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probleme let me "lay a ghost" for those who have been assured that twins are difficult to rulse be- cause they are bound to be delicate.
Twinn are usually small, though this does not mean that they will be un- healthy. They usually pick up weight very quickly and come on well with normal care.
Sometimes, again, the mother is not sufficiently strong to nurse both babies for long, but here again a little ad Justment is all that i deeded to give both an equal chance. 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 mango with twins, but I feel that their fot is much ensler than that of the mother who has a baby and a toddler to manage at the same time. When the children are at the samO Atage the same routine suits both, thus saving many compltentiota.
Dressed Alike
I have always dressed my troln piria alike. Should I continue to do this when they
to scitool after Christmas 7.
As you tell me that your twins vary so much in character, I think that
it would be a mistake to stress their twinship too much when they beginpar to go to school,
Seeing that one twin is a real" tom-i bay" and much blager than her more dninity sister, I would be kinder to try to auft their personalities in their clothen, even if this means the sacri- fice of your prido in the twina.
After all, the happiness and welfare of your children Is your firat considera tion, isn't it?
Much harm can be done by stressing a relationship in which similarities of tastes and interents are not apparent, especially when the children mix with others, who are not likely to apare their feelings.
Slow Progress
My twin babies are a boy and a girl, The girl has come on well, but at six months the boy only welolis 10lb, 2oz. Birth weight 61V. Dos. Last tocek he lost
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TIB is not satisfactory progress. I shall be glad to have details of the present feeding If you will write to me privately.
Possibly the girl-baby is having more Usan her aliara as alin is such a big baby, and, when I hear from you, I may advise you to put her on to arti- ncini feeds so that the boy gels a belter chance. But I must have further de tails first, picase.
They Disagree
* Mu ticina, a bay and a girl, seem to be aitonys squabbling. I thought that twins always agreed and were simply the shadow of each other.
KAR from it; many twins are dul milar in character although there
Le usually a definite facial resemblance. Actually there are two kinds of twins which doctors differentiate by the terms "unlovular" and "binovular,"
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A MOTHER OF POSSIBLE?
TWINS
Treat twins as separate individuals from babyhood
Unlovular twins are about six times an uncommon as the binovular type: also the untovular type are always of the same sex art resemble each other very closely in li particulars, including personal appearance.
You will see from this that it is far more common to have twins who differ from each other. They should always be carefully treated na two separate individuals,
I feel wure that your twins will
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ngres belter if you send them to separate sclmols, where they will mach have their own set of friends and out. alde interests,
Future Generations
My son is engaged in a girl who is our of twins. Are they likely to have Picins?
TWINS run in families, but they are sald generally to occur in every second generation, so you cannot be at all sure that these young people will have twins in their family as they are the alternate generation.
There is no reason why this girl should be delicate just because she is a twin, neither does this mean that any children of the marriage are likely to be delicate.
Inseparable
My elder twin is so devoted to his brother that he cannot bear to have him out of his sight.
I tremble to think toħal would hap pen the younger one ever became 1.-
ADVISE you never to meet troubles half-way, Frete all you have told me in your letter regarding the genern! progress of these two boys, they are
Foot Care for the Dancing Season
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splendidly hesithy pair, so it is needless to worry.
Remember, too, that they prob- ably strengthen one another with the strong bond of sympathy that 1s between them and that it should bo a great help to them in life.
I am interested to bear that one of your twinks is left-honded whereas the other is quite normal in this respect. It would be a mistake to try to force the child to use his right hand, as this fa almost aure to cause nervous dialuf- baneca later pu
Great Expectations
The doctor has told me to expect twins when my baby is due in treo
mosthi tare. This has upset me, a cannot do with sickly hables, seeing that my husband has only a small wongo.
DO hope that what I have sak at the beginning of the article will encourage you to view the future more calmly, There is no need to feat at your babies will be stekly just because they are twins, but you are not going to give them fair chance if you ple way to fretting and gloomy thoughts.
Make up your mind that you are going to be tremen dously proud of your pal, Then all should go amonitly. I think that you will d my chert for the Nursing Mother helpful, and E shait be delighted to forward it to you if you write to me pri yntely, If you cannot nurze your bables. I have a good chart for battle-fed babies which will also end.
Nail Biter
My daughter of sixteen has always bitten her nails. This is 'poing to be a preat drum-back in her work as crun- ter-assistant. Can you recomment a eure?
