Points to look out for:
1 Brush his hat.
2-Mend his fraped buttonholes, |
3 Preas his bulging porkets,
4 Renew his worn cuffs.
5 Press his baggy trousers.
His Case Was Desperate.
Young Man's Distressed Slate.
"I was reduced to such a state
through anaemia and neurasthenia
Give your husband a
Spring Clean
F your husband is not as well groomed as he should be. it is largely your fault.
alternately, and cleaned with good quality polish.
Brown shoes can be toned up by mixing a tablespoonfal of mill wit
dessertspoonful of methylated spirit, and applying this with a piece of famel, rubbing the leather wall. After a few minutes luc shoes be cleaned in the oranry way." Dress shoes.
with olive Oil .....
KEEPING FOOD FRESH
* you experience trouble in keep- ing food fresh during the hot weather, try these short cuts. They will save you muny shillings In the egarse of a year.
To keep milk fresh on hot days do not leave it corked or capped in bottles; the a should be let in, or the milk will sour quickly. Cover the open neck of the Jug or bottle with an upturned saucer and then store the Jut in a wooden box led with clean sawdust or chaff. Keep in a cool, airy plaer, and the mit will seldom "turn" even in very hot weather.
Uncooked meat left to lle in its own juice quickly taints during the warmer day. But if you keep your meat hung it will keep belter. Do not in use should be ment, however. Slp the joint into
PATENT leather evening shoes covered with a tin film of vuseline: weekly dressing of olive oil will
a
prevent cracks or make existing ones much less obvious.
An occasional wipe over with a
The wife who undertakes to be her husband's valet, and valets him well, has cloth dipped in milk is excellent, and found one of the best ways of helping him in his an especially brilliant polish can be
career,
It isn't the possession of a lot of new clothes that gives a man a well-dressed look, but the care he takes of the clothes he has.
given by applying white of egg and then rubbing with a soft cloth.
Ties can be kqit fresh in this way Fill a glass jar with very hot water, and then wind it Abolish the "best" damp the fie, Suppose a man has three suits. suit idea. Bring the best suit intu regular use, so that tightly round the hot jar. This will it is worn on alternate days with the second suit. Clothes, smooth out the creases without spuil- as well as shees, are all the better for regular rest ing the tie. periods.
who is
The cure for a husband The third suit, sponged and pressed, and sent to the tailor for invisible mending if necessary, can probably be enteless with his clothes is a series
of presents. The first of these is employed to save the other suits on wet days.
Give each suit a thorough overhaul once a fortnight. trouser-preys, Into which the trousers A good hard brich cones first, and then look over it for should go as soon as they are taken frasese spots and other marks. A clean rag dipped in off. anamaria water will usually remove them, but if it won't try turpentine az petrol.
The best way Tar marks which often get on to the hems of trousers
with a rag matted in with Ties ★ 4 2 1 be taken out by rubbing cucalyptus oll,
How to press
it Successfully
is
If the pressing and a hot iron. done on a board without an ironing venting many a fumbled drawer. cloth it will be twice as effective. Plenty of patted coat hangers and
attention 143 the
shoe trees are other necessities, and duwr. the press creases,
not stick the honk directly into the a thin mustin bag rinsed out in vine tar, then attach the metal hook to
the bag top and suspend,
If, as sometimes happens, butter has acquired a alight rancid Inste during the hot weather, melt and then skin, afterwards leaving a plece minutes. The disagreeable of lightly toasted bread in it for a taste is thus taken out.
few
Where the butter in too far gone for this, add a teaspoonful of honey to each halfpound, melting the butler Arst and, then skimming it. When disagreeable taste and favour, cool the butter will have lost s
Keeping Bread Soft
When bread is to be kept for place half an apple in the bread-pan. moisture from the apple is several days during the hat weather. The absorbed by the bread, which is then kept moist and fresh.
my he Greens and vegetables kept fresh during the hottest spell by the following methods, which entall little or no additional expense:
For example, when lettuces lose TIE-HOLDER is the next on their crispness due to the heat, if you netel a pinch of borax to the water the list, and this, screwed on in which the lettuces are being soak- delightfully the inside of the wardrobe, will noted it will make them only keep his ties in perfect cordi- crisp and fresh for table use.
and carrots Lettuces, beetroot, WHEN the suit is clean, press tion, but will enable him to choose
with a very damp cloth the right one in a second, thus pre- will keep for a long time it their in a couple of rents are immersed inches of water in a shallow dish and the water renewed every day.
To keep cauliflower fresh, split the stem in four, slip a string around it. laps, and smooth over any creased on his next birthday you might give hang up the flower downwards, and thore ingenious con-wet the cut stalk every day with parts, being careful to keep the cloth him one of
traptions
cun water.
If Ush cannot be cooked the same really damp.
day keep it fresh this way:-Put the fish in a large basin and pour over a mixture of salt and water, one tea- cupful of salt to one quart of water. a shelf for his underclothes, and Cover the fish completely and it will
keep quite fresh.
Pay particular trouser
013
which
3
man
At the first sign of fraying at cull arrange his clothes as he takes them or trousers hem, a suit should be sent off at night.
back to the tailor, who will make
it just like new. Bullonhules can be made to last twice as long by means of a well-umed stitch.
Keep hats
well Brushed
MEN'S
MEN'S hats need regular ot- Atention. A bowler seldom needs more than a good brushing, but
it needs it every day. A weekly zub
There are shoulders for the coat,
tray for his loose change and other oddments.
Ivie P. Holden.
