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By "FA-WONG"
T has been well said that a lawn to a garden is as a background to a picture. The expanse of smooth green sward has a special useful effect and
A distinctive charm; it' enhances the beauty of the sur- rounding objects, whether they be trees, shrubs or flowers.
There is no botter time than the present to overhaul your lawn. Weather conditions are ideal, Renovations and proper attention given now will save you endless trouble and disap. pointment later on. If your lawn is unthrifty or your club sports field shows the results of excessive hard une during the winter months, no time should be lost to have it put in good order and ready for playing con- dition in the autumn. New turf should be ordered without delay, otherwise you may be left with the inferior grades.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WHEN TOT
STARTS
WALKING
By Carry Cloveland Myers, Ph.D.
TUDE period between about
7.
months and 20 months is a try- Ing period for the child (also for the mother). During this time he goes through the various stages of learn- Ing to walk. Almost everything ha secs he wants to touch and handle. But if well-trained, he has learned during this period to avold numerous things and neilvition.
No matter how skilful' his mother had been, inevitably she meets with numerous frustrations.
The impact
of these frustrations has been softened in proportion to the things he is permitted to have or do, the amount of time some person (usually his mother) has spent with him talk-
the envy of your neighbour if you ing to him, saying rhymes, singing #lvo 11 the necessary attention,
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erd In order to have vigorous, healthy and weed-free turf, the requirements are:
Timely application of fertiliser. sufflelent water during
the dry season months and proper and re- gular mowing.
It is an accepted selenifle theory supported by many experiments on varied types of solls and conditions that
acid
Ammonia
reaction is, besides being tolerable a roll with n definite
to the desirable fine-leafed grasses, also unfavourable for the support of many of our. troublesome weeds of Inwns. This condition can be artificially produced by frequent applications of Sulphate of appiled at the rate of two gallons 2 oz. of the ferilliser dissolved into poured by means of a watering can of water and evenly over an area of Applications should be repeated at forty square feet. Intervals of three weeks throughout the growing season. This ferilliser may also be applied in the crystal form at the rate of three pounds per one thousand square feet, but unless distribution is regulor and Choose a day when the ground is even, burning moist but not saturated and remove result, und
of the grass muy worn turf.
49 a The edges of the area perhaps better to mix the fertiliser safeguard it 13 to be relaid should be perpendi- cular and the best tool for the job with, say, three to four times its 12 a half moon or edging iron.
bulk of clean weed-free sand. Do The local method of lifting new turf is by
not use lime on lawns to aweeten means of an adze like hoc and the
for
because very obvious reasons
lime, this method alkaline, will neutralise
being is far from satisfactory, as the turf
the action of the fertiliser, Go cut has sloping edges and not square as it should be. A special tool has been developed for firung turf and if you do not possess one it can be easily obtained from a reputable garden supplies store or a recognised seed house.
RE-TURFING
Make sure that the turf is lifted of equal size and thickness. The soil
of the area to be re-turfed should be loosened three inches and levelled or, better to a depth of still, take out the soll to this deptly and replace 11 with a fresh, small quantity
of sifted soil at hand. Should the turi be uneven in thickness, use a wooden band mallet, say, seven inches by five inches by two inches, to tap the turf close together with a level eye, and the job is already inore than half done.
ENCOURAGE HEALTHY TURF
fed
Once the worn patches have been relaid, all attention should then be directed to the reconditioning of your lawn as a whole. Remember that grass is a crop and needs to be 10 glvo of its best. The average person has the mistaken belief that grass in lawns con subsist on little or nothing. Lawns of high standing have had constant attention, and your lawn can be
be
WORM CASTS
are
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of the
marred
year goud the casts, and might their
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At this time Jawns 'appearance of worm
although some satisfaction had from the fact that Appearunce Is Indicative of healthy fertile soll condition, constant riddling of the turf by the surface soft worms will disfigure it and leave and muddy. The damage cannot in every caso be corrected by rolling. Besides being disfiguring to a Inwn, worm casts are ideal seed beds for seed weeds to germinate. There Bre several very effective ways 01 clearing worms from lawns and some are highly poisonous. It 10 usc
is preferable products which harmless to children and animals. A weak solution of
ordinary household ammonia is effective, also is the locally Chai which can be obtained at obtained "Cha present day prices of $30 n picul. It is supplied in cake form, and, although it is a little tedious, they should be broken up to a ne powder and applied over the lawn during periods of heavy rain. Both these the hand
methods, however, require
removal of the
Worms which are brought to the surface.
