THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1958.
PRACTICAL
HOMECRAFT
New Trend Stresses Gaily Painted Houses
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By ELEANOR ROSS,
colour - splashed au-lait house with deep blue planned for interesting colour
Tous colour accents, or an emerald door
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and shutters against pale blue novelty any more. On exterior walls. week-end trips, we've no- Pastel muted colours, ticed how colourful houses, rather than dominating strong have become, how marked hus, pro currently popular for exterior walls. Theto softer, la the tendency to get away lighter tones blend well with from the stereotyped.
natural surroundings and are restful, too. Light colours nicke a room, a house, or even a woman appear larger. Dark ones accomplish the reverse
It hus been fan, too, calling on friends, to see how their choice of colour
scheme has served as a logy to their person- alitiesIt tells great deal.
The ultra-conservative, it's true. Binds it difcult to get away from white clapboard with green trim or, at most, blue shutters and a blue door. But the trend is toward much more colour in house exteriorn.
Interesting Schemes
One survey indicated tha! ap- proximately three-quarters of the new houses are painted with colours in Interesting schemes, Pink-painted brick with red trim isn't as rare as you'd think!
Not quite as daring but ex- cafe- tremely striking
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Small Housos
they
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When the house is small. is best to paint the trim in the some colour as the exterior, Otherwise, a cluttered-up look results,
Roofs are an inportant part of tho over-dil sebeme unic! must be considered when pim- ning exterior painting Light roots
recommended.
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especially for sunny climes, us the pala hues reflect a maxi- mum of sunlight, thus making the house cooler.
Two-storey houses frequently have different shades or cock
Sometimes this storey
For A Birthday... All His Favourites
By HELEN BURKE
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To keep family anniversaries because we love to is a
wonderful tonic for happy relations. Forgetting is unforgivable. Two of the happlest and gayest_young people I have met for a long time are Jenny Fischer, creative milliner, and her husband, Michael Gosschalk, jewellery designer. They make any excuse for a celebra- tion and invite their friends to join in,
The latest celebration WHA Michael's birthday last week, when Jenny set about cooking his favourite dinner. He him- self quite a good cook but, on this occasion, everything was to be a surprise.
"All
his biggest favourites,” Jenny said.
Jenny-French, petite and vivacious-knows a tremendous lot about coolding-"but," she says, "only French cooking."
"She never cooked in all her life unill we married," Michael said. "Yet she knew exactly how 16 cook."
"Because I watched my mother and my grandmother, Jenny put in. They are both wonderful cooks and now my little girl-my Caroline-France, only 3-is already using bowl for mixing this and that and, even if she does not know
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"The point with this is the Grunge strips. Two young ducks are needed for six persons and I roast them in their own fat with very little butter 3 don't do it like everybody and, with Michael, I have composed a new stuce
"We peel one, Spanish orange in one long strip-ke an apple. There must be no pith. Then I cut the rind into strips about an Inch and a hair long.
"I make my sauce in drawing two tablespoons of lat from the pah and heating the range strips in it. 1 mix in a tea- spoon of flour and one of sugar, then the juice of two oranges and cook for a minute or two. I pour this over the ducks to lacquer them,
cooked
CHOCOLATE MOUSSE
This is the best thing that
anything, she is already geiting I can db. For six persons, 1
the feel of the spoon and the user alb, bar of plain dessert bowl in the hands."
chocolate. I break it in te
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"What a lot of mint!" I re- picces into & saucepan, add marked. "I am surprised to hazelnut of butter and a dessert- Frenchwoman's spoon of sugar and stir over a End it in
19 all very low heat until it window-box."
"Me? I never touch 18 1 smth. More sugar would spoil don't like it. It is Michael's. the chocolate flavour.
At four exx-
He loves the cold mint souce "Now work in our yolks of with his roast lamb, it is not for me. I grow parsley and chives. Michael ilkes chives in to many things He is so proud of his window-boxes,"
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eggs and make sure that you get chocolate from around all the the edges of the mixture. the last, I whip the whites until they are very stiff and fold them over and over Very Into the other mixture. simple very good.
"What Is your menu" I
"I have glass cups into which asked when Michael had dis-pear the mouse and leave It for several hours to improve. uppenred.
diwnys pdores this Michael sweet"
"For the first, we will have cold colin dressed with mayon- naise and, with it, a not too dry wine,
Then we are having Caneton a Torange, shy own speelat way. I don't do it Uke evenybody. The skin of the duck must be Jacquered. With we'll have anall potatoes roasted in butter and the tiniest extra fine pellis- pols and corn salad. You know it, corn salad?"
"I do." We agreed that it la
beat served alone, dressed with
much oil and little vinegar.
(London Express Seraice).
effects, but often it la fune- tonal..
A house that #OCYTE -top- heavy will appear to be lower if a darker
colour is uined on the upper floor than on the ground door. One illustration would be a parchment-hued lower story with the upper portion of the house in a warm, brick tone; or use a deep blue top story over a pale yellow lower Noor,
to
The reverse also holds true that a house which appears too squat, which hugs the ground too closely, can be appene higher if a dark colour is used on the lower portion and a lighter tint on the upper.
Seams Loss Obvious
Don't forget chimneys. If yours is not a thing of beauty, If it sticks out like the prover- bial sore thumb, paint it the it will seem less obvious, sume colour as the house and
Your door is the first thing to greet friends, so paint it in o gay, cheerful shade, no matter how conservative your tastes
be otherwise. II the front door stands ajar in sume met, be sure that the colour is co-ordinated with the interlot colour scheme against which it is silhouetted.
