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PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

Artistic Floral

Arrangement

By ELEANOR ROSS

LOWERS should never glass container

aquarium.

FLOW

be haphazardly arranged but should be properly dis- played with thought and

rare.

Plan the assortment and select the container accord. ing to the background. The arrangement will depend on whether it in to stand against a wall or be viewed from all sides.

Are

compositions The trest those which are arifully simple, than ing few flowers rather

Over-elaboration should be avoided here, all other effects.

Tura many

na in

Consides the natural qualities

of the

03.

an

Buch

Stem enda must be properly weighted to hold the flowerS under water. Fastening the stems together and wrapping with a strip of lend 18 one method. Needle holders do the job, too. Whatever is used must be well concealed with follage or blos- coms.

Salad From

Spain

flower and emphaseT

them. Irregularity of stems and follage will add churacter. Bal- ence the arrangement as

to

weight and container. Develop three points of interest. Mass colourw. Scattered colours not, as a rule, interesting.

Odd Numbers Best

are

סימות הi

Use uneven numbers of blos- x119. Five Ur Reven Interesting than four or

six.

RY this Spanish salad

for two:—

Two large cooking apples; 1 medium-sized cooked beet- root; 2 tomatoes; yolks of 2 hard-boiled eggs; oil, vinegar, icmon Juice, chopped parsley, salt, pepper.

Make a neat out round the top of each appie. Remove the core and as much of the apple as possible without damaging the skin. Cut the apple puip. the beetroot, and tomatoes into

Add the small cubes.

ፍርድ።

Let dark colours serve as (1) accent, carrying the direction of the eye.

Use darker colours paraley, a little oil, vinegar, and inside

themon juico. Mix well together below. with

and season with salt and pepper, A few lighter shadea sulade.

Fill the apple skins with the white flowers in the centre is

Arrange on a dish. the secret of many a beautiful mixture. arrangement. Lighter or richer colour add much to a dark room or dark buckground. Using Howers of different stages of development In the same ar- rangement can be very interest- Ing.

try

In using smaller flowers. using fewer and making use of foliage and stems for delicate effeels, rather than bunching the blossing. Twin flower arrange- ments Off 21 mantelpiece add much to a room and give it

while sil- festive, party air, houette studies against a win- dow make for an artistic touch, Just a few dowers can enhance

room. Try floating single blossoms

in containers of un-

usunt shapes.

Off-centre placements art

-(London Exprese Service)

WHAT YOU CAN'T

DO WITH A

MOSES BASKET

A BRAND-NEW Idea to lighten your Journey with a baby a small-gize hammock to swing in a car, a cabin, or a carriage. Better than a basket or travelling cot, because it weighs next to nothing, rolls up to the sire of a small umbrella. and, swinging between two hooks, your baby doesn't even take up senting space, le can lie comfortably. turn over if he wants to, yet he can't fall out. Folded apsce picture right.

For Safety In The Kitchen,

IN

more attractive Ind original with

Stick To These

By W. W. BAUER, M.D.

of

Rules

A Blueprint For Housekeeping

IN

By DOROTHY BARKLEY

London, June 30.

3. A dining alcove,

coffee-

TN London just now there house style, is to be installed in one corner of the kitchen. is an exhibition staged (He likes the cating-in-the- by the Ministry of Housing kitchen idea for Informat to show how, In easy stages, parties. Host can put the finish- you can convert a dark, ing touches, then serve the food dreary Victorian house into ho ho deserting them by

from the

Guests don't a light and airy modern playing chef).

home.

4. An air extractor will be This is simpler than it sounds above the stove to remove cook- and you can do it on a shoe ing fumes and make the kitchen string-if you have time to estable-in..

-

Keen cook

useful,

apare. You make the rooms 5. Some fittings will be on seem larger and brighter by wheels so they can be moved using light paint and wallpaper for easy, cleaning.

place of the

old murky colours. You throw out the and dangers

Slippery floors due to spilled Victoriana-tho furniture many

new also be taught the ways the

Mr Marples' newest gadget is streamlined kitchen,re, and trained to bring to the grease or water or dropped food knick-knacks and replace it

thermostatically controlled parents any loose matches they particles should be cleaned up with pieces selected from the a sleek,

at once. everything

An ordinary fall is bad second-hand shops.

deep fat fryer. It's fine, he may find.

but one with a of enough,

One of the men behind this says, when you are going to the than the floral arrangement white or chrome

or stain-

Gas collects quickly when hot food or a sharp knife can new-look exhibition is Ernest theatre: you leave the food try- placed smackdab in the centre.

