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Be Ready
for the Winter
MORNINGS and evenings
are chilly and damp The dreary days of drizzle, fog and gloom are here.
These damp, dreary days bring colds, coughs and more serious illnesses in their trail. Are you ready for them?
Is your health built up so that you are fully protected against the ail- ments that they bring.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5th, 1929.
THE WOMAN'S CORNER:
REASONS FOR THE SINGLE LIFE.
BACHELORS EXPLAIN WHY THEY AREN'T MARRIED- AND WOMEN, AS USUAL, ADD A FEW WORDS.
Why is a bachelor?
This question has been raised in consequence of the large number of prominent men who are still - married, and a number of letters have been received on the subject from readers of the Daily Express Home Page.
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Judging from the correspondence; ene reason is that men, believe that they can manage a home on a better business basis than they believe women are capable of. The dearth of the home type of woman, whose mission was to minister to, nurse, comfort, praise, and please her liege lord, is another. The fact that a presiding hostess, if one were needed, could be drawn ̈ upot feadily enough from single or tem- porarily unattached women also. appears to support the cause of bachelor freedom,
Invitations.
"No, there is nothing wrong with women nowadays, any more than there is with men. What the real situation is may be found in the increasing consciousness of the fact that matrimony is becoming
more and more hazardous and com- plex in an industrially ruled civilisation."
Here is another explanation:- "Do you want to know why I am a bachelor and why I intend to remain one I'll tell you. I have been, in the last five years, an ac tive party in three wedding cere- monies twice best man and once I gave the bride away. Two of the bridegrooms were, old school
friends. The other man was an old friend. I'd have sworn on a pile of Bibles that each of those 'men drew a prize.
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YOUR HOME AND MINE.
ON BREAKFASTS.
However simple the first repast of the day, a great many people claima thas breakfast is the meal that ther enjoy most. The night's fast may have something to do with it-for 1 doubt very much. if toast and bacon and such things served at any other. timo. of the day would have exactly the same appeal.
And certainly it is the only meal of the day when odors from the kitchen do not have to be apolo giezd for. The aroma of boiling coffee and the strong orod of sizzling bacon are not disdained by the most fastidious when they are on the morning air.
Breakfasts in different homes Lad in different parts of the country vary greatly. A cereal or fruit. toost and coffee suffices for some families, whereas others require
Again, the modern nccepted con- men go, the bridegrooms eggs and bacon as well. And then
vention entitling nice women to se cept invitation to bachelor apart- ments destroys the accepted thesis that a bachelor must lead a lonely life.
Here is a selection of letters re- ceived on the subject:
were as eligible as you could ob- of a peer, but referred to always tain. One girl was the daughter
aa not the butterfly sort, One was educated at Newnham, and the girl the old friend wed was his neigh bour's daughter, but was holding Have you ever stopped to con-
an unusual secretarial post in Lon- don. sider just how high and sinister the economic bar to matrimony looms Do you think that the bealthy-minded
average, normal, your daily
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man derives any actual pleasure out of his hard confession that he wouldn't be tied to any one '1
"I happen to be in just such a position.
four About three or years ago a famous judge cast one of his pearly observations on matri mony to the public. He told the world that any young man who reached the age of thirty and was pot married or had no intentions of becoming married was an unde- sirable citizen.
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Two of the three marriages have already been through the divorce mill, and the third has all the symptoms of an early court ap- plication.
That isn't all. I belong to a set which includes most respectable members of the community. I look at the goings on, and I'm no Puritan, believe me, but it does scare one away from the idea of future bliss when you surprise one of the respectable matrons acting anything but with the husband of one of the other respectable matrons, who, in turn, is, "perhaps, flirting with the husband of still And another respectable member.
so on ad infinitum. The disap- pointments that some of us get! Well, it scares you."
From a woman intent on main- taining the popular theory ninong her sex that a bachelor, is made from sour grapes we hear:
"Girl He Didn't Get."
"I know one of those bachelors with the perfect apartment and al the comforts of home. He con- vinces everybody that he is one. from choice. But I know all about. the girl he didn't get. Men never like to admit they have been unsuc cessful in their quest for the right' girl."
