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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1958,
PRACTICAL
BEAUTY, COLOUR You
for
never know, what necessary household ald designers will think up those who go in for. the hand-
This is especially true next! Now it's mink- some silic lingerie and blouses trimmed bath sheets. Can that are Eo much in style just eny woman feel under- now. privileged when she
can kave mink In the bath. room?
This mink, we might as well
tell you right now, is fake, but, it looks like the real thing-ond it's washable!
One of the large department stores introduced these novel bath heels, recently, along with the idea that a white fox throw -genuine fur-was just what every baudoir needs)
But it is ironte that now that we have such efficient tools for ironing we've almost eliminated the need to use them!
-ELEANOR ROSS
HOMECRAFT
AND LUXURY ARE NOW A HOMEMAKERS AIMS
**
Don't Let Your Baby
At 50, I'm looking ahead Become Too Dependent
BUSY LINE to the best time of the lot!
DRETTY Patricia Krauth al-
ways wanted to be a nurse
A
und take care of children, but
GLORIOUS spree with DOWN-TO-EARTH AIDS she never dreamed that she'd
grandchildren Is from
these be ministering to between 100 her Ipart
1 Lady Pakenham's No. eccentrics there are lots of down and 200 infants daily.
charming
The 31-year-old brunette may objective for her bonus 20 to-earth but
items
have the country's most in home decorating just now,
years-that EXTRA 20 nursing Job. Shr such as sheets bordered with uneart
the baby station a years of living that modern polka dots, pinids and pretty manages
Park. science and medicine has Bartl motifs. Favourite colours Disneyland Amusement are nutmeg, bronze
given us during the last wood This is a small but very or violet..
portant comer at Walt Disney's "Magic Kingdom" where only century. babies count,
The same colours and patterns are used for bed coverlets and dust ruffics or to trim, towels and shower curtains.
Again, the same colour toes used for informal table are Iinens. A combination of jade and yellow now being promoted. Is an ideal colour scheme for the stazons ahead.
of to
grandmother
LIVING LONGER by LADY PAKENHAM
Talking to EILEEN ASCROFT
gatherings," sho says, "but already I am replacing all the labour-makers, like bollers that need stoking and knick-kracks that need dusting, in our Hurst Green home.
"Numerles and dining-rooms will be discarded. In future we
REVIVAL
correctly dressed be- fare household Ite begins. I will take things easier and breakfast, if I faal like it, In a pretty negligee."
going to keep me alive they have got to keep my tyes good," she remarks cheerfully.
"I'ye adored
always embroidery
With four sons and four "You
should hear some
daughters and a husband in- the things that people have
terested da banking. industry. after sy about our stallon
and politics, there has been brought in their wetlittle time for pleasure travel. they've
sald hungry. furious bables,"
"I like to think that when I
Lady Pakenham, Mrs Krauth.
umm 70," she says, "and my will organise living in much at 50, does not wear "We have a diaper changing one-year-old granddaughter, fewer rooms. My home when i room with hospital-type equip Rebecca, wll be 21, we shall am older will be trouble-free.splasses and plans to de line embroidery We certainly can have beauty, ment, real small tolleis, a fully mace many trips together to that I can really enjoy my when 70, they are colour and luxury those days in equipped kitchen for parents all the places I want to see, family without chores," our accessories for the home to prepare food, a feeding room.like Persia. Mexico and South and it's the kind that is so easy high chairs and a screened off | America." to care for. Many of these things area for mothers who breas:- This surprisingly youthful ore made of drip-dry fabrics feed their babies. And it's all
enthusiastic and now Baishes that require | frre"
About her extra 20 years. "I'm Mrs Hittle or no ironing.
is particularly the thin and wiry kind Krauth
and I Contour sheets, for
reception example, proud of a
TOO know I will say it and ener have eliminated the necessity where, inthers сап walt if getic." Already she is laying of ironing bed linen. Automate mothers art handling habies, | plans, for what she calls
the dryers turn out pillow cases so and outside a visitor and stool- "Golden Years that start at 70.* soll, en smooth that you can justler parking lanes, carefully "I'm mad keen on gardening," fold them neatly and use them marked on the road by the curb, she says, "bul I am always so "as is".
