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PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

LOTS OF WINDOWS

Large corner windows and many other single ones bring a luxurious amount of light and sunshine into this spreading type house. On a narrower lot than the one indicated above, the, breezeway and garage

could be built at the rear.

NEX

By MARION CLYDE M¿CARROLL

of woman wants lots TEXT to lots of closets, a

windows in her home. Without plenty of light, air and sunshine in the place where she spends at least half, if not three-quarters, of her life, a wife and mother is apt to find that both her physical health and her spirits begin to feel a definite let-down after a while.

Conversely, when a house is light and alry; when there are always rooms that are flooded with sunshine; and when, no maller in what part of the house one may be hard at work, the eyes can always gimpse the wide outdoors through a win- dow near at hand, there is never a feeling of being cramped and shut away from the rest of the world.

Both the house above and the house below come through with flying colours on the score of windows.

through the living

The former has a beautiful corner window in room at the front, and wide window space at the back of the Every bedroom is room where the dining space is located.

on a corner, with a window on each side. and there are two

the kitchen. windows In

The

The second house provides a large picture window In the living room, and a bay for the dining room, which also has a window at the side. The first floor bedroom and the kit- chen, both corner rooms, have two windows aplece. Upstairs, which can be left unfinished till needed, a big front bedroom has four windows, andther possible bedroom one at the side, and four other windows brighten other parts of the floor.

تفاح

New Play-pen

For Baby

NEW kind of collapsible ...play-pen' teaches bables how to walk and gives them plenty of exercise without tir- ing them.

IL should please_Dr John Gibbens, medical officer to the Chelsen Bables' Club who

To-

Eriglish

cently attacked the habit of “premming" bables

they

after

ir own feet,

can walk on.

"As a result of being pram- med all day long with

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chance of exercise," says Dr Gibbens, they slick on rolls of fat от have a breakdown of their digestivo systems."

Tho

collapsible walking play-pen comes from the Con inent,

alrendy where it is widely used. It consists of a light metal frame or wheels, with a small canvas seat swung inside it in which the baby can either sit when fired or steady himself when walking.

The seat is also used ng I separato carrying chair or d

It takes to pieces in Ave minutes and its into a small

big. First models are already

avaliable.

Another plece of Interesting baby equipment is specially de- signed for the small-flat family with. no storage place for

prams.

It is a carry-cat in washable material which fits into a stand on wheels, forming a practical pram. Indoors, the col lifts oft the stand, which folds up and can be stored in a board.

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which

flat

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Arm catering naling. china crockery and substituting

dishes,

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and attraeilvo colours.

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↑ Another good innovation is a ane mesh muslin turban to cover the hair, Important both for hygienic and aesthetic rea- BUTS.

Number one rule is care, pi the hands. Disinfectants are ub-i

washing Lilocossary; ons hand

With soap,abrush and hot water used by surgeons before operating destroys all v. germs

the hands 7

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GARIGE

ALTERNATE GARAGE.

AND BREEZEWAY LOCATION

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DINING SPACE

LIVING ROOM

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KITCHEN Cachd

BLD ROOM K-68-5′′

BATH

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By

Alice

Some Chopped Denhoff Meat Recipes:

Coponsive

HOPPING turns the less and there are of course many

Lice into mouth-melting morsela, for it divides the connective tissues in the ment; chop ping brings out the hidden flavour, adds variety to menus. Hamburgers or meat loaves can be just ordinary eating or they can be prepared with imagina tion, varied in countless ways, and become family food favourites.

less and pen Here's one that we

Soak ono c. soft bread crumbs in bacon fat in heavy frying pan. add 2 minced green pepper; cook 3 min. Add 1 tsp. salt, 14 tep. popper tsp. colory salt, the onion and green pepper to one lb. chopped veal; blend well Add soaked bread crumbs, mix drum sticks; roll in flour. Cook thoroughly. Form into 4 ́or € in a tbsp, bacon fat until brown on

light

water cover, simmer 30-min Insert 4-inch stick uncooked macaroni Into each drum', slick. Chill Con Carne Casserole is Garnish with strips of broiled such a dish, thrifty, too, for bacon.

