1954-09-04 — Page 12

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, "SEPTEMBER 4, 1954,

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

BRIGHTEN UP YOUR BASEMENT

D'around

By

our

ELEANOR ROSS

URING

the summer, wall or one bonded, with we've been admiring various cement.

vialting which may be either a dry

Both are decora-

home Improvements, some tive and satisfactory, al- of the do-it-yourself variety, though the former is easier others professional work.

Very often a comparative- ly small alteration or im- provement can drastically change a room and add Im- measurable to the value of a houst.

Fexample; that old, next-t-useless window high In a basement wall, found in so many older houses, become the nucleus for IL

van

to bulld.

Consult your local stone denler or contractor for the desired quantity and varie- ties available.

CREATE POSSIBILITIES

Once the basic "view" you has been constructed, have only to install the win- dow. This will undoubtedly hand ome picture window, mean 'breaking through part A band. person can easily of the basement wall, but trasform it from a view. from the results

we have

les, Ughtless opening into seen, It is decidedly worth a window which lets in light It. and truly and so provides a Lacknrop for a livable basement room.

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A ROOM WITH A VIEW

The trick is to provide a view where none exists now. An then ack! 11 Win- lov

First step is to decide on heze of the new win

When this decision is mad., irakurt its height and remove the earth out- side the present window to lower depth somewhat

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than the planned height, to provide the necessary space for a sill.

Then, enlarge the excava- tion so that it runs back at

110

P

A cellar which mimits

without sunshine, a 'eclar

view, in short, a cellar which is only a collar, has few possibil ties. By adding a pletürd win-

can build a dow, you rooni around it, or an living room downstairs.

extra

With sunshine pouring in through your pleture window, and shrubs and flowers planted where they can be seen trom inside, you will have achieved а Ilvabic, comfortable beautiful extra room.

FAMILY

and

PICNICS

*

Designed Along Modern Lines »

BRAIDED NYLON CORD is used to make the back and seat of a comfortable lounge chair designed along trim, ultra-modern lines.

THE chairs presented on

today's page are attrac

itical. Some of them have

special features.

least six to eight feet, the By GARRY C. MYERS, Ph.D.tive, comfortable and prac-

The SU

further away from the base. ment wall the better. sides and curved turesque view. Squared ends or sharp corners are

NUMMER is a good time end should be for family outings and

pic-plenies.

for

more

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GREAT ELEGANCE and kimpudity go hand in hand in this duet—a chair and an ottoman with handles to make moving eady.

OLD ROCKING CHAIR never looked newer than it does here. Lines arë very slim and sleek, Foam rubber upholstery is fashionably flat.

By JOAN O'SULLIVAN

this for extra seating when the chairs run out.

That old rocking chair is First, there's light back in a new modern style, weight lounge chair with It has a streamlined blond ultra-modern styling. The finish mahogany frame and back and sent are made of flat foam rubber upholstery. durable braided nylon cord, Strikingly simple in design, strung so it looks like the it's a real beauty, with all As you excavate, save the be at, or near, a place of horizontal stringing on a the comfort, of the favourite small stones;

The frame old rocker style.

never seen

scaping.

Except in big cities, the In good land-family need not go very far to find a good place for such fun together. While it may

thene

will amusement,

it usually tennis racket. come in handy for the re-affords best values when is laminated wood, while taining wall.

it's not. When the family crossbars and legs aro po- B pienic place lished aluminium. It's sur- Next comes

the building finds of the stone retaining wall, where all can eat together prisingly comfortable.

in the open and make their amusement,

they strengthen the family ties. They grow more united.

Children's Convulsions

By H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D. TOST childhood convul-

Msions, when caused by

one or more

to

OWN

EAGER TO HELP

Children old enough to help,

For Mama, the wonder chair of all is for her dress-

ing table. It's a boudoir de

The chair looks nice in painted

finishes. or wood The bench, with brass Two other boudoir styles legs, may be used as a foot that are hard to resist are à stool or for scating. pieces are daintily charming slipper chair and a Both matching triangular bench styled and would be at home from a 19th century Bieder- with bedroom furnishings of meier group.

any period.

WHAT IS

A SWIVEL CHAIR with a view, for dressing table use, has a large mirror that's magically stored in the chair back when it's not in tise.

FOR MILADY'S BOUDOIR, a charming slipper chair and a matching triangular bench are dainty and at home in any period room,

A CALORIE, ANYHOW?

mathematiclana tabulations.

and

their

By tremendous labour and Ia- oxygen, and immersed in water. dustry, practically every known This chamber, or “bomb" has edible substance has how been electrical connections which can tested for Calorie value; thus set off a spark and ignite the providing the basis for substance being tested, reducing scientific

By W. W. BAUER, M.D. sign with sponge rubber up- LOT of people do a lot

A holstery that has a mirror of talking about a lot Next, comes a chair with magically hidden in it. Lift of things they don't know a

some ice in a chamber to- For ex- ottoman for Papa. Both the mirror from its recess whole lot about.

gether, where he could met pleces have foam rubber in the back of the chair, ample, what's a calorie?

sure the amount of candle

and scats and back with maho- raise it to the height right |

Ha-ask me something heat required to melt that gany frames. That spells for you, and you have back hard! A calorie is... woll; same amount of fee.

it to ash. The water tempera dieting, and thouferable dis ture is first recorded, then the cussions over the bridge, chnasta relaxation in a big way. The or profile views of your now, let's see. A calorie feel

Tho a strong motive to help ottoman is designed with hairdo.

Other pioneer experimen- bomb is set off, and the rise in and Scrabble gates chair seat

Anyhow, now you know what and pack it attractive handles to make swivels, giving you a wide you said calorie, didn't you? ters were Voss and Petten-water temperature noted. From

there on I leave it to the a Calorie is. prepare the food

Yes, of course... a calorie kofer, who built a sort of and the other needed equip moving easy. Mom can use range of view.

