1950-06-24 — Page 9

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1950.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

COMFORTABLY EFFICIENT

HOME, SWEET HOME, takes on a modern appearance when it's built ranch house style-long, low, rambling. This particular model ls designed with brick walls and shingled tables. A bedroom and the living room look out on front lawn,

porel, 100,

By JOAN O'SULLIVAN

ERE'S a house that would be nice to come home to. The exterior is charming in a rambling, ranch house way, with brick walls and shingled gables. Inside, there are five rooms de- signed for comfortable efficiency.

The good-sized living room runs the width

of the houre. A large window, at front, looks

out on the lawn and flowered plantings. At

other end of the room, there's a delights. replace and a built-in shelf for boolu.

CEILINGS on A dinlag room opens off the right of the main floor tying room and leads into the kitchen. The dining room also features French doors lead-

are 8 feet in ing to a porel that could be used for outdoor

height. rummer dining.

The bath parales two bedrooms, each of which has adequate closet mee for clothes and linens.

Cellings are 8 feet high. There are 15,040 cubic feet in this house when it's built without a basement; 20,730 cuble feet in house with a basement,

I'

Worrying doesn't

help you-

By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.

these heclic days, with One good way of controlling many people, worry has he muxiety is by sharing and dis- come so constant that it must cussing problems with others, It instead is a gool Iden to talk about your be classed as a habli.

of taking life as it comes, they troubles to other people and not

get into a state of anxiety over to keep them to yourself.

all sorts of things

about what may

morrow, next

and worry

happen to-

week or next

year, or never at all.

Worry Is Contagious

However, it is Important to

This solves no problems and pick the right may even do actual harm.

body.

The blood vessels con-

with whom

lype of persons to talk over these Thus, select people

Recent studies of what hap matters.

and friendly. pens to the body when people who are genial

Indicate that Confiding in another worrier is become anxious

matiers lo mke m such a state of mind can produce only likely

other the

hund, blood vessels, worse. On changes in the

anxiety with one who is

of Adence. But, remember, since worrying is contagious, it the wrong type of persons selected 43 confidants, it may only aggravate the situation."

muscles, and other parts of the sharing normal often brings tract and the muscles become feeling security and

tense or rigid.

Keyed Up

If a person continues to keep himself keyed up in this way. he develops a chronic or long continued state of anxiety and, furthermore, it has been found

ta that is anxiety

No matter how much he trics conceal his state of

There's a

A COMFORTABLE CHAIR by the fireplace--what man could A cosy comer in the good-sized ask for anything more?

living room,

JOAN DALE offers you:

Some Cool Ideas For Warm Days

HOT WEATHER TIPS.-Pint-sized dimple bottle of linden blasoom toliet weter in the London shops and holiday travel bath malt caskets, containing six perfumed phials of crystals. For the older skin there are a muscle tightener, and an anti-wrinkle

cream.

FOR A SLUGGISH SKIN: a tiny metal instrument with a blunt edge which removes all dirt with the cleansing cream, and a new kind of complexion brush made of 405 hollow tubes, which thoroughly cleanses the face.

BRODERIE ANGLAISE fronts will transform the oldest suit, pre cool to wear and can be Inundered in an hour come with wide pointed collars; matching white gloves in Ane hand-made crocheted collon with patterned cuff, or in chrome dressed lamb- skin that is washable.

A manu-

A BERET to match all your frocks and suits. facturer has a range of 50 different colours or you can send a pattern along to ensure correct matching.

JERE are some tinned ideas for cold meals that will tave you time and energy, as well as providing variety for your dinner table while the hol spell Insts:

NORWEGIAN SMOKED SAITHE-it tastes te smoked salmon-tinned crab, apricot nectar juice, cod's roe paste, minced clams, cold consemme roup, soft herring roes, Gafflebitchy, goose liver paste, peeled shrimps, tunny fish.

Also you can now find in the shops parly packs containing #herkins, cucumbers, cocktail onions and olives, olives stuffed with anchovies, sweet gherkins, stuffed with pimentos

HOLIDAY BANDALS from Italy and Spain are plentifu In canvas, with rope soles, some have multi-coloured atraps you спл twist round your ankie Vallet fachlon. You can buy them pinin, in gay colours, or embroidered.

comfortable, in Plaited Italian siraw shoes are light and

strollers

web- at

in natural straw, hand-embroidered;

check designs nearly

different in bing in blur, wine, green brown or black.

come

50

KITCHEN 15'3'x9'4'

BED ROOM CL.

12'4" 10'7"

FIREPLACE

WALL

LIVING ROOM 15'0" x 20'0"

DED ROOM 124=x12'31

STOOP

DINING ROOM 13'6" 106

PORCH 14'08'0"

THERE'S CLOSET SPACE aplenty in this delightful home. Built with a basement, the dining room and kitchen are a Hittle larger.

What some

think of

WomenTM

women

IT'S

TS too bad that Hollywood

RLENE DAHL's new

sta- of light

has made a complcte fetishuonery consista

of the 18-year-old heroine blue paper imprinted with dark

SINCERE'S

DEPARTMENT STORE

VISIT OUR

CLEARANCE

DEPARTMENT

(FIRST FLOOR)

CONCENTRATION

CENTRE

OF

RECORD

BARGAINS

FROM

ALL

DEPTS.

