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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

* SLEEPY ANSWERS ☆

T may come as a surprise to somo to reallao that John MII- ton, the great English poet, wrote a fow lines in "Faradise Lost" on one of the simplest rules of modern hygiene,

Ilo fully understood that, the restful quality of sleep dependa largely on the nature of our food, but how grace- fully he gives tongue to that plain fact!

Now Morn

advancing, sota'd

the earth with orient pearl, When Adam toak'd, so custom'd;

for his sleep

Was aery light, from pure diges-

tion bred,

I leave the quotation with you.

trusting that you will oco to it

Wat meals are "20 arranged for yourselves nnd your families that there may be no feeling of heaviness and weariness when the time for ris ing comea round.

T'o-day I am dealing with saveral letters containing pro-

blems which

have to do with

sleep and bred-time, and I trust that

they will prove of interest to readers generally.

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Cuddly Toys

For the past three weeks my little

girl has been sleeping by herself, but

she keeps calling for us in the evening.

Do not hdvise you to take her bact into your own room as it is much more healthy to have her alerping by herself, but it would be wise to pro- vide some pinything that she could cuddle to sleep every night.

She would find great comfort in a soft toy or velvet doll which would N snugly in her email arms. If you enter -into the importance of keeping "Dolly" or "Teddy"

"Bunny warm and well-mothered, she will soon take to Uils new bed-companion.

Heavy Heads

Our tes children have now reached the secondary school stage. They are 50 heavy in the mornings that it to dificult to waken them...

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

MIDGE: It's EASTER

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Pleasure

I think I'll choose shopping

for my hobby when I grow up."

Diversion

Our Nursery Expert discusses

BEDTIME PROBLEMS

Baby goes to sleep happily with her doll.

nigh "flag a tired horse" by studying late at

Try letting the children work from tea-time (immediately they return from school) until 7 pm. Then give then a light nourishing supper, turn them out for an hour's play on sum- mer evenings, or have a family 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 6.46 a.m. to finish any homework and see to it that they have a really sus taining breakest 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 5 p., 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 pm, and the ten and eleven-year-olds by B p.m., then Ben 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

My baby is bottle-fed but lately she has taken to crying' during the late evening and at night. Sometimes she sleeps again after a boille of sugar and cater, but often I have to give an extra feed.-

SHOULD like to see boliles of augar-water put on the poisons-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, bolled water and this should also be

It should be plain water with na sugaṛ added

THIS habit of keeping the children

-la-bed-on--Saturday-mornings--done regularly-before-cach-feed, but while mother gets on with the clean- ing finds a good dent of favour in some quarters, but I cannot approve of it,

• Bleep cannot be made up

this way. and the seeds of the bad habit of lying abed to all hours are belog sown.

Be firm with your family, thereby

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

Becomes Passion Fruit Juice Sleep Walker

Hobby

Next

Lawrence, Mass. To whlic away tedious hours of

SYDNEY, Australiu, The United States, the land of convalescence four years ago, Mrs, freely imbibed fruit juices, is to have Father Robinson began making both one more juice added to its diet if

turitish towels,

Since the plans of 3. H. Drope of Toronto, then she has made thousands of robes, materialize. He is planning on the including one for President Roose-exportation to the United States on!

robes from

My antall son has developed the habit of walking in his sleep. How can te protect him againsi lujury?—

FROM what you tell me, I feel that though apparently it has not occurred confidence. tut encourage him to talk to you about bis interests and his play- mates, in the hope that he will come

the child has had some shock.

at home. Do not try to fores hia

vell and five for the Dionne quintu- an extensive scale of passion fruit out with the trouble some day. plett.

juice.

Meanwhile, give a light supper about

Enamelling a bath

LOTS 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 soivent, 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 n short time it will soften the enamel so that it can be scraped off with an old knife.""

“After removing the enamel, wash out the bath with a mixture of two parts water to one of vinegar. Next scour the surface with waterproof abrasive paper.

The first two coats should be of thin aluminium paint. Brush this on with broad, Isng strokes, ns, it dries quick- ly. You should buy good 2in, flat brush and a small "atch" for cutting In round the taps and plur.

WHEN the surface is hard, smooth should be stirred thoroughly. In the It lightly" with abrasive paper, in, and if it is too thick for com- and do this between each subse- fortable use don't try to thin quent cont. Now buy the beat clas- stand it in a basin of warm water. the bath: enamel, you can anti-enough Finally, after the enamel is quito of the undercoat recommended by hard, All the bath with cold water the makers to give the bath two and leave it for a week. conts.

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one hour before bed time. If you have saal-windows and down the lower sash some day when he is out, and drive two nails into the outside of the bottom sash so that the top sash can only lowered to n certain extent.

This will prevent his opening the window, and climbing over at any time in his sleep, but will also allow of plenty of ventilation. Cnnement win- dows can be protected with Inexpen sive bars, and I shall be plented to send you particulars.

