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best friend ought to tell her.""
It's not dificult to see what's wrong with this picture. The girl on the left is over-dressed, with tussy hot and accessories blurring the general Une. Her Best Friend could tell her
a thing or two, but would she take
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Would you?
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
more.
Reneral
Bouty
thin and bony.
If you
trust the
THIS remark might quite You won't be able to wear the new easily be made about trapless frocks if your shoulders are you. Now, you're sure to Best Friend, take her advice; but if
Warm to help.
olive oil get her have one friend who can be you've set your heart on the idea, First ask her nice- cruel to be kind without works wonders,
ly to bathe the shoulders with hot
more firmly round the tell us where there's room for oil, lightly across the throat and up- hurting your feelings; who can water, and then rub in worn olive
should be done as often as she can improvement in the woman we per chest.
be bribed to do it. Sponging with cuttishly,
cold water completes the treatment. show to the world, kindly not shoulders and across the back. This
Head massage INLESS her enthusiasm is fing-
against it and You may Aght VERYONE receives first impres- EVE
build up slons, that is inevitable: but such argue "common sense and speak of far more weight logie, and deliberately impressions carry
only one of a character. with some people than with others. composite pleture, in which the To some people, the Arst impression but does not the rest in presence
to have is simply the first meeting with a ten come to its own and prove the
If you can take it, invite your person or sight of a pince, and no carefully built-up picture"
no way from been a picture and no more, while It differs in later meetings, one merges into the first impression was the reality? Best Friend out to lunch or tea The first impression may not be land ask her to say things to you another, until all form a picture.
perfect, lit it is accurate as a sump like the young ladies in the ad- compared with a vertisements say about their friends.
Ask her what she thinks about your Best Friend to place one hand on It may be vague, because it is com- shot is accurate
of the neck. The gure, your clothes, either side of your head, her thumbs
the mape pounded of so many impressions; or meticulous sketch painted in detali
She'll tell you all right. If she's any over woman at all she won't be able to scalp must be massaged with a ro resist giving you advice, and if she'n tary movement of the fingers, the your Best Friend It ought to count thumbs staying still.
The thumbs are moved upwards for something,
and the process repeated ull over the If your hair is normal the head. tips of her fingers may be dipped in
It so many impressions, casting so by detail. muy different lights on the person
or place. It is a composite impres
sion
with its drawbacks and ad- vantages.
In any case, first impressions make most of our vivid mental pictures Later impressions are blurred.
Wo
see nothing, or we see what we ex-
to see or want to sec.
I'd With other people the first in pected pression stands out alone, magnifted rather risk the exaggerated feet--or out of all proportion, dwarfing all their equivalent-than let my first later views; clear-cut and vivid: impressions go. possibly inaccurate but inctraceable.
Such impressions may influence all
later meetings or views of a place.
We may argue that reason prefers
the multiple impresalon; but reason
M. F. M.
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Household hints
has nothing to do with it. The first WHEN aluminium impression is as rapid as a snapshot become hot, they should be re- ilke some moved with a wooden clothes Peg and, as vivid. Possibly, badly-taken snapshots, It may be out and a plece of twine bound for a few of perspective. To be sure we are inches round each handle will save told that "the camera does not lie," many a scorched palm.
A little cold tea is a marvellous and some people say the same of first
and
face,
your
Cleansing your back
다
ging dismally,
encourage
impressions, arguing that they are cleanser for badly soiled hands. It can't be true a suggestion of How often do you
and unblased. The camera should be used with soap. may not lie, but what about those After cleaning taps, sprinkle
flour on a clean cloth exaggerated feel which sometimes little occupy the whole, foreground? That having rubbed the taps with this, is what happens to first Impressions. polish with a duster. Thus treated They are almost too vivid to be real, they preserve their brilliance much They lack atmosphere," and may be longer. distorted without being sufficiently grotesque to be noticeably so.
To prevent
new clothes pegs splitting, soak them before use cold water for twelve hours,
the
in
at
January 12, 1939. TASTY WAY WITH DATES
THERE are many Interesting ways of serving this nutritious-dried fruit.
