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"Her best friend
ought to tell her.""
It's not difficult to see what's wrong with this picture. The girl on the left is over-dressed, with ussy hat und accessories blurring the general line, Her Best Friend could tell her a thing or two, but would she take
Would you?
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FIRST IMPRESSIONS
You
and
Bouty
strapless frocks if your
Bet her
trust the
THIS remark might quite you website shoulders are
easily be made about and bony. If you you. Now, you're sure to Best Friend, take her advice; but if olive oil to help. Warm have one friend who can be you've let your heart on the iden, cruel to be kind without works wonders. First ask her nice- ly to bathe the shoulders with hot may fight against it EVERYONE receives first impres-
build up a tell us where there's room for oil, lightly across the throat and up- sions, that is inevitable; but such argue "common sense and speak of hurting your feelings; who can water, and then rub in warm olive more firmly round the impressions carry far more weight logle, and deliberately with some people than with others, composite picture, in which the gir improvement in the woman wo per chest,
should be done is often as she can gle is only one aspect of a character,
be bribed to do it. Sponging with To some people, the first impression but does not the first impression of show to the world, kindly not shoulders and aeross the back. This cold water completes the treatment. is simply the first meeting with o ten come to its own and prove the cattishly.
built-up picture to have
If you can take it, invite your person or sight of a place, and no carefully
Head massage It differs in no way from been a pleture and no more, while more.
Into the first impression was the reality? Best Friend out to lunch or ten merges
is Day- meetings, Inter
form a general another, until all
The first impression may not be and ask her to say things to you
ging dismally, encourage plcture.
perfect, but it is accurate as a snap-like the young ladies in the ad- INLESS her enthusiasm
compared with a vertisements say about their friends, It may be vague, because it is com- hot Is accurate
fuce. your figure, your clothes, either side of your head, her thumbs the nape of the neck. The pounded of so many impressions: or meticulous sketch painted in detali Ask her what she thinks about your Best Friend to place one hand on
She'll tell you all right. If she's any over it so many impressions, casting so by detall. many different ghts on the person
In any case, first impressions make woman at all she won't be able to scalp must be massaged with a re- It is a composte impres- or place.
ad up most of our vivid mental pictures resist giving you advice, and if she's tary movement of the fingers, the sion with its drawbacks and
Later impressions are blurred.
your Best Friend it ought to count thumbs staying still. vantages.
see nothing, or we see what we ex-
for something. With other people the first im- pected to see or want to see. I'd pression stands out alone. mugnified rather risk the exaggerated feet-or out of all proportion, dwarfing all their equivalent-than let my first Interviews; clear-cut and vivid; Impressions go.
one
possibly inaccurate but ineftaceable.
Such Impressions may influence all
Inter meetings or views of a place.
We may argue that reason prefers
the multiple impression; but reason
and
We
M. F. M.
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Household hints
has nothing to do with it. The first WHEN aluminium saucepan Ilds become hot, they should be re- Impression is as rapid as a snapshot
vivid. Possibly, ike come moved with a wooden clothes peg: badly-taken snapshots, it may be out und a piece of twine bound for a few of perspective. To be sure we are inthes round each handle will save told that "the camera does not le," many a scorched palm.
Cleansing your back
the
of
The thumbs nre moved, upwards and the process repeated all over the head. If your hair is normal the tips of her fingers may be dipped in THERE are dozens of things she lukewarm water, if it is greasy, in can help you over once, as the buy rum, If it is dry, In oll of sweet Americans tay, you've let down your almonds.
Then go systematically through back hair. Things you can't do
a sort wurdrolic, having yourself unless you happen to be a your
I don't know. bly not even then.
It's impossible in a mirror to get professional contortionist and proba- mannequin parade.
