THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AU
1949.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
Go Easy On Your Glassware
By MARION CLYDE McCARROLL
MONG the beautiful lessen the chance of dropping
A wedding gifts that tile glass.
wnro.
many of this season's To keep sparkle in the glass-` brides have been receiving ware, use a mild solution of to help in furnishing and soapsuds or detergent and com- equipping their new homes fortably hot water. Rinse each piece. thoroughly in warm nre sets of goblots, piates or water, putting a few drops of individual pieces of fine ammonia or bluing in the rinso to help bring out the lustre. American handmado glass Omit the ammonia, though, if the glassware has any gold or. decoration, and sliver
avoid caustic washing powders.
When you dry glassware, you have a choice of two schools of should thought. One holds it be dried quickly with a lint-free towel; the other believes that after a thorough rinse in warm water, It drles beller by itself. In any case, give it a final polish with a clean dry towel,
And unless those briden aro smart girls who make it a point to find out just how Jovely glassware such should be taken care of, they'll be and young house- wives one of these days when a piece is chipped.
It's easy to keep glass ware whole and shining, calling for attention
to
So
In storing ahesware, on cup- board shelves, give each pleco three main things: proper room,
rub that it won't
Placo washing; proper cupboard against its neighbour. shelf storage; and proper glosses rim side up, and never handling.
The first calls for o rubber mat or dishtowel placed in the bottom of dinh pen and on drainboard. Then, wash only a fow pieces at a time-one Is even better-holding atemware by the bowl to avoid strain-and
sladit them.
In general handling.remem-
while delicate hand ber that made American glass is treated lo stand ordinary changes in temperature, it should never be sudden changes subjected to from hot to cold, or vice versa.
GO EASY ON YOUR GLA 88WARE -" when washing - 14! Place a dlah towel or rubber mat in the diahpan and on
drainboard to lessen chauds of· breakage.
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the months of pregnancy.
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It tells the mother-to-be why she recalves an additional rallon book, points out she is entitled to one pint of milk at 14d (as against 4d for the or free of average citizen),
CAM: If her income is below
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eight the ration" every
wecks
when they are on sale,
and half-a-ration of mest. II she has free milk, free orange
Julco may be give her too
Those who can a ford it pay five pence for a six-ounce bottle A which lasts nino days, woman who is to be confined at home can buy extra soap also.
In addition the pamphlet gives practical hints which should help the expeelant mother to get the best out of her rations. Useful recipes are Included, with a special section on the preparation of green vegetables and salads.
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TO BRING OUT THE SPARKLE in your lovely handmade glassware, use a solution of mild soap or detergent in com- fortably warm water..
The Must" Cabinet In Every Home
THE
By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
HE next time you go A good mild antiseptic is a of jodine and into your bathroom do 25% solution what I did the other day, alcohol.
It should be tightly
stoppered and replaced at TC- Take a look inside the medi- gular intervals because, if the cine cabinet. The chances are alcohol evaporates, the solution that it is cluttered up with becomes too strong everything from half-empty
allowed
Medleines change --when-
to sland too long. They of medicine pre- do not keep indefinitely. While bottles scribed for illnesses, long these chemical changes may not since cured, to stray hair make the drug dangerous, they preparations to pins and cosmetica,
lose their effectiveness. Thus
do caute
The
NEVER CROWD GLASSWARE ON CUPBOARD shelves is shown here. Instead, zive each plece plenty of room,, so it won't touch its selghbour. Don't stack glasses, either. but place them singly, always with rim side up.
It is this catch-all charactere good for nothing but ter of the average family to take up space in the cabinet. medicine chest which makea This loss of polency, due to doctors regard it as more of standing for several months, is
an ever not only true of many medicines SM a hazard than present help in time of but of vitamins as well. trouble.
rolls of gauze,
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Household Hints
Tips For Easy Entertaining
lots of There are
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By
ALICE DENHOFF
for one
CIMPLE fare, when sauce, asparagus or green peas, lorway for the inventive cook. Here is a brace of interest- guests come to dinner, crisp rolls, carrot sticks, celery
and radishes, hearts
stewed ing tidbits that should certainly makes entertain- winter pears, coffee.
rc- glater well. MUST BE LABELLED – [ing easier for the hostess. The chef's sauce that is made The first maker use of those To be really useful, the me-
Every preparation which is But of course we feel that with mushrooms, without meat, nifty little cocktail sausage that dicino cabinet. need contain
kunt should be carefully labelled, four guests should be can be used to make second are again available. Sift together Several only a fow articles.
If you do not know what a honoured with something day fish taste good enough for 2 c. sified flour, 4 tsp. salt and packet of
lunch.
3 tsp. baking powder. Cut in 2 company bottle or box contains, get rid
shortening. Add
2/3 sterila
special, and so we often cotton, And 50rac of it.
