1937-04-17

Are your fingers red and swollen, do you get chil blains during the winter, are your nails ridged and dented, your cuticles hard? Then read Jane Gordon's

lecture on

Hands

ERHAPS it was a particularly bad winter for people inclined

to chilblains, or maybe it is just coincidence that I met with so many shocking hands.

I saw a pair of chilblained hands recently which almost made me feel itang a pair of ziainters sciptors in sick, and if they affected me this way you can imagine how unpleasant they were

to the girl they belonged to.

Her hands were red, her fingers! were swollen and red with light shiny skin which had cracked leaving rough gaping sores. The nalls were mis- shapen, ridged and denied, and half of one nail was completely parled from Its cullo

culicle.

She seemed to think it was quite natural for her hands to behave like this during the winter months. She admitted that she had made no at- icmpt to prevent the annual crop of chilblains and the lecture that I read her or the subject has so fred my enthusiasm that I propose to repeat it? for your benefit..

IN the first place if you are inclined to chilblains at

all it la well to include an extra | amount of calcium in your diet; during the winter months.

Try and have, if possible, one quart; of milk every day. Foods having a comparatively high calcium content are: eggs, green vegetables (especially cauliflower), nuts (especially al- monds), fish, brawn bread, water- cress, cheese and chocolate.

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The food can be divided in manner. Have an egg with your breakfast in the morning. Take for your eleven o'clock meal a large tum- bler

of milk with a bar of chocolate. Include cauliflower or some other green vegetable and plenty of cheese with your midday meal. Have brown

bread and butter for tea, and occasion- ally dried figs of almonds. Have a cup of cocoa with your supper, and have another glass of milk before you go to bed.

Take a course of halibul liver oil and calcium phosphates. This is particu- larly good in cases of circulatory de- ficiency.

WHEN the first_signs__of the chilblain appear and 'your fingers start to itch unbear! ably, there is special ointment you can apply, but if you have) been so foolish us to allow your fingers to become definitely cracked open get your chemist to make you up some zinc and eucalyptus ointment..

Spread this on a strip of white sur geon's lint, cover with a thin layer of cotton wool and bandage on lightly. Be careful not put on a tight band- age or you impede the circulation.

A good exercise to keep the blood circulating in the hands is to hang them loosely from the wrist and wring them up and down, allowing the Angers to fly about in all directions.

BE careful not to wash

your hands in very hot or very cold water. You should use lukewarm water and wash as quickly as possible.

Before you wash pour a little toilet: parafia in the palm of the hands and rub it in thoroughly. Then wash with a mild complexion soap and lukewarm water. Rinse well and dry thorough- ly, and rub in a little hand lotion or hand jelly,

Cuticle oil should be rubbed into the nails night and morning and after each washing, but it the cuticles are already badly cracked the best thing to use! is an iodine oil.

There is a Difference!

You can "chuck" the dress that does not please

You cannot forget a permanent wave

that is not. sulisfactory.

Be sure,

not sorry.

Get the BEST.

PERMANENT. WAVES

your kitchen, and they'll made many

tedious jobs casier.

These ideas

SHORT CUTS with Scissors

Tsaves time and trouble to hang a large pair of stainless scissors: on a handy hook in the kitchen.

There'll be no accidents with fingers,

and kitchen knives and cumbersome chopping boards can be done away with, Raisins and glace cherries, candied peel, grated carrot and nuts that go to make cakes and puddings—scissors will cut them up in next to no time.

Then take breakfast bacon rashers; their rinds can be trimmed as neat as n shingle with a pair of scissors. Carrots, pimento, turnips, parsnips, potatoes-n deft clipping dices them speedily, or shapes them artistically into stars and diamonds for garnishing.

They slice and shred

brighten your table

by HELENE GORDON

Daily Express Paris Columnist

Something very important to tell you to-day-important for me, that is. I am moving to a new flat. And all of a sud- den all that has anything to do with house-- hold, cosiness, and beauty of home has become fascinating to me.

These lant days I have been more particu. larly busy with everything concerning a dinner table and a dining room.

Paris has been overrun with white sales since the beginning of January. So, of course, it is a very good moment to gather a lot of ideas for setting pretty tables and arranging our rooms. Of course, a white tablecloth always looks amart. But let us try to have a little imagination in our everyday life.

We all here, in Paris know and appreciate your gay and charming Christmas paper table- cloths. And I should not be a bit surprised if our table linen had been influenced by the bright and amusing-designs-we-saw-on-them.-

Fancy linen tablecloths and napkins are Inade in innumerable different designs,

No. 1 in the illustration is a very pretty. model and is simple to make. The ground might be white, with the three squares sewn on it in green, pink, and navy blue. Or, deep grey, pale blue, and pink. Another good combination of colours can be made with three shades of green. Now the colours you choose depend entirely

on your tea service and your personal taste.

To do this tablecloth, take a piece of material squares as you wish to represent playing cards. (linen, ninon, or cotton musiin, whichever you Stitch them on your background after having wish). It must be 42ins. long and 40ins, wide. embroidered each little piece of stuff with n Make a neat hem all round it. Now cut out the card. The same playing cards made a little three squares in three different shades and stitch larger will make perfect little napkins to slip them on as shown in the design. You will see under glasses.

SCISSORS make short work,

too, of meat for a Blew, trimming cutlets and cutting up filleted fish for such things as souffles, pies and escallop shells, They will nip off fishy heads, tails and fins, grate chocolate coarsely, attack a block of kitchen salt.

Hold parsley, mint and herbs in a tight bunch. and snip them to Ane pieces: watercress, endive, greens of any kind-call the scissors into ser- vice to slice them up conveniently, Shred lettuce, too, by setting scissors to work on a thick sheaf of leaves tightly rolled.

Make light labour of marmalade by snapping at orange and lemon rinds with scissors. Snip round the core of a halved grapefruit, then dig from under- down and, culling out neath, leave a pool of juice for the maraschino cherry. Cut down the sections, and sides to finish the job.

Trim the rough edges of fruit tarts with scissors. Use them to fashion petals and leaves to decorate veal-and- ham pies.

| Sharpen like this

WHEN, from sheer hard works, the blades are blunted, let them try to bile the neck off a glass bottle. See that the full length of the blades saws at the glass twenty to twenty-five Umes.

Culting coarse sandpaper puts tired scissors on edge, too. If it puls your teeth on edge also, a knife grinder is always round the corner.

Bits To Cut Out

Bananas In Casserole

You need eight firm bananas,

one small pot of red currant jelly, one lemon, one glll of bolling waler, demerara sugar to taste.

Feel the bananas, removing all threads, cu into quarters lengthwise and place in a buttered casserole, Melt jelly in water pour it over the bananas, add strained lemon juice and cook in moderate oven until bananas If you have no proper bridge table it would amount of juice from your lemon if are tender. (You will get double the it is simple if you follow the pattern accurately.

Matching table napkins are also quite easy be a good plan to mak the same kind of cloth you put it in bolling water for a few to make.

worked in green material with white felt cards minutes before squeezing.) Sprinkle stitched on it. But be careful and don't try to with sugar and serve hot or cold with If you are a good or even a bad bridge player, pick up the ace of hearts sewn on the "stuff, sponge fingers.

mistaking it for the card you wish to see in your

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