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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1937.

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

T

Spring Cleaning

HE aim of all house- wives doing the soring

cleaning

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

To disturb everybody's com- fort by turning the house up ide down a minecessary a, old fashioned.

Sit down quietly and put on paper the work you intend to do. Plan ench day's programme and do the work by easy stages.

they do not bother about practical Jabour-saving.

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

here is an

article that will

help you through

•

S you turn out ench room make

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

venient

radiators sunk into the wall at least three feet above the floor level to get wider heat distribu- is the tlon

skirting

ng rounded at,

the

corners?

Are there Krlletex

In the room which

pecusionally brace your shoulders could be replaced by similar articles

Do not nt- and so lessen fatigue.

of substances easier to clean, temp to move heavy articles of made

such as chromlum door-handles

furniture unaided.

I

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may be a nuisance place of brass ones?

to prepare a

Time and effort can be saved by

light meal for yourself when you're absorbed in the new interior decoru using patent clips for the stair- NONCENTRATE on tions of your home, but you should

instead of metal rods; by the things you not neglect your meals during spring carpets

do whether the job is lifting car cleaning thine. Only women get to removing or inclining doorsteps pets or pleking up pins; then your that stule of faligue, which makea jvork will be done much nore them say: "I'm dying for a cup of between rooms to permit the use of quickly.

tea!"

The old adage of "Put your back

into it!" is also a good health maxim.

As you push the vacuum cleaner, mop

Your

a trolley wagon; by using stainless

YOUR uhm at steel cutlery; by eliminating orna- spring cleaning mental banister rulls and by lacquer- or broom, use your body muscles as Linue should be to effect Hy many well as your arms. Sway from the labour-soving improvements as you Ing metal ware which is normally waist with each backwards and, for- can. Unlike men, women are not words movement.

The

exira

for difficult to clean.

Women do twice as much work in but the home as is necessary because

muscles condantly

on the look-out brought into play make the work methxts by which Jobs can be made less tiring and thus more healthy. easier and lees fatiguing.

In standing jobs do not stoop.con- tinuously over the

work

BUSINESS GIRLS

Spring comes to the Office

M

OST reasonable business men submit gracefully to having their office spring-cleaned, but few allow their „desks to be touched by the cleaner. This is where a con- scientious secretary might step into the breach.

You will need to bring a small bottle of vinegar, a deep slicer, some -pieces-of-old-rug-two-dusters, u-small-bottle of olive oil, and a few ounces

of cheap cooking salt.

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

of

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

As you take the things out each drawer, wipe the inside with slightly damp cloth to take up the dust. To fei Ink-stains off the too top of the desk dilute a a little vinegar

with slightly warm water in the sau- cer, dip a plece of cloth into it and rub the ink-stains till they come nwhy. This will take them off with- out spolling the varnish.

Any other kind of stains, like food or ten stains, respond to a mixture of olive dil and sult, which should be left on for a few minutes, Then wipe it off with some cold water on a slightly damp cloth, and repolish,

Expert Cleaners.

OUR OFFICE

THE kitchen should

demand most of

your attention in this labour-saving -spring-clean, for it is in the kitchen

that the housewife spends most of her time.

It should be a bright and pleasant with specially fitted cabinets, porcelain metal topped tables.

room

the latest style of cooker.

and

Plate racks, good draining boards,

an electric motor to do all the beat- ing and mixing for baking, the tin- opening, and coffee-grinding; good lighting so that shadows will not fall

on the work-these are needed in a

model kitchen.

MAK

TAKE this year's

spring-clean

the

beginning of a new reign in house- hold affairs; the pointer to a more cheerful bome, in which toll and tong hours spent at monotonous tasks are things of the past.

AM gradually getting to know Mr. Fothergill. Cheered by the improvement in my newly arranged office, 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 inkwell, to what I considered more convenient spots.

the

But after a day or two Mr. Fothergill called me in. "Miss Drew," he said. "I'm going to lecture ye a little. I appreciate very much

are 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 abide to have ma odds and ends shifted about."

her THE girl who has

own fint, but does not keep a servant, has no time, when site is away at the office all day, to do any lavish spring-cleaning herself. Why not ring up the local big stores und onler វា professional spring-clean? one in before will send some

to go over

"Ay, ay, I know ye did. But we'll leave the things where I'm used fint and give you an estimate.

to having them. And while ye're here, here's one or two other things 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.

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

the

The walls, ceiling, and paint will all be washed by trained interior de- corators,

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The carpets are cleaned without

being taken up and sent away, with very strong vacuum, while the curtains and armchairs are cleaned the same way. ¡.

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"Just have a flip round with the duster when ye get in. I know 'tis 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 blotter, And ye haven't remembered to put me same fresh notepaper and envelopes. And I think that the inkwell's been filled with black trencic, 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 up to date.”

In case you forget-write it Down

I went back to my own office feeling chastened for all these things are fobs whleh I know should be done, but which for zome strange reason I can never remember to do.

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. Fothergili has a Scots accent, 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,

DO move about his room quictly and unobtrusively.

to think whether he can have sald it. Remember the girl. who typed "We are in receipt of your steam roller," because site thought it DON'T show that you are terri sounded like that. If you really fled of him-if you aret Keep calm, didn't hear what he sald, then ask and say little. him to repeat it. But.

Common sense

willTM Help

DON'T ask, too often. Use your hend. Usually little thought and.

In

calm,

But I'm going to forget business

you.

a day or two; and so are For Easter is nearly here. Have a good time.

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Menu

FISH SOUP

ROAST GUINEA FOWL

PLUM FOOL

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

and two or three fillets of lemon sole cut in pieces. Moisten with a little cider (draught cider is best, but it should be as still as possible), quid 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 fowls are improved by being larded, but a piece of steak put inside the bird when it is cooked will help to keep from being dry.

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

Try one of these for the

FIRST COURSE

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 14 An efficient hostess.

Chestnut

Hors-d'oeuvre

Cut some bolled

chestnuts in thin

By

Anne Selby

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

possible.

ange peel. Arrange on pieces of lelluce, cover with mayonnaise mixed with a little whipped cream, Striped and garnish with a thin strip of Tomatoes

orange peel.

Anchovy

Hors-d'oeuvre

Choose tomatoes of

the same size, dip in boiling water

take off the skin. Put

Mix soine cold a piece of lettuce on each plate, then mashed

with

potalo a tomato, stalk side downwards, quarter and make three deep cuts 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

put a piece in cách cut. Chill well sluffed olive on top of each, arrange before serving. Allets of onchovy round, and put

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

Cocktail shells with a mixture of Make some pleces of Cheese

grape-fruit, orange and thick, brown toast, and tangerine pulp. Sprinkle lightly Croutes cut

while open

hot, with sugar und squeeze with lemon When cold, butter 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, a tablespoon of fine Apples All with chopped apple, breadcrumbs, a finely chopped olive

chopped

celery,. and and enough mayonnaise to bind, for chopped cooked chestnuts mixed ench 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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