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MOTHERS.
WORLD
THE WORLD
Ideal and Real.
OF WOMEN
There is nothing no stimulating to the growth of ideals as the "feel" of a little warm body in one's arms and to look down on to a tiny bald head. A great deal of personal ambition transfers itself and a large portion of what remains takes a different shape. One longs to bo a good mother,
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It is not too difficult for the first fow months of the baby's life to at tain a high standard of mothorhood. Many animals manage it for so long, but afterwards comes the rub. The a way of infant, himself, han such upsetting well-thought out plans of conduct
I hoped to give my children a momory of a strong, gracious womazi, living in an atmosphere of seronity and charm, into which she could draw them when she wished.
Pleasing wasn't it? Funny how one's ideals are so different from actual fact! Similarly I admire long, straight black locks and grow So in life. red and curly hair. graciousness has given way more tlian oneo to shouting a bit louder than my bairns in order to make their din. myself heard above Strength has dissolved in tears how and then, when the children's dis- putes have proved too mach for tired nerves. And charm! That quality has not so much as raised its bend.
Was
I read a chronicle in which the sons and daughters refer always to "the gentle mother." She Indeed a lovely character, accord- ing to the auther of the book, but I "hae mn doots" about her! There must have been some, steel In her makeup and flint, too, with sparks occasionally, or she could not have turned out the family she did.
Mothers have been always con- aided a fling theme for the Muses) and, in real life, generally takou as part of the scenery, except on oreasons. The fact is apt to be depressing. One has to live up to the poetry and swallow the prose.
I heard of a picture, which pre mented the not unusual characteristic
of appearing, at a casual klance,
a jumble of amnges. But this par ticular picture had to be held up to
If you want to top the style with an unusually beguiling turban, this little lipstick velvet one, created by Lilly Vache, should help you. It twists its velvet ribbons over the crown in back and along the edge in frost, tying an appealing bow on the right side.
TO-DAY'S RECIPES. pour the Mocha over and add
little whipped cream,
Cooling Drinks.
The most popular hostesses just
a mirror, then a perfect portrait ap now are those who provide their
the
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
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apparently 1 Solemnly declare,
that a foolish one was always on the feed.
0 A man of war may be called
with this.
iron
10 Raving.
11 17th Century Dutch painter. 12 Famous Dickens character.
10 This word is probably popular with you; don't be this if it is
nat. not.
15 Rich.
17
Flower
that seems to
advise
an essayist on how to bowl. 19 This saint is the patron saint.
21 An ald to decorative work per
haps.
22 A device for stopping a vehicle
from going backwards.
24 A nagbearer la the field.
27
This
pudding is often served prematurely.
28 A constellation.
29 Depend.
30 This is sense though half in an
unpleasant woman.
Down
1 River of England or of France. 2 Nickname.
3 Red spirit, but not literally. 4 True kind of rabbit that seems originally to have come from Wales.
5 The turning of the wheels of this was associated with a revolution. 7 Musical direction that would be
EXCHANGE RATES
Paris
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But these good, things are not for all of us, though there are lots
Previous day.
Berlin Helsingfors, Oslo Athens.
Yesterdny.
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of delectable things we can drink.
Raspberry frappe can be made
Amsterdam. from tinned fruit until you can get guests with loug, cool drinks. the fresh variety. Take two pints Vienna.. prared in the mirror.
Something like that happens to attractively served, just at
lemon juice, a pint of water and Bucharest. mothers sufficiently often to help moment when they feel they need of rapberry juice and a gill of Propo
Hongkong.. our them most! most of them. Every truc
Iced coffee can be ambrosial on ill of powdered sugar. Mix well
together, freeze for 45 minutes, Brugels waddles on trying to shape herself into the Madonna she would like to a hot day. There are various ways then serve in long glasses with a holm.
of making it. In Americn if you few bits of ice and one ask for iced coffee you get a glass raspberries in each glass. containing a very large lump of ice, a small pot of very strong hot coffee, and a little jug of
be, and apparently failing utterty:
Four shades of kidskin. ranging from putty beige to cinder brown, are combined to give the pleated effect on the vamp of this one-strap pump.) The back of the shoe in soild eindar brown kid.
or two
Milan.
