SUN HIGH!
-but Janet Jay suggests ways to keep the house fresh and cool inside
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URING eloso and sultry weather, It's nice to come home (after a hot day at work to a cool house. But real cool- ness inside is a big problem, especially in those houses which have no gardens and which may be shut in by high walls or buildings.
Bricks absorb and store up heut mys, nod in towns one lms to cou- tend with this radiated warmth as well as with direct sunshine. So it is essential to give the outside of the house some sort of protection. "Keep cuol" precautions can well start out of 'doors,"
Washing the outside brickwork, for instance, in a great help to cool- ness in hot weather. Stone window sills can be washed down with water once a day, and if you have a hose or large watering can, spray the door-steps and garden path. This lays the dust, and the path will both look and feci cool for some time.
Any dust which has found its way through to the inside window wills can be wiped up with a cloth wrung out in warm water containing a little household disinfectant, and if you do this regularly you will and that flies are not so anxious to come in.
Protected From The Glare
The cheerful effect of a light colour wash on a yard wall or on the wall which faces a basement kitchen makes rooms seem both lighter and cooler, I find. A pale creamy-yellow shade is good and less glaring than white.
Avold henvy curtains for these rooms if you can. Spot muslin or net or a pastel Unted curtido ninon is dainty for the summier and does nut exclude the light, You could de a linen or chintz blind to the window for privacy at night,
While on the subject of basements, or indeed any windows which face other buildings, have you thought of wooden reflectors for more Bght? You often ace these on office windows in densely-built elty dis tricts, and they are worth copytis.
Fixed to the window at an angle and painted white or ereum, they reflect extra dayitght into the room. The reverse alde and futams could be the Banie colour as the outside paintwork.
Curtains help to shuđe rooms on the sunny side, but they are not efficient as sunblinds, which prevent the sun from shining on the window glans und so keep the rooms cooler
Bilds on the smaller windows and a deeg um awon over the french doors give complete arntection Tront site and gre.
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A canvas awning protocis the sitting room from the hot rays of the sun and makes
a shady verandah.
larger one measuring nine feet.
If you own your house, you might consider a permanent extension on the tunes suggested in the picture.
Blistered Paint
The front door can be safe- guarded against cracked paint and bilsters by a curtain. This will also keep the ball private If you stand the door open on a hot day, The curtain looks best in pla cream linen or in striped coloured sunblind cloth.
I expect you know the Con- tinental tip for coolness indoors. Keep the windows shut, sunblinds
down and curtains drawn while the sun is on them, and the rooms will stay beautifully cool because the scorching air can't get in.
Windows on the shady side are left open, and if you keep the alr moving by opening all the Inside doors, there will be none of that atury, airless feeling one some- times feels after sundown.
If you have u garden, do make It a real outdoor room. Breakfast may be tou carly and hurried a men to be taken out of doors, but you will enjoy tea and supper out- alde in the cool of the evening.
It is a good plan to put the meal table under the awning, so that
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food and plates need not be carried too far, but a portable garden tent, is a good idea for meals, too.
Most garden furniture stands up well to the weather, but don't let
it look after itself entirely. Can- vas chairs collect dust from paths and the rand, so I give them a weekly brush, using a scrubbing brush or stift clothes brush.
If there's no room in the garden ched for deck chairs, stack them and cover them with a shoet of tark paulin when not in use.
For meals and general purposes. the "camp fire" folding chair is a most comfortable Lype--just the right height for a table, and with supporting arms and canvas back, Three or four of these will supple- ment the deck chairs.
Garden Comfort
But for sheer comfort you can- nut beat the new guinea garden LA-Lo lounge. This influtes, and the sides are specially shaped to prevent rolling. The pillow is pumped up separately, and in sup- ported at the back by a wooden trestle, which you can adjust to three different positions. The lowest is ideal for an afternoon nap or for sunbathing, while the highest gives a comfortable semi- sitting position for writing or needlework.
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All garden cushions should be waterproof, becauso a kapok Alling can hold a good deal of unsus- pected molature. Lancaster cloth is one good material for covers, or you could fit. cretonne cushiona with a backing of this material. Then you won't have to worry if they are left out on the damp Brass.