"We've planned the station busy in it there is never time to Rumes and pleals in blouses, in such a way that on infant sit down and enjoy it." {Her dresses and lingerie, drip-dry makes trip through it without | digging and underplanting may Uke new. Even cuter-wear has having to double back Keeps cause a little fibrosis today at become easily washable and things going
amoothly, 50, but all the heathers and self-drying.
but mathers never get the feel shrubs she is planting now will NUMBERED FLATIRONS hat of an ssembly Unе.
be self-sufficient when stic is 70. We can certainly congratulate Mrs Krauth, who lives with aurselves on our good fortune. Her husband, Frederick, a
DOUBLE PLAN when we consider a household former. Navy fie from Cla hint of long ago that was quoted feluna!), sulď many mothers are magazine recently The startled when they learn that ladies of 1907 were advised to the makers of a baby food number thely Balicans on the (Pablum) are footing the bill stove with chalk and use themShe said the guest register re- in rotalien so that they would Beets their thanks and includes always be hot!
a chore,
While Ironing із па longer there are still timeS when some ironing has to be
Tron good
done, so a
тоге
comments such as:
che was
LADY PAKENHAM Plans for the Golden Years.
Looking forward again, Lady Pakenham plans to bring back the old institution of afternoon tens and leisurely conversation,
"The years of bringing up my and never had time. The last thing I did eight children have meant
smocking nursery or dining room teas, and old people, I thinkt, noed lots of daughter Catherine's company and slimulating ideas dress when to keep them fresh and happy, a baby. I will need my friends then and Before her eldest daughter plan to enjoy them."
Antonia was born, Lady Paken Andliter necessity in aze, ham reveals, she was rather a Lady Pakenham belleves, is the plump, hockey-playing type of feeling of being essential, Sho girl.
Antonio streamlined her intends to do active organising gure end for 25 years she has work in this feld.
weighed the same-Est. Olb, To give an old person some shan't watch the scales so where to live is not enough," carefully-la-the last 20 years
"If I want to she says. "Eloding a contribution she says happily. they can make to society is even share my great-grandson's hunks more important."
of chocolate eball. I shall drink Loneliness is the discase of white with every meal and enjoy old age, and it need not be. "I real afternoon tea." shall organise a proper club for
Another dream of the future grannies all around me to do is to keep a dog and give to him Important
attention the deserves. Alteautiful red setter, "I would really like to tri saya. and understand modern poetsy."- What are
personal decorative and large, or a cute the "Alsó to be able indulgences you plan for the poodle, although my family to discuss selence intelligently Golden Years? I asked Lady. Bote-them." with my grandchildren."
Pakenham. "I am going to be Lastly probably the most She plans to shed domestic more of a lady in a dressing important of all she wants to
spend moro time responsibilities as the next years gown," she laughed..
with her go by. "There has got to be a "All my life I have lived to husband is a companion and o Thouse in the country for family.......zulo, sp bự certain time, friend, free from children's care
She will sit in the sun reading all those books for which ning two homes and taking part in Socialist Party and Catholle Church affairs have never left time. Philosophy, theology and poetry are subjects marked up for those 20 years.
Wonderful and thanks," "The best ride yet.”
RON BURTON she tells me,
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social work," she the time and
and household responsibilities. "Really get to know the fosci- nating details of his work and the House of Lords listening to the Interesting debates,"
spend long; cfiernoons in
Womon today have everything to look forward to in the later year. BUT WHY?We shall no longer be surplus then," says.
"L-fact-we Lady Pakenham. shall probably become a mre and precious specles, and bo treasured by the male sex.
"Science and medicine will know how to keep us healthy and energetic, good-looking und slim. Labour-saving gadgets will: set ree from toil. No one will expect us to ait knitting in a chimney corner,”
Roll an 70, she says, and fuller, more exciting life, as great grandmother.
