THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 80, · · 1960,
PRACTICAL
How to change
(and the temperature)
without having the Builders in!
by Raymond Hawkey, A.R.C.A.. M.S.I.A.
These simple rules can be adapted to any
climate and any room.
LONDON.
THE IDEA of painting one wall of a
room 1
different colour from the other three no longer, unfortunately, comes as a surprise to most of us. If it did we might pause just long enough to ask "Why?"
If your only answer is "Because it is modern, you have missed the point.
By learning a few simple rules you can use this idea properly, and not just as a gimmick,
By having an "odd-wall-out" you can, depending on your choice of colour and wallpaper, appear to (1) make a cold room wam and u warm room cool; (2) change the proportion of a 1 bor! (3) eamoulage ugly draw structural ettention to a particular section
of a room.
features; (4)
Every 100m presents its own unique problems. We all have our own conception of what makes an agreeable solution.
After
But there are a few extremely useful "rules-of-thumb." that it is up to you,
FIRST, decide whether your room gets a lot of daylight or
le and take note of its situa tion in relation to the sun. If
Design patented
its window faces north the light will be cold,
Such room can be cheered up considerably by painting the wall facing the window a warm colour,
If the room is reaily dark you will make the most of the avoli- able light if you paint three walls and celling white because white reflects more light thun
other colour.
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HOMECRAFT
the shape of a room
by
Lower the Ceiling
by painting it a very dark colupr and the walls a light culous
Raise the Ceiling inting 2015 light colour and cover
·Lengthen the Room by munting two lading walls a starb
colour and 1še otheo for a tigghet - tribue
These four rooms are axocity the same size
has a
seem. rectangular ty pointing wallpaper that In this cause the room can be two facing walls p darker non-geometrical pattern... made more inviting by painting colour than the others. the window wall a light, warm colour. A room which has large windows in the cast and west walls will get a great deal of direct sunlight and could be
rooted. If you wished, by paini- it one wall a crisp, cold colour.
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SECOND, decide if you would Jike to change the proportion of your room. Remember, dark colours appear to come forward whilst light colours recede,
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A square room which, part- cutely if it is small, could be claustrophobie can be made to
A low celling can be made to appear higher by painting it a light colour, and vice versa.
room canı An enormTIOUS
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ana wadi with a vertical striped papur
Widen the Room" coverlox and wall with a horkunts!
striped paper
colour and choice of pattern are what make the difference
colours
as
strong, for instance, which you would these
like to make the focal point, departure. paint the wall they hond on D different colour from the other
Take note of the colour of the things you are stuck with it might be a carpet or a tiled aroplace, and plan with
decide
you want to draw attention to be any part of your rum. If you have a collection of paintings,
made to seem more intimate by Using a wallpaper with a very large pattern; a paper with very small pattern can make a small room son bigger.
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THIRD, if there are any ugly structural features, they can be made less prominent by painting them, and the wall they are on,
very dark colour or by cover- ing them and their wall with a
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STORIES FOR BOYS & GIRLS
O'Scowl Is Tricked.
-Knarf And Hanid Listen To His Sad Story-
Fierc they By MAX TRELL
found Pixle O'Scowl sitting gloomily on a and tired of all wooden bench with his head in "I'M SICK
hands and pranks hlo
while Pixle these tricks and folmes! I don't want any MeChuckt, Pixie O'Gay, Pixie and more of them, do you hear me?" McMerry. Pixie O'Pranic
It was Fixie O'Scow's voice Pixie D'Ha were dancing around sounding angrier
than
usunt, un taughing and singing. Shadow Knarf and Hanid, the
You can squvai Children with. the Turned. About Names, heard it long ber fore they reached the tiny doorway
leading down into O'Cheer Hall in the roots of the Old Oak, which was where the Pixies lived.
Went downstairs Down the long, narrow, wind- ing staircase went Knarf and Hanid, And all the while they walked down they kept hearing Pixie O'Scowl's angry voice.
"Go away, you pesis!" he was saying. "Play your jokes on somebody else'
Then they heard a chorus of laughing volees singing:
"You're a foolish old poke, You can't take a jokel You can scowl
Like an owi
But you can't take a joke!" By this time Knart and Hanid had reached the bottom of the and entered O'Cheer staircase Halli.
Like a scal.
But you can't take a joke!" Pixie O'Scow) suddenly jump- ed up and chased his formentors out. He sat down again.
"I suppose you've come here to play a joke on me, too," he culd to Knarf and Harid. -
.
"Go away?" Pixte O'Bcov
snapped at the Shadows.
Let's Eat
IDA BAREY ALLEN
Yes, We Have
Some Bananas.
"BAN
“PANANAS are always available and so accommodating," observed the Chef.
"Of
all fruits, they cari be used in the largest number of ways..
"Did Columbus discover this fruit, Madame?"
Shortly before carving, pour
of custard into serving bowl. Peel and slice I banana over it, then pdd remaining custard, lopping it with slices of second basana. For a garnish, top with
whipped cream. sweetened
"No, on the contrary," I re- plled, "banonna were native to the Canary Islands, of Africa. A few roots were brought from there by missionaries tú islands of the Caribbean and planted · Serves 4 to 0, an that there would be no lack of food.
Tropical diet
Now comes a substantial salad that is especially good for a club committee luncheon! For an accompaniment, servo thin chicken sandwiches and collec with It.
"From this start, bananas be came a staple food in the tropi- cal diet. They should become a slaple in our diet here for they Apple-Banana Fan: Balad: supply soft lubricating bulk, Cut 3 washed, unpeeled rel vlatning and minerals. They apples into thin wedges. Ar- have a delightful Bavour and are range on salad greens on; indi- quickly-assimilated energy ma- vidust serving plates. terial."
