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BEAUTY What all Mothers know

by EVE PERRICK

Without the help of the scientists, the morato- uplifters, and all the other exports, I claim this is an account of what having a baby means-really means~in the social gente....

S soon as the news is out.

try to avoid any woman

In your circle who is over

40 and who has ever had baby.

i

In that category' come the who garrulous grandmothers persist in giving out a round- by-round account of the arrival of their first-born.

(More

often than not he is your hus- band.)

Among the littler things sent to try you are the "beautiful thoughts" brigade.

They may appear in the guise of doctor, nurse, hospital matron,

articles friend - or family

In

- women's magazines. But they all chorus: "This is the happiest time of your life-you should be just bubbling over with joy."

You-wile have probably just lived through a day of minor in-

will ternal disagreements, better.

know

The first awakening to your new status will be sharp and cruel.

WATCHING

IKE all others, you will have been reassuring yourself that only your closest friends wouki ever. KUCES. Then, uno bright morning. the well-meaning, but tactless, bus driver will wait just that moment longer when he sees you panting towards the bus stop.

* Hig running-mato at the other end will say "Fares please, mins" thes on second thoughts make 1 "madam."

Apart from vegetarians, other

kinds of nature-lover, and the

"ife-is-real-life-in-earnest" group, I deny any woman's having really enjoyed the probationary period to baby-having.

The man who softly confesses ho is so sad that he cannot enjoy "that ultimate experience of life" really doesn't mean a word of i

But even if you are having one of those perfect, trouble-free there is no need to pregnancies, broadcast It (especially to your husband) and make it bad for others.

In these days, unfortunately, that old racket of "fancying" things is vlmost denied us but there is no roazon why the father-to-be should get out of all the-chures

Demand

something obtainable- say, a corned beef and tomato cand- wich-at come inconvenient timel

WAITING ..

social side. THEN THEN there Is the

Night etuba-are-out but the ten-fight, with you as the centre of some lurid, coversation, is in.

You make a horde of new friends anong the similarly placed..

You will probably spend a lot of time studying mothercraft manuals. These are usually, pompous publica- tions, packed with photographs of beautiful, plump, curly-haired babes taking cold baths and lying naked amid

scenery. You can snowy

infant will count on it that your not look a bit like the picture-book pretties.

In the same books you will learn

that a happy, healthy,

child does not cry.

cared-for

A little Inter

that

on you can, perhaps, argue point with a warmly clad, well-fed, unspotted but nevertheless bawling unfortunately cannot Junior, who

read.

SCC

Or you might take the matter up with the woman in the flat down- stairs, who may or may not your point that picking up a yell- ing baby spolis hum.

WONDERING

WHILE, contrary to the book of Wrules, you do

a little floor- on the walking, you can ponder

Why should a Freudian problem: baby who was the darling of the nursing-home, or hospital staff during that blissful fortnight you were cared for and carefree-why should he change his entire charac- ter in his own home?.

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But for all this there are always mother And compensations. doesn't have to discover them from books.

Drawn

by ROBB.

THE - HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1948.

FASHIONS HOME

WHAT TODAY'S WELL-DRESSED TWO-MONTH-OLD

-WHEN MONEY

1 Two-month TOTAL COST of troussent on this royal scale is in the region of £130.

Robb's drawing shows Д sample

(According 10 selection.

the specialist shop in London where decision these clothes are sold, the on what and how many rests with the nurse-parents merely pay the Bil.)

1-BABY bag in blanket wool with aniin. Detachable bordered

Bd. £3 10s. hood. No coupons..

2.-DAY and hight gown in fine woollen, smocked round neck and bodice. Four at 18s. Od.... £19 145.

IS WEARING IS NO OBJECT

in 3. TEA-PARTY dress

Two at broldered organdie. gulneas... £22 is.

em-

10%

real 4. CHRISTENING robe in lace with long slip... 23 guineas. Bonnet to match, 3 gulness.

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

Serve Delicious Apples Often

"WHAT a gorgeous display of apples!" remarked the Chef, Ds we walked into the super-market, He picked out a big red delicious apple. "Enjoy it Madame," he said, "and I will do the same."

"Let's buy some apples to cook,"

I said. "Those Melatosh, greenings and Northern Spies will be good for baking,, apple sauce, frying and pics."

"And we'll need some of those Golden Delicious mples for salads, and to mix with assortment of cating apples to make a nico fruit bowl for the living-room table," the Chief added.

Barrel Of Apples "When I was a girl, I recollected, "father always bought a barrel of autumn apples which were stored This In a cool place in the cellar.

Then carried us up to December. he'd get in a barrel of winter apples that would last almost unli spring. fruit. Apples were our principal

had sliced For breakfast we often apples cooked with the oatmeal or rice. Or sometimes there would be fried apples with sausage, or apple

of bread is passed around the table. Each one slices, the apple, spreads it with the cheese, and cats it with the bread. Good for the beauty, the digestion and the budget."

