THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1958.
PRACTICAL
HOMECRAFT
The Round Table Comes Back
THE round dining table
THE
has emerged from the Victorian era into the sleek, modern Interiors of today. With young marrieds, the table may be the same one Grandma used, of heavy walnut with a pedestal buse. Dining table de- signers ure turning out lighter versions for today's customers, with tapering, brass-tipped legs.
the The silhouette is same, however, whether the table itself is old or new. And the bright mood of modern dinner parties de mands table settings that aro guy, unusual, and im aginative.
Experts suggest making around tablecloth, to fall
to
the floor in graceful swirls. Select n multi- coloured stripe for gaiety, such as this one designed in, decorator widths Schiaparelli. Even if you're not a whiz at geometry, round tablecloth is easy to
by
make if you follow these simple instructions.
TO MAKE
First, find centre of table,
run
tape measure
centre of table
from
over edge
to point about one inch fromn floor. This will give you the radius of your circle.
Cut strip of fabric twice long as measurement plus 2- for hem allowance. Lay strip across table so that it falls to floor on either side. Cut two more strips of fabric of equal length. Each strip should be wide enough to that the length and width of the tablecloth are equal, Pin selvages together, matching stripes. Stitch seams. Press open. The resulting cloth should be a large square, all sides equal, Lay fabric fint on floor,
Fold fabric in half lengthwise, Find centre of folded line. Tie piece of string to thumbtuck, and Insert thumbtack al centre point of fold. Measure of length of string equal to radius mea- *** surement, and the chalk to other end of airing. Use string 09 compass, and drow half-circle on fabric with chalk. Cuf, allow- ing an inch extra all around.
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
"DIAMOND
ure
A
girl's best friend," By HARVEY DAY
runs the popular song.
True, though perhaps a trifle cynical.
rance
-
Once a plece is cut away that should not have been,, no agency on earth can put it back, and the stone may lose hundreds or even thousands of pounds in
It isn't any good taking a value. And if true the Maha- modern stone to an expert and
trying to pasa it of 45 ATL The Meghal emperor Shah of Kapurthala heirloom centuries old. It just Jehan ance commissioned o former_musical comedy atar won't wash. One peep at it lapidary to cut a diamond of the Stella Rudge-the Inheritor through a powerful lene and fricat quality Avelghing, 3920 of seven suitcases packed our deception will be exposed, for in the old days they rose-cut with diamonds, rubies, their
diamonds; that is, gave emeralds, sapphires and the top of the stone a flat sur- pearls, has certainly gained fece and then cut rows of little
irtanjin facets up host of friends.
The Koh-i-nor, now among the The diamond la not the store British Crown jewels, was cut of every woman's choice, though like that few have been known to cringe away with revulsion if one is offered.
And every girl feels
that lenses were the sides.
The mirecto of it is that with instruments and their crude hard-worked lathes the ancients
could produce such resulta. a few
carata da large on a babe's fist. The man bungled the job so Endly that instead of being paid he was Aned 10,000 rupeest
It wasn't till the 17th century mound that enabled the "brilliant cut," now seen in the most expensive It diamond runs, to be made, took 2 years to cut the Golconda, found by a slaya in 1701 and the dust alone, when recoverod,
was worth £7,0001 fetched, £135,000, was mounted in the crown of Louls
It diamond's
far more able to face the hard world with sprinkled on her, than without.
Yet very few women know anything about the very gema that help to enhance their loveliness.
0
No two diamonds of approel- able size are alike. If you take
expensive diamond to Jeweller and ask him to buy it, will probably recognise t tend ask, unobtrusively and deviously, how it carne into your hands.
Nor do most girls know that
a diamond is composed of the purest carbon of such toughness int it would take a pressure of many tons per square inch to crusk t-yet, if dropped accidently on a
stone floor oya tiled hearth even the most costly diamond is likely (0 shatter into fragments!
Diamonds though transparent, are not necessarily colourless. They may be of any colour or shade from coal black to rose pink, depending upon the metal oxides in the oro from which they are extracted. If the dia- monda a girl wears are exposed to extreme changes of tempera- ture or even placed near strong chemicals they may change colour! Tho phycicist, Sir William Crookes, made scores of experiments with diamonds. One, a pale yellow, was buried in radium bromide for eleven weeks and emerged a bluish- green.
The value of a diamond deponits upon quality, size and the skill with which it is cut.