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Lisbon A delicious drink-can be made Ri cream. with either lemon or orange squash. Bombay The coffee is poured over the ice. Take some very long glasses, fil Yokohamu
the half-way with small pieces of ice, and whian aufficiently cooled
add three tablesponfuls of aquash cream added.
(more or less if you like), and fill up with soda water. Put in slice of orange or lemon, two three cherries, and a little crushed pineapple before serving.
In Tall Glasses.
A good way is to make your coffee in the ordinary way, mix it with the same quantity of milk, add sugar if liked and when cold stand in a jug in a bowl of cracked ice, Serve in tall glasses with whipped dream on top. Iced coffee makes
delicious' drink for plenics,
or
The children will love orange flip, and it is not difficult to make. Heat in a double saucepan, a pint and a quarter of orange juice and a gill of lemon juice, but don't let them boil. Make a smooth paste with a Mocha is a mixture of chocolate teaspoonful of cornflour and half a and coffee, and is excellent as a cool gill of water, and cook slowly until drink. Mako pint each of clear. Then add half a gill of sugar chocolate (with milk) and black fand the grated peel of an orange. coffee, mix them and cool, then set Let it get quite cool, ice if possible, f an ice-filled bowl. Put a little and serve in long glasses. crushed ice in some tall glasses,
With Pineapple.
Pineapple lemonade is another Then, one day, some little incident winner. Make a syrup by bolling occurs, which shows her horsolf, in a pint of water with half a pound her children's eyes, and she sees no of sugar for ten minutes, then add imago which surprises and dolights the grated contents of a tin of her. It may even be a bit like that pineapple and the juice of three socmingly quite unattained and un- lemons. Cool, strain, and attainable ideal.-EVA GRAY. with a quart of iced water.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
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shed had it an article in it.
8 Epithet for what one strongly
dislikes.
9 A laboratory vessel.
14 Diviner (the name must havo
been correct sometimes.)
10 Praise.
18 Paying.
20 The founder of Virginia. 21 Genuine.
23 Describes that part of England that is steadily diminishing. 25 Form of words used in fighting. 26 The responsibility that a on
Us.
Yesterday's Selation.
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WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.
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The following table issued by
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3.474
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East Rivers:
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The annual inspection, and preson- 30tation of awards of the Hongkong 3.86 Police Force, by His Excellency the 225 Officer Administering the Govern- 17% ment (Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern, 17% C.M.G.) will be held at the Polico compound next Thursday at 6 pm.
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TEACH THIS DOS. ANY TRICKS HOS
GOTTA GO Some!!
SEA IF you CAN TEACH THIS FELLA ANYTHING. SIT DOWN: D'YA HEAR ME? SIT DOWN... SEE?
HE WONT MIND ME AT ALL!
GEE NO WONDER · SOU DON'T GO AT IT RIGHT. LET TANG TILY MHA
NEVER. SHOUT AT A DOG LIKE YOU DID.. A DOS
IS NATURALLY TIMID, SO YOU MUST TALK, QUIETLY | TO HIM.SIT TONI LIKE A NICE FELLA-
I'LL SHOW you How
TO MAKE HIM PLAY DEAD DOU... ROLL EVER-HERE! SLOWLY PUSH. HIS LEGS UNDER HIM, ROLL HIMA ON HIS BACK, AND PUSH HIS PAWS INWARD.... LIKE THIS "
THERE YOU ARE- DEAD DOG !! JUST KEEP DOING THAT
OVITÉ AN' ONER. UNTIL HE KNOWS, WHEN YOU SAY “DEO DOG,THATS WHAT
YOU SHANT HIM
To bo...
REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE HANDLING A DOS AN"-HOT A PERSON, AN' THAT A DOG DOESIST LEARN FRDÍA HIS REASON BUT FROM ENDLESS REPEATING.
VERE, HON DO YOU KEEP ALL THAT STUFF IN
YOUR
HEAD
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