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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1998.

Clean Those White Velvet Sandals

Can you tell me how to clean some white velvet sandals?

Rub a liberal amount of powdered French chalk into the velvet. Wrap up in white paper and leave for a couple of days. Brush out with a sott brush. Repent If necessary,

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Some can-de-cologne leaked in a suit-case and a navy dress stained some white pique shorts. Is there any way of removing the stain?

Stretch the stain over a basin and cover with borax. Pour on bolling

water. Repeat if necessary If this method is not strong enough more drastic means may be used. Mix a tablespoonful of chlorinated lime with one quarter pint of boiling water and a teaspoonful of washing soda. Allow to settle. Pour a little on the wet stain. Repeat until the stain disappears. It in important to rinse between each application of bleach.

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How would you recommend lean- ing chromium plater locks on 征 saltcare?

Chromium plating should not re- quire a cleaning agent but merely un occasional rub with a soft cloth. If they have become dull, rub with a cloth moistened in equal quantities of ammonia and water.

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What is the best method of wash- ing small woonhabic rugs?

Shake and beat to renove loose dust and then steep overnight in very soapy water. Itub with soup on both sides and knead Into the wool. Hinne in plenty of fresh water. Shake and dry.

Analysis of

the Perfect Kitchen

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Mel two tablespoonfuls of butler

in a pan, put in the tips for a few minutes together with a little chap- ped parsley. Add salt and sugar. press through a sieve, put it in a clean stewpan with some thin cream and warm through again.

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Every detail is planned

to make work easy

I recom-

The euphounds immediately above

soon become knocked and dirty.

towards

this

"You fre lookslag at kitchen

The dining- Thom, and as though you had just come in from the back door."

the way.

art. Jins. between each

When next you buy a kitchen table, take the measurements of the room first, measuring from the cupboard doors, and Yemember the 2ft. Bir

Д all round. Better kitchen table than no room to move.

space

small

Down To Details

THERE should be at least THE kitchen is the most used, and therefore the the the four, as id title of the kitchen table enough the important, room in a house. It is generally the black ano, as a painted surface will The table here is near enough to the most beautiful, since there is no rot about "art" in a Enamel is the best surface for kitchen sink and cooker to allow you to turn upboards, as finger-marks can be found and put things down on it, kitchen.

washed off when you want to show but it is not so near that it gets in the kitchen to impressed visitors. Everything is for convenience, even the colour scheme.

I have had a row with the architect You want something that is light and washable. mend white or cream coloured walls, finished with a shiny surface. again. Once again it is about the cup

boards. I say that in a smallish room Woodwork, cupboards, etc., should be painted with a pale blue ake this kitchen, the doors of the shiny plant. The floor should be covered with a dark blue or upper and lower cupboards should dark grey linoleum.

The architect's idea for storing tho He says that sliding doors nearly ironing board is a good one.

But I always stiek. I reply that I would look forward to the time when our rather have a door that stuck than towns are so well planned that the one which poked my eye out when housewife who has a family to cook I was not looking, ur knocked me for isn't bothered by having laundry senseless by swinging open on to my In her own kitchen. Instead. head when i was walking through into hope there will be communal laund- the dining-room,

ries to every group of houses, And anyhow, all the upper cup-

Don't suppose that because no re- boats should have glass panels in frigerator or larder appears in this But do not have the edges sealed a tiled wall behind the cooker, as small squares. Nobody can remem- plcture it does not exist. We could all the way round the kitchen.

Do not get any of the now unfashionable geometric or "modernistic" patterns. Get something plain and serviceable, a marbled effect at the most ulsberufe.

PEOPLE

How To Lay The Linoleum

EOPLE who lay linoleum on the floor of the kitchen often for

get that a kitchen floor has to be scrubbed, generally every day. This means that water is pretty well certain to soak through the edges between walls and floor. The result is that floor boards are liable to decay and dry rol. Have the edges sealed with mostle.

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In well as behind the sink.

certain places, under cupboards that the floor, for stand directly instance, leave a space of an inch or so between the linoleum and the wall. If you sea! up the linoleum

Sink Suggestions

seem

slide.

ber what is in every cupboard. Much not inc

include everything. better see how much you have gowards the dining-room, and as though You are looking at this kitchen to-

I suppose the hatch may be counted you had just core in from the back as a cupboard. This one is a skilful door. The larder is near the back

to affair. The architect has put a sliding door, convenient for deliveries, and

BUILDERS often D think that people who door to the dining-room end of ita refrigerator is against the wall

all the way round, air will condense wash up ure either dwarfs or giants. This means you will be able to reach between the floorboards and the They also forget that it is in the it from the kitchen. linoleum because there will be bottom of the sink that the work is nowhere for it to escupe.

No sink should be less than

dangerous and even

Most hatches are too small. This done.

isn't. It turns a corner and comes The result will be wet rot, just as 3 feet from the ground to its top. and round to conveniently near the sink.

moro smelly it should not be more than 7% inches The walls ate tiled. than dry rot.

deep. Scal the edges of

My architect friend is full of ideas inoleum where the

four most scrubbing is likely to be done. But about sinks. He recommends that the sink and draining boards either side leave a part unsealed somewhere, of it be in stainless seel with a If possible on each of the four sides. medium bright finish. A very bright

Bright Lights

IT often happens that

kitchen has only one light

finish shows finger marks. He re- eGiends metal for the sink because it is more resilient than earthenware, and therefore less able to cause Lreakage. Other little devices are!

and that in the centre over the table. (1) A soapholder sunk in the

Thus any one using the sink or stove finds her shadow in the way of her work.

tiled wall behind the sink.

(2) A space under the sink for two liquid refuse containers. The There should be a second light Hds open by pressing a pedal with which shines on the sink and, if the foot.

possible, into the oven of the stove. (3) A spiral curtain rod is fired I advise bright lamps in circular peart above theac.. The spirat prevents the globes, They give a maximum of cloths felling off t

(4) Miring taps

with quarter- soft light.

turn levers and a swivel nozzle. Notice that the window is over the Thus you can pack the juzzle of the pink, but set bacle far enough to avoid tap out of the way when you are unnecessary splashing of the glass, washing up. The other little tap is I don't know whether you will op a cold water one worked from the window over the gas (or mains, and to be used for drinking prove of electric) stove. In the kitchen shown water.

here it means that you will not bo On the left of the picture is a small able

to see into the oven without slop ank, with room between the turning on the fight. On the other nozzle of the tops and the alak to hand, you will be able to see what hold a bucket. you are cooking on the top of the stave.

Anyhow, in these days when the position of a stove is not predetor- mined by the chimney, you will be nible, to have it where you like..

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Lots Of Cupboards

THERE can hardly be too.

many ... kitchen cupboards, provided they are all easily accessible. Imagina for yourself cupboards along Perhaps it should be against the the wall at middle height, which you wall which you can't see in this cannot see in the picture. These, picture. If it is against a window like the hatch, have, doom, which lot. lass wall, have a sheet of metal or down to form an 'extra working sur- else of American cloth fastened to face when, the kitchen table is too the wall bahind. Better still,. have full.

which you cannot see.

That door on the right leads into the hull and front door.

John Beljemun

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neutralize the acid by taking

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You buy mostly

water

with old fashioned bottle cleaners.

White shoe cleaners in bottles are as old fashioned as the horse and buggy. To-day modern people, who want full value for their money, are using white shoe cleaner in tubes-KIWI.

With KIWI, you get all cleaner, a concentrated white that is always ready to use. There is none of the old bottle shaking, you use less water, the job is done quicker and with less mess and above all it is most economical. There

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