MANY ODDMENTS & REGULAR STOCKS THAT MUST BE CLEARED! NO CONSIDERATION OF COSTS

Beautiful Floors Yours for the WAXING!

JOHNSON'S

PASTE

WAX

Your floors and your furnituro-need the pro- tection of Johnson's wor The wax takes the wear the surface underneath lives longer, looks lovelier. Insist on Johnson's wax.

PRESS

PHOTOGRAPHS

Copics of photographs

Anybody at that age is the dull red lips, a black mole and no taken by the South China

STOOP

UTILITY 9'0"-7'10"

est person.

KITCHEN 136810*

Actress Bette Davis.

*

DINING ROOM

BED ROOM CL

124"x10'7′′

FIREPLACE

- 13'6"× 11'′0′′

LIVING ROOM

· 15′0′′×20′0′′

Dre

BATH

con-

If worrying reaches the point where it is severe or contagious, catching specialist in

is a good plan to consult a disorders of the to

nervous system who can suggest pnxiety from others, nevertheless the ways and means to help relieve the worry state, such as getting tone of his voice and his move-

with whom to ments may make others realise proper persons

talk over the matter, making that he is worrying and many proper emotional adjustments and, it possible, eliminating economie and other factors

of them, too, even

worry.

begin to

Persons try to compensate to which may be back of the worry relieve themselves

of anxiety riale.

in various ways, They seem to find an outlet in overeating, or smoking or drinking 100 much. Still other persons may try to rid of anxiety by constant Conversation and

contact with

other persons. A few people try to compensate by interfering

tuo

nuch in the lives of their friends.

Household Hints

A Wise

BED ROOM

STOOP

17'4" 12'3"

PORCH 14′0′′-8′0′′

A GROUND FLOOR utility room is substituted when this house is built without basement. The kitchen is smaller, too, in this plan.

Shopper

Who Knows Her Linens

Ari

♫

plain

Wave

or a

scn

ONE of the most popu- yarn or fabric of smooth-sur- for butchers' aprons and Juckels, faced flax Abres, and may be The name has been given to i lar fabrics for summer

either

fabric that closely spun rayon clothes this year is linen. damask weave for table linens, resembles the rent butcher linen

plain-woven weave. 15 linen Once in, the high-price

Popular for blouses this sea- Never use hot water to re- category; it appears now linen, unbleached, ecru or while. Much in demand for embroidery..

is handkerchief unen, a move blood stains; it will set in suits and dresses that it is sometimes used for dresses sheer, fine type of the fabric in them, Cold or lukewarm water are most reasonably and uniforms. Perhaps it is plain weave. And should your should be used for soaking, or

to you Wrinkle-shedding more famillar

as cm- blouse or neckwear set be made rub them in the water until priced,

of spun linen, then you have a garment broidery linen. they turn light brown in colour, qualities make

Then there is bandle linen.

Bom thing very beautiful, for Then wash the material in the of this material a good This is Irish linen in a course is is the finest type of hand-

hand-made in strips woven unen. usual way in hot cospauda and buy. rinse well.

Delightful dresses for e The wise shopper wants about two feet wide. It is su

the

Firls are of linen, but in a heavier Irish measure of two feet. to know something about colled because bandle is

kind Book liner is a firm When weave

#

*

on it should

be

weave,

than

the

finc

A metal surface that has any the fabric she buys, whe- grease or oll eleansed thoroughly with ben-ther in yardage or made with sizing to make it stiff, and used for beautiful blouses and and zine or mineral spirits before up, So here are a few tips consequently useful for collars such. It is dipper or diamond

and belts,

linen, and is fino-figured painting. All new

woven with a tiny diamond pat- galvanised

What About Butcher Linen?

It is used for the hand metal surfaces should be treated, about linen.

Now we come to the contro- térm versial butcher linen. This is a towels and also for some types woven ... crash,.... of fancy work. name from the

By Eleanor Ross

A solution of

water in

8 oz. of copper acetate or copper sulphate to a gallon of warm earthenware or may be used.

on

glass container

ET'S start our survey with type of plain 1s the proper definition of the which gets ita word, It is a strong, lustrous fact that It was originally used

ONC

ofer identifications.

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wear,

Morning Post and Hong Kong

Cheets Telegraph Staff Photographers For longer herself NCE woman gets

im should be reversed at alternate

aro on view in the scalped, no amount of

Pillow Morning Post Building, agination is going to make her changing with the narrow hem treatment sem like anything but an un- at the top of the bed.

receive rough cases from a

It fortunate experiment

when used as laundry bags. barber college.

new would be less expensive to in-

Artist George Petty on short hair styles,

vest in a loundry bag.

ORDERS BOOKED.

Pook Younger... feel Younger

three flowers FACE POWDER RICHARD HUDUNT

three flowers

Face Purder Lipstick Rouge

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Blossom- out with

Our Pretty

Flower Basket

&

COMPACT

Wadsworth

BY PARKER, PEN

Carry beauty in this

quaint little powder caso

Wadsworth's now basket full of charm, topped with a scattering of thy enamelled primrosos. Choose it for a rure-to-please gift.

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