less steel-shining anyway turned on. To avoid explosions, be doubly serious. If you have Marples, M.P., the stimulating ing and find it cooked on your

to the

(Even more old strike your matches first, then high shelves, requiring a step-Parliamentary Secretary to the return. Adventurous Projects is superior

huge room with its round turn on the gas. If in doubt as stood use one designed for the Ministry of Housing Improv possibly, if he is summoned to Make 1150

everything! table for meals, its hit-or- to whether the oven has lighted, purpose. Not a rickety chair, or Ing the home is his domestic the House for a vote on frying

even a good chair--the best of polley and touch turn off the gas, open the oven We've seen some exquisite armias hooks, shelves, cup door, and wait a

few minutes chairs We never ment for rangements

in extra windows if neces: shows such an interest in run- climbing. And keep the step- a judicious use of such veget-boards, tables and chairs. before applying another match.

where it will not be fary-Antil you have things to

a home. The fact is that, able follage as carrot

Prep But for every advance, we

vour liking.

besides being naturally enthu beels and spinach,

must give up something. pans tight? A fallbig handle stumbled over-it's to movent 139. starples has been replan- siastic, he prefers to fasi in-

Mr peare and cacti are beautiful And our changed way of can spili bolling contents over accidents, not cause them.

ning and re-jigging his house dependent of the Italian couple when well used, too. Under-

since he moved into it

who "do" for him. water arrangements take time, life makes the old-time big the legs of the cook at the heart child playing and body of o

Bo he dovetails years ago, and he is still at it. patience and skill, but they are kitchen pretty much of an ***

Do ne nearby." When in

He invited me to go and so so rewarding. Use a deep, clear antique.

stove, hamilles should be turned One of my most harrowing inward,

so that they do not experiences in a

kitchen was for myself.

His home alterations echo where project

they can

be when I watched a young house-

standing between small

of

that owed much to

Housewife's Hand Rash

The hazards which go along t

from tires

Are the handles of your sauce- stool

the

LSO OC the

beenPASS BETA child

sometimes angrily, by

too. The idea is to Now you may wonder why ho

x

ing a

the house-

work and cooking into a system. D Housework is planned to strict rota so that the

Italian couple know just what they with processing foods have not knocked off by the cook or wife slice & cold ham, with her the exhibition:

Amazing statistics have to do and when to do it changed. Too many home good grasped by reaching

"Maybe sounds liker kitchen counter her and the

It dente still occur in the kitchen, This advice has

ITEM: One dark basement gimental duties, but it work," the child's fingers clutching the many of the involve this book have

of carving board. room, whose only window look- he remarks. And sony of these succents pool to wham touch trouble, Nothing happened, etcept toed onto the blank wall dark has done away with that prob-

of the But are preventable. Here are soɛne they say, and pan handles are my apprehensions.

foolish

needloss risk that it was "quite usleer" Mr lem of "What shall we have for and #stions

Kansas convenient when they stick out, a

It's State Health Department, which

loose- convenient to remain alive Sharp knives do not belong in Marples transformed it into a dinner tonight?"

He has prepared_two drawers with other "tool"the light and airy dining room by

A Georgian bow lent files, one containing fifty- has made some of the most in- and well, too.

putting for them is on... a place I'm wondering how many magnet against

window, copied from a house in odd different lunch and dinner the wall-and

the other, the recipes. readers picked something out of the most convenient, too. When Windermere. Then he furnished menus;

choose a meal, he tips the proceding parapraph which in use, knives should always be it with tables, chairs, a spit for To

Welsh through the pages of the first purpose about directed away from the body or roasting chicken

of Despite children playing nearby. First danger is fire.

the hands. And they should be dressers, decorated with copper nie, selects the menu. Then he be, be washed

ha

turns to the second file for the separately from the pans a physician about a skin automatic stove Ligters, we all course they shouldn't COMPLETE

difficulty of the hands are require matches, and

where you'll with Waber to the dish Matches bould being scalded. Children love to young homemakers who can love matches,

Z Sufficient Cream Flows to Nib.

3 Shape and Soften

Cuticlo, Perfect Control.

By H. N, BUNDESEN, M.D.

A

SIMPLE skin rash on the hands can actually Most disable a housewife.

of the patients who consult

tensive accident studies.

