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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1988,

BY

No bones

ANN MARVEL FOR all-round

vitumin value and pocket nourish- ment there are few foods to rival the banana. British housewives think so, for thirty millions pass through the markets every week and forty millions in sumner, good and they know a buy when they see it.

Bananas are rich in natural and digestible sugars and show

Are You A Poor Sleeper?

They to

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SURPRISING number of people are inficient sleepers.

how lo

1:0 forgotten have Bloep. No matter how early or how late they retire, they invariably lic awake for one, two, or three hours The really efficient sleeper is sound asleep five minutes after his head touches the pillow.

a bad Lying awake at night is habit. Like alt bad habits, it can be erased by practice and patience. Most people accept this partiul in- somnia as a plece of the unalterable scheme of things. Their efforts to and un- spasmodic combat it are sustained.

The habit of lying awake can, however, be conquered. The only requirements are a little intelligence and a lot of persistence.

First of all, the poor siceper muat learn to relax. This is not a mere matter of lying down and closing the

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Every muscle must be re- laxed, and this is by no means easy.

Any physical culfure expert wil confirm that it is much easier to contract a muscle than it is to relax it Sport champlons often owe theic superiority to their ability to relax of muscles at the a particular set right moment.

The pour sleeper Hes wide awake) in the firm belief that he is complete- ly relaxed when his body may be the home of a dozen different ten- slons. It is essential that he should be able to recognise a tension. This can be done by deliberately tensing all the muscles and noting the effect. The time to do this is between run- not at sunset; definitely risa und

night.

The favourite tensions of the poor sleeper are wrinkled forebend, lensed biceps, ben! toes, and strained neck Another com- (pillow too high?) mon form of tension is in the eyes.

It is vitally important to remember that every change of posillon néces- sitates a fresh check of tensions. Numerous muscles are contracted in making the movements, and will almost certainly stay in a state of partial tension.

Obviously. changes

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of position should be eliminated as far as pos-

oti sible. Actually most changes position are unconscious attempts to rcileve

particularly strong tension. The individual feels uncomfortable. and he turns over.

The

act may

relieve the tension in question, but it often creates another. Hence the tossing and turning

so frequently experienced by poor sleepers. Mental Relaxzation

Physleni relaxation is only the Jirst step towards the acquisition of good sleep habits. Mental relaxa- tion in, perhaps, even more import

port- ant. The man or woman who takes

bed cun worries to

expect long Physical periods of wakefulness. relaxation and mental relaxation are to some extent interdependent. The Individual whate mind is

fully occupled with other matters cannot pay attention to muscular contrac- ilons.

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Thought cannot be turned on and off ilke an electric light, but the human mind does, nevertheless, pos- h "thought-switch." Unlor- tunately few people know how to operate it. The technique can only be learned by a very grodual reduc- tion of the intensity of thought and emotion. The process is never very clear-cut.

Mental relaxation has to be learn- ed slep

by step over a period of months, sometimes years, and for modus every person the nearly

people

operandi is different. Some can turn off the flow of thought almost at will; it is a natural gift with them. Others have to learn the trick by pallent endeavour.

There are strong indications that dreaming is a sign of mental tense-

When the mind has been very active just prior to sleep, a night- mare often results. In dreams the Imagination

active, There is evidence that imagination diminishes as relaxation progresses.

Dreamless or relatively dreamless sleep is the more reatrul type, nl- considerable recuperation is though secured by people who dream almost continuously. The individunt who sleeps dreamlessly, however, con often obtain full recuperation in hours or less, whereas the dreamer may need eight or nine hours and a midday rest as well.

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It sleeplessness is caused by nr- ganle conditions, no amount mental rearrangement will complete- ly cure Insomnia. But after the organic caturo has been medically or surgically removed, careful atten- tion needs to be paid to relaxation, otherwise the bad habits engendered by the organic cause may peralat long after the enuse itself has been removed.

D. C. J.

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about

bananas

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these savoury toasts can be made in five minutes

Cut some peoled bananas 2 in half lengthwise; then cut Use firm cach half in two.

just-ripe fruit

quick calorie return, as well as a full alphabet of vitamins, 80 you get your meal in the handiest way, weatherproofed till you need it. They offer food as well as fuel, so they carn their place on our shop- ping list.

