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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 26, 1937.

SAVING CAN Am Only Child Soon

BE FUNL

Saving is an art,

Acquire it early and you will avoid much misery. You will also avoid the feast-or-famine mode of living-which ultimately-proves so unsatisfactory.

A savings account) gives that margin of safety which makes for peace of mind;

is

In most budgets 10 per cent. the usual proportion allotted to saving, but this depends upon the size of your family.

Three Sections

An

Demonstrates Selfish

Tendencies

The child who grows up in the older woman has taken it upon her- fury and turmoil of a large family self to remove the child from the finds life much easier going than group and rock him to sleep.

This is a makeshift and a poor the only child who has had his own way from birth. The only child one. What the child must learn is has to unlearn all his selfish habits what happens when he treats other the moment he begins to play with children as 'if they were inanimate Saving is divided into three sub-other children.

objects and pushes them about divisions: Life Insurance Pre-One of these selfish only children heedlessly. miums, 'Savings Account and Invest-who cannot manage to get along ments. This latter may mean buy-with the other ones is a great pro

This is the typical behaviour of ing shares, but it also means ~say-blem in a small neighbourhood young children who do not consider ing towards the purchase of a car where all the other children meet the feelings of others. But it is or a vacuum' cleaner.

and play together. Here you have the natural resentment children feel

ish one.

Not much should be attempted in the small boy or girl who wants at such treatment and what they do this last division until there is a everything in sight. When some in return that has a salutary lesson- fairly large sum in the savings child approaches the pile of play-attached for the heedless and self- account:The equivalent of three things over which he hovers pos- months" "galary is usually consider-sessively, he pushes him aside, re- ed to be an adequate amount. gardless of whether it is toward a

stove or stairs.

Preventing “Nibbling""

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When you and your budget - have decided upon the sum to be ear-A MAKESHIFT marked “Savings the best thing to -So far affaire do is to take it out of your month-have been managed

cheque or weekly pay envelope the moment this is received.

ly

This is the best way to preserve it from the nibbling of the greedy mice.. which we are apt to christen "unexpected expenses,"

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THEIR OWN ROOM

Children have to be prevented these groups because some from hurting each other seriously, and to that end it seems valuable to have some other person to sit quietly in the background and act [as: supervisor..

MIND Your MANNERS

But it is also valuable to pro- vide them with toys of some sort, When this is safely out of the

a room or backyard in which to play and then let them "go to it.” way there are all sorts of amusing

Test your knowledge of correct Their way of meeting individual ways of saving out of the house- keeping money or personal expen-social usages by answering the fol-unselfishness may not be an adult's lowing questions, then checking way, but the selfish child will have against the authoritative answers no difficulty in discovering what it

is they want him to know!

diture.

How It Is Done

Some secrete coins in a child's below: money box, others resolutely sub

Is it necessary for a man to tract every threepenny bit from remove his hat in the elevator of their loose changes

an office building Z

I know one young couple who 2. Should a man alight from a have amassed quite a large savings vehicle before or after the woman account in the following way. What whom he is accompanying? ... ever luxury they covet they agree 3 Is it preferable to say "Ex- to put the equivalent of its cost incuse

me" or "Pardon me” when

the savings bank before they allow walking in front of another? » themselves to purchase the ob ject^in^ question.

Schemes such as these lend glam- our to a rather grim business, and turn savings into an amusing game,

SALMON MOULDY

Flake a small tin of salmon fine- ly. Put an ounce of butter into a saucepan, add three-quarters of an ounce of flour, and cook it without browning. Stir in half a teacupful of milk, and cook until thick and smooth, stirring well. Add the juice of

lemon, salt, and cayenne, then remove from the heat

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4. Maynaiman keep a cigarette in his mouth when he tips his hat? 5. If a man is with a girl who speaks to someone whom he does not know, should he tip his hat?

What would you do if

You were walking with a friend who stops to talk to a stranger-

(a) Stop with him and wait for

an introduction?

(b)

Walk on slowly and wait for your friend to join you?

· (c) · Say “Goodbye. I'll go on”?. Answers

1. No, but most women appre- ciate it.

2. Before, so that he may assist her in alighting,

3. "Excuse me," ("Pardon me”. and stir in the salmon. When cool, is never good form. Use "I beg your add a tablespoonful of cream and

|pardon").“

the white of an egg whipped to a 4. No. stiff froth-the latter should be

5. Yes.

folded in lightly. Put into a but Best "What Would You Do" solu- tered basin, cover with greased

|tion—(b), unless you are in a hurry paper, and steam for about forty and know the conversation is likely minutes. Turn out and coat with [to be a long one. this sauce Makeya smooth sauce?

as above using half as much flour

and twice as much milk. Flavour Savoury Custard

with lemon juice, salt, and pepper,

and boil for five minutes, stirring Four eggs, 1⁄2 gill of cream, 1 gill

shallot, bo minced.

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