THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1958.
PRACTICAL
That Second Living By Joan O'Sullivan
I'd the thor
allke
can
used to be the rumpus for good reason, It's without worrying about the quarters for a photography
William Miller fan, family headquarters, a "good" furniture.
and One such "second living Devon, Connecticut. Now architects call it the place where adults
js hobby relax room"
head- prize pictures and children "second living room,"
were
HOMECRAFT
Room Is Important
larged to make unique wall decorations,
VALANCE LIGHTING
-
The room, which has an of attructive zebra striped His nofo, festures valance light en- ing. A light control switch enables Mr Miller to make the lighting dim or bright, he depending on whether wants the pictures to be over-at! spotted or desires brightness.
COOKING STILL CALLS FOR SKILL AND MUCH TIME
PSYCHOLOGIST Peter E.
Siegle claims it's too Casy today to be a good cook.
By Jeanne Lesem
A look at other new Those are fighting words, kitchen texts would seem to Siegle's theory, Ask any housewife who confirm spends hours preparing an that all women take pride elaborate meal for her in an elaborate table. family.
afraid to try unfamiliar in- gredients might turn to Irma G. Mazza's "Accent on Seasoning"
Little Brown).
FOREIGN FOODS
cuisine relles heavily on sea- food and poultry, both usually lower priced than meat in the United States. Author Carmen Aboy Vulldejull Is Puerto Rimn. in her but she has included book recipes from all the Carib- bean islands and adapted them. To give girls a head stort in the kitchen, Little, Brown, has Issued new edition of its 15- year-old "The Fannie Fumer Junior Cook Book" by Wilma Perkins, The revised Lord edition has many more recipes than before, and is designed to the young miss of 10 and upward until she's combines flavour ready for the senior version of cennomy." West Indian the cooking classic.
I contains mouth-watering Take The Slenderella Cook- That's the point, said Look" (Puinam) by Myra reclpes. But more important recipes as for the novice are chapters on little Siegle. The
Here are woman Waldo.
non-diet specific seasonings and sauces, works like a dog because fancy
volumes, Including usually plus advice on developing your she feels cheated by short- fattening stews, saures and own recipes.
In the foreign foods category, train the desserts. The author omits fea cut cooking and all
kabour saving devices
the market today.
as
any in
on popular food Ingredients but The Art of Caribbean Cookery"
she does cut dower the quantity (Doubleday) of high-calorie items in favour and
"A wife is defending her
value as a homeinaker when
of tungy herbs and spices and low-calorie vegetables.
she skips easily preparel Her real innovation, however, meals in favour of foreign is in the dessert section, where or unusual dishes that take the combines hours to make," he said.
COOKBOOKS
Siegle reached these con-
clusions in a study for
minimum of suger with non - caloric sweetener to nvold
flat the tuste of disher made with sweetener alone.
There's
П Oven
for
recipe banana crean plew ith less than
balt the usual number ΟΙ calorica!
new cookbook, "Easy-Do The woman who wants 10
Meals With Sausage."
bulk cooking reputation but
years
SAVE THAT WALLPAPER!
-cried painter Eden Box
Patchwork quilted
cur-
tains take their colour cue from the inlaid tile pattern of the linoleum floor cover- ing. The floor, by the way, is easy cleaning, because it's waxed with a new self- Wax, polishing vinyl floor which is scuff-resistant and water-repellent.
REDWOOD PLYWOOD
Another family made their "second living room” distinctive by using red- wood plywood to panel the the dark side, was lightened walls. Easy to install, the by means of a mural wali-
Another such room, or
panele ure 4 by 8 feet.
paper that shows 30 Bright colours complement imaginative countryside the warm wood tones.
scene. The mural not unly
cheers the dark area, but
A free-standing metal
makes it seem larger, too, fireplace in red, for example,
Dy adding vista.
ANTIQUE COLLECTOR
is
Floor focal point. {1 pillows for informal sitting
are in a vivid cotton.
Furniture is comfortable
for children and adults.
A
An antique collector did hus "second living room" circular coffee table serves with auction finds: a tavern adults from a sofa, makes
two table and
benches, a low table that children, Andirons and fireside tools, sented on the floor pillows, the latter used around the can use when it's party
time. big fireplace.
Stole In Double Knitting Wool
REDWOOD PLYWOOD makes panels for the walls.. A round coffee table is set for a children's party. Kids sit on pillows around it.
H
How Healthfully Do
You Live?
By W. W. BAUER, M.D.
Director of Beath Education, American Medical Association Tow would you like to do a little homework? Here is a brief summary of some high points in a desirable programme of healthful living, on a family basis.
Maybe you'd like to rate your home by putting a check mark in the "now" column right now, and then save the clipping and note whether calling these matters to your attention has made any changes in your pattern of living:
ENVIRONMENT
1. The honte should be located in a clean, quiet,
attractive neighbourhood
2. The home should be kept between 68 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit for adults during waking
hours
3. The home temperature should be adjusted to the needs of infants and old people who re- quire higher temperatures .....
Now
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4. The air in the home should be moistened to about 40 per cent humidity by evaporating water
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5. The home should be well-ventilated, especial-
ly at night, but without chilly drafts.
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SAFETY
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6. The home should be lighted sufficiently to avoid acidenta on stairways, in closets and in dark corners
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ON SALE AT LEADING DEPARTMENT STORES AND SHOPS
IN HONGKONG AND KOWLOON.
Sole Agents:
FIELDING, BROWN & FINCH, (FAR EAST), LTD.
