1954-01-30 — Page 12

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1954...

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

It's Easy To Make If You're Giving

Slipper Socks!

By

Shirley Lowe

TJERE is the easy-to-make

H

answer to winter's cold feet-warm, woollen slipper socks. They are practical for wearing round the house, and go well with slacks,

The diagram below is de signed for size four feet, Mo nke any alteration neces sary for your own size The centre buck (CB) of the paltern.

Cut four pieces from pattern, and allow 3-inch

seums all round.

the

Follow this pattern

square equals une

You will need 18 yard of arrow Jersey wool, 54 inches wide; grain.

cach tneh

marks the straight

yards carpet binding. Now here are the

A Party..

first

By HAZEL EVANS

London. dinnor-party 18 THE

creeping back into the social calendar for the time since before the Now that food is plentiful, the hostess become more enterprising. And dining out with friends can become an event to re- member.

war.

more

can

Organising a party of this kind fake skills, if you are out of practice, devote your efforts to che course, anch let the other two take eme of themselves

into small pieces, and added at the last minute. This practice makes the Italians furious--they ever break up their pasta but use Alphabelo, tiny letters of the alphabet, which are best if you can get hold of pome,

You can forget the sweet course and offer instead a platter cheeses, Chedder, Danish Blue, a milder variety such nx vod u creami cheese Gruyere make an admirable selection.

Wine

Forved with

meni air that the dish cannot

provide n festive

A

most complicat

etc.

All

give. Goach wine 18 not nevessally expensive: Portugal, Algeria and Yugoslavia export cheap wines. From also come innumerable cheap

cap wines like vins roses, vins ordinaires (dry),

Italian Chianti con be very expensive,

but

there

here are some good neur-relatives, complete with their fuscinating straw It shows more inillu- tive, and is cheaper into the bargain, to serve wines like this: rather than sherry,

Solve the soy problem y buying clear soupmix (1 bove found the Swiss ones the best) sewing and give your own signature by ariding some species of Italian very vermineell, broken 1 Cut the carpet binding part (the can family). Try holders.

1 inches wide, to match; lirections:→

1 pair of soles for attaching

1 uppers; 2 skeins of soft embroidery thred in a con- into two equal pieces trasting colour, and a recl of und fold each in half length- colton.

HOW IT'S DONE Make your pattern from

dingram, with 01 pare requalling 1 inch. An

WM WM ig

wise.

2

Sew the foll of the hinding to the soles. starting at the inside of such foot. 3 Place

two jersey

-

tions right sides to gether and machine slitch back down the Front And BONIMES. Press The

seams

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4

Turn the sock

right

side

nut and Lop stitch

5 Inch

on either side of the seem lines.

Turn down

raw the top Chetuck to the wrong

the arul stitch.

Fold in 24 inches msitie

at the

Rock, and slipstitch lightly position. Press.

Lop

to the

ut tis

Ti

Fold down the top of the Suck 10

a cuff 1 form inches wide.

7

&

Insert the lower row edge

of the sock between the edges of the binding and back- strich in position.

Repeat this with the maining sock sections.

DECORATE IT............

Jewelled

Sweaters

Need Careful

Laundry

New York.

Don't choose anything for the main course that requires lots

★ CLEAN-CUT MODERN ★

TODAY'S RANCH HOUSE is simply designed. Wood siding and brick veneer are used for the long, low exterior. The overhang is slotted so that sunlight streams through, making an interesting design. In front

of the breezeway, there's a decorative trellis for privacy.

By Joan O'Sullivan

of sauces and, therefore sauce-IMPLICITY seems to be pans. Roast chicken and bread sauce, plus caullBower and while

sauce makes for chaos in the young homemakers, kitchen.

Serve stewing steak for charige-It streiches

to

by and today's house is designed It's clean- obligingly along this line.

extra cut and modem, as you can

the style favoured

Present it in the form see.

accommodate thaso

guests.

of Curry or goulash-or as a good plain stow on a

large

The long, low dwelling

platter to make it look exolle attractively combines wood

ment siding and brick veneer.

TEWELLED sweaters, top (1 tre an old-fashioth piped Slits in the front roof over-

quire extra care in laundry,

it

that'

have been

potato swirls

haug draw in sunlight and crisped in the oven. Laundry expert say that be- For something different, buy provide an unusual design.

with an elderly duck cand simuner fire

decorated

of sweaters

A trellis in front

the and for eight hours in cider with breezeway makes this aren pacis, Thinesiones, bearts

fucked and a lemon metallic threads are dunked in orange

Then serve it with pretty and private. sud, all tletachable parts should inside it.

Button be removed.

cardigans orange sauce. It sounds rather umpalatable but just you try i!!! stretching, to keep them from If the swenter has a wide neck- ine not trimmed with a ribbon binding or piping. run a basting thread around the neck to hold the shape.

Squeeze sucts. through the

- Jewelled sections first, and to prevent snuga keep the jewelled part from resting on the rest of the sweater. Once the jewelled section is washed, squeeze the rest of the ouds through the garment,

Price Only HK$930.00 10 Using the soft embroidery thread and a cross-stitch, embroider round the centre of of the and the top the cuffs carpet binding, having crosses approximately apart.

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seams,

Use lukewarm waler for woollens. the washing and rinsing

little 4inch Orion can stand water a

from the 10c and having crosses inch apart.

hotter. After rinsing, roll the swcotor in a turkish towel to

Comeback for Modern Furniture

Chicago.

