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THIS BEAUTIFUL LIBRARY WAS DISIGNED to play a dust-role in the home to which it belongs. In addition to its basic purpose, it doubles effec.
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By MARION CLYDE MCCARROLL
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rOW to make a limited real "doubling up" occurs, and amount of space auf- almost always somebody has to flcient for all needs is bed down on the living room couch to make avaliable sleep- problem most modern ing quarters go around. housewives living in small Since this happens houses or apartments, are many homes, why not definitely continually trying to solve, plan the living room to double though the house as a guest room when occasion requires? Such an arrangement does away with the
periodle up heavals in family life the pre- sence of guests usually precipi- tales. allowing
ing members of the family to stay peacefully in their own rooms and guests to feel that they're not putting.
Cramped
may be, the average family manages to get along reasonably
PICTURE OF A HOME IN AMERICA
EVEN ‘NANNY anybody out.
IS ELECTRIC
In this all-electric bedroom
By EVELYN WEBBER
NEW
YORK. Not catisfied
up-
Shown in the pletures is a library that was planned to play a dual role. While Just such
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it does so a little more elegantly, perhaps, than many of us can nchieve. it still has practical suggestions to offer that might be turned to useful account in the average home.
Take, for example, the cur- book across the tains drawn
| -with-their--robot kitchens,.thelves-and-the window when
the Americans now nie going in for all-electric bedrooms.
An electric candle lights your way upstairs. In the bedroom you plug your outsize electric clippers into the wail socket, taking care as you move about the bedroom turning on all the slipper- other gadgets, that the
the flex doesn't wind round furniture and trip you up.
bed. Now you are safely In You are covered by your elec- tric blanket. Your feet nesile on the electric footwarmer, and you gaze contentedly at electric nurse.
the
It stands ready to transmit to your bedroom uny uneasy whimper or cry from the nur- sory.
safe."
Polito Wakening "And you'll feel extra say the manufacturers, with
do
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the room
room is converted into bedroom. When
usc. not in
behind they pull back to hide
the little doors at the end of bookenses and on either side of
the windows.
room
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Wide Lodge Note, too, the wide ledge at the base of the book shelves. The opposite side of the duplicates this arrangement book-enses and ledge. When the beds aren't needed, in their
they- regulation full twin size, silde under these ledges to point where just the right space is left
to make comfortable sents.
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The centre part of the ledge under the window has a hinged lid, fitted on the underside with a mirror. The lid lifts to re-
for the guest'a con-
eat a fully appointed dressing
table venience.
tively as a guestroom, taking on a whole new character of charming privacy and luxurious convenience by ingeniously contrived devices.
How To Bake Successfully
By IDA BAILEY ALLEN
MOTHER was a wonder- Cake pans of nil sizes
reasonable inre on
ed recipes are available. Why
ples, biscuits and cake were is it, thon, that so many home, the talk of the neighbour-, makers tell mo they cannot hood and church food make good cake? bazaars. But what, her public did not know Was that
contributions of the right her sometimes had to be made two or three times before they met her standards.
Often they do not have pans sire. You can't
bake a small amount of cake batter in a large pan and pro duce a good loaf. On the other hand. If you put too much bat- ter in a small pan, it runs over the oven. If you want to She seldom followed a recipe. make good cake, buy standard She used to measure with size lout and layer cake pans of broken handled teacup. Her aluminium or heat-proof glass. "tablespoons" were big kitchen cooking spoons, and when It came to measuring
Amali amounts of ingredients, it was a dash of this, dab of that or a plach of the other. In splic of this haphazard system, her cakes were' almost always perfect.
Loaf Would Fall
But there would come a day when the cake ran over the edgo of the pan into the oven. (Ton much suzer),
loat Or the would fall. (Too much shortening), Or the texture wasn't right because the oven was too hot, or not hot enough.
When there catastrophes hap- pened mother sald if was just "bad luck." But was it?
There are no alibls for home- bakers today. Ingredients are standardised. Accurate measure Ing equipment can be obtained.
AT BEDTIME, THE NARROW DIVANI under the bookcases on each side of the room are pulled out to make full
aixo twin beds. Curtains come out of hiding to conceal bookcases and a dressing table magically appears.
