WOMANSENSE
They Call It The "Starved Look'
By
PRUNELLA
WOOD
Mr. John, Inc.
Your Sewing Scrapbook
by
Mary Brooks Picken
BAR JOHN, an apt fellow at
a phrase as al ́a sill- houette. fara "the starved took" onto this partienlar allhouette, but anyone with a fashionable figure could carry it, no matter how healthy. The caped coat can bo clutched over curves lusty
for
a Hollywood beconto them? camera, and the skirt, since it in blas_cut with a seam in front, Bal- tern any figure which is not completely out of genteel control.
too
The fabrio la that taupe corduroy (fabrlo of kings, onte) which has bemused John since he first turned to clothics after hatting the
fashionable for some years.
Durable, always refreshing when used in a worldly man- ner, and definitely individual high fashion medium,
this corduroy suit is worth n Hittle attenuation of food and financing,
Introducing
Business Habits! In Your Home
BY ELEANOR ROSS
THE little newly-wed granted that sho bad everything to learn so far as cooking and running a house is concerned, but she insisted that in things she could give points to veteran homemakers.
same
Fresh from an office, she has installed many business prac- tices in the home. Оле Is D regular schedule, the other is a good fling system. She has arranged a neat Jittle desk in her kitchen fitted with a card-fling coloured cards for classify- box, ing and a good supply of 3 x 5- inch cards. Through the years she expects to have what amounts to an encyclopaedia of) recipes and home hints.
Menu Filo
As she clips recipes she pastes them onto the cards, using the coloured index card to classify the different groups of dishes. She is building up a menu Ale, foods, listing favourite 100, successful menus and such So that she won't repeat a menu for the same quests but wili do a dish that has made a big hit. She has made out a complete
of tory
furniture, furn accessories and equipment, from table to toaster, from sofa to sonp-dish. Every room has been inventoried,
each and beside
item is a notation of price, date and place of purchase. Hers in each room she has listed alpha- betically. She has one copy in! her desk, the other copy is in the safety-deposit box at the bank.
Filing Folder
She has a folder to hold all
cancelled checks.
Lace Blousette--- Attractive Topping paid bills which are stapled to
OFTEN
EN a suit coat needs more than a dickey to make it look right. The Ince blousette, seems to fit the bill perfectly. It is also good over certain types of blouses, and many of the more attractive ones
as formal separates.
are worn
You can make one for your- self of one yard of fabric and have it exactly to your liking as regards type of late, colour and finish.
Ono Yard of Lace
She has a neat little folder to hold fabric Zact-tags, labels, instructions on the care ›f household appliances, guarantees and such. Another fling folder takes care of instruction hooklets, patterns, catalogues, bulletins and such, so that, at a moment's nolice she can acquaint herself those instructions for with shampooing her rug, dry-cleaning furniture, dyeing a
helspread. wasting time without energy.
and
QUICK CAKE
WHAT B THE HUSTLE, JOAN ?
JUST HEARD SOME FRIENDS
ARG
COMING
TO TEA
SIEVE 12 BREAK- FASTCUPS OF FLOUR WITH & LEVEL TEA- SPOONS BAKING POWDER 12 LEVEL TEASPOON
SALT, AND
Í BREAKFASTCUP CASTOR BUGAR
BREAK AN EGO INTO A BREAKFAST/ CUP AND ADD 2 LEVEL TABLESPOONS MELTED MARG OR LARD, AND FILL UP WITH MILK
POUR INTO A BASIN, ADD TEASPOON LEMON EBRENCE
STIR IN THE FLOUR MIXTURE
BY DEGREES
THEN BEAT VIGOROUSLY TILL CREAMY
ABOUT A -MINUTE
BAKG IN 2
GREASED SANDWICH TING INA MODERATE OVENFOR ABOUT 26 MINUTES.
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NIGHT LIFE Eye Protection And Beauty A Bright
PICTURED (below) is a short ur- evening dress that goes banely to cocktails or dinner with its own little cover-up cost. At the theatre or dancing afterwards, the buretop design is just the thing. The dress of black slipper salin with jet and bead embroidery ncross the top. The jacket I lined in black velvet which also makes the collar and cuffs.
