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Mary Grace
chooses
THE RIGHT
HAT..
Cushion- VERY sensor the mongers shake us out of a com- placent mood, and send us rushing helter skelter through our wardrobe wondering why This time
our clothes scem wrong. hats and winter coats are causing the trouble, especially coats.
The uniform shawl-like, snur attine collurs of the last few years have dis- appeared, Fur collars have tattened out. Revers are shoulder wide maybe, but the collar, as a collar. has narrowed off to nearly nothing at the back.
It is only luxurious fox fur that enables us to sugle down into the enveloping depths of a cont collar.
As we have lost those face-framing collars hats will have to be considered
different altogether from 13
angle.
In order to help you, any artist has
in the demonstrated
accompanying sketch three typleat collar lines with their appropriate millinery.
for your FUR COLLAR
You'll admire the liver fox, lovely silver tips enhanced by the black density of the darker parts of the pelt. Velvet is its com- plement, 80, in the hats now to be seen in the shops, we find soft pull-an beret or eap shapes in this attractive fabric that At closely to the head.
No air spaces, mark you, otherwise your collar will up your hat forward or side- ways. It's the angle that counts, and the upward slant of the high front must not be spoilt. There
is an Eskimo touch about millin- trimmed with fox tails. The newest way is to wear them round the edge of a fat turban shape.
ery
After town come country coats with their loose castial lines, belted or unbelted. to sult individual tastes. Widespread revers, but collars narrow off towards the back and pull up closely into the neckline. Here, again, a style brimless at back is most comfortable.
All-round brints are allowed with flat or low, close ntting necks and collarless de- slgas. Many of these no-collar models sport a tiny edging of a favourite puit.
The star turn of the season is P'erslan lamb on black cloth and felt, and in the third lustration is, shown a small flat collar with a hat designed to give the necessary width and height to the top part of the figure.
A fur so soft and supple as-Ferslan lamb is particularly amenable to hat trimming. and many spiral shapes wind upwards with fell and this favoured fur cunningly worked together,
Supple Por sian lamb to match the
turn-down collar trims → draped felt hat.
Sky-high berat of black velvet-o fitting companion fer a solt, deep roll of silver Lax.
Surprise Dish
DICE
AMERICAN CREAMED BEEF
ICE and fry three rashers of fat streaky bacon in a saucepan. After they have cooked for three minutes, add tib, finely chopped (but no! rinces!) raw steak. Stir in one tablespoonful flour, and when it has browned add some milk, stirring all the time.
When the mixture has got to a porridgy con- sistency, season well and let it simmer for twenty minutes, then draw aside and break in a beateя c. Stir well together and pour the creamed beef on a squares of hot buttered toast.
This makes a delicious lunch dish for two people. Serve telth grilled or fried tomatoes.
HESTER VALENTINE
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Boys and girls have
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Clear-cut line of a brown felt
offsets a leopard skin collar.
RANDOM
RECIPE
RAISED PIE CRUST
You need 11. flour, tea- spoonful salt (if not self- raising uso only 1 teaspoonfet baking powder),
Sozy. fat (bacon fat, nut but- ter, or clarlled dripping).
From Dos, lo 8 ezt, water (2 tablespoonfuls 1 fuld oz.).
Pour boiling water on fat or heat up waler and fat,
Blove flour and salt. Add fat and water. Stir with a fork to form an elastic dougli. Knead on floured board and leave to cool. Knead again and roll out thinly.
One cgg yolk may be added to liquid in place of loz, water
if ked. This erust is crisp. but does not break or crumble,
Next best thing
to keeping
a
cat
If you are troubled by mice in your house, sprinkle essence of peppermint a thing they detest-about their fa- vourite ground.
Block up their holes, too, with large corks dipped in water and cayenne pepper. That is more than a gentle hint. Subterfuge comes next. A mouse will risk anything for bacon rind, raw meat, tallow and fat of any kind, fresh and toasted cheese. These tasty bits will attract them and lure them into the trap.
As far as possible handle traps with sticks, so that they carry no human scent. Before resetting scald with boiling water.
Ten to twenty mice can be caught in a night with a trap that stands twelve inches high. Appetising food is placed behind iron bars and the front door left open.
Savoury Snapshots
Directly a mouse enters, this door he hus to shuts automatically, and race up a metal tunnel, only to drop fatally into a tank of water bencath, The force of his fall opens the trap doors again.
Poisons that make a mouse die in agony are not only cruel bui dan- gerous, because household pets are SAVOURY tooth seems to be)
not immune. But there's #kinder which dogs and more evidence-these-days-baited-vermin-paste whic
cats will rarely touch.
