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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Beauty Bureau

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feeling stiff?

ONE result of nervous strain

is to feel very "tight" and

congested in the head and shoulders. This is because in

Here are general problems for which useful answers have been worked out.

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trouble with your hair?

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trouble with your hands?

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December 13, 1938.

Household Mending

SOME "SHORT CUTS"

RECORDS FOR THE CHILDREN

on

COLUMBIA AND REX

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Stories of Christopher Robin

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(Stories and Songs).

PEPAIRS to the household linen, 9130)

cushions, carpets, and curtains 0176 are usually wearying tasks, so here are some short cuts designed to effect

9177 quicker and better mending.

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Careless people will ignore the tapes on towels provided for ioar hopks, and long, jagged tears the frequent result, instead of try- ing to repair the rfp by hard, tack loosely together, without overlapping, and place in the sewing machine. Then sew backwards and forwards and up and down with strong thread. The resultant darn will hardly show and will be extremely firm.

The machine is useful agein for repairing lace or net curtains. Cut out a piece of paper and pln under-

trouble with neath the tear, drawing the two

your face?

MOST women suffer sooner or Inter from trouble with their face. good

Either the Ince Is to protect their not beautiful enough, or the skin the hands from retiness and possible is coarse, or it gets flaky, or is

moments of stress one tends to HAIR refects more quickly NOW is the time for all

nerve centres nt the back

women

edges of lace togeler, Sew In the same way as above, afterwards re- moving the paper. This method Is also useful for table linen.

Never throw away old sheets and

pillowcases, but retain the good parts for patching. To make these patches in worn sheets, cut away the frayed edge of the tear and place the new material over so as to overlap at least two inches on the right side.

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in the edges on both sides and machine or hem.

Plain carpets which have become not necessarily

bit shiny can have the faded parts removed worn (most commonly at the hearth) That and edges drawn together to make a most smaller, but good looking carpet. It

is done in the following manner;-

greasy if it gets a round the nose and chin. is a condition normal to and faces.

hold the head very stiffly than anything else und the blood cannot flow physical and mental condition. chilblains. Mast women freely up the spine to the If you are tired, ill, worried or

pny too red, or too pale. more attention to their face than their hands, yet every time

Your skin is of the neck. The result is n bored, your hair will be, too. So you do anything to your face headuchy feeling, stiff neck and begin by improving your health you should spare a thought for even rhoumatic paina.

As a matter of fact, it has and spirits, and go on by paying the poor old paws, which, after been found that people who keep a little daily attention to your tear than the face, and yet are

all, have even more wear their neck and shoulders very hair and scalp.

just as much in evidence. supppsle seldom Huffer rheumatic congestion. Of course, this goes for the whole of the body; if it is kept generally, supple and well limbered up. it!

from

is far less likely to be prone to) rheumatic complaints.

Needlework

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Coal Economy

Now draw out all the threads until

of

The knots are tied underneath and ends can be tell loose or cut off. This method of repairing carpets is no excellent one for getting longer ser- vice, and will a little practice enn be effected very rapidly,

Cut out a strip to the necessary As many women do not know with running the full length of the carpet. Do not cut right to the what a greasy skin is, here is "good" part, but leave about four or simple test to find out whether five inches of the faded patch on

either side.. or no you have a greasy akin. Wash your face, and go to bed without putting anything on it. you have two matching fringes some

five inches in length. Tie ench In the morning wipe it with these opposite threads together in a piece of tissue paper. If there strong knot, at the same time bring- E must-have fires, but there are briquettes, or it can be well wetted are greasy marks on the paper. that no join is discernible.

ing both pirces of carpet together so various way in which wood and and mixed with water and thrown on then your skin is naturally! coal can be appreciably saved, the back It is worth while, for one thing, to cinders.

an open fire in place of If made wet enough, itgrensy. purchase for about a dollar, the "cakes" beautifully, and will keep Arebricks which are shaped to fit the a fire in for several hours if one is backs of any kind of grale, and they going

out and docs nol wish really do save a tremendous amount unnecessary waste to be going on at coal

in six months without during one's absence. In this case, diminishing the heat given out by two or three inrge shovelfula of it! W

THEN mending the fingertips of the fres

can be safely put on top of an al- gloves, drop a thimble into the A good many people can save ready well burning fire, and inger. This provides a Arm

upon sur-money riding the ashes each morn arrival home a cheerful blaze can bu face on which to work.

ing, too. if they have not bothered to obtained quickly by merely poking American cloth, now widely used do

this in previous years. Ad- un. for curtains, table coverings, and mittedly it is n dusty and unpleasant shovel when putting it on.

