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عد الحديث القلم

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1953..

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

YES, let children

be

UR grandparents were quite sure they knew exactly how to bring up their children; and since most children seem able to adjust themselves to even the strictest regime so long as it takes their ac ceptance for granteda pos- sibly no harm was done.

Our own parents, if they fell any doubts creeping in, were expert at stifling them Armly and silently. It has been left to us to be the first generation to feel guilt and uncertainty in dealing with our young.

To the middle of the night, when the hot water bottle has gone cold and n and unsus- pected humps and hollows have appeared in the bed, I find myself holding post mortems on my own conduct.

Oh, for time!

ASI turn over the last grisly evidence of failure deter.

mine that tomorrow I will be a different sort of mother: culratr, kinder, less iritable.

But with the next day all the same old problems.

and arise, unce again rush along solving them by hit-and-run methods that will provide the material for the next wory.

untidy!

by DOROTHY BERRY star of the B.B.C.'s North Region

"Woman's Hour." Her husband is a bank

clerk and they have two children.

so, without grumbling and above all without torturing ourselves with doubts as to whether not we are spoiling them.

or

to

IL however, we decide trave them to it then we must shut our hearts and minis the muddle they will make their clothes, of their rooms, the house,

le

of

of

If we have brought them up correctly during their first three

TO SET EVERY MOTHER

TALKING

Tailor-Made For A Teen

By JOAN O'SULLIVAN

Hmother job, but if TOME decorating may be

there are teen-agers in the family you can bet they'll have a say on what happens to their rooms when the time comes round to do them over.

or four years, then they will not That, at trast, is what one make a muddle of their Hves-Comily found recently, when was a bit which is, after all, what we are they decided home

Colour the seedy side. on chiefly worrying about,

schemes had faded, furnishings What we must not do is switch) were outmoded, a few partitions from

one system to another, had to be installed to make the allowing our mood and degree house more comfortable for a of weariness dictate our set of parents and a growing boy altitude, to the bewilderment af and girl.

Daughter's

room Avas fussy. our children. Which is exactly

frilly and Jun full of belongings. what we do!

The colour scheme was confused, furniture the result of various und accessory additions made while the girl was growing. It added up to a hodge-podge.

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

tu

New

Plain Vegetables Seem When Served In Combinations

LITTLE thought nine my vegetables-does not go down If only we could arrest family I would win the stood of the sirk. I use only enough

water to cook and evaporate."

life like a film, and have the roof of the Rainbow time to study it: perhaps then

our

Dinner

we could put our Anger on the Room in Radio City and exact spot where our idents and watched the carrier pigeons

the actions once again parted circling into

sunset.

Beet homing to Chiengo in the A reader with seven children | Pancake Day Pigeon ruce, to care for has written to me

company.

to ask what she ought to

But, sure enough, it did! about

the dis-And untidiness

The carded shippers on hearthug the love with holes In the fingers abandoned [1]

half

1 Was awarded :1 specially designed hat from

hands the

millinery

of

the book shelves. the hair-maestro John Frederies. brush on the chair.. the open book and unfinished letter on the table.

Chicken

Tussed Greens and Salami Caesar Salad Chopped

and Liver Patties Spinach and Kohlrabl Crusty French Bread Fresh Fruit Cup

Strawberries Frożen

Coffee

Tossed Groons and Salami Caesar Salad

||

One bu problem was storage. A teen-ager needs a place for everything dolls. pennants, books trophies and all the paraphernalia a lively giri col- lects in the course of a busy and active existence. Wisely she de- cised on built-in storage unils and plenty of them.

with

shelves, cabinets, and clocks, de-

with

One walls now had

signed to hold books, magazines, dolls and other treasures, Other cabinets are equipped drawers for small clothing items. There's even a sliding shelf for a phonograph. It pulls out when it's time to entertain the gans with the latest record on the hit Parade.

