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PRACTICAL

HOMECRAFT

WITH AN EYE TO THE FUTURE

THIS IS A COMPACT little house but it can grow into a spreading, temporary flat roof featured here is coming into great popularity ranch type dwelling with the addition of an extra bedroom. The con-1 in many areas, Style and simplicity of construction recommend it..

By JOAN O'SULLIVAN

пром

day, and

when

TOMORROW is. another If the house is built without it a basement, a kitchen door a back stoop. comes this compact three- opens onto

be With a basement, the kit- room home might not large enough for a family's chen has a door leading to needs. That's

the why house is planned so that it can easily grow from small home into a spread- ing ranch-type dwelling.

A

There are three rooms in the original unit. When

the cellar stairway.

In

A linen storage unit is provided in the bath. addition, there's & con- venient hall closet opposite the bath, and another closet in the bedroom, which is large enough to accom- modate twin beds.

The original house com- when built with a basement; be without a basement, 9,210 cubic feet. The future bed- room takes up 2,800 cubic feet.

necessary, an extra bed prises 12,000 cubic feet room may be added, and the car punt can also screened or glassed in to make an attractive porch.

A combination living- dining area is featured in this home. The dining area is

conveniently ad-

jacent to the kitchen. A To arrive at a general small shelved alcove here estimate of the construc- provides just the right tion cost of this house, as place for showing off "com- certain construction costs pany" china.

per cubic foot, then multiply this by the number of cubic feet given here. The result should be within 10 percent either way of the cost.

The kitchen is sure to please. Appliances and working areas are efficient- ly arranged on three walls.

A Baby's Feeding Schedule

By Garry Cleveland Myers

TE observed the emphasis in

W

good this youngster indicates by his recent cries many new demands other than for food as he grows older. on providing more Shall years

they be always im- love and affection for the mediately satisfied? Shall all infant and young child, es. his demands also at three years, pecially by his mother. ve, or older also be satisfied? Accordingly, the mother not only is approved Suppose at three he decides in her normal impulse to that he shall stay up till his cuddle the baby and young mother retires child, but is also urged to lie down with him in his bed cultivate this impulse.

young

that she shall

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Colourful Felt Accessories for Girl's or Boy's Room

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Felt-covered pillows

Men. Too, Star At Cooking School

HEN

By FREDRIKA BORCHARD

Now York. Louisa Schwarz, who is director and co-owner with her husband of the Manhattan Baking and Cooking School, was little girl in Potsdam, Ger- many,

that she was told America was the land of opportunity, and that all Its streets were paved with gold. At a kitchen fete, held recently to celebrate the school's 10th birthday, Mrs Schwarz, who, with her husband and son, had fled Hitler's Germany, edited only slightly her childhood's versiort.

"America," she said, "is in- deed the land of opportunity. There is gold, too, or is equiva- lent in good living, for anyone who is willing to plan and work to acquire it"

USING OPPORTUNITY

The celebration, held in the school's recently purchased bulking at 140 Wes, 83rd Street, New York City, offered concrete evidence that Mrs Schwarz and her chemist husband had indeed their planned and worked in lend of opportunity. The service was characterised by a number of unusual features that had the то somewhat party-hardened presentatives of press and radio busily taking notes.

Typical hot and cold foods of 12 countries were served at the assortment of long table,

an

well over a hundred dishes, all prepared

by the staff and students of the school, and all taken from the school curricu- lum. Although many of

of the Ashes were co embellishment,

proparation and

both in

others owed their distinction chiefly to originality, and wore .simple enough to be copied by

the most amateur of cooks.

FOR YOUR NOTEBOOK

Fited green olives, for In- stance, had been drained of their brine and soaked for several days in an oil flavoured lightly with garlic and heavily with curry. Rice croquettes of quite ordinary appearance proved on opening to be moulded around a well-seasoned liver paste.

A honeydew melon, scooped and Alled with fresh straw- Its Own berries and balls of meat, was decorated on its outer surface with small clusters Of strawberries and leaves attached by toothpicks, a flat mat of leaves and berries covering the top, and the whole designed to serve first as centrepiece, later as dessert.

