THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL
1948.
IN THE HOME
Informative
Entertaining
Exclusive
The Child's Education Should Begin In
The Nursery
W
Stage
By Garry Cleveland Myers, Ph.D.
IY wait till your child is old enough to go to col lege to think about the tools for his. education? Why not begin when he is a baby?
trash. It should further 'good mus- cular growth and poise in the child. It should develop eye-hand-inger co-ordination. It should foster play other children. It should. with stimulate his imagination, causing him to create and Invent, just for fun. It should promote sailsfaction through achievement and afford pleasure through imitation of adult neilvities.
The toyn your child plays with at two may he just as im portant in shaping his destiny as the books he will read later or the courses he will take at
The wise parent puls a lot of of school or college. A good play- thought and effort to the selection thing should amuse, of course; playthings for her child. She does and the longer it holds the at- not fall for the glamour of paint and own. particular needs, tention of a child at a stretch ty. She considers her and the longer the period over ascertaining the budget, she is sure which he will enjoy it, the het she has to spend on toys she selects those playthings which the has good ter it is, as a rule.
reason to believe will educate her "chtlit physically, mentally, socially
and morally while he enjoys them playthings with a purpose. *•,
THINGS TO FEEL
After
SPRING
CLEANING
A great many toys on the market are mere trash, and may have little or no educa- tional value. Some toys, in- deed, because they are so easily The baby needs toys to reach for, broken, even with reasonable feel, grasp and manipulate; things care, are very harmful to the enzy to put into other much larger make noise with: child's character growth. They things; things to discourage his trying to be and simple things to push and pull.
For the toddler: Push and puli loya careful, even encourage him in are Incentives to locomotion. Things destructiveness. Fortunately, to pile and it together are good for EASTER is early this year for foors. All wond
size discrimination and eye-hand- many sturdier toys are, now anger co-ordination; wheel toys are available, as wood, metal and good for leg and trunk and balancing strong plastics have grown exercises also. more plentiful.
The child from three to five and older needs toys suited to his widen- Ing skills and interests; activity tofs one for Individual and group play: con- Itructive joys and icola sufled to his
nge and development. of
SAFE AND DURABLE A good plaything should serve or all the following purposes: should encourage concentration effort in the child over extended periods of time. It should be safe and durable. Belier for him to have one sturdy good toy than a ton of
Don't overlook books and chil- dren's magazines, from which to read to the baby and young child and books for the child to read alone.
Body's Need for Protein
By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
PRÓTEIN is the basic stuff of If the patient is. able to the food
100
a
life, the building material of ed that he be given at least
successfully by mouth, it is suggest- the body, required not only for grams of protein per day, or about In some cases, if tho 31% growth and replacement.
of 3 ouncer.
patient cannot take solid foods, tissue but for--many-vital-pro-- mixture of whole milk, plus milk- cesses. Thus the body's need protein, or the solid part of milk,
may be used. of it is constant in health and greatly increased in sickness. Injuries and operations also cause great loss of protein from the body. If it is not replaced at such times, the chances for recovery are greatly lessened.
Following Operation
By ELEANOR ROSS
furniture
Upholstered and by all the signs and cleaned and polished. nortents, it won't be long be- nieces are divested of slipcovers and When all cleaning is done, up go fore Spring cleaning gets under get a good vacuum cleaning. way in many households. There clean shades, curtains, mirrors, plc- downstairs are many homemakers that in- tures. Next week. the sist it is unnecessary to tear the rooms are tackled, with roughly the same procedure used for-the-living house apart each year if it is room and dining room. kept in apple-pie order all the time. But there is another- school, equally insistent that a house needs a thorough going over and freshening after, the indoor activities, the coal or gas heat and the extra dirt and grime of Winter.
a
the
GOOD GOING-OVER
in
TESTING THE
BABY'S IQ
After six years' research, Dr A. P. Gilliland of Northwestern Evanston. Hlinois. University, came in with 40 scientific tesin of an infant's 19. Here he and assistant, Mrs Rosemary Manke, try four of them on Charlle, Ton left: Charlle starts when bell rings. First reaction rates an Top right: He grasps teething ring which he should do. Lower "xpression Teft: Raby changes
when he sees mask. That scores high, too. Lower right: Charlie likes a rattle. Tots shouldn't be Indifferent.
