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1. She keeps them in shape by fitting them

on trees

SHOE cupboards

need

shuffling to meet the coming rains. And the way we step depends on our shoes.

Good service results from regular attention, no matter how wise or well-fitting our choice may be. Suitably dressed leathers stand up to storm and tough wear, but im- poverished constitutions rarely

Taking good At and comfort for grunted though these end poise and confidence beyond reckoning- cur first duty is to keep shoes in shape. As they slip off, warn from our feet. fit them into well-made trees. Foot dummies are excellent.

ono

2. She watches her heels -

shoo generally wears down first

BIT TO

CUT OUT

Peppermint Creams

INGREDIENTS: 11b, icing

sugar, white of one eg. a Hittle cream of tartor, Epeppermint essence.

with

3. She stops squoaks by rub- bing Franch chalk along the

scams

Her shoes

will

wear well

Milk, too, is an excellent polish for patent leather, but white shoe cream that is enriched with linseed oil is good food and sim- ple to apply.

Slightly warm some cream, then mix in half the measure. in warmed linseed oil, and store in a jar ready for action. Apply with a soft rng, and polish with extra soft dusters.

Sudden contraction between sole and intersole causes that squeak which haunts us occasionally-usually the aftermath of sitting near the fire with dump shoes. Rub French chalk along the seams daily for a bit, allowing the fine powder to penetrate the seaming, and the skin gradually smooths down in tread.

4. But this toc-toaster will discover when it's

too late that heat causes shrinkago

or

are many Evening shoes

and tinsel but metal kid varled, brocades are well to the fore. Gold or silver kid must be kept in black tissue wrappings to preserve lustre. but it may be occasionally sponged with small wads of cotton Wool dipped in soap-suds und carefully

dried.

Conditioning creams containing metal dust are sold for these shoes, which re-surface and feed the len- ther, too. They are quick to apply and prolong the life of these slippers very considerably.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1988.

Tell me,

doctor.

I don't

like using strong fluids --- disinfectants that stain · and smell strongly of chemicals. Isn't there an antiseptic for intimate personal use that's pleasant as well as reliable ? '

DRY cleaning is best for resist them for long. Moral Method: Crush the sugar until

tinsel materials, ns don't overwork your footwear quite free from lumps and pass

these can be renovated with fine Add the white alternate daily duties between I through a slove.

of turlar, and at

magnesia powder, which costs a two or more pairs so they have of egg. cream

tablespoon of water, and workd

few pence from the chemist. In- a chance to recuperate. Those

wooden spoon until smooth

cidentally, this powder comes in in-between treatments, when and pllable.

for equally well

freshening Then add peppermint essence, are off-duty, balance up drop shoes

For personal hygiene, for fastidious cleanliness ure 'Dettol"— white fur evening coats, so it drop, to taste, turn on by the account.

so clean, so clear, so pleasant that it might have been made to a marble slab dusted with leing

earns its keep.

At the end of a knead sugar, and

for some!

Revive satin

expressly for irreproachable freshness. shoes by wadding

long, long search for a formula deadly to germs yet bland minutes. Cover with greaseproof with rotary motion, and they soon need little maintenance beyond re-

is quickly re- gular creaming. Special cleaners them with tissue paper and brush- paper and stand for, one hour.I disappear. Colour

with warm sonp-suds. because ing lightly

on body tishues-Dettol has been found. Disinfectant, light skins,

then Roll out to in. thick and cut stored by one of the popular wet or are sold for

these tend to lose colour and turn a Work the way of the grain,

deodorant a highly efficient killer of germs-it is yet so clean into rounds. Leave for about dry cleaners.

rinse, dry and brush with a

dainty that it can stain neither thirty-six hours to harden.

When past their prime, suede dull brown.

similar weight satin to renew the

linen nor your skin. Entirely non- Patent shoes should

are obtainable be given gloss. Satin dyes

poisonous and hygienic-it will the ordinary way when they will thorough feeding before they are for evening shoes, but professional shoes can be rubbed with polish in a assume quite a respectable gloss, taken into

usc. Slightly warmed treatment is inexpensive these days, keep you immaculate WATER stains have

way of developing in which improves with each applica vaseline smeared round the uppers and much surer.

at night protects the varnish and or badly wetted shoes, Watch heel wear, too, as one foot sodden

Reptile shoes, though rather less prevents

early cracking. Remove frequently wears harder than the that have been insufficiently popular, are very hard wearing, and and polish heartily in the morning. other, and may need strengthening, dried. Warmth from the foot

loosens the dye or tanning, and p worst enemies, and in addition, extremely difficult to deal with. Prevention is always more prac-

but the toe and heel kind are better÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ffffjjft

than nothing. You can pad the toes

of light pumps or indoor slippers if

there are too few to go round.

ing:

HEAT, damp, and strong

sunlight are leather causes patchy stains which are

beware-habituul loo

tion.

For personal hygiene

Yna Chemist has it.

