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ways of keeping cool, indoors now that the real hot days have arrived. Summer is already here but July and August will be our hollest and ment humid months. Let's pro- pore for them.

I believe in giving the house a thorough niring, not only during the proverbied, spring eloning, but during

the heat of midsummer.

Cupboards and drawers have been scrubbed out: it is a good plan to let them stand open to the Ennshine for a'day or two, and nut It winter. things on the line in the food Karden to have a blow through before they are put away.

The rooms themselves will teem all the brighter and fresher if you let plenty of air blow through the house, Cool Kitchen

On. tine

morga

doors and window so that there jos rial draught swiets- ing through everything. Th th applies specially to

kitchen, where there, is the problem of getting rid of from washing and

t

cooking.

Wire ganz zereros made to At the opening of the kitchen windows are great help in Reiting plenty of fresh air

without inviting in the flies. A handy mon can make them, and they are held in pince by hooks and staples, Used on neash winlow, the sashi shuts down on to the frame and holds it in plner.

Now I am going to bon weather cock and tell you that on really hot days It pays to keep out the sunshine. Shut the windows on the sunny side, kerp- ing the doors and windows on the shady side of the house open, draw dow the instile blinds, or pull the cur tals

The room nya fresh and cool, and

Bag Novelties

MIDINETTE baga from Paris buule-

eards are something new in hand- bags. Square and derți, you expert to and all camera within rather than an empty space for all the olds and enda a woman mitat carry around with her during the day.

Another novel shape in the billy ri ba. This is perfently fint at the back with rounded froat It has useful pockets and, like the Midinette, plenty of space for make-up nerevitle, stic kers, and will also take frow letter

unl

. While leather bags bave come erat with the simi. Many of item cm 1 aponized, so it's easy in Krep them fre: h and nter, Ti, tips, are made in various shares and trin. There i dreaded venue for bags that are mag- rowish and rather deep.

Let's eat-!

Where?

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-of course!

Breakfast

Morning Coffee

Tiffins

Teas

Dinners

Open from 7 am..

First & Mexzanine Floor, King's Theatro Building.

BRASSO

METAL POLISH

Givat new polish to all Brass and

Copper.

-keep those

WINGED INTRUDERS.

OUT!

Furnished for coolness is the airy room, with its fight wood furniture, iluen bedspread, and fine net curtains.

you will appreciate it most when you pull up the blinda aiki upen the windows when the Kun ha gone round. and everything seems baked outside. Vene- Unn blinds are fashionable ngato. They are wrful in

hot wether,

for you can pull them down to shut on the in, but open the alats 'tu let Ja Air. They leuk well on a muslin druped window, either painted silver W nluminium paint or enamelled to match the woodwork.

Net curtains covering the window Also soften the sunshine and help to prevent carpets from fading

Lonse covers for the easy chairs to mich the curtains are a good tip for inking nona, serin cool, but if you don't want to cover up the chairs comi pletely, what about rönte glazed chintz revers for the cuthlons or a set of covers for the elinie facks aud anns.. made at crash or inen?

The are practical Kummer intmireasars, for they prevent greasy patcher en good uphultery,

No Encouragement

Flies and other unwanted pests will boon be prriving now that warber days are here to stay, but there is no reason why the house should be

them. To art with Troubled by burn all the rubbish you can; any thať. won't burn wrap in newspaper before It is n good putting it in the dustbin.

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maker's biggest prob iems, which is not always appreciated by the rest of the family. I solved it last year by arranging the cooking

so that the range was

by

JANET

JAY

1lt only two or three days a week, and by transferring light jobs, like odd washing and vegetable peeling, out to the garden whenever thore was a bit of

plan. too, to keep food- us in the larder covered with a yard or Two of bulter musiin. This keeps the food cpol if the end of the

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dipped

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In a basin of water standing on the shelf.

Spraying with a quld insecticide once a day Gloors mud windows alu for ten minutes after the spraying, otherwise the files escape to come back Inter!) Is Kood atminer household routing. but I am fading the powder Insecticides n help, too.

Where Enemies Lurk

If you scatter a Ittle of this along the picture mall and sling, on the top of high cupboards find wardrobes, on the four of the larder and rand the sink, you will be shutting winged pests out of some of their favourite

The

powder lurking places. also useful for entering the folds of clothing atcred, away for the

Kummer.

