1955-03-05 — Page 12

ALWAYS USE

WRIGHT'S

COAL TAR SOAP

COAL TAR BOAP

Refreshes

the whole

Family

AFTER WORK,

THE CHINA'' MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1955.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT ***

Result Of Microscopic Research Into Culinary ProblemsTM

THE IDEAL KITCHEN AT OLYMPIA

same,

42512

SPORT

+

AND TRAVEL

咖啡門 ARTE ANK TABLETR

FANS

SANDALWOOD-SILK FANS, PLASTIC, CARVED FANS, ETC.

By

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London.

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The

Counell

Lighting, flooring

Great attention has been given to lighting and flooring, a wach boiler below work surface level on one side of the sink can be pulled out for use; there in space for a refrigerator; there is a convenient shelf for dry goods

Every housewife questioned It incorporates the golden SCIENCE, meently, has suring the contese of this valu- rule of a work surface on each able search for knowledge spoke side of both the cooker and the been shining its re- most critically of the design and ink, unbroken by a door or vealing and guiding light the specifle shortcomings of traffic-way. A larger ventilatest that the kitchens in which they had Ingler than the regulated four- upon the habits of

do their kind. industrious and un- 10

Is Installed. cooking. These foot square criticisms dealt with such points

to It has storage space next selfish

Bitish us lack of daylight; person, the

shelves

100 family woman, during those high, dirt-trap wooden draining sink and cooker for china, ginss, cutlery and kitchen usen- Inadequato periods of the day which boards

working alls which are in frequent use, She devotes to the proper alt fuel cooker and so forth.

space; larders exactly opposite it

and shelving and cupboards are placed so that things are easily tion and et king of food for

Now at the Daily Mall Ideal within arm's reach. her family.

Home Exhibition at Olympia, The variation between which

on for 12 month of the the fastest and the slow. from March 1, in one

buildings in the Village on the est is striking. There are hit, there is the

Dally Mail and their families al Kitchen

It has been de E The sumed by, Condest. who

Selenite Mangement have

Home which recently eunducted breakfast on the table in onven minutes and whn which the fuels above qutlined in constant use and one work

pench no minutes in preparing, cook ng and serving lunches ( tinner. On the other hand, this research brought to light one good wife who normally takes three hours over the midday meal.

But this widespread and searching enquiry an pic supity of facts to givð a very clear picture of exactly what happens in the average British home. This is the picture:

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nationwide

been

survey

extracted.

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from

They Cuiry in worked during the collaboration with the Bullding Resenres Station of the Depart ment of Scientifle and Industrial Research.

murface is set lower thun (រំស rest for jobs like beating cake mixture.

* Many Exciting Extras

DON'T BE DECEIVED! The exterior of this houso seems to personify simple country charm. The styling may have a rustic air, but the interior of the house is well-planned with conveniences plus many extras that more than meet streamlined city standards.

Immense thought by really skilled poople has gone into the The ideal Kitchen has been design of this Dally Mali Ideal designed in the fight of the Kitchen and many of 41080 knowledge required during this kindly and patient housewives most meruseople research into who assisted the Council in their By Joan O'Sullivan the problein 638 RE splendid

enquiry will be glad to know that they will have conferred adduced homeswIVEN,

it is coloured in pastel blue, great benefit upon their kind byHE living is easy in an

Teconomy

home that love-grey, cherry n

the intelligent information they and has been modelet Liz part of the house.

laboratory separate preparallets of food.

Mostly amateurs

spends

The nocacid woman who has to cater for a family, most ext which are small today. about two-and-a-half hours pre- paring, cooking and serving the foun meals of the day, thus breakfast 20 10 25 minutes. 1 30 minutes. Levemag Neal between 30 anal

JUB TAI CHOON FAN FTY.}} Loneh for

234 QUEING RD C

FEL 27081

HONG HONG

CABLE $170

THE "POST" TYPHOON MAP

Mounted $5.00 Unmounted $4.00

and TYPHOON TABLE

Glying

during-distance

and time-distance for typhoons likely to affact Hona Kong, A adjunct

"Post 10 the Typhoon Map.

wo-thirds of them learni

The

Flut

white

be

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have provided and which, at contains all the convention- 21 the Exhibition, they will see, for

al conveniences plus 14 for the the first time. embodles! in

netun kitchen.

number of exciting extras. That sums up the house pictured on today's page, a three-bedroom, all-on-one- floor plan that more than meets the averago family's needs.

