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WINTER
CLOTHES
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for the Children
a mother who finds that her child catches cold' canity and that from autumn to late spring he passes from one cold to another, my advice musi always be on the lines of building up strong bodily resistance.
Though remedies for a cold may be necessary once the trouble Ima-de- veloped, the important point is no to strengthen the chiki thất he does not fall an easy prey to the germ of the common cold
This is done by giving a nourishing diet suitable to the season and by clothing the child in such a way that the body is neither over-heated nor easily chilled, for in either state the chiki is aprecially liable to infection.
I am replying here to a number of queries received recently regarding the matter of winter clothling. First, how- ever, I would remind readers that three layers of Hght wool clothing in the ideal winter wear for babies and young children,
In the case of the latter, 11 Is wise to keep a light wool cardigan handy for extra cold days,
For Schoolgirls
My little girl wears a Nannel blouse with gym, slip and knickers in winter, And that she wears out the knickers quickly unless I buy an extra large size, and they look bulky,
1 CAN recommend the Chliprufe gym. Knickers because they are cut with
a clever gunset which relieves strain on the parts which went quickly.
There is no unnecessary fullncas about them, however, to give a bulky effect under the slip. The price is
from 4. d. for light-weight, and 14 extra for the heavier weight, in navy, brown and bottle green. Bedtime Wear
I am undecided as to whether my little girl, aged 3, should wear night- dresses or sleeping-suits this winter. She is not strong-
NTIL a child reaches the stage of proper control at night, '1 wisest to let her wear nightdresses,
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NURSERY EXPERT
which can he rolled to at the back Once good habits have been learned I advise steeping-suits with a back nap and fastening at the back. These are cosy and practical for restless children who tend to throw of the covers.
A comfortable, warm model is to be -bought with feet at tached; so many children nuller from cold feet at night that this extra covering is bound to be popular.
wam cardigan for extra cold days should be included in the schoolgirl's winter wardrobe.
Like Daddy's
Jitterto my littic son has worn combina- flons in winter, but he is now four and agzious to have eats and short pants like his father. Can I buy these in his size?
PRACTICAL Ittle gar ments of the type you mention can be obtakied. They are made With both
long and short
aleeves, knee length or with £1 1-horl ribbed Ind with Entioned "DI ETOSS-OVEr front for the
Janis.
You will see, therefore. that there is plenty of. variety from which to, make your choice even at your son's tender age. 1
Conversation at Meals
DOES your conversation
Bullon-up pyjamas that koop out tho draught for Miss Ton Yoars Old. Hor sister likes hor noat filling gym. knickers. On the loft you sao thom going to school in warm, but light- woight, costs.
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suggest your buying the ghter weight as he feels the cold so little. You will know then that bo
is ruficiently pro- tected without be ing over-clothed.
Cosy Baby
A friend has TC- commended 17/ buying a sleeping- bag instead of a shawl for my first baby,
NLEEPING-BAGS aro coming more and more into favour, because they are practical and give protection to young babies who are inclined to kick the covers off and invite a chili.
They are easily washed even in winter and keep both hands and feet warm and cosy.
Also, an the hands are enclosed in the roony bag there is no inducement for the child to begin the bad habit of thumb-sucking. They are made in pretty pastel colours.
Anyone thinking OF buying an attractive and useful present for n young mother could not do better than choose one.
Shut-In's Fear
Two months ago my Ave-year-old shut a door behind him and could not furn the handle again. Since then Je has been nervous if left alone. SMALL people are easily terrified if
They dink that they are ahut in alone, and even grown-ups get panicky under like circumstances
Make a game now at turning door. linndies with this child and be on the
River Traffic
May Be Suspended
Fees For Pilotage Discussed
Canton, Nov. 20. River truffe was normai to-day,
at menl Don't arrange anything formal times teach your children any-about the conversation. A child who thing? Or Is It confined to grumbles is not unduly repressed at meal-times, about the bacon and remarks on Mrs. will often ask a question which, it B's new bat?
answered intelligently, will lead to hit it is reported in shipping circles a talk in which all can take an in-that there may be a suspension after
December 1. terested part.
No one expects modern parents to act on the lines of those Victorian
watch for opportunities * you can tell him to open the defor Mum. male, please."
