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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

Soft Light & Comfort

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THE THREE WALLS OF THIS LIVING ROOM have cornice-concealed fluorescent lighting

for soft "see-ability," Two ploture windows and a fireplace make it thoroughly delightful whether in winter or summer,

ALUORESCENT lighting,

FLU

so much used in the modern home now, gives both the desired end of artistic and soft soothing effect. In these three pic- tures it plays an important role in the comfort of home life.

Fooling

the

housewife

N

outbreak

A description of certain goods should make shop- pera extra wary that they are really buying what they want.

Most common "howlers," necording to the Retail Trading- Standards Association, are linen used to describe rayon mnde in used of linen; slike Imitation without the qualifying prefix artificial, "Shantung for describing the

rayon imitation

of the wild silk material imported from China; and all poplin lo describe men's shirts made en- tirely of cotton.

to

Other misleading terms watch for are "Camel hair and wool," often used to describe couts

and rufs with the and of camel hair. minimum "Cashmere and wool," when goods may contain only 15 ta 20 percent of cashmere.

Stockings

the

are perhaps worst offenders, and "Silk and rayon" hose should be enrefully examined, as some stockings thus described. In reality contain up to 85 or 90 percent raven.

To Greet The Spring

....wear a spray of mimosa, real or artificial, and match with yellow gloves.

....try the

new

Flamenco

langerine Bpstick and team it with a scarf or accessories.

....give last year's white hai

a springelean and treat it to a

Dew trimming.

....lavest

in some

pique to trim navy sults and dresses

white

or Block

....trim your figure by cut- ting out starch and remembering your dally dozen.

....Invest In a Turkish bath to clear your skin, a facial to tone it, and fresh-air exercise to give it a sparkle.

Mother And Authorcas

Popular, vivacious Bebe Daniels, radio and variety artist, 15 successful wife and mother and delightful hostess, for adding the litle of authoress to her other sellvities.

Recently together with Ji Allgood, she published a de- liplitful book called 282 Ways of Making Salnd-the Ideal

Easter egg for a Balnd fancier.

In this green, waterproof- covered book, she has collected salad recipes from masses of

British and American personali- Hes.

THE KITCHEN IS home-maker's dream come true, with lis easy-on-the-eyra fluorescent lighting, much of it built-in over sink, under cabinets, and complete electrical equipment, and with its abundant cabinet and counter space.

with A

A "DICTIONARY niche” LIGHTED

concealed fluorescent strip is an unusual feature of the pinc-panelled

ludy guest room.

T

Pamela Blake Offers:

NEW IDEAS FOR FLOORS AND COLOUR SCHEMES

and

Other people's homes

LOORING is a problem tains 378 sample colours, shown serve, when, how and with what,

in now houses where on malt and shiny paint mir- also how to choose, buy the floors are of con- pile carpet,

faces, with matching samples of keep your bottles.

A little booklet, Fine Drinking crete, due to present re- The dictionary will be of does this. strictions on wood flooring, particular interest to architects Asphalt files, as a substitute and interior designers, and also

to linoleum,

people planning their homer. sultable for any

Several of the big stores have DUILT for Lord Melbourne room. They reasonably warm, easy to keep pircudy ordered copies for their in 1770 and converted into cican, and are obtainable. In a interior decoration departments. bachelor chambers in 1800. The cleasing range of colours and

Albany, a stately Regency build- designs

Inexpensive luxuries ing in the heart of Piccadilly.

has an atmosphere all its own.

for

are

aro

Jointless flooring of wood and rubber not affected by heat, is fireproof, dustless and heat resisting, and is also available in

a wide range of colours eltber plan, mottled or in a feather dosign.

