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COMING SHORTLY!
Decorating Modern Homes.
(By Housewife),
The modern decorator, is making
a feature of the space immediate-
ly over the door of à room, thereby
addling greatly to the interest the whole apartment.
of
One simple method of embellish ing the space is by means of a floral arabesque, or "cut-out," similar to that used above the skirtingboard. Trails of green ivy jagainst a white background prove most effective. So also does a group of reeds with a king-fisher hovering above. Specialists in
SUNSHINE SUSIE" wallpapers offer a good selection
of such decorations, as well 0.6 enrichments in the substance that simulates plasterwork. The latter is especially suitable for over-door
BARGAIN SALE ornamentation.
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A shelf for china, or a graduated series of shelves, will provide an admirable way of introducing fresh Interest into the room.
A mirror may seem out-of-place perched so high. Yet modern ideas
of decoration incline towards a sheet of mirror-glass as a means of reflecting, light and giving an air of vitality to the room. It is often possible to pick up cheaply secondhand picture-frame in carved and gilt wood, with which to surround the overdoor glass.
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STRANGE:BATHS OF PAST CENTURIES.
Strawberry Juice And
Milk..
JOHNSON LIKED VIOLETS.
The various brands of bath salts on the market now place a per-i
Menu Suggestions For To-morrow
A Luncheon Menu.
(Sorving: 8) Grapefruit, Chilled
Jellied Chicken
Corn Stuffed Green Poppers
Plum Jelly
Hot Rolls . Apricot Ice Box Pudding
Coffee
Mint Candica
Jellied Chicken.
2 tablespoons gelpline.
1 cup cold water.
granulated
3 cups boiling stock.
1 cup diced celery,
1⁄4 cup chopped green pep-
pers.
teaspoon salt.
1⁄2 teaspoon salt,
1⁄4
teaspoon paprika.
12 slices olives.
12 slices tomatoes,
24 thin cucumbers.
11⁄2 cups mayonnaise.
Soak gelatine and water five
| minutes. Add stock, stir unti gelatine dissolves. Cool. Pour little into bottoms of individual moulds which have been rinsed out of cold water. Set in cold place to stiffen and add the olivės. Add chicken, celery, peppers, salt and paprika to remaining: stock and pour into moulds. Chill until stiff, Unmould on lettuce.
3
Chicken Stock.
cups chicken stock.
4 teaspoon salt.
4 celery leaves,
1 alice onion.
1 tablespoon parsley.
2 tablespoons chopped green
peppers.
Apricot Ice Box Pudding,
8 six-inch slices of angel
food cake.
The stock is liquid left after My own method of solving the fumed bath within the reach of dients, coven, cook 10 minutes.. cooking chicken. Mix all ingre. problem is to use two semi-circular all. At the cost
a few pence a Strain: Chinese carvings, representing bath can be made not only sweet- conventional sen waves. With re-smelling, but also exhilarating and peated applications of furniture refreshing. cream I have developed a polished]
Most of us have read of the surface from which dust
can be extravagant tastes of
Women in easily swept by means of a wall days gone by in the matter of ex- broom.
pensive habits. For, of course, the
A bold stencil of formal flowers, use of perfumes in baths is of carried out in harmonious colours, great antiquity. The ancient
1⁄2 cup butter.
1 cup light brown sugar. 4 egg yolks.
11⁄2 cups crushed fresh canned apricots.
1 teaspoon lemon extract.
1 teaspoon vanilla.......
1⁄2 teaspoon salt.
4 egg whites, beaten, 1 cup whipped cream. Cream butter and sugar. yolks, beat two minutes..
·CARE KEEPS HANDS BEAUTIFUL.
Rubber Gloves Help The Housewife.
Trim and lovely hands are desired by every woman and a Httle atten- tion will enable the average woman to go far toward that goal.
Her opportunities are better since the advent of mechanical or dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, fire- less cookers, électrically driven mopa and polishers.
Certain precautions in home and factory alike return. rich dividends in hand beauty. Rubber gloves have been recommended.
makes an admirable over-door Greeks literally soaked their feet treatment. Or, if you are a de- and limbs in perfumed ointment
Add With their use the hands often! votee of the magple method of de-and rubbed the oils extracted from
Add become uncomfortably warm and coration, you could work out a such sweet-smelling herbe as mar- apricots, lemon, vanilla and salt. damp. Those who objects to these scheme of black silhouettes against joram and thyme on their bodies Fold in whites and cream. Lino can wear cotton gloves beneath the a white ground.
during the daily toilet.
glass mould with cake slices. Add rubber. It is important that the Add gloves be large enough to avoid Even Ben Jonson was a bit of layer of apricot mixture.
more cake, cover with remaining jeramping the fingers.
Unmoulded with lukewarm water and soap, and dried, perfectly, particularly in cold weather***
STOCK
TAKING
SALE
NOW ON
AT
KASHMIR SILK STORE 36A, Queen's Road C. opposite Queen's Theatre.
& Bringing Up Father.
THISIS ATOUGH' JOB TRYIN' TO FIND OUT: WHAT JOBS THE- BOYS WANT WHEN (N MAYOR DINTY DOESNT KNOW WHAT HE WANTS-
ME TOLD ME YESTERDAY HE WAS GOIN"
TO MAKE UP
HIS MIND TO-DAY-
a connoisseur in this respect, for apricot mixture. Top with rest of The hands should always be wash-
he was wont to go about redom- cake. Chill 24 hours. mending his friends to bathe in and alles.
the juice of a gilly flower, spirits
of roses and violets.
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The court of France at the end of the 18th-century led the fashion in perfumes. A certain leader in- society is reported to have favour- ed a bath of crushed strawberries, and after the process of soaking in was completed she was rubbed over with perfumed milk. In those days and earlier many things were tried in the way of bath prescrip- tions. In the Middle Ages auch things as rosemary, violet leaves, jessamine, lavender, and bay leaves were in daily use. They were first boiled together in water, and the liquid, after being strain-*** ed, was added to
tmilk
AIN'T NATURE
GRAND?:
Use it in salads-it adds piquancy LEA & PERRINS'
SAUCE
cream
Spaces between the fingers and the grooves about the nails should receive special attention: Have a jar of cold
or bottle of glycerine and rose water handy. After drying rub a small quantity between the palms and over the hacks of the hands.
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Before beginning any work which causes an accumulation beneath the nails, moisten a cake of soap and dig the nails, into it.
When the task is finished, a scrubbing brush and water will re- move the soap. There will be no ugly black rims to worry about.
The border of the nail in contact with the flesh is the site of easy| infection. Once' begun this process is resistant to treatment. Skillful and prompt medical attention pre- vents najl illness and ugliness. WOMAN'S
ITS DINTY, HÉS MADE UP HIS MIND-HE SAYS
BATHING BEACH
·CENSOR-
HE' WANTS TO BE THE
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1932.
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS
SALE
FOR ONE MONTH ONLY From October 10th November 9th.
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17A, QUEEN'S ROAD C. (same a Long ling, Photo Suppliers).
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1933
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