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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, “OCTOBERT

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

FROM A BASIC PLAN →

FOR THOSE who like modern ideas in architecture there

Is this stric, evidence of the wide variety of houses that can use the same baste plan (shown below).

By MARION CLYDE McCARROLL

A'NY

whether

AND THUS ATTRACTIVE WÜle house derives from the Georgian style of architecture, its full length windows adding a note of quiet dignity.

or

BED BATH ROOM

BED ROOM

HALL

one of the houses pictured on this page, traditional modern in design, can bo built with the basic floor plan shown in the centre. In fact, these exterior house designa represent only a few of the many that can bo developed from this same amall four room and-bath plán.

☆

This collection of houses, with the plan, are used by Catharine and Harold Sleeper, authorn of a fascinating new book called The House for You-To Build, Buy or Reni," to point up the fact that if you're thinking of building, the important thing in to decide on your floor plan Arst, select the architectural type of your house afterward. For. it anys, "whatever pinn you finally decide upon may be you designed with a variety of ex- lerlorn." Therefore, "don't try

LIVING. ROOM

KITCHEN

devoloped the

FROM

TING FOUR-ROOM-PLAN were

various exierier designs shown here.

to design the outside of your house before you know just too, the factors you should take

what the plan will be."

GLYCERINE

AN AID IN

THE HOUSE

and

A Soup Of 15 Kinds

Of Fish

PARIS-Michel Bouzy,

65, the Granddaddy of Bouillabaisse soup makers, stood among his live lobstera and throw up his hands in disgust.

The whole thing is unbe- lievable," he said. "How could anyone mako Bouil- Inbaisse without garlic? And think of adding cognac! As to having 15 kinds of fish-~-- that's ridiculous."

was-preparing his nooname Boullabaisse, tha Marseille fish soup, in the kit chen of Prunier's restaurant in the heart of Paris.

In

In Philadelphia, Louis Turke, President of the Epicurean Club of Boston, and Andrew Bross- feld, chief of the Trenton New Jersey country club, had almost coma to blows in a a radio

dig cussion of Bouillabaisse mak-

About the only gredient they agreed on was fish. The bristling Monsieur. Douzy seemed burt that the two men should argue so loudly-and NO ignorantly, he sold-about Bouil- labaisse. "You

must have at least five as base, plus a fobster and mussels. The characteristic of the dish depends on

Lglycerine is an invalut each fiah'e particular taste. The

the

able aid in both kitchen and greater the number of fish used, the household.

greater the flavour har-

ho sald Bullinbaisse is a soup and not a fish dish: You must re- member that though the fish are in there, they are all broken up. The fish give their aroma to the soup."

H

When andirons, fireplace Acreens,

work are grill brought out after summer storage, rust is very often a problem. If ordinary rust-removing methods fail, try the following formula. The paste calls for 10 parts ench oxalic acid and phos- phoric acid, five parts gly- cerine and 25 parta ground silica. The paste is applied to the rusted areas, allow-whitings, an average-sized lob-

ed to stand in a warm place for 15 to 20 minutes, then washed off with clear

into consideration in making up Household Hints water.

to

these This is the sort of very pre- your mind which of tleal advice you'll find in the three things might be best Bleeper's book, which, as they do about your housing problem, put it. gives you the funda then in successive chapter puts mental facts about n house you into laymen's language all want to know." whether you mysterious matters that go into of a thoroughly making Intend to "build immediately, the buy a house, or lense for the successful house from start

(nish. rest of your life." It tells you,

the

to

To remove a film on the bot- tom of a vinegar cruet, 'put ter leaves and Vinegar info the cruct and shake briskly. It may take

several treatments. but this method should remove a mineral deposit.

HARDENED GLUE

The Famous Recipe

Here Boury's recipe for bouillabaisse a la Marseille for 12 persons:

Take a bogfish, a garnet, a

wever, a john dory, in celpout,

conger cel, a bass, several

ster and a handful of mussels. If you can't get all, five fish will be enough. But no less than five. and the hogfish essential.

Take two medium onions and two whites of leeks chopped up four tomatoes, peeled,

squeezed and chopped, 30 grams of crush- How annoying it is to have aed garile one teaspoonful of use for glue only to find that n

pinch of

has hardened! Glue that has chopped parsley, a hardened can urunlly be restored fennel, a laurel leaf and three to usable flexibility and softnessms of saffron. by adding or part of glycerine to four parts of the glue. And If liquid shoe whitener has be come dried out and dificult to A lightweight, pre-shrunk apply, just add a few drops of fabric such as lawn, makes glycerine to the bottle, and nice reinforcement for button-shake well. It really works! holes and buttons on cotton or

quick cleaning to keep pace with a hurryup üxing of things for company, dip a cloth in water to which a teaspoon of har... been added.

