THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18.
∙1800.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
THE TEEN ROOM
A PLAN THAT KEEPS THEM HAPPY AT HOME
YOUR HOME REPORTER
you want your growing you must give her a decent bit
Iuperut your own: SURV
home, you must give her somewhere to ba.
If you want to avoid the sad struggle of a temanger against her parents (Why won't they lezve me alone," "Mother doesn't understand me." etc.),
This goes for boys as well as strin
You haven't an inch of space? We've just seen a room which is barely more than a passage, and measures 12ft. by 7ft. But one specially understanding mother has turned it into a siting-room
for her teenage daughter.
Together, they have finished it on an entirely new principle practically no furniture, but everything on the walls.
Enid
д Chanelle, director of three chains of dree shops and two furnishing stores, is probably the only genuine female tycoon this side of the Atlantic,
Inld Chanelle (left) vialta Valerie in ber everything-white, everything-wash- able bedroom. There is no dressing-table. Valerie makes up in the bathroom,
·She is also the affectionate where is i record player, of mother of a red-braded bomb- edLLTIER 'shell of 18.
"Bo many, mother, peers to quarrel with their just-grown- updaughters," she told me We get on extremely well, and I'm sure the socret is privacy for both parties.
"We moved into this flat three weeks ago, and 'it'e amall-only Ave rooms. But Valerie's -bed- room is as pretty sa mine, and we've made this wil space foto a room where she can work in peace and give her own parties. "She has friends in for coffee and records, several evenings a weak"
The room is unusual, and this is how It's planned.
There ta one comfortable, weil-sprung settee which can be converted into a spare bod for the young visitor.
The wolpars ere surprisingly quiet for a foonager', with pala helps walls to make the room starti Jorger, Valerie's cholch
One snag
OWN
is next to the HER FOOD
kichon so that Valerio con
redestments for get.
her Driends without diskurbing the household, She is a fine cook, with a silver cups. Cordon Bleu training and a string of cerli- Denion,
"The only song about my room," rald Valerie, “is that I can't get mother out of it. She has started sitting on the foc listening to pop", records, and thinks it is the best room in the fal"
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There are NO CHAIRS AT ALL There is a good thick carpet and F plushy mušti- If you've got older children coloured rug., and Valerie's who spem too much on top of friends alt on cushions on the you look round and 200 it you floor. This saver a vast semount can't #quetxe a bit of space of rore, and the room can large enough to swing a teen-' take up to 10 people.
sger. It might be a hal It There are no ornaments might be a boxFUDED. reatiered about the room, but Then maice it into a seperate these are trouxerred to the room, with a good carpet and walls. There are plenty of the minimaan of furniture, pictures, and a shelf unit 01 By cutting your children one wall for books, records, and off you'll keep them in your beloved objects Also for
crockery and Jugs, as Valerie life much longer,
hás a set of her own,
There is #pegboard wall panel for photographs and record coveni.
KEEP OUT OF THE KITCHEN!
-if you want your guests
to enjoy the meal
by Helen Burke
so that there was not too much to-log and fro-ing between the kitchen and the dining-room, and I could spend the maximum of time with them.
NCE, a long time ago, simpulfed my meals for guests
en we used to perve, single-handed, many more dishes than we do today, I was given a reprimand by an old friend.
The first course, during thu winter months, at least, does
since the guests can wait for L It will not wait for them. The moment it is ready, uster the guests into the dining-room. -Eaxy-to-prepare things like avocado pears can be cut and
stoned well in advance, then brushed with lemon juice prevent discoloration.
to
I also squeeze a little lemon
enough double cream to bring the colour
attractive
to arti
creamy pinky shade.
Whenever I have
A
DRAWING BY MICHAEL RAND
This is the sitting-room Kold Chanelle has made trom si pamage for her 15-year-old daughter : Valeria. Plenty of spson although the floor area is only thirteen fart by seren.
