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Air-wick

· kills unpleasant indoor smells

It's the wick that does the trick!

Airwick

IN HOMES, clubs, hotels and A offices, the only way to always keep a fresh, smell-free atmo sphere is to us Alrswick. This wonderful new discovery destroys ofcasive indoor smells, including cooking, drains, lavatories and even the smell of strong disin factant

Simply unscrew the cap, pull up the wick and put the bottle o

a high shelf. As Ain-wick eveņOĽ

stes, towkoted anelis disappear 'from the air like magic. Alzwick

contains wonder-working chloro- phyll, the substance, that keep growing plants fresh and greens. Abrick works indoors just as nature does outdoors, to keep the atmosphere fresh.

Air-wick

Sole Agents:

TALAN & CO., LTD. Shell House:

Tel, 31175

A

ADD GLAMOUR TO YOUR DESSERTS

with

REAL WHIPPING CREAMI

You'll love the way Avosm pure dairy cream whips quickly and stays firm for hours and hours.

Luscious whipped cream glamour... pure, safe country-fresh Avoset Whipping Cream is perfect for pies, cakes, and pad- diage. Also delicious on hot chocolate or cocos. Use the economical quart- size for parties.

Ahe My AVOSET Tabša Grado

for coffee, corsak, and fruit

AVOSET

PAPWIZED CREAS

Whipping

Lamps Swent for Mons

STERILIZED CREAM

AVOSET "Whipping

· BOTTLED-CREAM-THAT-KEEPS FOR MONTHS.

Sole Agents:

SHINY

LANE, CRAWFORD LTD.

GO TO EMBROIDERY CO.

8. ON LAN ST., HONGKONG. PHONE 22085 (strect opposite Moming Post Building! AND YOU'LL FIND THE MISSING ITEMS IN:

PURE SILK EMBROIDERIES BLOUSES

UNDERWEAR

EVENING JACKETS

MUFFLERS, ETC.

$3-SM-4

THE CHINA, MAILAN PRACTICAL

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1959.

Give Your Old Umbrella A Smart New Look!

By SHIRLEY LOWE

NEW branco, accessory for wet we wently slim.

TEWEST fashion accessory for wet, wintry days is

It brightens up a dark, "season-before-last" top-coût,

Everyone can afford this ments, allowing for half- luxury, for It takes only a inch turnings. They are: quarter of a yard of mate- Length 24ins, Width at top rial to give your oldum- 54ins, tapering to Bins, at brella a new look.

Enge,

Here are three original Cut the body part on the covers you can make to straight of material. Hem all match your favourite hat round to prevent fraying, with

a half-inch hem at the bottom. and gloves, or to give an a present at Christmas,

It is wine to cut a rough pattern from newspaper before shipping into the material.

These three umbrellas have the same body measure.

Tool care & household ideas

Sutch the two aldes together, leaving room at the top for a placket Press and tum inside out. Make A placket 4ins. deep, and press again.

The REGENCY cover looks best using contrasting colours, It is made from two pieces of the base Dins. material, with acrom, top 594ins, across, and height 4ing.

Tack and sew the two eldes and along the top on the wrong side of the material.

Tum inside out Tack and scw again. Lairly close to the edge. PressS,

Fit the umbrella cover body into the centre of the top, turn- ing under a half-inch hem.

Tack along and sew. Press. Cover, six small buttons with

material as the body,

If you want to do righ, und a

Here's a three- pictures-in-one illustrations of umbrella

in three CARES

avo no£ ==

make one or

yourself,

11

provided

you

have at least one umbrella i

HOMECRAFT

A COLOUR SCHEME

YOUR HOME

FOR

By ELEANOR ROSS

1

17HY is, it that so many come colour selection ·hád ́

W

of us are able to tackle been allowed, too many the problems of colour women wanted the job done schemes in our own ward- over after what appeared on robes, in accessories, and in the walls was quite different furnishings, with confidence from what they had seen in and ease, but seem to fold their mind's eye. For the up when it comes to select- sanie reason, another ing colour on walls.

housing project insists on an indifferent medium green. Of

aro

This must be the caso when we consider that most course both colours housca have rooms painted quite good in themselves, but there's no reason why In that sorry, nondescript

ivory or buff, often referred we should be timid about working out a nice colour to as "landlord tan."

acheme as the setting for furniture and accessories.

The manager of a large apartment house project |told us that this shade hud been maile mandatory in their property because when

Figured Draperica Often the colour of figured draperies, the upholstery or the rug will determine the best wall colour. And exposure is la taetor, too. The lighter the colour of the walls, and the smoother

the

Folding doors they will refect.

save space for closets

devices.

as

mcco light Thus white

walls will reflect the most light, with yellow next, the latter imparting more warmth, and so a good choice in a room with a dark or northern exposure," "1′′--

The dimensions of the room

to

Chiengo,

can also help to determine the Turn inside out and tack, then Tum inside out. Tack and MANY of the homes currently

suitable wall colour. Light machine again alose to edge, stitch fairly close to the edge 11 on display fenture folding Mako eight petals. PreMI,

and press

cloret doors SPACC raving greyed uints, off-green or blue Make a plont in the centre of

seen to add size to a room. cach petal to curl it up.