ESTABLISHED DAILY SCHEDULE
MAKES A CHILD FEEL SECURE
as a rule, than our were Usually, the more
the
and black. The flooring is cm- bossed linoleum with a maze de- Ready for sleep? A luil sign in tones of green.
A rhythmic, phone, making
The shrimp shade is in Licking sound, fulls you to sleep. painted oiling and the curtain But in case it doesn't there is fabric; the cedar colour in an electric midget masseur fix-walls and wood trim, also ed to your bed to massage you rug. Sofa upholstery is to dreamland.
There are also
lamps, sun-lamps.
anti-bacteria infra-red
lamps and anti-pain lamps you like.
green velvet.
dark
Earth's Heat Used
Meanwhile the specs To Warm Homes
gramophone
drowsy
which pays sleep records has start-
ePerhaps you like to read In
By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Ph.D.
held to
when
certain
to a some-
Cake-Making Terms
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The meaning of cake-making be terms used in recipes must fully understood. For instance:
"To sift" means to rettore lightness or break up lumps, by passing dry ingredients through a flour after.
"To cream" means to beat or blend shortening with or with- out sugar by means of a wooden spoon or electric mixer, until soft and light.
"To beat batter" means to mix and blend with a rapid rotary stroke with a
spoon or whisk, 60 strokes to'n minute. (Or use an electric mixer).
Incor-
"To fold" means to porate Ingredients gently into a mixture by using an over-and- over rotary motion of the spoon, until evenly distributed.
"To whip" means to beat with a rapid motion to enclose all the air possible, by means of a spoon, hand-beater or electric mixer.
Dinner
Grapefruit
Spareribs with Corn-Bread
Stuffing
Cabbage with Olives Sweetpotatoca
Orange Layer Cake
Coffee or Tea Milk (Children) All Measurements: Are Level Recipes Serve Four
Spareribs with Corn-Broad Stuffing
Order 2 strips spareribs cracked. Dust with salt, pepper and tap, thyme. Place one strip
in a baking pan. Heap on corn-brend stuffing in mound shape. Cover with the second strip of spareribs. Dust
with flour; place in hot oven, 425 and bake until the flour and in to brown. He- Roast heat to 350 F. basting
3 or 4 times c. hot water or meat- stock containing 1 tbsp. melted margarine and 1. tsp. gravy, sta- soning. Small, peeled sweet- potatoes may be baked with the spareribs.
spareribs begin
ducc the 11⁄2 hrs.,
Corn-Bread Stuffing: Mike 1 crumble recipe corn-bread and
It course, making about 6 c. Add 3 c. soft white bread crumbs.
In 1/3 c. melted margarine; saute 34 c. line-diced celery, 1/3
miriced onlon and
C.
C.
chopped tart apple, until begin ning to turn yellow. Then add 1 tsp. salt, tsp. pepper and 11⁄2 tsp. poultry seasoning or 1 tsp. powdered sage, and 1 large CER. beaten. With a fork stir in
1
c. water. Uso as directed
or
In
the preceding recipe,
stuming turkey, goose or duck.
Cabbage with Olivas
Orange Layer Cake
our automatic night light which
be method operates beyond the first fully, as at the dentist's, doctor's The colour scheme of this you and I can't always instantly goes on when you sit
designed in n combination up, starlled, in bed." If you room,
sure of what will happen to few weeks or months, can't so or during first old at home, that not like to sit up, startled, in of Empire and Modern periods.
us next. Yet, thanks to the easily know what is likely to 14 will, if it is likely to hurt. happen next. As you see, the On the other hand they answer of knowledge
Cut enough crisp white cab- bed, there is a beam alarm is Empire green, cedar, shrimp, growing fund olock "to wake
available, we can be more sure, less the mother holds herself to calmly and assume the child will
she will forebears schedule, the more
be brave. Many tragedies robage in strips about 3 long and flashing a light, pollicly by
then cover, sure tend, as a rule, to wobble in all fated to dental experiences of wide to make 4 c. Boll in
the child from three to twelve salted water to. better we can nex!, the
plan Also the child from six, to and to such surgical operations drain. Add 1⁄2 e. soured cream, as tonsilectomy could be aver-/4 tsp. salt, tsp. pepper and we can fect of what will happen sorts of ways.
