HONGKON
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
GARDENING NOTES
When the wogs attack your roots
E
VERY day this year,
Sundays included, wogs have been at work causing
plants to rot, off under- ground, with the result that nsters, annp-dragons, Can- terbury bells, beans, peas, sweet peas, and what-not have literally died with their
roota on.
HOUSEKEEPING BY THE BOOK
By MARION CLYDE MċCARROLL
THO'S going to be thing both casy and enjoy-
married In your able.
maker
crowd this summer? To help the young home- caro for the housd Who, that is, for whom
plante that make her windows you'll want to plan a shower?
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right and gay, give her a book Someone, no doubt, and or two on the care of special if so, and you're trying to flowering plants such as gera- book on lower arrangement think of something that niums or African violets.
the would be useful, too, and book will be different from usual kitchen shower, linen on glassware, china and silver the bride special shower, miscellaneous would give
the wedding Kifi shower and so on, here's an intereal in
he'll receive in these categories. Iden: give her a
Something on table settings is another book she'll be delighted shower.
to receive.
book
Ilumid conditions, accom- panied by more than our regu- lor issue of rain, have been largely responsible for the vari- oua parasitic, noll-inhabiting
Not just a bunch of books tungi getting out of hand, and
fell to put in the bookcases of it hasn't been easy to
that once the plants the library of the new home people
These are just a few zugros- tum yellow and wilt or become
she'll have. But a well- stunted, that
can be nothing
selected variety of houseflons. Those who will be join ing in the shower will think of done to save them.
books cookbooks. tots more." is hold course, The trouble, of
heavy soils books on interior decora- common In than light, sondy areas, mainly
tion, how-to-do books that because such calls are not al-
cover all branches of house- deain. But this ways easy to Benton both root and crown rat keeping and home-making have been widespread in prac.
so that the young bride will tically a dirtricts and particu-
n referenco larly in gardena that have been start off with
shelf that will enable her to under
astonish her new husband with her domestic skill.
more
years,
for cultivation
Sorious losses
many
As a result of this outbreak and
serious loss, gardeners buying have rpent Dounda fungicidal sprays and dusts of different kinds, without getting any noticeable control. It was ever thus, for once the trouble nets in, nothing can be done. The
reason for this is that the responsible micro-organisms
the
work underground, and yellowing, wilting, and stunting are purely secondary symptoms of what is happening or has happened below ground.
In the circumstances
The
Making menus for seven days a week calls for both skill and imagination, so shower the bride-to-be with several different cookbooks
on
a big useful, dependable, general one, and several, de- voted to special types of cookery-meat cookery, ple- it is making, salads, foreign most dishes, etc. A cookbook
to with specially planned for brides
that deserves тесот.
a place of com- that shelf is Lily Ifaxworth Wallace's "Just For Two." Another, that contains a large section on chafing dish cookery--handy as anything to have when you're enter- taining informally—is "Cook It In A Casserole," by Florence Brobeck.
advisable to remove plants from infected soll and uter lliro the ground
dose formalin. mended is one part mercial formalin diluted with fifty parts of water. Loosen Arst with a fork and the soll
mixture at the then pour the rote of % to 1% gallons to the square foot, the amount depen- ding on the quantity necessary to saturate the soil. Some solls, it might be mentioned, more saturating the others.
Cover over
take
The treated soil should then hours be covered over for 12 with bags or several thick- afler of newspaper,
nesses
As for the decorating and furnishing end of things, "Home a book on stirred several there's
which the covers are removed
the noil
and
times during the next fortnight Decoration with Fabric and to allow the fumes to escape. The ground can then be eitherThread." that's an excellent rown with seed or reedlings set out. This treatment invariably
cleans up the fungi ef crown
OF root rot.
In addition to the plants pre- vlously mentioned, carnations, delphiniums, zinnias, lettuces, silver beet, and many other plants are affected at Ornamental
trees
umer and many and shrubs, also perennials biennials, are also allergic to the diseases, and may fade out after having wilted without the foliage showing any symptoms other than curiing.
This week's GADGET By JOAN DALS
from the French house. wife's kitchen comes this useful gadget with which you can slave and puree a whole batch of cooked vegetables
4 1@10 minutes.
muda,
Strongly
oparates with a revolving handle and two discs.
Price 101.
London Express Barolos.
New hat
NEW YORK-Te make
an
old hat new style-clamp a clip
on the clochel
Both jewellers and milliners trend are promoting a spring
toward more dangling glitter on head hugging hats.
Large, multi-colour of peari and rhinestone places are be ing attached to brims, under brimos and hat banda
Most distinctive of the many approaches to the gem-and-
headgear combination is place
centre
guide to the making of slip- covers and draperies, bed- spreads and other things. Ruth Wyeth Spears in the author.
