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IT'S
SUM yourself UP
the current craze, asking your- self searching questions. Mark this questionnaire honestly and you will learn a great many home truths. Such, for instance, as that poser under "Personality Points" about your laugh. For it is my firm belief that a pretty Inugh is one of the greatest assets of charm.
If you were perfect you would be able to give yourselt len marks out of ten on every point. Not perfectly, beautiful, that is, but per
Because fectly endowed with beauty sense. beauty is very largely question of attitude. Whether you really think about the right rinse to make dull hair gleam again; whether you use your hormone cream right down to the bottom of the jar; whether you remember your dolly dozen as well as keeping a bright eye open. for newer excitements!
So sum up and brace up! If you score any- thing over 120 marks you have beauty possibilities for Summer, 1038,
TOYS
for the tots
BABY, of course, puts everything,
edible or otherwise, straight into his mouth if he gets a chance. Since you can't watch him every moment of the day, be careful to plve him toys (1) that he can't swallow. (2) that won't poison him.
A good toy for him is a little animal made of brightly coloured beads, vegetable dyed and guaranteed not to chip. It has a cosy velvet head, and bells for toes which tinkle when it is touched. Price 3. 11d.
FOR teething time, by far the best
thing to present him with is a ring of ivory. It can't possibly hurt him, and it's soothing to the guns. The newest ones are sold in all hygiente cellophane box, with hand- painted lid. Picc 4. 6d.
Yes-Total
and write yourself down
How Many Marks out of Ten for each of these Questions? A "Yes" means Ten marks, a "No" means none: and the in-betweens will set you thinking.
Face
Hair
Do I flatter its shape by clever make-up?
Is my complexion smooth and flawless?. Does my hose remain matt?
Is my throat as young as my face?
Is it silky to touch?
Do I take care to keep its colour?
Have I tried a new style in the last six
months?
Hands
Are they smooth and white?
Do I use a nail-varnish that makes them
look white?
Are the cuticles irreproachable 7
Figure
Do I hold myself well?
Are my shoulders straight?
Is my hipline in proportion?
Do I study the back and side views, as well
as the front?
My Perfume
Have I chosen a perfume which I Love, and
which, therefore, expresses me?
Having chosen, do I use it consistently but
not insistently?
Personality Points
Can I say "Thank you" and "No, thank you"
with equal grace?
Is my voice soft and pleasant?
Oan I accept a compliment charmingly? Am I as pleasant to cross old ladies as to
'charming young men?
Can I keep a conversation gay without
facetiousness?
And serious without sentimentality? And, most important of all, reproach without
making scenes ?
No-Total
Fashion's Gay Outlook Produces
TERE
Host Of Novel Ideas
Circus Modes Include Clown Face Prints And Crumpled Top Hats: "Gaiter" Evening Gloves: Ascot Organdies: Paper Lace Trimmings.
Plain tailored suits in dark cloth are fastened with enormous choco- lates, gum drops and every imagin- able kind of sweet. Among the new hats are some tall und battered top bats in felt.
all
Favourite colours Bre tan. pervenche-blue, cycinmen, and the deeper shades of pink, clear Chinese green, wine and heather mauves
The plain skirts are topped by tight-fitting Jackets of brightly coloured shepherd's plaid most in- tricately piped with a contrasting colour. Severely tailored jackets in
Seen at Paris
Displays
Hinteresting white chiffon striped with
revival in mi- linery_the_scarf draped panama. Always a becoming form of head- pear, it has a habis of reappearing in the hat salons from time to time. The model is in white panama and the vell at the back and scarf draped round the crown are in white crepe Tie Chine.
WHY be serious over a matter so
she
Warlet and trivial as a summer dress? asks Schlaparelli, and. answers the question with her "eir- *eus" collection which is gay enough
to rejolee the saddest heart.
DIC
Plain Uttle suits with straight skirts and tight-Biting jackets fastened with plumed horses' heads, clowns' faces and clowns wearing crumpled top-hata. ~
Graceful young men on the flying trapezo swing across the front of a fall straw hat, others swing around a necklace. Very bright blue crepe is printed with sad clown faces, plňk crepe printed with black clowns and concertinas is used for another sim- ple little frock, and 'a mauve solin holero is embroidered with prancing "while circus horses and worn with a
black dress,
THE newest evening gloves are ahaped like gaiters, and made of Schlte or black satin, buttoned with ofdifferent coloured boot buttons. They mis worn with the more formal avans
black has wide scarlet belt.
Block straw bows de- corate yellow suit.
Top of the black shantung is made of white "paper" lace.
dark materials are worn with striped or checked surgh dresses or printed crepe frocks. A black suit with a short jacket banded with insertions of lace has a black skirt and a black erepe de Chine shirt patterned with
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Insertions of brilliantly coloured lace, yellow, green, wine and royal blue.
NE of the most amusing prints is ONE
the dark green foulard patterned with little bottles with a ship insile each bottle. This dress is pilped in cyclamen pink.
