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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER §, 1950

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

Grooming Aids In Summer

By ELEANOR ROSS

A SPOTLESS pair

of

white gloves, a nent bly

or little hat

veil, leather

gloom, ΠΟ

with a crimp

shoes that matter their colour, clean undles-and a girl looks and is neat and cool and pretty, no matter how inexpensive her frocks or accessories. Summertime In the time to intensify good grooming habits, despite the natural inclination to let down and let go, because the lent, the dust, the humi- dity, all conspire to destroy good grooming.

So let's take

#survey

and

como 10 with some 1200x1 grooming aids.

To keep white fabric gloves gleaming white,

ነይሮ slightly

woapy water for the Inst rinse and at the soap dry in them.

A drop or two of n collon bleach added to the rinsing

any

water will help eliminate grayith tone that may have set

in

CHAMOIS

LEATHER

If you wear chamois leather gloves at all, put a few drops of glycerin or olive oil in the Önal rinse water to keep the leather supple. Drop a "MIE" vinegar on the rinse water when washing coloured fabric gloves to keep the colour, and give them a dye-tint treatment every third washing or so

to

keep the gloves looking as new it when you purchased them. If you are a perfectionist, press your cotton gloves, daing the fab on the hand and with n fairly cool iron for a light once-

over,

From Angers to toes we #o, reminding you to keep ralour. ed alt and kickskin shoes baga in colourful perfection by applying a shoe soap of the br This should proper hue.

rubbed in, anil rubbed and rub- hed until no colour comes on, and the final rubbing should be with a chamols cloth for a high .perish.

LINEN & FABRICS

to remove

Atop linen and other fabme Ahoes and bags up to snuff by gelling after a spot as soon

Keep clean pombja.

with naphtha. Use special cleaners for white buckskin shoes. Use £1 goxd, alift brush, but not wire one, for going over suede grline. dust and Then apply

naphilia with clean piece of terry cloth, go- ing over and over the complets Barfice, but always lightly. Dry well. Shop around and get sued ball of matching colour, and rub this well over the shoe, thenbrush-thazoughly and your Guede shoe or bag should look Hike new.

Cool Checks

Sheer cotton taffeta.

By Vera Winston'

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Dr. Grantly Dick Read

PLANS A 15-MINUTES-A-DAY' EXERCISE CHART

Dr. Read is a British obstetrician whose writings and teachings on "natural are followed all over the world. In his new book lid says: "There childbirth is no reason why a woman should not have an even better figure after she has borne a child than before."! To back his bellef he includes this series of slx gentle exercises to be practised daily during the months before the baby is born:-

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have

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You even better figure after baby is born

EXERCISE 1

STAND with the heels

about 13 inches apart and toca turned slightly out. wards (first Agurēj.

Raise ho hands in front of the body with the arms full length. Lift the chin and throw the weight forward on to the ball of the foot with heels off the ground fsccond figure).

Bring Continue movement, the arms outwards level with the shoulders, throw the head back and raise on the toca (third figure). During this movement. which should be done slowly. breathe in deeply. Pause for a moment in the third position and slowly resume the positions in the second and first breath. ing out na the arms drop to the sides Do exercise ten times

EXERCISE 4 ASSUME the position in

first sketch, with the knees about 13 inches upart. Important: Bit on the heels and Nint (1 the Qoo1 between them

Hollow the back. und throw the head back. press- ing the hands upon the thighs. As in the second sketch.

Breathe is during this movement.

Bring the body and head forward. resting the elbowS

on the ground Inmediotels In front of the knees third

EXERCISE G LLE Hut on the back with

the toss pointed and 225 read resting on a low pillow the hands to the sides abour three inches from the thight the urms full length as in sketch

Take one of Iwo deep breaths raise the right leg. pointing the toe.

Slowly replace R on the ground. Do this six times with the right and six times with the left leg. Rest for few moments and becoma relaxed. breathing slowly.

EXERCISE Z AUSUME Brat position, with the hands about 12 luches apart and the knees about inches apart. Tuck the head down between the arma, raise the back and pull the bruttock in. inwards and downwards.

Second movement: Allow the back to hollow. lift the head to pollion in lower sketch. At the same time raise the Uittocks as nigh as possible and slightly send the elbows. This should be done while breathing in Continue by slowly assum ing the first postilon ngain. breathing out, and 60_90..

This exercise is particularly useful to preKONI backache. It also mobilises the spine in the tower paria where i joins on to the pelvis

These movements should be deliberately performed ten times

EXERCISE 3

ABSUME this position.

A test fingers on a chair

of the bed it it is dimenti to keep balance. Settle firmly down un to the hecis and separate the kures 49 widely as possible. Bring

the knees together and rise

to le standing position and sink down again on tu the heels Return to first porllion art bounce on the help once or twice, sepur. nting the knees again as widely as possible. Do this six times

sketch Breathe out during this movement.

Oo dowly back to the Ar position Rest for two

slowly

and

or three breaths and con mens before This exer cise should be done slowly and deliberately ten Umes.