Dianer

Croutons Split Pea Soup

Corned Beef Hash Platier with Bacon

Beets Cauliflower Carrots

Old Fashioned Cornbread Apple Sauce Custard

Milk (Children) Coffee or Tea

All Measuremente Are Lavel Ileciate Serva Four Corned Beef Hash Plattor First start to prepare the vege

may include plain- cut in carrots, tables, which cooked scmped

and seasoned with browned quarters butter or margarine; sliced cooked butter beets seasoned with brown

enough lemon margarino and OT Julce to taste tart, and sections of cauliflower cooked until barely ten- der,

then seasoned with plain melted butter or margarine and dusted with fine-minced parsley. When half done, slow-fry 4 slices bacon until crisp, Open and

griddlo cakes. An apple was always st strain on absorbent Ped beet

packed in our school lunch. And a ginger cookle with an apple kept us going after school. Several times a week a bowl of unsifted hot nople sauce was served as a vegetable for dinner. Other days for dessert wo dumplings, apple had apple pie. apple Betty, steamed apple pudding, apple cake or apple custard."

the good did you drink "And apple cider like we have in Nor- mandy?" Inquired the Chef.

"Yes,

we loved it, cold or hot. After skating, mother often made elder us a elder toddy, merely 8.-LACE jacket for christening, heated, sweetened, and stirred with 5 guineos.

5-LONG carrying gown in one first size. wool. Two nt 235, 10d.. 478. 8d.

vesta, 6. KNITTED

£5 125. Od. Six ut 18s. Od....

7.-MATINEE Jackets in knitted wool Six at 18s. Pel.... £5 13s. Od.

THE LABELS CAN TELL YOU A LOT

By ANNE EDWARDS

and trimmings.

DON'T be tempted by "bargains"

ET'S start with woollens. coat or sult, £6 12s. for skirt, £17 Las more imitators 63. for frock. Some shops step up To be the price by adding "special" buttons than any other cloth.

CARPETS sure what you are getting, look for a label or stamp. Anything stamped "Wool" or "Ail Woo!" will be pure wool.. But the word "Woollen" can legally refer to a method of spinning and not to the textile content.

A garment marked woollen ma contain only 15 percent, wool. Loose designations by the Board of Trade garments only have also allowed hall wool to be described as wool cloths.

EXAMPLE: Uility raincoat 223,

hawked by door-to-door callers. Buy carpets with a name tab on the back and sold by a reputable retailer. Remember that a coloured or black the back means the thrend down carpet is price controlled.

The most you

As

a stick of cinnamon bark. We never seemed to get tired of apples.

I realise it was I look back now,

clever in because my mother was preparing them in so many differ- ent ways, and in combining them with many interesting spices and flavours. She used cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and allspice, each giving a different flavour. Sometimes she add- rind. ed a Hile lemon or orange For a change she'd sweeten apple sauce with brown sugar, or scraped maple sugar. She made it in many different ways. One day, she'd peel the apples, slice them thin and boll thin it white

The next, sho'd peel and silce the apples thick, and bake the sauce in a bean pot for hours in a slow oven, so it was rich and red.

Stirred in Buttor "Before serving she'd stir in a tablespoon of butter. Apples for baking were sometimes stuffed with

and she'd mincemeat or bananas; even flavour apple pie with a spray should pay pur

of mint or a leaf from her pet rose- square yard for an English carpet is geranium growing in the kitchen 2d.; Indian made, 065. edwindow sill. As for her apple sauce nos.

custard, that was our most elegant Belgian,.00s, or the equivalent,

GLOVES

company dessert."

the most "The apple is indeed versatile of our fruits," commented the Chef. "May I suggest a simple for dessert, as is customarily done polished In France? A brightly

fruit-knife-and-a piece of cheese, preferably the soft cheese, A basket

GOD the

quality

marked as wool gabardine, contains low-priced glove, look at the strength way of using the good raw apples

40 percent. cotton.

gloves-whatever bc- price-have gussets tween the fingers. When buying a of the leather round the thumb base. You can tell a good wool cloth-by-Top price for utility-fur-backed apple-is-yarved-on-cach plate, with evenness of yarn, cluseness of weave gloves 15 42. 30. (hold it up to the light). If it's ne rub your thumb nail over the map; poor material will come up in httle knobs.

You are now entitled to demand pre-shrunk or shrink-resistant wugls. If you have a wool cutting to take home, test it by drawing a thread and lighting . Pure wool burns slowly into a black knob and smells like a smithy. Other fabrics •flare quickly.

STOCKINGS

Flannelette

BAD BUYS

these: REWARE of B sheets sold off coupons because they are made of cotton waste. The "pure silk dressing Kowns and pyjamas which are made from silk waste-you-can-tell them by_a.cot tony look and crunchy feel.

