1956-03-03 — Page 12

Man's T-Shirt Sweater

gr.)

MATERIALS: }} (30 balls of Penguin Alpla 4-ply wool, 2 needles. No, 11

SIZE: To suit a chest mensure- ment of 38 inches.

TENSION: 15 sts, and 18 rows to 2 inche

ABBREVIATIONS: K. knit; p. purl; ie, increase; deu, decrease; st stitch: beg. beginning: Int. Inches; foll following: rem. τρα maining.

STITCH: Stocking stitch, Le row knit, 1 row puri.

All

MEASUREMENT 5: measurements given ara on The straight.

FRONT

With size 11 needles cast on 15 sts, and work in st.st. When

work incasures 15% ., inc. I

at at each end of every 4th row

4 times, the cast on at beg of

eext and foll rows

times, 3 stu, twice. 7 als, twier ondi 10 sta. twice. Where work measures 18 Jus, ine.

101

each end of every 3rd row times. At the same time, when work measures 21% ins, divide the work in two and finith euch side separately. At centre edge east on 2 sts. for a hem and, at this edge inc. 1 st. every 24 in. 10 times. When work measures 24 insenal of

off at outside ede

2 sta 21 times, 3 sts. 3 times and

5 sts. once. At this point cast certze centre

10 sts. ones,

off

nt

2 st. 4 times and 1 st. 9 times. At the same time continue to cast off at outside edge 4 sta, 11 times and 3 sts. 3 times. Work the other side to correspond.

BACK

The buck is as the front In- cluding the increasings far sleeves, but do not divide the work In IWU AL the point were work measures 244 east off at brg, of next and foll

12 times, 3 rows sta

sts. twice, 4 stx 20 At this po ens of the centre staand Anish each side separately. At centre edge enat si st. of sta. 3 times and at outside ing. edge at the same tine. 2 sts 3 times. Work the other side

correspond

Cast

COLLAR

on 18 sta and work

to

Dn NIN

42

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1956.

PRACTICAL

sts., and knit across the of every row until all sts. ou sparo нeedie.

for in eliminated. Repeat

Work

on these 120 sta. for 6% ritie Cast off.

BORDERS FOR SIDE

OPENINGS

SLEEVE BANDS

HOMECRAFT

Two-Toned Luncheon Mats

MATERIALS: Coats Chain Mercer-Crochet No. | 20 (20 grm) 4 Balls selected colour and 2 balls contrast- ing colour. Milwards Steel Crochet Hook No. 8., (Slack workers could use a No. 81⁄2 hook and tight workers No. 24).

D

TENSION: Size of Motif 211⁄2 in. (6.3 cm.) square.

MEASUREMENTS:

4 x

G motifs - Centrepiece 10 in. x 15 in. (25.4 cm x 38.1 cm.). 4 x 6 motifs — Place Mat -- 10 in. x 12% în. (25.4 cm. x 81. 8 cm.),

ABBREVIATIONS: Ch- chain; ss slipstitch; de double crochet; hlf tr half treble; tr treble; dbl tr double treble: sp→→→ space; st stitch.

FIRST MOTIF

With selected colour commence with 5 ch, join with a ss to form a ring.

1st Row: 8 ch, 19′ tr into ring. I es into 3rd of 8 ch.

2nd Row: 5 ch, 1 tr into next tr, 2 ch; repent from * ending with 1 ss into 3rd of 5 ch (20 sps). Fusten off.

'3rd Row: Attach con- trasting colour to first sp, 4 ch, 2 dbl tr into same sp leaving the last loop of ench on hook, thread over and on are garment and seam, then fold draw through all loops

3 other border over on to right side and hook (a cluster made),

hem all round. Repeat for other ch. 1 dbl tr into next sp, 3 side opening. Join the sleeve ch. a 3 dbi tr cluster into banda to form a circle, and pla

in

Cast on 16 st. and work stal. for 12% Ins. Cast off and

repeat.

Press

TO MAKE UP

•

to edge of sleeves, right side to next ep; repent from end- right side. Seam together. Fote ing with 3 ch, 1 dbl tr into in half and hom down wrong next sp, 3 ch, 1 ss into top side. Now fold collar in half

on wrong side and seam side of first cluster..

edges together, Turn back on off.