Which reminds me, if you are planning improvements to the garden during the holidays, you might put a series of "stepping alones, flat slabs of stone or con→ crete, at intervals along the lawn.
These make a dry path to a garden sent or the spot you have chosen for the shelter, and icy also save slippers on the evenings when there happens to be heavy dow on the grass,
PRESERVE THEM GREEN
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OST store cupboards looking woefully bare just now, and gooseberries are at their best hard and green-for preserving purposes.
livre are recipes for delleknus chut- neys, pickles, and cutices to add savour to cold ent
Mixed Chutney
A popular chutney to serve with cold ham.
Ingredients: 1lb. green goose- berries (opped and talled), 1lb. rhubarb, ib, onions, 11b, sultan. foz ground piger. 4oz. crystal- lised ginger topilona)), (ib, brown sugar, 1 teaspoonful cayenne. ¡ quart vinegar, 2 tablesps, salt, jib, green tomatoes.
Chop the gooseberries, rhubarb. onions, sultans and loniatovs very finely, then add the rest of the in- gredients, and simmer in a pre- serving pan for 3 to 4 hours until smooth and thick. Pour into warm, dry pots and cover at once, Store in a cool, dry place.
Green Pickle
Another pickle favourite. Ingredients: 21b. hard green goose- berries, 2lb. green tomatoes, 1 cucum- ber, lb, onkờng, Hb. rhubarb, 31b, pre- servlig sugar. 4oz, crystallised ginger, 2 lemons jon, bruised ginger, i teasp. celery seed, the same of ground race nadl mixed spice. 14 plats white vinegar.
Crush the cucumber, but do not peet it; or it can be cut into small cubes. Mash the tomatoes and remove the
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Sur and bull for three hours, unt dark in colour and of a fairly thick consistency. Pour into warn dry pots, cover at once and store in a cool place.
Cold Meat Sauce
Gooseberry sauer makes a pleasant THANKS It in specially good with perk Ingredients. b. green gongcherries, 1lb. apples, 291. green tainatoes, j ulous, 2 Demerara sugar. ib. salt. 1 teaspoonful cayenne, 6 cloves, n lew blades of mace. 1 teaspoonful celery sedinta vioegar
Chop the gooseberries. alice the lutnustoes, apples and unions, add the apters and sugar, and pour the vine- gar over t
Boll gently until the Lauce is thick and dark, Rub through
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Gooseberry Wine
Por guneberry wine the amall, rough KARIrrtes que best junt as they are turning colour.
Ingredients, 61b, gooseberries, 6 pluta wale 30 Krenulated sugar, ten- spatial pound ginger, 1 teaspoonful Ler veral yeast to rach galk of iquor. Tup, tall and wash the gooseberries. Bol all the ingredients except the atar and yeast for three hours in a revered veghet. Strain on to the sugar. stir well until dissolved, and when lukewarm and the yeast spread on a piece of list.
Cover with a thick aleth and leave for 48 hours, then skin,
ear into bottles and eark lightly at fermentation ecases, then cork Ughtly.
Store in a moderate temperature for six month when it will be ready for drinking.
Gooseberry Jelly is a delicious pre- serve and is appreciated for tea on vresel und butter.
Clear Jelly
Ingredients all gooseberries, water to cover, sugar
Wash the gooseberries but de not top and tall. Put them into a preserving pun, cover with water and simmer gently until tender and mashed; if the water boils away, add a little more.
Strain through a Jelly bag, allowing lo drip for several hours, put the pulp from the jelly bag into a pan with a pint of water, bring the boil and almmer for 20 minutes, atirring all the time, then bring to the boil again. The reason for the second boiling is to in- crense the extrnet, and make a more economical preserve.
Put the two extracta together and weigh, put into the pan and bring t the boil. continue to boll for 10 minutes, add an equal weight of sugar, and boil and stir for 10 minutes..
Test a little on a cold plate for Jelly- ing. As soon as it sets, skim and turn into dry, clean jars and cover im. mediately.
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