THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1940.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
SMALL HOUSE
HOUSE - BIG
- BIG BARGAIN
By MARION CLYDE MĀCARROLL
GREAT many readers
have expressed in- tercat in the book "America's Best Smull Houses,"
Many of them, also, were very much attracted by tho rambling Cape Cod house which was shown in accom- panying illustrations, taken from this varied collection of small homes of different architectural styles.
Quite another type of house, but no less Interesting in its own way, Is the very simple, definitely modern design pic- tured at the right. This, too, is one of the very moderately priced residences shown and described In considerable de- tall in the same book,
compact
Small as is, the Ite hume, comprising iwo bedrooms, living room with din- ing alcove. kitchen, bath and one-car garage, represents a big bargain.
Sandstone and cement block - were used for the exterior, and the sandstone reappears in the living roomy, flanking the fire- place.
Modern advantage has been taken of the solar principle in the design of the house, the overtinng of the roof controlling the penetration of the aun's raya ko that they enter the house during the cold weather and are kept out during the heat of the summer.
Extensive use of glass to on- other Todern feature, as note the wire, continuous windows heross the front of the house, particularly in the living room.
SANDSTONE AND CEMENT BLOCK BUILT this the rooms receive the advantage of the henvy roof overhang attractively modern litle house. A une-storey dwelling, all | sending sun inside during winter, keeping it out in summer,
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A LIVING ROOM WITH DINING alcove, klichen, two bedrooms and bath comprise the interior plan of the house, with plenty of closet room.
TO MAKE THE MOST OF EVERY INCH of space, much use has been made of bulli-in furnishings, as, for example, the bookshelves and open cupboards 'scen here in the living room and the table And bench in the dining alcove.
Make
Your Home Attractive
To Your Teen-Ager's Friends
By CARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Ph.D.
THE mest useful and popular in our
homes for teen-agers are not necessarily the most luxurious which the ones, but those to
ex- youths can go to sit and
latest change "gripes" or the school gossip or just chat und loll. Ever so many youngsters have no such home of their own home of, their own or friends with such homes. They substitute the may have to corner drug store.
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endanger the home furnishings, Your own sun or daughter who has learned at home sufficient self-control and care of proper- ly may. If lactful, be able ta taine his pals a bit.
Foods That
That Have Eye Appeal-
By ALICE DENHOFF
OME carly summer and ture gets you down. There are gourmets who spend the sum- months in search of the mer
COMF early summer and
no
A little "dress-nally
give
extru
cc-
new
de-
appetite starts to lag and It. "perfect" Vichysolse to is then up to the homemaker pampered appeiltes an to introduce bright little treat. With the warm weather touches to give food eye as here, how about experimenting with same cold soups and im- well as palate appeal. Such touches may make a dent in proving jellied consommes? The
epilome
of leed soups Isn't one's time and energy, but necessarily Tomato Madrilene,
dent they make
in so
not experiment why
with some the budget.
Have you ever tried licious cold Orange Soup? It is of full of vitamins and no end A simple saind
nutrition, and it makes a per- takes on an inviting party
fect frst course for a duck or dinner. A chicken
famous immediately if prepared ir
Scandinavinn restaurant wins fancy mould. Vegetables lose
for laurela
its Huckleberry their good-for-you look and
when good
enticingly serves colourful, clear
gly Soup, and the British frequently carrol Try hard-cooked
ing up" can play fairy god- mother to even the plainest dish.
look
Farnished.
or dessert
tule
a
Yours:
coolness
egg yolks pressed through a soup that is equally good hot or
cold. The pale green sieve, with petal-like sections col
its of cold Cream of Walereresy of the white 10 dress up
Soup is not only lovely to be- spinach. A few slices of tomato
hold, but I strikes the colour or lemon, a few radishes,
mood for a follow-up of
pink sprig of fresh green parsley or
salmon. shrimps. or lobster, watercress, can put a touch
Iced Clam Bisque can give new glamour on alinost every dish
Interest to finicky Spring or from soup to dessert.
Suminer appetites.
too
Appropriate Flavour Dainty garnishes, not claborate, and of an appropriate favour, are best. to use.
Gay little radish rose, celery curls. green and red pepper rings, strips "f pimicato. cucumber slices, beet and pickle slices and tans, stall fruits, bits ов candied fruit or orange peel. fruit gelnline cubes, threds of
tinted or toast- cocoanut.
plain, ed, and nuts are some of the Inny attractive garnishes.
ott
cut
To prepare radish roses
the root and with a sharp knife cut down from the tip to- ward the root so that the red outside covering stands out like the pelats of a
flower. Drop the radishes into ice water, and after an hour or two the petals will curl back slightly."
To
prepare celery curls
cut
the ioner stalks Into 3- or 1- inch pieces. With a sharp knite split each picce down into strips, stopping within incl Df the end. Drop info lee waler und as they be coine chilled, the thin strips will carl.
