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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1955.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

Knit While You Relax

of

fatertuls: 0 ozs.

Sirdar Majestie ply Wool. 1 pair of neh No. 11, 12 and 13 needles. 4 pointest at both ends No. 13 needles.

Measurements: To fit up to 34- inch Bust.

Tension: 7 stk. 10 1 inch. Abbreviations: Kknil, purt st. stitel, st.st. streking stilph, in Inerene, des. crease, tog, together, beg, begin- Bing w.. wool forward, st. slip, ps pass the slipped stitch over, rep. repent, cont, continue, palt. pattern. Figures in brackets are worked the number af times as stated

BACK

With No. 13 needles, cust on 122 t Work in K.1 P.1, rib for 31 inches, inc. 1 st. in the last row,

Now work in th following patter

1st row: K.1. kog. * w.l. k.3. w.f. klwire into next st

R.3, W

SLI

but ending 11856, rep, from the last re, with R.1, instead

the last 1.2torg-k.1. 2nd and alternate rows; P'. 3rd row: K.1. k.2log. w.f w.f. katug. w.f. s1.1 k.. po wf. sl. 2, k.1. posts 0. W 1. 1. R.Bhg. pass.d, rep from but ending the last rep. with K.J instead of KOR-

1.

5th row: K.3, k2ion wit 3. w.... k.. pas k.3,

In end. 4. from

7th row: K. 2, * k2top. w.f k.l. w.f. l.1. k.2tog. 18.5.0. w.f. H., w.f. 11. 11, p.s.s.p. k.1, rep, from To last st--kyl,

8th row: P.

There B rows form the patt Work the rows of watt, once more. change to No, 12 needles and work 10 rows, then change fo No. 11 neidles, Cont, in paly, until work menstires Binches, then me 1 st, at both ends of the next row and every follow- 8th row until there are 129 sts. Cout. without shaping until werk megures 121⁄2 inches from

2

Shape arinhole:-Cast OIT sts, at the beg, of the next rows, then den, 1 st. at the beg of the next 8 rows. (105) sts. Ceel. 1 patt ther bei 1 at both utvis eows when read-

1.

mare

de of the patt

and

NOW-

ing patt as given for the 1st- 8th rows. Cont. without fur ther 'shaping

work until measures 18 inches from the beg.

Shape shoulder:-Cast

off

8

sts at the beg of the next 8 rows. Leave remaining sist on

pare needle.

FRONT

back

Work is given for the until work measures 17 Inches from sheg.

FC-

Shupe arck-Next row: Work across 47.sts. turn. Leave maining 58 sts. on a spare needle.

Cont, on the Arst ret of sts. dec. 1 st. at neck edge every row until 32 sts. remain. Cont. without shaping until work measures 19 Inches ending at the armhole edge.

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Shape shoulder:-Cast off ts. at the beg. of the next row and next 3 offernate rows, Now Flip 11 sts, from inner edge on

I to a safely pin. Join wool remaining 47 ats. and shope to match the first side.

SLEEVES

with No. 13 nezálés, engi on DO sts. Work In R., P.. vil for 12 rows.

inc. in next to last 4 sts..

Next row 1,

$1. P.5, rro, from R4. (103 sts.}

Change to No. 11 needles and work to pall, as given for the back until work measures inches from beg

5

Shape top:-Cast off sts. at beg of next 2 rows, then dec. 11. at beg, of every row until 57 sta. remain. Now dec. 1 st, of both ends of every row until 25 sts. remain. Cast ofT.

Neck harder: Join the shoulder seams then with the right side of work focing you. using the 4 No. 13 needles, pick p and K. 38 sts. down side of neck, K. across 11 centre front side of 118., K. up 38 sis mo neck. Then work in K.1. P.. rib for 12 rows, bez with the back of neck sts. Cast off with No. 11 needles, ribways,

TO COMPLETE GARMENT

Press the work under a domo cloth with a hot iron on the wront side, avoiding all ribbing. Set in the sleeves. Join sleeve and side seams, Press the scams.

