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and exer-
cise play an
important part in the reduc-
tion of super- Auous fat and
the attainment of physical grace.
THE
THE woman who really is burdened with fat deserves all the help and sympathy she can get, because life in her case cannot be enjoyed to the full. Because of the extra weight and heaviness she has to carry she becomes tired after the slightest exertion, feels heat so much that she cannot look forward with any pleasure to a hot summer's day, gets out of breath quickly, and cannot enjoy her food properly. In older women the condition may be complicated by a weak heart and varicose veins.
IF
the
you are going to lose weight successfully, first of all you must discover what causes the trou-
PRACTICAL HINTS
FEAH of earthenware
cracking when in
casseroles
A hot oven worries many worden, but if the eassuroics are washed in warm
water, and rubbed thoroughly over the outside with pieces of raw onion. all will be well however great the heat.
you stick a gardening fork into the ground and rest the end of the Borden clothes prop against it, the prop will never sitp and let your laundry (and you) down,
Put oranges, required for a fruit salad, in boiling water fur five minutes and you will find the pith
and peel will come off easily.
To banish
roughness from your hands, fill a little mualla bag with oatmeal mixed with
some orris root and squeeze this out"in washing water until it a "milky."
New chino ple dishes should be placed in a pan of cold water and bolled slowly over a low heat I you do this they will not crack when put in the oven.
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To prevent steamed puddings from sticking when turning out, place a clrcle of greased paper in the bottom of the bosin before putting in the mixture. The pudding will then turn out perfectly.
Before unwrapping butter, hold it under the cold water tap for a few seconds. The paper will then come awny cleanly without any waste. A. W.
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SLIMMING SLOGAN
NEW HOME MASSAGE AND EXERCISE CHART THAT WILL HELP WOMEN
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By JANE GORDON'
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Good
Wives?
HERE is, as everyone knows, on Beautifying the Home
acute shortage of nurses. This
¿But does: a nurse's institutional life. has occurred not only because fewer girls are entering the profession but unfit her for the work of beautifying because, as statistics show, fifty per found that nurses, like so many doc- the home? On the contrary, I have tent. of the girls who start hospital training do not complete their three fortunes lie in their finger tips, are iors and surgeons and others whose years. Many others give up nursing usually very artistic. The standard quite soon after they are trained.
of hospital,decoration when nurses
ble. For instance, there is one heart is sound. Fat people are like form of fat which is thought by the ly to suffer from fatly infiltration or medical profession to be caused by fatty degeneration of the heart, in some endocrine defect. As a result which case it would be dangerous to of under-secretion of the thyroid or undertake exercises. the posterior pituitary gland the If the heart is sound exercises are carbohydrates and fats eaten cannot extremely weful in helping to re- Now what becomes of the ure prepare the wards for Christmas is be properly oxidised. In this case duce the fat. Each exercise, or who leave the ranks of the profes- the fat tends to accumulate around group of exercises, for a particular slon so soon? Some, of course, may quite astonishingly high. the abdomen and hips.
Furthermore, A hospital nurse part of the body should be preceded retire because the work is too hard Λ doctor is the person to deal with by breathing exercise, so that the and the conditions not to their ilking: usually longs for a home of her own. this
type of fat, and he will probably intake of oxygen may assist in the But the truth is that an enormous It is one of the major tragedies of prescribe thyrold extract. The we combustion of the body fat.
In her existence that she is condemned number of nurses trained, and
nurses An ideal treatment consists man who on her own initintive or on
training, get married.
community Ille. the advice of a friend takes thyroid massage and exercises following each
Assistance Committee one of the extract, or any other medicine used-other, Massage is useful because it rocent" meeting of a Publile; far from being bleak in their the domestic circles, when nurses marry by the medical profession for this helps to eliminate the fat stored in Committes remarked, "We are like they rather incline to run to ex- type of obesity, is asking for trouble, the superficial tisstics of the body by
matrimonial
of cosiness. For the agencles at municipal tremes The doctor will recommend a diet. crushing it, therefore the massage homes. The nurses' resignations are lime they can have their personal Fat may be hereditary, and this is has to be really vigorous to be sue not altogether due to inadequate belongings all round them. Hus- dimcult to deal with, though it sel- cessful.
salaries. Another member agreed bands dom causes serious constitutional
of knick-knacks. trouble.
by nurses somehowl The parts of the body most affected | with her; adding, "Men are attracted is may find their homes too full What then are the drawbacks of marrying a nurse? The Minister of Men wll always be attracted by
"I don't want to get well, Health for New South Wales, Aus
love" with beautiful nurse."
of
It
by the fat are usually the neck and The ordinary and usual kind of shoulders, under the arms, sides of superfluous fat is the result of too the chest, the hips, and abdomen. thuch food or the wrong kind of food, A useful arrangement for the too little exercise and not enough treatment would be as follows: fresh air. Women, as a rule, are not inclined to take too much food each meal, but they may easily plan their meals badly.
