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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, ··1955.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
Knit While You Relax
Materials: 6 ozs. Sirdar Mujcs- the Wool, 2-ply;pair Knitting Needles, size 13; 1 pair Knitting Needle size 12; 8 all buttons. Measurements: To ill-34 Ineti Bust. Length from shoulder 2011⁄2 inches.
Tension: 9% sts. to 1 inch, measured over st. si.
Abbreviations: K. knit: p. purl; st. slitch; sts. stitches; rep.
fre Increase: repent;
dec. dercase; beg. beginning; wit. wool forward; w.b. wool back; si, slip; st. at. atucking-stitch.
134. st.
THE BACK
Using size 13 needles, cast on 1st row: K. 1, x K. 2, P. 2, rep. :om x to last st., K. i. Rep. this row at work measures 4 Inches from the commence- mont,
Chinge to size 12 needles and
st, st.
Work 6 rows.
Next row: K. 2, K. twice into next rt., K. to last 4 str., K. twice
into next st., K. 3.
Work 3 rows.
Rep. last 4 rows until there are 100 sts. on the needles.
Household Hints
One way to help children to find their clothes themselves is of the items to glue pictures
on the outside of each drawer.
Homemakers who have more
Continue in si, st. until Back measures 12 inches from the commencement, ending on the wrong side of work.
Next row: K. 2, K. twice into next st., K. to last 4 sts., K. twice into next al., K. 3. ·
Work i row.
Rep. there last 2 rows 5 times more
Cast on 15 ate, at beg, of next
2 rows. (208 sts.).
To shape the top:
Work 6 rows,
row
Dec. 1: Bt, at each end of next and every following 4th Until 178. sts, remain.
Dec. 1. st. at each end of every
K. until 168. sts remain. Purl next row.
Now cast oft 3 sts, ni beg. of
next Brown and 10 sts, nt bex. of following 4 rows.
Cast off remaining 101 sts.
THE FRONT
same
Work exactly the Instructions given for Back..
BANDS FOR EDGING TOP
Back band:
Using size 12 needles, cast on 10 pts.
18 row: K. 1, w.f. sl. I purl- wise, w.b; rop, frem x to end of row
Itep, this row.
4
Work until band is 29 inches
in length. Cast off.
Front band:
Work as for back until work measures 61⁄2 inches.
Make buttonholes:
-x Next row: Work 3, east
off 4, work to citd.
Next row: Work to cast off
than one person in the futnilysts, cast on 4, work 3. wearing similar
clothes, ruch
as T-shirts and white sacks, use tngernail polish to them in the laundry Identify One dot in the neck or lor for dots for one person and two another make sorting casier,
Pigskin gloves
ofess you
drops of glycerine
Work 20 rows.
Rep, from x twice more then in the work a 4th buttonhole next 2
rows. /--/ Continue to work band until 10 inches from the 4th button- hole have been completed, end- ing al buttonhole edge.
their k keep
few! add
to the Inst
rinse water during washing.
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Most smoked meat products
should be uzd within a work
Now rep. from /-/10 /-/ ong
Work a further 1⁄2 inches from the last buttonhole,
Cast off.
TO COMPLETE JUMPER
Press Bock and Front gently
to 10 days from purchase. This under a warm iron and a damp. applies to smoked add pieni cloth. Press front band, stretch- bains and tongue. For sliced Basel its best une it withing slightly to a length of 31 a week.
Combine confectioner's sugar
OT
to 3 tablespoons to make a - nutilke frosting for spice
applesauce cake,
Wash
deep-coloured your towels and tated shoel apart
far white clothes
LWO (cm TCGEONS, *The calaurea ma- terials any lose enough colour discolour the other pieces, and may pick up white lint.
it
is cool
and dis-
Clean an electric toaster only when connecics.
·
inches. Pln to curved top of front putting outside button- holes 7 Inches from under-armh edge, Stitch heatly. Press back band also to a length of 31
GETTING ODD JOBS DONE
WILL MAKE LIFE EASIER
ALL dreams of glory
GRANDMOTHER'S PROFITABLE HOBBY
These Costume Earrings Are Easy To Make
By Eleanor Ross
done.
