1956-04-21 — Page 12

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1956.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

Bunny Teacloth

Edging

Chaize 37th Row:

Drst 4 kr (a beginning

diegram 10 end turns.

Iva into each of Utk decreased អ of row). follow of row, 3 ch. Now follow dingenm until sp and 1 blk remain working tight to inside of heavy line at corner,

ch, turn,

Couts MATERIALS: Mercer-Crochet No. 20 (20 grm).

balls selectext colour. 30 in (91.4 cm.)

Lanen, uf BALUNITY: Miwards Steel Crochet Hook No. 3. (Stack workers could use a No. 3 book workers a No. 2)

TENSION:

urul

5 rows and 5 spm

1 in. (2.3 cm.).

MEASUREMENTS:

23

eroch

43 LIE (109.2 cm.) square approx.

ABBREVIATIONS; CH-chain;

E

fr

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2 ch, misech or 12, 3 tr into

ext

block

G. plan to form net arkitional bik in Kloup

DIRECTIONS:

cha

Next How: 1 tr Into 4th

ncat ch. from hook, 1 tr into tus 3 tr of lust bik, 1 into xt tr, na into each of next ch, turn,

Next Bow: 1 tr into each next 2 1. 1 tr into top of turn- ing ch.3 chi, 171.

Follow dagun to top work- Ing to inside line at corner.

-part from 1st to 08th row

(one mare

quarter of reging completoi).

crat

Repeat from 1st row times omitting turning eh on

late-

11.0

lam tow.

Fasten off.

Overcast top of last foundation ch.

Row

fo

Knit While You Relax

Striped

Jacket With

Sleeves

Dolman

MATERIALS: 10 ozs. of Sir- dar Double Knitting Wool in Main Colour. 2 ozs. In Contrast Ing Colour 1 pair of No. 0 and of No. 10 Knitting 1 pair Needles. 6 Buttons.

MEASUREMENTS: To fa 34 16 36 inch bust. Length 22 inches,

TENSION: 9 sts, and 22 rown ~2 Inches.

ABBREVIATIONS:

K. knit,

P puri, st(s), stitch(es), sl, slip, rep. repent, K1B. Insert needi through: the loop below sext st on left hand needle and K. sup st, ut needle, inc. increase, der. decrease.

Begin at left cuff;~

With No 19 needles and Main Colour cast on 49 sly.

1st Row:

You should now have

com-

pleted the 13th row of the 10th Main colour stripe. Shape the neck.

105 sts.

Next Row: Work turn, leaving remaining str. on apare needle,

Now keeping bottom edge straight, cast off 2 as, at the beginning of next and alternato rows at neck erige until there are 83 sts, left,

Work row. Cast off.

Commence right front:~~

With No. 6 needles and Main Colour east on 63 sta. Werk in pattern. Work 2 roWVS.

Next Row: Cust un 2 sts, work

Commence at arrow s Iran with 57 ch.

Ist Row: Ir ante 4th ch from huck, Into each of next 2 ch (blk made), (2 ch, màss 2 ch; tr into next eb) 18 ties (18 apa made), | tr into each of next 3 ch (blk munde), 3 vh, turn

Zud How: Miss Arst fr, 1 r Into each of mes: 3 tr (blk inade over bik), (2 el. 1 tr into next try 16 tires til spes made over 16 sp), 1 t into each of next 2 tr, tanto top of tartaling ilk made over lik), 3 eh furn

17

tt

3rd How: 1 lk. 1 ap. (2 into nex 11 tr inte next tra twice 12 liks minde over 2 pr.

13 sps, Dk. 3 ch, furn

4th Row: bik, 11 sp, 1 olk,

1 sp, (2 ch, nuss 2 r. 1 te into

next by twice (2 55 made over

2 biks. bik, 3 ch. TUR

Now follow diagram from 5th

to 24th row turning with 3 che

ast end of last row.

