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LADY

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MAY 14,

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

O THE PLACE I'LL DEFEND TO THE LAST!

LUCK

CHINA" "MAIL

horoscope

SATURDAY, MAY 14

AQUARIUS (January · 21-

February 19): You will come to realise that your *judgement of an associate has been wrong all along, and you will soon find a way to establish a better re- lationship.

PISCES (February 20-Murch 20) Hold the signing of an important document over until next week, as an extra few days may give you a different slant on the mat- ter.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Before making an important purchase for your home, you ought to consult friends about their experience with the same item.

Don't let the

Knock-down-your-walls

Brigade get at the

dining-room

SUPPOSE I must be a secretive person, because I have an absolute horror of open-plan living, The idea of sitting, sleeping, and eating all in one room makes me shiver with fear even though that room might be the size of the Festival Hall.

It conjures up a picture of and I pick at the food. Surely,

In the bed. I can't be the only one? breadcrumbs

sheets And dirty crumpled

- sort of super "X" glasses certificate alm which gets rather bad review from the critics.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

Faced with two alternative There is an old adage which social gatherings for todays there is a time and pince night, select the one which for everything and this should slot in the home and be carried is closer to home.

on in life.

Smells

GEMINI (May 21-June 21):

In D serious discussion - about a friend's future, voice your sincere opinion, even though you may feel I KNOW that very few people live in enornicus mansions, that you are spoiling his

but I know too that there are optimistic outlook.

millions who live in houses with CANCER (June 22-July 21): more than adequate accommoda-

You will have to deal caution. tiously with a person of your own sex born under Aries.

Many of these are bombarded by articles which suggest knock- ing down all interior walls and making great big rooms.

I don't suggest that all the ideas are bad, but it does make me sad when I read that dining- rooms are old fashioned and unnecessary.

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Relaxing

To me the evening meal, call to a mere snack, is the most important time of the day not only for me but for my wife as well

by JOHN SIDDLEY in London

have a dining-room for this, yOU

N?

For the simple, practical reason that everything can be hild and prepared during the day and it is out of sight unții. needed and in the same way can be forgotten about after it

finished.

Here it should be gay and Visit any artist's studio and gaze with hypnotic fascination fresh because manufacturers are or admiration, at the vast com- beginning to wake up. glomeration of bits and pieces" which, If removed, would seriously disrupt their lives.

Atmosphere

NO, of course, we don't fing

N°

We seldom have more than out dining-room suites be- six people for dinner, but quite cause the articles about decora- often, ark a few more in for fon tell us to. All we need are ce afterwards it's hardly rooms to put them in and the fair on the after-dinner annivals. right atmosphere to go with them to see and sinell the remains of and before we know where we a cheese souffle or some, such are we have a warm, intimate

art of conversation.

deliciousness when all they may room in which to rediscover the bave had was baked beans!

Another point which so many people are apt to forget is that any amount of homes inherit "the dining-room suite."

Sentiment

THIS is wonderful when it is Chippendale, Hepplewhite or

Sheraton but what's to be

done

when it's olde,walde Tudor or heavy treacle-painted Victorian?

We relax, we, talk and we grow calm. The worries ircubles of work disappear and You use it because it belonged the world seems, a pleasant to a favourite aunt or rather place once more. This is always cheerful grandmother. the case even though we may eat only an amelette and salad.

Do you throw it away or burn and it? of cousse not

We are all sentimentalists at heart and hoarders at the same

I like a. dark, dining-room wh a minimum aimount of light. Lamps on the sideboard and candles on the table are after usually enough because. all, we tell from the taste and not from the look that the food

is good or not.

I like tablecloths and on un-

fussy table arrangement.

Of course, the ideal is to have â dining-room for * enter- taining which we should all like doing but also have a por- tion of the kitchen made into an eating area which can be screened off from the working

area.