cusier,
The
World's Biggest Tapestry Is Patterned With A Peace Motif
94,000 miles of
Because his subject was too His work in the studio
WOOL
it has been woven vast for canvas and carel, Colts plated, Colts took his previous
Thua
paramount aim is to strive tapestry took shape, plece by drored this meant
com-
Hun-
into a pattern for peace,inted his symbolic giants co rolls of paper to the Manufac
loniz rolls of white paper. These ture Royale d'Art of Gaspard de In the form of a mammoth he fixed to the studio walls, It Wit at Malints. At once a snag task which demanded the arose. Because the work was tapestry incidentally, this was
utmost concentratien and pre- too big for any existing loom, a la the largest ever made - it has been hung in the cries for the design, when the special one had to be made. The rolls were assembled, measured weavers examined Colf's design Palace of Nations, New York, 48% feet by 2011⁄2 FEEL,
roll by roll and spent many where will constantly re
hours matching yarns with the world's biggest colours in the original. 140 mind delegates that UNO's'
of new coloured yarns were formid- picce, like gigantic jigsaw
# puzzle....first a massive trae, able
cat of the dyers artisky
tape- 1fs painting and the now part of the shoulder of n Created in the Belgian muid-coloured glant, and so on. stry together took 40,000 hours tu Anish. The weavers, sitting Royni Art factory at Malines, The motif is dominated by side by side, averaged a weave ot this tapestry - the gift of Mother Earth, who is scen over 2 miles of yarn an hour. the Belgian Government to restealnog two herculean Agures On. the average, UNO has a significant engaging in battle. At her feet completed an area of one square
in hand, foot each day. motif which portrays the site Equality, mirror
protecting the woalt nations;
This faithful copy of Colfs' principles for which UNO those are represented by a fallen intricate design is the first
for peace.
was founded. If unwoven, mas. the yarn employed would
four weavers ?
tapestry of world importance to emerge from de Wit's factory. Malines now rank among the entres which have
have made Con- weaving history.
stretch four times round the 60.000 colours, tolls among these are Arras
earth. The 70 miles of warp thread were set at 25 threads
Two robust warriors symbolise to the inch, which is closer the resolute intention of
Paris UNO and the Gobelins factory in than in any tapestry pre- nations to give armed assistance and
Tournai and Brus- and Belgium's of sels.
To these great centres Taking this to weaker nations in time viously made,
kings intricate weave as a symbol, need. The figures of two women went commissions from
For instance, denote assistance and material and potentates. the hope has been expressed aid." Within
two-sided some 440 years ago Pope Leo the the
sent for Peter of Aalst in Belgium that UNO na- jewelled border reminiscent in Tenth
early
Brussels period
(near Brussels) and commission- tions are being more closely style of the
borders ed him to execute in tapestry the before the flower-scroll woven together.
Acts of the Apostlos fram grew popular in the early 17th
by the painter century are scenes from elties sketches drawn When the Belgian Govern of the major UNO countries. In Raphael. ment fire domecived the idea of the centre of the tapestry the to present the tapestry, they Dove of Peace approaches Ffwvited Belgian artists to present drink from the Fountain designs. It was the design of Goodwill. Poter
the tutor at
Tho UNO Colfs, a
tapestry's Academie de Beaux-Arts The broad effect of Colfs' work sided border recalls the famous
which
that the nnahy is overpowering In Antwerp,
borderless Tournal tapestries chor Colts, who had already various figures are so immense which date back to the 14th cocaived regnition at Romo that the eye can scarcely com- Century. Gaspard de Wit and of and elsewhere, visited New prehend them at a glance. his weavers are justly proud Yerk to study live best means of
"with
is the do-
too, that to-day they work in a sphere, dimensions and lighting, minant colour. But it is merely factory It was founded in
one colour of an enormous range. 1889 by Mr Wit's father of the Palace of Nations,
For Colts, and later the weavers, which is said to be the best in used no les
less than 00,000 colours the world. and tones:
was
of
Permanent reminder
two-
Sapting his work to the atmo- the which is traditionally their tapestry They are proud,
Giant jigsaw puzzle
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peace,
These are blended
tapestry By presenting the with subtlety and without over to UNO, the Belgian Govern emphasis at any point.
ment is recording history in An enormous task awaited him Admirably balanced, the ple woven form. What is more, ce his return: the maiding of a ture has been executed with in- it has created a permanent IC- age pattern for the weavers to finite taste and an ability typical minder that Peace, Prosperity
It is reminiscent and Goodwill for all men copy. This he fulalled in his of Flemish art. Antwerp studio in the tradition of the great work which en UNO's sallent alm. of Ruben and others who hanced Fontainebicau during the achieved fame in this ancient reign of Francis I in the 18th city.
Century.
1s
John Falkland
OCCUPATIONAL CANCER
for
İCA
By W. W. BAUER, M. D.
Every time you've needed to For many homemakers, if we Every
button for the post nve years you've by friends, there are many who four or and peanut butter about inches and stitch to curved top great, accomplishments as, dreem of accomplishing litle thought how much easier this
of back. Stitch Alde seams. Press.
