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DRESS UP

FOR THE PARTY!

By Shirley Lowe

TTAVE you been invited to a fancy dress

H party or ball this Christmas! If you

have, it's odds-on you are going to need a mask.

The shop-bought variety is often either too expensive or too cheap-a dowdy strip of black paper. Shaped to flatter your face, a sequined or feathered mask can be the per- fect foil to a lovely woman.

These four masks are all variations of that drawn on the diagram below (a square equals one.inch), and are made from heavy- quality coloured cartridge paper.

Red sequins

The SEQUINED DEVIL mask is cut from black paper. The eyes are accentuated by outlining them with emerald sequins. Make bold eyebrows from sliver sequins, and cover the rest of the mask with red sequins.

The antennae are two lengths of wire stuck behind the mask above the eyebrows and bent forward. Two scraps of black material folded cornerwise are the horns.

Dot red cartridge paper with white sequins to make the SPOTTED mask. The lashes are two small lengths of eyelash fringing, stuck to the inner skle, and pro- truding through the eyeholes.

Finish the marks with a nar- row length of black elastic to fit your head.

The cat

To make the FETAL eye- lashes cut a circle just a little larger than a penny from con- trusting coloured

Cut paper. daisy-shaped petals around, then

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1953.

PRACTICAL

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SEQUINED DEVIL

SPOTTES MAKI

GIFT OF

FOR

New York.

PETAL MARK

GAT MARK

GLAMOUR MOTHER

By CAY PAULEY

the family," she raid. "But let the breakfast toast be burned, and boy, do you hear the gripes!

HOMECRAFT

CHRISTMAS COLOURING ADDS FESTIVE TOUCH TO FOOD

ED

New York. green, sugar '

By ELIZABETH TOOMEY

Rsprinkled on grapefruit day meals as a recipe that its

with red

Tiny

· red or silver ball candies can be used to represent berries

or lights, Set the wreaths in a

own side' ns the bowl cool place until the chocolate

can be tied with red first bows before serving.

is one simple way to carry takes hours to prepare. For fills, and the result is a gay hardons. As a final touch, they Christmas colours to the

instance, red and green green atid scarlet breakfast table.

soup can be turned out in a course. Tint granulated sugar. Jiffy to start off an informal

A good choice for holiday The children will get a candy recipes is pecans. They or green food evening supper. colouring to give it the Dilate and heat a tin of big kick out of making or are also good as meat extend-

enting crisp chocolate

ers and in baked goods, being holiday touch. Or open a green pea soup in one pan Christmas

rich in food value as well 09 wreaths. To taste appeal.

: tin of cranberry jelly and and a tin of tomato soup in make ten edible wreaths cut it into shaper bf tiny another pan. With one pan

three Inches in Here's a recipe for a fruit bella; stars or Christmas in each hund, pour the two about trees to decorate the grape- soups into the serving bowl diameter, use three-quarter fection tray you'll pass to guests.

at the same time, pouring pound semi-sweet chocolate 1 lb. nuta

fruit.

and nut paste to add, to the con-

1 lb. g

1 lb. dates

1 cup clear-com syrup Julee of one orange Grind nuts (either pecans, al-

Sometimes these

ensy- one soup from one side of bits and 84 cups of ready

to-cat cereal flakes. Melt one from the to-do tricks give as much the bowl and

the chocolate over hol, but of a festive touch to holi- other. Each soup stays on

not boiling, water and stir in the cereal, flaken. When monds or walnuts), ags and the cercal is well content dates. Mix with syrup and or- place spoonfuls of the mix- unge julee. Knead until well ture on waxed paper and mixed. Shape into small pieces, form into wreaths with two place nut or candled cherry on

roll in granulated sugar, forks.

FOR THE HOLIDAY PUNCH BOWL

FOLIDAY parties are in tree balls in the green for a

ture,

to

a

picture.

Something Different

top.

WHAT ABOUT SANTA CLAUS?