HOUSEHOLD HINT
To remove starch from the sur
the face of your, iron, either run warm iron over heavy waxed paper, or rub the cooled fron with beeswax to soften the starch and remove it with soapsuds or a mild scouring powder. Then rinse with a damp cloth and dry. Be careful not to get any water into the electrical con- nection.
fibres, so Freezing shrinks wool woollen garments should never be allowed to hang too long outdoors.
FOR BOYS
KITCHEN FRONT
CHOW MEIN
By IDA BAILEY ALLEN
and
chop suey are familiar foods to most of us. But at that point our acquain- tance with Chinceo dishes often ends, which is unfortunate, for there is much we
cut in 1. sections, tbsp. thin-aliced preserved ginger (or substitute
ginger top. powdered
Slow fry 1 min. Then add. 4 tbsp. vinegar, 1 tbsp, soy, sauce, I tbmp, sweet pickle rellah and 3 tbsp. sugar, Sir in 4 tbsp. cornstarch, mixed with 2 tbsp. cold
·water...
Lesson in Chinese Cookery
When well mixed, stir in 2 c. boll. can learn about cooking from
ing water, stirring constantly until the Chinese.
the sauce bubbles all over. Pour over Or They are past masters in the art the Dish: garnish with parsley because cress.
of preparing vegetables,
they don't overcouk them.
Thic
and crisp texture. Their basic
tea-
keeps the flavour, as well as colour Wash
Serve with flaky rice.
Flaky Rico
converted Cover
1 c. white or sonings are soy sauce, on sale at all, rice. Place in a saucepan. food stores; and gourmet powder with cold water to the depth of an which can be obtained in all Chinese inch. Put on the lid and boil rapidly Then reduce the heat and localities. The fals they favour are 8 min.
in lard or peanut oil. And they know continue to cook until the rice
is advisable to allp done, it an anbestos mat under the saucepan so the rice will not stick. A Chinese soup is always well done, the grains will be separate and If salt is seasoned and served piping hot, with all the liquid absorbed.
how to make a little meat go a long about 15 min, longer. When
long way.
Chinese Soups
When
a garnish, such as won ton, which desired, tsp. should be added at are Alled Chinese dumplings, sur- the beginning. It is not necessary prisingly like ravioli; or barely to wash the rice and 11, should not cooked Chinese cabbage or mush be rinsed with water after cooking.
Hittle. rooms; or egg in fascinating
Chinesa Almond Cakes strings which you'll discover how to
Into a medium-sized bowl sift-to- make in today's column.
Chinese seafood dishes are out- gether 14 c. flour, e. granulated standing, especially their sweet and sugar, a tsp. baking powder and 1/3 sour fish. And as they thicken tsp. salt. Add c. blanched al- gravies with cornstarch, which mands put through the food chop- makes them translucent, they add a per. Next, adde. margarine and glamorous shine to any food over chop it in with a pastry blender as in making plecrust. Then stir in 2 which they are poured.
well-beaten, good-sized eggs, and The The Chinese desserts are simple, mix until thoroughly blended. but like other nation, the Chinese dough will be very thick, have their own brand of pastries,
Place by half tbsp. in little smooth some quite claborale, and made with mounds on an oiled cooky alicet or dried peas!
large pant. Leave an inch space bo- However,
Chinese tween, as the cakes spread and flat- sweet we all especially enjoy. You've ten in baking. Place a blanched al- guessed it-almond cakes. So the mond in the centre of each cake, modernte the bake until brown in a Chef and 1 have modernised recipe in the tnste-test kitchen for oven, 350 to 375 F. about 12 to 15 -your-Ready? Now let's eat Chinesel min This makes 4 sloz. cakez..
