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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1955.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

HOW TO CHOOSE THE THE FAIR ISLE

RIGHT CARPET

Lordon. single-colour carpets_they_are- stair_carpet slowly downwards room. The appearance of furni- to offset the harsh wear on the ture can be enhanced If it stands

HERE is a wool carpet unrivalled. Mareover, the Wil-

Tsuitable for any room in for weave is the best for em-

the rame

the

bear in

PINAFORE DRESS

Nursery

noships. The surplus can be on the right carpet. Where veita Raittings, 3 Ply, Natural areas of fontrasting wools

Or

#

Measurements: To At 24-26

inch Chest, Length: 211⁄2 inches,

the top or bottom stair risers, „a rcom already furnished, remain colour.) 1. or Red. 1 oz. Star carpets should be moved member the colour of the wood of No. 10 and No. 12 kaliting

Blue, 1 oz, Yellow, 1 pair each down at regular intervals. work and the chair coverings, A dining suite, for to-

for tom needles. dine oak stance, looks more significan on, say, a plain green. pel than on a plažu beige carpét.

In a new

room where the there the furniture, wall coverings a draperies have

yet to

to be chosen decide

on the Boor

covering first. When the carpet has been chosen, you have the basis for

moge

The wise carpet buyer will purchase good quality under felt rabbe uncorlay at the same

Tais,

makes

the

tread harious and the carpet will look better. Underfelts act as a soft cushion between the furniture and any bumps heav ar Irregularities in the hard floor surface. When it choosing a carpet can be as much fun to adult as the paint box is to the child.

any home. The right car- The suleman will help the the best value pet will give warmth, colour, patchout empel. But, he,

and

right character, comfort and

must know 100,

TOOGL many years of hard wear. size and height, its view and A room with the wrong location, the floor condition, and

time. the carpet is rely carpet may have warmth, but it probably lacks charac to get. In the case of atted car-

pets it is also wise to ter and looks crowded and mind the tapet in the peigne dreary.

hall or passage to avoid of colours.

class How does one choose the a

a fairly cannot be avoided, get a amalt right carpet? This is

#d purchase slip mat of neutral shade simple task if the

"not place H on the passage or hall bears in mind that he is just buying a carpet. He is also side of the doorway. This may

day. Betting the appearance of his save the da

Taste and purchasing power home for years to exne.

are often in conflict when car-

being bought,

This problem may be solved by buy- quality carpe's for ing best rooms in constant use and less expensive carpets for bedrooms which less wear.

get

Anothe saving can be made by the use mahing af, say, three small.

large carpets instead of cre carpet in bedrooms with double beria.

."

.

TYPES OF WEAVE

Before searching for a carpet the purchaser should get to know the principal types wool carpet. use under six.

Axminster, They are

a

Wizon, Brussels, Tupestry.

Tapestry. Velvet and Chenille.

Axminster is one of the most In Popular carpet weaves, plain und pastered designs with

wide choice of colours, Axminster

carpets range from the less expensive to the very best according to the closeness of the weave and the depth of the wool pile. In the case of an Axininster all the pie sp- pears on the surface.

Wilton

carpets are usually closely woven and have a pile of smooth texture. They are made in lustrous colours, in plain and well defined patterns, Incidentally, there is A very wide price

Patterned Wiltons have a further cushion the base wool woven into below the pile surface.

Brusse's

carpets ате Wiltons, but the pie is looped instead of tufted.

range.

like

Tapestry is a less expensive grade of carpet with a looped pile

pets are

ELEGANCE

Fer rooms of irregular shape choose a square to at closely to the walls of the main part. Matching carpet can be used to fill in the odd shapes.

Ja sthall

stm

rows in st. st

K. 4. Rep. trom-e last 9 sts. Next row, K. 7.-K. 2 tog.

K. 2 tog. K. 7 (100 sts)

Cont. in st st. until

a P. row.