Flake the fish, after skin and to 4 tbsp..
make a soft adhesive tapo dressings
Many medicines
beplan a menu that takes so bones have been removed, put to c. milk to must Hanes! ezsentin There should also
stered in a cold, dry place. The much energy that we are it in a casserole with alternate dough, stirring just enough to a bottle of Rome
medicine cabinet
in the bath tired and bedraggled when layers of crumbled bread. Pour make ingredients hold together, Boured and Turn out onto lightly ointment mom is neither mild antiseptic. A
cold or it comes time to play hos a tin of sauce over it, may be for minor burns
of Hence, it might be better is
bake, uni dellcately browned. board; knead gently value. Salves and ointments in fake the medicine cabinet out of tess.
Serve with oven-dried buttered half minute, Roll dough 1⁄4 inch with tubes as a rule are preferred to the bathroom, but, wherever It
thick. Cut into rounds ways to those in Jars because they re is loented. it should
small biscuit cutter about an be in a make
menus guest-worthy.
inch in diameter nince. So that One help we have found very main sterile for a longer period well-ghled
Slice, tiny be successful a in or two of
cocktail: sausages very...... thin, tabela on medicines may of time.
Cover biscuit with Bausage easily read.
sauca prepared according to a
for.
slices, then with another biscuit, ane préparation chef's formule-flavoured Aspirin is which may well be kept epicures, but ready for work bread
then with more sausage slices, of the safest Thanet. It is one.
with
and a generous twist
green then of the opener
another blecult ich with five minutes
Tinned or fresh fruit, Press together at one side. heating, salad.
Sof If fat in the pan gets on aro, medicines to use for pain relief and
until the physician. prescribes such a sauce is delicious. with baverage and cake or cookies, sandwiches on end in small smother it with wet cloths.ther preparations if he thinks roquelics, fish
As end up a good if easy meal. muffin tins. Bake In hat oven Nevor pour on water because they will be more suitable.
1 contributing aid a makes the fat spatter and may
Oven-dried bread itself lends (425 F) 12-15 min [up`guest 'menu, Lry serving it CAUSE OF POISONINGS
interest to a simple meal, makes served piping hot. [n] spaghetll with broiled Despite all the warnings of beefsteak. A couple of tinned nice touch. for & guest meal Your vacuum cleaner cannot recent
the bread, not all over, safety.campaigns,
vegetables, a bui Irregularly, and spread on. or quick-frozen.
folo. bo expected to operate emcleat-home medicine cabinet le still
salad, green
gras, a favourite cheese cookie sherts or shallow pane spread for special appetisers, in crackers and fruit for dessert-. bag often. Every poisonings. Many
those
available, but if you again that menu is simplicity itself. Then brown in a slow three months turn the bag inside could be avoided by careful
Don't let the brand get hard don't care for the Imported. and dry, it should be crisp variety or if the strain on the out and brush the inalde liabelling and the enforcement of
A Safe Plan thoroughly. Most dust bags are a household rule that the
around the edges, fairly soft in budget is too much, how about chemically dual-proot and label be read before administer-
It's a safe plan for the young some places. It must be served
up an excellent should not be washed.
ing any medicine. Children can
ully clean, cook That favourite device for and chop uoke.or
or pry into the cabinet pecially, to serve fundamentally for fruit The bust, renover
ments, reperking up meals, a platter of then timple "company"
Chop fine stains-from slik or wool is cold and, as an added
dangerous drugs should be kept ying on easy alds like the chef's appetisers, is as gool: is ever, wooden spoon, on water and glycerine Sponge on the highest sheir, out of the sauce, unusual pickles and re- whether it be just an assort an onlou and fry in 2
good bakers' rolls, a ment of crackers with cold
and spreads chicken fal or butter "the stained area
water, then apply glycerine and reach of curious fingers can be well-dressed salad, pertect fruit, or something more fancy, the yellowed Place chicken
The medicino chest rub fabele between the fingers useful if it contains the proper hot, clear, fragrant coffee to kind that is served in the living the fat and the onlon in a cup Let glycering remain on slain preparations, but it may also give the meal distinction. Even room when company is pres- mix well, season with salt and (for several hours, then apply. a.
be a source of danger if it be watchful inlaws could find no ent. Appetisers may be hot, pepper and either musland or few drops of diluted vinegar comes a catch-all for pilis, pins, iflaw in a menu that called for cold or middling: liquid, frozen celery salt, according to taste. and rinse immediately.
used medicines, and cosmetics. spaghetti with meat balls and, or solid, so there's plenty of Place at once on
spread the blaze..
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ly if it is clogged up. Emply the 'cause of many accidental tossed
tho dust
of
Bullor
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