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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST ·1, 1953.

PRACTICAL

What To Do When Children

Children

Swallow Bones And Pins

By W. W. BAUER, M. D.

Mash decline to eat them

ANY people who like difficult to be sure when all'

because of the fear of bones. Swallowing a flah bone is not always due to careless ness. Many bones are so fine in structure, so like the colour of the fish. and so deeply imbedded, that it is

bones have been removed.

But rapki and careless cat. ing favours trouble. Child- ren are prone to swallow fish bones, and so are those with dental plates which cover the entire palate, mak ing It Insensible to their presence.

Impressive Handbag

Stoolean gove

By ALICE ALDEN

HOMECRAFT

The OUTSIDE of Your HOME Keep Wood

The

́By JOAN O'SULLIVAN

THE outside of your home is important all year round,

THE

but especially go in summer when warm weather draws you out to enjoy the sun or the shade,

That's when you're apt to dis- Swallowed objects, including provement either on the hous cover that there's room for im- fish bones, usually make itself or around the grounds. trouble once they get into the stomach. They may Judge, in the throat or the gullot, where they give discomfort, and may ordinarily, if the swallowing of cause perforating Injuries, a foreign body is looked upon aimly and without parle, it will reappear in due

iven time for the operation of natural proceSIS,

It

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What Not to Do

"The Home Owner's Com- picto Outdoor Handbook" has a 141-page, nection devoted to con- struction. Here you'll find in formation and how-to-to dota on building terraces, driveways, walks, walls, fences, freplaces,

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court, | worden pools. tool houses ind garagee. Smaller projects, such lės outdoor furniture, children's. | play equipment, dog houses and garden necessaries, are covered too.

Flower fanclers

and garden- ers will be interested in part "Growing Things" two of the volume, which covers Various types of gardens are discusse raising flowers, fruits and vegot with detailed instructions on abies. Lowns, trees and ahrube come in for comment, too,

was

formerly common practice to feed bread and potatoes in quantities to who had swallowed something

K out of the ordinary, and

it

makes anybody in the family more resigned to the situation, may be advimble, The ono Importing point is no laxatives, Nothing to stir the intestine to exceptional activity.

X-rays are aften reassuring, and in some instances may be a diagnostic necessity.

Safety Pins

Children, of course, can be expected to put things in their mouths and from time to time they inhale them. But adults should know better." Yot mothery hold safety pins in

their mouths while pinning Up

For those who'd like to raise pigeons, rabbits or poultry. there's section on husbandry,

The final

portion of the volume, Devoted to outdoor gamos, tells how to build and 10 such recreational facilities tonnia, badminton and shuffle-board courte, It Biso covers archery, croquet, volley- ball and, horseshoe pitching, giving the rules of each game.

the baby; baby squirms, mother Household Hints

gusps, and--presto. A few such instances are probably inevit».

A picture needs to have its able, but most are dus simply face washed now and then. A to failure of ordinary common dust-streaked picture should be sense. The mouth is for food-taken apart so that both sides of not gadgets.

the glass can be washed. Use When somebody has swallow-wall-paper cleaner on the mal, 1st or inhaled something, shail for give the picture a new mat, we turn him up pound his Wash metal or wood frames with back

seldom does either

her thick soupsuds, rinse and dry. A good or har.a. Shall we reach now backing may be needed to into the throat and try to get (keep out dust. the object? No.

Calm the patient and get him to a phy- sician.

If there is actual acute choking, as by an object lodged in the larynx where breathing is obstructed, there is only thin

When you

are faced with brushing heavy paint, enamel, or facquer, don't try to cut it down

to clo-the operation with thinner. You will get better imcheotomy. This results if you warm the finish

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HANDBAGS are either little with the overalze pouchy bag known affaks or else they are big im and doce a bang-up job for is no Bist ald job. It demands. Instead. If the can has diready pressive,

over the - shoulder resort-wear. This one is fashion- tlu services of a physician im-been opened, submergo the lower

ed of an exclusive, imported, mediutely. types, Either style is good, when honeycomb mesh fabric that is

much better to avoid it is hacmoplsed with the co- quite interesting, and hat auch desperate situations by tume, and when the bag is of long wide single shoulder strap keeping non-edible objects out fine quality. Josef is excellent and a wide zipper opening.

of the mouth.

ICING SIDECORATION:

BASE

REMEMBER THE PAPER ICING TUBr DAD SHOWED US LAST YEAR ?

VE DISCOVERED YOU CAN CUT

THAT INSTEAD

OF THE PLAIN

END

IT UKE THIS-

IT'S CALLED

A LEAF

TUBE-

MAKES DESIGNS THIS-

How

OR YOU CAN CUT IT LIKE THIS FOR

A STAR TUBE

FOR THIS

SORT OF

DESIGN

YOU'LL WANT TO USE THIN, TOUCH PAPER-- WRITING PAPER, OR BETTER, PARCHMENT PAPER

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IT'S EASY to build play- things for children. Shown nbove`` is ́n ́ ́ teelerfolter that's fun for youngsters.