Colour dictionary

ITOME colour-scheming In I simplied by the first Dictionary of Colours for Interior Decoration. Produced by the British Colour Council it con-

Test Your Emotional Maturity

NEW YORK-

quila

OR the Linen Cupboard....... beautiful as your grandmother's, like

even if your Unen is not as It is the first thing that strikes You as you enter the cathedral- you can still have it initialled atmosphere. The chambers were calm, the peaceful and reasonably. The shop that do designed primarily for studying, this stock the Queens Elizabeth o animals, women and children and Mary ship shops with fine

were not allowed. linens which sell out on each dollar trip.

monogramunid

For the linen cupboard

For

the Garden....nostalgic

abroad are

animals and children, but many

Today there is still a ban on

women live there.

Television announcer Mary Malcolm's home is half-hidden

daffodils. The small garden: by

full of them, #anre the window boxes.

Books are everywhere. They ine the walls on both sides of Areplace In the lounge. They

the

arc

plied high on her husband's

enormous writing desk by the

bay windows,

Most outstanding item in the

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bedroom is a beautiful patch THE SINCERE CO., LTD.

work quilt of muted pinks and

blues made by village school- children.

Cats about the house

Alita to friends

ATEST fashion among New English strawberry plants which "Scratch Patch," to save furni

York cat ke:pers is the can be sent to any part of the fure and entertain world scaled dry in a special left alone. It consists

atw wrapping material.

For the Wine

Cupboard.

puss when

of

beurd partly covered with catnip Now that good wines are cheap leash decorated with beads and impregnated carpet and a plastic enough for home entertaining, bell.

it is important to know what to

~(London Express Service)

Ice Cream Is A

Party

Sparkle

By ALICE DENHOFF

adds

sparkle but decorate the top with 20 candied

cherries. Place in freezing com

TCE cream

little extra work to party Fricals.

Ice Cream Surprise Cake, a Ane finish to a party dinner, for a nice gesture as an evening

refreshment, comes first.

To serve 8, bake or buy a cake, oblong of round, about 5 inches deep,

partment, and freeze for several hours.

I reliability and a number of dates

you have "slick-to-itiveness,"ge or chiffon

you

other qualities

are emo: your refrigerator. freezing.com- tionally mature, Dr Edward Apartment. Place on a heavy Strecker, head of the depart

piece of cardboard and chil ment of psychiatry of the University of Pennsylvania roughly. When well-chilled, cut a a 1⁄4-inch slice from top, and School of Medleine,

then carefully cut

ecently.

Dr

Lift out onto a cold platter, slide off the paper, and arrange around 8 tinned peach halves the lee cream, or place them around the mould, cup side up.

have been soaked for an hour or more in orange and lemon julce to cover. These recipes ore brand new and well worth trying for special occasions when you do want to serve something

sald set centre, leaving a shell rifterent.

it out the

Strecker listed the follow-bout & inch thick. Fill centre

ing as the personality qualities**

of emotional maturity:

·

"It is stick-to-itiveness,

cake with strawberry ice ercam, packing it in firmly and theavenly. Then cover the Ice ability to stick to a job, to work cream with the top slice of cake, place. Frost

on it, and to struggle through pressing firmly In until it is finished, or until one top and sides quickly with butter has given all one has in the en-cream frosting. Sprinkle with

deavour.

"It is the

several

tbsp. ay mull-coloured candles, quality or capa-Slice cake in freezing compart- city of giving more than is asked ment or required in a given Gitun-freezing,

of refrigerator, set. for

And frieze lon. It is reliability

hours, "Persistence is an aspect of maturity: Persistence to carry cut a goal in the face of dim-

ultles.

"Endurance enter Into, the To make frosting, work 3 tbsp. concept of maturity: the endur- buiter to a soft cream with c. ance of difeulles, unpleasant sugar taken from 2% c. sifted ners.

discomfort, frustration, confectioners' sugar. Then add hardship.

litle cream taken from 1 Dr Strecker declared that heavy cream scalded, beating it C. "the attainment of emotional in. Add the rest of the sugar maturity for a larger and band the cream, althernately, creasing number of Amerlennbeating the frosting until Ita citizens is the most important fuify, smooth and thick enough consideration that I know of." to spread without running. If

necessary,

add a little того sugar.