Appetising Pork

Shoulder Recipes

MAGINATION

large, ww

have

No room need be used as passageway. This is true whether you step inside via the front door or one of All the two back entries. rooms have access to a hall which, in addition to being a useful passage. provides sliding door as well 819 book

2011 save are "ually

red cly 3 park steaks 10 nake four pervings.

Flour the own in skiet in 2 thep, hot pork steaks uni

fat, Drain IT exyes fal.

Cranbu

i tan. closeta sp. salt,

paprika And shelves.

།

1

sprinkle on tx4 asa Comune Purk and Apple Curry

Ja good and appcticing exambuna- water tion.

two

roomy

mides of steaks. To the left of the foyer,

teh vinegar and

bp. tild

brown the living-dining combina Sugar Pear around staks; addtion sweeps 22 feet

from

t{1niłཐཱes Curiously evogh, to the male you money!

must of the housewlyes Well-browned roasts, suc- questioned said that they preferculent steaks and Chinese cooking meals to any of the other household task? Musta dishes are a few of the them admuited to being amateur ways in which pork shoulder zooka in

technical sense. the

is featured, to from "Mother":

re- mander team trial and

error. from magazines; from hlats in

To serve 4 take newspapers; from husband and

1 lb. diced me clove garlic and cae anail|front buy to back picture and brown the bay hf. ther relatives and friends; from uk shoulder

Job and **

from recipes on nout in 2 lbsp. hol fut; add e packed foods. One very happy chopped onions and brown. Pare woman declared that to her "it and dice 2 modium fart apples came naturally".

and add to

to pork and colens. On the subject of

trp, curry powder, 14 gredients of the meals Surved inger and tsp. salt, Sur

ly two mentioned fruit for bouillon

made by dissolving 2 breakfast and th both cases it bouillon cubes in I c. hot water, was orange juice for children.

the

::

GRAVY

Cover and cook over low heat jiita meat is tender about 144 The Add the quid as water cooks away, Remove garlic and bay leaf; chim off fat,

window. Light streams in Int either end of the room, which is a decorator's de- light. Just visualise a cozy furniture grouping around the fireplace and, perhaps, a circular sectional sofa in

Cover and simmer 45 min, or Make gravy from drippings in the bay window!. More than half had cereal for until meat is tender. Add 2 tsp. pan and serve over steaks, this meal Soup was sektom lemon juice. Taste, and add For a hearty, nutrition-high more curry powder, if desired.

Thickest with 3 to

included in a meal except In Scultish households.

Wals Fish

always accompanied by chips $2.00 mounted Puddings mentioned were as to Mily percent milk puddings; others

mainly were

steamed Pudding or steamed fruji.

Oblainable from BOUTH CHINA MORNING POST HONGKONG & KOWLOON

Quality

makes the

and cost-low dish that the men-

*

GO IN FOR GARDENING? If the answer's yes, the indoor-outdoor planting area in the dining section ja certain to catch your eyes. It's one of this efficient home's many decorative built-in extras.

Slooping quarters are well- to like, 4 tbsp. Hulk particularly seem

To add interest to the planned with two large bed- flour mixed to a paste with cold try park hocks cooked with dining section, there's un rooms on the right side of the water. Serve on noodles (8 oz.) sauerkraut.

Pork steaks may be accented To prepare, add the kraut to indoor planting area, which house at the end of the con- necting halfway from the 15 min. before is continued outdoors in a foyer. Each has with garlic, bay leaf and paprika, the hous

two closets Because pork shoukier steaks Beving.

with A little celery seed planting border on the ter- equipped

streamlined stirred into the kraut just before

bonus, race. A storage unit for sliding doors, Serving gives an extra-good flavour.

bridge tables, topped with there's a fifth closet to the hall just outside the front (master) -ALICE DENHOFF book shelves, is another bedroom.

useful extra.