Cut a length of millinery wira

Red, cocoa, deep rose or cocoa about in. shorter than petal

The folding doom need no Place five petals, overlapping length from Up."

room to swing open and shut, brown tend to make a room by next year's garden, and sew three on to each edge along the top of body. "Tack Silck it on the inside of one designers cay, and have the seem smaller. Soft tints of cool

walis appea then start right now. Store of Inner flap. Fasten with stud. and sow. Half an inch below petal with sticky tape, making advantage of throwing open the colours make

these put the other three-side sure it reaches right into the entire doorway or closet entry recede. garden tools carefully, and

by sidor

point.

instead

merely half the put them away clean.

Tum base edges under and opening, as with silding doors.

Must Harmonise Bind the top and press, faston Weed forks,

Curl up now the petal on to the umbrella trowels, To make o PETAL TOP with hook and eye.

body.

Several types of doors, are Two walls done in a neutral shovels and flowerpols cover, cut 10 petul shapes the petals like a daffodill.

one of the abode, another wall papered and For the ARUM LILY COVE, form a curved petal.

back and up to demonstrated but Bend wire 3ins, base, 24ins, in

Fusten most popular is a new style a large mirror on the opposite cut two petals with base 41⁄2ins. -

made of narrow vertical slats of wall fo reficet the pattern of middle fins, and height 8ins with a pres stud.

Tack and sew, on wrong side For the best effect make this northern basswood woven to- the wallpaper can do wonders of material, round the curved cover, in plain, black grosgrain.gether with hard twine to form in a dimeult room, 242

a flak wood fabric. edges, about 4in in.

Petals on this

should be given an outdoor with

height.

scrubbing in a pall of hot, zoapy water at the end of the growing season. Metal surfaces will do better in

storage if given a rubbing with oil after their bath. Touls with handles should

be hung on convenient wall tool-clamps to keep theni out of reach of dampness.

Scrub. flowerpots clean, rinse, then let them drain. Pile neatly slacks. This way, they're ready for spring's gardening.

In

The garden hose should be cleaned and stored neatly, loose- ly arranged on special hooks or clamps.

Before Painting

Take two potis and machino curved sides fairly along the close to edge.

-(London Express Service)

TO TEMPT BREAKFAST

'is the time to breakfast

Noreform

skippers.

Enticing

SKIPPERS

་

tender. Chill. Top with whip- ped cream.

of

Whatever the choice, do not

Designers tay the tiny spaces plan to use more than three between the basswood sinis major colours-a light colour, a permit continuous closet ventils-bright colour and dark colour.

and..

guard? against

Really, thero oro no bad colours. The trick is to usa

Ion dampness.

The doors are available in them together harmoniously. natural wood, to be finished at One of the simplest methods of the installation, or a variety of choosing a wall

colours.

select a

colour

is to shade that contrasts with the floor covering this and the wall

in

COOLER

કર્મ multi-coloured

tio

striped

grern

warm pinkishbego rug. walls then a

#ibsp.~butier, blended together~~~~~Now-let'n-move-from-break-Fields predicts the end of wall- Tusly rose and green print” för"

rinse and

Lunch Box Cookies

modern pettings", and before another year has passed, most homemakers will choose rugs for decorditve value rather than

size.

*

piece, would bo

lilusion of Spaco

By ALICE DENHOFF.

New York.

drapery and an upholstery fabric. Rug manufacturer Edward Thur, a

dark the school lunch box to-wall carpeting in the home. laggards to unill crumbly. Bake at 375° F. fast to

30 minutes. Serve and a recipe for some delightful Fields saya full coverings no the draperies and at least one table is the work of the for about

upholstered "Back-to-School Cookies," made jonger aro "harmonious with harmonious end most attractive, warm or cold, If you're planning to do some homemaker, and she's usual-

with nourishing and extra good sprucing up in the house, say Ally glad to put a little more Raido Stuffed Clanamon raisins and molases, touch-up or full paint job for a roont or two, It's a good idea time and effort into the Apples might do nicely. first to coat doorknobs, hinge job. A right-from-the-oven For 8 servings, and locks with thick soapsuds. Breakfast Coffee Cake drain 34 c. rulzins and combine To prepare about 18 medium- If paint spinshes touch these might do the trick with its with c. chopped, unblanched sized goodies, rinse 1 c. seedless spots, they'll

when the disappear

almonds. Core and pare B 8 raisins, drain and chop. Cream done and you wipe welcome aroma and fine baking apples. Combine I c. together thoroughly 4 c. short- paint job

flavour. It's made with bis granulated sugar, 1 c. bolling ening and 1 packed c. brown the suds off with a damp cloth

Now Christmas tree ornaments Denim and corduroy are going cuit mix, so it goes together colouring and is rod cinna- 3 tbsp. water and 2 well beater double as safety gadgets.

water, few drops red food sugar. Add 1⁄2 c. light molassos, places

these days, not only quickly.

dress into

candles. Add apples and eggs, mixing thoroughly. Sift manufacturer is making small the moving

sifted C.