Fasten

Cast on 18 sts. Work in st.st. for 31 ins. At right edge (right เด alte facing cast off 2 ata, Amel alde place st st. Al night efixe (right

remaining sts сл STATE

coch plece carefully. to right side and pin to gar- 4fh Row: Attach selected (oeing) inc. 1 st every 4th row needle for time being. Knit an

Scam up shoulder seams. Seam ment, right side to right side colour to first sp, 4 ch, 2 dbl tr 10 upes and every 3rd row 14 other

burder in reverse and up side seams, starling 6% Ins. Seam along revers and round 3 ch and 3 dbl ir rito anme sp times, linishing with a purl cow. place this to the right of the from the bottom. Turn up & neck. Her down bacit of neck Leave on spare nelle for time Arst borcier making sure that the inch hem round bottom. Fut and slip-stitch edges and bottom being. Work anulher piece in 4 cast off sts. come together on borders for side openings as of revers to the inside of the reverse Now, with right sid the middle. Work all along the follows: pin the right side of garment. Press the seams, bor- facing, knit aeroset these ata, enst гow

wrong and east off 2 sts. at beg.

113

border to the

side of ders, collar and revèrs,

Helen Burke Prepares Three Delicious Soups And Finds

A NEW WORD FOR BORSCH

-SCRUMBUMPTIOUS!

Start with two not-too-thick loz. butter, without colouring it. pints leeks. cut into thin rings,

(corner formed), * 3 tr into next

next

sp. hif tr 2 de into next sp, 2 de hlf te info next sp, 3 ir into 57, 3 dbl tr 3 ch and 3 dbl tr info next sp (another corner formed); repent from - twice more, 3 fe into next 3, 1 hif ir 7 de info next sp, 2 de 1 hif tr into next sy, 3 tr into next sp. Fes into 4th of 4 ch.

5th How: 3 ch, 1 tr into ench fof next 2 dbl tr, 3 tr 3 ch and

3 fr into next corner sp, 1

tr

ESTE Baby And The Birthmark

info ench of next ets, 3 ch.

miss next 3 sts, 1 de into next

st, 3 ch, miss 2 sta, 1 ir into each

of next 6 sts; repeat from Comitting 3 tr at end of last re-

peat, 1 ss info 3rd of 3 ch.

6th Row: 3 ch, 1 tr into each

of next 6 tr. 3 tr 3 ch and 3 tr into next corner sp, 1 tr into each of next 6 tr, (5 ch, 1

JEWEL and Ben TIMMY

hot water, two good JIM

2 Remove from the heat and add pinches of saffron, rock salt and Warriss are working chopped onions. 2 thinly sliced 1 pint milk. Bring to the boil, freshly milled pepper to taste. in one of the coldest spots carrots, 2 stalks of celery cut in whisking well, then simmer To the above,

It my chef made in London Wembley match sticks. Warm them gently while preparing the a ash stock by adding the heads skating rink. So I thought together in 2 tablespoons butter mussels.

and tails of several Mediter they would enjoy some real-

ly warming soup.

“Scrumbumptious!" Jimmy when he borsch. Polish style.

sipped

#ald

Ty

Jimmy Look soured crearm

with his borsch, but not Ben.

over

very modest heat.

CREAM ON TOP

white them

Simmer

Centrepiece-Make 4 rows of

10 motifs,

VERHEARD

bus:

By W. W. BAUER, M.D.

on

the

"And the baby had a birthmarks make it a virtual mark? where?"

"Right on her face, too and just exactly like a red spider."

certainty that almost any, birth- mark can be related to some pregnancy. experience during There is no direct connection between the nervous system of

the mother and that of the

baby, and this makes "marking"

"The doctors will tell you that macking has nothing to do an impossibility. with it at all."

There are only three kinds of prenatal "influence”

which the

immunisa

"Oh, sure they will. But if mother con transmit to her it hasn't let them explain why baby nutritional, it happens so often. That's what

I want to hear."

tional and perhaps hormonal.