Wel
In fact, there is scarcely phase of home-making that is Buy the yard of lace that is
not carefully filed away and
AMERICAN beauty silk taf- pretty and just the right colour
available at a moment's notice. for your purpose-white, off-
And there are not
to he feta is used for a magnificent going to ne white, a pastel, bright red, green,
any of those frantic searches for evening dress done in the grand Deft drapery ΟΙ brown, navy royal purple, black.
Fold bow in half lengthwista receipted bill or last month's manner (above).
It criss-crosses Fold lace as shown in diagram and stitch, Jeaving a small open-light bill, or that guarantee for is employed to the best ad-
we vantage. bow the new vacuum such as Turn collars with fold toward you. Pin sel- Ing.
have witnessed in households of the bust bursting into a potalled vages together. Measure and right side out. Press. Fold a
flare it one side. It is draped women who pin carefully as indicated, and tailored bow, sewing a narrow being magniiceat housekeepers. over the hips up to the bustle
pride themselves on baste your lines or cut a pattern strip of lace around centre.
It's a wise little wife who brings back at the side back where it of newspaper, as it is difficult to
Gather centre front at neck, good business practice into the falls in one dramatic panel to chalk-mark on lace.
rows of gathering.home! using two and draw gathers up to about
Bis shoulder to waist plus 3"
to right of A. C is 2" to left of
und
4" each side of centre front. Lay
B. Disarmhole plus 1" to top of front armholes (G) over
left of B. E is bust plus 1" back for 1" and tack.
above D. F is same
distance
above A. G is 8" above B.
Match points of collar to cen-
othur ends of collar at back
edges, adjusting front, if neces- sary. Turn in bottom of collar
Cut from F through E, then re front of blouse as at H, and on a curve for front armhole to G. Cut curve G to C. Cut back same as front except for neck- line B-G, which is only 54 pieces " and press, instead of 8." This allows for a
1" hera and a lap down centre
back.
All Edges Enclosed
You
foran a train.
Don't Need
Coach
A Voice
over
-Children Proved Best Trainers
Insert blouse neckline be- Cut the collar pieces, each tween edges of collar so neck measurement, plus 14" in edges are enclosed. Baste length and depth indicated on atlich. Sew crystal buttons down diagram. Cut bow 9" long and back with map fasteners un- Just read to the children two scam straight ends together. derneath them.
or three nights a week and To make: Stitch 1" hems up
Tack bow to position, Gather you'll get better results than French scam the underarm. fullness to waistline, using plas you would in months of Turn a "hem on armholes tic thread, or fit the waistline atructions, in the opinion
one movie star who has tried and bottom edge and silich.
It,
centre back, using 1⁄2" turn.
to your Agure with darts.
of
"A mother who reads
ber
don't Hollywood, Wamen need expensive voice les- best, and uses the time as a sons to develop a professional study period in which she tries aspeaking voice. All they need to improve her reading and and is a child or two.
consequently speaking voice, will find her time well spent." The mother: has to enunciato correctly and also has to be careful not to overact. Keeps You On Your Toes
"It keeps you on your toes to Collar Plocos Together If lace you use is expensive Gale Storm. has three young read with plenty of expression, but without any prissy, sugar- and you want to use it simply sons and she reads aloud to cookie whining and without Lay right sides of two collar for a front, make a falso back them at least three nights a
that exaggerated two-octave from their or rayon
favourite pieces together and stitch top of lawn
crope and week
custom scale range adults sometimes The
family edge and ends, using " scam. cut the front from one front books.
without L150
that it fascinates thinking Do came with two other collar length piece plus 3"-at most, started Just for fun,
kids, she said. places.
yurd
any objective involved.
