THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY
1950.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
* REGENCY
IN OUR TIME
By M. CLYDE McCARROLL
HORTAGES of domestic
ing up a large house an im- possible burden for busy modern housewives added
to the fact that the great majority of modern home- owners foll into the average income class, have created a tremendous popular In- terest in the Ro-called "small house."
Among the "major, elements" when planning to own a house are the choosing of n building site; selecting a good builder; facts
about
architecture:
architects how to
Anaco your new home, and other very necessary basle matters on which d careful prospective home-owner wit thoroughly making Inform himself before
definite decisions on building or buying.
Health Moasure:
For The
Expectant Mother
By H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
OME
women
Reem
THIS CHARMINGLY LIVABLE HOUSE, small yet with suffolent space for the average family gracefully adapts the elegance of Regency design to the requirements of contemporary living, As shown, a brick front, wings and roof of asbestos
shingling.
to
KITCHEN
DINING ROOM
DORCH
KITAISA
Save repeated mis- carriages. Just why many of them are unable to carry a child to full term has not bean definitely determined, but in some cases their failure is thought to be due to some disturbance of the glands of internal secretion. such as the pituitary gland or the thyroid gland.
ured
The successful treatment of a number of women with this type of disorder has been reported. Three landular extracts were the one coming from pituitary gland located at the base of the brain, the second known as corpus luteum com- ing from Que
ital tho avary, third, estrogon, also from the ovaries.
TREATMENT STARTED
The women treated had had from one to three early births The treatment was started just Foon as it was definitely determined that the women were pregnant.
The extract from the pituitary gland w
was given three times n week in fairly large dosage for the first 4 months, and ther the dosage was reduced and continued for 3 months more. The corpus luteum was ven three times a week for the first 4 months, and then twice a week until eight months had clapsed.
The estrogen daily.
were given
FULL TERM
As a result of this treatment, all 27 of the women were able to go through the full termsof preg- nancy. There was some bleed- Ing, however, even during treat- ment in some cases,
Is not thought that this It is form of treatment is a preven- tive for all early births, but it did work quite entisfactorily in most cases in which it was bables were all ired. The normal. The birth of the baby did not occur earlier than len days after the Injections were stopped, and in most instances there was un interval of about
three weeks.
SECRETION PRODUCED
GARAGE
2° 10°
BED ROOM
RAIL
24 FLOOK FLAN
LIVING ROOM
--BED ROOM BLO APOM
REALL
FL. PLAN
BCALL
LIVING ROOM, WITH A PORCH Just outside it, dining room and kitchen make op the ground floor (see pleture në right) of this six-room house (picture at left). On the first storey, there are bedrooms in dire of the corners, a bath in the fourth.
These were the finalists in the glamour parade to find eight girls to model clothes in London's Fashion Fortnight. Olen Murphy, (picture at left), whose aralle
voted WAN
"mosi radiant." Above, Olga's hat; "I made it myself from a scrap of old evening dress."
-(London Express Service)
"The Agony In The Kindergarten'
""
William Steig, author of "The Agony In The Kindergarten," gained his first national pro- minence as a cartoonist for the New Yorker with his "Small Fry" pleture jokes.
Don't Blame
Quite A Silky Problem
By ELEANOR ROSS
THE most popular weaves
This spring, at least, are
Shantung with its rough, nubby surface. This weave is reeled from two or more! entangled cocoons to make | an uneven weave, Surah, another favourite, is a soft, lightweight silk with a fine, dingonal twill or narrow, parallel diagonal lines. Tie silk, sometimes confused with foulard and surah, is similar to foulard, and is of a weight and weave suitable for men's ties and is a quality fabric.
Printed Weave
Anne
Foulard is light and soft and printed weave of a designates good tle-silk quailty, Faille has toft, flat horizontal ribs or cords, and benignting has the weave, only heavier and more inffcta 15 pronounced. Faille infeta woven with a fine cross rib but retaining that fabric's closely woven, smooth qualities. Paper taffeta is extra light- weight and crisp. Crepe has a fine, crinkly surface, and Canton crepe, nat erepo and crepe de Chine all shore come more, come less.
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this quality,
Tuszal, which comes fron India,
liko much very Shantung and comes from the cocoons of wild, rather than cultivated, Uk worms. silk is made from short abres of silk from various sources.
Spun
As
for that term "weighted sille," L means that the fabric has been immersed in n tin-salt solution. As the fibres absorb some of the solution, they inrcense thelr
of silk is gradually disappearing from the market.
