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What Do You Know About
Disinfectants?
o be sure that a household dis- infectant lins been applied in wich B. way tint best use is made of its properties, za few precautions should be talten, the chief one being to make certain that the disinfectant is brought into close, contact with what is being disin
disinfected.
Do
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not, for instance, clund a saucer of liquid in the corner of n room, but distributo It by means of a spray, so It reaches the germ-laden dust
s fosung in the air. is most difficult to disinfect brush because the liquid does not always pentirate into the bristles where they are ret into the back. The surest way in to leave the brush in a large biscult tin with a close-fitting Ild in company with a saucer containing a little formatin. g from the latter readily penetrates the bristle clumpă, Don't Forget Heat and Sunlight
The
Heat la a handy household dis- infectant that often is not brought into contact with what is to be dis- infected because it penetrates com- inon 'household materials very slow- ly. It la almost useless to try to dis- infect home fabela by baking them in the oven; the only satisfactory way is to boil them. Holt an hour's
thoroughly boiling will
sterilise fabrics
Sunlight is a cheap disinfectant that is not usod enough as such in! the home. It is well worth white taking the trouble to hung sheets and janditerchiefs out to dry in the sun- light.
One or two disinfectants, particu- Jarly Lincturo of iodine, become
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them evaporates, and unless this is re- membered the drúntestant may be used
wastefully, or Even cause damage; for example, old tincture of lodine may cause irritation of the aitin. Always buy disinfectants in small quantities sufficient to meet immediate needs.
Finally, when disinfecting it bed- room after an infectious Illness, remember that 90 per cent, of the infection lo centred in the dust. Wash the floors with a carbolle map, spray the walls, and leave doors and windows wide open all the time to! blow away the dust that is rulsed. Jullet Banford *.
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HOME HINTS
STALE scones can be freshened by dipping them in milk and plac- ing them in a hot oven for about ten minutes on a greased tin. Don't
swalk them in the milk, just dip them In quickly, or they will become YRD.
To prevent mustard fron going dry, make it up with a level teaspoon ofcalt to two tablespoons of dry inustard, and it will keep fresh for a considerable time.
Don't throw away used
cofice wounds pick them into the drain of your sink and pour boiling water over ilem. They will clear and dis- infect
feet the drain."
If you have car yolla left over, cover them with cold water, and will keep freali for several days. they
To keep a fruit cake fresh and moist keep an apple or a slice of very fresh bread in the tin beside it. Bread is best ns apple is inclined to flavour the cake.
white breadcrumbs remove Solt marks from books more easily than rubber wifl.
Along-handled typewriter brush invaluable in the house for dusting namcats, the tope of books, or any- thing with awkward corners,
To make flowers last longer, in these days when flowers are scarce, remove them every evening from runing whero fires are burning.
I. A. C.
» SMART
HEADLINES
PEACH velvet is the nowa
in millinery this_nea- son-it looks very like a soft velour.
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Hair up! So hat de- algners add a comb to the tricorne which' nocuren it firmly to the head.
No damp will bring out the curl of these feathern- they are made of clipped velvet in two shades of the popular fuchnia.
Gold metal flowers, in- sects and birda in coloured enamels and broad short quilla are among the new- CAL frimmingg.
The ostrich, though he may put his head in the sands, proudly lenda plumes for hats this acⱭRON
in true Edwardian style,
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Veils bunch at the ide or at the back-they are mainly for show, not use, this winter.
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Friday
HONGKONG TEL
PELEO
Fashion puts
BLACK
Tay tricorne of peach velvet trimmed with a tulle veil which is tied in a huge bow high at the back.
Clipped velvet feather in two shades of -velvet droops gracefully over a shovel-
shaped. tip-tilted felt hat.
Silvered cork motifs on knitting needles are crossed on a flat round felt shape tied with long velvet ribbons.
December 16, 1938
on the
Models by
AAGE
THAARUP
HAT
Turkey Cutlets for Christmas
Cold Turkey
With Cream
Is Good Too
DOAST turkity has been in order I for Christmas as long as can be remembered. But once the holiday la over, however, we can experiment with the remains of the feast. Do As the native cooles in far-off Hawaii do-serve your left-over turkey us a new dish combined with rice cooked ini plneapple juice and made into cutiets.
Here are other tips on how to use
the remains of the turkey:
TURKEY IN CREAM
Sileod cold turkey
2 tablespoons butter
4. small onion, thinly alloed
1 cup rich "Pream
1 teaspoon grated horseradish
Salt, pepper and paprika
to faste
Toast
Put turkey into the saucepan in which the onion and 1 teaspoon intneed par
parsley are simmering in the butter. Simmer until the lur- key well heated, than udd the cream and let bubble rapidly for several minutes. Add the season- ings and serve at once with points. of crisp buttered toast as a garolah..
NA TURKEY' FATTIES.