alt- glass fashions category, but into the

Coffee Cake

or more, until apples are tinted. purpose flour, tsp. each salt and led with red carbon tetra-cartainly shoud share a colour interior decorating field as well.

chloride. The ornament turns relationship. The celling colour Denim is charming used us a Top the batter

Remove apples from liquid,

into

an extinguisher if the tres in one room might correspond bed petticoat, cale curtains, cooked prunes, then sprinkle al centres with raisin-almond Add chopped walnuts catches fire. Heat sets off with the wall colour in on pillow covers or on an ottoman, with a crumbly

mixing well. fuse, and the manufacturer says Joining ream, or the colour of Carduroy looks lovely as a bed-mixture before slipping it into pouture and place in casserole, and the raisins,

cinnamon cooking ilquid Drop by spoonfuls on greased one ball contains enough field to the rug or a large upholstered spread, overdrape or tacked on the oven.

over all. Bake at 375 F. 43 cookie sheet. Bake at 350 F. put out a flash fire on six-foot piree could keynot min, to 1 hr. or until apples are 15 to 18 minutes.

The wall tree.-United Pretz.

colour in the next room.

ua

C.

..: mon

with moist,

brown sugar

C

a headboard. As for terrycloth,) Plt and cut Into halvos, B we've seen whole walls done large cooked prunes. Combine

biscuit mix, 15 with it, not to mention slip 24

granulated sugar and 3⁄41⁄2 tsp. covers, too.

cinnamon. Beat egg lightly These fabrics all do well 10 and odd 1⁄2 c. milk and 2 tbsp. rooms decorated for young folk, melted butter. Stir into dry and for extra rooms in any type] mixture, blending well. Turn of house. So consider, using into greased 8-th, square pan.- them when next there's a spot Arrange pruner over batter, of decorating to do or when and sprinkle with topping mande junior or sister wants a room | from ~ % c. (packed) brown done over,

sugar, c. biscuit mix and 2

The subtle fragrance that lingers

Knight's Castile

FROM THE SOLE AGENTS,

Complexion Soap

The Dairy Farmsal to f

VISISLISTE

cook over low heat for 10 mm. together 3

TIME

soda.

A nice way to create an illusion of space is to do one wall and the celling in 1. different colour. Three walls in bone white, and one wall and celling in blue lend Interest and add a feeling or green will One of spacioumers to a room

Rooms that open into one an- ball-shaped ornaments other need not be uniform, but

Philadelphia.

TO GET RID OF THOSE

FALSE MEDICAL NOTIONS

W ladder, sit 18 at the

By W. W. BAUER, M.D.

them harmful or at least need-

Another false belief is that

WILL you walk under a

table, or take the third light those things and act upon connection between the nervous there are certain food combina from a match? Many people them. They have put these system of the mother and that tions which are unwholesome. won't. Do you postpone a beliefs aside for the most part, of the child. A maternal im- This takes various forms. Here's new project rather than, but many still bellove in pression, so-called, is impossible one verzion: you must not begin it on Friday, or rutilemake oil for "rheumatics." shudder when a black cat Before we become too superior crosses your path? Lots of about such superstitions, it is people do. Can you pass a always wise to marshal our own pin on the floor without beliefs for scrutiny, picking it up, or step on the cracks in a sidewalk with out concern? There are some who carmot.

Presstal Shocks

mix cour fruits with milk at the Falso Bellofs

samo" "meal Out...the window the strawberries One of the old beliefs which The fallacy of this is exposed. and creami has made thisande miserable is by the knowledge that the that about "auto-intoxication", stomach is always,}/{ farin. (self-poisoning). This was a excoss of the sourness of any supposed state of ill-health due, food. to constipation, and the absorp

Parathi de idea; simply.

Among popular misconcepthe large Intestine. Some very foro an open window, have long tion of poisonous products from Deep breathing exercises, bow tions is that ocnoerning the sup- posed "markings of the unborn

have experiments Perhaps none of them is your thigh maternal impresiones, promoting health. Actually, if had a wonderful reputation for particular aparatitions at But We

the

overdone von bertato craved strawberries, and behold, oston produce all the mall onects of see pornibly some of the faim médical Idous : her child was born with joy of so-called- auto-intoxication, collapse. The

Or and the removal of the cotton ton, like other vital proc commonly believed, and not only, strawberry on the check

they can produce faintooss, and even

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by the femorant and the foolish. the orpectant mother frightened yow much more prompt roller - automedia.; ALAB

Probably you would laugh at by a spider and her child had than would be possible if the sobrepibing that is necessary

Idea that the lings,

called water products had to be be produced by "intenallying an ox, a mark to like the spider spored of by the tomus rally unorte of

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The biodripetler in auto-

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Swith the rewalk that true (fhose are

if celery, would be good for the doctor actually called it a tuberculosis; an Iden, based on spider nevum A physician onco the fact that the pr supposed vaaleanly desired a mother who to be a long-windedereture, had been mariled by unexpected

beur, tankwaging a strango, man un-- fun hale animal, should form a clothed, that her baby would baide surely be born without anything olevo on the fact is that there is no

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