THE HONGKONG Telegraph, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1988,
SUN HIGH!
-but Janet Jay suggests, ways to keep the house fresh and cool inside
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URING close and sultry weather, it's nice to come home after a hot day at work to n coul house. But real cool- ness inside is a big problem, especially in those houses which have no gardens and which may be shut in by high walls or buildings.
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Bricks absorb and store up heat rays, and in towns one has to con- tend with this radiated warmth as well as with dirt sunshine. it in essential to give the outside of the house some sort of protection. "Keep cool" precautions can well start out of doors.
Washing the outside brickwork, for instance, is a great help to cool- ners in hot weather. Stone window sills can be washed down with water once a day, and if you have a hose or large watering can, spray the door-steps and garden path. This lays the dust, and the path will both look und feet cool for some time.
Any dust which has found its way through to the inside window sills can be wiped up with a cloth wrung out in warm water containing a little household disinfectant, and If you do this regularly you will find that files are not so anxious to come bi
Protected From The Glare
The chercful effect of a light colour wash on a yard wall or on the wall which faces a busement kitchen sunkes rooma seem both lighter and cooler, I find. A pale creamy-yellow shade la good and less glaring than white.
Spot muslin or Avoid heavy eurtains for these rooms If you entè. net or a pastel #inted curtada ninon is dainty for the summer and does not exclude the light. You could a nets or eliniz blind to the window for univary at night
Whe on the subject of busements, m indeed any windows which face other mildinga, have you thought of wonten reflectors for more lgbt You often see thear on offer windows in demely-built elty dis trieta, and they are worth copyi
Fixed to the window at an angle and painted white or cream, they The reverse side and fittings could reflect extin daylight jritɑ the room
be the same colour as the outside pritat amanit
Curtalis help to slide rooms on the suraty side, but they are not no efficient na sunblinds, which prevent the au fron shining on the window klase and so kerp the room; emelet
Brads on the antaller windoger and a Bom sina av hot over the french doors give complete notection from atory and glare
No dewiring. incidentally. make A pleasantly study got for sitting oud, complete with wallbonod [ા Being. front 11. 1. and Way repes. This size
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Here is a model for the ideal travelling-dress, practical, elegant and ba- coming. It is made in light material, the skiet is light groy and thus low insonsible for dust. On the other hand, the jacket is in thick, frizzy material in a beautiful clear navy blue yellow or coral red, according to tasto.
BABY'S
GAS PAINS,
Colic and many other children's ail- · ments are frequently a case of too much acid in the stomach. Relicvo the pain, neutralize the acids, restore normal health by giving them
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TABLET FORM
Jimmy's
Also A la China Bldg., Hongkong.
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Hankow. Rd., Kowloon.
A canvas awning protects the sitting room from the hot sun and makes a shady verandah. rays of the
Jarger one mensuring nine fee'.
If you own your house, you might consider a permanent extension on the lines suggested in the picture,
Blistered Paint
The front door call be safe- Karded agavirist cracked paint and blisters by a curtain. This will also keep the hill private if you stand the door open on a hot day. The curtain looks best in plain cream en or in striped colcured
sunblind cloth
I expect you know the Con- tinental tip for coolness indoors. Keen the windows shut, sunblinds
down and curtains drawn while the sun is on them, and the rooms will slay beautifully cool because the scorching air can't get lo.
Windows on the shady side are tett open, and if you keep the air moving by opening all the inside dours, there will be none of that stuffy, airless feeling one some- times feels after sundown.
If you have a garden. do make it a real outdoor reamTI. Breakfast ay be too carly and hurried a ment to be taken out of doors, bul you will enjoy ten and supper out- side in the cool of the evening.
It is a good plan to put the meal table under the awning, so that
Homemaker's Diary
food und plates need not be carried- too far, but a portable garden text is a good idea for nonly, too,
Mont garden furniture stands up well to the weather, but don't let
it look after itself entirely. Can- vas chairs collect dust from paths and the rond, I give them a weekly brush, using a scrubbing brush or stiff clothes brush.
If there's no room in the garden shed for deck ehalts, stack them and cover them with a sheet of tar- paulin when not in use,
For meals and general purposes, the camp fire" folding chair is a most comfortable type-just the right height for a table, and with
• supporting arms and canvas back, Three or four of these will supple- ment the deck chairs.
Garden Comfort
But for sheer comfort you can- not beat the new guinea garden Li-Lo lounge. This inflates, and the sides are specially shaped to prevent rolling. The pillow is pumped up separately, and is sup- ported at the back by a wooden trestle, which you can adjust to threo
different positions.
The lowest is ideal for an afternoon nap or for sunbathing, while the highest gives a comfortable semi- sitting position for writing needlework.
