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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 14, 1939.

WHAT EVERY MOTHER

I applied to a meagre

knowledge of the prin ciples of First Aid it is undoubtedly true that little Icarning is a dan gerous thing. Certainly it would be impossible to give complete instruction 011 this very practical subject in an article or series of articles.

every

At the rame ilnic, mother ought to know how to cope with the more cominon emergencies

and 'accidents

which sometimes, occur in the home where there, are babies and young chlidren!

To begin at the beginning- infancy, a time when infantlic convulsions re not uncom- non when feeding has been injudicious

os to the quantify

and frequency of the ments,

Baby's digestion is easily put out. After all, the diges- tive organs are only learning their job. They are not like motor cor engines, tested be- fore delivery.

Disturbancen of this cind sometimes cause convulsions. They begin with stiffness of Be masetes, which is followed

twitchings. by

The child

turns blue in colour and may

froth at the mouth. Squinting

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is common.

The remedy is to place the child

11 a hot bath, taking care. not 10

should

Cuts and scratches should be carefully bathed in dibuted an- tseptic tation before being tightly bandaged

KNOW

burn baby, and to keep him there Mothers must remember that on no a Providence which looks after for from ten to twenty minutes, account should any attempt be made children and in the majority of cases apply cold sponges to the head.

When the nt has passed off, baby to remove these articles by making of accidents at home it is true to say the little patient sick. The sharp that most of the little ones are more should be put to bed in warm point may pierce the stomach wall or frightened, than hurt, blankels, the head being kept cool, the gullet on its way out.

One of the first things that mother and mother should immediately And

The only safe treatment is to give must learn if she is to be any good out from her Welfare Clink what the child something to eat that will at First Aid is to keep calm. The has been wrong with baby's feexts.

mother who rushes about wrap itself round the article and so anxious prevent it from becoming a source of after an accident, fussing over the danger. Thick gruel. porridge or child, becoming perhaps, almost hys- All children anin most of their ex- new bread will give this protection. terical, will certainly inercyse perience by the well-known system Careful search should be made child's fears.

She should be cool and collected, at of trial and error and thus it is for daily until mother is assured that the these experimental reasons that the article has been passed an the or-

a precautionary ' younger members of the family try dinary way. As 10 ent all sorts of unappetising measure the doctor should be con-

things.

TRIAL & ERROR

sulted.

Coins, 100, ure often swallowed.

The more dangerous of these are the ones with sharp edges or points. No home treatment is of any use, and the child should be talten to the doc-

HELPFUL HINTS

Flowers In The Heat

the

tor or to the out-patient department DO seu have difficulty in making

last well

of your nearest hospital.

containing

your flowers

thrive will not

it

in hol

for long indoors.

First Aid

Hints

feast to all outward appear-

ances, for by so doing ale will calm her little patient, even although she feel that the end of the world has come.

Nervousness is extremely catching and children are quick to pick up Impressious.

A clinical thermometer is also useful thing to have In your First Ald box. It is quite easy to use.

When a child is fretful and flushed the thermometer will be able to tell you whether there is any fever. If there is, the patient should be put to bed at once and the doctor sent fur.

Be sure to shake the thermo- meter down before using it. You will see a little arrow on the stem which points to the normal temperature. The warmth of the body raises a tiny column of mercury and if the top of this column Is opposite the mark 10 or above. fever is present.

MIDGE knows all about 'Safety First"

JELLY SPONGE “

THE small folk will appreciate these fellica for picules or at home. The mixed fruits and the sponge cake make there orange felles quite a party dish Ingredients: 3 oranges. 2 sponge-cakes, 2 tablesps" sceded rolina, 2 tablesps, chopped and stuncil cherries, I pint jelly. As raspberries are in, add a few of thanac

Cut the oranges in halves and remove the pulp, leaving the aktus in perfect cúp shapes. Free the fruit of pith and pips and mash it with a fork

Mix with the sieved sponge- cake crumbs, cherries and raisins and stir in the jelly when coul and on the point of setting.

Divide the mixture into the orange halves and leave until set For easy packing token they are wanted for a picnic at the halves together.

WAFFLES WAFFLES make delicious sweets, and are a boon to the housewife in summer, for, though the process is n baking one, there is no necessity for lighting the oven-a considera. tion on a liat day!

It is sometimes difeult to see where the mercury is, but if you roll the thermometer between your finger and thumb you will and it magni- fed on ane side where the markings

Lastly, don't place your thermome- ter in the child's mouth as there is danger of him biting it; the best plant is to hold it in the armpit.

are.

