THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1950,
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
COZY AND MODERN
INERBEEK
SOMETHING NEW and different that's 1950 news. Here's one of the many modern houses springing up these days. smart combination of stone and frame, it has square, sharp lues. The interesting window treatment and car port add much to the exterior.
By JOAN O'SULLIVAN
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A modern design seems
to be making the big dif- ference in home architec- ture. More and more these days, variations of
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popular ranch house art springing up north, south, east and west.
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square, sharp lines; the smart
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The Long and Short of It-Tricks For Slips
WE never quite know what
Wfashion will do to our shit Pengha until it is done. Then it is always a scramble to lengthen or shorten, for seldom are last season's garments Just right.
The matter of slips, for ex- ample, is one, that concerns ull, Just to insure your not getting sideswiped by fashion's pendulum, here are a few quick tricks you' enn use to make your slips, long or short on fashion requires.
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To Shorten Skipa Suppose someone hoa given you a lovely nylon slip, and it is too long. Put one, iwo or of shell fucking three rows above tho bottom trim 10 shorten as much as necessary.
Shell Tucking:
Pin, then baste, as many tucks na needed to make slip correct length. Space tucks 1" to 2" apart.
Overcast Shell
quickest edge in Hem; This is edge once; sutch, close to edge, strelching fabric, alightly. Tum stitched ilne under and take 3 to 6 overcast stitches on needle,
C
ns at C. Draw needle through. Repent unlit entire hem is done, Lengthening with Lace: Buy lace wide enough to make slip
Jength. Fratrod
If stitched, simply whip lace to cdgo 11 stitched edge, as at D. Ease lace lightly so it cannot be too light, shrinks more than
It is important to case in at trast 14 yd. to each yd. For example, if your slip measures 1% yds, at bottom, use 2 yds of isce, so it will be eased i sufficiently.
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KITCHEN
With
Lay slip out on table and chalk Best line all way around 0 it is an even distance from bolora
and o uniform line around slip.
matching thread begin at a 'ream; make from 5 to J fine running stitches. Put needle over tuck and draw it down to the sewing line, as at A.
To Secure Shell
Hepeat this over-tuck stiten to secure shell, Make another group of stitches and twa over- fuck glitches. Repeat until tack is finished.
If slip is plain and you can cut bottom edge off to desired shortness, then inish with either of the following shell hems:
Ligerte Shell Hem: oil edge, us at B. Take two over-
Applying Insertion: If aliy has a nicely Anished edge or you do not wish to add lace to the bottom, then 50 Ince insertion or a band of ribbon above hein.. Buy this in width needed.
Clark a line where top edge of insertion Is to come. Easto this edge to slip, caring on slightly, Cut the slip away carefully
below basted line.
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You will find such a wealth of now fabrics in our store that we think you will be agreeably surprised at the wider choice, the high quality and keen prices of everything offered.
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CHINESE BROCADED SILKS FRENCH FANCY FABRICS
* BRITISH WORSTED SUITINGS ITALIAN WOOLLEN FABRICS
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FLOWERS
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PORCH OR CAR PORT 12:092210°
This hous
looks large. inside there are only two bed- reons, a bath, kitchen and liv ing room. Both bedroom: large enough to Bermmodate twin beds. Each hay # Kood- sized closet and three windows, inruring adequate ventilatie.
The living room features large replace and GJ Twist-i shelf for books. It's quile bist enough to hore a dining space.
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The kitchen is elriently r ranged to take the wear tear out of cooking chores. The bath has a linen storage closet
The ear port is more adap able to milder clinates. If de- sired, it may be ereened and used as a porch.
note in this
that all plumbing IN
IN THE HOUSE without a basement, all rooms are good-sized. The living room features a fireplace.
PORCH OR CAR PORT 1210'x20'0"
PLANS FOR a house with basement provide a smaller car port that might be used as a porch.
A Clothes that "grow"
to eye wall, 15 most-
feature.
The house comprises 15,000
cubic feet if built with a bare- THE ability of children to
ment; 9,430 cable feel, without a basement.
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stitches about every 14" Slip needle under fabric between stitches,
-but
this cat-away section of slip to botion of insertion, basting the insertion on and keeping a Y" :cam.
Süfch insertion along both etges, as at E. Stitch or overcast raw edges underneath.
MONDAY: CHEMISE, PEG-TOP DRESS
follow convention
In Table-Setting
Tability of childrents who is n designer of childrer
Holbein Prize, London, S.W. He can be made larger as the BE as original as you please
at a prodigions rate is clothes, had a known to every mother
of
a large family and has always seemed to be an in-
NEW soluble problem.
HATS
course,
is designs ---
Untouched Hom
will
sanall daughter several button-holes on the same who grew out of her prettiest principle as the pinafore frock, Lincks even more quickly than was expected. So her mother designer's workroom is a sun- Another novel Idea from this set to work to plan clothes bonnet, the crown of which which "grew" with her, and the made of a piece result
of material Everyone, of
Unt these new which can be buttoned to the familiar with
which incidentally, supe of the head and unbut- the hem that have been patented-will shortly toned and laid flat for ironing. Jets dawn to provide for a end's growth
be going overseas upwards: but
as a proof what
that whatever else Britain facks, has always bothered
It is not inventive bruins. mothers is the question of what to do when the child begins to bronden. Up to now, the answer
to relegate has been
the par a younger Sister or Brieny, these dresses, and the brother.
