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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1950.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

Designed For

Brighter Living

your choice among these

Farebnent shaded pottery reroll lamp (left) uice in gray White lik glass lams with parchment or forral green. shade highlighted with Greek key trim in gold, has gold laillee work mesh at the top and gold with open squares at bottom, Geld leaf design features the slender brass finished lamp base at right. The fourth lyle is modern, with slato parchment gray or forest green pottery base and matching

FOR THE MODERN HOME plek equally artistle and beautiful lamps:

shade.

suit

FOR YOUR home

T

HOME

by PAMELA BLAKE

1:LBENTISTAATTTAKENNELIGENTE (LATERALTOZATAMNJENA

10 make spring-cleaning eyestrain and headaches and are position is a bedhead light and in

tasks more pleasant quite unnecessary, there are paints and service Bureau include distempers with a spring- ceiling-mounted enclosed fitting lamps below the frame. flower perfume which lasts containing

local lighting for the cooker With separate switching it can'

until dry.

The other acts as a table or desk Kitchen ideas at the lighting lamp, and a three-way plcture with fluorescent * 4it frame atted

and tubular filament a fuorescent lamp, lamps and

from a spherical wall fitting be used

(0)

three-

For the nursery's new colour scheme there is "Charles Blue" and a fluorescent lamp which dimensional decorative feature, paint; for kitchens and larders lights both the china-glass cup (b) for soft Indirect

board and the working shelf when the upper beneath.

an oil-bound washable distem-.

DDT to keep per containing

For the bedroom there is the oway Bles

The carpet doctor is a useful Inst word in make-up mirrors man at this time of the year. He atted with lampa of the thres patch main colour types natural mend invisibly, threadbare pieces or holes, or Buorescent, warm white fluores- a new cent, and architectural filament lamps that it is possible to make up for whatever form of lighting you may meet.

can

alter the shape room,

ft 10

Lights up

BADLY III kitchens, dim read-

Now ideas for the lounge or a

I & ds insulted sitting-room include clently equipped with light for pivoting bedside lamp, with two reading are the chief causes of flourescent lampa which in one

Jampa SCIENTIFICALLY PLANNED LIGHTING in the bedroom includes two pin-to-wall famps over the bed equipped with diffusing bowls for easy-on-the-eyes light; twin dresser

and a celling fixture for renera illumination.

lighting lamp is used (c) alone, and

for supple- mentory reading light when the lower lamp is used alone.

Women who object to some of the new fluorescent lighting be- cause it is unflattering to clothes and complexions, will have no

about the complaints lamp, called "Mellow Light.”

It's an idea...

to

Intest

that may make tes cosies obsolete, Interlined teapots and hot water jugs, which guarantee a piping hot "second cup." They will be seen at the BIF.

make furniture from the new self- One oulßt. assembly panel kits. in either cream or watnut Anish makes 10 pieces of furniture and costs 40s.

wonderful

your own

Easter egg for the young man with carpentry ambitions).

Things to come

Y ATEST American blankets are of light nylon seer- Bucker, treated with & new process called Deering to give greater warmth than the heaviest woot blanket. Process can also be used for clothing te give warmth without weight.

-London Express Service,,

New Aids For Housewives

spiritual home devices. has produced there new nids for the housewife:

TEW YORK,

Nall Inbour-saving

An inexpensive plastic conting called Tect, which forms a thin but tough conting for all metal, preventing rust and tarnishing and doing away with all e'ean- ing and polishing.

refrigerator that never needs defrosting. An ingenious electric device registers how many times you've opened the door (It's the warm ale getting in that makes frost gather on the unit) and when you've open- mechanism ed it 60 times the melts the frost and even

çva- porates the water that results.

Second thoughts

"SECOND

Bride" wedding gowns are being featured

for divorce-conscious Americang. Models in one Fifth

Avenue

salon are of white linen, with

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THIS SUMMER WITH

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a

We have just received variety to meet with choice

your

Noteworthy is Jantzen's new fabric composing

of

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It's true! With AVOSET in your kitchen you can have luscious whipped cream on pies, cakes, puddings - any time at all. AVOSET is pure, rich cream, country,sweet and delicious AVOSLT keeps until you need it and wise women-buy it in quantity.

Also try AVOSET Table Orade for coffee, cereals, fruit

AVOSET

STERILIZED CREAM. Whipping

ROITLED CHEAN

THAT DEPE

FOR MONIN

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and

Solo Agents for

one shoulder bare, trimmed with Liberty Diamond Cutting Works (Pty) Ltd.

Iriangles of black chantilly lace and a navy linen strapless dress covered with a bolero of white open-work embroidered linen.

Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Authoress

Suggests ..

How To Choose Your Husband's

Suitings

WIFE may buy most of such as a serge, is that they are A the family's apparei, likely to become shiny,

but

A man's

suit is one article that the husbandi usually insiste upon chons ing himself-although per. haps considering her good judgment. In any event, little has been done to help men become buyers.

belter

Tweeds und homespun- popular with women as well as the class' of men-fall into "woollens" and are also long-

wearing

and wrinkle-resistant.

