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THE ·HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER

9, 1938.

Avoid That Common Cold

Catch 'em young and beat

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'em-that's the way to treat winter colds

LREADY around 5 o'clock the sun looks a little tired. Any day now you'll breathe and see your breath on the air, and sudden winds will send scurries of dead leaves around your feet. Any night you'll think how nice a hot-water bottle would be.

Yea, you're right. I'm going to remind you that the colds you regard as inevitablo are in the not-so-far- flatant future.

Later-too Late

ALREADY? You say hope

lessly. Yes, now is the time to do something about it. Later will be too Inte; now is the time for me to tell you

how

best to voki feeling old and having colds, now while you're still brown and vigorous from your holiday, and before your first

morning shiver.

I'm not pretending I can prevent your having colds entirely, but guarded body is less likely to suc- cumb to germe and less able to a severe attack should the worst come to the worst. And a cold caught in the Orst chill of autumn muy hung on for months,

Don't Hibernate

no need to hiber- THERE'S

Hate. Don't But your window at the first breath of cold air; leave it open an inch or so top and bottom so that you get air with out droughts.

Have a hot-water bottle if you tust, but let your blankets remain Right, Don't hurry into your, fum

Well-Lighted

Houses

"

and heavy coats; wear your suit ns. long as you can but wear a thin warm jumper under IL

On the other hand, you deserve all you get il-

(a) You regard woollen 'tinder- and shiver in brassiere and panties wear as synonymous with aspidistras regardless of the thermometer.

(b) You go hungry in cold wea- her. Your body needs more fuel in

the winter and, alimming or 110 slimming, you must include antimal fats, expecially butter, in your diet. It's surely better to be little

plumper than pinched and blue. Visit to Doctor

already the cooler morn-

I' Ing are reminding you of

the catarrh that is to come, pay

visit to your doctor. Vaccine 5- jections really do help and he will udvise you about them. If you go and have three or four at five-day

intervals, you'll bless me later on.

Does the first cold invariably bring with 11 the drend of swelling knuckles and toes? Calcium ond Vitamin D are the things for the chublain sufferer.

Perhaps you're afraid for your throat? For some people the slight- est chill produces soreness or even complete voicelessness. Start to suck

good antiseptic lozenge twice a day.

once or

The important thing is to keep your feet warm and dry. The rold strikes upwards from

the pave- ments. However elegant the uppers of your shoes, the soles should be a little heavier now.

If any of your friends are already starting to salille don't care if they call you a scare-cat, but gargle and suck? your lozenges and keep away

from them as much ON

can. you

Their

Them

"Rirls quite so helpless as

COLD COMING? You think so. 'You've got, all the symptoms--- half-closed eyes, worry lines pro- nounced, and a stuffy feeling in These are just the “your nose.

things this article gives you some hints on how to avoid.

Mother Made

Helpless

66 DEALLY, I never knew ling à dire grate in a bitle-used bed- room. It was just the kind of job that a child would enjoy, and it wind scarcely have mattered if the result had not been perfect.

Wash your hands and face often and mine. Joan couldn't cook IN the desire not to stint the light-sniff cold water up your nose.

ing of a home it is etmy to be

chop to save her life, and Mur Įgaret's idens of housekeeping jare positively comic!"

extravagant. Experts have drawn Never Mind

up tables showing the amount of; illumination that is adequate for various rooma necurding to their size and purpose, and the subject worthy of a little study if true offelency is desired.

case

I've often heard Mrs. Dlank talk

ESS you have been m UNLESS

the sun this summer, in in that strain, while poor Jean and is!. which

your hide is slightly Margaret stood by acarlet and em- toughened, you will notice the first barraved or else dellantly pretend- cold air. The wind will dry natural oils out of your

the ing that they didn't care and it was akchi leave it chapped.

and alt a good jake.

a matter of fatt, Joan and Margaret are two very attractive ang as for their

Modern decorations, favouring pale shades Insteart of dark, reflect the Fight Instead of absorbing it, and| thus permit of lower candio-power Use skin food night and morning intelligent girls, and fumps being used than formerly, while you bath and dress-leave helplessties about the house. Mrs. whilst a direct glare can be avoided one on under your make-up-and Blank hus only one person to blame by the use of the pearl, opal finish, ammoth a special cream into your herself.

