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THE CHINA MAIL,' SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1952..

PRACTICAL

Learn About UseOfColours In Decorating

By ELEANOR ROSS THERE'S no doubt about it - the proper colour scheme is one of the most important factors in doing a home.

The

The

HOMECRAFT

Needlecraft Corner

All-Time Favourite

FGHANS have that heirloom quality A which makes their creation more satisfying than anything clse in handknits. Why not try your hand at this one--an old-time favourite of great. beauty, most practical, too.

ch

Colour defeats more home- mokers than any other phase of decoration, yet it isn't the least end mysterious or technical 12 s

ABBREVIATIONS

.chain de..double crochet round half de .....half double crochet .space (asterisk)-Repeat the instructions following the asterisk as many more times as specified, in addition to the original,

the fear of making expensive BC..single crochet mistakes in colour that causes so sl st ...slip stitch sp many women to use it timidly and, often as not, monotonously. Decorating Scheme Watch a professional interior decorator at work, and see haw

MATERIALS: Sport yarn, 4 Ply (2 this expert ses some fabric or article of decoration in the de oz. pullout skeins): 6 skeins of black; corating scheme, I con be either 18 skeins of various colours..Plastic

wallpaper, apr covering, up-crochet hook No. 4. holstery or drapery

D

fabric-In

fact, anything with appealing colours.

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Afghan measures 50 x 56 inches. Block measures 8 inches square, BLOCK....With first colour, ch 5. form ring. 1ST ring (ch 1, 9 de in Join with al at to Break off, 2ND RND: Attach second colour to any sp (always work over ends of previous colour to conceal it), ch 3. in same sp

Naturally, heed has been paid the preferences of the silent and the room exposure, before Join with al at to picking a focal colour point. RND: Ch 8, 2 dc in Any object worthy of this at-ring) 3 times; ch 1. tention is designed by an artist top of starting ch-3. who understands colour, Its selection and combination.

Artist's Pattern

For example, let's say a home- maker is planning to redecorate ja bedroom, and has found a par- ticularly appealing drapery fab- rle that she would like to use. She has merely to follow the artist's pattern in its bronder

and her application,

colour will have imagination soheme

and distinction.

the

hay

the

areas,

make 2 dc, ch 2 and 8 de; ↑ 'ch 1, in next rp mako 3-dc, ph, 2 and 3 dc. Repeat from around. Join and break off. 3RD RND: Attach third colour to any

ch-1 ap, ch § 2 de la same sp, * ch 1, in next sp make a de, ch 2 and 8 dc; ch 13 de in/next ap. Repeat from around, John and break off. 4TH RND: Attach fourth colour to first ch-1 sp on any side, ch 8, 2 de in same sp, * ch 1, de in next sp, ch 1, in next sp make 3 de, ch 2 and 3 de; ch 1, 3 dc in next ap. Repeat from * around, Join and break f. 5TH RND: Attach black to frst ch-1 sp on any side, ch 3, 2 de in same sp (ch 1, 3 de in next sp) twice; ch 1, in next ap make 3 de, ch 2 and 3 de; ch 1, 8 de in next sp. Repeat from * around. Join and break off.

•

Make 143 blocks, always having the 6th rnd of each block in black. Sew blocks together with black, making. 11 rows of 18 blocks,

BORDER....1ST RND: Attach Black to any motif and sc. closely around, making 5 se in each corner, 2ND RND:. Ch 2, skip 1 st, dc in next st, dc in around. skipped st. Repeat from * SRD, 4TH AND 5TH RNDS: Repeat 2nd rnd. GTH RND: Make ac, ch 2 and sc in first st, skip 2 sts, make sc, ch 2 and sc in next st. 'Repeat from around. Join and break off.

•

Why Americans eat Anne Edwards...getting

but

'Angel Cake'... Swiss roll? No, sir!