Peel ripe bananas and allee "Brolled halved broller-fryers through lengthwise almost to with baked bananas," said the the end. Place one on each plate, Chef, "is a gourmet combina- senarating or tanning" slight- tion."
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EAT BANANAS fresh from a filk glass centrepiece or try them in a dessert custard, light salad or brolled with chicken.
leave.
"Go away, I won't tell you,” Broiled Chicken with Ba- Cornish each with marackmo mapped Pixie O'scowl. "Ouch!nanas: The chicken is brolled as cherry. Around his waist
Don't pinch me!"
often described in this column, Pass a choice of Sour Cream "Oh no, dear," said Hanid,
"That's just to make you be About 10 min, before it will be Honey Dressing and Buttermilk as she sat down beside Pixie more polite," Hand said pleas done, peel i banana for each Dressing for reducers. Serves 0.
and put her arm antly. "Are you going O'Scowi
them whole. Sour Cream Money Dressing: to tell serving; around his waist. As he wasn't us or must I pinch you again?" Brush with equal parts melted Combine and mix 1 c. dairy sour much larger than a cucumber
"All_right" ogrced O'Scow butter or margarine and lemon cream, 2 tbsp. honey, 1⁄4 tsp. salt or, you might say, a pickle, after frowning and grumbing juice and dust lightly with salt. and 1⁄2 tsp. lemon juice.
Buttermilk Dressing: Stir Hanid got around his walk with for several minutes. Not that Broll 5 min. on each side. her hand rather than with her I think it's going to make me
arm.
frouchily.
feel any better, anything. "Legzo sald Pixle O'Scowl This is what they did.
"You know how bad the "Now you mustn't be rude, wauther's been for dear," Hanld said, holding him week or so cold and windy and the past In spite of his squirming
Know and rainy. Well, I had What's the joke? just about decided to take a "We want to hear about the trip. to some place where the Joke that they played on you." flowers are blooming, I was al Knart cald.
JACOBY on BRIDGE
dummy's diamonds were good and North made four no-trump,
THERE was nothing backward rest
about either North or South's bidding. Each held 11 points, but they romped into three no-trump.
Dummy won the opening club lead and a low diamond fast to West's jack A. second club itnocked out the last entry to dummy
The ace of diamonds was led next and North was careful to unblock with the nine. Since each opponent had to fol- low to the second diamond the
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SUNDAY DINNER
Salad of Tomato-Green Pepper-Romaine Broiled Chicken with Brotted Bananas Baked Creamed Spinach Hot Bisculta Lemon Custard Ple Coffee Toa Milk packed and everything when When bananas are cooked to OPrank and McChuckle cameserve with ment, "Ups should be along and said that I didn't green to assuro Irm texture. have to taku an long trip to Also, because they are not fully go to a place where the flowers ripened, they will not prove too were blooming. They knew a sweet to accompany meat.. place just at the end of the road.
Big glass houso
An old New England favour-. ise, Sunday dessert, is a delight ful custard. Here is the recipe:
Banana Custard Princess: In
e. bullermilk into mixture of i tbsp. dairy sour cream, 1⁄2 tbsp. huncy, a few grains salt and tsp. lemon juice.
DINNER
Melon Sections Brolled Swordfish or any
Fish Steak
Spanish Noodles Green Beans Gingerbread Squares
Milk
Coffee
Tea
Spanish Noodles: Cook 1b.
(8 oz.) high-protein noodles, following directions on pkg.
Meantime, melt 3 tbsp. Butter or margarine. Add 1 section gar- He; brown and remove.
Add seeded, minced green pepper; slow-cook unti mo,
Then, add 2 cup' tinned tomatoes, 1 top. sugar, 11⁄2 tsp. salt, lep, paprika and 11⁄2 c grated lemon rind. Sur in 2 sliced stuffed olives. milk Cook-stir constantly until Stir into. noodles. slightly thickened.
"So," continued Pixie a saucepan, mix together 31 'Scow! "I went along with tbsp. suger, tap, calt, 2 tbsp. them. And there, at the end of cornflour, and is fine the road, was a beautiful place like a big glass house, Outside it was showing and freezing. In
The hand is interesting prin- cipally for what did not happen. Suppose that South had decided to qull at two no-trump as many side the flowers were blooming. players' would have done. In You can spend the winter that case, proper play would right there! O'Prank said. have produced only two 110-
Lovely..
Thank you very trump
because Narth would much, I said, and I went {Ti- have made A safely play by side leading a second low diamond. "It smelled beautiful," sajď This would havo guarded Pixie O'Scowl. "I found my- blooming against a 3-1 diamond split end sell a place under a would have been correct at a rosebush and went to sleep. It two no-trump contract, but at was warm nɛ toast, And then throo no-trump, declarer could-oad then all of a sudden I not afford the safely play and woke up with a start. A man had to hope for a two-two break come in and turned the hose. Oh, in diamonds.
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Answer Monday:
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Barely escaped
Get out of here; you Bumi' he said. And he picked me up and threw me down and tricit
lo stamp on mo. I just escaped in time.
“And when I got back 10 O'Choer Hall from the groan-. house, for that's what that place wan, all wet and covered with mud, O'Prank and McChuckie and althove olher, fokon laughed and sughod and
Emir, and Hanid, when they heard the aty, teli llom laugh ing too, but they didn't,
Beat together 3 exr yolks and i whole egg-
Stir in hot milxture and re- turn to saucepan.
Cook-stir 5 min. over very low heat. Chill covered.
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Pass grated cheese. Serves to 0..
TRICK OF THE CHEF.
Season Spanish, noodles with a few grains of ground allspice.
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