THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1956.
PRACTICAL
HOMECRAFT
TOWEL EDGING
MATERIALS: Coats Chain 2 de, 1 de into next de, (3 ch. Mercer-Crochet No. "20 (20 miss de, 1 de into gext dej grm.). i ball selected colour. 10 times, 3 ch, turn, 1 de into Guest Towel. Milwards Steel loop, (3 ch, 1 de Into next loop) Crochet Hook No, 3. (Slack 8 times, 6 tr into de above 5 tr workers could
use a No. 31⁄2 group, 1 de into next loop, 3 ch, hook and tight workers a No. 1 tr into next tr, 2 ch, mias 2 21.
ch, I tr into next ch, ỗ ch, turn,
MEASUREMENTS: Depth of Edging: 13⁄4 in. (4.5 cm.).
tr
4th Row: Mise first ir, into next tr, 5 ch, miss 2 tr. 1
de into next tr. 5 ch, miss next
ABBREVIATIONS; Ch-chain; loop, 1 tr into next loop, I ch, de-double crochet; tr-treble; turn.
bltr-double treble; 353000
DIRECTIONS
Cotminence with 18 ch.
1st Row: 1 dc into 2nd ch from hook, 1 de into ench of next 4 ch, mlas 2 ch, 5 tr into next ch, miss 2 ch, i de into next ch. 3 ch, misa 2 ch, 1 into next ch, 2 ch, miss 2 ch, 1 tr into next ch, 5 ch, turn
2nd Row: Miss Best tr. 1 kno next tr. ♬ ch, miss 2 tr. 1 de into next ip, B'ch, i dhì tư into inst rie, 10 en, 1 de nt base of dul ir, ich, turn.
3rd Row: 18 de Into loop, I de into dbl tr. 3 ch, turn, miss
6th Bow: 5 de inte loop, ô tự into next de, i de into next loop, 8 ch, 1 tr into next tr, 2 ch, miss 2 ch. 1 tr Into next ch. 5 ch, turn.
ith Row: Mies first e. 1 tr into next tr. 5 th, miss 2 tr, 1 de into next tr, 5 ch. I de into last de, 1 ch, turn.
7th flow: As 5th row.
8th Row: As 2nd row.
Bib Row: 18 de Into loop, I
de into dul tr, 3 ch, turn, miss 2 de, 1 de Into next t (3 ch. mim 1 de, 1 de into next de} & times, 1 ch. 1 de into first loop
(ho
8.4110
of previous mullop cup where I was worked). ch, I de into next loop) 8 times, ch, turn. 1 đe into next loop, (3
5 te into de above $ tr group, 1 de leto next loop, 3 eh, Í „e in a next tr. 2 ch, miss 2 ch. I fr into next ch, 5 ch, turna.
nepart 4ä o Oth TOW length desireck Fasten off
Sew to end of towel,
Damp and press,
for
Make This Crocheted
Half-hat
Dr.
FRIENDS HELP HELEN FISHER WITH
A PERM AT HOME AND SHE FINDS
The "Ordeal" Is Justified
Irs
"
to catch
come Lo something was going when your hair is such wpping hair in my
taxi, fright that friends start pressing a bome perm on you. The campaign began
months ago, when
NOTIC
#1
We began the operation on our in the kitchen, my friend
OWT
and I,
from
She pulls off her gloves and my homeward her coat, seizes an overall and, with.c aby-year-luave, stud en the other side at my head.
Leaking into the mirror, Janey myself being decked for some kind of primitive rate, On either side of my head they're pulling my hair laut, and
well - meaning acquaintance aid my friend. "Very way, 190. Tack j 1127 1'' 1 Pour
One night, fresh from We're going to need an awful lot triumphs on her own head, of curlers, I can see this isn't rolling it even tauter. suggested we should fix up going to be easy." an evening soon when she would come and give me the treatment.
IMPRISONED
Out
ten
for
There's a frenzy of hands des cending across my shoulders for curiers and cotton wool and all the rest-it seems like Why didn't even ut that cleventh hour extricate myself hands at least Home perms have been an from the cocoon et overalls and, They've quite utterly
towels in which she had im- potted, by this time, 2025. Lister's De, uno dext Tr, • # Deg 10 2 De, ma by Te
experience missing from my prisoned me, and go home. - 30
I my head they're working Knidio pesit from ounce, 3 D. repeat from 1. once, 15 De life, which rather left me don't know. Had I known that it's just a lump of something Crochet Hook No. 1. Milimery 0th row: 5 De., * 2 De. into
out of the swim where near- some three-and-a-half hours that they have to tidy up into ly all ny
female friends later I would still be sitting tiny little scrolls. The fact that were concerned,
my sculp bjes at the doesn't count.
