BEFORE beginning
Our Nursery Expert
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problema let me "ay a ghost" for those who have been assured that twins are difcult to raise be- cause they are bound to be dellcate.
Twins are usually small, though thậm does not mean that they will be un- healthy. They usually pick up weight very quickly and come on well with normal care.
Bmetimes, again, the mother is not sufficiently strung to nuran bath bables for long, but here again a litle nd- justment, is all that is needed to give both an equal chanco. And this is a subject on which I shall always be very pleased to give advice to all who care to write me,"
Then some mothers feel that they will never get round if they have to manago with twins, but I feel that their lot is much enter than that of the mother who has a baby and a toddler to manage at the same time. When the children are at the same stage the same routine sullta both, thus saving any complications.
Dressed Alike
I hope alongz dressed my twin giris nilke. Should I continue to do this tical they
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As you tell me that your twins vary so much in character, I think that it would be a mistake to stress seir twinship too much when they begin to go to school
Brcing that one twin is a real "lom- boy" and much bigger than her more dainty Rister, it would be kinder to try to suit their personalities in their clothes, even if this means the sacri- fice of your pride in the twins.
After all, the happiness and weitaro of your children your Brot considera- tion, isn't it?
Much harm can be done by stressing n relationship in which aimilarities of taates and interests are not oppareat. especially when the children mix with others, who are not likely to spare
their feelin
Slow Progress
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My twin babies are a boy and a pirl, The girl has come on spell, bul at six months the boy only weighs 10ib. 203. Birth seeight Gib. voz. Last week he lost
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THIS is not satisfactory progress,
I shall be glad to have details of the present feeling if you will write to me privately.
Pozably the girl-baby is having mara than her share na sho in such a big baby, and, when I hear from you, I may advise you to put her on to arti- ficial feeds no that the boy gets ʼn better chance. But I must havo further de inila Arst, please.
They Disagree
My twins, a boy and a girl, seem to he always squadbling. I thought that ttains always agreed and were simply the shadow of each other.
NAR from It: many twins are dias!- miiar la character although there
la usually a definito faciat resemblance, Actually there are two kinds of (winn which doctors differentiato by the terms "unlovular" and "binovalar,"
ling.
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A MOTHER OF
TWINS
Treat Iwins as separate individuals from babyhood.
Unlovalar twins are about six times as murdmor na the binavular type; also the unlovular type are always of the same sex and resemble each other very closely in all particulara, including personal appearance.
You wil cu from this that it is for more common to have twins who differ from each other. They should always be carefully treated as two separate individuala
I feel sure that your twins will
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agree belter if you send them to separate schools, where they will cach ive their own nel of friends and out- alde interests.
Future Generations.
My son la enpaped to a girl who is one of freins. Are they likely to have teins?
TWINS run In familles, but they are ald gerally to occur in every second generation, so you cannot be at nil sure that these young people will have twin in their family, as they are the alternate generation.
There is no reason why this girl should be delicate funt because she is n twin, neither does this mean that any children of the marriage are likely to be delicate.
Inseparable
My older ticin is so devoted to his brother that he cannot bear to have him out of his sight.
1 tremble to think what would hap- pen if the pounger one ever became fil-
ADVISE you never to meet troubles half-way. From all you have told me in your letter regarding the general progress of these two boys, they are att
Foot Care for the Dancing Season
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splendidly healthy pair so it is needless to worry.
Remember, too, that they prob- ably strengthen ano, another with the strong bond of sympathy that in between them and that it should be a great help to them in life.
I am interested to hear that one of your twins is left-handed whereas tho other is quite normal in this respect. It would be a mistake to fry to force the child to use bla right hand, as this. to almost sro to chund nervous distur bances later on...
Great Expectations
The doctor has told me to expect twins when my baby is duc bi two
month time. This has upset me, as cannot do itth rickly babies, seeing that my husband has only a smali 10000.
DO hope that what I have anid at the beginning of this article will encourage you to view the future wore calmly. There is no need to j fear that your babies will be sickly just because they are twins, but you are not going to give them a fair chatice if you give way to fretting and gloomy thoughts.
Make up your mind that you are going to be reuy- dously proud of your prir. then all should to shorty
I think that yeu will d ny chart for the Musing Mother helpful, and I shalt be delighted to forward I to you if you write to me pri vately. If you cannot nurse your bables I have a goul chart for bottle-fed bables whitelt 1 wa al send.
