1951-03-24 — Page 9

PRACTICAL

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1951.

HOMECRAFT

LITTLE HOUSE-MUCH COMFORT

By JOAN O'SULLIVAN

QEEING'S not always be

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lieving.

Take today's house, for example. It gives the im- pression of great width, feature that's typical of to- Tanch day's trend toward homes, but it's really a small compact home de signed for maximum con- venience at low cost.

The exterior is frame with brick frim ured under the living

room

picture window, The frame construction attinctive- ly combines a shingled effect te the left of the entrance with vertical siding used to the right,

Instele, a large living room GIT the cozy vestibule.

Opens The bly natural fireplace, which the first thing you see when you enter the room, is ideal for thune cold, winter evenings, Big. picture windows at either end

of the room provide an attractive view.

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Off the living room modern kitchen with a corner set aside for dinette furniture,

Both bedrooms are to the left

of the vestibule, convenient

the

to

bath. is large enough to accommodate twin beds. Il has three windows

on that look out

the front grounds,

ride well as o 014 window, which provides cross ventilation,

The front bedroom

There's clorel space aplenty In this house, and the bedroom hallway features wall shelves, which might be used for books and records.

Bulit with a basement, the house comprises 15,012 cubic feet; withmit a basement, 0,023 cubic feet.

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To arrive at a general estimate the construction cost of this }xu&, .ascertain construction per cubic foot in your

costa

locality, then multiply this by the number of cubic feet given here. The result should be with- in 10 percent either way of the cost,

BED ROOM 96798

BED ROOM

15-2*110*

15721775

HALL

WARDROB

DATH

VEST

STOOP

10 KA H

EX 120098 KRE!

HERE'S A HOUSE that looks bigger than it really is. It gives the Impression of great width but it's really à small, compact building. Brick trim is used effectively under the living room window, which provides a pretty picture view.

DINING

SPACE,

KITCHEN

BED ROOM 9619'0*

ISTRSTEN

HALL

LIVING ROOM

7%17:2

VEST.

ENTRY

BED ROOM

15:20"

STOOP

WHEN THE HOUSE is built with a basement, there's

a little storage room next to the kitchen and the side, door, as the plan shows

LIVING ROOM 11-717-2"

DENING SPACE

KITCHEN 7

WITHOUT A BASEMENT, plans call for a utility room near the kitchen, which is modern and features a corner space for dining.

LOOK FOR THESE NINE SIGNS IN

MENTAL HEALTH

PERSON

has good mental

the

8. He facts courageously his emotions, consequences of his own acts.. health when

his and not his allies Are enemies. Look for these algns:

1. When he has a minimum of jealousies, angers, worries, and is a icars and anxieties, master of his own emotions:

2. He enjoys ample relax ation and le a hopeful cheerful person.

and

3. He is not self-centred. He gela strong satisfaction from observing and applauding the worthy virtues nad achieve- and succeSSES of other

ments persons.

4. He feels secure and went ed in his family and among others of his own group any- where, most of the timo least.

at

5. He is able to say effective- ly and comfortably what he wants to say...

8. He enjoys achieving up to his capacities, efforts.

and wastes

no

He works hard when he works and plays hard when ho play

.

7. He does not brag when he wins or suik when he loses He does not pity himself or run away from difficulties.

ORANGE GINGERBREAD

(KA NÖRTH=" COUNTRY AUNT - OF MINE USED TO MAKE THIS

BEAT

TO A CREAM 40% MARO,

SANDULA

SUGAR

STRADD

BRATEN

Q. He is easy to live with at home and Ukable away from home. He is a happy person and useful citizen.

Mental health is established chiefly in the family which at its best is the haven of security from the storms and stressce of the outside world. Even after a person grows up and leaves home, or after all the other me members of his family have scattered about or died, his carller family memories and emotional residue still linger in his head and heart,

Styles In House Plants Change

So

New York.

A

Se

Pretty Blouse With Removable Tab Collar, and Cuffs

is 10

CREPE blouse as attractive

as the one illustrated always welcome addition

your

Home decoration has reached the point where even a house plent must fit into the general decorating scheme of things.

Politi head says Louis Kardener for the New York

than More wardrobe. Botanical Gardens, who claims.

one set of tabs and cuffs can be homemaker the fashionable

dare made to change off,-if-button these days wouldn't cultivate a cactus in a room holes are used, where the furnishings, were stark modern.

Polli explained that a cactus

You need 1 vd. to 1% yd,

of 42 fabric, depending

Crosswise Strip

on

is meant for informal room set-length shoulder to waist, plus 3", plus yd. for collar and tings, such as you will see in

On the cufis. the ranch-type house, other hand, the well-decorated formal room will have such greenery as a Norfolk Island rine

or a new tropical plant called the peperomia. The pine is a stiff-stemmed plant whose needle-like branches jut out from the stem at about

* 30- degree angle. The peperomin also long and stiff-stemmed but its leaves are broad, colour- and ed an

aily-green on top, bright red underneath.

Styles Change "Styles in house plants change, too," Polit! said.

"The era of the Indian rub- ber plant and pink Pandanus la over, Homemakers now pre- fer such greenery as the phile. dendron, the dumb cane, Eng- Ush vy and

and the several varieties, of. cactus."

The botanist said Wonch

also like the "bromeline" group, those plants which feed on air, and other "arolds," in addition The "arolds" to philodendron. all have broad, shiny leaves and Politi sakd all of them make good house plants.

On opposite selvage cdge chalk a line 12 in, straight across from M to N for centre ront, Lay selvage edges of back along centre front line. Pin.

