Her
shoes
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1988.
1. She keeps them in shape by fitting them
on trees
SHOE cupboards
need
shuffling to meet the coming rains. And the way we step depends on our shoes,
from
egg
2. She watches her heels
OND shoo generally wears down first
BIT TO
CUT OUT
Peppermint Creams
[NGREDIENTS: 1lb. icing;
white ok sugar, little cream of tartar,
otte,
Good service results regular attention, no matter how wise or well-fitting our choic may be. Suitably dressed leathers stand up to storm and tough wear, but im- poverished constitutions rarely peppermint essence. resist them for long. Moral-Method: Crush the sugar until don't overwork your footwear- quite free from lumps and pass alternate daily duties between it through a sieve. Add the white. two or more pairs so they have to egg, cream of tartar, and a tablespoon of water, and work a chance to recuperate. Those with a wooden spoon until smooth in-between treatments, when and pliable. shoes are off-duty, balance up the account.
I
.
3. She stops squeaks by rub- bing French chalk along the
scams
will
wear well
Milk, too, is an excellent polish for patent leather, but white shoe cream that is enriched with linseed oil is good food and sim- ple to apply.
Slightly warm some cream, then mix in half the measure in warmed linseed oil, and store in a jar ready for action. Apply with a soft rag, and polish with extra soft dusters.
Sudden contraction between sole and Intersole causes that squeak which haunts us occasionally-usually the aftermath of sitting near the fire with damp shoes. Rub French chalk along the seams dally for a bit, allowing the fine powder to penetrate the seaming, and the skin gradually smooths down in tread.
4. But this tac-toaster will discover when it's too late that hoat causes shrinkage
orc
many and Evening shoes
or tinsel varied, but metal kid brocades are well to the fore. Gold or silver kid must be kept in black tissue wrappings to preserve lustre, but it may be occasionally sponged with small wads of cotton wool ani carefully dipped in soap-suds dried.
creams
Conditioning
containing metal dust are sold for these shoes, which re-surface and feed the len- ther, too. They are quick to apply and prolong the life of these slippers very considerably.
DRY cleaning is best for tinsel materials, as these can be renovated with fine magnesia powder, which costs a few pence from the chemist. In- cidentally, this powder comes in
for equally well
freshening white fur evening coats, so it earns its keep.
shoes by wadding Revive salin with rotary motion, and they soon need little maintenance beyond re-
is quickly regular creaming. Special cleaners them with tissue paper and brush- disappear. Colour
soup-suda. with wariD sold for light skins, beenuse ing lightly
then stored by one of the popular wet or are
these tend to lose colour and turn a Work the way of the grain,
rinse, dry and brush with a cleon dry cleaners.
dull brown. When past their prime, suede
similar weight satin to renew the
аге dyes
obtainable Patent shoes should given gloss. Satin shoes can be rubbed with polish In. the ordinary way. when they will thorough feeding before they are for evening shoes, but professional n assumc quite a respectable gloss, taken into usc. Slightly warmed treatment is inexpensive these days, | WATER stains have
way of developing in which improves with each applica- vaseline smeared round the uppers and much surer.
and there are too few to go round.
at night protects the varnish tion. or badly wetted shoes, Watch heel wear, too, as one foot sodden
Reptile shoes, though rather less prevents early cracking, Hemove harder than the that have been insufficiently popular, are very hard wearing, and and polish heartily in the morning. frequently wears other, and may need strengthening. dried. Warmth from the foot
Taking good fit and comfort for granted--though these lend poise and confidence beyond reckoning eur first duty is to keep shoes in shape. As they slip off, warm from into well-made our feet, at them
dummies trees, Foot
pre excellent, but the toe and heel kind are better than nothing. You can pad the toes of light pumps or indoor slippers if
Then add peppermint essence.I drop by drop, to taste, turn on to a marble slab dusted with icing and knead for some sugar. minutes. Cover with greaseproof hour. paper and stand for one Roll out to Vin. thick and cut into rounds. Leave for about thirty-six hours to harden. llllll
HEAT, damp, and strong loosens the dye or tanning, and sunlight are leather causes patchy stains which are worst enemies, and in addition, extremely difficult to deal with. shoes frequently have to contend Prevention is always more prac with perspiration acids.
too, if
tical than doubtful cure, CJ-
be
Tell me,
doctor.
•
I don't
like using strong fluids — disinfectents that stain and smell strongly of chemicals. Isn't there an antiseptic for intimate personal use that's pleasant. as well as reliable?
For personal hygiene, for fastidious cleanliness use 'Dettol so clean, so clear, so pleasant that it might have been made At the end of a expressly for irreproachable freshness.
long, long search for a formula deadly to germs yet bland on body tissues-Dettol has been found. 'Disinfectant, deodorant--a highly efficient killer of gems-it is yet so dainty that it can stain neither linen nor your skin. Entirely non- poisonous and hygienic-it will keep you immaculate
for personal hygienə Your Chemist has fɛ.
