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Another
hopeless
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Compared with the Brown... Browns, anilors marooned on ́u desert island with a batch of cannibals to appease were a soft thing. After all, what "was a cannibal compared with Caroline Gloria when she cried In the night? Nothing, a mero: trifle, bagatelle And now you see them abandoning the last hope. The “Ovaltine" Ruska Tin is empty. Someone shall pay the penalty for it to „morrow, but after all, '10- morrow may never come. . . And all the time Caroline Glorią erions. “That toothsome, favoursome, scrunchy, golden- brown Rusk is not there. And she never stopped crying" for less She knows, and so do they by this time. .
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What shall I do now, mummy This plaintive, vague question is naked, "every day in a thousandi homse
Why not play with your sold lars
I've played withe themThen read your new story book. I started to do thist.. and then I thought I'd play in tho garden," Well, why not „lay | thero far & bit
"And so
Fon, with variations.
The nursery is littered with | things half dono. The bricks lie in one corner, only half built up. The now book is opened at page three. Apainting remains on the table with only a few strokes of rod and yellow to show that is wan ever tartad The whole room is a study in indecision.
Hard to Decide.
WOMAN'S PAGE
SAILOR HATS AGAIN,
NEW SHAPES IN STRAW AND LINEN...
This season promises to be the for many years, our as molilimery most interesting that we have had
is concerned.
Sinse the introduction of akull maps some five years or so ago, there has always been one dominating style worn in one definite way that has been accepted as the mode of
le moment,
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This inability to make decisions Fin inherons' in most childret, in...
lars their tastes are very pronoun-brow ard in any one or two directions. The child Ands it easier to get mummy to doxide for him.
But children must be taught to decide, for themselves. They must horshown that little good ever cane of dabbling. Ask your child, at the end of a morning of indecision, Just what he has got to show for it. Point qut the · débris, in the nurrory, the garden bod he started to, weed before leaving it for some thing also.
Show him just what & silly muddle this is "Why tell him this in no use to anyone. Now, if you'd put in all the morning at the garden bed, we'd realis have something to be proud of, wouldn't wa? And he would certainly
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Cost-heater histo
tilted bowlers, bicornes, plates,
models, aroakset. "toneurony?" and so on have all been extremely of us have, by dint of a certain becoming to some women, and most amount of adaptation,, been able to fallow the mode at a reasonable dis tance. The fact remains, however, that none of these styled could. Bo doseribed as generally becoming: "
Wanted--Alternatives.
Unfortunately, those who could not follow the particular fashion of the moment have been rather los out of things, as there have been 20 equally smart alternative styles of an entirely different character.
This season we have innumerable styles, each of which is worn different way and with a different an iota of personality in keeping up soiffure, so that, no one need sucrifice with the mode:
BLOWN GLASS FOR
NECKLACES
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE'S
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Necklaces of blown glass are the To clean white enamel paint or newest thing in costume jewellery.furniture, dissolve one tablespoon- Women were enthusiastic about ful of bicarbonate of soda in a quart me interesting versions of this of boiling water. When sool, wash miedo, made by a Londen, girl de the paint or furniture with the solu signer, at a dress show the other
tion, using an old fannel cloth, day.
Some are made of a series of little
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At Bred the mother must help with suggestions. If the child takes up one of these, well and good. If In addition to the Watteau styles, ballon-shaped hollow oblongs con hy does not, then leave him to fight Breton sailors, marine caps, man.octed by silver links. Each is him frosh ideas on the morrow. things out for a day before giving darin hats, boaters, and beretsed with water in which a biny coloured fish swims" jerking this But the point about deciding for have just made their appearance.
The stiff straw sailor with per way and that at each movement of Rinse all dishes having eggs, flour Himself must be stresaadi Tech etly straight brim has been adopt, the wearer's head. Another is in or milk first in cold water, then him to think put ench little occu-ed by some of the smartest women the form of two long semi-circular wash in warm pation, to weigh the one against in Paris. It is a hat that a certain sausages" one to fit round the the other, and finally reach & detype of Englishwoman looks her baoke of the neck and another round. To avoid scraping carrots, wash Fcision
He will be the first to go theory best in, and should be noted the front. The two pieces are at them, then boil till tender, dip into accordingly. It can be had with tached by metal links, and have a cold water, and the skins own be littlur thrill which comes to all those higher or shallower crown and coloured spiral in the white glass rubbed off like the skine on boets. who feel that a good decision. has with wider or narrower brim. The which is very decorative. been made. Men and women of two veil is attached to the under brim minds get nowhere. So all mothers of the bat. should are to it that their childrám
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able to choose and decide logically for themselves.
