8
This isn't
bulky under a jacket
Most men complain that cardigans take up too much room under a coat. This one, close-stitched and well designed, fits smoothly.
Back
Cast on 117 sts, ist row: K, p
1, 0, repent from unul 2 remali, then p1, k 1. 2nd row: Knit. Repeal these rows times.
11th row: Purl. 12th row: Knit. pi, k 5, repeat from 13th row: K 4.
unil 5 remain then p 1, k 4. Re peat last two rows 4 times, 23rd row: Purl. 24th row: Plain.
This constitutes the pattern and if it is remembered that whatever the decreasing the purl increasing or
atitch should come over the 3rd stitch of the previous plalu group, even the beginner cannot go wrong. Repeat from the Arst row until the work measures 16ins.
Shape the armholes by casting off 8 ais at beginning of next 2 rows, being careful to keep pattern correct. Knit- row. Knit 2 tog each end of the next row. Repeat last 2
3 thars. Continue unt!!
rows
the work
Monday,
YOU NEED: 15 ozs. 4-ply ·
wool, 1 pair No. 10 needles,
5 buttons.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
MEASUREMENTS: Length from shoulder to bottom 22 ins. Length of sleeve from under- arm 1912 ins. To fit 36 Ins. to 38 ins. chest. TENSION: (Before pressing) 6 stitches to
1 in. 11 rows to 1 in. ABBREVIATIONS: P-Purl, K-Knit, St.-Stitch, Knit into back of all cast-on Tog.-Together.
stitches.
ineasures 22ins. from the bottom, from the 1st row until the 12th
row
the
"KEEP STILL YOỤNG MAN,
I'M TRYING TO COPY
THAT STITCH
row: K 3, cast on 4 finish row. Next row: Knit into the back of the cast- un sls.
Sleeve
Cast on 67 sts. Knit 30 rows in k 1, p 1, then change to pattern, ist row: K 3, p 1, k 5, repeat from * unik remain, then p 1, k 3. Con- tinue in pattern. Knit twice into the 2nd and 2nd last sis of every 6th row) until the sis number 89. Continue the work |-|-}~{~f~|~|~|~|~|~|~ with this amount until
measures 191⁄21⁄2ns.
Cust of 8 sts at the beginning of finish the row. Knit 1 row. Repent the next 2 rows, then knit 2 tog each
the remaining fists in garter st for every alternate row 8 times, then each
20 rows and cast off.
row until 22 sts remain. Cast off 2 sts at the beginning of the next rows. Cast oft.
January 15, 1940.
Useful To Remember
CUBSTITUTE a large quantity of
chalk for a fire-brick at the bot- tom of the grate and the heat of the fire will be agch Increased and con- tinue to send out an appreciable warmth even after the fire has died down.
When the windows are apt to stcom on a cold day, rub the inside of the panes with a cloth dipped in glyce- rine, for this treatment keeps them clear. Spectacles treated in the same manner will also keep free of steam.
Worn hearth files will be mutch Im- proved In oppearance if first cleaned and then rubbed with n plentiful supply of wax polish to all up the
pores.
Collect all small pieces of soup, put them into a cotton bag and place the washing-up bowl, for they make a splendid lather. After being used several times they will blend into a solid muss, aut can be used as ordin- ary soup.
Doyle Wants
To Join
Up, If-
SPOTLIGHT
GERMANY
Rich Nazis "Lock Up" Their Money
Fouring inftation and perhaps u eapital levy, many wealthy Germans are "locking up" their money in the form of worth of art, Jewellery and real estate, which they hope will be ante against devaluation or confisca- lory legislation.
The Koelnischio. Zeitung reports a two-day ort ante in Cologne, at which record prices wore reached. On an average, it stated, the pictures JACK DOYLE wants to fetched four times as much an their fight Adolf Hitler-but only estimated valut.
"Both the crowds and the tempo of
if his wife-formerly Mo-the bidding continued undiminished picture was left unsold," adds the vita, the Mexican film star throughout the two days, and not a
can have a ringside seat.report.
