My children must be
"Jonathan tos ait- ting at one end of the plank, Harry at the other. In the mititle was a dust- bin Ild, and on top of that a
gonnet,"
stuffed
mad
says
MR. COOPER
I SOMETIMES think my children must be a little mad. Not dangerously mad, but just a little mental.
The other day, for instance, I found them both in the garden with a plank that they had got from heaven knows where.
JONATHAN, who is six was sitting at one end and Harry, blond and two, at the other. In the middle was a very dirty dustbin lid, and balanced on top of that a stuffed gannet that my wife had bought in Market because it reminded her of a friend.
Test Your Guest Room
By Madge Ames
"From the bird
book," he said.
my used to read it to me be-
fore I went to sleep. It's my ta- vourite book, all about bones and
skeletons and birds. Do you know that I've got thirty-three vertebrae in my spine?" he said, prodding him-
elf in the back with a tin pail.
the book.
ND it's all perfectly true, AND It's all t deadly munotony WITH
Jonathan was shouting, it seems he just picked on it himself "Battle of ink. Bottle of ink.. Stick as the perfect bedside reading.
"Popular Natural History" it's in a peu and make a stink."
called, by a gentleman by the name of Scherren. And apart from uy- ing woodcuts of wombats in it it's full of interesting facts.
At the word sthnk they both threw up their hands, went into its of un controllable laughter, und fell off the plank.
I
It and a tattered edition of the Bottle of ink, Battle of ink." "Cruise of Gyro Car" are the only
them WATCHED
have survived my go two books that through the crazy per- own childhood. formance ten times without a single deviation from the original 'script.
Stick in a
and make pen
stink."
MIERE
аге fascinating
THE woodcuts of wombats,
and British butterflies and things in The awful regular beat of it was it.. I can remember straining my trici becoming unbearable when eyes reading about buzzards necessarily contain expen-urry, in an even wilder abandon bullfinches by an electric torch after
the of taughter, fell off the plank raur
THE ideal guest-room does not just
sive fittings and furnishings, harder than is meant 10, and set up but the arrangement of it a wull, necessitates much imagination So Nanny had to come and fetch and thought on the part of the him away. owner if guests are to be really comfortable and happy in it.
As for the general appearance of the room, you have of course, greater scope than you have in the furnishing of your
own room.
Two Lights Will Do
ΑΞ
AT least two points are necessary for the lighting of the room. One should be over the head of the bed, and for this purpose, perhaps the strong, yet anti-glare cylindri cal light is most useful.
The other light is, of course, over the dressing table. Even though the tuble would look better placed in: some other position, It is more use- ful placed directly in front of the window.
dustbin id until everywher
11 bled
night, Had been tucked
up tur and being practically smothered by reading it under the bedclothes so that I shouldn't be found out.
But it's not the buzzards that get my elder child; the only picture that JONATHAN moodly banged he seems the least michaed in is gunnet against the rather terrifying engraving of stutting a skeleton of a man compared with a skeleton of a bird in the preface. 1 think he bumped his vertebrae," he said.
knows whole "His--what?" 1. sald. "His
paragraphs by heart; he tebrae or turning bones." Jonathan recited "The spine is marked off into seemed surprised that I didn't know five separate parts or regions; the about it,
neck (cervical) has seven vertebrae; ISTEN," I said. "Where the back (dorsal) twelve; the region
brae stuff?
A tonic
for
sore eyes
JONATHAN ver-
"Could you tell me what waterercak good for is
In strange surroundings, a womanSome one told me that if you always makes a special effort to look her nicest, and a well placed mirror it it in milk and strain it
is essential.
the resulting lotion makes a wanderful tonic and eye lo- At night is an excellent plan to lion. have Indirectly overhead lighting.
"And I am interested in any placed along the curtain rail, so that your guests can see to make-up pro-simple and good lotion
soothe sore eyes,"
perly, with a couple of lights at the aldes of the mirror which will flat- ter her looks just as she is going downstairs and so help towards the success of her evening-and yours. Essential Trifles
UPON
ITPON the table It is a good plan to place cleansing tissues, a cot- tonwool container, and some of those preilly coloured little cotton puffs
as well ings..
E. S.
+
tot
FRESH watercress is an excel-
fent medicinal food; it con- ing a lot of vitamin B and C nt some vitamin A, as well a alts of iron, phosphorus, codium† olash, catelum, sulphur, iodine nd chlorine-all of which are
50 on.
This, mark you, from a child who cannot read any word of more than and then only with three letters, uncertainty, and who tells me proud-. ly he can count up to sixty-seven, und no mort.
I
TRIED him out when he
had
bath. "What's this?" I said, and prodded him in the chest. "Ribs," he shouted, and giggled and slipped up and banged
is head, So I was turned out,
For some extraordinary reason both my children seem far more apt them. to injure themselves when I am with
don't know whether I'm par- cularly clumsy or whether I give them a false sense of safely or what, but hurt themselves they do. I'm getting rather unpopular with Nanny about it.
BUT inter on in bed I found
he knew almost every bone in his body. I don't know what good it's going to do him, ex- cept I suppose he'll know what he's straining when he strains it. But as tar as can see it certainly won't stop him.
