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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
anuary 25, 1940.
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Solves
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OT nil parents realise that sleep Ha of equal Intpor£- ance to chilldron na well-balanend diet. Durlug sloop, the whole body should be relaxed
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from the exortions of the day, Breathing bo- comics lighter, tho beats more quietly; le should bring just that regular, recovery of en- ergy to the body of tho child which the long winter's liberation brings to that of dor-
nice and bees.
Willout plenty of sleep the child cannot develop properly, however,good let may be having. There is however, a type of sleep which does hule good-that of the over-wearied child who is put to bed in a stuffy bed- roomt perlingja with too many clothes on la col He will probably sleep fairly heavily, but i will awake poeybh and warefreshed..
Tho normally healthy child wakes qulekly and happy to a bird to acramble from lits bid engar to explora * new day.
Miss Grumpy
My little pin, aged tax, fa a terror to ingle in the narning: ice ali avoid talk- ing to her until she goes of to school. She refuses breekjas!; won't go to bed bajore 8.30 pane
O parent thould have to admit that their child of ten refuses to obty them, and I can only feel that you have let her rule you funtond of keep, ing proper control over her.
On these dark nights the should be sent to bed at 7 pm. There is no polit In keeping children up in warm living
Apple & Ginger.
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IF you are fond of a ginger favour in preserves you'll like this econo mizal recipe.
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Take a quantity of apples Billy, renove corra, and cut into thi Alices When you have four pounds, put them into à pan with 1 pt. water. Cook til soft and then rub through nere. Measure this and return to the pan with 88, sugar to every pint of pulp.
Cook slowly until the sugar. han dis. solved, then bring to the boil and akim, Add the juke and grated rind of lemon and 4 oz, preserved ginger cut smail. Boli and stir until it will set readily on a cold plate..
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The schedule for the 1940 Flower and Vegetable Show on March 5 and 0 has been circulated to members of
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rooms in which the air is gradually being used up
Change your tactics now even if it means a storm for a few nighia Let her wash all over with warm water be- fore she gets into bed if you cannot give a nightly warm bath, and open her window nt least four inches and shut the door to avoid draughis.
Not Enough Sleep
Last Night?
halm down to sleep after his 0 p.m. and 10 pm, feeds,
∙Clive up this lat bottles of sugar water; that leads to distension and wind which can be most painful. If you thlake s chirsty. give, a few ten- #poonfuls of boiled water. using a spoor, Wrap his
armp Abay with a square of soft coi- ton material, so that he cannot wave them about. I am sure that this makes a baby fee) much safer, and that it does away with any sense of mercurity which la pax. sibly the cause of much disturbance in babyhood. Finally, always put Baby to aloen on his right side for two hours after a feed: he can be turned on to the left side later,
Bedclothing should consist of two Night Attire
flecey blankets and a ght elderdown. If she suffers from cold feet knit ber cothe roomy bedsocks.
Call her at 7 n.m. and let her warh her face at once in tepid water. Give five minutes of deep-breathing exer- cises before breakfast and inziì that che nhould eat it quietly before you will let her go off to school
Sleep, Baby, Sleep
My three-monthe'-old baby refuses to sleep for mure than two hours nt a stretch unless I take him into bed with me.
TT is a big mistake to begin this pre- tler, and I advise you to make one more bly effort to get baby to rest.
Try giving him his bath at night: ths often proves very soothing. Sec that wind in well broken before setting
Keep Your Jam Jars
FAM jars, jainted or enamelled in sume attractive shade to tono with environment, make excellent be vases for flowers, belog novel and attractive.
There are many other uses for Jam match the colour- jars, painted to scheme of your house. On rainy days, why not have one or two in the hall in which wel umbrellas can be in the put to drain? Have one kitchen lo keep spills in
The screw-top kind of jam jar is especially usefull in the kitchen. In them you can store rice and similar things. If you want to keep lemons fresh for some time-even as long as
the Hongkong Horticultural Society, a month-put them in a jam jar and
A note attached to the booklet states in it with cold water. If the water that considering the inrge number of is changed regularly, the lemons will residents who could avail themselves keep fresh
of the opportunity afforded by the
Society of seeing a show of flowers
Keep a jam jar in the bathroom,
and vegetables comparing very and one in the kitchen, and put bils favourably with any provincial show of left over soap in them, When, the
in England the Committee hopes the public will patronise the show in large numbers.
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pieces are dry, they can be dissolved in boiling water to make splendid soap-jelly. A Jar is also useful for mixing e shampoo, and it is good
idea to keep one in the bathroom for this special purpose.
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Always have u jam-jar in first-uld box to keep free from dust such essentials us cotton-wool swabs, old linen, lint and bandages: You tan gel ceilutold Tids to at ordinary two-pound jam jars in the stores..
Another good idea is to keep a painted jam jer in your bedroom, and but your used face-tissues and pads of cotton-wool in it. This will save your waste-paper basket from getting sticky.
Jam Jara make splendid forcing housty for small plants and seedlings If you want early lettuce, put tard over some of your seedlings, and they will not only grow rapidly, but be protected from the raids of alugd and sinils. In winter, jars can b used to shelter young plants from the frosts and biling winds that would otherwito shrivel them up.