No young couple ever has enough money for the furni- ture they want, but they can have a lot of fun pick- ing up odd pieces at second- hand shops and remaking them.
"Painting Patterns
Incidentally, If you want to make a special hit, let one of
lo the shower gifts be a colour- hold fully decorated shelf her reference library. If one of you has a husband or other rel- ative who's handy with tools, get him to make the shelf, and decorate
yourself, going 1, perhaps, in some way that will be a gay reminder of the crowd A book shower will be de- It can't miss finitely different. being a huge success.
BESIDES COOKBOOKS, the bride should have a selection of household books such as "Painting Patterns for Home Decorations," which shows how to make old fumiture new.
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for Home Decorators," also THE BRIDE WHO WANTS TO please that brand-new husband will begin right away by Ruth Wyeth Spears, is.
simple how-to-do book learning to make apple pie. It won't take her long to become an expert if she follows
the easy recipe in the latest "just For Two" cookbook.
that will make this sort of
ment of a dangle-pin in the A BOOK THAT TELLS HOW to make slipcovers, draperies, dressing table skirts, etc.,
front of a clocise-type
would he another valuable gift for the bride.
It's Your Home: ~
What to Do
For Freckles
By HELEN FOLLETT
two
If you are a victim of sum- mer freckles-there are kinds, the transient and the per- manent-this is the time to get after them. The sun's rays are not blistering as in mid-season. You are not likely to have any additional little yellow polka dots to increase the colony you already have. It is just as well to do a little complexion con- ditioning when the leaves begin to fall fall
Instead of using your regular. cream at bedtime, get one that
contains mild bleaching in- gredicatis.
Cosmetic chemists no longer offer strong lotions that flay ono's Ince; they are mos not
safe to use. Harmless clements are incorporated in some creamy. offeringa Home cures can be found in strained lemon juice that should be applied after the face is washed and allowed to dry on. Buttermilk, because of acid content, sometimes helps.
Peroxide if fresh, may whiten the skin.
Correct Name
The correct name for a case in case of freckles is lentigo, you care to know. These yal- lery spots are brought about as a rule by exposure to the rays of the sun, though strong winds may be a factor, Though they may be removed by skin peeling, they will return upon exposure, ao drastic means of getting rid of them are not re- commended.
be
Summer
сап freckles nvolded it, early in the season,
taken
protective measures are
If the skin is against them.
the surfaco La
kept lubricated not likely to become buried or discoloured.
After this rain a dry-out is needed
By BOB SCHARFF
IF your cellar is wet, or added to the concrete mixture in
even
after damp, heavy rain or a long thaw, A few simple and inexpen- sive repairs may remedy the condition.
accordance with turer's directions,
First, check the grading to be sure
that surface roofing
the manufac-
For the morter itself, a mix- ture of three parts of clean sand to one part of cement is satis factory. Mix these well and add just enough water and water- to pre- a stiff, duce a
hick paste. Now the surfaces where water drains away from the prime
tho morlar is
is to be sppiled with house, and make sure the a very thin mixture of cement, drains are not clogged up. water waterproofing
Next, check the cellar walls pound. Before this primer dries, and floor for cracks. If you and spread the concrete mortar on any, they should be widened thick and smooth it out with a but and deepened with a ham rectangular shaped trowel.
mer and chisel and then filled with cement.
a
and
an
com-
If you are particular about the appearance of the job, a uni- Aside from cracks, the place form curve can be given to the most likely to need attention is move by smoothing it out with a where the walls Join the floor. milk batile.
emulsified Water often seeps into the coilar If you along the path shown by the asphalt as a waterproofing com-
in bost to dotted line in the diagram. The pound, it
to finish off all remedy is a waterproof cove all concrete work. containing the a thin coating of around the inside of the cellar. asphalt with
necessary, this cove can be
with a whisk broom shortly after the other mortar
axtended up the wolls for a foot west, 2130 sand and water,
OTWO.
brush tiff wire
With
has begun to set, This rest St. move all loose particles from the ment gives a white coaling over surfaces being repaired, and get be black, asphalt-impregnated rid of any traces of all or grease oncrete.
with naphths or gasoline. A After the concrete, work has thorough- waterproofing compound should bean completed and is be added
to the
concrete mix-ly dry, the whole celler can be ture to stop water seepage and given a churt and damp-proofing ald in bonding the new concrete treatment with any of many to the old. There are many special basement paints. Apply good waterproofing compounds the damp-proofing and noor on the market. Whatever comes, paint, according to the man- pound you choose should be facturer's instructions.
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