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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1940,"

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

MORE LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT

JV MARION CLYDE McCARROLL 4

HETHER it's n book you're reading in the living room or a cake you're baking in the kitchen; whether you're putting on lip- stick at your dressing table in the privacy of your own bed- room or sipping your morning coffee in the dining alcove- whatever you or the rest of the family are up to around the house, the more light you can get on the subject the better.

Not only that, but the modern iden is to go beyond the utilitarian in home lighting and make the illumination serve decorative purpose as well.

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Note, for example, the attrac- tive dining corner in the pic. ture at the right. Gone is the outdated overhead chandelier; gone, too, the lights in side wall brackets. Instead, built-in cabinets, equipped with fluores. cent fixtures, on either side of the window provide not only soft light to eat by but make an entrancing display of the china on the shelves. In this instance, four fluorescent lamps were used, one being placed vertically behind the frame- work on either side of both cabinets.

the

LIGHTED CARINITS FLANKING THIS DINING ROOM window not only provide soft illumination to eat by but make a decorative display of the china on the shelves. There's also a single fluorescent lamp across window top. work surface below

fluorescent tube is attached to the celling.

titles,

Note again, the charming work-aleove in the centre_pic_ To-makes-<lecorative display, ture, used here 款性 garden as well as to offer light for ruom for arranging flowers and quick locating of book storing vages. bowls, etc. and for reading, three miniature Shelves on either side of the fluorescent lamps are placed storage cabinet are lighted by end to end beneath each book- fluorescent lamps set vertically shelf in the third picture. To along each shelf section. Light- increase the decorative aspect ed niches in each side wall are here, frosted ribbed glass was illuminated by Incandescent installed behind the shelves, au bulbs shielded by glass panels, an effective background for and for general illumination on books and knick knacks.

STILL ANOTHER WAY TO ACHUEve both atilitarian illumination and decora❤ tive effect is to install fuorescent lamps beneath bookshelves an abovE.

CAUSES OF DIZZINESS

By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.

Α. time or another nearly position, the nystagmus does occur,

one everybody suffers from dizziness or vertigo. Usually it is a passing thing, but, I it persists, an examina- tion is order so that the may be determined.

cause

and there is deafness or ringing In the ears, it indicates that there some disease of the inner ear.

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One of the conditions which may be responsible is known as Meniere's disease, in which there is ringing in the curs, deafness, and attacks dizziness.

I11 some

the

cases, the disturbance. may be due to an inflammation of The middle ear. In other enses, the trouble may have been caused by undetected haemorrhage Into inner ear.

Disorders within the skull often cause dizziness with changes In the hend position than general dizziness.

more

FLUORESCENT LAMPS ARE USED HERE, too, to light the shelves in this garden. room, with another tube attached to the ceiling for general illumination.

Serve Pears with Cream Cheese for a Good Dessert

"WHAT

pears!"

A

BY IDA BAILEY ALLEN

beautiful platter of

butter or margarine, tsp. salt,. Isp. pepper, 1/4 tsp. celery shit, few "They are the Anjoy pears.

grains cayenne. 1 tsp. scraped onion, Madame, my favourites," said the

1 egg yolk, 1 tbsp minced parsley Chef "They have a rich flavour

and 1 c. minced, tinned "chopped and a ne texture and are full of ham.

Mix thoroughly. Cool and juice. Originally they came from shope inta balls containing France. And have been eating generous tablespoon each. Roll in them since I was a boy. The best flour. Next beat an egg with 4 C.

Anjous is when they way to buy and let them ripen at

water until well mixed. Roll the are still hard,

croquettes quickly in this, then in fine dry bread crumbs. In heavy room temperature, from C0 to 70 de-

These have been on the deep kettle put enough vegetable or ment fat to make a depth of about

Hea! until the fat will brown

grec for about two days." He pick-

ed up a pear, and pressed it slight- ly. "See. Madame, responds to the pressure. They will be ready to cut tonight for dinner."

basket, or usc lower them

piece of bread in 40 seconds, 375 F. frying Place the croquettes in a

large atrainer and

It "I notice you didn't heap up the

into the fat. w!}] pears in a bowl to ripen but spread

be sure the kettle is Bubble up, so them on the platter so the air could deep. Fry untli golden brown,

about 1 in. Then lift up the fry "I think these Anjous will be very ing basket, hold the croquettes fine for dessert tonight with cheese. It is a combination flavours that is perfect.

circulate around them."

