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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 7, 1939.

* SLEEPY ANSWERS

7 may come as a surprise to some to realise that John Mil- ton, the great English poet, wrote a few lines in "Paradise Lost on one of the simplest rules- of modern hygiene.

Be fully understood that the restful quality of sleep depends largely on the milure of our food, but how grace- fully he gives tongue to that pinin fact!

.Now Morn ... advancing, sow'd

the earth with orient pearl, When Adant wuk'd, so custom'd;

for his'sterp

Was uery light, from pure dipc3-

tion bred.

I leave the quotation with you. trusting that you will Fed to it

that meals are

no arranged for yourhelves and your

familles

that there may be no feeling of heaviness and weariness when the time for ris Ing comes round. To-day I 31177 dealing with several lettera contalaing PTO- blems

which

have to do with

sleep and bed-time, and I trust that

they will prove of interest to readera generally.

Cuddly Toys

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For the past three weeks my little girl has been sleeping by herself. but she keeps calling for us in the evening.

Do not advise you to take her back Into your own room as it is much more healthy to have her sleeping by herself, but it would be wise to pro vide some plaything that she could cuddle to sleep every night.

She would find great comfort in A soft toy or velvet doll which would fit anugly in her small arms. If you enter Into the importance of keeping "Dolly" or "Teddy or "Bunny warm and well-mothered, she will soon take to this new bed-companion.

Heavy Heads

Our two children have now reached

the secondary school stage. They are

so heary the mornings that it s

difficult to waken them.--

Our Nursery Expert

discusses

BEDTIME PROBLEMS

Baby goes to sleep happily with her doll.

I SUSPECT too laten bedtime in the log a tired horse" by studying late at

first place, I know that homework is bound to interfere with the children's getting autcient sleep, but it is often better for them to rise an hour earlier and study with a clear brain than to

MIDGE: It's a Pleasure ¡EASTER

SALE

"I think I choose shopping

for my hobby when I grote up."

night.

Try letting the children work from tea-timo immediately they return from school) until 7 pm. Then give them a light nourishing supper, turn them out for an hour's play on sun- mer evenings, or have a famliy game on winter evenings, and send them off to bed by 8.30 p.m. at the latest.

Call them with a hot drink at 4.45 am, to Añlsh any homework and see to it that they have a really sus taining break""st before they set out to school.

Late Nights

I have trouble getting my three children in from play to go to bed, and they are often up until 9 p.m. To make up, I keep them in bed late on Saturday mornings.-

Justifying your position as parent. If you feel, as I do, that the six-year-old should be in bed by 7 p.m., and the ten and eleven-year-olds by 8 p.m., then sce that your wishes are carried out.

Unless there is kind but firm discl pline your children will surely suffer both in health and in character.

When Baby Cries

By baby is bottle-fed but lately she has taken to crying during the late evening and at night. Sometimes the sleeps again after à bottle of sugar and teater, but often i have to give an citra feed-

I SHOULD like to see bottles of

augar-water put on the polsens-list, for they are the cause, of a tremen- dous amount of wind and distension. When babies are thirsty they should be given several teaspoonfuls of cool,

THIS habit of keeping the children-boiled water and this should also be

in bed on Saturday mornings while mother gets on with the clean- ing finds a good deal of favour in some quarters, but I cannot approve of it.

Bleep cannot be made up in this way. and the seeds of the bad habit of lying abed to all hours are being sown.

Be firm with your family. thereby

done regularly before each feed, but it should be plain water with no sugar added

Your eight-months-old baby should be spoon-fed with semi-solids now and off bottles completely for her prezant feeding is not satisfying her.

Sleep Walker

Diversion Becomes Passion Fruit Juice My small son has developed the

Hobby

Next

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tedious hours of The United States, the land of convalescence four years ago, Mrs. freely imbibed fruit juices, is to have Esther Robinson began making bath-one more juice added to its diet if robes from

(urkish towels. Since the plans of J. M. Drope of Toromo, then she has made thousands of robes, materialize. He is planning on the including one for President Roose-exportation to the United States on velt and five for the Dionne quintu- an extensive scale of passion fruit plcts.

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Juice.

habit of wolking in his sleep. How can

protect him against injury?

to

FROM what you tell me, I feel that the child has had some shock, though apparently it has not occurred at home. Do not try to force his confidence, but encotirage him to talk to you about his interest and his play- mates, in the hope that he will come out with the trouble some day.

