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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

YOU'RE 10 DAYS AWAY FROM A BETTER FIGURE

--and it's all in season.

BY ANNE EDWARDS

ALADS again...green vegetables again. With springtime comes the

chance of from

getting away

those over-starchy winter menus which tell their tale on the weighing- scales.

This ten-day slimming used by in programme

Hollywood stars.

So today Page Seven offers the full ten-day pro- gramme for setting down your winter weight.

The stars' diet in based on the theory that you can ent as much as you like of Home kinds of food, so long of the ΠΟΠΟ eat ng you other kinds,

You can have fish and meat

und eggs in abundance, so Inng

as you cut out

the fattening

Gugars and starches,

From diet standpoint, water

is the best drink-and

the worst,

1

Breakfast

∙1st DAY

2nd DAY

5th DAY

4th DAY 3rd DAY Hkit grapefruit: One orange; one Poached err: two Apple; two llocs Orange;

toast fish; slice wholemeal alicen Melba toast; wholemeal salt bolled ei loe

BLS or coffee a alice

wholemeal tourt and butler tea or coffee with with ballers ten | mexi

IX. or coffee orskimmed Doffee

before. before. toast, thinly but black

No sugar. Lered; cup black tea with skimmed

coffee or tea with

kimmed milk.

No sugar,

Large green salad (letince malo); glam milk,

Lunch

Dinner

Breakfast

milk. No sugar.

steamed. whole- Local: Les

beetroot, watererem.

raw carrol, and Largo green salad Green anlad (let-Large mlad (tot | Endive,

radishes,tuce, waler- $100, to- (lettuce,

milk, celery): beetroot); Cottage endive, euoam- } mlad: cinas whole- orens,

and cheese; Kiss bor); grated crispbread

Cheddar gİREK от Anger

akimmed milk. amall

whole milk, Cheddar; rlass skimmed milk...

beans

Rabbii; string Steamed or grilled sif grapefruit: and broc platos: grilled to- tamb chop with

tea matoes and cab out fat; broccoll

bage: orange; tex❘ and

Grilled hop without fat; cauli-

and coll; apple: flower oooked eelery

coffee or

before. without sauce; crispbread Iwo bisculls and Cet- lage cheese; par: coffen tea without cream

or

car.

6th DAY

or

or

coffee before.

7th DAY

8th DAY

carrots (urnips.

9th DAY

心變

spinach and 110 e

beef;

car..

rots; Junket and stewed apple.

10th DAY

l'ear; two

wholemeal

allers Scrambled

Loani alice

CE Apple; two slices

and wheleincal Locat

tea or coffee lea of

before. coffee as before.

toant; crisp. alices Haddock cooked in Fruit Juice; iwo) toast: milk: two

or cat foo Lea as breads;

before. coffee as before.

tea

OF

CLA

and butter; tea or butter: coffee as before.

Endlye

alcohol

Lunch

(endive, Cold chicken; en to-Baiud and

toma- dive salad; black mato salad; hard- radishes,

coffee. bolled. E: glass toes, watercress); class whole milk. skimmed milk.

Mixed salad and cheese; Cottage

orange.

veal And Cold Balad; glans milk.

Ash

But-ne sauces for your

or vegetables, no dressings for your salads, no mayonnaise, no

highly seasoned flavourings, allow yourself

You can

little cheating though if must-a dressing made with

teaspoonful of pure olive

you

11

Dinner

oil

for

email pat

your

hot

coup

02-

and the juice of a lemon your midday salads, a

of

butter on

vegetables,

clear

ensionally, garlic, mustard aud

chives or tarragon.

-(London Express, Service)

The Inventor

Was A Housewife

A inventor is Mrs E.

Chicken: broccoll Grilled

platter not bacon: Vegetable

опе

veal chop:

Steamed ori grilled ole cauliflower and and beans; Jelly: tomatoes and (carrots, broccoli, e a b bags and and stringasparagus or spinach: fresh apple.

acauliflower: gellied tomatoes: crispbread and beans), with

little oneorealewed pear and

junkel, Collage cheese,

sauce.

FUNCTIONAL-WITHOUT

SACRIFICING

BEAUTY

ALTHOUGH furniture de surprise themselves by investing must also be beautiful and com

signers aro

generally in one or two pieces to use with fortable.

their traditional furniture.