NOW'S THE TIME to enjoy a terrace. This one was built with old weathered bricks, Attractive flowers and shrubs add to setting.

DINING OUT in the backyard is delightful in warm weather: To make cooking easy, here's a fireplace and table that you can construct,

KEEP IN TRIM

FOR THE ROSE GAR- DENER, a lovely trellis, such as this one, la the place to show off prize

roses.

HIP TROUBLES TAKE

DIFFERENT SHAPES

LIM skirts and slacks call

for callipygian`lines.........

a term which sums up the situation neatly for it means shapeliness. It appears, from the letters at least, that--not-all hips... have. callipygian form.

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On the contrary, hips can square off at the top, bustle out rearward, droop, or just spread." The smooth way to deal

with

these hip irregularities is rolle ing. The trick is to shift the mgle of roli to bring pressure to bear where needed.

The first roll deals firmly with the window-box spread and the fatty pods flanking upper hips.

Posliton: Lying on back with knees bent.

Movement: Roll

from that

By

IDA JEAN KÄIN

Roll Merrily.

Floors Gleaming

By ELEANOR ROSS

TOTHING is handsomer

Nthan a gleaming Wood

floor and, by the same token, nothing pulls down a room more than a shabby: scarred floor.. Even if there is but a border show- ing around a rug, if that is not well cared for, the effect- is just as bad.

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Neglect soon shows up on wood flooring, which means constant caro is needed. Wood is naturally porous, so it thust be well protected at all times. Wax, of

the answer 性 course,

If that cover to wear-off, then soll will penetrate the wood and it will gradually scar to a point when nothing will do but i A finlahing job, which usually hor to be done professionally. So the only way to avoid this and to do right by a wood floor is to keep it constantly protected with

WRX.

Electric Pollshor

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1 Applying wax takés very

litlló trouble...you just rub il on with a cloth or a lonx handled applicator. It's the polishing that is the real hard work. The easiest way to pollah a floor is with an electele polisher.

A thin coat of wax, well polished, gives a hard, dry finish and a high lustre. But before applying wax, all dust should be picked up with a vacuuin cleaner. Then put on an even coat of paste wax or ·šelf- polishing wax.

Even Coat

E

· A good way," to apply ` paste wax is to use a thin film of it en a damp cloth, folded to pud The wax should be appiled thoroughly before

In an even

When

left to dry

and

buning

plugging in an electric. floor polisher, be sure that lim

the switch is in

position. Guide the polisher over tite floor In stendy forward and backward strokes, moving it with the grain of the wood and keepingt i moving continually. ·

No need, either, to add mere wax every time a polisher is used. A dry buffing will re- move scuff marks and work up a beautiful gloss. Dally vacuum cleaner dusting plus an occa- sional buffing with an electric polisher will go a long way to- ward keeping ʼn wax finish in good condition.

Special Cleaners

You'll find that the finish will gradually wear thin and become solled in heavy traffic areas. For prompt action, and to avuld 10- moving all the old wax and starting fresh, get one of those special cleaners for wood floors. Such cleaners contain spécial dry-cleaning solvents that re- mave, soll, and they leivė * light wax

im that bulls up easily.

If you do not have access to

an clecirle polisher, this type of building up a work-saving wax

is a painless way of

Movement: Slowly and heavily rock-a-bye baby. Always keep position, across that squared- roll along one thighline, back the rolling action slow and off portion and on over to touch across hips to other thighline, heavy when sort muscles thigh to floor at side.. back Roll 25 counts, later more. This meet the hard surface of the across the upper hips and on literally Irons out all thighline floor. something has to give, protection for your wood floora

over to touch the thigh on bulges.

floor.

and naturally it won't be the

Slow rolling is more To banish the general spread, floor.

effective. ་་ fun to rall÷rall: from

a

still different

It is always helpful to follow Homework Partisans.

a rolling scasion with brisk

In the music of a slow walls. angle.... Shift the position, changing Position: Bitting on door, action to stimulate the circula

MIAMI.. Fla. -A survey of the angle of roll slightly to leaning back, but with les don - finish with the side students at eight schools showed bring pressure to bear a little extended straight out in front; scissors, a

40 percent of the pupils do not lower down.

of body,

Position: Lying on side, legs mind homework. More than half Postion: Bit on floor, leaning Movement: Now Toll rhy- straight down.

admitted that the extra; asign slightly back, still with knees thmically nerous - hip spread, Movement: Shuttle into ments at home helped their have arms out at pushing with one hand, bracy action, moving the legs in closerocen ability, Seven percent sides, palms un floor to act as ing with the other. The per crisscross action, one forward of the studente said. fafly that brace and propeller.

feet rhythm for this roll is and the other book

..owing. They hated H.”.

bent

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