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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1949.

Woman Today

AT HOME TO YOU

Don't be taken in-try it out

by Edna McKenna

When you buy goods for the home do you know how to test them for wearability?

Recent scientific experiments show that your kitchen is nearly Burmese Jun- as destructive as

gle to paint and plating. There- fore, it important that an arti cle going into the kitchen should have a finish almost as durable a that needed in a tropical jungle,

steel When buying a painted article, such as a washing ma- chine, refrigerator, or kitchen cabinet, Insist on one

proofed. been rust

that has

Look carefully when you sce metal turned over on itself to form a hollow ring and ask if it has been painted over or rust- proofed inside

Examine the paint for pin- holes. If you notice any the art!-

will rust quickly.

cle

Ask what sort of paint has been, used. The new synthetie palats which are baked on are excellent for use in a kitchen.

any article with

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When buying

a chromium plated surface, such as a toaster,

or even

forks or

Patricia Roc in an Empire i've dress with black fure and maliu Lop.

wood was not properly treated before painting.

Another good tip famillar in the furniture trade is to run a thumb nail along the edge of a painted article. If the paint comes uft it

poor article

turers and technicianz are co

British Factory Steps Up Nylon Yarn Production

A nylon queue is the only queue British women don't mind standing in, though nylon queues are not easy to track down.

But there are now two hopeful signs which lighten the gloom of this picture of a female population practically without nylons.

in

The rooms where the nylon is processed are air-conditioned, and have fluorescent lighting,

The opening of a £6,000,000 would make their grandfathers factory

Monmouthshire blink in astonishment. means 10 times the amount of nylon yarn now available will be produced, so nylons for all are a possibility by the end of the year.

In addition, manufactures aro coating the stocking-yarn with an anti-snag preparation, to give greater wearing qualities.

Hot Meals, Dry Clothes

A huge canteen provides a 24- of hot meals, and hour service

are in each em- drying pipes ployed's locker for wet clothes.

There is a

15 & trgery block staffed two nursos, When the new factory is in full by two doctors and

sun-ray room for treatment production 10 million pounds of and jarn will be processed each year. of all kinds of rheumatic com- plaint.. A dentist and a chiro- At present most British women podist also visit the factory to don't get any nearer to nylons give froo treatment. than hearing they have earned a Workrooms of the factory look million sterling for the export out on gardens; even these are drive. Then they pull on their old built so that inner rooms look out

on to a flower-filled

In an all-out effort to ensure rayons.

square. spoons, insist that these are plated good Anish, scientists, manufac But women who work in the British Nylon Spinnere built

British Standard Specifications,

factory in South Wales in Then you will be sure of the operating to organise an Indus- factory, and the sweethearts, their thickness of the nicke! and trial Finishes Exhibition Inter in wives, and doughters of the male keeping with the Government plan chromium plating. When buying the year, when one of the chiefloyees were each given a pair to develop the hitherto undeveloped of nylons at Christmas. The areas of Britain, South Wales has wooden furniture be careful that aims will be to show how the handout will be repeated every known considerable periods of there are not any openings in the best Bnish for the right job Joints as this may menu that the should be used

MRS. KWOK BUYS BRITISH GOODS

By INGRID ETTER

While hunting wearily for bargains-or plain every- day household necessities-you may have breathed the womanly wish: "If only I could buy just everything I want!"

Think of those words come true as I introduce Mrs.

Nancy Kwok.

She is buying everything she wants (and what she thinks other women will want), from soft woollen dress lengths to the most novel kitchen gadgets. And she is doing this in England now.

Perhaps you are right in decid ing that almond-eyed Mrs. Kwok must come from a different work, but it is not a dream world. hers is on fire in the wars that are tearing China asunder, the Hames are drawing near her Hong Kong home.

Life Goes On

and

elsewhere, to France, only to stock up on perfumes."

Imagine our largest department stores practically, deserted while money values and prices run more and more wild from day to day:

six months.

Yarn from the now factory will form 30 different types of dress and underwear fabrics, in-

chiffona, cluding volles,

nets, Batins, Laffetas, and tricots.

unemployment because of lack of industrial development.

Only local men aro employed, As nylon processing is a highly technical Job, men were given several months of training in tho

The tricots are the new warp pilob

pilot plant, an experimental sec- knitted fabrics for underwear that tton of the factory. really will last a lifetime, may bo A great maj

majority of the staff washed out nightly, because of are ex-miners, iron-foundry and quick drying characteristics, keep steel-workers who are no longer their shape, and do not need iron-flt, through illness, for the heavy ing.

work of these industries.