Dinner Italian Tomato Soup

cream

of

Toast

Ham and Potato Croquettes Egg-Parsley Cream Sauce Brussels Sprouts

Lettuce Bowl Salod Fresh Pears with Cream Cheese Coffee.or Tea

Mk (Children) Att. Menurements Are Level Recipes

Serve Four· Italian Tomato Soup

and

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moment over the fat to drain. turn them into a pan containing crumpled absorbent paper to absorb the fat. Serve with plain cream sauce, or with, egg-parsley, dll or inuyannalse cream sauce.

Care Of A Vacuum Cleaner

By ELEANOR ROSS

NE of our frienda has been

Of the same old vacuum

for many years, and it is in such good shape, does such a good job that, instead of treating herself to a new one and passing the old one on, she did just the re-

verac.

Another housewife we know always rushing over to borrow n vacuum, although her equipment In- cludes a new beauly. No reflection on the vacuum, of course. It is just that one homemaker is an expert at taking care of her household equipment, while the other lady just doesn't bother about lie upkeep. She works it untill something goes wrong. and of course, it does..

Constant Care

perfect

To keep a vacuum in working.order, there are three parts that need special attention. These With are the bag. bell and brush. lew exceptions, all vacuum cleaners have at least two of these parts and they require constant care.

The most obvious of these is the bag, for it is here that the dirt-filled air is altered. and clean air escapes. To handle dirt and dust. the leaving

the bag process.

this filterlag

IR

So long

made of porous material. as the pores are kept dirt-free, the and free passage and air 16 pe works at best-

efficiency however, dirt cogs the tiny

the machine. When

openings in the fabric the air flow is checked, and efficiency is impair- ed. Just the usual emptying of the bag is not enough. The sides should be well rubbed together to loosen the dust and the bag should be brushed with a stiff brush.

Chocked for Tears

The vacuum bag should be check-

ed for tears or rips. Small

holca

can be tackled with iron-on but, since this is not porous, It should be used sparingly. Replacing

tape,

the

Of

it

bзg os soon as It shows real signs of wear is a goor Investment. your machine is the type, lay in a supply of those

con After bats 10)

with be used In specially-designed

bag.

Clean the brush often, but detach it from the machine. The dirt col- lected on a brush can.

can be transferred So It the right back to the rug. machine is an aglator-brush typo model, remove the agitator

and clean the brush with a cloth dampened urbon tetrachloride. with a drop of The tufts of the brush should about of an inch above the will determine pile. A coin

bo

rug

the

measure. If much further from the pile, the brush is worn and should be replaced.

Replace in Year

The belt, a small but vital part of the vacuum cleaner, gives good ser- vice. for nbout a year, and should then be replaced. Our careless homemaker thought she would be smart unit substituted a rubber ring cleaner belt, and for her vacuum then only after the real belt had stretched and slipped.

Modern vacuum cleaners do not require lubrication, but some of the older models in use do require three

drops of all. If too much oil is used, the motor may smoke. Go over the fan, remove any objects that may have collected there, for it for is a favourite roosting place threads, hairpins and such.

All these are but small chores, but they tend to keep that most useful piece of household cleaning equip- ment at top efficiency.