WORD WITH THE DOCTOR
weak-kneed
SUPPOSE that of all the The great strength of this joints in the body it la font Bea in its ligamenta. These friends the jaw joint which puts in make up the whole joint and tough fibrous band help 10 from abroad. particularly the most overtimas but for are as important as the from my native Canada and real hard, constant work, rounding muscles, or even the the United States, I make a
point of taking them to Simp- the knee must take first bones themselves. son's in the Strand, for there, | place. in spacious qulet surroundimas. we can cat really well-cooled typically English fare,
constry
sur-
Two of these Ngements d give a certain pmount of trou- Unlike the shoulder or ble, the internal and external elbows it not only carries a one of these becomes ver
ligaments, and sometimes if Mr. Moss, the cher, is one of lot of weight and has to put stretched it mattages to get it only two im this entitled to wear the black hat Up with tremendous forward self nipped between the bottom of the Master Cooks of England. and backward movements, it end of the big fengur and the Now is the season for beaf has also to be so very strong top of the two other leg bones, rloak, kidney and oyster pad-and stable that it will never
the tibia and sibula. On huge trolleys, over bend sideways, ding
ÁS 3000 R3 this hipping" 100 years old, there are always
takes place the patient feels The temptation for a knew to pain and
realises alther that rant jelly and the bigdest sirloin of Scotch boat with sometimes be great. Indeed, only does so with great pain, is horse radish sauce and York-stability is just as important in and it is not long before the shire pudding that one has seen the knee joint as la mobility whole joint becomes tender and for years.
and the astonishing thing is swollen. A fish or cheese souffle is an- My favourite "starter" for an Fillet steaica, with crisp dry that it doesn't go wrong far
Once this has happened, even "When you get up, 1 wit, 100.** other good meal starter, There informal meal is salad claire, chip potatoes, nad troacle roll,
oftener than it does..
though the ligament may From that time onwards, I is no worry about its
falling For four to six servings, you the favourite pudding at the want 6 to 8 oz. frozen scampi or moment, both are worth having. similar AUTOURIS of loboter But the pudding that 1 (cummed or fresh), crayfish talls would volo fer, ali
the year
We bad come to the fourth
course and I had risen to leave not tax anyone. Even if a hot Juice on to a large-enough plate saddle of mutton with rodeursyield outwards or inwards must his knee won't bend at all or
the room.
inora
A
He, having become mare and of my busyness, gol up with me, placed his napkin, over his arm, aral side
soup has taken bours to prepare in advance, it is no trouble at all when the time to serve it
comes
Here is a multi-purpose egg poucher in poïimizā zîmîniem vievi with a copper base, Tho bol xxx “oupe” are sually lifted with * fork and when the tray is removed the pascher becomes a Tin. frying-DAIL
and place the avocado pears on
it cut side down, so that they are well coated and the air excluded.
or canned tuna,, 4 to 6 oz. sliced, round, is an individual deep *? YOU white umpocled apple pie. mushrooms, 10 to 15 sliced stuff- ed olives, 2 teacups of thinly sliced bears of celery or celeriac,
1 aliced large green sweet pepper
and a nice pinky cocktail sauce.
Poach the sesimpà in plenty of milk, Drabz them in a colan- der into basin. Rinse them and leave them for two
to druh very well.
hours milk
For high-quality_English food, at prices which do not hurt," I would say that Simpson's is the place.
Good crop
LIVES are noww, this week,
will make a beautifully Bavour- This year's crop of them
cd "stock"
chowder.
for
0
haddock
in Spain has been wonderful
back" or be put back, the appointing. You will be off work bother is very likely to recur, fat come wecks-depending 10 fairly soon. It is sure to do so some at sotre mnat.
Kent.
extent on the kind of Inconvenient work you do-but after about 3 month you should be able to forget you have ever had the
Risk
Jurt Rs you're going into thing done, your car to start your summer holiday, or on Christmas Eve when you're hanging the holly and your doctor is hanging his.
