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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 14, 1939.

WHAT EVERY MOTHER

IF applied to

a meagre knowledge of the prin- ciples of First Aid. it is undoubtedly true that a little learning is a dan gerous thing. Certainly it would be impossible to give completo instruction on this very practical abject in an article or series of articles.

At the

same Line, every mother aught to know how to cope with the more cominon emergencies und accidents whieli someUmes occur in the home where there new babies and young children,

To begin at the beginning-- infancy, a time when infantile convulsions are not Lincom- mon when feeding has been Injudicious as to the quantity and frequency of the meats.

Baby's digestion is cantly put out. After all, the diges- live organs are only learning their Joh. They are not like molor car engines, tested bo- fore delivery.

Disturbances of

this kind sometimes cause

convulsions. They begin with stiffness of the muscles, which is followed by twitchings. The child turns blue in colour and may

froth at the mouth, Squinting

Is common.

in

The remedy is to place the child

should

Cuts and scratches should be carefully bathed in diluted an-

tiseptic lotion before being lightly bandaged

KNOW

a hot bath, taking care not to burn baby, and to keep him there Mothers must remember that on no

from ten

Providence which looks uffer to twenty minutes. account should any attempt be made children and in the majority of cases jupply cold sponges to the head.

When the fit has passed off, baby the little patient sick. The sharp that most of the little ones are more to rrinove these articles by making of accidents at home it is true to say should be put

to bed in warm point may pierce the stomach wall or frightened than hurt. blankets, the head being kept coul; the gullet on its way out.

One of the first things that mother and other should immediately find

The only safe treatment is to give must learn if she is to be any good out from her Welfare Clinic what the child something to cat that will at First Aid is to keep calm. The has been wrong with baby's feeds wrap self round the article and so anxious nother who rushes about prevent it from becoming a source of after an accident, fussing over the danger. Thlek urvel, porridge or child, becoming perhaps, almost hys- All children gain most of their ex- new bread will give this protection, ferient, will certainly increase the perience by the well-known system

Careful search should be made child's fears. uf trial and error and thus it is for daily until mother is assured that the these experimental reasons that the article has been passed in the or- younger members of the family try dinary way. As precautionary

TRIAL & ERROR

2)

to ent ull sorts of unappelising measure the doctor should be con- thule gre

sulted.

too, ure often swallowed.

Coins. The mare dangerous of these are the ones with sharp edges or points. No home treatment is of any use, and the child should be taken lộ the doc-

HELPFUL HINTS

of your nearest hospital.

containing

She should be cool and collected, at

sion

Flowers In The Heat

Your dowers last well in 'hot

First Aid

Hints

least to all outward appear- antes, for by so doing she will calm her little patient, even although she feel that the end of the world has come,

Nervousnes

l extremely catching and children are quiet to plek up impressions.

A clinical thermometer Is alo useful thing to have in your First Aid box. It is quite easy to use.

When a chlid is fretful and Aushed 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 for.

Be sure to shake the thermo- meter down before using it. You will see a little arrow on the stem which point to the normal temperature. The wannth of the body sines a tiny column of mercury and if the top of this columns is oppoalte the mark 99 or above, fever is present.

MIDGE knows all about "Safety First"

JELLY

SPONGE

THE small folk will appreciate these fellies for picnica or at home. The mized fruits and the sponge cake make these orange jellies quite a party dish.

Illgredients: .3 Granger, sponge-cakes, 2 tablesps, sceded raisins, 2 tablesps, chopped and stoned cherries, I pint felly. An raspberries are in, add a few of thore.

Cut the oranges in halves and remove the pulp, leaving the aking in perfect cup shapes. Free the fruit of pills and pips and mash fl seith a fork.

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

Divide the mixture into the orange katees and leave until set For easy packing when they ure wanted for a picnto fit the halves together.

WAFFLES

It is sometimes difficult to see WAFFLES make delelous sweets, where the inercury is, but if you roll and are a boon to the housewife the thermometer between your finger in summer, for, though the process and thumb you will and it magni-la u baking one, there is no necessity Bed on one side where the markings for lighting the oven-a considera- ure.

tion on a hul day!

Here is

is a reliable cake batter for cake waffles: Whip

eggs, without separating, till light. Beat in 1 cupful sugar, then lightly add I cupful flour, teaspoonful salt, and teaspoonful baking powder, well mixed together. Add cupful cold water, 3 table- spoonfuls melted butter, and tea- spoonful lemon essence.