there's one
DINNER
Chinese Tomato Soup Sweet and Pungent Fish
Finky Rice
Pineapple Chunks or Almond Cakes
Tea
Milk (Children)
All Measurements Are Level
Recipes Serne Four
Chinese Tomato Soup
Combine 1 (No. 3) can tomatoes
SUNDAY DINNER Chicken Soup with Noodles and Vegetables
Little Discus Swiss Stenk Whipped Potatoes
Crisp Celery
Pens
Chocolate Cream Roll
Coffee or Ten
Milk (Children) Chocolate Cream Roll
First prepare a large shallow pan,
10-
tsp:
CEES.
with 1 c. water, 1 tsp. sugar, 1⁄4 tsp. about 10" x 5," by llning it smoothly sali, 1 tsp. soy sauce or kitchen bou with waxed paper. Then sift
flour, 1 quet, and 1⁄2 tsp. orion juice. Boil gether 2/3 c. cake
2 baking powder, tsp. salt and G 10 min. Then thoroughly beat Cg63. Stir into the tomato soup, tbsp. dry cocoa, Separate 3 stirring constantly until it is full of Beat the whites stiff and fold in little yellow strings. Serve at once. e. sifted powdered sugar. Bent the
Sweat And Pungont Fish
egg yolks until thick, and add 1/3 c.
milk and tsp. almond or vanilla
centre,
A good-sized carp, a Buffalo carp, extract. Stir this into the egg whites. sugar. Then fold into the mullot, a small take trout or had and
Spread the dock, or fish fillets of any kind may sifted try ingredients, be used. If whole fish is used, clean cake batter in the pan, making it a it: cut off the head and tall, and cut trifle higher at the edges than in Bake 15 min. in a If Allets are the the fish into 4 sections.
moderate oven, 375 F4 or until a used, cut each in 2 sections.
tooth pick when inserted in the cen- Rub the outside of the fish or tre, comes out clean.
When done, turn onio a fillets with 2 tbsp. dry flour mixed
damp with 2 tsp. salt. Then fry in a towel and pull off the waxed paper. heavy frying pan containing enough Half cool. Then place another picco cake, and hot lard or vegetable fat or oil, to of waxed paper over the cover the bottom. Start with a high roll it up like a jelly roll. (The heat, and fry 2 mins. on each side, paper prevents the cake from stick- reduce the heat to medium and ing together.) When ready to serve, Then fry 4 min. Ora cach side. If the Bsh unroll. Discard the paper and spread is very thick an extra 2 min. frying the cake with 0 thick layer may be needed.
sweetened, flavoured whipped cream: Spread the outside Remove the fish to a serving plat- roll up again. ter and keep it hot. About 2 tbsp. with whipped cream, and decorate shredded toasied almonds, fat should be left in the frying pan. with To this add 2 scallions, cleaned and Serve within an hour,
AND GIRLS
OUR EASTER CUSTOMS HAVE MANY
The kitchen gets a good-going- over starting off with cupboards and cabinets being emptied and cleaned. Dishes are washed and replaced. Walls and woodwork are washed, as Kitchen are lighting Axtures and windows, refrigerator and range. furniture ส
polished.. cleaned and It is a good plan to include
the Woodwork and linoleum are cleaned
waxed. seasonal house cleaning with
Basement stairs, are bright weekly work schedule. The average cleaned. Then up go fresh
curtains, wing
windowboxes house or apartment needs two weeks,
are set if this plan is followed, while in plac
placo,
plants move in, the new potted many larger establishments it is
kitchen desk gets a new blotter, and six-week schedule, with one or more the room is sweet and clean again. rooms Integrated into the regular The wind-up finds all brushes, mops, and such nicely weekly cleaning job each week.
sponges, chamols
proper returned to cleaned, then SPECIAL JOBS
storage space.