Mies Storm lets the children, 1 yard
Phillip, 7, Peter, 4, and Paul, Dropped Voice Coach
3, choose their own favourites "Then I discovered that it for her to read. On Christmas Halloween they have op- and was helping my volce," the said. "Finally I dropped my
propriate seasonal eclections. Storm also teaches professional voloo.coach- and stuck to my juvenile audience. Sunday school class of mall chlidnon, If che misses out on It worka bogulifully.
any pointers while obo's read- "Children onD, the hardest, ing slowxi at home, she's sure audience in the work to read to catch her mistakes when to. They are the most critical show trying to hold theʻaiton- and the quickest, to detect and tion of a cines of childreķi. resent, vocal affectations.
United Prosa,
FRONT
+Bust
Fold
BACK
If you go in for winter sports, wear dark glasses to pro- tect eyes from sun glare. This pair has slots in temple pleoen to slip a scarf through for tying in back. It's the
fashion.
LOVELY
By HELEN FOLLETT
an eyes are
asset. end, then spread the creamy Good health, cheerfulness substance upward, doing a fade and animation will make them away. sparkle. Don't let anybody tell
you that there are magic drops
When you shop for these
that will turn the trick, though toiletries, you will have your there are soothing lotions that choice of delicate blues, green, will help them when they are bronze, prey, mauve, orchid. tired or the lids irritated.
The eyes can be affected un-
favourably by ill health, fatigue, Blonde Mermaid
state air, worry, the brooding habit.
Poor lighting arrange- ments in the home will keep them in a state of tension. If
you
Dares Shark-
are the boss of the domestle Infested Red Sea
warks, see that there is lamp
OR
desk, every
o!
beside every VIENNA A beautiful 21- reading chair. Don't let vanity year-old secretary has leapt to keep you from wearing glasses film fame as a modern mermaid If vision is falling. Without in the first full-length under- the help
lenses, turkey tracks water decumentary with a story will appear or there can be a theme. slight swelling of the surround- ing tissue. Fatigue often comes from weakened ovesight that is a strain on the nervous system. Dark Glasses
Twenty-one-year-old blonde Lotte. Buier makes her bow in below sequences shot 60 feet the shark-infested Red Sea. The ilm was made by her employer, 31-year-old bearded explorer
Girls who go in for winter Dr Hans Hass. sports should wear dark glasses An expert swimmer, she took to protect their eyes from glar-on the part after months of deep ing reflections on snowdrifts. diving practice. Her courage s One should bathe one's eyes Impressed Nublan 5t cikh twice a day, first with warm Al water, then with cold, It 19
el Sherif that he sent her
a complete set of heavy Nublan a bad practice to rub the eyes gold Jewellery. In a letter in Those de- Arabic the Shell begged Lotte should not
so specialists tell us. Heate mechanisms
be treated roughly,
Evening Glamour
When the big evening date is
to sce
to accept this offering of an old man who had never expected such fearlessness in a person of such beauty,
Film quarters
here say that on, you may want to glamorise the aim will cause a stir when
your peopers.
are fascinating make-up box
little mascara.
Lid items
one
on the Inshes will form a be-it is shown here and in London coming frame.
shadows
next year. Dr Hans has refused of the pre-publication of stills which
he describes as, quite unique. with which on can play. You have to be stingy with them and you have to know precisely how to apply them. Start in the centre of the cyclld, workt toward the Dear corner, then toward the far
AN HONOUR FOR THREE SISTERS
Three sisters, retired super- visors of the London Telecom- munications Region, the Misses Earth Catherine, Daisy and Lankshear, who live at Welwyn Garden City, in the English county of Hertfordshire, enjoy
distinction unique
of a simultaneous award of the Im- perial Service Medal. Each has 'devated д lifetime to publie service and the aggregated ser- than vice amounts to no less 114 years.
the
Unfortunately Miss Catherine Lankshear, the eldest of the threo, was unable to be at the presentation ceremony owing to ill-health, but the medal was prosented to her slators on her behalf. Both Mina Daldy and Miss Edith Lankabear have been during specially commended
or long careers for important work and for devotion, to duty during enemy eir rülds.
Child Has
Hard Time
By G. C. MYERS, Ph.D.
IT would be easier for a camel
to go through the eye of a needle
than for a precocious baby 10
Does Allergy Cause Migraine?
