THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHY, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1986.
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You wouldn't look for gas leak with
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a match=
RE you safe in your home?? You
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 exactly what its dangers are."
Millions of people de nat
know
that it can even be fatal to turn on
an electric switch when sitting in the
bath. Most people never happen
tra
but many people do things 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 ute
is that you
sit in a bath and turn on an electric must never use two electrical appli-
switch.
But they might do.
Think
first
IIE important point is that an
nuisture stimulates the flow of electric current.
If you are healthy you can probably stand a stock from an ordinary house
murrent, provided that your hands are
dry. But if they are wet it can be dangerous.
If you are killy enough to change tuses with the current on you will be safe standing on a dry boural, because It does not conduct electricity. But
wel one does.
asces at once,
A large proportion of elvetriend ac- defective cidents are caused by machinery. Make a point of having an expert look over your electrical "pparatus at intervals.
Do not try to economise by buying cheap flex which is badly insulated. Do not run electric wires muder mats
carpets. This wears sulation quickly.
the in
It is a foolish practier to disconnect terminals by pulling the wires; this soon loosens the connection,
oap
test
never nae two electrical appliances at once.
watch out for frayed fezes.
ecuerpan handles should not stick out from the stove.
a firm handrail in easy along the suspected arën, keeping a by having look-out for bubbles.
reach for getting out, and a mat fixed Nearly half the serious accidents in to the ground to stand on.
are falla. Rugs on slippery homes
Beware of rickety chairs, floors need fasteners, curling gen
If necessary which catch the heels must be fixed, probably bought a step-ladder, but do enfety.
sacrifice aesthetics to you use it?
Another way to fall is over things loft where they do not belong.
Tell your children why they
mist
O many Jokes have been made, never leave their toys nhout about people who look for gas leaks, nd never leave things at the with candies that one rather admires top of the stairs which you are going
You may ou down those stairs so quickly. the splendist fally of those who take take down later,
Ta notice,
In other words, you must be careful abuy, touching anything electrical while you are standing in water or
a dump Roor, and unleas
The trouble is that few people know hands and feet are perfectly dry.
Make sure your children know these any other method. One way is to dip
Rtick in soapy water and facts.
Your
THE
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You
Always remember to strike matches and wird knives away from you.
Saucepan handles should not stick them from the stove. Thoroughly ven- late ovens before lighting them; and to guard them keep the door open against carbon monoxide poisonitig.
n house. Petrol is not safe in Poisun bottles should be as different a possible in shape and size from other bottles, so that, for instanc UT the ojority of falls are you do not take a swig in the dark
They could be prevented by mistake.
ths
run it in the bath.
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Learn
to Swim Well-No. 2..
"CPAMET- jumping in the water this, shoulder level--for in swimming each week, if you have not already done must be near the surface when it it. Water about breast-deep is best, starts to, drive down. Also, when the and you should feel so much as 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
y
will
really begin
to swim. You will
+1
probably do Jew strokes at your very first trial, and you will pre- tice 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 (0- gether, and without motor tyre or any support.
legs.
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 head is up for the swimming, it will stay up.
once
When you
Stand at the side of the pool, and
Now for the First Test. get ready for u-push-and-glide start. Put one foot up behind you on the pass it fairly it will show you have wall, and then stoop forward and push stered the first three lessons of this aft, with both feet if you can.
series and have begun to swim, As soon as you are travelling at full There are four items in the Teal, anul 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. Staud at the pool side and lo the head comes up from the surface "swimmer's breathing" for 10 breaths. you can open your mouth wide and gulp in a new lot of air. After that
2. Sit or crouch under the water and
you simply go on with the dog-puddle open your eyes so that you are your
toon. action-arms arul legs working at a steady pace, with big, 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,
.
3. Start swimming by doy-pudelle from a push-and-glide.
4. Swim five yards, starting with
but push the arms forward at the push from wide.
