1938-07-11 — Page 2

Diary Of A Lady

Monday

BY ELIZABETH MacRAE BOYKIN

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Gave the outdoor! furniture a fresh coat of white paint. All my paint expert friends had a different tidbit of advice but I followed the wisest and used porch-and-deck paint. That's nobody's best suit will stick to the chair backs in hot weather. The casualties: one snagged stocking and a spatter of paint on my third best suede oxfords, which serves me right for wearing them to work in.

Tuesday It's funny and inter- esting to see what different ideas people have about living. Two famous authors writing about New York Faith Baldwin-and Fannie Hurst- might as well be living at different ends of the globe. Fannie has a huge town apartment that looks more like a medieval castle

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Chintz lamp shades are the prettiest things for summer.

than anything else with panelled walls, vaulted ceilings, acres of red velvet. Faith lives in a farmhouse in the country, furnished with maple and simple things.

REFRIGERATOR WHOLE WHEAT ROLLS

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2 cakes compressed yeast.

cups milk, scalded and cooled to lukewarm.

cup sugar.

teaspoons salt.

teaspoon baking soda.

cups whole wheat flour.

3

cups white flour.

2

well beaten eggs.

1⁄4 cup melted shortening. Crumble yeast into a bowl. Add milk gradually and stir to dissolve yeast. Stir in sugar and salt. Mix soda with whole wheat and white flour and stir into first mix- ture. Add eggs and beat mixture until smooth. Stir in melted shortening. Place in a greased bowl, cover and stir in refrigera- tor until needed. Knead dough, shape into rolls and let rise in a warm place until double in bulk. Bake in a moderately hot oven (400 degrees Fahrenheit) fifteen to twenty minutes. Remove from pans and brush with melted but- ter.-Edith M. Barber.

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 11, 1938.

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"The trouble with lots of men," says ironic Irene, "as long

as there is a bone to pick with the family they consider them- selves a good provider.”

ThursdayThought of a useful trick to get around buying an ex- pensive piece of plate glass for a dressing table top. I papered the top of the table in a washable wall recipe for salad, dressing made paper. That can be kept fresh, yet with mineral oil, non-fattening and is easily replaced when worn.

really delicious. used, a flowered paper for a dress- ing table with a plain silk petti-

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Saturday Chintz lamp shades are the prettiest things for summer

Sunday

Just got hold of "The Arts" by Van Loon, so I spent the best part of the day dipping around in it. Fresh things from the garden made lunch seem very cool and summery a crisp green salad, home grown broccoli.

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make them on the usual, wire Wednesday Looked at fine re- Friday To lunch with a couple frame, binding frame with tape.

If you put about a pint of productions of 18th century furni of old time newspaper girls who Cut the material on the bias, and ture in miniature down to the most cover everything from strikes to cover one half of the frame at a muriatic acid (poison) in a pail of exact detail. It was made to illus-murders, and politics. Guess what time, using a separate piece for the water and with a brush wash the trate the hand craftsmanship that they talked about. how-to wash other half. Stretch smoothly and bricks of the fireplace with this goes into fine furniture even woollens and how to get rid of bed sew to tape-bound frame. Finish solution, you will be pleased with to-day.

bugs. Also they had an elegant with a braid or fringe.

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