It is spread rather thickly
of fish, lard, dripping small pieces or buller. To safeguard your pets, have all traces of the polson and all vermin found dead removed first thing in the morning.
than the proverbial sweet one. In any case savouries, especially quick- ly prepared ones, can "pep up" an Jull meal when unex;; otherwise pected guests call for lunch or din Der.
Croutes o Leanhos butter Toast and
Ron rather thick bread enough to cut into the number of angers required, allowing one for each; person, Place a boned sardine on each and make hot in a quick oven.
this Cover will chrese cream. For sle thinly about two and a half ounces of cheddar cheese and pat it li & Atewpan with two tablespoonfuls of cream or tinged lie, n teaspoonful of made mustard and plenty of pepper. Stir over the fire til! nooth without bolling.
Pour over the fingers, pop under a hot grill for. few seconds and add a touch
coralline pepper. This amount of cheese cream is enough for six to eight fingers, and makes quite a good savoury without the sardines.
of
Ham Croutea
Add two ounces of chepped cooked hag to the cheese cream given above, and alle on to buttered toast, or rounds or ingers of fried bread. Garnish with parnley, finely chopped if you have time, Bertrout Cases
Cut cooked beetroot Into lengths of about two inches, stamp out with a fluted cutter and then again with a smaller plain one, so as to make hollow case. Replace anal pieces in the bottom and # up with shrimps or any cooked while Small mayonnaise. fils; arrin little cress would serve as garnish, playing Rome Jauniity out of each case. or roughly shredded cucumber,
Savoury Beruite
Blutter some, cheese bisculls and spread with cream cheese. Place some chopped olive in the centre, and dust lightly round Or in- the edgr with coralline pepper.
and stead of cheese, use fish paste, garnish with chapped olive and chopped exg. You can, of course, une
Margery Fyvi
Trick With A Thimblebuttered brown bread instead of biscuits.
SOME COME of the most perplex-
tricks Ink parlour
cnn
be done without any elaborate afam paratus. The thimble trick is one of them. This is how it's done.
Put a thin piece of cloth over the'
YOU must have heard people in all the things out in front of forefinger of your left hand. Slip n
the dolla. When everything is thimble over
Y talking a
this. Take off the thimble is still on
The explanation is that there are two thimbles. One Is siipped over
lot about Japan rendy, the girls put on their best cloth-and the
wonder riothen and call upon each other and your finger. Intely. Do you ever about Japanese children, how receive their friends. they are treated, and what sort
of holidays they have?
As a matter of fact, the children's festivals in Japan nre red-letter
This
Devonshire Omelet
and slice three large cooking make this omelet, peel, core, apples. Put them into a pan with three tablespoonfuls water and two tablespoonfuls caster sugar and cook until they become a soft pulp.
Then add half an ounce butler, Iwo tablespoonfula powdered ma-
TIE Feast of Flags is the your finger and kept hidden in the caroons, the beaten yolks of three Tboys' red-letter day; that closed hand. The clotli is adjusted cars, and enough powdered cinna days. Every year the Festival of is held every year on May 6.
and the other thimble placed over mon to flavour the whole ngreeably. Mix all well together and lastly the Dolin is held on March 3.
On thin day the streets and festival has been held for 1,400 houses are decorated with flags, and the first one. As the cloth is takenfold in the stiffly-benten whites of years, and in every household where every boy is given tiny figures of off the top thimble is carried away the eggn. Pour the mixture into a
Ancient there are girls the dolls which have the great national heroes. belonged to the family for genera- spears, swords, and bows and ar- with it and the other remains, tions are all brought out and set up rows, which have been handed down
If you are elever you can dispose in the different families from one In a special room.
Then the girls make cakes, cook generation of boys to another, are of the thimble in the cloth without rlee, and brew a sweet wine, and brought out and displayed."
any one seeing It.
well-buttered pie-dish, dredge the top with caster sugar, and bake in hat oven for about 20 minutes till browned.
It is nicely
Safety-first Method
on
COLONIES of mice can be wiped out by another. safely first destroyer that is harm- less to any form of life except rats pvc mice..
These creatures eat and love it, the but later, having passed on effects of it to friends and relatives, they crave for fresh air and water. This nice by the score perish for away from the house and as pain- lessly as possible.
Authorities declare that mice will often plague certain districts, leav- ing others alone. Owners of new flats, offices and estates in these special areas are consequently call- ing in vermin "death squads."
The men work on a yearly con- tract if necessary, coming weekly ot first, and then once a month.
A small flat or house can be en- tirely rid of pests for as little as two guineas. But if you and the mouse family have the same taste In residential districts a yearly con- tract may be needed.
other
This way your home can be kept free of mice, rats and any household pests for as little as five guineas a year.
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