A medium-nized bell fastened to the door handle will warn you'll be maken an attempt to leave his room. Never wake Jim II you find him sleep-walk- ing. Lead him quietly back to bed and tuck him up warmly. Keep him free from exellement onil over-fatigue.

Extra Pillows

I am expecting my first baby in. June. And it dificult to sleep and often have cravip.--.

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 firm mattress and four pillows, one of them fairly hard.

Place the hard one standing on its aldo against the bed-head and place the next two end-up to make an inver ted "V" behind you.

Then pull up the fourth pillow under your knees to as to keep item slightly flexed.

A little pillow to nt in the small of your back should perfect your comfort if you have one to spare. Have a warm drink (not whole milk) after you have gone to bed and take up something in a thermos finsk case you are wakeful.

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

Spoilt Boy

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My son, aged three, is terribly spoilt, but my wife takes his part when I at- tempt to correct him

PERHAPS you have corrected him

mostly when his conduct caused you personal discomfort; try another plon now and pull him up when he la 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 Bonnie has gone to bed, but avoid any tendency on the part of the boy to think that he can rely on his mother to take his side.

A Home For

Shoes

INo

No room can look really tidy if e floor is littered with shoes. The shoes themselves will quickly become shabby und soiled if they are left about to collect the dust.

A yard and three-quarters at crash will make an excellent shoe 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 to long on hooks. screwed into the door,

Coconut For Flavouring

June 7, 1939.

FASHION NOTES

Fabrics are more fembilne, soft, and Buttering, than they have been for many seasons, and the colours are lovely enough to lempt the most dis- criminating of shoppers.

Even the styles or models are more versnille. If you are nol very slim the smurt foring styles are useful.

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

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Father's Birthday

ALTHOUGH it is my birthday to-

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

I have-and am not sure whether to be glad or sorry about this a family vit

with long memories. That

is gratifying, of course, to a father: complimentary, husband; but,

to

naturally. well, apart from tempus fugit and all that, I would be far

more ensy In my

mind if my birthday were more honoured in the breach than the observance.

My birthday is expensive. Last year it cost me the price of rodecorat- Ing the tounge (ny wife); a safety razor (ny son and If you can't use it, Dud, 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 Into 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 a shower of "many happy returns of the day, and I shall privately hope to be let off as lightly as possi

bic,

As far as my wife is concerned, there is not much-at least, as far su nere husband can tell-that can be done to the house this year. I might even escape with so smal a thing as a hot-water bottle. But It is the way of wives to be very critical of their own homes-at their husbands' expense. So might be, new loose covers. My daughter, naw. There I'm not quite

sure. Speaking

dating father, ain certain she has every- thing she wants. But she is quite liable to say, "I'm taking you to the won't it be lovely? But you won't theatre

present, Daddy,

mind paying for the seats mean- time--just till the end of the week, because I'm frightfully hard up, and And of course I'll smile, and say, "Not at all.” Safer Ground

for your

My son, too. Well, here we are Cut the remaining piece of crash on safer ground. He is forthright, into three equal pieces, turn in the being as he says nearly а тап. edges and stitch on to the large He blurts, having no use for finesse, piece, one below the other, to make He states what he needs, but a strict three Jorge pockets. Divide the sentence, of honesty forbids him to large pockets Into smaller pockets take something for nothing. So I with vertical stitching and place shall find an almost new aliver- shoes in each pocket.

plated pencil which I shall be lucky if 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-bail, to keep us in training for next season's football.

So here It Is my birthday. I'll hurry away to business, committed DES

ESSICATED coconut adds a pien- to buying myself presents. And on tobac- sant favour to baked milk pud- the way. I'll stop at the dings, such as sago, rice, ground conist's and buy myself a pipe, as rice, and semolina. Sprinkle it thick- gesture to-I'm not ly on top when the pudding is put

what. My friends will into the oven and dot with butter. The pudding

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

Coconut-flavoured milk makes custards and junkels taste different, Put a pint of milk into double saucepan with two ounces of des- siested coconut, let them steam to gether for half-an-hour, then strafn 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 tap and sides of a plain cake, then roll it in dessicated coconut mixed with a little castor sugar.

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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quite sure grunt and

nod when I rather shamefacedly tell them that I am 50 to-day; and the married ones will smile as well us grunt, though they won't probably say anything, and I'll sinfle back, and mentally tot up just what rhy birthday will cost me.

I'm not sure

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

Useful Hints

you are keeping a small store of food in n special cupboard against unexpected emergencies, it is a good plan to keep a list of the contents of the cupboard neatly posted inside the cupboard door.

Then any new item you buy can be added to the list, and each ar- ticle 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-packets 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 knifling scarves or Jumpers it is more restful for the eyes to use needles which contrast with the colour of the wool, Ic., white or yellow needles for dark wool, and black noedics for white or pastel shades. The stitches then stand out in bold rollef,

If an egit is being used, rinse out the basin with cold water before you. beat the egg then the egg will not stick to the eldes and none will be wasted.

Put a plece of lemon rind futo the washing up water of "fishy" dishes) It will take away the smell, as well as soften the water,

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