Shown below is how the simplicity of line in furn!- ture can make a room basically

anonymous to the people

It is no surprise to Mr Robe- beautiful. who buy their designs, T.

john-Gibbings himself, who be- H. Robsjohn Gibbings is leves that the only good con- well known, not only for his temporary design is that which and adaptable HOUSEWIFE turned furniture designs, but for is beautiful

type of home. his the books Good-bye, enough to it fato

Chippendale" and

functionalism is For him, Mr

taken for granted-he begins de- "Mona Lisa's Mustache."

many modern

He belleves Those who find most "modern" where

too coldly functional signers leave off. furniture

Two of her Intest Kaley. inventions will be appearing television's Inventors'

in

Club programmes shortly.

First is u

almost any

handle with for their taste, invariably admit that furniture must be useful,

find this designer's unostentatious

and often simple, but he pleasing

that they

small claws, which are re-things leased by pressing a button,j

scour pots and pans.

for gripping steel wool to!

Mrs Kaley, facing house-

work for the first time re- 11 servantless cently in

Washington house, found that steel wool too took the nails and varnish off her

the skin off her fingers. So

she invented

and has

patent.

the "Gripit": taken out

It's non-spill

her

Her pecond Invention, also dis- her American

covered during

clay, le a non-spill powder-box.

Dressint for

a dance at Palm

Beach she opened her powder face powder

box and spilled

down her black velvet dress.

Next day she bought every kind of available powder box, and faults all their studied disadvantages and then sat down to concoct the perfect non-spill box hermelt.

Mr Kaley

herself a

has now bought

coltage home

in

London and says that furnishing

and decorating It has given her mora den for

inventions.

labour-saving

Ideal homes

BOT the gas and electrical

Industries have

and

basically believes that it

designed

In the A caffron ILLUSTRATED ABOVE are two pieces line of basio simpliclly and functionalism. maliogany lounge chair with an open dowelled hack and a loose foam rubber cushion is shown combined with a six foot-long hikle, also of foam rubber construction over deep

upholstered in call springs. Both chair and hikie are Is Go

rough textured natural Peruvian linen.

news for the housewife this springt.

Most sensational is a small gas

which shower cabinet compact it only occupies floor space of 3ft. 7in x 2ft. 3in. It is of cream-finished aluminiure,

Wh

hos an airing cupboard for THE BIG MOMENT

towels below the boater and a smart green rubberised curtain. Perfect for the home too small or 100 old-fashioned to include a bathroom-there are still 4,000,- without baths in 000 homes England. Cost is about 2d. -n shower.

DOES THIS FAMILIAR

SOUND TO YOU?

#

apple; cheese,

-Warning-

*** YOU MUST consult your doctor before you begin half-way op And check through. Drink water between meals only. Reduce your sali. Eat freal not tinned, fruit. Eat a much green salads and vegetables raw or cooked s you like, sa much fish, meat, and egg me you like, and yots much crispbread na Uke. Have a cup of tea with skimmed milk and no sugar Cat out #UERT, at Leatimg. starch, and alcohol Out down on fats.

Soap And Water Can Irritate Skin Inflamed

With

Eczema

By H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D.

EOPLE with eczema have should be made. This

can b

Pone when seen done only by climinating mort

10 react unfavourably to foods from the diet for a line substances which do others no and then gradually adding them It when a new harm. The basis for the trouble ane by one.

that it is

tho

is apparently an inborn sensiti- food is added the eczema gets

in part for vity or allergy which causes the worse, it is evident

to responsible skin to become inflamed und

and dimeulty. It should no longer out in itching break unsightly blisters. Bables born be eaten.

of allergle

parcals are more

likely than others to develop)

eczema and

the

trouble may continue for months or even

years.

will!

HOUSEHOLD

SHELLAC

If the substances causing the USES FOR okin inflammation can be iden-

their elimination tified,

Unfortunately bring a cure. this is not possible in many Hence, It often instances. happens that the best that can be done is to keep the skin from and to ure further irritation

soothe substances which, will rather than clear up the flammation.

wor

Soap and Water

In-

It is better for the child with eczema not to bathe with soap and water. The soap and water will make the skin inflammation wursc. Sponge bathing

During necessary. usually sponge bathing, the soap and water are not allowed to come in contact with the areas of the skin affected by the eczema. The skin should be palled dry and not rubbed.

be

By ELEANOR ROSS EMON, salt and baking pow- der are such useful home assistants that we just know we without couldn't keep house their assistance, To this group' add shellac. Having need of a gluc

when there

wasn't a smid- the gin around, we turned to remains of some sheline with doing a which we had been floor and it worked beautifully.

This set us to collecting other usca for clear, thin varnish.

