THERE IS NO
BETTER SHIRTING
THAN POPLIN AND NO
BETTER POPLIN
THAN
"TRICOLINE"
BY
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WHITWORTH & MITCHELL LTD. } of Manchester, England
"TRICOLINE"
THE WONDER
EQUAL TO-SILK POPLIN
FOR SHIRTS AND PYJAMAS
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PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
Knit While You Relax
Cardigan In
*
MATERIALS:
Pattern
12
Cable
(13) 4. ren. frem
to last 10 sts..
6th row: As 2nd.
ozs. Patons Beehive Finer. cable 4 front, cable 4 back, p.2. ink 4-ply. Patonised in Light Turquoise 166. A pair each No. 12 and No. 9 "Queen Bee" needles, 6 but. 100s Cable Needle.
MEASUREMENTS: To 443 R4 (35-36) inch bist length from tep 10 -houlders, 21 (21) ins sleeve wam. 201 (2012)
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G KÊN TENSION:
and 8 1 apimt over reversed Sukalag strtch on No & needle
ABBREVIATIONS: Cable $ lark x 2
vahlu hol leave t Iack of Born k from cabile Cable & front; sho next an cable redle and leave ted work. k.2, then k table uredje
NOTE: the tructions for larger siz given in brackvis thuis () $18.00 Where CART
of figures |- 18.00 th applies to both sizes.
15.00
25.00
8.50
BACK
гур
With No 12 needles, cast 25.00 122 1122) Me and work 4 AT
13. pl mh, increasing to 132 35.00
(132) sts on last row by work- 7.50ing twice into every 12th stitch 7.50
ID Tunes
Change to No. 8 needles and 5.00 alten as follows
1st row: right side facing, p.2. k 8. u 4. k.2, p4, k.2, p.4, rej from to Inst 10 ats., k.8. p.2.
2nd row: k.2. .B. k.4, p2. 15.004, 62, k1, cep from * to fast
1. k 2
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No Hiding Place (Behind Scotland Yard)
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Weights & Measurements
Stamp Albums
3.00
Ten Points About Pearls
1.50
Points on Judging Jade
1.50
Outline Rollef Map of Hong Kong
.30
The Great Spy Scandal (Bookings accepted)
5.00
4th row: As 2nd
ith row: As 1st.
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Balance
is important
KOWLOON
3rd row: 12. cable 4 back. cuble 4 front, p.4, k.2, 1.4, k.2, p. rep. from to lust 10 als.. cable back, cable 4 front, p.2
Gth row: As 2nd
7th row: p.2, * cable 4 front. cable 4 buck, p.4. k.2, p.4. k 2.
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healthy development. That is why 14 Royal Babies to date have been fed on this food of Kings and King of foods. Can you do better for your baby?
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9th row: 0.2, * k.2, p.4, k.2, p.4. k8, p.4. rep. from to last
10 sis.. k.2, p.4, k.2, p.2.
10th row: k.2, 13, k.4, p.2, K4, p8, 84, rep. from to last
0 -4<, p.2, k.4, p.ž, k.2.
Fith row: p.2, K.2. p.4. k.2. £2.4 cable 4 back, cable 4 front, p.4: rep. from to last 10 sto, k.2. p.4. k.2, p.2
12th row: as 10th
13th row: as Oth
14th row; as 10th
15th row: 5.2. k.2, p.4. k.2, 14, ruble 4 front, cable 4 back. p.4, ren from to last 10 sts.. k.2, 4. k.2, p.2
16th row: D 10th.
These 10 rows form pattern
Continue in pattern. shuping shica by increusing 1 st. at each end of next and every following 8th (4th) row, 7 (10) times in
| | 146 (1541 sts.), taking in- creased sis, luto reversed stock- ing stitch. Continue straight in pattern until 4 complete patterns have been dune from start.
With right side focing, shape simholes by casting of 15 sta. at best, of next 2 rows, then continue stenight in pattern until
orthole measures 9 ins. from Cost-off sta With right side facing, shape shoulders by casting of 14 (15) stu, nt beg. of next f rows. Cast off manining 40 (42) sts.
FRONTS
re-
Left: With No. 12 needles.
cast on 56 (66) sis, and work 4 ins, k.1, p., rib, increasing to 60 (60) sts. evenly across on last row by working twice Into every 12th st., 4 times.
Change to No. needles and
patiem as for back, shaping sides by increasing 1 st. at beg. of 17th and every following 6th (4th) row, 7 (11) times, taking Increased sts. into reversed stocking-stitch AS they arc mude. (67 (71) sts.] Pattern back.
Use Brightens Silverware
A
T your last party, weren't
you delighted to see your tablo gleaming with fine linen, your best ching, glassware and silver? And didn't you baye a moment of regret that you so stądom take the trouble to create such a pretty plature?
