THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1948.
JUNIOR GLAMOUR
GIRL
DAB and FLOUNDER
by Walter
IN THE HOME
Informative
Entertaining
Exclusive
DO'S AND DON'TS
of Child Punishment
By CARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Ph.D.
T is hard to imagine a grow- ing child who does not need some punishment. Of course, we parents want to get along with as little punishing as possible, in the light of the chlidish welfare. Therefore the father and mother need to plan together on the types of situn-
three-you con partly or wholly abandon spanking, using in its stead assignment of the youngtser to sit unamused where you can see him for a definite time, (about 15 minutes for the youngster, 30 to 60 minutes for the child len or twelve). If you are sure you should ever resort to physical punishment, as with a strop or switch of a child as old as eight or ten, it is better to limit it to times
tions in which they will punish when he defiantly leaves the chair and exactly how. They will observe some do's and don'ts.
1. Limit punishment, especially in the young child, to things he must never de. Make pleasant the many things you wish him to do and pain- ful only the few things you want him never to do. However, the child over five or six may profit occasionally from punishment to. make him do a few desirable things he might not otherwise do.
2. Choose only the forbidden act for punishment which you can your- self observe or apprehend objectively In some other way; only one in which the punishment con occur especially without exception and, with the very young child, be al- ways immediate.
Bo Consistant
3. Then be wholly consistent with yourself and with the other parent. The severity of the punishment is far less imparlant than its certainly. 4. Be sure to connect the pain as much as possible with the forbidden act and as little as possible with the punisher: Keep your eyes from be- ing doggers and your tongue from bring
sword. Don't 2
shout or
jaw.
3. With the child under four or five begin with physical pain, as slapping him skin to skin on bare hands or bare thighs with the fat hand; never elsewhere nor shoice
him.
6. Alm to be done with physleni punishment long before the child enters school.
7. As soon as the child will say where pul-some will ut two
Household Hints
Dissolve flakes in a small jug of hot water. Spread the garment to be washed upon B table. Dip a nail brush in the soap suds. Brush over all the garment, brushing with long, gently even strokes and taking care to brush both sides of the material.
Plunge the garment into a bath of hot water. Take care not to crease it. Avoid rubbing. Dip it in and out some hälf-dozen times. When the water is solled dip the garnerst into another bath of hot water. Re- peat the process with a third bath.
Hang the
a clothes garment on line, letting it hang down its full length. Throw over it 3 to 4 buckets of cold water as a final rinse and allow to drip dry.
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When dry spread on the ironing cloth. A fine woollen cloth is best-- one which has no fluffy hoirs. When slik is ironed on a cotton cloth the result is often hard and shiny.
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The iron should be just warm enough to dry the garment. Iron Blowly with heavy pressure. When the material has been ironed shake well. The slik will be soft and supple.
WORLD'S
before Anishing his sentence.
B. While he is serving a chair sentence be ready to talk to him un if nothing unusual had occurred excepting about his offence or pun- Ishment.
0. When his time is up, give no exhortation, exact no promises.
Don't Lose Control
10. As a rule, do not punish the child over two or three on the first offence. Explain the gravity of the offence and announce the suro pen- alty if it be repeated. For a child who had long looked forward to a special experience of delight, to have it suddenly snatched from him an punishment would seem very un- just to him.
11. Avold fong drawn-not pun- ishments and several kinds of pun- ishments consecutively for the Identical offence. Don't punish on the instalment plan.
12. Don'l use as punishment what you want the child to like, as send- or making him ing him to bed,
memorise a choice literary gem.
13. After the child has been pun- ished treat the matter as a closed book forever alter.
14. Never lose complete control of yourself in the presence of your child, especially when you feel the need to punlah him.
15. Just remember that deserved approvals can go far to lessen the need of punishments.
16. Count yourself successful i your child seems to need less and less punishment as he grows older.
17. Having discovered that you erred in punishing your child, tell him 50, ask his forgiveness and prove that you are really sorry.
Joan Sobo, 5, wears a big smile and a white hand-knitted yarn bathing suit
trimmed with a blue anchor as she poses in New York.
