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My Ideal House has HOMEMAKER'S DIARY BE BOLD
O you remember the old maxima place for every- thing and verything in Its place? I always asso- clate this with cupboard room. Plenty of cupboards sim- plify cleaning and enable you to train the family into the good habit of tidinesa,
We may miss the capacious cup- boards of the Victorian house, but the ingenious built-in fitments of to-day 'make up, for them. And you can nearly always find room in an odd corner for an additional cupboard unit,,
These units are useful for providing For extra storage space tipstairs. example, a unit dressing table might bo flanked on one alde by n low cup- board for boots and allocs, and on the oilier by a unit wardrobe, which can be set apart for the husband's tise.
Boots & Shoes
A bout and shoe cupboard is in any case a practical addition to the bed. room. It is fitted with a double der of fucks (these allow the air to circulate round the shoes) and a curtain pulks across the front.
One particularly sensible wardrobe has sliding doors and is made 21 tuches 'deep so that it will take contigers comfortably.
It is sometimes a good plan to put this second wardrobe on the landing. especially if you use it for storing clothes not tu everyday use,
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Bathroom cabinet andt cupboard u without saying, but I find. azmall cupboard for bath cleaning materials handy, and it saves a good deal of running up and down stairs. Put it alongside the bath, enamel it to match the rest of the scheme, it it with a cork or linoleum top, and you have a useful stool.
Ceiling High
Two ceiling-high built-in cupboards, with a smaller and between them. innka a practical filment for one wall in the dining room, and la can some times be constructed from two exist» · ing cupboards.
In this case face the doors with ply. wood. fl them with piala bar handles. and enamel them to bring them into line with the rest of the scheme. One
Fruity Sweet
A TEMPTING meringue made with
blackberries
Put 1b, binckberries in a stone far and stand this lun saterpan of bail- Ing water over a low heat.
When the juice is extracted, stratri this off and sweeten,
Arrange three gponge Angers in the bottom of a buttered piviliski, pour over the blackberry juice and let it soak well Into the spongu.
Mako Mustard with the yolks of two eam, 1 pint milk and sugar to inste, pour this into the dish, then le in a slow oven all the custard is net.
Whip the egit whites with atto enster augar to until froth, add a few blanched and chopped almonds, then bake slowly until lightly browned. Oven
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PLENTY of
CUPBOARDS
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of the tall cupboards could be used to house a chlid's toys.
A coat cupboard a useful in the hall. If there is no corner in which I can be built-in, an oak wardrobe maker a useful and attractive plece of furni ture. Choose one fitted with an ex- tending rall for hangers and a drawer in which you can keep garden shoes and other oddments.
5.
says Janet Jay
It would be a good plan to have an elec- tric light fixed inside and use it for storing the vacuum cleaner and other cleaning materials. Homes for maps and brushes can form part of the kitchen cupboard equipment.
A corner cleaning cupboard saves space: na hooks for brooms and brushes, a shelf for a pail nne space beneath for a housemaid's" box.
The cupboard under the stairs 15 Hide the Uglies
useful, toe, and should not be the "glory hole" 1 sometimes is. Beeing that it in usually rather deep and dark.
MIDGE'
Knitting
Lessons
"And they call it plain!"
Make the most of the space under the sink. This can be entirely boxed in, and there is usually room for two good. sized cupboards, sill allowing free access to the waste pipe. These can be kept for palls and semibbing brushes. Screw hooks to the inside of the doors for floor cloths.
Cupboards for glass and china are best
on the shallow side, so thot. everything is "gel-at-able," Bliclves should be just wide enough to take and pile of plates.
Extra food cupboards depend on the size of the kitchen cabines and larder. but I find that a separate one for dry stores relleves pressure on the larder. when extra stipplies are ordered ai holiday times.
Some of these cupboards have "ven- tlated top sections, and so can be used for storing ment, butter and milk.
Cupboard linings are important. Those in the living rooms look attrac-
Little Caps Hay Diet Can Be Applied
Off The Head
too
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To Dogs
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good 1923 for cupboards. 1. Ort the landing in place of banisters. 2. Along the whole of one Iball 121 the dining room, to in- 3. clude sideboard. Compact fiments for amali bedroom. 4. In the hall, a cup- hoard for clothes and useful under-stairs storepe space. 5. Silding door cup- boards in kitchenette utensile and cleaning materials.
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tivo when lined with sprigged wall- paper, especially when the rest of the walls are plain.
Cliniz, cretonne and balloon fabric make pretty detachable linings for If you clothes and linen cupboards.
tack them into place with large draw. ing pins, they can be quickly taken out for washing.
For the linen cupboard provide in matching cover for each shelf.
and
Lancaster cloth is a good lining for both walls and shelves of chale food cupboards, because it la so easy to clean.
WHEN BUYING YOUR MILLINERY
NY woman who endeavours to
Adreas really well upon a small
income generally buys the bulk of her clothes twice a year, seldom tempted to buy
beween SCASOUS.
garment
and nn
is
odd
But
millinery is another proposition for
are continually chang "hat lines" are
ina.
and
a really new and up-to- date model is an excellent refresher for a slightly tired wardobe,
can
So please do not be too conser- choice of hats, and your vative in when you buy one at this time of the year, let it be the newest and find. you the smartest that
have gol Don't wait until you
the new shapes- accustomed to
hand-be- eise's somebody
will be upon cause by that time they out-of-date.
Reckless. Buying
ET us U
all the caution we
A new suit or dress, but do let us choose our hats with abandon.