Of course, the more fine silver is used, the loveller it become. But unless che knows a good deal about silver it doey tako courage to set out the ine flat- ware at every meal and INE thore beautiful silver pitchers and bowls (or just everyday dining. And
yet, if you ask a silver experi what develops 13: treasured palina, that waft deli glow on fine silver, he'll tell you this: Just use it every day! Fine marks and tiny scratches that mark silver in dally only increase is beauty.
Caution
Washing silver In
suds
top-
detergent and rinsing in hot water, is about the unly beauty treatinent it requires, as king as it's being used.
One word of caution, though, Some foods. expecially
can calese silver
to tarnish.
So always wash it renrenplay After
USC
AU intervals, give ju silver polish beauty treatment, Experts suggest using
pieces of an old Turkish w to apply the polish to đu gomi Jub.
First wash the silver in sudsy hot water, Pullsh one leve at a tine while it's still wet, rinse in clear hot water and dry with elena cloth
towel. or lintless After that just enjoy !
--ELEANOR ROSS
For the first time, the cookery school brides go to work on their own ...
AND NOW
NOW OPERATION "SWEETS"
HIS has been test week
Tfor the four pupils in
my School for Brides. For a
By HELEN BURKE
Trim creamed
half-inch
slices
of
the vanilla pod, one of which
will Fast for two to three months.)
Mr Maturin-Baird
Miss Lee dipped the bread in month they have been at 4oz. of butter until it was very bread and cut them in half. Dip the milk, then drained it. Next, tending my classes in basic soft, then added 4oz. castor them in a little milk, sweeten- she beat an egg with a little
cooking. Now they have at sugar and beat that wall. Then, od and flavoured with vanilia, sugar and
from 4 oz. self-raising flour (You сап LLSON good vanilla sunked bread iz it, She triest
Twenty-year-old M188 LEE, who is leaving socn eggs and,
last tried out their new with its good pinch of salt, took
skill...on their own.
a tablespoonful and sprinkled it over the creamed mixture.
Next, she beat in two beaten finally, added the to be married in America, remaining flour and two table- decided to do Beef Stroga- spoons top milk. noff on the gas ring in her
She turned it
into the bed-sitting room.
pudding basin, levelled off the top, tied on greaseproof paper asked my "I
two girl and stood the basin on a shal- friends in,” said Miss Lee, low trivet in a pan with boll- "and at first they wouldn't the basin. We put on a good ing water reaching halfway up
With right side facing, shape try it. They remembered a tight-atting lid and steamed it front edge by decreasing 1 d.
at end of next and every follow-bean omelette I once made for two hours, then turned ing 4th row, and at the same which was terrible. But out. It was as light as I time when side edge matches they finished this up back, with right side facing shape armhole by casting off 11 sts, at beg. of next row.
served
it
trad
hoped, and truly delicious,
and
The idea of the trivet, explained, was to prevent the boiling water moving the basin won- about in the pan and making
the pudding heavy.
I
- I peus and plain boiled rice with it they thought it was Continue in pattern still de-derful." creasing 1 st. at front edge on
every following 4th row until MRS PARSLEY 42 (45) sis. remain, Work made
straight undli armhole measures A ins.
With right side facing, shape shoulder by casting off 14 (15) sta ut beg of next and follow- ing 2 alternate rows, armhole edge.
Right: Work Lo correspond with left front reversing shapings.
TOW
SLEEVES
had The mixture, minus the milk, two 6-inch Steak Diane.
Her divided between
sandwich Uns, and baked for husband normally likes only 20 to 25 minutes near the top simple food and when he of the oven at 275 to 400 de- came into the kitchen and grees Fahr. or Regulo 4 to 5, eaw his wife tuckting the makes a perfect Victoria Sand-
wich, Bauce, he had to be ordered out again very quickly. But once at table he agreed that the preparations were worth while.
T
A
SOUFFLE
Пос
make } really souffle is every woman's ambition. We chose a cheese Fried lamb's liver
was one
for thosc who prefer MRS LITTLEJOHNS'S savourles to sweets. choice. In the past she
'Mrs Parsley
1 04. melted has always hud trouble butter in a smallish pan, added with this dish -
only
one a scant ounce of plain flour and
without thing went wrong this cooked it,
colouring Away from the heat, she stirred
in 1⁄4 pint milk, then cooked the
mixture until smooth.
With No. 12 needles cast on 60 (80) sis. and work 3 ins. k.1, p.1. rib. With right side facing change to No. 10 needles and time. reversed stocking stitch, start- ing with a purl row, and shape "I set the fat alight and sides by increasing 1 st. at each had to call my husband for yolks and then three oz. grated Next, she best in three egg end of 9th and every following help," she told me.
Parmesan and tiny pinch 4th
until there are 120
She tasted of Cayenne pepper. (120) sts.