25th Row:

tr inlo 4th ch

from hook, 1 tr Into next ch. 1 Ir into next ir jan extension blk inadel, follow diagram to end

of row, 3 eh, turn

2010 and 27th Bows:

diagram.

Follow

28th Row: 1 DIK, 11 sps, 2

2 eh, thread over blks, 3 xps,

12 17, Bisert hook into top of turning cb, thread over and dow and

loop through, thread over draw through top thus mak- ing a ch st, complete as for a ir ta foundation made), make 3 more foundation to by inserting to chat of previous tr (a bik madenotat cind of row), 3 ch. turn. Follow diagram from 2918 186 Fow, ulling turning ch on last roN.

Wilhdrawn thread 4 in. (.0 em.) from edge of linen ali cound. Turn back a small hemn to wrong side and work a row at de all round working into sp drawn thread and working 3 uf de into sane place at cornerY, join with

first sa into Fasien off.

TL

tívercast eelping to de edge Damp and press.

cle.

2nd Row: P1, K1, rep. from

Ki, Pl. rep, from

to

to the last st. K

Following row: Work to end Rep. the last 2 rows 4 times More.

Break Main and Join Con- trasting colour.

and

on

2

to the last st.. Pi.

Rep. the 2 rows for 3 inches, ending with the 2nd row. R needles Change to No. continue in pattern:-

1st Row: SLI, K1, KIB, KI

Next Row: Cast

sta. work to end.

Dec. Ist, at enchi

nch end of the Following Row: Work to end. next row and then every follow- ing 8th row until there are 49 sts. left.

KIB, Ki.

Break Comcasting and join Main colour.

rep from to the last st., Ki.

2nd Row: St.

21" to end.

These 2 rows form the pattern, Work & rows.

In 1 st at each end of the next row

Next Row: Cast on 2 sts, work to end.

Fellowing Row: Work to end.

rows Rep. the last 2

twico

OTC.

Next Row: Cust on 2 sts, work Con- to end.

Work 7 rows. Chango to No. 10 needles continue In Main Colour.

and

Next Row: K1, P1, rep, from to the lost st., Kl.

Following Row: * P1, K1, rep. from to the last st., Pi.

Rep. these 2 rows for 3 inches Cast off in rib. The Border and Collar:—

Work 1 row.

Break Min and joint

trasting colour.

Work 2 rows.

Break Contrasting

Main colour.

Juin

Continue in pattern, working in stripes of 22 rows Main

IFA erlour and 2 rows Contrast - ing colour.

and

Following Row: Work to end, turn and east on 2 sts.

Break wool and lenve 105 is on a spare needle.

Rejoin Main colour wool

there

to

Mis on spare needle for back.

Work 06 rows.

With No. 10 needles and Main colour cast on 20 sis.

1st Row: St.1, from

have voin

Workrows

Inc. st. at each end of the ཧྥན་

then every

row

and

following

8th row until there

are 89 sìs

Work 5 rows

You should

now have picted the 10th row of the Main colour stripe.

ton- 7th

Next Row: Cast on work to end, turn and casi

Work 74 rows.

You should now

K1, P1, rep.

• to the last st., Kl. Rep

pieled the th row of the 13th this row throughout Main colour stripe.

alternale row until there are 40 sis, ending at the straight edge. Now work mitro as follows:- Rib 32, turn and rib 32. Rib 24, turn and rib 24. Rib 16, turn and rib 18. Rib 8, turn and rib B Rib turn and rib 9. Rib 17, turn and rib 17. Rib 25, turn and rib 25. Rib 33, turn and rib 33. Continue over all the sts. Work & inches straight. Work 2nd mitre as first, Now

st dec. 1

fun

every alternate row at same edge as increases unill there are 20 sta. jeft

1at

Work to same length

Work until border measures 1 piece,

Next Row: Work to end, and inch,

105 pts. than work across the left on spare needle.

Continue yer ol the sts. Work 74 rows,

com~

You should now have pleted the 11th row of the 16th sts. Main colour stripe.

on

Cast off 80 sts. at the begin

ning of the next 2 rows.