Tiny fried meat balls were fastened by toothpicks, porcu- pine fashion, all over a head of red cabbage into the top of which a very thick lighted candle had been set, the idea

Flourful, practical and as practical as they ar are being to hold the tidbit in the

For example, cut two squares 8" larger on all sides than pillow. Make a diagonal slot at 3" line on each cor- ner of one piece.

reasonably inexpensive. tractive and are ever 80 Many things can be done easy to make. with it in a minimum of time to brighten a room it more pleasing make especially dormitory rooms. A felt cover over a table makes a pleasing surface on which to spread out books and work. It is as handy at home as at school.

BUTTON COVER ON

Sew buttons to correspond ca

A bedspread of felt is other square, and button your he will sleep next her? ideal, especially if a room cover OF

on Lacking buttons, Won't he feel ho is denied

punch two holes 1" apart in her love if she denies him all is small and bed serves

of seat guests, or if student is both squares at each corner.

a lounger.

wishes? Thousands Moreover, she in encouraged such

mothers fretting over by certain experts never to let young

are having their him cry

when by taking him this problero

and infants

children young up, holding and feeding him, sho con prevent or stop his sleep with them. crying.

to

Pull a gaily-coloured cord

and Bup 72" width in a length through, We in a bow long enough for bed plus on cach corner, needed overhang at bottom" Any child brought up well --usually 2%1⁄2 yds. will have to experience some Trustrations and BOIC tem-

We have seen how by the self-demand method of feeding porary feelings that he is not the. infant the mother can being loved. He won't alwaya mom easily, especially during

weeks, have what he wants when he

his

early.

days and

provide him with means of at- fection.

The practical prob- wants it, lem la so to guide and train him that he will have in the long run the fewest possiblo

Then we observed the prob- frustrations, Joris facing the mother in

дв this infant,

he gulding

Therefore, I propose that in older, grows

the to conform to

self. demand! Which applying certain regulations family life will inevitably im- method of feeding the infant, the

for the youngster poge. Just how long shall the goal bo

at a rather, re baby have what he wants when have arrived

gular schedule by the end of

to

to

he wants it? If at six montaa month or so and thereafter your, two years, he is expected have this schedule revised from to wait or to conform to some time to time with the advice regulations, how will he estim

of the pediatrician; that this

cape feeling he is not truly child be gradually held to add

being denied loved?...

regulations, be such newly expressed wants or that the the which arise Crupted that to let the new whims

coinion BERKO when he mother's born infant decide shall be fed can have great prompts her to deny him; that marit in helping him arrive at amoreover, this mother try leas schedule best suited to his to show him affection by letting Individual; nutritional needs, him, have, what he wants when suppose no regular schedule he wants, 1, and try more to has been derived, by the time

deserved approvals and in this guild three months, tax provide him with affection in

#toward.

Streamers for snapshots: Every treasured person has young snaps or pictures of their idols of the moment that they like to

have secable at all times.

Strips of 8" wide felt, topped with 14" wide bows of felt, make an ideal resting place for and of pictures many types clippings.

PIN, PASTE OR CLIP

These can be pinned, pasted

or clipped on are casy to re- place, and streamers can be as

сол decorative as they venient,

are

Two such streamers about 33" long make a pleasing gift for any young person going away to school

sizzling hot, fun for a children's party, an after-the-game hud- dle, or an evening's set-together.

The school's staff was assisted by additional waiters augmented by a group of husky young men who proudly identified them- selves as "professionals" taught by the school under the GI B of Rights, Mrs Schwarz, who is proud of all her pupils, is per- haps just a bit ore partial to her Gla, almost of whom attend class dally.

is the Indian, Ayub Mlab, who, - Outstanding among the latter solely on the strength of her teaching, is making a success of. his own restaurant, the "Bengal Gardens," and Jacques Moreno, the Chinese boy, with the half- French, half-Spanish name, who as chef-cook on a. U.S. battle- ship is just another American in the service of his country.

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