By TREVOR EVANS

more

Perhaps her choice has been a printed drapery featuring a pale gold ground with brown, green and coral blending in softly. She will note, it she really examines

that

arist design,

the the softer colours used

CALL it "Devil's Food" or cans do not hormally have mid- the larger

and Brighter ones in smaller "Angel Cake," and an moning coffee or afternoon-tea-

ear They amounts for accent. This American will eat it. But offer and-biscuits

him a Swiss roll or a cream crackers" in place of bread.

thanks; he The British visitors report: biscuit, and-No

er." "We think the biscuit packers would prefer a plain "cracker.

This odd tidelight on the eat in the United Kingdom work ing habits of America emerges faster than their sisters in the

а team United States" from a report by from the British cake and bicult

which industries

toured the United States.

follows the decorator's rule of soft colours for larger areas, and brightening the colour scheme by using the brilliant colours In smaller amounts.

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It has taken three years and nearly 50 reports by productivity teams to get this solitary that. same acknowledgment Americans do not work so fast As Britons:

I of three famous -men and dis- covered the truth of the saying that "behind every remarkable. man there is a remarkable

And i mathor" too, that mothers have a clore

view.. and critical

of.....their children's characters that sheds the famous. fresh light

CALLED on the mothers

on

discovered,

NOEL COWARO

with

Noël's

manner.

closer to the famous

-by talking

to their mothers

BON, but exhausting

chosen the most-popular boy three times. That's what you pet from sport, Denis, I told him.

FIRST "He's a wonderful-

on now I find it very CALL Mrs Coward mothering a celebrity,"

of Mrs Coward reads all his (mother. Noel), who is plays before they are produced,

mother's tiny

and and always

view of them. tena cious,

"His next is going to be very against and face

exciting, I think it's the best Oval.

takes

Restful Yet Cheerful The chief requirement when doing a bedroom is to make it as restful and soothing as possible, yet cheerful. If thera is

The Englishman, they zay, than the ngue. has a sweeter tooth fortable chair or a chaire longue, some brilliant cushions in a lux American customer.

coral.

All the same, this latest team Noël's staggering ease of thing he has ever done." ury fabric, such as bright

IN BRITAIN, more than 85 biscuits eaten

that productivity has to admit ar pink taffeta, velvet or satin, percent of will bring a vivid bit of colour are sweet or semi-sweet,

in American bakeries is higher Into the

rithout really

than in Britain. This is partly IN AMERICA, nearly 60 per- disturbing the essentially restful

cent dre -the unsweetened because they go in for greater colour scheme.

-mechanisation and partly be- "cracker" type,

'cause the stress there

on Instead

Some of the bakeries seen by quantity, rather than quality. the team

There were huge. Were Ovens

600ft. long-and

In

one

room,

the

room, there wasn't

British of space for a nice big roomy chair

which chalse

put favourites-Swiss roil and fruit cukes the Americans to in for bright cushions, so we did over

or

on

to

Hence

He

*

THINK he was a born cricketer. When we saw he was eet on it we decided the must have the very best gear, although we hadn't much mon

"When I got his first job Lord's he earned 30s. a week.. We put it all away for him except for 2s. 6d. pocket money.

enough for a

those to lad proudest moment' dales back to the day when he was 19 and batting in his arst Test-

at the New Zealand

But the thing she likes most that he isn't Her son comes to

see her about him is

"'Don't you She. lives in a ground-floor every day when he is in town. swollen-headed.

ever get big, I remember saying writes a

gossipy long,

know, ("There he letter every week, and expects to him once--and, you at in Eaton Square, designed for her by her son. was, waiting to show me round her to turn up

at every arst he never has," for the first time, with his arms night in theatre end etharel. wide open.").

"The most chorming moment of all is when I'm sitting in his box and he comes in, looking so handsome in his evering clothes, and ho bows. Everyone claps It is filled with Noel's water and shouls, and he waves back, colours ("He did three a day, standing beside me."

