THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1949.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
presents a new
Robb Report-in-drawings-and-words
THE FOUR AGES
OF WOMEN
TO BEGIN with, I don't count girls in their teens. My view is that no ono under 20 comes under the heading WOMAN, NA
From then on the classification is easy,
Twenty years-to thirty.
Thirty years to forty. Forty years-to Afty-five, Fifty-five... onwards, Each
bas its assets year group has and its problems, Quite
uite obviously they vary widely from person to pernon, but mostly there is a rough common denominator In clothes, and in domestic interests.
And even the briefent check- up against some other person's philosophy at least. can,slact you examining your own, 607- cinxifying ing out your ideas, the
You're
general direction
aiming at.
To illustrate these Four Ages of Women troups, I have In each case selected one person who seems to me to Mustrate of her perfectly the features
nge.
Take for example.
MARGARET
LEIGHTON
Miss Leighton in 27 years old:
alert: successful in her
beling career: happily
married: enjoying life
now and Intending to
enjoy it in the future.
I would call her a perfect exemple of the English-Rose arboot of branty.
Keeping Your Home As
P
Up-to-date As Yourself
LONDON.
PF you believe in keeping your home as up-to-date as yourself, you would be Interested in an entirely new art form on show in London held
ago.
some
time
In 1939 Mlle. Marle Lemaistre, an interior de- corator, decided to create
pletures of the Parls she loved in a way never before attempted.
She took a few handfuls of coloured wool, a few squares of canvas, and formed her pictures by dropping tiny shreds of won' on to the canvas. Tens of thou sands of minute wool particles fluttered down on to her canvas to form pictures of such places
ne the lie Saint Louis and the Painie do Justice.
The clinging quality of the wool kept it firmly attached to
Salty Touches
In Room Decoration
"You
and your Home." Ursula Bloom's new boole
is the Arst simple book on home planning which makes one feel liko dashing home and doing something about her own home.
The chapter on the linen cup- board reveals lots of original Idons-RAF 'escape' maps made into table-cloths, which wash like rags and keep their colours; -table-cloth and napkin sets made from checked dust sheels; the back of worn-out pillow- cases used for attractive napkins, hemstitched and dyed to contrakt with your china, and table mats which you can. make cheaply and exally yourself.
of. Miss is the way sho
The only criticism Bloom's book
runs riot in her naval husband's dressing-room! His pavy cotton curtains are decorated with
HER
HOME
Mine's the
age for all the Baiety you can get...
UST
ΠΟΥ
aho
is A sophisticated young- married with an in- dividual eye for things about a home,
the canvas and when glass was
by the top, the wool placed over pietures were quite secure,
When อ! the International Wool Secretariat Mile. Lemaistre wes asked how long she took to
complete one pleture, she shrug-
ged her shoulders and said "I have sometimes completed one In a day-once I did thirty In
six weeks!"
tively simple. Firstly she makes But she made it sound decep coplous notes on the colours she
will use. Then she draws several rough sketches-but the canvas) she works on is quite plain.
Her new country house, shared publisher - husband Max Reinhardt, would have been furnished
differently Ave years
ago. "And expect in the next five years my taste will change again,"
vory
Her bedroom, for Instance. would not have been so de- initely luxurious or so elegant. Now she chooses something to flatter a feminine heart.
Yards of crisp white broderio
crimson-and-white
Let's Eat
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Spinach Can Be Made More Than "Tolerable"
"WHEN I was in town re- cently I ordered a garden pinto for luncheon, but the vegetables were so tasteless and watery I simply couldn't cat
There was them.
a poached ega in the middle with spinach, carrots, string beans and cault flower around ald I to the Chet
"And were the vegetables frech, Madame?"
Yes, they were fresh and of good quality,”
Then it was the old culinary defection: First they drown overcook they
Le
them."
The
then
the
spinach tasted worst, Chef, Of course, It's a watery vegetable in itself. so it should be cooked in its own Juice. I'm convinced that the
reason zpinach is generally overcooked is because it is cus- tomary to cook the stems and leaves together. In order to ret the stems tender, the leaves have to be overcooked, and so lose not only their fine flavour, but their plencant texture and attractive green colour." Clover Diagnosis
"Madame, that
clever is a diagnosis. To avoid this dim- cully we shall have to introduce new method of cooking Spinnch, which I shall now sug- st. First it should be quick a wire
frame ly wached three times in tepid with material lo match the dirt. Then we must put
water to get rid of the sand and dressing-table curtains.
big The other rooms,
handful of the leaves neally lo cnch one long, low-celled
in gether and cut off the tiems and complete,font show the same individual style. Inch lengths.
stems These
of
lampshade
In the drawing-room there la cho
Chould not be thrown away; an original painting by British they are very good to eat. We Artist Duncan Gront. The deep
will put them In a saucepan casy-chairs aro pastel-coloured with no more than one-half inch and white-tasselled.
of water. We will add a little salt, put on a lid and slow boil 10 minutes, and no Jonger Then we put in the leaves and mix it all up. We put on the cover again "and slow boll 7
And few pictures. "We've learned to like that. It's such a costly business to these walla with paintings-good paintings."
