THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1950.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
COZY AND MODERN
SOMETHING NEW and different that's 1950 new
Here's one of the many modern houses springing up these days.
A
amart combination of stone and frame, it has square, sharp Hues. The interesting window treatment and car pert add much
By JOAN O'SULLIVAN
LL
over the world,
A modern design seems
to be making the big dif- ference in home architec. ture. More and more these days, variations of the popular ranch house aure springing up north, south, cast and west.
il,
to the exterior.
DED ROOM
10410513′2′′
BED ROOM 13:51 9'6'
BED ROOM 10-10 13:2
BED ROOM 13.5×9-6*
HALL
BATH
HALL
BATH
HEATER
DILLING SPACE
DINING ЗРАСЕ
its
LIVING ROOM 11:29:6"
KITCHEN 96196
LIVING ROOM 11-219-6"
KITCHEN 3691
Today's home hus a look of tomorrow about
Nole square, sharp lines; the smart combination ni stope and frame; the Interesting window treat anent which aids in much
the exterior of a home.
to
PORCH!
PORCH
SINCERE'S
DEPARTMENT STORE:
Mary Brooke Per
The Long and Short of It-Tricks For Slips
E never quile know what Who wide to our skirt lengths until it is done, Then it is always a scramble to lengthen or shorten, for seldom are last senson's garments just right,
The mutter of Elips, för ex- ample, is one that concerns ut all. Just to insure your not getting sideswiped by fashion's pendulum, here are a few quick tricks you can use to make your slips Jong or short as fashio requires.
Overcast Shell Hero: This is
quickest velge inish. Turn edge once; stich clost
edge, stretching fabric slightly. Turn stitched line under and take a to 0 overcast slitches on needle,
To Shorten Slips as at C. Draw needle through. Repeat untli entire hem is done. Suppose someone has given
Lengthening with Lace: Buy you a lovely nylon slip, and it
lace wide enough to make slip is too long. Put one, two or
desired length. If *dgo 15 three rows
of thell
tucking stitched, simply whip thee to above
the
bottom trim 10 rtitched edge, as at D. Ente lace shorten as much as necessary.
llly so it cannot be too light, Shell Tucking! Pin, then
ទទ
Brinke more than haste, nu many tucks as needed ce
tabric. to make slip correct length. Space tucks 1" to 2" apart.
It is important to case in at least yd. to each yd. For extunpic, if your dip measures 14 yds. at bottom, use 2 yds of lace, to I will be eased in sufficiently.
NEW SEASON'S
Here is another season that calls for the best you can buy in warmth, wear and value.
You will find such a wealth of now fabrics in our storo that we think you will be agrocably surprised at the wider choico, the high quality and keen prices of everything offered.
CHINESE BROCADED SILKS
FRENCH FANCY FABRICS BRITISH WORSTED SUITINGS
ITALIAN WOOLLEN FABRICS
THE SINCERE CO., LTD.
FIRST FLOOR
Lay slip out on table and chalk first line all way around so it is an even distance from baltem and a uniform line around slip. WILN malching thrend begin at a seam; make Crom 5 10 # fine Yuuhingg stitches. Put needle over tuck and draw it down to the sewing? line, as at A.
To Secure Shell
Repeat this over-tuck site
Make another secure shell, group of glitches and iwo over. fuck slitches. Repeat until luck i finished.
it
If slip is plalu and you của eut bottom edge off to desired shortness, then finish with either of the following shell hems;
Lingerio Shell Hem: Roll edge, as nt B. Take two over-
Applying Insertion: If slip has a nicely finished edge or you do not wish to add lace to the bottom, then use lace insertion or a bind of ribbon abova hem. Luy this in width needed,
Mark line where top edge of insertion is to come.
Beste this eilge to slip, casing on slightly, Cut the slip away carefully
below brated line. Drop
This house
lauks large, Ilde there are only two bed- rroms, bath, kitchen ared
v
ing room. Both bedrooms arc lage enough to
yet
PLOVERS
FLOWERS
PORCH OR CAR PORT 12:0122:0"
Becommodate
twin beds. Each has a Kood- shed closet and three windows, Jururin adequate ventilation.
