Didn't we look funny then?
D
O you remember the under- wear of twenty years ago?. Getting up in the morning was a long process in those days.
A woman did not consider that she was properly dressed unleas; she-wore first a vest, then a chomise or combinations, or perhaps both, under a long corset coming high up into the waist and fastening down the front with a heavy busk.
She was then half dressed. Un top of these garments came the new bloomers, probably fleecy lined,
in drab colours of dark blue, grey, or khaki.
Then there was a bodice, often with long sleeves, and a cami-
✓ sole trimmed with
ribbon and Ince.
under
Next came the skirt, Bounced .or it
and rustling,
might be replaced by the princess.petticoat. tucked and embroider-
ed.
It is liflicult to be- lieve that these almost
forgotten garments
were the general wear
LADY in
"Getting up in the morning wes
process in those days."
LINGERIE
1917
of only twenty years ago, yet to-day made its first appearance
Miss 1917 was a pioneer who twenty years ago.
saw one of the greatest dress revolutions ever known.
These were the First
machine-made
products, but looking like handwork, begun to be worn.
were 'elaborately made with deep flounces. Catalogues of the Lime describe them 28 "trimmed with embroideries, laces, ribbons, and other garni- tures,"
Twenty years ago the "com- binaire" idea and the fashion for sets had just begun; "cami- skirt" and "cami-com" were already registered trade names.
The note of the season was Set of Six the blending of pale pink and blue. A particularly lovely. THE new sets of under- model nightgown in a wild rose
Wear sometimes con- Do you remember the
shade was hemstitched with tained as many as five or six delicate garments of sky-blue silk.
pieces; nightgown, chemine, flannel petticoats crepe de Chine in pastel colour- under Inyers and layers of ings of pink, sky blue, and A new Idea
knickers, camisole, and under- "boiling" white for her. A con- lavender, and the even
skirt were a usual selection.
No red
more
temporary dress critic laments startling creations in black, ΑΝ NOTHER innovation of that "longcloth or even fine emerald green, and orange?
the same year was
The fashion began in the white nainsook and lawn" were They caused a great sensa- mercerised lawn underwear, the West End, but it Boon spread no longer good enough for the tion in their time, and Victorian forerunner of the present-day throughout the country, parti- woman of fashion.
matrons prophesied that those artificial silks.
cularly in the munition areas, Perhaps she needed some who wore them would come to
The moulded petticoat slips where the spending power was compensation for the mascu- a bad end.
and the tailored precision of to- greatest. line severity of her elothes and the utilitarian uni- fashionable. Camisoles of ex- Underskirts,
were day were unthought of then.
though shorter Shop windows to-day show forms she was then wearing. At quisite needlerun lace on finest than in pre-war days, and still that when coloured silken lin- all events, lingerie as we know it net, actually the first of the often in the conventional white, gerie arrived it came to stay.
outer Ribbons ind Iaco
A B C of Beauty
Jstands
for JITTENS.
ce like
Questions for Wives
1. Suggest a dinner that can be cooked on a gas-ring.
MORE
ABOUT
MUSHROOMS
STUFFED
VERY large mush- rooms are very good when stuffed, especially with fish, and they make a good way of using up a few scraps of cooked white fish,,
Lightly try as many peeled mushrooms, large but not large enough to be too coarse, as you want, and heap up on each a mix- Lure of their own stalks chopped' up and tossed in butter, a ny bit of minced onion or garlic, the remains of the cold fish finely naked, and a yolk of egg for bind- Ing. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs, put a dot of buiter on each and bake for about a quarter of an hour. Serve on toast bread,
SAVOURY
FRY or grill
or fried
some
mushrooms, and grill
some small pieces of thin streaky bacon rashera.
Make some little toaste, and on each place piece of the bacon, then a mushroom, and then a curled soft herring's roe which you have previously ponched or lightly fried.
Bits To Cut Out
Removing Stains
HOCOLATE.
