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THE CHINA" (MAIL,-- SATURDAY, - NOVEMBER 24, 1936.-
PRACTICAL
HOMECRAFT
WITH A NEW CONCEPT OF
LITTLE GIRL'S JUMPER
CROSS-STITCH BUNNIES
MATERIALS:
Couls Chain and of following alternate row. Mercer-Crochet No. 20 (20 Work 1 row. Cast off.
Irm.). 6 balls selected colour.
1 skein Clark's Anchor Stranded Cotton In contrasting colour, 1
Milwards Phantom pair each Knitting Needles Nos. 13 and 14. 2 press siuds,
TENSION; 10 stsm1 in. (2.5
CTB.).
MEASUREMENTS;
Chest:: 30 in. (76 cm). Length 10% in. (42 cm.). Sleeve Seams4%. in. 111.3 cm.).
ABBREVIATIONS: X — kalt; D-puri: sta-stitches; at st stocking stitch.
THE BACK
Using No. 14 needles, east on 120 x Work In R1, på ribbing for 3% in (95 em.). Change to
No. 13 neerites.
Next Row: K2, twler mi next st; repent from to end 180 st on needle.
for
#1
Iteturn to sts left on spare needle and retaining 40 sta centre front
neck-band, work on remaining 42 sts, join ing thread at neck edge, work to match fret halt.
NECK BAND
Join right shoulder BCDT, using the back stitch method. With right side of work towards you and No. 14 neccles, pick up 53 als down left front neck, k across 46 sts left at centre front pick up 52 ste up right front neck edge and k nerose 40 mis at back neck.
1st Row: K1, K2 tog, (pl, k!) 20 times, pl, k2 tog, pl and
with coloured mark this st thread, k2 tog, (pl, ki) 23 times, pt, k2 tog, pl and mark this at with
enloured thread, k2 tog. (pi, kl) 20 times, pl, k2 tog. pl and mark
this sh with coloured thread, k2 tog, (pi, k1) 23 times, pl, k2 tog, kl.
2nd Row: K1, p2 tog, (pl, k!} 22 times, p1, p2 tog, ki p2 tog. (pl. kl) 10 times, pl. p2 tog. kl. p2 fog. (pi, k1) 22 times,
1. p2 tog. k1, p2 tog, (pl, ki) 10 times. pl, p2 tog, kl.
Next Row: P. Continue in și al untál back measures 10% ln, (20 cm.), ending on sp row, Cast off 9 sta at beginning of next 2 rows. Decrease at each end of next 4 rows and at be- ginning of every row until 130 sis remain, Conunue in st st until back measures 10 in. (42) em), ending on a row.
Cast off 14 six at beginning of next 6 rows, then leave remain and after each marked t), keep.. ing sta on E spare needle for ing regularity cơ rib and mitre Cast Turners for rows more, neck.
off very loosely ribwise,
THE FRONT
Work as for back until front measures 12 in. (32.3 em.). ending on wrong side of fahrie
Next Row: K42, turn. Leave remaining spare needle.
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on
H
Work In this manner, {cter erensing one at at beginning and and quest before end of row
THE SLEEVES
Using No. 14 needles cast on 100 sts. Work in kl, pl ribbing
of (11.3 cm.),
for 1 in, (2.5 cm.). Change to No. 13 needles, increasing at
and Work on these each end of 5th row
Cast of 6 sis sts for left shoulder until front every following 0th row until beginning of next 2 rows. De- Continue crease at each end of next 8 measures 10% in. (42 cm.), en: 110 sts are on needle. ing at armhole edge. Cast off on
these
sleeve rows, at beginning of every row 14 sis at beginning of next ene, measures approximately 411⁄2 in. until 42 sta remain, and at each
until sts
MIX THAT CHRISTMAS CAKE NOW....
THEN should one begin
By HELEN BURKE
We make the Christmas Cake? My answer to that question is: NOW. While I do not insist that it is essential to make a Christ- mas Pudding well ahead of the day, I do insist that a Christmas Cake should be made four or five weeks in advance.
Because a Christmas Pudding has to be butted a second time, the fruits in it do have a kind of special ripening. A cuko, however, docs not have
this it second
So
19 cooking important to give the fruit plenty of time to perfume and contribute its moisture to the the cake. The further ahead cake is baked the belter it will be,
Christmas Cake is the A easiest of all to make just the one for a bride to tackle. You do not want it to rize more than trife and the less the mixture is beaten the better, the result. A "light" caloo may sink-and so may its fruit.