The living room features large replace and
a built-in
shelf for books. It's quite big enough to hour a dining space. The kitchen is effelently -ar- ranted to take the wear
Anel fear out of cooking chores. The bath has a linen storage closet. The car port is more adapt- able to milder climates. If de- sired, it may be serrened and used as a porch.
Au Peonomy pale in Love is that all plombing
thisi
i
confined to one wall, a cost-
raving fenture.
The house romprises
15,000
nent: 9.430 cubic feel, without
ʼn basement,
IN THE HOUSE without a basernent, all rooms are good-sized. The living room features a fireplace.
BOOKS.
PORCI! OR
CAR PORT 12:0x20:0"
PLANS FOR a house with basement provide a smaller car port that might be used as a porch.
stitches about every needle
under titches,
fabric
14" Slip between
this cul-away section of slip to bottom of insertion, basting the Insertion on and keeping a 1⁄4”
rcam.
Stitch insertion along both edges, os at E. Stitch or overcast raw edges underneath.
MONDAY: CHEMISE, PEG-top dress
-but follow convention
Clothes
that
ер
grow?
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In Table-Setting
tabic feet if built with a base ability of children to Holbein, Free, London, S.W.) line can be made larger as the BE as original as you please the knives and wine passen ble
outgrow their clothes who is a designer of children's boy grows, and the straps have
your mich and table a line to the right. If the at a prodigious rate
small daughter several button-holes on the same clothes, had n {x
decoration, but follow conven- who grew out of her prettiest principle as the pinafore frock.
is large, salt and pepper shakers known to every mother of fuck even more quickly than
tion In table setting and Another novel idea from this service. The rules of eilquette should go at every second place. a large family and has was expected. So her mother designer's workroom is a sun-which govern placing and items always seemed to be an in- set to work
clothes bonnet. the to plan
crown of which is which "grew with her, and the made soluble problem.
of a piece of material result
11 Everyone, of
nmv
which can be buttoned to the dens - fanilor with the hem that have been patented-will shortly toned and laid flat for fronhig.
which, incidentally, shape of the head and unbut- ht down to provide for A
be going overseas child's growth
prou? upwards; but
that whatever elge Britain lacks, that her children's clothes will No mother, of course, expects what has always botherezi mothers is the question of what tt.not inventive brains, to do when the child begins to broaden. Up to now, the
answer
WWW NEW
HATS
WILL GLOW
ment to
course,
is
these
go on from scuson to season for. say, four years or 60, but the principle incorporated in these
Untouched Hem has been to relegate the gar
Briefly, these dresses, and the dresses will enable her to plan a younger sister or brother. But mothers will and boller-suits for boys, are made ahead for her family's wardrobe that there are garments which to expand across the back, just as she does for her own.
Formal coats and suits, either like
the results of all inspire and the middle
from for boys and girls, problem in shutter
amer to waist. The ski
are not at lions, colve the
on lo present being made brighter on a dull way which is as simple as it is as the inevitable large tuck to lines, but it may not be long be- theso let down as the child grows, fore these appear to solve yet about because the but there are other pleats to let
WAYS to make women's hats
Flow
day were being worked out by
brilliant.
It came
1
ni
tight selentists working among Inventor, Mrs Kaye Marris (of out, and when all the expanding another urgent problem.
1,000 test tubes and retorts.
It was their first day at work
ly the world's most advancod;
research centre in Fairfield, Suitcase Ideas
Manchester.
The scientists have moved in from a wooden hut at Leeds, fet up by Britain's hat-makers as temporary centre in 1948.
