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[By
BOWLER HATS.
Straits Correspondent.]
NO-BREAKFAST CHILDREN.
(By Phylli Brett.1
Children need a good meal to
TICKING OF THE CLOCK.
You can make the ticking of the clock any almost anything!
start them off for the day and if It can say:--
They show any tendency-to-develop
a distaste for eating a good break-
"Listen to me, you poor mortal
fast, it is high time to look around with the miserable three score for the reason.
years and ten of life. You'll
It may be because they have been have to buck up if you want to Come allowed to atay in bed up to the do anything worth while.
Tick-tock! Tick-Tock! very Inst minute and their conse-Along!
two seconda gone, and quent feeling of having to hurry Another
in order not to be late for school, you're still standing there
It can also say:-
excites them to a nervous tension nothing." that is bound to affect their morn- Ing appetite. The remedy for this evil is as easy as it is well-known, but it is often ignored.
dolog
"It's no use trying to raco mo, you poor idiot, You don't stand "Early to bed, early to rise." an earthly chance of winning. I The soundest rule for children is can beat you every time, for you to fix their hour of rising so as to must rest whilst I can go on and allow of a walk or a run before on and on! Ticking away the pro- breakfast. Let them run in the clous seconds. Ha! Ha! How you garden, or to the top of the street make me laugh with your feeble for fresh air and exercise. If efforts to catch up with yourself. space permits, nothing could be Look! Look at my face you poor minutes late al- healthier for children than to be fool-you're
ready!" given a special corner of the gar- den to tend. Thed, every morning carly they will be outside, full of enthusiastic interest for the new
Then it can say:—
"Look in the glass, oh ye mor-
shoots that are appearing, or else tal. Look at the lines of age on Note the hollowness busy with the trowel and watering your face.
can.
of your checks, and the greynese
Tick-tock!
When they sit down to the break-of your hair. You're growing old, fast table, their eyes will be ahin-my friend,, old and haggard. The ae running low. ing and their checks glowing, to sands of time say nothing of appetites being You're nearly done! sharpened to the pitch where they: will enjoy anything that is placed before them.
Tick-tock?"
Finally, thank God, it can say:
"Hallo,
my friend!
Listen to Orange First, For both very young and older my cheerful tick, recording the that are all children it is wise to begin their precious seconds
yours. Don't get alarmed, don't There are get panic-stricken.
breakfast with orange juice, if it has not been given on rising.
marmalade.
BAG.
Say
But bo
A cooked cercai might follow. plently more seconds where these
now that the umbrella can new term for this is the "mix-idea," This is an energy provider. Sugar come from. Tick-trek! Tick-tock! THE STORY OF THE UMBRELLA the little umbrella inside.
quickly drawn, as a sword from Avenue of Time, passing the mile- but we must be cautious how we und milk may be served with the Away we go, scampering down the cereal, and milk to drink. After-
its scabbard, there is still a diff- do mix our colours. Red seems
buttered toast for the stones, to the haven of rest at the
culty. What is to be done with the end. always to become a fashionable wards,
in the bag trade the story of the midget, when It is too dripping wet this younger ones while for the ten to Now that we have got our nerves colour as the year wanes:
fourteen year olds, an egg or some "You must not waste the pre-umbrella bag runs thus. A man to go back in its place? It has no accustomed to large hats and Beach Autumn the new shade will be a
course, but
once stood in Piccadilly Circus loop to hang by, unless it is of the suits (and I hear some pretty suits deep red, almost off-black, and this bacon followed by home made Jamelous moments, of
don't let it prey upon your mind watching come unfortunate woman, expensive expanding type which If a child has once been allowed when you notice that another laden with parcels, trying to extri-will hang upside down, and if it have been made lately in coloured shade in velvet, lined with some cufter tint, suy, pale green, makes
'Another week, another to develop the habit of eating very hour,
cate her umbrella and put it up had a loop,, the difficulty with the linens), we are all agog to see when a beautiful evening cloak.
little breakfast, to break it is no month, another year, has passed without dropping all her parcels. loops of parcels would start all the local stores will get their first
Although we can keep the actual ensy matter.
