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'HATEVER should I have dono without your ad- vice, Nurse?" said a grateful parent recently to a motherly- faced Health Visitor at a busy toddlers' clinic. "I was in despair about Baby's habit of sucking her pram strap, but she has dropped it entirely now."

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Nurse laughed. "Certainly all the problems that are brought to me do not refer to bodily all- menta," she said to me. And these troublesome habits in child- Field to a little wise hood generally treatment if only the mother has time and patience to carry out the suggestions that experience has taught me to make.

Actually, all that was the matter with that special baby, was that she wan terribly worried with cutting back teeth, and she found the strap helpful as a teething-tool.

Teething Tip

*In that special case we found 11 good plan to sit little Jean in her play pon with a thick plecs of cooked meat anly attached to a string round ber wrist, and to let her suck away at it She enjoyed the taste and found the novel teething-tool just hard enough to gnaw on with inflamed gume without causing pain."

This was a "tip" which I have tried out myself with many bables who were fretty rough teething, and it works exceedingly well.

Provided the meat is carved in the length of the fibres, and

not across them. there to

little or no danger of the

child separating a large

picee, und the

Juices

which are extracted by stendy chewing are most nourishing.

Spoon Time

Then there is the habil practised by hundreds of babics of spitting back food when the first st tempts are made to feed them with a spoon.

A little calm thought will show that this is a perfectly natural reaction to the sensation of strangu in baby's substances mouth and nothing is to be gained by getting either Impatient with the 'of fender or by giring up in despair and substituting bottle-foeding,

Baby

does

his daily

dozen

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER

BABY

I am a firm believer in " the method of weaning early on to cup and spoon feeds, seeing that this method of feeding is much more easily required if it is introduced early in life,

"Playing Up"

Patient perseverance almost invari ably wins the day, but if weaning has been delayed and the mother gets dis heartened over her failure, it is best lo.hand baby over to a stranger at meal-times.

Bables are very "knowing" and realise quite early that there can be no "playing up" with nurse or Auntie

Black Magic

Black magle that casts a spell of loveliness is revealed in this girl's low but gown of silk taf- feta and velvet. She wears' a double strand pocklace of R-. quamarines and carries a black fan for sheer charm.

THE "TELEGRAPH” will send a Staff Photographer to all events of públic interest. Requests should be addressed

to the Pictorial Editor. 780 V4 MA

-in training

or tirannie, however successful they may have been where mother was cor cerned.

Once good habits have been so- quired it only remains for mother to continue to enforce them.

This should never be regarded as a Bhe real failure on mother's part. has probably been too anxious to see the child take a full meal and this has temporarily affected her enim and her methods of teaching.

Nail-Biter

"How shall I cure my child of the unsightly habit of nail-biting?" This in a query which I receive constantly, and the writer goes on to explain that bitter aloes and similar unpleasant tastes have only proved temporary de- terrents: and that once the child ber came accustomed to the taste the habit persisted as badly ns ever,

The cure really lien deeper, for the nail-biter is almost invariably highly strung and excitabic in temperament

and seems to find a soothing outlet in the habit of biting the nails often almost down to the quick.

The disturbed nerves must therefore receive treatment in the first place. The daily routine should be revised so that it is made perfectly regular and free from disturbance, and time should be given for extra rest; or an earlier bedilme should be arranged.

Meals should be strengthening but without any tax on the digestion, and the parent must insist on regular habit of cilmination.

I shall be very pleased to send par- ticulars of a simple tonle which I have found excellent for highly-strung chil dren if you are interested.

The nails themselves should be pared very short, then Aled so that there are no ragged edges, and older children should wear gloves when reading or when sitting in a cinema.

On more than one occasion I havC seen children who have been trying hard to get their nails right again come back from a visit to the pictures

For Our Junior Readers

IME for bed, old watryhead -- "Yes, but first let me find a place where I won't be dis- turbed for five months." That's not so easy, thinks horny-akinned, golden-eyed Mr. Toad.

He's been stung hard these last fes weeks, storing fat into bia speckled body to tide him over his great shore through the winter.

His greed. Indeed, is staggering. Spiders, wasps. Enails (shell and all). six-inch long earthworms and beetles ail vanlah into his toothless mouth.

With a flick of his long tongue (it shoots from its socket in a split Lecond) he can pick A caterpillar off a leaf, lying three inches away from him, with maglo ease. Hey, presto- and it's gonel

But now, plump and portly, he's seri- ously worried about his bedroom.

Goes Underground

Shall it be under a moss-covered stine, down a stuffy rat hole, beneath a pile of bricks, inside a rotting stump. or shall be find a patch of soft earth and dig his own bed? Ah, that's a tip- top notion!

