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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 7, 1939.
* SLEEPY ANSWERS *
T may come as a surprise to some to realise that John Mil- ton, the great English poet, Paradise wrote a few lines in Lost" on one of the simplest rules of modern hygiene. “
He fully understood that the restful quality of sleep depends largely on the nature of our food, but how grace- fully he gives tongue to that plain fact!
Now Morn... advancing, sowi
the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so 'custom'd;
for his sleep
Was aery Hght, from pure diyez-
Lion Ured.
I leave the quotation with you.
Lruling that you will see to it
that meals are BO arranged for yourselves and your families that there may
be no feeling of
heaviness
and
wenrlarda when the time for ris
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ing comes round.
To-day T dealing with Leveral letters containing pro-
biems which have to do with
sleep and bed-time, and I trust that they will prove of interest to readers generally.
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Cuddly Toys
For the past three weeks my title girl has been sleeping by herself, but she keeps calling for us in the evening.
Do not advise you to take her back into your own room as it is much more healthy to have her sleeping by herself, but it would be wise pro- vide some plaything that she could caddle to sleep every night.
She would find great comfort ju a soft toy or velvet doll which would n
ugly in her amuli arms. If you enter Into the importance of keeping "Dolly" or "Teudy" or Bunny
warm and well-mothered, she will soon lako to flix new bed-companion.
Heavy Heads
Our two children have now reached the secondary school stage. They are so heavy in the mornings that it is dificult to waken them.
SUSPECT too late a bedtime in the first place. I know that homework is bound to interfere with the children's gelling sufficient aleep, but it is often better for them to rise an hour earlier and study with a clear brain than to
MIDGE: It's a Pleasure ¡EASTER
SALE
"I think I'll choose shopping
for my hobby tohen prote up."
Our Nursery Expert
discusses
BEDTIME PROBLEMS
Baby goes to sleep happily, with her doll.
"flog a tired horse" by studying inte at night.
Try letting the chikiren work from tex-time (immediately they return from school) until 7 pm. Then give them a light nourishing supper, turn them out for an hour's play on sum- mer evenings, or have a family game en winter evenings, and send them off to bed by 8.30 p.m. at the latest,
Call them with a hot drink al 0.45 am. to finish any homework and see to it that they have a really s03- taining breakfast before they set out to school.
Late Nights
three.
I have trouble getting mp children in from play to go to bed, and they are often up until 9 p.m. To make up, I keep them in bed tate, on Saturday mornings.——
THIS habit of keeping the children
in bed on Saturday mornings
while mother gets on with the clean ing finds a good deal of favour in some quarters, but I cannot approve of it.
Sleep cannot be made up in this way. and the seeds of the bad habit of lying ubed to all hours are being sown.
De firm with your family, thereby
justifying your position as parent. I you feel, as I do, that the six-year-old should be in bed by 7 pm, and tho ten and eleven-year-olds by 8 p.m., then see that your wishes are carried out.
Unless thero is kind but firm discl- pline your children will surely suffer both in health and in character.
When Baby Crics
My baby is bottic-fed but lately sha
one hour before bed time. If you have aash-windows nail down the lower anah some day when he is out, and drive two malls into the outside of the boltom sash so that the top-sash can only be lowered to a certain extent.
This will prevent la opening the window, and climbing over at any time in his sleep, but will also allow of plenty of ventilation. Casement win- dows can be protected with inexpen- alve bars, and I shall be plensed to send you particulars.
A medium-sized bell fastened to the door handle will warn you if he makes an attempt to leave his room, Never wake him if you And him sleep-walk- ing. Lend him quietly back to bed and tuck him up warmly. Keep bim free from excitement and over-fatigue,
Extra Pillows
I am czpecting my Arst baby in Jsine. I find it dificult to sleep and often have cramp--
Do not be alarmed at these symp
toms, seeing that you are other wiho in good health. The cramps, which is due to pressure, will improve during the innt few weeks. Meanwhile I suggest a single bed with a fairly firm mattress and four pillows, one of them fairly hard.
Place the hard one standing on its side against the bed-head and pince the next two end-uifi make an inver- ted "V" behind you. Then pull up the fourth pillow under your knees so
a to keep them slightly flexed.
A little pillow to f in the small of your back should perfect your comfort Have a if you have one to spare. warm drink (not whole milk) after you have gone to bed and take up something in a thermos flask in case you are wakeful.
Don't try to force yourself to sleep. If you feel wakeful read a light book or knit until you feel drowsy.
