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My

"Jonathan was sit-

ting at one end of

the plank, Harry at the other. In the middle was a dust- bin lid, and on top of that 4 stuged gannet."

children KNITTING GAUGE WHICH

must be

mad

says

MR. COOPER

I SOMETIMES think my children must be a little mad. Not dangerously mad, but just a little mental.

The other day, for instance, I found them both. in the garden with a plank that they had got from heaven knows where.

JONATHAN, who is six was sitting at one end and Harry, blond and two, at the other. In the middle was a very dirty dustbin fid, and balanced on top of that a stuffed gannet that my wife had bought in Market because it reminded her of a friend.

Test Your Guest Room

By Madge Ames

expen-

"From the bird book," he said.

tummy used to read it to me be- fore I went to sleep. It's vourite book, all about bones and

my fa

skeletons and birds. Do you know that I've got thirty-three vertebrae in my spine?" he cald, prodding him- in the back with a un pail.

AND It's all perfectly true. mean about bookt. WITH

monotony deadly Jonathan was shouting, t stems he just picked on it himself "Bottle of ink. Bottle of ink. Stick as the p.ricet bedside reading. in a pea and make a stink."

At the word stink they both threw up their hands, went inia fits of un- controllable laughter, and fell off the plank.

"Popular Natural History" It's alive, by a gentleman by the name of Scherren.

And apart from bay- tax woodcuts of wombats in it it's full of interesting facts,

11 and a tattered edition of the "Bottle of ink. Bottle of ink."

"Cruise, of Gyro Car" are the only WATCHED them go two books that have survived my per- own childhood,

i

a

THE

THERE

Arc

of woodcuts

and

through the crazy formance ten times without a single deviation from the original script.

fascinating "Stick

and make

wombuis, pen stink,"

and British butterflies and things in The awful regular beat of It was it. I can remember straining my

becoming unbearable THE ideal guest-room does not just

when eyca reading about buzzards necessarily contain

Harry, in an even wider abundan bullfinches by an electric torch'utter sive fittings and furnishings, of laughter, fell off the pranit Fer had been fucked up for the night, Hurder than he meant to, and set up and being practically smothered by but the arrangement of its wall.

reading under the bedclothes su necessitates much imagination So Nanny had to come and fetch that I shouldn't be found out. and thought on the part of the him away. owner if guests are to be really comfortable and happy in it.

As for the general appearance of tho room, you have of course, greater scope than you have in the furnishing of your own room.

Two Lights Will Do.

AT

my

But it's not the buzzards that get elder child; the only picture that JONATHAN moodily banged . seems the least therested in

the annet against tic D rather terrifying engraving of dustbin lid until it blod stuffing a skeleton of a man compared with everywhert.

a skeleton of a bird in the preface.

JONATHAN knows

I think he bumped his vertebraç," he said.

whole "ills--what?" I said. "HIS ver-

paragraphs by heart; he tebrau or turning banes. Jonathan recited "The spine is marked off into seemed surprised that I didn't know five separate parts or regions; the about it.

neck (cervical) has seven vertebrae;

**T ISTEN," I sald. "Where the back (dorsal) twelve; the region

T least two points are necessary brae stuff?*

for the lighting of the room. | TESH

One should be over the head of the

bed, and for this purpose, perhaps

the strong, yet anti-glare cylindri

cat light is most useful.

The other light in, of course, over

the dressing table. Even though the tabic would look better placed in some other position, it is more use- ful placed directly in front of the window.

In strange surroundings, a woman always makes a special effort to look

A tonic for

sore eyes

"Could you tell me what watercress is good for? Some one told me that if you

so on.

This, mark you, from a child who cannot read any word of more than three letters, and then only. Wah uncertainty, and who tells me proud- ly he can count up to sixty-seven, and no more.

I TRIED him out when he

had

bath. "What's

this?" I said, and prodded him in the chest. "Ribs," he shouted, and giggled and slipped up and banged hits head. So I was turned out.

reuson For some extraordinary

both my children seem far more apt to lajure themselves when I am with

them.

her nicest, and a well placed mirror oil it in milk and strain it don't know whether I'm pur-

in essential.

At night is an excellent plan to have indirectly overhead lighting, placed along the curtain rail, so that your guests can see to make-up pro- perly, with a couple of lights at the sides of the mirror which will But- ter her looks just as she is going downstairs and so help towards the success of her evening-and yours. Essential Trifles

UPON

[PON the table it is a good plan to place cleansing tissues, a cot- tonwool container, and some of those prettily coloured little cotton puffs:

I

the resulting lotion makes a wonderful tonic and cyc lo- lion.

"And I am interested in any simple and pood lotion to soothe sore cues."

E. S.

RESII watercress is on excel-

lent medicinal food; It con-

trem a false sense of safety or what, but hurt themselves they do. I'm getting rather unpopular with Nanny about "It

ticularly clumsy or whether I give

BUT

DUT later on in bed I found

he knew almost every bone in his body. I don't know what good it's going to do him, ex- cept I suppose he'll know what he's straining when he strains it. But as far as I can see it certainly won't

I ning a lot of vitamin B and C

and some vitamin A, as well art stop him.

alts of iron, phosphorus, sodium,Wint do you want to be when otash, calcium, sulphur, fodine you grow up?" I asked him. "A nd chlorine-all of which are doctor or a surgcon or a benc- blood purifying and disinfectant. I setter?" "No." he said, "I'm going It is quite possible that it may to be a house painter on a ladder."

