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ABOVE AND
Home
Maker's
Diary
BELOW.. BY JANET JAY
Problems
of Flat
Dwellers
This space-saving dining corner with upholstered soltio is a practical arrangement for the living room.
HE mere fact of living in a flat seems to me to create its own special home-making problems. First, there is a lect- nique in making the most of Hmiled space, and, second, one Owes a
to one's definite duly neighbour.
Let's look at the details which can develop into minor annoyances The common staircase, for exninple. Unless this is cleaned by the landlord, come to an arrangement, with the other tenants about the daily or weekly cleaning, each tenant being responsible for it for a week, turn about.
And if you have to store to pram in the hall, find a corner where others are not liable to fall over it
Tidy Entrance
Again, it is hardly fair to other tenants to leave an array of un- washed milk bottles outside one's door, waiting for collection.
A sensible idea which I noticed in one of the new blocks of flats was A little wooden locker outside each front door, large enough to take two or three milk bottles, with enough room over
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for the baker to leave a loaf. It struck mo as an iden worth copying.
Disposing of kitchen rubbish is an other problem. Some of the new finis have rubbish chutes, but if you keep n cavered bin (you can buy this in enamel with n pedal opener and n carrying handle), the refuse can be carried down to the inalt dustbin without damage to stair coverings,
Neighbourly Noise
Notse deserves a enpital letter. Here, ngain, it is only fair to your neigh- bours to make it a rule to turn off the wireless before midnight, and if you have a piano, stand it on glass castor cups.
These net as insulators, and they prevent a good deal of sound from being heard below.
And this reminds me about prac. tang If you confine the children's practice to half an hour at lanchime you won't have tired husbands com. plaining of scales at night.
Floors in houses which have been converted to flats are not usually sound-proof, but carpets help to deaden sound, especially if you have a thick felt or underlay beneath.
Volcen from below are not heard no distinctly when the floors are covered
in this way, and the underlay both
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Atul the appearance Improves lengthens the life of the carpets.
This brings me to the special problemą one comes up against in furnishing à flat. More especially if you have a family and one room may have to do the work of two.
There is usually one living room into which you have to fit a table for meals. A little dining corner is a practical way of solving this difficulty.
An upholstered settle which will seat three people at the anglo of the wall, the table is placed against it, and you can put two or three chairs round the outside.
If the room la email, dispenso witli a sideboard, and have Instead a trolley which includes a cullery drawer; keep it in klichen or hall when not in use
Trolley Table
One fitted with flaps which open out so that the trolley can be used as a ten or supper table is useful in n flat.
When planning bedrooms for chil dren It is a good plan to instal gas or electric fires, and to provide a table on! which they can do their homework away from the disturbing talk in the living room.
A play corner could, however, be arranged in the living room for tha tiny children. This might have a linoleum dado, partly for chalking and partly as a protection for the walls. A low, built-in toy cupboard would also be useful,
In the Background
It is sometimes a puzzle to know how to keep the evidences of cook- ing and washing out of the other romna flat, but draught-rxcluding material often does the trick.
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There is a new one which acts as an airtight seal and is easy to fix. The width for the top and sides costs 2d, n foot. A wider plece to go along, the base of the door is Ed, a foot. It would also be an advantage to have a spring Btting on the Inside, so that the door closes automatically.
Built-in kitchen cupboards are especi- ally practical for the small flat kitchen- ette. Some'ingenuity is also needed in planning the larder.
One way of keeping perishables fresli in to put the ment-safe outside the klichen window. There are outdoor safes and galvanised roofs which are
Rhubarb Ginger
IF you like ginger flavour, try this preserve, made with 3b, rhubarb, 216. sugar, fo2. crystallised ginger, joz. root ginger, one lemon.
Cut the washed rhubarb into small pieces, put it on to a large dish and sprinkle it with the sugar and grated lemon rind. Leave overnight.
Next day, put the contents into a pan, add the root ginger tied in a mus- in bag, and the lemon juice.
Bring to the bail, and continue to boil until a litle will set in a cold SAUCer Pour into pots and sent.
completely weather-proof ventilated on all three sides.
and
Unless you have other arrange- ments for storing coals, a small galvanised bunker to hold from 0110 to threo hundredweight answers well in a flat. Choose one with a sliding door in the base-st makes the filling of scuttles so much easier-and stand it near the kitchen door,
Laundry is high up and out of the way if you dry it on a celing clothes alrer, and ad hot air rises. It will dry quickly.