Hypertension Is Not A A Checked Cardigan,
Disease In Itself
By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D,
IMAGINE
A round tablecloth docs not require a deep hem, and is most effective with a narrow hem. A astin siltch is uttractive and easy, if you own one of the new Stant-O-Matie automatic sewing machines, or an automatic zig- zigger. With machine set for a
there are 1 Apart from your normal wide bight and close salin stitch, 1 great many persons who range, you have two levels
ajul
pressure, outline. Cut away excess fabrie, have high blood pressure of
who don't even know what systolic and diastolic. the term means. I'd like to try to explain.
simply zigzag around
ACCESSORIES
chalked
Make linen napking in sorted colours to match stripes. Plain white plates the best when the fabric is
15-
the Hypertension, or high
are blood pressure, is not A
gay as this, and brightly gleam ing silver will accent the rich
ness of the fabric.
AN
ARTERIAL SYSTEM
the
Systolic is the pressure disease in itself, but it is within an artery at the very symptom of some specific moment your heart coll disorder.
tracts to forec the blood into your body's arterial system.
101 colours
in choose from
says Lucky, the Lister Lamb
Vivid and alive-101 brilliant colours to make your fingers itch to knit. Who can give you auch a wonderful choice? Only Lister's Lavenda, the pure English botany wool with the widest, loveliest colour range of all
Soft, fleecy, infinitely kind... even to the youngest, tenderest skin. Lister's Lavenda gives you the unequalled luxury and warmth of imported English wool. Extravagant? No, the Lavenda woolly you kait yourself costa no more dun an ordinary shop-bought jumper. And just look at the difference! Lavenda washes and wears so willingly, too.
Next time you're shopping for wool, ask to see the woa- derful colour range in soft Lister's Lavenda,
Look to
listers
LAVENDA
for the latest in, wool
Sole Agenda:--FIELDING, DROWN & FINCH (FAR EAST) LTD.
MATERIALS:
inches.
Shape the armholes-Cast off 8 sls, at the beg, of the next. 2 Oz9. Ramada Super 2 rows, then dec. 1 st, at each Knitting Wool, 3 ply in end of every row until 100 sis Green.
in pati, for 7 6 ozs. in Yellow. 1 remain. Cont. Butten. 1 Pair euch Knit- ting Needles, Nos. 13 & 11.
MEASUREMENTS: Length from shoulder: 20 inches. Sleeve seam: 18% inches. To fit 34′′ Bust.
Shape the shoulders:-Cast off 8 sis. at the beg, of the next 6 rows, then 10 stå, at the beg, of the next 2 rows. Cast of re- mainder.
THE LEFT FRONT
With No. 11 needles and Y. cast on 58 sta.
Work 5 rows in K., P.3, rib.
TENSION: For Check stitch, 7% Ki row. stitches to 1 inch.
ABBREVIATIONS:
Continue in check patt, dec, at. the beg. of the 5th row and every 4th row following, untli
50 sis, remain. Work until 4 inches from beg ending on 3rd row of patt. Change to No. 13 needles and Y. Work 18 rows K.1. P.1, rib. Change to No. 11
ΟΙ
every 4th row. Continue for the
Diastolic is the pressure K. knit, P. purl, st. sts. within your arteries at the stitch, stitches, inc. in lowest level, or between the crease, (by working into heartbeats at the moment the front and then into the when no blood is being back of a atitch), dec, de- needles, K.1 row. Work 20 rows pumped into your arteries. crense, (by taking 2 stitches patt. Inc. 1 st at the end
together), beg. beginning, Front shapings. Dec. 1 st, at the This diastolic pressure, rep. repeat, patt. pattern, end or the next row, then in 9th row following represents the Y yellow wool, G. green every you sce, actual resistance to the wool. blood flow within the arteries. This is a factor which your heart must to keep your blood moving.
overcome
VARIOUS SIZES
THE BACK
With No. 11 needles and cast on 118 str.
at the edge, and at the same time, inc. in every 4th row at the
armhole edge 0 times more. Continue in patt. until work measures 14 inches from y beg, but dec, unce in every 9th
row at the neck edge.
Work 5 rows K1, P1, rib. K.i row, then continue in the fol- lowing patt:-
Shapo the armhole:Right side of work facing, still con- tiauing the neck edge dec. cast · off 8 sts, at the beg, of the next row, then dec. onee in every row at this cdgo, 6 times. (a dec.
1st row: Using G. K.1, P.1, • Your blood vessels and put needle into next st. through arteries are various sizes dinary way, P.1, rep. from to holo). Work 7 inches, continuing
the row below & knit in the or- of 14 sta. in all for the arm-
2nd row: K.
and lengths of tube-like end. structures which form a vast network to carry the blood throughout your body.
the Neck edge,dec. unill 34 sts. remain.
