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First Aid for Summer Finery
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LTHOUGH there is the advantage of quick drying out of doors on fine dnys, washing is n big item during the suntmer months.
The kiddies seem to go through so many more frocks and overalls, while our own summer dresses and accessories usually need a rub through after each wearing If they are always to look fresh.
The blessing in that light materials are easy to wash and Iron, and they pay handsomely for time and trouble spent in getting them up..
It is a good plan to look summer clothes over for slatos before you col- Bret hem for the washituk This op.
piles especially to fruit stabs, brenuse the action of soap and warm water has the effect of setting the dye farther into the material.
Grass and Tar
Sponging with hot water alone wil often remove these stains, and If you find that a blue or grey mari: in lett behind on white materials, moisten with lemon juice and sponge again with hot water before washing.
Hot weather often means far staing on stockings, but you can float these bil with a little buller or lard. Leave it on the stain for as long as possible before the Karment is washed.
Grass stains on tennin "whiten" in another problem, but I have found a method of removing these which often saves washing the whole garment, Mix equal urts of salt and tartaric acid.
moisten slightly with water, spread the paste over the stains and brush off. when dry.
Obstinate Stains
A supply of borax is a help with summer laundry, as a Bttle in the washing water softens IL and removes all trace of perspiration from cloth log. Half an ouner of borax, dissolved in a cup of boiling water then added to each gallon of washing water is the right proportio
When there is a definite perspiration atan, it is a good plan to moisten i with water, cover thickly with dry borax, and then pour boiling water through before the frock is wasted. . Cuffs, collar bands and ribbon shoulder straps collect more dirt and grease during the summer, They come que clean without unnecessary rub- blog if you add a few drops of cloudy ammonia to the washing water and let them conk for a few minutes.
A quick way of drying ribbons, by the way, is to wind them tightly round
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glass jar or bottle; they dry crlap and glossy and do not as a rule nerd ironing.
Stockings are usually the better for a daily dip. I turn them inside out before washing, and let the feet soak for a minute or two.
One way is to hang them over the edge of a bowl, feel in the water, then squeeze them gently in turn. A final rinse in cold or slightly coapy water helps to prevent ladders.
Another addition to my nummer washing equipment is a bottle of gum- arable. A teaspoonful dissolved 21 a pint of boiling water and added to the
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last rinsing water gives a slight stiff- ness to silka and muslins, and two or three lumps of sugar in the rinsing water is a good way to stiffen net, I find.
Organdi frilling and collata rarely need any stiffening: they come up beautifully crisp and fresh if ironed while fairly wet.
Ironing Hints
Most summer things, except Shan. tang, can be ironed damp, and I find it a good plan to roll the smaller items up in a towel white wet and leava them for a while before Ironing,
Summer woollies like sweaters and jumpers are best pulled into shape and dried fat, but if you have not the spicy in which to do this'n good alternative method is to put them into an open pillowcase pegged on the line.
Right or wrong side for ironing depends on the material and whether you want a glossy or dull fish.
I usually iron crêpe de Chines damp under a square of dry muslin, rayon on the materials with a cool iron. wrong side, when fairly dry, cottons on the right side while danp, and with a rather hot rot. Tussures and shan- tungs have a nicer flash when ironed dry on the wrong side.
Washable Gloves
1 expect you know that a teaspoon- ful of olive oil in the washing water keepa chamois gloves soft and supple. and that instead of rinsing, they are put through a second soap lather. Washable doeskin, on the other hand, can be rinsed in warm water.
I have found that putting gloves on the hands for washing is inclined to stretch them out of shape, and you con get better results by pushing the fingers
Jumper-and-Knickers
MATERIALS:
30. of Nursery Vipella Kullthig
yarn pip.
1 pair of No. 10 needles, 1 act
of No. 12 needles..
1 bone crochet hook, & pearl buttons.
MEASUREMENTS:
Jumper!
Length: 12in.
Round underarm: 16in. (n- stretched).
Sleeve scam: din..
Knickers:
Suit for Baby
Shape for armhole as follows! Knit in rio of it. 1..p. 1, for 36 Yows, deercusing once at each end of
alternate the needle every There are now 34 sts. left.
Leave these on a spare needle.
Sleeves
row.
and work 1 inch in k. 1, p. 1 rib.
Cast off very loosely.
cloth.
To Make Up
each piece, vely PRESS
lightly under 3 dania Sew up the shoulder scams, side WITH No. 12 needles cast on and sleeve scams of the jumper.
Y 52 sts. Knit la rib of k. 1, Finish the collar with the follow
ing pleat edging in crochet:
p. 1, for 11⁄2 ins.
10
Change to pattern and No. needles. Work for 411⁄2 ins. 13 com- plete patterns).