The mixture I give here is for an 8% 9% or 9-inch tin at least 34 Incites desp.
THE FRUIT:
and,
arc
A Christmas Cako is the estica) of all to make.
and
other liquor, lemon rind vanilla essence-Just enough to break up the eggs and mix the lot. Stir a little at a time into tho creamed mixture, alter- nately with the flours, sifled with the salt and spices. Do not beat,
using
Cast
SECOND CHILDHOOD
W
By W. W. BAUER, M.D.
and helplessness
1
JD are accustomed to the unacceptable faol of his
hearing second child- destitution against it. hood spoken of In a Another, aged 00, with derogatory or pitying way, history of stroke, but with good as if it represented the do- memory and little other evidence of deterioration, heard pigeons terioration of the aged
gooing-he had opent his child- Individual-a regression in hood on a farm-and bands
to childhood patterns. And playing he had put in a good so it may. But Dr P. deal at time drinking in a salcon where there was music. He was Rosenthal, after a study of pleasant and amiable, went to 185 aged persons at religious worship regularly, and Bellevue Hospital In New blandily admitted that he had no regrets for anything to had øver York, presents a new con- done. cept of second childhood.
and
Positive attitude needed
He says that there is also a normal second childhood, a part
The main trouble is not with of normal song, "a phenomenon the aged, but with the commun- which not only exposes the un- ty which has failed to give them resolved conflicts of childhood an environment in which they
their
and make characteristic defences, express their needs but also under
A new and favourable con- their contributions. diidona, razotivates the creative- positive attitude, which looks nes, the capacity for learning, for and makes use of the crea-
pleasure, for
released by tho fulfilment, tive sources which dre the distinguishing aging process, is what is needed marks of normal childhood." in our approach to the second
He compares
for
the adjustment childhood. to old age to componentions at Leonario do Vinci meid? other critical ages in the deve- "Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant lopmental cyclei
infancy, water loses its purity and in cold environ- weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigoura fere with the instinct for of the mind.” self-preservation; thla danger overcome. In adole-
the danger La trom mental influences which inter-
сол
bro
scence and maturity, the conflict usually comes from interference with sexual instinets; this, too, is a modifiable danger.
Compensation capacity
SCRUB TIN OPENER, TOO
REMEMBER the day you
In old age, the problem created by environmental inter- end of following 0 rows. off.
ference with the instincts of TO COMPLETE
self-preservation. But now the person is assulled with a myriad Press with hot Iron over damp alimenta of the
with cloth, avoiding ribbed
Inst washed your tin sections falling capacities, and is unable opener? Somehow Join second shoulder seam using to cope with the problem.
many back stitch method and leaving
good cooks and careful Living organisms—not man 21/2 in. (6.5 cm.) free at neck alone react to external change housekeepers forget to do edge (including neck-band). by
change them that one job. Everything Joln side and siceve seams,
Trees and plants may back stitch for stocking blossom after serious injury: the scrubbed, but all too often
selvergoing
elac in the kitchen gets
sitch and un oversewn scam human organism reacts Ir ↑ for ribbing. Set sleeves armholes and rew, again using, of aging if the person has
into similar manner to the challenge that invaluable aid is for-
gotten at wash-up time. With right stam.
capacity for compervation, side of work towards you work somalle (bodily) 1 row double crochet neatly paychologle. wound shoulder opening. Sew
In his study of 135 patientsguing to dip Into the contents press studs on neck-band,
90 men--Dr of the tin. So unless the gadget Using a 3 strands of Stranded women and
Rocanthal concluded that in- has been scrubbed with hot Colton work 3 bunnies on left dications of senile
cross st. following were not due to
psychotes shoulder In
ковр or detergent suds, it's organic brain going to carry the old food re- diagram for position of crosses conditions alone. Memory Work other 3 bunntes in reverse feets, confusion or deterioration in it opens, Then there's the de-aldue right back into the next
buck
stlich
on right shoulder (see Illustra- tion). Damp and press.
DIAGRAM
FRINGED
Finally add the remaining ingredients and mix them just enough to
evenly get them distributed. The mixture should bo just sift enough to fall easily off the spoon.
SKIRT
MATERIALS: 81 023.
Line the greased lin with two thicknesses of greaseproof paper, Golden Eagle Chunkynit. exter ding about an inch above Length of 1 inch elastic it, Turn the mixture into it and
level off. Leave for an hour, to fit waist.
