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IN THE HOME
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Child Is Your
Lonely?
By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS
HE child who has no one near his age to play with before he enters school has a hard time to be com. fortable and happy with his schoolmates. He may cry to go home to his mother or to stay home with her. He may give the teacher no
end of trouble over, his tattling about other children on the play ground or on the way to and from school. Other children stubborn and may find him quarrelsome. His teacher may find him hard to manage in the classroom. There's hardly behaviour
personality problem you can name he may not be heir to. Besides, he rarely is happy. Usually this child is an only child.
Many
or
ANOTHER BABY parents could, or
correct his loneliners by
another child or adopting one.
course, having But
a new baby hardly will bring quick relief, though bye and bye the out- come should be very favourable. But more two or even in a family of children, other than twins, brothers or sisters can't be ideal playmates all the time. Each one needs to have some time at play with one or more children
his age for competi near tion on nearly equal level.
This social need of the chill of early and continual contact with a number of other children near his age is a strong argument for the nursery school and kindergarten.
The mother writing the following keenly scuses the value of early social experiences of the chibt. "We have a 16-month old daughter and in the neighbourhood in which we live there are no children for her to play with. However, there is a
clistance playground some.
away which necessitates my taking her on the bus to rench it and then D five block walk after getting off the
Of course she walks part bus. the 5 blocks and I carry her the rest.
·· WASTE OF TIME "However, my husband thinka
of
i
orc
a waste of time and work for me to take her there so she has some one to play with as he thinks she is too young to appreciate other children. Most of the youngsters there from 21⁄2 years up. Please tell me what you think. I hate to feel that she may
be lonesome by herself." I replied. While the trouble you ----are - going-to-may- seem fo-your-hus....
band and others a bit excessive at her age you are very wise in your purpose. Perhaps she would prot more from these trips after she is a year or two older. Yet she should gain much even now. Perhaps you could cultivate for nequaintance of come other young mothers closer home and work out with them a co- operative play plan.
Another mother anys:
"She is not A small child, Is healthy and normal and when she did would stort to cry, which she sixty times a day, it would be like she fire siren. At kindergarten created quite a air and in first grade she wouldn't eat her lunch, which also gave her quite a lot of attention. 1 don't mean to imply that this is why she did these loud recordings, but after she saw the results and the attention she received I do think it encouraged her.
"She is very destructive of her own things and things she loves. She wrapped my Christmas gifts and when we praised the wrapping and nice appearance, she lore the whole
She went shopping for kift up. gift for me and when I was pleased, Her doll she dearly the tore it up. loved she banged on the floor till it cracked. I bought her a new cont nud hat and she rubbed them
over the floor. which she does sometimes and under- to her clean dresses
..When wear......
she deliberately hurts, herself in that way I ignore it she វ Irrevocably and while destroying her pleasuren i say, "Go on nnd do it: you are only hurting yourself,'
FEELS RELIEVED
nway
"I tried taking the things from her and the seemed to feel relieved that she didn't have to fol- low out her sentence. But it didn't work. I've tried slapping her and that didn't work. I've tried Ignoring haven't It, but quite obviously I found the solution.
She is friendly and happy most of the time bat treats her friends as she does her loved things, shouting home. at them to tell them to go Please help me."
My reply in part:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
CARE OF ENAMELS
By ELEANOR ROSS
E know many housewives, experienced women, who just dote on enamel ware. And they take good care to see that it doesn't receive the nicks and breaks that turn 80 many women against this type of ware.
double
Especially do we like a boller of porcelain enamel ware for because only reheating left-overs
the
low heat
is
and necessary already dry food will not lose too much of its moisture:
Ja steci
With average day-to-day care, this type of ware should give long, satis- factory service. This ware actually glass fused onto a base, and so its strength and looks should last. It should never be struck with hard, sharp blows and care should be taken to prevent it from being dropped. Banging uten- ails against the faucets or on the range, or hammering with spoons is niso to be avoided. After all, such care should be taken with any type of wore.
