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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1987.

The birds are building their nests, trees are budding, flowers are blooming, and you you should be--

Spring Cleaning

HE aim of all house- wives

doing the

w

soring cleaning should be to get the maxi- mum welfare in the home with the minimum of effort.

To disturb everybody's com-.

they do not bother about practical inbour-saving.

Remember that the man-invented vacuum-cleaner is responsible for the difference between the toll of your grandmother's spring-cleaning and the case of yours. Last year's nation-wide competition for the best designed model kitchen was won by a man in the face of severe- feminino 'competition.

here is an

article that will

help you through

As

you turn out

cach room make

a list of improve- ments which could be put into it. Could any gas or electric- light points be fitted would It be con- venient to have the

radiators sunk into the wall at lenst enst three feet above the floor level to get wider heat distribu- tion

is the

tion

skirting mundod at the corners?

Are there articles

in ile room which

fort by turning the house up occasionally brace your shoulders could be replaced by similar articles side down is unnecessary a. d and so lessen fatigue. old fashioned.

Sit down quietly and put on paper the work you intend to do. Plan

each day's programme and to the work by easy stages.

Do not at tempt to move heavy articles of made furniture unaided,

[

of substances easier to clean, such as chromlum door-handles

In

IT may be a nulsunce plice of brass ones?

to

Д prepare

Time and effort can be saved by light meal for yourself when you're absorbed in the new interior decorn- using patent clips for the stair- NONCENTRÄTE on tions of your home, but you should

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the things you not neglect your meals during spring carpets instead of metal rode; by do whether the job is ting car cleaning time. Only women get to removing. or inclining doorsteps pets or picking up pins; then your that state of fatigue which makes work will be done much more them say: "I'm dying for a cup of between rooms to permit the use of quickly. The

old adage of "Put your back

tea!"

Into it is also a good health maxim.

As

you push the vacuum cleaner, mon

Yo

VOUR

a trolley wagon; by using stainless nim at steel cutlery; by eliminating ornn-

springt

- cleaning mental banister rails and by lacquer- or broom, use your body muscles as time should be to effect as many well as your arms. Sway from the inbour-saving improvements as you ing metal ware which is normally waist with cacht backwards and for- can. Unlike men, women are

not

wards movement. The extra muscles constantly on the look-out for difficult to clean. brought into play make the work methods by which jobs can be made less tiring and thus more healthy. easler and less fatiguing.

In standing jobs do not stoop con-

Women do twice as much work in

tinuously over the work but the home as is necessary because

BUSINESS GIRLS

Spring comes to the Office

M

OST reasonable business4

men

submit gracefully to

THE

HE kitchen should

demand most of Your attention in this labour-saving spring-clean, for it is in the klichen that the housewife spends most of her time,

It should be a bright und pleasant roon with specially fitted cabinets, porcelain, metal topped lables, and the latest style of cooker..

Plate racks, good draining boards,

having their office spring-cleaned, but few allow their an electric motor to do all the beat- desks to be touched by the cleaner. This is where a con- ing and mixing for baking, the tin- scientious secretary might step into the breach.

You will need to bring a small bottle of vinegar, a deep saucer, some pieces of old rag, two dusters, a small bottle of olive oil, and a few ounces of cheap cooking salt.

The first and most important thing is not to alter the order of anything

in the desic. The best way is to spring-clean the desk in sections.

As you take the things out of

euch drawer, wipe the inside with a

slightly damp cloth to take up

the

dust. To get ink-stains off the top the desk dilute a little vinegar alightly warm water in the salt-

of

with

rub

cer, dip a piece of cloth into it and the ink-stnins till they come away. This will take them off with- but spelling the varnish.

Any other kind of stains, like food

or tea stains, respond to a mixture

Then

of olive oil and salt, which should be left on for a few minutes. wipe it off with some cold water on a slightly damp cloth, and repolish,

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OUR OFFICE

opening, and coffee-grinding: good lighting so that shadows will not fall

on the work-these are needed in a model kitchen. "

MAKE this year's

the

spring-clean beginning of a new reign in house- hold affairs; the pointer to a more cheerful home, in which toll and long hours spent at monotonous tasks arc things of the past,

AM gradually getting to know Mr. Fothergill. Cheered by the improvement in my newly arranged ofllce, I began to think how I could improve his room as well as my own. So I move

one or two things on his desk, such as the telephone, ashtray, and

Expert Cleaners. inkwell, to what I considered more convenient spots.

But after a day or two Mt. Fothergill called me in. "Miss Drew," he said, "I'm going to lecture ye a little. I appreciate very much the care ye're taking of me," and I saw a twinkle in his blue Scottish eye, "but see, I'm a bit of an old maid. I canna-nbide to have ma odds and ends shifted about."

THE girl who has her own dat, but does not keep a servant, has no time, when she is away at the office all day, to do any lavish spring-cleaning herself, Why not ring up the local big

order

professional, venient for you." one in ber They will send some

go over

stores

and

spring-clean?

A

to

the

"I'm sorry, Mr. Fothergill," I said, "I thought it would be more con-

"Ay, ay, I know ye did. But we'll leave the things where I'm used to having them. And while ye're here, here's one or two other things fat and give you an estimate.