A
LITTLE
PEEK
During the visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duko of Edinburgh to Versailles to see the castle and bo entertained for lunch, these three French youngsters tried to get a glimpse of the Royal visiters.--(Acme)
ure
21s
or playing records to him, cuddling or rocking him and, in part of this perid, reading to him.
the later
As soon as the lot can toddle ho likes to be right where his mother is, "under her feet” He may tug at her skirts (which ho can reach now) and whine and cry for her to stop and give him sole attention.
PLAY PEN
Every child during this period should have a play pen in which to spend a considerable portion of his waking hours--for his safely and the mother's convenience. But while in this pen he likes to be where he can at least see some person, pecially his mother. This is not always practical, even if the mother is home constantly. And the conscientious young mother usually is home all the time, the only per- son caring for this baby day after day, Therefore, he not only wants
to be near and in sight of some person but this person must be his mother, he supposes.
More and more he may cry at her feet or from the play pen (oven when he can see her). If she puls him out doors he may whine and cry to come Inside, She may be driven almost to distraction with
SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1948. SHIRLEY TEMPLE AND BABY
BAB and FLOUNDER
by Walter
HASSAGE.
Now three months' old, Shirley Temple's baby, Linda Susan Agar, poses for her first picture with her mother. The baby's father is John Agar, who has joined his wife in the pursuit of a movic career.--(AP)
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Pointers On Rice Cookery
CHEF, here's something
"Cr'd like you to read."
He scanned the marked para-
this child. Many mothers write say graph in the magazine I handed him. "It says that people who instat on washing the rice they
ing to.
To the mother who
would avoid
take as much care of this child as his time
otherg permits; should, if possible. When the baby begins to demand your immediate attention by day for his amusement Got short periods for yourself when you won't go to him. Let him learn to walt and be sure that his crying can't command you.
or correct this problem: Dad should buy in packages are washing off the vitamins. The United States Department of Agricul- turo says packaged rice is already clean, and washing it wastes time and food value. Congratulations, Madame, you have now the official support of the United States Government in your method of cooking rice!"
FOLLOW THE CLOCK
для-
Recent Tour
"And for dessert," the Chef sug- gested, "we can have some Chinesa almond cookies from the package." DINNER
Fish Noodle Soup Chinese Fried Rice with Ham String Beans Chinese Style Cucumber and Radish Saind Chilled Canned Pineapple Almond Cakes
Milk (Children) Measurements Are Level
Recipes Serve Four
Тел
All
Fish Noodle Soup
Add 3 chicken bouillon cubes, 1/3 c. diced celery and c. thin-sliced carrot to 6 e, boiling water. Si in b. fine noodles. broken in inch lengths. Cover and boil 10 min. Meantime cut Indice 4 lb. Allet of cod, haddock or founder, and season with 1 tbsp. salad otl, 1 tbsp. soy
have
3
boen
tbsp. scallions which minced; use green tops. Add to the soup. Ing some of the tender to boiling point and simmer 6 min. Serve at once.
It will help you to post a sche- dule and follow the clock. At the end of each period, say ten minutes
"I really feel very good about at first when the child
this," I confessed. "For on my is nine months old, amuse him for a
recent coast-to-coast tour, in sauce, a few grains pepper and few minutes then leave him for
every city I visited, from New other period of ten minutes. After York to San Francisco and from several days lengthen this period. Let him whine and cry the while.
Los Angeles to Washington, D. That won't hurt him. By and by
C., I was asked whether or not he will learn that his crying does
rice should be washed before or not bring you but that you do come. after cooking. My answer was As he waits he will incline eventualways Ne-do-not-wash pac ally to play with his toys. child who is a bit older the periods
For the
could be longer-never too long or too short, for good results. It con be an artistic undertaking for you.
