THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1999.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
The steel-age woman
has never had it
so good... by ELIZABETH DICKSON
S
TAINLESS STEEL. A silent ally of every houseproud woman. It is the tough, unyielding metal that by some kitchen into a magic transforms her
brighter, more effortless place than it ever. was before.
A metal which, after it has been through the glamorising process, can add sparkle to her sink and hygiene to her pots and pans.
Not to speak of the stream-lining effects of fitted cabinets, the re- liable hinge on the oven door and a host of new cooking utensils, all of which
are now on the market and guaranteed to remain good com- panions for a lifetime.
This handsome three-piece
comprises kitcher set
two
different atxen of saucepan and a frying pan, together with stainless-steel hanging rack. Each saucepan ham, A
INSTEAD of an elegant Afted
cupboard, a single shelf could
carry the family store of tinned
goods. And with frozen fruit and cream unheard of, the deep freeze would have had all the romance of a modern fairytale.
Housewives did wondery throughout the war with the moois they dreamed up out of nothing but the day-to- day kitchen routine was still n makethirt affair.
3
Today every High Street bousta at least one excellent, well-run houseware shop. It used to be called an Ironmonger.
Today's
kitchen:
a brighton,
more
effortless place
than ever before
But with the graduated rows al gleaming stainless steel pans,
So stainless steel saves time clever gadgets and · handsome utensil sets. any and trouble. 1ts contribution lingering memory of utility is to the age of automation. 19. erored.
For the wise shop- boundless. winter's
per who knows when only the best will do it means safer cook- food higher economy,
And this
never knew it.
:
bride
An entire klichen wardrobe ing,
goes into
satin finish Inside that is easy to clean, also a bazs of is there to be had in any values and less time at the sink.
price range shiny copper which makes
that suits her It cannot chip or lose its an excellent heat conductor, wedding list. Superb Anish gleam, and knives keep their the smallest Two decades ago the out-
A quick dip device instant sharpness. for the sink, n cgg-slicer is beautifully into worm, soapy water is all look was dim The country needed steel for turned and never needs that is needed to keep it new............ ReToplane propellers, mine- replacing.
stoel helps Today stainless Larger Items like steel sinks to make sweepers and bayonets,
a leisurely kitchen to manage and easy for every woman who creates was little are easy As it was, here temptation
B to run In 10 Invest
last detail in every
[1 contented place the hour the labour-saving booker with meat from
installa- relax with her husband and
to chlidren. service brings them un points and eggs rationed to tion
the home.
-(London Express Service). one dried packet.
a
How'd You Like An Elephant Pet?
MILLY
WAL
WILLY, for that
what the little elephant was named, did not like being carried off to a civilised home,
When a man started to grab her, she put her head down ond charged idm like an angry billy Foat. The man had to jump aside in a hurry.
It took three or four natives to hold her and to tie her up to that she could be taken to the white man's bungalow.
The first problem was feed- Unfor- ing the elephant child. tunately, there was no large amour of milk handy at the bungalow, eo Milly was shipped off on a bullock cart to a nearby plantation where there
was n
herd of cows. Four coolles went along to keep her company and also to make sure she didn't try to jump out.
Soon Milly roomy stable, nice-smelling
But when she seted very walked round
หม
put in A
Its head down, the baby elephant charged.
Up
never beard such a noise as that in their whole lives.
TINA DANCED
BY HERSELF
the ballerina doll VINA,
was the most beautiful doll in the toy shop.
She stood on a tiny gold plat- Morm and whenever anyone wound up the little, key in her back, pretty tinkley music came from down deep inside the Ile doll, and tho started to dance:
She would which, pivot and 10 point her ton., Tipa loved
BUTTS dance and was always
stopped. She when the maste
stand with one
Milly became so popular with all the children that they visited her an often as possible. She would would take a
a pointed on!ward, 'waiting barna from
arain.
toe
For
child's hand with the utmost the store lady to wind her up gentleness and show her appre- clation by extrą loud roaring.
Each time a little girl came into the toy shop to buy a new doll, Tina's heart would skip a beat. Perhaps this time she would be sold. But she never
As Milly grew bigger, her so that it voice grew stronger could be heard all over the countryside. It even was heard while people were at church, was, and they could not keep from smiling when they remembered that all those
-
All of the children loved her,
arw ful sounds but the store lady always said a baby elephant "I'm sorry. This doll is not for
sale." putting away her breakfast.
came
from
Milly dearly loved to take a bath. Her young keeper look her down to the large pool every morning and what crubbing. he would give her!
When the owner was offered
+
a handrome price for her by a sea captain stopping at the port I was sald 'the she was sold. sea captain then sold her to The roar she made whenever circus when he reached America,
WAS being fed always
strangers. They
with plenty of stable, feeling everything with proud keeper about like a big
- dog. hay for her bed. her trunk. first entered, she It wasn't long before Milly
She became very well mannered and she strangely,
the civilised and would follow her startled
and round
Adventure
Sunder water.