They are less firmly woven than the worsteds and do not keep deir shape or press, as well.

*

Twist yet another kind of look stiff There is a new publication wollen-feel and entitled "Buying Guide on Meu's compared with the fine worstedia. Suits," based on research done They are good buys for men who

Kive their In the Inbaratories of the U.S.

very hard wear. suits Men need to

their know Bureau of Human Nutrition onl

fabrles because the name of the Home Economics,

cloth-whether gabardine, tweed or the like is not always a rell-

quality. able guide to its

Juraention Scolt brings to our that the same names used for high quality suitings are also used for suitings cheapened with lower grade wools or other fibres to cut the cost of manufacture,

The aan who works in an of- fice may add satisfaction from n sulf raude of fine, soft worsted, Kuch a sharkskin or unlinished worsted, this booklet tells us, but the man whose work takes him 1nd better out-of-doors will service from a twist, homespun or other rugged cloth.

To judge and choose cloth for a sult, Clarice L. Scoft, author, says it is important to know the strong and weak points of the different sultings.

Worsted sullings, those includ ing serge, gabardine, sharkskin and unanished worsteds, are the long-wearing and wrinkle-resist

identify ant fabrics. You can them by their close weave and hard Anish. One disadvantage of smooth fabrics without a nap.

This week's GADGET

By JOAN DALE

and Oven

US special gadget la most useful for removing hot 'meat dishes, cake tins

tho from casseroles without burning the Angers.

It made of aluminium sheet turned up at the aides to prevent the tin from, elip- „ping, off. Blade is 11 in. by - Ins with an-8.in, bandle

Misa

Fibre-content labels required by Federal law offer some help. They give the kind of wool, and how much the sulting contains and percentage of other fibre,

TO

ADD AN EXTRA POUND RECIPE

BUILD UP the reserve that eventually forms extra pounds, your goal zhould

be 3,500 calories every day. Eat

lowly:

Aleen rest

minutes after eath; avold tension and strala ut all times.

Here's a menu for one day which you can use to pattern all your meals. One pound a week is about all you can ex- pest from it If you know your weight level is stubborn:

bag a difusing

THE LIVING ROOM, 17 FEET 6IX INCHES by 11 feet 4 inches, has a wood-burning fireplace, built-in book shelves and large pleture window. The Boor tamp

bowl for glare-free light just right to read or work by.

TREATMENT

FOR

COMMON

MUSCLE CRAMPS

By H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D.

[ANY people suffer from sud- such as baking soda. Excessive treatment is carried out for from DREAKFAST. 805 calories: 8 V den painful knotting up of sweating and diarrhoea, as well two to four days and is then

the muscles of the legs. These muscle cramps may result from a variety of disorders; hence, a knowledge of the cause must precede any attempt at treat

Doz.

orange juice, 2 allees whole wheat toast, buttered, 2 tbsp. honey, 1 egg with 2 strips of bacon, or whole grain cereal

top milk,

coffee with cream. Midmorning. 100 ment. cntories: Glass of milk.

as failure to get enough salt, stopped until the cramps recur. When the treatment is suCCERS- may also cause muscle cramps.

They occur in diseases affect- ful, it is found that the patient ing the nervous system, such as is free from cramps for a perlus the treatment 16 paralysis agitans and epilepsy. of from three to 28 days. When may follow they recur, Muzcular cramps exercice, chilling, and musculer again administered.

Effective

Muscle

-100.

A deficiency of calcium or faligue.

No ill effects were noted In

However, INNER, 090 calories: Roast me salls in the blood is one of

the patients. causes of muscle

tinued treatment should be veal with dressing, bolled the commen

This lack of calcium

cramps occur Cavolded in patients with kidney potato, cream style corn, tossed crampa.

In elderly persons disease or those who have, some green salad with French dress may, in turn, be due to faliure pecially

during the night. Recently, parathyroid glands to

olber condition which 2.07 ing. roll and butter. rice pud. of the ding, tea or coffee. Before bed, make enough of their secretion, number of these patients were lessen the amount of alkali io It may also result from insul- treated with ammonium chloride, the blood and tissues, for the ficient intake of calcium, an drug which Increases the de

degroo of acidosis produced by excessive loss or lack of vitamin acidity of the body. This is the giving of arimonlum diforide

given in tablet form, three times may result in an excessive at " Muscle cramps may also occur during the afternoon and even dangerous acidogla when there is a loss of chlorides -ing. It was found that such

effective from the body due to excessive treatment

220 calories: B Oz. milk and 4 #raham crackers.

LUNCIL, 845 calories: Cream of asparagus soup (cup), gilled cheese sandwich, tole slaw made of plain beech (mid-afternoon, 460

salad, cup custard, a oz milk calories; Chocolate malted milkshake, -----(London - Express Service)

D.

Those who suffer from murde

in cramps will do well to consult vomiting or the taking af too preventing these crampe in with their physician concerning much of an alkall preparation, three-fourths of the cases. The this type of frasument.”

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