MATERIALS:
Mercury
Wire.
Double
next Tr. 3 Tr Into nexi Tr.. 2
椰
ABBREVIATIONS: Ch. chain: De
into next Tr 10 De., re-
De. Double crochet: Tr Treble, peat from to tree $ Dc.
Sa. Sitp tilch.
DIRECTIONS
Commerice
with m
with a S. to form a ring
1st row:
8th row: 7 D. 2 D into Tr. 3 Tr. into next fr., 2 De, into' next Tr. * 14 De, re- peat from * lo* once, 7 De.
7ih row: 9 D.. 2 De. Into 10. DC. into ekrele, ex Tr., 3 Tr.. into next Tr.. 2 into next Tr 16 De re- peat from * to * once 9 De.
join In coloured Thread
carry forward on cacti
denote end of row
FOW
2nd row: 2 De 3 Trato next
11th rave: 1
3 T into next Tr. 30. 3 Tr. inlo next Tr., 18 De.
12th row: 11
Tr inlo next Tr 38 1 3 Te into next Tr. 19 De
13th row: next Tr., 40 1> Tr, 20 De.
a T
14th row: 201
there....
"This is definitely
going
to
I had nothing against take longer than it takes to do them (unless you count my MY hair," says my friend, "so I deep distrust of any kind of think you should star winding . . Into amateurism
In matters of up the curls in the front, into next this kind).
I'll start on the back."
8th row: 11 De • 2 De into next Tr., 3 Tr into next Tr, 2
next Tr., 3 Tv. into next Tr., 2
2 Dr. Inta
Dr. into next Ti • 40 De.. re-
once, 20 De.
De.. 4 Dr. 3 Tr te next De... inte next Tr, 22 Dei, repeat from * to
2 Dc.
3rd row: 3 nxt T., 8 x
[
3
3 N
Dc., 3 De
4th row: 3 (* next Tr. 3 Tr
inlo
peat from * to once 31 De
URCHIN CUT
So, by the time my friend saw me again I had got my self an urchin cut. The only De * 2 De, into | drawbnek about that kind unto next Tr, 2
44 De, roof style for somebody like * once, 22 De. me, whose hair seems
Krow inches
per week, is Working
you must take time off fre- quently to visit the hair- dressur for a tidy-up.
15th row: 22 8th row: 13 De. 2 Dc. Inte Bexi Tr.. 3 T next Tr. 3 Tr. Insto next Tr.. De. Into next POHON 2 De into next Tr. 28 De.. peal from * to
repeat from • to * once 13 De
16th 10th row: 15 De, * 2 De into millinery wire. worl
3 Tr Tr ante next Tr. each st. Fasten t
untu next Tr 2 RAT
rw
vver
I Dr into
Salt And Its Substitutes
SALT
symbol
value.
**
Araus
By W. W. BAUER, M.D.
in
ancient sult, ther fore, is only one With the grovral decline rank um of many Find Fesides the tuberculosis, Addison's disease is becoming more rare. Also, it can called His white crystals we call table now be treated by modern mur- disciples the salt of the sal
gery and by the administration in the of cortisone and regulation earth but He melded, "If the salt has lost its savour body as one factor in main salt intake.
shall re wherewith
luids at salted 7" 1 11 mediaeval proper concentration so the
Salt is neCESSITA
be tenance
of borly
BLOOD PRESSURE
Whether salt is related
for many years.
of
to
Dnd
Normally I'm reasonably e- cient at setting my own hair, But no matter what some of my
that
SANDWICHES
'
on;
FOR SUPPER
roots
But they have to knock off for | 661
a quick cup of tea. I am not going to miss this opportunity to show them. I set to work on the crown of my head, and get one curi fixed-1 have to admit it isn't easy, so few heirs
and a time, 01
I'm not sure
I
W
By Ida Bailey Allen
JHEN one stops to combine the necessary protein, fal na vigetables for think of it, Chef," ** starch,
she cal?" remarked "to balance 11 meal, it is not necessary
Cold-Cu! tu
Sandwiches: Loat Sice a long lont of French provide a considerable num-
broad in half, long.hwise. ber of various kinda of Spicad with butter or mar- foods. Instead, u“ good wine to the edges, assortment can be grouped single quick and easy
friends may think, my head is which way it should le which no bigger than average,
Thon the onslaught begins four hands working on it doesn't leave much room for
comes in a again, and, as the CO.
she once,
asks: dish. "What's this?" The assistant
at
near
ITLY crown,
What with the Chief Operator, tells her: "That's HER effort, 1
and they
год with who was standing at the back of think,"
it to their Loughter and re-do chair, constantly ntry
stretching over my shoulder
to pick up own satisfaction. curlers from the table. In from
me, or take a fresh tab of waving solution from the bow! new piece of a my right, or a curt pamer
of
BENT DOUBLE
AI lest. at Last...