Eu, by moonlight (sluggish by day. nearly. all toads prefer to cat, drink and ramble by night), he crawla to a shady patch of garden waste ground. Puming a bit, he begins to dig, dig, dig. Using his hind legs as shovels, be slowly buries himself, and if the soil In not too clayey or heavy, digs himself

THREE BRITONS SHOT

When Sepoy Runs Amuck On Frontier Post

Peshawar, Nov. 24. Three British officers were killed короу and three wounded when a sentry ran amuck last night at a military station on the North-west frontier.

The officers belonged to the fourth battalion, second Punjabi Regiment. Among those killed was the com manding officer who was shot in his tent-Reuter Bulletin.

Two Indian soldiers were killed,

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After the sepoy brandishing rife, had shot dead Lieut-Col. E. H. Gray, the others rushed from their fonts and were attacked. Captain R. Tyndall and Lt. C. W. Roderick vieg killed and Major E. Curnow and A. N. Rea among the wounded.

The sepoy was shot dead-Router,

JURSE

BABY CHAIN

CLINIC

with the work of works undone because in the excitement of watching, the scroen, they have forgotten their good resolves and have sat steadily gnawing their fingertips)

I have also ist an excellent treat- ment for the aure of this habit, and shall be glad to pass on the informa tion if destruci.

It has led to a permanent curo in the vast majority of cases for, which I Have recommended it, and is equally suitable for children and adults

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Many youngsters retain uncilable habits of hygiena lang after average age for their conquest,

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I shall be glad to write privately in detail if baby is causing worry on th account. I also have charts for both day and night training which I shall be pleased to send to any reader who cares to welte to me on this matter,

I am giving below Tellers from readers can- cerning the training of children, and my replies

Left-Handed

My little girl of jour appears to be left-handed. What can I do to correct this?-Dunstable.

ABSOLUTELY nothing.

Doctors are agreed that to interfere in cases of this kind simply upsets certain nerve tracts from the brain and is likely to tead to serious disorders such as stammering and earths.

Let your little girl use her left hand quite happily: there i nothing really ungainly in this habit once the child has proper control of the muscles; it is only fashion that keeps most people to using the right hand mainly.

Suck oThumb

Nothing will break my Julie girl of three of the habit of thumb-sucking- Gregatones,

ERE again I do not advise undue interference with this habit. She will probably outgrow it entirely when she goes to school and when other children remind her frequently of what she is doing.

To tie up the hand or to make her wear a stiff glove would probably lead to considerable nervous distress.

If her hands are kept occupied with playthings or simple constructive craft for several hours daily she will prob ably forget about her thumb more I suggest a doil or soft toy quickly, to cuddle when she goes to bed at night.

MR. TOAD'S BED-TIME STORY

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underground to a depth of 18 inches. These labours may inke him two or three days or a week. But, at last, he stops, considers he's gone for enough, and with a sigh relaxes all his

muscles and pops into dreamland.

While ho sleeps, ho doesn't mind being frozen slikt His oddly made body thaws readily. Nor will he awaken if someone_paps a słona oyET his head, or the gardener, heaves a mound of earth or rubbish over him He still breathes, sufficiently for his modest needs, through the soll's potes. Despite their power of living without fresh air, toads just don't live for hun. dreds of years or even hundreds of days embedded inside a solid piece of coal or amber.

seela who come sarking shelter in the same hidey hole,

Truly. Mr. Toad, so far from being loathsome and spiteful, is a most blameless old gentlemaan, who deserves all praise, from gardeners. for his anti- killing and Insect eating ways.

F

ARS

the

Disbelieve those - load rock" stories. They're mytha na silly as the idea. which our ancestors had. that tends had the "evil eye "--that is, the mythical power to east spells on men and beasia.

Garden Guest

When liny, a toad sometimes erwis into a rock chink, and grown too big to escape, but manages to live adi la

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Laundering

THE success with which not cur- talu may be washed depends to no small extent on how they have too often they been made. All shrink. That is why it pays, when they are being made, to baste in an Inconspicuous tuck at the top. It i easier to take this out than to chan hems before or after laun-

they

.

After the curtains are taken down should be abaken to remove the loose dust. Then their dimensions should be measured to forestall doubt about the right length later. Next the rucks should be taken out und any holes or tears mended.

If the curtains are of white linen or cotton. they shot

should be put to sonk In lukewarm soapy water. This preliminary treatment loosens the dirt, but it cannot be used with calcured window hangings or white ones with coloured trimmings, be- cause the colour may run.-

Lukewarm wash and rinse waters should also be used and rich suda

to a

Bre always desirable. This cleans better and more rapidly. First add your favourite kind of laundry hot soup a small quantity of water, When

dissolved thoroughly, add more water to make tite desired amount and to obtain' the correct temperature.

it

HAS

Very thin curtains may be soused up and down in the soapy water by hand. At least two rinses in clear tepid water are desirable; Uree will harm. (Rings, by the way, do no should be removed from the fingers! and fingernails smoothly fled, for) these are often the cause of broken threads and runs in fine curtain fabrics.)