The habit starts early, as accepts fully baby happily ripened banana in lieu of other fruit juice he may tire of. Lightly broken with a fork and taken with a little milk, it is grand for young children. For

baked

change you can bake the fruit in their skins, like a apple, for the nursery,

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CHILDREN go for

banana crumb pud- ding, too. First simmer half a pint of milk with a strip of lemon rind for a minute or two, then remove the lemon peel and pour it over 2oz. fine bread- crumbs and allow them to soak A beaten egg can till cool.

a little then be added with

From two to three ripe sugar. bananas mashed with a fork and spread at the bottom of a buttered pie dish form the hid- den delight for the poured on breadcrumb custard. Bake the pudding for about half an hour in a moderate oven till set, and firm.

Chocolate banana fool, made with chocolate blancmange pow- der of custard consistency, and

bananas, pureed

another is simple notion.

THERE

are endless serving ways for

Havo bananas?

bananas in adult menus.

you

tried curried

TWO

Season with lemon juice, 3 salt, pepper; fry golden in hot butter, turning frequent-

ly; drain well.

They balance well with the characteristic sweat-sourness of curry sauce.

In India curry powder is freshly made every day from newly-ground spices, but it does not store well over here. See that you buy yours fresh for use, and give it a brief toasting on a saucer in the oven just as you want to use it, and the aroma is extra yielding to the

Sauce.

Use firm just-ripe fruit, and make the sauce well ahead of time, as this is the secret of well-blended flavour and a good durk colour. For - pint of white stock or coconut milk, use I rounded teaspoonful of curry powder, 1 teaspoonful of curry paste, 1 tablespoonfuls of grated or desiccated coconut (to simmer in the stock prior to use) and 1 teaspoonful of mango chutney. Start by melt- ing loz. butter in a casserole or saucepan, then saute one chop- ped green apple and 1 minced onion for 5-8 minutes.

A dessertspoonful of rice flour and the measure of curry pow der is next added and the whole fried with occasional stirrings from a wooden spoon. Add the curry stock, stirring until it reaches the boil. Allow to sim- mer very slowly on an asbestos mat, or in the oven, for 1-2 hours, when seasonings, the juice of half a lemon, and a tablespoonful of red jelly can be added.

currant

cut the Peel, split, and bananas into suitable portions, and hent through in the sauce

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of wearing a HEAD HANKIE

GNOME

SAILOR

Meanwhile prepare fingers 4

of buttered toast, seasoned with cayenne and just a

suspicion of chutney,

Put banana fillets on toast fingers; top each with strip of Parmesan cheese cream scasoned to taste.

for a few minutes, then serve on a hot dish with cut lemon

Beginners Take Tell me,

garnish. A surround of half- Beginners Take

moon slices of hard-boiled egg is an improvement, as well as the usual border of boiled clear- dried rice, dusted here and there with coralline pepper. A few sultanas cooked in the sauce makes a change.

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You

Heart!

By A DRESSMAKER

VOU stand and look at the shop windows with their tempting materials. Frequently, of

NUMEROUS #avourles array

drapery stores have sales of remains,

and appetisera evolve and you wish you knew how to from banana bagia, and I can'utilise these bargain pieces without recommend Banana Ridge, des- stamping your finished effort with a cribed in the illustration, for home-made look!

It is possible to achieve distinct piquant quality. You know that

Just success in your dressmaking if you bit about cheese cream? add foz. of finely whisked and go about it the right way.

Because the material has only cost duly seasoned grated Parmesan a few shillings, any beginners to each gill of cream, and pipe make the mistake of trying a cheap- or coax it into a long coating pattern. Buy a good pattern, then strip.

ive yourself up to the instructions. It is almost an asset to be completely One day, see what a couple of ignorant when starting with these

old-fashioned methods to unlearn, bacon rashers do to an innopatterns. At least you have no cent banana-it's devastating Do not be over-uwed by the num- and speedy too. If the oven is ber of graphs and instructions. The going, peel and bake them to saleswoman will give you your cor- reet size, and show you the graph the width of your gether, under greased paper applicable to

otherwise frying interini. protection, meets the bill for both.