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HINTS FOR AUGUST BRIDES
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WITH August at hund,
bride-to-be will be living in a whirl of excitement during the Thort time preceding her wedding, but she should be careful that the thrill of being "engaged" does not Induce her to leave a lot of things to be done at the last minute.
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Nothing is so exhausting as being unduly hurried, and if the prospec- tive bride spends the last two three days dashing around trying to do half-a-dozen things at once she will arrive at the church on the day of days, with a harassed expressian which will absolutely destroy "mystic, wonderful" effect she hus tried to create by the correct choles of gown and tenddress.
up
any
Bearing in mind that nothing shows
discoloraton so sharply
战役 # white dress, unremitting care should
be given to the face and handy and plenty of vituming should be includ ed in the daily diet for weeks before the wedding so that the bride will bo a picture of health and beauty. Detalls to Remember
There are many little details to be noted in regard to wedding etiquette. If the bride-to-be is familiar with these she will be able to ensure that none of her friends or acquaintances Omission DD will be alighted by any her part. After all, one does not want to stort married life by losing one's friends!
Invitations to the wedding should be sent out by the bride's parents about three or four weeks before the the and! ceremony,
they include guests whom the bridegroom wishes to be present..
It is customary for the majority of flends to send gifts when they are accepting or declining the invitation to the ceremony and the acknowledg men tof the gifts is one of the bride's most pressing duties for they have
to
be acknowledged immediately upon receipt. She should try Introduce the personal note into her letters of about whether the gift was appreciated or not.
The Bridegroom's Duties
The bridegroom chooses the best man and as the latter has a number of duties to attend to, a gentleman of a methodical turn of mind is general- ly chosen.
It is also the bridegroom's duty to for bride ittel provide bouquets
not bridesmaids
forgetting his mother-in-law. He gives suitable gifts of jewellery to the bridesmaids while the bride and the groom ex- change gifts to mark the occasion.
eaning Of Beauty
u have ever looked of the soul," but as good a none up th
*Beauty" in the would be "the mirrors of the system," dictionary? Wel, I have, and here because if anything is wrong inside is the definition: "a cumbination of the eyes have it," and while attend- attractive qualities. That seems to ing to the eyes will without any be fairly clear as to what it meats, question of doubt improve them and so now look at yourself very care- keep them in good condition, if there fully in the looking-glass, take each is anything wrong with, for example, feature separately, and see if you are your liver, only treatment for that will alleviate the yellowness of the making the best of your "nasets."
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We start with the complexion, as eyes. But what we are concerned
Justre If this is faully, everything else will with is retaining appear so. Skin too dry? Or may- beauty of eyes. be too greasy? Well, what do you How to Have Sparkling Eyes do about it? Here is what you should
do.
Firstly, they should be bathed
For a start we will imagine that every night and morning: for this, your skin is much too dry, therefore boracle acid powder dissolved in hot only use a soap containing a grey water and used cold is excellent, and substance such as oil or cold cream. if used in an eye bath will have the It should be well mussaged into the effect of washing the entire eyeballs face with the hands, wiped off with and removing any dust or grit
Eyes should be exercised too, and warm, not hot, water, and finished with n cold douche, which will close rolling is as good as, in fakt better the pores. (This, incidentally, is a than, anything else. Just roll them golden rule for beauty culture, as hot up and down, and from side to side. water opens the pores, and if they Do be careful, also, not to overstrain are not closed, a blotchy, coarse effect them by reading in a bad light, or is the result, while if they are closed without glasses if you need them-- with cold water, you are assured of but be sure that you do need them before having them. If your eyes a smooth, velvety appearance.) Make sure, also, that your, face creams are are just tired, bathe them in cotton not drying, also your cosmetics, and milk or apply a compress of colton if you are in the sun at all see that wool soaked in rose-water to ench you use a good foundation Jotion or eye. complexion milk.
Eyelashes, too, can be considerably
this
If your skin is too greasy you must beautitled, and will help to enhance do just the opposite of everything, the beauty of your eyes, if they are and use a soap that does not contain smeared with white vaseline ut night, much grease, in fact, if it can be dis- and brushed up in a curling move- the ment with specially made brush, pensed with entirely so much better. An able substitute is out in the morning, they will soon reach meal, which should be placed in nalnost "film star" proportions.
Another all-important feature of butter-mustin bng, immersed in hot water and gently patted all over the the face is the mouth and it must attention. Teeth, of fuce. Follow this with a good rinse huve every with the water from which you have course, play a big part in mouth just taken the oatmeal, and then a culture, and they should be regularly good douche with cold water. It is examined by your dentist, as ugly always better to use the hands for teeth will spoil. any mouth. Lips, washing in preference to a sponge too, play a very big part in 1 single crochet Into the first st
or flannel, as the patting movement section of the face, and should have Rep 3 chain, 1 d.c. into first of these
acts as a stimulant and there is less more attention than just a dab with chain, 1 se. Into the next st.