Next time you buke some apples for lunch, scoop out the cores before baking and Insert dates in the cavi- ties.
dates
You have probably had
there ori- atuffed with nuts. Try gal Ailings for a change: -Divide the dates into three lots. Fill the centres of the first pile with halves of cooked prures, the second with seedless raisins, the third with either cream cheese or peanut butter. Roll all the daten in supor.
Dute and Nut Sandwiche
Chop a cupful of stoned dates and mix them with 1⁄2 cupful chopped or bruz!! nulo. ground walnuts or
Spread between thin slices of brown or white bread and butter.
Date and Walnut Pudding
{
Chop 1 b stoned dates and 1 cup- ful shelled walnuts, und mix with 1 cupful flour, 1 cupful sugar, 2 ten-
powder, and spoonsfuls baking pinch of salt. Beat lightly together c. teaspoonful vanilla essence, Add to dry in- and 1⁄2 cupful milit.
gredients and mix well. Turn into greased baking dish and bake hour. Serve very hot.
Date and Apple Pasty
Sift together Bozs four, 2 ozs sugar, teaspoonful-baking powder, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon. Rub in 4 still Mix to a fairly ms butter. paste with 1 egg yolk und a little ink. Line a greased fan in with half the pastry.
Peel, cure, and slice 14 lb cook- ing apples and mix with 4 doz chop pid dates, 1 ozs brown sugar, i oz butter, teaspoonful cinnamon. Fill 1 pastry shell with the inixture. and over with the remaining pas- Ley. Bake in a fairly hot oven 21 hour. The pasty, should be leed it It is to be served cold.
Date Bread
Chop 1 cupful dutes and put them into u bosin. Pour over then 1 tea- spoonful soda and 1 cuplul boiling water. Leave to cool.
Cream 4 ozs butter and 1 cupful brown sugar. Add 1 beaten egg and then cup flour. Add date mixture, and, if desired. 11⁄2 cup chopped wal- nuts. Pour into a greased long tim and bake in a slow oven for about 14 hour.
This date bread is delicious cut in [alrly thick slices and spread with soft butter.
Dessert dates should have a moist, If they become sticky appearance.
In a piece of clean dry, the them
for a few muslin and steam them minutes. Cool before eating.
Dates are an excellent food, sup- plying ball warmth and energy.
Margaret Cooper
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Face Up To The Wind
A
DAY in a cold wind works havoc with the complexion. It seems almost impossible to arrive at one's destination in a neat state, and the after-effects are scre eyes, a flaky
cream,
a
tidily about.
Be sure and use a good non-sticky and a cream skin,, and wisps of hair trailing un-
rouse if you are going out on windy day. Better still, give your face an olling with olive oil before applying make-up. This softens the foundation
skin, and helps if to keep from peel- ing.
An ornamental hair style is going to blow to pieces in a high wind, and to do your it is far more sensible
possible. hair in us neat a way as
it set in specially- If you have placed curls, put on a fine net and pin the curls with Invisible hairpins. A lacquer that can be sprayed on the hair is another way of keeing it trim.
come in, bathe your When you eyes with a good eye lotion, for they amount of grit collect an amazing and dirt, and it is essential that they should be eleansed. More than like- ly they are watering as a result of the wind and bathing will soothe them instantly.
Do not sit over a fire when you cold wind, come in from a walle in
for If you suffer from a red nose this will make it redder than ever. Al- low yourself to get used to the worm atmosphere gradually.
Anne Brook
Uses For Oranges
an almost un- RANGES have OR
limited number of uses in the fruit home, even to being 'useful for de- corative purposes. Piled on platters or in a fruit bow! they lend a warm splash of colour to table or side-board,
"Good for your Toofies
When Baby's first tiny tooth is due to appear, there is nothing that will delight him more or help him so much, as crisp, delicious 'OVALTINE' Rusks.
Baked to just the right degree of firmness for Baby to bite and crunch, 'OVALTINE' Rusks give just the assistance necessary to bring each little tooth easily and comfortably through the gums. This biting exercise also helps to keep the teeth sound and healthy, and to encourage the correct formation of the mouth. 'OVALTINE' Rusks are made from the purest unbleached wheaten flour in which all the valuable nutrilive elements are retained. Distributors: Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd.