The mother's food obviously feeds the baby, and if she eats Well, ladies, the Romans had wisely he will be well-nourish-

"Oh, yes, the poor child into next loop) twice, 6 ch, miss has a birthmark on her face

T next 3 tr, 1 tr into each of next one of those with hair all randan fish. I use those of red fr; repeat from omitting 6 shaking them to coat them with Chop a leek and ↑ small mullet and gurnet, together at end of lost repeat, 1 ss into over it." the fat and to encourage the onion, Add several stalics of with a whole small mackerel 3rd of 3 ch. Faston off.

"Like EL mouse, you essences of the vegetables to parsley and, if you have it, a and a whole whiting,

mean?" come oui. When well softened good claret glass of dry

4th Row: Attach until soff,

гов then

contrasting

a "That's it-It's called colour to any corner sp, 5 dc ndd, if you like, a spoonful of wine, though dry cider will đó

a sieve.

Her mother too. mouse, plain flour and work it well in, quite well. Add, too, a good

this stockt

I add Velb, lato same sp, de into each tr then add 1 pint shin beef stock. few turns of the popper mill, small conger cel, the best other corner spy all round, 1 83

and 6 de into each loop and marked her." Ben went into details about a Cover and cook until the but no salt. Bring to a furious parts of the red melles and borsch he had enjoyed In végétables are ready,

boll and, for four to five good gurnet and four prowns

Into first de. Fasten off. cut Budapest.

helpings, odd 2 quarts of into rounds, and simmer them scrubbed mussels. Cover tightly just enough to cook them. and holl hard for 3 minuter.

This is a resounding good

a phrase, "post hoc, ergo prop- ed. The immunity she has ac- Next. add the deep ruby Strain the stock into jug. afew and worth while giving a

Place Mat Make & rows of 5

"You mean £1 mouse ter hoc," which being roughly quired against disease by con- "Did you take sour cream in liquid from a large tin of whole Take the mussels from their trial.

motifs.

frightened her mother while translated, refers to two events taet or by recovery, is likewise baby beetroots (not the pale shells and removo the black SerumBumptions! Budapest?" I asked.

ones), a tablespoon of wing stems and any weed still re-

she was carrying the baby? which followed in sequence, the transmitted temporarily to Saw motife neatly together.

second being the direct baby through her blood. vinegar, a cube of sugar, 2 to 3 maining. Whisk the stock into WORLD COPGET RESERVED Damp and play out to measure That happened to my sister, result of the first. When a there is recent evidence that if thinly sliced inner leaves of the sauce, pouring if carefully

ments.

only it was a spider." pregnant woman saw a frighten- she keeps her endocrine gland 1 cabbage, and pepper and salt to from the jug so as to leave

ing object, co mouse or dystem In a turmoil through taste. (I do not use coarse rock any sediment Dahind. If

spider, and her baby had

fretting,

worrying. entertain- salt in this soup because I find necessary, add enough water to

birthmark, people put one and ing fears or resentments, Bho It tends to bleach the colour.) thin down the soup and make

one together and made-two, may by hormonal transmission When the cabbage is cooked, it supply, enough' for four fo

Actually the two had no con through the placenta cause hor add as much thinly shredded five. Taste, and, if required, I said, "that's what beetroot

nection.

baby to be emotionally disturb ភេទ desired. ficat add a little salt, Borsch is beetroot through and the soup is ready,

Top each serving with a good Add the mussels and hent teaspoon of soured double through but do not boll under SPECIAL

cream. If sour cream is un- any circumstances. Finally, ada available, use fresh cream; when two fablespoons cream, or a it is about half whipped squeeze nice piece dvigniled butter in a little lemon juice and whip and a tablespoon of chopped again until it is Brm enough parsley, and the soup is ready, barely to hold its shape.

"Not me," he said.

"You like beetroot soup?" asked Jimmy.

"Me?

No-0-0.

don't like beetroot at all."

"Well," you've had. soup,"

BEN

rose

He couldn't believe it, though I do not know what else could

the warm Have given i toric.