FRAMES
By ELEANOR ROSS
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Few photographs and some ple- tures framed in keeping with the decoration and well arranged, add warmth and that desirable lived-in look to a room.
The main pitfall in in frames. For larger photos and pictures, es- pecially those placed on walls, there should be an attempt at uniformity, If there is moulding in the room, try hanging your photographs so many inches away from the moulding and hold, to that line, keeping, all the pictures the same distance from the the moulding. If the moulding is clubo- rate, have the mats and frames as
simple as possible. But for a simple moulding, rich frumes and mats will be right and help dress up the walls.
Beautiful woods such as pickled pine, polished cbony, mahogany, all nud richness to a room, but it is wise to keep within the limitations of the woods used in the room it- Belf.
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As to the type of frame selected, here again, one should be guided by the furnishings and decoration of room. Elaborate frames just don't go with a simple room. for the mats, why, if you are of s mind to do so, you can go in for a novelty, a textured fabric, say, 01 an interesting plastic.
Cure For Stomach Ulcer
-Requires Patient's Help
By HERMANN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
WITH good treatment, uleer of
the stomach can be controlled and healed, but the best doctor in the world can do little with this dis-
order unless he has the complete co-operation of the patient. For this
renson those afflicted' should under- sland not only their own role in producing a cure, but also just what the doctor tries to necomplish with the different phases of treatment.
Ulcer, either in the stomach or the first part of the intestine, known as the duodenum, causes attacks of pain which come on from one to three hours after eating. This pain moy be due either to excessive con- tractions of the muscles of the alomach and bowel or to an in-
creased secretion of acid by tho stomach. Hence, in controlling pain the doctor will seek to counteract both conditions.
To produce muscular relaxation, such drugs as phenobarbital may be employed, prescribed, of course, in the proper dose by the doctor.
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Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Old That It's New
"SEE what I have here," said
the Chef with a triumphant look! "I have discovered à new food; Madame. They told mo in the store it was purely American. It is in the form of a briquette. See?"
"Why Chof, that's cornmeal mush It's as old as the hills," I said.
He looked deflated. "But the store keeper told me it was new."
"I would like to try it that way Chef. for today's dinner,” said the getting into action,
DINNER
Old Fashioned Tomato Soup Fried Cornment Mush
Syrup
Canned Luncheon Meat Peas Cooked with Young Onions Fresh Fruit Bowl
Coffee or Tea Milk (Children) All Measurements Are Level Recipes Serve Four Old Fashioned Tomato Soup
"It's not a new food, but the
In a good-sized saucepan put I slow form in which it is being sold is tsp. sugar and melt it over a different."
the heat until light brown. Add 1 tsp. I removed wrappings. "You see, Chef, butter or margarine, 1 small bay this is evidently very stiff leaf, i sprig parsley, isp. thyme, cornmeal mush, cut in the shape mixed pickle splec, 1 small, scrubbed.
shredded celery tops, 1⁄4 tsp. of a brick so it's ready to slice unpeeled sliced carrot, and 1 sliced and fry.
washed onlon. Cover and slow- cook 3 min. Then add
flour; tsp. cook and stir until browned. Add 1 large (No. 3) can juicy tomatoes, I tsp. salt and tsp. pepper; simmer 40 min. (or pressure cook 10 min. nt 15 ib. through a
pressure). Then put sleve. Add 24 . any kind of soup stock, or use 21⁄2 C. water, and 2 bouillon cubes or or
1sp. beef extract, and bring to
A Good Buy
"Yes, it's a good buy for families that are small, or who want to save cooking time, But for large families who have real kitchen facilities pressure cookers, it saves boil. money to buy the ground cornmeal and prepare the mush at home."
He will bo doubly about excessive acid because it is not only a source of pain but a con- stant Irritation to ulcer and a pre- ventive of healing. Varlous drugs have been used to control the acid,This cornmeal of the mush," such as mixtures of baking soda and he continued, "is It really a good alkaline substances. Aluminium food?"
hydrochloride is also used to absorb the acid.
