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PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT Escape hatch to harmony..
HERE is the escape hatch, a room designed to allow for the maximum number of different activities by all members of the family. It can be a work-room, o games-room, a sewing-room, or an occasional guest-room.
The main working surface is a converted half-
FOR
FAMILY
size table tennis table (the trestie logs have boon replaced by metal logs, suitably braced).
DESIGNED BY RAYMOND HAWKEY--DRAWN BY ROY CASTLE right takes a record-player, sowing machine and dress materials, typewriter and stallenery, con- otruction kits and tools. Each of the sliding doors is painted a different colour, and the top is covered with black laminated plastic to provide a durable working surface.
A lamp, hung low over the coffee table, has a counterweight which allows it to be raised when the table tennis table is moved into position.
Tho do-it-yourself built-in storage unit on the
EVERY WELL-ADJUSTED A ROOM TO GET AWAY FROM IT ALL
By SHIRLEY LOWE
EVERY weli-adjusted family needs an escape hatch.
An
extra room that isn't just for sitting in, or dining in, or sleeping in. A room where you can slip the strangle- hold of the family circle.
The odds are you will want to.
Even the sweetest, most understanding parents find it tough play-
tablespoon of flour, a teaspooning happy families. And it's doubtful if their children want them to.
ready on a sheet of
of salt and 1⁄4 teaspoon of pep-
per. Rall the meal in this
mixture, place it on a rack
the baking tin and place it
in
In
Togetherness may be all right for two (though I doubt it), but when it's four or more it becomes claustrophobic, and even tactful chil- dren don't consider parents as chums.
the hottest part of tho oven, pre-healed to 450 degrees Fahr. or gas mark 8. Give it 20 to 25 minutes at this temperature.
Lower the temperature to 375 degrees Fahr. or gas mark & and allow minutes in all, if you And though you may have But it still leaves the parents The great thing about this room want the meat very underdone. taund cooking anusages, putting vulnerable in the sitting-room is that there should be no sign 50 minutes for less underdone on records, and dancing
of rumpus. with proper; when the children come
Sexes and ages mingled up as they are in the average family, domestic evenings spent around the television set inevitably end up in a brawl about who wants "Wagon Train" and who wants to "turn the ruddy thing off!"
LADY
LUCK-
your CHINA MAIL horoscope
SATURDAY, FEB. 18
MQUARIUS (10) (January Your 21-February 19): ambitious nature may make you inclined to take
on more work than you can reasonably expect to 4C- complish. Don't overraic your capacity.
| PISCES (1) (February 20- Murch 201: Your ocen- sional show of bad temper dnes you no credit, and you aught to try to control yourself better. ARIES (3) (March 21-April The move you are contemplating should be made by the end of March. if at all possible. TAURUS" (7) (April 20-May
20):
A rather tiresome duty will have to be taken on, even though more interesting activities may tempt you to shirk it. GEMINI (5) (May 21-June 21): No matter how en- grossing a new interest may be, don't neglect your previous commitments for today. CANCER (2) (June 22-July 21): If you are sure you are doing the right thing. go ahead with it, even if you have to face the op- position of your entire family. LEO 01 July 22-August
21): Don't
vague Intimate friend, unless you are fair ly certain that you will be able to keep them when the time comes.
and up to 35 to 60 minute for your daughter's friend, ripping whooping down from their pri It be the most practical they who like it overcooked, fun (I'm afraid the Charlesione vate hideaways. I say that the
room in the house. And, before; For the sake of the gravy mare my line, but let's have a only answer is an extra sitting-
Jong, everyone will move in¦ later on, it is a good idea to go!) you can be sure she didn't. room that anyone can use any with their hobbles, their argu- have a thickly sliced onion In
time. And it's well worth doing ments, and their friends, and tho baking tin.
without a dining-room, sacri- I be uselers as an escape feing the epare form, or going hotel. But it doesn't matter. without a holiday and lavesting You've still not the sitting-room. the money in a bit of building,
-London Expren Service). to get it.
Simple
Buttered forels of cauli- flower, tiny whole carrots, French beans and small cara- The happiest families live melised potatoes, grouped as their own lives, make their own Individual servings around the friends, mid know how to leave meat make a most attractive each other alone every now and dish. Each vegetable cooked in again. Il you've got plenty of its own small pan makes shert room, It's easy. work of Eembling them.
The soup
Silence
1
It should be a room with Mrs Roy Boutting has just desk in it, where the children made herself a small, simple can do their homework without Toom where she can go and sit the rest of the family having to with not even a telephone to maintain a prolonged silence. disturb the yulet. "The child- A mam with plenty of books Alter pouring off excess fat. Ten are forbidden to open the and deep chairs, to give your add a small glass of dry ver-
door, and I can take my friends husband the illusion of atudy mouth end about a cupful of there for a glass of wine or A room with space for all those slock to the in and rub them coffee and know that no one hobbles that are absorbing for around with a wooden spoon to will disturb us," she says,
the one who has them, but loosen off the delicious residue.
"Later on, when the children dreadfully dreary if the rest of Bring to the boil, still with the
the family la forced to have onion, ef course. Tasio and correct seasoning.
are older, I shall seo that they them too. have a place where they can be apart from everyone else."
Somewhere to store the elne
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CHESS
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If you wish to thicken the A private sitting-roc for projector. Somewhere to slow gravy very slightly, I suggest each adult and each child is the the sewing machine. Somewhere blending less than a teaspoon of simple,
super solution. Enid for the stamp collections, the arrowrocź with tablespoon of Chanelle reports that the roon butterfly
collections cold water. Stir this into the she 1105 decorated for
18 A problem by her electric drills. boling liquid and it will clear daughter Valerie. with cots,
A soom that's big enough for D. J. de C. Andrade (Good at ones. Arrowroot gives a calfer cushions, record player, a patty and soundproofed ro Companions. 1024). White to perfect limpid swuen, but it is and a key to the door is a great that you and the
rest of the play and male in two moves. not essential. Strain the roues success.
Solution No. 6980: 1. RxKI, neighbourhood aron't rocked out into a heated gravy boat,
In the contemporary
cubby of you sloep by Mr Acker Bilk. BxQ: 2 R-Kit de ch, K--RZ hole of a home the answer is to put a desk and a divan into the they have for labelling
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call nicest Dings with the nastiest mate.
London sepers Streica. words, call it a rumpus room,
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children's bedrooms them bed-villers,
promises to
make
22+
VIRGO (12) (August
September 22): Conditions should soon change for the better and make you more independent of others. LIDRÁ (8) (September '23- October 22); A prompt dictated by your action natural kindness is going to be highly appreciated. SCORPIO (4) (October 23- November 21): An appoint- ment may have to be can- celled at the last moment, ainco a friend's troubla could take up most of your timo today. SAGITTARIUS (6) (Novem- ber 22-December 21); Suc- ceas in inevitablo if you atick tenaciously to the very complicated. proposition. you have to tackle.
CAPRICORN
(11)
(Decem- ber 22-January 201: Avoid the company of a neighbour who likes to Interfere in your domestic life. YOUR
LUCKY NUMBER:
Count the letters in your first name and add the total to the number shown in brackets after your sign of the Zodiac. This is your lucky number for the week.
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