Sour Milk Souffle

Here Is reliable cake batter for sponge cake waffles:-

Whip 3 egns, without, separating, light. Beat in 1 cupful sugar, then lightly, add 1 cupful flour. 1⁄44 teaspoonful sait, und 1 teaspoonful baking powder, well mixed together. Add cupful cold water, 3 table- poonfuls melted butter, and 1 tea-

fleat the

waffic iron well-10 minutes is, about right for an electric one. Brush lightly with oil for the first waffle. After that a stiff wire

lemon essence.

brush will take off any crumbs. Pour about a small tablespoonful batter on each section, and bake front 2 to 254 minutes. Sprinkle with caster sugar. Wagles with Peaches

Every household should Juve a weather? One way of helping them THIS is a novel and delicious way

of using up your milk. It is eve ne hace cur- First Aid outfit. This should contain to have a long life is to pick them worth white to let some milk "turn" WHEN Washing net WHEN

tains, blouses &c., add a little dressings for wounds art burns and at the right time. milk to the required quantity of blue a smal bottle of fodine. Sterilise Whenever possible, flowers should deliberately for the sake of sampling water for the anal rinse before light-dressings are best, for they cannot be picked as buds. If they are left it.. ly starching.

contantinate wounds and can be pur to expand out of doors, their colour

Slove 4 ozs. flour and a pinch of Make a white suure in the orn- will not be quite so good and they ary way with an ounce each of our salt into a basin. Make a well in the The easiest way to cut rhubarb is chased from the chemist in all sizes.

WARE POISONING fo use a pair of kitchen scissors.

sour centre and break in 2 egg yolks and gradually add pint milk, till batter Cut and wounds should he care-Bakis may be kept for a special occa- Jand butter to half a pint of Emply reels of sewing cotton should

washed in water fully

is quite smooth. Add a very little be saved and embroidery silkts rolled

week before being placed in cun- Let it simmer for five minutes, stir- warm water if batter is too stiff. them. This avoids the tangles se antiseptic solution, and pieces sion in a cool, dark place for quite milk.

of glass or grit removed before ap

tainers.

ring all the time, then add an ounce Melt 2 ozs butter and add along with plyhyt a clean dressing

Rosebuds are best gathered quite of fine sugar and a teaspoonful of 2 uzs, caster

sugar. Stir in the Paint the wound with fodine, for

early in the morning. Choose welt vanilla essence, having first removed stiffly beuten whites just before coolc- developed buds which are just ready the pan from the heat. Beat in two ing

Some

people do not put

Make sure the waffle iron is clean to upen.

Brush over on both buttered suffle mould, Tie grease-sides with a little melted butter, All them for about half an hour in a cool whiles, and turn the mixture into a and very hot. place before fixing them in a vase. proof paper round the sides of the about two-thirds full with the batter. when mould to come four or five inches and cook each side over, fairly sharp | Lupins should be gathered

the top, and place a round heat 3 minutes.

Turn out and serve piece over the mixture. Steam for

peaches, and cream.

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that ensue

when the skeins mixed up together.

are all

its

When pouring custard bern this destroys germs and may prevent reniaved from the pan to jug or lipoisoning of the wound cover the top with wet grease-proof] It is important not to have the paper. This prevents any skm form- dressing sought that it Impedes the roses into water at nner, but len yolks, fold in two stiffly-whisked

circulation, and don't forget in your hurry to see that your own hands are perfectly clean before handling any

ing.

D. F.

Rayon and acetate woven check

is used in this coat dress. It is

in black and white, the skirt full gored.

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wound,

Baking soda in warm water makes a good rolution for the treatment of burns. but strong tea is even better because the tannie reid in it helps to form a protective film over the burn, thats shutting out the air. There is

In The Nursery

is sometimes a problem to keep the cover from slipping off baby's cot, but if a stocking ruspender is sewn to each corner of the mattress. the cover can then be fastened in without Interfering with the position infant's freedom of movement.

When baby first begins to walk,

a

about forty-five minutes..

the lower blooms have begun to open, ve as the fully developed flowers fade and drop off..

Gladioli make a grand display "in" the late the house Cut them in afternoon, and choose stalks on which or two flowers have opened. une Florists usually subject gladioli to a process known as "softening." They put the flowers in the sun for about Afteen minutes before plunging them in water. They should then last well.

Curled Petals

Always look underneath marigolds. The uter petals will have begun to too far opened for pur! it they are All indoor use.

daisy-like flowers such as marguerites, pyrethrums, sun-

rub the soles of his new shoes with flowers, and asters should be picked piece of raw potato. This, by re-when they are adult flowers, as ado- moving

ine shine, prevents many lescent do not open out well in water. Sweet peas should be eut when the tumbles.

To prevent baby knocking his head dew is on them, and dahlias should against

the hard back of his higit have their stems sealed by being placed in boiling water for a few chair, use an old ten casy to pad it.

To keep them quite frech, the rib minutes as soon as they are gathered. bong

on baby's bonnet reed daily Afterwards put them for a few hours

"it 11 washing, and

tedious Job if in a dork, cool spot before they take they have to be resewn each time. A their bow in your rooms.

or have them good plan is to use one long piece

If you buy Bowers of ribbon instead of the usual two given to you, do not put them in con- lengths. This is threaded through tniners until you have replcked the loops which are made at each corner ends of the stalks. To discourage of the bonnet. It is then the work them from opening widely, set them of a second to remove or replace. in a deep jug or bucket of water, with soft paper pinned round them fairly lightly and shut entirely at the

Worth

Knowing

A. W.

top

All flowers do not like being hand- led, so clean stemmed types like roses or ac should be hammered un inch up and arranged once and for all in their containers. After that leave them tone, only adding fresh water HILDREN'S socks often become from time to time. Water must be stained brown underneath the deep. Roses often droup because of soles, This stnin refuses to be re this simple mistake. moved by ordinary washing, but rab

the stained part with half a raw lo-

mon.