Cut out front same as back except facing and neckline, Ro- move back.

O is neck plus to left of N; P the same below N, Draw neck curve:P to O.

Cut neckline, cuiting facing to match curve as shown. Mark depth of front neck opening Q. Scam centre front line, stitch- ing from Q down. Scum centre back, Fress seams open.

Front Facings

Turn front facings to right at side. Stitch nerosa facings

Clip neckline.

and corners curves. Turn facing to wrong side. Press

Sutch shoulder and underarin leaving left underarm seams, scam open for about 7 for placket. Face neckline and bot- tom of sleeves.

Fin waistline 'fullness in pleats or darts, Put on blouse and check AL Remove. Stitch pleats or darts,

Straighten ends. Cut off 43⁄41⁄2” crosswise strip for tabs and Use zipper or snop fasteners cuffs. Cut fabric length in for aide closing. Hem bottom half crosswise. With right edge of blouse, Press. sides together, pin all edges.

From fabric strip for cuffs Lay one selvage toward you.and tab collar, cut two 4" cross- A is lower left-hand comer; B is wise pieces for tabs. Cut two same measurement 03 lower right, C is armhole cuffs

Is bottom of sleeves plus 2′′, or 3′′. A: D plus 3 to right of

A.

shoulder to waist plus 1 from Fold tab pleces in half length- wise, right sides together. Slitch side and one end as at R.

Measure length of shoulder plus sleeve length plus 1". Chalk a line this length straight in from C for E, then a straight line from E to left edge of fabric.

A Broken Line

F and G are. 4 bust plus 114" from C and B. H Ir. bust from D. Chalk a broken line from D

to H.

I

Dallas Pratt, M. D., and Jack Nehrer bave written t pamm. phlet entitled "Mental Health is a Family Affair," recently

I is neck plus above published by the Public Affairs

A. 3 is to right of A. K is Committee, of New York City.

armbole plus 1" to left of F.

This pamphlet

mental

Chalk back neck curve. J-I. Chalk a straight line from health does not tell you how to "analyse" yourscit,

through K to L; L-E; and T-H; your friends or family or where to

'and

H-G.

Curve under- Indicated. go for peychiatric advice. IL

arm at -Fon

slevon of does tell in very simple langu-

If bottom "At the botanical gardens, ogo what cause many person-

taper underarm too wide, ity problems in families, how every time we get a new mon

sleeve from Fto E as indicated he goes some new ideas in the com-

around with garden by broken lue: munity дте helping familles hose, killing off plants, and not

problems

knowing and

any prevent these

better"

Politi Cut, out back on lines J-1; how this can help you, your complained. "Some housewives I-L; L-E E around F, through as guilty."United H to G. Mark wallins pleats children and other loved ones

are just 1Press.

För darta 'as indicated, 'to enjoy mental health.

AND THEN KID BLACK

TREACLE

WARMED

A

As for care of house plants, Politi said the biggest mistake of any homemaker is in over- watering

NOW. MDC IN THE GRATED

RIND AND

JUICE

OF 14 ORANGE

JEID ROUR.

BIEVED

WITH

ASPOONB!

LGROUND:

GINGER

AND LAST COR: ALL

POUR INTO A

GREASED.

ROUTIN LINI WITH

NATE

IN A

· MODERATS OVEN ABOUT

SHOUR

*Front

Back

selvage /C.

Fold cuffs in hair longthwise, Sutch right sides together. ends of each cuff is at S.

Clip all corners," press acdiris open, and turn right side out, Bind raw edges of cliffs.

Position and Length

Do you keep

papers under a cushion?

THERE

CHIPPY solves this family problem

pers you keep the

which collect in the home? On the top of the radio. . under- seath the cushiona?

Check position and longth of

Cut off tabe.

excoms Turn: ends in and sew them together. Tack to inside of neckline, Tack In cuffs to position,

Tabs and cuffy can be changed If buttonholes are made in both and, link buttons used. ut neck and in sicover

If, tiffon, and buttonholes aro not take Gruas mind, katengi;to Hold testir, place at necka map cutte: together, and now buttons on for decoration only,

It is easy to solve the prob- lem with a simple rack which fits into a recess, or (supported by an angle bracket) into any comer

the

STEP 1: Measure the width of and cut the two recess

and

from pieces wood one inch thick and drill holes for the large üxing

triangulor

OCTOWS.

use

The exact measurements will depend on the thickness of the

you wood for the two slop- ing shelves; they

need not be more inch

than

thick.

Make

the top

angle of these wooden trianglos

FIRST FIT UP (which determine the slope of your shelves) as wide as the depth of your recess allows. will be no danger then of the and magazines newspapers

falling off,

There

STEP 2: Cut the timber for

the the sloping shelves and ledges which are to be screwer along their bottom edges. The shelves can be made up from

the two planks and hold at back by small cross battens

thelr

length. half-way along

supports will The triangular net as end battens.

The ledges should stick out t least 14 inches so their overall width will depend on the thick- ness of the shelf ümber.

FCAP

THE END VIEW STEP 3: Complete the "first assembly" as shown in the dia- gramm above. Do not screw on the front shelf at this stage or you will have difficulty in fix- ing on the will

STEP 1: Hold Atmont on the wall (allowing 1 in. gap along the back for dusting and clean- through the ing), and mark

holes in the end' brackets with anal. Remove the fitment and fit plugs in the wall on these

marics...

STEP 5: Screw in place and fit in the front shelf.

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the good old days.......

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