THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1949.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
They KNOW Their FURNISHING FASHIONS
FOR HER ROOMS, MRS. SOLENDER chose modern furnishings. Walls in the living room are hunter's greca, lime green carpet. Hand-blocked linen draperies bittersweet red and lemon yellow; red sofa, yellow chairs.
TIPS FOR GOODHOME DYEING
By ELEANOR ROSS
there is one job that should be fallure-proof, it is that of home dyeing. The dyes are so excellent, so fast, the colours so exquisite, the directions so explicit. that dyeing a dress or a ket of drapes, or what have you, should be a breeze. But day after day we get letters, most of them directing complaints, against the dyging agent, or asking some other excuse for an imperfect job. Here are sum Suggestions that may help to make an expert dyer out of a novice,
First, it is a good idea to practise on an old garment or piece of fab- ric, rather than risking something good or useful. But don't dye it as it is. See to it that the article to be dyed is clean, absolutely clean, Al- ways use a container that will per- mit the article to be moved about freely, to that every smidgin of it gets its dye bath. Use lauidry, tubs for very large pieces.
Don't Just redye. Start off by us- ing colour remover if you want an expert-job-Of-course.-for-retinting. to the same shade or making it a trifle deeper, that is not necessary. One doesn't have to approximate the exact colour on the chart. If you want a deeper shade use more dye: for a lighter tone, less dge, will be needed. Remember that all colours look durker when wet,
Permanent Colours
For permanent colour results, the material must be siminered over heat in a wash boiler or other large container. Light shades, especially when used un articles that do not require frequent Inundering, should be fast enough if hottest tap water is used.
INTRATORS OF THE lær komt are 18th century English. The living room haa white walls, gray rug, chintz draperies-rose and green on blue.
BRINGING UP THE CHILD:
The Good Guidance
Of Grandparents
By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Ph.D. FINE lad about thirteen, who many grandparents are, alas, staves
lives near where I do, whom I greatly admire, told me the other evening he was going to try to make good at school as his grandmother has told him she will send him to college.
There arc many
and
to their children and grandchildren.
Out of about twenty thousand letters I receive in the course of a
writes
WHEN
By MARION CLYDE MCCARROLL
THEN it comes to decorating and furnishing a home, Ruth W. Lee and Louise T. Bolender are exports from the word "Go."
They can tell you where and how to begin, how to proceed from there, and so on right to the final touches. And that important beginning step, they say in their new book, "Fashions in Furnishings," is one that will cost you nothing.
"How's that again?" you ask. What costs you nothing, these days? S
Well, learning a few fundamentals that will enable you to decorate and buy furnishings for your home intelligently is that first step you can take for free. Here's how these experta put it:
"You can develop your latent good tasto to appreciate fine- ness in all things. When you know the difference between good and bad design and can recognise the difference between fina and poor quality, you will...see that good taste is within your reach and be inspired to create something of your own at a budget you can afford.”
And so, to help you develop that latent good taste of yours which is going to make your home a place of warm and friendly charm, Mrs Lee and Mrs Bolender offer, in their book, a multitude of pictures both black-and-white and in colour-of houses in different architectural styles; of happily planned rooms; of wall coverings, rugs, draperies, curtains, bedspreads and the like; of furniture, lamps, chins, glassware and all the other things that help to make a home completely satisfying to the eye. And with the pictures go clear and detailed explanations of all the "whys and wherefores."
Some chapter titles that give you an Idea of the very prac- tical way the authors' carry out their purpose of showing the average woman how to create a home that will reflect her own Individual preferences in her own way of life are: "A Guidepost to Homemaking"; "ABC's of Room Planning"; "What Goes with What?" and so forth.
HIRE'S THE WAY A BOOK grows, out of informal chats Hike this. Here the authors lunch together in Mrs. Lee's colorful chinta-hung dining roomi.
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Do You Serve Fish Often?
