THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1950,
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT Greatest Value Yet
Left-Overs
SQUARELY COMPACT In Disguise"
call this snug little home, "A CITY APARTMENT IN A COUNTRY COTTAGE is what the architect who designed it
A wide choice of exterior flaish is suggested—clapboard, planned to make life enjoyably simple for the woman who lives in i1.
shingle, aiuoco, brisk or concrete block.
whether they're little
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By MARION Clyde M¿CARROLL
houses so, and
big. Athering more inthefactory than
neat nquare plan.
Rooms in auch houses are easy to furnish and arrange, and they invariably have SI delightfully cheery look.
PORCH
WORK ROOM
KITCHEN
BATH
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neat house, amall aquare compact type
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flour, the
country cut-
BED ROOM
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house, with all that implies in light and cross, ventilation exita mom at the back in utthly Exmat If it was desired to make Uils poort 2016 a third bed room, the new type foor furRA:O equlpruent could be Installed in the hall, and other equipment in the kitchen
the
Am
utility
Its architect calls it “n city apartment has a tage." It has its four main rooma living room, two bedrooms and kitchen with dining spaer at the four others of
Safeguarding Your Child From Swallowing Foreign Objects
By G. Cleveland Myers, Ph.D,
You may often read news-
papers of baby or young child rushed to a hospital for the removal of mite strange object which he has swallowed nox! which has lodged in
his
Rullet, windpipe, lunga, stomach or intestines.
Chil
There wha a year in dren's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, alone, Bf such then
kages
the
opera. wero performed CY children whose food or air pas-
were
blocked by swallowing of "foreign boties" All these were removed through the mouth without the makbug
Incision en
almost
of
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magical performance known a bronchoscopy whereby operator koks directly traks the gullet, windpipe, or stutuseh
and re through a lighted tube moves the object through this tube.
THE
con-
Inkson, nif Philadelphia, sidered the father of bronchia eropy, says
thod out of mor than 100 safety pins he has re- moved from 12 interior children not more than a dozen were closed,
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out
MALI
BED ROOM
LIVING ROOM
21-6
ot
THE CONVENIENT SQUARE FLOOR plan Insures lots Fight, no well a cross-ventilation, for all malu rooms by giving rach a corner spot.
Paint Brushes Need Pampering
T
By Bob Scharff
do a paint job at
Screw Hook
home.
you must use a professional well tool -A good brush. If cared for, a good brush will last for
w121 do and y cars Another job caster than cheap brush.
0
In
oil
Until recent years, nine
:: af ten children and adults with foreign objects lodged in their
ungs died
eventually of inter- Whon a now brush is pur- Ilun. Thanks to the scelence of
chased it should be broken brunchoscopy, the fatalities now before you use it. Stand the new are less than one out of a bun
brush in raw linseed oil for at umeed gallon dred.
One
When ready to or more
the least 12 hours. general hospitals of big cilics
use, remove all the oil from the are equipped for this work. bristles. This can be done by side of the pressing the flat
fastened brush against a wire across the top of the paint pot. Theu, with the handle between the palms of both hands, twirl the brush to throw off the maining oil.
NOT
nearly all the foreign objects get lodged in dan-
Sometimes gerous places.
the larynx clores so as to keep the object from going further, and the cough reflex expela
mamy
An object which slips by this gullet Guard. Getting into the
down
object may pass foreign bodies Included the seeds of orange, watermelon through the stomach and intes- or pumpkin, orange peel, alive pls, pieces of carrot, lays, BETO-
Tirza's way.
and out in the normal
planes, toy nokliers, buitor, In addition tr eternal
bones, vigilance, the collar buttons, teeth. military decorations, tacks, nails, win the youngster's co-operation
parent shouki
Original Shape
to-
and their
Rod pushed through hole drified in handis
PAINT CAN
jor
Be sure point brush bristles do not touch bottom
cleaned with alcohol, Brushes used in water paints, calclmine of whitewash should be washed thoroughly in warm running water and then dipped in A solution of
cold vinegar and
water.
Spinning Method
bristles Straighten the smooth
back to them
use, Remove all the cleaning fluid original shape, Ready for
the spinning the brush now has a protective by
method allows the described above, and wrap the el coating which
to flow through it palat to
more brush in
paper after hoavy easily, and it can bo cleaned straightening bristles. Stand the more readily.
wrapped brush in the brush After the job has been com- "keep" containing sufficient lia- pleted and the brush to be seed all to overflow into the
staples, hairpins, straight pins, at giving her small things hc put away, clean it thoroughly wrupper. Allow It to remain for safety pins, muts, fourteen Bods on the floor. I know some in the proper cleaning fluid. at least 72 hours. Then remove
whe safety oins, ten peanuts, eleven mothers
cut a sitt in 口 Brushes used in oil paints, and place additional paper over raked colna
coffee tin, drop into It
enamels or vanish should be the oiled wrapper. Store the small articles trom the
cleaned In turpentine, while brush in some cool place, rest- floor, rettle the tin and thus
those used in shellac must be ing the brush on He flot side. induce the little tyke to do like-
The most dangerous thing for parents of young children to do la to leave lying around an open safety pin. Dr Chevalier
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New Process Makes Better Apple Pies
GENEVA, N.Y.-Food selen- tists at the state agriculture ex- periment station have developed a method of improving the tex- ture of apples to insure
slices for pie making.
firmer
The process consists of dip- ping the sliced apples in
tion containing a
Bolu- calcium salt
wise. It's great fun for him to look for things and see them disappear magically through the Islit
think
If your child should swallow Jany foreign object or a poison, call your doctor or hospital. Of course, It is wise to out while all is well just what to do in case auch an energency arose, resolving to keep
your head then.