11⁄2 lb, meat serves & generously.

Melt 3 tbsp. bacon fat in

heavy frying pan. Add one

chopped onion and one peeled It seems lean pork

Karlle clove; cook 1 min. Add * rich

natural source DI

2 c. cooked kidney beans, 11⁄2 vitamin B. (thiamine) and this

Ib. hamburger, tsp. salt, pepper meal, and fresh or smoked ham to suit, tsp. chill powder and in the amount of ment equiva 21⁄2 e cooked tomatoes; mix lent to about what one pork well. Put in greased 11⁄2-quart chop yields is sufficient to supply casserole, sprinkle with the entire dally requirement of grated cheese; bake at 375 F vitamin B. for the normal adult. Here's dish that the men

18-20 min.

Swedish meat balls delight many patrons of Swedish restaurants. Here is the recipe from one of the very finest of these restaurants. To make 10- 18 small balls, soak 2 c. soft bread crumbs in 4 c. milk for 10 min. Saute 2 tbsp. minced onion in half of 4 c. table fat unil lightly browned. Add to 1

lb. chopped beef, with top.

nutmeg, 1 tep

tsp salt, one silght-

ly beaten egg. Add soaked bread

put mixture crumbs; through meat grinder. Form in small balls and saute in frying pan in remaining table fat until light brown or nit pldes.

Sprinde with 2 tbsp flour,

conting each ball well, Cover and

cook 5 min. Add c. rich top milk or light cream; cover, cook 3 min. longer.

When

hearty supper dish is in order, serve Catsup Supper Roll. Sook 1⁄2 c. bran in c. buttermilk. Sift 1 c. flour, tap, baking powder. Cut in 14. Abortening until mixture ilko coarse corn meal.

19

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soaked bran; stir. until dough fellows fork around bowl, Turn board; knead

BLD ROOK

100-15-0

DED ROOM

onto

Boured

lightly

1-inch

The floor plan of the house shows the generous distribution of the windows throughout, while all bed- rooms have airy corner locations.

Another many-windowed house is this.

Toll or pat into rectangle, Combine 3 c. thick. ground meat, 1⁄4 c. catsup and tap. salt: sprend mixture on dough.

Roll like Jelly roll; bake at 425 F. 25-40 min.

"Yeal Birds" or mock drumsticks is a' favourite dish

Cheerful breakfasting is guaranteed by the charming bay

window that brings the morning sunshine into the dining room, while the picture window in the living room

offers a wide outdoor vista.

ROOF,

BATH

BED ROOM

KITCHEN

8.0" 10'-6"

2.BUNKS

HALL

| DINING ROOM

VEST LIVING ROOM

15-6'k 15-8"

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completeness:

door of this

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ROOF

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STORAGE

Finishing off upstairs

one of the

enjoy at any time of the year. Have pork chops cut double thickness with a pocket cut into each chop. Fill pockets with corn stuffing (with one c corn pulp, combine c. dry bread crumbs, tap. salt, 2 tbsp. minced green pepper, salt and pepper to taste). Brown chops on both sides, then cover, and finish cooking in 350 F. oven about an hour.

This Week's Gadget

Here Bro three little brishes, complete la Ntheir own hanging bracket. Soft Abre for glassware, firmer Abre for stubbornly suck food, and copper for BOOLE ing and burnfskin aluminium without scratching. --(London Express Service)

Women Take Things Easier.....

Cleveland,

Despite what the little woman says, men don't con- serve their energy as much women do,

Dr Howard B. Sprague, heart specialist from the Harvard University medical school, told the Cleveland Heart Society the

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as Hong Kong's chilly days approach, the common cold comes out to play with renewed vigour- thanks to Serocalçin its playtime' of infection is only short-lived.

At this time many thousands are

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