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EVERY SATURDAY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1947.

WOMANSENSE

WELFARE CENTRE HELPS

MANY POOR IN KOWLOON

the

.

Looking Back

•

By Anne Edwards

ONE day

recently

Mrs

Ronald Flack, wife of a provision fish, poultry," and merchant-a slim, pretty Scots- who lives at 87, woman, Delamere-road, Ealing, did her morning shopping, took her mother for lunch and a look round the shops, and then went home to cook dinner for her husband in Ealing.

TWO brown-frame, buildings cularly, Home visits are a regular programme. nestled on a pine-fringed part of the Society's hillside off Nathan Road house The milk distribution is for babies up to 10 months, although the time Kowloon Centre of the limit is extended in some cases, Hongkong Social Welfare

S.P.C. netivities take up two Council,

rooms, and the third is occupied by Scarcely nolleed from the street the Boys' Club, which offers a daily of physical training. and unknown to many residents, Brogramme the Centre, each day is thronged times and special interests,

260 Get Congee Daily with the weary, the puzzled, the sick and the undernourished, who

Approximately 230 persona a day Joak sto in a haven of help and hope. Most of the approximately nutrition centre operated by

rice Ten summers ago such rou- The Welfare Council. 400 people who go through its doors the

modo in spotless tine was unthought of. Then daily are Chinese mothers and babies gruel

Kitchen from n formula worked out

sho was Miss Isobel Watson, aj and boys and girls, nithaugh some

by government nutritionists. It is

who beauty queen,

became men, too, make use of the Centro.

designed supplemental food and is

Britain's Loveliest the vitamins so often supply

Belle. from the diel of the poorer missing class here. Stock for the congee is made from 25 pounds of bones daily, and the dish contains meat, fish, or to vegetables and Sus in addition beans or potatoes.

SEL

free

The Centre is the heart of welfare work in Kowloon. It was opened nine months ago and is financed by publle and private funds. Three agencies the Society for the Protee. tion of Children, the Sucial Welfare Council, and the Boys and Girls Clubs Association-work side by side under one roof, and their distinct but co-ordinated activities offer many services to the underprivileged, the Boys' Club.

Old and Young Aided

A babble of voices advertises the Centre as you approach. On the porch outside, a raulmed man hud. dies in the sunshine alongside several mothers with babies on their backs

clinging and toddlers

to their trousers; they are waiting for the congee which, is distributed twice daily to the undernourished.

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An office, Interview comm, and combined school and dining room are in the first building. In

ndulis talk interview section trained workers of the Social Welfare Council, who help them with prob. lems range from louns or mone- tury assistance to schooling and in-

11099.

0 to 14

There is an open square betwren the two structures, and here bors Industriously scrub from their wom clothing, hanging it neatly on lines to dry. Mothers bathe their 'bables or wash clothes, for many of them are alrect-sleepers or live hi the Colony's ruins or slums, where no water is available.

Everyone looks

well-scrubbed. . Cleanliness is stressed by nil threw agencies, and the free showers on the grounds are in constant use.

S.P.C. Weighs Babies

In the second building three S.P.C. lady inspectors, two of them quali fied nurses, teach mothers how to care for their babica, distribute the milk and orange ju'ce, and arrange for medical treatment It nccessary. Breast feeding

s encouraged, and often a mother who has been unable to nurse her baby can do so when her inadequate diet is supplemented by free conger at the Centre.

Bables are weighed regularly to seo that they are making proper progress. Several twins and two sets of triplets are among the many infants brought to

the Centre re

congre

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at

the

A total of 5,850 bowls of congee in August, and more were served than three-fourths of these went to children. The recipients came from the Welfare Council, the SPC. and-

Bathing

And in that so-gay, pre-war} summer, beauty aucens had a royal time.

con-

FULL-PAGE FEATURE

Isobel Watson

Today not even the neighbours suspect that is get, well dressed was collecting the suburban wife

Itobel Finck says: "Being a beauty headlines, stage offers, radio tracts and the envy which paved queen was fun while it lusted-but 1. went in for the way of pre-war glamour queens. I was younger then.