The pallings thus eagerly bid for Mr. Baird heard the declara were not old masters, but chledy tion of war over the radio in the works by 10th century German artists lonely Hudson Bay post at of small international repule. Prices Other objects, notably orienta! If a candle is too big for the holder, Ponds Inlet. He travelled 7,000nited up to about £750. put the bottom in hot water for miles by dog sled, whaleboat, carpets, were also bld up to high second or two, for it can then be and steamer from the Arctic to prices in the same sale. It was u easily rammed into the socket
forced sale of property "formerly in join up. make a perfect fit.
non-Aryan ownership."
to
To test the heat of an oven, sprinkle
little four on white paper and the flour browns in less than a minute the oven is too hot, for it will burn any dish of food.
If the sides of a hot-water bottle stick together, do not try to force them apart, but add a little ammonia to samé hot water and pour. It into the boille. After a short while Insert a long wooden knitting needle into the neck nad rently use the knob end to free the sides.
When using the oven for cooking, put slices of stale bread att ock crusts on any spare shelf until they are crisp and slightly brown. Then crush them on a pastry board with z rolling pln, and when cool store in tin boxes with tight-fiting lids. Being always rendy, they are useful for coating rissoles and fish.
Should cream prove dimcult to whip stiffly, add one white of egg to the cream and stand the bowl con- taining it in a vessel of cold sult water. Leave for an hour, when the cream will whip quite easily.
G. G. T.
Peach Surprise
Cant of 9 sts at the beginning of the of the 5th row of squares has been last 2 rows 3 times. Continue with end of every 4th row 6 times, the OUR DEL yolks,
next 4 rows. Cast of
Right Front
reuched (this should be when
work mensured tins. approx.). Slip on to an odd needle.
To begin the front proper, cast on 89 sts. 1st row: K7, p1, k5, repeat from until 2 remain, then p 1, k 1,
Start the front by making the 2nd row: Knit. Repeat thesa 2 rows pocket, Cast on 20 st. 1st row: 4 times. 11th row: Purl.
6, p 1, repeat from to end endingt Knit. with k 6. 2nd row: Kalt. Repeat last 2 rows 4 times.
12th rowi
Left Front
Cast on 69 sts, 1st row: K 1, p 1, k, repent from until 8 remain
To make up
13th row: K 19, p 1, k 5, repeat then p 1. k 7. Continue us in right Press on the wrong side with a hot from until 5 remain, then p 1, front, but keep the garter st border at fron and damp cloth. Join the 11th row: Purl. 12th row: Koil. 14th row: Kuit. Repeat last 2 rows the opposite edge and make & button shoulder seams. Join the border and 13 row: K 2, p 1, k 5, repeat from 4 times, 23rd row: Purl. 24th row: holes in the border every 23rd and sew to back. Join the side and sleeve 24th row. Do these by kailting until seams. Put in the sleeve seam to to end ending with k 2. 14th row: Knit.
7 sts remain, cast off 4k 3. Next scam. .Kait.
Repeal from the first row until the Repeat Jast 2 rows 4 times. 23rd 11th row of the 5th pattern from the row: Purl. 24th row: Knit. Repeat boltom is reached. On the 12th row of this pattern the pocket Is Inserted thus: kalt 20, cast off 29, knit 20,
Do's And Don'ts
For Beauty-
Next row: Starting at the garter st border, knit 20 sts in pattern, kalt the. 20 pocket si in pattern from the odd needic, then Anish the last 20 sts in pattern
Continue until the work measures
ON'T get angry; anger spoils the 131ns. from the lower edge, then D disposition, impairs digestion, the front opening thus: starting
afler.
Rugs For Comfort And Beauty
chosen with care and used with terns. These are excellent for the taste, a rug is to the floor what entrance hall, kitchen, and the porch. and poisons the whole system, apart at the centre front, knit the 7 garter pictures are to the walls. In addition In choosing a rug for the reside, from the harm it does to others.
