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THE HONGKONG⇒ TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

Do you usually spoil the holidays by being just too late with the-

by ANNE EDWARDS

Finishing Touches:

SINCE finishing Willow-pattern touches are intended to indicate that you have spent time and thought on what you have been doing do the finishing touches first. At the end you may not have time or thought to spare.

BRIEFLY

candica to service.... match the dinner stuck with violets and prim Ashtray filled with moss and roses....Turkish do light (sugar, gelatino, nuts, and Icing sugar) served with the

are

suggested finishing

below touches covering phrases of week-end....

Keep

four

4 summer

tec....

Little Touches

cof-

Peeled walnuts to top the fresh fruit salad Bingle grapes dipped in boiled sugar and left to harden....With the cocktails, white cabbage spiked with coloured orange

heart.

and

alicks on which nrc prawns, cheese squares, gherkins, baby sausages....Salled nuts...

followed cucumber fingers fill- Cherries on the lapel or ed with creati..."

table.... If you redecorato-a. Face tissues for her dressing dash of pink in the white paint, to give it warmth (and deeper colour for the... recesses), 7. Cheaper-than-paint while wall- paper-lining pointed over with stale, streaky varnish..

...A mir- ror behind the bowl of fresh flowers to reflect them, or a light below to throw up

their shadows....Sprigged wallpaper under the glass table top.... Wool initials on the children's towels 50 yours.....

they don't

50

Lilies of the valley or chiffon hanky in hip pocket....

Summer Snacks Simple

By Alice Denhoff

ADS and fancies come hard-cooked egg. Mash snappy

FADS 8 food, a corell type cheese, and

as in fashions, but in both there

classics arc certain that endure because they are essentially simple, yet capable of being nicely dressed up, and are always right.

add enough cream to make it the consistency of softened buller. Beat into thin tap. of paprika. With the tip of a knife make a horder of cheese around the edge of the round, or at a pastry tube for more decorative effects.

to

Nice to Sample

For an easy-to-fix buffet sup- per, let the family, or company even, fx their own. whole liver alusage, a loaf of Buy a luncheon meat, a finned tongue, a length of bologna, or whatever your fancy dictates in the of those wonderful

Way flave handy sharp slicing knives, cold culs. plenty of white, wheat bread, butter, mustard, catsup, relishes, a big bowl of

rye, whole

green salad, and lots of coffee, and be guest at your own party! Roll. up silces of ham or bologna sausage, fasten with a toothplek

Take your pick, please. from

that is a a batch of recipes

For a sandwich geared to the season.

pretty to look at as it is nice

thin In

sample, butter

bread the case of food for

For a delectable desser dis- slices, remove crusts, cut into suminer snack, cool drinks clink- fancy shapes.

solve me flavoured gelatine in Peel A small ing in frosted glasses and gay avocado pear, remove pulp and

one c. balling water.” Add one c. cold water and sandwiches that tickle the eye

msh. Malsien the mashed

1⁄4 c. sliced as well as the palate still pulp with grapefruit

Brazil nuts. Chill until begin- Juice to ning la set, the Invoured and favourite

ne the consistency of soft butter.

Fold in on collation. Like classic dreER,

sliced pezelica, then ress. Spread on the bread. Decorafe the drinks and tandwiches can the top with a bit of chutney

1⁄2 pint heavy cream, whipped.

Chilf be dressed up or down accord.

In mould until set Serves 4. placed in the centre, ing to the occasion. With

First off, is a

recipe nice variety of tidbits at hand.

stuffed eggs

that came from it is fun for the guest to make

the head Chef of the leading a choice or to sample them all.

hotel in Bombay, a recipe that calls for curry as do so many dishes in tropical climes.

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For special occasions there are countless ways to get colour

Into the sandwich' decorations. First of all, there are the thy

vegetable colouringt tablets or Jors of paste. A tiny bit dis- solved in water is used to colour mayonnaise or whipped cream for some charming effcels. Some of the foods lend them- selves to decoration such as stuffed olives, sliced or minced, piralentos, sliced eggs, parsley;

and, cress, chives,

for sweet sandwiches, candied cherries,

Vegetable Cutters

Then there are the mall

for

For

✪ servings, 150 hard-cooked CAKS and cut in lengthwise halves. Remove yolks; rub through sleve. Add 1⁄4 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. cack pepper and papriku, 44 tsp. each curry powder and mustard, 1⁄2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce, 1 tsp. grated onion and 2 tsp. melted butter. Add 4 c. mayonnaise and beat until Buffy. Add 2 tbsp chopped dill pickle. Fill egg whites with mixture.

