THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1930.
WOMAN'S PAGE
SPEECH DRILL FOR YOUR CHILD.
[BY A SPEECH CONSULTANT.)
We are all familiar with the, child are S, Z, Ch. J, Th, R. Sis childish liep. that delightful formed by breath escaping between prattle so dear to the heart of the the tip of the tongue and the teeth- mother. Yet many parents will Z being a bummed S. Difficulty never realise that this same baby with these two sounds is due to the talk affords friitial grounds for tongue being too high, it the back the development of stainnering. and the tip being too far from the
teeth.
They should be careful, therefore, of the dangers of careless and sin yealy speech, and by always talk ing carefully themselves, set their children a good example to follow. Accurate speech demands great precision of muscular co-ordina. tion. A child cannot be taught this too early,"
of letters--wowels and consonants.
Words are made up of two classes Yowel sounds, represented by the fetters A. E. 1. O. U, Y. are unin- fermpted vocal tones, produced by vibrations of the vocal cords, which are as in motion by the aetion of the exhaled breath.
It can be overcone easily by teaching the child to place the ton gue fat in the mouth with the lip in actual contact with the lower IF the teeth are then trout teeth.
clenched with the lips apart and breath is gently blown through the teeth, a pure sibilant will result.
HOME COOKING IS THE BEST.
"THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME-IF THE COOKING "IS GOOD.
Many a dull marriage has been saved by a dash of piquant sauce at the right moment. No husband can be kept entirely happy with bad who is not an artist in sauces can uninteresting, cooking, and no wile consider herself more artisan in culinary matters.
than an
But there are other things too.
for life cannot be sustained entirely on sauces, however, piquant. There are plain roasts and boileds, and and F is by dividing them into lack of care but by lack of experi The best method of approaching how often they are spoilt, not by
Remember that no one can single units. Get the child. to ence: smund Tands then Sh. Gradually tench anything, let alone cooking, lessen the pause until the two unless they know how to do it them sounds merge. Thus T-Sh. T-Sh,selves. Are you an friendly terms Tsh. Oh, Similarly can be easily with your oven? Many housewives mastered by humming, TSh becćm- seem to regard their ovens na bad ing D-Zh. By taking these com tempered monsters that take posite sounds by numbers, the ton special delight in ruining their best que muscles become accustomed to Lefforts at cookery. Do you know the precise degree of contact. how to make salted" almonds or
marrons glaces?
Vowels are the most elementary sounds of any language and the foundation on which speech is built Consonants, on the other hand, are momentary interruptions either to voice or breath, caused by contact er partial contact between tongue and palate, tongue and teeth or lip and lip. The baby's first at- tempts at self-expression are vowel sounds. The more difficult consCD-tongue is protruded a quarter of reasonably at home.
ants are not attempted for many months.
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The lisping child who pronounces
A dish of salted almonds on the lireath as "breaf" usually possesses
very full upper lip, which ob-dinner-table or side table is always structs the breath as it esenpes be. hailed with delight, and gives an tween tongue and teeth. This has air of distinction to your party. the effect of changing Th to F. The Though expensive to buy, salted diffenity can be overeeme
almonds can be made easily and For two ounces of sweet almonds you require a gill,of purest salad oil, two tenspoonfuls salt, half a
if the
an inch hetween the teeth, simult aneously lifting the upper lip.
Here is a suitable exercise for
It is possible that owing to re- tarded muscular development the increasing the mobility of the lips: child may not be able to "click" Place the lips in a pouting posi the back of the tongue against the tion as for the vowel -on, Then soft palate-the necesary interrup-stretch them sideways over the teeth tion for K and hard G (as in good), into a wide grin. As the result A very good method of obtaining of five minutes' daily practier of this effect is to get the child to held alternately changing from the one the breath with the mouth open position to the other, the lips will A fer a few seconds the breath quickly gain in fexibility. must be exhaled through the nose, with the mouth still open Alternate checking and releasing the breath will usually persuade the tongur and palate to meet. After a little practice the click will become quite
natural.
The most usual semi-contact con- sonanta to present difficulty to a
The letter R is probably the most difficult for a child to pronounce. The rall is produced by violent vibrations of the tip of the tongue, and difficulty is enused chiefly by inherent stiffness. The best means of approach is through the letter Th.
tfuntioned on art (olumn.)
CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
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Horizontal.
1.--Funny. 6-Famous playwright.
11.-Coy.
12.--Knota.
14.--Conjunction., 15.-Ethically.
17.-By.
15Short fures on cloth.
20.-Stair post,
Prefix: three.
9-Pertaining to the ear.
24.An insect.
25.- Debtor.
28.-To cancel. 28.-Steps. 30.--Equality.. 31.--Worm. 32-Lifted..
Harrassed. -English queen." 30.-Organ of head.
41.fo scorch.
42-Possessive pronoun. 43.-Was intereated. 45.-Arid.
40.-30.
47.To abbreviato.
40.-Symbol for sodium, GO.-Safe.
52.-Exchanged. 54.-One who lassocs. 55.-Chopped.
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Vertical,
1.-Wax ointment...
2. Sacred Hindu word.
3.-Bilent.
4. To smooth,
6.-Grain.
6.-Bays.
7. Tree trunk..
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9. Plural ending.
10.--Closer. 11.-Giver.
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36 37
144 145
149 199
13-Agitates.
16. Beard of grain. 10-A fruit (plural). 21-Distorted.
23. To stop.
23-Fertile spot. 2-Part of to be. 29.-A beverage.
