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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1948.

SEVEN BABIES IN FOUR

YEARS.

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HOW LONG CAN YOUR CHILD CONCENTRATE?

-asks GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Ph.D.

an-

I have also seen a tot, soon after earning to walk, carry small blocks

ne by one from one place to other, espefully to a person's lap, minutes. Any for as long as fr

Mrs Laurle Harper of

such experiences are valuable train- | Lavington, Australia, sits with

ing in concentration.

IN PLAY PEN

to

TSUALLY the very young child does not centre his interest And attention around one thing very long. His

rein span of concentration is tively short. Yet it is amazing ten how long a baby nine or months old may dwell on simple activity such as putting

Also the fot from mine to Dfteen checker men, dominoes, spools, months a ply pets, whose nother or clothespins into a pan or does not run in him to amuse him box. out again and in again, every time he calls, tuay, if he has

come simple playthings, learn over and over. And if the box see to the is deep so he can't bottom of it or if he has a long cardboard tube or box with both ends open so that the object he puta into it disappears and he can fish it out with his hands. or if it reappears again at the- other open end of the bax op tube, he may concentrate con- Finuously for several minute at a stretch.

SEWING TIPS FOR AMATEURS

By ELEANOR ROSS

EVERYWHERE in America. There's laying on of patterns on fibre, banting, machining, hitting, and ali the other procesistes that are part Never, never Turve of dress-nakts.

sales pattern

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women have

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clothes

profesional - Boking themselves and their young children,

For beginners, we offer a Dew aikis that may be asdfastive to help them in nelieving professional re- ults, for in dressmaking, especially,

cointless Tricks of 1 there are trude."

Tricks

First of all, your sewing machine should be in tip-top condition. See that it receives a proper tune-1355 Have at hanet the full complement of sewing machine aids, to achieve such touches us applique, snocking. ruling. Become an expert in 'bast- ing, the proper foundation for proper fit. Use a long needle, learn to make long, even stitches, usert pins at 10 right angles instead of parallel

the edge of fabric. Have at hand a selection of various coloured threads, and use a different enlour for each os marking darts, gathers

Job such or pleats.

After a garment has been cut out,

Ine of before handling it, run basting all around the bias eriges, which

In will help to keep them proper shape until they are sewed. Don't try to pull out long basting regular thrends, but clip thread at intervals, and pull our cack short thread individually.

After garment is fully busted, try it on. There will be less danger of out over or rip having to do it slitches, which doesn't improve any fabric. If you are doing a Kreat

of

dent of wardrobe sewing, twest i a proper form, especially one those plastic jobs moulded to your perfect size.

Sheer Fabric

me mself for longer and. Tonger periods of a stretch, The sine holds from for a youtugler tws or three sears of age, who has had to walt fra rencanable perituds and whose mother does not try all the time to

hase him.

The soffal mother Ivels and shows

appasciution of what the very yoming child can do as he begins to bald, lavent nudd egeate is Ris caule ways, mgeemilly when he begins to drown, Thething he names,

drama. ents and pastes, When ad ademt Two or older, his amagitations Jevelops :trongly and be play at pretending, appreciation. est a fun then chenager him

to

non prefenditug atul creating, and Fase a favity may continue for longer and Sorer perinds of time.

When,

her seven children, all born within the last four years. Gurry, aged four (standing be- hind her) is the eldest. The other, three sets of twin, were born in a period of two and a half years.

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

LESS PAINFUL Caring For The

CHILDBIRTH

ANN ARBOR,

Mich. Childbirth tairs are just an old wives' tale to 10 percent of Uie mothers who have tables at the University of Mich!- Kan hospital.

maternity

ward

assistant

Refrigerator

kitchen

The hospital's mukes

Caudal THE refrigerator in the extensive use of

was empty, the current turned Anesthesia, which virtually elimi-

off and the air faintly reminiscent nates pain while the mother remains

of the household ammonia and sonp awake all during the bleth process.