Shape the shoulder- Right work facing). Cast of 0 ats, at the beg, of the next and every alternate row follow-
needle into next st. through the
3rd Tow: Using Y. K.1, pul alde of TOW below & knit in the or
The branch endings of dinary way, 1.1, rep. from to the arteries are formed by last st., K.. minute web-Eke figures 4th row: K. which we call arterioles.
at
ing unul 10 sts, remain. Work back to armhole. Cast' off re- mainder,
THE RIGHT FRONT
Work as given for the Left Front, reversing all shapings.
THE SLEEVES
When these arterioles ́are There 4 rows form the check narrowed or constricted, it patt. Work until 4 inches from
beg. at the same time dee, naturally impedes the flow both ends of the next row and of blood from the artery. overy following 4th row until 100 als remata. End on 3rd row Despite this, the heart of patt. Change to No. 13 needles continues to pump blood, and Y. Work 18 rows in K. 1. P: 1 lb Change to No. 11 into the arteries at a normal needles. K.1, rew then or near-normal rate. It's continue in the patt, until work Work in Y. With No. 13 easy to see why such a con- measures 14 inches from beg, at needies cast on 30 sts. Work 244 dition increases the bloodthe same time, Inc. at both ends inches in K.1, P.1, rib, inc. once
of every 4th row until 120 sts at the end of the last row." pressure.
on the needle.
Changa to No. 11 needles.
Both alike.
1st row: K.
2nd tow: K.1,
much
Today lapidaries do better for they possess not only XV of France and today reposes fina precision tools, but in the Louvre. Juarascopes which intensify When the facels have been every crack and flow to a degree cut the stone is polisted on a undreamt of even arty reare ligh speed weels coated with ago.
olive oil and diamond dust, for no other If your jeweller informs you make an
is hardly enough to impression on ita that yours is a standard full surface. cat brilliant,
gape in ignorance. You will know that it has 58 tacels and is divided
cold or platinum souting grips by a girdle into tavo parts. The
the girdle so that only the upper half is fully exposed.
The top fut surface is called the table.
don't
STUD BOOK
All the great diamonds in the world are known and their sale is recorded in a sort of
stud back by the loading firms.
The most famous diamond cut- Around it are eight star since the war was that given to facets, four bezels, four the Queen as a Coronation git. lozenges, eight cross and eight I weighed 770 cards-about skill facets.
51⁄2 ounces-is the third largest Those 33 faces reflect the ever found and was much too Ife and fill it with fire. Light from all angies, bring it to big to be cut by any machine In existence. So one had to be The underside is cut into 23 designed specially by. the facets: the table, four pavilion, four queins,
culet opposite the London firm doing the job, eight cross and eight skill facets. These give it added sparkle and the brillance of the most costly
gems.
3
THE CUTTING
The diamond in its rough slate was insured for £100,000 and was then divided into 16 stones, the smallest weighing 23
carats,
One can only guess what the total value of the 15 stones is likely to be, but only a multi- millionaire could buy them all, In London a stone of 13 carots of like quality recently fetched as much as £30,000.
Much planning and eare goes into the cutting of a really big diamond. Photographs are taken and enlarged. I 15 placed under So these little baubles which a fluoroscope, daws are exposed you could rustle as cusily as dice and the exict line where it must in one hand should have a total be cleaved, is marked. Then it value exoceding is mounted firmly.
pounda.
million
Waistcoat Style
at both ends of every row until
13 sts, remain. Cast of.
THE EDGING
Work In Y. With No. 13 needles cast on 14 sts. Work 434- inches K.1, P.1, rib.
P.3, K.1. rep. from" to end. These 2 rows foru the part. for the sleeves. Work 18 inches, at the same time, inc. both ends of every 8th row until 80 sts. then at both ends of every Bil: row until 09 sts.
Shape the top:-Dec, at the beg. of the next 10 rows, then sie rib 4 sts.
2nd row: Alb 4 sto, cast on 4 sts, rib 4 sts. Rib until 47 Inches long. Cast off.
TO MAKE UP
Sew side, shoulder and sieovo seams.
Sew Sow in sleeves. Edgings to Fronts and Back of Neck. Sew on Button. Press very 1st row: Rib 4 sts. cast of G lightly on the wrong aldo using
a hot iron over a damp cloth.
Make the buttonhole:-
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