When you're newly married is the time to experiment with
new dishes.
And it is usually the simple unts he likes.
add 'do not
any leaves of two
of
eggs. A very fine platter for a vegetable dinner can be made to include this combinaton. In the middle heap Spanish rice.
form
nests Around this cooked spinach, very hot; then a poached egg in each one. And to top off, grated cheese on the eggs and a parsley, garnish. It makes a beautiful platter"
Spinach Omelotto
"
"And I
especially like spinach omelette for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Of course, hot creamed spinach may be sprend In the fold of a plain omelette. But I like best to add 3⁄4 cup of fino-chopped splach to the a plain four egg mixture for French omelette, hen cook it as usual. A bacon garnish is good
with it."
"One reason more people do not eat spinach is because it is appeal," often lacking in eye observed the Chef. "But with a little care It can be mado an at- tractive part of
th
fine meat or
sh platter. Par example, the spinach timbales. Thezo arc not difficult. Just rub custart! cups with butter or margarine. Drain off the liquid, chop the cooked spinach fine, season and pack it into the cups. Let stand in the oven until very hot. Then unmould on a platter around the meat or fish; put a thin slice of lemon or radish on cach timbale. Et voila!"
Dinner
Cantaloupe
Chocred Tomatoes Bologna Sauto
Quick Spinach Savoury Carrols Deep Dish Fruit Cocktail Pic Hot or Iced Coffee or Ten Milk (Children)
Ali Measurements 'Aro Levet Recipes Serve Four
Cheesed Tomatoes
Select 4 large even-sized
minutes, or until the leaves are
#tomatoes. Wash, slice off the though we barely tender-no more. Even tops and scoop out the pulp to water with the pounds of "splaach, we wDi have about 1% CUPE of Ilguld, This we will drain off and save te,
to use in a jellied soup.
The
It later for form cupa (Use sauce or soup.) Then make a savoury enriched cornmeal fill- almost all the tomatoes with it. Place Ing; cool slightly and
spinach can be seasoned in any tateing barley enough hot water
in a pan or balting dish con
butter, salt and pepper, way wo like. We can use plain to cover the bottom, Bake little lemon juice or dressing
ог д
What could be easier to make from the anglaise used to trim eveything than Miss Leighton's favourite shades....dove-grey
bed to the lamp fish stand-by?
Fill half a fireproof dish with walls....
tined kind will flowered spinach (the curtains with a covered Hepple- do). Place rolled Allets of fish on top, pour over a tick cheese
"I like to chop It in oven for sauce. Bake
and Chef,
old soured minutes.
It's a good
with salt and pepper, Ога this-but
Uittle batter, fresh grated celery, more important than the dish radisher or cucumber, and heat something now, of refusing to "When spinach is plein cook itself is the idea of trying through for a minute." drop into a dreary food rota-ed to keep its colour even before you're thirty,
white screen to
match.... Victorian
china dogs either side of the fireplace....a white telephone.
She used to collect sample cards of wool, and comb them out, to obtain her tiny Obres. She uses her nimble fingers to do almost all the intricate work in-ideas, too, amild the luxury. To But she has strictly practical volved in creating the pictures avoid the ugly spotlight effect and thanks ulong, training on
of a centre light, "how I hate the piano for their muppleness. them, but I must be able to see," Recently one of her pictures was she covers the bottom and sides commissioned by the French state, for the Assembly Hall of l'Ecole de Puericulture.
"Renoir"Touch
On first glancing at the pic tures, which range from ethereal landsenpes to almost sharp stiil- lifes, we were struck by the im- pressiónistic quality of the work. There was a "Renoir" touch about them. It is dimcult to de- scribe the sheer delicacy and subile shading of the piclures, and it is hard to believe that they are entirely composed of tiny scraps of wool.
Mlin. Lemaistre claims to be the only artist using wool in this form. This work is infinitely superior to the once popular practice of embroidering pic
reg on silk, which had too pre- cise an appearance.
✓
dish.
20
on
about 30 min, in a moderate French oven, 375 F. Then top cách tomato with a thin slice of coarse, sharp
American cheese, and cream
continue lo bake until this melts and
browns.
Serve squares of buttered toast.
tbsp. minced green pepper in 2 Savoury Cornmeal Filling: Fry 2 tbsp. minced onion and 4 tbsp. butter, margarine or ba- con fat unlit softened. stir into e enriched-corn- meal; add tsp. salt and 1 c. bolling water, Cook and stir ra- pidly for 4 min., or until well blended and very thick. as directed.
and
flavour, Madame, it còn be us- -{London Express' Service)-od-for-the-service of poached
...Do most women waste half their energy by seldom using their heads?