But she docan't think she can taken to But now he has

"first night." portraite and he says they look manage his next at peculiar"), pictures of Noel "I'm 89, and feel it. Now it is bucks me up. painted in tweeds, photographed only Noet who WAYS

He's the only

one left of my with

the Duchess of Kent,

But wait, a one snapped hugging his mother three sons, after a "first night," sketched in crayco at seven years, and a Bill from "In Which. We Serve" a naval officer's cap at a rakish angle.

There are yards and yards of pench tulle at the windows, and

a small supper chair in bright light sponges, which need to be coral moins, which we piped given "exolle names," with green to match the green the "Angel Cake" and "Devil's blycles were provided so that crimson-flowered tretonne.

the foremen could ride from end 'to erd,

In the main colour zeheme-it. Food," gave an otherwise simple room Why the difference in tastes? quite a look of distinction.

Well, one reason is that Ameri-

SU

-(London Express Service)

HUNDRED HAMBURGER

EVERYTHING AND A IN COOKING A

By CAY PAULEY

New York

The cookbooks are sprouting

fast DS crocuses

spring.

this

Everything from weight re- straint to 100 ways for cooking hamburger is discussed in five new ones just published.

Bernard Koten, a New Yorker who is not a professional cook, is the author of the

"Low- Catory Cookbook" containing 348 non-fattening recipes.

Koten said the book resulted from his experiences in trying to take calories out of some of his favourite dishes. In ex-` perimenting, ho came up with new ones and also dropped 00 pounds in eight months.

chopped onion; cup chopped celery: 2 tablespoons unsweeten- ed gelatin; cup cold water; The author doesn't eliminate 2 Ens vegetable soup (101⁄2 ounce sweets, one of the enemies of size); 1 tablespoon Worcester- the eight-watcher. His desserts hire sauce; 2 tablespoons lemon ·GUESSED he'd be success-

gelatins, juice. concentrate on fruits, and a whipped cream contain- ing 15 calories per serving..

"I

DENIS COMPTON

SECOND

JOHN GIELGUD

CALL THIRD

оп Mrs Gleigod (mother of actor John), who is lively and lovely, brains and John's with John's blue eyes.

Sho

•lives in the

In Queen's Gate,

big rooms filled with old, dark furniture, and one table in each covered with pictures of John in every port in every show he has the Ham- over, been in....all Let

the

lets,

the

Lears,

Richards.

King

She remembers every detall:

CALL on Mrs the date, the theatre, the pro- Compton ducer, the leading lady, and the

im

other of criticisms.

*

cricketer "Denis), with Den's cheerful things he is so talented.

his

She lives where she always has

cups

642 could have been so many

ful from the time he was Method: Add salt to ham-seven, but I never guessed ho

charm, with onion would give me a flat like this," It's made with skimmed milk, burger. Pan fry

Bald.

looks, and (the But he always wanted to be on

actor. gelatin, water, vanilla extract and celery until beef has lost she

When the boys were well says his wonderful temperat "He played the piano so the pink colour and onions are

little Val 'always and saccharin crystals.

had his toy soldiers and John used to dress Here is a pocket-size edition lightly browned. Soak gelatin and he never know what I was ment.

plasticine -ruffs water 10 minutes and add to be shy for a moment. I had called Martha Logan's Meat la

booklet to heated soup. Stir well, Com- to take him, away from school lived, in a little house in them up with Cookbook, Another

the hamburger re- bine all ingredients. Pour into when he was seven-he was so Alexandra Road, Hendon. There and push them on his cardboard

stage. nn 8 by 4-inch loaf pan. Chill spolled he couldn't be bothered is a cabinet in the front room His father wanted him to go contains tipes.

filled* with Deals! 2 hours or until loaf sets. Yield, to tie up his shoes,

to Oxford and become "bo Then I sent him to another although he has taken half of

architect, 'Acting is precarious A sample is jellied hambur- 8 to 10 servings,

school: but when one of the them away." ger loaf:

teachers tried to stop him

Fromed pictures of Denis on unless you are at the top; we But John meant the coming home he bit her arm.

wall; Denis ne a schoolboy warned him.

to get to the top. "When he was nine he earned with a cricket bat. Denis and

children were lucky. go week on the stage a lot of Leslie with a football and a cup, They just touched the leisured money for a small boy-but he Denis receiving a cup from Mr era. I always had times to read

dressing Devan Denis getting married,

to thi

in the evening before two framed programmes of dinner an

Kipling.