are hands before you go nut. Be sure

your soup is mild any superfalted.

and

Comp that

readily

Margaret set to work with a will, but she had only made a few strokes with the brush when her intervened, snatching it out of her mother and "Good gracious, you'll be all day if you go about it like that. And just look-you're splashing the wall! Go away, I can't have you making a muss,"

So Margaret weht away.

pudding that, was a hopeless failure. Since then neither she or her sister has ever been allowed the freedom of the kitchen.

WHEN Margaret wanted to

take up dressmaking and was anxious to join a cluas, ber

would be mother vetoed the idea at once. HIL money. Why, you can't even darn nothing but a waste of

your own stockings properly."

BY perpetuat criticism, al- ways drawing attention to their slowness and inefficiency, this with lears In her eyes, mother has done her best to make There is nothing quite se humilating two clever girls into complete fools to a sensitive child as to be given a where domestic work is concerned. job of work and then to have it

Now, I'm glad to say, Margaret is matched away on the score of in-

morried and Juán has a little flat of her own.

"How those two competence,

helpless without When Joan found that her school girls manage

mo I really "conce/ve," Can't fellows were allowed to try their yet

says their mother.

wanted to follow suit. After a good

are learning to manage, deal of persuasion her mother .icl her try, but she stood over her all the time, criticising more than in- structing.

CHE in one of those treinend- Table or standard langs may be

I day gemes when your head

ously emeient women with included in a room where reading or sewing is to be done. The only throat is parched

aches and feels dried up inside, your energy enough for six. ut she can alternative,

and your limbs never understand that efficiency is If this method is not

feel like lead, I'm afraid the germs not an instinct born in us, that it adopted is to Increase the

general

has to be cultivated and trained. Illumination beyond that which would otherwise be necessary.

efforts. Badly

unimaginative to teach her girls the positioned lights in bed-

Never mind, go to bed with the things she herself has learnt by long rooms will be a constant source of

#ice old-fashioned irritation. A lamp must be correct-aspirin, hot lemon and whisky and

comforts of experance, iy placed over the dressingtable, or a snug hot-water httle and reflect adequate lighting Eccured

have defeated my advice and your She has been too impatient and too hands at cookery in their homes sheet manage they do, or rather they

top

REMEMBER how, when Margaret was a child, her

by optimistically that you won't have

a tubular fitting on the edge of such a bad one as you did last year. mother gave her the task of enamel-

A light placed in

the mirror itself.

the best position for reading in bed

is essential. Although adequate for

this purpose, a lamp takes up

valuable

ace that is extremely valentine Are People Too Friendly?

the case of nesa, when

up is required for a truy and other

Are

items. This point should be borneNCE a week, on an average, you down is front of a bright fire, start in mind.

eau read that man is a gm to read a book, and as likely as not, Lamps fited inside cupboards will Barious animal. The Chinese, who so soon you

as

comfortably save groplag in the dark. They can would probably appreciate a little settled, some member of the house- be so arranged as to switch on and lonelineig, at the moment, put it in hold will start an argument, or a off with the opening and closing of more picturesque form. They have wandering, and apparently, homeless the door, or, if no lighting paint is saying that he who loves solitude rient comes to see how you ave available, an effective plan is to have is either a beast or a god.

getting on. a self-contained inrap hanging on a Thus are selence and philosophy book.

Of course, if you are skilled, you runged on the side of all chatterers, will manage to keep one eye on Interrupters, and boros, against all whatever you art reading and seekers of peace and quiet."

answer their questions without much To want to be alone is regarded as effort, since the talk on such been- unnatural, and signifying batred of slums is generally faluous. one's fellows. Yet more denotes a desire to wrestle with the No Defence

stops pain

in 3 seconds

CORNS

K. 5.

aro killed and loosened with just one applica- tion of Geta.It. A drop or two ends the torture of throbbing corns. A fowboys later you can lift off'ilie'corn ==1001 and all.