Nail Biter
My daughter of sixteen has always bitten her natia. This is going to be e great traze-back in her work as coun- ter-uszistant. Can you recommend u cure?
shall be
HAVE had excellent accounts of
one preparation u pleased to send you particulars if you will write to ne privately. The cure is sald to be equally cuitable for both
antee that it is harmless.
IS. PLATONIC FRIENDSHIP POSSIBLE?
"CHE'S "kidding' herself. She "thinks in and she can have
what is called a platonic friendship. She'll soon fhud out how wrong she When a girl I know said this isl to me I wondered, enn a man and a girl be interested in each other and keep their friendship non-emotional? Can I work?
Certainly, between a youngish man and a woman a lot older, yes. They can have a valuable friendship. But a man and a young woman, both i healthy and normal, can they have an interest in each other keep seeing each other with the same placidity of feeling? Many people think the Masi modern theory is absurd. psychologists would "take a kick" at the idea. They would probably quote Abraham Cowley, seventeenth cen- tury poet, who wrote in his "Answer to the Platonicks"---
So angels love; so let them love for me!
When I am all soul, such shall my
love to be.
That is an argument that is not casily answered,
The way I see it, a man and a girl may start out with a few common Interests and no thought in the world of a more than conversational friendship. But sooner or later one of them is going to change. And if the other doesn't? Say the man is the Brst tu be affected and the girl wants to be "Just friends"-it is n hundred to one he will get slightly "huffy." If, on the other hand, the first to take the knock Is the girl 1 exptet some would suiter in
boldly but silence, a few would misguidedly tell him the way it was, and most would keep quiet, but try to give him a few gentle prods.
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My theory is that the inner history of platonic friendship is a prolonged emotions. of suppressed But I should like to hear what women think of the business.
Man Wondering
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Waste Not!
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atafts and children and carries a guar Horange peel-Put it to soak in
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HERE'S & tang in the air healthy which makes for appetites. These tasty ples and patties will prove popular for
a pack-up lunch or for supper.
Ham and vcal ple is sure of a wel come from masculine taste.
Make the pastry by boiling so lard in eight tablespoonfats of milk, alir this into 11b, flour, with a pinch of salt, and knead until a light dough formed.
Leave for five minutes, then roll out, cut into rounds, and shape into hollow pies: keep the pastry warm, or it will crack.
Fill the plea with the meat mixture made as follows: Chop 1lb. lean. veal und 40%, ham into small pieces, add a sliced hard-boiled egg, and a little jelly stock (a little dissolved gelatine added to a pint stock).
Damp the edges, and cover with A ld of pastry, pinching the edges well together. Make a slit in the top of the
salt water for two or three days; then dry well and place it in a syrup made from half a pound of sugar and half for three- a pint of water. Boil quarters of an hour, then take out and spread on grease-proof paper
it. sugar over sprinkle fine When it is dry, store carefully, and you will have a splendid substitute for candied peel.
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Finely shredded orange peel makes for milk excellent favouring puddings. It is a pleasant chunge rico from nutmeg when added to pudding or baked
custard. Dried orange ped is useful for lighting fires; it contains an oil which burns brightly for a long time.
Sandwiches are often left over after a party, but there is no need to waste them. If they are toasted pulside, top and bottom, and served hol, they will be delicious for break- fast the morning after the party.
Never throw away the remains of a bowl of starch. Instead, put it on one side, and when the starch has clear water. settled, pour off the
Then place the basin in the even for a few minutes, and you will And the starch in a hard cake," which can be put away ready for use the following week.
Do not waste the green lops of celery. Dry them in the oven, then and rub them down to a powder store in a jar. You will find this an excellent flavouring for soups and stews.
THE far-seeing woman who would. The "toe, halls need attention-at-pastry, and fix inside out a funnel of week. After the parchment paper. Bake in`a hot oven preserve her fresh, youthful ap-least once every THIS is the time of the year voren jour med and keep the spackle in her feet have been bathed, trim the nails for half an hour..
into their own eyes and the pink in her cheek must almost square neross and not round Cheese-Potato
Another delightful supper dish. sausages come
round, the make the kausages, even when give quite as much attention to the as the finger nails. If the toe nails
Boll 1lb. potatoes, cut each in half again. Good fried ordinarily, are so savoury that care of her feet as she does to the nre trimmed
She realises that cprnera of the nails grow downward and put into a greased dish. Add 407 they seldom get monotonous. But it care of her skin.
well to remember that sausages, tired and aching feet make a tired into the toes. If there is even the breadcrumbs, 40% grated cheese, two can be cooked in many other appetis-and aching body, which in turn cause slightest trace of a nail ingrowing, a sliced tomatoes, salt and pepper.
