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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1952.

PRACTICAL

properly. Remember, rubberised Conta abould not be

dry-

HOMECRAFT

LAUGH Suppose, madam, you

(and look good!)

IN THE RAIN

you

YOU can forget you ever heard of an old-fashioned mac or that mother ever said she liked you in beige. For-brighter rain coats are here.

Manufacturers and designers have got around to the idea that In our climate rainwear must be fashionwear as well.

cleaned in the ordinary WAY; chemicals may rot the rubber. When your rubberised coat gets dirty, immerse it in tepid. soft water (rain water is bost), and scrub it in a circular motion with an old, soft bruh.

If the coat is badly soiled, you may use a little mild soap that contains delther sodo nor per- fume.

Make no effort to wring out the coat. Hang it up dripping wet, and let it dry away from direct heat, Meanwhile cross your fingers against ralu next day-the coat will not be dry so Boon.

DE

The shops are full of snappier B offerings in the way of brighter waterproofs with brighter ideas.

All the

Austria way from comda toden, newest weapon in The

DRUSH this way

kind to your coat in wear by keeping it away from oil and heat; both are bad to rubber. Shower-proofed woollens and gabardines may be dry-cleaned, _ጊቲያ against dowdy but you may have to pay extra rainwear. It is a long-bred for represing. woollen fabric, silky and soft as cashmere, naturally water- repellent, and originally used by the Austrian peasants for those natty little knickerbockers.

CLEAN this way

be

Mud morka should brushed off when the coat is dry. Always brush in the same direc tion as the pile of the fabric. HAPPY THOUGHT FOR THE NEAR FUTURE: the

which her the come contempt.| new glamour. But the glamour for water as a duck's back. will only stay if you treat them

-(London Express Service)

MORE and more rubberised advent of weather-proof suede

garments are taking on ก

HONEY IS THE WORD

By CAY PAULEY

New York. Honey, the world's oldest sweetener, is getting new attention this autumn.

use

mixture over it. Set dish in of hot water. Bako in pan moderute oven (350 degree) about 1 hour or until set. Yield, cookies

5 to 6 servings.

You might try these for the children's school

pail,

Ingredients

TH

had a genius on your

hands-

DRUSILLA BEYFUS reporting

THAT clover in your life, Arturo Toscanini, Is your countess. She is the woman who cares for the great con- ductor. She is his daughter and his shadow.

Countess Castelbarco is in London now with Papa. She keeps him going the 86-year-old genius, for whose con- cert at the Festival Hall.

The countess is a quick, lively person in her fifties, with a humorous view of what it takes to keep a genius in the house.

to

She always keeps close to Papa. She takes him to every rehearsal, stays listen, and bringe him back to a life of eiderdown ease.

"I don't think he even knows about the change in the value of money," she told me. "He hardly ever reads the

newspapers."

Maag lik

The Countess Castelbarco.

These are three of the pretti- cat, and loast expensive, I

Vint found:-

His food --- a problem know all right if it wasn't," said sure that ALL his trinkeis pro

the countess with some feeling, on his watch chain.

She will clip his hair, and his The countess sees that he " can tell immediately if things

moustache. "One day before eats. The genius will always are going wrong. He face is

So black and cross, and I know big performance at the Scala I (Above.) The shade is in thick stiff black paper, edged take good red wine, first-rate he won't speak to anyone after started to cut his moustache and with gold and papered white Junch

said: What would you do now inside. The light shines in twin brandy-and lots of mine- wards.