Put these in a pot with allces of two firm fleshed fish and with the Jobster cut in lengthwise halves, and add one-tenth of a litre of olive oil.

Add soft fleshed flah, cover with salt and pepper and let stand for 15 minutes. Then boll hard. After soven minutes, add the tender fleshed fish and con tinue to cook eight more minutes to a fast boll.

spun rayon clothes. At times a To give Venetian blinds a narrow interlacing all the way down the front of a jacket part of a two-piece dress is a good Idea. The more fabric tends to ravel, the more interlacing is glycerine needed. Always choose a light-Wring out the cloth-and-thick nosting on top. These ob weight, crisp and entirely over the sints with the cloth washable fabric for this job,

Just dampened.

Pour the liquid into a soup tureca, with slices of French bread one-quarter of an Inch

sorb the thin part of the soup, leaving the body thick.

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THE AMERICAN COLONIAL cottage type of house never

Joses its popularity.

Here is coziness is enhanced enclosing the front with a picket fence.

by

REMINISCENT OF THE FRENCH Provincial

this charmingly, simple house. Space under the roofs allows för"

additional rooms whenever desired.

CHARACTERISTICS OF ENGLISH TUDOR architecture lend stability and dignity to this design, which spreads out to add a porch' (left), gurage.

Beauty May Be Skin Deep But

Skin Beauty Goes Deeper.

By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.

BEAUTY may be only skin.

chanism is not fully developed at birth, and hence stable body only as the child grown older. temperatures Fro established

Many different types of skin doop but the beauty of disorders have been attributed the skin goes deeper, depend- to disturbances of the thyroid ing not only on the general gland. A deficiency of thyrold' health of the body but also secretion may cause loss of hair on the activity of some of and may make the skin dry and its most important struc- yellow with a waxy appearance. tures the glands of internal Scaling of the skin on the lower the body. sécretion.

part of the laps may also appear.

maintain the health of the skin

pituitary gland located

at the

In the first few days of Ufo, the baby normally loses weight because of a loss of fluids from

Temperature Drops.

Just how these glands net to In certain disorders of the ly as an adult

A baby cannot adjust na readi- to temperature changes in his surroundings. His temperature will drop if he be comes chilled or will rise if he in dressed too warmly

in or kept too warn a room.

is not known, but the relation base of the brain, the skin may ship is very close as is evidenced be raised in folds, especially in In the large number of skiri dis- the pealp.

The hair is thick orders observed In conditions and coarse, and the skin may affecting the glands.

For example, in Addison's dis- case, which fa due to a de- ficiency of the secretion

from

be discoloured and freckled.

Motherhood

A fever or rise in temperature develops when the baby

has

Pregnancy also may be com- same infection. Fever 13 a worn- plicated by various skin dising sign, and the mother must Ulies adrenal glands located just turbances.

There are changes heed this warning by calling the above the kidneys, there is a in the colour of the face and doctor. It may be produced by marked discolouration

trivial causes or By n serious con-

.sicin.

dilion, but the doctor can find the source of the trouble.

of the breasta. Itching of the sicin an fairly common at this timo, Irritating, pimple-like eruptions

Bane of Teen-Agers

on the arms, legs and upper part The height of fever does not

of the chest "also may occur. necessarily show the severity of Acne, the bane of teen-agers, Another type of eruption may the illness that is present. During seems to be caused, at least in consist of blisters starting on a fever, some bables refuse food, part, by changes which occur in the abdomen and spreading to others cat only to become sick the sex glands during the mature the groin, breasts, arms and and vomit a short time attor ing period.

legs. This rash causes itching ward. However, virtually all and burning. Both of these bables with fever are thirsty. A deficiency of what is disorders clear up after the baby known as estrogens, coming is born. from the Box glands in the temale,

Every mother should have a theirпornater for taking tho

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Persons who have skin erup baby's temperature by reatum may produce various

tions of these types should of and should know how to use it. disorders of the skin. Thicken course consult a physician con- lug of the palms and soles may cerning treatment be absociated with the change.

of life and may respond rapidly proper gland extracts.

to the administration of the ca-

trogens,

with the

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If the baby shows any sign of taken by the South Chilas Lever the doctor should be called.

On the other hand, the mother should not become so temporn- Deposits of lime suits in the HE temperatura of bables fure conscious, as, to take her various areas of the body may

and young children-varies baby's temperature every day occur when there is an excessive a great deal more than that of even though other signs of ill- secretion from the par-thyroid an adult. We are all born with nose are lacking. Nor should glands which are located near thermostat control," but the sho get upset at the alightest | the thyroid gland in the neck. temperature-regulating me variations from the normal.

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