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Woman's

best

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1960.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

SHOPPING BUREAU

by ELIZABETH DICKSON

friend: lighting

London.

WHAT is the most subtly

flattering factor in a woman's life? What gives a completely individual look-irrespective of how much you spent on the furnishings? What, in fact, is the most important thing in any home? The answer: effective lighting.

After all, it is low lights that do magic for a pretty face und transform a dull room into the individual. But how to set about 17

A CHANGE FROM

CANDLES...

24

TOB those who have neither

original Victorian lamp

ALL THE MAGIC of pretty lighting for a dinner for two. Reading from the loft, Swedish milk glass_condle- sticks scalloped and slendor are small size and tall. The singlo suspension lamp is in opaque Swedish glass, Reidol glass candlesticks from Austria and a hyacinth blue copy of a Victorian lamp. All lighting, decoration and the party drosk from Woollands of Knightsbridge.

The best spells are weaved

by candlelight. And the classic plain white candle by Prices need cost only 2d. coch. Or you can indulge in wax inandurbs, H prelly Chinuse figure or Tamplat dragon int Oriental colours such as rose qunTize,

Jade or right turquoise.

Romantic

Imported from Madrid the largest dragon stands Glmost alter-candle high and costs £3 155. for a pair. The less ex- travagant version Is 3 guineas.

Other idens by candlelight the romance of a capture 1 Venetian bell. Straight from the 18-century come the imagina- Cve ideas of Charles Howard. one of the best from the hive of Chelsea interior decorators.

He has an American client likes pretty fighting. who

So

90 white candles placed in An

ormulu chandeller are the set ting in the drawing-room he has

with terra- cotta glaze walls. white bisque figures and white damask curtains the pelmet

the drape Inspired by

designed for him

Balenciaga skirt,

to resurrect from the attic, nor Meta)

the stamina and time to hunt for lights in

id

Cascade

will Satleers

glass jurs are

lighting. Slender

swagi

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Helen Burke's

COOKING

KEEPING DOWN COSTS: THE

COLUMN ANSWER'S AN EGG

WE strive, sometimes with doubtful results, to

keep down costs and forget about the useful egg mainly, I suppose, because eggs are generally regarded as breakfast food.

Why not, then, get to ture and slip them into the gether some quick and easy oven or under a medium egg dishes and see how slow grill to heat through. they can help the budget.

Top each cake with a Ounce for ounce, eggs

poached egg and spoon over night are the least expensive of it a hot sauce made by

an all protein foods.

thinning down further con- little densed soup with a top milk to the desired con- sistency.

wax candles with real work but 1opped by a glass bulb in the shape of &

lame come from France,

to

A clever ellernative centre hail light is the cascade of nine lights, shaped in a

one to adapt to electriclly, Har- usual end for dinner party rods have

a pretty and inex- pensive collection of copies.

The miniature edition above has a base in French porcelain palest apple green and is painted with gold fillgrec sugar pink. It is complete with metal fittings, night-light wick metal spiral.

As streamlined as neon, and opaque glass lamp. The larger size, about 14n, gh, in latest idea for a refectory din- tabular shaped with a luted ing-room is to take five lamus lamp and com In the same designed like of burners and colourings.

hant them low over the table A pair would make a delight- by rods from a very high ceiling. ful wedding present or a thrifty And for the silting TOOL alternative to candlesticks for u similar lamps arranged In a four-person dinner-party.

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mabile.

DINNER TABLE 'EXTRAS'

the

go with the new trends for lighting are some pretty ideas for dinner-laute decoration. I saw a gilded birdcage stand- ing about 2ft, high which would make an unusual centre pleces; for holding fruit, a large stove-enamelled white dish,

Eggs with grilled bacon, mushrooms und tomatoes are probably the most popu- lar light meal. But for a change make a little more fuss of eggs and see how rewarding they can be,

Simplified

In the hotel kitchen EGGS A-LA-REINE

In place of a gurnish of sliced truffles, I suggest a sprinkling of paprika finely chopped parsley.

or

This handy hanging rack for five saucepans la plastic- conted, available li red, white, blue or yellow, and will hang out of the way behind a door.

If there are some small pieces of cooked chicken available, the surface, then place them on mixture chop them and mix them Into top of the macaron

the first Sprinkle with chopped parsley the potato cakes in

and serve.