SALESMAN SAM
I'M GOIN' UP TO MY ROOM TA PRACTICE
MY FLUTE LESSON, „MRS. KRACKERI
FINE! BUT DON'T FERGET YOUR DANCIN'! AND YOU
MUSTN'T NEGLECT YOUR PAINTING, SAMİ
ICED Coffee
ET iced coffee in tall glasses
LE replaes the usual hot after-
dinner cup. You'll find your guests most appreciative and the family equally pleased.
·
The coffee should not, of course, have actual lee put into it, as this entirely spoila në favour.
Make really strong black coffer early in the day, and while it is cooling keep it well covered so that the flavour does not escape.
If a refrigerator is available, put the coffee in this no that it gets really lee-cold, and also chill thin cream ready to mix in just before serving. The two should be gently stirred together and served immediately, accompanied with straw,
Where there is no refrigerator, put the separate jus af coffee and cream in larger receptacles containing crushed ice and leave until required.
For those who want a sweet drink, hand caster sugar.
Things you know about probably don't.
ORANGES
HERE in Hongkong we are eat-
oranges at the rate of thousands are ench year. More than half come from California and the rest from Italy, Austra lin.
English soldiers took England her first oranges home from the Crusades, R80 years ago.
Valencina are large, Jaffan are small and sweet, Californias are modern, Australians hung long on the trees, drawing a sweet smoky 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.
Orang fruit and rind makes endied Christmas fruit, murma- Inde. The Persians ent orange paste with little cups of coffee. Orange juice is canned, bottled, distilled into perfume, used make orange curacon.
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The range gave its name to a province of the Netherlands, Wil- liam of Orange became King of England. and saved Ireland's present Orangemen (so they say) from "Popery, slavery, brass money and woolen shoes,"
A department of France, three
cities of America, a free state of South Africa. and the longest river in Africa are all called after the fruit.
This Week's Menu
GRAPEFRUIT ITALIAN PIE CREAM CHEESE Don't forget to prepare the grapefruit quite hulf an hour! before you want it, in that the sugar soaka'in, ami keep it na cald us you can.
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For the pin, line a Charlotte mould with paste, fill up the in- wide with greaseproof paper filled with rice or haricot beans, andi bake it "blind," When it is dour, take out the paper and fill the
Feat chicken, a pie with cold cold beef or mution, me boiled macaroni cut in small pieces, a couple of hard-boiled eggs cut small, chopped parsley, salt and and good thick sauce, pepper white if you have chicken or veal, brown or tomato if the other meals. Put the pie back into the uven 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.
GOSH! I SHOULDA BEEN TRIPLETS -TA DO ALL||
THOSE THINGS!
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TRIPLETS! WOTTA. HUNCH| SAMMY,OU POODLE, YER, THERE WITH "TH' NOODLE!
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1 Dumbfounded by a wrinkle non-
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 start,
14 I would be a miracle if the tradition usually adopted wern to gather force (hidden). 15 Seen more frequently on board
nowadays (two words, 2, 4). 16 Die.
18 Many a buceaneer has been de- pendent on thist three feel and a weapon.
Noisy talk in which the latter inken leading part.
2 What a strange place to find the monkey-in the household linen. 26 Reader 1.
30 Hidden in Clue 14.
31 Language of the Orient. 3 Ita comptement is blue.
33 Not exactly robota, but the be
ginnings of steel men.
34 Appeared in numbers. 35 A synonym for the one who sees
most of the game.
DOWN
2 From the law-or the profits?
Puss (hyphen, 3-3). Issuing from a centre.
5 Vegetables and vulgar synonym
for "the loveliest village." Good scheme; to lease. by will,
7 Kas two gills, but does not breathe like a fish (hyphen, 4, 4).
8 Always in another place when
HOW'M AH DOIN, SHIV, OL BOY?
Fal
wanted.
11 One in the eye for a scholar.' 13 Hidden in Clus 14.. 17 Y and.
10 Waidh-for the clothes, moth
20 Though It sounds cold
be impassioned.
it may
22 A vessel not quite closed.
23 Sometimes a welcome change on
the radio,
26 The beggar was what the students did: just a matter of accent.
27 Makes father tear, and it might
just as well be mother.
128 Describes n wail largely cut from
suteen.
29 Vantage point for observation,
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