Spoilt Boy
My son, aged three, is terribly spoilt, but my wife takes his part when I al- tempt to correct him.
PERHAPS you have corrected him
mostly when his conduct' caused you personal discomfort; try another plan now and pull him up when he is bebaving badly towards his mother.
That form of diplomney is likely to work well and should lead to a team spirit between the parents.
Later you can talk the whole matter over with her when Sonnie has gone to bed, but avoid any tendency on the part of the boy to think that he can rely on his mother to take his side.
A Home For
Shoes
has taken to crying during the late Noor is littered with shoes. NO room can look really tidy ir
evening and at night. Sometimes shej sleeps again after a bottle of sugar andį water, but often have to pive an extra feed.
BHOULD Ike to sco bottles of augar-water put on the poisons-list, for they are the cause of a tremen- dous amount of wind and distension. When babies are thirsty they should be given several teaspoonfuls of cool, bolled water and this should also be dono regularly before each feed, but it should be plain water with no sug
added.
Your eight-months-old baby should be spoon-fed with semi-solids now and off bottles completely for her present feeding is not satisfying her.
Sleep Walker
Diversion Becomes Passion Fruit Juice My small son has developed the
Hobby
Lawrence, Mass.
Next
SYDNEY, Australíu. To while away tedious hours of The
United States, the land of convalescence four years ago, Mrs. freely imbibed fruit juices, is to have Esther Robinson began making bath- one more juice added to is diet it robes from turkish towels." Since the plans of J. H. Drope of Toronto, then she has made thousands of robes, materialize, He is planning on the including one for President Ronse exportation to the United States on velt and five for the Dionne quintu- an extensive scale of passion fruit plets:**
Juice.
habit of walking in his sleep. How can sce protect him against injury?- FROM what you tell me, I feel that the child has had some shock, though apparently it has not occurred at home. Do not try to force his confidence, but encourage him to talk to you about his interests and his play- mates, in the hope that he will come out with the trouble some day.
Meanwhile, give a light supper about
Enamelling a bath
LOTS of people have iron baths which need re-enamel- ling, but they dodge the job as long as possible becauss Well, I'm they're afraid they can't make a success of it. going to give you a tip or two about the job which I hope will make it more simple.
First you ought to remove all the old enamel. You can use a patent chemical solvent, or you Here's how. Buy half- can make up your own. a-dozen lumps of potash at the chemist's, cach about as big as an orange. Break them up small and dissolve them in boiling water, and then add enough limo to make the mixture into a thick paste. Spread this paste over the bath and in a short time it will often the enamel so that it cari be scraped off with an old knife.
After removing the enamel, wash out the bath with a mixture of two parts water to one of vinegar. Next scuur, the nurface with, waterproof abrasive paper.
The first two coats should be of thin aluminium paint. Brush this on with broad, long strokes, as it dries quick- ly. You should buy a good 2in. flat · brush and a small "Gtch" for culting
In round the taps and plug.
WHEN the surface is hard, smooth should be stirred thoroughly in the
it lightly with abrasive paper, tin, and if it is too thick for com and do this between each subae fortable, use don't try to thin it quent coat Now buy the best olas- stand it in a busin of warm water. tle bath enamel, you can” and “enough Finally, after the enamel is quite of the undercont. recommended by hard, fill the bath with cold water the makers to give the bath two and leave it for a week. Take the couts..
first hot baih yourself, and if you stick und have to be freed with a 24 hours balween anch blowlamp you haven't followed the coal. The Snat coat of enamel instructions!
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The shoes themselves will quickly become shabby and solled if they are left about to collect the dust.
A yard and three-quarters crash will make an excellent shop tidy which can be hung on the back of a wardrobe or cupboard door,
Cut one strip a yard long and bind all round, fixing two locps to the two top comers to hang on hooks screwed into the door.
FASHION NOTES
Fabrics are more feminine, roft, and Battering, than they have been for many seasons, und the colours are lovely enough to tempt the most dis- criminating of shoppers.
Even the styles or models are more versatile. If you are not very slim the smart daring
tyles are useful.
Sleeves no longer are great, unrestrained masses around the shoulders, but are buck to ine, normal. silhouettes, baving been reduced to annoth out- lines.
A Father's Birthday
ALTHOUGH it is my birthday fas
marrow; although I m long thoroughly to enjoy pust the age
birthdays. I am slightly unicasy. would willingly allow it to slip past without a sigh; but as it means more to the rest of my family than it does to me. I shall not be allowed to-for- get it.