Buttonhole-stitch round writing a first novel that be things things that could and cimple chore would be it your buttonholes, and sew on buttons comes a best seller, or win- should be done, if only we had collection of butions were not
more time.
such a jumble. But you never to correspond.
ning a prize for mainting.
Many of these tasks are not think of it until you need to bution' and then it's things that really have to be sew on a
The Rather 1hey're
hurry-up job. jobs usually a which,
inckled, really
led, problem could be tasily solved once beldom if ever have to be re- by keeping the buttons in the
of 0 done. But they are jobs that compartments
plastic- make everyday living Im- covered fray or in smell enve- measurably
more lopes each clearly marked as to pleasant, Or even more contents. Then there are the luxurious.
heavy jobs that don't get done
need help because you Maybe you once caught a glimpse inside of the dresser them. Miami. Mrs Buth Fisher, dry cashier drawers of a friend and have
ever since envied her 73-YEAR-OLD grand- at the UM soda shop since 1941, garden furniture during mother, who spends her always has been interested in permanently bright and wash-
And for working with braid,
able lining. She put it in her a good den to days at the University of the pass year and a half, she reprinting. it's
self you know and you could undercoat Miami as a cashier, picks up has taught herself enamel
to make do the same, do even a better Apply en
the new before
costume you begin
pin money in the evenings fashionablo
earrings job maybe, if only you would! colour. This
especially Is
If you do get at it instead with an old-fashioned hobby out of the material. switching advisable if you're
given a modern touch,
According to Mr Fisher, who daydreaming, you'll find it fun of furniture behind which you sweeps, due to the constant but rubbing of clothing saturated from a dork to a light shade.
Cl.me to this country from to give the drawers a lining of would like to clean often,
har don't because the pieces are so with greasy soot. England when she was two washable wallpaper to years old, her interest in braid monine with dressing or room decor; or line them goes back to her childhood.
"I have made things out of an opaque plastie Alm. braid since I was very young. About 18 months ago I die- covered it would be easy to miko earrings out of the material. And it allows me to carn extra money with just a few hours work."
of
If you change the colour A
your
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bed heavy, with
Tar and Fumor
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of the which may favour cancer. Onco VANCER related to occu- exposure the sinuses
first de head, the larynx, thyroid gland more widely used in medicine pations was
and breathing tubes, the lungs, than it is today, this chemical and has been amed for cancers of the kidneys finitely recognised in Eng the liver,
The causes may be pounds of chromo and nickel, For instance, wouldn't. It be land in 1875, when Pott es- ureters, the bone marrow and the skin and of the lung. Com
the relationship the skin.
(triction,
and asbestos have also been radiation, physical wonderful if you cornered your tablished
in husband or the neighbourhood between cancer of the skin irritation); chemical (organie or charged with favouring malign-
ancies in the lungs, and nickel the nose as well. In the case of handyman into helping you put of the scrotum in chimney inorganic); or parasitic. casters on those hervy pieces
arsenic, the exposures have bem both occupational and medicinal. Among physical agents, the In addition to soot, 'coal for has been found to generate con- greatest danger of cancer iles in Certain types of cancer re- cer this tar may originate from exposure to X-ray and radio- Were you improvident enough lated to environment or custom, hard or soft coal or lignite, and active substances such as radium to choose a wallpaper that's now recognised and understood, cause skin cancers. That fumes and the products of nuclear These may affect the non-washable? If you love its have existed for centuries before promote cancer of the lung was fisalon.
blood-forming tisstres, a fact recognised in 1930 Gefore skin, pattern, colours and texture the connection between cause
In the present cigarette controversy bones and lungs. Do you, almost every day, anyway and hope it lasts years and effect was established.
dreamed of. Skin think how nice it would be if and years how about making tropical localities, persons with was even
are also favoured by you know there were straps of the dream come true by apply
of the sun; yet excessive exposure to oils from
All
this may sound very thread er tape at the shoulders ing a waterproofing Anish.
other places people seck anthacene, paraffin, petroleum
frightening to the worker in of every dress you own, sewn
industries where these substances in so that you can use them Now and then, the things you suntans, careless of the possible and shale lubricating olls.