Anne Edwards
on
Then she proceeds to cut it has always been hand to HOUSEWIFE re- out in rounds, roll up the ends, make up a party at Ascot to. cently worked out and cut out again and again, escort a debutante to a ball, to I wonder how many house-
that she wasted 30 when, if she cut tarts in squares, help open an oyster bar, or wives with a little time on their
party to publicise a hands are going to turn out their hours a year and 28,000ft. It would be only, one operation. throw embroidery baskets (or the chil-of walking because she kept energy making a few jam tarts cular a part of the London social And she usca· up as much laundry-as dependable and re- dren's work-boxes) and start her coffee pot, her coffee, as an average
man dots in a scene as Christine Narden at a atlempung ambitious, works of art to hang on their sitting and her measuring spoon' all day at the office.
premiere or Patricia Roc launch- room walls (or banish to the nur-in different cupboards.
Ing a lipstick. sery to amuse baby.)
white painted anchors The New Vapour
pelmet is trimmed with
rope
and has the slogan "Never Protects Stores
Trust a Sallor" written across
it in tape, and muella window
curtains, embroidered with n..val badges.
From Germs
That's becaušo she is working. The fact that you can go into on the old idea of stacking simi- ļa strange kitchen and-know-Iar things together, all tho exactly where to and the kitchen saucepans here, all. the measur→ kalves, the plates, the ovucepans. Ang spoons there. The new iden and the jam shows that most is to group the utensils round kitchens are traditional. And the job.
trouble with this particular tradition is that it is out of
And the women who have date... should kitchen knives.
vos tried it may It saves 40 percent. and forks be kept in a drawer of their time and 50 percent. of
Why
of the kitchen table?
Why should the kitchen table. have to be in the middle?
Why are mixing bowls stacked one inside the other so that it
to
Only The Beginning Son's specially store NT LOUIS-There is in St Louis
But that is only the begin which installs glycol vapour, as is resome pick out a middle ing-Blue-face-lowels-have--protection against-Infection size? naval insignia, bath towels are embroidered HMS Peculiar JIMS Dieguating and IMS Revolting
from bactfila and virus for both employees and customers.
The vapour is, invisible, harm- less, odourleas, simulates fresh air, and is circulated through
Why do we have cup hooks leaving vulnerable Jugs and cups dangling and knockable?
Why is the sink nearly, always
their walking."
on one wall and the stove on. 11
When, her husband takes bath he has to face a Plimsoll the store air mark: when he stops out of it
tom, providing cy- the opposite wall?,
THE CATCH
to
FOR SALADS
GADGET for 'your Kit- fchen sink, It is
0
I spray. for cleaning... vege- tablos and salade which is
that : thá REPORTS Marquis of Milford Haven is to merry caused a thunderous crack that could be heard from England Now York...the breaking hearts of at least a dozen young women. Those with their cars closo to against Why are
ching
cupboards the ground however.
heard he walks on a red Bathmat colds, influenza, decorated with ginger-headed oneumonia, strepnets made deep and narrow instead another cound the gnashing
Infections
of shallow and wide-so that you tooth of the young women's sailors dancing
ind ing the hompipe, á
many others. It .also
nearly break or have to remove mothers. At 30 the young couple of seagulls and a back- provides
number protection for
whatever is in front to reach marquis has been Britain's moat, ground of waves, with a "Rule of hatter leaving the store, whatever is at the back mako – years,”
eligible catch for the past ten reducing to П minimum theo Tilt she wants 10. hazards of germs while riding pantry...the traditional house- If he exports himself to sh
Britannia" noror
nlogon,
J$
The cupboard is marked
Ditty, Box and oven the clock
decorated with rope and life
buoys and bears the
Hell'a Bolis."
hours
crowds of any kind,
on crowded buses or being in wife has the pastry-heard in America with his bride, it will easily over the cold-water tap slogan The Eystem was installed by one place, the flour in a bit leave a gap in London Eociety "Alver at the side controls the water so that li Bóws normally or through the spray. In the shops now.
But in spite of “Mr Bloom's" mufferings, ono still finds it a most useful little book.
somewhere else, the rolling-pin well as in the jollier side of the Air. Purification Service Ir. the kitchen table drawer. business. | Western, Inc. of St Louis, a sugar and butter in the pantry,
1.
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cupboard.
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Order, bologna sausage sileed. thin. Remove the skin. Sprend half the slices
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|Doep-Dish-Fruit-Cocktail-Pig
Almost any combination of fruits Is suitable such as quartered apricots, pears or apples. Sir into the fruit 3 tbsp. flour, 4 tsp. salt, 4 c. sugar and isp... cinnamon. Moisten with 有 c.apple Juico or water. Thick-rub qt-sized baking dish with. butter
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D
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F.
Trick: Of Tho Chef
Season bolling- carrots with marjorari for a nice taste,
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Watch tho humidity, in your artificially heated home this winter If you charish your ne of furniture. Several gallons
water a day can and should be ovaporated in the typical house dry apartment. Extremely
or
air is bad for any furniture,
in your rugs, Water is the first `Moths thrive on grense spots
thing to use for any spot of un- work, let the rig dry and follow known origin. If this doesn't
up with rug cleaning com- pounds.
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