Does he
worship Daddy?
W
ELL, why shouldn't he, as long as his Daddy gives him something to worship?
Every child has seen so little, knows so little, he has to have some one to imitate and worship, and surely none can be so good as his father; his father who, above all people, wishes him well?
comes
But the difficulty is, how about muminy? Daddy home when his work is all done, ready to dispense pennies, romp, the model railway-some- and give really good advice over
how mummy never really seems to understand how the signals worked.
A anali person, accus- tomed all day to his mother giving orders, is. going to be very confused if when his father comes home the orders are no longer obeyed.
He feels what his father does is right, and there- fore if his father argues with his mother, so wiii he. The result is a little boy who starts by being disobedient to his mother, and ends by bring dia obedient to every one.
NO daddy's part is not too easy f this hero worship is go- ing to be good and not bad. It must never be at
his wife's expense.
Talking about
twins
·
•
Do twins stutter more often than ther Isingle child? Mildred Freburg, Berry, who combed four Chicago hospitals for stutterers, believes they do. She found Itoo, that, even if the stutterer wasn't- u twin, there were twins in the family. Left-handedness is also common in twins, and left-handed children who trained to use their right hands often stutter. Many people think that the rendency to produce twins Theriter. Left-handedness is probably
also inherited. Therefore, says MII-- dred Berry, there is probably Thereditrary element in stuttering. In
Lany
and specch psychologists case experts can cure stutterers, which is really all that matters.
*
It is unfair if the father, always ont of many things. Ignorant, be it gives the treats, and the mother noted, not naughty.
the
always gives
So when parents find a child has orders. Hero- worship because of treats is bound done wrong, they should inquire of themselves if they are not to blame to be worship of the wrong kind.
Nor must children ever be allow for not supervising his friends more not, in fact, having ed to "play off" their father against fully. For
"must taken enough trouble. their mother.
Ench parent always back up the other's orders
in front of the child. They must THEN, too, let the father join
behave as one person, and then the
the modern group of parents
Soon schoolmaster.
child will have a fine example of who aim at getting to know their John good temper and harmony to copy, san's and no excuse for disagreeableness will transfer his hero-worship to and bad temper.
his young form master.
At this point the wise father where to join John in knows
will
IT is when we get the strange genuine enthusiasm over the man I new companions of school who is doing his best to turn John life that difficulties really begin. It into a fine citizen. If he feels that Is excellent that Johnny should the master is not altogether a good admiro Jack for climbing trees, or example, he
keep his in- with so well, or being fluence
John by sharing his playing football
enthusiasms -for- what is good-In- good at sums.
there But again
is n very big such a way that he can keep John duddy has been able from Indiscriminate admiration of BUT, while to mind his step if he has wanted all his mister's characteristics.
to, Juck will obviously not take this By sharing Jolin's enthusiasms, trouble on Johnny's behalf.
even when he comes to rely mére more on his own Judgments, can and
A forceful bad companion lead a child a long way in the daddy, the hero, will only change wrong direction, even to lying and into that much nicer thing, daddy stealing, because the child is ignor- the friend.
it hot-as a Sweet
Eat it cold-as a Cake
MEL
FELT two tablespoonfuls of butter in a heavy frying pan and mix in half cup of brown sugar. Into this syrup put four or five pineapple slices (tinned if you like) and pour over them a batter, mada lik this:
4 cpo, 1 cup flour, 1⁄2 cup milk, 2 tablespoonfuls butter, 11⁄2 cup whito sugar, 4 teaspoonful baking powder, 1⁄2 teaspoonful vanilla. Cream the butter and sugar, add the egg well beaten, milk, four sifted in with baking powder and vanilla. Bake in a medium oven for about half an hour, then turn out on a large plate. You can eat it hot as a pudding, or cold as a cake; it tastes equally good both ways.
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A
B
Dutch Babies
go in
about
These
FIGURE A shows you the sort of pram Princess
Juliana's baby will be wheeled in.
It is deep-set with small wheels. The frame- work and fittings are of chromium, panels are veneered --and a safety glass or mica window rests right over the baby to keep out dust and rain. Dutch mothers like streamlined perambulators.
When the baby gets older, the Dutch mother starts looking in the shops at the "wagentjes," or "walking ' cars" "(picture B).
'The foot-rest is movable, and so is the back. The handle moves, so that the mother can either push the car with the baby facing her or else push it with the baby looking in front.
Fashionable model walking car about Amsterdam at moment is shown in picture C. It serves elther for twins, who sit and face each other, or else for one baby, who can lie down--the foot-rest being moved up to form an equal surface with the scats.
In France they call them
"Points Noirs
99
To
STEWS
make a good brown stew cut up the meat into pieces and put these in a large pie-dish. Simmer the bones and use the here we call them blackheads liquor instead of water. Peel a masses of unclean matter which have couple of good onions and slice clogged up the pores. Usually the over the meat. Slice as well nose and chin tre the pet places för 14 lb. of tomatoes and put them in them.
the dish with the meat and onions. Stackheads seem to flourish only) Season to liking. cover with the where the skin is greasy, and the stock and put in the oven for an
Brown and thicken nose is the greasiest part of the face. hour.
the
Only the strictest hygienic gravy.