Across a room packed with
1-4 pale blue, unbrenicable spray bottle, combining anti-perspirant and deodorant, has a leak-proof cap for travel ling.
has changed the frock from onu, which to a four-year-old Ør]; to one which she can still weari three or four years later, there; is still
four-inch hem untouched.
a
It is all done by clever desiguing and by carefully studying the way a child grows, Concealed fucks undo easily, to put two inches on the waistline and theri to lengthen the bodice by the same amount. › Back-
£2,000 worth of equipment at -New long-lasting na bril- the new centre was 10-year-old
liance, in 10 shades from Miss Ruth Withington, labora-
natural to deep pink, comes in fastening buttons and loop tory assistant.
ready-nished,
a smart little half-moon bottle can be moved ceress to a new with tapering easy-to-hold position on
ready-faced placket
She stood before an electric
tray of sand, and bande. hot-plate, a
to tive right outsize test tubes to juggle
back. ncross the 2-Latest pslick with a lory, more room with C181113N308S2NA2-disul-
stender metal holder, malces Then, again, In the skirt con- phonated monazo compound.
Her work
ait easy to draw a smooth line sealed side pleats provide more! may mean longer-lasting dye in new hats and has a pop-up action Instead room when they are let out,
In foreign
on sale next markets.
Усаг
arid
of a scrow,
UTILITY GLAMOUR
frocks fire one of Tinafore the most popular items in any little girl's wardrobe and new Eighteen-year-old Barbara
In the £5 range there is a
models by Mrs Marris have Hodson operated an instrument
youthful dance dress in black straps with several buttons ta lo test breaking strains
the shoulder-to-waist strengths of some of the fibres with a velvet, atrapless bodice vary
a concealed length, with a
box- average and fuil toffeta skirt, and an- which make up, an
other in jewel shades of taffeta plead to be opened in the back liby hat.
with a very full skirt, short in when necessary. She was sooking a way to make hints keep their shape and front and sweeping the floor behind, and hand-mocking at the waist.
last longer.
-[London Express Stratco)
~London Espree Serpico)
Then there in the boiler-sult for the small boy. This, as can! be seen from the sketch, has ex- panding sides so that the waist-|
of Antware, glass and cling ore just rules of good taste which amplify the art of entertaining for everyone, hostess and guests alike.
Centre of each cover is the service plate with flatware to the right and left from the out- side in towards the table, each piece in the order in which I will be used,
ABOVE FORKS
Bread and butter plates with butter spreader across them, usually go above
the Tarka, rxcept at
formal selling 11 where they are omitted. The water tumbler is placed uboye
Tom Sawyer started it.......
London Expreta Bervice,
...And now new hair-ple called the "Tom Sawyer," ofler Mark
Twain's char
acter.
Efect. carefree as a boy fishing
from a river. bank. Method. wind - pufed half-curls jostit Other
each
around the..
head Into a gentle wav четы movement
the back; the heir sweeps fut a ružic fringe over the torehead.
Franch of London)
At the right of the plate, from the outside in, are oyster fork, Σουρ
flsh spoon,
and dinner 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 the right side of the plate.
"At the extreme left is the dah fork, then the dinner fork and salad forkor the dinner fork alone If there is no fish and no noind service.
USE ORANGE SPOON
"Orange spoon or teaspoon may replace the oyster fork i the fish course is frult cup or grapefruit. Bouillon instead of naturally calls for the smaller bouillon spoon,
Loup
Cocklali fork, soup spoon, knife and fork for fish or entree pre removed with their respec- live courses, Dinner knife and
fork are then
ready for use.
on the outsido
The salad fork
is next to the plate since the salad is served with the meat ncurse, or directly after it.
ON SAME PLATE
.
"When the salud is over, the dessert fork and
spoon are brought in on the same plate that holds the fingerbowl, with or without a laes doily. Each Buest removes first the spoon and
Lork then the daily and fingerbowl, placing the latter to the left when the dessert liselt in served. Coffee, at the fable, or in the living room, is served with "the coffes spoon on the
Baucer,
Many smart hostesses serve 'each: tourse in a different pat- tern of china ''or use clear or coloured'? glass for sind ΟΙ dessert,
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