But mothers will find eviler-suits for boys, are made there are garments which to expand
the back, like the results of all inspira- round the middle
And from WAYS to make women's bats tons, solve the problem in a
shoulder
to waist. The skirt has the inevitable large tuck to brighter ana dull way which is as simple as it 19 day were being worked out by brilliant.
let down
as the
child grows, eight selentists working among
but there are other pleats to let about because the 1,000 test tubes and retorts. inventor, Mrs Kaye Marris (or out, and when all the expanding
has changed the frock from one which fits a four-year-old girl one which she can still wear three or four years later, there is s
fuur-inch hem
W low
WILL GLOW
It was their Arst day at worki h the world's most advanced resourel centre 521 Fairfield, Manchester.
The scientists have moved 18 from a wooden hut at Leeds, set up by Britain's hal-makers us a temporary centre in 1949.
Across a room packed with of equipment at £2,000 worth the new centre was 10-year-old Miss Ruth Withington, labora-
assistant. Lory
She slood before an electric hot-plate, a tray of sand, and eight outsize test tuber to juggle with C1813N300S2NAV-disul phonated monazo compound, Her worl may mean funger-lasting dye in new huis on sale next year in foreign
markets.
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Eighteen-yene - old Barbora Hodson operated an instrument test breaking strains and strengths of some of the fibres which make up an average trilby hot,.
seeking a way to make hats keep their shape and
She was
last longer,
--(London Express Service)
inent to
It came
Suitcase Ideas
-A pale blue; unbreakable untouched.
boltic, combining
1 spray
anti-persp'rast and deodorant, hus a leak-proof cap for travel- ling.
H
across
nil done by clever
designing and by carefully studying the way a child grows Concealet tucks undo easily to put two inches on the wakiline and then to lengthen the bodice by the
the same
amount. Back- Fastening buttons
and loop can be moved easy-to-hold position on
ready-nished,
2-New long-lasting nail bril-
Bunce, in 10 shades from natural to deep pink, comes in a smart le half-moon bottle with topering bundle.
Latest Upstick with a long, slender metal holder, makes It easy to draw a smooth Line and has a pop-up action instead of a screw.
UTILITY GLAMOUR
across to a new
ready-inced placket give more Nom across the back. Then, again, in the skirt con- cealed side plents provide more room when they are let out.
Pinafore rocks
cre one of the most popular Items in any 100 girl's wardrobe and new models by Mrs Murris have straps with several buttons to
the shoulder-to-waist length, with a concealed box- pleat to be opened in the back when hecessary,
In the £6 range there Is a youthful lance dress in black with a velvet, strapless bodice vary and full taffeta skirt,
and an other in jewet shades of taffeta with a very full skirt, short in front and sweeping the floor
Then there is the boiler-suit behind, and hand-smocking at for the small boy. This, as can the wait.
be seen from the sketch, his ex- ----fLondon · Express „Erroios)...panding sides so that the waist-
No mother, of course, expects that her children's clothes xo un from season to season for, say
four years or so, but the principle incorporated in these dresses will enable her to plan head for her family's wardrobe Just as she does for her own.
Formal coats and sulls, either for boys and girls, are not at lines, but it may not be long he- present being made on these fore these appear to solve yet another urgent problem.
and
in your menu and inble devoration, but follow conven- tion Is table setting service. The rules of etiquette which govern placing and items of flatware, glass and china are just rules of good taste whien simpilly the art of entertaining for everyone, hestess and guests alike.
Centre of each cover is ne service plate with twart to the right and left from the out- side in lowards the table, each piece in the order in which it vil be used. ABOVE FORKS
Bread and butter plates with butter spreader across then, usually go above the forks, where they are omitted. except at formal setting water tumbler is placed above
Tom Sawyer started it.....
London Ezerasi Berstok,
...And now a new hair-style is callest the "Tom Sawyer," after Mark Twain's char.
acter Effect. Carefree s boy fishing from a river. Dank.' Method wind-puffed half-curla jostle each other around the head into
Into a venile waus mocement
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the back; the hair sweeps flat into a rupie tringe over the forehead. (Pranch of London)
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the knives and wine glasses in a line to the right. If the table is large, salt and pepper shakers hould go at every second place. At the right of the plate, from the outside in, are oyster fork,
soup spoon, Ash
anl inger knife, if there are to be that many courses in a formal dinner. If there is no soup and fish, and no oysters, the dinner knife is placed alone on o eight side of the plate,
"At the extreme left is the ush fork, then the dinner fork Du salad fork-or the dinner fork alone if there is no fish end no salad service. USE ORANGE SPOON
"Orange spoon or teaspoon tray replace the oyster fork if the fish course is fruit cups or grapefrult. Bouillon instead of soup unturally calls for 1:0
nuller bouliton spoop.
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spoon, kalfe and fork for Belt or entred are removed with their respec live courses. Dinner knife and fork are then on ie outside ready for use, is next to the plate since the calad is served with the meat course, or directly after kt.
fork, soup Beautiful Floors
Yours for the WAXING!
The salud fork
ON SAME PLATE
"When the salad in over, the dessert fork and
вроод аго brought, in on the same plate that holds the fingerbowl, with or without a laco doily. Each guest remove first the spoon and fork, then the dolly and fingerbowl, placing the later to the left when the dessert itself
in served Coffee, at the table; or in the living room, is served with the coffee
saucer...
spoon on the
***Many smart hostesses serve each couro in a' different pat tera of china' or Uge clear of coloured glam` for salad
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