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HONGKON

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

GARDENING NOTES

When the wogs attack your roots

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VERY day this year,

Sundays included, wogs have been at work causing

plants to rot, off under- ground, with the result that nsters, annp-dragons, Can- terbury bells, beans, peas, sweet peas, and what-not have literally died with their

roota on.

HOUSEKEEPING BY THE BOOK

By MARION CLYDE MċCARROLL

THO'S going to be thing both casy and enjoy-

married In your able.

maker

crowd this summer? To help the young home- caro for the housd Who, that is, for whom

plante that make her windows you'll want to plan a shower?

WOD

right and gay, give her a book Someone, no doubt, and or two on the care of special if so, and you're trying to flowering plants such as gera- book on lower arrangement think of something that niums or African violets.

the would be useful, too, and book will be different from usual kitchen shower, linen on glassware, china and silver the bride special shower, miscellaneous would give

the wedding Kifi shower and so on, here's an intereal in

he'll receive in these categories. Iden: give her a

Something on table settings is another book she'll be delighted shower.

to receive.

book

Ilumid conditions, accom- panied by more than our regu- lor issue of rain, have been largely responsible for the vari- oua parasitic, noll-inhabiting

Not just a bunch of books tungi getting out of hand, and

fell to put in the bookcases of it hasn't been easy to

that once the plants the library of the new home people

These are just a few zugros- tum yellow and wilt or become

she'll have. But a well- stunted, that

can be nothing

selected variety of houseflons. Those who will be join ing in the shower will think of done to save them.

books cookbooks. tots more." is hold course, The trouble, of

heavy soils books on interior decora- common In than light, sondy areas, mainly

tion, how-to-do books that because such calls are not al-

cover all branches of house- deain. But this ways easy to Benton both root and crown rat keeping and home-making have been widespread in prac.

so that the young bride will tically a dirtricts and particu-

n referenco larly in gardena that have been start off with

shelf that will enable her to under

astonish her new husband with her domestic skill.

more

years,

for cultivation

Sorious losses

many

As a result of this outbreak and

serious loss, gardeners buying have rpent Dounda fungicidal sprays and dusts of different kinds, without getting any noticeable control. It was ever thus, for once the trouble nets in, nothing can be done. The

reason for this is that the responsible micro-organisms

the

work underground, and yellowing, wilting, and stunting are purely secondary symptoms of what is happening or has happened below ground.

In the circumstances

The

Making menus for seven days a week calls for both skill and imagination, so shower the bride-to-be with several different cookbooks

on

a big useful, dependable, general one, and several, de- voted to special types of cookery-meat cookery, ple- it is making, salads, foreign most dishes, etc. A cookbook

to with specially planned for brides

that deserves тесот.

a place of com- that shelf is Lily Ifaxworth Wallace's "Just For Two." Another, that contains a large section on chafing dish cookery--handy as anything to have when you're enter- taining informally—is "Cook It In A Casserole," by Florence Brobeck.

advisable to remove plants from infected soll and uter lliro the ground

dose formalin. mended is one part mercial formalin diluted with fifty parts of water. Loosen Arst with a fork and the soll

mixture at the then pour the rote of % to 1% gallons to the square foot, the amount depen- ding on the quantity necessary to saturate the soil. Some solls, it might be mentioned, more saturating the others.

Cover over

take

The treated soil should then hours be covered over for 12 with bags or several thick- afler of newspaper,

nesses

As for the decorating and furnishing end of things, "Home a book on stirred several there's

which the covers are removed

the noil

and

times during the next fortnight Decoration with Fabric and to allow the fumes to escape. The ground can then be eitherThread." that's an excellent rown with seed or reedlings set out. This treatment invariably

cleans up the fungi ef crown

OF root rot.

In addition to the plants pre- vlously mentioned, carnations, delphiniums, zinnias, lettuces, silver beet, and many other plants are affected at Ornamental

trees

umer and many and shrubs, also perennials biennials, are also allergic to the diseases, and may fade out after having wilted without the foliage showing any symptoms other than curiing.

This week's GADGET By JOAN DALS

from the French house. wife's kitchen comes this useful gadget with which you can slave and puree a whole batch of cooked vegetables

4 1@10 minutes.

muda,

Strongly

oparates with a revolving handle and two discs.

Price 101.

London Express Barolos.

New hat

NEW YORK-Te make

an

old hat new style-clamp a clip

on the clochel

Both jewellers and milliners trend are promoting a spring

toward more dangling glitter on head hugging hats.

Large, multi-colour of peari and rhinestone places are be ing attached to brims, under brimos and hat banda

Most distinctive of the many approaches to the gem-and-

headgear combination is place

centre

guide to the making of slip- covers and draperies, bed- spreads and other things. Ruth Wyeth Spears in the author.