Work 5 roWS.

Muke buttonholes in the next 2 rows by casting off the centre 4 sts. in the 1st row and casting them on again in next.

Make 5 more buttonholes 2%

inches apart.

Work 11⁄2 uches after last buttonhole has been completed, Inc. st. at the beginning of every the next row and then

Cast air,

To Make Up:--

Sew side and undersleeve seams, overstitching ribbing and bockstitching remainder.

Fold 0 st on to wrong sido at bottom edge and slip st.

Sew on border and collar, matching shaped edges.

Press

Sew on buttons.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Weyers bore its best use redd fter cuel Wearing The will make Mockings at belter and last longer Don't rub or twist.

Shake stockings up and down in warm soap- suds. 9 But in towel and hang them over

a smooth rod to dry

In chores.tig road tre sewing, select

that upprul»

a rolour

e shade darker than the fabric.

Always match instead to the dominant colour in a

print fabric,

Good Grooming And Health

By W. W. BAUER, M.D.

re-

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LOTHING and ita

Clothing has assumed a con- ution u health seems

rection with modesty-witness use of the phrase the commCIFY

Actually from the naked savages,** quite obvious purely physical standpoint, goud many savages are tur from co.n naked, and when they are, then

Symbol of this very nakedness is

kinki modesty their

Ono dresses fortably

to keep

al Warm

changeable senson and modesty. Often they cover their

sometimes it's quite a trick

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women up after marriage.

tremec

sensitive children adversely. khaw it

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anan who has a hard fine resisting the buying of than he needs. mare clothing beenuse in his childhood he was pover by well dressed as those with whom he associated.

CLOTHING STYLES

11

wall of

31 is important lo children, and to

few grown-ups, to guess the weather right.

Our children, of course, must

that their clothes he in style, Оле protects himself be taught to wear clothes, be-

When a mother with more good against extremes of heat cause is the thing to do in our

intentions than insight. care. But they should not be

her high school and cold, and of course, one society.

fully cleaned cluughter's two-tone saddle conforms to the social trend taught that nakedness is evil in and of itself, and by associa -

shoes, the was rewarded only the day. The Bikini on. that the of

portions of the

will

protest: "Mother, have body usually kept covered are

we NEVER clean shoes like bathing suit would

Many ex-

Thi When Jeans and shirts been as unthinkable in the therefore evil, too.

modern persons practise

are the vogur, try to get your gaslight days of 1890's

nudity within the

Adolescent daughter into any would the bathing costume family circle; others go to the

Or your son W thing else. There has of that day on the modern opposite extreme,

Since huppines and content- been great argument over these ment is a large part of any real girl.

opposing viewpoints. I do not concept of good health, we must belleve that it is either the concede that appearance, includ nudity or the concealment which ing clothing, can be a factor in

Either can be whole- have matters.

really freling world. some; either can be prurient.

Did you notice that fellow on. It is the underlying approach and attitude.

the bus this morning-the one with the new topeont? Pretty sharp!

MENTAL

LIFT

Burt clothing may special psychological meanings. The "rules" of good health often contain items about clean hands and finger nails, well-brushed huir and neat clothing. has good grooming to do with health? How about the dirty

in neglected urchin

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SCHOOL FOR TEENAGERS....... by Helen Burke

MAGIC IN THE EGG

THERE

THE

for

is magic in an egg when it gets into the hands of a good cook. So I decided to devote most of my second lesson teenagers to egg cookery. The pupils turned up early for their lesson, which was just as well. It took the best part of four hours.

Quiche

We started with Lorraine, which takes the longest to prepare. Here are the ingredients for the pastry:

Six ounces plain flour: good pinch of salt; 3oz. fat (butter, vegeinble fut or lard): waler to bind,

and

The cold fat was cut into small pieces. With the tips of their fingers the puplis fightly rubbed it into the sifted four ord seit to the fine bread-

with

For the filling we used:

2 blanched rashers of bacon

2 to 3 ouners

Cheddar cheese

Gruyere

2 large or 3 small eggs

pint milic

Pepper and salt to toste

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Meet The Class ...