A gentle massage of the danger of rubbing and stretching the lipstick.
slight pinching lips with a very to cach Now change to k. 1, p. 1, rib de- from to all round.
small, bulion Sew n
skin, which is always bad.
between the thumb and the finger inch from creasing each end of needic every shoulder seam about an
will help to restore the colour. 11 alternate row for 38 rows.
the top and another at the centre
you
do not favour lipstick massage are now 10 sts.
front and centre back.
We all know, or should, that the little cold cream into the Leave these on a spare needle.
Turn the collar down and fasten,
amazed at the Now put all the sts. from the back,
are employed in removing per- and you will be
If they pre working difference. a baby aged from three to nine front and both sleeves (100 alto- using the holes at the edge as button-ckin is porous and that certain glands before going out into a cold wind
be spiration.
Make-up should bo gether) on to 4 No. 12 needies and holes.
carefully drawn up T little by passing normally, the skin is neither too dry The model was knitted in a pale knit in rib of k. 1. p. 1 for 1 inch.
ribbon or crochet cord underneath nor too greasy, but if they are under- studied, and only the right makes white pearl duck-egg green with
the turned-down collar and lying in working, it is too dry, and, over- and colours used. It is well worth
working, too greasy.
couple of shillings in spending a buttons to trim the collar.
While quite an amount of good experimenting, as so much annoyance can be done by Houtaide treatment" and inconvenience can be caused by such as drying up the grease, or not having all the right things. putting it on, according to what is
Side seam: 0in.
HERE is a pretty jumper-and-
knicker suit designed to fit
months..
THE back and front of the
jumper are alike.
With No. 10 needles cast
sts.
- 1 in.
门 70
Knit in rib of K. 1, p. 1, for
Now change to pattern.
Row 1-Also rows 3, 5 and 7.
Slip 1, K. 1, K. 3, m. 1, cast off 1
There
Then knit one row of holes (k. 1 m. I, k. 2 tog, all round).
Knit one more raw in rib. Cast of using a No. 10 needle.
Knickers
USING No. 10 needles cast
on 68 sts. Knit in rib of
k. 1, p. 1, for inch.
for (as Kalt one row of holes jumper neck), then work 4 Inch more in rib.
Change to pattern, shaping for
(by knitting 2 sts. and casting off back, as follows:
the Arst), k. 1, rep, from to * ending, k. 2.
Row 2-Also rows 4, 6 and 8. Slip 1, X. 1, p. 3, m. 1, p. 2 tog., ending k. 2.
p. 1, rep, from to
turn, turn,
Pattern, 50 turn. Pattern 18 turn,
40 Pattern 20 turn, Pattern Pattern 52 turn, Pattern 84
Now knit in pattern for Gin. Pattern 76 turn, Pattern 98.
Cast off 35 sts, at both ends of
leaving 18 in the centre.
pattern for 12 rows. Then cast on 35 sis. at each end of the needle.
for
then din.. Work in pattern
Row 9.Also rows 11, 13 and 15. needle;
Slip 1, k. 1. m. 1, cast uff 1 (ns 'before), k. 4, rep. from to *, end- Ing k. 2.
Row 10-Also rows 12, 14 and 16. work 14in. in rib, making one row 9p. 1. k. 1, m. 1. p. 2 tog, P. of holes as pi-back..,
side rep, from to ending k. 2.
Cast off and sew up the Now repeat the Inst 16 rows, 3 seams. Limes complete patterns in all and measuring Gin, from the rib).
Now with a set of No. 10 needles pick up all the sts, round the legs
It necessary,
bow in front.
the neck can
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cure must come from inside, so that rules should be observed. Drink a the glands are made to work pro- tumbler of hot water an hour before perly, and this is where diet comes breakfast and another one upon retiring at night. Drink plenty of into its own.
An eminent doctor has remarked 'frult Julce. Here is a splendid fruit that fried foods of all descriptions drink that is rightly called "Beauty behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated at $35,000, against which the Income to date is should give way to grilled. In fact, Cocktall."
Strain equal parts of the Juice of $20,000. to help to cure ah over greasy skin.
The Society asks for the balance of this regularly all fatty foods should be avoided, an orange, lemon, and a tomate into completely if possible, or at any a glass and drink rate, cut down to the minimum. At 'every morning when you wake.
And here is & cocktail" to drink all times fresh fruit and vegetables should have a prominent place in during the day when you feel thirsty. the diet and plenty of cold water Mix the juice of one lemon and one should be taken between, not with, orange with one cupful of apricot meals, In addition, allow the fresh syrup and a little white of an egg. air and sunshine to get to your face, Shake well before drinking.
If all these hints are carried out and a great improvement will be
much for the com- carefully, you will be almost nolleed. So
walking definition" of the plexion.
Now for the eyes. These are "beauty." frequently referred to as "the mirrors
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