K.

work

measures 124 ins, ending with Next row. K 6.-K. 2 tog. 1. Rep. from to last 7 sts. Ka tog. K. 5. (70 sts.)

12 kaliting Change to No. needles and work 1 inch in K. 1. 1 db ending with a row on wrong side. Still working

Tension: 7 sts. and B rows to much on No, 10 needles AbbreviationE; K kuit, P. puri, sts, stitches, Ing inches, rep, repeat, cont continue, tog together,

increase (by

the into the front and then

is done property, bulding a colour scheme for tx ; wack back of a stitch), st. st. in rib, cast off (in rìb) 11 st.

can

for

Um chow fashions

it with

into

stocking stitch

at beg of next (1 Tow Knit, 1

row Purl), Est. garter stitch (every row Kalt), N, natural, B. base, R. red, Y. yellow.

BACK AND FRONT ALIKE

wood cast on 115 sts, and K 2

With. No. 10 needles and N.

TOWS..

Now work striped band

a

thing

→

1st row, and 2nd row.

With

rows:

Change to No. 10 needles and rk bodice thus: work

1st row. K. 23, K. 2 tog. K.. 23 (47 sts.}

2nd row. K. 5, P. to last 5

X. 5.

8 rts, Inc. K. 5.

3rd row. K. 5, Inc. K to last

in

Cont working 5 border sts. each

end g.st. and re- mainder in st. st. inc. 1 st within g. st. borders sts each 'end of following 8th row util every there are 57 sts. Cont... if 3rd and 4th rows, With B. K. necessary, until work measures 3% ins from top or ribbing at 2 rows.

waist ending with a row on the 5th and 6th rows. With R. K., wrong side, 2 rows.

room. This will help you to de- cide how much pattern can go

to the walls and into the cus BASIC COLOUR SCHEMES taing and furnishing fabrics.

If yours is a new, moderzi

house, you

76 Although there is a host of style

may wish and tones, there are furnish colours

the most fashionable only two basic kinds of

furniture and fit- cicur schemes-harmonising er tings. Solid colour earpeting

beware But

of much

now. A plain- vogue contrasting

colored making use of stronger

Colcar

carpet leaves one contrasts

than you

live wide

wide choice of patterns for the with. Red

and green,

rest of the room

Tartared stance.

Woud b

tone-on-tone be very

styles, carpet colours Light

has footprints or where bably wheeled her doll's wam. Very dark

reveal

Auf, blis shades

colours are Micdic and dust. good for concealing such things. bet simple two-tone designs

patterns or

are the most practical

good The sunny room is place for the blues and greens the more subtle colours. North light robs a room of its colour, but this can be avoided by the deliberate choice of more vivid tones than would normal ly seem desirable. North rooms require vivid, full-blooded, rich

and avenscaled paty knit 2 rows. terms, including those big leaves and classical motifs, are all in the height of fashion.

and

1

The

PATTERNS

2

PRACTICAL NEEDS

In halls and on landings it is advisable to consider practical needs first. Light colours wil the constant soon suffer under tread of shoes bearing dirt and dampness from the pavements. A study wave in the medium colour ranges with a

Now work the Fair Isle band

As ist to

1st and 2nd

row K. 5 N, 47 Y, 5 N.

3rd and 4th rows. K. 5 N,

off. Rejoin 47 B, 5 N

5th row. With N. K. to end. 5 sta anch sta row.

With N. K. 5, F. first side.

sts. each Keeping 5 border

wool to remaining complete to match

*

3rd row. With B, K. to end 4th and 5th rows. As 2nd and 3rd rows but with R. wool (Working less sts. between dec, and on all following rows.)

6th and 7th

POWE As 2nd

and 3rd rows. your home, its design row. F. 1 row. Now with N. and end in gst and N, work central

of

the

rown. As 2nd

and 3rd rows but with Y. wool.

Cast off fairly, loosely.

TO MAKE UP

Press work with a damp cloth and a warm fron. Join side and shoulder seams. Press seams.

