pass. Or a ful achievement was never happened. Julius Caesar aver-size baby may be unable to matter of time.
only a It was tried for was supposed to have been born pass through normal canal the first time, as far as anybody
this means, but no such in some
the muscidat Casca
knows, in about 1300, by a non- operatiom was reported in issues which force the baby me
medical man trying to save his medical literature until centuries through the birth canal are wife. He didn't. Most ruch laber In Caesar's day, would inadequate, Heart discase or
were a fallure or a have been a brave, not to say other physical condition in the operations
serious hazard until after the reckless, surgeun, who would mother may make it unwise Nur
development of ways to over- have opened the abdomen, try or to undergo the fatigue of a
come infection, and of proper say nothing of the uterus.
normal labour,
anaesthesia which could keep the mother out of poln and not asphyxiate the baby.
Uy
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Keep In Trim... By Ida Jean Kain
Getting
"Reduced
ANY
dister
Rid Of That
Look”
Today, Caesarean section is pa safe as any other operation. The probable outlook is affected by the condition of the mother and Where the reason of the baby.
M that loss or lament you tend to lose weight Is your spe
The Chair Line For 1955? You'll Have To Face It!
THERE'S NO ROOM FOR SPREADING
MATRONS..
rs
By SUSAN HICKLIN
there a new chair-line glued together and pressed for 1956? I went to out into springy all-in-one look for it in places as far seat-and-back shapes. Metal apart RM Belgravia and is riveted on to bare wood Clapham.
by techniques borrowed from the aircraft industry."
What about the habits of the customers?
Not Earls Court? Not at the Furniture Trade Fair? Well, no. Once in there I find it difficult to see the: "They either lounge, sag chairs for the matching or perch."
Baya Mr
Race'. suites.
"Unfortunately we can't Besides, the three de- make chairs to fit Wke signers wanted to talk clothes. So I think a chair to are not displaying their should be adaptable." work this year.
In fact his models come "Not that I'in snooty more than half way to meet about Earls Court," said the traditional tuste for Ernes! Race, the Royal comfort.
Designer whose factory is
in S.E. London. Нів
out-
at the Festival of Britain.
THE O-LINE
door chairs were a feature His new easy chair shows a return to castors, swells "It's the expense," sigh- out In the middle, and is ed Robin Day. fresh from padded down to the ground
an international award won to keep draughts off chilly
at the Triennale Exhibition legs. You might call it the in Milan, He designs for O-line.
11 manufacturer operating Mr Race also makes a (Mr
There are the sort of design which win awards for Robin Day,
The reclining chair is apholstered with thick latex foun over a webbed hardwood frame,
on both sides of the At- W-line in upholstered wing all-purpose chairs) leaves you and practical weaves in which lantic.
chairs. You can sit up and "I'm already busier than saw or lounge across dla
I can cope with," said 22- gonally. year-old Terence Conran.
He began making furniture What does Mr Day think In a basement and is now about W-lines?
EXPERIMENTING
the
Не
suite.
Day does not bellevo in The fabrics used ITC sober open to the four winds and tilts blacks and dark hues mix with you back at
familiar stripes or specks of brighter dentist's angle.
colours. Both Day and Conrm like to cover the backs and DIFFERENT COLOURS, scats of low chairs and Battees in different coloura, Another But sitting or "reclining" the sagging types like me will thank all in the coffin of the matching
■ favourite with the glossy Too period and nostal- Mr Day for Uioso hunbar- magazines.
gic for words," says he, hugging curves.
While primarily designing for Terence Conran is another No padded reach-me-downs seeker after the invisible.
today's architecture and highly successful in selling to commer- for him. Metal legs in once designed a chair with back ciul enterprises, all three men You'd think that after stead. **What one needs in and seat made from single cord cling touchingly to the bellef thousands of years chair- today's small rooms is to His is a sternly tailored H-line that their chairs will not look
for under-26's only. under
out of place with making would hold few new see over and
one's
family One thing we have to heirlooms. secrets. But today's de- furniture."
face in the modern chair is the And when ho has finished arrival of youth styles definitely Mr Conran has gone out and signers of good medium- experimenting with fbre glass unsuited to the O.S. or spread- bought himself two Georgian priced furniture are still
we shall doubtless be able to ing matron,
pieces and a Victorian rocker. experimenting. Metal frames see through as well!
Against this ii must be said Mr Race enlivens hle sitting being tried inside Mr Day'a line is the L-life, that most of the chairs I Baw room with a case of stuffed fiph.
chairs have Are heavy duty jobs. The upholstery. Rubber replaces Hard or soft, his
But Mr Day's apartments' are aristocratic profiles.
materials and construction work the older types of webbing.
