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ABOVE AND

Home Maker's

Diary

BELOW.. BY JANET JAY

Problems

of Flat

Dwellers

This space-saving dining corner with upholstored soltlo is a practical arrangement for the living room.

T

HE more fact of living in a flat seems to me to create its own special home-making problems. a tech- First, thero 19 nique in making the most of limited space, and, second, one definite duty to one's OWCS ณ neighbour.

Let's look at the details which can The develop into minor annoyances. common stairense, for example. Unless this is cleaned by the landlord, come to an arrangement with the other tenants about the daily or weekly cleaning, each tenant being responsible for it for a week, turn about.

And if you have to store the prot in the hall, find a corner where others are not liable to fall over it.

Tidy Entrance

Again, it is hardly fair to other tenants to rave an array of un- washed milk bottles outside one's door, waiting for collection.

A sensible idea which I noticed-in one of the new blocks of flats was a Jittle wooden locker outside each front door, large enough to take two or three milk botiles, with enough room over

Your Birthstone

BRITISH Jewellers, after a number

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of list agreed

follows:-

January-Cornet.

new

for the baker to leave a loaf. It struck me as an iden worth copying.

Disposing of kitchen rubbish is an other problem. Some of the new flats have rubbish chutes, but if you keep a covered bin (you can buy this in enamel with a pedal opener and a carrying handle), the refuse can be Carried down to the main dustbin without damage to state coverings.

Neighbourly Noise

Noise deserves n capital letter. Here, ngall, it is only fair to your neigh- bours to make it a rule to turn off the wireless before midnight, and if you have a plano, stand it on glass castor cups. These net as insulators, and they prevent a good deal of sound from being heard below.

And this reminds me about prac- Lising If you confine the children's practice to hall an hour at lunchtime you won't have tired husbands com- plaining of scales at night.

Floors in houses which have been converted to flats are not usually sound-proof, but carpels help to deaden sound, especially if you have a thick felt or underlay beneath.

Voices from below are not heard so distinctly when the floors are covered in this way, and the underlay both

Wise

and appearancO improves the longthens the life of the carpets.

This brings me to the special problems one comes up against In furnishing a Dat. More especially if you have a family and one room may have to do the work of two.

There is usually one living room into which you have to fit a table for meals. A little dining corner is a practical way of solving this dimeulty.

upholstered settle which will sent three people fits the angle of the wall. the table is placed against it, and you can put two or three chairs round the outside.

If the room is smail. dispense with a sideboard, and have instead n trolley which includes a cutlery drawer; keej it in kitchen or hall when not in use

Trolley Table

One fitted with diapa which open out so that the trolley can be used as a tea or supper table is useful in u Bat.

When planning bedrooms for chill- dren it is a good plan to instal gas ur electric fires, and to provide a table an which they can do their homework away from the disturbing talk in the living room.

A play corner could. however, be arranged in the living room for the tiny children. This might have a linoleum dado, partly for chalking and partly as a protection for the walls, A low, built-in toy cupboard would also be useful.

In the Background

It is sometimes a puzzle to know how to keep the evidences of cook- ing and washing out of the other rooms .in Ant.

draught-excluding but IL material often does the trick.

There is a new one which acts as an airlight seal and is easy to ix. The width for the top and sides costs 2d, a fool A wider plece to go along the base of the door is od. a foot. It would also be an advantage to have a spring fitting on the inside, so that the door closes automatically.

Built-in kitchen cupboards are expect. ally practical for the email flat kitchen- ette. Some ingenuity is also needed in planning the larder.

One way of keeping perishables fresh is to put the meat-safe outside the There are outdoor kitchen window.

safes and galvanised roofs which are

Rhubarb Ginger

IF you like ginger flavour, try this

preserve, made with 21b, rhubarb, 2. sugar, 4oz. crystallised ginger, joz. root ginger, one lemon.

Cut the washed rhubarb into small pieces, put it on to a large dish and sprinkle it with the sugar and grated

Leave overnight. lemon rind.

Next day put the contents into a pan, add the root ginger tled in a mus- in bag, and the lemon juice.

Bring to the boll, and continue to boil until a little will set in a cold suurer. Pour into pots and sent

completely weather-proof venulated on all three sides.

and

Unless you have other arrange- menia for storing coals, a small galvanised bunker to hold from hundredweight one to three answers well in a flat. Choose one with a sliding door in the base-it makes the filing of scuttles so much easter-and stand it near the kitchen door.