Another way of neutralising the acid is to give milk continually through a tube which has been pass- ed through the stomach into the first part of the intestine. This should be done over a period of several weeks. If this treatment is not practicable, It is suggested that a mixture of olive oil and magnesium trisilicate, with milk, be given every two hours.
Special Diet
The patient is also fed at two- hour intervals with a diet made up of eggs, mility foods, bread and but- ter; fruit juices and, finally, mashed fruits and vegetables and Ash and chicken. Highly reasoned foods and bulky foods should not be eaten.
We do not know either the exact cause for stomach ulcer itself or for the increased amount of acid found in the stomach in these cases. We do know, however, that both condition occur in thin, active, energetic per- sons who live under high nervous tenslor,
Operation For Ulcer
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This observation-that ulcer the amiction of the high-strung- led to the perfecting of a new op- eration for ulcer. Known as gotomy, it consists of cutting the part of the vagus nerve which leads- to the stomach, thus sparing this sensitive organ some of the nervous. strain under which such people live. It has been found useful In some casca.
Even after his ulcer has healed. the patient should realise that ho must still take precautions to pre- vent a recurrence. If he goes back to his old habits of body and mind, the chances are that the factors which produced the first ulcer will sooner or later result in another.
The patient should be instructed to take adequate time for eating, to avold irritating foods, such as mus tard, vinegar, and alcoholle baver- ages, and to get plenty of
aleep. In fact, if the patient can slow down.
free himself from
worry and strain, the excessivo acid in the stomach often subsides. The first sign that it is returning is discom- fort before eating or upon waking during the night. Prompt treatment, of these early symptoms may pre vent'a recurrence of the ulcer.
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Cornmeal Mush
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Bring 4 c. (1 qt) water to a rapid sur together 1e yellow or white boll; add tsp. salt. Meantime, cornmeal and c. cold water. Stir into the boiling water and continue to cook and stir until boiling rapid- boller for 45 min. (or pressure cook .ly. Cover and cook in a
double 10 min. at 15 lb. pressure). Serve as a breakfast cereal with light brown sugar and top milk; or make
into fried cornmeal much.
"Yes indeed. Cornmeal mush the mainstay of the American diet from the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. They used to make it in big iron kettles Fried Cornmeal Mush: Pour corn- hung over the open fire. And meal mush Into a deep loaf cake they ate it plain, or with pan about 10" x 4," which has first milk if they could get it: or the
been rinsed in cold water to prevent mush from sticking. Cover sweetened with honey from the closely. (This keeps n crust wild bees, or maple syrup they forming on top). Cool; then chilli made themselves. Homemakers as long as a day or so ahead of time until very firm. This may be done had to save time even in if desired. those days. They sometimes
from
froze it in winter, and chopped To try, cut the mush in 14 in. off a big piece to beat up quickly containing plenty of fine dry bread slices. Have ready a shallow plate when the men came in with crumbs, and a deep plate containing a brace of wild birds to be 1 slightly beaten egg mixed with e cooked, or some fish they had milk. Dip each slice of mush caught. And It's just as fine quickly in and out of the milk, then a food today."
cover with the crumbs. Slow-fry in vegetable fat until
well
browned "Is this mush perhaps like on each side. Serve in place the polenta of Italy?"
potatoes, with fresh pork or chicken and plenty of gravy; or with panned luncheon meat, sausage, ham bacon. Or use as a dessert with syrup or melted jelly sauce. same.
Panned Luncheon Moat
A Little Stiffor
"Yes, it's practically the Only in Italy It's made a little stiffer than we make it here, and it's
| always served as a savoury."
"I think this cornmeal mush will be very useful," said the Chef. "We can slice it and heat to serve with grated cheese and a good tomato
pieces sauce; or with
of chicken heated in gravy."
of
or
Chili con luncheon meat. Open and turn out. Slice 4 in. thick. Lightly pan-fry on both sides in little butter or margarine.