€1
By H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
BY no means are all of our unsolved medical problems now. Many allments for which wo are still seeing remodles today are known to have plagued monicind since the dawn of history.
сед
Among there is migraine, first described as "elek headache" about 3,000 B. C. It has puzzled doctors through all the turies since that time and even modern medical science with ]] Its knowledge and one rescurch tools has not been ablo to discover just why these one- sided headaches occur.
Between Attacks
People who have migraino perfectly well between
grow up as he should. It's not are
the youngster's fault, but his attacks but when amleted, they 50 handiare about as miserable as it is parents', that he is
The headache capped,
As soon as they dispossible to be. cover that he is far brighter than is usually ushered in by itscit is throbbing and severo the average child of his age, and
During
they want everybody else to disturbances of vision and blur-
about 11, So they can ring of the eyesight. exhibit his exploits
know
friends and make them their the attack there is a feeling of
marvel
sickness of the stomach, usuni-
at their prodigy. The parents ly with vomiting as the pain.
unawares res the youngster as reaches its peak.
a token of themselves, whether Modern medical celenco bem they suppose
he inherited his
superior Intelligence from them lieves that a tendency to such or gained his mental agility the ailments seem to
headaches is inherited, since run in They Camilles. But this inheritance is not enough in itself to pro-
through her guidance. bask in the glory he reflects,
which seem
Of course, many parents and duce the attacks, grandparents, when any tot is to be set off by a number of over two or three, suppose this different "trigger factors." child is very smart, oven though
In
Food Reaction
he may be only average or less mentality. They just don't know how a child develops
Recently numerous doctors normally. Every utterance or
have come to the conclusion act of bis, suggesting he can say that in many cases the head- or do what only older children aches are caused by an allergic usually do, muy
these reaction to some food. Those relatives to brag and show him who have headaches as often as cff; cause them, moreover, to
once a month are believed to train him like a seal to do and
be sensitive to foods caten Ky certain things normally done by older. children,
cause
Harm Young Child
daily, eggs.
such
milk Пл
wheat, or
Thus,
In preventing at- tacks of migraine, ft is Import- ant to and the foods to which the
person is sensitive and to climinate them from his diet. It is easy to see how the
One
of doing this way human frailties of adults can have the patient keep records is to thus harm the young child. It's all foods enten in the In the pre-school years when
24-hour
These exhibition of his mental exploits Periods before attacks.
compared to can harm him most. After the records are then
foods have been child enters school, especially see if some after the first few years of eaten prior to several attacks,
end of course these foods are: school, there are nity superior eliminated. ways for him to display superior talents
ΟΙ to
have
them Another method is to place
developed, atas. Even the child the patient on what is called an and his parents don't find other elimination diet. In such a diet, persons very much impressed the patient uses just one type with his mental exploits when of foods at a time for several he is twelve or fourteen.
days. If a certain class of foods
When the pre-school youngstersects to bring on the attacks, Is shown off because of his men- then these foods are eliminated. ial mastery of things usually
General Health 7 mastered only by a school-nge child, his interest and attention have been turned away from normal fun with other children plcyed
Other measures to be em- are to build up the
and he is rendered less attractive general health, to correct any to his playmates. Before long defects of the eyesight, and to he even may become repellent aid in the avoidance of mental- and physical strain, since these to most adults, poor kid,
things also may bring on an at- Lack
Basic Conformity
Various drugs, particularly those similar to orgotamine tar- What the precocious child trate, may ward off an attack,
make the needs most, especially in his or at least
attack
sodium
years before school, is to learn milder. Injections of such play skills as other children nicotinate have also been found of his age will share and enjoy helpful with him, while also learning.
for
rights
and
some basic conformity and duc the regard which he is least likely to learn.
*
feelings of other persons all of Bird Of Paradise
or
The bluc,
Archduke Encourage the child in normal fun
other children; Rudolph's, bird of paradise per- with
his famous courtship stimulate him to play with forms blocks, to colour, draw with dance upside down, dotes the display National Geographic Society. creative e clings by his feet to a:
a cleared. "danco mental branch over
floor" in the forest.
crayons and the like; his normal play and talents bu! not his exploits.
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