COLOUR REMINDERS
Gay Beach Wear TAKE heed of the difference be
warm and cool colours. tween Choose warm tints for a north room, that catches with warm bran or ordinary ground THERE is no possibility of women cool tinte for a room.
wearing anything drab on the south sunshine., rice will be sufficient for felt hats.
Yellow Even if swim-i
is the colour nearest to and lunk beach this season. longer Shes will last
taken in deadly light. It seems cheerful, even in the twter as well if kept on trees, worn ming is a hobby
earnest, the swimming suit must be dullest weather.
DO YOU LIKE SHORTCAKE?
For the dough take two cupfuls half teacupful self-raising flour, butter, pinch of salt.
Work the butter well into the flour.and molsten with enough milk
you to make a dough
can handle, flatten it out in a round shape so that
Try this with Strawberries
will
into
While we
of the most up-to-date design. One If your room seems too small, use For in- can be frivolous, however, with re-light-coloured woodwork. gard to accessories. Lille
playsuits, creasing the apparent size of a limit- which never crumple and retained space, try making the woodwork their freshness throughout, are seen match the walls.
Great is the lure of blue. Truly a in bright, daisy-patterned linen and
Divided skirts in colton.
heavy blue-and-white scheme is one of the while linen have brillantiy-striped most satisfactory. Yet, a word of blouse tops, or are worn with star-warning is in order: there can be too much. It is best to use it with a dotted waistcoats.
light hand, and to give it much white Newest of all beach.
wear are for a foll. You may even get the hooded capes to protect the wearer happlest results by adding to it a from the sun, the wind, and the touch of pale yellow or of soft rose- ordinary shallow layer in. One-
most amusing cape in pink. cake tin. Bake in the dusty pinis olled silk has little black Greys and buffs are the foils and aven for about twenty umbrellas embroidered all over it neutrals among colours. five minutes, or until This ground length cape could be may know this, we do not always it is nicely browned. Turn it on to the disli it is to be worn equally well for Ascot where utilise that knowledge.
would prove a blessing In the Red, on the other hand, while it served in, split it carefully, and well event of a rainstorm.
speaks for vitality, is aggressive. It butter the insides as you would a
Another attractive cape is made may easily make a room seem reat- in skyblue towelling and the hood is less. Seldom should it be used in full strength, almost never in large lined with toninto-coloured silk.
a navy massey. contrasts effectively with blue bathing suit having one of the thits called colours. They will Another fact about these fascinat- the circular skirts. Also in new news are beach hats shaped like ary not only by suggesting cold and of warmth, not only in making your straws In coarse
rather than spacious For six people:
reach to
the Put on it the other half of the bright hue, they Take 21bs. of ripe red berries-
they vary also in being Emall ones
miniature cramped, "Then I decided to try Dr. basla with a cupful of castor sugar one, and serve at once while still shoulders and have
handle standing up from the centre more or less "becoming" to the people
who use the room. Williams' Pink Pills, and soon began and cut up roughly with a silver bat and crisp.
that my case was desperate," states
Mir, W. 3. Ingen, of 15, Leyburne; CUTRAWBERRY -Street, Bradford, England, "Last
shortcake,
October I began to suffer from diz- being an American sweet, is ziness, and when outdoors my head difficult to get here.
such a whirl that
could not
This is the way to make it, the large stone. walk straight. I had no eppetite,authentic strawberry shortcake, and
Now over the lower half gener- my face grew pale, and I was
Once you have ously spoon your strawberries and I become don't let anybody peramde you to pletely devoid of energy.
try out imitations. so bad that I had to give up my
juice, as much as you can get on. work. The doctor said that I was had this one, you should not want to
Let the juice run all over the dish. suffering from annemis and neuras-experiment further. thenia, and might collapse in street,
best. Put into a
the
are
or
to improve. My appetite picked up spoon until you have practically
Cut in scelions as you would a and I felt less tired, the dizziness halved all the berries. Let them
with fresh disappeared, my face took n
sland and get juicy while you make layer cake. Serve healthy tinge, and I gained strength and bake a scone dough.
whipped cream. 1 am like rapidly. Now I man."
new
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These who have tried Dr. Williams' Pink Pills often say that the beneat almost too following their use is wonderful to be belleved. Actually the reason is quite simple. I this: these pills crente now rich blood, which strengthens the nerves, banishes annemia, and improves the appetite and digestion. Try them Obtainable ut chemists overy-
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Gelatine: A Summer Cookery, Aid
IF soups are too thin they can be quess that to-day's peach or apricot made thick and sustaining by the dessert was yesterday's "left-over" addition of gelatine. Consomme, of if it is skilfully embalmed in a fruit, which gelatine is largely the founda- Jelly?
tion, is much less heating than
A novel icing for enken which will ordinary soup, and is more accept remain Arm and clear in hot weather
ble in hot wenthier,
is made by dissolving a teaspoontul Many children do not like milk of gelatine in half a cup of boiling and cannot digest milk puddings, but water with a few drops of flavouring this add enough icing the appeal of a mlik jelly or a pret- essence, To 1lly coloured blancmange is irresis-sugar to make a spreading paste. tible. With the use of gelatine, hard Cold tongues and meat shapes look curds cannot form and the pudding much more important when clothed: is made light and palatable. For
this reason, gelatine should form the in glaze. Dissolve half an ounce of gelatine in two cups of water and foundation of most inyalid dishen, boil well with a tablespoonful of
Asple Jelly, which enn be prepared meat extract. This glaze keeps per- Anstantly from the packet, is an in- fectly if stored in a well covered for valuable vehicle for presenting odd- and may be melted down when re- ments of fih, meat, or game in new quired. and attractive form; and who will
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