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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1953.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

FURNITURE SPRING SHOWS

By HAZEL MEYRICK

London, leer up at you, and dare you to [PRING has officially ar. enjoy your dinner. ❤ rived in London (March 20) It's the time when the British housewife does her armuai cleaning, and even Borts out the junk in the lumber-room.

Spring is also exhibition time In London, when furniture shows pre 03 frequent fashion displays, and house- wives Rufer from 'exhibition feet' after tramping round the stands to see what's new.

So if in spring " young man's fancy turns to love, woman's turns to furnishing, which gives us the idea to do the same,

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Lucienne Day, well-known in London for her textile designs, offers several new patterns this year. One, called "ticker-tape". gives the impression that makes of varying lengtha are climbing up your curtains. She has

another fabric of surrealist people, soma of them wearing glassen, with printed instructions down the side of the material, to tell you which way up it should hangi

tonic

Though few people can afford to throw out their furniture and start again, it's a good iden to give yourself o and buy something now for the At the exhibitions, everyone house; if only a set of table- mais, There are many amusing displays contemporary living, admires places of furniture to be found the Jazzy Hight Attings, trailing that blend aidilfully with either plants and weird wooden chairs. modern or old style settings.

instance,

Kazes

at the

There

are,

for

Yet, when they furnish their kidney, shapeti occasional tables, homes, nearly all still in natural mahogany or walnut, own arder 'reproduction" designs with Imitation Queen Anne legs, which fit against the arm of a chair and hold a cup of coffee

Jacobean sideboards and ornate

wardrobes of mirror-polished and a plate.

walnut.

For Television viewers to sit on there is an amusing set of

leather

They pigs. stuffed

做 three

for come

sizes: large and small adults, and

What makes Londoners rave over a modern sink unit, prefer an electric cooker to the old kitchen range, but nevertheless buy a factory-made Imitation of children. They have long curly

an antique, rather than a new style pièce?

.

Some say it is a reaetlen from war-time days when we made coffee tables from orange- boxes and linoleum. and sawed

tables,

most over

ed so that you don't over talls, and their legs are weight-

balance.

Festival

of

Two contemporary British designs In Furniture:--

Tog

An occasional chale: and matching stool designed for the garden by Christopher! Ilčni. The seas and 'back are" of slatted beech, and both chair and stool can be sticked.'

Botton: A desk, designed: by A. Kife, in naturali mahogany: with two sets of pedestal cupboards. The chair, I also mahogany,

the leaves trail through the bars, or to grow spring flowers- in a straw hat.

it children

At one furniture shop they have found a

new portable up wash-stands to form dressing- On the whole, though, Lon- Jardiniere, a tiny Victorian Joll's to the brim with don's taste in contemporary pram, filled

genanlums in pots, You tan Anyhow, the ones who rave furniture is becoming rather

Britain trundle it round from one room tite new furniture slark. ore: the newly-weds living in chairs, made from coloured to the next, but don't forget to fi three-roomed. flats afte bed perforated tran, springs and put the brakes on silters; they have found its plasties, have been discarded by are around. bright colours and light-weight the avant-garde as 'too ornate

the now. well with small and replaced by

Scandinavian furniture mado from laminated

The wood. chairs look very hard, but are nevertheless surprisingly com- fortable' tó alt on.

designs go.

rooms.

This year's favourite colour

An inexpensive way of alter- scheme for interior decoration ing a room is to bring in some 13 dark red

mixed with acid of the garden to act as decora yellow and grey.

And bright on. This fashion has returned red for armchairs is the latest to London for the first time

cince the aspidestra vanished,

As spacious as 2 play-pen, there cages painted bright col Colour is not only confined to

Current favourites in

plant

all curs by father, are designed by cacti in furniture.

On sale in London decoration are

black trailing ivy and Scandinavian window-slil of a flat.

craze,

Bringing SPRING into your home

By MARION SLATER:

and

WHAT TO DO WITH EASTER LEFTOVERS

New York

THE leftover Easter ham

By: GAY PAULEY:

diced ham and onion. Drop batter by teaspoonfuls into hut, Turn deep fat (300" dégrees), when brown or underside, Drain Serve hot on absorbent paper, with syrup or creola-sauce.