A second model is reminiscent of mode most of us favoured at the age of six or so to accompany the sailor suit that was then cousider. ingly named the "Baby Boy" it led chic for the very young Amus. is of starched and blocked whiteContinued an Previous Column
linen, unlike its straw, prototype,
and has the navy-blue ribbon and
bow arranged" on the edge of, the
| brim instead of round the crown..
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A third looks like a spiral metai spring, opalescent and gleaming when the light ciccches it, and fourth is another imitation of the prevailing vogue for motel coil chokers,, so realistic that it seemed likely to untwist itself as soon as the mannequin removed it.
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CHILDREN'S CORNER
Lucky tip-toed forward He was about to examine is carefully when be heard a fierce shout Hi, stop, my horse has lost one of its shoes. We must go back and find it at 1 Duce." Hmm, said: Lucky. "those humans have lost it, have they? Well, they won't find it when they return." By tugging and pulling with all his might Lucky managed to get the glittering, ob- ject. firmly fixed between two roots: of his favourite tree
The Huntsman Departed. Meanwhile, the huntsmen were looking for the lost horseshoe. But it was nowhere to be found sad at last, muttering angrily, they de parted Lucky then dragged the horseshoe out into the silvery moon- light that bathed the ledly plade.
Yes, said Lucky to himself, "I have found tremura, and no body shall aver take it from me. It shall be my friend, although it' can- not talk; I am sure it can sader stand things. He pulled at a taft. of grass, and tying it round his treasure, Fulled it into the safety
of the roote once more
a horseshoe the other way, shall be unlucky, for all the luck shall run out at the end,” “Superstition vanished with one wave of her mngie wand
A. Boy's Thoughtful Act. One day, while Lacky was out hunting for berries, a boy came through the was looking for nuts. His sharp eyes saw the horseshoe King Lucky gave orders for a lying between the roots of the tree feast to be arranged, and all the
A long, long time ago there lived a good fairy called Lucky. He lived all by himself in a thick forest glade, had no friends to play with,Elo!" thought he'll get apmetairies put on their most delicate
no enemies to quarrel with and felt very lonely indeed.
Lucky was not very adventure. some, and had never been further than the edge of the forest, so he did not know that in a nearby forest were hundreds of other fairice. He sat on a large brown toadstool and sobbed with loneli-
Darkness fell, and the glade was filled with mysterious shadows Suddenly there tell upon the silence
nails and hang on the tree, for
sang in such pretty tinkling voices that all the birds woke up and joined in the song.
it will be a good serch for the gossamer dresses and cloaks. After birds.
The Boy ran back home, the feast they joined heads and and soon returned, bringing a few danced round the
-round the old tree-and- large nails and a hammer. He knocked the nails into Lucky's trea sure and into the tree. Theze it hung, glittering in the brilliant sunlight. When Lucky came back to the glade he saw his trosaurs hanging on the tree, but was quite happy he thought and shall always No one can take it now.... be able to see it.”
If You Find the Shoe,
deep, doop forest the horseshoe still People say that somewhere in a
hangs on a tres in the glade where King Lucky once dwelt. So if one
of the night a tramp, tramp, trampa The Fairy'" Superstition" Apps day you should find it you won't
one and sil admired his treasure,
"There," thought he, "those hora de rible humans are always coming Ever after that, I don't quite through my glade on those big things they call horses; and, ob, dear! they do make such a noise. And Lucky always had to scamper for fear he should get trampled en.
Something Made Him Jump.
When the huntamen had passed, Lasky crept out from the tangled roots of a tree He was just going
know how it happened, but Lacky move it, will you, children! For il lived up to his name, and became you do, King Lucky will be lucky vary lucky indeed. Some fairies no more He still-livan, you know came and lived in his glade, and although I believe, a wind came, and Soon they made Lucky their kingit blew all the fairies, and King and built him a lovely throne of Lawsky up, up, up, and now they all Moss and leaves and wild rosaliva together, happily on a twinkling. petals just beneath the spot where star in the velvety blue of the skya- the horseshon hing, One day, the good fairy" Superauitionvisited
to 'sib on his toadstool once again, King Lucky and bald, King when he saw, something that made Lucky, the treamere that is yours. him jump-yes, quite an inch off is wit the human endi
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the ground for it was something shoe, and whoever hanger a horse- silver and very bright. There it shoo upside down, which is the Iny in the green grass waiting to ourrent way to hang it, shail. *be ploked up
Ausky ever after, but whoever hang
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