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COLOUR SCHEMES FOR OUTDOOR SETTINGS

· By ELEANOR ROSS

1

ERTAIN colour schemes pieces, you'll like this year's vivid greens and royal blues in Nature belong to colour ideas. The high-style share their popularity with different seasons of the paint colours, for the grace- glistening white enamels. year. Spring brings forth ful fron chairs and tables The new transparent var- marble nishes that reveal the pale yellows and yellow with glass tile or

greens, delicate bluca, pinks tops, are antique white, natural markings of the and shades of violet, while cream, dusty black, aqun, wood they protect also re- summer and autumn bring pale pink and coral. New main in high favour.

the richer, stronger colours and exciting is a painted Whether you're repainting effect known as "gold dust" metal or wood furniture--any that's achieved by sprinkling surface, as a matter of fact-

without fail.

If people were just as con- a little gold metallic powder you must first make sure that sistent, we might, repeat the on newly maintel surfaces the surface is clean.

Un

smooth,

same painted colour schemes before the paint has a free from rust or Baking paint.

our porch and garden chance to dry. furniture year after year

and think no more about it..

But to so many of us, t

When you're working on iron or steel surfaces, steel wool

8

a great ald in removing dust,

18 After the rust **

completely eliminated, the bare spots should be given a conting of metal change in colour scheme is While most of

the primer to protect it against like a dash of spice. Besides, aluminium tubing furniture further corrosion, When work- every Spring, we discover is silver in colour, some of ing on wooden pleees, Bil cracks or nullhead indentations, then that the designers who cater the chairs are dull Kold. sand the surface level. For the to our wishes and sense our These are combined with furniture you wish to Anish In desires have brought forth plastic webbing in black or a solid colour, exterior enamel new ideas, new and different white, and very smart, too! is the casting you'll need. colour schemes for the furni- Bamboo and rattan pieces If you're going to do your an are to be seen in their painting jobs in the garden, ture that plays such important part in lazy sum- natural colour, as well as in choose a clear and windless day. Make sure paint is free from mer outdoor living.

a dull black finish that makes lumps and that the solid and Whether you're buying these pieces look very new. liquid substances are thorough-

the sturdy new pieces or as so many For

wooden ly merged before you begin.

of us are doing over used furniture, the strong reds, Usually, it's convenient to pour

Parent-Child Projects

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By GARRY C. MYERS, Ph.D.

But the

They are

some of the paint Into an empty coffee tin, for it's so easy to dip your brush into a wide- mouthed container.

Before starting the work, get all your accessories together: paint, brushes, coffee, tin. stir- ring paddle, paint rag and paint brush cleaner. It will save those. annoying Interruptions!

KITH the fad for do-It-

elementary school, in the kindergarten yourself projects, specially

and primary grades, has for Household Hints wonderful parents have

years been stimulating children opportunity to make arith- to create for fun. metic seem more interesting taught to draw and paint, cut I wooden clothes pins dis--

and paste paper and cardboard, colour clothes, dip them in and easy to their children.

The protective even to make simple things from thinned shellae. The child can be made to wood. This emphasis on creative cant will prevent dirt from see the need of measuring craftsmanship may have been working into the wood of the

of the clothes pins. things carefully and draw an effective plans to scale, Halves, present

craze. quarters, eighths and the

most efficient clearing like take on real meaning Children's magazines for years: and changing a fraction to have carried things to make and with vacuum attachments, make

recently, adult sure all connections are a higher or lower denomina magazines and newspapers have This prevents loss of suction. tion soon makes sense.

forerunner

adult do-it-yourself

More do.

For

tight.

19

NEWSPAPER story worse the uniform

of blue ment to cause a child to change tells of a

13-year-old kneepants, white shirt and flam- practices which are undesirable, ing red tie and belt which, be but which he can overcome by

been running numerous features Loy who didn't like having cause of time facts, I was his own efforts.

on simple crafts for children. his schoolmates call him compelled to wear to school on

I've often wondered why more For clider children, there are

A careful manicure is Step A child should never be teased

common various special "mechanics" "Fatty." He weighed only the day that I had my midweek

One in washing your nylons. it in the presence of strangers,teachers don't make The ribbing leston. gymnasium

you haven't afractions and denominate num- magazines.

time to remove 105 pounds for his height of

adult or child, in either get from

my

fellow students 5 feet, 5 inches, but it was

that humiliates him. bors meaningful at school by

With more gal the inte

and more leisure snagged nails, wash hose in a a magnificent

weigh slug Some

and

capped jar half full of soapsuds, little too much to suit him, in match

years ago I observed an letting children with

most time for adults, mere passive then rinse them in the for. Unfortunately, a boy of elder child driving his younger measure.

weigh amusement and his playmates called whom I had always been afraid, sister to distraction by persistent school children don't often they You and I can guess that even bo boresome.

measure things

can

Rot so mad that, purely by sing. When his father internet courses in woodworking or TV will lose its magic lure for i

him "Fatty." So he decided

Ile practically the wolves let to reduce. stopped eating.

accident, liekeit him, and

ine alone for a while.