-(London Express Service),
Architecturally Adaptable
A WIDE DRIVEWAY leads to the entrance of H-486-KP and swings into the spacious carage, which projects from the house at the right. Note the three-window arrangement w lich makes the maesgo appear to be a part of the house.
By JOAN O'SULLIVAN
MODEST home, today's plan has a layout that's adaptable to many living requirements.
Key room is a versatile study. It can be part of the combination Uving-dining area or it may be shut off from them by a sliding partition and used for TV, as an extra bedroom of TV room. It can also, vin a sliding window wall, be linked up with the covered outdoor porch, th
If the study is used as a bedroom or den, it can be entered from the hall when the folding door separates it from tho living
D
Spacious Combination
The adjacent living-dining area is spacious. The fireplace is backed by a root housing the furnace. Built-in bookcases and a china cabinet are two storage features Windanks make the room bright and cheerful, while a sliding door leads out to the terrace. A work aton's planned at the front of the house. 31 Includes a separate laundry with adjacent Juvatory and a compact Alichon that's merged with a dinette area. The latundry Esa stovens to tiịa - attached garage and there's a servico door to the yard.
Bedrooms are at the left. The mwetere betivom' huo ili awny bath with a stail shower, an extra-large clothing closet and aluminium sliding windows for trom-ventilation. The back Deck- room is alightly, ammaller.
The main bath, with a huge linen closet, te opposite the stude, convenient to sil arvas of the houn
HALL
BARNE
TWO MIDEGOMA and two ballu are at the iph que lhe luing room. A “Kitobini and lawnder
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TANY a mother is no he grows older and makes con- conscientious that she start demands on you to amuse him. Be skilful at finding up- nover leaves her baby or proved toys with which he can young child. As a result, amuse himself. this youngster can't bo
When Dià or others Áro around, let him look after him. happy out of her sight. Stay out of tuls sight for short Some young mothers even periods, then longer ones. Even boast that the baby "won't go out of the house for a short Dad or wille, letting him ace you go, even stay with Grandma.”
Leave him with a familiar per-
son. Oradually make your out- Lings longer.
By and by, leave him while
TOGETHER TOO MUCH When this happens, a mother must have this child under hor you and Dad have an evening fect all the time, even when she out, Pay no Bittention to his tries to do her work. If she sits crying offer you as you depart. down to read or relax, she must Let him know beforehand. that take Baby in her arms, If she you are going out. puts him in a play pen, she As soon as your youngster can must be right there to Rinuso run about, ooo that he plays him. All day long, unless the with another chlid of his, age youngster has a nap, she must and with more children later. be with him. Even if she has The more he mingles with play. another person to do her work, males, the less dependent emo- she may be worn out before donally he will be an you, night
Nevertheless, you will always
Wisely, she may put him in geserve some brief periods to his play pen near an open divar, talk with him, amike and do no thai tạo con see her at work things with him, read to him, is another room. I she does play with him. Just see that this very often, however, he will you are not his slave. demand" it and will yeli when
she must go to another part of Answering Parents'
the house.
IL your youngster,
bafore
walking, denuands you come to
Questions
his play pon to amuse him, let Q. My husband tries to help him cry or · SCREENI for a tow our son, 3, to have dewer tears minutes before you go.
Then, by laughing at him. It doesn't
and help.
give him a few minutes. return to what you were doing.
A. It won't. Long, patient, Fursus this practice. When he sympathetic, constructive meas- eries for you, let him wait a few ures are needed.
-G. C. MYERS, PL.D. minutes at first, then longer, as
Let's Eat
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
IRISH HOTEL MAN OFFERS NEW VEGETABLE IDEAS
*WEBB you brought tel whited in unelted butter,
up stems. Saute until well
business?" I asked.
William J. Kelly of Ireland CHUCKIEU,
"I was born into it. My grand- father built the Strand Hotel
Brussels Sprouts With Basli: Wash and trim fresh Brussels sprouts as necessary, or use frozen Brussels sprouts.
