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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1938.
Avoid That Common Cold
"Catch 'em young and beat
'em-that's the way to treat winter colds
ALREADY around 5 and heavy coats; wear your suit un
long as you can, but wear a thin warm jumper under it.
On the other hand, you deserve all
(a) You regard woollen under- wear as synonymous with aspidistras and shiver in brasstere and panties regardless of the thermometer,
sun looks a little tired. Any day, now you'll breathe and see your you get If-- breath on the air, and, sudden, winds will send scurries' of dend leavea around your feet. Any aight you'll, think how nico A hot-water bottle would be.
Yes, you're right. I'm going to comind you that the colds you regard an inevitable are in the not-so-far- distant future,
Later too Late
LREADY? you may hope. A fely. You, now is the
time to do something about it. Later will be to inte; now in the time, for me to tell you how best to avoid feeling old and having colds, abay while you're still brown and vigorous from your holiday, and before your first nothing chiver.
I'm not pretending I can prevent colds entirely, but, a your! having guarflex body is less Hikely to sue- cumb to gerins and less. Hable to a severe attack should the worst come to the worst. And a coll.caught in the Brst chill of autumn may hang on for months.
Don't Hibernate
HERE'S now need to hiber- nate. Don't shut your window at the first breath, of cold air; leave it open an inch or so top and bottom so that you get air with- aut droughts.
Have a hot-water bottle if you must, but let your blunketa rpinnin fight. Don't hurry into your furs
(b) You po hungry in cold wea ther. Your body needs more fuct in the winter and, slimming or no slimming, you must include animal fats, especially butter, in your diet. It's mirely better to be a little plumper than pinched and blue.
Visit to Doctor
I already the cooler morn
ings are reminding you of the catarrh that is to come, pay
visit to your doctor. Vaccine in- jections really du help and he will advise you about them. If you go and have three or four at five-day intervals, you'll bless me later on.
Does the first cold invariably bring with it the dret of swelling
Ind toes? knuckles
Culcium und Vitamin D are the things for the chilblain Bufferer,
Perhaps you're afraid for your throat? For some people the slight- est chill produces soreness or even complete voicelessness. Start to suck #good antiseptie Juzonite oner or twice a day.
The important thing is to keep your feet warm and dry. The cold strikes upwards from the pave- ments. However elegant the uppers of your shoes, the soles should be a little heavier now.
Well-Lightedtof
Houses
If any of your friends are already Starting to snifle don't care If they 1 call you a seare-cut, but gurgle and suck your lozenges and keep away from them as much
you
can,
COLD COMING? You think so. You've got all the symptoms half-closed eyes, worry lines pro- nounced, and a stuffy feeling in These are just the your nose.
things this article gives you some hints on how to avoid.
Their Mother Made
Them
EALLY, I
"R giris quite so helpless as
Helpless
never knew ing a tire grate in a little-used ved- routn It was just the kind of job tinta ehliel would enjoy, in it would scarcely have mattered if the result had not been perfect.
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Wash your hands and face often and mine. Joan couldn't cook IN the desire not to stint the light-saift cold water up your nose.
elop to save her life, and Mar- ing of a home it is easy
garet's ideas of housekeeping jare positively comic!"
to be
the amount of up tables showing illumination that is adequate for
extravagant. Experts have drawn Never Mind
various rooms according to their size
and purpose, and'
worthy of
the subject is which
AN
Your
pudding that was a hopeless failure. Since then neither she nor her sister has ever been allowed the freedom of the kitchen.