1

there on

best

In

and

of the great danger of other dishes, not dumped into ITEM: A flat roof on a level ingredients and way to cook the Arst-floor drawing them. He adds to both Blea

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children,

metal con

ond to watch and be

can be sate behind a col-

ill afford this manual dis- be kept out of reach of many to their olders, and "And" tho sharp edge later.

ability.

фаблетв

And-looking in your

Spanish-style eating-out place Mr Marpies himself is a keen

To pick broken glass off the (for the summer). It is fitted cook, and each menu follows

geraniums in so that each course blends and balances in colour and textures with the next

An inflammation and rash of idlahen now-they should NOT lapsible gate spanning the door floor, use a wet paper towel, not with white metal furniture and principle. He chooses the food the hands can really be a crip be kept "hands" to the stove. between kitchen

and dining your fingers. Use hot-pads for decorated with

not towels which window boxes. pling disease, particularly when where they probably are in nine room, or in a playpen or one of hot dishes,

Ingenious baby can hang down into a gas flame combina- and burn you. Keep electric

0

it persists for perfod months.

ond of

The causes for this dificulty

may be multiple. The skin of

kitchens out of 10, but should the new

of chair-and-play-table be away from the danger being grated accidentally. Keep lank

ITEM: The kitchen.

Mr Marples has theories about

They must be scienti planned

ing matches away from children forethought may save a major touch a water faucet and an

the hand is exposed to many is not enough-children should tragedy.

HUD where a little cards in good

repair,

and new You would bo

Infectious agents, including and heat, moisture, irritating

that the sensitising substances, woman uses in her everyday chores.

The hands may develop an allergie rush or become in- flamed due to some form

of

montal dimculty. They may bo

subject to the same discs

the Intoral argans of the body.

Detergents and soaps

aro

olectric outlet at the same time.

WHEN YOUR SINK GOES SLOW

By W. P. Matthew

HERE are few bigger nuisances than Д

frequently at fault in initiating atopped-up sink, Agreed?

akin rashes and eczema, They

havo defatting and drying

What do YOU do about

effect on the skin. Bleaches it? Poke about with a bent

waxes, polishes and even some lotions and cold creams may be

the culprits in some instances.

Infection often occurs in the

hairpin? Send

straight

away for the plumber?

hand that is weakened by one of Well, here in the right do- these irritants. A lack of certain it-yourself way (the hair. vitamins can also causa a skin pin, method is usually use rash. Any women with a akin

irritants loss). zah should avoid

She may need patch tests

to

dr'ermine the particular sub-

First buy a force cup. stance that is offending her Smear the rim with a grosse

akin.

Bilicon, which la protective of some dnd (picture 1). substance, has been manufac

tured in the form of an ointment

Rom an inch of wate

to be appiled to the band in into the sink and allp the order to prevent rash causing force cup over the quillet Irritations as silicon is prq: {plotura 2):7u-marig plus472 pared in a cold tream bass an

may actually act like a rub

the other hand hold

"GREASH the force exp

and vigorously pump. the force cup up and down.

you

His enthusiasm

Always, he tries to cut down knew the time on the housework. of time spent in the

To do so, he bakes the week's distance kitchen and the

You bread and pastryjust as his According to official mother used to every Saturday calculation you ve seventy per morning (He keeps the quit

In the refrigerator) !

walk.

cent of your working lite ASpecial party, ha

and in a five-day work you cover 27,000 yards. Good plan ning cuts down both time and

the previous evening preparing any of the food that

walking. And, says Mr Marples, will keep.

it helps good cooking, too when the dinner is ready and

round it.

"We should plan the kitchen

the guests arrive, there. four Kwalls, put the first, then panga, But, In basement room with the spit, or choice of two eating places: the Britain, we build the four walls the ground floor dining-room first, then decide afterwards what we want to put inside.”

Time-saving

proper which contains a char- zední grilli,

where

Guests "Bevor kaow they will eat. As Harold. Mao

It may look artistle to have millari-Minister of Housing

PUMP to clear" stop/

A

hot

the stove, ons & Aldes of the says on arriving,Do we dine in kitchen, the sink the other but, the grill room or the restaurant

every housewife knows It's tonight?""

But you must be enthusiastic practical The Marples kitchen, going about cooking, Improving and through the improvement treat converting to make it all m kisat, has reached; blup- success you can't, be

Meremikiúntantie about a thing, Con's

print starocito

Here are some

the new do it," Mr Marples AESTER

Somehow, after he had point-

24 FarbaİLE his pocket-