Put it down hard with theESE are particularly attractive to fancy dress, is apt to silek to the job when done in the ordinary way,

small children without machine, trend, Tissue paper placed but I can be done with dis- Wood Unnecessary

rich enough to upset them. on both sides, of the material will comfort at oli if the cinder-sifter is prevent this.

riddled over an open dustbin and a When a tiny crochet edge is to be large piece of old sheeting laid over or table the sifter an one riddles the cinders.

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sewing Reduce the Bill thick needic,

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Cakes

being

It is annoying when # good cushion-cover has had a hole burned in it by a cigarette. The only way to remedy this is to remove, patch, embroider in silk or wool to the general design, thus cover-

match

ing up the join. In the case of plain

or

material it can of course be reversed so that the repair is not so obvious, Wood can be saved by using paper flour and 2 ozs of eastor sugar,

Rub 3% ozs of butter into 3 ozs of If you fit all your cushion covers with ghters. If greasy papers in which an egg yolk to bind, and knead well. removed

Use zip fasteners they will be very easily

either for washing butter, bacon, suct and so on are

Then divide the dough into two parts, mending. wrapped, are saved

and placed working into one part a tablespoons beneath the paper lighters, no wood ful of cocon. Roll out both

O. L is necessary at nii.

Into squares of equal size 4 of an

and

added to handkerchiefs napkins, the neatest effect obtained with the aid of a machine. Use unthreaded, and adjust the tension The sheeting, if large enough, will to make the cutchen far apart. This naturally fall over the outer sides of lighters is to roll separately

The quickest way to make the inch thick. Place the cocos piece on greased tin in a moderate oven for provides the holes rendy" for thethe dustlin

that all dust 50

top of the plain, and roll up firmly 15 minutes, or until lightly browned. crochet hook.

automatically prevented from rish quickly several sheets of newspapers like a swiss roll.

These cakes should be made it If embroidered work has become into one's face or going anywhere should be done as tightly as possible, from corner to corner. The rolling

possible on the same day as they are puckered, lay some clean blotting else but into the bin.

Cut the roll into 14-inch slices, to be eaten. paper on the ironing board and Cinders saved in this way Then flatten the roll with the hands using a sharp knife, and bake in a

W. B. Can and tie it up into a stiff double knot Lay the reduce the coal bill by a quarter, with the ends well tucked in. dampen it evenly all over. material on this, stretching It to its quite apart from other saving original shape and securing it in methods adopted. They do not With practice, dozens of these position with pins. Cover the choke 11 fire if discriminatingly lighters can be made in a spare ten puckered part with a handkerchief mixed with the coal, and can always minutes. About five UT six are and rest on this a large Iron. Leave be thrown wholesale on the back of needed for each fire, when no wood all night, and in the morning the an open grate where Intense heat is used. Place small pieces of coal puckers will have disappeared. and flame are not so much needed pit top. unmixed with slack, and

To draw the threads from linen as towards the front.

bright Bre will be obtained almost as before hemstitching so that they will The slack, too, can always be quickly as with wood. not, anap, take a clamp rag and dab utilised. It Can be made into along the thread to be removed, I will then pull out quite easily.

Strengthening Shoulder Straps

Lingerie often tears where shoulder straps join the luce. To prevent this, make n buttonhole- olitched loop on the hem, just below the lace, and long enough for the ribbon to pass through. Slip the ribbon through, make n Uny em over the loop, and then catch the ribbon at the top of the lace cdging at each side only,

To make a beach bag combined. with bathing towel, sutch A lew short lengths of tape opposite cach other at intervals along the skles of a towel.

When this has served its. purpose after the dip, the bathing kit can be slowed inside and the sldes tied together to form a bag. A bone handle at either end would facilitate carrying.

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Old pillow-slips, cut through the centre, make useful covers for the backs of camp chairs, Finish the cut edge with a hem of blanket- stitch and, if desired, embroider simple spray on the cover in silk or wool. A small cushion can be held in place if tucked under this cover, and it will add greatly to the com- fort of the "lounger."

When mending holes in table linen, reinforce with a small piece of net. Starch and Iron this, while B1}}} damp, over the worn part of the linen. Then darn through the mesh of the net, following its lines, on to the linen. This makes a very neat and secure job..

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