OME queer things go on
In some places there are fish that each night before retiring put on nightgowns. There is a fish with a long saw growing out of his mouth which can rip a fish net to shreds. In one place there is an ocean Rower fish that eats tiny bits of for its food.
Far off in West Indian walers lives a barful creature called
a parrot fish that takes - from half an hour to an hour and a half each night getting into a right gown which he himself.
makes
had
-----PAUL V. D. HOYSRADT
QUEER WORLD OF FISH
Farrot Fish
G
Since this fish rons up to 20 there. Some of the flowers have feet long, weighing around been studied at Cape Haze m thousand pounds, with six-foot Florida. They were attached is siws. It is good for the pesce a shell in which a hermit crab |-* of mind of the people in that made his · home.". And when region to hear that the big ones the keepers fed the crab, the are not often seen because they Bowers opened their petals and live on the bottom,
And
As night approaches, this dish has studied the saw fin \begina sborsting a sort of trans- they report that this specimen
parent' sucky envelope that bo-
uses the saw for a rake rather,
gina at his mouth and extends than a saw. I raken the sea back over the whole body.
boticims with it, rooting out
No one knows why the par- small fahiding in the mud, rot fish thinks he should wear then, gobbling Them [Up" 18"
a nightie, for most of them, they appear.
especially the male fish, are
But they say, any animal The males colourful, very come in shades of green or with a but as long and inema- blue, with green teeth. Someone lookowarsthe saw of a maw hus suggested that it may be fish could merely, use it nae a the green teeth that enake him weapon i ode ware needed. want to cover up with a night. The saw a bone, lined on
Www.Na Mma jusually accounts for In the waters off the African more than, led of the la what count;>u>fish rentaroly unit, terugth of thin fac
The
the sea
lower that eats dish is anemone, which roots
liselt on a sea shell and stays,
gobbled up the tiny pieces of
sh
-M. S. SHELTON
ZOO'S WHO
KATS HAVE A STRANGE HAB- BATT HAVE FUR ITOF LIVING VAND WELL. DE
THOUSANDS OF VELOPE TEETH THEM MASS TO THEIR OUNG GETHER IN
REBORNALIVE CAVES, ATTICS EY AND HOLLOW
TREES
ITSARH AS
Tina never knew why · sho was not for sale, because the lady never told her.
One day a little girl and her asday came into the toy-shop.
Puzzle
Pete's
COLUMN
Thy your wite against Puzzle Pete's:
CROSSWORD
Ackoss
Everything
4 Etamous writer
5 Garden tool
10 Preposition
7 Unit of weight
11 Accomplish
12. Molat
14 Sumogi ...
15 Biblical high priest
17 Delaware ·(ab)).
DOWN
1. Zoo amimil
2 Behold!
3. Permit
5 In what way?" First kirber
·8 Not even
9/8licht kow 13 Baye nitimine 14 Bo sick
10 reft, and (alls.)'
AANSOUND ALIKES
Words In Puzzle Pete's sound like but they lind diringwall. Can you
A wonderful thing hap pened. Tina started to dance all by herself.
Tina felt very sorry for this little girl, for she was sitting in a wheelchair and couldn't walk. She thought how terrible that would be, not to be able dance.
to
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Steak Platter Special
66 100tered
NOOKED frozen but- quickly, allowing 6 to 8 min.
Turn ones. or mingte To Arrange: Place the minuto steaks," I said to the Chef, steaks diagonally on a platter, "can be enticingly arranged the sizzling hot French tried with cooked frozen potatoes on one side, the steam- mixed vegetables on the other. Garnish of radish.
vegetables on a heat-proof ing buttered platter, almost equalling roses and crCAS, the planked steaks in plush restaurants."
served
"May I suggest a glamorous combination, Madarne?"
| nkul.
he
"Cook frozen minute or but- tered sicaks with maitre d'hotel butter, surrounded with cooked frozen asparagus tips, frozeta border of corn caute, and a heated frozen mashed potato that has been put through n pastry tube, bouquets of cress and radish roses.”
"Now let's
Frozen Fish Fillets: These can by made into the most appetis- ing casserole dishpe. The fish Alled casserole in today's manu is an appetising example.
I
Tomorrow's 'Dinner
Grapefruit Halves Fish Fillets Stuffed with Barbecued Grem Beans Mashed Turnip
Fruit Compote on Frozen Waffles
Coffee Ton Muk
2
Fish Filletsi Half-thaw (116) pkgs. frozen fish flicts, any kind. Dust with it, and
That's fine for a company in net, Chef," I said, have a menu for Sunday dinner including a dimpler steak and papper. vegetable platter."
Toesed Green Salad Minute Steal and Vegetable Platter Spleed Stewed Pears Oatmeal Cookin
Tea
Coffee
Muk
All Measurements Are Leval Recipes Proportioned to Serve to
Place half in a well-buttered low caserole, making 1 layer.
Top with a inyer of 1 (10 oz.) pkg frozen cut green beans, half-cooked and seasoned with barbecue sauce.