For the elderly, for those When either the Inner of
fow who are a bod operation treatment is to port of a trick you should cer outer cartlings has played this risk, the only
wear some kind of support and tuinly get advice.
to avoid putting any side strain Inmediate fret-aid treatment until
on either knee. Some patients
keeping the know steady on a You mach advice consiste
find a stout clastle knoe stock- Ing lạ enough. Others requira back splint,
a stronger, and more mechani- cal, leather support.
get
Operation
of
If an internal derangement of the imee is neglected, it is very When your doctor soes the, liable to develop a nasty creak joint he will,
after perhaps and a great deal of stiffness, restoring it to temporary DOT- zoulity, advise one or other of But, whether you have an two course have an operation operation or not, extra weight or Jave it alone,
is always a radicance and the patient should start cutting For nearly all honitky, active down on his or her potutoes people an operation is neither minen-pies and temenkes it there “go dangerous, disñgaring, nor dis- is any question of overweight,
STORIES FOR BOYS & GIRLS
All About Animals
For the cocktali sauce put two and whose lovely large been Hand Learns Much From Natural History Book-
egg yolks into a basin with a olives, both plain and pimento- little salt and a few grains of stuffed, should be down
price.
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to the
cayenne pepper. Stir them to.
The cost to the importer has gether then add, drop by drop, dropped and the price up to half-pint olive oil to make retailer has been correspond- a very fuck, iniingly reduced we ourselves oble, sauce.
Add and mix in one to two should get the benelli of this, tablespoons tomato, kekharp and
---{London Expram Setolet).
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By MAX TRELL
TEDDY, the Stuffed Bear, Hanid, the Shadow Girl
sie over and sat next to
with
the Turned-About Name.
"Hello, Hanid,” said Teddy "Hello, "Teddy," said Hanid.
Fish, It, puffs itself up and has sharp needles" all over it,
"Do you know why it puts itself up?"
"Why?" asked Teddy.
longer, the Crocodile?"
Elephant
or the
"The Elephant is bigger,"
Teddy sald,
Tells Ago "Elephants live to
be 100 years old, and Crocodiles live to be 200, Horses Ilve to be.
Ive to be about 15. about 30 years old, and Dog
"Some Parrots Uve for 100 years.
A Mouse lives for six years, a Rabbit Ilves fen and "Bo' that it can't be swal- à Cal can live 20. Dučka and lowed by another Fish," Hand Geese can live to be 80 years answered, “It makes itself to ́ald.” "big and too pelukly. It would *What's this book you're be like eating a placiusblen, reading?" asked Teddy.
Then there's another Fish
What Book?
"It's 1 Natural History, that swims around with a' saw,” book," said Hanid.
-
**A Natural what?" asked Toddy.
"Häniä explained that a Naf-
“Á, www!” axclaimed Teddy Dangerous Fish
“22%, cified a· Bawish,”-snid
ural History Book "was a book Hania. "The mw is in front of about Animals, about all kinds its head and it has teeth on of "Animals--about Insects and both side, Iw--a dangerous Beds and Pink,
“I should think so,”; mid
"In fait, it's about sli-Up. de 16What else did you read anish - An, the Natural History -book?”
things,” sild Hánid,
**That's interesting."
Teddy,
*Many Interesting
“Oh, this book is full
teresting - thising"
vory strange
under water."-
Lormes Vk that.
vald Teddy.
"And they're caji
But ther
Xaridad 15ying Fan don't
they
their
"You certainly know a lot, Hand, from reading that Nat-
in admiration. ural History book," Teddy sald
Why
"Here," sald Hanid. don't you look at #!"
Sudden Question
Teddy flipped through two of three pages.
All of a sudden he looked up and amid:
Bea Horses have curly talla instead of foot.
"Here's
something, Hanid! What animal is stuffed with sawdust and looks like a Bear?"
“Whs, I — I don't know," Hania stammered.
*Mol" said Teddy
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