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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
1938.
Avoid That Common Cold
"Catch 'em young and beat
'em-that's the way to treat winter colds
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ALREADY around 5. and heavy could, our your u thin
o'clock the sun looks a long as you can, but wear a
warm jumper under it.
I
little tired. Any day now On the other hand, you deserve all you'll breathe and see your you get i breath on the nir, and sudden winds will send scurries of dead leaves around your feet. Any night you'll think how nico a hot-water bottle would be.
Yo, you're right. I'm going to remind you that the colds you regard as inevitable are in the not-so-far-
distant future,
Later-too Late
ALREADY? you say hope- A tessly. Yes, now la the
tune to do something about it. Later will be too late; now is the time for the to tell you how best to avalch feeling cold and wing colds, now while you're still brown and vigorous your holiday, and before your Art morning
from
f'in not be I can prevent
your having cuids entirely, but a tarded body is less likely to suc- cumb to gerins and less liable to a severe attack should the worst come to the worst. Ani a cold caught in the Arst chill of autumn may hang on for months.
Don't Hibernate
nate.
your
THERE'S no need to hiber-
shut Don't window at the first breath of cold air; leave it open an inch or so top and bottom so that you get nir with- out draughts.
Have a hot-water bottle if you must, but let your blankets remain light. Don't hurry Jnto your furs
Well-Lighted Houses
(a) You regard woollen under- wear da synonymous with aspidistras and shiver in brassiere and panties regardless of the thermometer.
(b) You po hungry in cold wea- her. Your body needs more fuel in the winter and, alimming or no slimming, you must include animal fats, especially butter, in your diet. 21 little It's surely better to plumper than pluched and blue. Visit to Doctor
be
IF already the cooler morn-
ings are reminding you of the catarrh that is to come, pay a Vaccine in-
visit to your doctor.
ections really do help and he will advise you about thein. If you go and have three or four at five-day intervals, you'll bless me later on.
Does the first cald invariably bring with it Rie dread of swelling to057 anct
Calcium and knuckles Vitamin D are the things chillain sufferer.
for the
afraid for your
Perhaps you're throat? For some people the slight- est chill produces soreness or even
lozenge a good antiseptle complete voicelessness. Start to suck
twice a day.
oner of
The important thing is to keep your feet warm and dry. The cold the pave- strikes upwards from ments. However elegant the uppers of your shoes, the soles should be a little heavier now.
If any of your friends are already starting to sniffle don't care if they call you a scare-cat, but gargle and suck your lozenges and keep awny from them as much
can. you
as
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 tha
your nose.
things this article gives you some hints on how to avoid.
Their Mother Made
Them
"R girls quite so helpless as
Helpless
EALLY, I never knew lingu fire grate in a little-used bed- TUGM. It was just the kind of job enjoy. and it that a child would would scarcely have mattered if the result had not been perfeel.
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Wash your hands and face often and mine. Joan couldn't cook IN the desire not to stint the light-snin cold waler up your nose.
chop to save her life, and Mar- ing of a home it is easy to be
garet's ideas of housekeeping ure positively. comic!"
extravagant. Experts have drawn Never Mind
up tables showing the amount of illumination that Is adequate for various rooms according to their size and purpose, and the subject is which worthy of o
case
I've often heard Mrs. Blank talk UNLESS you have been in
the sun this summer, in in that strain, while poor Joan and your hide is slightly Margaret stood by scarlet and em- little study if true tougheped, you will notice the first barrett or else deflantly pretend- cold air. The wind will dry the ing that they didn't cure and it was emelency is desired.
and all a good joke. Modern decorations, favouring pale natural oils out of your skin
As taatter of fact, Joan and hades Instead of dark, reflect the leave it chapped.
Margaret are two very attractive and light instead of absorbing it, and
Use skin food night and norning intelligent girls, and п for their you bath and dress-leave helplessness about the house, Mrs. whlist a direct glare can be avoided some on under your make-up-and Blink has only one person to binme
into your herself. by the of the pearl, opal. finish, smooth a special cream and colour-prayed lamps that are hands before you go out. Be sure
your soup is mild and superfatted. readily obtainable,
thus permit of lower candle-power lamps being used
41BC
than formerly, while
is not
that
which
efforts.
CHE is one of those tremend- ously efficient women with Table or standard lamps may ba
In day, comes when your head included in a room where reading or aches and fecla dried up inside, your energy enough for six. But she cut sewing is to be done. The only
throat is parched and your limbs never understand that efficiency is not an instinct born in us, that it alternative, if this method
and trained. in to increase the general feel like lead, I'm afraid the germs has to be cultivated adopted in beyond
have defeated my advice and your She has been too impatient and too illumination
unimaginative to teach her girls the would otherwise be necessary.
Badly positioned lights in oed- 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 experience. irritation. A lamp must be correct-aspirin, hot lemon and whisky and 9. placed over the table, ora xnug hot-water bottle and reflect adequate lighting
the
optimistically that you won't have the mirror self. lige pledge of such a bad one us you did last year.
tubular fitting on
by 11 pinced in
the best position for reading in bed
is essential. Although adequate for
this purpose, a table lamp takes up
Margaret sel to work with a will, but she had only made a few strokes
when with the brush
her mother Intervened, snatching it out of her hand "Good gracious, you'll be all day if you go about it like that. And just look-you're splashing the wall! Go away, I can't have you making a mess."
Margaret went away. S with tears in her There is nothing quite so humillating to a sensitive child as to be given à job of work and then to have It snatched away on the score of in- competence.