used in washing the shelves and in- Dr Reynold L Haas,

tertor. On the kitchen table was un professor of obstetrics and gyneco-

array of foors; meat, milk, eggs. logy at the university medical school,

cheese, leftovers, sulat pointed out that candal anaesthesia itler,

each in its own plants,

separate different from spinal Is entirely

covered container; all of them of clear glass, so the contents could be seen at a plunce, and the containers themselves be Bepl scrupulously

Temple, he offers his mother anesthesia, an alternate method of

n

com father leg or cookies from try Cop or plates or Let it of vardbound or paper used for such or ceable #til. her deskirt the "tea" af vating the

Jiz moondjes” with gusto indiures to poder d creative activity, to Concentrate

COOD WAY

When utg his second year he vance interest la pictures, the sy

the tie anther for father) talks to Tuts all these pictures, especially mall pictures of a buck or inaga- ted 15 14 1 a simple, attractive book or mine with many smaili

ties and short

Carles FUNTERN 15

legends connected with the pretures, he is beginning and to fit before he knows it.

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by the little lot may be listening to his mother or father trad for three nurh minutes, five mates or Rober There

better hardly is a way to cultivate concentration habita in the tot from two to six than to rend and read and read to him.

Youunit mothers who are Daised and serene, who speak in soft quiet voices and so set the family stage that the bushy and young child will beralm and mut jumpy and Jittery are doing men thairs they realise for cultivating in this centration hubits.

child good con-

BOOK

of the

reducing labour pains.

"In chadal anaesthesia, the drug is injected in the lower end of the spine and. blocks the nerves to the organs of the birth. In the spinal method the drug is put directly into the spinal fluid." Di Hoas said.

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refrigerator cleats- "My weekly

Chrt. busily up." explained Pouring boiling water into the Ire

Containers, "I will now put these back, close the door, and irt half an hour the steam will defrost the refrigerator, Then I empty out the ier and water From the way under the ice chumber: I wash the them with re-cube trays and B of

Dr Hans said caudal anaesthesia Is not routed through the lungs an does not interfere with either the mother's or the haby's breathing

process,

The use of caudal anaesthesia has not become extensive because the special training required to ad- minister it. Dr Hans said,

RAW FOODS & MILK ADVISED FOR ULCERS

SAN

FRANCISCO.-If you afraid of stomach ulcers, you may foods and do well to include raw

fresh milk in your diet.

That conclusion was reached by

fresh cold water, I wipe the walls al shelves of the refrigerator with a clean cloth if they are damp. Then I put back all the food, turn on the

my put

refrigerator current,

bring town the temperature to 45 degrees, what you

thetrameter and

call THE SAFETY ZONE!"

Minar Sickness

t

"And the only way to be sure a Dr Garnett Cheney, scientist at Stan-refrigerator is suficiently cold".

addled, "Es school of medl-

always to keep the re- ford University's

and cine. after tests conducted with frigerator thermometer there,

Casull it every day. Most guinea pigs.

refrigerators are not cold enough to much safeguard food. That's why minor summer- sickness can trneed to food that's on. Ile verge of spoilage, and attacks of plomaine to foud that's already spoiled."

A diel neh in vitamin U, found in raw foods and milk but defielent reduces peplic in heated foods, ulcer occurrences, a university bud lett said. The importance of the findings depends whether the human storauch behaves exactly like that of guinea plas. the added.

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think there is one good rule to sajd follow about food in suminer, The Chef. "If it seems at nil spoiled,

A NOVEL 'WOMEN WILL REVEL IN'

Bedtime story-

DAY with throbs on!

"EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE,” by Marcia Davenport (Collins, 10x. 6d.j

IN the nature of things.

by DANIEL GEORGE

In Side, West Side, fee on a silver tray, Jessle and Mark

Marcia Davenport's new novel is not so solid us her big iron- fouling drama, "The Valley of Decision," which, I

Lold, advantageously shed

of

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some

the maid brought in decanters with

missed the went dry on me, so I brandy and port.

Jesse and Mark had good tole in food. Jessie's good inste extend ed to interlor decoration: she could

its weight in the process of pick up rare pieces of damask in being filmed with Greer Garson Vienna and old English china

(Spode, Chelsea) anywhere, and Gregory Peck.