FOR the cold

Each pattern is in itself a complète lesson in dressmaking, down to the sweetamallest detail. Every stitch and course, you would like finish ia hlustrated and explained. ginger bananas-that is, if you like ginger. Prepare some "just A Fascinating Business right" bananas by peeling, split- The whole thing may look like a ting, and cutting into quarters, saw puzzle to you at first, but running a fine fork down the becomes fascinating us the pieces fil "core" tu scoop a tiny furrow. in their allotted place. Do not louis Chop some crystallised ginger ahead; Just take each step as it quite finely and mix with Buf- comes and have a little faith, ficient marrow ginger syrup or apricot marmalade to make a ceamy paste. --

Care

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?"

For personal hygiene, for fastidious cleanliness use 'Dettol--- so clean, so clear, so pleasant that it might have been made At the end of a expressly for irreprachable freshness. long, long search for a formula deadly to germs yet bland -on-body tissues-Dettol has been found Disinfectant, deodorant a highly efficient killer of germa--it is yet an dainty that it can stain neither linen nor your skin, Entirely non- poisonous and hygiecie-it will keep you immaculate

For personal hygiene Your Chanist has it.

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be taken by the amateur to take sufficient turnings, F1103 to allow a margin for alterations, to aive. strength to the garment.

One of the secrets of professional cover and Spread evenly to

the centres, then sprinkle dress-making which often cludes the with blanched, split and oven-amateur, le to get corresponding pairs

of panels browned almonds and set in matching. Fulture to do this will pairs on little ice plates like a 'give an uneven or slightly lop-sider banana split. Force ginger- look to a garment, flavoured cream between them,

Gurls

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Pay great attention, to the finish of and decorate with crystallised your work. With the present vogue!

for button-up frocks, learn to make 1 F1135 ginger dice.

tailored button holes, and make use of the covered bulton service for small buttons and loops.

Perhaps you are thinking of Leu-time?

nothing There is

These little finishing touches will quite so reconciling to early autumn as the first fireside tea, enable you to avoid that home-spun Jook about your dressmaking, and Mark the occasion by offering will give it that professional air that the family newly-baked ginger is so dear to the heart of any women aliced who makes some of her own dresses. bread, layered with banana cream filling. It will linger long in their memory.

To get full value of the lesson and pattern, try to repeat it, using one of the alternative styles. It is the con- tinulty of practice that tells; to let months elapse before your second

Cooking Hints effort is a great mistake.

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F only a moli amount of cake is cut the time, required at desired slice from the centre of the cake. Then push the halves to- gether, and the cake will keep fresh and moist for severul days.

You will be delighted with your follow rigidly the attempt if you instructions given.

QUICK CONVALESCENCE

• AFTER FEVERS 'Doctors will tell you that once your

to rebuild your wasted nerve and muscle tissues.

Fold up corner C of a cotton square.ng potatoes-not cold-and with a temperature falls it's all-important Fold corner A over it. Tie knot in peak D. Roll up the open edge to connect fold and form shallow skull-good plan to put a straw through a

cap.

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A

Fold square to a triangle. Fold down peak B of triangle. Fold peak A across. Divide double peak C and roll up to hold lap-over and form brim.

After the fever has gone, when

Always add hot milk when mash good lump of butter the flavour of the dish will be greatly improved.

When cooking a fruit tari It is a hole in the top of the pastry. This the stomach is too weak to digest ordinary foods, n nourishing and will prevent the fruit boiling over."

appetising food drink, is most essen- If short of milk for coffee, whipal and beneficlul. up the white of an egg, and add a little to each cup, with a small quantity of milk. This will make the milk go twice as far.

A pinch of sali added to coffee, inmediately it is made, will bring out the fragrance of the beverage.

The best way to set an egg custard is lo pince it in a shallow pan of water before placing in a slow oven, The water round the ple-dish pre- vents the custard curdling and in- duces a fins consistency:

To make Jellea col quickly for the table, all into individual moulds, and place in a basin of cold water, Stand in a cold place.

M. L. B.

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In these, dimeult times of anxiety and warty, the task of carrying on und doing work which must be done is a doubly difficult one which must tend to exhaust one's nervous energy. Horlicks builds up strength, vitality and prevents that flatlosness and tiredness caused by constant nervous train. II. M. Hodges. 400-400, Asio Life Buliding, Hongkong.

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