1950-05-06 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1950.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

Handy to Have

By MARION CLYDE MɗCARROLL

HANDY thing to have, whether you're Lafrendy

owner of

"

strip of land on which you plan to build or Are contem- plating such a purchase, is this many-purpose little.

house.

Suppose. for instance, you have a piece of land proudly in your possession,

One of the first things you'll be doing, of course, is to get out and inspect your properly as often as poA- Bible, for you'll get the same thrill of ownership "walk- ing your land" whether it's 50-foot plot or a 50-acre tract.

On each visit you'll find do. plenty of things to You'll study the land, with a careful eye to selecting just the right place to build

HERE'S A LITTLE HOUSE that's very handy to have! It can serve as tool house, week-end bunkhouse, children's playhouse or guest house.

the house. You'll keep the grounds cleaned up, prune trees and bushes, and do all sorts of other odd jobs to now, it ens

serve storage and "camping out" purposes till.

get the site in good condi- your house is up, and then be tion. Maybe you'll even turned into a playhouse for the plant a garden and raise children or made late a charm-

ing guest house. vegetables.

For convenience in all this, you'll want to have garden and other tools on hand and perhaps a spot to bunk in over the week-end.

That's where the little house plctured comes in. For, bull

It can be but four by eight feel, a good size if you just want

a place to store tools, or eight by twelve, or eight by sixteen, if you want to use it for other purposes as well. If you want It still larger, you can readily expand it to any measurements desired.

The Queen Is Faced With Every Woman's Problem

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What to wear this summer?

by Geraldine Hill

LONDON.

UEEN Elizabeth rummaged through

her royal dresses and faced up to every woman's annual problem-what to

wear this summer.

Queen Elizabeth

hand down to her daughters.

For the Queen the over what to buy and what to problem is not made easier by the unwritten rule that royalty can't wear even one-year-old hat or dress.

Britain's royal inonarch, like many housewives throughout the world, planned an start on her summer and like all women

In the salon of Norman Hart- nell, rayal dressmaker. bales

When

Baby Is Teething

By H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D.

JOME years ago, almost only symptoms may be loss of any upset during the appetite, irritability, and fever, toothcutting period all of which may also be caused

was attributed to teething, by teething. Thus, the only safe Later, an exactly opposite thing to do is to call the doctor, view was adopted. Teething, I tonsilitis is present, his it was believed, caused no examination of the throat will disturbance of any kind quickly reveal it. and never made n baby alck.

Then, too, a baby can have quife a severe inflammation of the nose and threat without any noticeable discharge from nose to put the mother

Today, a middle-of-the-road idea, more in keeping with the actual facts, prevalla. There is some evidence that teething can lindeed upset an infant. At the guard.

same Umo we realise the need

cause.

the

to guard against assigning every which is often disturbance occurring at time to this

. especially -should understand is only tething" is pyelitis or this, because there are a good infiammation of the pelvis of

Another disorder in babies neglected bo- Mothers, caure the mother belleves "he

serious disorders many more which cause similar symptoms If they are dismissed simply teething, the child may become very 1 indeed before the doctor is called.

Tonsillitis

For example, a child severe tonsillitis will complain of sore throat.

the kidney. Here, once again, As the

classic symptoms-fever, vomiting and, sometimes, diarrhoea-will be present and there may be loss of appetite and loss of weight as the disease progressca

with rarely The

IF YOU WANT TO USE THE house for week-ends, or as a guest house, you might fix it up inside like this.

a and bales of beautiful, rich Alice Denhoff thinks-

materials were stocked top in preparation for the Queen's summer orders.

New dresses must be cut and early Atted for such fashionabin wardrobe events as the court presentation,

puzzled parties and garden parties

May and June, the Ascot and Goodwood Races and

Walking Doll

To Be Seen At BIF

T the British Industrles

A Fair in London, which

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of private parties in the state rooms of Backingham Palace.

The Queen will pass many

of last year's dresses

Hartnell

to be altered for either Princess

There's Something About

A Spring Salad

in table charm, for that lightly together until the Spring look, "bowl" your gredients are thoroughly mark Elizabeth or Princess Margaret.salads. Of course, galad is nated. Serves 8-8.

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were wearing a

healthful no matter how it

For a healthful, pleasing salad

is served, but just the same, for a soak cabbage in cold water

Bowl...

ozs.) cream cheese, 3 tbsp. walnut ments finely-chopped and mayonnaise. Place a whole clove in stem end of each pear half, then place each half in nest of crisp lettuce.

there's something about until crisp, drain thoroughly, soften tbsp. gelatin in 4 c. cold

salad bowl! Nice for supper Use 3 e shredded cabbage, ono is a meal that includes

с

c sugar

Worces

and

mould

For a piquant vegetable salad

water. Add 14 C boiling water, While many fashion-conscious is to be opened on the 8th

women wondered whether they

1 cup diced pineapple (fresh or tbsp lemon juice, tsp. a timed) 12 sliced daten, French 1 tsp. salt. Cool slightly. Add,

tershire

น of this month, a doll "with would look good in navy hot dish-say soup-and

sauce. and 1/2 summer days, big bowl of salads from dressing, shredded lettuce roving eyes," a walking doll black on hot

in order given,

Anely forks shredded cabbage,

14 which to serve seconds and endive. Toss with two

C finely- and a galloping horao will Queen Elizabeth pondered over

blues and Dinky

and pasiel

Servo diced celery (both well chilled) be exhibited.

shades,

for the Queer rarely even thirds. Add the casiest until thoroughly mixed. wears dark colours in publle, of desserts, some thin bread very cold.