Use liver sausage as the star

In a delicious, cool moat salad with a citrus accent. For 0 Barvings cut slice from stem unut green peppers.

fancy shaped -vegetable cutters of 6 medium

to

tions, with one c. diced and

cow-

allpa tucked into the belt....

Those long, pearle worn looped beret and two on the down. One clip on the up side of a

over the point of your lapel.... Senrt, slotted through the Byron collar instead of underneath... White balls to make Inoxper- siva ginghams At beller.... Coloured shoestrings for lace- up sandals....Buttonhole high up on the left shoulder.... Patent leather belt for chiffon or tulle evening dress.

Junior Party

Bisculls iced with each name instead of place cards....Scar let and yellow Jelly eggs (se) them in ex-cups)..........Of funny face CHE-shells Allect with chocolate....Ginger-breads cut in the shape of animais.... White Ully mugs Ect coloured Baticers from the secondhand shop,

on

FINALLY....the touch that puls Anish 10:-

AN OLD FRIENDSHIP: "My dear, you're wonderful the way you still get around."

This week

GADGET

A “funny bunny" SPODN and fork set that children mcal. will enjoy using at times. It la mado In'plastio, with П rabbit's head handle: the spoon and fork

into their.

plastlo own

slands.

-(London Express Service)

First Aid In Poisoning Cases

A NEW ACQUAINTANCE BY H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D.

SHIP; "Should I have heard of You?"

A PARTY: "When does the fun begin?"

WHY

-OH-

WHY

T

up

-(London Express Service)

WHY are the stories.of other people's children so dull, when those about our own are so-

WHY are so many fathera ashanted to admit that a boy of 10 has as much intelligence (as experience and distinct from skili)-as his father?_

WHY do children seem to ket

HIS voice of Britain's

parents-picking give " different look Blanch peppers in hot water;

the questioning mood bright and amusing? to thinly-sliced cooked veget- chill. Drain juice from grape which so often infects their ables such as carrots, beets or fruit sections. Combine see. children-reflects many of pimientos, all nice garnishes. A

liver the sentiments of family life. tray of tweet condiments and

chopped nuts

nicely Kots

with the drinks ausige

sweet pickle. Blend together 1/3 sandwiches.

There is HUMOUR: Candied

mayonnaise, 3 tbsp. grapefruit Why-oh-why, when c. cherries, candied

Juice, 4 tsp. paprika and 4 tsp celery, salt. Add to grapefruit know full well that babies nuts are all sultable.

mixture, tossing lightly. Use resemble nothing so much as little pink monkeys, do mixture to fill pepper cups.

they have to be described as the image of father?”

and

Grange peel, candled violets, salted and spiced

Anchovy sandwiches are su nice that we wonder they don't appear more often. Use thinly- aliced bread, which should be about a day And grained and old, and the butter should be softened to spread eually.

the bread Sprend

First Course

Shrimp stuffed celery makes on interesting first course. To prepare 2 c. filling shred one e. with cooked shrimp-and combino

we

This is PATHOS: "Why oh-why do children so often

softened butter, remove crusis, with 2 sloved, hard-cooked appear in families with a and cut into small rounds with eggs, d. chopped ripe olives, full quiver, and avoid so juice, dush of many couples who want in and 4 tbsp. mayon- vain?"

a cutter. Spread rounds with tbsp. anchovy_paste. In the centre of cayenne each round place

a

slice of anise.

lemon

FROM SOUP TO NUTS

THE WORLD'S LARGEST vocational training. school is in operation at the University of Puerto Rico where $17,000,000 of Surplus War Equipment has been installed in the School of Industrial Arts to train 8,500 sfudonte to make everything from the.... proverbial “soup to nuts.” Here, Juan Zayos, 40, ́ ́n. member of the baking class, goes artistic to decorate ja jelly-roll

enjoyment out of belltiling "the

old man” und In saying "poor old mother" when she thinks she has said something brillant?

WHY do chil- dren always

pre their oldest and most disre- putable, dolls to beautiful creatures bought by rich

for

the

aunts? WHY was the school leaving And there is the PRACTICAL age raised for children who MIND at work: "Why-oh-why show promise of neither ability is the growing child considered nor technical skill? not to deserve the fuil ment 'ration until five years old?”