Price, stronc soup. "He isn't

ask if I chopped it right off? And pools, up and down. That's why I never interested in eating," she friends round to meet him unul Papa's face fell lower than 1 208. ed. The stand is an elegant plain black candlestick. Price, told me. "But likes soup and I can tell how the evening is had ever seen it"

355, gd. working out.

old But our

Life with father can be trying. bread.

triends the only ones he cares "Sometimes he won't speak to The shade is made in glossy about-are very good. They know him, and just melt away it

or eat anything for black basketing, shaped into

safd the countess.

basc has single strands of he's got that look on his face days. So I just leave him alone," a mandarin hat. The matching

basketing curved into

bowl The counters must see to his

intolerant "He's clothes. The genius may not

of bad design. Price, 41⁄2 guineas, or in musicians. The other day. I a slightly different shape, 685. care about anything muca, asked him, "Why didn't you gd. beyond music, but he does mind, teach me music, Papa?, and about his clothes koge be said, "There are so many KATANA SING

awful amatours I couldn't bear to have one at home.""

The Department of Agri- culture and the beekeeping industry are promoting its to keep the nation's beehives humming. They

1⁄4 cup seedless raisins; cup point out that without bees shortening: cup brown sugar, to polinate, the nation's crop packed; 1⁄2 cup honey; 1 egg;

sifted 114

all-purpose cups production slumps..

flour; 1 teaspoon baking pow- If you and your family like der; 1 teaspoon salt; I teaspoon the unusual flavour honey gives vanilla. extract; 1 cup rolled foods, here are some dossert osta ideas developed in the

test kitchens of the California Foods Research Institute..

One is for honey prune cake, which stays molst and is ex cellent without a frosting.

Ingredients

1 cup cooked prunes; 1 cup shortening; cup granulated sugar: cup honey; 2 eggs; 1 tablespoon grated orange rind; 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour: 1 teaspoon salt; 11⁄2 teaspoon soda; 2 teaspoons baking powder; i teaspoon cinnamon; cup sour or buttermilk.

Cut

Method

Method

Rinse and droín raisins, Creum

"You know, he often tells me with pride that he still eats the same food that he did,when he was a poor man. He doesn't notice much out- side his music.

shortening and sugar together * try to get him to eat a thoroughly. Blend in honey.itle food often, and I always "He likes to cut a dash," said

Add egg and beat well. sift leave a lot of fruit and orange together flour, baking powder Juice in his room and hope he and salt. Blend into creamed will take some when I'm not mixture. Stir in vanilla, raisins looking." unt oats

Drop by teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheet. Bake in moderately hot oven (375 de grecs) for 15 minutes. Remove to wire rack to cool. Yield, about 4 dozen cooldies.

on

rose

His rest.

the countess.

buy him a perfectly ordinary hat, and he always twists it into that smart shape You see in the news pictures.

+

"I buy him a cloak for special The countess must also ret occasions just like the one ke him to rest. "Ho goes to bed at used to

weer when he was

12, but never to sleep until five young; and he wears it all the o'clock.

time.

"It is easier to get him to rest "When he was photographed in New York, where he lives in it he compared the picture with my brother, because he to one taken a long time ago likes to spend the evening look- in an old cloak, and he said: Ing at the wrestling on tele- Not much difference, is there?"" vision.

"But here he walks about his room until very late.... Some times he listens to music on the radio,

Papa loves ties and cravats, particularly the ones given him by his lady friends. "He has s huge collection," said the countess.

anyone,

Before I left, the Countess showed me hor genius. There he is," she said, opening the door of his room. And there he ..

was an elderly sprite with a And there were the penches, gay moustache. the flowers, and the orange julco. He was in the countess clover.

The latest in lamps

THE black lamp is here. the

newest,

-prettiest --way – of. quietly lighting Up a room.

Now lamps have black shades and black clands, sometimes

16,000. Varieties Of Roses In Texas prunes from pits into small pieces. Cream-shortening

TYLER. Tex-A two-mile and sugar together thoroughly.

floats, Blend in honey. Add eggs one paratie of rose-adorned

bands, drill teams and pretty at a time, beating thoroughly

the unveiled

fifteenth alter each addition. Blend in girls

annual Texas rose festival rind. Sift together flour, salt,

"I have to see ho sods, baking powder and ein Oct. 3, 4 and 8 in this namon. Blend into creamed crowned elty.

quarter of an hour's rest after mixture alternately with sour

a concert. He likes a glass of milk. Turn batter into greased

The counless must pack him Texas town into a floral fairy champagne and a chair to at