Usually the mother goes youngster when she can no longer to the stand his crying and he discovers he can hasten her coming by crying more violently. Soon she may so wrought up as to rush to him every few minutes, still fretting over her work. By holding herself to some definite plan she can help herself and her baby,
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
be
saves waste motions and time to opposite for the lefthanded.
With drainboards on both sides of the sink or dish pans, dishes can be scraped or rinsed and piled at the right so that, the motions in wash- ing, rinsing, and placing in drainer Bow easily to the left.
the
I work from right to left-just the
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If brown sugar gets hard, you can soften it by placing it in a warm oven. Keep it soft by storing it in a glass container with a quarter an apple to moisten it. Renew the apple as necessary.
of
To keep the bottoms of your cop- per pans sparklingly clean, try a cork dipped in scouring powder. This is also good for removing black egg stains from your silver, as if doesn't scratch the matal.
.
Hubby's discarded shirt may be used for covers for dresses hanging in a clothes closet. Cut out the sleeves and sew up the seams and the shirt is ready to use.
Offensive cooking odours may be overpowered in whole or in part by burning several kitchen matches fa succession, the experimental Labora tory of a match company has found.
Chinese Fried Rice 4 tbsp. fat or cooking oil,
In-a-large, heavy-frying pan heat salt and 14 isp. pepper. Beat 2 eggs tsp. until well
aged rice; and the audience always looked astounded. You
mixed, but not frothy. don't wash oatmeal or noodles Pour into the frying pan and slow- or farina. Why wash clean fry like a pancake
yellowed and firm.
until rice?' Some of the women said Remove and cut into fine they washed it five times to get Meantime add 2 tbsp. minced onion Do not let them brown. shreds. off the starch coating and other to the fat in the frying pan, and impurities. 'Nonsense, 1
slow-fry until yellowed. Add 4 c. phasised, 'what you are washing
cold, cooked flaky rice, 1⁄2 top, sugar and away are vitamins. Why waste stantly with a fork over a moderate
tbsp. soy 2
sauce. Stir con- time and food value?" "
heat until the rice is hot. Then stir in the sdded egg and reheat moment. Serve immediately.
Chinose Way
em-
"And some persons also wash the rice with cold water after it has been boiled," remarked the Chef. "Then they have to steam it up again. They must like to make themselves work. I like the rice the way my Chinese friend Charlie Wong cooks it. He puts 1 c. rice in a amali kettle. Then he pours in cold water up to the second joint of his middle finger. No Balt. Then he covers and boils fast for seven minutes. Then he uncovers and cooks very slow for fifteen minutes. The rice absorbs all the water, and nice and dry and flaky."
Asbestos Mat
is
mat
"Why not put an asbestos under the rice to keep it Dom stick- ing to the pan?" I suggested.
"That is a good idea, but if a little- sticks I add come soup stock and left over vegetables and make hurry- up rice soup."
"Another question I was often asked on my tour was how to make Chinese fried rice."
"That is a very good dish," sald the Chef. "I think it is an excellent way
fo: homemakers to use up left-over cooked rice with a Iitulo meat or shrimp, and it is very easy to make."
We have some cooked rice and a little bolled ham in the refrigera- for," I said. "Let's have fried rico for dinner.
"I have bought a little fish Allot Would you also like a nice Chinese nah soup?" he suggested.
"I'd love it! And the fish soup will help make the dinner sufficient- ly substantial. Let's have string beane Chinese stylo too-and cucumber and redish salad.”
Add 1 c. coarse-cut cooked or can- Chinese Fried Rice with Shrimp: ned shrimp to the onion in preceding recipe and finish 08 directed.
the
Chinese Fried Rice with Mush- rooms: Add 4 c. sliced musht.com caps and stems to the onion in the recipe for Chinese Fried Rice, and Anish as directed.
Chinese Follow the recipe for Chinese Fried Fried Rice with Ham: Nice, adding C. diced boiled ham to the
onlon and Anish as directed,
String Beans, Chinese Style
Wash 1 lb. tender sting, beans, Cut off the ends. Break the beans chicken fat or vegetable oil in a into inch lengths. Heat 2 tbsp, heavy sauce pan. Put in the beans, and slow-fry over a low heat 1 min. Add I tip. salt and c. boiling water. Cover and let stand 3 min. Then remove the lid and slow boll 6 min., stirring often. Then water will evaporate.