M. W.

Leave the juice an overnight, and CUCUMBER SOUP In the morning wash the sock in the usual way, when you will find all dis-DEEL one large cucumber, cut it colouration has disappeared,

into small pieces, and remove the Most men use hair-oil daily; there- seeds. Have ready a pan of boiling fore their combs soon become dirty water with a few drops of vinegar and greasy. The easiest way to clean added and boil the pieces of cucum- these combs is to take a pint of reallyber for a few minutes. Then drain hot water and add to it a tablespoon them well and return to the pan with ful of salt. Leave the comb to soak z oz, butter and two gills white in this for an hour or two, then take stock.

a small brush and scrub with satt and water.

Allow the butter to melt and then

add one tablespoonful white bread-

In order to keep the brass on your crumbs which have been soaked in front door bright and well cared for, milk, one chopped onion, and season- even when you are away on holiday. Ing to taste.

clean as usual, then wipe over with Bring to the boll and simmer for a rar dipped in olive oil. Leave the ten minutes. Then strain the soup oil on, and this will prevent tarnish-nnd add one glit of cream before

ing.

+

serving.

Inoue!

B. M.

W. B.

with sliced

Isobel

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THE

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EVERYWHERE

Calm Reaction By Press

London, Aug. 13.

The British preparedness to sur- render the four Chinese is calmly taken by most of the London Satur- day' moming papers. The news is published only inconspicuously by the Conservative papers.

Chiang's Appeal To Shanghai

Chungling. Aug 12, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek The Opposlilon papers are, how-sent a message to the Chinese re- ever, sharply attacking the British sidents of Shanghal on the eve of the Government.

The Liberal News Chronicle saya the hope that they "should exert in- anniversary of hostilities, expressing that the decision hns Justined the dividual efforts midst the difficulties fears of many Members of Parla-and hardships and do their best to ment that the British Government bolster up their spiritual and econo- would take such steps during the mic fortresses and understand the recess. Even if the Japanese had real meaning of the value of legal proffered new evidence, this would

ould tender." be no reason to examine the ques- tion only juridically.

Advising that there were two roads Japan had niso no right to stay in China and said: "One is to surrender and be

open to China, the Generalissimo the British Government has once more given way to extortive pres- the traitora champion. The other one forever enslaved. This is what

The

15 Daily Herald, In a report solute unbendable spirit until vic- to put up a hard fight, with a re- from its Diplomatic Currespondent, solute und

sure.

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says that by the decision the block-tory is achieved and Chink is re- nde of Tientsin will not cease, but juvenated. This sacred mission has Britain's prestige in China and Japan been entrusted to us by our ancestors throughout 5,000 years of our history has declined even more than before.

and The Daily Express's political cord Is the only course

rse which should respondent states that Labour will be chosen by pattiolle eliizens.

"Now, China is embarking on the now seize the opportunity for de- manding the summoning of Parlis-last stage of her resistance, with vic- ment.

The Government will, how-tory clearly in sight, but we must ever, not comply with such a request, exert further efforts and strive harder

Trans-Occan.

to endure greater hardships. If we make a Shanghai Hearing

be last minute dash, we will

We must jable to reach our goal, Shanghai, Aug. 12, Mr. A. Becks and Mr. J. R. Jones, security and shrink away from suffer- never entertain a false sense of of the law firm of Ellis and laying and undo all that has been ac this morning filed. in their own complished. What I demand of our names, with assistant judge P. Grant

ok

nover

Jones, of H.M. Supreme Court for brethren is that they refuse to bow China, an affidavit for a writ Habeas

Corpus in four Tientsin suspects.

Ellis and Hays received late during the night instructions from Interested

before brute force, but preserve

I connection with the their legrity and struggie

to the

Continuing Marshal Chiang said: "Journalists who exert a "strong

persons

in London to file the applica-spiritual force" should remain adam- tion for a writ and worked so busily nant

and

keep up a spirit of righteousness, and "continue to over the case that they only had a few hours sleep.

publish necurate reports and de- Assistant Judige P. Grant Jones nounce the misleading statements of deferred his decision on the applicn- traitors."United Press.

ion for rule nisl.

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H. A. Recks and Mr. J. R. Jones, of Ellis and Hays. were Firstly, he was not certain that this Instructed through solicitors in Lon- rule was applicable outside the Realm don in the action taktert on behalf of and Dominions; Professor Normant Bentwich, 01 Secondly, he questioned the au Jerusalem University, and Miss Sara thority of the people applying to act Margery Fry, governor of the B.B.C. on behalf of Chinese prisoners.

The hearing, which was taken in Judge Grant Jones promised to give Chambers, lasted for three hours. his decision as expeditiously as,

Judge Grant Jones raised two possible-probably on Monday.- points in particular;

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