Left to right: Banks. only

Piern

15, the boy In tho teenagers' cookery course; Elain Jackson, 18; Alexandra Gordon Clark. 17:

and

Jeanine Oreki,

15.

We strewel the sliced bacon on the ballom of the flan, 11 with the thinly covered allced cheese, made a custard with the eggs, milk and season- ing, and poured it into the flan, tendency towards burning and porate the yolks and whites.

which was then baked for 30 the fudge is smoother.

Jesuine made an Omelette Fines

gay No. 3.

minutes at 350 degrees Fahr or She left it for 10 minutes Herbes with chopped parsley, while the buttered a shallow 7in, but we would have liked to Next, she added have fresh tarragon and chervil,

made This dish can be made with by 8in tin.

Д Spinach out the cheese. For vegetarian the vanilla essence and beat the too. Piers

mixture until ale, dropped Omelette. For these two tho cooking, we agreed to omit the

into cold water, took on the additions were beaten into the bacon. Similar savoury flans can characteristle fudge lexture, eggs. be made with sliced mushrooms

The fudge should then be at and/or cooked pens.

The basic

once poured into the prepared finn is the important part.

AN APRON

tin

Hero

I took over.

Sandra made a Chicken Liver Omelette and Elaine a Mush- For each of these. The worst had happened: it room one.

additon was made just set before I could pour it. Just the about a quarter of a minute's before turning and rolling the over-beating!

the

fudg

amazemin so that

oniclette,

SIMPLE WAY

crumb singe, dotted the surtuce TUST then Andrew Ray, boy

ittle cold

water and star of Hing for Catty at the stred it in with my flexible Lyric Theatre, arrived. We tied

But I showed them how to old dinner knife. They then an apron around him and let

get around that. We added

I have a heavy, flat, shollow gathered the pastry up on to the him take a hand in the cooking,

about a dessertspoon of hot slanting-rimmed iron pan which nger tips und worked it lightly

best it

again this

I use for nothing but emelettes Young people like fudge, and water and together just enough to get rid

heat-und. to and time, over a my pupils were no exception.

almost pancakes. It is of any joins.

I had planned lo give them

make a impossible not to Hort

A successful omelette in it because it, not only to became the rolling-out lesson surface with very little flour and "reward" them for their good poured quile endily. It set in rolled out the pastry to less than work, but also because I want about five minutes, when we cut it into small squares and passed know something inch thick, ed them to

The addition of Having placed a flan ring on a about boiling sugar without hav them around. baking-shtet, we Bfted

the ing to use a sugar thermometer, a little hot water will always pastry on the rolling-pin over What they learned can be ap- often rocic fudge. it and gently eased it in without plied to other preparations. stretching... We flattened it well

Д

We dusted

quarter of on

vie

oh

Here are the ingredients:

1⁄2 pint milic

also

Ulb. sugar

2oz. triter

to the base because, if even a tiny air-pocket Is left, the

will pastry

pressed it well into the sides. pricked the bottom with a fork. then left the pastry to relax for a little.

and

ak

EXCESS

1/4 teaspoon salt

FOR FOUR FILAINE made Eggs Florentine, The ingredi de lub stantial luncheon or supper dish

for four persona are:

1 packet trozen spinach, cook-

ed and drained.

1 to 2 ounces butter

8

СЕКА

pint Mornay Sauce

and

nothing ever slicks. It is never washed but simply rubbed clean with kitchen paper.