Meanwhile, give a light supper about

Enamelling a bath

OTS of people have iron baths which need re-enamel- ling, but they dodge the job as long as possible because they're afraid they can't make a success of it. Well, I'm going to give you a tip or two about the job which I hope will make it more simple.

First you ought to remove all the old enamel. You can use a patent chemical solvent, or you. can make up your own. Here's how. Buy half- a-dozen lumps of potash at the chemist's, each about as big as an orange. Break them up small and dissolve them in boiling water, and then add enough lime to make the mixture into a thick paste. Spread this paste, over the bath and in a short time it will soften the enamel so that it can be scraped off with an old knife.

After removing the engine wagh out the bath with a mixture of two parts water to one of vinegar. Next scour the surface with waterproof Sabrasive paper,

The first two conts should be of thin aluminium paint. Brush this on with brond, long strokes, as it dries quick- You should buy a good 2in. flat brush and a small "tch" for cutting In round the taps and

plug...

WHEN the surface is hard, smooth should be stirred thoroughly in the lightly with abrasive paper, tin, and if it is too thick for com- and do : llits between – each subno- fortable uso don't try to thin It quent cont. Now buy the best eins- stand it in a basin of warm water. --- Llc; bath-ename) you can and enough Finally, after the enamel is quite of the undercoat recommended by hard, nit the bath with cold water the makers to give the bath two and leave it for a week.. Take the: coats

'first hot bath yourself, and if you ""stick" 'and·liavo to be freed with a

- Allow 24-hours--Beliveon-each blowinmp you haven't followed the

coal-The final cont of enamel instructions!

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one hour before bed time. If you have sash-windows nail down the lower Baah some day when he is out, and drive two nails into the outside of the bottom-Bakla so that the top ash enn only be lowered to a certalis extent.

Tls will prevent his opening the window, nud climbing over at any Limo in his sleep, but will also allow of plenty of ventilation. Casement win- dows can be protected with expen- alve bars, and I shall be pleased to send you particulars.

A niedium-sized bell fastened to the door handle will warn you If he makes an attempt to leave his room. Never wake him if you find him- sleep-walk. ing. Lead hint quietly back to bed and Luck him up warmly. Keep him free from exciivinent and over-fatigue.

Extra Pillows

I am expecting my first baby in June. And ti dicult to sleep and often have cramp...

Do not be alarmed at these symp

toms, seeing that you are other- wise in good health. The cramp which is due to pressure, will improve during the last few weeks. Meanwhile I suggest a 'single bed with a fairly irm mattress and four pillows, one of them fairly hard.

Place the hard one standing on ita Aldo against the bed-head and place The next two end-up to make an fiver- ted "V" behind you. Then pull up the fourth pillow under your knees so

as to keep them slightly flexed.

A little pillow to fit in the small of your back should perfect your comfort if you have one to spare. Hare & warm drink (not whole milk; after you have gone to bed and take up something ja a thermos dinak in case you are wakeful.

Don't try to force yourself to sleep. If you feel wakeful read a ligilt book or knit until you feel drowsy.

Spoilt Boy

My son, aged three, is terribly spolit, but my toile takes his part when I at tempt to correct ~~~~

PERHAPS you have corrected alin mostly when his conduct caused you personal discomfort; try another plan now and pull him up when he is behaving badly towards his mother.

That form of diplomacy is likely to work well and should lead to a team spirit between the parents.

Later you can talk the whole matter over with her when Sonule has gone to bed, but avolit any tendency on the part of the boy to think that he can Tely on his mother to take his side.

A Home For

Shoes

FASHION NOTES

Fabrics are more feminine, soft, and uttering, than they have been for any season, nud the colours are Juvely enough to tempt the most dis- crimlauting of shoppers.

Even the styles or models are more versatile. If you are not very slim the snart flaring styles are useful.

Sleeves no longer are great. unrestrained masses around the shoulders, but are back to sane. normal, silhouettes, having been reduced to smooth out-

ines.

A Father's Birthday

ALTHOUGH it is my birthday to-

morrow: although I a long past the age thoroughly to enjoy birthdays. I am slightly uneasy. would willingly allow it to slip past without a sigh; but na it means more to the rest of my family than it does to me, I shall not be allowed to for- get it.

I have and I'm not sure whether to be glad or sorry about this a family with tong memories. That is gratifying, of course, to a father; complimentary, naturally, to n husband; but, well, apart from tempus fugit and all that. I would be far more easy In my mind if my birthday were more honoured in the breach than the observance.

