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THE CARAVAN

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No. 7 CHATER ROAD ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1931.

WOMAN'S PAGE

The

Table Linen

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Embroideries

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Jewellery

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Every Bride Must Have

HEALTH IN THE HOME.

FAILING VISION. [BY A FAMILY DOCTOR} Vision can fail in two BEB908. Most commonly the patient will and that although his vision for nearby objects is failing he can see just as well as ever at a distance. This is the usual change which takes place with advancing years and merely means that you require to wear apectacles for reasing and all will be well.

A much more serious form of fail ing vision is thas in which sight for distant objects begins to become blurred. This practically always in- dientos a much more sorious state of affairs; one of a number of con- ditions which spectacles will not help in and which will require im- mediato medical treatment.

obsguro diseases of the nervous system. The treatment varios enor-- mously in all three conditions; in some it is very efluctive if started soon enough, in others no treatment does any good.

But if only people would take notice of their eyesight and go directly to a doctor so soon as they notice any failure in there would undoubtedly be many fewer people INCHES TOO SHORT! who have to end their lives without their sight.

"

TO MAKE MINT JELLY. Many people with a crop of mint still growing in the garden wonder what to do with it. Here is a sug gestion:-

pack tart apples.

2 tablespoons lemon juice. Sugar.

DON'T FORGET TO ALLOW

FOR SHRINKAGE.

That Shirt Band,”

A similar shrinkags in a shirt`ia by no means uncommon. Therefore, & 18in. eollar-bund becomes 14jin. Even if it is possible to weak it in sure to be uncomfortable. Nor will a well-fitting aloove look as well when it becomes one inch shorter after washing.

How many women under-estimate the shrinkage of fabrics that must Washable curtains and short blinds, too, should always be allow sabsequently be washed?

Materials such as window furnish-he spoilt after a few launderings. od ample measurements or they will ings, shirts, or wasbing frecks often Cretonnes, especially shadow cre- become inches too short owing to tonnes, are always liable to great aniscalculation, yet, if you allow already abrunk before making up, shrinkage unless the material is. for a shrinkage of five per cent.. in and few women care to wash mate length, you will be mostly on the rial several times before using it right side.

for the purpose required.

Greun, vegetable colouring. Largo bunch fresh mint leaves. Wipe and stam apples, then pare and cut in, quarters. Put in pre- In older people failure of vision serving kettle, add enough cold for distant objects may be due to water just to cover. Cover and cook kidney disenue, high blood pressure, slowly until apples are soft; mash. diabetes disease of the arteries of drain in jolly bag, and measure. For example, in a 30-inch case- the brain, or tumour of the brain. Boil 20 minutes, add an equal mea mert, if you do not allow for w

There may be a great shrinkage In addition, various poisons may sure of sugar, bring to bring to shrinkage of five per cent. the mate-in cloth, too, than many "women produce the same result-particular boiling point, and boil 2 minutes.rial may be 24 inches too short after imagine. Ir nicotine poisoning, from excessive Add'mint leaves, and again boil for washing. And that, of course, is smoking. Certain gorms may also 3 minutes. Add lemon juice and a quite enough to spoil the "hang" have the same effect: pr the whole little green vegetable colouring of your curtainss thing may be due to various rather "Remove leaves before potting.

A JOLLY LITTLE

BEGGAR!"

THE CHILDREN'S

CORNER.

Now be sure and be a good puppy," said my mother, as she licked me "good-bye.". "Mind' your manners, and remember that when you want anything you must beg for it." Then she gave me one more lick, and I was packed in a hamper with some straw and the lid-was shut down.

I didn't like it a bit. So I began to bark. Let me out! It's durk,. and I can't turn round: Let me Ow-ow-out! But no one took any notice, and I felt myself being enr

ried along.

I was in a thing called a train, and the train madu so much ngise that though I could feel myself barking, I couldn't hear it,.

So I left off and I suppose 1 went to sleep because the next thing I can remember is hearing

THE SMILE OF THE SEA PRINCESS.

CHAPTER...V.