Thus, eller a Father busy spell
cotton wool from my left, or Tuished. Something like nine when there just want cay time eur
or the comb—well, hundred curls are safely anchor- joff, the offer was again made to it's the first time I ever wished ed-it feels like that, enyway. (give me a home perm, this time I could put my elbows in my
fl more pocket, and when you're
More ten is made, I am told to watch the time and let every- preoccupied with trying to make
forty-five and body know when your elbows
disappear because minutes have passed. By
this
by a different friend, determined one, w
An evening wex fixed. I was to buy a particular kind of home there just isn't room for them time I'm used to being treated perm kit for which she already it makes it a bit difficult to curi Uke somebody in her dotage, it your hair up into little coils, had a supply of the special cure which was what I was supposed only for watching the clock, lers it required
cach ot
Land
to be doing in the front)
of
Some thirty minutes later succeeded
I
"On a warm, muggy evening most families would rather have a substantial cold supper out- doors than a regular hot dinner inside."
་
On the bottom half, arrange ;} scitellon of thin-silced assorted cold
ag culs, such
gausage, bologna, liverwurst and bam; a Willesd cheti:; sleed bard- lettuce, to mata cooked ergs, alhes and sweet green pepper rings.
Top with the second half of Jeal. Press together: cut inbo
Decorate
with
esch
"A good thing, Madame," re- servings. marked the Chef "What foods an olive or pickie, speared with for example would you suggest a toothpick." for such a supper?"
Prepare a bowl of pƐpped-up mayonnaise to add to the Bond- Quick & Easy Outdoor Supper wiches, if desired, before cating.
Fruit Nibblers
in Cantaloupe Halves Cold-Cut Loaf Sandwiches
with Potato Chips Ice Cream on Gingerbread Hot Coffee
or Assorted Soil DrinkA
"Very
appetising, Mademu. But of course the cold-cut loaf
At the end of the forty-five minutes I am bent double over the kitchen sink, and my head in getting one col thrust under enreades of water sandwiches should be big, axed on my brow to my sat far too hot for me. faction. The C.O, who had been working away silently, hspect-
FAR TOO THICK
That sounds most appell.ing. Chef," I sald, "But instead of a fruit cup to start requation with, everyone will enjoy fruit heaped in peeled cantaloupo halves such as chunks or slices of plums, bananas, apples and peaches."
Trick Of The Chof
To the mayonnaise to bo * "May I suggest a recipo from played with coldcut loaf sand- a man's landpoint, a qulek and wiches, add a little prepared betsy super-sandwich, which will horseradish for super seasoning.
Then, because it'll soon time for me to go home, they begin corsetting me.
Wouldn't
Uke
another
you
I was to lay out a pile
a roll of cotton towels (old). wool and two bowls, and she would be round at eight.
From what I had heard among my home-permed friends, I had ed it. always got the impression to
that times, persons of rank were tissues will mither be dried High blood pressure has been o
the operation lusted several nor water-logged. source
Not at all, she assured entertained in the eastles of out
of debate In medicalĮ hours.
"Well is that all you've sandwich? Bring out the hand- Theme. Two hours would s the the nubility at tables above Normally, man's intake of circles
} whole thing through.
got done? And
anyway that drier, because we don't want her won't do. It's far too thick. You to catch cold. the salt while the servants salt is in excess of his needs. pendulum swings from a strong
Now you must She arrived at the appointed at take only about that much sleep in those curlers, and you and people with no special The proper concentration of medical belief that it dues to an
Some time, inspected almost as strong doubt, the body significant researches show that called for two overalls-one for up about two strands from my take them out in the morning.
my equipment, hair in one curl," and she lifted must be very careful how rank were seated below the salt in the blond,
fluids and the tissues, is habitual users of excessive salt level of the salt,
several old tender scalp. "Anyway," she etc. etc. assured in part by the tend as a group to have more new papers which we spread on sald, "I can see it's no good us
blood pressure increases than In many areas, salt has selective filtering action of do those
the four, und then she im both working at once-I can't And the end of the ordeal was who use little salt
get moving for your elbows, and that, to my genuine surprise, it replaced gold and ather the kidneys which dispose of Group statistics, however, do not wrapped the kit I had bought.