1

I have just seen a new mothproof bag. by the way, which you will find useful for storage It takes four dresses ur coats, is made of a rubber- ned naterial moths can't get past, and it cost 12s. Gal. There are smaller bas of moth-proof paper to hold one coat or dress for in, Gid, each.

Keeping the kitchen and sellery reasonably evol 15 one of the home

TWO for TEA

time.

thy! INEAPPLE Wailles ar

you something 'unusuri would like to serve at ter

To make them you need' 5-lb flott. I ca. 1-plat nilk. 1-1. strained ant irthed pineapple, a pinch of salt. Two

efuls of baking powder - fando 44. sutter.

Beat the egg yolks with the mitk 3leve the flour, salt and bakby pow der, pour in the eggs and milk. then the melted butter. Stir in the crushed pineapple and. lastly, the whisked eg whiter

Cook on a slightly greased wate fron, then serve with pineapple juter. first thickening this with cornflour.

Mill Scones

Light scones, well battered--whi aleer to offer a guest?

Ingredients: -. four teasp. bl carbonate soda, one teasp. crenin Bí tartar, 1oz. butter, allk for mixing, twi Leasp, sugar, a pinch of spice if C.

Steve the dry ingredients together, rub in the butler, then add the milk. Mix, then turn on to a floured board.

Roll out Into three rounds. mari each into four with a knife, brush over with milk and sugar, and bake in a moderate oven or on a hot girdle. Cof on a slere.

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shade Regularly flushing the drains, both inside and out, with hot water containing

hiounelioid

disinfectant

saved any hot weather Kamells.

Foot Comfort

You will feel poler in the kitchen, too, if ou keep a latted mat, either wood or rubber, to stand on. It makes a cool nir space between one's feet and the floor, And do A down to da many jobs as ፯ጎኒ ኪ.

Lastly, don't forget int the outside of the house needs keeping cool, too. Deep- sunblinds on the sunny side, remembering that an extra large one for lie french win- dow makes a cool awning to alt under. The front door needs protection from the aun. Itub in n littlo bolled Inseed oil occasionally. This prevents bilstering and crnck- ing. If you put up a sun cur- tain you can stand the front door open on a hot dny, but the house will all be reasonably ⚫ private.

An arrival yesterday by the French liner Felix Roussel from Europe was Mr. William Parker, a Director of the International News Service in Paris, who is on his way to Japan.) Mr. Parker has been in Paris for the past four years.

HERE are

recipes for tasty

sandricks

that

should praye us popu

lar at suppres

Swing High

SWING LOW

NYONE who lo suffering from tummy" will a bit too much be glad of this exercise. I 18 theso splendid for toning-up muscles.

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Without choos, stand with 10 feet almost together and the arms out to the side an own. How swing the Arms up above this head, and, following the direction indicated by dotted lines and arrowa, swing right forward, touch- Ing the floor with the, finger-tips.

Reverso the movement as you como up again. Do this several times to tho Practiso left, and then to the right. three times daily if possible.

Do sure to make the widest sweep you en with the arms. After a while, you'll be able to touch the floor with the palms of your hands, but don't strain to do so.

Waist Slimming

Another silminer, for the watat this time, is as follows:-

feet alightly apart, Bland with hands on hips Bend forward from the waist, keeping the shoulders well back-you'll find that you aren't to this unless you think about it- then, starting off towards the right, rotate the upper part of the body- right, back, left, forward.

Do this ten times, then reverse the *process, starling off to the left.

French Sandwiches

as they were in the French home where they were first tried,

MEDITERRANEAN,—Ope' tin of long fish, one table- spoonful of capres, one tablespoonful of miced herbs, three Jubles pounfuls of mayonnaise with strong furor of exe- dar. Salt if required and popper to taste. Mix the tuny fish with the finely-chopped capers and herbs, and the pepper and then the mangaiee. Spread over hin slices of buttered • white ur broca berad and prees well together.

LUCETTE-Four hard-boiled eggs, ten filets of anchorier, twn tablespoonffils of alive oil, me tablespoonfult of mised herba, one heaped tablespoonful of stoned olives, the jier of half a lemon, and pepper to taste. Mash the yolka of the eggs, and the bit drop by drop, then mir Thoroughly to a creamp puste. Add the peppry and lemon juer, Noe chop very fiucly the anchovies, olives, whites of cyps and mixed berbs and add to the paste,, Mix, thoroughly and spread thickly on thin slices of buttered white or bren bread and press well fogether.