Laundry is high up and out of the way if you dry it on a celting clothes nirer, and as hot air rises. it will dry quickly.

UNUSUAL JAMS SOME INDIAN RECIPES

you are tired of the usual stock preserves, try these jams ng we India. No grent prepare them in

skill in cookery is needed to prepare |

theni.

My native cook from Bombay pre- pares our cherry jam as follows:-Hc atones the cherries, then cracks the stones and extracts the kernels which he adds to the Jam. This imparts a delightful flavour,

Woman's Wear twenty-four hours. Next day the

A MAN'S VIEW

Was sweel, THE three-piece

but tou wasn't it?" "Yes, striking, you did right to choose the other; personally, I like to wear what everyone else is wearing."

"Oh, so do I, then one is sure of not feeling silly."

me

came from two These remarks business girls standing behind the other day, and serve to emphasise a fact that women are dressing to look more and more like each other and incidentally, less feminine and "individual."

Last summer, for instance, there was a long procession of "Swaggers." This summer every second woman is

suit"-of uts wearing a "bollday romatic flannel or tweed consisting of extremely short jacket and tuo- tight skirt. Why should a girl "feel silly" because she is dressed ditter- ently and more attractively thun her friends?"

It is more or less assumed by wo- men, that men dislike being seen with one who is conspicuously - tired, but this applies only when it is unharmonious conspicuity;

STIL is quick to sense this, even though-

cannot fm- woman-he unlike a

out pick

the "wrong mediately notes."

Individuality is Admired

Most men, however, are proud and pleased at the approval and admira- tion accorded a feminine companion whose clothes not only look suitable. but charmingly "different" as well. How do one or two women achleve this delightful "difference" in their apparel? Most likely is by their always dressing to their own particu-

lar type,

Then, materials--why this craze for serviceable cloths in drab colour- ings for town wear? Femininity has always been associated with soft "feminine materials"silk, taffeta, velvet, luce, yet these cloths, if they are worn, are coveted by uninterest- ing coats or suits.

In my opinion woman's wear wearisome, but it will not-let us ber with be hope-always

innate "elothes- Intelligence sense," she may one day desert the Legion of All-alikes.

Wives Are Methodical

MANY young women tremble at through each room systematically. Budget Housekeeping Money

as birth-stone

February-Amethyst, March-Aquamarine or

stone.

April-Diamond or Rock Crystal. May-Emerald or Chrysoprase. June-Pearl or Moonstone. July-Ruby or Carnelian.

August-Peridot or Sardonyx.

September Sapphire or

Lupis!

Lazuli.

October~Opal..

November Topaz.

December-Turquoise.

In compiling the new list,

the

is

do.

Now for the most important rule

the thought of managing a home so that you leave a trail of bright-

years of going to business ness in your waite.

of all. Keep a home budget, Have after

an account book in which you enter every day. They do not realise that having to conform to an office routine

Arrange it, if you can, so that on up everything you spend, and keep Blood for

them has 50 lonst

made

washing day you have only to tidy it always on the kitchen dresser, 50 methoctical. In this way they have a

As Monday is usually chosen where you are being too extravagant decided advantage over their stay-al- and the minimum of cooking to that you can see at a glance exactly home sisters, for method is half the for washing day, it is easy to serve and where you are being rather

cold meals with the remainder of clever about saving the pennies, battle to running a house.

Even in the smallest house it the week-end dishes,

Two small boxes should adorn your should contain your One possible to muddle through the day,

regular For your supplies buy meat, fish, dresser.

fund, and working continuously yet making

^ sound vegetables, fruit, bread, and dairy emergency little impression. very

of advice, therefore, is to wait produce as you need them, and only amount, no matter how small, should piece until your husband leaves home be- us much as you need. Then nothing be put in it every week. You will you begin the day's work. Sit will be wasted. But keep your stores be very thankful for it one day when fore

breakfast. of dry goods, such as sugar, tea, salt, something unexpected turns up. The little while over your

pepper, and potatoes, replenished as other one is your penny box. In it Birthstone Committee have hud re- and relax.

apron, they run low so that you do not have at night must go all the coppers from lints. and gard for all traditional

Before you put on the fact

you or the house a lovely present have taken into account

technical make a plan of campaign. First de- to be always hurrying to the nearest your purse. The money will buy In a month's time, or perhaps help thut up to GD years ago

when the food is to be put on and,

A young housewite should try not you to balance your budget! knowledge was very slight and cer- cide the day's menus. Fix a time shop at the last minute.