Ball in 1 in. salted water unti almost tender.
in Rosslare. Later my father Finish sauteing in basil-but- Fan it, and now it's my opera- ter. tjan. After aurviving three Festival Balad: Arrange indi- generations of Kellys, it's still vidually chilled, crisp lettuce going strong.
hearts, led with alloed hard- Self-Contained Hotel cooked egg. Surround with "It's different from any hotel halved, thin-sliced tomatoes I've seen in the United States, and halved. peeled orange slezs ma'am," he 'continued, "Ross overlapping. fare is what might be called self-contained."
"We have our own herd of Jeracy cows; produce our owa veal. We raise our own chickens and ducks; produce our own eggs. The pigs and homo era Brst quality.
Garnish with Bour cream dressing.
TOMORROW'S DINNER Chicken Soup with Parsley Braised Pork Chops Colcannon Irish Bread
Lettuce Crest Sales Plum Terts
Coffee
Tra
Mik
All meanmemesis ans :thpet; recipes proportioned to a to
Colcannán From Ireland: This
"We raise all our own fruit and vegetables; lots of celering, Brussels sprouts, polatoes, tur nips, carrols and beets; tamu- toes and cucumbers, Biring 24
# delightful melange of beans and wax beans, also the vegetables. Boil separately 0 Scarlet runner broad beans Pared
medium-sized potatoes which, I understand, you do not and 1 fine-shredded small head use much in the United States, o cabbage.
and a type of lettuce that is dif- Meantime saute, in. c, but- ferent from the kind you have ter unti 1 yellowed, 1 sliced here, for it's crisp and yet soft, medium-sized onion, 1 crushed, "As yet, the Irish haven't Peeled section garlic and 6 scal- learned to like green corn, al- lions with 3 in, of the green though we can raise it if it can tops. Crush the potatoes whlie be made a fashion. -
hot..
"All the vegetables we nervo Druin und add the cabbage are garden-fresh,
and sauteed vegetables, Sir Ia "We are very particular shout 1⁄4 tsp. pepper. 1⁄4 tsp. salt and the way we cook vegetables, of 2 tbsp. orgam.
[ten seasoning them with fresh Turn into a buttered, low Bepf.. herbs from the kitchen garden, casserole. Dot with: 1 tbsp,
"Come and visit ur sometime." buiter.
I agaired Mr Kelly I couldn't walt to hop over, Fending that time, I'm enjoying vegetables prepared in his own unusual ways.
On
Brown in a hot oven.
BASIL BUTTER FROM
THE CHEF
Blende. room-soft butter, 1 tbsp lemon juice and Map. Leaf Spinach Bratel: powdered basil. Use for sea- Carefully wagh tender, splhach aoning Brussels sprouts, cabbage leaves, but do not detach from or caulidower,"
HURRY CAUSES KITCHEN MISHAPS
HE hamensker who busties step-stool will diiminate an
while preparing meals af other danger-that of climbing : home had "better slow down, on chairs, boxes and other obe! The kitchen can be a datigerous jects when reaching for: high place.
shelves. Hurry produces a multitude
"
of mishaps in the klichen, BRYS
·Many cuts can be ovolied the New York State College of through proper use and storage Home Economics. This can lead of theD „krivés, 7 Wash, them topcaselemmons---and enróless- Individually, never lodys them nors to accident,
in the dumpan 'or - dishwasher. The specialista" unge the and put them away "ionicdiate- homemaker not to wait until ly after use," p the last moment to start meal Burns are anblher cause of preparations. Planning pays off serious injury. Keep potholders. imately better meals and conveniently neat the range, happier family and get in the habit of using itate are one of the mufor them, Tongs also are handy for Kitchen Hdakrds for adults. One handling hot fools way to event them is to clean must is to war children up immediately the slippery, of the dangers of a hot stove.,
a spilled Explain to the youngsters why water, grense or donon: Azania User must not touch, hot thingis
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