Ann Marvel DETTOL
FISH for BREAKFAST
and
pecially when waterproofing BAKED fish. In a buttered HADDOCK steamed in milk in a FINGER-LENGTHS of raw Heat causes shrinkage and cruek-short-circuits the risk of damp. dish put alternate layers of closed pan is good. Sour milk well-dried, egged, crumbed, and Ing: 80 beware-habitual tue toasters and watch shoe storage, waterproofed very easily with special with pepper
Country and sports shoes can be fish and stale bread, seasoned can be used. Kippers soaked over fried in very hot fat go a long way
night in water, well drained in the It should be near radiators
salt and
morning before cooking, are much for little money, since the cheap euts or hot pipes. If you come home leather dubbin, but light town shoes with damp shoes, allow them to dry in kid and finer fenther are more of covered with dots of butter, juieter and go further than if grilled and kinds of fish can be used.
Those of a problem.
out and Moisten with stock made from straight away. us out off steadily in
Kedgeree Is neglected nowadays. a current
of air about in all weathers learn to watch fish-trimmings boiled with the rather
Fritters of nixed fish are easier Flaked fish, chopped hard-boiled near artificial heat, footwear, so I have thon
been treating water which was used for cook- than fish-cakes. Make a stiff white egg, boiled rice, pepper, salt, a little which weakens the leather.
uppers
of my workaday pairs with if they are very wet wipe them spirit-bound dressing, which is very ing the fish. Make a top layer sauce with cornflour, flake the fish milk. Only needs heating in over with a piece of sponge, using easy to apply and highly polishable of dried breadcrumbs. Heat for into it, senson it well, and leave it morning. (The rice must be very Castle
soupsuds for mudmarks, afterwards. The solvent flows even-fifteen minutes in a moderate to set overnight. Then slee it, dry. Specially good with remains then wipe with a cloth and leave to
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and stitching, loven. welts dry thoroughly before brushing and leaving a fine film of protecting polishing with a good shoe cream, grense that hardens for polishing, Heavy leathers need stronger "food" and only needs renewal once from polishes rather than creams, month. which are more suitable for town "promenade" shoes,
the
Suede shoes are warm for brisk. dry days, but they need constant
By the way, there is nothing so grooming. Keep the nap ralsed responsive as a velvet rubber for daily with a rubber brush, and it' polishing leather, especially for the friction more scratchable varieties,
egg-and-breadcrumb it, fry it.
Have you
By
a sore
marks begin to appear MANY people just now
apply a small pad of fine steel wool
are.
complaining about sore throats. These may range from a mild inflammation to severe
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of salt haddock.)
throat?
the
Another form of treatment is by the watery using serum. This is straw-coloured fuld in the blood;
resis-
ii is used for injecting into patients who are suffering from a form of general blood poisoning due to strep. tococel.. consult your doctor, as an early
This
special anti-streptococcus diagnosis is half the battle in
serum has been prepared from cul- cases of bad infection.
cases because the tures or growths of the particular When the tonsils begin to swell, strictest cleanliness and all aseptic discase from which the patient is little points of matter exude from precautions have been taken. Swabs suffering. It contains powerful an- I Still Love to Kiss You Goodnight. F.T.
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tor will take a swab of this matter those in contact with the patient and which increase the sufferer's
the sometimes the cause of the trouble tance and give him or her a chance hove it examined under microscope to ascertain the particu- becomes apparent. A nurse or 10 recover. The serum is injected lar type of infection from which you tococel in her throat without feeling veins in urgent cases.
visitor may be harbouring the strep into the muscles or even Into the .BILLY COTTON'S BAND. ure suffering.
If given in Diphtheria is quito distinct from ill or out of sorts. She may, how- time, there is usually a dramatic other throat germs and the patient ever, have had a sore throat for some improvement; the whole condition definite symptoms. But sare time previously which did not make becoming more normal and the tem- thrants due to streptococcal infec- her feel ll.
perature dropping. JAY WILBUR & HIS ORCH. (ions are not always easy to spot. For the past year or two prontosil Mlider streptococcal Infections
the victim the strepto and similar drugs have been used leave Under the microscope
the treatment of weak. cocel look like little straight links successfully in in a chuin. Some strains of strep streptococcal infections,
of there and atingir, the bloodstreams bony area of the face. Prontosil er tococci arc more virulent than chronte discharging sinuses In
Is the condition is one
simple tonsilitis, gargling has been largely the throat with a weak antiseptic, so that the patient may suffer from sulphanilamide
throat lozenges with disere- blood poisoning, a very serious state used too for haemolytic streptococ- using of affairs indeed.
cal infections in fever after child- tion and rest in bed will bring about birth.
a speedy cure. ISEASES such as scarlet A
of sulphanilamide Liquid nourishment in the form of D'ever, crysipelas or puer has been employed at queen Char- eggs, milk and broths are helpful. peral fever may all be caused by lotte's Hospital with marked success When
when the blood is affected, a streptococcl. In puerperal fever in patients who were gravely ill. change of air, rest and
who have recently had a Not only in streptococcal sore medicines are indicated. For. akin baby may have a sharp rise of tem- throats, but in bronocho-pneumonia blemishes due to streptococcal
and pernture lasting for some days.
endocarditis preparations of teation, treatment by
.a metallic „Doctors and nurses are puzzled sulphonilamide have given great re- colloid injected at regular intervals and anxious as to the source of in- lief,
gives good results.
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