THE CHINA MAIL," SATURDAY, MARCH §, 1958.
PRACTICAL
AN ALL-ON-ONE FLOOR home, the Arcadian is seventy-two feet long. by exposed rafters, which epcale a pattern of shadows on the entry wall. the house, which is frame with stone.
No Stairs To Climb
By JOAN O'SULLIVAN
NY homemaker who has rated by a step and by de-
A humaker vostres curative iron railings. house has one big ambition: The kitchen, with a break- to move into an all-on-one- fast corner, is adjacent to floor dwelling so that there'll the dining room.
be no stairs to climb,
The Arcadian is just such
4 house.
ENTRANCE FOYER
A central entrance foyer gives access to all rooms.
Opening off it, at left, is a sunken living room, a step below the level of foyer and
Three comfortable bed-
CAR GARAGE
The entrance patio la enhanced
A two-car garage is attached to
KITCHEN
BUNKEN LIVING ROOM
DINING
NÁLL
POYER
BYDROOM 53000
BEDROOM
THE ARCADIAN has three bedrooms, at right, Kitchen and dining room face the yard. The living
room is right of the entrance,
HOMECRAFT
LADY'S DOLMAN SLEEVED CARDIGAN
MATERIALS:
16 (17) [18] ozs. Lister's
Lavenda 4 ply. Pair ench needles Nos. 10 and 12.
5 (5) [5] Buttons.
MEASUREMENTS:
ins,
To fit 86 (88) [40] Bust measurement: Length from shoulder, 22 (22) [22] ina: Length of undersleeve seam, 17 (17) [17] ins.
TENSION:
8 sta. and 9 rows equal one inch. (patt, on No. 10 needles)
ABBREVIATIONS:
K., knit; P, purl; sts.. stitches; inc., inches; tog, together; C8R., With point of needle pull out 3rd st. to front of work and knit, then knit first 2 sts; rep., repent; beg., beginning; patt, pat- Itern; cont.. continue; dec.. [decrease; rem, remain; Inc.,
Increase. alt, alternate.
To work 2nd Size follow figures in parenthesis ();
To work 3rd Size follow figures in brackets J.
BACK
Using No. 10 needles cast on 147 (185) [103] is.
ist row: K.3.* p.1, CƏR, p.1..
It's a double room that stairway to the full base-13, rep, from • to end.
rooms complete the plan. is spacious and bright ment, which Includes A The master bedroom is noto (there's a picture window garage and a laundry, worthy, for it has its own in the living area), and two and a huge windows in the dining sec- private bath walk-in closet.
tion. The Arendian, which has a 2-car garage and full base- ment, comprises 99,085
LARGE KITCHEN
2nd row: P.3, kl, p.3, rep, from * to end
These 2 rows form the patt Work 7 (7) [7] rows more
Three bedrooms are at the back of the house. Two) of the rooms have corner in patt locations and
cross-
Next row: (Wrong side): Kalt.
The kitchen opens on the ventilated. The master bed-(bemlinė). dining room. It runs the cubic feet for the house; dining room at one side and, room, which will accommo.
Cont. in pott. (next row- 6,890 cubic feet for the at front, has a door leading date twin beds, has its ove101 pait, row) unill work mea- depth of the house, has
Note itares 24 (2%) [21] ins, from private bath. into the entrance hall. It's closet, big enough to take hentine. doorway to the terrace.
The dining room opens The Dorian, another one- an exceptionally big room, Hia and Her wardrobes on the living room, sepa- floor plan, is designed for a fourteen by twelve feet, without crowding.
with a good-sized space re- served for a breakfast table.
BEDROOM 13-87-0
BEDROOM
BEDROOM
Dr!! YEST.
HITCHEN 1920×120~
DINING ROOM 13-10-4
LIVING ROOM
FOYER
Breas
LIVING - DINING
are adjacent to the Dorian's kitchen. The home has 3 big bedrooms.
garage.
narrow lot.
Living and dining room share a huge L-shaped area at front.
101 colours
to choose from
says Lucky, the Lister Lamb
Vivid and alive-10x brilliant colours to make your fingers Itch to knit. Who can give you such a wonderful choice? Only Lister's Lavenda, the pure English botany wool with the widest, loveliest colour range of all.
