ANTHONY WEYMOUTH ON
How to feel good when hot
it's
HE first thing that happens
Twhen
n hot spell comes along is that your energy flags and you feel "like nothing on earth."
If you know why you feel like this it's not difficult to see what to do to cure it.
The temperature of the body is kept more or less stationary by a nerve-centre which controls heat- distribution. When the temperature of the air rises, your body adjusts itself by increasing the quantity of heat lost from the skin.
If the heatwave comes suddenly, or if
very good at per- you're not spiring, you may fail in this adjust- ment and it is this which makes you feel tired or fil.
Your body generates heat by burning the food you eat. You can keep the temperature of your body down, (u) by eating less food, and choosing the food which produces less heat; (b) by increasing the loss
of heat from your body.
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A hot atmosphere
causes the
blood-vessels of the skin to dilate: more blood circulates through the skin and you sweat. If there is a wind you lose
heat still by morc
the movement of the air, which evaporates the moisture.
Food
SOME foods, as you know, And you shouldn't eat large meals produce more hent than when the weather is hot. A full others when burned in your body. stomach embarrasses your henri, You don't feel like eating heavy and in a heat-wave it already has meals during heat-wave that is to work a bit harder than usual, because your instinct tells you that because it's got to send the blood you're better without too much heat- enursing through your skin so that producing food,
you can lose as much heat as quickly And your inalinet is right when it is possible. makes you choose saluds and cheese The most suitable kinds of food Instead of steak-and-kkiney pudding for you if you feel the heat or hot roast pork,
those which are low in heat value.
are
New
Attractive
Shades In Table Decorations
By Muriel Rapson ...... GLASS for the table or in-
dusty rose or topaz.
of the more
STIC
Make your diet fruit and salads.
None of
these
eat
up energy
Fruit, vegetables and green salads are useful because when your body burns them they give up so few calories (hent units). helping of ham, for instance, pro- An ordinary duces about 200 calories, while a than twenty.
Here are some reciper 1 can re- commend for hot-weather dishes.
Escalloped Celery And Egg
OOK a pint of celery, cut into
dlee; make sauce of four tablespoons melted butter; four of flour, one cup, of celery stock, one cup milk, seasoning: add the cooked celery, put a layer in a bullered baking dish, sprinkle with hard- bolled eggs, chopped fine, also a few drops of lemon juice. Continue with alternate layers until the in- gredients are used; cover with but- tered bread crumbs and bake in a moderate oven.
Mock Lobster Salad
RATE some raw carrots, and add attle grated horse-raddish, if desired; mix with half, the quantity braken of chopped celery, some walnut or pench nuts, and a few mushrooms.
Arrange lettuce hearts on a plat- ter, place the carrot mixture in the cenire, roughly shaped to represent a lobster. Serve with muyonnaise and slices of lemon.
Celery And Orange Salad
large slice of lemon gives you fewer ONE
NE cup chopped celery, 1 cup chopped English walnuts, 1 cup orange cut in
with cubes; serve
Here is a list of foods which are dressing. not heating: FISH: Cold white fish, served with beaten egg, stir 1 cup sweet crean Suggested dressing; into one well
mayonnaise sauce and salad.
and the juice of 1 lemon. CHEESE: Macaroni cheese; or spa-
ghetti and tomatoes. Rice with Or: lemon, orange, or rhubarb onions and cheese.
juice and olive oil. Add honey or SWEETS: Stewed fruit with mer- brown sugar, if you like it sweeter.
ingue top. Stuffed grapefruit. Or: lemon or rhubarb juice and Cold baked custard and fruit salad.
honey, 2 parts juive to 1 of honey. SANDWICHES: Mustard and cress. A
Brown brend with nuts and [**. honey. Eg and tomato, Crush- ed fresh fruit.
Drink
Clothes
Household Helps
CORCH marks on woollen gar- ments can be removed it frst you must drink plenty of moistened with cold, water before and small, deep centres. These are for postes of short-stemmed flowers.
water, because you lose a applying a few drops of cau-de- lot through your skin; and you can't Cologne. Rub vigorously and dry Lovely effects can be obtained by afford to let your supply dry up, or out of doors. using coloured glass for flower vases, you'll be cutting off one valuable To remove ink stains from delicate tended for flower con- Green insa "plates" with white means of losing heat-the sweat.. fabrics, try rubbing them in u cir- tainers is offered in many deep purple glass may be chosen to lemon-juice into your drinks, as it half. When the marks have almost flowers can look charming, while It's a good plan to put some cular motion with a tomato cut in new and lovely forms.
