THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1937.
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your
·OU can develop or reduce almost any part of body with exercises, but the most difficult of all is
Correct breathing exercises will help to develop the chest, but the real difficulty arises when you try to reduce the bust or improve one that has lost its firmness and become flat as a result of having babies. In this case the old saying about "Prevention being better than cure" is very true.
Unless, you wear proper support while you are having the baby and during the period afterwards until you regain your figure, The only thing you can do, then you will lose it for good.
is to wear a bust bodice that gives you uplift support and do exercises which will tend to im- prove the condition, but these cannot actually give you back your figure.
It is the greatest pity that the medical profession will not give their mind sufficiently to helping
their mothers retain figures.
IN
trying to develop the
taken not to massage or rub the actual breasts. The reason for this is that careless or rough handling may bruise the breast and even set up an abscess.
It is, however, perfectly safe to massage the neck and upper part of the chest just below the clavicle, or collar-bone, with a good nourishing cream or tissue oil.
A rubber nail-brush is good for the purpose of rubbing in the oil as it stimulates the circulation quickly and easily without much effort, Rub the brush in circular and upward strokes.
A good time to rub in the oil or cream is just after your bath. Dry thoroughly afterwards to remove any traces of oil, and then
douch the bust
with a rubber sponge and Cool water.
The rubber sponge will help to tone up the muscles without hurling the, breasts,
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breathing exercises will go a long way towards developing the bust. They are done as follows:
They can be done either lying in bed or lying on the floor. In either case there should be enough cushions to support the body at an angle of 45 degrees.
Lie straight, with your shoulders
Rheumatism
and
Malignancy
Page For Women
These Exercises will Improve
your Figure
Says JANE GORDON
well back, hands placed on the sides
Next, breathe in three disifact for
bust
development is
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ratac the upper part of the thorax,
20 timer.
These two exercises should be pre- ceded and followed by douching the bust with cold water and a stiff rub- ber sponge to tone up the muscles.
W
HE.N the bust has lost it s firmness and is inclined to be flat, the exercises above and douching with a rubber sponge will help to make the bust firmer.
It is parti- cularly im- portant to wear a brassiere that
gives the cor-
rect uplift sup- port.
When you have expanded your dominal wall inwards. Do this 18 20 lower Tibs as fully as you can, times. breathe out through the mouth. Do
A reducing soap can be used for the breasts only, and a re- of your nose and you will feel your movements, expanding the tower follows: lower ribs expanding strongly. Keep ribs with
Stand erect near the open window, ducing vinegar can be made by ench breath.. Let the shoulders well back, heels about 3in. atlding one part toilet vinegar to your upper chest as still as possible, breath out by contracting the ab- apart, arms out at shoulder height, two parts rose water, mixing well A pad palins upwards, and twirl the arms together and bottling.
times backwards and 20 times forwards, keeping the action in the of cotton wool can be soaked in this and dabbed on the breasts shoulder joints.
Next breathe deeply enough to night and morning.
this 18 times.
Five
Another exercise that is good
recipes for
Lemon Chiffon Pie
4 cogo, cup granulated sugar, juice and grated rind of 1 lemon.
PEAT egg yolks slightly, add sugar, Jin double boiler until thick, stirring constantly. Beat whites of 2 eggs very stiff and fold into cooked mix- ture, pour into baked 9-inch pastry sheli. Top with balance of cus
By Family Doctor whites, beaten stiff, add 1/3 cup of
A READER has. asked
me to "say something cheerful about rheumatism." But a physician who is too cheerful and optimistic about his patient's aches and pains is apt to be unpopular, A decent- ly sober demeanour is indicated one is confronted with when the infamed visage of a gouty aubject or grasps the gnarled hand of chronic rheumatism.
MY
TY reader asks whether
a tendency to rheu-. matism โป not a safeguard against malignant growths.
Now many beliefs of this kind have solid facts behind them; others are founded on coincidence or imagination. ·
One heard some years, ago that the Jewish race was prac- tically free from tuberculosis. But the children born from a generation who had sojourned in the overcrowded, unhealthy conditions of London's East End succumbed to this malady Bs easily as did their Christian neighbours.
Rheumailsm, alas, is no proof against cancerous growths. “One has seen the some patient badly afflicted with both in spite of overy caro,
On the other hand, there is no rauson why a healthy stock with a good family history should not be free from new Mrowths either benign or mall- Enant. They may however, endure storimalle puina di berilego from their high fiving forebears, or from malnutri lion..
fruit sugar to egg whites, pile lightly on pie, brown in slow oven about 12 minutes. (Regulo mark 2.)
