THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
THREE ROOMS THAT CAN GROW
By JOAN O'SULLIVAN
that start out wistfully with "We'd like a little place in the country." Well, here's a little place-three rooms that form a complete small family living anit, but can easily he increased in size if you decide an extra bedroom is needed.
THE wishing well must be full of daydreams
A large front porch is just what you need for that country Three.
A pot where you on sit and relax over the Sandy Bibers The porch here alo provides a pretty entrance to the house.
Inside there's u, rond-szett, livina Foom and H fireplace. which adds a warm note of hospitality. A wood hay is provided, too, for the tags and kindling.
5-Minute Recipes
NEW
YORK. — Somebody
.ought to wrile a cookbook of Ave-minute recipes, especially designed for hot days.
The ideal summer meal, so far as the cook is concerned, la thei one that allows a brief look at ho klichen and a lot of time on the porch.
Here are a few summer meal- Hint Ideas,
picked because
they're both speedy And diforent;
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Tea-time or cocktail party snocks that are easy and can he made the day before the party, have double summer appen.
Here's a recipe for ham and cheese pinwheels that look and laste like summer on an hors d'oeuvres tray.
Ham and Choose Pinwheel,
INGREDIENTS: $ slices of holled ham, about 1⁄2 inch thick; two 3-oz. packages of cream cherte; one 5-oz. jur of blue cheoso cocktail
sprend; teaspoon onion juice.
METHOD: Soften bolla cheeses to room temperature, Best cream cheese with fork until smooth and fluffy. Gradually beat in blue cheese. Stir in onion juice. Divide lato Ave portions, spread on ham slices and roll tightly jelly-roll fashion. Wrap Individually in wax paper or aluminium foll and place in refrigerator for at least 4 to 6 hours. Just before cerving, slice in 4-inch rices. Recipe makes 30 pinwheels.
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JOHNSON'S
PASTE WAX
Your floors - and your furniture - need the pro taction of Johnson's wax. The wax fakós the wear: the surface undemoath lives langer, looks lavalier. Insist on Johnson's wal
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KOWLOON SUB-DISTRICT TO: KOWLOON RESIDENTS
WANTED.
Books, Periodicals & Maga. thes for distribution to Service Camps in the New Territories,
Please communicato wili -
R. A. EDWARDS, c/o Kowloon Hospital WE WILL ARRANGE
TO COLLECT
Note. If Donors wish to hand books in personally they can do so at the following placos:-
Despatch Offce, Kowloon Railway Station. Kowloon Tong Club, Kowloon Hospital, General Office.
To add a quick party touch to. iced len. dip the top of each glass
then in sugar, 2. and place in the refrigerator to harden. Before serving, place a quartered lemon on the rim of each glass.
HERE'S THAT HOME in the country that you've always dreamed of owning.
ir lemon juice, Cozy and compact, it's designed to grow.
The attractive porch makes a pleasant place to sit on fine days also as a charm- ing entrance to the house. The fireplace chimney is
very picturesque..
Isteer
DIILITY ROOK
KITCHEN 12893-6"
ONINIO
KITCHEN 13:896"
and
LIVING ROOK
15-621-2"-
DED ROOM 15421/2"
LIVING ROOM B071/2"
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The one bedroom in the original house as kurzestal enench to accommodate twin beris on a rot for the inxeter week- end guest. Clurert space is gruerons in this home. The bedroom bas n karre wardrobe and a cloret. There a wardrobe fest conts near the front door, a linen storage unit in the bath fwn wvdpoles in the future bedroom. if you decide to that extra t
If you do, i will At nicely into the scheme of Czy The future plans provide for this room tre be addet ndincent to the bath and near the other bedroom.
The kitchen in streamlined and modern with cabinets, stove, ank and refrigerator around along opposite wells a bust-up designed to save time and slew for the lady of the house.
All the rorums in the eriginal plan are exceptionally large and eros-ventilated,
-With
The bouts can be built with or without a basement. basement, the house comprises 12700 cubic feet: without baon. inent, the houre taken up 8.630 cubile feet: additional room. 2,221 cubic feet.
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PORCI 13:080"
HALL
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VIRDROOL
PORCH 13:080°
BATH
FUTURE
BED ROOM
15-2019-7"
WIKING SPACE
DRESSES
FROM LEADING U.S.A.
MANUFACTURERS,
/ FOR LADIES
SIZES:-9 to 14 (inclusive)
on
MONDAYS, TUESDAYS & WEDNESDAYS.
SIZES:-15 to 20 (inclusive)
On
THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS
HOURS: From 3.30 to 6.30 pm, only
PLEASE NOTE!
Orders Taken For Men's Clothing from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
A. DAVID
7th Floor.
STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
Toh: 25867, 27909.
SALES BRANCH
OPEN FROM 10 A.M. TO 10 P.M.
AT
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CLOSE TO CATHAY THEATRE.