Pour over 20%. melted margarine, and
Save those. little cause the nail to bake In a moderate oven for half an iing ways than merely frying or gril-those fatigue wrinkles which are in- little V-shaped notch cut in the cen-
tre will spredlly possible to hide.
grow away from the sides. Remove hour It is advisable to give the feet at dead skin from around the no Meat Pie In passing, it is worth mentioning:
The nail that friend sausages are excellent course of treatment to get them in with an orange wooi stik, when served on a mound of stewed good condition for the dancing sea-itself can be cleaned and whitened by
son. The more they are bathed and peroxide., savoy, friend onions, red cabbage,
Glycerine is soothing and restful not forget them-rubbed the better will be their con- and one must mashed potatoes.
dition, and they will have less ten- for feet that are liable to perspire.
Before putting on the stockings sometimes upt toj deney to swell, during the dance. Sausages are
This con be Bathe them in wara water, to which dust the feet with powdered borax split while trying.
rice powder. overcome by pricking them well Brat, few tablespoonsful of alum; salt, dituted with a littic
Shake a little into the foof of the und borax have been added. then dip in milk and roll in flour.
stockings, and the feet will be kept Curried sausages are quite easy to
An excellent astringent and tonic delightful cool throughout the even-
serve.
ry llb of sausages, ska bath for such a purpose may be had, after a couple of hours strenu them, then pour a little water s sou by using:-Powdered alum, 1⁄2 oz;
of expan, and add a teaspoonful curry powder, thickened with four.salt, 1 oz. Massage the soles of the ous dancing, the feet always become fect, the heels, and the ankles after very hot and uncomfortable, sponge Simmer gently for ten minutes, and drying. If the soles are tender the them with cau de Cologne and dust
and soother may be benefited
by the stockings with s good talcum serve with dry bolled rice..
with witch hazel and powder before starting for the dance, Sausage, potato, and tomato ple massaging
Juliet Sanford makes a first-rate family dish. But- spirits of camphor, 1 oz. ter a somewhat shallow fireproof
put two thirds. Have been
dish, and put in it a layer of raw the meat more digestible. Apple can, there
Savoury meat pies are extra uice f euvered with a potato crust.
To make this, mix 2oz. margarine. 407. four, pepper and salt to taste, and the yolk of an egg with sufficient hot mashed potato to make a dough.
Roll out on a floured board to about in thick, then cover the meat and Enke quickly.
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potatoes cut into thin rings; over this be served with fried sausages.. Peel, cared and put two apples which have put a layer of thinly silced onion, core, and cut the full into rounds een cored and cut into thirds. Have! three bananus lengthwise and put then some slices of skinned tomatoes, and fry, in the sausage fat.
Here is another way of serving the these over the apples. Cover with then a few pieces of uncooked eau-
and sprinkle sage (skinned.) Repeat in this way two together. Cut the peeled and three more sausages,
cored apples into rounds as above, with brown sugar. Bake in a mo- until the dish is full having a layer
ederate oven for no more than 20 potatoes last. Half-fill with stock and put a layer of them into a fire-
Add some pats of butler minutes. and season with pepper and salt, proof dish.
Rice sausages are an appetising. afterworda baking for about an hour and season with salt and pepper. Lay
fresh zausages and breakfast or supper dich. Sin ilb or until the top layer of potatoes in over this somo
cover with another layer of sausages of sausages, and mix with half a browned.
and cover with another layer of ap-breakfastcupful of well-cooked rice,
butter ples. Add
Д and seasoning mixing with well-besten egg. again and bake In the oven till Make the mixture inla rolls or puts, Skin Dust- go well lo-browned.
dip in egg and fine breadcrumbs and ing Powder gether, the former counteracting the Try this banana sausage:-Put cook quickly in boiling fat.
and making|three sausages in a baking dish. Over i
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