[Creole Sauce:

To make creolo sauce, brown

and

E is like the bill for the meal; Cut in shortening until

resembles

course There's mixture Easter bonnet.

crumbs. Add milk, mixing light great satisfaction in getting only until mixture is dumpen- rld of both.

ed. Turn out on floured board Bat holiday food leftovers can, and knead gently a few.seconds. bo the basis for interesting new Holl out to form a rectangle, raccis, rather than sat-looking about! 12 by. B-inches, Cut Into y chopped onion

cup chopped green pepper in a Fremskriders of the feast which. 6-inch squares.

Put small amount of the, small amount of febiinfering brice TERS,/

Ham-pineapple turnovers, for filing on each square of dough. pan when golden brown, add to make a triangle two Bounce tins-tomato sauce instance, are one main dish for Fold over using up the last bits of hum, and coal edges. Prick surface, 1 tablespoon sugary, 1 teaspoon These little meat-filled triangles place on cookie sheet, and bake salt, and teaspoon pepper, have all the flavour of pineapple in hot oven (423 ddgrees) 12 Cook over low heat 20 minutes, ...

-United Press: and ground cooked ham, sealed to 15 minutes.

the to serve inside a crisp pastry,

3

I

you wish or turnovers with a brown sugar For

quick luncheon

turnovers sauce,

mako

by mixing 1 cup Berve the supper, with a hot brown sugar sauce, brown sugar, cup water, green beans and a tossed salad.

How to Make

Here is the recipo, to make 6 servings.

teaspoon salt and 1 tobspoon! dry mustard. Cook about five minutes, stirring frequently.

Ham 'n corn fritters, a south of the border favourite,

another tasty way.

430

to use up

Ham pineapple filing: 1⁄2 those last pleces of the Easter pound cooked ham; 1 cup drain- ham,: This recipe will maker 12 ed crushed pineapple; tea- dritters. spoon ginger;

teaspoon 1 cup pancake ready-mix; 1

cup milk; pepper; 1 teaspoon lemon juice. egg, beaten;

Turnover dough; 1 cups teaspoon paprika: 1 cup tinned pancake ready-mix; cup whole kernel corn, drained; 1 enriched corn meal; 4 cup cup diced coolted ham; 2' table shortening: 2/3 cup mük

Epoons Anely chopped onion.

Add beaten egg, milk and For the filling, combine all in- gredients and mix well.

paprika to pancake ready-mix, until fairly For the dough, mix together stirring

Fold ready-mix and corn pancakte

kernel in whole

corn,

Hints For

Bath Time

Beauty

MAKE your dally both the most oféosurable period of the day. Don't try to break a speed record, leap in and leap out in,a cates Afteén hurry. Instead, minutes of complete relaxation and cost up nerve tension.

Don't stint on marm water;

two-thirds Kill the tub You're going to soalt off, dead skin scales, give your body face a satin sendothness, K

In Soapy Mask

Play Important In

Child's Play

"Growing Up" Process

By W. W. BAUER, M.D.

I wish Johnny didn't want to play all the time.

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I wish I could break Jean of humming and singing to herself.

"I wish Bob wouldn't keep repeating those nonsense rhymes.

I wish.

for the first time are rainbow shapes and sizes, grape-vinos, an engineer to fit outside the song and the smell of dai- of daring. OUT with the old is the child doing it?

striped sheets and blanket-though what

climbing plants. their effect would be on an Invalid I

They are sometimes trained daren't think.

up a ladder-like bamboo Picasso has found his way structure, and used to partition into the kitchen on the new off one part of the roofn. Others roller towels which are printed are grown round the window to with surreolist designs to hide form a frame, the dirt. There are natural

linen table-mats too, with Two new ideas are to put a untrimmed edges, block-printed plant into a gilded cage, instead with gargoyle-like faces which of the traditional bird, and let

CHOSEN GIFT OF

FAMOUS PEOPLE EVERYWHERE...

fodils. INSIDE..

up

готе

Make a most of your tolfet

poop, spreading the tiny bubbles!!! over your face anxi 'necic. The it moist heat of the bath will help

to give your completion thorough renovating. As you tilA ↑ there with suds hugging your shoulders and warm water! lapping your arm, you'll side

of bothersome track a lot thoughts of the day. Your cares will drop away.