Don't keep late hours; an hour's then klog, finish the row. Repeat to the obvious advantages of warmth you should see that it is long enough sleep before midnight is worth two the decreasing at this polut (mme-ined comfort, a good rug provides i to extend an inch or two beyond the It breaks up the end of the mantelpiece at either side, diately Inside the garter stitch bor-decorative accent.
expanse of floor which might other and its width thould be approximate- Get up early; there is an exhilara-der) every succeeding 4th row.
When the work measures 16ins, we look monotonous, and introduces ly the same as the width of the fire- tlun in the early morning air that
shape the armhole by casting off attractive notes of colour.
place surround-in any case, not less is a Ane tonic.
the
There are modern rugs which, in than 3 ft. 6 in., na n good wide rug Be punctual. When an engagement sts at the opposite side tom is announced at nine, get there at garter st border. Continue the shop their own way, are as Interesting as maises the fireside more comfortable.
Baneden Butt nine, and don't arrive pulling and ing by knitting 2 log at the armhole paintings, and they show pictorial edge every 2nd row 4 times, still con-
Incident not only with vividness but blowing.
Exercise in the morning air. Wantinuing with the centre front shap with great artistic skill. They are wherever you are going, or, if it is ing until the stitches number 40.
When the work measures 22ins, cast too for walk half of the way.
Bathe in cold water every morn-off 3 sts at the armhole edge and ing. If you can't stand the bath tub
er a shower, try, a sponge bath.
Always take a little exercise with dumb-bells or other device in the
carly morning, making sure to give every muscle something to do. That which is not used will rust or rol.
When you leave the Eat sparingly.
table you, should feel that you could hove calen just a little more.
Drink plenty of water
plenty of fruit. Do mnych sugar.
not
and take
cat too
Breathe deeply all the time, but be sure that you are breathing pure air, Cultivate a cheerful disposition. It will add friends, and years, to the end of your life.
Don't worry. Learn to take trou- ble philosophically, Most worrying Is done about things thai never hap pen, and we worry for fear that they will happen.
Don't waste your time, "You can accomplish a fot If you divide your time properly.
You can't live a selfish lite and be happy, although you may think you
can.
Don't grumble and complain. If things are wrong, right them but don't go around talking about them.
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Two Officers Share £30,000
Lieutenant Walter Hutton, aged Many pletorial rugs have a design twenty-three, and his brother, Lieu- based on floral subjects; they may tenant Michael flutton, aged twenty- herbaceous one, who expeel to go to France soon, deplet, for example, border or a sunny corner of the gor will inher about £30,000 as a re- den Foxgloves, violas, delphiniums, gult of a will published recently. hollyhocks, pansies and forget-me-
nots-familiar flowers such as these The money has been left by a dis- tre executed In delicate pastel tant relative, Mr. Francis Henry colours. Their effect can be especi- Hutton, aged sixty-three, of Grey- estate whose land-place, Lacoln, ally delightful in the bedroom.
He directed Pictorial rugs have also long been amounted to £41,000. popular for the nursery. They is that the money should go on trust for trafe nursery rhymes and fairy tales, life to the offers aunt, Mrs Violet scenes from toyland and the play- Gordon, wife of the Vicar of Tuling, Angmering, Sunsex, and then to them.
I ground, the farm-yard, and the zee
are
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Other occastonul rugs, plain or of a more abstract type, ore for doorways between rooms, for entrance halls, and for the bedalde. Their colours most instances soft and dellente. Pink, stone colour, cream, belge, soft pastel blue, and black are used in many of them, and the skill with which these quietly luxurious tones are grnded and arranged is large part of their charm,
An attractive feature of some of the newest rugs is that part of the pattern is woven in doeper pile, so that it stands out in relief. Some times a panel is treated in this way, or just a callent feature of the design, for the effect can be particularly charming when this treatment is used with restraint.
Contrasting Shaden
One example has a warm-brown- background and a pattern In darker, nigger brown lines and while circles, both lines and circles being tufted in rellef. Another has the pattern in raised cream and nigger tufis against a mustard-yellow background.