CHOC
Wash with warm water and soap. If still resistant use riso- dium phosphate.
cocon
Treat as for chocolate. COFFEE
Treat as for chocolaté.
CREAM
Wash with lukewarm water and sonp. If grease remains use am- monia and water,
DYES
grains of all. Try the following
Some dyes form the most serious
with remedies in order:--Wash warm water and soap. Ammonia, In water. Alcohol or methylated spirit. Permanganate followed by salts of lemon. MUSTARD
Wash with warm water and soap. MILDEW
Wash well with warm water and soap and bleach with permangan. ate and salts of lemon. |NAIL VARNISH
Dab with a mixture of equal parts of acetone and amyl acetate.
PAINT
Treat as for nail varnish.
Treatment of Diabetes
A YOUNG nervous literary man
came to see me the other day.
He had the typical symptoms By Family Doctor
of
diabetes: distressing thirst and a continuous loss of weight although
his appelite was enormous,
Bolls and carbuncles are frequent,
Heredity seems to play an import also an intolerable itching of the
2. How do you make tea po jurther, and how do you make it more pear to be very prone, but men of alter in untreated cases, becoming fragrant?
Jant part In this disease. Jews ap- skin. The colour of the skin may
3. Can you use wholemeal flour for your pastry-making?"
make a sweet omelet.
2.
ANSWERS
all races get it more frequently than bronzed and weather beaten. do women,
The lungs may be affected, or it Sometimes very fat people have is probably more correct to say that a transient form of diabetes which the patient cannot throw off a lung clears up with correct dieting. Infection readily. Pneumonia, and There is a frequent association of tuberculosis are all too frequent in tuberculosis with diabetes. Again, a serious cases of diabetes.
Every One hos daya 1. If you have the right utensils you can be very ambitious....person may feel in fair health until The great danger in diabetes is, when people and things are irritaí-Roast steak or cutlets with potatoes and parsnips or tomatoes, all together some acute shock precipitates the of course, come. But the patient ing and difficult. You live on your in a covered roaster (price 6d, and is.). If you want a hot sweet to follow weakness in the pancreas and dla who has his regular and carefully nerves, waiting for a chance of go- (which would be rather exacting) discard the roaster for a fry-pan and betes results.
graduated injection of Insulin need The disease presents one of the not fear this. ing off the deep end. These are the
most gratifying results by treatment A diabetic person should try to be days that end in nightmares and
Warm the packets of tea before putting into the caddy.. Again, with Insulin. Patients often com- as equable and cheerful as possible, when you are making the ten allow the leaves a second or two in the heated plain blterly that there is not a and avoid any over-strain or undue sleepless nights and #
teapot before you pour on the freshly boiled water. You will then cure, but when life is made toler mental exertion. He should keep afteen years hence next day.
need rather less tea and the brew itself will be more fragrant.... Another nble and the only restriction on reasonably warm and avold extremes When you come home, Aing off tip for those who like very fragrant ten-put some thinly pared orange dlet, then one feels that the patient of temperature. The danger of that of to-day has a tremendous gain dreaded complaint in elderly patients, your things and put on a neglige. peel into the caddy. Smooth
previous gangrene of the extremities, must flushed 3. Finely ground wholemeal four can be used for short crust pastry over the diabetic of a
generation,
not be overlooked. The modern checks, soak wads of cotton wool in exactly the same way as white flour, but a little more water should be
The complications of diabotes are treatment by light and heat does not the lenst of Its discomforts, much to avert this misery. in astringent for your tired eyes, added for the mixing. draw the curtains and relax con- pletely, body and soul.
cream
your on
You'll get up in about ten minutes feeling twice as valuable, and when you've had a soothing bath, ending in a loofah friction with violet vine- gar or eau de Cologne, you'll be able
to smile again,
sanda
Kr your fe lure a
for KNEES,
unattractive, uso a rubber roller' or patter to break down the tissues.
A reducing cream or vinegar will help a lot. Slap them vigorously night and morning too.
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