FOOD Gorgonzola must be

In creamy

colour and con- sistency. Don't buy the chalk while kind of cheese with cracks on the edge. Test the heart of Camembert with your thumb: it is right for eating if the centre

HEESE:

joaf

BREAD: The best-baked tastes best and lasts longest. Look for these pointers well-shaped loaf (it's evenly baked), n crisp and

bottom "sandy"

crust, colour without burns or bubbles.

an

even

HOUSEHOLD

HINTS

117HEN you cut waxed paper to

WHEN

it the bottom of a cake pan, place the pan on the paper and trace around it with a pencil, then cut out. Or trace around it with ́n small, sharp knife and it will not be necessary to use scissors. Grease the cake. pan before puiting the paper in it.

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If varnished' or oiled furniture-be- comes extremely dirty, or is heavily washing will help. furniture Ongermarked,

good homemade

from three cleaner

one table-

FULLY FASHIONED they should look like this

stocking EARN to tell when a

really is fully fashioned. Two vertical lines of scaming are not A enough. It should have the knitting slanted towards the centre back sear at the cait, then vertical alltching each side of the seam. See diogram. Beware of mock backs-they have the two lines, but no chango of knitting

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a (16 oz) lin. of chilled hash at both ends. Slide it onto board, and cut crosswise inte elices; dip in fine dry crumbs and fat, Baute in a little of the bacon adding a fine-minced onion for flavour. Arrange as follows: Put the slices of hash overlapping down the centre of good-sized platter. Gar- nish with bacon. Place the cauli- flower at each end, with a section of beets and one of carrots in an interesting between to make colour combination. Serve very hot. Old Fashioned Cornbread This combread will be quite soft. To make, combine 2 c. cornmeal, 2 scant salt and tbsp. flour, 1 tsp.

Stir in 1 tbsp. sp. baking soda.

large well-beaten sugar or honey,

butter or sub- sour milk or butter- CER. 2 tbsp. melted stitute, and 2 milk. Beat thoroughly. Pour into a 7" x 11". well-oiled biscuit pan, Bake 30 min. in a moderate oven, 375 F. Serve hot, cut in squares.

Apple Sauce Custard for this use 2 c. thick, home-

or

apple unsified sweetened made, sauce. Spoon into a shallow qt.- Next make a sized baking dish. custard 15 follows to pour over the sauce: Beat 2 eggs, add 1⁄4 e. sugar,

tsp.

nutmeg 1⁄4 tsp. salt,

and 14 c. hented milk. cinnamon,

174 Pour over the apple sauce but do Place in a hot oven, not stir it in. 400 F. and bake about 15 min, Then reduce the heat to 350 F. and con- tinue baking about 20 min. longer, is golden brown, and a small knife when

The the centro comes out clean. custard should not be allow to boll. Serve very cold, with or without apple whip, or any whipped topping, Trick Of The Chof To make a nice relish for cold meat from a cup of apple sauce, add the juice of lemon, 2 tbsp. sweet plckle relish and pkg. prepared in c. leman gelatin dissolved boiling-water-Stir well; .pour into small-moulds, chill and unmould..

or until the custard inserted in

Watch Out for Extra Pounds

Courtesy Unitarul Fleturna You can get a great deal of exercise doing housework, says Screen Star Louisa Allbritton, but don't "lay in a back-breaking position too long.

By HELEN FOLLETT

can be made tablespoons linseed oil, spoon vinegar and one quart of hot water. Heat the water in the top of n double boiler. Remove it from THIS is the season of the year tablo add poundage and ruin attrac

that you can get the stove or any open flame before when a woman must be mindful tive lines.

Do you know of weights and measurements. adding, the other Ingredients.

chest and arm exercise when brush.

Stand they are normal the lucky lady must keep in perfect form. If the figure Ing your hair? It is a fact. A helpful iden

expand, she fall, chest lifted, tummy held in.

the head back, brush muslin pocket and tack it on the has an Inclination to

busy. The feminine shope Throw N ready-made garments look for

the the finish, adequate turnings and back of your Ironing board. Keep muschange or the worse in no time the forehead to the nape line. With

two pressing cloths there and use

breasts will-lift, the muscles of hema, neatly edged seams, firm but-

ane for dark clothes and one for at all. Pleasing curves can get out that backward movement, chest and upper arms will be called into play. tons, zips, and fastenings. Examine

1lead lowered, brush from the quality of details like belts and ight ones to avoid solling freshly of hand.

washed clothes in froning.

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K you use an electrie range, place or another.. Winter comes. Loo much trimming, sequins, foba,

saucepans, skillets and other weather walking does not appeal. with a strong muscles null.

are more social or brooches; they may have been

festivities, do these movements with the left little cakes arv passed. hand. Inatch their size.

when the Clothes & Accessories of Distinction added to sell pre-buyers market utensils on units that most nearly There

Most housework is good exercise, stock. If there a no name tab ask

More food, less exercise, and you tell the

Take time by But whether you are cleaning, pol- the saleswoman; she can

The

our casiers .of

washing know what happens. mark on the

If you have a ishing or making beds, assume an maker from a coda

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