Fit on the remaining fish. Dot generously with butter or mar- gerine ariel dust with salt and Cover Hightly with pepper.
Bake 45 min or until the fish Minute Steaks and Vegetabin grated Cheddar cheese, optional, Platter: Cook 1 (10 oz), pkg, fisure in a moderate Oven,
according to 376 F. mixed vegetables directions on the pkg. Season with butter and 1⁄4 tsp. thyme. Spread the contents 1 (10 oz.) fried French frozen pkg.
a cookie sheet or potatoes on large pan and place in a hot thaw and oven, 400 F. to
brown.
Serve in the casserole.
The Chef's Fruit Compote
On Frozen Waffles
Any frozen fruit in syrup may be put into a saucepan and slow- thawed over a low heat. Bring Brush frozen minute steads to a rapià boil. Chiil.
Dust Nico with a little cooking oil.
toasted, over
frezen Porry waffles or blintzes,
with salt and pepper.
Some Interesting Birds
-Chirpie Won't Tell About Them Until He Eats-
By MAX TRELL
4 VISITED some very inter
eeting people," said Chirple Sparrow to Enart and Hanid, the Shadow-Children with the Turned-About Names.
Chirple had come to the win dow rill for his morning bread crumbs, While he ate he talised, and while he talked he ate.
Weren't People
(9-1)
Kaart oovered Chirpio's bread- crumbs with his hand.
"Very, very interesting peo- The store lady took Tim plt," be kept caying between down off the ebelf and wound swallows, "I mean, they weren't her up. Tins danced and danced people at all. They were Birds.
were to the music while the little girl Yea, that's what they clapped her hands and laughed.big white Birda” "That is the doll I want daddy, "Now, Chirple," mid Hanid,
"I met them yesterday. They Please may I have 117**
"I with you'd stop eating and ive down at the lake. They Just as Tine expected, the tell us about those interesting spend most of their time in the store lady suld, "I'm sorry. This Birds." doll is not for sale." The Hitle girl started to cry and that
Chirple, "Can't," cald made Tina feel worse than ever. | hungry.""
Suddenly a wonderful thing happened, Tins started to danse all by herable without anyone winding-ber up.
"Too
Shouldn't Have Started.
you shouldn't have started telling us about them at - Fall" Knarf pui in.
Then
The store lady and the mon were astonished. But not the little Kraf cuckdenly covered the girl. She said "See. See. The rent of the crumbs on the win- ballerine wants to belong to me, dow all with his hand. She wants to be my doll. Please let me have her,
"Tell the story Arst," he said, "Eat Inter!"
"But I'm hungs1" insisted Chirple, "I can't tell any storien
Lake!".
"Birds?" said Hanid in queriloning voice. "Hirds live in a lako?"
"That's right," said Chirple. when I went to visit them. 1 found thom all paddling around"
"Ducks!" Knart exclaimed, "No," sold Chirple. "They weren't Ducks
"Geese!"" said Hanid.
"Wrong again!" said Chirple.
The store lady smiled and sid "Yes, you may have the doll. I have been looking for until I've eaten my breakfast." "These friends of mine are big- long long time for the right little girl to come slenɛ, so that I could give her this doll.
"You see, this doll was made for me, by my husband when we were frst married. I waited for a little girl of my own go that I could give the doll to her. But God never sent me a little girl. Now at last. I have found you. I want you to have Tina for your very own."
—ELAINE BIERBAUER
Hanld now made her brother ger than Cleese, much bigger. the crumbs and let They've got longer beads and uncover Chirple finish his breakfast. longer necks and....”
Won't Take Long "Thanks," said Chirple. It won't take me long."
Chiple peeked and swallow- few minutes all the ed in crumbs were gone, and so was Chirpie's hunger,
"Now to get back to people I mean, those Chirple said.
Rupert and the Outlaws-54
bar puppy and
-bdskly.
thoom Birds,"
vot him. The sound of the horsÇA {thrudding) on gražu schoing. from rocks se skliding down alczņēă.... difficult journey, Motif: at
Which of the
Shouted Together
Knarf and Hanid both shoptad
at the same time.
"They're Swans!"
That's who they are!" saki "They're not People. chirpie. They're not Ducks. They're not Goom. They're Swanet
"And let me tell you this," he went on. "They're more beauti- Aul than People, moro beautiful „than. Ducics and more beautiful thuo Green
"If they're Birds," said Knarf, “why don't they fy? Why should they puciile around on is
·Lake?”
Can Fly, Too
"They like padifting, around?” maid - Chlapiše. Sparrow, “And they can fly, too. But they look more “besitiful when - they'so floating on the water of a lako than when dheoire, fylgist in the sky. And Pim sit one very good KORKANTE Elm glad they do mbre, padding than myising???
Chirple SparTOW ZAVS & DELITYY tom of hiầy bóndi na hin, sidded:
Push think of all: the cruenija [thigh cotitia mat "15"thlygame to thali-window dill There Bronterýt
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