1954-01-23 — Page 12

Don't take chances

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1954.

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troubles

By Shirley Lowe

NY woman who packa

A bottles

of make-up.

boxes of powder, or phinis

of perfume loose in

suitcase, is asking

trouble.

her

for

The foundation cream will keak over her favourite

clothes, the perfume will drip slowly away, and the powder will spray out over the only black ting in the sultense.

Travelling bags can be costly. but here is a bag you can make yourself very cheaply.

You will need half a yard of taffeta, 36ins, wide; one-third of a yard of plastic. 36ins, wide: me-third of yard of stif ranvas. 36ins, wide; one and a half yards of piping curd, and one zip fastener 201ns, long.

Make your pattern from the

Work to this diagram

(one

dingrom

square equals lin.), with the solid spota mark- ing the edge to be placed to the fold of the fabric.

Six pieces

Now here are the cutting directions allow half - luch scums all round for each pal- tern plece.

BAG-Cut six

pleces from

the pattern (two in taffeta, two in plastic, two in canvas),

GUSSET.—Cut

30ing. x 4ins.

three

pleves (one in taffeta,

olle

one in plastic, one in canvas).

POCKET.-Cut

piere 41⁄2ing. x 12ins, from plastic

Care For

BANDS

FOR

BOTTLES.—

• Hero's just the thing for trouble-free travel. It's cheap, and you can make it in an evening.

gusset ut the centre of the Cut two pieces 141⁄2 in. x lin. straight edge of the bag. Baste. from plastic.

6

Unzip the zip and machine stitch the gusset in position.

HANDLES.—Cut- two plecey 27ins, xins, from tafletă. Cut piping cord in half,

And here Bro the sowing directions (half-inch seams have been allowed),

At the centre 1 At

of the canvas gustel cut dut a rectangle 20ins, by in. Down the centre of the taffeta gusset cut a slit, 2011.

long, cutting diagonally at each end. 2

Place the convos gusset to the wrong side of the taffeta gusset. raw edges of taffeta over canvas and press."

4

Two pockets

of

Turn in one long edge of the plastic pocket and stitch. & Place the wrong side of the

pocket to the right side one plastic bag section, having the straight raw edge of the pocket to the straight edge of

o the bak. Stitch In position. Stitch down the centre of the pocket in form two pockets, 9 Fold the plastic

half lengthwise, Stitch raw edges together. 110-itch

the

CONTROL AND AFFECTION AID PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP

SOME

By GARRY C. MYERS, Ph.D..

NOME méthere write me inclsively with more anger back

pouring out their resistance from the youngster.

of it, bringing more anger and morse over falling to love an only child or a particular child of a group of several children.

The mother needs to cultivata positive res

wes to this child They may not have and ways of Aking up the best wanted this child in the first with the deck cleared of the

in him, celebrating

his successes. place or had dreamed of a wasal vexations, she

can and

our efforts to be less often and less strongly angry at the school-age child when

we are helping him with his lessons or with learning to do something about the home While WR may, with great effort, hold in check our words and volce, we can't get far as long as we have pentup emotions Inkide

the

child very different from the more occasions to enjoy listening one he is of a boy instead to what he says and does, an- It we enn understand of a girl or vice versa, of a awering his questions and enjoy. child better, and imagine our-

ing girl with wavy, fluffy hair him.

selves in his place, seeing a little Even then, how is she going as he sees, understanding and instead of straight coarse to make herself feel affection for fooling as he does, we can be hair.

him? She can't do it merely by more

bowling with han. We resolving to have more of suich reduce cur angers at him and Or more often the reason la feeling. But she can practise at increase our affection for him as That the child so often vexes doing and saying what will make we practise in the mother, and causes her to him rel more

ways to reduce loving toward his angers toward us and in- sherick often at, him, rarely her, and in turn, bring out more crease his affection for us. Of speaking and feeling loving to loving words, tones and feel course, we can't do this over- word him.

ings of affection from her.

night. It's a long patient uphili The same principio applies in pull.

One mother wrote, for in- stance, that every night when she puts her three-year-old to bed and peeps in on him asleep alittic later, she resolves that the will always be loving to him from then on. and never again will shriek at him and feel vexed at him.

Tasty Hollanders' Apple Pancakes

The next morning the young- stor is barely up before he's an- noying her no end, and she's shouting at him in ugly tones and words. Then as she pauses during the day to reflect, she's overwhelmed again with re-166

morac,

"R

This mother hardly enjoys any many

By Ida Bailey Allen

EGARDEZ the big le yeast to make it light, and Ho proceed with less beating. I un- apple pancakes

derstand this method is used customers are or here. Shall we feature

apple

progress by making new resolves dering for luncheon, pancake in our dinner?"

and then condemning hereseif on fallure to carry them out.

Madame!"