Their Nylon yarns are not all delicate

hands, calloused by years gossamer threads. Nylon used of manual work, are now soft nnd in ships hawsers, trawling mots, smooth, the roughness worn away tarpaulins, motor-car hoods, up-be constant handing of the holstery fabrics, and heavy can-delicate nylon thread.

vasca.

It is even used for making fore- salls for ealling boats.

Undics and hawsers alike, are produced from the raw material- nylon polymer-which looks like soap chips but is as hard as rocks.

Enormous Vats

In Shanghal it is only for the sako of their employees that the Kwok-owned store remains open. At the factory the polymer is

enormous Four thousand men and women molted in

Vats,

Women and YWCA would be interested to

much the same in small ways.

Even when the sits as a Justice

lopeciale

thole

When they first started new jobs they had to rub hand- creams and lotions into their hands to smooth thorn.

But now their fingers aTD 10 fool the sensitive that they can slightest defect on the gossamer- like thread runs through their hands

from one maching to another.

Most

of the women at the fac and thy work in the canteenel Women

and have pretty important jobs, too. Samples of overy yard of nylon are examined by them.

Hoad girl is 28-year-old, dark- eyed Rita England, of Newbridge, South Wales, who had been

fore- man in a munitions factory. Every piece of thread is seen

depend on it for their livelihood, after long and complicated pro-have not been trained as process

Members ot the National

cesses emerges as the silken, soft-workers, because processing nylon in П 24-hour job, and under the Council

the to-the-touch, strong thread.

Factories Act women aro not And although it is made from

allowed to work on shift work. meet the Uttle golden-skinned synthetic material it needs no

But the 12 testers are women, Indy. who is deeply concerned But because she believes in her with sister organisations in Hong

textile machinery for s manufacture. It is kalited, country and knows, as every wo Kong. man knows, that life must go on

Hait seress the world, life is woven, dyed, and finished by the despite War Lords, she is shopping

textilo usual

processes. When the whole of the factory It is in itself an act of faith. The two largest department of the Peace. MES. Kwok has to is in full production (as yet only stores in China, one at Shanghal, Ane borrow boys and hawkers a third of It is being used) there the other at Hong Kong, belong with much the same admonition will be more nylon thread for to the Kwok family. Buying Bri-equally ineffective in most cases export to the Dominions, tish to stock auch an enormous as is heard daily in magistrates' Australia, already Britain's big by Rita's expert eye. coneem entails quite a large shop- | courts here.

rest market for nylon stockings bing bagl

When she talks to groups at and nylon materials, will then Like the wise and smart house- young girls starting a

business get more of the wife she is, Mrs. Kwok divides career, she tells them: Do not hosiery factories,

for her own yarn her shopping into two sectiona be like a vase. To be a vase is Australian nylon stockings,

to knit into First Is Just Looking — which the Chinese word picture for a means, in her case. days of ext- | pretty but ineffectuai woman, '

The building of this factory, amining various articles. their

which is the largest under one value, their texture, their com-

Toofin Britain, of Europe, is an parative price, with copious notes

important now unit in the fexile on items of special interest,

trade of both Great Britain and the Commonwealth.

Then follows the buying proper, whea orders

with are placed manufacturers and at the stands of the British Industries Fair.

Profers British

RECIPE

Peach Gateau

It has a floor space of one mii- Hon

are feel, is square

a graceful cream-colored brick 1 tin preserved peaches, 3 table-building in spoons sugar, 1 oz. gelatine.

standing in

in the wide Usk Valloy, Contrary to so many of us Strain the syrup from the fruit at Pontypool. green-eyed women whose dream and add sufficient water to make is an American department store (11⁄2 pints of liquid. Add the gela- catalogue even U.S. magazine tine and sugar and stir over low advertisement, Mrs. Kwok pre-heat until the gelatine has dis fers British goods.

solved and the mixture "The recovery here is wonder-comes to the boil, ful," she says, the faintest Illt in hor volco

"After the war we had to buy from America because Britain

could not fulfil orders. It is a joy

just

Renommée

dresses

Its crisp air of modernity is in contrast to the age-old mountain which looks down on it, and also to the centuries-old white washed farm-bouses which stand ruggedly to the wind on

hillside. on the Arrange the fruit to form $ It has brought

1050 atmos- pattem in a wetted mould and phere to the 19th century town of Large selection of import- pour the syrup over.

Pontypool, with quiet. lanes.

nall ed and locally made stene houses, and little shops.

Pontypool has known employ. Summor Dresses all in ment, depression,

and " Jong

Chill unti firm. Tum out and serve with cream, mock cream or

to cơme back new. I shall go boiled custard.

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