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THE, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1949,

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

AN BUILD IT

WASH DAY WORK 18 INFINITELY easier when the home-

maker has a special cabinet where all necessary laundering suppiles are always ready at hand.

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By MARION CLYDE MCCARROLL

AVE you a carpentry

minded husband in the

family?

80,

If

might sug- you gest in a nice subtle way, of course-that wash day would be a whole lot easier for you if you had a special

of the top shelf is 7% in.

and

of the bottom, in. Two hoaka. screw into ench side for hang- ing objects, such as clothes pin bag,

etc.,

and crews attach the cabinet to the ven!]

clothes Bie,

Designer Ernest Herrmann

utility cabinet to hang on given

DANITRITs thut only the

the wall near washing mest elementary tools are need-

and

•! in the construction work- machine or tub that would small saw, haminer, balls hold all of your washing and paper. He suggests that in essentials.

order to make sure both sides

The cabinet Abawn is made are lentical, of in. ireli plywood, but it roughly, then could be

then

the

saw them

out nail them to- Reiler

and anndpaper made of almost any simultaneously

to exactly other hard wood, or eveu a noi

shape and smoothness, mame Finished wood such as piric.

Complete washeny supplica with glossy white enamel, or

for storing in the cubinet should лиу

it's water-resistant paint. enalty kept clean with an or tarlude (with leeway for sub- stitution) the wasting product; ensionni quick going-over will

dry starch; liquid starch: bowi for mixing starch;

wooden fur stirring 3jxon mensuring cup. bleach, bluing. thermometer

(5 that water temperature can be

accurately Across the front of each, and lested nerording

different

a damp cloth.

Two shelves, each 13 in, long,

with a hip or

ledge running

with side and buck pieces, types

SUIDU;

and colour-fusiness uf

nake the simple cabinet, whose fabrics) and cleanser and brush total height is 12 in. The depth for clean-up work.

AND HERE'S THE WAY THE seven simple pieces ko 10-

saw them out. gether. To make both sides Jdentlegt,

together and sandpaper to same shape.

SOME

Christmas Sparkles-

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HOME of the nicest traditions of Christmas, including gift giving and greenery decoration, had their inception in the festival of the Roman Saturnaßa, says Martin L.' Davey, Jr., the free expert. Holly boughs were sent as tokens of good will and dwellings were decked with holly. branches and Inurel.

The people and the senate presented gifts to the emperor and enjoyed n general exchange, as well. When Christ- mos supplanted the Saturnalia, the customs survived and

eventually became our own.

BUFFALO, N, Y.

TRS Katherine J. Rott of Buffalo is a woman who had M to start her Christmas knitting early.

The 67 year-old great-grandmother knits a sweater and mittens for each of her 50 great-grandchildren for Christmas. Mother, of eight and grandmother of 26, the recently received word of the birth of her 60th great-grandchild In Honolulu.

"I'm proud as a peacock," she said when informed the number of her descendants had grown to: 53,

Time to

MY KITCHEN

: by: FRANCES DALE

The Smile that wins- HEALTHY- WHITE

plan for their

eyes to shine!

W

HEN I was young-we-had- sacks of gold on our

party tables!

Now, don't start reaching for your pena to send me snob reprovals. It's true. We did. The "gold" spilled out on the white cloth from the necks of sponge- cake sacks covered with marzipan.

Stand a big sack

or several 11110 gold or silver foil- wrapped chocolate coins on a shiny red Or green paper board от on 1 allver tray. Lay a

white cloth, mark

each lafant guest's place with a there with the hands set for "mat" of the same shiny paper the time that the "party" comes

In emerald or scarlet, and cut in in to tea.

the shape of an animal, Adi,

elephant, rabbit, or cat,

Circle napkins with rings of Imitation holly or mistletoe,

Iay no place at the table top, but instead stand a clock cało

ANY CARPENTRY-MINDED HUSBAND can make his wife such a cabinet very quickly following Instructions given in

article at left, and diagrams.

FRONT-LIP

TOP SHELF

BACK

(RIGHT SIDE ADMIN VERTICAL SECTION

Consider TOMMY TORTOISE here. IIc's an old

family friend. Bumbling along on o plate or dish with a curly lost of marzipan set temptingly to his nose, he's a certain favourite with the undertens.

So is CLAUDE CATER- FILLAR Inching along a board like this:

If you highlight gold sacks, pince "back" of sweets for each child in striped coitons, plaid silka, gay prints with fai bows

to trim.

Scrounge short candlesticks plenty of them--which can be masked with colton wool sprinkled with "trost." and filled with different coloured candles, all dotted about the table so that the points of light star the dishes irregularly.

No adult observes moro neutely than a child and every touch of "difference" will be approved by your small visitors,

What to do

Ruise chair levels with sent rushions Do that at worst small noses reach table level.

Ful mugs or cups an easy non-spillabio half-full

that hot chocolate or Sec

drinks are not other such 100 hot,

Disregard mursery rules, and 4 ***

let every child start, if he wishes, with the richest, messiest cake, and lay down no bread-and-butter-first embar-

Foes.

Keep all candles well out of reach of curlo, fingers, or hair ribbons.

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Be prepared to go on ply- ing food until you are con- Adet every child will be very ill. If the ingredients are sound the casualty list will be low,

***THE SPONGE MEXTURE; You need Gozs sugar lb. flour, raising 11⁄2 teaspoona golden

two large or three powder, small eggs or three reconstituted dried eggs, vanilia essence, milk, Bozs. margarine.

Cream fat and sugar together. Add flour and golden raising Beat powder sifted together.

egge dingly with creamed mix- ture. Add flour. Fold in lightly. Add essence and few drops of milk. Turn into greased floured tins. Bake in moderate oven for 45 minutes.

***GOLD SACK CAKE: Sponge mixture baked in Tin. diameter cako Uh. Cut 08 diagram is stood on wide end and wrapped in almond paste. Almond paste "frill," plached round top stuck with water or CEE white. Ribbon bow. Gold or silver paper-covered cho colate coing to fill and scatter around. ***CLOCK

HERE, WITH THEIR DIMENSIONS,

Бролде piecer are all the needed to make the cabinet, which can be constructed from.

any hard wood, or even soft pine.

"BOTTOM SHELF

FRONT LIS

NOW THE PIECES HAVE BEEN fizičned la place, all but the last one. Then hooks will be screwed on both sides to

held clothesline, clothes pin bag,["7" }],

CAKE: Plain baked in a mixture,

Stood on Elde, square Un covered with white icing Top

and sido trimmings in pink

butter icing.

Plain

leing pipe and plnk

butter eing

to

outline clock

face and numerals (or cut in thin:

angelica) Angelice "hands," cherry centre. Fancy pipe either "rose" or "shell" for lēli trimmings

Extra fancy: Cake sliced before icing and rejoined with layers of butter telng. ***FATLESS SPONGE FOR CLAUDE CATERPILLAR; Bake In a shallow Swied roll tin: divide length-wise. Roll with Jam into two narrow rolls, and join together with jam.

eye;

Lay on humps of butter icing. Cover whole surface with green butler icing. Pull into tail tip and nose tip. Cherry stubby angelica legs, ***TOMMY TORTOISE. Pinin sponge mixturo, baked in 'mndwich tin.

Cut as diagram 4a. Dome of Surfaco butter Icing fald on. covered with coffee butter icing.. Shel

markinge mode, with

orange stick.

Edge, legs, and head, plped. through ornamental Leing pipe in bulter icing. Beech

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