Very the

affords.

•

nter- and feres, he said, "Aw, gee, I'm

who long to do Use dental floss for sewing having fun." The father's reply

ply home economics. By that time, many persons was. "It Isn't really fun unices they have already had a good things themselves. Best of all, is buttons on children's wishable For a while his parents

of practice at common the parent-child companionship wear and the buttons will re

do-it-yourself project mala firmly anchored through noticed nothing but when he Not only do school children you are both having it. That's deal

wear and tear. dropped to 62 pounds, they se ench other, but adults fre- pretty good criterion to govern fractions and often in a

quently think

kow, whom and when you tease.abstract way, alas. the are very put him under medical funny when they tease a child. supervision. The ductors Restricted by the necessity for could find nothing wrong, erit iter met, the child his elders whether but in order to be sure of is at a serious disadvantage. cxuefly what he ate they Ted. have seen instances in which it to him through tubes, and by adults who thought they children were unmercifully good- The gained 10 pounds in five were funny, and when in des

days. In the meantine the 'peration the child gave a saucy doctors did a little psycholo- inswer, he was disciplined for gical exploring and got hold disrespect,

of the real story. Now the young fellow is doing justice to his meals.

they

Kind or Malicious

whicht

amounts

Occasion Lunch

A Special Occasion

With A Polish Flavour

London.

DILLY DE WOLFE was

But guest at the last in

་

By HELEN BURKE

how-

may In

Children should certainly not

One note of warning, of chopped currants and a cup be encouraged to develop a thin Another hoy attending a kin..

specially ever. The wine lamb.

vinegar They should be able to the series of Special Occa- (not mineed) private school suddenly ran take a reasonable Amount of sion lunches.

cooked for the dish. The quanti- greatly thicken the cream,

are to is coso, add, a little milk to tics of rice and onions away and slept under teesing and should learn how to

thin it down to a creamy con- Welsh, with a French your own liking.

sistency. porches for two nights be. give it back without being rude foro he gave himself up to offensive. At the same time, stage name and regarded Fry the onions, very lightly in

teasing

The addition of a little chop- and the re- police and was returned to persccution, whether by an older as an American comedian, a little fat. Add a dessertspoon

ped dill to boiled potatoes gives unusual flavour the school. The reason he child or a group against an in-he arrived wearing the hat of tomato purec

and dividual

for maining ingredients, then season them a quile

In this country, or by adults against and pincenez designed

with salt and plenty of freshly for us ran away was because heren, can be highly destruc- the Mrs Murgatroyd charac milled popper. Fill the peppers makes a very pleasing change. had a somewhat uncommon tive, particularly to children who ter he played in the film with the mixture

Place them but hardly abnormal dif- are naturally retiring and Blue Skies. A very funny bake for 45 minutes in a moder-

or

nutes called him "old brown malicious. A careful eye should Mrs Griffith-Jones, of Standon, The menu was submitted by

und blue eyes,"

Beats Bully

who,

despite

her

ALIAS BILLY DE WOLFE ¦!

flling had risen beautifully and was a warm brown,

Mrg

If coten hot, and at once, the flan will remain ruised long enough to make un excellent show, but 'cooled, ns' wo had it, MY CHOICE

the top levels down little. in a well-greased casserole and

Still, I think that, at this time ference in the colouring of inclined to be sensittyr, his eyes-one was brown, It makes a

James Hall, the wine expert of the year, it is better to have man, he is tremendously ato oven. That dish looks after

greatly en it at room temperature. difference too serious off duty.

itself Ideal for a hostess-cook, on this occasion, and one was blue. His class- whether fearing is kind

loyed the meat course, but, for

We all congratulated me, the dish of the meal was Griffith-Jones on her selection BEATEN

the Cream Cheese Fluffy Flan the reactions of be kept on.

of dishes. Billy de Wolfe's final children to teasing.