On the day that is fixed the spring-ye'll humour me by doing. cleaning men will arrive before you leave for the office and they will have finished before you return,"

"Just have a ip round with the duster when yo get in. I know 'lis the job of the cleaners, but ye know what cleaners are. I'm glad to see that ye 'don't wait till it's covered with ink and such before ye change the paper in ma bloiter. And ye haven't remembered to put me some fresh notepaper and envelopes. And think that the inkwell's been filled with black treacle, and that a gude long while ago. And ma pencil needs sharpening. And ye'll find I'm a fussy man about the calendars being kept

The walls, ceiling, and paint will all be washed by trained interior de-up to date." 'corators.

The carpets are cleaned without In case you forget-write it Down

being taken up and sent away, with I went back to my own office feeling charlened for all these things are a very strong vacuum, while the jobs which I know should be done, but which for some strange reason I curtains and armchairs are cleaned can never remember to do. the same way,'

WAKE UP YOUR

LIVER BILE- WITHOUT CALOMEL

And. You'il Jump Out of Bed Feel- Ing You Could Push a Bus Over The liver should pour out two pins' of fiquid bile into your bowela dally, 14 sata bila a not flowing freely your food down & digw! It just decay, in the bowels. Qua bloat ng

•your stomach, You, get constipated. Your whole arabens la policed and you fed sout," sunk and the world looka punky:

Salts, fisty drinks, palatable Jaxatives`und?. hanh (purgatirea are makeshifts ¤Á / pers bował moviment doesn't get at the cause, 11 jakes the farmoth, aura acžíaz Carter's Littis Liver Plia to get those two pints of bir Howing Freeky and make you feel up and

up Harm), gente, rat angking in mak In bila flew frekry dat for: Karteris, Hüls Lane Prik. Look for the name. Carter's o

....

So I resolved to write them all down on a pad, to be looked at first thing each morning; 'and' I am making a little list of do's and don'ts about Mr. Fothergill, Here are some of them. Perhaps they will be a help to you too:-

DO train yourself to his particular way of dictation. Mr. Fothergill has a Scots, siccent, and many men mumble and mutter out their letters.

DON'T write down what you the context of the letter will solve thought he said, without stopping the mystery for you. to think whether he can have enid.

it.

Remember the girl, who typed

DO move about his room quietly "We are in receipt of your stear and unobtrusively.

roller," because she thought it DON'T show that you are terri- Bounded like that. If you really fled of him-If you are! Keep calm, didn't hear what he said, then ask and say little, him to repeat it. But.

Common sense

will Help

--- DON'T ask-too often,--Use your head Usually a little thought and

But I'm going to forget busines in a day or two, and so are you. For Easter is nearly here. Have a good time fro

G. D

Menu

FISH SOUP

ROAST. GUINEA FOWL

PLUM - FOOL

FOR the soup melt some butter in a stewpan, add salt and pepper

and two or three filets of lemon tole cut in pieces. Moisten with a little elder (draught elder is best, but it should be as still as possible), add a few sprigs of parsley and simmer gently until the fish is done. Serve with the pieces of fish as it is, but without the parsley.

Guinea fowis are improved by being larded, but a piece of steak put inside the bird when it is cooked toill help to keep it from being dry.

For the sweet se those pretty little red South African piuma now in the shops, but when aleving them discard the skins which are inclined to be bitter.

Try one of these for the

FIRST

THESE simple dishes which

can be prepared at any odd moment during the day before. you start the really serious cooking for the evening meal-will enhance your reputation

emelent hostess.

Chestnut

Hors-d'oeuvre

ELA

Cut some boiled chestnuts in thin

COURSE

By

Anne Selby

alices, and mix small pieces of sweet pickled walnut with grated or arranged round. Serve as cold as

ange peel. Arrange on pieces of possible. lettuce, cover with mayonnaise

mixed with a little whipped cream, Striped and garnish with a thin strip of Tomatoes orange peel.

-Anchovy

Hors-d'oeuvre with 1

!

Choose tomatoes of

the same size, dip in and boiling water take off the skin. Put Mix some cold a piece of lettuce on each plate, then mashed potato a tomato, stalk-side-downwards, quarter and make three deep cuta in each. the amount of Cut some firm cream or cottage finely chopped celery, and make cheese into wedge-shaped pieces and mounds on small plates. Put a put a plece in each cut. Chill well stuffed olive on top of each, arrange before serving. Allets of anchovy mound, and put

Instead of plain grape- two small pieces of young celery Fruit fruit, All the empty hall green at each side.

Cocktail shells with a mixture of Make

some pleces

of

grape-fruit, orange and Cheese thick, brown foast, and tangerine pulp, Sprinkle lightly Croutes sut open while

hot, with sugar and squeeze with Jemon When

butter cold,

and juice.. cover with a mixture of cheese,

Choose large rosy apples, allowing a tablespoon of finely grat- Stuffed scoop out the pulp, and ed cheese, 1⁄2 a tablespoon of fine Apples fill with chopped apple, brenderumbs, a finely chopped olive

chopped celery, and and enough mayonnaise to bind, for chopped cooked chestnuts mixed each person. Garnish with a small with French dressing. Stick a piece slice of tomato in the middle, and of young celery green in each.

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