His kitchen chairs stack like have apparently been tested to still Day throughout Thin layers of wood are pagodas.
His "reclining"-chair the Itmit.
are
Restaurant
chat co AUGUSTE LAPLANCHE
• cream
the
(WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED
HELEN BURKE continues her tour of the workrooms of London's master chefs
Just Take Your
Time-And
There Sabotage In Your
Will Be No
A two
T the Savoy there are
cbrf
ABIL
ALDAN
Do not let vegetable or soups or sances siminer on top of the cooker while getting on with the rest of the meal; stand them in a pan of water at almost
bolling point. In other
words, maka your own bain mario and neither вопр Tor висев will evaporate nor stick to the Dan.
Was
Kitchen
M. Alban, an artist
Hike
all
One of the plats du jour was Maitre Chefs-M. L'Etouflee de Filet de Boeuf chefs I have met, says, as the
Bristol. This braised beet
others have said: "We should Auguste Laplanche, of the well within the scope of any know that certain things need Restaurant, and M. Abel good home cook.
a long preparation." A chof, Alban,, of the Grill-room. It simply braised fillet and a housewife in her kitchen, There are large kitchens sleak (which could be sliced top needs timo to prepare dishes,
side). Added to it were onions, "Good food," he adds, "is a
дв D
ing to bring back London some glory centre.
to and capers (all finely chopped) of its lost combined, together with caraway
gastronomic scia,
white
First, the meat.
Some of M.'Alban's ways with
Fonds d'Artichaut
in astuce containing vegetables were exciting. For vinegar, стелл and instance, chopped
were boiled artichoke bottoms a border of Duchesse With this dish, went a pilaff with
+
It is only in of pearl barley instead of rice, potatoes, filled in with puree of the past year, after a long gap, A meal for really hungry folk spinach, coated with Mornay
for the operations is merely the QUICK TIPS ...g where both chefs, exponents of course, first gently cooked in great luxury and we should not disproportion in size between the
of the Old School, are help- butter, and anchovies, gheridins sobotage it." baby and the birth roule, und the mother is perfectly wealthy, The operation should be quite uneventful. Even so, the normal birth
procedure should be An to the rate of reducing: II followed whenever
£29 safety,
Carcele, Puction is not advisable merely makes her face too thin and face, be content to reduce at a
comfortably slow rate. Halt a as a short-cut to avold labour. for this reason reducing pound a werk may be fastThere are physiological changes causes her to look older, enough to 1000. Too slow? before, during and immediately Well, that's 25 pounds off in allowing normal Inbour, which Heaven forbid
should not be upset by needless over 20 wants to look older! single year.
surgery. So let's see what measures should be taken to prevent that "reduced look,"
To begin
... no woman
with, we
Do not make the mistake of carrying reducing too fur. A 12
pound margin for curves puts a bloom an woman, Trying inherit to keep pared down to fine our facial contours the same as necessitates a near starvation we inherit body structure, And diet, The strain shows. while there isn't much fat on
the face with
naturally thin
faca oven o few ounces lost
can be noticeable. If reducing Aum at the weight at which
show in your face, find the you look
reason.
lost
youngest and your moet buoyant selt,
feel
Bear
Advance Study
The Caesarean operation of today la quite different from those in times past. Those were usually performed as a last ort, when mother and baby had both been,
to the subjected Long strain of an
Impossible when much blood had labour,
Here is your check list: Is it in mind that with a big frame, been lost, and infection had reducing or strain that to show part of the weight is in heavy been introduced ing in your face? le it actually bone structure. You are built to examinations. by repented
Often
both fat, or aro miming teeth carry more weight, and you
on the allowing your facial contours will not look or feel your best patients were already on to sag? Have you reduced too loo thin. It is excess
death Now, altuntion is mudiod in Every prvention is taken to besure the best possible condi-
**fat" fast. or too far? And are not weight per so that is a your muscles toned or flabby? burden. “
·
If your face is now too thin tion of the patient (mother) and and your weight is normaal, the baby. Bodern defence al
• Roast chicken, duck and turkey will cut into better and more economical alices. If left to rest for 10 to 15 minutes-in--a WAIZ place before being carved.
