THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1948.
BEAUTY FASHIONS HOME
Most Children Are Afraid
Of Doctors...
By GARRY C. MYERS, Ph.D.
NOME children of school ago are
SOME
in mortal dread of the physician and dentist, especially of the latter. Because of this, fear the leath of some children are endly neglected. -Sometimes the fear began because
the child during his early years was threatened with the doctor or dentist as a means of discipline. A fow.
Intelligent, wil! parents, otherwise
do such stupid things.
More often the fear has developed because some
older
has Person dropped an unguarded and very unwise remark in connection with. the physician or dentist, or the child has been frightened with tome un- foriunte experience in the doctor's or dentist's office.
Regular Check-Ups
The wise mother takes her infant to the physician at regular intervals and continues to do so. Most physi- child's clans know how to win the
dentists. most confidence; so do They have le trouble when the mother is self-controlled; quiet, calm And tactful with the tot.
When your child in his early years is being vaccinated. against
pox
small
or inoculated against diph therla, or given other "shots," be sure you betray no emotions. Be he two or three, give him an attractive toy right after the ordeal whether Do likewise in he has cried or not.
I respect to his early dental care. remember that one of our children doctor would beg to go to see the after the first inoculation, "to gei another toy. Likewise he kept ask- In when he might go to the dentist *again. After our children entered school they made and kept their own dental appointments.
Getting Acquainted
or
#x
first
Take your child to the dentist at the age of two or earlier and ut regular intervals of four months thereafter, Let the
his getting visit be limited! to acquainted with the dentist and ace- ing his tools and machinery. Perhaps the dentist might, on the Arst visit, Just let the child sit in his chair. carefully examine his teeth, making On Inter sure to give him no pain. visits the parents will do well to go youngster shopping and leave the alone with the dentist, and return with a new toy when the child is ready to go home.
In case some fear has already de- veloped, the dentist would do much the for the child if he could win child's confidence. Proceed in like the fashion with the physician or barber. The child would not bo afraid of hair cut if he sees you or some other familiar person having her hair cut.
Deal with the child tactfully and calmly, his fear will in time dis- appear.
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FRY COOK-Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, Wisconsin Repub lican, fries chicken for Donna Bern White at his Washing- ton home. His recipe: quarter-pound butter in heavy pan; add half cup water after the butter melts; add cut-up chicken without bafter or flour; cover and let simmer 15 minutes; salt and pepper; fry to golden brown, turning frequently.
Nails Brittle? Maybe It's Diet
A clear hand lotion is nice in this weather. When applying 1,
massage A generous amount into the cuticle.
1 By HELEN FOLLETT
you are having trouble with your hands are not to look old before finger nails, don't blame the their time. polish. It isn't fair to hurl bricks ut cosmetic chemists. Authorities. In the field of dermatology say that there are numerous reasons for nail defects.
A disturbance of the nutrition of the nails may cause them to become brittle, even to take on transverse grooves that are unsightly. This lack of nutrition may come about through some dlet deficiency, one is not getting all the food elements one needs
more good
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Fish With Oyster Stuffing
AND how do you cook these fish?" A I asked, 'pointing to a small- mouthed bass, 'a' pike, a muskalong and a pecch,
"The small ones we clean, tako off the heads and "fry whole. And wo always fillet the flah after it is fried, because' ¡l's 'ensier to remove the bones, and we don't waste so. much. Yellow perch, which weighs from a 'bal pound to a pound, wo salt, dip in slightly beaten egg, then in cracker crumbs and fry in deep fat like doughnuts,” answered the Chef.
Oyster Stuffing We can have stuffed wall-eyed piko for a
Use company dinner. oyster slußing, made with plenty of herbs. Stuff the pike and put it in our automatic electric cooker with a big dish of escalloped potatoes, and the time clock for two p.m. Then off we all go to catch more fish. When we come back at five o'clock, dinner is cooked,
set
frut
"And for dessert," I. prompted. "We will have gelatin with any or berries in season, or use our home-canned fruit. Break the gelatin up with a fork and stir whipped cream right in just before it's served.