At
nursca.
to
So
Arat
But
said the wartime soldier. "I'm in tal nurses make ideal wives."
iralla, recently declared that "hospi-
Ideal is a But falling in love from a sick bed not depend a little on what a hus- a very strong word. Does it is one thing. That Neck and shoulder massage.
perilous per- manent, trügical, comical, heroic band wants? undertaking called marriage is quite good housekeeper? If so, I fear that
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1. Breathing exercise.
2.
3. Arm exercise,
Every text book and every report dealing with the nation's food hes the same complaint to make-our
ways: dental
it
4. Neck and shoulder exercise.
5. Breathing.
6. Abdominal excretse.
7. Breathing.
3. Back exercise.
9. Hip and leg massage.
10. Hip and leg massage. 11. Breathing.
done
These exercises should be new an open window; a light-weight
rheumatism. If the
the housekeeping Is woollen sweater and trunks should
another.
Do
tions.
Well Equipped
Does he want, for instance, a very
nurses make good wives? If he marries a nurse he may be un- believe that they do with reserva- lucky. A nurse usually passes direct from the irresponsibility of her mother's
home into an institution;j here her meals are provided for her, her dress is her uniform, her pay, some respects a nurse is un-small though it be, is mere pin
well equipped to be both money, and all hers to spend. wife and mother. One of the rea sons why she so often succeeds in Bad Housekeepers marriage is because she is so well accustomed to other forms of trou-
In usually
diel la deficient In vitamins. Lack of vitamina hampers health and good looks in hundred and one different IL accounts, for instance, for
decay and pyorrhoea, lowers resistance to infection, causes stunted growth and a tendency to
arranged so
so that each meal includes be worn. n sufficient quantity of
of raw fruit.
Exercises 2 and 3, as well as the raw enlads and green leafy vegeta- breathing exercise, should be taken bie! sitting astride an ordinary chair, In bics,
served attractively, less earbo- hydrate foods and proteins in facing the back of it. Needless to watched and
the
the back of the chair should tended and way of meal and fuel foods will be say
face the window. The
has learned abdominal enten. The
hospital the
Not for a nurse la the long morn- ing'a shopping, the anxious eye on nurse has daily household prices, the cunning shifts: death-has to make both ends of the housekeep- braved disease. She ing money meet. She has never had the to do it. She will probably spend to keep calm in
risked
diet will automatically exercise can be taken lying on the presence of disaster. Such a woman badly, and no blame to ber, for sho] become weight return been trained to spend be- to normal, and the health improve hunds
Most people are unaware of the
in
Lady Simon's Voice Preserver
ADY SIMON asked for three With Lemons one morning. them she prepared the "polce pre- which Sir John always acrver" fakes with him when he ta inak- ing a big speech.
and knees, and leg exercise burst or the butcher fail to call, or fore.
if even her husband loses his job.
An Informal Supper
MENU for an informal meal when time is limited has to be chosen with cure. Everything must be ar- ranged to facilitato quick service.
who
of
Thin
30.
matter
weakness may not Important part played by fresh axercise can be done. re-She can keep her head in a crisis much if her husband has a comforta
the reduction of fat. Without fresh air there la nnt sufficient oxy- Gularly every day. I have worked and become a rock of strength in the ble income. But no nurse, I main- faln, should ever marry a really poor gen to exidine the fat-forming foods. out a chart giving the exercises in home.
their correct order, describing a sim-
Her technical training again wiiHere is another
man! WHEN " comes to a question of ple form of home massage
reason why the and stand her in good stend once she is exercise, the person trying to giving a home-made reducing lotion married. She is a quick efficient nursewife should not be too poor. In lose a great dent of extra weight as well as several well-known re-worker. She has a scientifle know- spite of all that has been written to 13 nut must be absolutely certain that the duelog lotions and reducing sonp. ledge of food values. She is firm the contrary a trained nurse
but gentle with children and knows used to hard manual labour. In the exactly how to deal expertly with old bad hospital days, no doubt, e their allments; with her husband's probationer was set to scrub floors. too, for that matter should he have rating is finished she becomes very
no longer does When
her
any. Of how many other wives can
accustomed this be truly said?
to having others much s fetch: Nurses are sometimes quite falsely
and carry for her. A husband! who
expects her to clean the grate charged with being hard women or wash because
dishes to probably up greasy they are apparently un-0
to a far severer and putting her affection sympathetic with the friends relatives
the sick. Sometimes test than he guesses.
A word of warning now to the even with the patient himself. These
make this charge have little nurse who thinks of getting married. Imagination
It may seem a strange one, Don't be afraid to be selfish. Marry at A nurse's life would be simply in- supportable if after years of hospital any rate with the idea that your she allowed herself to feel a personal husband is going to look after you anguist in the presence of pain and and not merely that you are going Beware, sufering. What is strange is not to look after your husband. that she should treat such routine in a word, of the free patient. matters calmly, but that she should There are quite a number of sel so often feel genuine distress when fist, mildly olling men who marry per patients, Crawish tails make an excellent
who are stringers to their nurses, not out of affection at her, suffer, and their relatives cer- all het solod. Arrange lettuce on shells or plates, cover each one with flaked
respondingly grieve. crawfish meat, top with mayonnaise
do feel for their pa nurses und
tients. To deny decorate with slices of hard-
it la to do them an boiled egg, capers or tarragon leaves,
injustice. are women, capable local registrar'a
They of extraordinary sympathy, of depth secure her services free Instead of as well as width of love and affec- paying the customary three or four tion. The fact that their emotional guineas a week. Such marriages are life has been distributed among so often brilliantly successful from the many does not mean that they are pollents' point of view. But are they incapable of concentrated personal such a good bargain for the nurse? attachment.
