THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY," FEBRUARY 12, 1949.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
PLAN BEFORE YOU PAY
By MARION CLYDE McCARROLL
W
HATEVER your pur- chases may be, there nover was a time when it was so important to plan be- fore you buy. Whether it's food or clothes, new furniture or a house, if you do anything in a hurry, without plenty of plan- ning and forethought, you're almost certain to regret it.
Nor was, there ever a time, elther, the when it was made capler for prospective purchaser in any field to do this enreful advance planning. The advice of experts in food, decoration. and home furnishings fashiona, housing and any deportment of life in readily avail- able in books, magazines and news- and in special pamphlets pripers: bulletins on the leelure platform and over the air.
other
Latest devices to help you apply what you read or hear about home building and home furnishing, how- ever, and to help you work out your own ideas in either, are the kits that construct 1 model enable you to
house or plan a
model room.
There is, for example, the 315-
pleee fell with which you can bulli
a model of anything from four to 业 nine room house.
experimenting
with different pinns until you And
the one that suits you
best, nt
which point, if you intend to build,
you can call in your architect and get the builder lined up.
Layout Sheets
The kii includes layout sheets, plastic foolinus, wall sections and furniture cut-outs for every roam, plus, of course, simple nitructions- everything you ared to construct
dreame your
miniature. home in
It sented half an inch to the foot. costs around US$5.
Another kit with which you can visualisation of create a tangible
the house you want to build some day offers you a booklet entitled: "How to Plan the House You Want": illustrations of various plans with which to experiment; plastic con- struction pieres for putting the hoise muts and together and infiture. balts for secure building; and, again. furniture cut-outs
The makers of this particular kit different have three
types-one <lifferent model with which Fix houser can be made; one thut builds twelve different houses, and a third which can be user to make as many
housey miniature us eighteen
#fferent designs.
THINKING OF BUILDING? MAKE SURE that dream house comes out just as you want it
by working out your ideas in advance in model form, with a kit designed specially for the
purpose. Fun for winter eveningsi
Prices of kits run from US$3.50 to $9.50,
This
Then there's the kit which gives you the materials to plan the decora- iton and furnishing of rooms. ane consista of 70 wooden pieces or "symbols," as the maker calls them, ench of which represents a particu lar part of a room-windows, doors,
etc.--or Areplace,
article furniture, phis a squared-off floor plan in which each square equals
foot, and, of course, square instruction book to show you. step by step, just how to go about designing your room,
of
This US$6.95.
or
of
an
START BUILDING BY placing alofted plastic footings layout sheets, making an out- line of all walls.
on
room-planning kit costs
NEW SOFA
BEDS OF ALL TYPES
By ELEANOR Ross THE people that just will at the mention of sofa bed, quite evi- dently must be thinking of the old- fashioned variety, Had they seen the latest offerings at the furniture shows, and had they been permitted to try
out some of the ne how pieces available, we are sure that they would have taken it all back. Convertible sleeping equipment now as handsome as the handsomeat of sofas, as comfortable as the finest of beds, and designed to serve both decoratively and functionally in the Anest of decors.
The outstanding feature in the new line is the variety of upholstery fabrics, with friezes, tapestries, in new colours and designs, plus nubby weaves, and some handsome metallic cloth that would be beaut- ful in a modern job. Fringe and box-pleated ruffles appear on severl models.
new
Heretofore designed in 18th Cen- tury, Early American and Modern styles, the new sofa bedn have done much branching out into adaptations of the various periods. Regency, Sheraton and Lawson designs havu been adapted to both modern and traditional models, results.
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We noted that many mani- facturers have laid stress on distinc- tive arm designs 银报 a polat of interest. There is the sloping Re- gency arm; there is a shadow box arm, and, most pleasing to many, n broad arm of leatherette with a door in front providing storage within the arm itself,
NEXT, SELECTING FROM 3 variety of pre-cut wall, win- dow and door selecilons, place walls in footlug slots,
FURNITURE CUT-OUT 8. sealed to the model, make it easy to experiment with dif-
ferent-room-arrangements.-
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Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Got A Cold? Eat Wisely
VERYBODY seems to livi a
gimen for a day or so after the cold
"Euld these days." remarked succumbs. But if the cold hangs on.
the Chef. " must be the weather, it pays to call your doctor.
or perhaps they do not keep them-
selves wärm ̈ enough."---
"It's neither." 1 remarked.
"IT'S
due to fatigue, insiimetent rest and
overealing rich foods.
reason why we should
stuff ourselves at
There is no
Dinnor
Turkey Corn Soup Crackers Burbecued Pork Chops
Mashed Polaloes
Creamed Cabbage Pickled Beets Cottage Cheese Pie
Coffee or Tea
1
at
the
continue to meals, to cat stacks at all hours, and to stay up
And besides, late every night. this season of the year, we don't ent enough fresh fruits and vegetables. or drink enough, water, to help
keep On elimination and to alkaline side."
nhout "How
orange Juice Find tumato juice?” queried the Chef.