Use a long-handled brusty or your back; a small brusly, on 2 your heels and elbows, Stour bbby- . I wish children would not act like the entire body surface to Having a family in a small

children. That is what parents are really saying when pink softaces, You' be peeding flat, which. also perves

they try to "break" a child of annoying habit up blood/streama: upping: your

spirito,

bringing colour to your in studio, is a problem, especially

pattern Tho

Have a rousing rising, either *** if you haven't a garden, answer; according to that out-

What a bore tall is.

Often it is a. mystery The real harm comes in Intro-with a spray or the shower. If

to the Yet how easy a change that or perhaps medically significant ducing them too soon

you take a shower, try alter- post of the artists, Chelsea, is to ERE it is again

hol and cold water. would make the upheaval worthwhen some adults show a sordidness of lifer in taking hating put your baby into a cage (pro-S-P-R-IN-G

that dismal C-L-E-A-N-

while. OUT with the margarino-noyance. In any event, such away the joy of just being a Count fifteen during the warm vided it doesn't object).

is not sufd- child, and most of all, in using deluge, fen during the cold. I-N-G that has nothing in and cabbage, IN with fresh, adult annoyance

lime which ought to be de

Use

the heaviest towel you common with it. OUTSIDE. Imaginative colours that, give clent ground for requiring

OUT with child to stop doing something. voted to physical play. A child have in the house for drying. ... Sun and the first bird the spirit a lit.

the skin is thoroughly touch The important question is why with plenty of opportunity for Unless playing safe: IN with

play, unrestricted except as -to dry

It may be sensitive and The child's play is an import safety, and supervised lightly chapped. Chaos moan: "I can't afford to ex-

Tug of War and The baby is put out in his and family grumbles and the periment" CV with the now ant element in and instrument and imperceptibly, has a better growth, chance of growing up into a his psychological enge whenever the weather is

idea: "I can pull it off myself for

Put generous pats of dusting fins enough, and can watch the smell of disinfectant.

If I take the trouble to THINK He is learning how things work, well-integrated adult whose re To what end? That margailue- rot.”

and how they don't work. He is sources for happiness are with powder over your svelte shape,

over those read: Passers-by in the street.

and

having fun, and once in a while in. Such persons do not become especially coloured walls

your girdle will, silde, cabbage.

MAKE: A PLAN

he gets into trouble. Either way, bored with life and with them where coloured paint-the vice of the

selves, until only entertainment Pulling on lingerie over a moist British-should "do" drably fos-Me, I'm-no-interior-décorator, he learns something.

or liquor, or even more spurious kin-la-nothing-los.than

of war, as no doubt you havani: another year... that every Just a woman who likes pretty,

thrills, can satisfy,

found out before this, he be pravl thing should look. EXACTLY Hvable rooms and is prepared Play Disregards · Reality,

Children's play not an Idle A child's play is uninhibited.

Before your bath. the same, but clean as a hospital to work for them.

you waiting-room.

I've learned that mact pro With a finer disregard for real waste of time. It is an important do a bit of exercising. Try fessional effects can be home-ties, he can be in his own home phase of growth. It should be bicycle stunt, Lie down on the made,

one minute, and far away the encouraged to be happy, imagi- foor and croes your arms across

as your. chest. The BUILD

Roll to the rightrun unrestricted ot the rooms next. He can be a dog one min- native, and as comes first.....

trie, a bandit or an FBI agent safety permits. It should never balancing on the back hip area.

and start cycling away, keep the next. Nor are his character be ridiculed or belittled

To live sations necessarily logical. Sup-

little in a child's ing your feet us. high as you the trick ct: is

is make-believe. a dog and climbs world of pose he is a

not ban.. Twenty-five". turns; then re to lower them by making of trees, You suggest that dogs unfitting to the dignity of an roll to the left and repeat. painting, a deep cornicie... by don't dimb trees. He answers adult, it may be ono of the ways using: solid, low-built furniture calmly. "This one does." There to fornt that bond of compan- reduce your: hight with thuf keeps" the eye down... you have This one docs: Ionship which will bo so valu-xercise, so go to it if you fol and low table lamps that leave Don't you wish sometimes: abla in the days to come.

Some

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children develop presion for throwing missiles at pedėstŕlana ̋on the pavement below, others shout abuse at the milkman, but even the psycho- logists agree most seem happy to be behind bars

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Ceilings too high?:

The

Ahe ceiling dim,

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that you could make your world over as easily as he makes his? Coilings too low?