Dinner
Roast Stuffed Pike (or fish of the locality) Escalloped Potatoes
Sour Cream Biscuits Butter Pench-Berry Gel with Custard Hot or Iced Tea or Coffee Milk (Children)
All Measurements are level. Recipes Serve Four Roast Stuffed Pike or Other
edge. Put two long folded sheets of waxed paper in an oiled baking pan, allowing the ends to stand up to form handles to use in removing the fish. Place the nsh on the paper, and brush all over with oil or fat. Start roasting at 400* F. for 15 mln. Then reduce the heat to 350° F. for 30 min. Baote twice, using c. hot water, containing 3 tbsp. cooking fot.
When done, slide from the paper onto
a hented platter. Keep hot while making gravy from the drip- pings. In the pan. Decorate with porsley and lemon wedges.
Fish Gravy: Blend 2 tbsp. butler Into the drippings in the pan. Add 2 thap, flour. Stir in 1⁄4 e, water and light cream. When boiling, stir In 1 tbsp. minced parsley and salt and pepper to taste.
Oyster Stuffing for Fish: Melt 1⁄4 c, savoury drippings. Sir in 2 c. soft bread crumbs and fry lightly. Add 1 tsp. poultry seasoning, c chopped celery, tbsp. minced onions
and 1 c. coarse-chopped fresh or canned oysters, Moisten with oyster Juice. Use for fish or chicken. Double the recipe for stuffing a 10 lb turkey.
Sour Cream Currant Biscuits
Mix 4 c. moist dried currants with 2 c. self-rising flour sifted with 1 tsp. baking soda. Stir in 1 c. soured cream. Transfer to a floured pastry board; pat to 4" thickness. and cut into small blacuits. Bake 20 min. In hot oven, 425° F.
Trick of the Chof
To give a fine brown colour to roasted fish, brush with liquid gravy seasoning before cooking. Fishe
tall
Remove the head, ins and trom a 2-pound pike, or use nny large fah suited to roasting. Split through the belly; remove entrails and
any clotted blood. 'Wash In cold water, but do not let the sh soak. Drain, and dust inside and
out will salt Fl with bread
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"SECRET' UNIFORMS SURPRISE NURSES
ROM now on Britain's State registered nurses will be
of a
able to wear new indoor Finicky eaters have
and outdoor uniforms based on looks griefs than have women who designs by the Queen's dress- take a variety of foods every day, get
Smaker. the necessary vitarains and mineral The outfits are the result salts. Every part of the body is de- nine months' behind-the-scenes The woman who has her hands tussle-and-they-come-as-a-com- water many times a day may and plete surprise that the pink sheaths are drying will wear them.
New Furniture-pendent upon the intake of groceries.
For Autumn
By ELEANOR ROSS
EVERY furniture show in America serves to emphasise the changes that mark contemporary modern made which is now far from the stark. salld, down-to-earth line and trim that marked the earlier versions.
The section theme runs right through the new offerings, with iables and desks, as well as sofas and cabinets getting this treatment. A storage headboard bed shown grouping with a table-size radio
In
Mounted on B
In
to the women who
Matrons and assistant nutrons in
out end break easily. Every night London's largest hospitals said on the should apply a cuticle
cream,
the night of its appearance: "This
is
rubs it in well. Soaking the finger
is the first we've heard of it. We're tips for ten or fifteen minutes in hot mineral or olive oil is a practice completely in the dark."
recommended by many manicurists.
Sluggish circulation
tradi- lite
At hospitals where they have "Nurse Cavell"
or other cause tional
there was uniforms, welcome
for the first new outni since the 1920s. Some of them in-. the change, which tend to resist will not be compulsory unti 1940.
over-
will the talons to lose the natural rosy glow and will stow up the process of
those renewal of
delicate lapping cells that push forth from the matrix. For the good of your nalls, your complexion, your spirits, your Bgure and your disposition take up some outdoor sport. Actl- vity is a law of life; a most im- portant one.
cute, bend easily. tilling front which
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disappears when not in use delight. The headboard bed offers such conveniences as a tilted back, a light that swings out on hinges, both boons for bed-readers, Fascinating, too, is a corner unit
would be ideal for a
that
small
top
When nails fire In a subnormal condition they become thin and dell
It is especially necessary then to use, a cream_and to massage them frequently. Press the cream gently down at the nail where the pink bazes, as that is shells most need nourishment.