Organise your house-cleaning and ac- make it easier for yourself and your Une good homemaker of our quaintance starts off her plan with servants. a survey of all special-jobs-to-be- done, and a good supply of house- cleaning equipment, with emphasis on now dusters, brushes or brooms that may be required. The up- holsterer comes in to fix any nota or attention. Now and then, following operation, chair that may need his a patient must be fed through a tube Small rugs und such are sent out for which has been passed from the Sessional dry-cleaning.
upstairs work calls for A mouth into the stomach. A liquid
thorough cleaning of the bathroom. mixture, such as the above, may be
La known as pro- Hot air registers and radiators, employed. What tein hydrolyzate may be used. This you have them, are cleaned with Under usual circumstances, into the amino acids of which they
1s made by breaking down proteins electric cleaning attachments, as are Bureau and the amount of protein in the are composed. It is also possible to
cornices and closets. dressing table drawers are emptied body may be maintained at give hydrolyzed protein by injection and cleaned. each member of the normal by the use of a well- mixed with a glucose solution. Such family responsible for his or her
the decided to give the people cakes resemblance to window shades,
on this particular come own. Down balanced diet containing about a mixture will provide not only pro-
Boup carbohydrates and
pictures, mirrors and curtains. Rugs is, but the day has similar bear a one gram of protein per day for teins, but also
are taken up, and if need be, sent observances in many other rabbit. That is, why we have Friday. He said it would help some sall.
an Easter bunny.
to cheer them up to have "small each two pounds of body
out for cleaning- Rug pads get a
Easter musle and songs may have sweet spiced cakes." They were to weight. For example, a person Vitamina also may be given by in-
good going over. Walls and cellings creeds. Even the Easter bunny weighing 150 pounds needs 76 Joction so that even when the patient are cleaned. Light fixtures, lamps, is said to date back to the roots in the ancient festivals, but be special cakes, made by a new the early singers probably would recipe, and cach was to be marked cannot take any food by mouth, it switch plates, door knobs, other Babylonians! grams of protein. Proteins are is possible to keep up his nutrition metal and glass are all cleaned.
never recognise them today. There with the algn of the cross in honour obtained especially from such satisfactorily by using the above-
In most western countries the is uplift and inspiration in Easter of Good Friday.
The idea was so successful that the foods as meat, milk, eggs, described methods.
tried to imitato *mony others season is observed principally
recipe was icept beans, peas, and whole-grain
by the Christian Easter and Because of its enclent origin, cakes, but tho cereals.
the Jewish Passover. But in there are many legends about this secret by the monks and no the early days of civillantion it time of the year, like the one con- seemed able to make the cakes as
could. was tied up with the worship nected with those delicious Hot well as they
which
Just how or why they have re- Cross Buns
oppear only of the goddess of the moon, around Easter imo.
mained an Easter specialty no one It seems that for a long time the seems to know, but everyone knows Ashtoreth, who was often plc-
Hot Cross Buns tured as a hare or a rabbit. English monks at St Albans had how good those
tasto each year, whether they are made by the original recipe Father Rocliffe worked out, modern version of it.
*
If
Woodwork is cleaned and refulsh- ed i found necessary. Same
goca
Protein Deficiency When not enough protein is consumed, the tissues of the
near a heat source in direct body containing proteins are WELL-STOCKED bookshelves books
give a lived-in look to a sun rays, nor in a damp place. If called upon to supply this sub-
mildew appears, wipe off promptly, stance, and Booner or. later room such as no other accessory (alcohol removes mildew stains) and symptoms of a protein de- or appointment can bestow. But place in sun so that mildew fungus ficiency develop. These symp-if these same books aren't well may be killed.
Your Books Need Good Care
toms include such things as loss taken care of, they tell a lot
of appetite, loss of strength, and a general feeling of weak-
about the household.
ness.
to
If they are absolutely new look-
!
Oils for Leather
Leather bindings may be preserved Ing, chances are that the books are permanently I wiped with a con- In addition, there would seem there for show only and aren't read ditioning preparation twice a year, a to be an increased susceptibility variably arc.
and re-read, as all favourites in preparation that provides fresh oils And if they are in for the leather. Any bookstore infection. Furthermore, poor condition, well, that means specialising in fine leather-bound wounds do not heal as they that there is no one that really loves books will be glad to advise you on should. The abdomen becomes books enough to keep them in good this. The time to give such treat- appear distended
ment is while bladings still awollen or
and condition.