For one unreal summer she drove beauty competitions as n commercial up and down Scotland, all expenses proposition. I won about £250. paid, was the belle of camivals ond

"think most girls go into it for of the banquets, was deluged with bouquets fun, then they get practically forced The cuse work division trained of flowers and five-pound boxes of into a modelling page Centre, stoffed by three

It depends on the girl whether she workers, alded 402 farmillen and in-

In the next three years she collect lets the whole thing turn her head; dividuals last month. The destitute

of are referred to government sources ed these tiles-Most Perfect Figure the ones who didn't make use

Best Dressed their success for a career have, at in Scotland, Britain's for food but the Soelul Welfare

that Girl, and in three separate compell any rate, met their husbands Council helps many a family to Retionn the Girl with the Lovellest Hair, way, on its feet and become self-sup-

Beauty queens today arc much Eyes, Legs in Britain, parting.

more sophisticated than we were; now they try to look 25-we were pleased to bo uble to look 17,"

Temporary flounclol ald is given In soine cases and loans in others, "Almost all the Icons are paid back," ald Mrs F. Lee, senior case weaker,

Activities Varied

Council workers make home visits and keep records of each applicant. They find Jobe when possible- "although this is our most dificult problem,"--pay school fees in special Instances, distribute fod parcels to some tuberculosis sufferers, und #pply clothing when it is available.

Beatise of lork of space in govern- ment schools, the Welfare Council recently stated an evening school for poor children. This is attended by 74 boys and girls. The school is in emergency meastire and will close when government schools can take all children.

chocolates.

All that was many summers back. For the last seven years she has kept the house for her husband, done supply and cocking, lived quietly In father-in-law the little house her

gave.

What about those days when they Ild down the red carpet for her?

career,

And a final word from a beauty queen to there who are now taking her place: "Cash in quickly. Next year they won't even remember your

Ince!"

Portuguese Dinner Is

Adventure In Cooking

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By DIXIE TAYLOR

about 20 minutes.

AVING

Portuguese sausages from the can and sick Cooking will require dinner at a Portuguese into the rice. home in the Colony is a Toast bread cubes until crisp. Another Centre activity is unreal adventure in eating. And Fry the shallots, which have been mus evening training school, which trains young girls la washing, preparing a Portuguese meal in cut into pieces. sewing, and cooking.

your own Home is an adventure in cooking.

Full Skirt

In London' Style News

By Caroline Fox

AISTS

smaller.

two incher skirts two inches tanger and as full as a peusani woman's-that

la the most revolutionary news from the London autumn fashion shows.

I started in Paris months ago. Parisiennes adored It

..ever alnce Marie Antoinette they have loved playing milkmaids

No coupon worry Americans welcomed it--they were emaciated tired of looking like pencils. Anyway, they don't need to bother about coupons.

Englishwomen view t with alarm. But don't worry, it won't sweep the country.

For the full skirt is only for slender and lovely figures. If your waist is over. 26, your hips over 30, it makes you look about to folk- dance. Which cuts out a lot of people.

It is not pralicat style for the designers. They can chtain only a limited amount of muterlal, are permitted by the Board of Trade only to charge a set number of cou- pons, to make a set margin of profit,

Clearly, the more material in each frock, the fewer they can cut out of the yardage and the. Jesy profit they can make.

'Was, corsets

of and

Also, the fewer clothes there are So it does not pay them to go round. to make more than a few extrava- Kant fashions,

But for those few fashikon-conscious women

who also have the right Ogures there will be a choice immensely full skirted frocks sults in the shops in the autumn.

Coupon rates will not increase, but some dresses will be sold only with their Dwn stiffened canvas petticoats four coupons extra.

kirts Most-dimcult-to-wear those gathered from ty bands which demand "wasp" corst, Easirat on figure and material are sun-ray pleats and unpressed pleats that swing out froin fat hips. Jachets to wear with them have padded

bulky.

hips and flared

Or waist-atting tights prettier.

Br

are walst

Coats to wear over them are a problem which few designers have tackled. They must be as full skirt. ed as the dresses, which is clumsy; ода else very loose afting.

But there alternative lines that are smart......peg-top skirts. Now you are ready to combine narrow at the hem end widening the ingredients. Remove the saus- with deep tucks at the hips; flat- pleated shorts with give-easy swing Most of the hundreds of persons who use the Kowloon Centre are

without bulks louse, straight, Onger- Portuguese food is often, though ages from the rice and cut into Pile the rice on a huge picces, residents

lip-length coats worn over skender of the Colony, not always, highly

spiced. The platter, Arrange the chicken, suus asks main dish newcomer

though

much side-hip draping; big, frocks; usually,

not age and trotter on top. Sprinkle

bold, and

loose-armed, Occasionally

shallots, croutons

Ewing-backed sistance in returning to his village, always, combines several ingredients, with the

topcoats, comforting for winter and he is referred to the proper The preparation process is some- raisins. Serve Imunediately, accom-

wear; many coats with caped tops easy, sometimes times involved,

or curved yokes, You have a choice of the claborate panied by sweet mango chutney.