(Continued from Last, Bridag.) So the young royal herman, who was now nothing but a Johidory, proved that fie was wise; for what

can be wiser than making the best of what you have, when you are sure that you must put up with it?...

Now, it fell out that he swum towards the South, to that part of the great Ocean, where dwelt the King of all the Coral Forest, He had an only child, a daughtem just grown up. You could have told in moment that she was growing, for she had now twelve prancing sea-horses to draw her concb, which was made

some one say: Oh what a dear, of red coral. As a child she had funny, little doggie!"

Y only six.

Thon as I opened my eyes and sat up and blinked, I saw that a

little boy and girl were looking at

me.

It so happent "that John-dory:

as we must now call the price, -

I came to the heart of the Coral

Forest just in the nick of time, for

I remember what my mother the King and Queen, were planning

and said about minding my" manners, .so I tumbled out of the hamper, and sat up on my. little hind legs, as I had seen her do over and over again,

And the little girl clapped her hands, and anid: Oh, you darling doggie!" And the little boy said, "What a jolly little beggar".

a grout birthday party for their daughter, the Coral Princess! When John-dory heard, he went right up to the Palace walls, and looked in at a little window. There he saw the Coral Princess talking with her mother, the Queen. So beautiful was the Princess that poor John-dory fell in love with her at first sight.

I hadn't got a name of my own before this. So the first thing they did was to find one for ma. And the one they found was "Chummy." From that moment he never left

I think it's a nice name. And the Palace Walls, but swam in and when any one calls "Chummy i "!

out, and round and round, getting though my legs are rather short,

you should see me run! And when his food when he could, but never

I beg I get all sorts of nice things leaving the Coral Princess any given me.

FIRST LESSONS IN COOKERY.

OHOCOLATE ALMONDS.

Put some plain chocolate in a

more. But the Princess knew noth-busin and stand in a saucepan full Lots of people come to my house. I call it my house because I live ing of all thin. If she ever BOW of boiling water till the chocolate there. Some come in carriage, some poor John-dory swimming about in has dissolved. Flavour the choco- come in carts, and bring nice

the Palaes garden, she thought no date with a few drops of essence of things, like biscuits and bones with meat on them. And others, come

more of it than you would think vanilla. Take some sweet almonds, and ask for money or something to of a swallow or even a aparrow, blanch tham, and then dry cool

eat.

I have sometimes beard these fitting about up in the air near called beggare" But they don't your home. beg as I do. I wonder why

(To be Continued.)

oven. Hold each almond on a wire

fork, dip into the melted chocolate; then place on a buttered tin to dry.

In finishing a cloth, for example, it in h very easy matter to increase the width by five, or even ten, per

A STRANGE BIRD.

"What bird can this be?" said the

rook;" can you tell ? *** "No, wo can't," said the owls;

"we are puzzled as well

It stands there with novor s hool or

a tweet,

་

"We should think it must really

want something to eat,'*-

Then the wind blow, and round and What a strange way to fly! It is

round went the guber bird, really absurd,"

Said the rook; if you cannot fy

better than that, And get food for yourself, you will

Dover grow fat i-"'~-

cant. For this reason, then, if you see two similar cloths being sold, one at 36in. width and the other at

the conclusion at once that the 38in width, it is unwise to jump to.

greater width is this better value.

shrink to less than the smaller width It may be the greator width will

when wished, and if the garment is of the correot size to begin with then trouble is sure to follow.

Unshrinkable.""

Another mistake many women make is that of believing that all woollens marked unshrinkable" will not ahrink no matter what treatment they receive in the wash.

Wherever a material is liable to shrinkage in laundering there are six points to bear in mind.

If it shrinks it is

because it was washed in other

than tepid water;

because soap was rubbed directly

upon it;

because it was dried before the

fre:

because it was allowed to lie about.

in wet condition; and

because it was not pulled into

shape while still damp.

TRY THIS SCRUNCHY CUSTARD.

Caramial custard, boiled and steamed custard we all know only too well-how, about a nerunchy gustardi easy and good?—

Boak 8" Ovaltine" Rusks in the juice strained from 2 oranges. Cover with custard.

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