Margaret het to work with a will,
WHEN Margaret wanted to but she had only made a few strokes
thite up dressmaking ant with the brush when her mother
class. ber Was anxious to join a
"IL intervened. snatching it out of her mother veined the iden at once.
but waste of hand "Good gracious, you'll be all would be nothing day if you about
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It like that. money. Why, you can't even darn And just look-you're splashing the your own stockings properly." wall! Go away, I can't have you making a mess
U the sun
INLESS you have been in I've often heard Mrs. Blank talk this summer. Inia that strain, while pour Joan and hide is slightly | Margaret stood by scarlet and em a little study If true toughened, you will notice the first barrassed or else defiantly pretend- eficiency is desired.
cold air. The wind WIE dry the in that they didn't care and it was Modern decomligas, favouring plentural oils out of VOLE skin and
a good joke. shades insteart of dark, reflect the leave it chapped.
fact, As a matter
Joan and light instead of absorbly it, and
Margaret are two very attractive and thus permit of tower candle-power Use skin food night and morning intelligent girls and
for thely kaups being used than formerly while you hath and dre: strave helplessness about the house, Mrs. direct glare can be avoided somé aù under your make-tip--and Blank has only one presna to blame whilst a by the use of the pearl, upal finish, smooth a special' cream into your herself. and colour-prayed lamps that are funds before you go out. Be sure
eadily obtainable,
THE is one of those tremend- Table or standard lamps any be
ously efficient women with included in a room where reading or, sewing is to be done. The only aches and feels dried up skie, your energy enough for six. But she can throat is parched and your limbs ever understand that efficiency is alternative, if this method is
not an instinct born in us, that it adapted is to Increase the general feel like lead. I'm afraid the gerus has to be cultivated and trained. fellows illumination beyond that
which have defeated my advice and your She has been too impatient and too
jefforts. would otherwise be necessary.
unimaginative to teach her girls the Badly positioned lights in bed- Never mind, go to bed with the things she herself has learnt by long rooms will be a constant source of nice old-fashioned comforts of expe: CINE. irritation. A lamp must be correct-aspirin, hot lemon and whisky and 13 placed over the dressingtable, orin snug hot-water bottle and reflect adequate lighting secured by Ajoptimistically that you won't have tubular fitting on the top edge of suel, a bad one as you did last year. the mirror self. A light placed in
not
the best position for reading in bed
is essential. Although adequate for
this purpose, lamp takes up
your soup is milfet and supertatted.
I day comes when your hend
REMEMBER how, when Margaret was a child, her mother gave her the task of enamel-
space that is extremely valuable in Are People Too Friendly?
the case of illness, when the table- !
lop is required for a tray and other
items. This point should be borneNCE
week, on an average, you down in front of a bright are, start in mind.
LIJ 1 read that my is fre- to read a book, and as likely as not. 4000 as you ITC? comfortably Lamps fitted. Inalde cupboards will' garious animal The Chinese, who so save groping in the dark. They can woukt probably appreciate little settled, some member of the house- so arranged as to switch on and loneliness at the monent, put it in hold will start an argument, or n more picturesque form. They have wandering, and apparently, homeless
saying that he who loves solitude friend comes to see
be
off with the opening and closing of
the door, or, if no lighting point is available, an effective plan is to have
a self-contained lamp hanging on a hook.
stops pain
in 3 seconds
CORNS
K. 5.
are killed and loosen.d with just one applica tion of Gets It. Â ́drop or two ends the torture of throbbing corns. A few days later you ean lift off the corn — rool and all.
GETS IT
Makes you forget coma,
is either a beast or a god.
getting on.
BY perpetual criticlsan, al-
ways drawing attention to NO. Margaret Went away, their slowness and inefficiency, is $
with tears in her eyes. other has done her best to make There is nothing quite so humiliating two elever girls into complete tools
where donesile work s To a sensitive child as to be given
concerned. Now, I'm glad to say, Mar to have it
Margaret is job of work and then Snatched away on the score of in married and Joan has a little flat of her own. "How those two helpless competence.
I really Kirts manage without can't conceive," says their mother. Yet tonnage they do, or rather they are learning to manage.
When Joan found that her school- were allowed to try their hands at cookery in their homes she wanted to follow suit. After a good deal of persuasion her mother let her try, but she stood over her all the time, criticising more than in- structing.