Peas with Young Onions
Canned peas are delicious com. bined with young onions or scal- Hons. To prepare, cut the grcon tops from the scallions and save for
"And In America we like it fried and served with ham or bacon. But as these are expensivo right now. we can serve it with browned enn making cream of green onion soup; ned luncheon meat instead."
remove the root-ends and place the reallions in a saucepan. Add 1⁄2 C. water and the liquid from a (No. 21%) can of peas. Cover closely and When symptoms of ulcer occur, a simmer until the scallions are nearly careful study by the physician is tender, about 15 min. Then add the necessary to make a diagnosts. In pens, 1 tbsp. butter or margarine this study the doctor must take a and pepper and salt to taste. Con- careful and detalled story of the tinus to sirnmer about 8 min. pain or discomfort. Ho must make longer. a complete physical examination, examine the patient by means of the Buoroscope, and taks X-ray films. At times, it is even necessary to ex- For an interesting luncheon dish, amine him with gastroscope. This alice cornmeal mush 4 in.
thick. consists of a tubo with a fight on Make "sandwiches by putting to the end of it and it enables the gether two slices of commeal mush doctor to get direct vision of the in- with one slice of sharp" American side of the stomach. If an ulcer la cheese; dip the sandwich in egg and present, treatment should be started crumbs; fry, and serve with plenty. promptly.
of tomato sauce,
Trick of the Chef
BOOKS by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
The Saint in Fitzroy-square
VESLEY JACKSON did not saint, was very much better than
Women TAKSON
to make the war, but nobody had asked him to help avoid it when there was still time to do 80. In consequence, he became a soldier.
Not perhaps a very good soldier. Not an enthusiastic soldier: "I wish-. ed the whole war would fall down and die, but I know it wouldn't," But as good a soldier as could be expected of any Ogment of WI- llam Saroyan's imagination
Wesley, as is pointed out in The Adventures
Jackson of Wealey (Faber, Os. Gd.), was 10 when the United States army woke up to his existence, and his favourite
cont Was Valencia. "You cannot get away from songs in this world be- cause there's always some kind of trouble going on in everybody and trouble goes with singing."
He had a pal named Jog Foxhall who hated everything about an army and a war and another named Harry Cook, who wanted to be left alone so that he could Be down and go to sleep and not wake up. Wesley, In short, moved on the pacifist fringo of the U.S. army.
A
army
FTER a time he went to London, where his military duty was to write lm scenarios for the authorities, which were, however, rarely used, perhaps because they took a somewhat gentle view of
war.
Wesley liked London. his sort of town.
It
might have eren cupe eat
that
married her, which confirmed him time of night in Piccadilly. Ho in his good opinion of London:
"No matter how far away from London I over go, and no matter where Jill and I die, we will always be somewhero in tho streets of that sombre, proud and beautiful city." Which is a Ane thing indeed for any have said about it.
city
very Lo
Wesley's adventures are, in fact, the pondering of Saroyan on the poetry and the absurdity of life and the general beastliness of war. The old cllah art is deployed In presenting the most ordinary events in life, as well as the most eccentric, so that both appear to he happening in a dream.
Not the best Sarayan-rather long-winded and very sentimental. Yet beautifully written and with Its passages of touching humour.
ANN PETRY'S novel, The Street
(Michael Joseph, Is. Od.) is a Rombre, unlovely story of Lutie Johnson, young woman
Hving with her eight-year-old son Bub In a tenement flat in Harlem.
In
now
Lutle hos left her husband. She engaged in o desperate, foredoomed struggle to escape from the equalor of the alum, the shiftlessness of its people and the dongera (to herself and her
of The Street.
son)
The
In the end, Lulle fails, Street is too Was
much for her. It grabs her son, and promises turn him into a criminal kills man who has attacked her. She flees from Harlem, leaving
In Fitzroy-square, be discovered a saint, in a long, ragged coat and with a battered hat on his great head of white hair. Every now and then, he would shout in noble anger at the passers-by "Get up, you dead-get up and be born?"
Wesley's London was a very queer and adventurous place. In Piccadilly one night he picked up a girl named Jill, who, If not u
Bub to his fate.
to Lutle
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The book has power, not from any exceptional cloquence in the writing but because it reveala deep knowledge of the grimy life depleted, and real feeling about it.
Lutis, pathetic wait, is living flesh. The Street is horrible, but squirms with authentic life.
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