There's your back to begin with, a general eye-view of your - You won't, but thousands of other houette, and more impossible still to ing dress. Peering into a hand mir- back. 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
and, possibly even blackheads
a spot.
and some people say the same of first A little cold tea is a marvellous impressions, arguing that they are cleanser for badly soiled hands. It can't be true- suggestion of honest and unbiased. The enmera should be used with soap,
After cleaning taps, sprinkle may not lie, but what about those
clean cloth and exaggerated feat which sometimes tile flour on a occupy the whole foreground? That having rubbed the tops 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.
clothes without being suficiently distorted
pege prevent grotesque to be noticeably so.
splitting, soak them before use in cold water for twelve hours.
To
NEW
Get
Shorter hems
January 12, 1939, TASTY WAY WITH DATES
THER THERE are any interesting ways of serving this nutritious dried frult.
Next time you bake some apples for lunch, scoop out the cores before baking and insert dates in the cavi- tles.
You
bove probably had dates stuffed with nuts. Try these ori- ginal Mngs for a change:-Divide the dates into three lets. Fill the centres of the first pile with halves of cooked prunes, the second with weedless raisins, the third with either cream cheese or peanut butter. Hol all the dates in sugar.
Date and Nut Sandwiches
nuts.
Chop a cupful of stoned dates and mix them with 14 cupful chopped or Kround walnuts or brazil Spread between thin slices of brown or white bread and butler. Date and Walnut Pudding
Chop 1 lb stoned dates and 1 cup- ful shelled walnuts, and mix with 1 cuplul flour, 1 cupful sugor, 2 ten- spoonfuls baking powder, and a pinch of salt. Beat lightly together 1 ex. 1⁄2 teaspoonful vanilla essence, and 11⁄2 cupful milk. Add to dry in- gredients and mix well. Turn into a greased baking dish and bake hour. Serve very hot.
Date and Apple Pasty
Sift together 8 ozs flour, 2 oz sugar, teaspoonful baking powder, Rub in 4 1 teaspoonful cinnamon. os butter. Mix to a fairly stiff Laste with 1 egg yolk and a little ilk. Line a greased flan tin with half the prestry,
Peel, core, and slice 14 1 cook- log apples and mix with 4 doz chop- pid date, ozs brown sugar, 1 oz butler, teaspoonful cinnamon. Fill the pastry shell with the mixture, and cover with the reisutning pas- try. Bake in a fairly hot oven hour. The pasty should be leed it it is to be served cold.
Date Bread
Chop 1 cupful dates and put them into a basin. Pour over then 1 tea- spoonful soda and 1 cupful bolling water. Leave to cool.
Cream 4 uzs butter and 1 cupful brown sugar. Add 1 beaten egg and Add date mixture, then cup flour.
and, if desired, 1⁄2 cup chopped wal- nuts. Pour into a greased loaf tin and bake in a slow oven for about 1 hour,
This date brend is delicious cut in fairly thick slices and spread with soft butter.
Desert dates' should have a moist, If they become sticky appearance.
of clean dry, tie them In a piece
for a few muslin and stem them minutes. Cool before eating.
Dates are an excellent food, sup- plying both warmth and energy.
Margaret Cooper
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Face Up To The Wind
DAY in a cold wind works haver with the complexion. It seems almost impossible to arrive at one's destination in a neat state, and the sure eyes, a flaky after-effects are tidily about. skin, and wisps of hair trailing un-
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Be sure and use a good non-slicky cream foundation cream, and a rouge if you are going out en windy day. Better still, give your fnce on olling with olive oll before applying make-up. This softens the skin, and helps it to keep from peel- ink:
An ornamentai hair style is going to blow to pieces in a high wind, and It is far more sensible to do your possible. hair in as neat a way us
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 kecing it trim
When you come in, bathe your eyes with a good eye lotion, for they collect an amazing amount of grit
should be cleansed. More than like- ly they are watering as a result of the wind and bathing will soothe them Instantly.
and dirt, and it is essential that they
Do not sit over a fire when you come in from a walk in a cold wind, for if you suffer from a red nose this will make it redder than ever. Al- fow yourself to get used to the warm atmosphere gradually.
