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If you
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IT IS NOT GOOD to meet your husband at dinner looking like
the nearest human approach to a boiled lobster, nor is it imposing to greet your guests that way. Keep your kitchen cool, preserve your temper and your good looks.
Here are some leading points: First-get rid always of the used air: a small evacuating fan will do this noiselessly for very small cost indeed. That also means cooking amella' don't creep into the house or flat.
Then, when the sun is on the windows, draw all curtains—if you can afford veactian blinds for the kitchen, even better.
A cold "mop-over" for the floor several times will help during the afternoon; and, if your refrigerator makes ice really smarily, use it da it's made--stand the ice about in bowls; that'll mop up the heat too,
If you can afford one of the three really efficient, inexpensive air-· cleaning gadgets, all the better: they actually cost from the price of d cheap radio to the price of a fairly good radio. There's a disinfectant, too, that, stood about in bowls, absorbs smells, freshens the air and is well worth trying.
VENETIAN blinds over the windows help keep the kitchen cool, and give you "air without glare? This one is made of painted metal. hardwearing and good to look at, is a fashion- able fitting for lounge and bedroom as well as for the domestic quarters.
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PARLOUR DAY
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NO NEED for the small kitchen
to seem cramped and hot in the
HERE'S HOW TO KEEP
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BEAUTY parlours-in spite of all that has been written about them still retain a certain air of mystery. The average woman realises that she can make an appointment for a "facial" or a manicure or a slimming treatment; but as to knowing all the fascinating range of treatments and beauty tonics that are avail- too. But firm. No slouching here! able not one womán in ten fully realises the possibilities.
Mrs. X. has to square her shoulders, was just So I want to describe just what could be done with one day and a fair tuck in the tummy that
beginning to lean on her foundation slice of your beauty budget If you decided to be really kind to yourself.
Imagine yourself, just for one luxurinus day, in the shoes of Mrs. X. Harment, hold her head high and Now Mrs. X. is youngish, pretty, quite absurdly rich. Before you were in- make her spine at least two inches troduced to her, she had already been on the Telephone to her hairdresser, longer, Now she is deelding aloud abouf beauty treatments,
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Which shall it be-allant heat
bath"
A strawberry facial! It is one of a slimming wax bath, a Vichy her best-beloved beauty treatments. It begins with cleansing, goes on water bath to soothe her golf-weavy limbs? She decides on wax.
with massage, renches Its high sput And a quarter of an hour with the with a thick mask made from real
of space, and white paint glazed curtains help towards a treat in the way of a facial or exer- sense of cool spaciousness. This is the American housewife's cises or extra special hair-do.
They welcome not-so-ydung and idea of a kitchen she can run
"It gives u85 not-so-pretty women: more of a chance to show what the single-handed. A telephone is right treatment and make-up can installed on the desk fitment do," as one specialist said to me. beneath the built-in cupboard, And they don't all think in guineas, go that she can ring up the There are facials to be had for just stores while keeping an eye on a few shillings, giving your looks a
the cooking. Hit that will last for mouths.
giant roller afterwards. This will strawberries. It's strawberry colour, Good Cooking
off a few pounds just where she smells of
tike
strawberries, it needs
needs it (she's getting enormous, all her strength of mind not to cat By Ambrose Heath quite thirty-seven round the hips it.
But, reflecting that it does more
when, of course, half an hour in good on the outside of her face, she
exercise salon to correct that refrains.
tendency to "Jean" in
the
middle. Being a smart woman, she If her complexion is in a sensitive knows the clothes-value of a straight mood the treatment finishes there. buck,
If it wants extra toning she has straw quick pat with strawberry lotion as
And then a fociul. A Rear-Admini Kiyoshi Noda, the Navy spokesman, announced to-day berry rejuvenating facial, to make well. that a Japanese alr
skin smooth and lovely as her unit incl an her unidentified plane between Macao schoolgirl daughter's.
and Canton it about 9 am, on Wed- nesday:
Now a Hair Cut
in
Mr. X has often had wax baths that lovely salon before; she loses
MEAT with fruit
M2
OST of us are generally too conservative to try dishes which sound rather
But exotic,
here, for experiment, are one or two
REPORT INVADER ROUTED
Chinese Strike Back On Yangtse Front
Iront.
Mahwelling Kinngsi, Aug. 25.
Chinese forres on the south Yangtse on an average 3b, at a time. She The lotion is iced, delicious; and
River front are striking back on the weighs herself, under her new pink make-up it American dishes, which make use of Japanese with considerable success, The spokesman said that to Bee Hes down on a couch covered with makes her skin feel as fresh as unusual combinations of meat and according to information from the turned round attempting through the cloud banks when it was a huge sheet of greaseproof paper. morning breeze.
fruit. They are worth trying. approached by Japanese planes. And then relaxes while the as- Then the latter chased it and com- sistant plasters her whole body with On to the hairdresser-that ex-Grilled Lamb Chops with Orange Launching a counter-offensive, the pelled it to make a forced landing.
Rear-Admiral
Grill the chops until they are half Chinese have re-occupied Chuchwang Noda
said that
done, then season them with salt and Tawuho, north-east of Juichung, markings of the plane were not oh solid, white: very soon she looks like had to be trigid on the telephone 10 and pepper, and put an orange slice on the north bank of Chihu Lake. servabic to the Japanese planes the decoration on a wedding cake. get his services at all,
on each. Brush this over with The defeated Japanese are fleeing which pursued it from behind."
ped round her and securely fastened to be the order of the afternoon. them.