32. Invasions.
33.-Kind of born. 34.More beloved. 35.-Inhalation. 38.-Merited,
a-Wood nymph. 40.-Skill.
43. To heat.
4.--Terrible.
47.-Drinking vessel. 48.-Rule.
31-Prefix: with.
53. Prefix down.
This puzzle took 24 minutes to solve. See how long it will take you to solve it.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
No.1344
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teaspoonful cayenne pepper, half a teaspoonful paprika..
Blanch the nuts by placing them in boiling water for a minute, when (Continued on next Column.)
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DIFFICULT DECISIONS
12-17
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
TRYING TO DECIDE JUST WHAT TO DO, WHEN ON.COMING OUT OF THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE YOU FIND
AN ATTRACTIVE YOUNG WOMAN DEEPLY ENGROSSED IN THE NEW AND EXPENSIVE MAGAZINE WHICH
YOU HAD JUST BOUGHT AND LEFT WITH YOUR HAT
ON THE TABLE.
[Copyright. 1929, by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
the skins will almost drop off. Heat the oil until a faint smoke arises, and fry the nuts in it until they!
Mix the salt, are golden brown.
and paprikat together. Cayenne Drain the almonds well, and toss them in the seasonings.
Put them in a warm oven to dry,
but do not let them cook any more. Just a few minutes should be suf- ficient. The nuts should be crisp without being hard and dried up.
The above receipt and hundreds The tongue should be placed in of others for all sorts of plain and the proper position for that sound. fancy cookery, as well as invaluable Then after taking a very deep household tips of all sorts, I read breath, the tip of the tongue must in one of the excellent cookery booka by sharply curled upwards. At the on the shelves of the Book Shop same time the breath must be vigor and Bible Depot. They have a ously exhaled. With a little prac-wonderful collection of these books live the tongue will respond to this which are none of them expensive, strong breath action and soon the one on vegetarian cooking costs roll will come quite naturally... only 20 cents.
WHY THIS FUSS ABOUT LONG FROCKS?
FOR DINNER OR DANCE.
Nothing will induce us to wear At the Paris dress shows there lng skirts during the day time. Įkaa nut been one singles long and This is the decision that every trailing day drees.
woman has reached: We have look- It is quite true that day skirts ed at the old-fashioned, pictures of are several inches longer than they women in long skirts and we have | were last season. Fourteen to six- been asked, is the practicnl young teen inches off the ground is the woman. of to-day going back to correct length for morning dresses, that ?"
smart country clothes and tailor- Bades now.
For Dinner or 'Dance. One of the most interesting en sembles I have seen lately is a dress of silver and tabac brown lace trimmed with, and worn over, beige ninon. It can be worn either as a dinner or dance frock and would certainly not be out of place at a the dansant or a smart reception. I saw it in Pamela's. The frock is made sleeveless, the skirt having rounded floating panels which are trimmed with circulur volants of ninou. The little coutee is similarly trimmed with volants of ninon. The ine is very graceful and specially adapted for the small slender Woman. Very slenderising lines distinguish a dinner dress of the same silver and tabac lace, worn this time over a slip of tabac satin. The little basque is a very modern mote and the graceful line of the hem extremely becoming.
A cont of silver lamé trimmed with white angora fur is magnificent, mainly because it is so simply and beautifully cut.
The New Ensemble.
The new ensemble is a two piece- the three piece is for the time at least, démodé. The ensemble con- Mists of n dress and coat, short, three-quarter or even seven-eightha, length. The dress itself is an en- Bemble of material. The skirt part is made of cloth, or one of the new very fine tweeds, while the blouse top is of satin or silk. The coat, of course, matches the lower part of the frock,
Points to notice about the 1920 fashions are the great fullness of the skirts and consequent fineness, and suppleness of materials. The long line for evening, generally run- ning up a little in front, ia de- |finitely established and there is a tendency to stress the higher waist, line in all sorts of ways.
This has caused us to protest,
Pamela is showing a good many almost hysterically, that we inodern women are not slaves of fashion, day dresses cut on the simple and we refuse point blank to be lines and finished with white linen forced by the Paris dress designers or crêpe de chine collar and cuffs into wearing long day skirts. We cut with a turret-shaped edge, admit, however, that we are quite REAM
These new collars and cuffs that willing to wear DARE
long evening look like small stiff white battle- dresses.
ments around the neck and wrists Now let us face this fashion prob- | are extremely smart and effective. family documented impiisankusoma
making all this fuss Who has plain black frock that is most Lasked us to wear long skirts during attractive, and they are easily
the day!
washed and done up..
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From the lary
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HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
Collegiate: "What was the tenor of your dad's last letter?"
Fraternal: "There was no tenner only a fiver."
A negro bought a piece of hain but the next day he took it back to the butcher and said:
"Say Boss, dis ham un no good, an' Ah doesn't want it!” -
The butcher said: "Why, Sambo, of course that ham is good; it was just cured last week."
"Wall. Boss," replied Sambo, "den it done had a relapse."
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Busy housewife, anxiously sur veying the newly-erected aerial in ber garden: "We'll hae to watch what we say the noo, mind, - wi' this wireless!"
"What way ""
They'll hear us!"
Guest (to head waiter). "That ronst is certainly a long time com- ing."
Waiter: "Can you recognize the waiter who's serving you"
Guest: "No-but here's his fin gerprint on the soup dish
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