My birthday is expensive. Lost year it cost

It cost me the price of redecorat- ing the lounge (my wife); a safety razor (my son-" and if you can't use it. Dad, I can take It over. It's just the thing I'll be needing soon"): a photograph (of my daughter. Very charming, but I had to pay for six of them, though where the others went to; and a party which I had to throw for myself at night.

A Nervous Entry

To-morrow, then, I shall come inte breakfast nervously. I shall try- hoping against hope-to look as though it were a day of no conse quence. I shall try to look sur prised-and pleased-when there is n.shower of "many happy returns of the day," and I shall privately hope to be let off as lightly as possi- ble.

As far as my wife is concerned, there is not much-at least, us far us a mere husband can tell-that can be done to the house this year. I might even escape with so small a thing as a hol-water bottle. But It is the way of wives to be very critical of their own home-at their husbands expense. So it might be new Ioose covers. My daughter, now. There I'm not quite 80 Bure. Speaking 19

doting father, I am certain she has every- thing she wants. But she is quite liable to say, "I'm taking you to the theatre for your present, Daddy. Won't it be lovely? But you won't mind paying for the seats mean- time-just till the end of the week, because I'm frightfully hard up, and

JO room can look really tidy Ir Me floor is littered with shoes. The shoes themselves will quickly become shabby and solled if they are left about to collect the dust.

A yard and three-quarters of crash will make an excellent shoo tidy which can be hung on the back of a 'wardrobe or cupboard door. Cut one strip a yard long and bind all round, fixing two loops to the two top corners lo hang on hooks -Safer· Ground-

screwed into the door.

Cut the remaining plece of crash into three equal pieces, turn in the edges und stitch” on to the large piece, one below the other, to make Ürec

large pockets, Divide the large pockets into smaller pockets will vertical stitching and shoes in each pocket.

Coconut For Flavouring

And of course

and say, "Not at all."

I'll smile.

My son, too. Well, here we are on safer ground. He is forthright, being as he says-neurly a man. He Blurts, having no use for finesse. He states what he needs, but a strict sentence of honesty forbids him to take something for nothing. So 1 place shall And an almost new silver- plated pencil which I shall be lucky it I can keep for a week, and shall be told without any beating about the bush that what we--he and I need is a punch-ball, to keep us in treining for next season's football.

So there it is my birthday, I'll hurry away to business, committed to buying myself presents. And on the way. I'll stop at the conist's and buy myself a pipe, os

tobac

gesture to--I'm not quite sure what My friends will grunt and nod when I rather shamefacedly fell 30 to-day; and the them that I am, married ones will smile as well as grunt, though they won't-probably say anything, and I smile back, and mentally tot up just what my birthday will cost me.

ESSICATED coconut adds a plea- sant flavour to baked, milk pud dings, such ng kago, rice, round rice, and semolhra, Sprinkle it thick- ly on top when the pudding is put into the oven and dat with butter.

The pudding will turn beautifully brown and have a "toasty" taste.

Coconut-favoured mill makes custards and junkets taste different. Pul a.pint of milk Into a double saucepan with two ounces of des- sieated coconut, let them steam to- gether for half-an-hour; then strain off the milk. It is important. If it is required for junket, that it should not come near bolling-point.

If you want a decorated cake in a hurry spread jam or Jelly over the top and sides of a plain cake, then roll it in dessicated coconut mixed with a little eastor sugár,

One drop on

ACHING CORNS relieves pain in three ... seconds! Apply Gets-It two ́or three times and the corn will peel right off. “Millions, all-over-the- world, use this faithful friend of corn-sufferers---

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And yet, thinking the matter over, enjoy the happy day as much as my I'm not sure that I don't secretly family. Anyway, they still allow me only 21 candles on the cake.

Useful Hints

I food in

you are keeping a small store of Д special cupboard against unexpected emergencies, it is a good plan to keep list of the contents of the cupboard neatly pasted inside the euphoard door,

Then any new item you buy can. be added to the list, and each ar- lele used can be struck out. In this way you can see at a glance what you have in hand-without having to search through the shelves -moving tins and packels around.

Always remember, of course, to use the food in rotation, taking what has been kept the longest first, so that nothing gets stale.

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..When knitting scarves or Jumpers It is more restful for the eyes to use needles which contrast with the colour of the wool, Le white or yellow needles for dark wool, and black needles for white or pastel shades. The stitches then stand out In bold relict.

.......... If an egg-le being used, rinse out the basin with cold water before you bent the eng then the egg will not stick to the sides and none will be wasted.

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Put a piece of lemon rind into the washing up' water, of ""fishy" dishes, It will take away the smell, bs well as soften the water

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