Imaginative Decorating

MANY times we have all wished

de-

wise

that our walls were made of them elastic so that we could pushı around to change the size or shape of a room. And this is especially with true when almost anything walls, windows and doors has had to make do at a

price that left little money for structural changes:

Some of the ultra modern places now under construction are being bulit with disappearing walls, but must of us will have to get along with the homes we now have. That we doesn't mean, however, that Ways With Cream Sauco

have to put up with them in their Cream sauce and white sauce as present state. There are innumerable

and the used in cookery are one

ways and means-inexpensive, too

which the amateur home "rich" sune thing. To make a cream sauce, however, se top milkcorator can pull sleight-of-hand tricks

the effects.

By good or light cream. For ordinary cream

a liberal diluted choice of colours Пuld milk or URL

imagination, you milk. To

asprinkling of make evaporated medium-thick cream sauce, well sen-achieve almost any desired effect. Turn the contents of 1 (No. 241⁄2)

roned and free from lumps, melt As every woman knows from her tin tomatoes into a sauce pan. Add

buttered or margarine in a own clothes, light colours tend to 1 tsp. salt, 1 tap, sugar, 3⁄41⁄2 tsp. dry

double-boiler top. Stir in 2 tbsp. make one look larger, while dark mustard and 4 tsp. pepper. Bring

shades make a woman feel positive- colour 1⁄2 tsp. salt and a few grains four, to boiling point. Meantime coarse-

The same When ly sylphilke. grate enough sharp American cheese pepper, proferably white.

principle applies to walls. If you to make 4.c.

well blended, gradually stir in Add to the tomatoes milk, or use top mlik or cream, add- want a room to seem larger, give it simmer until it melts. Hosting about 4 c. and

small pattern or Siir time, at a

a background of 1 c. whole milk. Stir in I 1bsp, For example, the underlying flour mixed with 1 tbsp. milk. constantly so the mixture will be pale shades such as the cool blues, grays, cream, ivory or oyster tones, stomach, bowel or breathing of the When bolling, pour into 2 beaten thick and smooth before adding morn

Continue in this way uni The lighter the shade, the greater milk. place over a low heat CKKE. stomach, bowel or breathing organs,

and gradually add the tomato; stir all the milk is in. Then put over the illusion of space.

On the other hand, if you want to poisoning from a drug, such as alco

hot water and cook 10 min. hol or streptomycin, or hardening fast! It should get very hot, but do

not allow it

11 reducing Egg-Parsley Cream Sauce: Beat A create a more intimate effect in a of the arteries in the brain

to boll

Stir in torge room put CRE high blood pressure.

Ham and Potato Croquetton

the diet or amall colours. The the white sauce; return to

Some people find they are bother- ed in this way only when the head is held in certain positions, whereas others become dizzy only when the hend is moved from one posllion to another. The latter type of dizziness is usually

dig- accompanied by a turbance of the eyes, known as nys- tagmus, in which the eyes roll slow- ly to one side, and then move rapid- ly in the opposite direction.

Important This symptom is very

Dizziness without evidence of In helping the doctor to determine the cause of the dizziness. In carry- elther damage to the nerves or the ing out an examination of a patient brain commonly indicates some clr-

culatory the doctor will

disturbance or with

Infection nystagmus,

the affecting tho

cells,

The nerve first test the hearing. Then

whether

other usual cause is disturbances of the patient la studied to seD

the circulation related to low blood pres nysingmus is present lying on

the sure, or disturbances produced by back. Then pressure is put on neck over what are known as the the

the change of life. carotid ainuses, which are a collec- tion of nerves. Pressure on these sinuses may produce dizziness and fainting. The patient then turns to the right side, and then to the left side, and then the bead is hung backwards; finally ho sits up, steps forward, and stakes his head.

During all these various move- ments, he is studied to see I nyatog murdevelops. If, in..... changing

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In cases of dizziness, a thorough study is always necessary to do- Boll ar pressure-cook 4. niedium- double-boiler to cook 1 min, stirring shodes such as terra cotta, cocoa,

cause before termine the

proper sized white potatoes, Feel and put constantly. Add 2 tbsp. fina-minced deep red, rose and the like tend to

parsley, treatment may be carried out.

through a potato ricor. Add 1 tbsp.

make a room seem smaller.

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