Mrs Littlejohns poured the mixture and added salt, at Work straight until sleeve measures 2014 Ins. Cast boiling water over the liver required. Finally, she folded in off loosely using a bigger needle.first, then drained it and four stiffly beaten egg whites
fried it for about a minute and cut them through
and through the mixture with a without dusting it
with metal spoolt... flour. Her husband's ver- Frees work very lightly
dict: the best-cooked liver оп wrong side under a damp cloth. he had ever eaten. Join shoulder seams. Sew cast
TO COMPLETE
She turned the mixture into a well-buttered 83⁄41⁄2in, by 24 in; souffle dish, sprend it løvel and; with the lip of a spoon, ran a
off edge of`siceves along arm- Dish of the week for MB8 trail all round the inside edge to Hola edge, loin sides of sleeves | MATURIN-BAIRD Wag Solo encourage the souffle to
£160
to cast-off stitches of armholes, Veronique. Why? "Because it with a little cottage loaf-like then join rest of sleeve seams. was over Bole Veronique in a top Fold Aide seams. With No. 12 restaurant that my husband and needles, chit on 11 sta, and work I became engaged."
a strip in k.1, p.1, rib, rows on
right side having a ki at each
end; to fit un right front, across
back of neck and down Left i fle
THE SWEETS
front when sightly stretched, at THIS work we concentrated
on the sweet course, I do holes in right wing & button-
same time
We gave it 25 minutes in' the overs at 350 degrees. Fahr, Cor. Regulo. 3. (It could have been baled for 18 to 20 minutes: at
375 to 400 degrees Fahr, for
Begulo 4 to 5.) it you like your poume rostly soft, give it less
of border. sided on Canary Pudding, for rather then moore itme, p Flat park position of buttons this is one of the best basia. The soulfia rose beautifully with pins on fert front to answer puddings, since it can be varied and we wil ankyed £ti 1 think Faverof mating: 192 to some 34 just least six ways. And if you that mmola of the "girls will inch from lower edge, th ómat "the milk, it is a good, specialien in mortimen Beg of inci, Alone and remains recipe for Victoria Sandwich,
ing 4 et grual interynis, betwmons,
ane
"best" milfrounders. I
To make a
It could
right aldo facing, rib 4, cht
Frib to má and
Corry, Pudding bus in
pirin
PAIN PERDU
and
across.
dipped the silk-
essence or make vanilla sugar, the pieces on both sides in this way; cut a vaníllu pod in clarified butter (which I ex~ hell Tongthwise, and then plained). The "gilded brend" Put it in a screw-cap was then sprinkled with more jor with a pound or more of vanilla-ed Bugar. The whole caster sugar, In a matter of operation takes about 10 two to three days, the sugar minutes. will be well perfumed. It can then be transferred to another jar and more sugar added to
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London Express Service.
LACE EDGING AND INSERTION
FOR CURTAIN
Chain MATERIALS: Coats
1st Row: K 3, (OT, K 2 log) Mercer-Crochet No. 20 (20 twice, K 2, wind thread round Gram) 1 ball selected colour. via twice (this will be called 1 pair Milwards Phantom Knit- double QT), K 2 (13 sts). ting Pins No. 14, 1 Curtain
2nd Row:
How: K 2, MEASUREMENTS: Depth of into double OT, K9 (13 sts).
in. (2.1 CIL) 3rd Row: K 2. (K 2 tog, OT) Depth of Edsing: 1% In. (4 twice, K ↑ (13 sts).
་
Insertion:
em.).
ABBREVIATIONS: K-knit;
and K 1
4th Row: K. (13 sts). 5th Row: K 8, (OT, K 2 tog)
6th Row:
P-puri; tog-together; sta- twice, K 2, double OT, K 2 tog, stitches; OF-over thread (Pasa double OT, K_2 (10 eta). thread from back to front be-
Row: K 2, P 1, K 1 into tween pins, then pass over top double OT, K1, P1 and Ki of right pin--a st made),
into double OT, K. ® (18 sts).
7th Row: K 2, (K 2 tog, OT) twice, K 10
INSERTION
Cast on & sts, 1st Row:
Knit into each al across.
2nd Row: K 3, (OT, K 2 tog) twice, K.2.
3rd Row: K.
4th Row: K 2, (K 2 tog, OT) twice, K 3:
Repeat 1st to 4th row in- lusive
for length required, Faster off,
EDGING
Cast on 11tw;
(16
sta).
Row: (16 sts). 9th Row: K
3, (OT, H 2 tog) twiec,
lec. K 2 (double OT, K 2 tog) twice, double OT, K. 3 (20 štя). 10th Row: K2, (P. Land K 1 into double CT., twice, P
* and K into double (20 ste)","
11th Bow K 2, (K 2 tog, OT) twice, K 24 (20 sta
12th Row: Cast off 9 sin, K remaining sta (11 sta)...
Repont let, to 12th row in- clusive for length required."
't
"border in portion-as | along) - Press. / DEUM
buttons.
you "go" pudding basin,; added, "two" "good. Sew on tablespoons of pivlike raspberry.
then' made the "zzixturÓ,
house,