EXERCISE 5

I on the back with the arad supported on a low pillow, the bands reang lightly on the aldomen just below the ribs as in the upper sketch Take a deep breath, filling the chest wit "NS" WEN" THIdro under the collar bones, udding gentle pressure with the hands on the abdumeni. Take three full breaths in this position and reat for u mosnent. Then place the hunds nu the inner sides of the knees, forcing them out as far as they wil go my shown in the lower sketch. Go back to the first position and repeat the exercise live times

This is particularly useful as 12 and to biračke ing control when lying on the back and at the same time allowing the knees to fall out and so stretch the big muscles down the insides of the Tha

exercises should be done slowfv1

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reguarly and deeply while so doing.

Rakse both teel together ta right angle with the body. Now allow them to drop slowly so that the heels Louch the floor gently until you are in the rat pasillos. This exercise is excellent. not only for the hip. jelata and the muscles around the pelvla but also for the

sudo kitual muscles and rise muscles of the legs.

Many find it dimenn to lift both legs together to the upright position. If at first

done. I cannot be

then raise the feet together all the ground for a few inches and put them down slowly. After a week or two it will be possible to do the ful exercise.

* From 'Introduction to Motherhood'-published by Heinemann Medical Books (68.)

NATIONAL

London Express Egtvice

BEAUTY

But in spite of her liberal ther and the oil and

Say Thank You diet the American woman consume to keep them

to the climate

fat they

warm.

to keep her figure These are wonderful-lubricants longer than other nationall. for the skin. ties.

Tho Latin type hing

377% Sewing Se

Complete-Circle Motion Skirt

THIS

IIS summer's gally striped, Finish edges of ties with nar-

printed, or woven-design row hens, cottons are ideal for this com-

lete-circle skirt.

For fabric needed, measure from whit to desired length, plua 16 walst measurement. ahultiply this by 4 for skirt,

your

Straighten fabric. Fold mate. tini in half crosswise. Pin sel- vages. Mark centre of one sel- vago (A). From A to B mark 14 waist. From to C mark length of skirt plus 1" hem. At A, hold string tied to chalk or pencil and mark two arcs, as shown. Cut on these liner, When plecing shirt for length, use side picccs, as Indiented,

For waistbands, mark and eu! 244′′ strips along fold, as ot D. E, F. Scam D and F to gether, as In G, for front waist band. Cut length same as waist measure, plus length for tle ends. Use E for back band and rut to waist incasure, plus 14",

Stitch and Press Scams

Stitch around wahiline 1⁄4* from edge to prevent stretch- ing, and notch edge. Seam sci- vagen

to together, stitching within 5" of waist. Press cams open up to about "" from waist. From here up press back elce over front to make Tupped plackets.

Place wrong

skle of

back

band to Fight Ishte of skirt, centring edges Stitch, as In H. Fold ends in half and stitch from skirt Turn ends rightside out. comers from inside, using orange stick.

around enda

Try on skirt. Dring ends of back band to centro front and

mark for hook and eye. Ends of front band go around walat and the in a bow at back. (For a plain band, cut and make front band exactly like back band.)

Let art ing at least 21 hours to allow blan to stretch. Try on. Correct any uneven. nes in hemline and finish with

arrow hem.

Right Side

G

H

Point om

дп

FRONT

Turn ander raw

edge. Top-stitch around · edges (J), Centre front band on front edge of sleiri and silich as for back but leave ends open.

D

2

E

E

F

Selvaqo

Pilding

Width of fabric

Waist Meas.

Waist to Hom +1*

Salvage

A

MONDAY: SPECIAL

FOR A FRON

Housewives'

common

CRAYONS

error:

Eggs Resting Upside-Down

NEW YORK. cream, milk and cheese should

LOTS of eggs are resting be returned to the refrigerator

upside-down in refri Modem refrigeration does gerators, not to mention good job of keeping les creat other errors of food storing frozen for an indefinite storag

But cv en modern committed unknowingly by period.,

housewives have been confront- housewives.

ed with a distressing puddle of Upside-down eggs were dis- soft or melted ice cream,

Department by

of when the trip home from the Agriculture experis, who claim stere took too long.

Casood

ich

of

DA

caga should be put in the re You can refreeze the frigerator with the brond end cream in the freezing unit up, since the large end of the the refrigerator, though it won ege contains the air cell. ho ng smooth and creamy

more have a before. It will

United Press.

If the large end is down, the weight of the

crystalline texture. egg presses on the cell and tend to force it upwant, which may loosen the protective Inner membrane of the egg.

Another result nt upside be to bave

dawn eggs would

le yolk risc to the small end, since it wasn't held in place by the air cell.

Yolks Loosened

The point of all this, no far is as the cook is concerned, that eggs are more difcult to remove from the shall with- out breaking the yolk when the yolk has been loosened.

The above Information was Included in advice to house- wives to refrigerate egga promptly in hot weather, since *pos lose quality, rapidly in a warm place.

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Chopped Greens Soup Toasted Rolls

Stuffed Squash Hollywood Tomato Sauce Buttered Noodles Succotash in Sauce Dishes Fruit Sherbet

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