olives. Cover the
of doing, and govern our way of mind twelve or so the and the
ted if Use child learned properly sliced stuffed
ect, and heat over hot water about better peace of
10 min. we can enjoy. The same prin- regulations as coming in from beforehand just what to expect.
the lights
Wonderful when a child ut in the street ciple applies to the growing
three or twelve can count on a While child. I'm sure you will agree appear, going to bed at a regular
promise by his parent. with me that your child and hour, having to do a few definite mine should, as far as is reason home chores with daily re- we should go to no reasonable Holarity. can figure ahead on
end to fulfil a promise ably possible, know what is go- what
or may do next he will
ex child, circumstances are
control, as Ing to happen next.
Umes beyond our much more easily than
when guests arriva just as we were told each night when to Inoro we parents are Now
the child are going out New York-A new system of
anybody else come indoors, when to go to bed healing homes has been intro- responsible than
country which for what is going to happen to and when and what to do about together for some pleasure, Even duced in this
the дла child next
for his home, especially if, as often bed? For "short reading" there utilises the natural heat of the our is a "glamour spoiray" to shine earth, according to the 1940 edi-knowing what is going to hap happens, he is told repeatedly such a promise should be ful- only on your book.
tion of "The Story of Our Time." pen; and the younger the child to do these things until he does lled up soon as possible, later.
If he is a good arguer, manufacturers
Is the greater this responsibility It the ronding,"
the can put up strong enough resis- since, obviously, non-irritating say, "requires a
Ground heat is trapped by a
Iance, or outwit his parenta ini loop of one-inch pipe which more we can do about the mat- concealed light" which they hida
other
may be very ways, he In a picture.
uncertain about what will hap curven about 200 feet below the ter, surface and back. A quic
very Are You Ready?
next. Indeed, this pen refrigerant carries the heat from humidiners
uncertainty encourages him to There are. moisten that parched air caused the earth to the house, even in
We can see this principle more, shirk responsibilities and openly child disobey. all-zero weather. by the high-temperature;
The book likens the procces to easily in relation to the hours central heating here. A
of a refrigerator. The heat under three or four. If he has that dust,
Fulfilling A Promiso window filter keeps out
pump takes heat from the fairly regular routine of be to bed, dirt and noise,
ground
a refrigerator ing bathed, fed and just as
tralcing has While I know some parents Now you are ready. The free
of say they can think away pain with some degree copy of the book "How To Re- removes heat from warm food and if his toilet fax: is in your hands and you placed inside it. As the liquid been
Stooping over a low sink has
To make a dainty topping for hotter, readily falls in with the rou sometimes I'm sure they can't want to go to sleep-but can passes through the pipe, It be- rhythm and regularly, he rather and I don't doubt they can
comes increasingly You?
nore of tine. He
what likewise. He is not so great a health. If your sink is too low cake, lay a paper daily on top. vaguely, You must get out of bed to picking up more and
Sift over plenty of confectioner's philosopher. Wise parents don't, for your height, try putting a jurn all those gadgets off. The the earth's warmth. When it though learns gradually, even easily lead a young child to do a bad effect on posture and
reaches the heat pump unit in will happen to him next.
design will appear On the other hand, the infant I think, try to deceive a child board.er plo. pan under the sugar. Lift carefully, and the
pan until you get the dolly the house," the liquid is put under pressure and that forces brought up by the self-demand of any age. If he asks, Will it alsh
method, especially if this hurt?" they will answer truth-height most comfortable to you sugar on the cake. the temperatura even higher.
manufacturers.
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to
say they
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working on that. well by itself from day to day. It's when guests arrive that the
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Household Hints
When cleaning your vacuum cleaner after using, empty the bag, then reconnect to sweeper, leaving the top of the bag open. Put outside near door, turn on cleaner, and the bag will be thoroughly cleaned by blowing the dust out,
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