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You look for. gas leak with

wouldn't

a

a match

RE you safe in your home?

You

do things.

but many people may

think you are and yet not be. Or you may be dead scared of all sorts of things, like electric irons, which are really perfectly safe.

Take electricity. There is no need to be scared provided you know exnetly what is dangers

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Millions of people.

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nearly as silly touching an electric switch, for example, when they're in a bath. This article tells you what points to watch for safety in your home.

void

risks

NOTHER rule in that you

that it can even be fatn! to turn on an electric switch when sitting in the bath. Most people never happen to sit in a bath and turn on an electric must never use two electrical appli. switch. But, they might do,

first

areer at once.

A large proportion of circtrical ac cidenta

defective KIF caused hy machinery. Make a polat of having an expert look over your electrical

E important point is that jarātus at intervals, moisture stimulaten the flow of an electric current.

If you are healthy you can probably stand a shock from an ordinary house current, provided that your hands ere dry. But if they are wet it can be dangerous.

If you are allly enough to change fuses with the current on you will be safe standing on a dry board, because it does not conduct electricity. But a wet one does.

Do not try to eronomise by buying cheap flex which is badly insulated, Do not run electric wires under mats r carpets. This wears out the In- pulation quickly.

It is a foolish practice to disconnect terminals by pulling the wires; this noon loosens the connections.

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many jokes have been made about prople who look for gas leaks with candles tint one rather admires

never ung two electrical appliances ut once. watch out for frayed flexeR..

saucepan kändles should not stick out from the store.

You

along the suspected area, keeping a by having a firm handza!! in ensy look-out for bubbles.

reach for getting out, and « mat fixed Nearly half the serious neekdents in, to the ground to stand on,

are falls. Ruga an slippery

Beware of vickely chatrs, homes floors need fasteners, curling elges which catch the heels must be fixed, probably huught a steji-ladder, but de, If necessary sacritice aesthetics to you use it? safety.

Another way to fall is over things left where they do not belong

Always remember in strike matches and wield knives nwny from you. Tell your children why they must

Saucepan handles should not slick leave their toys about the aut from the stove. Thoroughly ven ever oor, and never leave things at the tifate ovens before lighting thent; and leg of the stairs which you are going then keep the door open to guard down those stairs so quickly.

against carbon mauaxide poisoning.

In other words, you must be careful the splendid folly of those who take to take down later. You may come about touching anything electrical no notice.

while you are standing in water or

'n damp floor, and unicв your

hands and feet are perfectly dry.

The trouble is that few people know

Make sure your children know these any other method. One way is to dip

Cacta.

Baths

house. Petrol is not safe in Poison bottles should be as different as possible in shape and size from other dottles, so that, for instance,

UT the majority of falls are you do not take a swig in the dark n stick in sanpy water and run it in the bath., They could be prevented by mistake.

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Learn to Swim Well-No.

2.

QTART jumping into the water this shoulder level-for in swimming each week, if you have not already done must-be-near the surface when I iL Water about breast-deep is best, starts to drive down. Also, when the and you should feel so much at home leg draws under the body, the foot that you run and take a flying-leap. will be limp and trailing; but when it great drives back the sole will be square and go right under with a

and pushing hard against the water. splash.

And now

you will

really begin

swim

to You will probably do

a few atrokes at your very first trial, and you will prac tico each day until you can pass the test which is at the end of this

article.

You are going to use your dog paddle movements, arms and legs to- gether, and without motor tyre or any support.

Stand at the side of the pool, and get ready for a push-and-glide start. Put one foot up behind you on the wall, and then stoop forward and push off, with both feet if

Jegs.

Make all recoveries

, gently and

all drives. hard-both

of arms and

Keep trying over and over again to travel farther, with the push-| and-glide followed by the dog-paddle. Get in breathing as regularly as you can. Don't try to swim hold- ing your breath. Of course, your hem is up for the swimming, it will stay up.

once

Now for the First Teat. When you pass it fairly it will show you have mastered the first three lessons of this series and have begun to As soon as you are travelling at full There are four items in the Text, and stretch, begin to blow out your breath a friend could "examine" you. through the nose. Then drive down

the right arm and lift your head. As 1. Stand at the pool side and do the head comes up from the surface, "swimmer's breathing" for 10 breaths. you can open your mouth wide atl gulp in a new lot of air. After that'

2. Sit or crouch under the water and

LOCA

you simply go on with the dog-paddle open your eyes so that you ace your action-arms and legs working at n steady pace, with blg, strong move- ments. The action is almost exactly. like that of crawling along the floor.