A desk, of course. Is essential for the Junior miss student. This teen-nger had one bulit to order. It's set in a corner of the rou nea: the windows, so that there's plenty of light for s dy. Its top. of working is big, with plenty area for spreadout papers. There school are ample drawers. for supplies and books. And, in back of the desk, there's a corner ar- There we sat in his

ot more storage To 2 qis. crisp coarse-rangement mirrored salon, talking, not shredded mixed salad greens cabinets.

Gaily striped wallpaper in lettuce, chicory and People tell her that eventually about hats, but about food such the children will clear away if and cooking. He comes from Watercress, add

thin-sliced green, ed, yellow and she does not interfere,

a line of ancestors distin- young onions, 1 raw egg, 1/3 c keys the colour rehome Frankly, I doubt it! So far us

oil 1 tsp. salt and tsp. room. I can judge, most children re- guished in the medical pro- pepper. Toss until mixed. Then gard their home as a convenient fession and understands not toss in 14 tbsp. wine vinegar. Garnish with salami crumbs. sort of shed in which to eat and only dietetically approved

Serves 4 to 6. sleep, they do not mind in the food combinations, but the least what it looks like. I

the

actual cooking of foods for mother of the house dislikes un-

nutrition and tidiness then

I am afraid she highest must be the one to clear things appetite appeal. up. if she wants to be logical and fair.

peus,

ns

4

Salami Crumbs: Slow-fry sa lami in its own fut until crisp Crumble fine and use on green salads.

white for the

Doing the house over resulted in many changes-one of which the in everybody bencfted

family. It was the installation of

rooms

room thermostats. This solved a problem for a frenily divided in "Why Is It, Mrs. Allen," he Chopped Beef and Chicken jopinion on heating some like it hot, come like it cool. Now asked, "that Americans mostly

Liver Pattios

an please himself, ad- everyone think mothers are not so

few vegetables

wn room thermostat to this use only a much afraid of the work

Order 11⁄2 lbs, chuck steak just his

and entails us. whether, by so doing, potatoes, corn,

beans, ground medium-Ane and form the degree that suits him best.

The decorating's done they are spoiling their children carrots and spinach? Over and into 6 flat cakes 1 inch thick everybody's happy in

prees and failing to train them in good over they eat these until they Into the centre of each

chicken that are heated to suit personal habits.

Yet in half of a sileed raw

at- are fed up with them.

and decorated Brush

preferences ali

with over

traziively to meet all needs. bulier. melted

Place от vegetables broiles and broil 4 inches from turnips, squash, pumpkin, the heat, basting occasionally additional butter. parsnips, oyster plant, mustard with c. greens, celery knobs, locks at Allow 12-15 min. Turn once, budget cost, too. I often cook Then dat with more butter, and vegetables together-turnip and serve sizzling hot. Serves 4 winter squash or kohlrabi with to 6. spinach. Delicious!

But let us face the fact that the market there arc many liver, n healthy and intelligent child other wonderfu}

and

is ever naturally tidy, or sensible over money and possessions. When they grow up manage for themselves, in their town house, they change

quile

suddenly, and do all the things we wanted them to, by instinct, and because they now want to do so. Uniti they want to, I feel we are wasting cur breath and energy trying to alter them.

The thing to do is to make up our minds what attitude we are going take,

and

then stick rimly to it smothering all our doubts as they arise.

No doubts

Spinach with Kohlrabi

"What might I have for a Boll or pressure-cook kohlrabi simple Sunday dinner? Belleve unti tender. (The cooking

It or not, for

and ine steaks

water should be evaporated.) chops are a bore.. So for the Then peel. and dice small. main dish I'd have one of my Meantime clean and cook 1 18. 'strange meats-I mean a com- fresh spinach. Chop coarse. bination of # pluin and ด Add the kohlrabi. Season with variety meat, with a two- 3 tbap.

butter and reheat combination vegetable; I'd start

Serves 4 to 0. with my own version of Caesar fur dessert there salad. and would be fruli.

