1937-08-31 — Page 2

Time for Stacking

THE CHENA

COME INTO THE PANTRY

Immaculately turned out in a slack snit of white sharkskin which she wears for all sorts of informal occasions is Betty Grable,

· screen actress:- This type of gar- - ment is ideal during vacations. “

SHOP TO BEST ADVANTAGE AT

THE

their

se agents dislike me for

and he inevitable space age

When I say brightly, Now we'll have a look at the pantry,” the sales talk falters.

And what do I find? Two shelves

our home other people

for us with experie and soon tell

and what's wrong!

small larder leading chen with a out of it you are lucky. That is al-

small house of modern design.

A Useful Hinte

Keep out thes and wasps with fine muslim stretched on a frame and fitted into the pantry window. That is an old tropical trick and a good one. The muslin can come off to be washed in disinfectant every week and the flies will retire to look for other and easier pantries.

-If you are going to have a brand new house get as much room as you can for the pantry. After all, meat

motor-cars.

in a four-by-two cubby-hole. Then most the ideal arrangement for aland milk are just as important as I tell them about some of the pan-Glass-fronted cupboards are best if your house is not so new, make tries I have had and they dislike me

for china and glass. They are devour kitchen do double duty and pay more than ever.

corative and a splendid remedy for your refrigerator. That's what against untidiness.

I'm doing

America Taught Me

Stack breakables on shelves lined

Last week my kitchen had two

I first became kitchen conscious with linoleum or cheap rubber bath selves and looked like the Black Hole of Calcutta Now...well, in America another thing which mats cat in strips.

The less attractive household when I say "come into the kitchen" ovokes my house agents. The

mean it. clinical cleanliness, the mechanical stores are best behind solid doors, unless looking at rows and rows of gadgets, the small space, up-to-the- minute efficiency of American kit-home-made jam gives you a feeling chens is ever a triumph for to- of housewifely pride. morrow. They made me stop think-

have a certain amount of ventila- ing of dim places below stairs and

tion. Store in a cupboard with air- I came back full of culinary en-holes board near the top.

thusiasms.

Jam, by the way, should always COMPACTS

Cover All Food

That was a few years back, when English houses either had separate compartments for stores, stills, china and butlers or one cup- Slate shelves are ideal for the board and a meat-safe outside the actual larder. They are thick, cool kitchen door

and easily cleaned. Scouring with

Skin tonics and astringents seem doubly refreshing if they are sprayed on the skin. The ordinary perfume spray can be used for this

Since then our architects have abrasive powders will spoil the sur-

Here is a home remedy for ex- been to the cinema a good many face of slate. Keep them spotless

cessive perspiration Sponge the times. Now we are getting ceramic with warm water and soap. tiles, big windows and a galaxy of Have a very complete set of mus armpits with hot water, followed by kitchen perfections.

lin meat and milk covers. These are cold water with an equal part of The pantries, however, are still cheap and can be washed and dried methylated spirit added, or a little not so good and most of us have to in a few minutes. All food in a pan-toilet eau de cologne. Allow to dry, then dust with a powder consisting make our own arrangements about try should be under cover. the milk and vegetables.

If you have a cupboard-lined

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But a wire vegetable rack. A fis of equal parts of boric acid, orris kit-corner model will hold four kinds of root and talcura po

vegetables and keep them fresh and dry. Unless you have built-in bins keep flour and bread in big earthen- ware crocks with lids.

To make the upper part of your

I recommend a refrigerator. A rearms smooth and white, scrub your frigerator means peace in the pan-arms with hot soapy water, using a try and ensures a tranquil hospi- nail brush. Scrub until the skin tin- tality during the hot weather It gles, then rinse in warm, followed makes you look at summer meals by cold, water. Dry, and rub in a correct from a new and kindlier angle. A tiny bit of skin food. Bepeat night

the good "frig" will save you money and morning for a week. checking and make your reputation as a answers culinary artist more quickly than

Test your knowledge of social usages by answering following questions then against the authoritative below:

1 Does a woman precede follow a man into a restaurant?

anything else.

Choose the biggest you can af- ford.

For a good complexion, variety in meals is important. Fresh fruits and green vegetables are beauty

aids. Sugars and starchy foods make the

It is a poor economy to buy one 2. If a woman stops to speak to which will not hold all the perish someone at a restaurant table,ables. Before many more summers skin greasy when eaten to excess. have come a refrigerator will be as From one to two quarts of water be- much a part of kitchen equipment as tween meals makes for a healthy the stove itself.

should the men rise e whether they know her or not?

each dish is priced se a menu, what

ervice called?

the

Should a woman place gloves and purse on the table beside

What would you do if

woman who has asked his wife as your dinner You are

them to a where you are not known cannot

the check

skin

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION

HOUSEHOLD COAL

Revised prices effective from Monday, the 30th August, 1937, price per metric ton delivered, as follows:-

Peak District

$28.00

(a) Order and

the dinner

Bowen Road & lower levels

26.00

RETAIL

ACCOUNTS DEPT 20416)

(b) Give

to the man

Kowloon

25.00

WHOLESALE ROTNESAL OFFICE 223381

and ask

(c)

at the dinarily would?

Repulse Bay

29.00

Pokfulum

28.00

Shek-0 & Stanley

29.00

due

called

6.00

Would You

DODWELL & CO., LTD. Agents.

Telephone No. 29023.