When Joan found that her school fellows 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.
pudding that was a hopeless failure. Since then neither she nor her sister has ever been allowed. the freedom of the kitchen.
WHEN Margaret wanted to toke up dressmaking and Was anxious
class, her Join
"It mother vetoed the idea at once. would be nothing but a waste of money. Why, you can't even dorn your own stockings property."
RY perpetual criticism, al- Dways drawing attention to their slowness and Inefficiency, this two clever girls into complete fools where domestic work is concerned.
done
Now, I'm glad to say. Margaret in married and Joan has a little Bat of her own "How these two_helpless girls manage without me I really can't conceive," says their mother. Yot mannge they do, or rather they are learning to manage..
But in the process they have both made many expensive and distress- ing mistakes which they might have been spared if only their mother had trained them with a little more more under-
REMEMBER how, when
patience and a litle Margaret was a child, ber mother gave her the task of enamel-
standing.
space that is extremely value in Are People Too Friendly?
the ease of Blness, when the table-
K. S.
god.
Poor Joan was too bewildered and nervous to produce anything but a
Aannel.
Cleaning Hints
To thoroughly clean the bag of a A mixture of sand and garden soll vaccum cleaner, emply it fest, 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. Tho any stain. dust still adhering to the sides of the
top in required for a tray and other:
WINTE or light coloured satin cune chairs if applied with a damp This point should be borne NCE a week, on an average, you down in front of a bright fire, start can read that man is a gre to read a book, and as likely as not, in mind.
shoes can be cleaned effectively brush. When dry, rub off with a as you are comfortably
with spirits of wine, if rubbed on the dry brush to remove the particles. Lamps Atted inside cupboards will Rurious animal. The Chinese, who so soon
way of the fabric with a piece of Dull brass can be rapidly cleaned save groping in the dark. They can would probably appreciate a little settled, some member of the house-
with a mixture of vinegar and salt. be so arranged as to switch on and loneliness at the moment, put it in hold will start an argument, or a off with the opening and closing of more picturesque form. They have wandering, and apparently, homeless you arc comes to see how
To clean a white or light telt hat, Leave for a few minutes, then wash rub in plenty of carbonate of off with warm water, dry well and the door, or, if no lighting point is saying that he who loves solitude
either o a beast or available, an effective plan is to have
getting on.
magnesis, leave for 24 hours and polish in the ordinary way. Thus are science and philosophy a self-contained tamp"banging on n
Of course, if you ore skilled, you
After cleaning the steel parts of then brush well. сус on ranged on the side of all chatterers, will manage to keep one
the
cooker, or boiler, with hook,
you
If the handles of knives become pre reading and Interrupters, and bores, against all whatever seekers of peace and quiet.
answer their questions without much yellow soak them in peroxide for mery paper, rub them with a soft four hours, and then place out of cloth dipped in olive oil for it will
kelod To want to be alone is regarded as effort, since the talk on such occa-
them bright for a considerable doors in the sun. unnatural, and signifying hatred of siens is generally fatuous. one's fellows. Yet more
often it
Fancy candles that have become
Black spots on silver will yield to No Defence
soiled may be safely washed in cool a mixture of methylated spirits and denotes a desire to wrestle with the
water and dried on a soft ammonia, Itub well in and, after crossword puzzle. or listen to the
soapy What defence is Üliere against the wireless without being disturbed by person who thinks that conversation
towel, but do not leave them 100 three hours, wash off in really hot Or about the relative merits of a film
lang 'in the water.” remarks about the laundry bill.
soup suds. perhaps even it signifies a wish for seen months, or even years ago is 40 quiet 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 realised." for there are people who appear to Real loneliness, strangely enough, think that anyone doing something can more often be achieved in a quietly is in need of gingering up railway
than carrioge
anywhere inta д state of constant chatter. in a carriage full of Worse they attribute the success of else, even people, so long as they keep their their plans to their ability to "get pence, The British have a reputa- on with people." tion for hating to share a railway There is then no defence short of compartment with anyone else, yet a dat refusal to talk or an equally in hardly noticeable that their pre- surprising request for silence. And ference for their own company ex- that way It is easy to acquire a rom tends beyond the fastness of their putation as a mob or a boor. So the compartments.
lover of silence has either to endure Kocini cclipse
or compromise with the talkers.
Scientists say that this is a'mans-. The violators of seclusion are not minded age and that privacy will be confined to members of
and gradually destroyed. However that Garrulity is not confined to the 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 of I am aware, is the only notable modern cessant chatterers as the most fluffy personality to signify in forthright maidan.
terms her desire to be alone! Circumstances conspire against the soaker after Joneliness, Bit
stops pain in 3 seconds
CORNS
aro killed and loosened with just one ́applica- tion of Gots-It. A drop or two ends the torture of throbbing corns. A few days lator you can lift off the 'corn-root and all.
GETS-IT
Mähas you forget corns.
Incessant Chatterers
tatio
Robert Allan
bag will cling to the tea leaves, and come away with them.
To removate a leather cushion, rub over with a damp cloth and allow to dey. Then apply to the worn parts with soft cloth, the white of an org beaten to stiff froth. After- wards polish with a little linseed oil to make them less noticeable.
Faded matting can be freshened again by scrubbing it with a really strong solution of kitchen salt and water,
Carpets can be kept clean and their colours bright, If they are swept occasionally with dipped in hot water to which tur- pentine has been added.
a broom
Linoleum can be cleaned and pro- served by regularly rubbing on equal parts of olive oil and paraan.
Ontmeal la excellent for, cleaning
G. G. T.
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