1950-03-18 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1950.

PRACTICAL

HOMECRAFT

INTERESTING APPEARANCE

By MARION CLYDE M¿CARROLL

JHITE-painted brick on

W

one side of the exterior, rough stone on the other, and a black roof, give this charmingly livable home an unusually interesting out-

side appearance.

Moreover,

it's equally

foresting and charming on inside,

in-

where the long.

the 11esicl

I('

mosphere of

10-

sweep of pare creates

and retfulness for

houte of its size,

As seen in the accompanyinK floor plan, the large living room and dising room, unpartitioned, form an at the Fight

$:-

rear corner, while two bedrooms - rupy the wing at the left. The kitchen, at the rear, opens into both the dining room and flic breezeway which conneels house and Karate

Between the kit-

chen and the bedroom wing is

a den that doubles as a quest

Flours throughout

are asphalt

VARIATIONS IN THE MATERIALS used for the exterior of this well-planned home give

the houses an unusually interesting appearance. White-painted brick and rock combine to emphasise long.

Jow architectural lines. tile in shades of

off-white anel brown, design and interesting textures. Kray, neutral inde, which show soil

Slat-back dining room chairs snooth-lined lean and requires little care to are converted to

oncu, keep clean. The owners of this white-leather-upholsered

with

pedestal home dispensed

rugs, and the spread-eagle walls

and woodwork in tale is sheared to smaller size, painted

its pedestal implied. pasel lindes.

To make their old furnishings

ht appropriately inte

straight, simple, modern

Amarble-topped coffee table Enfa

the placed by the living room

lines was once a plan bench, while dining

of their new home, the owners a serving table in the ropluerd

dated

unholstery room started life as a bedroom

materials with fabrics of simple dressing table.

GARAGR

DEN

KITCHEN

HALL

BEDROOM

LIVING

DINING

INSIDE, THE HOUSE is equally interesting and charming, the long, sweepdlines of the layout errate a freling of restfulness and relaxation.

cabinel counter top BUILT-INS IN THE kitchen. too, with extended to form a handy sil-down shelf for wrling and recipe reading with telephone at right,

Make Your Buffet

Party A Success

By Alice Denhoff

of ench bread untoasted side slice. Add a pinch of salt to 2 egg whites, ond beat until stif Cover oysters with beaten egg white. Make a manal) depression with spoon in centre of CAK white on each slice and fill with

Ta buffet party pernaps the biggest culinary success can bc scored by dishea of 'raw veg tables for which three dif- ferent sauce are offered. Fresh, erip vegetables are essential. Sticks of raw celery and of cauliflowers, curls of celery, it chili sauce. Place in 350 rings of green pepper, pleces of F. oven until lightly browned. fresh endive miks a pretty and colourful picture.

The first dressig in Junt

'the

For an ther party touch, serve second dressing

chili pierd coffes, Place 2 pieces of anbxed with mayonnaise

cinnamon of 2-Inch xtick

and 2 third consists the sauer,

blended with whole cloves is upper, part of mayonnaint chopped chives and minced vacuum coffee maker (into cold

big water green pepper. Prepare

compartment for platter of Jumbo thrimps, each colator, and steeped method cof- ently speared with a toothpick, fre-makers: into tower canyarl ant, clore at hand, put a bowl ment of drip inaker). Make coffee as usual, using one quart of curry mayonnaise.

of water and 8 heaping tbsp. of coffen. Serve in after-dinner coffee cups.

moyonnaise,

Shrimp olis add up to a good favourite, whether at the table or for a party. To serve 5,

BU

ryc

combine one e. medium while sauce (make with thin cream) with 1 c. (about 4lb.) cooker rolls, shrimp. leat scooping out some of the centre, and

with the creamed shrimp. If shrimp are cooked at home, cook with tsp. cura- way seed for each lb. of shrimp. for a dellelous flavour.

Now Is the time of year to get good

the family to dig

Into

salads. Reluctant salad caters will fall for a specially good dressing.

What

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Der

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VITA

ITAMIN A is so hnportant to the health of the body that fortunate that we are indeed so many of our common foods Pink and pretty Is this French dressing that is sure to find contain it in generous amounts. Whole milk, green and yellow favour, tub salad bowl with

vegetables,

butter, eggs, cheese, a liny garlic clove. Add liver, and other organ meats, Int

dry mustard, tbsp. confectioners' sugar, 1 tsp salt and a dash of labasco mix thoroughly. Add

fish, and fortifled margarine all supply it, so that if we don't get

c. vinegar and combine welt.it from one source we are almos!

sure to obtain it from another.

Nevertheless, some people do suffer from its lack,

Add 1⁄2 e salad oll and one e. tomato juice; shake well. Makes slightly over 1 c. dressing.

which is

kely to show up in damage to the lining membranes of in- portant organs, disfürbalices of

Investigation

:

Ever try Bo oyster-pepper Line eyes, and cerinin skin mixture? Ils very, very good! rasher. Cook c. each of chopped onion and green pepper Inc. butter or margarine until soft. Add tbsp. chopped parsley, one Amato

entchup and one pint oysters. Cook until oysters are plump. Serve at oner on toast Makes servings.