HAVE had excellent accounts f
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be preparation sum ahnil pleased to read you particulars if you will write to me privately. The cure s said to be equally suitable for both adults and childrva and carries a guar- anice that it is harmless.
PIE TIME
HERE'S A lang in the air which makes for healthy appetites. These tasty plcs and patties will prove popular for a pack-up lunch or for supper.
Ham and real pic is sure of a wel- come from inaenline taste.
Make the pastry by boiling 4óz. Jard in right tablespoonfuls of milk, atr this into 1b. flour, with a pinch of salt. and knead until a light, dough la formed.
Leave for five minutes, then roll out, cut into rounds, and shape into hollow plea: keep the pastry warm, or it will crack.
Fill the pics with the meat mixture made as follows: Chop 1lb, lean vent und 4oz ham into small pieces, add - aliced hard-boiled egg. and a little Jelly stock (a little dissolved gelatine added to a pint stock).
Damp the edges, and cover with a 1ld of pastry, pinching the edges well together. Make a slit in the top of the pastry, and fix inside this a funnel of Parchment paper. Bake in a hot oven for half an hour, Cheese-Potato
THE far-secing woman who" would ~The loc nails need attention at week. After the preserve her fresh, youthful op- least once every THIS is the time of the year when pearance, and keep the sparkle in her feet have been bathed, frim the nails into their own eyes and the pink in her cheek must almost square across and not round sausages come
Another delightful supper distt. ngain. Good
sausages, even when give quite as much attention to the as the finger nails. If the too nalis the are trimmed round, the make the
Boll 1b, polaloes, cut each in half fried ordinarily, ure so savoury that care of her feet as she does they seldom ret monotonous. But it care of her skin. She realises that corners of the nails grow downward and put into a greased dish. Add 4oz. is well to remember that sausages, tired and aching fect make a tired into the toes. If there is even the breadcrumbs, foz grated cheese, two can be cooked in many other appetis and aching body, which in turn cause slightest trace of a nall ingrowing, a silced tomatoes, salt and pepper.
Pour over 2oz. melted margarine, anch ling ways than merely frying or gril- those fatigue wrinkles which are im-little V-shaped notch cat in the cun-
tre will speedily cause the nail to bake in a moderate oven for half an possible to hide.
grow away from the sides. Remove tour.
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Meat Pie
In passing, it is worth mentioning
It is advisable to give the feet all dead skin from around the nad that
frlend sausages aro excellent when served on a mound of stewed course of treatment to get them in with an orange wood slik. red cabbage, savoy, friend onions, and condition for the dancing sen-itself can be cleaned and whitened by
not forget them-0. The more they are bathed and peroxide.
Savoury meat pies are extra nice if covered with a potato crust.
To make this, mix 20x, margarine. 4oz. four, pepper and salt to taste, and the yolk of an egg with sufDelent hot mashed potato to make a dough.
«QUIE'S 'kidding" herself. She
thinku Ken and she can have. what in called a platonic friendship. She'll soon find out how wrong she.) is!" When a girl 1 know sald this to me I wondered, can à man and n girl be interested in ench other and keep their friendship non-emotional? Can it work?
Certainly, between a youngish man and a woman a lot older, yes. They can have a valuable friendship. But
both a man and a young woman, 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
Most theory is absurd.
modern psychologists would "take a kick" at the idea. They would probably quote Abraham Cowley, seventeenth cen- tury pact, who wrote in his "Answer to the Platonicks":
So angels lavo; 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 glet 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 And If of them is going to change.
the other doesn't? Say the man Is the first to be affected and the girl wants to be "Just friends" is a hundred to one he will get slightly "hulfy." If, on the other hand, the first to take the knock is the girl
I expect some would suffer in silence, a few would boldly but misguidedly tell him the way it was, and most would keep quiet, but try to give him a few gentle prods.
My theory is that the inner history of platonic friendship is a prolonged warfare of suppressed emotions. But I should like to hear what women think of the business.
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Waste Not!
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TERE is a little-known use
orange peel-Put it to soak in salt water for two or three days; then dry well and place it in a syrup made from half a pound of sugar and bait for three- a pint of water. Bail quarters of an hour, then take out and spread on grense-proof paper and sprinkle fine sugar over 1. When it is dry, store carefully, and you will have a splendid substitute for candled peel.