Henty, Rider Haggard, Alice

7.

the

Chinese cooking for Ingredients: 1 pound ham- average American home is dis- burger; 1 teaspoon salt; 1⁄2 cup cussed in the House of Chan cookbook. written by a New York restaurant owner.

OUR SAUSAGES ARE THE BEST

DELICATESSEN

PORK SAUSAGE

WE MAKE THEM

$2:30 per 1b,

BEEF SAUSAGE :

$180 per b.

$3.00 per ib.

$3.20 per lb.

$4.40 per la,

$4.50 par 15.

$3.00 per lb.

$1.00 per 1b.

-BOLOGNA SAUSAGE. LUNCH SAUSAGE COCKTAIL SAUSAGE LIVER SAUSAGE ---TONGUE SAUSAGE SALAMI SAUSAGE . LIVER PÅTÉ PRESSED BRISKET BEEF

$5.00 per lb. $3.20 per 15

T DAIRY FARM

the dishes are available, at 4the BOW1n the

Most of the ingredients for pont it all on silk

and pyjamas. grocery, although

might wouldn't unt one. have to shop, around for such

nese cheese (Foo Yee),

MAY

them

Stevenson,

in Wonderland.

house?

Noel Den's first Test, Anger-but he "Denis had a bat in his hand y....Oh, so gay, ant,

tampatand for 2 Items as bean sprouts, or. Chi-was very

He

used to entertala the guests wicket

when

he was three, "I never read them Shake

'I "didn't trust upstairs while WOS cooking. You ought to try learning a bit speare because Recipes from various na- "When ho.. was only 22 and more, I used to tell him, myself to read it well enough. tionalities which have settled the doctor told me I mustn't go "instead of kicking a ball. But John read it for himself In the West Coast, including the on working so hard, it was Nocl "But the teachers said to me: when he was still a little boy, Chinese, Italian, Mexican and who said I'm going to see that He is wonderful, Mrs Compton. Spanish, are included in Helen you don't work any more, and Don't let him give up cricket Brown's West Coast Cookbook.

he carried me off to a cottage at "I remember he was no United Press.

Dymchurch.

marvel ut school, but ho: waS

CABBAGE SAU GRATIN

CAN YOU DO CABBASE: JAU GRATIN

CAULFLOWER?

WHY NOT BUT JUST

DIFFERENT

CUT THE CABBAGE IN QUARTERS POPUT IT INTO

GOLIN SALTED LSWATER AND

BOOK TILL #4 DONS

URAIN. IT WELL

CHOO COAREMY

SEASON DEN SWITHS

SALT AND

·PEPPER. AND PRESS

/ INTO A

·PUDDING

BASIN

ELAY A RASHER

DIE TWO OS: "BACON INFA MIREPROOF)

TURN

מורי

CABBAGE

OUT-ON

TO

SPRINKLE THE TOP -WITH GRATEC), CHEESS AND

· FEW FLAKES OF MARG, AND BAKE IN A

·MOONRIATE, JOVEN TILLj.. LIGHTLY E GROWNED

"All my children were bad at games. On sports days the only thing, they shone at was hand- ing round the bread and butter.,

John would rather read poetry in the cloisters at West- minster thon play football?

SHE

CHE always knows when he is [ nervous before a "first nlight”

* "By the way he talks and the WDY

he stands."

She always knows the exact moment when he has the audience in his palm. And her proudest moment is at the end, when he steps forward sito) the final curtain and "there's that great eristendo, rour, VER "Before every,“first”

at night he coes, to a cinema,”””” she says,

Then he walks to a forist

senda ma`á flower.' baba(Landon 'Express

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