Big Advantage
One of the big advantages of porcelain enamel ware is that it does 'not need an elaborate cleaning. Most of the time it will clean easily with jusi mild soapy water, and rinsing in clear water to restore its original lustre and gleaming finish. Even if this food has dried or baked onto
need of utensil, it does, not Lype harsh cleaning agents, abrasives, nor Instrument to scraping with n shorp remove the food particles, Simply soaking in water for several hours food or overnight will loosen the sumciently to let it slip off easily in In stubborn the next washing. cases where food hus stuck to
small amount of water may pan, B be placed in the pan and allowed to
boll. Let come slowly to.
the waler simmer for a few
minutes,
A
and the food will come off easily.
tho
If an enamel porcelain pot or pan has boiled dry, forget the first im- pulse to plunge it Into cold water. Let the utensil cool first before plunging it in cold water or adding cold water to 1.
Cleaning Agont
SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1948.
FIRST LOOK FOR BABY
DAB and FLOUNDER.
By WALTER
Brith Screen Actress Deborah Kerr gives her four-month her first glimpan of England on old daughter. Melanie Jane, arriving at Southampton. Mas Kerr has been in Hollywood for more than a year.
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
'Delicious' Sea
Food .
All depends on how it is cooked
chill and serve
THIS oveter bisque looks vinaigrette sauce.
good," I said. "It must with sliced cucumbers or tomatoes be delicious made with fresh and cress, and sometimes a little
would also oysters, but it good made with canned Lers."
mayonnaise."
be
OYB-
Baking soda is a useful, but harm- less cleaning agent when you want to tackle an enamel coffee pot that tas slained. A solution of baking
"And here is an interesting soda may be bolled in the pot, and then rinsed with clear. lukewarm entree of the oyster," remark- water to keep the utensil fresh and ed the Chef. "The individual clean. It hus also been found that,
a teakettle of this type of ware can oyster pies, served with a mix- be kept sweet and fresh by boiling aed green salad. The little pies solution of vinegar and water in it are easy to make with Ameri- oan piccrust with a filling of Loysters and mushroom pieces in
cream sauce."
Your slapping has been only after both of you are mad. Instead of occasionally. slapping her, asalgs her to sit in a chair for punishment, without amusement, for exactly 35 minutes, punishment (and using physical effectively) only if she refuses to go to the chair or stay there. More shrieking at her or tying or holding her would be less humane.
Show her abundant affection. Be generous with deserving praise, Win the older children and your friends to help you build in this chlid feeling of self-regard. Be sure you are always self-controlled. It would be well to have her checked by your physician.
If the bottom of the double boiter tends to become coated with lime deposits from water, as it will in
"That's a good way to make those communities where the Ilme
several content in waler is
there a few oysters serve great,
I commented, persons," coatings can be washed off with soap and water every time the double especially if large oysters are boiler is used.
cut in halves or quarters.”
Wooden spoons and forks are pre- ferred for mixing and stirring when using enamel wäre. With such care. any user of this type of ware should get excellent service and plenty of it.
Meat For Your Baby?
By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
"I like the way you work out the luxury taste so it is within the budget, Madame," remark- ed the Chef. "That is a good thing."
Crabs
"It would be very nice as a cold nors d'oeuvre," I observed.
"What sh would you like to ent from the menu" queried the Chef. of bass with rice," I said.
"I'd like to try the curried Allets
But the Chef, Just to prove he's a real gourmet; ordered
stew.
DINNER
terrapin
Vegetable Bowl Sulad
Flaky Rice Curried Fillets of Bass
Lemonised Cabbage Rolls Butter or Magarine Chilled Prune Cup
Coffee or Tea Milk (Children) All Measurements Are Level Recipes Serve Four
Vegetable Bowl Salad
A
4.
'Combine 1 c. each diced cooked or canned string beans, cooked
sliced carrots, diced raw celery, and c. sileed red radishes. Add tomato French dressing, and chill 30 "Well, there is really
min. or longer. Line a shallow bowl with coarse-ahredded lettuce. Heap reason why we should confind the salad in the centre, decorate with our food budget to a narrow crisp red radishes, with the tender
on green leaves left to selection of grim foods. Wo.
"handles" and a pleasant spring-tid-- can all plan interesting and bit
While milk, preferably mother's considered the idea of giving ment appetising meals if we
milk, has remained the mainstay of to bables. the baby's diet, we have found that
Doctors Ruth M. Leverton
sald
the child benefits by the carly ad- George Clark, of Nebraska. have dition of certain other foods, such given strained meats to babies begin A$ orange. Juice and strained ning at the age of six weeks and vegelables,
continuing for a period of eight
Until recently, not many mothers weeks.