In
Onco
dried and good condition. edema, or collection of fluids in
cracked, it is difficult to restore the tissues develops.
Healtor.
(
Injections Given
It la possible to determine when
In protein deficiency exists by finding out how much protein is present in the fluid part of the blood. Usually, several tests should be mado.
The best and quickest way to cor- rect protein deficiency in an emer goney is by means of an injection of whole blood Into a vein. amount of blood needed varies with the severity of the condition.
The
Care is Simplo
Really the principles of book care are almple. Stand volumes upright Repair torn pages easily with but not so close together that they transparent adhesive tape. Loose are crowded. Use book-ends not pages can be securely fastened with only on tables but at the ends of the same collulose tape, by forming- partially filled shelves. Omaments a full-length hiage on both sides of of plants, make good book-ends the page at the binding... there. Books. too tall for shelves, may be laid flat but never on the
Cover children's books with tha back binding or front edge.. ↑ paper or transparent Jacketà avail- able in most alores, or pasto down
Dust books frequently, carefully the ends of the original dust jackets and individually, using cheese-cloth inside the covers, as the lending or vacuum cleaner. Do not store libraries do.
INTERESTING ROOTS
AVE
By ELIZABETH HOUISON
been in the habit of giving a bowl of soup to anyone who visited the abbey on Good Friday.
In 1500 the winter was long and cold and many poor people suffered
a The idea possibly came from the so that Father Rocliffe, who was in
Wentation of Easter as a The idea possibly moon which charge of St. Albans at that Ume,
IN THE EARLY
DAYS OF CIVILIZATION PEOPLE. WORSHIPPED. THE GODDESS OF THE MOON- **ADHTORETH"
WAG OFTEN PICTURED AS
A RABBIT-
music.
THE ORIGIN OP OUR HOT GROGS
BUNG CAN BE TRACED TO A MONK WHO LIVED NEARLY
400 YEARS AGO-
CASTOR CAN COMB AS BARLY AS MARCH 22, BUT NOT FOR
ABOUT 300 YEARS WILL IT
DO SO
2218
WHEN
DUR,
.
well
as
one
more
The present method of fixing the
Rupert helps Dr. Lion---2
Soon after leaving his cottage Rupert spies is beat pal. B Badger, walking slowly down lane. "Hi. Bill he caila, have you seen anything of Dr. Lion this morning
The little badger looks
at him gloomily. You'd bener dot cub dear be you'll catch by cold." he says hosraely. " thigh the doctor's subwhere in the village Oh, poor ad visitig sick people."* Dill cries Rupert, you ought in be in bed, too, You do sound SCOBRY.** Dearly everybody's groggy. sighs Bill, but subwud's Rot to do the shoppig."
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,
of
date of Easter Sunday also goes Pick Up An Apple
back
to
.the, anclent worship of the moon, although it grew out of con- tinued
arguments among the Christians as to what should be the In 325 A.D. the proper date. Nicene Congress decided that Eas- fer Sunday should fall on the first Sunday after the first full moon -after March 21.
This means that Easter
Sunday
will always come between March 22
and April 25.
The Greek church did not adopt, this date-fixing until 1923. In that year, for the first time, all Christians. observed Easter Sunday on the same date!
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According to statistics, the last timo Easter fell on March 24 in 1810, and it will be about 300 years before it again falla on this carliest possible date. Apparently it does not need such a long interval to make the day fall on April 25, as this occurred in 1860 and again in 1943.
With A Spoon
Here is a trick that can entertain you and your friends. The object is to pick up an apple with a spoori. If you try to push the spoon under the apple Just anywhere, you only make it roll_along the floor. The secret lies in the way you push the spoon under the apple.
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Push the spoon under "end" of the apple-the stern and the bottom of the core being, the ends. If you push gradually you can get tho centro of gravity over spoon. Then give a quick push and the apple will fall over into
the spoon.
the