you won't love your head all was all justified. I kept waken precious metais in barter excean Balt through the necessarily apply to individual
It was the wrong kind! That So just don't move at all and 1'11 ing up through the night, what and trade. Animal life can- urine. Salt is also lost experiences and there are many wouldn't do with the kind
of get on better."
with feeling as if I were pillow- ed hedgehogs and worrying not exist
salt. through perspiration and to persons who have salted liberal- curlers she had. I should have without
ly all their lives and still enjoy got so-and-sp. TROL such-and-
This made my hands itch to whether I would be able to go Predatory animals which eat some extent through in normal blood pressure. The such.
prove to her that I could set liny out for the next three months, no salt as such get their testinal excretions. In hot converse. equally true
little colle. three strende thick, tooling like a Zulu. the blood of weather the loss of salt may
Saved again! supply from
as well as she could. But any other tissues they consume, be excessive and extra in
DETERMIND FRIEND Vegetarian animals make take may be required to paths through the jungle to prevent so-called heat diet. It used in the treatment apologised profusely, Such a of heart, kidney and circulatory ward to th, too, Never mind, 121
Gapity! And I was so looking for the precious salt licks.
disorders. There appears to be All the timucs and body fluids no reason why normal persons get the coffee on and we'll just require a proper percentage of should adopt a low-sodium diet, have a nice cœur chat instead. ordinary salt. The regulation of and since it is one of the least Salt is among the simplest satt utilisation in the body ap palatable and most monotonous of my more determined friends,
But, as I've said, this wow or of chemical compounds, pears to centre in the adrenal of diets, this is a. fortunate cir- In the end she took me to being a union of a metal glands, the structures surround- cummance.
shop where I bought the appro The C.O. husband, voluti (sodium) with B ,848 connected with kidney function. compounds of potassium or cal-vision, and from there we went room, shows her into the Kitchen
Do way
rubelitubes, containing priate Spit
leit under her super tarily imprisoned in the sitting- (chlorine). This "alt" is Failure of there glands was first cfttm rather than sodium, and to her home, thord the only one of many
by opening the door just enough com. described by Joseph Addison of acid radicals other than chlorine operation was performed.
to let her through and just on to pounds belonging á Spectator fame song bofore the are' of considerable help to a I think “penformed?”,
category
his Some
enough to shouts "Koop this door general
which adrenals were understood It is person required to limit
with tool and light because I don't wort now known to be due to tuber intake of sodium. Even though Two hours would see it through, aw awful pam-stufosil
performance It wa chemists call Balts and culosis of the adrenal gland; it none of them genuinely replaces she had said.
You can spot-cloan white hats plenty of sude; thon Wipe with/ To stive ellverware from stains Ccoming through to me/h which consists of a union be called Addison's disease and the accustomed flavour of ora We began about mix. A€ 11-30.
made of real storched Ince, or a clean, damp spongé.
from. Une bedstefeat eggs, ruif the twean i metal and adole chanceterised by weakness dinary table salt, all have done pm her misband was miniative This rewbomer a an old hand the plastic straw-like lace, with
daficonöd¦#pots with a little salt. death and much to improve the diet called acid radical. What a progressing rapidly
ofing to the with their hand drier at Aby zomervam no viend #1 sponge dipped into a Hiff. Don't let from delicts set in Thon wasnim sivonual accompanied by referred to commonly as jah discolouration
curious grey those restricted in sodium in- to ward off what memed hovic, arba bu öden, apprechten Lae Unite dong of detergent runs. Umr of the sinko? 1e, wel metal twili; in boti soap, ok, determent pada,
of the skin. taka,
Thế là nó the bumpsons 12 co hoi
"water" :) se posibles, nadi discolour porosiada de Our
-rints, and- dEN,
NECESSARY FACTOR
cramp.
ing
the kidney but in no
The active ingredient in table compound, salt in its metallle the sodium. The so-called salt- free diet is really a low-sodium
attempt I made brought auch But when all the curlers were sighs of irritation down the back removed, there I was with flam, of my neck trom the C.O. if I sculptored-looking ilttle coils by- moved an inch, that I gave up, ing softly and prettily all over
my head. An hour passes, and I can BOO from the mirror, set up in front And, as far as I could judge, of me that we are nowhere neat despite the vigour of the twin
dropped in for a cup of tes halfway through my mop. Then operators, there was nothing another triend arrives,, justthiasingano hairs pulled out by the roofs after all. It was a hard fight, but was worth it!
AT THE END OF A HOT DAY, servé a cool meal, outdoors. consisting of generous Cold-cut Loaf Sandwichés, chilled soft drinks and fruit.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS