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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1949.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

NEW CURTAINS FOR SMART ROOMS

Dermatitis

Caused By Clothing

By Herman N. Bundesen

you really have to have an attack

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dermatitis, to realise how distressing it is because of the itching and skin rash which it produczA. And thing most people don't realise that it is not unusual for skin it- flammation to be caused by contact with certain articles of clothing. The inflammation in such cases usually begins about five days or mare after the garment was first worn.

of

rash

The skin rash is, as a rule, sharply limited and confused to the area skin which has been touched by the garment causing the difficulty.

In some low instances, the may be genetalised, due to the fact that the chemicals causing the dis- turbance have been absorbed through the skin and carried to various parts of the body. In these cases, however, there is often fever Tho together with the skin rash. akin rash itself may be limited to redness of the skin, or it may bự made up of a swollen aren covered with pimples or blisters.

If the clothing is responsible for "the rash"and"a plece of it is cut of and fastened to the skin with ad- hesive tape, redness of the skin will develop in this area. This pro- cecure is called a "patch test."

Finish on Fabric

To find the nelal irritating chemical In the garment, It may be necessary to determine from the manufacturer the names and types of dyes and finishes employed on the fabric. The patient may then be tested with these materials to see whether or not he is sensitive 10 Thein,

Once the diagnosis of dermatitis from wearing apparel is made, the treatment is simple. The garment causing the frouble should under no circumstances be worn again, and some soothing preparation should be put on to the skin. With this treatment, a cure usually soon rc-

the fabrica

are

sults

The Quishes the most frequent cause of skin inflammation due to garments. These faishes are put

on fabrics to make them look and feel better, and

to give longer wearing qualities.

Of course, dermatitis

may be produced by contact with leather, furs, rubber urticles, and jewellery. It must be remembered, however, that regardless of

wint

substanco causes the rash, it is always made worse if wool is worn next to the irritable part of the skin. As £1 rule, a skin specialist can determine Just what article of apparel is caus- ing the disturbance in a particular person,, so that further contact with it may be avoided.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

for

DRAPERIES OF PLASTIC FILM in soft decorator colours were featured in the living room of a three- room all-plastics apartment shown recently in New York. To clean, the draperies need merely be wiped with a damp cloth,

Advice to a Young Husband

By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Ph.D.

By MARION CLYDE. McCARROLL

TEW things in curtains are cropping out all over!

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Not only new materials, but new ideas that make it easier to put curtains up, keep them clean and so on. Keeping windows smartly dressed is no longer the back-breaking and expensive proposition it used to be, by any means.

Take, for example, the matter of Ince curtains, which are back in high style again.

Today, you can get them woven of nylon on Ince looms, rank- ing them light and filmy, as well as very simple to keep that way. In addition to staying clean longer than the old-fashioned lace curtains since the smoothness of nylon retards soiling, they can be washed quickly by hand and dried without need of stretchers. All that's necessary is to hang them on the clothes line till the water has drained off, then put them right back on the curtain rods to finish drying.

These nylon lace curtains come in ten patterns, including small geometric motifs and large overall floral designs.

Then there are the curtains made of plastic film, which can be had to match bedspreads of the same material, and the plastic film draperies in soft decorator colours. Laundering here is merely a matter of wiping clean with a damp cloth, These cur- tains, draperies and bedspreads were seen at a recent exhibition in New York of an all-plasties three room apartment.

Another new type of curtain makes it possible for you to do your windows in the smartest decorator fashion by means of a permanently sewn-in shirring tape. A pull of the tape, and your curtains fall softly and accurately into perfectly styled draping, without the use of tie-backs. These curtains come in a great variety of materials, including nylon.

There's also a criss-cross curtain that's a snap-across affair, requiring only one rod for hanging. One plain curtain panel snaps across the back of the ruffed outer curtain.

LAVING been married, happily, I dishes, or do other things about the HAVING, to the same wife to a you are bulld Ing for the greatest marital hap- piness.

years, I'm going to venture a few suggestions to the vourin fellow just married.

I assume that you really wish to make a go of your marriage and to be sure you contribute your full

share to this success. One simple rule will be your best: Pul foremost the Insting happiness of your wife, treating her always as the sacred personality she is. Assuming that che nnd you are physically dit, you won't need to have concern about sex adjustments, in case you will how closely to the foregoing rule.

Now here are some matters which. though seemingly small. are very big, as you will discern it, you will

psychological weigh their cance. You like to see your wife nent, tidy and attractive. She also,

kes to see you so.

Self-Discipline

When you don't help her at all or rarely, you deny yourself a vast deal of comradeship with her and you dramatise the suggestion that what she does is very unimportant, The same will hold if you don't, later, help to care for the infant or older

child.

Light Housekeeping Of course, right now her house- keeping load may be very light In Comparison with

Job. your daily Even so, it's not the help she needs so much as the psychology of your occasionally. helping, if only a bit

have or After one or two children, sigruft

rived there can be no question about job and nervous the weight of her strain. Even then, for you to atiare sonewitht in the household cares and the care of the baby is many times more meaningful to her hap- piness and yours now and Inter than the mere physical relief from her burdens. It's what it all means to her, a person, your wife.

Something more-as you help in the physical care of the tiny intant and also in bathing him when he is two or three. reading to him, making things with him, enjoying

Keep yourself under strict self- discipline, qtways, never growing EE! that

the children have good careless of your considerations and light for their

homework. If courtesies and personal appearance, never neglecting to shave, for they use the dining room table for

example, and to be clean and tidy study their work, better move a

when relaxing at home or appearing lamp there, as dining room fixtures

at menis. Whether you and she eat are seldom

adequate lighting

in the dining room or my other reading. A table study lamp should

place, never begin to eat be tall enough and have a shinde

unti elic also ไส ready. The 'creations, "henring" his prayers, broad enough to sprend a wide circle

templation will be great for you to putting him to bed, occasionally or of light, so that a child can sit up

begin the men before she has it often, you grow in appreciation of Comfortably when reading. M10 lamp shade should have a

wholly prepared and served. Just him as a developing personality, all while this simple consideration can do of which can cement more securely lining and slanting sides to reflect ail light possible. For best

mare to build for her happiness and your best companionship with your reading

you and Kho conditions, the room should have yours than you can easily imagine. wife, Besitles, at

necessary As you see, if you begin to eat ba- together get the

work feneral lighting in addition to clear

tore she, you put her on an inferior done, you and the have more time direct light on the work.

fooling. Then, it after the Grat to relax together and to go out for chlid arrives, you should go on recreation together. As you see, all without waiting, see the possible of this fits nicely into the simple affects to him,

rule wo storlod with. I personally

If you cannot remove n white tain from a table or other piece of finished furniture with olive oil or dit of peppermint, try again with ofgorelle, ashes added to the oil

If you have the silly notion that know a number of young husbands you should not deign to help your who have been working out patterns wife prepare the meal, wash the like the foregoing.

LACE CURTAINS IN THE MODERN manner are woven of nylon on lace looms, and can be washed by hand and quickly dried without need of stretchers (left). PLASTIC FILM, again, made of dainty hand- painted window curtains in the bedroom of the all- plastic apartment. They match the bedspreads (right).

LIFE. IS MADE INFINITELY easier for the curtain- hanging housewife by curtains with sewn-in shirring tapes. Pull the tape and the curtain is draped.

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