All cotton net curtains are im- proved by the use of a thin starch

Imparts

folsh solution. This

St which resembles that of new fabrics. From one or two teaspoons of starch to a quart of water will give a satis- fuctory result.

When curtains are placed on the Line

to dry they should be hung straight across and the corners should be squared. If they are hung out of doors it is important that there should be little wind.

Same housekeepers like to hang at the window to dry. A curtains brass curtain rod is inserted in the hem at the bottom to furnish enough | nam weight to hold the curtain straight. Curtains dried by this method will be more attractive if pressed with p wart iron when dry. Hints on Ironing

Ironing curtains is a dreaded task In many households. You must have patience to achieve the results you desire, Nets, laces and thin rayons may be dried an stretchers witich measure slightly less than the cur tnins

before washing. When they

may the edges have are dry, some of

"looped" appearance, as the fabele is stretched a little more in the places where it is attached to the frame. This condition may be over- come with a warm but not hot iron. You pull and press the curtain until the edges are even.

When ironing net curtains have them slightly damp all over. This is best accomplished by sprinkling them thoroughly and allowing them to stand tightly rolled for thirty minutes or more. It takes time shake out every curtain, to square its corners and put it on the Iron- 'ng-board straight, but it

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iron

Then

parallel with the scivedge edges. There is a certain knuck in handling loosely woven fabrics which иге easily pulled out of

shape

with the Iron. Pull and pat the curtain with your hands as you iron to make it take the shape and size desired. of Always compare the measurement the ironed curtain with that of its measurement before washing. Some- times a little tuck needs to be taken before it is hung.

"Jullet Banford

Wool Odds

And Ends

HOW TO MAKE USE OF THEM

IF you do a lot of initting or crochet In wool often quite a number of mall balls get left, and usually there is not enough of any one colour to complete a garment.

These odds and ends can be put o good use, and many of the Ideas Selow make an easy and pleasant needlework task.

There

Is now a vogue for 'em- broldered knitted Harments. Few eople realise how effective a little *mbroidery is on knitting. It much easier to do a little embroidery on a knitted garment when inished han to work in different colours during the making, and it uses up small pieces of wool. Of course, this only applies to the plainer tacy patterns do

mitted gang

int_need.

Many simple embroidery stitches an be used for embellishing either home-made or bought knlited gar- ments: Jazy-dairy, chain-stitch, "eather-stitch, cross-stitch and out- 'ine-stitch, to mention just a few.

"Tell me,

doctor

Are you sure? I can't believe that all this should have started with a tiny cut on the finger! There must be some way of prevent- Ing such awful results... Tell me, what ought I to do?'

The smallest cut or scratch is enough for the germs of blood-poisoning to enter. There is only one way to prevent their invasion: they must be killed-at once. 'Dettal,' the Modern Antiseptic, can be applied im- mediately. Dettol is gentle and tender on human tissues, non-poisonous and non-staining to the skin- yet death to germs. Your chemist has * Bettol

'DETTOL

TRADE MARE ·

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THE MODERN

ANTISEPTIC

DETTOL

Reckitt & Sons Ltd. (Pharmaceutical Dept.), Hull and London, England. Agent-Imperial Chemical Industries (China) Ltd, Hong Kong

A beautiful face and a carriage of grace Are assets as everyone knows. But the girl who will

win

By the length of a

shin

Is the girl who wears "Mir-O-Kleer”. hose.

KAYSER

HOSIERY-UNDERWEARG

SIBERIAN FURRIERS

(of Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai)

FURCOATS-CAPES JACKETS

Orders and alterations by our experts

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A pattern carried out in bold off children's jumpers and coats, and square, or oblong. They ross-stitch in wools makes a preity gay little order to a jumper. Initials and Flowers

ba but

crocheted buttons for knitted in garter or moss-stitch, practically any outside garment. garter-stitch is botter because the

Scarves can be finished off with a work los so. flat... ringe of contrasting colours, and A colour scheme can be used it Embroidered-initials or a posy of girdles and berets can be decorated your remnants of wool allow you to have one, but a riot of colour looks Howers on the front of Jumpers, a with woollen tassels,

stitci, etc.

can be made of crochet A border if desired Patchwork knitting can be

iny, chicken, gay butterfly or bird Pompons are ideal for tiny child- effective as a whole The joining of or the front of children's dresses, cen's clothing, either on caps or at patches can be carried out in multa= and simple dealgns on the corners the end of a crochet-chain to make Lle wool, by leather-stitching, cross- of collars and on pockets are offer a waist or back string, tive. Children love a few bright A woollen fringe, or a knitted colours worked into their frocks and edging for curtains: another Idea.

趣 Perhaps the easiest way to use up used for cot, rugs, pram blankets, Remnants of wool make pretty wool remnants is to do some patch- cushion-covers, work-bags and hot-

are water bottle covers. fancy tops for socks and stockings, work knitting All patches

Edith Geo Valnty, collars and cuffs for finishing better knitted the same size, either.

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