FAMILIAR FACES
Jimmy Taumer, 12, of Herrin, Mo, has 'no wallpaper" problem. He has 3,000 plotures of sports figures and other favourites pasted around his roam, and when he tires of these, he has 2,000 more all ready, to go up.
A study was carried out on 33 in- fante, over a six-month period, to determine how well the babies
tolerated the meat and what effect it had on the colouring matter in the blood and the number of red
blood cells.
.to
The strained meat 'was given the infants in their milk mixture. The effect of the ment feelings WAE determined by comparing the bables who received meat with the babies who given to increase the amount
of
imagination."
no
180
"Shall we try the crabs?" the Chef went on. **T sec this menu gives several interesting dishes made of the crab flakes. I like very much the crab-flake en coquille."
form
Curried Fillots of Bass Or Other Fish
of dish
This may be made with any kind fillets. Order from 1 to 1% lbs, or enough to make 4 portions. Place in a shallow pan; cover with bayleat bolling water containing 1
fish and tbsp. vinegar, or use stock made from the trimmings of boiling point and simmer 15 the fish instead of water, Bring to min. Next heat 3 tbsp. margarine or salad and stir in 4 tbsp. flour, 1/3 tsp. sall and tsp. pepper. Add 1 or for the main course at a lite tsp. curry powder and cook luncheon. A half pound of fresh, moment. Then stir in 1 c. fish stock, frozen or canned crab flakes will 1 c. whole milk and c. undiluted serve four persons, too.
milk or fight evaporated
cream.
Place Cook and stir until boiling. the flies on, a deep platter; pour over the sauce; sprinkle with minced surround with flaky parsley, and
Which is creamed crab meat put in individual baking shells, sprinkled with grated cheese and browned," I said, as the Chef nodded approval. "Very nice for a hot hors d'oeuvre,
Ash
These entrees made of the Allets pre
are very good," the Chef com- mented. "And see, Madame, now
did not. Enough meat Was
protein in the diet by 25 percent. fresh shad is In season it is The meat was started by giving a specialite
Veal, beef, pork and lamb were used.
small amount
at first, and then gradually increasing it. The amount of sugar in the diet was decreased so that the baby would not receive a dlet too high in caloric or
hent vnlue.
Strained Meat
The babies accepted the mixture readily and none of them was upset by it.
andre
olt
Lemonized Cabbage
0
Wash and fine-chop enough new
of this restaurant. Do you rice. think these shad entrees will interest our homemakers in the Middle West
on the Pacific Coast?"
surely will. Fresh ahad is cabbage 10 make 5 c. Half cover available all along the Atlantic Sea
with bolling water; add 1 tsp. salt board and in most land cities,” I
and boil 7 min. Drain and use the explained. "Ree shad is expensive, liquid in making a soup, (If pres but buck shad is usually in the bud sure-cooking, at 15 lbs. pres- 1 C. belling water get class. And of course
canned
and allow 3 shad fillets are available for home, sure). Combine the drained, cooked makers everywhere; or fillets of cabbage with 2 tbsp. melted butter perch, rose fish or bars can be used
or margarine, 1 tbsp. lemon julco (in place of shad,'
and a little black pepper.
Pruna Cup
Shad Dishes.
The babies receiving the strained ment did not grow more rapidly or gain weight more readily than the infants who did not receive the meat over a two-month period of study. However, there was a marked in
"In that case I would like to tell crease in the number of red cells and your readers about one of these shad the amount of colouring matter in dishes on the menu. It looks very the blood. It would seem, there- good. It is called shad. Allets fore, that the giving of meat does vinaigrette. When I make It," the have the effect of bringing up the Chief went on. "I poach the Gilets red cells count and increasing the In a little salted water containing a amount of haemoglobin or colouring bayleaf and some In the blood.
sliced lemon. Then I drain and season with the
Household Hints
John
Davis. probably
ope
of a chort blouse, she suggests adding the buslest women in Hollywood, a band of net to the bottom. No knows all the short cuts to saving finishing is necessary and there will time. She was knitting sweaters on be no added bulk.