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All garden cushiona should be waterproof, because a kapok filling can hold a good deal of unsus- pected moisture. Lancaster cloth is one good material for covers, or you could it cretonne cushions materki with a backing of th Then you won't have to worry if the damp they are left out grass.
Which reminds me, if you are
to planning improvements
the garden during the holidays, you might put a series of “stepping stones. flat slabs of stone or con- crete, at intervals along the lawn,
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These make a dry path to a garden seat or the apot you have chosen for the shelter, and they leo save slippers on the evenings when there happens to be heavy dew on the grass.
PRESERVE THEM GREEN
OST store cupboards are looking woefully bure just now, and gooseberries are at their best.hard ana Green for preserving purposes.
Here are recipes for delicious eint- nys, pleiches, and salices to adil savour
to cold meal.
Mixed Chutney
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A popular chutney to serve with cold ham.
Ingredients 11) green guOSE- berries (topped and talled), 116. rhabarb, Ilb. antons, 1b suluunas. loz. ground ginger. 40%, crystal- used ginger (optional), tilb, brown sugar, teaspoonfal cayenne, 1 quart vinegar. 2 tablespa, salt, jib. green tomators.
Chup the gooseberries, rhubarb. onions, sultanins and tomatoes very fely. hen add the rest of the in- gredients, and stainer in a pre serving pan for 3 to 4 hours until smooth and thick Pour into warm, dry pots and cover at once. Store in a cool, dry place.
Green Pickle
Another pickle favourite, Ingredients: 21b, hard green goose- berries. Alb. green tomatoes, 1 cucum- ber, Alb. ontons. 1b. rhubarb, 3b, pre- Berving sugar, 4oz crystuilised ginger. 3 lemons, ez, bruised glager. I tenaga, celery seed, the same of ground mare
mixed spice. and
11 plus whils vinegar.
Crush the cucumber, but do not peel
it or it can be cut into small cubes. Mush the tomatoes and remove the
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seeds. Pass the remain- Ing vegetables through
..for future use
a coarse mincer. Adid the vinegar, sugar, salt, spices, ginger and celery red fled In a muslin ben
Stir and buil for three hours, until dark in colour and of a fairiy thick consistency. Pour into warm. dry pots, cover at once and store ta a cool place.
Cold Meat Sauce
Conneberry sauce inukes a pleasant change It is peetally good with gork Ingredients: 21h. green gooseberries b apples, 2b. green tomatoen, 50 onions, 2lb. Demerara sugar. 116 salt. teaspoonful enyente, & cliven, a Lew blades of munce. 1 teaspoonful eetery seeri, 13 pitats Vinegar
Chop the gooseberries, Tomatoes, apples and onion, and the spices and sugur, and pour the vine Rat over the Boil gently until the ser is thick and dark, Ruh, thŕough,
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hair pove, adding more vinegar if it 1. Too ck or too sweet, reboil and bottle Store in a cool place.
Gooseberry Wine
Porgeourberry wine the small, rough red gooseberries are bent just as they are turing colour
Dugredients Gils gooseberries, 8 plots water 30 granulated sugar. Į ten- spontul gazand gliger, 1 teaspoonful brewers yeast to each gælken of liquor. Pop all add wash the gooseberries, Bl the ingredients except supar and yeast for three hours in a covered vessel Strudu on to the sugar. stir well um diasolved, and when Paterwean and the yet spread on 26 De af Forget
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Store with a thick cloth and leave for tubs. then sk 1m,
Pour into bottles and cork lightly Metal fernantation ceasin, then cork tightly
Store banderats temperature for ax months when I will be ready for dranking.
Gooseberry jelly in a delicious pre- aerve and is apprelated for tea oread and butter.
Clear Jelly
Ingredient Glb. gooseberries, water te rover sugar,
Wash the gooseberries but do not top and tall. Iut them into a preserving pan, cuver with water And simmer gently until tender and mashed; if the water bolin away, ndd a little more.
Strain through a jelly bag, allowing to drip for several hours, put the pup from the Jelly bag into a pan with a pint of water, bring to the bell and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring all the time, then bring to the boll again. The reason for the second boiling is to in- crease the extract, and make a more economical preserve.
Put the two extracts together and weigh, put into the pan and bring to the boil, continue to ball for 10 minutes, add an equal weight of sugar, and ball and stir for 10 minutes.
Test a little on a cold plate for jelly- ing. As soon as it sets, skim and turni into dry, clean jars and cover im- mcdiately.
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You will sleep well and arise feeling strong and full of energy.
For Health, Energy and Enjoyment drink Maltonic daily.
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