In streamlined shapes for sprinkle him with his off with everything just right. square). land and attract tourists pan (about 9 inches Bake in moderate

‚eau-de-cologne. oven (350 all over the country. Sixty per always has to be that particular a little saun folder of family for antique rooms

It Batore the concert she will put modern rooms, in old shapes dears) for 50 to 60 minutes, cent of the field-grown TOSO

An old-time favourite, bread bushes planted in the

kind.. or else..

photographe In his breast ordinary shapes for ordinary pudding. takes on new favour States are produced within

"He is never tired after a pocket for luck. And what rooms, they sell at from £2 to in this recipe.

successful performance. And we ever happens she must make 20 guineas. radius of 50 miles of Tyler.

Ingredients

11⁄2 cup seedless raisins; 1 pint milk; 2 egg; 1 cup honey: 4 teaspoon salt;

teaspoon

cinnamon; teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 cups soft stafe bread cubes..

-Method

cges

The rose blooms turn the east

from

United

Q

Each year Tyler ships" more than 288 carloads to the various states and foreign countries, The planting of roses dates back to shortly after Civil War days.

There are about 18,000 romett varieties of roses produced by Tyler's 400 growers,

Αξ Hamel, Tyler rose grower, Unise and *drain raisins.

dis- recently claimed to have

that a ruso containe Scali milk. Beat

with covered honey, salt, cinnamon and four times as much vitamin vaulle. Sur in hot milk and as an orange. He said the Bri- raisins. Place bread In 1-quart tish made syrup of rose blooms baking dish and pour custard during the war.

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ASCOT

ABBREVIATIONS

C

ANGORA

k

st (s)

inc

dec

tog

beg

Corner

next at to free alze 8 needle and hold at back; repeat from ⚫ to end, keeping yarn be knit tween needles. Keep 18 sts on stitch (es) size 8 needle at back, and work Increase on the 18 sts on size 4 needle decrease as follows:

together With size 4 needles k'2 ins. beginning even. With free size-§ neodle, k i row. Break yem. From elze 8 this symbol indicates that the noodle which was held at back, directions immediately fellow- allp 18 sts to size 4 needle, join ing are be repeated a given yarn, k 2 Ins, even having same number of times in addition to

number of rows as on first part of the original.

double section. Hold work with 18 sts on size 8 needle at front and with size 8 needle, 1 st from 18 sta on size

4 needle at back.

front needle, k I from back needle; repeat rum to ad; 30 sts. With size 6 needle work until 12 insi from double section.

MATERIALS Angora, 3 balls. Plastic Knitting Needles, 1 pair each Sizes 4 and 8.

GAUGE: 11 sts - 2

inches.

With size 8 needles, cast ori 20 sta loosely. ́E 1 row.

INC. ROW-Inc. 1 st in first at, k to within 2 sts of end, inc..1.st in next st, k 122 sts. Repcut Inc. row every row 3 times; every 2nd raw 4 times; 36 ate, Continue in garter at until 5 Ins. from beg.

·DEC.` ROW --- With size. .4 neules, & 2 tog, across Tow; 10 sts.

K 2 ins oVED,

INC. HOW-Inc., 1 st in each st across row: "30 sta. With size B needics, work even until I row

more than on other end between last Inc. row and beg, of double action,

/ DEC., ROW-K 1, k 2 tog, k

Begin double section to to within 3 sts of end, slip 1, k 1, slip end of scarf through- SEPARATING ROW

With size 4 needles, k 1; slip

plain, sometimes

banded in gold,

and in

!

3 A flexible desk lamp with

a little black metal cup for a shade, sprayed white inside. The stand is made in alim gold tubing. Price, complete, avo "guineas." -"

pass slipped at over k st, k 1. Re- Soft and flattering," a little angora ascot is the deg. row every 2nd row perfect neccssory for your first spring suit, a colour, Umas; every row 3 times; “20 zis.. sind oft

ful wool frock.

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