AMBRICAN

are

home-

Inside the front entry, there's a charming little re- coption hall with a floor in- laid in stone or Lilo, as you prefer. This leads to both kitchen and living areas, Nearby is a separate nook where heating facilities are located.

Bedrooms are at one side

with of the house.

the living-dining room across

the back. Notice how the

going modern there's again in choosing furniture. bookcases.

That is the view of furniture

industry officials preparing for In the centre hall the semi-annual furniture mar- the bedrooms is a large all

THE FIREPLACE IS CENTRED, to serve both the living and dining areas. Note, too, the attractive-built-in bookcases near it. Inlaid stone or tile may be used on the floor in front of the fireplace.

fireplace in the latter serves cabinets, counters and ap- both areas. The fireplace it pliances needed to make makers, with an eye on self might be of either tile work easier. Laundry equip Woollen quality rather than price or stone, and at one side, ment is at the front of the Embroider over the front remove excess water.

storting 2 inches up sweaters need blocking but orlon tags,

#_wik} of built-in room under translucent the

can

be spread on a towel to dry

windows. A wardrobe closet without blocking.

both entry and near serves

kitchen and a storage closet is handy for household equipment. There's a side service exit from the laun- dry to the breezeway.

Even the garage is well- planned

а with storage area at one end.

The house comprises

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furniture

These officials BÜ3* modern purpose closet and a linen expected to be unit. Each of the bedrooms slightly more in demand than it is equipped with a

ward. has been for two years, At robe, and there's an extra least, a little more modern will linen closet in the bath-

be displayed by the hibitors at the show.

1,250

Ex-

room.

Prices are expected to remain The L-shaped kitchen-

the tome as last year. But in- dustry officials

con-laundry is filled with all the 10,818 cubic feet. the Bay

sumers don't appear to be no concerned about prices, us they are about design and quality, regardless of price.

FAR EAST INFLUENCE

Oficials are preparing to meet this buying trend with a variety of new merchandise, patterns and designs--which they expoct to be the chief solling point of this year's output.

Some modern furniture will| show a little of the Far Eastern

BEDROOM

BATH LIVING

1-XI-4

DINING

GARAGE

BEDROOM

HALL

FALLEY

BEDROOM

THERE'S EFFICIENT ARRANGEMENT in this floor plan. Sleeping quarters are at one alde of the house, working areas on the other.

ENJOYMENT OF YOUR CHILDREN

GROWS WITH THEIR

ANY

Mheir child from the

parents enjoy ·

Influence with black and white very time he is born, and

lacquered surfaces.

this

By: Garry C. Myers, Ph.D.

are. more of them.

PROGRESS

ing art planning together for the best guidance of this little child, and from

this they can These parents write gain still more enjoyments. Two streams of thought seem find atill richer enjoyment ploring things; and, grad- chixiren.

down some of the yarns he spins These parents gain enjoyment - ho

in traditional farmi- as more children arrive and ually, his ghow of thinking, out of his little head, encourag from encouraging this child to provall fure. One is an emphasis on grow up together.

imagining and creating-

ing him to create more and do for himself what he is able alimplicity. The second is the Tending, bathing, dressing how enjoyable they

to do, to amuse himself and concentration on more-decorative

find fun with other children. Winning Co-operation doesn't the tiny infant and tucking Before long, he is sitting, pieces. However,

Later, the whole family can mean a

of the bizarre him in for sleep can bring reaching, creeping, walking,

such Of course, these parents face experience

enjoyment ornateness of the "borax cra," in out the tenderest feelings in talking-all these signs of

amazing problems in winning this child around the dinner table, dise- the inother. This is also true development are the early part of the century.

to fascinating The flashy colours and bizarre for the father, as he and

his to do what they want him to do, where about the home, talking

and in keeping him from doing and laughing together,

playing woed combinations of that ern gently holds the baby

oc- parents.

what they don't want him to do games together, having visiting are fading.

It's wonderful for then winning his co-operation. children in the home at times, American tastes now run to casionally, and looks at him,

problems are going places togather, building tallored stylings trend many until he gradually learns to father to learn to change But these very officials say is the result of the help in the little creature's the baby, dress him, feed challenges to his parents think- love and happiness that enduro. Influence of the sets used in care.. movies and television.

FRENCH STYLIS

Child's Development

With more and more

him, bathe him, especially after the baby is one or two years old.

Bedne to

HOUSEHOLD

HINTS

There still la a demand, how-

The parents' enjoyment of the ever, for the Trench styles such pleasure, the father and child can grow richer and richer as Louis XIV and Louis XVI. mother observe this little as this small parton begins to

Whites of eggs não calor Use borax and cold water to There along with Hepplewhite child's development his in put blocks and other things to and. Biedermeier, are expected crusse in size and weight, other with a punto separate from the yolks when remove; chocolate and cocoa

scribble and draw, as

the eggs are cold; egg whites stalbs, to be the outstanding types of traditional furniture at the show the new movements and he talks about the things he

Television, manufacturers plan sounds he learns to make, doos and make gustations he whip to a greater volume if they dre at room temperature when the mod and especially when he be explores

nformation about the big beatened deta trand, in faut, som de astana grins to smile,"

world

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When

washing woollens, keep the rinse water the same temperature - as the waih-whter. A change from with No cold wates emrinkar, brdöllens,

By adding a míail amount of

when

Ilbane,"

for measure, as a substitute for fabrics will recover.. mugas id baked apples, puddings, "originál ezlipiness and fitting custards and pie fillings. Tot weave.