allot

Go about your household duties in the lain stones were classified more on

be for provisions and relying on cer yourself one extra Job in addition to to get into the stuck way of 'phoning

orders" just such a businesslike munner us account of their colour than for any above all, keep to it. Now

office other reason. Because of this,

the drawingroom paint, stores which "send tain anomalice have arisen from time your day's routine. This can

re-l woabing

turning out a cupboard, or cleaning By personal shopping she will have you prided yourself in your

cooking is not always as good as you to time, which have now been

that you Remember would like. maved.

it is interesting to note that, when cake tins. Whatever it is, the habit a wider cholee, and will be able to days, and do not get flustered if your Suve money by acquiring the habit are widening your experience with

Do your best in completed, the new Birthstone List of performing an extra tosk every And out what is in secson."

of making "bits" into soups and tasty each mistake. was found to agree in every particu-day will ensure your home always

savourles. Odd pleces of cheese can methodical monner and your new lar with the standard American being scrupulously fresh and clean.

be transformed into delictoous welsh home is sure to be a credit to you morning's rarebit, and left-over fish conjured and a joy to live in.

Jean Scott Work into fish plc.

Birthstone List, and also with the list Systematie Cleaning most commonly used in France, It differs in two particulare from the German list,

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la trained off and balled up again, and the frult added and boiled for a further ten minutes. Pot when cold. To. each pound weight of stoned cherries allow half a pound of sugar and about one gill of water. In the Calcutta district banana and grapefruit Jam is popular almost the whole year round. Here is the way the native cooks prepare It:-

To two good sized grapefruit allow six full sized bananas and two pounds of sugar. Cut each grapefruit in half-across the sections preferably, Now scoop out the pulp juice, and this pulp, extract any pip. Put with a Httle of the rind and the sugar into a pan of water, and boil sinwly for about thirty minutes. Allow two pints of water-soft water if you can get it in a clean state.

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By way of flavouring, add a pinch of ground ginger or nutmeg to the pulp during the last boiling." Cinna- mon may be used in place of ginger or nutmeg, if preferred.

Date and Pineapple Jaņa

While in Madras I tasted a delight- date and ful preserve made from pineapple. It possessed a flavour all Its own, so now my own cook makes it every year, for we entertain quite a lot, and the preserve seems to please everybody.

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The ingredients include pounds of dates, one pineapple-fresh then or canned and two pounds of lonf sugar. Wash the dates well, stone them and cut lengthwise, then in-

slice the pineapple. Pour all, 3

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cluding the pineapple syrup, into

With preserving pan, together

of cold sugar and three cupfuls water. Boil lor,thirty minutes, then allow to simmer till the pineapple is thoroughly tender, but not mushy. before Leave the preserve to cool attempting to seal the jars, then it keeps good for a long time.

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SUNBATHINGFOR CHILDREN

By a NURSE

MOTHERS are becoming more und

more alive to the great benefit to be gained from sun bathing. The ultra-violet rays from the sun act upon a substance found in the skin which under the sun's rays is changed into Vitamin D. This la valuable, for blood and the circulates in 1L nourishes und strengthen, the tissues of the body.

So the baby whore skin has been sun-tanned will escape muny troubles to which his less fortunate panions may succumb.

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But sun bathing must not be begun suddenly, or rushed at indiscriminate- ly or serious harm may come of it. Remember it is the light and not the beat of the sun which will bencht baby or the toddler. The most health-giving rays the ultra-violet rays are found in the early morn

best ing sunshine, Therefore the time for sunbathing is between u.m. and 10 am. Avoid the period be tween 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., which is usually the hottest part of the day,

Sun, bathing must be begun very slowly and gradually. The first day baby's feet only may be exposed for three to five minutes. Next day ex- pose the legs, then in the days follow- ing, the hands and arms also. But always be sure that the head is protected. When the legs and arms have been sunned for some days and have become tanned, if baby seems to be benefitting, he should then be allowed to lie on his front in a shad- ed part of the garden, so that his back and legs have the sunlight on them for a few minutes. Never try to give him, too much sun, but in- crease his time of exposure gradual- ly, and he should soon be able to be In the sun for as long as half an hour, though his position should be clianged, from time to time. It he continues to do well from his sun- baths, he can have another: on sunny days after four in the afternoon.

Toddlers should first be accustom- ed to fresh air playing on their bodies before they begin any sun bathing. During the early months of the year it is good to give them a run round the nursery before they are dressed, As the weather improves, you can open the windows.

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