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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1952.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

How to wash quilted

robes properly

be

After washing in lukewarm suts, quilted rots should dried on well-shaped wooden hangers to

stretching, prevent rather than just pegged on the line. Go back every now and then to squeeze the lower

end

or the garment, placing between

two pieces of

of turkish towelling

to

remove

Avold wringing.

excers moisture."

Chenille should be brushed when dry, New, unwashed che- proper

Evening Stola -

· Approximately 18 Inches by 70 inches

RACEFULLY flattering... and a chill-chasor an wall...is this lovely stole which may be worn Gooutifully over strapless gowns, draped dra matically over practically any dinner dress. Easily and quickly made, it's an ideal solution to those "difficult" gift problems.

The Needlecraft

i-

ABBREVIATIONS

D

.kalt

As the result of a Tea-drinking Quiz among 3,000 Housewives in Britain hero is

THE SECRET OF A PERFECT POT OF TEA

BY J. W. TAYLOR

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or other Corner the Tea Bureau, who quiz the Scots they remained

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st (8) .......stitch (cs) ...this symbol indicates the directions immediately following are to be repeated a given number of times in addition to the original. "Work even" means to work without Increasing or de

creasing, keeping established pattern. MATERIALS: Bucilla Veltex, 4 akeins. Bucilla Plastic Knitting Needles, 1 pair Size 11. GAUGE; 2 sls=1 inch

Cast on 40 sts very loosely. K 2 rows.

PATTERN: ROW 1-right side-Insert needle as to k in first st, wrap yarn over nocdlo twice and k tho at;* Insert needle as to k in next st, wrap yarn over needle 3 times and i the stprepeat from * to end. ROW 2-P, dropping all extra wrops; 40 long sts. After completion of row, pull work down, so as to make all long sts even. ROW 3-P, ROW 4–K,

Repeat last 4 rows until about 60 inches from beginning. 'end with pattern row 3, leaving sufficient yarn to bind

off, Bind oft very loosely as to k..

1. Pin out and block to 18 inches by 70 Inches

The art of enjoying a-

QUIET SIT-DOWN'

CHAPHAH PINCHER

-today-winds up the series "More Energy More Elegance" with some advice on relaxing given by Pro- fessor Eleanor Metheny In her book on "Body Dynamics."*

lile sheds lint, that

50 laundering and brushing should Improve . So many of the new

50 badly cottons have such beautiful sur-ANY women sit

actually that an evening's faces, that washing

reading Improves the

them as garments and. In an armchair tires makes them even preltier than much as a spell of scrubbing at

the warhtub. when they were new.

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WHIPS

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They sit down to take The Icad of their feet, but do nothing about taking the load. off their backi..

The little sketch (below, left) shows tiring sitting position. The girl is relaxing naturally, but her body is getting only a fraction of the rast it could have,

Look at her back. It.

supported at only Iwo points..

Elsewhere it is un- der strain from the pull of gravity. Her head is getting no sup-

(with a warning

* about tho

dangers of slouching like this)

"Illustrated by ROBB

on the chest. Then twist it #lowly.to each sido to relieve the strain on the muscles of the neck.

Professor Metheny Kives women, this advice for sitting down on វា chair with elegance:

"Get close enough, to the chair so that the calf of ond leg" is touching it. Then place the toes of the other foot back under the edge of the chair for balance and support...

"In this position it is easy to lower the body to the chair, controlling the motion with tho strong muscles of the leg. The body moves down in an almost erect position.

"Rising correctly is, simply the reverse of this process,”

THE WRONG..... AND THE RIGHT

port from the chair. Her neck is doing all the work. The muscles of her legs would be less lense if her leet were flat on floor.

the

Di

Lie down as far as the design side

In her 223-page manual the professor recommends only one weight-reducing exercise: "Shake the head slowly trom side to

offered whenever kelping.” -(London Express Service)

of the chair permits-but no second further. Adapt the body to the curvature of the chair to secure maximum support from it,

When working at the kitchen i -table the chair should be brought in so close that the table edge almost touches the body.

"Chairs are made to sit in, nol sit on,"

says Professor Elednär Metheny In her bril- liant manual.

The right-hand sketch shows a fully relaxed silting position.

The girl's head and back are comfortably cushioned.

Sit all the way buck In the chair, to distribute the weight evenly. Let the trunk slant forward from the hip joint to bring the eyes in line with the work, but keep the head-neck- trunk line as straight as pos- able to give maximum support of the head.

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Bachelor Lores

What a pity it is that nobody nows how to manage a wife, but a bachelor.(G. Colman)

After a survey carried said they filled in that gloomy out all over Britain by tealess period by drinking coffee

beverages. Not

zed' three thousand house- wives about their tea habits, it has been decided that the most discriminating ten drinkers of all are the Scots.

缝

Such is the appreciation of the Seats for a good cup of tea that

the invesilgeters found tha:

more

Scols Housewives keep their tee in a tea-caddy - the correct way than English households, Whilst the caddy rean, always the true measure- ment for knowing lea-drinkers, is used more in Scotland, the Borderers, alas, have rejected the cld adage: "One for each percon and pne for the pot" and eliminate the odd spoonful.

fasthful addicts and brewed the tea weaker to make the ration go round,

Scols housewives display a mixture of their native canni-

and sound commonsense, coupled with fine appreciom in the matter of price. express a marked preferenco fr brands retailing L 11.

per cost to those which quarter

Firms 11 cr a shiling. selling ea aver s. 1d. per market quarter find the box among the peaple of Northern

and Scotland,

who England know what good tea is and who realize that more cups can be mode than from the same quan- tity of cheaper tea.