2 tbsp. Anely chopped pimiento, 14e small cooked peas, 11⁄2 c A British designer wna "People come thousands of and butter or mußins and The idea of salad BS $

cooked green beans and 14 0 the first to come out with to see the Queen and it is lots of good coffee and there separate course is growing in mayonnaise. Turn into the "walking" wooden horse ikely if the

you are, right for the favour, Long a favourite with and chill. for the nursery. Now Bri-dark dress they would not spot

erowd," the royal family, just as good for un cosmopolitans the vogue her in the

expected droppers-in!

been taken up enthusiastically,' Interest and pleasing For a substantial salad wash to add Ing a Queen.

weather to warth well a head of fettuce, break it substance The Queen, although she Is advised by Hartnell,

salad meals.. hag frm

up and arrange it in a

cold ideas on what she will

bowl. Using one in of wear colours. At present cooked string beans, 3 tomatoes, and what she is very fond of light blue 2 c diced cooked potatoes, one Baked tuna fish, one peeled, and despite gentle persuasion

aliced purple onion, 3 sliced from the royal dressmaker +- fuses

to

hard-cooked to switch colour on the artist's palette.

sald.

bo

tish designers have equip designer poited" is part of be ped the horse with a steer- ing mechanism so the rider can change direction and prance around the nursery floor in circles.

The "walking doll” enn lake n stroll with its human com- panion, turn its head and sit British down, according to its designer.

Cowboy suits, realistic gung and holsters and life-like pup- pets are a current craza amona tho younger sol, attributed generally to television.

to

"We tried not to give in the cowboy gun demand," one boy store owner said, "because somo psychologists say guna are bad for children. But we finally got so many requests we added FUNE to our stock. Children don't understand when their plous for toy guns are refused, after their other requests for Bleda, footballs and trains have been granted."-United Pross.

eggs, arrange

us-

An Idea

has

and

For an excellent tomato cheeze mind to serve 6, add 2 another alternale layers. Mix

packages (6 ozs.) cream cheese blend lard pickle,

14 c mayonnaiso; e saind oil,

red, tsp. sugar, e vinegar, sp. thoroughly. Skin 6 ripe, salt and few Talns pepper. firm tomatoes. Turn tomatoco Thoroughly toss salad, with the alem-end down and cut 3 times well-mixed dressing, using crosswise a little more than fork, Serve 8.

half-way through, once in

the centre and once half-way to- wards the end. Fill each cut with mayonnaise and cream Salad cheese

mixture. Chill tbsp. refrigerator, Serve on crisp let-

10 tuce, crisp

Tie iwo Princesses have re- cently broken with tradition to visit Hartnell's salon to sit amid other titled ellents and choose their summer dresses from his new collection. Queen Elizabeth, exercise however, still likes to

her royal prerogative and have the designer visit her at the palace.

In the near future, Harinell, accompanied by the royal fitter and suitcases full of materials, designs and pins will drop in tó help the Queen make up her mind-United Press.

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Bombay Salad Bowl

Ever try a Bombay Bowlt 11's good, Soften 2 currants in hot water for min. Drain, Combine 2 shredded cabbage.

Stuffed pear salad is nice shredded carrots, 2/3 e aliced with luncheon or supper. The sweet pickles And head mixture used to all pear centres sandwich fettuce that has been shredded, is also an excellent with the currants. Chill in re- ling. To servo 8, take 8 large frigerator. Just before serving pear halves and fill with A blended mixture add one diced red apple and thoroughly French dressing to suit. Tosi compounded of 2 packages (6

This week's GADGET

By IQAN DALE

HERE plestie milk hauber with a "trosperent fomed cover and it plastic straw, Intended for little folk, wh tagy, tou joug over a beaker of

Inside that doms are thras little animals which we vière- ing around whow the wilk ja “deen up. It costs du. 114,

London Zupree_Berulot.

There is a disorder known as roseals Infantum. sometimes cailed pink discase or rose fever, which occurs in babies. It also causes restlessness, sleep- lessness, loss of appetite and ir- ritability, and generally a very high fever. During its early stages, the symptoms caused by this condition may be thought to come from teething.

Need of Examination

All this is enough to show the need for an examination by the doctor of any child of teeth- Ing age who becomes irritablo or cross and has fever or other symptoms of illness even where they are not very severe.

on

Of course, teething may, occasion, be responsible because pressury of the teeth against the gums may produce some inflam- mation in the gums and Ir- ritability in the child, together with sleeplessness. paleness, loss of appetite, drooling and Eometimes light fever.

A Few Days

no

ig

However, if teething is actual- ly responsible the symptoms will Inst only a few days and Immediately disappear when the tooth comes through the gums,

Apparently

particular treatment is necessary in such cuses. Laneing of the gums rarely, if ever, required. Some times, it may be of value give the child a mild sedative or quieting drug until the tooth

the Causing

troublo comes through the gum, but the doc- tor will be the one lo decide

this.

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