Jeanine had the first go, Wo melted a small piece of unsalted butter in the not-too-het pan and swirled around to cont both the bottom and poured in the ends and I showed her a very simple way of ensur- ing that the eggs ran through to the bottom by drawing in the

معاسي

with two

spoons and the gradually working it to sides. She then drew the pan. from the heat, rested it for a

LIVE, LET LIVE

1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla essence

Arguments have risen in

Jeanine rubbed the inside of a Achools over "gang" showers,

really large pan with unsalted ROLLING-PIN every especially for giris. And a lot

butter to help to prevent tho possible way, but quite able to of breath has been wasted need-

She chopped the drained, moment, and gave it a gentle

banut. weight or more in lessly in

Freshly rolled pastry is clastic fudge bolling over. She poured discussing them pro

be left for this in the milk added the sugar, cooked, seasoned spinach

With fork, turned up the Percivals who are

If are and con. ptivate showers ned and full_of_

vita-

fastened along the sides or at ensticity to disappear so that, then stirred them over a low warmod it in the melted butter. edge nearest the handle, Upped wan dis- She spread it in on calreo dials, the handle upwards and urged are provided for those who want

controvery min pills? These are the excep- them, the

the pastry will heat until the sear time needed for the back of the closet and will when baked

sill well below bolling point. it and dropped a raw at placed a hot plate under the Hons which prove the rule, usually dle down for want of care and repair of house not interfere with the visibility neither shrink nor become dis- solved but with the temperature made eight little depressions in the omelette birds and urged

of the linens on the deeper torted in shape.

oach. But good grooming fuel, and before long everybody held linens, can be reduced shelves.

These were

corted with Pillow cases, napkins,

From then on, without further a neat clean edge we run stirring the does play a part in total health will be using the gang show, if storage of these items is dishtowels and potholders will the rolling-pin, over the top rapidly to a warm cream tone.

syrup was bolled Mornay Sauca (one of last rim of the pan and turned the omelatte over on to it. A per- in the pychologlent part of It's no fun being

week's lessons). The dish was feet alone in

of fian, cutting

omelette, without nny healthful living.

crowd, To those advanced carefully planned.

put into a fairly hot oven (425)

tinti golden souls who themselves have no Town State College sug-

We tested it by dropping a degrees Fahr, or gas No. 6) to Inches pastry. We fitted two strips of

The Spinach Omelette was Ons woman aid that when

a spoon into cold brown the top and so the eggs the she felt really low, she went inhibitions, and don't want any gests rolling small articles deep, and are easy to out, tako greased greaseproof paper into little from

flon, then, to hold its shape, water. It had reached what we insido.

on equal Fuccess. For the such bought herself

doilles, dressor

Chicken Liver und Mushroondar with butter besins we filled it

the "slightly cail

4th ball" frivolous hat. Not everybody

scarves and table mats on Additional space in drawers | (used for this job for many slogo-that is, it forined a not-

50 EASY

Omejoties, we sliced both livers Wo bakod. It for 16

and mushrooms can afford now hats on such

and gently tubes to provent creases and which are unnecessarily deep years).

too-stiff ball in the water. On

cooked basis, but the underlying iden

them (soparately or ́can be used by adding a liftout | minuten In come schools, uniform to utilise deep,

in a fairly hot oven a rupar thermometer, I regis. (MELETTE-MAKING is narrow drawer. It glider strips are (approx The new hat have been adopted to remove the

425 degrees Fahr or tered 249 degrees Falir:

course) in a tile butter. Each can be adopted.

mounted in the interior of doop ne No. 6), removed the best was merely a symbol of n fresh differences in clothing between shelf space.

was spread on iis own omelette point of view. Ingenuity can the children of the wealthier To provide extra storage drawer, trny drawers, not over and paper and, to prevent the She removed the fudgo from I gave each pupil a basin, two and then rolled up.

uggest innumerable

clopels where ways of familles ang) those of the poorer, spade-in

the four inches deep, will fit inside custard making the pastry soggy, the boat and stirred the butter og pepper, and, salt, and a arriving at the mme recult less beneuse it is recognised that in-shelves are placed far apart, and provide more room-United brushed the inside of the dari arul salt into it. By adding whk, and wet them beating, the WORLD COPYRIGHT RISK VID BA expensively.

feriority in any area may offwot half shelves can easily Press.

out and

body elso to have them. I let others live theirs.. would say-live your life and

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