PRACTISE AT HOME

You Just try this crawling at home, but push the arms forward at

SALESMAN SAM

'I'M.GOIN' UP TO MY ROOM TA PRACTICE

MY FLUTE LESSON, [MRS. KRACKER I

3. Start awimming by dog-paddle from a push-and-glide.

4. Swim five yards, starting with push from side.

FINE! BUT DON'T FERGET YOUR DANCIN'! AND YOU

MUSTN'T NEGLECT YOUR! PAINTING, SAM!

ICED Coffee

LET, iced coffee in tall glasses

replace the unual hot after- dinner cup, You'll find your guests most appreciative and the family equally pleased.

The coffee should not, of course, have actual tee put into it, na this entirely spoils the flavour.

Make really strong black coffee early in the day, and while it in enoling keep it well covered na tant the Bavour does not escape,

If a refrigerator is available, put the coffee in this so that it gets really ice-cold, and also chill thin ereni rendy to mix in just before serving. The two should In gently stirred together and served immediately, accompanied with straws.

Where there is no refrigerator, pot the separate jogs af enffee and cream in larger receptacles containing crushed lee and teave until required.

For those who want a sweet drink, band caster sugar.

Things you know about probably don't

ORANGES

HERE in Hongkeng we are ent at the rate of I ing oranges

More thousands more each year. than half come from Californin and the rest from Italy, Austro- lin.

English soldiers took England her first oranges home from the Crusades, Hül years ago.

Valencias are large, Jaffas are small and sweet, Californias are modern, Australians lang long on the trees, drawing a sweet amoky taste from sun and earth.

Trees of sour oranges live and bear for centuries. Trees of sweet oranges live and hear from fifty to eighty years; fly and fungus kill them.

Orange fruit and rind, makes canlind Christmas fruit, marma- lade. The Persiana eat orange paste with little cups of coffee. Orange Juice is cannel, bottled. distilled into perfume, used to make orange curacon.

The orange gave its name to a province of the Netherlandia: Wil- liam of Orange became King of England, and saved Ireland's present Orangemen (so they suy) from "Popery, sinvery, brazo money and wooden shoes."

A department of France, three cities of America, a free state of South Africa, and the longest river in Afrien-are all called after the fruit,

This Week's Menu

GRAPEFRUIT ITALIAN PIE -CREAM CHEESE Don't forget to prepare the prapefruit quite half an hour bafore you want it, so that the sugar socks in, and keep it as cold as you can..

For the pic, line a Charlotto mould with paste, fill up the in- side with preascproof paper filled with rice or haricot boans, bake it "blind." When it in done, take out the paper and fill the nid with cold veal or chloiren, or cold beef or mutton, some hailed. macaroni cut in small pieces, a hard-boiled eggs out of couple

mall, chopped parsley, sult and pepper and a good thick sauce, white if you have chicken or veal, brown or tomato if the other meata. Put the pie back into the oven to get quite hot, then turn it out,

Some people like to mix very finely chopped chives, or the green. part of young spring onions, with their cream cheese.

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1 Dumbfounded by a wrinkle nou-

Oriental.

9 The reference is to the end of

a sort of business.

10 The famous monocular Arabian. 11 Rubbish.

12 Try beds for a atert

14 It woukt be a minele

I tho

tradition usually adopted were to gather force (hidden).

15 Seen more frequently on board

nowadays (two words, 2, 3). 16 Dic.

18 Many a buccaneer has been de- pendent on this: three feet and

A weapon,

21 Noisy talk in which the latter

takes a leading part.

24 What a strange place to find the monkey-in the household linen. 26 Render

20 Hidden in Clue 14.

31 Language of the Orient. 32 Its complement is blue. 33 Not exactly rebots, but the be

ginnings of steel men.

34 Appeared in numbers. 36 A synonym for the one who sees

most of the game. DOWN

2 From the law-or the proats? 3 Puss (hyphen, -3).

4 Issuing from n centre.

Vegetables and vulgar synonym for "the loveliest village."

6 Good scheme: to lease by will.

7 Has two gills, but does not breathe like a Nsh (hyphen, 4, 4).

8 Always in another place when

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wanted.

11 One in the eye for a scholar. 13 Hidden in Clue 14. 17 Y and

19 Watch for the clothes moth?

20 Though it sounds cold it may

be Impassioned.

22 A vessel not quite clased.

21 Sometimes a welcome change

Ont

the radio.

the what 26 The beggar was

atudents did: just a matter of accent.

27 Makes fatlier tear, and it might

just us well be mother.

28 Describes a sail largely eat from

saleen.

29 Vantage point for observation.

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