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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1934.
The Woman's Page
HOW TO ATTAIN Adapting Old
SLIM ANKLES
Exercises For Securing
Shape
Modern women, generally speak ing, Bre ankle-conscious.
Why
shouldn't they be? For centuries,
Tablecloths
Cut Down And Dyed For Breakfast Table
Some people possess a number of
poets have sung about the beauties huge tablecloths, family heirlooms
Sept.
of ankles that are trim and shape-given to them on their marriage.
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FROM JAPAN
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Calcutta Maru
Laomedon
Corfu ....
General Sherman
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- Pres, Jackson
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DETACHABLE BUTTONS
The buttons on children's school blouses and pyjamas are always coming back from the laundry broken, thus causing continual work and expense. It is a good plan to make the button on children's gar-
ly and fiction's heroines invariably Most people probably have several stitched. Some narrow strips leftments detachable, in the following are endowed with the silm and tucked away in the linen cupboard, over can be made into a duchess set manner. If linen buttons are re- quired, sew two buttons firmly to Sept.reed-like brand. If your ankles do- Now that the fashion for polished for the dressing-table.
Brightly coloured breakfast not measure up to such high tables is so firmly established, they
always useful, and a gether, one a little smaller than the 8 standards, exercises will do much seem rather like white elephants, cloths are
to whip them Into 'shape.
and take up a lot of valuable space. charming effect is obtained in the other. Pass the smaller button One special ankle-reducing exer- Linen, especially, if it is old and following way. Cut a large table through a button-hole which has cise benefits the legs and feet as has not had much use, is a strong cloth in half and dye the two halves been substituted for the original well as the ankles, making them fabric and drapes beautifully. It can in contrasting shades.
Cut
supple and graceful and, conse- be dyed and any necessary edges square cloth from each and trim button, and a detachable economical quently, more comfortable. Toes hemstitched for a moderate price, with a wide border of the other link will be obtained. Different com- that are stiff and cramped often and the finished article will wash colour. There will be sufficient binations of buttons can be made cause painful foot. ailments. and wear for years. Linen cur material over to make six napkins as desired, but the button at the
Here's the exercise: Placing tains are splendid for a bedroom or to match each cloth. The coloured
should be back should always be larger than 14, hands on hips and keeping heels nursery, and can be dyed the exact borders in both cases
the front and preferably of linen. 14 together, stand as high as possible shade wanted for the room.
Tablecloths make excellent loose Many children's garments can be on the tips of your toes. Hold Another use for a tablecloth is to that position while you count to turn it into a bedspread. First leavers. When they are
treated in this way, and the time ten and then lower the heels have it dyed, then cut it to shape, junatarched the pattern does not Repeat ten times and then ten tack a wide hem round the edges show, so several can be used to taken in making the button-hole
and send it to be machine hem-make a complete set. more again very rapidly.
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FROM MANILA
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Pres. Jackson
Tyndareus
Ajax
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The exercise should be, done
14 night and morning, increasing the number of times until you are doing it 100 times a day.,
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Why Is He So Tiresome!
Parents do not always realize, or taku the trouble to find out the cause, when their children are frag- 7tions, with the result that an in- justice la often done when chastise- 7ment is administered as A repres- g sive measure. Children are quick to and such may sense an injustice
have a lasting effect on their
The method of correc
12 character,
13 tion must depend entirely on the
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causo.
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One of the chiof reqsons for tire-
14 someness, and one of the least aus- pected, is constipation; no amount
Pres. Harrison
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seilles)....
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of spanking will curs this.
Wise parents watch for signs of irregularity in the daily functions
of their child and if these
occur
take immediate steps to correct the
trouble by administering a dose or two of Baby's Own Tablets.
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non-
and
These pleasant tasting tablets are the prescription of a physician who made a special study of children's ailments; they are mildly laxative and help to settle the child's stom- Ach, thereby removing the cause of 11 his tiresomeness. They
griping and Ron-purging, guaranteed free from any opiate, narcotic er other drug liable to harm the little one's intestines; further- 5 more, children like them, which 7makes them the ideal medicing. for 8 children.
Keep a vial always in the house and you will be able correct
to
11 minor health troubles at. the first.
For infantile indigestion, rigns. constipation, colds, and croup, diarrhoea, to expel worms, and re- move the pains of teething there is nothing more rapidly efficacious than Baby's Own Tablets, obtainable at chemists everywhere.
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
This crossword puzzle has been made by an expert bat sar readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling. such as harbor, plow, and altho.
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24-Preposition 25-Worship
28-Gulde
Unit of metric
29-Unit
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moastre (pl.)
30-Indian Army (abbr.)
31-Combining form.
Within
33-Pronoun
(Fr.)
34-The (Fr
36-Judged
39-Repulsos
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54-Dispatched 56 Fasten 57-Augmenta 09-Harvest
91-Waxto
63-Organ of hearing 05-Railway car
66-Snakes
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45-Man's name
11-To ons alde
61-English title (pl.)
45-Stannum (abbr)
49-Burden
68-Juice of plants 60-A church (abbrá
12-Electrical engineer 62-Sest in a church
(abbr.)
84-Musical note
The solution of the above with a new cross-woord puzzle
will appear in to-morrow's issue.
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