As for the netiml sewing, when handling sheer, or very lightweight fabrics, stitch onto tissue paper

fabric from puckering. prevent

There is no iron in "East

Side, Back stitch every seam, paying at-

West Side." No irony either. Renders tention to the ends of the tucks.

ore advised to bring their own th to prevent plcats and duris.

Treated with right ironie de- scams from opening. Some fabries

tachment, this modernisation of a should get ravel easily, and these

favourite bedtime story will yield special attention, Baw edges should pleasant diversion even in its scenes be covered, French, bound,

flut- felfed or overcast seams are worth of emotion with throbs on the extra effort since they won't

washings fray after repeated

eleanings. When making a

Or

curved

ream, clip the fabric toward the seam

You feel at home from the stari. Old friends greet you-American of them newspaper people, most knowledgeable, or at least knowing.

at regular intervals. It will then e and characteristically golden-heart-

fnt. Waistline and bits seama pre less litely to pull out of shape it n fupe Is sewed into thern.

A-finely made garment is recognila-

ed by its nish, and good finishers command very high pay. So do good Antoblog job on your home- made clothes. Learn τα πίνε wrong side as much care and keep

a

tho

el. The food is exquisite. I testify that I have not imaginatively enten so well since the last volume of Agate's "Ego."

THEIR TALENTS

At one Intimate Hitle

luncheon

it as neat ne the right alde. Make party-ukter preliminary cockinits, use of pinking shears, invest in best hot mushrooms, anonymous solip possible quality snaps, belt buckles, and celery--I shared some fruite au buttons and other trimming. Learn bleu and partridges in sauerkraut, to be, an expert at putting in slido washed down-no, not washed down! fasteners, Practise up on old frocks I remembered I mustn't drink with and fasteners if this part of dress- my mouth making floorn you. Follow pattern Instructions to the letter.

ly in a servant shortage) was to send to the cleaners.

But he was no worse than others in his set-men, is the wife of one of them remarked, who had dis- covered that if war is not altogether hell, marriage 18.

Before Mark can arrange for Jes- ste to attain complote fulfilment, as they say, and true happiness in the usual manner, both finve to work their passage through the standar-

lised commotion,

• THEIR UNREALITY

In her youth she had worked on She didn't have 10- A newspaper.

rich. The ex- Wus her mother perience gave her (except at the bank) what is known as balance. Mark was 1 expert on

Two of them were in her room when. affairs. A journalist before the war, he rapidly became a general, ap-

she fatally hit the fender. Jessie's peared with Roosevelt at Teheran. management of the hushing-up

this.contretemps is so masterly that and later helped to organise, at great

admiration, her husband, In 'sheer personal peril, netive resistance in-

oblatn skle Czechoslovakia:

seeks, without legal ald, to

of

rights. restitution

conjugal Mark......

I goncludes the famous "Did she- fail-or-was-she puslied!" act. The "she" in the case was a siren with a celebrities, mole retinue of richi foreign

What brought Jessie and Mark closer together was the fact that they could claim to be "real folks."

wise

East Coming originally from the Side of New York, where men are mentors and women not only but virtuous, they were deeply dis- tressed by the minds, manners, and morals of their wealthy friends on the West Side.

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But I must not wantonly give more of a story which away ony

women--w]}] thousands-especially enjoy reading for themselves.

to share wishing Anyone peculiar pleasure must be careful to

garish snobbery, observe its phoney "folksiness," its assumption that the doings of Marks and Jessic Jessie's high-society husband, have any more important relevance Brandon Bourne, was a cad.

to life than the adventures of Rupert (See Boys and and Ting-Ling. Girls Page),

A fool, too. Surely he had read enough novels and seen enough full-accompanied by alms to know better than to love noble burgundy, a Clos de Roche an Incriminating document in a of 1929. Coffee followed; but when coat which Jessio (boing housewife-

Though it seems longer, the action of the book covers only one week. Elibar. Glyn took Three Weeks.

it must be thrown out; it should not be fixed up. You do not make ment or fish safe by washing it in water You cannot re- with baking soda. vive vegetables or fruits that have begun to decny by cooking them."