Sald Ben, "I make soup, but f's my own special. I'm very To serve with the soup. simple. I just boil together

I

London Represt Service,

MAKE THE TEENAGER'S ROOM

A PLACE TO GROW UP IN

one

the

And

now

now

To show the absurdity of reasoning that There #EQUENCO implies

cause,

physician nodded gravely when 'a preg- nant woman expressed her fear

But birthmarka?. NO, By ELEANOR ROSS

that having been bilten, not merely frightened, by n dox. Birthmarks need no longer be A day bed is always right, baby, "Yes," he said. "I know formerly necessary. Even the she would surely "markt" hor tolerated to nearly the extent NE way to keep a teen- days don't allow for refurnishi- ON

·BQUILLABAISSE

age girl happy is to give ing overnight, but motor vertible sota if a real living est lady accidentally come upon resistant to treatment,

smarter is the con- an instance where a very mod "port-wine mark," formerly so daughters should make a long- Here Is Bouillabaisse i Rafed as Ther a room of her own, if it range plan for piece-by-pices room look is desired. There are a swimming hole where she raw plelds in many instances to new onions, turnips, swedes, carrots, Prepared Meiba toast.

Very soup but, in reality, 18 isnis at all possible, and to buying. With wing midation,, many makes, many styles, most a number of men without both methods. These include dumplings and then add a ment the easiest way I know

quickly toast ready-sliced bread, glorious fish stew, I know that give it a living-room look, the room should still be sulleblo of them excellent. The newing aults. And her baby was drugs, minor surgical cube. I xursa I'm a

methods Cut it through with a very we cannot get some fish pbatta

such as akin common, but it tastes good to

sharp knife to make two allees liar to the Mediterranean, but then it becomes her sane when she steps out into the convertibles come in a varialy born without any clothes one

planing, major enrder world,

of Bobutiful coverings so that

plastic surgery. In selected in- me"

Bald Jimmy.

It should be gay to work out. each. Place them, cut sides up, that should not stop us making - tuary, sfody, lounge, where I love soup,"

stances, and X-ray or other as near as possible she can be alone with her

any type of colour scheme,

adurce of radiation.. "My wife makes the best Scoteli under the grill and dry them somoining

dreams as well as with her

By seldeting good quality unið Not much

Here is are adaptation of a setivities. When it has a school days, the teen-ager if space is restricted, choose refute the idea that bables can cannot be remedied. These are

attractive furnishings during Provide'n good table for study. own chicken noodle soup!"

trouble but how few places,

to to conceal conditions which As Jimmy and Ben werd up these days, bother to serve ill,

recipe given to me by a ciet onliving-mom look, it also few and she has wonderful foking or a drop leaf style. A posed to como to visit me.

be marked by For 4 to 5 servings op delightful place for enter, beriburg with which to set up all desk is an incentive for

maternal nót ordinary had prepared throo roups-

MUSSEL SOUP

Spanish ontor and live the taining hay friends, as well, hemadeepa ne to sell on writing and for keeping or perences, lime gatening spe

either frightening special preparations allfed bo Beetroot, Mussel and Boullia- batase--but

not the muffed Wo

some as stage. Quickest cream soup I know while parts of 2 slender jener, we the flent reirent (foW PAT

proper

formed early in the Baby's make-up. Appointment, fo I went to thent. is cream of mussels,

Make sure that study development, During the blitefly cold bufney, better · flavoured than oyster or spoon of olive off. Add 2 to 3 rady oF JUSS 107 Guiét, pazite for metable, far-fwentzero and reading lamps are properly many, instances of record whard

If In for Slowly cook them in a tables

And there fre lanation.

Appearance has much to do the pot of borseli on my knees any other shellfish sotap Once very finely chopped cover of

A mirrored shelf or Thors are as many versions The muscle are well sorubedo is nog in growing-time ho tention Cheese for me. Bows for holding then precious curred long after the mark hit with health, People who th

Of cou daughter Winderkif mould, jhow tmi dusting it is

Broth. And you should taste her curled Melba toast.

out. You then have perfectly to the classic dish

the

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was simple.

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in

There is serious science

Cosmetics, too, may be used

cosmetics, but

or the supposed

oc- moralą, and moralo in turn

already beats developedi

ninjtë "good, sopaaranom, kre not. silly. Untos they The laws of coincidence, and overdo it,hey are profoundly