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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 1949.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT WALKING

BUILT FOR THE BEACH

TIIS UNUSUALLY PRACTICAL AND ATTRACTIVE one-storey house has many tips to offer those building their own summer homes at the seashore. A large open entrance court between the house

provides a very charming and useful ferrace,

By MARION CLYDE McCARROLL

ALTHOUGH the

house

pictured above W18 built for a location on В California beach, there is no reason why a similar plan

could not be used for a Bum- mer home in other parts where there are beaches. Or, Indeed, for an all-year- round home in places where the climate is such that no indoor heating is necessary..

This is a one-storey affair bullt Bround à Jarge entrance court which makes a spaelous terrace;

Designed to take fullosi ad- vantage of the sen vlaw, the lly- ing room of the house faces the water, with the Iront solld row of picture windows. One corner of the living room is given over to n dining nook, while of the opposite end a door leads on to a porch.

This porch adjoins the one bed- room, and.a. elever idea has been. to make an opening in the,wall between the bedroem and the porch through which the bed, placed on small metal tracks, can be easily pushed out on the porch.

to

A tip which this house has to offer all bullders of. summer bench cottages, wherever loented, in that its floors are covered with le, more easily cleaned than wood floors and better able to withstand the wear and tear of Rond being constantly tracked indoors.

Interested In and the lawn

TO TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF the marine view the living room is equipped with a row of picture windows to form a virtual wall of glans on the beach side. Tile makea a sensible and rood-looking floor covering.

BEACH

„PREVAILING"

Model Home Sudsable In & Out

By ELIZABETH TOOMEY

NEW YORK-Housecleaning in a new exhibited model homb will consist of giving ovory- thing a good soap-and-water

puctsing.

The

house washable, in- side and out. The furniture, the walls, the lamps and the drapes -- everything · can be washed or wiped off with soap and water.

The house has just been put on display, sponsored by the New York and New Jersey Heart Associations. Decorator Patricia Harvey started with one of the porcelain enamel five-room houses and added furnishings and decorations which are, completely sudsable,

Koroscal, a plastic material which comes in weights and Anishes for all kinds of kome decorating, la one of the main washable features. The inbla tops got their washable finish from a plastic coating called formica. The Jamp shades either

made nro

from fibre- glass or metal, and the rugi throughout the house are inter- woven cation loop designo,

The living room uses a tex- tured version of the plastic material for the window cur tains and pinch-pleated plastig draperies in bright green and white vertical stripes. The cur- tain material is a frosty, opaque white, so it eliminates the need for window shades.

The upholstered chairs are covered with the plastic with a fabric backing to take away all of the shiny, rubbery look. Stili another version-a

leatherette finish is used on the livai. eleverly The same materini is used

of

to make even the picture frames washable. The mats are covered with a light shade the leatherette plasile and the frames with 2 harmonising, darker shade.

Mrs

Harvey designed the boy's room In the washable house as a combination bad- room, workshop and playroom. The rug is a cotton loop design in bright blue. The same blue is used with luggage tan in the plaid elastic draperies. They are pull drapes again, so NO shades are required.

A studio bed in one corner of the room has webbing of lug- Cuge ton leatherette plastic instend of springs. The foam rubber mattress is covered with the same plaid used in the urapes.

by using warm colours, the solt, collon-twist rugs and oc- casional hand-painted designs on the porcelain enamel walls, Mrs Harvey has managed to take Dway any hints of an antiseptic look from the live sudsable ruoma.

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Another easily washable win- dow curtain material is the new Morning Post and Hong Kong glass marquisette. It's a sheet fabric woven of fibreglass yarns.

When It's soiled, sudsing by Telegraph Staff Photographors

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washing machine

is all that's required. The cur- tuins can be rehung damp with- out any ironing or stretching.

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Grandma's Potpourri

OUR

Bowls

OUTDOOR LIVING

BOAT HOUSE

10

COVERED

BAHK

UR grandmothers used

-maka die potpourri and keep

it in bowls to perfume their rooma. Here is one way of dn- Ing it:

. Pick a peck of rose leaves, preferably when the sun is shin- Ing, and put them in a big jor within thin layer of salt at tho bottom.