Cucumber and Radich Salad To prepare cucumber and radish. salad, peel I good-sized fresh crisp cucumber, and slice into rounds a In. thick. Add c. cleaned thin- aliced red radishes. Mix with Chinese sweet-sour dressing, pour over the vegetables and lot stand a fow minutes. Then serve.
Chinese Sweet-Sour Dressing Bent together with a fork 1 tbsp, salad oll, 1 tbsp. vinegar, 4 tbsp. sugar and 1 tbsp, soy sauce.
TRICK OF THE CHEF For B
Chinese favour that is very Interesting, learn to TIBO ginger. A little powdered ginger is very good to season chicken dishes and chicken soup, and a little can- died ginger is good added to the sauce to serve with baked hanı or roast pork.
MASSAGE
HAVE WAR BOOKS A FUTURE?
A
By GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
the future German Cabinet, appoint. Ing one another to that.
this post or
LL over the world publishers scan the horizon with anxious cy". Has the time come, they ask themselves, to release
Half of the Ume they hold that on the public those war books which are it was really not necessary to revolt piling up in manuscript form in the (Hitler was so manifestly destroying Bafo?
So far, the answer has come, a deploring that the time was not yet himself); the other half, they were decisive and freezing "No." To people ripe..
The generals could struggling with The
nover dramas of the war
peace, the make up their minds whether Hitler are irritating rather than interesting.
was a military gonlus or a lunatic.
What the situation needed True, there have been hand- a reckless man with a bomb. And
of ful significant exceptions. For out of the wreckage of war, he example, Trevor-Roper's "Lost turned up. Count von Stauffenberg. Days of Hitler" and "Defeat
Shulman's A strange desperado, in tho
of whom West."
The
Д Gisovius paints measure of success theso
picture mado books vivid by dislike. achieved seems to
Indicato that curiosity
there is actually more about the war as seen from the
enemy's side of the lino than from our own.
What A Naisance!
He had been terribly wounded. He was cultivated deeply religious and a
and
boorish;
Nazi
The
And that is, after all, exactly what was to be expected. immense wave of re-awakened in terest after the first war was led by a German war book. It is likely enough that the same thing. will happen this time.
Unusual Interest
would be a plly If Stauffenberg's bomb did not blow
Hitler up.
a nuisance
But, if it did, what Stauffenberg was going to bol
How different a man ha WIE from Von Hassell, who writes the diary
of a steadfast defeatist. He Is for ever gazing mournfully into
futuro over the
tea cups
A
Will it be ushered in by two in princesses' drawing-rooms; for German war books which just been issued In Britain? Prob-
have ever reading subversive little papers
to subversive little societies. ably not. They have arrived brave, honourable and futile man. before their due season. Yet each is a narrative of unusual interest.
Giaevius's book is
is more exciting. It has a The first of them, To the Bitter End,
a wider sweep and some of is by Hans Bernd Gisevius (Cape,
the qualities of good detective fle- tion, It is confused; its index is
Inadequate.
The final an in-
185), who was formerly a Gestapo ression left is that of
tho
oMelal, and was involved in various plots against Hitler.
Those
comparable plots
portrait gallery of against Hitler! How much we have heard about
rogues, fools and generals, them and about
There la Admiral Canoris, "the tho conspiring little Greek," so-called from his generals and "German resistance Levantine appearance, playing movements" that were going to
part
double that there must have do so much-and did so little! been times when he did not know
himself what his real motives Perfectly clear it becomes from
were. There is Elser, the carpenter who Gisevius and from Ulrich Von made by far the most skilful attempt Hassell, once German ambassador to blow Hitler to pieces, with in Rome, and author of Tho Van bomb that could bo sel Hassell Diaries (Hamish Hamilton, ahead of time.
10 days 158.), that Hitler had precious little There is, in fact, a fascinating to fear from the plot.
display of tho Tho
discaso plotters
of the chattered like German character which Hitler monkeys. They wrote out lists of knew so well how to exploit.
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