Dangerous Food

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"And one of the most

dangerous

most

that's

of all types of foods tooks the most innocent and can cause the frouble." I went on, "and cream pie or cream puffs, cream cake custards of my kind. If left out of the refrigerator even a few hrars, 11 may taste, gond, but may le ferally teeming with dangerous Of course the thing to do fusteria. is to make use of foods before they get spoiled. Huy in smaller quan test get enough perishable fish and chopped niat for only one meal, and if any happens to be left over, use it within 12 hours, or else quick- freeze it if you have the ment."

equlp-

K "It is easy to prevent waste

every the refrigerator is checked day," observed the Chet. "Then yo'

must be what leftovers Can sec used up immediately. If fruits are make retling over-ripe. you can them into a nice compote; if the vegetables are beginning to get the wrinkles, then you must make them very quickly into a salad or a soun. In this way you are saving not only food but money."

"And above all." I added, "you are safeguarding the family's good health'

Dinner

Sliced Squash Hors d'Oeuvres Pot Roast of Veal Vinnigrette Sliced. Tomatoes Flaky Potatoes with Green Peas Cantaloupe "Boats"

Hot or Iced Tea or Coffice Milk (Children) All Measurements Are Level Recipes Serve Four

Sliced Squash Hors d'Oeuvres

Peel 1 medium-sized squash. Silce crosswise in 4 in. pieces. In a small tsp. margarine and kettle melt 1

onlon. slow-fry in it 1 tsp. minced Add the squash, 1 Isp. salt und 4 tsp. sugar, and boiling water almost tender to Cover. Simmer until when pierced with a toothpick, Drain and cool. Top with balls made by mixing chopped red radishes and chives with cream or cottage cheeso. Dust with paprika and chili. Servo French lettuce with plain, or on dressing.

Pot Roast of Veal Vinaigretta

Order 3 to 4 lbs. breast of veal, boned.

Dust inside and out with "pocket" Enlt and pepper. In the of the veal put a thin layer of minceri parsley mixed with a little minced onlon or crushed garlic. Roll tight; Jace fasten with pouttry pins and

siring. together with clean, while Brown

over in margorine, all shortening or ment fat. Add 1 thin- sliced carrot, and boiling water to the height of the ment. Cover 2 and simmer until tender about fire. (Or pressure cook at 15 lbs. ot allowing 10 min. for each lb. ment). Slice, heat in hot vinaigrefle sauce, and serve plain, or garnished with sliced tomatoes.

Cantaloupe "Boats"

the

Cut good-sized cantaloupe into U lengthwise pieces. Rernove seeds; peel off the rind. Hollow out the pulp about 1 in. Cut it in the dice and mix with seasonable fresh fruit, us shredded pineapple, berries of any kind, a diced pear, peach ne orange, or use cunned grapefruit sections. Sweeten with 1 tbsp. honey, and stir in tbsp. lime juice for taste. Chill both the boats" and the fling. To serve, hesp the see- tians of cantaloupe with the fruit mixture. Prepared in this way the cantaloupe goes farther as there is less waste next to the rind.

Trick Of The Chaf

To prepare iced cafe au lait, meko Cool, 3 c, double strength coffee. pour Into an ice cube tray and freeze in the refrigerator just as you do ice cubes. To each serving add 3 to 4 "coffeo" cubes to 4 c. warmed

Pasa whole milk, and shake well. powdered sugar.

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Safeguard that Smile

IF your gums flash a warning tinge of "pink" on your tooth brush, consult your dentist. There may be nothing seriously wrong . . . but don't take chances.. let your dentist decide. He may explain "a ximple case of tender gums -gums robbed of work by to-day's soft and creamy foods". His advice will probably be "more work and resistance for lazy gums" and often, "the helpful stimulation of Ipana Tooth Paste and massage”.

Adopt this simple dental health routine : Brush your teeth with (pana every morning and evening, followed by vigorous gum massage with Ipana on the finger-tip. Teeth become brighter, more lustrous; gums firmer, healthier." CHANGE TO

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