Cheapest of all are the rugi of coconut fibre which are now oblain- jable, not only in the plain straw colour which has long beeri familiar, but dyed in many bright and direc- tive colours and in very pleasing pat-
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4 tablespoons flour, teaspoon salt, 1/3 cup granulated sugar, 2 cups milk, 1/3 cup cream, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1⁄4 tex- spoon almond extract, 2 cups sliced
peaches.
Beat the yolks. Add the flour, salt and sugar. Pour in the milk and cook in a double boller until the mix- ture is thick and creamy. Stir-con- lumpini. Add stantly to prevent the cream and let cool. Add rest of Ingredients, Chill.
SHORT CUTS
Sugar and butter for a cake can be creamed together in half the time if you add two tablespoons of bolling water. This amount of liquid should then be deducted from the -other-liquids.to.be.used.
*
*
A small brush is excellent for cleaning off a grater.
For a delicious new favour,' ze maple syrup in place of sugar to
sweeten whipped cream.
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A teaspoonfal
and
of cornstarch will improve the lextare flavour of fudge.
Thin lace and a thin silkoncite together, are a departure li oven- ing falilons, sheer laces · having been for so many years identified with wide #klets, In this charm- Eng evening costume.
brown shadow lace is developed in a narrow tlered allhouette, the frant xmooth and straight, and the back of the tiers rippled,
"When I sec other boxers like Farr, Len Harvey, and Eddle Phillips wearing the King's uniform, 1 feel| a bit out of it in civvies.
No Siegfried Line Holiday
Work on strengthening the Siegfried Line was slowed but not suspended during the Christmas and New Year "But when I married Movila swore I'd finished with the playboy! holidays. Married men working on stuff, and that ineant that my first the fortifications were given Christ- respon-mas leave. Unmarried labourers are duty was going to be my
to have a few days off in the New sibility to my wife.
Year.
"Well, there you have it. I want to join up, but I've got to think of my wife."
to the
Some ten of the number of men engaged may be gathered from the statement In the Westinellocher Landezeitung that there are 100 "I've offered my services
Swiss labour camps between the War Office, but I made one stipula-frontier and the North Sea. Christ- tion: I asked that whatever job they mas trees are being provided in cachi gave me to do should be so arranged cump. that my wife could live near me.
"I think that possibly I should be More Executions of most use as a boxing instructor, say, at Aldershot."
Two more men have been executed In Berlin on charges of treason, They were Erich Scheer, a postal worker,
3,000 MILES TO who was accused of robbing the mails
HUNT MINES
and carrying out Anti-Nazi activities, and Bruno Stanik, alleged to have bcen employed by the Polish esplonage service.
Fritz Brehmer, Another German, Edward Snow, 18-years-old flaher-sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude boy, of Bay Robert, Concepcion Bay for fraud by a special Breslau court, was one of 5,000 volunteers who was shot dead when, according to the went to Newfoundland's recruiting omcial German account, he offered offices when the Governor Issued resistance to officials He had been Proclamation for 620 recruits to help found guilty of "deceiving relatives Britain to sweep the murder mines. of fallen soldiers by telling them that Older men tried to elbow him he was acquainted with details about
their fate." aside. Officials suggested that he should join a later squad. But Ed- Forolgn Papers Banned ward had his way and sailed nearly 3,000 miles to England as the young est of the Arst 200 volunteers.
He was among 50 Newfoundland fisher-inds who were at "get to gether" lunch at the Overseas League Club, given by Lady Luens, wife of Sir Jocelyn Lucas, M.P. for South Portsmouth.
When he was only 10 Edward travelled alone from Bay Robert to Labrador to take his father's place In the fishing feel. His father had been seriously injured.
German are henceforth banned from All foreign newspapers printed in
sale or circulation in Germany under the "Law for the protection of the People and State."
The ban affeels a number of Swiss
notably the Basler newspapers, Zeitung, and also the Budapest Pester Lloyd, both of which have had a con- siderable circulation In Germany since the outbreak of war. 13,000,000 Listeners
German radio listeners on Dec. 1 numbered 13,435,000, according to the
German
News
Agency. Yet, he told a reporter before the official lunch, "You know, buddy, I'm just About 758,000 new Ilsteners, have
been added since the war began, beginning to Hve now."