Soft, fleecy, infinitely kind... even to the youngest, renderert skin. Lister's Lavenda gives you the unequalled luxury and warmth of imported English wool.
Extravagant? No, the Lavenda woolly you kult youraci costs no more than an ordinary shop-bought fumper, And Just look at the difference 1 Lavenda waibes and wears so willingly, too.
Next time you're abopping for wool, ask to see the won- derful colour range in soft Llater's Lavenda.
Look to disters
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for the latest in wool
+
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Dorian comprises cubic feet; A doorway, at back, leads to 28,590
the a side entrance and to 4 garage is 6,650 cubic feet
The
Sull working in patt, déc, cDN st. at each end of next and every following - 6th row until 183 (148) [181] ets, rea
IF YOU'RE BUILDING a home on a narrow forty-foot lot and desire a one- storey plan, consider the Dorian. The front is finished in fleldstone, while the sides of the house are done in brick. Frame is used for trim around
the entrance and for garage doors.
Conf in patt. until work mea- sures 15 (7) [7] ins, from hemline.
of Inc. one st at each end next and every following Oth row until 147 (155) [103] sts. ere on needle.
Work (5) [5] rows straight in pati.
of
lac, one at at each end next 12 (12) [12] rows. 171 (179) [187] ats.
Cast on 12 (12) (13) sis. at end of next 18 rows. 387 (395) [403] sts.
Cont. in patt, until work mea- sures 5% (54) (5%) ins. from last set of east on 12 sts.
Shape Shoulders: Right side: Cast off 17 (17) [17] sis. at beg, of nekt 10 (10) (10) rows, then cast off 17 (18) [10] st at beg of next 8 (8) (8) rows. Cast of rein, B1 (81) (81) sta.
RIGHT FRONT
Using No. 10 needles cast on 50 (07) [75] sts and work in patt, os Back for 9 (9) [9] rows.
Nexi του: (Wrong side); Knit. (hemine).
Cont. In pait.
(next row-
1st patt, row) until work mea- Fures 2 (24) [214] ins. trom herriline.
Now dec, at end of next and every following 8th row until 59 (01) (09) sis, rem.
until work
Cont. in patt measures 7 (76) [7] ins. from hemline.
Inc. one st. at end of next
on
and every following 0th row until 50 (87) [78] sls, are needle.
f. Work 5 (5) [6] rows in patt. Inc. one st. at Shaped Edge on next 12 (12) [12] rows, 71 (79) [87] sta.
Cast on 12 (12) [12] sis, at end of next and every following alt. row nine (nine) [nine]
mes. 170 (187) (195) sts.
Cont. in patt until work men- eures 1 (1) (1) Ina. from last cast on 12 (12) [12] sta
Bhape Neck: Right side: Reeping Sleeve Edge straight, dec. at Neck Edge at beg. of next and every olt row until 150 (109) (107) sta, rem.
Shape Shoulder: Wrong side: Next row: Cast, off 17 (17) [17] sta. patt, to end.
Next row: K2 tog patt Lo *end.
four (four)
Rep. last 2 rows (four) times more,
Next row: Cast of 17 (16)
[10] ets patt. to end
Next row: K.2 tog. patt, 10 end 51 (54) [87] sia.
Cast off 17 (10) (19) sta. t beg.
next and every follow- ing alt. row threo (three) (three) times.
FRONT BAND
Using No. 12 needles cast on 44 (40) [30] ats, and work in k.1, p.1 rib for 8 (8) [5] rOWN,
Next row:
button- (Make hole): Rib 20 (18) 163 cast off- 4 sts., rib to end.
Next row: Rib 20 (18) [18] east on 4 gis., rib to end.
Cont. In rib making further buttonholes at 3 ins. Intervals (measuring from base of pre- vious buttonhole) until 3′ (5) (5) in all have been worked.
Cont. in rib unil Band when slightly stretched reaches up Right Front, round back of neck, and down Left Front to lower
edge.
Cast off in rib.