DINING 1611

PORCH

UVING ROOM

† KISCHLESS

SERVICE

BED ROOME

"

GARAGE

Start with thres handfuls of petals at the bottom, then sprinkling of salt, then more petals, and then more salt, alter- nately. The top layer must bo of salt. Leave for five days and slir regularly twice a day.

Then add 2 oz, of stickt ein- namon, 3, oz. of crushed - all- spice and a few cloves. Leav the mixture for a week and alle twice daily as before,

Make a spice mixture from 1 oz. each of ground cloves, ground mace, ground cinnamon and ground caraway, 2 oz. al powdered orange root, 1⁄2 lb.

b. of freshly dried Invender blossoms, Also a few dried lemon verbena and rose geranium loaves if

pos (Most of these Bible.

In- can be bought at a herb, shop). Rub each pot pourri bowl and lid with a little

ploe, then add the rose

Detal

CE COURT

THE PRÒPERTY HAS BEEN laid out for greatest enjoy - ment of the autof-doors; the house Is planned to mako

life easy for the summer housekeeper.

THE EXPERT IN THE KITCHEN=

Holiday specials

by GEORGIE RODGERS

SCHOOL holidays present a problem if you have a family of growing children with healthy appetites.

to

Sweet cakes, bisculis and pud- dings are Alling and help provide energy and are sure to be popular. You can use jam, syrup or chocolate to save your sugar, and dates or prunes to help.

sweeten apples -and rhubarb,

Date And 'Rhubarb.

Pudding

tea-

6 oz, flour, 2 oz. suct, spoonful baking powder, teaspoonful, salt, 11⁄2lb..rhubarb," Valb, dates, 416. Grown sugar, cold water.

HOP the auet finoly. Mix together all the dry in gredients and add cold water gradually to form a stiff-dough. Turn the pastry on to a board, and cut off one-third for the lid.

Roll out the rest into a round large enough to line the basin, and press this well round the sides of the greased basin. Half All with the prepared fruit, and add the sugar.

Itall out the remaining pastry for the ild, moisten round the edges and fit over: the top

of

Flapjacks

oz.

1⁄2 16. rolled oats, 2 sugar, 1 tablespoonful ́ golden Kyrup, 2 oz. margarine, 1 tablespoonful flour.

DI

ISSOLVE the margarine and add the sugar and treacle. Stir in the rolled oats and flour and mix well. Spread the mix- ture on a well-greased sand- wich tin. Smooth over the lop with wet knife, Bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes. When cool, but not set, cut Info eight portions., Allow to cool completely before serving er the flapjacks will crumble.

Truffles

lb. cake trimmings or stale cake, 202. apricot jam, vanilla of rum flavouring, chocolate glace, Leing.

the enke crumbs, favour vanilla and rum, then with mix to workable pante hot spricot jam. Cut into even- sized pieces

into and shape round balls the size of a walnut. Leave until cold and set, then cont with chocolate glace Icing. Roll in anely grated chocolate Servo In or in chopped nuts. coloured cake papers.

Summer Fruit Pudding

1-1b, raspberrics or currants, 62. mugar, stale bread, 1⁄2 pint custard.

STE

STEW the fruit with sugar and very little water. Cut the

bread into thin slices and line,

Perfect Egg Spoon Near Realisation PROVIDENCE, R. L-Thirty- an egg spoon, that crack, an preparation, sprinkling ench Ave years ago in a hotel at Gary, egg properly? Layer with some of the spice indiane, a young walter stood Now the - spoon is near the pudding. mixture and dried lavender. Įbefore a 'diner.

perfection. The handle has a Turn the edges of the lining Sur the contents now and

knife-like binds that cracks pastry well over and press to The waller

a pudding basin with these, put- again with a bone spoon or ivory is all topped an "Es cges neatly and with dis- gether. Cover with greased ting's round to fit the bottom. knitting needle, and the pot contents splattered against the But Marg, the Inventor and steam for three hours or boil

patch.

paper and a floured cloth and and strips round the sides. Tui pourri will stay fragrant

fdiner's face. The walter at the Providence for two hours, open and cover with another ailee of the basin with the stewed fruit, many years.

The diner marled: "Why hotel, wonder whether it has Turn out of to a hot dikhood breach Set aside fur, several |-|| --(London (Express Service) doesn't one of you guys invent been worth his time arid money, serve with custard sauce.

hours, or overnight if possible.

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