Ο Of course, he will have to grow The trick is to raise them imp and face reality. His play is with.. lol, siender pieces of an important phase of the grow- Kurniture that make the eyeing

process.

travel up.

with standard Play may be boisterous and lamps that throw the light up active, like the boy who drove to the ceiling.

his mother to distraction by in- pisting on viewing television while standing on his head. Ronning, jumping,

skipping,

You

can'roll hips away and

need to sim đươht ..........i

Silk Lingerie's In The News: Give.........

Yours

The Proper Care

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By ELEANOR ROSS

Windows too: natrow?/ The trick is to bring the primet board out a good sise pushing each other NE of the lovely little in a towel, and frohit balord, inches on either side, to use forming more or less miraculous luxuries wonth are enjoy it becomes dry. It by some horizontal-patterned‹curtains. tumbling stunts are a part of Ing once more is pure silk chance the satin drids thoroughly

Learning how to use the big Windows-too wide? muscles of the body. They con- ingerica big item in recent before you can get it to the

Twin windowss?

holiday gift shopping, *** Ironing board, then dampen The trick is to lift the pelmet tribute to physical development,

1: Some of . the youngar, all over, aghim and roll Ikupin board well above the window mind-body co-ordination, and to reminine generation, of course, a towel once more. If you try frame... WOO D deep pelmet the discharge of the enormous are just getting acquainted with to sprinkle it as you, do "foen and vertical patterns.

store of energy which is the "real" silk. Being children of or cotton, it's apt to "społu Enviable heritage of youth the miracle fibre" age, allie They are a menace in the living under room. But they should not be suppressed. They should merely perhaps heard of, but have be tactfully guided to the yard, actually never worn until just this cellar, or In the case of really lately The The outlook is dreary?i Jurky: Kids, the barn

The trick is to put a long wall mirror between them, a wide pelniet over them, turning them

into one window.

organdi, morning frosh, and

something they've

Elis-Cut: Carments Another uttle tip is-to: Iran?) blas-cut garments with the straight of the fabric: Of course, fashion pendulum la the straight of the cloth! in a kwinging backwards again, and blas garment is actually, silk crept and satin-especially diagonal to the garment when sine satin - have once again you place it on the Ironing

Lot of floks.looped A Horse is að Hómo inner curtains of white frified: The drawing, painting and become choice fabrics for n board. "If you're not sure, test washable at: hómo'y. or. of play semiptures or the fantastic lady's lingerie But, like 60 by pulling the fabric: gently. potal pink ninon (no ectu not, structures the developing child many lovely things, silk docs The direction which Jocon jolcano)'.. shelves across the makes of his building blocks are require. care to keep it looking stretch or give the "grain" of the material; Unless you windows, holding trailing plants but the free play of his imagina lovely and wearing well.

Fine Pointi

are careful to follow this ': or coloured Kings that', catches tion. 14. itila Intended to be the light.

horse, it looks like a horno to Thore" kieś 'a'- few fine points pressingh all blas-cut

wilk

logo its shaped him. He is having fun, and he is to laundering, sille lingerie For

And one last hit df, advice The mantlèpièce is, hidaom7: orienting himself to the idea of instance, when you put that

If you; ent't. ecrap it, the borsed, what part they play in silk satin slip or nightgown into for keeping your saling lovely (hand washing is Ironton both sides, ite trick into box it around an his 11, and what he wishes the the basin electric fire or to paint is would or would noply recommended), be sure the your damask tablecloths, balin aliyin to mintel: The Walla

Too many adults do not know water is just warm, and the pressed first on the wrong side, the right, will how to play, we have activities mild soapsuds thick. And turn and then on whhing Cats Falaysiamey like the slip or nighile wrong side take on a wonderful glops, Juge ostatienkapón salsports out before it is put in the sad luxury sheen. But be sure

snagging the wield the fron with a ligh Callos? bại thơy theatre, But This prevents

antive play lustrous satin surface while it touchy Harm if any, is being laundered.

nylon satin100 The top Although from side of 'salin, as you know, fairly good without, a or toles doon have a fine aheen and over, with the Iron daianeile not pri fextured feel which are, what that! it more faäuurái Uwaz will misinko give it its luxury Quality, rich-looking, if pressed at the for reality, and After ringing your silk satin low temperatura: recommended steal, or murder? thoroughly, roll the garment up for this Abre.

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