Finally, never throw away earthen- “Sore Jam Jars. They can be used in the oven for stowing fruit or to rén- der down fats for dripping.
L. II.
I have always allowed the children
to keep their combinations on under their sleeping-suits in winter, is thin correct?-
NO. Day-clothes should never be
work at night: 1 in an unhealthy habit. All day-clothes should be hung out to air at night. You will and it a wood plan to provide a small clothes- horse which can be folded away in the day-time. On this their day-clothes can be spread out at night.
A sleeping-sult in light wool material is quite suiflcient night covering For the normal child; anything more may lead to heavy perspiration and an un- refrenhing sleep.
Tired Mother
I have been anæmie atnce baby's birin, and I should like to rest in the afternoons, but this eighteen-month's old son demands alt my attention.
you need a day-time rest as you Inve to sit up for your husband; Rt eighteen nontiis baby alto needs a I advise you to good daytime nap. Inko him upstairs with you for an hour every afternoon.
Slip him out of his day-clothes and into his nigitle: he is much more likely to drop off to sleep if he is tucked up in his cot properly. Lhuve an anemia diet chart which would help you
This frock of pastel rayon maits Jersey is smart for any; Ume of day. The fullness 15 arranged in at unpressed pleats for a stender, line...
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DON'T a ko this with drooped shoulders, curved spine and bent neck. Straighten up as though you took an interest In your job. Excellent corrective exercises are given in Miss Ihunt's beauty column to-day.
Exercises Help Girl Achieve An Erect Posture
By JACQUELINE HUNT
A GOOD posture does things for you. It gives you an air of confidence, poise and vibrant health that makes folks notice you. If your body is erect, shoulders square with the world Moreover, people and chin out you look happy and relaxed. will feel that your philosophy of life and your ability to do your job well are just as good as your posture.
Keeping your fine posture becomes in front of chest, then stretch straight shoulders. something of a lask, however, when to the side from the
dozen times, you must spend a good part of your Circle swiftly, half
then repeat the entire exercise from ilme sitting behind a desk. Bent gives to ten times. Do it to unkink necks, stopped shoulders and caved the tats when you feel tense from in chest are common among girls in working over your typewriter for a offices. If you have any of these long period. faults now, correct them immediately
For its exercise, stand facing the
few! as poor posture soon becomes a fixed wall at arm's length, feet
Inches apart. Place hands on the habit.
wall at shoulder lava), keeping your Good posture doesn't
men that body straight and Plaid, lean forward you should sit as straight and stiff as until your chin touches the wall be a ramrod. Cood posture should between hands. Return to standing easy, graceful and natural to you. position and repent ten times. This an excellent one fur exercise is Practice sitting, landing and walic- ing correctly and see how-much more straightening desk-curved spines,
TOUCH YOUR TOES
pep, you have. To others you take Sitting exercises are good for the an an entirely different personality neck, shoulders and upper back. Sit
bring chin. in and touchi when your posture is right.
uatil the. neck
muscles are tense, Turn to left shoulder, then to Strengthen and limber the muscles right. Repeat five times.
In this same position," bend mnat used to hold your body erect There is no beiter exercise for this shoulders forward and bring them than the old one of bending up and down, then bend back and down. down to touch your toes. Do it ten Then move shoulders in a complete tumes a day to start with, but in circle, repeating ten times. This wil crease the number until you are do- help keep you shoulder-conscious. ing it Bity limes a day. Keep your while you are working and will make knees straight, stretch your arms your clothes B more snoothly. high over your head, pulling your hody up to its fullest height,, Take a deep breath. Your shoulders should
be directly above your hips; your head up so your back neckline is
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short. Hold your rent in as though Bread And Cakes
you were trying to avoid a hard spank Bend forward from your waistline and touch your toes with many your. Engertips. Repeat as ilmes as you can.
Hold the came erect posture when you stand or walk. Leam to sit correctly, too. If you do not sit correctly, nit your effort in standing Is wasted.
There is no excuse for throwing away bread which has become stale, for with a le trouble it can be made the busla of some appetising dish, even if it be only bread and butter pudding
Another good way of using state bread, is to make crisp rusks to ent with butter or cheese Break up the bread. into fairly equal sizes. dip them into, sweetened milk, and bake in a warm oven until dry and crisp. If you have any stale rolls, cut off lid, then
Sit back full in your chair. shoulders in line with your hips, and feet together, preferably not crossed, on the floor. Think of your spine as the top of entir to form
of scrape out all the crumb. Fry the a straight line from the centre
chair bottom. cases In-butter or margarine and let your skull la the Tighten those hip muscles, that are them dry. Then fill the cases with inclined to spread over your desk mixture of onion chopped up with chair. Relax, repeat, keep this up ham or corned beef, rabbit or cheese, until the muscles. literally ache. 'put on the lids, and bake for a few This is a simple exercise, that can be minutes, abg A practised a dozen times a day. STRENGTHENS THE SHOULDERS
The crumb taken out of the rolls ron be made into daintyteacakes by mixing it with egg and milk. For the mixture into itlo cakes, Exercises will seem tiring at first, and sprinkle with brown sugar'or, but alter a while they will actually desicated coconut, and bake. invigorate you. They require en- Odd pieces of stald bread should be thusiasm at first, but coure they will rubbed through a colander to rettuce become a habit-healfful habit them to fine crumbs. Sprend these that will help you maintain good na balding-sheet and brown them. In posture. The following exercise will the oven. Place in an airtight tin ot the and they will come in handy for strengthen the muscles
arkling over bolled ham &c. shoulders and upper back!