Large hats can look quite devastat- ing upon the right person-bul be sure that you, are the "right person" before you finally decide upon one. The width of the hat should be in to your height and it proportion should also be chosen with due re- to the width of your face. Kard
The woman who wears these hals to perfection is always tell and has
"neck's
a fairly full face-or, at any rate, wide cheek bones. A long
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great help, too, in this respect, but the forward tilt of your hat does much to counteract the short neck- fairly especially if the brim is straight.
Very Shallow Crown.
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THE newest wide brimmed hats have practically no crown all, and the almost straight brims are becomingly bent a trifle at the side-front, and side-back, The inch- sometimes hidden high crowns by a wealth of flowers, or a piece them, of velvet is twisted around
arc
-Our Inquiry Bureau with long ends laid across the front
Repairing
A Carved Wooden Screen
of the brim, from edge to edge.
are often colourful, These hats and we see a lovely blue hat, with blue velvet trimming, surmounting an all-white dress, while a deep and pink hat, with deeper pink mauve velvet or flower trimming, thay be worn with black.
All black, wide brimmed hats are also worn with black, white, or pastel dresses.. Is there any way of repairing the
women who prefer rather attractive there are carving on a wooden screen which smaller hals has got chipped?
little coloured straw "enilors" with де
crowns trimmed with There a substance known as shallow "plastic wood" which is invaluable wreath of matching flowers. In gay wilh for repairing wood. You can fill colours these hats look well crevices or build it up as you wish dark or white outnts. The brims are hats Bre and then sandpaper or carve it. I almost straight, and the is pale fawn in colour, but is cap-worn well forward, slightly to uble of absorbing stal and colour.
When making place grapes is necessary to skin them first? --The-grapes-should not be skinnel
For
side.
Trimming The Brim
one
NOTHER type of hut is generally of coarse-straw, and has a
as it is essential that they should be Can one apply the Hay Diet prin- How soon after a protein meal mayas dry as possible in order to hold slightly curved brim which is turned ciples to dogs as it scents that they a starch one be taken?
the glaze.
Wash and dry thorough sometimes show symptoms of Three and a half hours
shouldly leaving them on their stalls, three elapse between the two meals if the or four in a bunch. digestion of both is to be complete. little cape which, when seen A dog's digestive system works in Even more time should be allow-
What
will off the head, look so Lanocent-the same way as in human beings ed it a mixture or number of pro- from the lining of a sult case? just a tiny, basin-shaped bit of fell and the Hay Diet on certainly be teins have
been taken. The more
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up all round. Here, too, the trim- ming is generally of mulching velvet or flowers, or both used together, and entireling the shallow crown
cdge of the remove nall-varnish perhaps binding the
trim.
"Sometimes the brim of a hat of similar shape, but of ner de ani turned up sharply nt one side and Bower or pair of quilis may be placed against the huts,
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or knitted silk, with a small "lube" applied to them. One meal a day is simple the meal the more readily il Suturate a piece of cotton wool he
of self fabric sticking out of the top adequate. No food should be given will be digested. -can be quite devastating when before tilin time and only a non- worn in the correct manner.
meaty bone then.
ure
for
wear
They
Intended absolutely on the back of the head, so that they are not visible at all from the front.
n
For smart occasions there are tiny caps
made of various materials, One consists of a wide, "bunchy" bow placed at one side of the head over the forehead.
tops Little berels with straw and surrounded by flowers are tilted while diminutive over one сус.
chemist and make a ring round the stain. Working from the acetone to As Dr. Hay does not recommend wards the stain rub gently. Change eating more than one protein at the coltonwool as it becomes sticky, Every other night give a meal of meal does that mean that mushrooms Repent, working as quickly as posal broken biscuit and vegetables mol- cannot be taken with a grill?
ble. stened with vegetable soup, a little Mushrooms contala protein in a They call for a special style of milk, or egg yolks. On the other easily digested form which does not Can you tell me how to remove hairdressing, too, if they are to look nights give liver, meat, tripe, or fish interfere with the digestion of other the polish evenly from a Chincac really smart. The hair should be with plenty of green vegetables. proteins or is affected by them itself carved lamp? brushed up around the cap, at the Spinach and raw grated carrots are Mushrooms are one of the foods Use an old tooth brush and Lower-covered bonnets are worn at front, back and sides,
particularly good for eczema which which can be eaten with either pro-methylated spirits and brush hard in back of the head and in some is common on dogs in this country. telus or carbohydrates.
all the crevices and all over the instances are held in place by ribbon lamp. Keep wet with the methylated girings led in bow under the chin. spirits until the whole surface has been brushed and then dry. Repeat sure as possible with a cloth. DIY and then wash quickly with warm slowly but thoroughly in a draught. Use a brush for fub well with linseed oil. Leave for the crevices, If
ilnsced necessary.
Rub Rinse 24 houra.
again with well and then remove as much mol- oil.
HOW TO CURL 'Protect them!'
FLUFFY, much be-curled heads
are "out" and a smooth colffure, with turned-in rolls is the line to achieve these days.
It usually looks perfectly lovely. too, when it comes fresh from the hairdresser's clever Angers, but in twenty-four hours the effect is often less attractive. It certainly is dim- cult to curl those smooth, shining rolls of hale around your finger with
an ordinary comb.
But if your comb has a lapering handle it is quite a simple proceed- Ing. First comb the bulr over your Anger with the business end of the tomb, then Anish, it off with the point of the handle.
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