Anne Brook
Uses For Oranges
How often do you see people whose clothes would be 50 per cent. smarter if only someone would
an almost un- take two inches offimited number of uses in the
RANGES ave The Best Friend might be per- tell them to
one of
hame, even to being useful for de- the, by now, Latigued
on fruit corative purposes. Piled suaded into starting by cleansing their hems. You may be your back as thoroughly as she con them. Get with lemon cream. Then having got Best Friend to sit still with half-
a warm splash of colour to table or for her use a basin of hot water, a closed eyes and tell you about them. platters or in a fruit bowl they lend
the hems side-bourd. to measure her loofah and a tablet of super-falied "get her to scrub your back un-
the ground: they should be title ingles, massaging the lather in from
14 this year. If she marks them with her fingers as well.
to alter them accurately all So far as people are concerned of colour through-time, wash in warm
Add a few drops of tincture of with pins and a measure stick it is and when dry apply ten the Arst Impression dominates hoapy water
nervous giggie never black shoe stain. When hard, polish benzine to a basin of cold water, und round.
nsk her to The rest. A
rinse the soap off heard nguin-may kill what might with furniture cream.
When carpet corners keep turning thoroughly with it. A light nourish- have been a friendship, an awkward manner may create a totally wrong up, sew a short length of hat wireing cream smoothed on would com- making-the fit of neckline and Impression. In a way it li a pity, along the undersides of the corners plete the treatment. yet don't you usually feel that the and they will lie fat. Arst impression is the correct one?
Killing Friendshipa
IF
If ebony-backed brushes have lost
you have any beauty problems, why not try
Mrs. Boton's Beauty Salon which has a reputa- tion of being the most reliable in the Colony. Peninsula Hotel.
Tel. 58081, Extension 34,
-M. L. B.
Calamine lotion
thele
won't
ensy
Then the bugbears of home dress- sleeve at the back. On her advice tiny tucks in the former, a in, al- teration in the seam of the latter, will make all that much diference, are spots you probably
Ask her about the "sents" of your knoty about them until she tells you, but please take the skirts. If you sit around much Get they're bound not to be all they information in the right spirit.
the measure her to paint them with calamine should. Get her to
width across of the skirt and then line it with Jop silk which measures
lotion.
To get rid of the rest of the din- in. less than the skirt. This will giness mix nome fine oatmeal with take the strain when you sil equal quantities of milk and water
to a thick paste. Apply this to the
It by this time you're still her akin until the mixture rubs off in Best Friend, make a date for a re
turn visit.. no Bakes.
From a very early age the orange Is Important to health. The baby of a few weeks has his daily dose of orange juice to provide the essential
oranges or vllamina. Raw Julce make an excellent early morn- Ing tonic for grown-ups,
Grange
Orange juice will tone and whiten
the skin and is especially valuable for dry skins, orange peol gives soft- ness and a delicate fragrance to the bath water.
A Dainty Sucet
Many a tasty sweet can be made from oranges, such as the following fruit delicious
easily made and! cream plo. Empty à large in of full-cream
condensed sweetened milk into a basin, add the juice of one lemon and beat until thick and creamy. Peel three oranges und-cut across in allees, cutting each alice Into smaller pleces. Fold the fruit
"Good for your Toofies"
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into the beaten creamy mixture and whipped cream and chill before ser- ving.
Even orango pips have their uses. marmalade When making jam or
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Townsend Plan Parts Couple
RICHMOND, Cal.
The Townsend 3200 a month pen-
save the orange pips, tie them in muslin and boll with the fruit. The sion plan was cited here in a divorce pips contain pectine, the substance auit. Hugh Pearson sued his wife, which makes Jams and Jellies "set." Mary Marjorie, on the grounds that Pieces of dried orange peel put on she constantly quarrelled with him a fire will make it bum well. because he would not join the Town-
G. W. send movement.