Branding as ludicrous any other explanation for the increasing number of bachelors, she says:
There are more women willing to remain old maids than there are who will marry without love: The stigma attached to this state is fast disappearing, especially when wo men are able to earn as good, if not better, salaries as many men, That's why bachelors are on the 'increase, and why they're trying to make the best of it by setting up their synthetic homes."
These Children" Of Ours.
SLEEP.
For the youngster who has reach- ed the runabout age, there are many causes for disturbed sleep. One of commonest consists în the use of too many or too heavy quilts or blankets, which are exhausting from their actual physical weight. A similar cause is the use of too warin bed-clothing or nightclothes.. Too little ventilation is frequently a cause of disturbed sleep.
This deficiency in ventilation may be either external, from having too little outdoor air in the slooping room; or it may be internal, from an adenoid condition which ob atructs the inhalation of air pro perly warmed and moistened by passing through the nasal passages before reaching the lungs. Whereas we should remember that adenoid tissue is essentially childhood tissue and as such tends to spontaneous disappearacce, it may not be wise to wait until this occurs. If the sleep disturbance from this cause is severe enough, the surgical re- moval of the adenoid mass may be advisable.
Another common cause for sleep disturbances in children is the ex- citing of the children's imagination by overstimulation late in the day. Here may be classed riotous, un- wrote to this learned gentle restrained play and wild romping; man and asked him what guaran-
as well as the reading or telling of toe or security he or some agency ghost stories, or terrifying fairy
stories and folk tales (the grue of the community could give me that I would receive a steady in-someness of which has become dulled come on which to marry
I emphasized that I was not seeking any philanthropist to en- dow marriage, nor was I secking Charity TLERE FOR WAY I Assurance that I would receive steady work at my trade. He inid he was 'misquoted...
to us elders by long familiarity). None of these pastimes should be indulged in just before the lights are put out for the night. Even Early uncent alter as entertaining a guest at the even- ing meal, may overstimulate the highly sensitive child
there are homes in which are served such menus as these: steak, Houred and well-fried, fried potatoes. poached eggs, hot biscuits. jelly or marmelade and coffee: or fried ham. fried apples, saute potatoes, wheat- cakes, syrup and coffee. Then there are families in rarer localities who think nothing of finishing up on pie or enke.
But avoiding the two extremes. I shall suggest some dishes that might help to vary the medium- sized breakfast. of that would be especially nice as a change for guests.
Creamed dried beef is very tempt ing served in pop-over cases. Pour boiling water over one-half pound smoked dried beef and let stand five micutes. Mix three-fourths cup dour and three cups sweet milk and cook for several minutes. Add two tablespoons butter and the dried beef, and cook for ten minutes.
Menu4. BELLEFASTS.
Dry Cereal with Creat
Bacon, Fried Eggs Cheese Toast Coffee
Grapefruit Sausages
Coffee
Cooked Cereal
Waftes
Cut a slice from the top of the pop- over casca and fill with the creamed beef. Place a small piece of butter on top and sprinkle lightly with paprika. To make the pop-over cases, sift together two cups flour and one-half teaspoon salt. Add gradually two cups milk, stirring until smooth. Drop in two u beaten eggs, and beat with a rotary egg beater until, free from Jumps, Pour into a very hot-woll-greased muffin pan and bake until puffed and firm, starting with a very hot even but reducing the heat for the last part of the baking.
Egg neste arranged on a platter surrounded by crisp bacon make a very pretty dish. Have ready rounds of buttered tonist, one piece for each egg. Separate the eggs carefully, keeping the yolks in shape and each 'in a small butter plate. Beat the whites with a piach of salt until they are stiff, then pile on the toast to form a nest, leaving a place in the center for the yoke. Slide each yolk into 'a nest of white. season with butter, pepper and salt, and cook in the oven until set.
Cheese toast is usually well-liked. Melt one and one-half cups cheese with a little milk, then add the re- mainder of one cup of milk, one tablespoon cornstarch, and one egg, beaten, salt, a little mustard and paprika Serve on 'small slices of hot toasted bread.
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