"What do you
want to be when you grow up?" I asked him, "A doctor or a surgeon or a bone-
food purifying and disinfectant. I setter?" "No." he said. "I'm going
It is quite possible that it may
e good for your eyes because' o'
ts anti-infective vitamin
.
A
to be a house painter on a ladder."
They're mod; quite mad.
as the more usual offer-ontent. An application of the St. John Cooper
·
ruised leaves or the Julee wil cip to clear the skin of blotche
spots.
Freshly-lined drawers, lots and lots of cont hangers and shoe trees Other good eye lutions are should be provided, and if you luck weak tea, or bornele powder dir. Isived In boiling water and away a small skirt hoard and electric iron in her room your guest)llowed to cool.. will indeed bless you.
an
PS-My wife says she's going to get a rubber mat for the bottom of The bath so the children won't slip about and injure themselves every Iime I go in and overexcite them. Maybe she's right.
Whet your Whistle with a WHITBREAD!
KNITTING GAUGE WHICH ACTS AS A READY RECKONER
WHETHER you are a busy knitter, or if you merely take to knitting for the sake of a jumper, or couple of vests, there is, much to be said for the knitting gauge you can attach to any needles, which acts as a sort of ready reckoner.
It checks the pattern, in so for as you can keep count of the rows, and also works out the right number of decreasings and { Increasings,
You might make use of this ready-reckoner when turning the heel of a sock-that bugbear of so many knitters; though it will be especially handy when making a cosy sweater or one of the new scarves which is more shapely than is generally realised.
Odd Wool
MANY and herous are
the more elaborate table cloths, white or ercam are best. That is why the white handwoven linen cloth which is edged with filet Ince and a deep border of Venise insertions with hand embroidery between is best copied in white, not à colour. CLEVERLY designed trays have
·
•
under-grips so that they can be even when
balanced in one hund
heavily loaded.
Oblong trays with felt under- neath are hardwearing and useful, though they have no under-grip.
But it
the fanciful ones which are most in demand at the moment. These includes a series of trays in different shapes and sizes covered with a chintz design in gay bright colours.
While
plain
Panels of bright coloured glass set into trays are intended to cor- respond with the glassware carried on them.
coloured panels which are heat-resisting and stainless are very beautiful,
None of these new trays needa a cloth.
How's Your Hair?
the woman who has given any
of her thought to the health ways of using
that good circulation scraps of hair realises up knitting wools-a ball for baby, of the blood in the scalp is the first Ittle bootees, gloves and so on. essential. Hair specialists agree.
new brush But another use, not 60
Towards this end, a well- known, is to knit atrips for a coat- which has comba on either side is honger cover. The work is casy, designed to stimulate the hair and and it is quick.
Frocks with wide the scalp, The netion of drawing necks, and evening frocks with the brush over and through the hair straps which it is best to hang up,, encourages good circulation,
ជំន 11 brush can be suspended on these covered It is recommended hgers, and they will never slip which keeps your hair wavy. But It keeps the it does much more. off.
Of course, the knitting should hair healthy. be slightly shorter thun the hanger Another essential in hair beauty must be casily itself so that it is stretched tautly is that the brush over the wood. Perhaps it is as well, cleaned. On this comb-brush the to cast off three or four stitches in bristles can be detached, so can the the middle of the work, casting them side combs, a screw knob through on in the next row, to form a hole the back rivetting all the pieces in through which the book is thrust.
Elegant Table Cloths
place.
Colours For Black
arc
TANY well-dressed women If you are elever at lace-making.
you may like to copy some of wearing black this season just the exclusive table cloth designs; because it is such an excellent sel- or perhaps you will make these hand-ting for the new coloured jewellery.
with machine-made Charming
schemes show new emeralds, sapphires and rubles mass- co together in invisible settings so that they form a square which is surrounded by dinmands.
fame laces. ices.
clotha
Here are some of the beautiful new examples,
An antique ceru linen measuring 2 x 22 yds, and trimmed with fine hand embroidery around the hems, bas. In the centre, on oblong of Venetian lace with a slender strip of Bren in the middle.
The vegue for tinted cloths is all very well for simple designs, but in
These multi-coloured jewels are used as branches, clips and rings startlingly large. which are
A triangle made with many small rubies, each in different shade of red, is also typical of the bright new jewellery fashions.
of
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a youthful complexion
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doctor..
I wanted to
nsk | about blood poisoning. The children are
you always scratching their hands and cutting their knees. And now Mrs. Edwards' boy, you know, is in bed 'with a terrible leg. Tell me, is there some- thing, pleasant I could keep handy, some really reliable precaution?'
"Dettol,' the modern antiseptic, is a highly effective weapon against germs of septic infection. It is the gentle antiseptic-clean, clear, pleasant to use, yet deadly to every germ. Non-poisonous, non-staining yet promptly used in time of accident it may save you untold pain and danger. Never neglect a cut or scratch, however small. Even a tiny break in the skin is a wide-open gateway for the germs
this set up blood-poisoning. D1- infect at once with 'Dettol The way to prevent blood-poisoning is to kill the germs that cause it.
Use 'Detto!' promptly In time of accident Your Chemist has it,
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