Are n place,

trouble at all, but in the home we like to simplify the dish and, at the same time, cut the cost.

EGGS CHIMAY: Where I MACARONI AND EGGS; For

slaiks four servings, skin, de-seed and have several mushroom chop alb. tomatoes and

cook on hand, I like to use them this them in two walnuls of butter, simple way: Cut Two to three rashers of

streaky bacon into strips, fry contain them and add

Tomatoes.

All a-la-Reine dishes con- tain or should chicken, but try this:

Mash and sleve enough

thei to

Th

Turn the

Lex Aitken, a bright young interior decorator, has designed

Doll six to seven oz, cul a tablecloth In sun-spotting silk shuntung backed with heavy cotton and edged with a tasseled white calion fringe: fun tu copy boiled potatoes for four to macaroni, drain and add to the in pale grey shuntung or aquamarine silt Lanterns in brightly

six servings. Bent into tomatoes and bacon. coloured hand-puinted silk gauze, standing about 18in. bigh, cost

a shallow heal oround £2 each at the Chan Crafts Centre, Baker Streel. And them one or two tablespoons mixture into seen in New Yuck, and easy enough to do yourself, & miniature condensed cream of chicken proof dish. potted tree with its branches laden with silver-wrapped Eastersoup. Make four to six Lightly iry four eggs. Slip cakes of this softish mix them under the grill just to set

eggs.

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Whoa Is Kidnapped

-Knarf, Teddy And Hi Take Him To The Park-

By MAX TRELL

TTANID,

H with

the Shadow Girl 150 Turned About Name, had been sitting on the floor near the window, reading a book for quite a while before she noticed what was happeni ing.

First of all I must tell you that it was quite late at night. Everyone in the house Wes | asleep—everyone, I mean, ex- cept the ones who lived in the

weho Playroom, They

mom wide awake than they were in the daytime.

What Harid saw

What Was

this;

happening was

Out of the comer of her eyo, as she was reading, Hanid saw her brother Knart climb on the

When and this these riders

went over an iron fence.

back of Whoo, the Hobby Horse, went!" Soying this, General Tin The next second she saw Knarf started own the street. He took help Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, blg steps. His sword and mus- elimb into the saddle behind kot and all the buttons on his him. Then she saw Hlawatha, coat rattled and Jungled with the Sanall-Sized Wooden Indlan

to

Take a leap and land in the every step he took. saddle behind Teddy.

"Oh well," Hanid found her- selt nying herself, "it's pretty silly of them all to sit on Whon's back. They can't go anywhere. All Whoa can do is rock back and forth. He can't stic from the spot where standing-OH!"

"Come along, Girl," he sald Ing. "You can help mo scold to Bonid as he saw her hesitat- those scoundrels."

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Just naughty

"They're not scoundrela. he's They're just naughty," Hanl

tried to say Da she ran along-

Hanid gasped. She could side the angry General. "I hope hardly belleve 11 There was you won't scold them too much. Whoa, the Hobby Horse, sud- General Tin stomped around denly kicking up his heels

and the corner, then he crossed the galloping out of the room,

dark stred and walked another block or two. Finally they jumped up

reached the Amusement Park, rounding it well over the top.

Hanid shut her book

"But why are we coming Spoon over them a good white sprang to her feet.

hero General nh Hanid sauce, favoured to taste with "Knart! Teddy! Hiawathal asked. grated cheese, and slip under Whoa! Where are you

going?

"Listen!...Do you hear 4?" the grill to heat through and Walt for me!"

General Tin asked, holding up colour a lttle.

Hauld ran out After them. his finger. She was just in time

Hanid stopped and listened. Whon with the three riders on

Hoars Music his back go vaulting over it down the iron fence and dash street and 'pround the corner.

It's the merry-go- There didn't seem to be any round!" she exclaimed.

"I can use following and Hanid, feel- hear the music!"

No need to give a recipe for SCRAMBLED EGGS with sweet corn. Just warm the com with a spot of buller before starting to cook the eggs.

Try, too, scrambled eggs and potted shrimps, the shrimps warmed in their butter before. hand.

Quick snack

or

For 41 quick breakfast snack, beat one ogg and add 10 a glass of orange juice.

Mix until frothy.

Expert corrects fads about eggs

STILLWATER.