Joyce Colmer.
This is her recipe: To the juice of each temon add a spoonful of honey and enough boiling water to dilute the honey; a little sugar can also be added if the mixture is not sweet enough. Stir slowly,
Hot bouton. Mayonnaise of crawfish, Chicken and ham rolls. Dessert petits fours. Coffee.
She filled a bottle with the mix-SERVE the bouillon in cups with
ture, fitted a tumbler over the top and encased it in one of the casca she has invented herself for pro- when tecting medicine bottles travelling, it is made of a piece of corrugated paper covered with material and seith an elastic ring
bottle. to prip the neck of the
Then, wearing one of
the spring straws, in navy, with her navy and white dress and little skunk shoulder cape, she went down to the Treasury and drove with Sir John to the House to hear the Budget--and watch him drink his cordial.
"Wall" Flowers
new
small oven-crisped biscuits.
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Large suft rolls Alled with slices of chicken and smoked ham, look attractive. Garnish with torbate,
sweet pepper or gherkins.
Imitation of a Japanese print against the Hght background,
that
Some wonderful silhouette effects can be obtained by arranging the flowers against the light, so their shadows
are thrown on the wall behind them providing, of course, that the wall be a plain one. A bowl of primroses or cowslips would make a delightful hanging on an oak-panelled
and a would be corner
considerably brightened by 1 bracket holding CHARMING #ttle wall-brackeis,
saffron-coloured tulips. And there is often n corner in a room made of wood, are now being that will persist in looking bore, no used to hold figures in all the latest matter how the furniture is placed; n schemes of house decoration, and] these suggest a new way of utilising few daffodils would set it right at flowers indoors.
New Arrangements
nome
once possibilities are many for this
Why not put your vases of dowers form of flower arrangement, and i on these brackets and so get some has the advantage of being new. pictures on your walls?
This with make it appeal to the Nothing could surely look more house-proud woman who likes to lovely against a plain cream wall decorate her rooms originally. than a dark blue vase containing a
Such picturea these "wall" few dwarf irises. Or what about a flowers
be constantly witch bowl in which some hazel changed without undue expense, so catkins or willow twigs droop grace that they need never pall or become fully?
wearisome, They
would make an admirable|
make
can
For
THE
but economy. nurse's
from motives
already
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A few simple formable them to t
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Swim And Be Beautiful
THE swimming season is now upon means a well developed figure, which us, and we can indulge in this is once again becoming fashionable.
exercise, delightful, health-giving
A good carriage results from In- In regular swimming which is one of the cheapest and best dulging
exercises, and as a means of avoid- alds to beauty.
that ing those rounded shoulders acquired! It is not mere coincidence girls figuring in bathing pictures, &c., from hours of bending over desic or have extremely graceful and lovely ypewriter swimming on your back two or three nights a week will do Ogures.
the trick.
those wishing to retain
modern
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One of the reasons for this is that, For the splendid exercise of swimming, youthful figure, polic and
grace, purticularly two or three times
there is no more pleasant manner of week, is an ideal body builder.
ensuring this. during the warm sum- Doctors
and
beauty mer months. With the Increasing specialists egree that, providing there facilities for this health-giving out- is no better exercise for developing door exercise, there is no excuse for the body harmoniously than swim- those who yearn to acquire beauty ming, out of doors if possible. and grace. Though this exercise de- The keep-alt movement has in- velops the Ogure, It does so har- creased by tens of thousands those muniously, thus keeping superfluous who do daily exercises, but unless fat at bay.
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wish to be
outstanding athlete, there is no point in develop-, ¥ ing bulgy muscles. Bulging muscles look well on a man, but not on D to woman. All that is necessary. maintain
good health and keep fit and supple is to exercise all your muscica gently and harmoniously.
Ching must not be overdone,
You do not need to swim: a quarter-mile or so to develop a good figure. A few lengths are quite enough, and will give your musclea all the exercise they need.
Girls who work nt sedentary oc- cupations often make the mistake of going the limit when on week-end excursions or on holidays, ignoring: the fact that they are quite unused to any violent exercise whatever, and are worried because they find them-: selves fatigued. Exercise, of what- ever kind, should never be overdone. For "Muddy" Complexions
Swimming is an excellent cure for a "muddy" complexion, because the regular exerciso ensures the ilver working properly,
the this being great secret of those who have clear skins. Well developed lungs, result of deep' and regular breathing,
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