OVALTINE
THERE are dozens of things she lukewarm water, if it is greasy,
can help you over once, as the bay rum, if I is dry, in oil of sweet Americans say, you've let down your almonds.
Thien RO systematically through can't do back hair. Things you
wardrobe, having a sort yourself unless you happen to be a your professional contortionist and proba mannequin parade. veepan lidsbly not, even then. I don't know.
It's impossible in a mirror to get There's your back to begin with, a general eye-view of your sil- You won't, but thousands of other houette, and more impossible still 10 ing dress. Peering into a hand mir back.
Shorter hems people will be seeing it soon in even know what you look like from the ror I can see enough of mine to know It's dingy, to say the least, with
see people whose clothes would be 50 per blackheads and, 21 spot.
cent, smarter if only someone would off take two inches The Best Friend might be per- tell them to
may be one of the, by now, fatigued elt still with half- stated into starting by cleansing their hems. You with lemon cream. Then having got Best Friend to your back as thoroughly as she can them. Get for her use a basin of hot water, a closed eyes and tell you about them.
Get her loofah and a tablet of super-fatted
to measure the hems acup, got her to scrub your back un-
14in this year. If she marks them accurately all to alter them Add a few drops of tincture of with plas and a measure allck it is
basin of cold water, and
oft round. her 10. rinse the soup the rest. A nervous giggle-never black shoe stain. When hard, polish benzine to
Then the bugbears of home dress- heard again-may kill what might with furniture cream.
When carpet corners keep turning thoroughly with it. A light nourish- have been a friendship, an awkward
siceve at the back. On her advice manner may create a totally wrong up, sew a short length of hat wira ing cream smoothed on would com- making the fit of neckline and tiny tucks in the farmer, a in. al- impression. In n way it is a pity, along the undersides of the cornern plate the treatment.
Calamine lotion
teration in the scan of the latter, yet don't you usually feel that the and they will le flat.
will make all that much difference. first impresston is the correct one?
are Epois you probably
Aak her about the "seats" of your won't know about them until
you alt around much
Many a tasty sweet can be made she tells you, but please take the skirts. It
from oranges, such as the following to measure the information in the right spirit. Get they're bound not to be all they
fruit mada delicious and englly her to paint them with calamine should. Get her
width across of the skirt and then
large tin. of iation.
condensed line it with jap slik which measures cream ple. Emply a
full-cream sweetened To get rid of the rest of the diu- in. less than the skirt. This will
milk into a basin, add the juice of giness roix some fine oatmeal with take the strain when you all.
one lemon and beat until thick and oqual quantities of milk and water
creamy. Peel three oranges and cut across in slices, cutting each allee into smaller pieces. Fold the fruit
Killing Friendships
If ebony-backed brushes have lost
So far as people are concerned of- colour through Ume, wash in warm ten the fret impression dominates noapy water
IF
and when dry apply
you have any beauty problems, why not try
Mr, Beton's Beauty Salon which has a raputa-
tion of being the most rollable in the Colony. Tel.-58081, Extension 34. Peninsula Hotal.
tl it ingles, massaging the lather in from the ground: they should be with her fingers as well.
nsk
M. L. B.
IF there
to a thick paste. Apply this to the
easy
If by this time you're still her skin until the mixture rubs off in Best Friend, make a dals for a re-
turn visit. fine flakes.
From a very early age the orange is important to health. The baby of n few weeks has his daily dose of orange juice to provide the essential orange oranges or vitamins. Raw julee make an excellent early morn- ing tonic for grown-ups,
Orange julee will tone and whiten the skin and is especially valuable for dry skins, orange peel gives soft- ness and a delicate fragrance to the bath water.
A Dainty Sweet
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Even arange pips have their uses. marmalade
The Townsend $200 a month pen- When making Jam or save the orange pips, tie them in muslin and bolt with the fruit. The alon plan was cited here in a divorce Hugh Pearson sued his wife, pips contain pectine, the substance suit. which makes jams and jellies "set" Mary Marjorie, on the grounds that Pieces of dried orango peel put on she constantly quarrelled with him. because he would not join the Town- a Are will make it burn well.
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