7th to 10th rows. 4th rows. The fitted carpet gives a look,

With N. work 8 rows in st, at. of luxury to any room and it is particularly usetil

beginning with a K row, rooms because it gives an -

teater? Now work the first Fair Isle pression of spaciousness. There is no need for the housewife to

or patterned surface is an ad-band thus-With Y. knit 2 rows, 47, K. 5.

NECK BAND With B.. K. & rows, With N. K. 1 Moreover,

mirable choice for such places.

Study help to banish draughts.

With right side of work facing If the purse strings can be

and aspect before looking for R. wooks only work Fair Isle 47 st. as Fair Isle chart No. 2 and using No. 12 needles and stretched, a

carpets.

that its pattern from chart No. 1. Work reading chart as before. When y. wool, pick up and K. 20 sts and th Remember urde.

the fitted shades.

furnishings" can give years carpet gives an air of elegance

have been come down one side of neck 48 sts. in st st. knitting the odd mum- the 12 rows restful

bered

rows, enjoyment if they are

reading them from pleted break off til ertrasting across, cast off 20 sts up other and dignity. Incidentally, it is

right to left and purling the wools and cont. with N. only. should be taken well chosen. Great care mistake to try to lay fitted

side of neck. (88 sts) numbered row, reading Next row. K. 5, cast of 47 choosing carpet yourself. This is an ex- when

Henry Foster eve patterned

1st row. With Y. K. to end. Shem from left to right and sts. K. to end,

2nd row. With B. K. 18 (K. pert's jobs, for it is not so easy care. Big or small patterns

working 1 rep of chart and I Work a further 21⁄2 the in 3 g) twice, K. 44, (K, 2 tog) as it looks. Remember that all are the most suitable for very

last 5 sts. Cast twice, K. 18.. extra st, each end in N, across, gst, on these bound se large rooms. Endless repetition, the edges should

CHART N · that they do not fray.

row. of an average-sized design tends

Thus the first 2 rows will be The carpet square, too, has to give

overdressed: room

worked as follows:- Velvet is a better mach in its favour. It costs appearance. The choice depends

size of the ΤΡΟΠ grade of Tapestry carpet. It has less and it can be turned round on the

occasionally to

whether equalise the and

the carpet a tufted ple

But the carpet Lastly, the popular Chenille wear

"extend" square purchaser

aims to carpet, This has a special should not be so small that it or "diminish" the size. General- Icature. The wool pile is pre- looks lost against a wide back- ly speaking, the larger the de- pared before being woven to ground of polished floorboards sign the smaller the floor area the backing, Chenille Ax- or linoleum.

Stairs eth be purchased in

are best covered with A

red carpet ma Wiiton ranges in plain and

typey may small range can make the room patterned designs.

have + tendency to "grinto look bigger. All patternet car Both Axminster and Wilton show an unsightly line of back- pets have the advantage of carpets are very hard-wearing ing where the carpet is benth hiding footprin and luxurious to the tread. in over the nosings.

The type, color and style o fact. a fine quality Wilton is By purchasing a foot or so the carpet must be selected Fenerally regarded as the best more than you actually need, with an eye to the general ap machine-made carpet of all. As you will be able to move the pearance

Tesi of the

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ITINETS

1

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Zippy Sauce for Ham Loaf

1st row. K I N As chart K-2 N, 2 R, 1 N 2 R, 4 N,

2 N)

twice, 1 R, 4 N, 2 R I N

2 R. 2 N, rep. from times, then Ki N.

By IDA BAILEY ALLEN ALLEN NOTHER debut!" ex-3 "A claimed the Chef.