To
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prepare plekte tuna small sweet gherkins, first split- ting in halves. lengthwise, then cutting very thin parallel see- tions almost the length the pickle. Carefully spread out the sections like a fan.
Cucumber Slicos
ther then
Leinons
of
slice very
may
Decorative Touches Sprinkle fruit soups with finely chopped mint; decorate service plates with grape, gera- tum or flower leaves as a set- ting for
soups: cream
glve colour to clear consommes with demon
segments dipped in chopped parsley, it is these little touches that spell all the difference between dull routine meals and a sparkling, delight- ful repast.
For the orange soup, dissolve tbsp, gelatin in hot water. Then add 1⁄4 cup cold water, juice, tbsp. lime juice and
c. orange juice, 4/4 c.
lemon
e. sugar or honey.. Chill in re- frigerator for several
hours. Before serving, add one C. diced oranges.
Serve with sprinking of finely chopped fresh mint.
To prepare the Huckleberry Soup, boll 3 3c, huckleberries in qts, water to which one
2
C
Bager and slice of lemon rind has been added. Cook until soft. Thicken with 2 tbsp. cornstarch dissolved in tbsp. cold water; addi pinch of salt, cook for 10 min. Press COUN through steve and when cool, fold in e, of whipped cream. Serve cold, topped with whole
berries.
For the carrot soup, scrape 8 large carrots, and grate four of them. Allow grated carrots to 40 stand in sleve for 30 or
4
strips; simmer in 2 skiltel tbsp, butter in covered untli tender. Add tbsp, sugar and 1⁄2 isp. salt. Combine the carrot Julee nad 0.c. chicken 5 broth or consomme, boli for min. Add cooked carrot strips. Chill in refrigerator. Serve with topping of whipped cream and fuely chopped parsley
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home, to be gracious hosts and hostesses, especially when they just drop in In- forinally, remembering we not one of them and that they are not so serious-minded as wo are. They don't want us to try i nake long conversation with them. They don't wa
want us
We best prepare our home as to feel we must entertain them or a welcome meeting place for To prepare cucumber silees, min, until juice is drained off. They that their challer and fun with
tects-ngers while our children peel cucumber
score Then press them. until liquid is and. one another must be interesting
all extracted. (Or. if desired, Answered lengthwise with the tines of ore pretty young, Ileally, from: to us. After greeting them we
fork, or with a storer for the use fresh carrot juice). Cut the the had better
the time the child can walk well about our Ko
purpose;
be Julihing carrots in slender we need not ness, though we
his playmates come to his home,| thiri. mala malu a prisoner In another one or so 'at a fine at first, more Ecored the same way as cucum- These youths muy also want-
room or purposely leave the Inter. Guiding your own child
bera, then sileed, or they may to dance a_bit, and If they, can
be sliced,
sprinkled with and and his playmates then at non- roll back the rug or did a small
shologically.
disinterested
linely chopped parsley. Cucum place in a corner of the flying
We certainly running fun indoors, you pre-
ber and lemon slices are appro- room
dance on
the ought to wish that our son pare all of them to be desirable prlate garnishes for ist. Iinoleum-covered kitchen floor daughter's girl and boy friends, members of group gatherings To prepare toasted coconut
a record pinys or while a
lots of them, preferably unpair In your home some
when they ure
aprend cocoanut in thin layer in ed, will drop in at our homo that home music,
baking por or older. person makes
Though the same chil-
sheet. Place un. often.
watercress. der broller or in 400 F. oven. may be a very attractive place
dren who are close pols at- five, for liem. Even some parents
Toast until coconut is golden
Cold Watercress Soup eight or ten won't continue to
For the brown, stirring frequently
Cold Watercress who hardly approve of dancing,
lepals in their teens, many might far better have their son
of being
Soup, wash and chop 2 bunchies being careful that it does not them may.
watercress. or daughter dancing with his
Anyway, your own
burn, Toasted coconnut has an
veal Add to 3c. home than have
Block
chicken pals in the
should have
Corsomme, intriguing flavour and acquired especially them dnnee In a public place.
desirable ston- may be used ал garnish on cook for 10 min. Strain through dards for host or guest in a simple puddings, ice cream and Ane slova or cloth. Melt 4 tbsp. Kroup,
desserts and as topping on butter and add 4 tbsp. flour, cake frostings. Makes a nice Not only does this home
ico ingredient in candies and gathering of your child's pals ercams, by the way!
and Some like it hot and БОТО
or even
A few cookies, sandwiches and rott drinks can also make this home an alluring place for loon-agers. The netunt cost in- volved may be much less than will be spent by your children in o public place.
Wo parents need to know how to make youths welcome
Eat With Family
Ocensionally we would
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one or a few of them at a time
child
to siny and eat with the family, gratiually some
provided it were planned in ad- vance and would not be a hard- ship on the mother, and the son or daughter would share in the extra work entailed. Wonder- ful when it can be plain, simple hospitality!
Some youths today, even from so-called good homes are rowdylsh that they seriously
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