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But in the process they have both made many expensive and distress- ing mistakes which they might have been spared it only their mother had trained them with a lite more patience and a little
under- more
Poor Joan was too bewildered and nervous to produce anything but a standing.
how you fire
rub
Thus ore science and philosophy Of course, it you are skilled, you ranged on the side of all chatterers, will manage to keep one eye on interrupters, and bares, against all whatever you
reading arc
and seekers of peure und quiet.
answer their questions without much To want to be alone is regarded as effort, since the talk on such ocen- unnatural and signifying hatred of sions is generally fatuous. one's fellows. Yet inore often 12 denotes desire to wrestle with the No Defence crossword puzzle, or listen to the
What defence is there against the wireless without being disturbed by person who thinks that conversation remarks about the foundry bill. Or about the relative merits of a flim erhaps even it signifies a wish for seen months, or even years, ngo is 40 qulet and undisturbed winks. more important than the book you Harmless desires, all of them, yet have in your hand? None, it seems, how seldom can they be reatised. for there are people who appear to Real loneliness, strangely enough, think that anyone doing something cun more often be achieved in a quielly is in need of gingering up rallway earrlege than anywhere into ડા state of constant chatter. else,
even In
a carrloge full of Worse they attribute the success of people, no long as they keep their their plans to their ability to "get peace. The British have a reputa- on with people."
Incessant Chatterers
tion for hating to share a railway There is then no defence short of compartment with anyone else, yet a flat refusal to talk or an equally It is hardly noticeable that their pre surprising request for silence. And ference for their own company ex- that way 11 is easy to acquire a re. tends beyond the fastness of their putation as a snob or a boor. So the compartments.
lover of silence has either to endure social eclipse or compromise with the talkers.
Scientists say that this is t mass- The violutors of seclusion ure not confined to members of one sex. Tanded age and that privacy will be Garrullly is not confined to the gradually destroyed. However that weaker sex with the stronger vocal may be, I can sympathise with Miss chords. Strong men can be as in- Greta Garbo, who, so far as I am cessant chatterers ns the most fluffy aware, is the only notable modern personality to signify in forthright maiden.
Circumstances conspiro against the terms er desire to be alonej
socker after
Robert Allan loneliness. SI
true
Cleaning Hints
WRITE or Bght coloured satin cane chairs if applied with a damp W
W shoes can be cleaned effectively brush. When dry, rub off with n with spirits of wine, If rubbed on the dry brush to remove the particles. way of the fabric with a plece of Dull brass can be rapidly cleaned flannel.
with a mixture of vinegar and salt. To clean a white or light felt hat, Leave for a few minutes, then wash in plenty of carbonate of off with warm water, dry well and magnesia, leave for 24 hours and polish in the ordinary way. then brush well.
After cleaning the steel parts of
with cooker, or bailer, If the handles of knives become the
per, rub them with a soft yellow soak them in peroxide for emery paper,
cinth four hours, and then place out of keep them bright for a considerable dipped in olive oil for it will doors in the sun.
period.
RDS
Fancy candles that have become Black spots en silver will yield to soiled may be safely washed in cool
mixture of methylated spirits and sonny water and dried on a soft ammonia. Rub well In und, after towel, but do not leave them too three hours, wash off in really hot long in the water.
To thoroughly clean the bag of a
sap suds.
A mixture of sand and garden soll vaccum cleaner, empty it first, and is excellent for scouring cement or then put a good handful of damp ten stone steps for it will remove almost leaves inside and shake well. The any stain. dust still adhering to the elder of the bag will cling to the tea leaves, and wome away with them. -
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To removato a leather cushion, rub ver with damp cloth and allow to dry. Then apply to the worn parts with a soft cloth, the white of an egg beaten to stUT froth, After- words poilsh with a little linseed oll to make them less noticeable.
Faded matting can be freshened
scrubbing it with by
really strong solution of kitchen salt and wator.
ngain
Carpets can be kept clean and their colours bright, if they are swept occasionally with a broom dipped in hot water to which tur- pentine has been added.
Linoleum can be cleaned and pre- served by regularly rubbing on equal parts of olive oil and paraffin.
Oatmeal is excellent for cleaning
G. G. T.
WAKE UP YOUR
LIVER BILE
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laxatire are only makeshifts. A more bowel
The three doesn't read at the cause. It
famous Carter's Little Liye
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