BLD ROON
132 #2
C10 WARDRIN
PATIE
FUTURL BED ROOM
19-271577"
Richard Auket
home permanent
New! Improved!
Richard Hudnut
HOME PERMANENT
Takes only One Hour Waving Time
"depending on texture of halt... follow instructions.
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Your Sewing Scrapbook
by
Mary Brooks Picken
Make Your Own Evening Bag
DUY yd. So" taffeta, all of seam at one end of bag. Pin free Done colour. Also needed: yd. ends of ribbon
B
Measure off 17"
cut in half.
to other end
per
inch;
ELEANOR ROSS suggestS...
The 6th indispensable household aid
35 buckram, one 8" dress or team. wedding-ring zipper, one spool Wind bobbin by hand with put it in
ALT. lentons, baking coloured thread lan't handy, or matching thread. 5 yrs, elastic elastic thread, and thread, yd, matching-colour machine as you would any other
there isn't tirne to do a good job. soda, glycerine, paper ellulose tope will hold up ribbon 14" wide, Bag measures thread. Lengthen stitch to make towels are all valuable
-10 stitches
lease dress hem. Wrapped 14" by 44". of buckam: shirr remaining piece of fabric.household helpers, in fact, around the hand, sticky side out,
Fabric must be stitched on right we just don't know how and rubbed ever
so lightly Bring two 81" edges of these parefully by placing a pin them. And to these items lint from dark woollen garment. side, so murk for shirring rows we'd keep house without sinst the fabric, it's amazingly effective in removing stubborn ploces together and stitch
in from each edge; and other pins we must add cellulose tape. lapped seam. Cut 2 pieces of "apart. fabric by 9". Put one
a big help, when it comes to aver buckram and stitch around Mark opposite edge of fabric taking over and making bl four sides.
trying jobs fabric, from one pin to another, ever so many
in same way.
Stitch
across
and
The
tape patches cuts tears in plas de rainwear, aprons, For pockets, cut from s herping lines straight, until all and emergencies easier. shower curtains, garment and edge of other plece and discard rows are complete. This done. For instance, now that it's shoe bags, and it fastens now this Seam 8 edges together, fold fabric right-side in; stilch roloured specs ilme — which window stindes to old rollers 21: ag at A; turn right-side_oul. iwlee across, ench end (E) to means with us, shoes of while a jiffy, with na. lacks needed. Centre this on crosswise ling of entch ends of shirring threads buckskin with coloured calf heel And it takes the place of thumb- buckram-covered piece: stich securely.
und trim-out comes the spool tacks for anchoring shelf paper, across bottom: stitch up and Turn shirred pouchi right-side of cellulose tape. With it, we and, placed over the spot where down each side of centre, us out, bring up over buckram- protect the dark areas while you want to drive anall to et B, to form lipstick pocket, and-lining foundation. Baste cleaning the buck, and vien hang a picture it
Put zipper in. Fold bog, burk ribbon along top of shirred versa, just running a piece along ram-side out, and pin zipper pouch on right side, taking a the dividing edre. tape along top edges, us at Ci scamy's width from pouch and a
basic.
weant " from ribbon. Stitch; Using: cording foot, stitch remove basting.
fastener in place. To strengthen Turn ribbon up all the way We never have to humble for bag at ends, stitch twice temoss around with stitched edge inside, directions on a bottle or any ends and through ends of tapes, then catch free edge to fastener other contelner, nor de labels or (D),
tape with short, neat slipstitches.ngs ever become detached. We Place pin at half-way point Tick ribbon ends in and whip run tape around the label or the of ribbon length and plu tlils to them to place.
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MONDAY: GETTING THE MOST. FROM YOUR BEWING. MACHINE,
directions and there it is all the tame, impervious to roll or mois- (ure, And we don't rely on memory for anything. If there pre no directions at hand; we And out what's what, lypo o label and affix it to the con- tainer. Simple as that.
We tuck spool Into suitcaser and there it is, ready 10 Bea) bottles and other containers such 15 powder boxes.
will help prevent The plaster from: chipping and falling to the floor. Only the other day we used the stutt to cover temporarily u small hole in a window screen.
Miss Goddard's Strip Tease Impromptu
an
Falmouth, Mary- Paulette Goddard had Tmbarrassing experience while appearing in a summer theatre performance of G. B. Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra."
Around the house, we find it broke in the second act and she The zipper of 'har· costume useful to wrap cellulose tape stood virtually unclothed on the Ground
the rough edges of stage.
curtain rods, then
there's no chance of delicate curtains Tha curtain was lowered TAONG snagging when rods are inserted: riedly and repairs were zna de In an emergency, when sawing before the, could vʻopntinue her
quipment or the particular - peršormaDER::.
PLANS FOR THREE rooms that can grow into four. At left, diagram shows arrangement of rooms if house is built without a basement. Uti- Iity room is omitted in plan, at right, for house
with basement.
and pedir plan. İrem Deri
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wwws! Generous supply of end-paperi. Double-strength neutralizer
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