Ann Marvel DETTOL

FISH for BREAKFAST

night in water, well drained in the

flah. D

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shoes frequently have to contend Lical than doubtful cure, es with perspiration acids.

pecially when waterproofing BAKED fish. In a buttered ADDOCK steamed in milk in a FINGER-LENGTHS of raw Heal causes shrinkage and crack- short-circuits the risk of damp. dish put alternate layers of closed pin is good. Sour milk well-dried, egged, crumbed, and

Your Summer Suit is and stale bread, seasoned can be used. Kippers soaked over- fried in very hot fat go a long way toasters-and watch shoe storage, Country, and sports shoes can be fish too, if it should be near radiators waterproofed very easily with special with pepper and salt and morning before cooking, are much for little money, since the cheap. cuts or hot pipes...if you come home leather dubbin, but light town shoes with damp shoes, allow them to dry in kid and finer leather are more of covered with dots of butter, juicer and go further than if grilled, and kinds of Ash can be used.

us out and Moisten with stock made from straight away. off steadily In

Kedgeree is neglected nowadays, a current of air, problem. Those of rather than near artificial heat, about in all weathers learn to watch fish-trimmings boiled with the Fritters of mixed fish are easier Flaked fish,

footwear, so I have been treating which weakens the leather.

water which was used for cook- than fish-cakes. Make a stiff white egg, boiled rice, pepper, sult, a little with If they are very wet wipe them und deshaw is wing the fish. Make a top layer sauce with cornflour, flake the fish milk. Only needs heating in the

spirit-bound dressing, which is very over with a piece of sponge, using easy to apply and highly polishable of dried breadcrumbs. Heat for into it, senson it well, and leave it morning. (The rice must be very Castle

soapstids for mudmarks, afterwards. The solvent flows even fifteen minutes in a moderate to set overnight. Then slice then wipe with a cloth and leave to jy into the wells, and stitching, oven.

fine flat of protecting for polishing,

thoroughly before brushing and leaving a ching with a good shoc cream, Heavy leathers need stronger "food" Krease that hardens

and only needs renewal once 3. from polishes rather than creams, month. which are more suitable for town "promenade" shoes.

Suede shoes are warm for brisk, dry days, but they need constant

By the way, there is nothing so grooming. Keep the map raised responsive as a velvet rubber for dally with rubber brush, and if polishing leather, especially for the friction marks begin to more scratchable varieties.

apply a small pad of fine steel wool

cak-and-breadcrumb it, fry it.

Have you

By

are

appear MANY people just now

complaining about sore throats. These may range from a mild inflammation to severe

a

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Another form of treatment is by using serum. This is the watery straw-coloured fluid in the blood; it is used for injecting into patients who are suffering from a form of general blood poisoning due to strep- tococci..

consult your doctor, as an early

This special anti-streptococcus diagnosis is half the battle in

serum has been prepared from cul- cases of bad infection.

fection in these enses because the tures or growths of the particular from which the patient is When the tonsils begin to swell, strictest cleanliness and all ascpile disease" little points of matter exude from precautions have been taken. Swabs suffering. It contains powerful an- taken from the throats of all bodies which attack the germs and the crypts in the tonsils. Your doc are tor will take a swab of this matter those in contact with the patient and which increase the sufferer's resis-

the sometimes the cause of the trouble have it

tance and give him or her a chance it examined under and

nurse or to recover. The serum is injected microscope to ascertain the particu- becomes apparent. A lar type of infection from which you tococel in her throat without feeling veins in urgent cases. If given in visitor may be harbouring the strep- Into the muscles or even into the BILLY COTTON'S BAND. are suffering.

Diphtheria is quite distinct from ill or out of sorts. She may, how time, there is usually a dramatie other throat germs and the patient ever, have had a sore throat for some improvement; the whole condition hos definite symptoms, But sore ilme previously which did not make becoming more normal and the tem- throats due to streptococcal infec- her feel ill.

perature dropping. JAY WILBUR & HIS ORCH. tions are not always easy to spol. For the past year or two prontosil Milder streptococcal infections

similar drugs have been used leave the victim Under the microscope the strepto- and

In the treatment cocci look like little straight links successfully

of weak. in a chain. Some strains of strep streptococcal Infections, Blues in Ay Heart F.T.......NAT GONELLA'S ORCHESTRA others and attack the bloodstreams bony area of the face, Prontosli or

tococci are

viruient than chronic discharging sinuses in

IF the condition is one

simple tonsilitis, gargling has been largely the throat with a weak antisepte, ..RONALD FRANKAU. 50 that the patient muy suffer from sulphanilamide

blood poisoning, a very serious state used too for haemolytic streptococ- using threat lozenges with discre of affairs Indeed.

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When the blood is affected, a streptococel, In puerperal fever in patients who were gravely ill. change of air. rest and suitable women who have recently had a Not only in streptococcal sore medicines. are indicated. For skin baby may have a sharp rise of tem- throats, but in bronocho-pneumonia blemishes due to streptococcal In- perature lasting for some days.

and

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