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The Six Best

Diets I Know By Dr.

Mary Anthony

Diet for Nervous People

EOPLE who live at a high tension, dashing about from place to place, use up a considerable amount

used is in excess of the supply the body begins to show the strain in early middle life.

The heart beats faster than normal in the individual who is undergoing a period of physical or mental stress; the breathing is quickened and the blood vessels contracted. After a time this stage is followed by exhaustion from which the nervous system does not at once recover unfèss: complete rest. in obtained..

Men who hold responsible positions or whose lives involve worry and continuous strain may suffer from hardening of the arteries and from high blood pressure.

The mode of life is of course the main item which calls for attention. If the individual is past middle age, he should try to pass some of his burdens on to younger shoulders, The highly-strung, nervous person should sleep in a quiet airy room and try to get seven or eight hours of dreamless rest each night.

Diet, too, plays an important part in bringing the mental and physical condition back to normal.

THE following is a general list of useful items in Swedish diet, systems for those who are over-excitable and whose arteries are hardened; or who are beginning to feel the stress and strain of existence:

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* ** JOHN BETJEMAN takes you on a tour of the house, shows you how to...

Rearrange

your room lights

HERE is little pleasanter than the soft light of an oil lamp when nights are dark.

And the friendly hiss of a gas-- light is cheerful enough.

been But we have most of us

1 am presented with electric light. going to advise you about where to put electric light, if you have the inestimable opportunity of arranging where the points are to go yourself, and what to do with existing fittings First have the fuse box and main

On Rising-One cup of matte tea or fruit juice with one or twof these are already in your house.

Breakfast Oatsoup. tapioca,.

fried on porridge, rice Eggs, tomatoes, radishes.

tea, coffee with warm

gruel,

Weak Good Cooking

milk.

Unsalted butter. All kinds of! bread which are toasted or stale.

Dinner-Bouillon made from veal or poultry, good bone.. broth, shin of beef broth, Scotch broth. White fish-no

By Ambrose Heath

A Tin of Prawns

TIN or a glass of prawns is one of the most useful of all things

Reading Tampr

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Light reflecting onciling

control in some convenient pince Bedroom: One lamp on the table without by the bed which can be turned where you can get at it breaking your back or banging your on by a switch on the wall by the head.

bed or else by a switch on the lamp Next, do not allow naked electric itself. Get a heavy lamp which does Bght bulbs-that Is to say, bulbs not get knocked over when you grope which show the brilliant luments about in the dark for the switch. they contin- to be exposed,

you must have bulbs expored Avoid Eye-catching

see that they, are "pearl" "opal"

or the outside; if you already have

salmon or cel. Partridge (Ato have'in the larder in case of emergency. And yet how few naked bulbs which hang at eye level

casse). Fruit: Lemon, oranges, grapes, strawberries,

pears, people will do anything more with its contents than make a salad Here are just a few suggestions apples, buninas, pineapples and or serve up some prawns on toast. punches.

for their future use:

Tea-One cup of weak tea

Patties

(China).

Try painting Them

I

Supper-Bread, butter, cheese,

jam.

Avoid spices. Use no salt.

cold.

MAKE your own patties or buy them from the pastrycook. FI

them with prawns bound with white sauce, and serve hat or

En Coquille

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DRAWING ROOM: In the and hurt your eyes and you do not. want to scrap them in favour of pearl # centre Eight hanging from the coil- or opal bulbs, you can cover them ing as a general illumination to the whole room is inadvisable. Where- with paint.

ever you are, it catches your eyes, and you cannot see anybody the other side of it.

on a stand R light Better have HAVE found that a ten cent

tube of Chinese white reflecting upwards to the white water colour paint, painted on rather celling. Let the other light or lights thick with a water colour brush, be lamps for reading.

'Dining Room: A celling light is hides the glare without lessening the light. The paint lasts a long time on advisable in this room only. The such a bulb provided it is not exposed rays should fall on the table, but not on the faces of those who sit round THIS is perhaps the simplest to the weather.

of all. Just put them into Light fittings themselves are now it. little buttered "shells," sprinkle them quite cheap, and it is sure to say that People do not like to have their with breadcrumbs, a little more butter the less ornamental they are the faces shown up when they are eat- und, if you like, a spoonful of cream, better they will be. Many of them ing and drinking.. and brown them in the oven. Or if vary between fake satique and bogus Another light from the wall over you would prefer something a trifle modern. Avoid both.

the sideboard is essential in any fair- Either have a shade which reflects sized room. more sustaining, cover them with same while sauce flavoured with aon the ceiling, which in turn throws

fitle anchovy essence, sprinkle with a soft light down on the room, or lights which cannot be moved, have brenderumbs and brown as before. else one designed 10 Throw rays on the flex shortened in hull, pussages, your book or which can be adjusted and ballroom, and 8x a close-fitting to light what you want lighted.

En Coquille Mornay

Where you already have celling

light. In bedrooms and drawing room get a transformer fixed on the Lighting each Room

portable lamp you intend to instal TREAT as above, but flavouri

HERE is some detailed advice and deal with the flex as cleverly and with grated( Haus wiere

unabtrusively as possible. to have the cheese, and, If you wish, leave out right in different parts of your house. Keep it Cheerful

the

the breadcrumbs,

sauce

En Coquille Florentine

IN

Hall

AND after all that there is n

and Passages: Close up against the celling and covered with 'n tight-fitting pearl shade. Do

final and Important word not have bright lights.

Bathroom and Lavatory: The same of warning.. Do not use absorbent this case, first lay in the as-hall and passages. The fitting in colours if you want to have a cheer- ks it absorbs bottom of each. "shell" a the bathroom should be waterproof, ful room. Orange is the most un-

suitable colour little cooked or tinned spinach, ar- or the place where the bulb fits into all light. range the prawns on it, cover them tie socket from the fiex will get

Dark red (which is all right in with cheese sauce and brown in the rusty. Put a light directly above the

shaving glass if you have a point to dining rooms where the light is con- centrated on the table) comes next, Fricasac

Kitchen: Tight-fitting ceiling and dark blue and purple after that. lights again. Two If possible, one' No amount of shiny surface will over the table and the other over make an absorbent colour reflect the

light. the stove and sink.

oven.

MA

MAKE a nice while sauce, and when it is ready put the prawns into it to heat through. At the last moment bind the sauce with a yolk of egg, beaten up with a Httle lemon juice, and mix some freshly chopped parsley into it.

Curried

small chopped

brown, add a dessert-spoonful of

FRY TWO

onlons in butter until

spare.

HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.

'THE SOCIETY ASKS FOR

$25,000

fn 1937, to continue its work for sick and, destiluté children,

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.,

c/o. Mackinnon, Mackerale &

F.&O. Building.

curry powder and a pinch of salt, Hon. Treasurers: and stir well together. Add halfäl pound of tomatoes, cut in quarters, and just enough water to make' a thick sauce, Coolt for a few minutes, then add the prawns, cover and simmer very gently for a quarter of an hour. Serve with plainly boiled rice.

NEXT ARTICLE? SEASONABLE SOUPS.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,

Hongkong. November 16, 1936. -.*

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1986..

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