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

Sour Milk Souffle

Tins is a novel and delicious way

of using up sour milk. It is eve worth while to let some milk "tura"

our

Heat the Weffie iron well-10 minutes is about right for an electric one. Brush lightly with oil for the art walter this a stiff wire brush will take off any crumbs. Four about a small tablespoonful batter on each section, and bake from 2 to 214 minutes. Sprinkle with caster sugar. Wafles with Peaches

them. This avoids the tangles of glass or grit removed before ap-tbeds are best puthered quite of fine sugar and a teaspoonful of 2

On that ensue when the string are all mixed up together.

Paint the wound with iodine, for this destroys germs and may prevent petsoning of the wound.

tor or to the out-patient department Do you have difficulty is making WHEN washing net or later cur-Firas Ald out. This should contain to have a long life is to pick them Every household should weather? One way of helping them W

tains, blouses &c., add a Uttle dressings for wounds and burns and milk to the required quantity of blue a small bottle of iodine. Sterilized the right time, water for the final eince before Hight-dresslings are best, for they cannot

Whenever possible, flowers should deliberately for the sake of sampling be picked as buds. If they are left it. ty starching.

contaminate wounds and cari be pur-

to expand out of doors, their colour

Sleva The easiest way to cut rhubarb is chased from the chemist in all sizes.

Make a white sauce in the ordin- will not be quite so good and they

4 pzs, flour and a pinch of to use a pair of kitchen seissors.

'WARE POISONING

will not thrive for long indoors, ary way with an ounce ench of flour salt into a basin. Make a well in the Cuts and wounds should be gare Buds muy be kept for a

and butter to half Empty reels of sewing cotton should

a pint of

centre and break in 2 egg yolks and special occa

add plat milk, till batter gradually be saved and embroidery silks rolled fully washed in water

some antiseptic solution, and plece a week before being placed in con-

In a coul, dark place for quite.

is quite smooth. Add a very little 12 Let it simmer for Ave minutes, stir-

warin water if batter is too stiff. plying a clean dressing.

ring all the time, then add an ounce Melt 2 ozs butter and add along with 2 oz. caster sugar. Stir in the When pouring custard has been

early in the morning. Choose well vanilla esence, having first removed stiffly besten whites just before cook rentoved from the pan to jug or howl,

developed buds which are just rendy cover the top with wet grease-proof

It is important not to have the to open, Some people do not put the pan from the heat. Bent in two ing.

Cg yolks, fold in two stlifly-whisked Make sure the waffle iron is clean paper. This prevents any skin form-dressing so tight that it impedes the roses into water, it could whites, and turn the mixture into a and very hot. Brush over on both irculation, and don't forget in your them for about half an hour in a cool buttered souffle mould. The grease-sides with a little melted butter, All tree that your own hands are place before fixing them in a vase.proof paper round the sides of the about two-thirds full with the batter, hurry perfectly clean before handling any Lupins should be gathered when

the lower blooms have begun to open, abave the top, and

mould to come four or five inches and cook each side over fairly sharp. wound.

place a round heat 3 minutes. Baking soda in warm water makes as the fully developed flowers fade piece over the misture. Steam for

Turn out and serve with sliced straips a good solution for the treatment of und off.

about forty-five minutes."

peaches and cream. burns-but strong tea is even better Gladioli make a grond display in

Isobe! because the tannic acid in it helps to the house. Cut them in the late! form a protective film over the burn, afternoon, and choose stalks on which thus shutting out the air. There is one or two flowers have opened.

Flurists usually subject gladioli to process known as "oftening." They | put the flowers in the sun for about Gfteen minutes before plunging them in water. They should then last well,

iry.

D. F.

Rayon and soetato woven clieck is used in this coat dress. It is in black and white, the skirt fall' rored.

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In The Nursery

IT

cot,

T is sometimes a problem to keep the cover from slipping off baby's but if a stocking suspender is sewn to each corner of the mattress, the cover can then be fastened in position without Interfering with the infant's freedom of movement.

When baby first begins to walk, rub the soles of his new shoes with a plece of raw potato. This, by re- moving the shine, prevents many tumbles.

Curted Petals

Always look underneath marigolds. The outer petals will have begun to curl if they are too far opened for indoor use.

All daisy-like flowers such as marguerites, pyrethrums, sun- flowers, and nsters should be picked when they are adult flowers, as ndo- lescent do not open out well in water. Sweet peas should be cut when the

To prevent baby knocking his head dew is on them, and dahlias should against the hard back of his high have their stems seated by being chair, use an old tea cosy to pad it. placed in boiling water for a few To keep them quite fresh, the rib-minutes as soon as they are gathered. bons on baby's bonnet need daily Afterwards put them for a few hours washing, and it is a tedious job if in a dark, cool spot before they take they have to be resewal ench time. A their bow in your rooms. good plan is to use one long plece If you buy flowers or have them

of ribbon instead of the usual two given to you, do not put them in con- lengths. This is threaded through tainers until you have repicked 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 top,

Worth

Knowing

A. W.

CHILDREN'S socks often become stained brown underneath the soles. This stain refuses to be re- moved by ordinary washing, but rub the stained part with half a raw le-

mon,

Leave the fulce on overnight, and in the morning wash the sock in the usual way, when you will find all dis- colouration has disappeared.