INDIVIDUAL SAVOURIES
TUIS is an excellent dish for one
person, or a number of these Individual savouries can be made for the family.
Cut up soma balled onion, or any other left-over, cooked vege- labit, season and line with it the bottom of Individust, fireproof dishes which must first be grensců.
with
Iltile grated
a little salt
Cut up some bacon or some left-over: cooked most, and ar- range a thin layer on the vege- table. Sprinkle with and pepper
and more grated horse-radish. Next break an' cre Into each. Sprinkle this also wisia salt and pepper, but no horse- raillah Bake in the oven till egg sets.
the Remove from
OVELL sprints, ⠀ with "„grated, checae, brown under the gril, and serve at once.
If you do not want to cook the savoury in an oven, fry the bacon or meat, and poach or boll the CEE AFTADIe quickly,whillo ́"hot In the dish, as described then sprinkle with cheese, and grill.
Anno Morne
New Pastry Discoveries
IN order to make your pastry "distinctive," try the follow- ing new varieties-cocnut short- cake pastry. orange or lemon pastry, and egg and cheese pastry.
Coconut shortcake crust has u delightful nutty flavour, and is Buitable for any sweet filling.
Mix well together 8 ozs. flour, a good half-teaspoonful baking powder, a heaped teaspoonful castor sugar, and rub in till crumbly 4 ozs. margarine.
Add three tablespoonfuls finely. desicated coconut, and mix to a stiff, smooth Jissto with a little beaten egg and water. Roll out fairly thinly.
Line some putty-tins with pastry -prick a few holes in bolton, then nd any desired Dlling. Bake in a moderate oven 20 minutes. ORANGE OR LEMON CRUST.
This will blend splendidly with apple pie.
To i ozs, flour allow 5 os, mar- garine, teaspoonful baking pow- der, 2 teaspoonfuls caster sugar, a good pinch ground ginger, a slight sprinkling of grated orange or lemon rind, and sufficient strained orange or lemon juice to bind the mixture. About 3 tablespoonfuls should be enough.
stift
MIX all ingredients except the fruit juice and margarine. Then rub in margarine till the mixture is like fine breadcrumbs. Mix to a paste with the fruit juice.
Cover your apple pie neatly, and bake in a moderate oven minutes, till of a pale golden colour. EGG AND CHEESE PASTRY
10-20
This is particularly savoury. It is Bght and flaky-and-is the perfcet covering for sausage rolls. It also goes well with most meat and fish
The requirements are 12 ozs. flour.
Some of the afternoon coats have bunches of field flowers and ears of corn and whent on the revers to filings. match the same pattern printed on the crepe de Chine dress. Not only Hier, pinch of salt and cayenne a heaped teaspoonful baking pow- colours but materials are mixed, One pepper, 8 oze. margarine, a heaped sult has a black taffeta knife-pleated tablespoonful finely grated cheese: skirt worn with a bright blue chiffon and 2 hard boiled eggs. The cheese grates blouse and heather pink tweed jac- should be dry--so that
smoothly and the eggs must be chopped finely.
ket,
Mix flour, baking powder, pepper and salt, rub in 2 ozs. only of the margarine and add the grated cherse and chopped eggs. Mix to a silir dough with cold water, roll into an oblong shape.
FASHIONS launched by important houses Include multi-coloured dresses and coats. A coat, half red and half blue, was worn over a black lace wool dress; a long evening taf- Place half the remaining mar- feta coat in green, blue and yellowgurine in small dabs on half the panels, with violet and green sleeves, paste, fold over, and roll into
more. Repeat was worn over a violet chiffon dress. oblong shape once
process with the remaining mar- A chiffon dance frock of cyclamen Barine, and blue panels has a silver belt. A FOR SAUSAGE ROLLS long flowing evening coat of chiffon
an
If you are making sausage rolls, In broad bands of blue, green and roll into a long strip about 4 inches pink has a black crepe top and is wide, place the skimmed sausage (which should be flattened worn over a black and white printed ment
alightly with the rolling pin) on to dreas.
one half of the pastry, fold
over other half, moisten edges with milk, press lightly together then cut pastry into 3-inch lengths.
Another new fashion is little pink satin corsets laced down the front, worn over a full-skirted danca frucis
This method of preparation saves"
spread
of white lace, with a gathered while the trouble of shaping each roll Ince bodice. Dog collars an inch separately, and the sausage meat is wide of embossed gold, arid diamante This pastry requires a really quick more evenly over the pastry. are worn with the more sophisticated oven, in order to make it rise well, frocks. Hats of stiffened tulle with and be dellcately flaky.
turn-up saucer brims have bands of
Good fillings for the pastry are sequins to match the trimming of the with tomato pulp, or flaked cooked minced cooked ham well moistened dinner frocks with which they are haddock moistened with mustarti
Isabel worn.
sauce.
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