Cut and cut and cut. That seems melted butter, and nish grilling eastward, leaving many dead and Only her. hend is left outside.
When the plane made a forced landing on the riverside, Rear-Ad- miral Noda said, Japanese planes descended as low as 63 feet above the ground and found the Chinese character "Yu" meaning "postal" on
right wing of the plane.
the
force
the
cerninit
warm, sticky liquid. +1
quisite, expensive young man who is
X.
As it touches her skin it grows Mayfair's latest darling. Mrs.
Then the paper is pulled up, wrap-
Skin Like a Rose
Twenty minuiter she lies thus, the wax growing harder and her skin
The
LF
Even Mra. X., used as she is to the methods of smart hairdressers, aghast at the new draughty feeling round her cars. Is he going to leave any hair at all?
Crilled Pork Chaps with Orange
being
wounded behind. They Bro hotly pursued by the Chinese.
Fighting of a severe nature is still raging around Singize, on the west
This is cooked in the same way, and at the last minute the chop in sprinkled with paprika pepper, Bacon and Pingapple
frying-pan by the method known as Head Hill,
Cook the rashers of bacon in
bank of Poyang Lake to the south-east of Kuling. The bulk of the Japanese advancing westward from Singtae is a kept in check at Yuchinshan and Ox
immediately west
and
П
The Navy official denied that the growing hotter inside the parcel. artist? One look in the mirror con- But (an hour later) is he 721 Japanese nav
naval nir
unit deliberately Every pore is relaxed,
the pounds vinces her. Chinese airliner with are melting away allacked the
The curls piled high, it's the the intention of killing Sun Fo, who easiest, lovellest covered
the back a smooth, gleaming wing toking reportedly was
an airplane assistant unwraps her, gives her it is sheer brilliance expressed in pan-broiling" that is, pouring off south-west of the elly. Throughout from
Hankow. Canton Rear-Admral Noda vindicated the tion.
warm douche hind n perfumed frle- hairdressing. No wonder she smites.
Lucky Mrs. X! Her skin For Busy People action of the Japanese naval air looks and smells like a rose petal.
by in
invoking the
of
She steps along to the giant roller. ARAW international regulations
con- The rolling-pins move in a gentle aerial warfare. which
So there she is, her day all spent. stipulate that non-combatant planes surve that just hits those 37in. hips A matter of five kulneas or so spent may pass the zone of actual hostill-git begins to flatten them out to too. But she's two and
36in.
a half nt their ties nt
pounds lighter, looks and that they own risks
Fifteen minutes of this treatment younger, and is a delight to the eye. cannot claim damages for the at-
make set her bloodstream racing. tacks to which they are fiable.
Don't imagine for moment, The Admiralty official recalled her unglingly ready for exercises
though, that the beauty parlours are many cases of aeroplanes of un- upstairs.
run only for the Mrs. X's of this world.
ten
years
the fat as it accumulates and letting yesterday and the day before the bacon cook. "dry." Dry some Japanese column of more than 3,000 tinned pineapple rings, dip them in men launched repeated assaults seasoned flour, and fry them until an effort to dislodge the Chinese browned in the bacon fat. Serve guarding the hill. It was repulsed
with 000 casualties, two rashers with each ring. Heart Stuffed with Fruit
Further Japanese attempts to und troops on the west shore of Poyang Prepare an ox's heart, seasor the Lake near Singize were frustrated inside with salt and pepper and stuff yesterday by the Chinese with heavy with half a breakfast-cupful of losses. After repulsing the Japanese, prunes, soaked and stoned, and the the column struck back at Singtze, re-
quantity of soaked driedį capturing Pihuaichiao, a point im apricots. Brown the heart all over mediately, west of the city, They exist mainly for busy, or- in dripping, add enough water to ese planes suspended pursuit im- The exercise mat is satin, and the dinary people like you and me who come half way up, put on the lid and mediately when their nationalities were ascertained. He mentioned the expert in charge has a satin voice, like to give ourselves an occasional bake for about two and a half hours.
known nationality
which were pur- No Slouching
sued by Japanese
plancs in China,
but Rear-Admiral Noda said, Japan-****
case which occurred on February 19,
this year-Domel,
The reference
to February eviden- |
tly refers to the incident when the
Imperial Airways liner Delphinus
was said to have been chased and
by Japanese aircraft near
Hongkong. The Japanese, I $1 TIFFINS
to representations, advised
foreign
companies to inform them of their movements and not to Пу over Japanese
warships,
G.N.A.C. SECRECY
Further C.NA.C. movements have been concelled indefinitely, declared Mr. F. Delaney, Traffic Manger for Pan-American Airways yesterday. He added that when the service was rantmed nó moveniente.of planes.or. passengers would be released.
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Owing to the drop of the water level in Poyang Lake, eight Japanese warships which steamed into the Joke from the Yangtze River grounded between Tüchang and Singtze-Central News.
CHINESE denial
Hankow, Aug. 25.
are
A spokesman stated to-day that Julchang was still in Chinese hands and very heavy frhting was proceed- ing east of the city. He said the Japanese columns proceeding west from Hofel had not reached the Chinese defence lines and therefore no fighting had yet begun."
It is estimated that seven Japanese divisions are engaged on the Yangtse fronts from Hotel to Hsingtzo.- United Press.
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