✡

✪

❤

As for the flavour, the Scots- Admirers though they are of

man really appreciates it most. the

Scots discriminating ten. It has been established that drinking, the Bureau regret more people take tea without fully find that the average num milit in the North of England of spoonfcla to a two- and Boodand than in the South. person pot is now less than Then there are the 23 percent Iwo, and for four-person of Scottish tea-drinkers who use pat, dess than four, They do, china tea-pois, against the 57 However admit that in these percent who cut them in Lon days of rationing, the pot must don and the South of England; needs

do without Its proper the Ggures for aluminium pots quota if there is to be enough are 68 and 20 percent respec-

to go round; indeed, seventy lively. percent of all tea drinkers state that they find their ten ration Inadequate..

cover

Half of Britain's tea-minkers the pot with costes all the time; the greater propor- The Board, asked the house- tion of those who never use wives what they did towards them live in Scotland. Finally, the end of the month, when it the Bureau says that British was clear that the ration would housewives drink an average of not lact out at their present rate five decimal seven cups of tea of drinking. Three-quarters every day,

And here for the record are the expert tea-tanters' rules for making the perfect pet of tea:

1 -

Use a good pol-carthemware is preferred.

Use a good tea leaf, and warm the pot before using it.

3Use water drawn fresh from the cold tap.

4 Use freshly boiling water it should have,

been bubbling for no longer than one minute,

6- Take the pot to the boiling kettle.

6 The ideal quantity of leaf to use is one ten- spoon for each person and ONE FOR THE POT.

7

It should be "browed and not stewed"-kopt standing for not longer than three minutes

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

S

bem

press

1 starch sticks to your fron scrapo away as much wax and scorches, making it hard possible. Place the, atein

extra tween two blotters and to work and using up current and effort, let the iron with a warm fron, changing cool, then run it over a waxed blotters, as they absorb grease; poper (paraffin dislodges starch); then sponge with cleaning fuld. lastly, wipe clean with a soft cloth. If some storch still re-

To remove ink stains from a mains, soften it with beeswax, white shirt, boll the shirt for 20

or then scrub with soapsuds Very mild scouring powder, minutes in four quarts of bpil- .ing water to which has been using only a very little water,

added two tablespoons chlorine bleach, one-fourth bar of yellow To put a new washer on the laundry coop and one teaspoon foucet, first shut off the water, detergent. of course. Then joosca tha packing nut and revolve stem out of the faucet. Use a to remove the screwdriver screw and washer. The washer should fit snugly in the

turn Alem soat. Don't

the screw too tightly, or you will have trouble removing it the

sure that next time. Put the stem back, scraps of materied in a patch- tighter, the packing mut, and work quilt are colour: fast and to turn on the water,

the Aing is stitched well prevent its shifting, it is safe If ů Lay holiday cradle to wash the quilt. If not, bet- ---(G. B. Shaw) | sputters your favourile rayon,

ter have.

it dry-cleaned.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and man's to keep unmarried as long as he can,

(G. B. Shaw)

You have no more right to

Sitting 100 far in a chair can be just as fatiguing as sitting too near the edge, the professor gays. The logs have to be braced to prevent the body' sliding down further, so energy

A good fatigue-dodging trick consume happiness without pro- is wasted.

Is to let the bead lose its during it than to battle with gravity for a mo-wealth without producing it. The professor's rule for sitting ment by dropping it forward] elegantly and effortlessly in any chair is simple:-

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To remove tea stains from china, sponge them with satt and baking soda, but not on gilt edges,

If you are

FIRST AID FOR NOSE BLEEDING

MOST people think of bleeding

true

П

дя

the

check of the blood pressure, a complote blood count, and study

By H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D. of the nose as a trivial disorder, meriting at most only first aid It may show that something is Nosebleeding may also of the blood-clotting mechanism measures to stop the bleeding, amiss. with the cloiling be caused by certain of the body. In most cases this 19

vitamin but mechanism of the blood.

donciencies such

E uy. when auch episodes

A sufferer should be propped, black of vitamin matter of frequent occurrence. Of course, the most common high blood pressure, heart dit up in a sitting position. Some- they indicato nood for a cause of nose bloeding is injury, ease, and hardening of the tintes an ice pack to the nose is thorough

physical examination due either to picking the nose arteries or arteriosclerosis. It of help, or the use of.a small alace

common haemorrhage from the or to a blow. Very often the is also very

among cotton pad Inserted In the nose

may stop the bleeding. noso may be one of the early signs of serious illness.

of chemicals or those in high altitudes. in excesive heat

Many cases, cannot be stop- In a child, for instance, this responsible for the condition in It is most impottant that,"in condition. may be one of the industrial workers. Exposure all cases: of this nature, the ped in this way, and a doctor Bret indications of rheumatic over long periods of time to cause be determined. Every per- has to be consulted

It is most important that in factors fever; in the young aduit, it either of there

causes son having bleeding of the nose may

tio

of one

the early dryness of the membranes and should have thorough physicat all severe cases a physician bo

examination, with careful consulted. manifestations of leukemia, or leads to nosebleed.

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