Avoid harsh soap. It is death on Angernails, as well as the surface of the bands. Dry the hands thorough ly. And don't fancy that you can get long without a hand lotion. That lotioning job must go on it. your
Showpioca >>>
July
Showpiece of the new uniforms is The navy blue outdoor outfit on the right. It has eight new features: (1) Tricorno hot. (2) Movable epaulettes. (3) Warm, military- style coat with "lancer" front. There The is also a lighter overcont. (4)
leather belt da, optional, (5) Navy
(6) Navy, black or shoulder bag. chamols gloves. (7) Coloured stock- Ings, nylon optional. (8) Choice of navy or black low or high-heeled shoes.
OUTDOOR... with TRICORNE
Beneath the cont is worn a navy, Wren-style sull and a pale blue silk or cotton blouse (one design has a Peter Pan collar),
There is also a new Indoor ward- the same colour, and a "best dress"
like robo which includes a Cambridge- · designed
a fock-cout with frock blue washing
with patch pockets. "approved сар and apron"; a The uniforms are in non-utility
washing frock of materials,
living room. It consists of two pieces, one for a radio-gramophone, the other plece for record albums, A tambour top conceals the machine when
not in use, while silding panels give a
table smooth
HOME HINTS appearance
to the record album unit. Set between two comfortable sectional units,
such a grouping Do not use sheline on window sash, button-through
It is not recommended for wood which is exposed directly to sunlight..
makes for pleasant stening and for good look.
Bedroom Plecos
There are exceptionally hand.
To wash chiniz, dip the chiniz up some bedroom places, the cabinets nid down Ini cool suds.. Do noz and dressors designed to allow a wring out. When it is clean, dip maximum of storage space. Almon, it in cool rinse waler several times,
a handsome, Lawny wood from the Phillippines, is used for one lino which has a walnut trim for hand- some contrast. The two-long wood combination is nicely set off by brushed brass hardware,
one
then hang it up to dry, Iron while slightly damp on the right side. After several washingą, use a thin solution of starch in the last rinse water. With this treatment, you'll like the way the chintz keeps its-sheen.
•
RE
worn
They say “beret is best of their four new hats -
There are such pleasing touches ns drawer pulls, arranged, high on drawer, low on the other, making for a
It is better not to use a mop on R practical, housing design. More Is the spring con- struction,
designed
glazed tile bathroom Goor. It may drawers from sucking, and causing leave solled rediment which is hard what they had to say:
to
them to fit so tightly that there is
no need. for nusc panels.
to eliminate.
BERET
FEAK
●EPORTERS took the news of the new uniforms to the nurses. Ail were surprised-and this is
"Four FOURTH-YEAR NURSE; hatel Marvellous! But I like the beret best." Groups of nurses at One designer represented, by
other hospitals
Rgroed, several clever Innovations, one of
NURSE: SECOND-YEAR To clean a painted wall which has
"The them a real boon. This is a furniture
bean given a textured or sculptured washing frock doesn't look practi "Jacket that looks exactly like up- Anlah, use a stiff brush and your cat. We must have a breast pocket
but, that comes oft in a holstery,
cleaning solution. It will do the to keep our pen, watch, and als Jify when a change in the i decora“. work of cleaning such a wall mero sers handy, And I hope those collara ivo scheme Is demanded, making effectively than either a sponge or are detachable sometimes I change .pbasonal : changes easy:
cloth,
mine four limes a day,"
TWO-CROWN
FIRST-YEAR NURSE: "The out- door uniform looks fine....I never could keep my capo on, but I do wish the overcoat had a sharper waistline." The Nursing Counch say the outfite have features to suit young, old, fat or thin.")
BIX-YEAR-OLD - PATIENT boy): "I love the nurses as they
Final surprise; Every, nureg' - dis- liked the idea of coloured stockings.. They all wanted to stick to black- for BMARTNE88.
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