1 pair long
then place in the cool part of size 000, 1, 3 and 5 knitting the oven-that is, not near the needles. top-and bake for 4 to 4 rathor "self-coztained." hours at 270 to 300 That is why I like to cut at Fahr., or gas mark 1. least a quarter of them in half. THE TESTS I do not worry about currants. but some of them can halved,
THE INGREDIENTS.
also be
MEASUREMENTS: To degrees fit 24-26 inch waist. Length
wita fringe 28 inches,
TENSION: 12 stitches
8 inches.
K. ABBREVIATIONS: Gently draw it from the oven knit; p. puri; st (8) and Reten! If there is a slight stitch(es); kw. knitwise. hissing sound, it is not yet
Test
tho
calce
this
8 oz, teik brown or caster suser: cake wir the third anger.
way:
ready to be taken out. Give It BACK AND FRONT. ALIKE Here is the cake I have already a little longer and test
again. made this year: 8 on, butler: Or press the contro
. With alzo 000 neèdies, cast on atre top of the
It 122 sts. 1 row. P. i row. golden strap; a large etas: 3 to cake a low minutes longer. 1. fablemoon black treacle or a depression remains, vo the song
✔ tablespools cherry, brandy third test for
is
4 kw., kl, pass alip 4 over ki, Air Paitern row: K, 1, slip kl, pl,ki, p.. 1, ki all into next st., * repeat from to
last at klei
domeness cold
arated
shrink when the cake has rind of chokemon: +34 tea little from the sides of the tin, spoon ... vanilla "essenoni | 4; 08/ Leave the cake in its sin umilito If the fruit' appears to be dry self-raising" flour; 6.ox plain it has cooled to "ward then fod Pattern row: P.
perhaps, not as clean as it flour 14 teaspoon malig lá to 3. turn it one on to a wire rack. should be quickly wash it (but teaspoon mixed splee; pinch of I have found that the over 3rd Pattern rew: K.1; * 1.1, rof the stoned raisins), Demis ground einnasson (opelerial); temperature given pro- p.1, 1. p.1, 1 all into next. In a colandes then spread – the widen of grated usimes;' 13'0%. duce, the best all-round results dwhip 4 kwiki, pasi slip 4 fruit on a cloth tor dey." Do this" curranto) 15, mt, julianna" (hepty a warm brown cake with thin >ver:*1* * repent/fra; three to four days bett mix the cake. E
Ready-packaged fruită
betoro
bo clean and not fad day,
The stoned; rafalną.
their sheds Bare'boss ruSÓI
7112V Tour Marras" the whole
1. hava
khe butter, add three in Fine too qulori di place,
mert a thicklen Spiece of brows, pas
to
well ht The tip end or the edge of the cutting wheri is inevitably
may and oken do represent risk of contaminating perfectly
we safely and
Individual responses to environ- good food that mental impacts, in the absence scientifically packed. of any demonstrable brain lesions during life or at post- mortem. These are functionings In response 40 environmental demands, and they must go on
long
the Individual As endeavours to survive.
Various forms of auxiety
**
Anxieties experienced by the aging may take various forms- all calculated to assure attention
The food residue, even tiniest Particles that remain on the opener tip or edge of the cutting wheel, may have collected dan- gerous bacteria,
If you use a wall tin opener, tate à minute or so to dotach it and scrub it in the sink with
to the person, Some wander hot cud. But don't let it so. away: son* keep the family Cutting wheels must retain awake at night with their de- certain amount of oil to keep mands or their needs; some dis-functioning efficiently and you turb neighbours; some resort to don't want to Incessant talking.
One of Rosenthal's patients, a
small room and acted out the
cil
wash away that
destitute man of 84, took over a with cutting wheel should be The hand-type lin opener
role of a busy executive, giving washed the same way-quickly and counterzanding orders, and with hot suds and rinses. refusing to oboy.
types can soak in bot
and growing Other angry at interference. He was suds without Impairing their
denying,
through his fantasy, | efficiency.
and work a further inches, Cast of 'in rib. then change të mirë u noodler TO MAKE UPA "and" work; n further: B. inches, Join wide seams.
Now change to sizo 5 noedies. into wait, with a hors *** Nexi rówi * ki, 2.2 together * çalarze maske Frings.
repost from to to las Disini indoli B) inçta? lengths mrið
50 strand & thron