For the tenderent grilled veal or lamb kid- neys, leave some of the fat on. If they are out, grill | the greased out side find, then turn them and grill through the fat on the other side. Or do not ent them at all but scare the fat, then 'grill. . All the fab will run off, leaving pleament, crisp cover,
A
for tractusion Household Hints
The techniques of, operation
sauce, sprinkled with a
littlo
cream,
that our chefs have been able to
on a cold night. use only best Scotch beef, best
I lunched with M. Laplanche more grated cheese and browned English or Welsh lamb and the "(Lobster Salad with perfect under the grill. ". best veni available. English mayonnaie Entrecote Minute; veal,
today, is getting better.. Lemon and Orange Water Ice, through the old and
The green spinach,⋅ peeping" though stilt bend the men accompanied by sliced fresh made a most attractive dish.
Laplanche male much of peaches), how good
If you like baked jacket home Our produced foods are. Thirty
Fotatoes, here is the perfect way of cooking them. They are made every night in the Savoy,
years
THE TRUTH".
not for instance, we did small button produce enough mushrooms to guarantee a As we talked, M. Laplanche, just in case someone wants regular supply. Now perfect who mushrooms, can be English the time,
comes from Normandy them.) Put a layer of rock salt.
CASTOR COME-BACK Ernest Race's easy chairs bring back the castor. This model is padded down to the floor to keep draughts of your legs,
THE W-LINE Also made by Mr Race, here is one of his up- holstered wing chairs,
ALL-IN-ONE
A stacking chair designed by Robin Day. A tubular meel leg unit joins the all- in-one back, and seat of preformed laminated beech, which can ba, vencered in beach, walnut or. Nigerian cherry, or have a hard and durable plastic finishin pale tones.
ving Explanation For
C-Shaped Egg
all where the lush grass is respon- in a baking tin. You can use sible for perfect cream and ordinary salt, but rocks coolding butter, said: "The best cooking salt is hest.) Place the potatoes I saw a mushroom sauce being is done with butter and cream, on the salt and bake them: an prepared for 350 guests in the and that's the truth." And that usual That kalt, somehow, gets
the potatoes, evening. There were the butter is why our own cooking can to through almost equal with the flour, and so very good.
them a particularly fine flavour. what looked like pounds and
From the restaurant, kitchen
"SENSATION! pounds of silver thin slices of to that of the grill-room and mushrooms with lemon juice to M. Abel Albas, who is one of Keep them white.
the few remaining chela whb Here is a soup recipe for a They were lowly cooked in, worked under the great Escoffier.
Burlington, Vt. the largest timed copper hisce In my mind's eyes I shall always housewife given to me by M
Never wastoʻvegetable pan I have ever seen and the see him coming towards me as water, especially leak or bean sity of stock which would be added. I stand beside a chat preparing water. Bring it almost to the stumped recently, but not for Vermont poultrymen lator was also slowly simmered a special dish, beckoning me boll. Add the yolk of an, egg long. to make the perfect sauce. : with a bottle in each hand and a little cream and butter
“Come, Madame, 'I'wifi show me you' have a "Germinyum at the Vermont
Donald C., Houderson, poultry A COAT
agricul. experimentatuil explained
Strain is always nging. On a berea what to do. Add against infection, are at hand. prolectivo diet, all the esential three
but gudo the Blood is ready pounds, -nutrients.
provided in weight on all protective foods it requirat. normal amounts, but on a faddy that bolster sugging tiamins, LA diet, fatiguo- and strains will buttermilk ve ekim milk, loan
· If your husband liken, fried show in your face when you most, fish and fowl; eggs, green have been improved, too. In Light' wratches - on furniture are tired, the line of the face and yellow vegetables mults, many kistanoor it.is postibis to usually can be concealed by rubilats of sole or place, try dips
¡ping. Ehem, in {s} „batt are down, and, your fire, will including a citrus fruit, dany, wybek without, eriaring the fat bing them with equal parts of with four, water, appear thinner, whether or not Eat theas keeping young foods fection-prune portionesă cavity, boiled linseed oil, turpentine and liue you lave lost weight, Kornovac, ungido, the į pastrica, And,, take the modern surgioni vaar is not white vinegar.
When a fua complement of teeth wilk toning exercises to silm off silly to be objectionable,
skopped into A piece of houvy flannel you immediately
do mono to, koop you looking inches while you gain
young than a daly
threa falal! So, pounder Stratofi berda - palma. Don't be afraid of a Carmors Land of buying a new bat; two-mile ritmigateway. dally, soodorL WORK PORE, 2003; la but
lovelest auLE
fillete
Alban
Po Away we go to nɛlarge. pol.. kitchen 29-
'is-whated in tho chof'a
Alban,
Tha Hlf in lifted and there, BIO At
had a Pommes many lobster cooking in a magnificent imalangw off veget- Supreme of Chich
madic Wines need stock, prising home cook
good quar, these potato
far, bottle of beaudy, which is wet balls of
Conta
AC-shaped egg bad: Univer-
hero