All flowers do not like being hand- led, so clean stemmed types like roses or illac should be hammered an inch up and arranged once and for all in their containers. After that leave them alone, only adding.fresh, water- from time to time. Water must be deep. Roses often droop because of this simple mistake,

CUCUMBER

M W.

SOUP

DEEL one large eucumber, cut it into small pieces, and remove the Most men use hair-oll 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 really ber 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 2 ez, butter and two gills while in this for an hour or two, then take

stock.

a small brush and scrub with salt

and water.

Allow the butler to melt and thèn

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.mlik, one chopped onion, and season- even when you ate away on holiday, ing to taste.

clean" na "usual, then wipe over with Bring to the boll end simmer for a rog dipped in olive oil. Leave the ten minutes. Then strain the soup oll on, and this will prevent tarnish, and add one gill of

ing.

Inobel

serving.

cream before

·B. M.

W. D.

Charming for summer wear is hits frock of mat crepe printed with daisies The daisies are also appliqued on embroidered tulle below the neck.

COUNT

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EVERYWHERE

Calm Reaction

By Press

London, Aug. 13.

The British preparedness to mur- render the four Chinesa is calmly.. Laken by most of the London Satur- day morning papers. The news is published only inconspicuously by the Conservative papers.

Chiang's Appeal To Shanghai

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Chungking. AUE 12.

Generalissimo The Opposition papers are,

Chiang Kai-shek how-sent a message to the Chinese re- over, sharply attacking the British sidents of Shanghai on the ove of the Government.

The Liberal News Chronicle saya the hope that they "should exert in- anniversary of hostilities, expressing that the decision has justified the dividual efforts midst the dimeultles fears of many Members of Parlia and ment that the British Government and hardships and do their best to would take such steps during the mie fortresses and understand the bolster up their spiritual and econo- recess. Even the Japanese had

nd real meaning of the value of legal proffered new evidence, tuls wauld tender." be no reason to examine the ques- tion only juridically.

Advising that there were two ronds Japan had also no right to stay in China aridgid: "One is to surrender and be- upen to China, the Generalissimo the British Government has Олес

come forever enslaved. This is what more given way

to extortive pres-the traitors champion. The other one sure,

The Daily Herald, in a report is to put up a hard fight with a re- from its Diplomatic Correspondent, colute unbendable spirit until vic- mayr that by the decision the block-tory is achieved and China-la-ze- ude of Tientsin will not cease, but been entrusted to us by our ancestors

Juvenated.

This sacred mission has Britain's prestige in China and Japan een

has declined ever more than before. throughout 5,000 years of our history The Dally Express's political cor-and is the only course which should

be respondent states that Labour will chosen by patriotle citizens. now reize the opportunity for de- "Now, China is embarking on the manding the summoning of Parlin- last stage of her resistance, with vic- ment. The Government will, how-tary clearly in sight, but we must

exeri -Trans-Ocean.

greater hardships. If we Imake a last minute dash, we will be

able to reach our goal.

We must entertain

A false sense of

undo all that has been ac-

ever, not comply with such a request. Jurther efforts and strive harder

Shanghai Hoaring

Shanghal, Aug. 12,

Mr. A. Heeks and Mr. J. R. Jones,

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of the law Orm of Ellis and Iloys, and shrink away from suffer-

ing and

What I demand of our

this morning filed. in their own in numes, with assistant judge P. Grant complished. Jones, of H.M. Supreme Court for brethren is that they refuse to bow China, an 'nfidavit for a writ or before brute force, but preserve Habeas Corpus in connection with the their personal integrity and struggle four Tientsin suspects,

to the fast."

Eli and Hays received late during Continuing Marshal Chiang said: the night instructions from interested "Journalists who exert a "strong persons in London to file the applica-spiritual force should remain adam- tion for a writ and worked so busliy❘ nant and keep up a spirit of over the case that they only had a righteousness,

"continue to few hours sleep.

publish accurate reports and de- Assistant Judge P. Grant Jones nounce the misleading statements of deferred his decision on the applica- traitors."-United Press. tion for rule

nisi. Jones, of decks and Mr. J. R.

Mr. H. A instructed through solicitors in Lon- rule was applicable outside the Realm and Hays. were Firstly, he was not certain that this

don in the sellon taken on behalf of and Dominions; Professor Norman Bentwich, of 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. hts decision

ar expeditiously Judge Grant Jones raised two possible-probably points in particular:

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