B. 1

2nd row, KI N. As chart P-3 N. 1-

1R 1 N 1 R, 4 N R, 1N, 1 R, 1N, 3R, 4 N

1 R. 3 N. rep. from 3 times, then K. 1 N. "The best ham loaf into

Cont thus working through which I have ever put the 12 rows of chart. Then

with teeth; also a new hot N. K. 1 row. P. 1 row, with sauce. Sit down B. K. 2 rows. With Y. E. Z mustard

ની here at the table and taste- This completes the Fair

Isle band. test.”

"This bar loaf is exceptional, Chef. How did you make it?” New Ham Leaf: Carabine 4 ground oddments of cooked ten- derised ham, 1 lb. lean pork, 2 e soit bread crumbs, 2 beaten mustard, 11⁄2 tsp. ground black 1 tsp. powdered dry salt,

and pepper

C.

ground

enriched , 11

milk. Mix until thoroughly blended. Packc an oiled 9′′ x 5′′ x 3" loaf pan. Bake 1 hr. in a moderate oven 350 F.-Unmould; seve with mustard sauce.

"I judge you used the odd- merits of baked ham from the food freezer, Chef."

"Oui, Madame. The had been

With N. work 8 rows in st st beginning with a K. row. Cont working Fair Isle hands with 8 zows ot st. st. in N, between | until 3rd Fair Isle band has

been completed.

SUDDEN

A

WOMAN goes to bed in trozen about a mouth, which is in the morning she is found apparently good health;

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CHART No. 2

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DEATH IS NOT ALWAYS

UNEXPECTED

By W. W. Bauer, M.D.

gitis contributing a smaller share a total of 18 per cent in this PYCLE ts long as they should be kept. However, if not convenient to dead. A man eats a gener- fa such a circumstance, the sus often advance to a considerable tem and the urinary organs

event. but not the precise time. Surprisingly, hg disease cari

Diseases of the digestive sys

an

sud-

use smoked ham, 2 (12 oz) tins ous, perhaps too generous perse may be exceedingly diff degree without sending the pa- cause about 10 per cent of of chopped ham could be used dinner, settles himself with it for all concerned. Between tient to the doctor; lobar poeu- den deaths; usually due to rup instead. The recipe makes cigar and newspaper in 10 and 15 per cent of all deaths monia tends to this group. It is ture of endanged, and weakened larger loaf than usual, Madane,

ecer suddenly

from obscure the common cause of sudden blood vessels. In women, so it means more for the money. easy chair, and a few but natural causes.

In New death in infants, including the rupture of a tubal pregnazcy It will be very good sliced to moments later when his York, the most common age is so-called

smothering cases may cause large haemorrhage serve cold with a tossed salad, wife speaks to him there is between 45 and 54. Men are where parents used

used to think with immediately fatal conse- and most excellent sliced thin in no answer. He has died. A suddenly as women. The cause by rolling to him. Architis, contribute the remainder of the four times as likely to die that they smokered the baby quences, Miscellaneous causes sandwiches for the lunch-box."

business man sits at his or sudden death are found in bronchial poumonia and tuber- sudden deaths. desk, dictating. He stops, all parts of the body.

DINNER

Tomato Soup

Baked Potatoes

Ham Loaf

culosis art, common causes of

Mustard Sauce falters, becomes confused The most comman cause of sudden death; so is embolism, The suddeness of "sudden"

Casseroled Onions

Tossed Green Salad

fi

Peach Crisp Cocoanut Topping

Coffee Tea MIK

All Measurements Are Level Recipes Berve Your

The

and before his frightened sudden death is disence of the the swift disaster due to lodging death is often deceptive. secretary can call for help, y arries of the heart of a clot in the lung always abrupt loss of life is merely the

termination of a

* disease process responsible in 30 per cent of in- without warning he is dead. A baby is put stances. Other heart and arterial

which may have been present to bed in the usual manner; diseases add 14 per cent more

for some time. Anyone who wOX- ries about possibility

of madden when the adults go to bed, syphilitic blood vessel disease,

death would be wise to have a Peach Crisp Coconut Top-they take a last look at him, largments, rupture of the main

valvular heart dissue, beart m

Brain haemorrhage, commonly thorough medical examination, ping: Rub a 9" pic-plate with and he is dead.