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Finely shredded orange peel makes fur mik excellent Anyouring puddings. It is a pleasant change to rice from nutmeg when added
baked custard. Dried pudding or orange peel is useful for Highling fres; 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 outside, top and bottom, and served hot, they will be delicious for break- fast the morning after the party,
Never throw away the remains of a bowl of starch. Instead, put ilon one side, and when the starch hins sellled, pour off the clear water. Then place the basin in the oven for a few minutes, and you will find the stareli' in a hard cake," which can be put away ready for use the following week.
Do not waste the green tops of celery, Dry them in the oven, then rub them down to a powder and store in a Jor. You will and this on excellent Savouring for soups and stews.
Save those le round cheese boxes. Given a coat of gold or lac- excellent quer paint, they make stands for balb-bowls, and save many marks on your polished tables. Cream cartons necd never be wasted. They will come in very handy to make attractive little jellies for the children, especially when you them. Try halt lling the cartons with fruit, then pouring on the liquid jelly.
rubbed the better will be their con- Glycerine is soothing and restful dition, and they will have less ten- for feet that are liable to perspire,
on the stockings Before putting dency to swell, during the dance.
Roll out on a loured board to about Bathe them in warm water, to which dust the feet with powdered, bomx
are giving a Christmas party with a little rice powder. in thick, then cover the meat and a few tablespoonsful of alum, salt, diluted and borax have been added.
Shake a little into the foot of the bake quickly. stockings, and the feet will be kept delightful cool throughout the even-
and-one must mashed potatoes.
Sausages are sometimes upt split while frying. This can overcome by pricking them well first, then dip in milk and roll in flour,
Curried sausages are quite easy to
An excellent astringent and tonic serve. Fry 11b of sausages, skin them, then pour a little water at sau-bath for such & purpose may be had in, after a couple of hours sirenu-i
and add
a teaspoonful of by using:-Powdered alum, oz: cepan, curry powder, thickened with flour, salt, 1 oz. Massage the soles of the jous dancing, the feet always become Simmer gently for ten minutes, and feet, the heels, and the unkles after very hot and uncomfortable, sponge drying. If the soles are tender the them with eau de Cologne and dust serve with dry bolled rice.
may be benefited and souther by the stockings with good talcum Sausage, potato, und tomato ple massaging with witch hazel and powder before starting for the dance. makes a first-rate family dish. But-spirits of camphor, 1 oz.
somewhat shallow fireproct
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put two thirds. Have been dish, and put in it a layer of raw the meat more digestible. Apple can these
Peel, cored and put two apples which have potatoes cut into thin rings; over this be served with fried sausages. put a layer of thinly sliced onion, core, and cut the fruit into rounds been cored and cut into thirds. Have three bananas lengthwise and put then some slices of skinned tomatoes, and fry in the sausage fat. then a few pleces of uncooked cul- Here is another way of serving the these over the apples. Cover with sage (skinned.) Repent in this way two together. Cut the peeled and three more sausages, and sprinkle until the dish is full having a layer of cored apples into rounds an above, with brown sugar. Bake in a mo- potatoes last. Half-fill with stack and put a layer of them into a fire-derate oven for and season with pepper and suit, proof dish. Add some pals of butter minutes. afterwards baking for about an hour and season witis salt and pepper. Lay Nice sausages
browned.
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or until the top. layer of potatoes is over this 'some fresh sausages and breakfast or supper dish. Skin 1lb cover with another layer of sausages of sausages, and mix with half o and cover with another layer of ap-breakfastcupful of well-cooked rice, ples. Add 'butter and seasoningị mixing, with A well-benten CHA. hgain and buite in the oven
Dust- till Make the mixturq inte rolls or pals, Skin Apple and sausage go well to browned.
dip in egg and fino breadcrumbs and Ing. Powder gether, the former counteracting the Try this banana sausage; --Put cook quickly in bolling fit. richness in the latter, and maklogi three sausages in a baking'dlili, Over
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THOSE who, not being fond of milk
puddings or milk drinks, find it difficult to include much milk in their diet as doctors advise, should try it in savoury forms.
A number of soups are made with, or include milk, For lammato, celery, and chicken soap ng much as a third of a pint of milk per person can be used,
Milk Is the basis, of vegetarian dishes such as macaroni cheese. For rico cheese, cook three ounces of rice in a pint of milk in a double sauce
soft and pan until the grains are most of the mlik has been absorbed.
Serve milke snuces with, as many dishes as possible, Morrows and cauliflowers demand white ki Jeet boiled onions are improved by it. Porsley sauce is correct with boiled or steamed chicken and with white fish, except boiled cod with which egg sauce (while sauce with chopped hard-boiled egg added) helter. Serve caper or onlon
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