By GARRY C. MYERS, Ph.D.

older

and

children,

comes the punch bowl, filled classes of punch. to the brim with a spark- ling holiday punch that be-

Hola Nog is something dif- lies its easy preparation ferent and smooth. To serve 12 and moderate cost. In the people

generously, chill 12 freezing trays of the re- unopened bottles of kola in the frigerator are ice cubes of refrigerator, Pour contents of 4 carbonated beverages. These of refrigerator and trocze quick-

chilled

bottles into a freezer pan do not freeze quite as hardy until mushy. Whip che pin AROUND this time of several years of joyous ar year many parents are pertences. Besides, it would as plain water, but take less heavy cream until frothy, mix puzzled over the matter of make Christmas-time rather

with c. sugar. Scrape out time to freeze and as they wish to a punch bowl Santa Claus. They wonder drab for his parents, older Blowly melt, they twinkle and bubble in best holiday pour cream over the frozen mix- whether it is good for the brothers, sisters and play-

Live, then

pour in the ranain- child to be encouraged to mates as well. fashion, keeping the punch ing

bottles of chilled kola lively and cold to the last beverage. Slightly to mix believe in this myth. Teach-

Consider the fun the older ers in the early grades are child who "knows" has at keep- drop. Carbonated ice that sprinkle with tsp. cinnamon, can be shaved or cracked in and spoon mixture into punch also puzzled. While they ing the younger one from being irregular pieces

prefer to answer the child disillusioned unduly carly. Of is also classes.

he course, some questions For a delectable punch, enough frankly on readily made by freezing the chilled beverage in

place, may ask about Santa Claus, awaking to realities about Santa Derve 12 generously,

in refrigerator unopened,

to they are aware that parents Claus, like to impress younger freezing tray.

chi 3 large bonics. raspberry may be offended were children with superiority. Yet sod, one large or 3 small bottles

teachers to disillusion. him. In a family of happy... under- lemon-lime soda and one large

and relationslijps, bottle cream soda. Pour contents Some teachers get around stonding starts off with 3 large botlles soda into a freeing tray of the to the child that he direct school child continue

of one quart bottle of raspberry this problem by suggesting these older children enjoy

operating at helping the pre- "Some of us so-called experts ginger ale and 3 large or 3 small refrigerator, and freeze quickly these questions to his par- delight in Santa Claus, Mrs Clara Snyder, a pep pery little woman who's

cf iemon-lime

soda until hard. Mrs Snyder, consumer service just confuse the ecoke," she said. bottles

Take dieting. One day the

ents. But, as teachers and been dealing with home-

In the ice box for National

popped

Candid Answer Pour one bottle of When ready to serve, broak parents are slowly coming makers and their problems Association of Margarine Manu- woman is told if she wants to chilling..

with lose weight she should cat any chilled ginger ele and Cre of the frozen raspberry soda into to the belief that Santa When each of our own child- fairly beams for 20 years, explained that facturers,

food she want but less of it.

lemon ilme into separate ice small pieces, then place in punch Claus belongs

disillusioned, around to the pre- ren grew the work of the housewife her own love of housework.

Next day she's advised to go on

Pour in the remaining bowl "There's nothing lovelier than

cube trays. Place a green, or is just as full of glamour as

asked whether we should "tell" fresh

vegetables," she A low fat, high protein diet. red cherry or a chunky little bottles of chilled beverages, and school age, this problem is the age of six or seven, he was Kreen

And the

something next day,

lightly. Drop "And did you ever see that of any other job.

the next younger child. “Oh, heaping waning to a large extent. cube and teaspoonfuls from one pint of orange slice in each

no!" always came the re- "And, preparing three meals a anything glisten like cako

vanilla ice cream over the sur- Santa Claus fits into the sponse with strong feeling. day calls for as much creative- balter?"

Not that Mrs Snyder is oppos-treeze as quickly as possible.

3 sprinkle if she were painting a Mrs

tbsp normal imagination of the And the older ones continued to When ready to serve, put the face, and Snyder would start the ed to science dabbing in food, To clean a plastic shower ness as

chopped -maraschino curtain, spread it flat on a picture," Mrs Snyder continued, glamourising by changing the "The nutrition field is an ever frozen carbonated beverage cubes over the ice cream. Place the young child. Around Old hang up their stockings with the younger and to act out tho "If a woman considers house- attitude of husbands and expanding one, and rightfully in a punch bowl and pour in punch bowl en a bed of holly Saint Nick he builds a happy myth in various other ways as smooth surface and sponge with: mild. suds_and_water. Rinse work dull, it isn't her fault children.

o," she continued. "But I lose the remaining chilled beverages, leaves, to complete a pretty world. To rob him of his long as he liked it. with clear water and hang up Everyone frem. the husband and Let Mun turn out a tasty patience with those who try to Place the punch bowl on a bed picture.

belief in Santa Claus would again to dry. Pressing not kids to the nation's manufac- meal and 'it's gobbled up with- make us conform

is

ALICE DENHOFF be to take away from him necessary.

turers is to blame.

singia compliment from pattern of eating.” out a

cut the circle in two. Stick the petals on the wrong side of the mask, push through, and curl up. Decorate which gay rib-

bong

For the CAT mask, use two curly feathers sewn down

by

the bridge of the nose. Draw features with black paint.