RICH CANADIAN PIES
Try one of these Delicious Dishes when you want Something Specially Good for
Lunch or Dinner.
Pumpkin Pie
4 teaspoonful ginger,
1/4 teaspoonful cinnamon.
2 eggs.
3 teaspoonful solt.
1⁄4 teaspoonful nutmeg.
1
cups brown stigar.
11⁄2 cups canned pumpkin.. 24 cup milk.
LUNCH MENU
Smoked Salmon Rolls.
Savoury Stuffed Vegetable Marrow.
Fresh Jellied Peaches.
PUT slices of smoked salmon on thin slices of crustless brown bread and butter. Sprinkle with cayenne and lemon juice, und make into rolls, Serve on lettuce leaves,
Peel a young vegetable marrow, cut in half lengthwise and remove the seeds. Fill the centre cavity with minced beef mixed mixed with a little breadcrumb, seasoned with a teaspoonful of herbs,
sprig of chopped parsley, salt, pepper, and molstened with- good gravy. Replace the top half of the marrow and tle together with string.
Put into a baking tin with plenty of dripping and bake slowly for about an hour or until the marrow is tender, basting several- times. Serve whole with thick brown gravy,
For the sweet, prel whole fresh peaches, make a slit one side, remove the stones, and put a teaspoonful of raspberry jam in their place. Put Into Individual glasses, and set in some reaspberry jelly, chilling it possible.
HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.
THE SOCIETY ASKS FOR
$25,000
in 1937 to continuo its work for sick and
destitute children.
Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. A. McKELLAR, O.A..
c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co.,
P. & O. Building.
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,
Hongkong.
November 18, 1036.
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IX spices, sugar, salt and pump-
kin, add beaten
Apple Pie with 'Cheese Pastry
4-6 apples (thin-
ly sliced).
} tablespoonful
butter.
eggs and 1lb. pastry milk, pour into unbaked pastry shell, which
(to
cup
Bake in hot oven 400 deg.. F., 20 grated Cheddar minutes, reduce heat (to about 325
pund continue baking for
and
with sweetened whipped cream.
LINE
cheese is add-
ed along with the shorten- (ny).
1⁄4 cup sugar.
1 teaspoonful cinnamon Or
nutmeg.
a nine-inch pie plate with
deg. F.) (or Regulo mark 6 through-. pastry rolled -Inch thick. 40 Moisten edges with water, fill pie minules. Cool serve topped shell with apples, sprinkle with sugar and spice, dot with butter. Adjust top crust, which has incisions in centre permit escape of steam. Brush with milk or beaten egg while. Bake in hot oven (475deg. F.) 15 minutes, reduce to moderate oven for 35 minutes (or Regulo mark o throughout).
Butterscotch Pie.
1 cup brown sugar.
I cup scalded milk.
11⁄2 teaspoonful salt.
2 egg yolks.
2 egg whites.
1 teaspoonful vanilla.
/4 cup boiling water.
3 tablespoonsfut cornstarch.
1⁄2 cup milk (cold).
2 tablespoonsful butter.
4 tablespoonsful fruit sugar.
Coconut Cream Pie
1/3 cup cake flour.
Va
salt,
teaspoonful 2
2 eggs volks well
beaten.
4
te a spoonful vanilla.
J,
tablespoonsful
sugar.
CARMELIZE one cup of sugar, add 1⁄2 teaspoonful
4-cup bolling water. When smooth add slowly to the hot milk.
vanilla,
1⁄2 cup sugar. cups milk,
acalded.
desic-
1 cup ested coconut.
1 baked 9in.
pastry shell.
2 egg whites
stiffly beaten. and salt, add Mix cornstarch, cold milk, and salt MX four, sugar,
milk. Cook in double boiler and add to beaten egg yolks. Add until thickened,, stirring constantly. hot milk very slowly, beating vigor- Pour small amount of mixture over ously. Return to stove, cook until 88 yolks, stirring vigorously. Re- turn to double boiler and cook 10 thick, add butler. Cool and add minutes longer, add coconut, and vanilla. Turn into baked crust, vanilla. Cool and pour into ple beat egg whites until very silf, add shell. Fold sugar into stiffly beaten fruit suger. Cover pie and bake 48g whiles, add vanilin. Pite lightly over coconut Aling. Bake in slow until lightly brown in slow
oven oven (300 deg. F.) 12 minutes or un- about 12 to 15 minutes. Regulo il delicate brown. (Regulo innrk mark 2.)
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