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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 6, 1937.
ARE YOU WORRIED Because Your Baby Sucks His
The Coronation Coiffure
A London hairdressing school submitted to England's hairdressers #pecial designs for coiffures suitable for the coronation ceremonies. This photo shows the "Coronation Coiffure," the hair dressed in such manner. that it doesn't hamper the wearer of the coronet, Tiny curls surround the base of the headwear.
"(International Illustrated News)
Get Your Curtains
Ready For Spring
T
Thumb?
HERE are all kinds of thumb- sucking babies. Some babies find their thumbs before they have been fed, and some have them in their mouths. from the minute they are born. The more nervous baby, the more readily will he acquire one
many nervous
habits.
If the baby
or"
the
hasn't acquired the
habit before the fourth month, this is the time at which he is most apt to develop it
There is far too much hair- tearing because of thumb-sucking. If a baby sucks his thumb only when going to sleep, he should be allowed to indulge himself in the habit.
He can't really hurt himself do- ing this, and if left alone it is more than possible that he'll sim- But when ply outgrow the habit. the mother draws his attention to it by using every known means of frustration, then the baby becomes determined to have that thumb: or know the reason why
Babies With Rickets
There are certain types of babies for whom thumb-sucking is a really serious habit. These are the thin, under-nourished children; who are victims of rickets. Their bones are soft and the vigour and constancy with which they suck their thumbs and press them up against the roofs of their n mouths is sufficient to cause real damage to the arch of the mouth.
Swing Suit
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This latest 1937 model is called. the "swing suit.”. It has a tailor- ed-in elastic up-lift that- moulds the figure into youthful flattering lines as you can see. The tri-co- lour effect shown is red, white and blue.
Just because the thumb-sucker beyond the habit itself and realise The child limiting qualities. is soothed by the indulgence in its this habit, he, tends to become un-must have constantly enlarging interested in what is going on interests in order that his men- about him. Notice a thumb-suck- tality may be stimulated.
vacant ex-] Authorities differ as to the ing child. He has a pression almost as if he had taken methods for curing the persistent
Aseffective a narcotic. Then there is the other thumb-sucker: type of thumb-sucker, who
aucks method as I know is to wrap the upon thumb or fingers so violently thumb of the small baby with ad- that one can hear him across the hesive tape until it assumes the room. This last child is seldom proportions of a ball. The child
thumb without a
in his will find it impossible to pop this
big thumb in his mouth and wi have to turns attention
geen
mouth.
Somewhere in your home you you who do not use starch or who
Hampers Development have probably got some white, prefer to do your tinting and star-
It is impossible for a child to where. -The older child needs. cream-coloured or biscuit-cotoured ching separately, is to dissolve the
runs entire re-arrangement of his sur- tint in a small
Il quantity of hot develop normally when he curtains.
water, and then to add warm water about with a thumb in his mouth. roundings - and a development of more powerful interests as desired. One tint is sufficient There are very few activities in new
which a child can engage when so that stall wean him away from for eight to ten quarts of water).
Now take your washed curtains, hampered, so that one must look the haɓ}¤. shaking out the folds, lower them into the water. Don't screw them up, but lift gently up- and down
they
tinted deeply until enough.
them out and dry them in way just as you would
Well, go and take a look at them. How do they hang? Gaily drably? Do they look clean an fresh or limp and dispirited? Perhaps they just want a wash.
Perhaps they ought to be torn down and turned into dusters.
But perhaps they just want re-
tinting,
are
Have you ever thought of doing dry your curtains after an ordin-
that?
to tint your It is very easy cream or biscuit coloured curtains back to the soft, warm shade they had when new and to "dip your white curtains to cream or big cuit shade. Dolly Biscuit Tint a new, rich shade.
The Tinting (this is for cotton curtains)
is
Wash your curtains. Then pre- pare sufficient starch solution (not too thick) to cover them.
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Bry wash.
They Add Warmth
You will be pleased with your work, Delicately tinted curtains alter the cold daylight and
add warmth and tone to your furnish- ings.
Beautiful pastel shades can be. tinting obtained by cold water with domestic dyes. You can get any colour from your grocer or ironmonger, with instructions on the packet
Fabrics in dark shades, such as Now take your tint (cream biscuit, whichever you prefer), black, navy, dark green and nig- must hold it firmly by the stick and ger, cannot be tinted. They shake it into the starch solution be boiled for satisfactory results.
If you want any colour to be until you think the tint looks deep enough. Don't forget that the cur- reasonably fast against fading, tains will dry a shade lighter than the fabrics should always be boil- they appear when, they are wetz-ed, except wool or silk, for which
(Alternative method for those of special dyes are needed.
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