I have-and I'm not sure whether to be glad or sorry about this-a family with any memories. That Is gratifying, of course, to a father; complimentary, naturally, 10 husband; but, well, apart from tempus
us fugit and all that. I would he far more easy in my mind if my birthday were more honoured in the breach than the observance.
My birthday is
our it cost me the price.
Lust of redecorat- Ing the
lounge (my wife); a safety razor (ny son” and if you can't use it, Dad, I can take it over. it's just the thing I'll be needing soon"); a photograph (of my daughter. Very charming: but I had to pay for six of them, though where the others went to
1: and a party which
I had to throw, for myself at night.
A Nervous Entry
To-inorrow, then, I shall come into breakfast nervously.. I shall try- hoping against hope to look though it were..a day of no conse
shall try to look sur- quence. 1 prised-and plensed-when there
Is a shower of "many Juppy returns of the day," and I shall privately hope to be let off as lightly as possi-
blo.
As far as my wife is concerned, there is not much—at least, as far as a mere husband can tell-that can be done to the house this year. I might even escape with so small a thing as a hot-water bottle. But It is the way of wives to be very critical of their own homes-al their husbands' expense. So it might be now loose covera. My daughter, now. There I'm not quite 50 sure. Speaking
I doting able to say, "I'm taking you to the father, I am certain she has every- thing she wants. But she is quite theatre
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for your present, Daddy. won't it be lovely? But you won't mind paying for the seats. mean- time-jus! till the end of the week, because I'm frightfully hard up, and "And of course I'll smile, and say, "Not at all."
Safer Ground
My sou, too. Well, here we are on safer ground. He is forthright, being as he says-nearly man.
Cut the remaining piece of crash into three equal pieces, turn in the |lles and stitch on to the large He blurts, having no use for finesse. piece, one below the other, to make He states what needs, but a strict three large pockets, Divide the sentence of honesty forbids him to large pockets into smaller pockets take something for nothing. So I with vertical stilching and shoes in each pocket.
Coconut For Flavouring
place {
shalt
find an almost new silver- plated pencil which I shall be lucky if I can keep for a week, and shall be told without any beating about the bush that what we he and I- need is a punch-ball, to keep us in training for next season's football.
grunt and
So ere it is-my, birthday. I'll hurry away to business, committed to buying myself presents. And on ESSICATED coconut adds a plea- the way. I'll stop at the tobac- cant flavour to baked milk pud-conist's and buy myself a pipe, as dings, such as sago, rice, ground agosturo to--I'm not quite sure rice, and semolina. Sprinkle it thick-what. My friends will ly on top when the pudding is put nod when I rather shamefacedly tell into the oven and dot with butier.
them that I am 50 to-day; and the The pudding will turn beautifully married ones will smile as well as brown and have a "toasty" taste,
grunt, though they won't-probably Coconut-Bavoured mlik makes say anything, and I'll smile back, custards and Junkets taste different, and mentally fat up just what my Put
int of milk into a double birthday will cost me.. saucepan with two ounces of des- siented coconut, let them steam to- gether for half-an-hour, then strain off the milk. It is Important, if it is required for junkel, that should not come near bolilng-point.
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If you want a decorated enke in a hurry spread, jam' or fally over the top and sides of a plain cake, then Troil it in dessicated coconut mixed [with a little castor sugar.
One drop on
ACHING CORNS
rolloves pain in three seconds! Apply Gets-It two or three times and tho corn will peel right off. Millions, all over the world, neo this faithful friend of corn-bufferers—n
GETS-IT
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And yet; thinking the matter over, I'm not sure that I don't secretly enjoy the happy day as much as my family. Anyway, they still allow me only 21 candies on the cake.
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Useful Hints
you are keeping a small store of food in a special cupboard
against unexpected emergencies, it
is a good plan to keep a list of the contents of the cupboard_neatly pasted inside the cupboard door.
Then any new Item you buy can be added to the 1st, and each ar- tlele used can be struck out. In this way you can see a glance what you have in hand-without having to search through the shelves -moving tins and packets around.
Always remember, of course, to use the food in rotation, taking what has been kept the longest first, so that nothing gets stale.
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When knitting scarves or Jumpers it is more 'restful for the eyes to Usa needles which contrast with the' colour of the wool, Le, 'white or yellow needles for dark wool, and black needles for white or pastel shades, The siliches then stand out in bold relief.
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If an eng is being used, rinse out the basin with cold water þefore you' beat the egg then the egg will not. stlel to the sides and none will be wasted,
Put a piece of lemon rind into the washing up water of "fishy" diales. It will take away the smell, as well as soften the water..
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