He will soon forget,bout the incident if you never refel it beyond saying that some door-len are a little REIT.
Extra Protection
Since the birth of our dịchild two vegra ago, I have suffered in neuritis at the base of the spine.e doctor tell me that I must takercautions to keep the lumber repid protected from cold this winter. sd wear body-bells in wool?
INFORTUNATELY indbody-belta
tend to wrinkle and up, which spalls the good lines of 's figure. I can recommend one je of belt which is planned to ill vejnugly.
It would be specially had for you, ns it follows the line of tipine.
Growing Daughter
My daughter, opēd 11,0 big airt for her age, and I feel të she needs Boric kind of support. lat do you suggest?
ADVISE a strapped of bodien for Lila child. These made on correct anatomical linț and give gentle support where neki.
The garment that I describing 12ns a concealed open in front which gives a tidy sprance; the butions are so adjustedlát they are not easily lost.
TOASTLORE
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RUTTERING toal for large family can be de a long job, but why not try ming the butter and applying it to toast with a pastry brush? In way the job Is done in no time.j
you are slimdg, allow your toast to cool beforsittering it.
Toast can formhe basis of all kinds of interestinjinacks,
Try frying at mushrooms in butler. Place the on a slice of butlered toast endurround with a border of mashed ɔtato, and serve piping hot.
Here is anotha Idea:-Toust piere of bread on & side only. On the other sprinkle ated cheese and place under the gr till the cheese is melted, then litywo sardines on top. Sprinkle wi more grated cheese, and placender the grill again for one minu and serve im mediately.
Even our old friel, egg on toast, becomes more intesting when it appears as "bird's it." As before, tourl the bread on side only, and on the other pile up stiffly beaten white of egg, Makd 'hollow in the centre, and into thiitop, the yolk. Place all under the 4r in a warm oven for a few minúsļtill the eɛs is set.
Olive Oil Ideas
OLIVE oil is a good remedy for a burnt saucepan. Just pour 21 Ultle in the bottom and gently heat it, and you will And all the burnt will come, off without leaving any. mark whatever. Rust can be re- neved from fron utensils by rubbing hard with a mixture of olive oll and fine coul asli.
Backs of ebony brushes should be rubbed with olive oil before being washed. This prevents the wood from becoming under-nourished and liable to split.
Ornaments or brush-backs made of tortoiseshell can be cleaned with n little olive oll. Afterwards polish with a soft duster,
Try
soaking your nails in olive oll if they are inclined to become brittle. Wipe of surplus oil, but a little can be left on all night.
Olive oil is good for preserving leather. An application on the hood of a perambulator will do much to prolect it against the weather.
Give your husband's patent leather shoes a weekly dressing with olive oll. It will prevent cracks and make existing ones much less obvious,
After washing down glossy paint- work with soup and water rub a cloth dipped in olive oil over it. This will make the surface have its original polished
appearance, und avold smeariness.
Linoleum will last much longer if you rub it occasionally with a rag dipped in olive oil. It also restores polish to tables marked by hot dishes. First paint the marks with spirits of nitre, then apply the olive all und polish.
Always clean your Incquered trays with olive oil. It washed with soap and water they become marked with numerous erngks. Rub in the olive ol well for several minutes. then pollsh with a clean, dry cloth.
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application of olive oil, fol- lowed by a cont of lodine will often prevent a bruise becoming stiff and swollen.
Olive off waligns the hands If you apply it before retiring at night. Leave It on all night and wear a pair of old gloves, Olive oil is a remedy for insomnia. A teaspoonful should be taken before bedtime. It calms the nerves and muscles of the stomach, It is good for a sore throat or hoarseness. Take a teaspoonful neat or in a little orange juice.
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Novel Uses For Ham Scraps
HOWEVER carefully ham is carved
there are always scrups left over. A tasty way of using them is to mince them finely and add a thick brawn sauce made with an ounce of butter and flour to a gill of brown 'stock,
Season with pepper but no salt, and pile the mixture on to rounds of hot buttered toast. K liked, a ponched egg can be slipped on top of the ham.