Canon

Only

Canon

can offer

3-YEAR QUARANTEE

Sdie Distributors, JARDINE, MATHESO

famous

OBTAINABLE

ALL LEADING, PHOTO DEALERS

The Doting Mother

As

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Next comes the bath--a beautyl Note the built-in van- Nale, too, how conveniently the dining room and kitchen are -ity with space galon for stor- merged via a breakfast bar. ing cosmetics and Nnas,

This useful built-in tabic doubles as a work surface and triples as a serving counter for company meals in the dining TS a doting mother the best. The breakfast bar and Is a foting mot, requently sink, which is pinned and

placed under

the worst, says authoress in one corner of the kitchen Elda Bossi, in a new book while, diagonally opposite, re- frigerator, counters and stovy combine for another L.

Con motherhood.*

Just off the kitchen is one of

Dining Room

22:019-4 Bridge Table Storage

Indoor and Outdoor

Garden.

Bedroom

14:8 FO

KBOOK SHELVĖS

Living Room

Bedroom

Is

foyer,

or study

Bedroom

14's El-4;

The third bedroom, on the other side of the bath. ideally situated to double lying-bedroom or study. A folding wall separates it

from the foyer. Use it as a study, and, for party purposes, throw the folding wall open, allowing

fol

27-100t view from living

room wall to sludy wall. You If only more young mothers would allow their bables to be the bucks entries (the other, in arrangement for a family with can see the advantages of the independent in matters of feed- the dining room, leads to the entertaining ways.

terrace)

ing or trying to dress them- {selves, even if it does wasta stairway.

time, there would be foyer

frustrated, cross bables,

"

is the selfish mother who condemns ther con always to

nced her,"

writer Mrs Bossi,

The result, all too

afica, is

the cultivated do-nothing and

cd'er-clo-svell, and later, men

incurably irrevolute, histles, beroft of initiative

Bources

and

SIMPLE LESSON

and

Mrs Bossi paints this

[picture of ever own small daugh-

and the basement. The plan #quare feet

comprises

1,203.

HALL BOOK SHELVES, living room bridge table nook, a linen closet and numerous sliding door clothes, closets provide storage galore.

CARE OF ANTIQUES REQUIRES

"REST AND FOOD"

Williamaburg

Windows hung with two does it may take a little and most English furnituro has "

fabrics are extra work.

a high lustro from years of ter's growing indiependence, PROPER rest and Teeding century-old

using a wax base, solution. "Whee she fishes eating the are as important in the open. Tidewater Virginia's in pasted over with tapioca and care of antiques as in the bright sunlight and damp Window curtains, seat covers and rugs are cleaned and stored stowed apple up to "her hair:

air, draft in to fade and periodically, in dark, dry places, she plunges her hand, instead care of children.

weaken the woollens, silks Colonies for each room

dull sela of curtains and' cottons and

of hor biscuit, in her milk; "sho

split her pinafores

Ja a

* conscientiou

climbing

·YOLI

During summer when all win-

uted

In

the

winter, originals go back up. The side chairs have two bots of als Rosta, to add lite to old fabrics

That information..comes statre on all fouza; but alte does from John Graham, curator the polish on the cabinet- town are opened, reproductions

Is to Ea at Colonial Williamsburg, not know Wo carried or duple lenen for of the priceless 18th ce

whose job da preservation mothers....even it croatou atury furnishings is the lot of muces, do let the baby **

hibition buiklinga bore,

Museums ieplaye able artikles, under tective glass cases and air-conditioned, room. from dust, sUT, türe,; But" the

'It may be inconvenient at the {"time, but "It'a' one of the forest primary lesion in character Buliding.

the furnish by rotation. haru." Mrcode"!: the "Feeding" frature depends

leather on the type of gloss desi

'Graham saya there are tira, bas

triatament

the

samo

types of polish, whi help

reserva tha'wood

own, she prefer a dull

although Villemabity g

"Whether you want a soft

dill finish or high lustre, there's no substitute for plenty of elbow ETCOSO! Grqustinerí ¿galdr

He advised against uso of pollst on lacquered, or wilded furnituraDusting with a der soft flantel will preserve the appearance of These pieces.

Cermanica can be washed with tepid water and mild, compar "clean metal" objecta de

pewter, silver, brass and cop "one of the brood

polishers. Unfass blankwieland

such