UNUSUAL JAMS SOME INDIAN RECIPES
you are tired of the usual stock preserves, try these jams as we prepare them in India. No great skillfu 'cookery is needed to prepare them.
My native cook from Bombay pre- pares our cherry jam as follows:-ite stones the cherries, then cracks the stones and extracts the kernels which he adds to the jam. This imparts a delightful flavour.
Woman's Wear poured into
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sweet, 100 striking, you did right to choose the other; personally, I ilke to wear what everyone else is wearing."
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to prepared of sugar and water
then the sweetness that is liked, stoned Fruit is added. The whole is minutes only, then boiled for len
bowl and left for twenty-four hours. Next day syrup is trained off and bolled up again, and the fruit added and boiled for a further ten minutes. Pot when cold. To each pound weight of stoned cherries allow half a pound
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of sugar and about one gll of water. In the Calcutta district banana and
"Oh, so do I. then one is sure of not grapefruit jam is popular nlmost the feeling silly."
whole year round. Here is the way the native cooks prepare it:-
These remarks come from two me business girls standing behind the other day, and serve to emphasise a fact that women are dressing to look more and more like each other and incidentally, less feminine and "Individual,"
Last summer, for instance, there was a long procession of "Swaggers." This summer every second woman in sult-or 1123- wearing a holiday romatic flannel or tweed consisting of extremely short jacket and too- light skirt. Why should a girl "ferl silly" because she is dressed differ- ently and more attractively than her friends?"
It is more or less assumed by wo- men, that men dislike being with one who is conspicuously at tired, but this applies only when it is unharmonious conspicuity;
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piel: mediately notes,"
im- cannot out the "wrong
Individuality is Admired
Must men, however, are proud and pleased at the approval and admira- toa necorded a feminine companion whose clothes not only look suitable, but charmingly "different" as well. How do one or two women achieve this delightful "difference" in their apparel? Most likely it is by their always dressing to their own particu- lur type.
hen, materials-why this craze Then, for serviceable cloths in deab colour- ings for town wear? Femininity has with soft always been associated "feminine materials"-slik, taffcta, velvet, luce, yet these cloths, if they are worn, are coveted by uninterest- I coats or suits.
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In my opinion woman's wear wearisome, but it will not let us hope--always
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her with innate "clothics- intelligence and sense," she may one day desert the Legion of All-alikes.
Wise Wives Are Methodical
ANY young women tremble at through each room systematically, the thought of managing a home so that you leave a trail of bright- after years of going to business ness in your walce. every day. They do not realize that having to conferim to an office routine
long has made SO
them methodieal. In this way they have a
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May-Emerold or Chrysoprase. June-Pearl or Moonstone. July-Ruhy or Carnelian. August-Peridot or Sardonyx.
September-Sapphire or
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October Opal.
November-Topaz. December-Turquoise.
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In compiling the new Birthstone Committee have had re-
Budget, Housekeeping Money
Now for the most important rule of all. Keep a home budget, Have un recount book in which you ehter Arrange It, if you can, so that on up everything you spend, and keep washing day you have only to tidy it always on the kitchen dresser, 50
usually decited advantage over their stay-at- and the minimum of cooking to that you can see at a glance exactly
do. As Monday
chosen where you are being too extravagant home sisters, for method is half the for washing day, it is easy to serve and where you are being rather battle to running a house.
cold meals with the remainder of clever about saving the pennies. Even in the smallest house it is the week-end diches.
Two small boxes should adorn your possible to muddle through the day,
should contain your working continuously yei making For your supplies buy meat, fish, dresser. One
fund, and 14 regular little, impression. A sound vegetables, fruit, bread, and dairy emergency very piece of advice, therefore, is to wail produce as you need them, and only amount, no matter how small, should until your husband leaves home be as much as you need. Then nothing be put In It every week. You will fore you begin the day's work. Sit will be wasted. But keep your stores be very thankful for it one day when a little while over your breakfast. of dry goods, such as sugar, ten, sult, something unexpected turns up. The and relux.
pepper, and potatoes, replenished as other one is your penny box. In it gard for all traditional lists, and
Before you put on your apron, they run low so that you do not have at night must go all the coppers from fact the have taken into arcount
plan of compaign. First de- to be always hurrying to the nearest your purse. The money will buy you or the house a lovely present that up to 50, years ago technical
Fix a time shop at the last minute.
In a month' time, or perhaps help knowledge was very alight and cer- cide the day's menus.