Give Children A Chance
GIRL'S PINAFORE
PINAFORE DRESS
Materials Required
LARK'S Anchor Strand-
ed Cotton: 2 skeins each 420 (Grey), 488 (Canary Yellow), 842 (Raspberry) and White. Use 3 strands throughout.
Child's turquoise pina- fore dress, with Boat Neck and six panelled skirt,
1 Milwards 'Gold Seal' crewel needle No. 6.
The drawing gives the.. three motifs, usext In the design. Trace motif A cen trally on to each panel of skirt, 31⁄2 in. (9 cm) from hemline. Trace motif B on cach skirt seam line, 5 jin. (14 cm.) from hemline. Motifs B and C are re- peated alternately round
To Know Their Doctor front edge of neckline,
having motif B on centre front. The motifs aro
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Machine Embroidery
Materials requIRED
Clark's Anchor Machine Embroidery Thread No. 50 (10 gram, in. (2.8 cm) reel); colours 426 (Grey), 488 (Canary Yellow), 642 (Raspberry)
BETTER Feature - it is a good idea to malce pure past, the larger motifs and White.
prepare your give the youngster a checkup placed 1
he is in the best of health. At
Then Anally chocalate mousse. nesses while he in perfectly the same time, it given the child in. (2 cm.) from edge
Jenny set the table. "And 7 well. only use tablecloths, yOU ‘SOL.” She spread a bezuitful cloth in a hand-printed ripe-atrawberry design. "My mother sent it for my birthday."
COLIN
..
I know you do not even want to think about that day when your child will become sick and need the services of a physician, may- be have to go to a hospital or at least have to take medicine.
Not That Lucky
Colin (haka) is made very much more of in France than here.
But it is a fortunate child in- This is Michael's biggest deed who
betopes all of these favourite. He loves it. I dret possibilities. Most yourgat:ri make a court boolilon. It is my just are not that lucky. way. I make it with a glass of So let him know what it in ait white wine, onion, two to three about before be encounters these cloves, bay leaf, parsley and strange proceffures when he is thyme with enough water for all and le not.in sa understand the fish and ball and pepper," ing mood... Jenny added.
Next time you vill your doc
a chance to become better ac and smaller motifs. 1 in.. quainted with the doctor.
Explain Things
Show him the pharmacist bottles and jars of medicines And explain how they will help him get well it.ho should over become 11.
(2.5 cm.) from edge.
Machine needle No. 11.
Key To Diagram
1-420) Stem Bitch 2-408)
3-188) Satin Stitch 4-842)
5-White-Double Daisy Stitch
6-642-Buttonhole Stitch 7-420-French Knots 8-480-Daisy Stitek 9-400 Closed Buttonhole
Stitch 10-420-Straight Bitch
Follow diagram 1 and number key for embroidery, All parts skillar to numbered parts are worked in same colour and stitch. Diagram 2 shows method of working Closed Buttonhold Stitch. The stitches are madó | in pain forming triangles. Next time you pana a Hospital, Bring thread through at (A), "xplain, too, that inside they do insert needle at (1) and, with ull sorts of wonderful thingy to the thread under needle, bring help persona get well. Tell him it through at (C). Insyi needle About the white uniformed again at (B) And bring it urnes and doctors, who take through at (D). Press finished enre of sick children, bring them embroidery well on wrong side. food and medicine and see that they have toys and booke ta
Alternative Threads. 1-48 .play with..
Nover promise your youngster (A!
Stranded Cotton Pearl Cotton
Key
1-420 2-483.
Dorning. Stitch
Satin Stitch
6-White) 6-842
4-642
1-410) Stem Stitch 2-400)
2-488) Batin Stitch 4-403)
6-White-Double Daisy Butch
4-493-Buttonhole Bifch
7-819-French Knots
8-480-Daisy Butch
8-488-Closed Buttontiole
Sutch 10-410-Straight Sutch
Filoahsen
To Diagram
7420
B-411
0-480 10-420
3. Batin Stitch
Darning Stitch
Machine Embroidery Diagrams
"Doll it 20 mindes and strain sor, take him along Let him 11. When it is cool, I pinca the get to know the physician and that he will never have la go to Clark's Anchor Pearl Cotton flah in it and let it simmer for to realise that he la really a very a hospitet. And never promisa) No. 9 (10 gram, ball): 1 boll each 20 minutes. I let it cool in the friendly person. If the doctor him that he will never be siek ar 120. (Grey) 483 [Chnary Flock,
Has time, he will probably let the In bola. Blimply advise him Yellow), 642 (Raspberry) and take away the skin child examine
Anchor a couple of his (that, in the event this happens, White, Clark's
Batin Bulich, figures A and D, Figure A shows, how tha and bones and keep the shape: Instruments and perhaps he will 'mother, · daddy, the "doctor, Flosbewi (24 yd. bell): 1, ball needle carries the thread from side to side of the space to be and coat with mayonnaise, exlain how, the stellsoncope nurses and lots of other people #och $19 (G##9), 188 (Cənsiz 'Glied, Figure B... the stliches worked closely together to form exprta and chopped chivas, works.
Will help hims get well dgnĀM. *#tlow), 49% (Old Now) and the Baths Button. That is the bost fisi I can give Then, a little. Inter on, you
can arrange for the ductos to By H. N, BUNDESEN, M.D, cute, Und strands through embroidery requires diagráin i nid oeparate diagrams
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A and B.
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