Here breakfast could be served and the children's meala

It isn't the case balancing a time even the most modern, and your own or for your hus- tray with telly. Why must and advanced of jas.

The NEARL

TEARLY

fridge

and you

averyone these days seems to want a refrigerator because it takes care of foods and saves shopping time.

LEO (July 22-August 21); Despite your usual conven- tional outlook on life. you

drawn may be

into A romance which will go con- trary to all your principles. VIRGO (August 22-Septem- One of the hings I dislike

ber 22): A short trip will most in a home is the smell of One of them is to store all foods so that they can be not only most successful cooking either before or after wet financially, but you will be eating it. I may be a pedantic breathe" This applies to cook-

bore over this, but it's some-ed foods, too. able to combine it with a

thing so strong in me that if I great deal of pleasure.

am assailed by smells, no mat-

LIBRA (September 28-Octo-ter how delicious, before a meal ber 22) A sudden increase my appetite drops to near zero

In your financial obligations may necessitate your look- ing for an additional source of income. SCORPIO (October 28- November 21): Avoid getting in a quarrel in your partner's family which has no bearing on your own affairs.

(November

SAGITTARIUS

22-December 21): The benefit which you expected from tonight's meeting may not materialise, but you will have learned an important lesson in human relation- skips. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): A neighbour whom you have not seen for quite a while may have some trouble which your visit could help to alleviate. LUCKY ENCOUNTER:

If

today is your birthday, a meeting with a man named OSCAR may have some special algnificance.

The Do It Yourself school

by MEL

1000

'BUT HENRY, WE PONT NEED

ANY MORE SHELYES

children love

PALADAC

But it is surprising that even WHEN all have had as much intelligent folk, do not always as they want, replace it in its reason out what happens if they box and stand it on its edge so do not observe the rules.

that the cut out portion is fac- ing upwards, The cheese stays

put. Simple.

Fish and meat may not decay

if they are tightly wrapped in transparent bags, but they will go sour and goodness knows. what takes place then.

Salads, on the other hand, should be stored in a tightly- closed bag because the object here is to keep in the moisture.

I store all kinds of things in my large refrigerator. So-called "non-perishables" for instance, such as four semolina and all cereals which can come alive." Certain spices and caraway seeds, too.

IF you deplore the loss of

Camembert cheese "when it runs and spreads, try this:

band and yourself.

A new regatable gil, sprayed on to any gab in which food is to be fried provides the marest film of oil on which foods cook with- out sticking. I tried it on a pan in which most fands invariably caught and converted it into a non-stick one.

When it's important to look your very best 'Touch-and-Glow' is the make-up for you :

Chintz can now be treated with a laminated plastic surface

for walls or table tops. Wasb- areas planned for the average able or plastic wallpapers come house or flat as well as a dining in a large range of colour end room and not instead of is some design.

thing I would dearly love.

Am I asking too much for us Ceramics are avaliable in all? I dont think so, but in bright colours. Pots and pans the meantime enjoy your home are made for direct serving. as it is and brighten that

Everything is looking up for sometimes poor relation your kitchen and to see dining your dinning room.

I WERE asked to decorate an average dining-room with average furniture, inherited rather than bought, I would advise dark apricot walls, one of the most flattering colours--with matching ceiling.

Cream paint (this may surprise you but white could be too much of a contrast) and for curtains a heavy ter tured fabric the colour of a chocolate ice, The chairs could then be covered in e bold Roral linen. incorporating the colours of the room with additional green and orange as contrast.

London Expat. Sur

DRAWING BY DAVID GENTLEMAN This scheme would help to take out the red in any Victorian mahogany, but also blend with, antiques.

This sounds fine, you say, but peo- ple who have servants will do what they like best without your advice and those who haven't won't want to be' dressing and sitting like stuffed,

up dummies in a dining-room while the stew boils over in the kitchen.

I agree, but until the "planners whoever these mysterious gentlemen might be make kitchens bigger and more practical then I don't like gesting the impossible.

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