Both Valuable "Both are very valuable with their high content or vitamin C. We should have a big glass of one or the other twice a day. If the weather is cold, they may be taken hot. By the way, holler and sweetened with honey is an execlient nightcap drink."
orange juice heated in a double
Milk (Children)
al stesurements Are Levet Itecipes Serve Four
Turkey Corn Soup
1 c.
Break or chop the bones and frame of a cold turkey after all the Add all meat has been removed. bits of gristle, skla and trimmings which cannot be used in any other Put into a rood-sized kettle with 2 qts, cold water; add 1 large un chopped, 1 large currot chop- ped, and e. chopped celery tips. Also antisp. nulnieg, 2 tsp. salt, 14 tsp. pepper and 4 sp. grated lemon rint, Cover and simmer 2 hrs. Then strain. pressing as
much vegetable as possible through the sieve. Bring ta boiling Thicken with 2 tbsp. flour stirred "I love also-tried that combina.
snooth with C. tomato or vege- tion for a hot ornate engnng," said
table Juice. Add 1 tsp. gravy aca- the Chef, "and it is very good, en-
2. min. soning and simmer, 2- pecially when one does not feel like small tin corn kernels and heat,
Add I If eating lunch."
Stuff- YOU
may have
noticed that It's desired, a little of the turkey when get over-tired that wi ing may he diced and used to garnish eatch cold. If everybody-and 1 each plate of soup. Or use chopped mean everybody-would get some green peppers and celery sauteed in extra rest there wouldn't be so many butter; or very small drop dumplings colds. Children need n longer nap- muy be cooked in the soup.10 min. fime. Young mothers need 10
before serving. stretch out flat and relax at least Barbecued Pork Chops twice a day for 10 minutes. Career
Brust any cut pork chops with girls need a short rest before dinner, barbecue sauce. Dust with salt and to do men. The great mistake many pepper: broil until brown on both of us make is failing to act prompt sides, about 3" from the heat. Then ly when the first signs of a cold
place in a baking dish, Pour over our over appear. We think it's too trivial and
c. barbecue sauce to moisten. let it go at that. When a cold does Cover and bake about 30
min...or get us we should ent plenty of vene until fork-tender, in
a moderate tables for bulk, and little or no
aven, 350 F.
350 F. If desired, the parks
We
meat. Keep off excessive sweets chops may be placed in' n good-sized and chocolates. Starches should be baking utensil suitable to send to cut in half, and fresh ог stewed
fruits be
used
dessert. for
Drink # cup of hot
every hour or so, or
the table; and 10 min, before they will be dong, may be surrounded water with spoonfuls of floky
mushed
use half potato, which will be browned by
hot water and any fruit juice you the time the chops are done. like. As to the regular meals, for twenty-four to forty-clubt hours they might be:
Breakfast: Stewed apricots, whole. wheat toast and butter, coffee with hat milk, milk for children.
Lunch: Hot tomato or vegetable tossed or vegetable juice, a green salad, or cooked vegetables, whole wheat bread and butter, fruit, tos, milk for children.
Cottage Cheese Pio
2 well
Home-make 1 recipe for ple pastry, or use a piecrust mix. Ling bulld apie plate with the pastry: up the edges by fluting with the fingers. For the filling mix together c. sugar, 1 tbsp. flour and 4 tsp. salt. Add 1 c. (8 oz.) coltage cheese,
tbsp. lemon juice and 72 beaten eggs. Stir in 2 c, whole Dinner: Clear coup, a vegetable milk. Pour into the lined ple plate. 10 plate with cottage cheese, rolls and Place in a hot oven, 400 F. for
Then reduco butter, stewed fruit or apple sauce, min. to set the crust. coffee, milk for children.
the heat and continue baking in a moderate oven, 350 F. until firm in the centre, and a knife, whien in- Keep up this re- sertod, comes out clean.
Before retiring take a cup of hot honeyed orange julee and go to bed carly. It helps.
Vers ANOTHER KIT PROVIDES YOU with the materials for planning, individual rooms. realistic effects can be obtained by covering furniture, drapes, with colourful patterned paper
clipped from pictures in magazines.
LATEST chapter in
the back-to-grand-
fashion-
mother
novement pyjama Jean. inca their frat appearance Blond-street
on
counter
they have
been quicknr
for
the
sellera. And It' not only the film stark who fall them.** sald shop girl. We put then out as an ex- periment. But women are crazy for something new (and preferably willy) even at 8 4 20." In plain white striped -wash cotton, they well, fasten with bullons and baby ribbon. And Are made in two separale halves—smoak top and frilled jeans.
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