hold mixed pink and mauve blooms, helps your kidneys to get rid of vanished, wash in the ordinary way, Many of the flower con- Table glass is most attractive too, waste material. The more fluid you A little parafin and vinegar added
Just now, und some
drink the tainers are arranged
more you'll perspire to warm water used for washing On expensive cut-glass looks exquisite and the more heat your body will white paint will simplify the task, narrow stands, so that the in brilliant colours of
throw off. cinerald,
and if
rubbed afterwards with flowers are brought into myst, ruby, and soft shades of
leather will leave it in beautiful condition. greater prominence. The
To clean coloured tiles, first wash most useful ones are those Lovely Dark Colours IN hot weather wear clothes and then rub them with a cut lemon that fit you loosely. You dipped in salt. Leave on for a short don't want fight collars to interfore white before wiping off with a clean which are designed to show THERE are also lovely deep colour with the circulation of your brain, damp cloth. certain types of flowers to of which appears to be a deep red-log allows the air to get to your skin scratched, apply equal parts of tur-
to be seen, the most popular or you may faint. Also, loose cloth-
Should varnish woodwork become the greatest advantage. dish purple. Dessert services, fruit and to increase the loss of heat from
Some of them are shaped like dishes and grape-fruit bowls are
pentine and linseed oil and rub well made of this glass while wine glasses the old-fashioned curved glass and goblets are found in some of well suited to sun-exposure because lost their original freshness can be The skin of white people is not Parchment-lampshades that have "baskets," others
fan- the paler, clear shades.
the skin-temperature rises more in renewed by rubbing them with fine -shaped with recesses for the Frosted glass looks cool and them than it does in brown-skinned oatmeal.
stems all the way round them. pretty, especially when it is com- people. The skin tans, of course, ns To freshen the leather binding of These vases are intended for the bined with very fine bands of plain the result of exposure to sun, and a book, rub it with mantelpiece,
for
silver or gold. Sherry sets, includ- then becomes a better-heat-regula-dipped in oll of lavender, and when ledges, ing glasses and decanters, are made where a circular arrangement of"
So, if you're the possessor of a
dry polish with a soft duster.
It is a good plon before threading as well Bs wine glasses white skin, be careful not to overdo a rod through muslin or net curtains made of this frosted glass and gun-bathing at all events decorated here and there with tiny your body is protected by a layer of to avold time, tears, and temper.
until to place a glove finger over the end gold stars.
or
are
of flowers would not be suitable, tumsa 24 there are
Shells For Flowers
also
your body.
tor.
sels of
LASS "shells" ure lovely for Golden ships in full sall Are
cholce blooms of which a few depicted or some
of the glass re- .only are
used, while large vases, ceptacles-notably a sherry "decan- rather in the shape of deep vego- ter, with glasses decorated with gilt table dishes, hold - big, bouquets of waves to match, mixed blooms.
bronzed skin.
Exercise
in.
soft cloth
It wet shoes are stuffed with newspaper they will not only retain their shape, but will dry more quickly, os the paper absorbs the
DON'T hurry unnecessarily moisture.
As your principal object When cleaning frosted glass, smear There are also sets of tumblers, nible, and as exercise increases com-bonate of soda and water, leave it Is to keep your body as coal as pos-ii over with a thick plaster of bicur- There are also many glass flower in clear glass, each tumber being bustion and acts rather like drawing on to dry, and then remove with a containers which Bre almost flat, decorated by a different animal out the damper of a furnace, It pays clean like plates with extra-wide edges, painted in colours upon it.
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T make an effective polisher from an old broom, cut off the re- maining bristles and nail to the bend a thick pad of old woollies. Cover this with a double layer of thick flannel and velvet, which can be re- placed when worn out.
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Be Careful When You Select
Flower Vases
BY IDA GIBSON
order to make the most of flowers it is necessary to have] sufflelent vuses of different types- each one suitable for certain kinds of flowers.
you have but a few long- stemmed bloom, then it is better to choose a vase with a rather narrow
the top of which curves
There are some good spec!- nens of this kind of vase to be had, with wide, battleshaped centres and thin
necks. It is
It is surprising to find how well-balanced an arrangement of half-a-dozen blooms can appear in this kind of vase.
in
When, however, you have a large supply of flowers, a receptacle which hus the top curving generously out- ward will display them to the best advantage.
SUCH
SHAPE OF A BASKET
NUCH vases as this may be of medium size, or they may be much larger, of basket shape, or In the form of outward-curving glass poils.
But in any event they should be just deep enough to enable the end of each stem to reach practically to the base of the vase, for it is only In this way that the flowers can be persunded to keep in position and to remain fresh as long as pos-
sible.
six
may
For smaller posics of mixed flowers, tiny globular vases are charming, when several of them are used together. Four or decorate the centre of a dining table, or several of them may be placed Just beneath the big vases of larger flowers.
POSIES
DUT when you have suficient D flowers for one medium-sized posy then a special wide, Ant glass container, with a cavity in the centre for the flowers is more suitable.
This type of container shows off the flowers to perfection, and a small posy can, apparently, achieve much farger proportions.
For narrow ledges there are vases which are wide and fairly high but narrow from back to front. They ful their purpose admirably, and here, again, a few flowers can make a charming display against the right background.
Tomato Rarebit.
and
CLICE three large tomatocy
simmer in a saucepan with salt and pepper, a pinch of sugar, and a teaspoonful of gruted onion. Rub through a sieve. Put the pulp into a saucepan with four ounces of fine- ly grated cheese, Stir unti the cheese melts and put on the toast.
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