THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 24,
PRACTICAL
BRICK VENEER and wood panels are used for the exterior of this charming split-level home. The bedroom floor (ahove, left), is cantilevered to add about two feet more space upstairs and protect, the two-car garage and entry below.
UP and DOWN
By Joan O'Sullivan
TP and down! Up and Udot That's the way you seem to be going when you live in a house with stairs.
walls,
corridor back,
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From the front foyer, you opposite walk up a short flight to the style. At the main living area of the dinette is backed by a bay house. Here, living room window.. and dining room combine to make spacious. L-shaped A multi-paned bay The Devonshire is differ. arca. ent! It has stairs but, like window looks out on, the all aplit level plans, they're front grounds, while the has a picture short flights. Getting up or dining area
of the back down is easy, and that window view means a great deal to busy yard.
CORRIDOR STYLE home-makers.
FOUR FLOORS
The Devonshire hus four floors, each separated from the next by six steps.
#1 BEDROOM ---13-0-116-0
#2 BEDROOM 1-4x15-0
From the main foyer you can also walk through to the rear foyer, 'where a balcony looks down on the apacious recreation room under the living area. fully big room, with a built In snack bar that makes serving fun
It's a wonder-
THREE BEDROOMS The kitchen, accessible from either living or dining
The bedroom floor is a section, has appliances and few steps above the living
lined cabinets
up along
DINETTE
DINING ROOM
STORAGE 7454
area. There are three bed-| rooms, each with good closet space, The master, bed- room, with double closeta, has its own private bath. The main bath is close to the stairway,
Below the bedrooms is a
with two-car garage
storage closet. On the same level, opening off the rear foyer, is a lavatory and the
exit to the rear terrace.
The Devonshire comprises 1,850 square feet: 22,540 cuble feet.
||TERRACE
BAR SPACE
• RECREATION
ROOM
HALL
HUP
· DN.
2 CAR GARAGE
LIVING ROOM' 13-0 x20-6
FRONT
FOYER 13'x10'
BASEMENT AREA
20-0
THREE BEDROOMS and two baths occupy the top level. On the main floor are the kitchen and living'
dining room.
A RECREATION ROOM with a snack bar is located in the basement. The two-car garage has a corner”
for storage.
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HOMECRAFT
1 DINE WITH LONDON'S TOP HOSTESSES
No. 2
Lady Rose lets me into her serving
secret
COLD DISHES TO START AND FINISH
MEAN NO UNNECESSARY INTERRUPTIONS
·ADY ROSE is one of the five daughters of the Marquess' of Anglesey, a great beauty, and one of Chelsea's leading hostesses.
A widow, she lives with two schoolgirl daughters in one of those delightful smallish houses in Smith Street. She has to get up very early each morning to go to Covent. Garden to buy flowers for the flower business she runs,
In the evening she likes to
small dinner parties. alve "Usually about six people, and I don't believe in mixing mortal enemles”—in the dining-room overlooking 战 emali paved the dining- carden. "I like room to look festive," she said. "I always have flowers,... af and usually candles,
course 100.
"I do not go in for very elaborate
because I parties, bard, she added. work "Another thing: I have only cook and must myself wait on table, so we always have, frei, a col course, followed by a hat one and then another cold dish. That way the con- versation neod not be inter- rupted.
English food i
"Conchfia, my cook. 13 Spanish, but, as I do not like Spanish cooking, we have mostly, rather English food,
by
HELEN
BURKE
*Falways have flowers and candles,”
mixture coats a spoon, Dissolve Add haricot beans (soaked over- level tablespoon of beat night), onions, carrots and a have no idea how refreshing tablespoons water, warmed just and cook slowly for
powdered geinfine, in three chopped skinned tomato, Cover three to that-mind is
though to melt it. Sur into the four hours. Add cabbage 'dur- "But Conchita has a coffee coffee and eggs. Leave to become ing the last 30 minutes. Strain souffle which I think is rather somewhat.cool, then mix in half the soup and add to it cooked wonderful If you can manage pint whipped cream, not too "Angel's Hair," the finest of the to understand her I'll ask her stuff and fold them into the pasta family.
you the recipe."
to rive
Bagan, wther mixture.