A young housewife should try not you to balance your budget! tain stones were classified more on when the food is to be put on and, above all, keep to it. Now allot
Go about your household duties in the account of their colour than for any yourself one extra job in addition to to get into the slack way of 'phoning
be for provisions and relying on other reason. Because of this,
which "send for orders" just such a businesslike manner as office tuin anomalies have arisen from time your day's routine. This can
drawingroom washing the
paint, stores to time, which have now been
turning out a cupboard, or cleaning By personal shopping she will have you prided yourself in your
cooking is not always as good as you moved.
would like. Remember that you It is interesting to note that, when cake tins. Whatever it is, the habit a wider choice, and will be able to days, and do not get flustered if your completed, the new Birthstone List of performing an extra insk every find out what is in season.
Save money by acquiring the habit are widening your experience with
Do your best in was found to agree in every particu-duy will ensure your home always
being scrupulously fresh and clean.
of making "bits" Into soups and tasty each mistake. Jar with the standard American
savouries. Odd pieces of cheese can methodical manner and your new Birthstone List, and also with the 1st Systematic Cleaning
be transformed into delicioous welsh home is sure to be a credit to you most commonly used in France. It
Let the motto for the morning's rarebit,' and left-over fish conjured and a joy to live in..
Jean-Scott differs in two particulars from the
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To two good sized grapefruit allow slx full sized bananas, and two pounds of sugar. Cut each grapefruit in half-across the sections preferably. Now scoop out the pulp juice, and this pulp. extract any pips. Put with a little of the rind and the sugar into a pan of water, and ball slowly for about thirty minutes. Allow two pints of water-soft water if you can get it in a clean state.
When boiling pour off a little of' the liquid into another pan, drop in the slicet buanos and boil for ten minutes. Now put the bananas and the grapefruit and all the juice into the jam one pan, and boil until forms a jelly on the spoon when little is lifted out.
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By way of flavouring, add a pinch of ground ginger or nutmeg to the pulp during the last boiling. Cinna- mon may be used in place of ginger or nutmeg, if preferred.
Date and Pineapple Jam
While in Madras I,tasted a delight- ful preserve made from date and pineapple. It possessed a flavour ali its own, so now my own cook makes; it every year, for we entertain quite a lot, and the preserve seems to please everybody.
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The ingredients include pounds of dates, one pineapple-fresh or canned and two pounds of loat sugar.
Wash the dates well, then stone them and cut lengthwise, then in- slice the pineapple. Pour all,
a cluding the pineapple syrup, into preserving pan, together with the cupfuls of cold sugar and three water. Boil for thirty minutes, then allow to simmer till the pineapple is thoroughly tender, but not mushy. before Leave the preserve to cool attempting to seal the jars, then it keeps good for a long time.
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SUNBATHINGFOR CHILDREN
By a NURSE
MOTHERS are becoming more and
more alive to the great benefit to be gained from sun bathing. The ultra-violet rays from the sun upon a substarice found in the skin which under the sun's rays is changed into Vitamin D. This is valuable, for and the blood IL circulates in nourishes and strengthens the tissues of the body.
So the baby whose skin has been sun-tanned will oscape many troubles
fortunate to which his less panions may succumb.
Com-
But sun bathing must not be begun suddenly, or rushed at Indiscriminate- ly or serious harm may come of it. femember it is the light and not the of the sun which will beneat treat
the toddler. The most baby or health-giving rays the ultra-violet rays are found in the early morn Ing sunshine. Therefore, the best time for sunbathing is between 9 a.m. and 10 am. Avoid the period be- tween 11am. und 3 p.m., which is usually the hottest part of the day.;
Sun bathing must be begun very slowly and gradually. The arst day baby's feel only may be exposed for three to five minutes. Next day ex- pose the legs, then in the days follow- ing. the hunds and arms also. But head is always be sure that the protected. When the legs and arms have been gunned for some days and have become tanned, it baby seems to be benefitting, he should then be allowed to lie on his front in a shad- ed part of the garden, so that ble back and legs have the sunlight on them for a few minutes. Never try to give him too much sun, but crease his time of exposure gradual- ly, and lie should soon be able to be in the sun for as long as half an hour, though his position should be changed from time to time. If he continues to do well from his Bun- baths, he can have another on sunny days after four in the afternoon,
Toddlers should first be accustom- ed to fresh air playing on their bodies before they begin any sun bathing. During the early months of the year It is good to give them a run round the nursery, before they are dressed. As the weather improves, you can open the windows.
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