:

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To Start With

Christmas Cheer (for

12)

to a

Higld

of Christmas greens, and tuck glittery gold or silver Christmas

mix

cherries

YES, THERE'S LIFE IN THE

OLD KETTLE YET

By H. C. PIGGIN

DAMAGE to kitchen

saucepans,

The handle which is parling

from the Gaucepan ware," as company

is sunily Alxed with rivets, kettles, jugs, which ore hammered or squeezed and so on are called, usually so as to give a "head" on each takes three forms: loose or side.. entirely detached handles, Examine each rivet carefully. dents, and leaks.

If it protrudes well through the work and is reasonably tight Leaks in iran utensils may be in its hole, it will probably be repaired, usually, by soldering, good enough to tighten it by u

if the hole is few taps from the banner. using a patch Large. But soldering is not a If the rivets aro slack in the practical proposition for holes or too short for hammer- aluminium kitchenware, and we ing then they must be punched ́ must use the screw-type out and

replaced either by "potmendor."

small nuts and bolts or by new rivets.

To make a decent job of

You know the kind of thing riveting-up requires a little ex-

metal

with two Abro, washers Bond be a good Bt in the hole, and the It's so easy... if you know how. wiched between dos of each e shank should not protrude tog

Patie

I expect-two

washers pert knack. The rivet should

The holding scrow a the

placed on each side of the hole.

usually leave about one

co-

with his

But as soon as each child wanted to know if Santa Claus were a real person, ww.clways answered candidlý, “No, - wo have just been pretending that he is," and then we kept on pretending as long as the young Inquirer wished.

On *sk-

We observed no evidence of thock in any

of our children when diallusioned. ing each child come years later of his experiences, none in- dicated that he felt we had de ceived him. Many years before these children had families of their own, they, said they were going to have Santa Claus for tho their children. And all twelve young grandchildren have experienced Santa Claus as their parents had.

Outgrowing Santa

A good way to help the young child gradually to outgrow Santa Claus is to have a few presents for him under the Christmas tres Ebolled as from real person along with those marked "From Santa Claus."

We help preparo the young child to get his greatest "Joy" from Santa Claus is wẹ read i great deal to him from folk lore and from other sources that firs his imagination, as we enjoy his yarns of fautery and appre- cinto his creations with words and things.

passed through the lot, and and a half Unes : the shank If You Are Packing For

eightened, so that the then is diameter, 1.0, with a Min. shank #queezed tight around the hole, about 3-ida. should be loft

the leak is effectively

In this way, the plugged,

You have to enlarge the original leak into a hole big anough to allow the bolding screw of the “mender" to pass through, of COLLISE.

sticking up. The rest may be back-sawed. or fled away."

A Holiday Trip

Place the machined - hend of you are packing for, a cham cnyway. They, conserva

'scents,

When going places, - holiday trip, here are a

carry only a small quanilly:

of the rivet on the inside of fow reminders.

perfume in the atomizer. Also, nky to remove, the

supporti

You won't be yourself with you can wisp it in your aplon of iron out your favourite fragrant lingerie. If a few bogated drops tag them gently fimm firmly

hammer, held liquids. So take long perfume, leaic but, they'll give slips and

but pack it carefully. Demre such a delightful fragrance.)

way to spilling.

mallet the correct tool in the vices

Los tale-Job, but you to KADANOS HB. Airway SPESADE flat sido the stoppor in tight in the tourtovi Thờr M, KTMAS ORAY

with the hall and of an

of the rivaling barumer directly of the perfume bottle. If you ginger's Hammer. One it are doubftat bout that litle bo pode

avoid pushing the

Ask out the rivot, staank, so as to expand

Smushroom,"

the bottl

* MEDIA When I ħda tightened to the melt.

To prevent, such a mishap, rest work shape the carriers of the the tented porlar, of the works maropa so as to round.

on the bench, or block of

wood, and rock it gently to and off into a heat head.

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