Egra aro NO misunderstood that Oklahoma State University pntiltryman Sewell Skelton wonders why they don't develop neuroses,

After

For four servings gently fry a very finely chopped email

# four-year survey. onlon in a walnut of butter and Skelton learned of the following few drops of alive oil. Chop concepts-all terraed "poppy- the mushroom stulles well, press

cock" by the poultryman. out excess juice and add them to the onion. Cook gently and season with pepper, salt, grated nutmeg and a teaspoon of chop- ped parsley.

Halve four hard-boiled eggs tengthwise. Remove the yolks

Darker yolk eggs are more nutritious.

--Ferlito eggs are more nutri- lious than non-fertile eggs.

→→→Egg white haa Do food value,

and mash them with the other --Brown eggs faste different || mixture. Fili the egg white from white erTI.

JACOBY on BRIDGE

SCO to

"Why,

g quite hurt that she hadn't Hanid and General. The tan been asked to go along, was through the Amusement Park Just turning to go back into the unit they came to the meTRY- house when General Tin, the go-gound. And there they were, Tin Soldier, came stamping out. Knarf. Teddy and Hiawatha. I Henid was. feeling hurt, all sitting on Whoo's back as General Tin was feeling in

a they went round and round

with the merry-go-round temper.

are

they?"

There WITC

other wooden

Took his horse "Where growled. "They had no right to horses-but none of them looked do this without my permission! us handsome от pranced as They took my Horse!"

proudly as Whoo, The Hobby "Oh

dear," said Hanid, "Is Horse, from the Children's Play- Whoa your Horse, General Tin?" room!

Horses on the merry-go-round he regular merry-go-roundi

"Of course! Whoa belongs to Did General Tin punish and mo! I'll get them punished for reald the scoundrels? Oh no! this. I know just where they He forgot all about it.

Rupert and the Windies-44

Getting dressed, Rupert is still bemused about yesterday's weird adventure. No present has come for him and, thoughs he tries to tell his parents about the Windies and the rocket, even that har become rather muddled and his

Daddy only krina,

"I don't

believe they even missed me while I was on that extraordinary jour•· nay," he thinks. All at once something beyond the window catches his eye and he stiđena. "Golly the exclaims and, grab- bing his scar and overcoat, be scampers straight out. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

QOUTH Won the opening dia- the hand so as to try the club By JOYCE SCHULLER

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If South had gone after the clubs instead of the spades he I would have made the hand slaco the ace of ciuba' was right for him. Soulk defended his play on the ground that even after the apadé Ancase lost West had to shift to a club to beat the hand but South was entirely wrong.

The club play was far superior Bernura Borith could have played

South should have drawn trumps and then played four diamonds discarding one of dum- my's two clubs and then roturn- ed to dummy with a trump for the club lead.

Since East held the ace every-

Forecaster weathers

shower of complaints

CHICAGO.

for

PEOPLE talk about forecaster, people say, so you're thing would have been over but the weatherman, but Miss Davis finds callers most give West the nee and his best they haven't a word for urprised to heather

play would be to win and return

weather- woman on the other phono st

a club. South would ruft in dum- a woman who recently two a my and still have the apade became one in Chicago. Her duties include making

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What do you do?

Answer on Mondar

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local forecasts for cach of "Weatherwoman," "weather- linols'

Zones, .six weather and "forecastross" are writing

a motorista forecast, just a few of the nanies for the midwestern wenther outlook Dorothy Davis. The government and a nation wide wonthoz mum- calle her a meteorological tech-maty, inician, which is one degree beneath # meteorologist, but carries the same dutica.

Whatever she's called), most people, find her hard to beilave, asked for aforecaster," they snart, when she answers the telephona.

i was during a geography core Boatern - Kilimata University TIG nhà m tought of soligʻ into wasther work for org Trom the muslo aho was studying, after winning a scholarship for, her platinci playing.

Mion Davis attributed her

There ato few women weather politeness with these callers to forecasters, but Miss Davin con- ile natural sweetsess of a riders it a great '. field., Zur · a woman. It's a little harder to woman with aptitude for mathe take when people call to com- matics and physics, vol plain about the weather. and But she didn't always: think hold her personally responsible, so. She waited unili Imit yea the said,

to také, a course, necessary to "But all weatherinen run into become a meteorological techni- thas stlivade,” she said, “When- elan becxute die didn't think a I'm Introduced as a sequilier, girl had much of a chance.