The alightly sweet taste of arroz The major alm of all three or the simple and can suit your own

gorda makes a "sourish" vegetable the best accompaniment. Mrs Re- agencles sharing the premises is to mood and appelife.

regular residents bring up

The menu and instructions for medion uses tinned mauerkraut now help

preparing

typical Portuguese that fresh cabbage is not easy to healthier families and become self- supperling and self-respecting

dinner come from Mrs. L. M. dos obtain. When cabbage is in season, citizens. The Kowloon programme part of n-bivader scheme...embrace medios, long-time resident of the boil it in the uruni way and flavour

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government agency.

ing the whole Colony, although progress on the Island is hampered by lack of building sites and olen

space.

CAROL BATEMAN M.I.S.T.D. (London).

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Colony. She suggests asamain with vinegar. dish "Arroz Gordo." which literally means "fat rice" and is one of the most famous of ali Portuguese dishes. The writer can testify that it's o dish that, once tried, you want to have again and again. And it's not hard to prepare. -

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Because arroz gordo is filling, you don't want a heavy first course.

A clar chicken broth is good and, with an eye for economy, you can make it from the feet, neck, head and giblets of the chickens used in the main course.

After that comes the arroz gordo, a combination of rice, three

kinds savourica. of

and meat companying vegetable is soured fresh cabbage or tinned sauerkraut. A mild sweet after so tasty a main course Bibinca de Leite." a "pud- ding of milk." Truly a meal for the most discriminating!

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Bibinca de leite to serve 10 calis for:

I coconut

1 large tin sweetened condensed

milk

4 poured butter

8 egg yolks

1 1/3 cups sugar

1 1/3 cups comstarch

8 cups water

Grate the coconut and stait it in minutes. boiling water about 30 Spuceze through a mosquito netting or piece of coarse material. This you a nice and tasty coconut

mix

the

The Sift

cornstarch and thoroughly with the sugar. Graduat- ly stir into about one cup of the water and blend to a smooth paste. Add the egg yolks, making sure they are mixed thoroughly. Stir in the rest of the water, the condensed milk, and the coconut julee.

Our contributor recommends pre- paring arroz gordo for 10 to 12 persons. It's good warmed over, even if you don't want to have large dinner, panty. The ingredients:

tin Palo

chickena

ple trotters

2 ins tomato paste

7 cupa rite

Raising

Shallota

Place the mixture in a sauce pan, add the butter, and cook over a low ย fire until it comes to a boll and Continuous stirring Is thickens. required to blend in the butter and keep the pudding from sticking

Transfer the bibinen de leite from the sauce pan to a baking dish, preferably

of heat-resistant in glass, Bakte

II hot

10 oven minutes or until brown. Serve hot or cold.

Croutons Palo

A apecial Portuguese sausage available in tins at Colony shops specialising in Macao pro- ducts, Choose fairly young chickens weighing around three pounds.

and

Tricky though this Portuguese dinner may sound, it is not hard, to prepare. The custard can be made

in advance. Not more than two. hours is required for preparing the arroz gordo less when you have Gad a bit of experience. And the results will make your efforts well worth while,

Cut the chicken and trotters Into pieces. Place in a large sauce pan. Cover with 7 to 9 cups of cold water. and boll about 30 minutes, stirring incat to prevent tho occasionally from sticking. Remove the chleken

trotter to one and

side, and save | the liquid.

THE WOMAN PAYS! Hent the two tins of tomato paste, adding

AL desired.

Huge profits are made on sale of. spices extra When it is simmering and "smells women't clothes in Britain, members Good," stir in the uncooked rice. Simmer

in the paste. stirring ve casionally, until the rice grains have absorbed the paste and become a pinkish-red colour.

of the National Union of Tallors and Garment Workers declared recently, The women charged that bathing costumes which cost. Lo more than HK$5 to make were being sold in shops

for HK$50 and more.

one worker, The swimsuits, sald one "are

nothing but a brassiere, with a Meanwhile start trying the chic-strap around the neck, and panties ken and trotter. This should not less than a yard of material in the There is half an hour's take more than n' half hour, but whole allow enough time for the meats to work in them."

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got thoroughly done.

Put the "red rice into the soup

in which you boiled the chicken

Speakers claimed that dresses re talled in London for HK$320 actually

were produced for HKS00, Including

and trotter. (The liquid should be labour costs and materials.

They

Just about the right amount for the sold a similar situation prevalled in seven cups of rice.). Remove the other lines of women's wear.

Plaid topcoats

Most shoulders are rounded; neck- lines are high, sometimes with a V at the back; nicest vleeves are pushed up to just below the elbow; nicest de- tall is saddle stitching on belts, picats, yokes; nicest colouring snuffbrown and black in a check coat with a black velvet collar over black dress, in a frock and jacket en- livened with black brald; gayest arc plaid topcoats over plain sults.

Biggest headache........all skirts are longer, so you will have to let down last year's topcoat ond risk a'ridge --or be deflant and wear it short over your new long dress.

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