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the pot of NKO's "If You Knew Susie" and sho had marked
Here's one way to put new life inches on her knitting needles with frito silk lingerie. Lovely Bar- nail enamel. That way, no time was bara Halo, currently playing in wasted on measuring,
Wash and soak 1 c. tender, moist prunes in 3 c, water for 15 mln. Add tsp. salt and the grated rind of 1⁄4 lemon. Cover and simmer until the prunes are almost tender, about 20 min. Then add 1⁄4 c. sugar, and continue to cook until tender but not mushy, about 10 min. longer. Skim out the prunes from the syrup. There should be 1% e liquid left. If water or necessary, add bolling apple juice to make up this amount. Thicken the liquid by stirring
in
1 tbsp. corristarch dissolved in 1 tbsp. cold water. Cook and stir unill boiling all over. Then add 1 tbsp. lemon juice. Meanwhile re- move the pits from the .prunes;
the pour over
thickened pruna ayrup; serve Ice cold with a topping. of apple whip, or sweetened whip- ped cream or evaporated milk.
:
"The Window," adds a tablespoon of lemon juice to each gallon of water
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in rinsing out her lingerie. She says You can always get a good tip on it in only necessary to do this, after sowing from Loretta Young, She every 2 or 3 washings. The tomon recently
freshness comploted "Rachel and juice rinse gives a new the Stranger" for RKO. To lengthen and life to the lingerie.
TRICK OF THE CHEF
To give a special flavour to the vegetable bowl nalad, add tap powdered dried rint to the French dressing.
F
PASSION
DAB CHIROPODIST
2 Flor
& POISON
IN DARKEST NW8
IN a dusty study in St John's · MARIE, who was not one of those Wood a man and a woman sat little ladies, had her own circlo working. Marie Connor Leigh written 12 novels and was married of admirers; Mr Bowles, who had ton was dictating to her accre- to a puny-minded woman" who tary the latest instalment of a would not understand; Judge Talbot, melodramatic serial for the obese and sentimental; and Alexan- Daily Mail. The messenger boy was waiting in the hall to take it to Lord Northcliffe.
der, who wrote stories for boys, wore a kilt and a top-hat, bawled". Scot- tsh love-songs and, every now and
then, got the DT's.
Robert Leighton was writing The house in St John's Wood.; for boys a thriller about cow- throbbed with the passion, Marie's boys and Indians In the Wild dressing-table was strewn with the love-letters of these romantle charac- West. On the floor, Skye ter- icrs. Robert didn't mind. He, too,.
riers snarled and fought. Marie, was a romantic. in the full tide of dictation, pald no attention to them. was disturbed by neither his Mamma hadn't had the misfortune to
wife nor the dogs. He
was very deaf.
Robert
BOOKS
In the background was Grand- mamma, of whom Marie said: "I
have been born
agentic- woman, she would have made a most excellent lodging-house proprietress, or even better still..."
Grandmamma lot houses la lady tenants who could not always pay in cash. Grandmamma would thon acquire a new ring or a tur coat. But how wormly sho defended the
character of Maude It might be, and the otherst
There they sat, side by side at the table, she poisoning and abduc ting at the top of her voice, he peacefully scalping Sloux on the boundless prairies.
IFE with Mother.
Goorge Malcolm Thomsoe
It would have taken a remarkable
but is not, the title of the book in which Clare Leighton, daughter woman to eclipse Grandmamma, of this couple, tells their story. In But Marie did it. She was tremen- fact, it is called Tempestuous Petil- dous; a fountain of emotion; a mine scoať (Gollancz, 128, Od). A silly of womanly wisdom and social folly.
title? Quite so. But let it frighten For example: nobody from ¤ most readable book.
"The only way to keep beautiful is to dress in a cold bedroom,"
... Marie Leighton Was a prepos- "Shoot takes all the character and terous, clever, emotional, shrewd charm from a woman.". and maddening woman. She was also beautiful. In her mixture of
grand Ideas and hard work, she was à sort of epitome of St John's Wood In those Edwardian days,
"A blue-stocking is a woman who has failed in her sex,”
It was the twilight of romance. The age of flannel and the Merry when
an observant
Ari
St John's Wood-Bohemian, dis- Widow waltz, treet, slovenly, beyond Lord's and woman might discern an exalted. regrettably far from grace.
Full if portly, allhouette and of hairy men who painted Highland nounce: "I saw cattle, and little ladies whooh, going in at that pium-coloured gar-
him
this afternoon dear me, not Each had a circle of den gate. He had a bunch of gentleman admirers, Nothing more stephanotis in his hand." than that.
That would be a red-letter day.
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