Perhaps, too, there are others here you would echo-

WHY is it that children want mummy when they are ill and daddy when they are well? Why is it that when own child makts clever marks it is being smart, while someone else's is merely pre- cocious?

one's

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WHY do children who resist the, saying about early to bed never forget the part about carly to rise?

WIY do children insist that parents have had "their good times." when actually the good times only: begin after the children have learned to fend fer themselves?

do

WHY "quite good-as- a-rule" children take scenes when having meals in public, making the unfortunate mother wish she were an ostrich? WHY do chil- dren ́ ask ́ to be carried

only

when you already have your

·urms fullt.

WHY do they have such por fect memories for incidents and words no one knows they have ever seen or heard?

WHY do parents let children dig holes in the sand near the edge of the water, thereby making it dangerous for young and Inexperienced swimmers

when the tide comes over these holes?

WHY don't parents realise that n dirty, dishevelled child can be a lot happier than a spotless child?

WHY will a child still play in the streets when a public park is a short distance away?

WHY do children

out with their parents prefer walking on narrow walls to walking on wide Dayaments?

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O long as childish cuŋjoslly endures and dangerous substances are used around the house, I am ofrald wo shall have cases of necidental poison- Ing. Every parent should have the knowledge to meet

emergency of this kind since first ald, quickly and properly administered, may be the means

of saving a child's life or, in less desperate situations, pre- vent damage which would mean

permanent handleap. One of the

most common types of poisoning. Is that from preparations containing lyc, such as cleaning solutions and wash- ing powders.

DILUTED VINEGAR

In these cases

the child should be given diluted vinegar or lemon juice at once. These acid substances will neutralise the alkali. Unfortunately, lye is

very caustic and may often

burn not only the mouth but the lining membrane of the esophagus as well. The esopha- gus is the tube leading from the mouth to the stomach. If it is mou severely damaged by the lye, scar tissue is

1s likely to develop

which will close the opening. Hence, Immediate steps must be taken to keep such a condition from developing. This is done Passing through

by

"The

esophagus rubber tube filed with mercury. The size of the rubber tube is cradually in- creased, and this procedure in carried out over intervals of al least a

a year.

Another common type of pot.... soning is that from kerosene. In such cases, the stomach must be washed out by a physician. Then a quantity of olive oil. .or mineral oil is left

In the stomach. Kerosene poisoning.

may

produce damage to the liver, kidneys, lungs, and heart. Sodium fluorido is another poisonous substance which is found in Insecticide powders. Should such poison be acciden- tally swallowed, the

polson washed

Im- be

out mediately with a solution of calcium chloride or enlcfum Jac. of calelum tate. Injections should also be given into a vein or muscle.

should enow

EVERY FOUR HOURS

every

mouth.

Polsoning may be caused by the Ingestion or absorption of lead products through the skin. condition. In Creating such sodium citrate is given four hours, together with cal clum

by gluconate Large doses of vitamin C are also important. The symptoms of Icad poisoning Include vomiting, loss of appetite, con- stipation, anaemin or lessening of the amount of colouring in the blood, and there may

confusion cr convul- mental Isions.

be

In urging parents to learn Brst-aid procedures to deal with such situations, I do not mean to suggest that they should ever attempt to handle them

without a doctor's ald. Не

should be summoned at once

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but it is equally essential that checks perspiration odor

know what- to do while Lasiting · for him to arrive.

ac-

It goes without saying that parents should do all in

their WHY is .a power to prevent such child's appetite, cidents by keeping poisonous for., Ice-cream, so. substances out of the child's Insatiable, and

reach.

Its fondness for

bread and butter

slight?

WITY is every body Over

Man

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Household Hints

old togay"

to the children?. WHY do children--and news- papers never get

get tired of ask-

int "Why"?

WHY do children always ask for a biscuit or, an apple when

• WHY ›, đỏ... children out with three or four of the neighbours': mother say "Daddy" to every children are playing with them

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To stiffen a vell, such as bridal vell, use a gelatin solution plain household gelatin. Soak ona ounce gelatin in a pint of until dissolved. water, heat Diluto with warm waier,

using about, one cup of solution "to

they seo, especially young, WY do psychologists always eight cups water, You may have i

unmarried men?

WHY do children have to be awakened on schooldays; yet never fail to be up bright and early on Sundays?

WAX: do so many part nowadays » givo`lheir children tha... "family allowance” ELA pocket modley?

one?

side with naughty children?

And, finally a tople from the agony 'column

WHY-ON-WHY do children's holidays always seem so long when we remember that our own were always so sbort?

London Expresë Barolos) „:

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