astery, and scattered miscel- called stroke, is responsible for for reassurance and for whatever laneous causes.

about 11 per cent of sudden treatment may be found neces- Sudden death! Dramatic Second in frequency are dis- deaths, with related blood vessel sary, And dort worry-sudden place

8 drained peach halves tripletening, ominous, But is 117 cases of the beaming appara conditions in the brain causing death is not the worst thing that round side

up. Pour in c Opinions and ideas differ. Di tus, accounting for 23 per cent, additional instances, and main could happen. peach syrup from the tin. Cover the Episcopal Books of Comstocn

butter or margarine. Dust with

thep. granulated sugar. In it

да

with coccarut topping. Bake 35 Peayer, there is a plea for pro- zin, in a slow

$50 P., OF

or section

lightly." browned. Serve cut, Defen

warm or cold,"

from battle

and

de

*Coconut Crumble. With the from sudden death. But many back of a spoon blend 1⁄2 c. today would choo crushed corn Ankeny a timp, maddenly rather than ager shredded coconut, 3 tbsp.: bus-

ter or margarine,– 1/3 6. sugat

and 1⁄2 tsp. ground cinnamen.

"I must also congratulate you

on. the mustard sauce. The

loaf, Chet. It is nice and nippy still surve in devour.

That Odd Room Takes A New Role

WHAT do you do with

What little, extra room

By ELEANOR ROSS

....

Sudden and unexpected death that is part of the floor plan The U-shaped arrangement,

is a severe shock to the family of so many houses, not of that worked out so well in the

daybed, while its opposite end, facing into the room, consisted of open shelves for radio, books, plants, or cherished omaments.

The unit of the opposite end of

of the dead. To die suddenly recent Vintage? Shall it be kitchen, was teed in placing the the daybed formed the bead-

fumiture in this room. A studio

with a sweat-sour taste, yet 11's and xmexpectedly has both a study, guest roczh, music bed, constru4g of a slip-covered board and extended far enough

和

That is sugar to it Madame. This tends

down the

to step

taste

vantages and disadvantages, to

is because I need a little de reps medios Dibo Zacle, of bow one wounŃn solved the wall unit of deak level leaf that serves as a night table,

of mustard.

deat, them may range drm room, or catch-all? Here's bedspring and mattress on, legs, beyond the bed to form a stand- was set against a long wooden ing storage space, with a drop The Salt rose pinks and greens, problem. She just took it provided a back for

the colour

momentarily be

the

дощ mute came from air Zing in frasia Inman fulce.”

Sweet-sour Mustard Sauces Combine 2 tbsp; suzar, 1600, four, tsp. salt and family anxiety, and ibe Bnamjere, Izent Meth powdered mustarel

but over the space and an- daybed and a shelf into which with touches of white and bitter-

made

etup side to the studio Mother's one zoom apart fush frosted glass panelling, teal rom in Seo in retepect, con nounced that it was to be lighting strips, covered with sweet ma

scheme of this pretty, but grac had been bullt..

the part of the patient.

That's what has become Bext 2 egg Morade of prolotagná ško ette: Into the dry

Cook | Sudden death, by not always a qihet retreat, for other men: and stir over low heat until as acted. If your occur mine one of the taully who want to thick as heavy "cream" Bir 1 Main Cazanestaamad catch xon with reading, sewing, 2thop. Tresh lemon juice.

bendland andy have: kom wring letters by ustning to Serve hot,

warned retardápio the pending good music.

Except for the daybed, which new, the expenses were wet down nicely. The daybed Hinged onto one end 3′ ing did zun lido a bit of money, be wall unita was a bookcase that cause it had to serve both for could be awung out for easy sleeping as well as for daytime bedeling. The inside of the lounging. But dan and the boyn unit formei a foolboard for the did til the work, H