Smile, friend, smile when you The parcels dropped, and the wo-over again. Obviously something shipment of the bowler hat. It is crinoline at bay, it certainly locks A badly ventilated, bedroom may think of the past, of the jolly man got wetter, and the umbrella must still be done to make that times we've had together! Tick-was still tangled up. So he wont woman, getting so wet at Piccadilly true that one or two have been seen as if we shall soon have to take
tock! Tick-tock! It's rather a home and invented the bag with Circus, really well equipped. already in Malaya, but the owners to bustles if we wish to be in the
merry tune, isn't it?" of theso have most probably had them sent direct out from home,
fashion, for smart dressmakers are already urging the adoption of a bustle similar to that worn in 1880, The stiff bowler hat was largely then known as a "dress improved," fashionable many years ago, and which developed later into a pad waist. Paris Lantrou Oil Permanent Hair Wave
already is showing dresses with de- which are Lorge, Soft and Natura will probably return to favour dur-just below the Artistic, Finger, and Marcel Waves, Oing the coming months but in most cided bustle effect, but produced Treatment, Shampooing, lenna Parl (any colour). Hair Cutting and Man of the fashion book pictures this fortunately without the use of wire If we do have to cure for Ladles and Gentlemen. Con style of hat is slightly modified, or whalebone. scientious, Artistic Work by Europeat and as such is decidedly smart. We adapt something approaching the Expert, Mr. Alexander.
former Victorian "dress intprover": may laugh at the idea, but I pro let us trust it will be, as suggested phecy that we shall soon all be buy-in a Home journal (and as at pre- ing these novelties and finding sent achieved by Paris) "only in
form of
goft bows and them very useful, especially when the
|draperies." One cannot associate motoring. They need not be the the idea of a bustle and a Baby car stifl severe felt: we read in the (owner driven) nor does it seem latest papers from home that so-credible that the woman of to-day called bowler hats are now being would be willing to give up her; fashioned in tweed for Autumn coveted place on the top of an wear and that they are most stylish. omnibus, a stop which would seem Some of them it is stated are trim- inevitable should she conform to
the Victorian fashion. med with astrakhan or caracul.
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Linen is just at present being The latest we hear about sleeves largely bought for costumes for is that there is a likelihood of the overseas wear: it is always useful close tight-fitting sleeve coming in- and can be had these days in auch to fashion. This is not unnatural many and exquisite colours, Linen with the approach of cold days is one of the materials on which we in Europe when coats and wraps It is not easy to always get back the value of our must be worn. money; it refuses to wear out, pock away a pretty befrilled sleeve Dresses are no longer of one into a wrap: the effect is a bit. colour, indeed they need not be only bunchy and the grace and elegance, of two colours, but of two, three, of the sleeve would be sure to or four colours combined. The auffer. Singapore Free Press.
sometimes be responsible for the child's disinclination for food, or it! may be because of a bad taste in! the mouth due to tonsils, bad teeth or constipation.
Many mothers are wonderfully Insistent on regular visits by their children to the doctor' and dentist, but they do not so sternly discipline themselves to meal time regularity,
are
to
Twenty Minutes Later,
children When
made realise that they must sit down to the breakfast table at a regularly appointed time, and that they are not allowed to rise from the table until at least twenty minutes later, they will fall quite naturally into the habit of eating as heartily at breakfast as they do at dinner.
Just as the school impresses so strongly upon the child's mind the Importance of being in time, so the home management must. Impress the necessity of having the time.
Breakfast is the meal that must not be scamped, because it follows a night's abstinence and precedes Moreover
a morning'e activities.
a poor breakfast often results in mid-morning snacks which stave off hunger, but apoll the appetite for dinner.
K FUJIYAMA
PHOTOGRAPHER
ANNOUNCES HIS REMOVAL
To
WYNDHAM STREET,
L
3rd floor.
BONZO
SO HILDEBRAND KLAVE ALL HIS MONEY TO A NEEDY FRIEND AND WENT
FORTH HAPPY
A GREAT AND GENEROUS SOUL/YER, SOME EXAMPLE
TO MOST OF US!
HOW WONDIRFUL THE WORLD WOLD JE IF WE |ALL BEHAVED LIKE
HILDEBRAND
By George Studdy
SAY, BOY, HAND ME $200 TO SQUARE THE FOOL I KNOCKED DOWN WITH
YOUR CAR
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