On the wall a hand-painted Chinese wallpaper. Sher own CHE is a painter with a strange style that is entirely Her pictures of calm green landscapes peopled with solemn children in Victorian pinafores placidly pienicking with lions are unique,
Sto eigna berselt Eden Box. Either you love her work-as I Jo-or, to quote one stuffy old darling-you "can't make head or tail of it.
MATERIALS:
13 023, Sirdar Double Knitting Wool, White. 028. Sirdar Double Knitting Wool, Blue. 1 pair No. 9 and No. 5 Knitting Needles. MEASUREMENTS:
then over left hand needle, then wool round the right hand needle. draw loop through, dropping off the 2 crossed loops from left hand needle, pulling wool firmly after working the
at. Rep. from to end of row.
3rd row: Using No. 3 needles, 1, then rep. as given for the
2nd row to end.
K.
4th row: Using No. 5 needles,
These rows for the pati.
Cont. to work thus until 13ozs.
used and stole
measures
7. The home should be free from accumulo- tions of rubbish which might cause fire and consequent injury
3. All drugs and medicine should be kept out of
the reach of children
9. There should be no poisons in the home ex- cept those which will be used immediately
10. Children should be trained and drilled in safe
practices in the home and on the street....
CHOOSING A CAREER
By ANNE HEYWOOD
TAVERY time I see a list them, myself, and I know how ten best fields valuable they en be. But they
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been for men, or the ten best are not everybody's dish of tea. The sooner we recognise that, Width-24 inches. Length of the white wool have
ap fields for women, I ahudder. the better, -Approximately 60 inches proximately 60 inches, ending It ought to be perfectly This outburst guess you long. not including the with the 1st patt, row. (K. row) obvious that it all depends could call it that--is prompted fringe.
TENSION:
About 4 atitches to inch.
one
Cast off,
EMBROIDERY
I
by a letter I received from on the man or woman.
mother whose daughter graduat- It's Uke Bating the ten most
ed from high school last June. delicious dishes, or the ten most hestead of going to business becoming colours-delicious to college, the young girl went whom, becoming to whom, and right into a sales job in a de- successful for whom?
partment store. Cut lengths of B. wool 170
BEST FOR A WOMAN "She claims it's what she half inches long double in
wants and she's talking night thread loose ends through darn-
The secretarial field, for courses in the university in and ing needle
oversow each example, is always recommend- retail salcy and adverting." allernate garter stitch band,
"But life in that ed as the best held for a weman, she wrote. taking each stitch between It will enable her to get a tou reld is such a rat race. She
2nd double throw sts, of the
on a rung of the ladder to suc- could and so much digelty and and 3rd rows. Pass the needle cers, or 11 will enable har to ratisfaction in a secretarial Job.
the loop of B. wool meet and marry an eligible man. K. knit, P. purl, st. stitch, through
"Why, I was secretary to the when working the first aliích ai
Well, it may indeed, if secre- president of a large organisa- inc. increase, dec. decrease, beg. of row, and darn in the trial work is along the lines of ton..." beg. beginning, tog to ends of wool at end of row, gether, s. slip, rep, repeut,
Americans can. She is having her second one-man show at ABBREVIATIONS: the Belty Parsons Gallery in New York.
I'd heard from the Editor of one glossy Interior Decorating magazine that her dining-room was "madly exciting." So I invited myself along to see it. I found it pretty beyond words with a hand-painted Chinese wallpaper copied from the Victoria and Albert museum.
Stuck to the walls
"I had it done years ago,” she told me, "and it hung in að old house that we left. Then, quite muddenly I heard they were pulling it down--so I rughed sound and mariaged to save it-the paper, I mean."
"It was mounted on canvas before-but this time It's stuck to the walls-ao now we can never move auxia.”
cont, continue, putt, pattern, FRINGE
W. white, B. blue.
her aptitudes and interests,
There, of course, is the rub. But if she loves to sell, cris Mommy did it, so daughter bom nurse, or is dying to be must.
fa librerian, secretarial work
{wM give her no opportunity for. succes In a career or marriage.
PART-TIME JOB
5 and No. With W. wool
It will make her nervous, un- times
The answer to this mother is 2 ats, then needle, cast on
Wind the B, wool slx
franile four to get started, right now, on a insert needle between the last round a book inches across happy, bitter and 2 sts. 1. place loop en lo lett lip the loops off the book and quidifies calculated to keep you part-time secretarial job herself. success and to make With her children gone, she's The paper, a pale yellow ground, is covered with alim trees,
hand needle, rep, from until on the wrong side of stole pass from
got time on her. hands. It will massed Bowers and birds and smoky greym, greens and faded
there are 4 sia, then work in loops through edge between long eligible men run a mile!
LOYAL DEFENDER be time spent vin the ninka.
the following puit,
sliches, Open out loop and pull
children's Hven if she kan't care- The same grey-green is used for the velvet upholstery and the
lat row: Using No. 1 needles, long end of fringe through, Ite-
missing You'd go a long way before ful. But if she'll break up har Aubusson carpet repeats the greys and pinks. Victorian crystal
pent along the edges, K Outside the and gilt sparkles in the wall lights and on the table.
2nd row: Using No. 5 needles, every other space between the you'd and a more loyal defender shorthand and typing, and get a typing part-time job, shoʻl be gled to door lurks a lion-but he's only a foot-scraperi
*insert needle kaltways into st, long sutches. Cut through loops, of shorthand
Renerally than I am. I have let them live their own lives! bring wool between the noodins; Trim enda – level.
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