GETS-IT

Makon you forget corns.

40

olten

Poor Joan was too bewildered and nervous to produce anything but a

But in the process they have both made many expensive and distress- ing mistakes which they might have been spared if only their mother had trained them with a little more patience and a little more

under- landing.

Cleaning Hints

WRITE OF light coloured satin one chairs if applied with a damp shors can be cleaned effectively brush, When dry, rub off with a with spirits of wine, if rubbed on the dry brush to remove the particles. way of the fabric with a piece of Bull, brass can be rapidly cleaned เอ เม.

with mixture of vinegar and salt. To clean a white or light felt hat, Leave for a few minutes, then wash rub in plenty of carbonate of off with warm water, dry well und

magnesis, leave for 24 hours and polish in the ordinary way. then brush well.

After cleaning the steel parts of

with

If the handles of knives become the J38 cooker, or boller, yellow sonk them in peroxide for encry paper, rub them with a soft four hours, and then pince out of elatis dipped in olive oil for it will doors in the sum

keep then bright for a considerable

mixture of methylated spirits and Black spots on silver will yield to

three hours, wash off in really hot antonio. Rub well in and, after

compęsuds,

Fancy candles that have become period. oiled may be safely washed in cool soapy water and dried on a muff towel, but do not leave them to

In the water. To thoroughly clean the bag of a vaccuu cleaner, empty it first, and is excellent for scouring cement or A mixture of sand and gården soll then put a good handful of damp tea stone steps for it will remove almost leaves inside and shake well. The any stain. dust

will adhering to the sides of the bag will cling to the tea leaves, and

me away with them.

clossword puzzle, or listen to the What defence Is there against the wireless without being disturbed by person who thinks that conversation remarks about the laundry bill: Or shout the relative merits of a fim

long perhaps even 11

significs a wish for scen months, or even years, age is quiet and undisturbed winks more important than the book you Harinless desires, all of them, yet have in your hand? None. It seems, how seldom enn they be realised, for there are people who appear to Real loneliness, strangely enough, think that anyone doing something ean more often be achieved in a quietly is in need of gingering up railway carriage than anywhere Into

state of constant chatter. else, even in a carriage full of Worse they attribute the success of peuple, so long as they keep their their plans to their, ability to "get peace. The British have a reputa- on with tion for hating to share a railway

people." There is then no defence short of compartment with anyone else, yet a Bat refusal to talk or an equally it is hardly noticeable that their pre- surprisbig request for silence. And ference for their own company ex- that way it is easy to acquire a re- tends beyond the fastness of their putation as a snob or a boor. So the compartments

Incessant Chétievers,

འདིང་བར་བཅས་པ་ཟ་ཡི་ཡམ་ནང་གི་ཨ་ཙ་ར་ན་ག་ག་ ཀཀཱབྷཡཱལཱཡཏི

lover of silence has either to endure social: eclipse or compromise with the falkers.

The vidinfors pt seclusion ure not

Scientists say that this is a mess- cool to members, of om sex minded age and that privacy will be | Garrulity, is not "cobibied to the Kradually destroyed. However that weaker sex with the stronger, vera) may be, I run sympathise with Miss chords. Sitong mag-enn be as

Greta Garbo, who, so far as I am cessant chatterers is the most fluffy was the only notable modern Inciden.

perzonality to signify in. forthright Circumstances conspiro ngainst the terms her desire to be alonet true seeker after pliness. Sit

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rome

To removate a feather cushion, rub over with a damp cloth and allow to dry. Then apply to the worn parts with a soft clul, the white of an

G. G. T.

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egg beaten to a stiff froth. After LIVER BILE

wards polish with a little linseed oil to make them. less noticeable.

Faded matting can be freshened again by scrubbing it with a really strong solution of kitchen salt and water.

Carpets can be kept clean and their colours bright, if they are swept occasionally with a broom dipped in hot water to which, tur- pentine has been added:

Linoleum can be cleaned and pre- served by regularly rubbing on equal parts of olive oil and paraffin.

Oatmeal is excellent for cleaning

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