Benzol, used as motor fuel and or agents are used. But the very treasure got broken but you later effects. Chewing the betel of snap lingerie straps forever out
throw them of sight and hold them
away. nut, a common habit in eastern
mouth cancers, as a cleaning fluid, affects the fact that so much is known is With closet somewhere Asia, couses You might often have thought There's a
causes bone marrow. Dye substances of knowledge, it becomes possible of how wonderful it would be bursting with them: old kemp while in Egypt a parasitic infes- blood-forming tissues in the an encouraging aspect,
bric-a-brac,
oid talion, schistosomiasis,
aromatic nature have been cons to overcome the hazard. Early if there were snaps inside your shades,
nected up with cancer. in the workers. with the X-ray, un- dresses and blouses for shoulder. cushions, pillows and such, How cancers of the bladder. pada and shields that could be about getting them out and Occupational cancers in indus- urinary tract kidney, ureters aware of its dangers, suitered
over-exposures-X-ray burns casily removed and replaced seeing they can be cleaned, try, agriculture and the profes- and bladder. for washing.
Among the inorganic chemi- which gave warning of danger. This job you mended and put to use, orsions occur in practically any
of the
overdoses part of the body, according to cals, arsenic is recognised as one Even before the delayed effects of X-ray could do, too, if you would, really throwing them out?!
became apparerit in skin cancers which demanded ampulations,
She
Mrs Fisher said that she can average about 12 pairs earrings in two hours.. gells the colourful err pieces for 50 cents ☐ act,
Cost for materials runs between 12 and 15 cents,
FOUR STEPS
"I sell them mainly to friends and Univerally students," the silver-haired Floridian said. "A first I made them merely as a hobby, but students saw them' and wrated to buy:"
Mrs Fisher, the eldest of eight children "reared to use their ingenul's In making things
firm?
nover
fair skins develop concers from cancers the effects
Three Ways to Serve a Fruit Cup Frappe
smiling
themselves," said that anyone RECENTLY, a
messenger boy. set a
could make the earrings.
Sho listed this four-step pro- cedure:
on rick-rack braid (the type
draw
glamorous looking fruit.
By IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Protective Devices
protection had been developed, until now the X-ray is shielded with lead sheets or heavy lead glass,
Industries. highly.
1. Combine equal parts sliced Workers in atomic plants, wear sugared strawberries and drained badges containing a sensitive bit exposure is recorded; they are half-defrosted frozen pineapple. A week later we took it out. Place in a heavy saucepan. Add cooked raspberries. Top with on which the amount of daily 40 non-exposing 1. Combine equal parts allded transferred still in perfect Itep.it, tap. monosodium basket on the table in the The fruit was
luteminte, 2 sliced peeled onion, bananas, orange, sections and work from time to time, and it 1. Count off about 12 points taste-test kitchen. It was a condition.
blueberries with the film shows even an approach cultivated *This now, way to well beule is 1 sliced pecled, carrot, & whole
to over-exposure, they are miniature edition of the the idea of a man maid wife in cloves, 2 sprigs parpley, 1 bar- 1 tbsp. lime juice and thawed promptly hospitalised for treat-
2 thớp. In useri
dresses)
TOP with
moni. togetiter by sewing into a fabulous bon voyage baskets New York City who own a fruit leaf and boiling water sugar. rosotie, . Glue one pearl from sometimes sent to friends store. It is a perfect way to Simmer-boil about 14 hrs., or frozen peaches.
3. Combino equal parts
MARG In other a cheap strand in the centre of starting on an ocean voyage, present fruit, for home sale until the veal is foric-tander.
use, for those living in hotels, Attach the
Remove the vast to a deep cd pineapple and red raspberries pecine preventive methods have rotelte, 3.
This is exceptionally fine or as a gift for the sick. Thils
the broin, with 1 tbsp. lime, juice and been built to guard agulhat rosciio with jewellery glued 16 fruit cbserved the Chot Tw buple: has pioneered an iden plater. Measure
likelihood of occupational cancer. to dry about Ave minutes para baneha and a cluster of rent muccess.
substances, known to increase Finally, of course, it should be Result: one earring. Mira Fisher, woodcast grapes," "straigad in a who Kempe active to play
realised that exposure to a cancer producing substance doss young! said the errrings can be
not, rule; but, the possibility of made in various colours and
caricer due to entirely independ ent causes. The industriel situr üzük.
Lion' any have nothing to BUHALL Imagination t
the
an carring backing. Au Allow it red apples, à temple brenge, A which we hope, will bring them. There, should be 1 c Intala Athap, sugar, Serve topped inhalation (or: skin exposure to
boal-shaped open cardboard cit
Dinner 4
Tomato-Cueimber-Lettuce Bélad on lined with eran page grass. Tom Blanquette
the cellophane covering plow tects the trail and kept it clown,
Marbed
broth,ve Sue and bosk
BOLICHEN KANG thep, butter with half-thawed frozen moon or margarinestle in 241⁄2 tbap, PR
The Chef Explains "Frappa" often as the word
used in menus.