"CHEF, I've just read a report on
of
Industrial
Bleed Winter Squash Pickled Beet Sand
Orange and Pineapple Oriental
or Ten Mik. (Children) All Measurements Are Level Recipes Serve Four
from the 31st annual meeting of the American Dietetic Association recently held in Boston. Coffee
You know Massachusetts.
these year from my readers, an amazingly dielitians supervise the feeding large number are from grandmothers, thousands of persons
in hotels, seeking ways of understanding better | restaurants. business and
plants." grandmothers and guiding better the child left to dead or divorced mother. grandfathers putting grand- them by
do they say Unt their cus- Often, too, the grandmother children through college or giving to deplore the child's insecurity of
lomers and their patients like fish?" them. other opportunities. And when to
asked the Chef.
their these children prove worthy the lack of discipline for both) in the "Yes, nex! to meat it's
does she favourite main dish." grandparents gain great satisfac, unbroken home. children are
dietitians tion from the aid they render. Of complain that her
"How aften do these course, the grandparents contribute line is consistent. Often, she grieves disciplined for strictly, ir the disct-
serve fish?"
The majority serve it twice most to the grandchild when, as so pline
the parents are not training the week, and some three times." quent complaint, it should be under-many do, they inspire him to want that dren
for respect
the And do the dietitians and that to strive upwards.
rights of others and in due regurd Ash is economical?" for constituted authority. As a ruice
are nol grandparents
blind
As for shrinkage, which is a fre-
of What a certain amount slood
So bound to occur. shrinkage iy make sure that the article to bu to allow for dyed is large enough thisi
Know what fabric is being dyed. Such materials us acetate-rayon taffetas and sharkskins, usually e- quite plenty of large wrinkles in the dyeing process. Don't dye lined coats, suits or jackets, but entrust these to a professional dyer who can handle two varieties of fabric in There are new all-pur- one Job, pose dyes that work on nylon and certain types oí,
rayon, while the regular, dyes work on pure linens, cottons, siis and woollens.
of
in
the
It must worry those grandparents who long have had dreams of seeing a grandson or granddaughter dc. followers of the bellweathers of velop good
self-expression qualities of character excessive
to have citizenship, and
these young parents are. shattered. Sometimes, dreams course, the very same grandparents. have been the biggest force in thai- tering their
creams. Own
having pampered the grandchild when he was younger, given him too much of material goods or even Interferri with the parents in their efforts to bring this child up wisely.
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Devilled Fish Fillets
section
Cut 1 lb. fresh or frosted fish Al- lets in four pieces and put in a bak- ing utensil. Pour over 3 tbsp. French dressing mixed with mashed garlic, Cover and let stand in a cold place 1% hrs; turn once, Place in a hot oven, 400 F. and bake 10 min. Tien combine 1 tbsp. to- matu ketsup, 1⁄2 tsp. curry powder,
grated lemon rind, 1⁄2 tsp. chill powder and. 14 tsp. onlon salt. Spread nilets, over the fish
and conllnuc baking at 350 F. until the fish begins to flake, about 15 mln. longer. Serve around rice.
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a mound of, tomato
Tomato Rice
Be- Pután asbestos mat under the sauce
Samo Food Value
becauso "Yes, very economical,
food value sune Ash hus the meat, and is much cheaper in price. report, "Now, according to the
Prel and, silce 1 medium-sized with which I agree, the most ap-
onion and try slowly in 2 tbsp. salad petising way, to prepare whole fish is lo bake them; and fish fillets are oil until beginning to turn colour. Add 2 tbsp. butter or margarine. best broiled. Only 10 percent of the
When melted, stir in 1 c. dry white dietitions served fish fried."
the Chef or converted rice. Slow-fry until exclaimed "Aha!"