C.

Extensive investigations of this vitamin have been inade. Twenty men and three women were put on a diet deßcient in this vitamin. They were given extra amounts af tean meat, bacon, sugar. clincolate and skim milk powder in order that they might get enough calories side only arter broiler heat, or heat value from their diet the butter untoasted side of it all of Ur foods first men- bread. Cook 18 oysters Intioned were prohibited.

Oysters In the Clouds make a delicious item. For good servings, fanst G allces of

white bread on enriched

onr

oyster liquor until they are plump. Arrange 3 oysters on

It was found that there was a rapid drop In the amount of vitamin A in the blood when this diet was employed. The drop was froin 140 units, which was about average, to 40 units. Over a long period the average was somewhere between 60 an 00 units.

that if given It was found 1300 units of the vitamin A daily, there was a rapid return of the amount in the blood to the normal levels. In some pallents on the restricted dici, the administration of 2500 units of the vitamin A kept the blond level normal.

Normal Amount

From this evidence it would appear that 2300 units of vitu- A dally is sufficient to keep

in

the amount of vitamin A in the blood at the normal amount. There 13 apparently very little danger of a temporary vitamin A deficiency In the diet causing trouble in any se vitamin A healthy person.

This truc

in large amounts is stored in the

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

At this time many thousands are starting their prophylactic enurso. Make sure of your supply by ordering Serocalcin now.

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WHITE GLASS CURTAINS, BROWN-PRINTED chintz draperies frame the picture window la

the dining room. Flooring is brown asphalt tile, various styles of the

throughout the entire house.

latter being used

DOUBLING AS GUEST ROOM, a den has built-in bookshelves. Atorage cabinets beneath, and windowsill shelf with pull-out

drawer to make a desk.

SOLVING

A PROBLEM

FOR MOTHERS-TO-BE

TF

APPLIED HARMONY

By PATRICIA CLARY

HOLLYWOOD. The important thing in mar- find themselves with too many on what was the rules IF you apply

of riage is to share responsibilities embellishments

a simple little musical harmony to marital and to realise the other person's originally just

ability," Dickinsan tune." harmony, the Modernaires eon- worth and

Of course, they added, any- tent, you'll seledm be "off key" cbserved. Just as in a singing

can't carry body ought to be open to sug- group, one perzon the load alone; people have la gestion. But they say that, like work together."

the Modernaires, you ought to take care of your own business if you can.

"A singer's life can be as harmonious at home us it is on the job." Ital Dickinson, sang- writer of the quintet, sald, "We

The Modernaires, who appear all have happy home lives Justin Alms, night clubs, radio and by remembering the little things records, do their own arranging,

note means

This Bitte volume "Makingwe remember on the job-such Two of the inere depressing

and Baby Wear" ar that a wrong problems with which nearly Maternity every mother-to-be has to con- (Sir Isane Pitman and Sons Ltd. discord. So we try for a com tend are how to obtain suitable London. 12s Bd.) shows the plementary-or complimentary... clothes without wreciding her leader how to make every garlone." husband's bank balance and ment which will be needed, from

when

had them

to a dressing bought or at swagger-coat sho has

her own for the mother, and from given 10

a romper sult the first vest to with. do when the baby is installed in for the baby.

what to

them

the nursery. However, a books

NURSERY

be

Time For Rest

Sharps,

and - flats rests..are accidentals in your marriage life

The quintet think their har- mony at home and at work has made their records top sellers for 10 years and brought them jobs doing a series of musical

the Intest with Alms,

Skitch renderson. They also are re- gulara on a radio show and made their Inlest night club'

at appearance

Los Angeles' Coconut Grove.

the

Change Tune

This "change of style and them pro- pave" is good for fessionally, and they sald come thing of the same is good for a marriage, too.

"But you have to watch your udded Paula sharps and flats," Kelly, the only woman in the

direct their own slage and Pram group and the wife of Dickinson.

"And you take time out for rests. rumbers and even write some Just os in Princo

music, you can't of their own lunes. And they keep going at a terrifle

pace. said that was another hint for good Neither life nor musle is in marital happiness D

without resta now teresting

amount of self-sufletency. and then."

The group participation and "When a couple begins to de-

"And just as in musical har- many outsiders, dependence on one another pend on

Dickinson concluded, for discord," mony," In their work train them well Dickinson said." "If relatives or "don't always sing the tune."---

Reighbours interfere, they may United Press. for family life, they sald.

NEWS: has just been published which covers, with bonnets to match. not only provides an answer to specially copied from

Charles's

set. can practically every question which

pram can present itself but one in bought in fleecy wool or white which the author, Bernard del

pique. Monic, a master tailor and designer, shows how maternity clothes can be put into reverso, there is a useful bedelde lamp, so to speak, and remade into which has a small blue night- attractive garments for ordinary light in addition to the ordinary wear when the time comes. bedside reading bulb.-

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