-RADIO-
ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles)
A B.B.C. Recording Of "Who's Hooper?"
Radio Programme Broadcats by ZBW on Frequency of 045 k.c's.; and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. and 0-11 p.m. on 0.52 m.e's. per
second.
H.K.T.
12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter- cession.
1.03 Songs by Fail Robeson (Bass) 1.12 Alfredo Campoli and His Or- chestra.
1,30 Reuter and Rugby Weather Forecast and
inents.
1.45- Dance Music.
2.15 Close down.
6.0 Tor the Children.”
No. 1 Heart Wounds; No. 2. Spring
....London Philharmonie Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goossens,
7.30 London Relay---The News, 80 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 This week's programmes. 8.07 An hour of Variety," Plano-Charlie Kunz Piano Med- ley No. D.30; Intro: Don't worry
12.30 Kitty Masters (Vocal) and 'about me; Our Love; And the angels sing: Especially for you; Angels never Roy Fox and IIls Orchestra.
leave Heaven; Goodnight, my darl- 1.9 Local Time Signal and Weathering, goodnight ..Charlie Kuna Report.
with rhythm accomp.; Humorous-No News; The Three Trees. (McNaugh- ton)....Frank Crumit with Orches-. tra; Instrumental-Hawailan Love; Howalian
Rose Medley....Kone's Press, Hawallans; Vocal-The Shabby Old (Simon-Stillman).....Elsic Announce Cabby
Carlisle with Orchestra; Tango-Thile. Is The Kiss Of Romance; Waltz, Love In Your Eyes....Eugene Pinl end His Tango Orchestra with Vocal Refrain; Vocal-I Never Realized The Town Mouse and The Country Gideon); For Love Alone (Slevier, Mouse Part 1; Poler's Pop Keeps A Thayer)....Bing Crosby with Or- Two Planos Passepled Lolipop Shop....The Rocky Moun chestra;
Alleyne-Leonhardt); taineers (Vocal); Studio-Story by Dellbes arr. Aunt Susan; Roll Along, Covered Destiny-Waltz (Haynes)....Alleyne and and Leonhardt; Cinema Organ- Wagon (Kennedy)....Walsh Barker (Duelists) with Piano and Whispering of the Flowers (Blon); Magic Chimes Intermezzo (Rust) ....Marcel Palotti with Hawaiian Guitar; Vocal-The Old Covered Bridge (Billy ); Night On The 6.32 Rachmaninoff-hapsody On Water (Lombardo and Others)....
Gullar.
6.30 Closing local Stock Quota
tions.
A Theme Of Faginin! For Plano and Layton and Johnstone with Pianos Orchestra, Op. 43.
Sergei Rachmaninoff (Piano) with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadel- phin Orchestra,
Gipsy Band-Hungarian Glpay Party (Csardas Selection); The Magic of the Hungarian Puszta....The Hun- garlan Gipsy Band,
0,05 Studio---Comments on Recení, Events.
0.18 London Relay-News Sum- mary.
0.55 Excerpts from Wagner's "Die „Meistersinger Von Nurnberg."
Jerumi Cobbling Bon Jurum ....Rudolf Bockelmann (Bass-Dari- tone); and Berlin State Opera Orch.; Sachs and Eva's Duels: Good Even- ing, Master! I See Why Twas, ** Hooper?". Schorr (Baritone) and Ljungberg; (Soprano) and the London Symphony! Orchestra,
9.30 B.B.C. Recording-"Who'
Book by Fred Thompson and Lyrics by Clifford Grey; Music by 7.07 Griegelberg Sulte, Op. 40. Toward Talbot and Ivor Novello: London String Orchestra conducted Production by George Barker. by Waller Goehr.
24.
7.24 Grela-Elegiac Melodies, Op.|
10,30 Dance Music,
11.0 Close down.