A calorie is. well Rube Goldberg contraption ment in the car. At the plenic

there're calories in butter, by which they could measure place, they may help assemble

you know. And bread. Not the amount of oxygen con- the food, build the fire and

so many in lettuce. The picule

sumed and carbon dioxidė prepare the meal,

that is, there are high given off by animals in the meal ended, they can help

caloric and low-calorie pack things for the return

process of living. And that well, if foods, all litter and

back to the home, clean up

brings us you're so smart, you tell, make sure the fre

talorie.- ME. extinguished,

is wholly

How to Outgrow the Family Tree

3

By Ida Jean Kain

RE children of short Just how many more.

sions in their first few years Vividly do I remember when

her parents doomed to be can be added, depentis on your Scout, rebuked me for throw-shortles? What are the nutrition. There is considerably

miche

of life.

The

than

Bre

Foods the

· Looda

and

So we glibly toss the word around, often without thought of what it means:

*

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Tiny

Pillows to Add Decorative Note

H pillows

a

TIDE those big oversized They'll prove just as comfortable you've been as the big ones, provided there

are enough of them. piling on the sofa and the The base calorie is too small chaise longue, or, if you've At any

emplatyba. in nutrition, is, the

Pedigree Centigrade---or from 10 termoments have proved late, you' won't want to be

and they come, ti practical' Fab-

fever or infection are inno- cent symptoms, similar adult chilla. They do not necessarily forecast epilepsy

Properly

by Ulte guided in later life. Two to three percent of all children have parents, and encouraged by a child who may be a Scout, all fever conval-may practise

Her drunk do good citizenship.

Here's a definition. A calorie to be practical, co the truhl unit put them away for, the sum add spice and colour to a doft, my eldest son, then

growing-op material will raise one graft of water large calorie, which is 1,000 all mer, you may decide to keep ries, too, that are especially good back of fastest growing years? At some A fever in itself will not ing banana peelings

in others. In temperature from zero calles, and may be designated them stored, come autumn, for summer, autob as in brilliant some bushes while We were

"C" In simplest cause a convulsion. An ac- cating in a wooded

what age does growth stop? Here

or pastel defum, printed sailcloth For if you're fashion's or corduroy place by

furnish

degree Centigrade to one de. M companying infection usual the highway. I repented and These are a few of the

That the human body. üles the ly must be present with the apologized for having done it. questions that come to this utrients: Malik, i to e

day: at ionstone egg: 7 to 11 or 16 to 17 degree, etc. Calorie potential fin food by a caught lounging on any but PRACTICAL; TOO fever in order to cause the

closely

the the very tiniest family plenie affords dietitian from teenagers who marcus serving of most: align't that helpful? We don't wing of tust jubetances, in the from now on!

pillows

It doesn't dath to matter fit. It can occur many children opportunity, also, to write posthaste to in variety of vegetables;

think in terths of gratis or

whether you like, your pillows times when the temperature learn useful skills and have quire abbit fast-growing fruis 1 Centigrade, and who cares

oranges and s

round, square or triangular, In Evidently there wasn't fact, you're expected to buy is not high, as long as the practice in responsibility. foods before it is forever too while radni or riched bread about raising water one th infection is present.. Some-

12 and butter. - Atibi. Hist. Lato, BAD HABITS

insuits degree In temperatureT LE Nutrition, is growng up ; ;

aderiate protein, minerale and When we raise the times it follows-a mild cold

Unfortunately, some parents certainly In the last thirty

vitamke in the daily dietyst or infection.

ture of water we wi will go hiking and picnicking years, trisort has been chal

children to places lenging heredity on the height

465 boll. And stippusini Of course, the harm done by with their

not provided by the publib | scoro.../

weremada origroena, ukic, your be. teful feastire of a convulsion depends on its authorities

The "shooting-up" périod is molure to serve lives, tuled raising bötential, without permission length and severity, This will of the owner of the property, 14 to 10.1 girls may start with bread and hot what it have to do with vary from child to child. Less Worse still, the parents, with cerlier round 12. On the

we eat or refrain froin than five percent of the children their children, may leave gates pro wa ared by 10, wie In Is time is short, as the coing to keep that wartime

trample cro

crease, from 16 to 20 la normal- cost to paberile Vllantiri: 1) under control? by tever or infection will have down crops, and build ares in only 3/10th of an inchs complian, fartahing $11 the B

growing-up years are a pretors to important to endth

whose initial seizure is induced open, break down

subsequent convulsions,

climbing over

them

About

dangerous places, especially

Including

a growth Is such as bateriemi. your grow

Longer th Be sure to bil

to

one half of all the children who outlying areas near a town or

of boy at ofte have fever convulsions Invecity. How would you and I feel 18, and, then may continub Ingrip spine relative in the family with if we were the owners of the beatingrosso op to 20 o epilepsy.

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ort-lived. The

will have

**** property being mistreated?

convillons The material damago such

Levickades do is bad enough; but there is added, moral harmi Kof the children from this

of bad ciüzenship..

with back yards bie

62 of wood or rubbull burns Bathe whit prodhiRAN beat;

Patriders are very much the pillow design three in sported shapes and

Rat buang ers could do to make us buy types, and some manufacturers/

Hef and more pillows, except to are grouping them is threeso

customers won't be tempted Food fuel change their alze drastic Lake home juft o Bat in this bass ally. So that's what they've kno

done. And it's all to the.

In all this emphasis

Dorted. You'lE Do gind

know what a good, for the Innovation the ctical homb we must learn really does give quite a new the pillow cover value of foods look to a room.

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