No young couple ever has enough money for the furni- ture they want, but they can have a lot of fun pick- ing up odd pieces at second- hand shops and remaking them.

"Painting Patterns

Incidentally, If you want to make a special hit, let one of

lo the shower gifts be a colour- hold fully decorated shelf her reference library. If one of you has a husband or other rel- ative who's handy with tools, get him to make the shelf, and decorate

yourself, going 1, perhaps, in some way that will be a gay reminder of the crowd A book shower will be de- It can't miss finitely different. being a huge success.

BESIDES COOKBOOKS, the bride should have a selection of household books such as "Painting Patterns for Home Decorations," which shows how to make old fumiture new.

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for Home Decorators," also THE BRIDE WHO WANTS TO please that brand-new husband will begin right away by Ruth Wyeth Spears, is.

simple how-to-do book learning to make apple pie. It won't take her long to become an expert if she follows

the easy recipe in the latest "just For Two" cookbook.

that will make this sort of

ment of a dangle-pin in the A BOOK THAT TELLS HOW to make slipcovers, draperies, dressing table skirts, etc.,

front of a clocise-type

would he another valuable gift for the bride.

It's Your Home: ~

What to Do

For Freckles

By HELEN FOLLETT

two

If you are a victim of sum- mer freckles-there are kinds, the transient and the per- manent-this is the time to get after them. The sun's rays are not blistering as in mid-season. You are not likely to have any additional little yellow polka dots to increase the colony you already have. It is just as well to do a little complexion con- ditioning when the leaves begin to fall fall

Instead of using your regular. cream at bedtime, get one that

contains mild bleaching in- gredicatis.

Cosmetic chemists no longer offer strong lotions that flay ono's Ince; they are mos not

safe to use. Harmless clements are incorporated in some creamy. offeringa Home cures can be found in strained lemon juice that should be applied after the face is washed and allowed to dry on. Buttermilk, because of acid content, sometimes helps.

Peroxide if fresh, may whiten the skin.

Correct Name

The correct name for a case in case of freckles is lentigo, you care to know. These yal- lery spots are brought about as a rule by exposure to the rays of the sun, though strong winds may be a factor, Though they may be removed by skin peeling, they will return upon exposure, ao drastic means of getting rid of them are not re- commended.

be

Summer

сап freckles nvolded it, early in the season,

taken

protective measures are

If the skin is against them.

the surfaco La

kept lubricated not likely to become buried or discoloured.

After this rain a dry-out is needed

By BOB SCHARFF

IF your cellar is wet, or added to the concrete mixture in

even

after damp, heavy rain or a long thaw, A few simple and inexpen- sive repairs may remedy the condition.

accordance with turer's directions,

First, check the grading to be sure

that surface roofing

the manufac-

For the morter itself, a mix- ture of three parts of clean sand to one part of cement is satis factory. Mix these well and add just enough water and water- to pre- a stiff, duce a

hick paste. Now the surfaces where water drains away from the prime

tho morlar is

is to be sppiled with house, and make sure the a very thin mixture of cement, drains are not clogged up. water waterproofing

Next, check the cellar walls pound. Before this primer dries, and floor for cracks. If you and spread the concrete mortar on any, they should be widened thick and smooth it out with a but and deepened with a ham rectangular shaped trowel.

mer and chisel and then filled with cement.

a

and

an

com-

If you are particular about the appearance of the job, a uni- Aside from cracks, the place form curve can be given to the most likely to need attention is move by smoothing it out with a where the walls Join the floor. milk batile.

emulsified Water often seeps into the coilar If you along the path shown by the asphalt as a waterproofing com-

in bost to dotted line in the diagram. The pound, it

to finish off all remedy is a waterproof cove all concrete work. containing the a thin coating of around the inside of the cellar. asphalt with

necessary, this cove can be

with a whisk broom shortly after the other mortar

axtended up the wolls for a foot west, 2130 sand and water,

OTWO.

brush tiff wire

With

has begun to set, This rest St. move all loose particles from the ment gives a white coaling over surfaces being repaired, and get be black, asphalt-impregnated rid of any traces of all or grease oncrete.

with naphths or gasoline. A After the concrete, work has thorough- waterproofing compound should bean completed and is be added

to the

concrete mix-ly dry, the whole celler can be ture to stop water seepage and given a churt and damp-proofing ald in bonding the new concrete treatment with any of many to the old. There are many special basement paints. Apply good waterproofing compounds the damp-proofing and noor on the market. Whatever comes, paint, according to the man- pound you choose should be facturer's instructions.

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