So, presently, I found myself Turn all into a lovely serving- In Conchita's spotless large light dish and put it into the r kitchen, with more than enough, drivertor for an hour. Decorate.
Conchita with whipped cream and cry putting down space. has little English but I have stollised violets. always found that, in a klichen,. 1W0 can converse in two lan guages and understand earb other perfectly
Coffee souffle
Caldo
Poussins
Sometimes, Lady Rose -sub- sillules individual baby poussins for a joint, These little birda are stuffed with stoned prunes and pine kortiols and are baked, It seemed a bity not to get onion, in butter and
together with a carrot and an from Conchita a recipe for a measure of sherry.
a good During good homely Spanish dish, so their cooking, the birds she gave me "Caldo" & really basted with the sterry-butter.
arc wonderful foup, the meat from which is served cold, dressed
"We salurays have a large bowl that with
mayonnaise, at another not mean
of soft, creamy bread sauce. --~ this meal.
Hitle spot," said Lady Roso. "You'd be grised how many people like
"For instance, I ke to start
You would probouly say with something original" like this is a mousse. Anyhow, smoked trout with horse-radish is how you make it."
Here is ter tour to quanti. sauce or halved firm heart of Make quarter pint very tits give. But these can be lettuce,
aarong coffee with coffee and adjusted to suit oneself. served, cold with pinch each of salt and sugar milk, no water. Let cool 8 Put chicken, boof, veal end with melted butter with a little, then beat It Info three ess pork in a large pot and cover and touch of garlic
in yolks in a bowl, Stand the bowl, them with plenty of cold water, and lemon in it poured on top. Then, prob-
in hot water and cook until the Add pepper and salt to ably, we will follow with lovely underdone roast beef and seasonal vegetables. My favourite sweet is fruit salad.
"There is one unusual ons made with nothing but grapo-. fruit cut in pieces and grapes, peeled, halved and with the pipa removed... This is sweeten- od a little, if necessary. Whipped cream is passed separately.. You
CHANGING AFRICAN
A
WOMEN
She praised the "tremendous character and dignity" of the
African women.
Educated women faced many "serious problems”th Africa, FRICAN women, caught according to Mirs Bieeres II. up in "agonising tran- they study abroad, their prob altions," need the sympathe lems of readjustment are dim-
cult. In Ghana, men fear that. tic understanding of Ameri- educated girls will not make can and European- women, good wiver and mothers. Offen- Mrs Dorothy Stoore said the girls lose chances of mar following a three and one- riage if they study abroad. # half month trip through the
Dark Continent."
"They have up. important Household
place in the continent's develop- mont: Much depends on their -capacity to adjust from the old Ufe of the tribe to the changing. demands of Western civilisa- |tion," she said.
Hints
To restore the sheen to chintz Mrs Steere and her husband, curtains, add a small pince of Er Douglas Steero, professor of wax (about the size of a walnut philosophy at Haverford College, for one pale of curtains) to a visited Africa for the American hot starch aplution. Bur in the' Friends Service Committee, a wax thoroughly before dipping Quaker agency.
African wonen still living in
| simple. - tribal communities of
the curtains.
the bush have difett roles i *Omamental cut or etched relation to their husbands, she glass-wHX© Is brighter and ake cleaner when scrubbed with
ald
In the Kikuyu tribe in soft brush dipped in a baking Kenya, the education of women, zoda solution, Hinse, then wipe Ings far behind that of the with a soft towel, o men. During the Mau Mau
movement, many of the DETISTA
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To return to Conchita's soup:
this is a Spanish pot-au-foul It has just occurred to me that
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