Sweet Tooth

By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Ph.D.

it

of tooth deeny, the damage will do the teeth will be relat ed to how much sugar is in the mouth, especially to how long we it stays there.

you

They conclude that if have a sweet tooth and want to satisfy it you should use toothbrush and mouth rinse in- mediately afterwards II wish to avoid tooth decay,

Brushing Time

You

WENTY years ago parents were told not to bother with a toothbrush for our- selves or our children except for aesthetie

All purposes. needed to do was to eat proper the sure we had the foods being

They found that a caramel necessary vitamins.

Whereas and orange juice brought to grandpas tried to keep candy the saliva almost the same high from our children especially be content of sugar.

But with so many ways But there which children get sweets any- tweey meals, there has not been was almost no sugar left in the time in the day, it is not very in recent

uch warning saliva from orange juice years much

after practical to hope that they will against sweels, and there have 20 minutes, while there bean

was always brush their teeth right the saliva (among sweets for children.

the caramel after 45

away after taking a soft drink, Yot

zome rother .recent minutes, When. however.

ice-cream cone, chewing

cum, the cookie or piece of studies of tooth decay Indicate teeth

mouth and

course, it wa can y

by

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Hollday Parfait for 6, next. After you

bring a quart of vanilla Ice cream back from the stort place it at once in the freezing compartment of your refrigerator.

sel for freezing, until ready to use. Mix 3 tinned, crushed pineapple, with few drops green food colouring make it a pale green, and flavour with tsp. peppermint extract.

Whippint heavy cream until stiff; colour rosy red with food colouring, and sweeten with 3 tbsp. powdered sugar. When ready to serve, fill layera parfait glasses with alternate pineapple. of Ice criam and Top with a swirl ef the whipped cream, and then with a maraschino cherry

or a

Comedian Wilfred Pickks con-

that while proper foods create thoroughly brushed and washed consumption of sweets and most

sweet to a wonderful a Go Mixed Salad Have

their serve 8-10, divide 2 qt. vanilla of lettuce, crees, radishes. Spring to decay, the leading other sugar concentration

in teeth considerable resistance, after eating the caramel, the other foods

or egg-nog Ice cream Into 2 to mealtime hard-boiled onions,

eggs and

the would be easier to train then frigerator

parts. Lino a do

a deep

freezing re tomatoes mixed in a bowl with cause of tooth decay is sugar in saliva dropped to zero.

tray to brush their teeth at

with the mouth. salad ercam,

heny proper waxed and, if desired,

times.

paper,

letting paper pickles.

Summarised Studies These scientists point out that

extend over edge of tray. Place It is obvious that the tradi- 34 And from Bobo's own husband,

trying to avoid tooth decay by tional ritual of

the Ico cream In tray, Ben

Lyon,

Crayishi In Science News Letter are avoiding sugars is impractical, teeth the first thing on rising one, macaroon

brushing the smoothing down evenly, Mix. Salad...."Cock crayfish, shell, summarised studies by Dre I, since almost all starch foods in the morning and no more tille. orange juice and one c crumbs with chill and mix with shredded W. Haggard and Lean A. produce sugar in tho mouth, the next morning, perhaps, har finely chopped; · candied "mixed lettuces

Place on a bed, of | Greenborg, of. Yale University.. After mixed

meal, for little sense to it. If were better fruit, making a spready paste. com lettuce leaves and pour over these scientists are not denilals, example, it took 45 minutes for us and our children to brush Add more mayonnaise mixed

with they are physiologists. They before the sugar in the saliva the teeth after cash moal and

orange Julce ketchup."

assume that If sugar is a cause practically disappeared.- at bedtime.

From tennis star Kuy Stammers comes Winter Salad consisting of one large lettuce. two eating apples diced, and two celery hearts thinly sliced, nil mixed together and served with French dressing. fributes

comes

Krowing allurements considerable' silli in

trom

2

wer

in

times.

or

it

lece of green cliron.

For

necessary. Cover with remain-

[ing ice cream, smooth down, and

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