A beef heart stewed is also worth altention to the parts of your face which are affected can put it right, trying. Soak, clean, and then stuff First, boll a kettle of water and heart in a dish with some good stock,
the
heart with forcemeat. Put the hold
your face over the steam. This helps to make your skin more supple. then season well with pepper and a tablespoonful of moist sugar, and Now take a large pad of colton Balt. Slice an onion, a carrot, and wool, dip it in warm water, then
a stick of celery over it. Cover the, spread a liberal supply of good surd dish, and cook gently for five hours. Loap on it and rub round and round The heart must be thoroughly cook- the affected part of your face.
ed or it will be tough. Use severni pieces of cotto throwing away each one as you use A Mixed Stew
cotton woo),
| It, so that no infection can be spread. -
After thoroughly washing with Some people like mixed stews. soap, pat the face well with a pad Here is a good recipe for a mixed of cotton wool, then, holding a cloth stery
blackheads.
Dab with Lemon
SHOPPING:
NEW
STYLE
UITE a lot of shopping in
done by advertising-not the displayed goods offering bär- galus to discerning housewives by the large` stores suggestivo of peaceful times, but palletle Hitle Ines by women unwilling or unable to spend hours in the necessary food queues so fami- Har in war time.
One
advertisement, the other day announced--"Wish in hear of someone who can provide mo with fish. I I will pay the price naked and will give exchange: rice, peas, oll, sugar, Writo...." Another anxious housewife who appears to have possessed goodly store of soap in her more comfortable housekeeping days, announces--"Shoes want- ed-any kind of soap in ex- change." Qulíc a number of these new style shopping adver- tisements appear as frequently as the newspapers themselves,
QUITE a lot of loss be
That Luck
Bogey
QUI
Bad
UITE familiar to most of us is the woman whose constant and rueful remark is, "You know I never get any luck."
She pours out her woes to all and Bundry, and at first you plty her. Later on you learn that three- quarters of her fil-luck is imaginary and that she is 'no worse off than the rest of us.
"You always get the bargains. They never show me frocks like that," she says enviously. You con- trol yourself but think Inwardly, "No, because you wouldn't look at such cheap tracks."
"Where do you get such pretty
and they look shoes?
comfortable too," This remark comes after a day's ··Intensive shoe-shopping In about six shops. Being · now hardened cynic, you reflect that feet of size 6 will not comfortably go in- to shoes size 414.
A
She is so sorry for herself that you feel she is hard done by untli you recollect her numerous expen-. sive clothes and the exciting outings to which she is so often treated. A Fatalistic Attitude
As soon as she is inside a cinema, you hear a snort of disgust, and "Good grocious! If I had known it was this rot I would not have come. Isn't it strange there is never any- thing decent on when I come here?" When she drops in on you, pant- ing. having lost the last bus home, because she "had" to try some ex- clusive hat on, a busy housewife is apt to lose patience with such bad luck, and to reflect that she cannot she take the day off whenever" chooses.
When in the company of such un- lucky people for lang, you reflect that the bad luck is not theirs but yours! But they have repeated that they are unlucky for so long that they hypnotised into believing
are
Another, time, such a woman will bemoan her failure to find a smaller house, when you realise quite well that her pride would not let her live in a smaller house, however com- pact and labour-saving.
She always pleads poverly, or her family have robbed her over some share in an ancestor's will. At first you think she has been very unfor- junate: When you know her well enough, you are not surprised to find that the poverty like the ill-luck is imaginary.
We all have our portions of bad luck, but the persons who exagger- ates her misfortunes and imagines ills which are non-existent is rapidly going to lose her friends.
Alice Balfour.
RECIPE FROM CORNWALL
SAVOURY PIE
HERE is an old Cornish recipe that
is very tasty. Scraps of cooked pork.
Apple satice or thinly sliced apple.
Onion.
Potatoes. Mixed herbs. Seasoning. Butter,
Prepare the potatoes and onions and slice them very thinly.
Have ready a greased pie dish and spread a layer of potato, a layer of chopped onion, a sprinkling of herbs and seasoning and a layer of pork pieces about an inch aquere.
in your fingers, gently remove the Use Ib. each of beef kidney, pork, mutton, and veal, culling into neat pleces. Slice up 4 lb. of pota- toes, 1⁄2 lb, of onions, and 14 of car- rots. Put a layer of vegetables in the Roll a little cotton wool round the all up in this manner. Make the pan, next a layer of meat, and
Cover with a layer of apple sauce end of an orange stick, cut a lemon last layer one of vegetables. Season other layer of potatoes. Add a few or thinly sliced apples and then an- in half and stick your orange stick well, pour over some water, and dobs of butter. Repeat this process into it so that you get the cotton almmer for about three hours, shak until the pie dish is full. Finish off wool soaked with lemon juice.
ing the pon now and then to prevent with a layer of potatoes and daba burning.
of butter.
do
Put in a slow over for an hour, then turn up the gas for ten minutes. Add more dabs of butter and return to the oven until the top inyer of potatoes is nicely browned and crisp.
Touch each pore where there was a blackhead with the lemon juice (If
Call's fout makes a tasty slew:- the skin is inclined to be dry) and Joint a couple of feet, and put
tho zame thing, using
pure
them In the pan with a sliced onion, alcohol, if the skin is inclined to be pepper, and salt to taste, a bunch of grenzy. Remember to change the herbs, and a pint of cold water. Let cotton wool after touching each pere, the calf's feet simmer gently for
The fact that you have blackheads from two to three hours until quite Dress designers are tired of the proves that your skin is not as tender. Ten minutes before serving mat vogue and have reverted to healthy, as it should be. Keep it add two tablespoonfuls of bread- shiny materials. Indeed, satins are scrupulously clean. Massage it well crumbs and-a tablespoonful of seen in almost all collections, though before you go to bed each night and chopped parsley. Shake the pan the white satin evening uniform of blackheads will have little chance to well and serve on a hat dial.
last summer. will not hold through make, headway,
E..B. T. this. Benson,..
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