Cakes and buns which have been stretched juft over should be put in a special Stand with your sidewise from shoulders. Cross arms in. These when state and dry can be
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A fruit-cnice can be converted into. CC a good steamed pudding. Crumble
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Andly, add. a Bitlo mills, fruit-Juice, or beaten eggTho came treatment torn fruit or plain coke will make Dbica: Junehtion sweet it: baked in, à allow tin lined with pastry. jf: anoistened with fruit-juice or Hound -with a lililo jam, crumba-car be converted, Into, delicious "fonicles"! or an afternoon tea-party. Form Emsis alimentalija, suffer from them into oblonær Balls:cover with Hadithelyi fumm; or, Jelly,mand. dégorate with hulse: Chocolète powder may be. pdded, no niklure. Belia wil gially, molsteryed world wrolled into whages. De coutedEWIEN Chocolate
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Hitler May Grab Part Of Norway
THE military "campaign In Fin
fand is a struggle for nickel and fron. All Scandinavia may be dragged into it.
The Russians went after the Bickel mines which are in the far north of Finland.. The Flans have blown up the mines.
The Germans fear that the Russians may also seek to seize the Swedish iron minca if they can get across Finland. Germany draws half of her iron ore from Sweden.
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In summer the iron supplies go by railway to Lulen and thence by ship down the Baltic to Stettin. If the Russians should occupy the Aaland isles they would completely dominate this traffic.
B.W.O.T. DONATIONS Devoted to Red Cross And St. John Ambulance Work
In connection with the funds that ara being remitted by the British War Organisation Fund, Hongkong Branch, to the British Red Cross Society, and Order of St. John
in England. of Jerusalem, following particulars from the latter will be of great interest to the public of Hongkong
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All funds sent to the Red Cross and St. John War Orgontention are used by that-Organisation only, in connee- tion with its work in the present war in the relief of the sick and wounded of the Fighting Forces, prisoners of wor, und if such becomes unhappily necessary, for the rellet of casualties. caused by hostile action amongst civilinna,
The work of the Organisation is fully descibed as it develops in their fortnightly Summary of Work, of which coples are being sent to the Brkish War Organisation Fund, Hongkong,
Supplies For Hospitals
considerable amount of medical equipment, comforts, books, etc. arb being supplied to hospitals in England and in France and alse: to hospital ships. There supplies supplement the military equipment and are Issued with a view to ameliorating the con- ditions
ment.
ons of the slele and wounded by In winter, when the ice blocks means of providing extra necessities the north Baltie, the ore for and semi-luxuries which are outside Germany goes by railway to the scope of any Government Depart Narvik, in Norway. There it
In addition, both the Headquarters Is shipped for Germany via the organisation and the local branches Atlantic. The ships creep of the British Red Cross Society and down the Norwegian coast, the Order of St. John are giving cen safe inside the three-mile riderable help to persons shipwrecked by hostile action round our coasts. limit.
Furthermore, our Prisoners of War, Missing and Wounded Department To protect this trade the Ģer-has for some une past been sending mans now contemplate seizing regular food, clothing and medical a large part of Norway, and supplies' parcels to all prisoners of that part of the war in Germany service which is probably
very much appreciated and which can Swedish coast which faces the be carried out by no other Organisa-
tion. Skagerak.
Reserva Supplies The Organisation's main effort, The Norwegians also expect the however, is devoted to necumulating a Russians will demand Atlantic reserve of medical equipment, ambu senports from them. They ex-lances and stores of all sorts, to meet pect a Russian invasion this the sudden demmds which in our ex- perience will be made if heavy fight- They will resist it.ing begins; such reserve, which can rapidly be drawn upon, represents
summer.
Many Norwegians are pro-Bri-
tish. Others are pro-German, None are pro-Russian.
army of 14,000. Their Air The Norwegians have a tiny Force claim 50 fighter air planes and no bombers.
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it provides Cross Orguulsation, in that perhaps the chief value of the Red reservoir from which supplies can be drawn in emergency wherever demands are overwhelming in any
In addition to stores in England, the Organication already has a Store particular area under severe altnek.
catablished under its commision in France, and will very shortly have ambulances there-Contributed.
They have no navy, except small coastal craft. But they have 60,000 naval reservists. These are their merchant, seamen, } trained in handling and man-So ning guns.
Many, of them learn the rudi- ments of gunnery shooting wliales Then they are trained
as gunners for the naval re serve,
that if the Americans, and the British can spare some warships for the Norwegians, that resourceful race of sea- men will quickly make them selves.a.navy.
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