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Radioactive Drugs Used to Aid
Pot Animals
CHICAGO.~Radioactive sub-
to
to
for half to three-quarters of an stances now are being used hour, after which the slices give longer and better life are rinsed with water. They pels. can be used Immediately or may be tinned or trozen
for
later use.
Calcium lactate was found to be especially well suited for the process. A solution containing lactate two ounces of calcium
in a gallon of water proved rufficient to treat at least half
bushes of sliced apples.
A
"I should be emphasised, tation scientists, said, "that
dum
firming will work best with apples which are just slightly softer than they should be for pie making, and that it
The American Veterinary Medical Association announced that one, of the first studies shows that doses of radioactive lodine can be used to glandular activity in dogs.
measura
A new drug, protamone, was given a group of young Eng- lish bulldogs at Michigan State College. Then scientists injected radioactive iodine into the glands and noted its paringe
with Geiger-Muller counters.
They said tho, dogs using the may not give entirely satisfac.dring grew faster and matured toky results with over-ripe, earlier than other dogs-United mealy, fruit"--United Press.
From
By ALICE DENHOFF
H
ERE today, gone tomorrOW is the succinct story of the best left-overs, Sorry that we have to harp so much on the left-over theme, but high prices make it a necessity. So here are some good recipes, dishes so good, so hearty, that it is difficult to bellove that they utilise left-over meat,
If the larder yields enough for a cup of cube, roast beef, then prepare delitious beet- potato puffs Combine 3 e, hot mashed potato (heat in double boller if cold left-over potato
is used) one medium, grated onion, tsp. salt, tbsp, prepared horseradish and few grains of
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cayenne. Beat one egg, add to 14 c. milk and stir into patatn mixture. Fold in one c. cubed roast beef. Pils into buttered custard cups or muffin tins, do! with butter or margarine and bako in 400 F. oven 20 to 25 min.,
well heated OT until through and brown on top. Serve with brown beef gravy or tomato sauce, Serves 4.
Curried Veal
Left-over veal stars in a 8110 curried real in rice ring recipe. To nerve 0-7 trr 1% c. finely chopped apples and one minced onion in 3 tbmp, lard for 3 min. Stir in 1 to 11⁄2 tsp. curry pow der and 4
tbsp. flour; add 1 each veal stock and milk, stirring until mixture thicker. Sensor to mit. Add 2% c. cook- ed veni, cubed. Simmer wil well seasoned through, abo min Meanwhile cook 2
2 c. ster in 4 quarts water to which top salt han bern added. Drain, rinse with a little hot water and pack Turn into an olled ring mould. out onta hot platter and fill centre with the curried veal,
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about 10
corn-
Bone
Vegetable and hara on meal waffles
dish from left-uver harm that should reora. It is a fine-tasting. fare, hearly and a little out of ordinary. Melt 4 than fut, ndd 3 to 4 thấp. flour; stir woul smooth. Add 2
milk, cooke
until thickened, stirring Cum- stantly. Season to taste, then In one beaten egg Add 2
told
e cubed cooked ham, 3 chopped hurrd-cooked
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and one <
cooked green beans bruken up Heat 10 mit. waffles.
serve over
Drink Escort
What to do to make best use of left-over 566 while And left-over yolks is always a big question with the good, careful housewife who refusen in waste even a smidgin of fine food, So here 15 a batch of egg yolk suggestions.
If the leebox yields ons left- over yolk, then cook it unul it is hard. Place in a custard cup and set cap in pan of lot water; simmer over low heat for 15-20 min Chil When ready to use press yolk through sleve and use as a garnish on It makes a nice ity crackers. drink escort.
DIN
Paradise Pudding owes some of its goodness to egg yolks, two of them, to be specific! Cream together 2 tbsp. softened butter or margarine and c. contee- tinners' sugar. Add 2 egg yolks, until ono at a time, beating smooth. Whip 4 c. heavy cream until stiff; add one c, drained
and crushed pineapple
¥4 C. Finely chopped walnut meats
to roll enough graham crackera make one c, fine crumbs. Place
Layer e crumbs In bottom
of a 9x5x3-inch loaf dish; cover with first mixture. another 1/3 e. crumbs, Top with then spread the whipped cream layer, topping with remaining hours. crumbs. Chill several Serves 4-0.
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