For Our Junior Readers

PLANTS WANT 'ELBOW ROOM"

O

N this crowded

carth onc

for

the great

problems

l

Overcrowding in

the Meadow-

When you

plants is to find ron 10 grow at all, look at a trendow hardly a tree of the brown earth is visible in the compact. turf. There is keen competition among the plants for a place in the sun. Soque are not above elbowing their neigh.. bouis out of the way.

The grasses with their tall and unrrow leaves find it fairly easy to get up into the light and air. Many plants have underground steins which run a

Meadow thistle spreads its teaves rcide.

little below the surface of the soll. sending up shoots just where there huppens to be available space.

low

Others, with spreading and growing foliage, are, in a much more dieut position. Many of these, like the Meadow Plue Thistle, Shepherd's Purse, Dandellon, and Hawkweed have adopted a clever method of securing room to grow

This is known as "atarring," and here the leaves grow out in the form of a roselte, which is so close to the ground that nothing else can pazziyiy. grow in the space occupied. The

rosette may be eight, or even more,,,

inches in diameter, and the plant is able to keep апоред -placo for itself where it can develop its lowers. Another curious habit is in the case of her 10 be seen tain spring flowering plants after the blossoms are over. notably the Primrose and the Bluebell, Alter the flowers are over, the leaves of these plants continue to grow till in the end they dop over on the ground all round the centre of the plant.

In this way the seedlings, which

grow in the late spring might start. and choke such a plant as a Primrose, are prevented from making any head- way.

Some plants make sure of their own While plot of ground by nonding out stems which fun along the surface of. the soil. The Speedwells, the Poten

an and the wild Strawberries are good examples. At dhe start there will -be a central plant, and from this, in

all directions, will shoot out the

creeping stems.

From the leat juints on these. stems' roots are sent

and down plantleta aria c; these are not only their footed on

own account, but st receive help from the parch

eut the new plant. If the stem

arc little plants able to atur on their own.

e

Wid Strawberry,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1986.

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This is reserved, so take your Sont of, as a start.

When other games pall, try this ony for a chẳnge.

|~10- The-highest-point in Dick Fur

pin's career.

11 Not now, please.

13 This is the fashion with the

Navy quite new..

15 No, this is not the headquarters of the artillery, it's a clerical office.

this

16 There are ove rivers of

name in England, and four in Scotland.

17 This midday nap is a winner in

the South.

21 It might amount to mytiny.

23 Thames-side village best avoid- ed when the bulrush is out, apparently.

27 The music open on the plano tells a tale, as music only can (hidden).

28 Fool.

29 Shows temperance, after a style, 32 Anything will do for this,"

33 One friend does not show this

to another,

13 Hidden in Clue 27.

35 Bad for beetles inside out.

2 Tidy cut.

DOWN

3 A dark-skinned- man.

4 Given enough time; the choice

would be for work.

5 Tense.

6 Support or dam.

7 These can be cut and made into

sauce.

8 One cannot write with this with- out an ink. well (two words,

3).

12 Scarcely worth mentioning.

14 Pretending to feet #1 while stop- ping with a theatrical landlady. 15 The police are colloquial."

18 Relinquish Dhis, it may turar out

To be bad on

19 Makes a three-quarter turn, 20 This outfit consista of one little

Addle.

22 Hidden in Clue 27.". 24 Turn rotind to tear. 25 Fruit that spoke in a dream on

June 24.

26 Act upon this.

27 There's something funny about 'n bob, though, of course, quite

orderly.

30 If it were turned round inside

it would be a good idea,

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31 Only half studious, I'm afraid,

like many small boys.

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Getting No Place Fast

SURE!

KIN YA GIMME A LIFT? I BEEN WALKIN' FER HOURS! MY POOR FEET ARE READY / HOP IN'!

TA KICK OFF!

MISTER, THIS SURE BEATS) YEAH, BUT I'M OUTA WALKIN' ANY TIME!

'GAS! WE'LL HAFTA SHOVE ER TO THE GAS STATION! BUT ITS ONLY

3 MILE OVER "TH HILL!

GA2 5749,8677%

FEET ANCAD

By Small

OH, MY FEET! I DIDN'T KNOW WHEN I WAS WELL OFF-WALKIN'! I HADDA GET AN AUTO TA

PUSH!

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?FIRHEAD,

IF YAKIN

MAKE IT

FOR

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