236 enpa'mashed potatoes
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21 Analysminous buien, zar
'S ikblápočnu butter
Can Your Christmas turkrij" will furnish another good dinner. 1/1 you use in
letes: Wazlı, 1 cup rice. Best 3 cupe unsweetened pineapple juice, 4. tabiriyxont grated onion to the boiling point, stir in rice and cook until rice a tender und Hou In Y1⁄2 cup mated cherra, 7.cúng, chouned, turkey, valt and pepper to taste.= "Poris, Hito
4. I. ponkan, adipi kecdiliben Fagjain in erstucks, -Bry, in deep, fat, untili bolden, brown. serve,
auce into which minced parsley, chopped green pepper or chives and a hard-cooked ...-stirred.
By Mary Grace
NOTHING changes so quickly us
millinery, both, as regards style and colour. After the arty blues and rich vintage wine shudes of the carly autumn, fashion has sobered down and put on the black hat,
A popular fashion and smart, l00,
the especially with t
swept-up coif-
feurs.
Ilats soar upwards to reveal the hair both at sides and back. This must have a beautifully tidy air if your head is to have that well- groomed look in keeping with the new elegance in the winter season's
. hats.
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An easy favourite is the black tricorne. It suits practically every- But be careful to place it on your head according to the shape of your face.
one.
No extreme angle if your forehead is Inclined to width; with amall piquant features perch it well for- ward; the oval-shaped face needs to get the full benefit of the width.
The woman with a tiny head bas been really looked after this, year, The trimming of clipped velvet is almost of doll-like proportions. It is so easy if you have a small face to be completely overwhelmed by a hat, especially if it is of felt.
Capricious is the only word for these little hats, and you can afford to trim up your millinery with prelly little Imitation ostrich feathers which are in the shops just now in great variety, priced at a shilling or so,
For the girl who wants a hat to wear day in, day out, my
advice is -turn your back on such frivolities as vells and feathers; they, need constant care and attention, and a shower of rain will ruin them in minute.
felt
On
Choose a hut like the third shape with its velvet ribbons and novelty silvered cork motifs knitting needle It is the originality of the trimming that will give your hat Its fashion value.
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For Your Dressing Table
you have an old-fashioned re- volving plano stool in the lum- room, now is the time to fish it out and make it your own. It will prove to be a most suitable and use- ful dressing stool owing to lia nd- justable height. It will enable you to twirl casily from side to side almost dislocating your neck in order to regard, from every point of view, the result of your labours on your
face and hair, or the most cap- tivating angle of your hat, and It takes up very little room.
without moving from your seat or
Nimble fingers will make short work of a petticoat to hide ite Vic- torian limb. A-circle-of chintz-or damask on top, to match curtains or chair covers,
with a full gathered the floor when frill just touching the stool is wound down to its lowest level will bring it into line with most modern bedroom furnishings," while in no way interfering with the simple mechanism.
If such a stool is.not to be found in your attic, one can be bought quite cheaply, and it is really a good investment."
Salt and pepper Crumbs
A. M. 8.
Mix the mashed potatoes (left- overs may be used), the turkey, onlon and seasonings. Mix in enough milk to mojsten and beat well. Mold into balls or patties, roll in dry crumbs and fry in butter, Serve hot.
JELLIED TURKEY LOAF
2 cups diced (urkey
2 packages salad aspic
31⁄2 cups stock from turkey bones
11⁄2 cup mayonnalie
1 tablespoon grated onlon
2 cups diced celery
hard-cooked
tablespoon sal
2 tablespoons pimento
Melt the aspic in 2 cups hot stock, add 1 cups cold stock and the mayonnaise. Add the sensoning, incut and vegetables, place in the frigerator to chill, stirring occa- slonally until it begins to thicken. Arrange the slices or egg in wet loaf pan to garnish, turn in the tur key mixture and chill until Arm. Unmold on a platter and garnish with ripe olives In celery cups and
But surely, just a scratch..non-staining, non-poisoni-
The moment the skin is broken a path for germs is ope
Use 'Dettol at once. It is a weapon against infection. Yet for all its high germicidal efficiency, it is
ous, even pleasant to smell.
DETTOL
THE MODERN ANTISEPTIC
DETTOL
RECKITT & RONS LTD. (Pharmaceutical Dept), Hull & Loudon, England. Agent-Imperial Chemical Industria (China) Ltd., Hong Kong.
Said two pretty legs with despair,
We admit our appearance
is rare:
Tho we like
the sun We're too well
overdone.
Sheathed in silk we're a tastier pair!
KAYSER
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DOUGHNUT PUDDING.
J CEK.
2 tablespoons melted butter
lý cup sur
1 teaspoon vanilia
1 quart milk
3 cups sliced dried out:["
doughnuts
If you have doughnuts left over. from your holiday feasts, convert them into this tempting variety of old-fashioned "bread" pudding. Melt the butter and combine with, the beglen, eggs, the sugar, a few grains salt vanilla" and milk. Put the aliced Houghnuts in a buttered casséróla and pour in the milis:and.
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