The minced scraps can also be wed as a filling for potatoes or to- matoes. If potatoes are used, roast them first-in-their-sking,- cut-them-In- half lengthways, scoop out a little of the potato and mix with the ham. Use this to fill the cavities, then re- turn the halved potatoes to the oven
for about ten minutes until the All-
ing is well heated. Tomatoes can be filed raw and roasted with the hain inside, since they only take a short time to cook.
Yet another method is to bake the Cinnamon toast is vourite in scraps in a custard made with three
Add a chop America. Mix three blepoonfuls egg and a pint of milk. of butter with threeltalespoonfuls of brown sugar until clamy, then work in one tablespoof of cinta- mo. Spread this on ts of toast and put under grili un sugar is melted. Serve at once.
N. B.
Honey on toast is defous, but the toast should not be altered in this case, if you are to at the full flavour of the honey, with should It is said that the suspension will not be sprend too thickly who gave parents
requirement of the A world-famous fight ean be the be due to the whole history of salt mining when means of awakening
vita military authorities that river com-
panies should pay for the expenses suspension of the le innocently inquired where salt interest in geography.
Railway, of the pilols who gulde the ships came from.
little Henry
4 TROFE
A brave deed can sür admiring through the boom at Second Bar and But It is possible to hold a conver-enthusiasm into a desire to behave the mine fields at Bocca Tigris. About eight pilots are doing The sation at tea time which will give in equally heroic fashion should op working at considerable expense to the children something to think, as [portunity arise. well as tolk, about. Very often if
ped, fried onion as well und season with pepper. This makes a novel dish for lunch or supper and is sure of a welcome,
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Entertaining Ideas
intelligent choice of food plays
an important part in the house- wife's role of hostess.
She must know what types of food to serve on many different occasions, Conti-Kowloon and be able to devise meals to suit
the varied Lastes of her. guests.
A
book
which will save the hostess These steamers also cry more
many anxlous moments has recently been published. Written by Eliza- cargo transhipped from Ingkong to Canton, as few coasting ramers go beth Hughes Hallett, it is entitled Canton-Hongkong or up to Canton. Every ip on the Bizabeth Hallett's Hostess Book," Caton-Macao) and is published by the Moray Press. run is heavily loaded on ich voyage | The price is 10s. 6d. and takes the business joyed by Ments ranging from formal dinners It fees are wanteil for the service coasting vessels. The ado-China, to plenie lunches are planned, and a child mentions at interesting fact;
intelligent child to a search in each made. All the steamship coinpantes maning steamed up rive and dis- dishes are given.
of the pilots, arrangement can be coasting steamer Kwai ang this recipes for appetising and unusual he has learned at school, he gets day's paper for something worthy of are doing better business during the charged her cargo on lights at Llen absent-minded, "Yes, darling, I be the name, and perhaps the grown-past three months owing to the heavy Fa Shun. love it is," from behind the ten-pot may learn as much from it as refugees from Shanghai to Canton. exodus from Canton and return of or a grunt from the other end of the the children. table.
Conversation which will lead an
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the milliary authorities.
River steamers are carrying passengers owing to the
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authores suggests that the buffet supper is the simplest solution to the entering problem for the many Japanese destroyer No. was a social events throughout the year. more chocd this morning only ve miles
Creamed sweetbread paste, minced frequest beyond the Bocca Tigris Ighthouse chicken, and celery moistened with instead of her usual nncirage off mayonnaise are suggestions for sand- the Chek Wan Temple; ght miles wiches, which are an important purt down the delta and near Ctle Peak. of the buffet supper. She followed the Fatshoiup river The success of the buffet table, says yesterday morning but støjjed at her Elizabeth Hallett, depends on a glit- present anchorage-Speck
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tering array of creams and jellies. Prislu of place should be given to trific, which must be carefully pre- pared. The spongecake should be thoroughly soaked in sherry or fruit Julee. Then it should be spread with Jam, and the lañas crumbled so that they will absorb the wise when It is poured over. A good pouring eng custard is better than the puw-
dere: variety, as it soaks into the spongecake more easily,
Elizabeth Hallett deplores the dis- appearance of porridge from the mo- dern breakfast table.
She suggest new associates for the perennial bacon and eggs. Apples, cored and cut into rings and fried, or pineapple; wheels, banana alices, almilarly treated, make tasty accom- and savoury paniments. Waffles batter pancake are other suggestions.
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