Ita Usos

We know that besides a handy glue, shellac is fine as a water- proof cement. All you do is, to pour the stuff in a dish, burn off the alcohol, and use the residue.

in

After

If there are acutely inflamed

makes a good agent for the areas of skin, these should be boat-minded person, since it covered with tale powder after especially go for repairing the bath. The powder should torn sails and for cementing

putting it th to applied by

convos to decks. It can be used piece of sterile cotton and then in a pinch as a good lacquer patting the affected parts, Excess since It may be coloured and should be removed shade dealted by aniilne dves powder

After a few tissolved

alcohol without rubbing dinys of this treatment, the straining, the dye-alcohol tolx- acutely Inflamed areas will be ture is added very slowly to the come dry and scaly.

Where erzema has dried and shellac until the desired colour

is obtained. thickened the skin, it may be "Lovers had loved before, and cleansed with warm mineral oil,

oll the excess lovers would love again; but no bul

removed might, thoroughly over loved, lover had

rubbing, or should ever (Dould "When Dora hung her head could, would,

love,

I loved Dorn." and cried, and trembled,

PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE eloquenco increased so much the Copperfield.) moro, If she would like me to die for her, she had but to say (Fact).... the word and I was ready. Life without Dora's love was not a thing to have on any terms. "I couldn't bear it and

★PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE ·

(Fiction)

my

must bo

without

Exposed to Sun

The baby with eczemy should

Applied to the back of a hook- ed rug or a carpet that is losing its "body," shellac will add greatly to its length of life,"

Any Typos Shellac

Other gas products Include u new-size cooker with hotplate,

In passing, we would like to five bolling burners and a 10in.

mention that these Ideas work grill, also an extra-large oven in which two dishes can be placed

not be exposed to the aun, wind with any type of shellac.

Now on with the shellac Hens. aide by side on each shelf; all-

a letter-very or cold. The clothing should be "He wrote me while cookers and stoves with transparent oven doors, and

closet for warming

negative it was saying that of made of cotton and should be "Orange" shellac will impart course he didn't earn enough to light and easily washed. Woolrich glowing shade of brown. Uny hot

marry anyone, but if he did it garments next to the skin will White shellac, similarly applied, He make the eczema worse and will leave the colour virtually plates

and keeping food hot.

I would be me.

And, if you have I wasn't quite Electricity offers a new re

some chairs with ruch anals, 15 which frigerator

overy wouldn't. I had loved her every sure if he'd proposed or given even wool blankets on the bed untouched.

an n has housewife's dream.

If the eczcina continues as the shellac will postpone indefinitely ordinary refrigerator compart- minute, day and night, since me up. And much a long time are to be avoided.

I loved her at I had to wait, too, before he

and came to the point nearly a year. child grows older, a careful at the disintegration of the rush ment and another deep freeze first saw her.

ravelling are producing the difficulty store for keeping frozen foods that minute to distraction..

band's proposal) indefinitely and highly perishable should always love her, every (Joyce Grenfell about her hus- tempt to determine what foods due to moisture changes

minule to distraction. foodstuffs.

I

..

DOES SOCIETY · CONDEMN

Older Women & Young Men Romances?

By RENNIE TAYLOR Berkeley, Calif.

romantic affairs be

Drengur men and

older women, have some 80- cial significance which has escaped the attention of modern society?

A university of Washing- ton anthropologist, Dr Mel- ville Jacobs, raised the question at a regional meet- ing of the American An- thropological association.

Dr Behind the question, Jacobs reported, is his finding that liaisons between young men

older women and

were

culture bccepted, part of the pattern of the Tillamook Indians of the Pacific northwest.

Thero ore Indications, added, that similar relationships have been tolerated or approved by more or less primitive peoples around the world.

Socially Accepted

DR

he

These romantic interludes ap- parently were considered socially acceptable, Dr Jacobs said, be- otherwire they gave CRUSO unattached elder women a sense of being wanted, a sense of be- longing to someone, and because they introduced the male to sex relations with the restraint and discretion of maturity.

This differed widely from the popular Ides of today that the pairing of young men and older women usually is some variation of the gigolo-and-rich-pleasure- mad female combination, Dr Jacobs said. It involved genuine did not affection and money figure in it.

Evidence Sought

Dr Jacobs asked fellow on- to search the thropologists culture patterns of other peoples for evidence for or against this practice.

thus sought The Information eventually may throw light on whether modern society's some- what passive disapproval of great age disparity in mating is a peculiarity of present-day living.

This week's GADGET

By JOAN DALE

A useful aid to spring- elening, this pllable all mop can be used to clean high walls and ceilings and will bend into the most difficult corners.

Price 14s. Bd.

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