They're mad:" quite mad.

be good for your eyes because o anti-infective vitamin

A well us the more usual offer-ontent. An application of the iniga.

Freshly-lined drawers, lots and lots of coat hangers and shoe trees should be provided, and if you tuck. away a small skirt board and an electric iron in her room your guest will indeed bless you.

rutsed leaves

or the Juice wil help to clear the skin of blotcher

nd spots.

Other good eye lotions br wenk tea, or boracle powder dir.

alved in boiling water and Inwed to cool.

St. John Cooper

PS-My wife says she's going to get a rubber mat for the bottom of the bath so the children won't slip about and injure themselves every time I go in and overcxcite them. Maybe she's right.

Whet your Whistle with a WHITBREAD!

ACTS AS A READY

RECKONER

for cream are best. That is why the

border of Venise insertions with hand

WHETHER you are a busy the more elaborato table cloths, white knitter, or if you merely white handwoven linen cloth which take to knitting for the sakes edged with fliet lace and a deep of a jumper, or couple of embroidery between is best copied vests, there is much to be in white, not a colour. said for the knitting gauge LEVERLY designed trays have under-grips so that they can be you can attach to any

balanced in one hand

when needles, which acts as a sort of ready reckoner.

It checks the pattern, in so far As you can keep count of the rows, and also works out the right number of decreasings and increasings.

heavily loaded.

*

even

Oblong trays with felt under- neath are hardwearing and useful, though they have no under-grip.

But it is the fanciful ones which are most in demand at the moment. These includes a series of trays ` In different shapes and sizes covered with chintz design in gay bright You might make use of this volumes of bright coloured glass ready-reckoner when turning the

heel of a sock-that bugbear of set into trays are intended to ear- respond with the glassware carried so many knitters; though it will on them, While plain coloured be especially handy when making panels which are heat-resisting and None of these new troys needs a cloth.

a cosy sweater or one of the new painless are very beautiful. Acarves which is more shapely than is generally realised.

Odd Wool

MANY and numb scraps

How's Your Hair?

NY woman who has given any

numerous are the thought to the health of her of hair realises that good circulation knitting wools--a ball for baby, of the blood in the scalp is the first little booteca, gloyes and so on. essential. Heir specialists agree.

brush new Towards this end, a But another use, not so well.. known, is to knit strips for a coat-which has combs on either side is

deslaned to stim

stimulate the hair and honger cover. The work la cosy, and it is quick. Frocks with wide the scalp. The action of drawing necks, and evening frocks with the brusht over and through the halr straps which it is best to hang up, encourages good circulation.

a brush can be suspended on these covered It is recommended as

But hangers, and they will never slip which keeps your hair wavy. off.

it does much more. It keeps the "Of course,

the knitting should hair healthy, be slightly shorter than the honger

"sential in hair beauty Another Itself so that it is stretched taully Is that the brush must be easily over the wood. Perhaps it is as well cleaned. On this comb-brush the to cast of three or four slitches in bristles can be detached, to can the the middle of the work, casting them side combs, a screw knob through on in the next row, to form a hole the back rivetting all the pieces in through which the hook is thrust. place.

Elegant Table Cloths

some Jaces.

thut

Colours For Black

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IF you are clever at lace-making. MANY well-dressed women

you may like to copy some of wearing black this season just the exclusive table cloth designs; because it is such an excellent set- or perhaps you will make these hand-ting for the new coloured jewellery. show cloths with machine-made; Charming new schemes

emeralds, sapphires and rubies mass- Here are some of the beautiful new|ed together in invisibl

Invisible settings to examples,

they form a square which is An antique ecru linen measuring surrounded by diamonds, 2 x 2 yds, and trimmed with fine These multi-coloured jewels are hand embroidery around the hems, used as brooches, clips and rings hn, in the centre,

of which are startlingly large. an' oblong Venelian lace with a slender strip} A triangle made with many small of linen in the middle.

rubies, each in different rhode The veque for tinted cloths is all red, is also typical of the bright new very well for simple designs, but in jewellery fashions.

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Do you odolise?

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There are still some who do nof, and you may be amongst them. Try the Odol way-just a few splashes of Odal, the famous liqui i antiseptic dentifrice, in a hall tumblorful of wafar will thoroughly cleanse and purify the whole mouth, panairaling all cracks and crevices in and between the tooth, permeating the gums and lining membrano, and exerting its antiseptic and refreshing powers, nol only during the low mo- ments while being used, but for hours after. It is this lasting effect that gives to „Odolisers“ the absolute assurance that their mouths are permanently prolacted from the bacteria and drocessos of fermentation

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HE HONGKONG TELEGRAFI, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1987-

Tell me,

doctor.

ask you

[

I wanted to about blood poisoning. The children are always scratching their hands and cutting their knees. And now Mrs. Edwards' boy, you know, is in bed with a terrible leg. Tell me, is there some- thing, pleasant I could keep bandy, some really reliable precaution ??.

'Dettol," the modern antiseptic, is a highly effective weapon against germs of septic infection. It is the gentle antiseptic-clean, clear, pleasant to use, yet deadly to every germ. Non-poisonous, non-staining yet promptly used in time of accident it may save you untold pain and danger. Never neglect a cut or scratch, however small. Even a tiny break in the skin is a wide-open gateway for the germs

that set up blood-poisoning. Dis- infect at once with 'Dettol.' 'Te way to prevent blood-poisoning is to kill the germs that use it.

Use 'Detiol' promplly In fima of accident Your Chemist has ir,

DETTOL

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