CUFFS
Using No. 12 needles cast on 32 (33) [32) ats, and work in k.1, p.1 rib for 7 (7) [7] ins.
Cast off in rib.
TO MAKE UP
C
Pin out and press Back and Frents on wrong side under damp cloth. Join shoulder, side and undersicevo seams. Sew Front Bands neatly in position. Join Cuff seams, Sew Cuffs in position round Sleeve Edges, placing scam to undersleeve Sew on buttons to cor- Work as Right Front reversing respond with buttonholes, Press all shapings.
all seams.
LEFT RRONT
scam.
Health For Today The Common Cold: $5 Billion Bandit
By W. W. BAUER, M.D.
Director of Health Education American Medion) Association
COLDS ARE SO OFTEN DECEIVERS
AMONG reason
-90
Wo
which called tho common cold
is that so often it doesn't
turn out to be a cold at all.
of liquids, Call a doctor if used to say, "around and fever is-oh, I said that about."
A final word about those disposable handkerchiefs, supposedly so much more sanitary than tho pocket the victim can't The cold is responsible measles, Vincent's angina or fuse to take the same pre- handkerchief, It all depends the, most "shake it off;" is because the also for allowing many an quinsy, the term applied to cautions recommended to on their disposition-lu a
substance to which he is epidemic
a start. abscess of a tonsil. to get serious
protect against the compli- bag to be burned as they the air all People with colds have a pects of the allergic is in
“Only a' cold!” What a lot cations of the common cold should be, or turned loose about him.
cough, often. But that does of needless trouble, expense aimple, sensible, inexpen- on- nuisanca
the wind to spread Most people understand not mean that people, and and suffering this misconcep- sive. Rest. Bland diet, Lots germs, as Damon Runyon infection about autumn hay fever, especially children, with tion has caused.
even if they blame it on the coughs necessarily have beautiful
VICIOUS INFLUENZA and ionocent colds. The cough may be due
before, didn't I? Well, doc- Let me close with a goldenrod Instead of the to part of the reaction to
Recently the world has tors have been saying it for trenchant piece of advice drab and guilty ragweed and beginning measles, dipk- been alerted again to the so years. Some day, maybe from a leading insurance allied wind-pollinated plants. theria, pollo, whooping called "flu" or influenza. It's people will begin paying at company: "If you have Many a person has been de But they do not remember cough, scarlet fever, German, Asian this winter; the last tention to it. That'll be the cold-treat it like a secret ceived by symptoms which that in spring, the air is full measles, and chicken pox. be took for a cold, but
time there was a big pande. day!
keep it to yourself." of pollens from trees, and fr which were due to some en the summer from grasses. ache, sniffles, a stiff neck, it's the same breed of cata If one developes a head- mic, It was Spanish, But tirely different cause.
A common popular belief Not until the summer cold and fever, it's easy to as a vicious virus disease is that summer colds are that is not a cold is attacked sume a cold is "coming on closely related to the com
than winter colds, along the right lines will it Much too easy. These are mon cold. It is with us Improve the flavour of exa common, salt and leave Over-
be overcome. "They hang on
a little night. 6032011
among the early danger every winter, but in a mild sandwicher by adding FOOD ALLERGY
signs of pollo or even menin- and vague
choppad olive. can't seem to shako them
form, often
When cooking fat do not let off." It doesn't sound reason. Sniffles. simulating a cold gitis.
scarcely recognisable, and To clarify soup. add the it smoke-smoking fat forms In- able, does it? And it is not may be due sometimes to So with sore throat, which seldom- treated by a slightly beaten white of ong digestible_acids.
Chances are allergies to foodstuffs; these may be due to "just a cold,” physician. reasonable,
stirring all the so-called summer cold commonly cause stuffiness but may also indieste scar- If influanes now gives us the time till it boils. isn't a cold at all-It's prob of the nosa, easily mistakin let fever, strep throat, much trouble, it will be If the spout of a teapot in basin and cover with cold water tably an allergy. And the as a sign of a cold.
diphtheria, tonsill'itis, because too-many people re- badly stained, nuit
worsc
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
et to the liquid
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If og yolks are not wanted irumediately put them in a
with or milk, Store in a refrigtsmide.