1935-06-22 — Page 11

-SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1935.

CHINA MAIL HOME SUPPLEMENT

Cool Covers

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NE day when

you make the discovery that the roof above you has turned out to be something more than the lid of your house. asmuch that it definitely limits the amount of fresh. cool air you

can get into your room. you decide that no doubt summer is here..

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Then you go through certain rituals which are religiously ob wered by every housewife. As with all rituals, some have good practical resaon for their origin, while others are purely mythical and are observed from sheer reverence to ope's ances- tors.

Most of your energy will be concentrated in devising methods

to place in safety all prized be- longings which might be damaged by moths and such peste or by the excessive summer hamidity. Don't forget thas Hong Kong con-. ditions are different from those across the sea, in the countries we call: "Home," and some your friends who are older re- sidents here than you can “pat you wise" as to the best method to follow.

But eren they might not know that, while you are at re- arranging your house, you might just as well make a few slight changes which will add greatly, to Colours your summer comfort. and textures of materials have a Some psychological effect on us, colours are called "warm" colours on account of the sensation, they cause. Heavy-texturd materials, xilk of the heavier type and with

large pattern. have exec

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Replace your

curtains with cretonne or linen in cool blue. green and grey combinations and cover your furniture, with similar slips. They will have no actual effect on the thermometer, bus they will lend an air of coolness to your rooms.

Messrs. Whiteaway Laidlaw & Co. Ltd. have materials to suit your taste and pocket; and on this page are some illustra-

sions to show a few nice ways of making them into covers,

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Books for -

• WOMEN

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shop one day this week. I discovered a most exciting collection of cookery books. I say exciting because there was to be found there a method for everything a family could possible desire at mealtime.

Among them was Mrs. Been ton's famous "Cookery Book." boasting eight colored plates and a hundred and fifty illus trations. It is a book, without doubt, of great value. It crammed with practical informa tion, with sections on marketing. laundry work, carving, table, napkins, labour saving, house hold hints, trussing. table, de- coration. The cookery itself includes the art of "asing-up," entrees and luncheon dishes, vegetarian cookery, invalid cookery, and every other imagin- able cookery.

Mrs. Beeton has been a guide, philosopher and friend of count- less happy homes for more than half a century. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. in his study of married life, declares that Mrs. Beeton's book "has more wisdom to the square inch than amy other work of man.”

Another was "Popular Break- fast Dishes and Savouries" by C. Herman Senn of

the Paris Academie. Taking as his intro- duction the words of Leigh Hurt,

"Breakfast is a forecast of the whole day:

Spoil that and all is spoiled.” Mr. Senn proceeds with count- less tempting dishes and menus. "Casserole Cookery" is also by Mr. Senn. This is a method of cookery which is extremely popu lar and deservedly so. All the dishes to be found in this book are specially adapted for cooking "en casserole" or ju other earthenware utensils..

Games For The Family

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THAT shali we Wow How often, our children ask us that question. And there's really many an apt answer, if we have pre- pared ourselves. For there is, a, happy common ground upen which parents and chil- "dren can enjoy one another's compary in the friendliest sort of way. And that is in playing games. But, remem- ber. if a game is to go, it be fun for all the players.

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Children are more honest In this matter than their parents; you won't catch them playing anything dull more than once. The misguided parent who "gets bored: stif, but will do anything to be a pal to the children," may be self-sacrificing, but he is still, more self-deceived. You cannot condescend and get away with it when it comes to play.

Be sure that the game is fun for you, if you want the children “ to have a good time. This is particularly true of vigorous out- door games. The best advice to adults is to join in here only if they enjoy them and play well enough not to cramp the child- ren's style. You'll find that these games, which provide a meeting ground where no one is bored or "overpowered, are either the "t- tle nonsense.now and then” that is relished by all, or a challenge to a battle of wits. The "best parlour games are both. In ad- dition, they require little or no

equipment certainly nothing that can't be found around the house at a moment's notice. And most of them can be played by eight- year-olds with a skill and success. that are sometimes surprising

Match and Bottles A college boy home after mid-years intro- duced the neighbourhood to this. stunt. Its equipment is a box of ordinary kitchen matches and an empty bottle with a small neck- an ordinary ginger ale or beer bottle, for instance. The trick is to see how many matches can be piled on top of the open bottle- -neck. You start with four or five. then ten or twelve laid crosswise on this slender founda tion" and so on up and up, úntil you have, if your hands are steady, an incredible and ever- mounting pyramid or ball. Simple as it sounds, it's grand fum, whether the whole crowd gathers around one bottle, or you set up competing teams of three or four players each. Some friends of mine nailed up a record of 168. matches the other evening. Can you better it?

Detective: Perhaps the best of the modern versions of the -spy- ing game, it simply takes the old idea and makes it harder by mul- tiplying the number of objects. Gather together on a plate or small tray as many odds and ends as you want, say six or eight, including such things 25 3 door key, a cigarette lighter, a thimble, a good-sized paper clip, a biggish button, a coin, a small pencil, or what not. Let every- one take a good look at them, Then all but two or three close their eyes while the "conspira- tors" place the objects in sight but in such a way as to CRIOT- flage them. The "detectives" äre summoned, and each is armed

with a paper and pencil. As they locate the objects, they make notes of where they are without saying a word to anyone else. The one who finds the most in a specified time, say five minutes, wins.

Bring 'em back alive: A DEW version of the old "I love my love with an A“ kind of thing was invented by a couple of ten- year-old boys one rainy day last autumn. You may adopt it as it is, or it may serve to suggest other variations devised to suit yourself, goes like this: "T went to Africa and I brought back an antelope." -I went to Borneo and I brought back a baboon.” And so on the country and the animal doubling the hazard

Several paper and pencil games are also guing the rounds.

(To be continued)

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