11144 triumphantly. "Mony homemakers yellowed, about 1 min, stirring
cun- know only one
to cook fish, stantly. Add 111⁄2 tomato juice, 1⁄2 c. and that is fried, and with so much water and boulilon cube. Bring fat that it turns away the appolite. to boiling point; cover and simmer IF your sitting room boasts a plane, Or they fry the fish so hard it be- until the rice is tender, about 35 min. All too well it is known that n
make it a thing of ornamental coines dry and without taste. Jew grandparents are millstones as well as artistle beauty. Scrutches sides, the smell of frying is all over pan the last 15 min. or the rice may
the house. To fry fish is 11 very stick. around the neeks of the grand- and dingy Tilm caused by the delicate operation, and it should.be Diced Winter Squash children and their parents.
mixture of furniture oil and dust mar the beauty of wood. There's done with great care. The best way First steam the squash as follows: Mrs Myers and have ten grand-
no need for a costly refinishing job to fry fish is in the oven to avold Cut in halves, then quarters; scoop children, the nearest
Jo the smell, and control the heat. If out the seeds. group being
Pince the squash in sh is large, like a small baby a steamer, dust with salt, cover and five hundred miles away. She and if you get busy and give the case A good wash-down. Make it an
halibut, or a cod, haddock, white steam until the vegetable in soft, I are very proud of theth and linve nnnual affair. It costs very litle ex-
fisti them when they cept in time and effort. Go over the lied with a nice
red
should be about 1 hr. (Or pressure cook 7 anapper. greatly enjoyed ther
min. bread and herb at 15 lbs.). have spent short or longer perioda
Cut the squash from od entire case, a few square feet at a stuffing, and W the edge of a cake to looses it have visited them. To be sure, we out of warm sudsy water, Repeat or even if fish are small like sugne. i top. pepper and 1⁄2 tsp. salt, with us and when we occasionally, time, with a soft clean cloth wrung of butter or margarine used in bast 1 tbsp. butter or margarine, 1 lap. rousted with plenty the rind and dice it. To 3 e add
don't pamper the
them. And By Gome
soft cloth wrung out with another tiny infants have been among us of clear warm water; then wipe dry, some mackerel or the large smelts. Let stand 10 min. in a warm place for several years I have kept
they can also be stuffed and baked." In absorb the seasonings. bit on early child development. Continue thus until the entire case
Arranged On Plato Though a bit biased, perhaps, I has been washed.
"And how appetising they look Restore gloss by applying furn-when beautifully arranged on a plate what has been written about grand- ture wax or fine furniture polish. It or platter." I remarked. parents has given an exceedingly there are scratches, Lreat them be- "That is one of the secrets of unbalanced picture of them in genfore applying the polish. Small scare making fish popular," went on the eral, portraying practically all of can often be minde virtually invisible Chef. The eye-appeal is very im- them as almost worthy of annihila by rubbing a brokon nut meat over
portant. A little areen is necessary, on tion. I'm sure that most grand- the spot. Larger scratches can be na parsley, creas or celery tips. Also parents you read about represent treated with special crayons mado colourful vegetables are appropriate only K small proportion of all
all for the purpose, that come in all
on the platter, such as corrois, grandparents and that the number wood colour,
pickled boots, green beans or even of grandparents who contribule to
moulded spinach."'.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
THEN you run a spatula around
before turning it out of the pan in which it wox haked, be sure that the spatula touches the bottom the pan.
or
Look about your rooms to 310 that no pieces of fine furniture are placed near a radiator, register fireplace. Artificial heat is variably dry hent, and is hard Oven the best of wood finishes,
A pinch of salt added to starch solution may prevent
in
up a
am inclined to believe that most of
the
the best in their grandchildren must
Clean ivory keys by wiping them
the
starch sticking to your electris ironer BELOW.
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Dinner Celery Boup Toasted Rolla Devilted Fish Fillols Tomato Rico
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Orange And Pineapple Oriental Slice enough orangos to make 1% e add 14 c. small pineapple chunks. Arrange in layers in a glass serving bowl with a little chopped condled ginger, and a thin dusting of shred- ded coconut between each layer. Top with coconut and ginger.
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To make colery and clam bisque hurry-up style, add 1 (12 oz.) tin chopped clams and their Hquid to 1 tin condensed celery soup and 11⁄2 tin water or milk-Or Two liquid drained from cooked potatoes.
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