Her first problem is to plan or "With a cup of coffee, one effective programme of control pancake would be enough to by which he will learn, without make a light meal for doubt, that there are a few do-

it."

two

inlie things he must not do, so persona, Chef. Let's order that a quiet Na, uttered once, will suffice to restrain him when in that is necessary.

the

the

1

"But frst I would like to try the hors d'oeuvres, They may be just what our readers would

with a

is

3 Place the zip to the centre of the wrong side of the gusset

ends of one and machine stitch in position.

band to each raw edge on Place a canvas bag section to the right side of the other the wrong side of the taffeta

11⁄2n, up plastic bag section Basic. bag

acction.

forbidding Repeat from the straight edge. Stitch finality.

the band down in Iwo places to repeated, each time a bit more with other bag section.

of the

form three loops. 5 Join the short ends

gusset and place the

Kusset 11 Stitch to the bag sections, right sides together, having the seam of the

Cleaning Equipment

By ELEANOR ROSS

Y dirty equipment. haphazard job on taking

can't clean with to go over cleaning equipment, discarding worn-out brushes and dust cloths, dry and oil mops, brooms, sponges and chamois,

Yet most of

UA

do a

care of housecleaning tools, when a

short period aet uside periodically would make things casier all around,

The housecleaning job goes quicker and bolter with good equipment properly kept. Now is the time, as we get the house ready for the big season ahead,

New 1954! model

setting the best possible replace-

ments, and treating items re- tained to a good cleaning.

For Greater Durability

Accumulations of dirt, dust, lint and hair, polish or wax cut down the usefulness and durabil- by of brushes.

Hair and at that gather in carpet sweepers or brushes may be easily removed with an old comb, a buttonhook or a pair of scissors.

The life of personal cleaning brushes. such as hair and clothes-brushes, can be prolonged | by pccasionally washing them in warm

well, soapruds, rinsing then letting dry. A good washing purpose in lukewarm water with a litte household ammonia added. water

solution for this

the other plastic band In the same way, tin. above the first.

12 Stitch the plastic gusBot Household hints inch sections of seasoned

Dinner

Holland Hors d'Ocuvres Brolled Chicken Breasts Parslled Potatoes Cauliflower Hollandaise Big Apple Pancake

Coffee

Heat 1 c. milk until topid; Then she won't feel occasion

add 4 tbsp. active dry yeast to shrick at him repeatedly. As like to serve for a change."

softened 3 min. In 1 thip, water, you know, when a youngster has

The hors d'oeuvres came on I tbsp. sugar, 1⁄2 tsp. salt and icarmed to Accept

and big silver platter. In the 1/3 e, sifted flour; cover, посеклигу forbidding

tomatoes let stand in a warm halved

placo 20 centre were topped with

bubbles form. minced potato- min., or unt!!

the Then add c. flour and herring salad. Around this were halved stuffed

an- beaten yolks of 6 eggs. Beat eggs with chovy Alliets

lets tucked under the the whiles stiff and fold in. stuffing, and one-and-a-halt-

cumber topped with a curl

These smoked salmon. ringed with small balls of liver- When washing corduroy, never

onion pate; crescent sections of triction, rub or crumple it invo

avocado stuffed with tuna hand. your

Sections of

the salad; celery sticks stuffed with garment which are especially Roquefort cheese, and water solled, such as cuffs and collar, should be gently gone over with soft brush dipped in WAITH soapsuds, before immersing the whole garment In soapsuds. 15 Fold one taffeta handle in Don't scrub too hard, however, half lengthwise, right sides as it will damage the pile of together. Stitch a sufficient dls | corduroy. tance from the fold for the cord to be inserted. Turn the taffeta

to the plastic bag sections. 13 Blit down the centre of the gusret the length of the zip and in, wide, 14 Place the wrong side of the plastic to the CRAYAS and slip-stitch the plastic in position right round the bag,

The handles

paste.

cress.

Next, melt 1/3 c. butter in a

to of frying pan; turn coat the were bottom and sides. Do not let the butler brown. Remove from the heat; dust in 1 tbsp. 8 sugar and 1⁄2 tsp. Four in 3 large tbsp. tilt the pan_to

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spread up on the sides. Cook 1 min. at low heat. Have

peeled,

ready cored, medium-sized tort

apples sliced paper-thin; cover look like the pancakes with them. Spoon

batter,

And

"These pancakes huga mushrooms turned upside over 4 large tbsp. down, Chef. Just ail the again tilt the pan to spread fragrance of the cinnamon and When golden brown, Hip over sugar browned in butter. What with a wide pancake turner to brown the other aide. Dust with a grand dessert!"

I extra tbsp granulated sugar and 1⁄2 tsp. cinnamon. Serve with butter, and maple BYTUP, honey, and lemon wedges.