Luck For Your body and weight. But this type
Hose Trouble
DON
Silk Care
As for silk care, unless tagged ON'T say that you don't have as washabi:. don't take chances, garment dry. but have the any luck with stockings cleaned. Washable sliks come your hostery drawer is a mess of t
washed 10 orphans, of stockings with int
or de- runners that you intend to have fergent, thoroughly rinsed and
.out
lukefully
suds,
fixed, and stockings with runners that you
know aren't the ironed carefully with the worth fixing,
heat controls heal
properly set. Some and you never white silks have the tendency to have a decent pair for a date, it turn
white or even Isn't because you're hard on yellow after repeated tubbings,
turn. & cream stockings"--it's probably be- Th cause you're not applying your There are cake-type bleaching agents that sometimes do a good brains to
to your feet.
Job on some silks If handled nc- It's plain silly to wear a 60 cording to directions. But don't gauge 15 denier nylon with attempt the job with the usual walking shoe. You'll not only chlorine type bleaches.
be spending
your money
foolishly und perhaps ruining the very stockings you should be hoarding for a big date, bui you'll just look no though you] forgot to wear stockings at off,
Nude Look
The nude took with a delicate sundal is one thing, and a stock- ingless look with sports clothes is something else again. Some- thing, incldentally, that no well-{ dressed woman affects.
If your toc pokes righti through your stockings it's sim-i |ply a sign that you are wearing them 100 khort, If they wear at the heel take your shoe 10 3 shoemaker and find out what causes it. If they pop runs as you're pulling them on, the ler size
is too small. If they
knee you go at the are
probably using a stocking that is too short, and if you buy them too long and catch your Later, upon the publication of
garters below the garter-top the picture books. "The Lonely you have only yourself to thank Ques," "About People," and for
for the resulting runs. There "Persistent Faces," he was a size, a style and a length for revealed as being a combination every let. It Is bad Judgment artist-philosopher-psychologist of [not to buy the type that fits. considerable depth,
orphans"....do three books mentioned you buy at least three pairs at were collections of un-pretty, a time, and keep the surviving highly imaginative and pene orphan" to pur with its twin trating
If you don't, you're drawings representing later on?
The
various
And
as for
types of human per- not cronomical of either your ronally and moods and feeling. time or your money.
The Agony In the Kinder-
garten" is another book in the
Vein
same
although this
me the artist portrays the inner feelings, not of adulte, but of bables and small children to about the age of six.
All of the terror of the great unknown world about them that small children, undoubtedly feel (both consciously and sub- consciously) is portrayed here.
In explaining the effect of this treatment. It is pointed out that during
nt the early months prognancy a certain secretion is produced
the pituitary gland. by This secretion. โร though! 10 stimulate the firm attachment of the placenta the structure through which the child receives nourishment to the wall of the uterus. At any rate, the amount of pituitary secretion falls off about the time the placenta nor- mally becomes firmly attached--- that is, during the third fourth month of pregnancy.
Furthermore, the corpu lufcum located in the ovary also gradually disappears during the Arst three months of pregnancy and the secretions which it usually makes are thereafter
Dough, produced by the placenta or
THE time depends on the under Ideal conditions,
amount of yeast used and the double its bulk in 1-14 hours. Thus, where there afterbirth. is a lack of pituitary secretion, warmth provided during the afterbirth is not firmly riang. It is not possible to give- planted in the womb and does this exactly,
Now, Can You Answer
the
or
Will you please tell me how Again,
This?
long it takes for bread dough or hastened if the dough is placed recipes when using cake flour to
the raising will be every cup called for in regular
other yeast mixture to rise to on the plate rack over the cooker bake cake in a dry climate. double its bulk? No cookery or in an alcing cupboard or in book ever tells this.
not form its
ila own necessary The temperature of the room
secretions properly. Both of those conditions
front of on open fire or over a
water. pan of warm
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will
RECIPE. -- Gingerbread with upple topping.
A
Bake gingerbread and serve warm or cold with the follow- The United States Department Ing topping: Beat one egg white tend to bring should be between 80 and 84 de- of Agriculture states that mong until stiff. And two callus well about its too early separation Brees Fahr
liquid should be used in making sugar gradually, from the womb, When the
boating If the flour is warmed a little cakes and bread in dry climates after cach addition. nceded substances are supplied, in the first place the process of than in making these foods cup apple sauce, 1 teaspoons this tendency, and with If, the raising will be quickened. It where the air contains molature, lemon juice and a little grated tendency to miscarriage, are cold flour is used the time re- It is often necessary to use two lemon rind.
quired will be much longer. extra tablespoons of Ilquid for of gingerbread.
overcome.
Add half
Serve on aquares
This week's
GADGET
with
By JOAN DALE
NEW well-designed plastic condiment set no difficult-to-clean
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io Ivory, blue, green.or orange, they cost dd. each for salt and pepper pourers, -Bd. for a two-piece stand, Ia. Bd. for the three-piece storid (as in picture), 9d; for the mustard - pob, and 134. for the spoon.
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