"Of course, without the taste appeal the food will not be en- joyed, and if it is not enjoyed It cannot be well digested," he remarked, adjusting a fold of velvet on my hat, and nodding approval at my reflection in the mirror..

DINNER

Hot Tomato Juice Escalloped Seafood Whipped Potulocs Tossed Cheddar Cheese Salad Prune-Noodle Pudding Colice Tea Milk

Prune-Noodlo Pudding

Cooks 8 oz. noodles according

A

Girl Hated Music, Turns Composer

Fulton, Miss. 17-year-old high school senior who says she used to hate

Gusic a tu * composer.

Gerardinerns already has written four or five classical School compositions, and e band and orchestru performed concert of her arrangements at Sho a recent assembly session.

she was in att led piano when the third grade.

ut I quit because I wasn't making any progress," she re callett.

hated music then,

זיי

sure

But three years ago, when a

"I cook with no salt and little to the manufacturer's direc- other seasoning except herbs, llons. Remove the pits from band was organised at the high garlic and onion," he went on. enough

TF we decide we are going to "Yet my food is always tasty prunes fo nake

after our children | because I cook to save all the 1/4 c. sugar, then we must go ahead and do nutrients. The good taste of mon and 3

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THERE'S A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING and every- thing's in its place in this newly decorated teen-age room with its storage facilities.

HERE'S HOW THE ROOM above looked before it was done over. It's a hodgepodge. Furnishings and colour scheme are quite unco-ordinated.

A STUDY CORNER completes the room, which also boasts its own thermostat so temperature

adjusted to suit this teen-ager.

or cooked

tinned school here. Gerrie decided to Add join because "I liked to be with groups of people like that." cinna- sp.

Gerrie Intended to learn the melted

saxophone, but the Brst instru: In margarine.

a

up was the well-buttered or margarined 3-meant the picked

that's

what pl. shallow baking dlab, arrange clarinet, s0 alternating layers of the noodles plays in the band now,

Later, the overcame her third and prunes. Top with enriched bread crumbs mixed grade aversion to the piano and with 3 tbsp. melted butter or now has mastered that instru- margarine. Bake 30-35 min. in ment along with the saxophone

It makes no difference wheth- Pure; did goda la excellen and ukelele.

Gerrie says she just writes or light comes over your right for dissolving greasy soll-of musle "for the fun of it.". All of or left shoulder when you are heavy work clothes - Haleja her works 20 far have been reading. For writing or sewing, pound box of baking rode added classical, except for a march. however, the light should be at

a moderate oven, 350° F. Serve warm with a whipped topping or hard sauce.

Trick of the Chef Add drops tabasco to the butter used for basting broiled beef patties.

CHOP UP

AN ONION

GLAMB. AU-GRATIN

24 OR BEEF

TUSEL LIVEN UP THE OLD BUNDAY JOINT.

AND FRY IT IN A ATTLE'SAT

WITHOUT BROWNING

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

"I like to listen to popular the left for a right-handed per to sach Washer load during tha music," she says, "but when Iron, and at the right for a south soaping period will dissolva play. It always

out paw. This avoids creating agrease and let soap or detergent

do Its cleaning job quickly, classical."United Press..

comes

shadow with the hand,

NOW I PUT THE / ZOHION INTO. A. SHALLOW FRE- PROOF DISH .

·POUR "OVER'

TABLESPOONS

OF STOCK OR

GRAVY MIXED-WITH-

, TOMATE SAUCE

STADO À PÉW "ECAKES, OF MARO OR DRIPPING AND VIBAKE IN A HOT BOVENSTILL THE

TOP IS BROWNED —and therE WR

ARE!

ADD F-ROMG, THỊN SLICES OR

THE MEAT AND COOK TOGETHER. FOR A FEW

MINUTED

BORDER THE DIGH WITH MASHED POTATO, IR YOU LIKE

OPRINKLE

DE WELL.

WITH

BIFAD

CRUMBS

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