16 Slip-stitch handles to the add a little powdered slum and thought

right side out and pull the cord papering is made by mixing flour A homemade paste for wall-

Tho Chef taste-tested reflec- through handle, Finish ends off and water to a thin smooth tively, and announced: neatly.

Heat until boiling, then

"There aro two

schools of on making these Europenn

Apple

pancakes, Trick From The Chof Madame. The Central Europeans use plenty of eggs and beat like Add a chopped hard-cooked mad to make the pancakes light egg. 1 minced scallion and and puffy. The Hollanders start few crushed caraway seeds with a sponge made with a plain tossed mixed salad,

gusset,

at the foot of the boil until mixture is the right

thickness. bag on either side of the zip.

loop 17 Work a buttonhole

over each handle, Gins. up from the fool of the bag, to hold in position.

Greater

Always open the door to the oven first, before turning on gas to light oven burners,

Response

to Pain Stimuli

Doesn't Mean Lack of

Pations,

AIN

one of its IB often A what sends the patient to

ELEC Refrigerators Fully Automatic Control hair and clothes, it is best to tions closely allied to pain are

BOITIE

By W. W. Bauer, M.D.

Courage

2

to

medical students senstig sensitivity to pain,

and respond with pain signals.

Pain varies in intensity no- cording to where the stimulus is likely to injure the backs of some brushes made for the doctor for relief. Bensa simulate the muscles to action, "stomach-ache." The stomach is where there is plenty of rooms occurs. It is least in looss tissues carried along other an organ which is rarely merely immerse the bristles in include itching, discomfort, specialised nerve routes. These actual source of pain.

the for swelling; intense in hard the cleaning water, wousing them numbness or other abnormale of the larger nerve trunks was much more prevalent than

tissues like bone. Varlous body pathways may be combined In back and forth, or else rub the feelings. Since pain demands outside the brain and spinal it is

In the days when pneumonia area

on the number of сп petrolatum

relief, it

today la a beneficial cord, but within the central were warned that

nerve endings present. pain is often The extremes are thing. If pain were

the Anger more nervous system they pursue referred from the lung to the nails, which have no nerves (but. common in early cancer, for separate ways. This explains abdomen, with possibilities of the nail-beds have plenty!), and example, the percentage of why there can be paralysis with confusing pneumonia and ap the finger tips or the sex organs, patients seeking relief, while out disturbed sensation or vice pendicitis. Gall bladder disease which are richly supplied with

is sometimes accompanied with nerves. there was still a chance of

shoulder. pain felt in the vicinity of the cure, would be markedly in

backs with a to Jolly.

Brooms and Mops

it comes When

to brooms, these can be washed out in hot sude, but care must be taken to avoid lotting water rust the wires that hold the straws to

gother. Ordinarily, dipping the broom in water once a week will keep it clean, and make it lowt) Jonger.

creased,

vorta.

NOT ALWAYS LOCAL

Pain varies also in different individuals; some are more sen- altive, others less so. Greater response to pain stimuli is not a

courage:

Pain can be elusivo and de ceptlye. - Doctors leams to keep constantly in mind what i D WHAT IS PAIN known as referred pain, which

originales. in one place but is Pain is due to different reproach to the Individual; It Pain is a seration conveyed felt somewhere else. The pain varieties of stimulation, depend- does not indicate lack of If you treat the house to new herves those which transmit in the lower right areas of the Intestines, for example, are

to the brain through the sensory of the appendicitis is not always ing on where it occurs. The it is a physiological difference dust mops, you'll find that these

not beyond feeling, Nerve RTS

the control of the when cut, but they person. are highly dit abdomen,

Aside out the dirt with a whink broom sensations,

from

Animals * appear to at being stretched (as by respond, less sensitively to poin the prote after each use, Mops which

reaching brain by extremely rare

with or being handled (as in than do human beings. San... › OFKLIN the same nerve pathwayar have been

whom reversed,

Burgory}<! Prossure big washack

Jakie cold have their own route, dim on the left, and rined in clear water and quickly reasure sensations of the feel. Biructures reversed, it is not un sharp Instrument is not painful got rid of that. Pain-killing dried. After such washing dry mops may be oiled by sprinkling Ing of texture go another way. common to have pain on the left until later Swelling of tissues drugs have ligitimate use under a few drops of light lubricating Muscle sonsations, by which you side of the abdomen from ⚫dus to Infections oil or my good-flour oil on the know what your, hands or "feel" right-sided appendix, "The usual pain, Tissuolo Ver Friss to moderig direction. But it in and ok katumple seling

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a "rollave? headache into a dish or part koto, which a them, have will other pathways, "pis" of the stomach and is often hearing resorptive respecting / out spiking a cause which ma litle of has been dropped,, phi And, the motor impulses, which misiskan by the Victim - for 4 ip: 60 OMORRāvs: Light be, sound, possibly, but seriour, 22