Achlid Herts,

The breaded pork cullets, typically. Polish sweet,

comment: "What enjoyable food! with

thoroughly Welsh name, turned farlal feature, a peculiar

Here is the recipe: Place an How well the wines went with x

be out to be Polish. Her menu was taken from the top leg, for exemple, should never be

cut just over in. to Bin. flan ring on

bait it! And the best conversation I tenned about it because It is what most people would like to really escalopes,

serve, Jinst different enough. to Yin, thick and beaten that.

ing-sheet and line it with pun have enjoyed since my arrival When I was # boy in beyond his control, He may be interesting

them through finely At least two of passed

In this country." no reason Milwaukee, I attended the Ger- however, legitimately be teased the dishes were typical of her sieved,

seasoned breadcrumbs Pastry. But I see

why, during hot, weather, you man Turnerverein--the German about something silly that he

from a two-day-old loaf, then

Yes, the conversation ahrouid not use a good short gymnastic cult

the 19th old, and indeed teasing may be own national food.

through beaten whole egg and

pastry or buy

flagged thanks to our bright ready-made

Mr I hated it, but I hated a better weapon than punish- century.

THE MENU

back through the crumbs again uncooked puff pastry, as it is so little Polish wife and de This, half an hour before frying dimoult to manipulate

Wolle himself, at this them on both sides in a little time of year. peanut pli.

Tree Stumps Turn Into Decorative Items

Akron, O.

Mra Erwin selects stumpa,

N Akron housewife has with unusual tapce, Vies

12:

Ruiz Habellia Fino Stuffed Green Peppers Meursault, 1052. Breaded Pork Cutista Now Potatoes dressed- with Butter and ́Pill

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were

I

und

Brush the pastry with white Mas Grifth-Jones

had sug-"of egg. gested butler but, because pork

ROBUST

never

ho-realised

The sherry, a very pleasant and not-too-dry one, was not it was needs to be well cooked

For the alling, I bought a 7oz, only our aperitif, but

and served with the stuffed peppers Cucumber in Bour Cream Sauce one must stand over food frying carton of cottage cheese

Cream Choose Fluffy Flan

in bultor, I used the peanut oil rubbed it through a sieve to get as wail, Mr Hall explained that Coffee

Instead. Then I cook a little a smooth puree. I then beat in this was because butter to the golden hiazol-nut 20%, whipping cream, 2oz, castor that the peppers would have a WAY WITH PEPPERS · state and poured it over the sugar and 2 ogg yolks.. I added fairly robust flavour and tho

escalopes on the platter,

1oz. sultanas, the grated rind of sherry would, stand up to it." Allow one not-too-Inrgo pep-

half a lemon, and teaspoon The Meursault, a good stroug A

WARNING

ful ground cinnamon. theper for each person. Cut a slit

white Burgundy, chuldi of doesn't like, buffs aho

course, went very well with the creating decorative items stumps with a power sander, in the side of each, or cut off

The recipe for the sour cream Finally, I whipped the egg pork, Mr Hall explained from "weatherwood."

pubs finishes the wood with the stalk end if the peppers are

Whip thick whites, not too dry, and folded in hot weather, a chilled wine the squat kind, and remove the sauce is simple. The weatherwood, explained sicet wool, and waxes.

core, seeds and remaining tissue, cream, then add a few drops of them into the mixture, tumed of this callhen was perhaps, Mrs Margaret Erwin,

She's only been at her hobby for the filing, who the cores wine, vinegar and salt, sugar and this into the pastry flan, baked better choleo than a red wine, from Bn uncle's farm in for a year, but already is busy instead of this, I shopped an pepper to taste. Pour this dress it for 10 minutes at 400 degre The Mourgault mad the further Michigan. Weather-penten ping supplying friends with lamp extra

cucum Fair. (gas maric:5), roduol the advantage of going well with pepper), Add slightly ing over tilnly.lood and flower tree stumpe; with a little work, basos

planters undercooked rice, chopped him ber and chill in the refrigers heat to 300 degrees Fahre (gs the cream cheese fant mako ideal'doctrations. for any fathioned Fron the woodpring onions and beat) and for for about an hour before mark 3) and baked it for an

other 30 minute when the room in the house, she said. United Prom

for Ave poppEG

comes

that,

**CLondon Mapress "Heroice).