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SAY IT
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HEARTS!
EARS ago St. Valentine's Day was quite an important affair, when romantic young men took the opportunity of sending a token of their affection to their chosen lady lova. Heartu are trumpa to-day! The "let me be your Valentine" days are not over by any means, and they cause much fun and amusement among friends.
I know one young man who had thirteen Valentines last year!
Many versions are given as to the origin of St. Valentine's Day; but, whoever started the idea, the fashion world is taking
Valentine Gifts
on this page:
To stand on his desk, a heurt- shaped matchstand in flaming
red,
1 heart to hold your money, arcurely fastened with a zip and a wristlet strap in bine, or red or green.
Or # sentimental photograph frame, with a private shutter which opens to show a "lored one's face, maybe the baby's
Two pairs of heart-shaped pockets 4 give Paritian style to a simple
dress in striped- flannel.
Here we have the new juli-skirted afternoon dress with its fitted bodice and front row of heart- shaped buttons.
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CASSOULET
This savoury and delicious dish
comes from
Southern France. To;
of lean un- prepare it taken 21s cooked lamb, lib of butter beans, a clove of garlic, a bouquet garn!, salt, pepper, a few slees of saurage and three onlons.
Soak the beans overnight; next day place them in a saucepan with cokl water and cook gently for 2 hours. Cut the lamb in neat pieces und Add onions Brown them In butter. sliced, garlic, reasoning and bouquet. Dredge little flour over them and pour on very gradually a bare pint of stock or boiling water.. There should not be much gravy, Cook until ten-
der.
Place half the beans in a casserole, add the meat, the remainder of the beans, the sausage and gravy. Coveri
moderate and finish cooking In A
Serve aven for about 20 minutes. very hot in casserole.
Going down to the sea, will be easy for any: Mias in this bathing suit of black and white. celanase rajów"moire..."
Beauty
takes the Road
☆
ERE It is at last; the begin- ling of Spring, and most of us are planning our first day of the year out-of-doors.
My first job, when I'm getting ready for a day's like, is to be kind to my feet,
I and that comfort in this direc- tion can give one a hundred per cent. moro pleasure. Nothing elaborate; just a spray of cau-de- Cologne and 4. good dusting of boracic-acid powder before put-
ing on my stockings.
I'm careful what shoes, too, on these occasions. Turn a cold shoulder on high-heeled pretties and go for less pretentious, but kinder, footwear. Remember that aching heels bring sad mouths and wrinkled brows.
Personally, I go easy on make-up for the open-air-too much has a way of looking gorlsh. But I think that your powder foundation is important, ns it is your insurance against a shiny skin. You may use a vanishing cream or a liquid-the latter generally has a mara lasting effect, but it is more trouble to apply.
Whichever it is. pay special atten
a hand by showing many heart- shaped novelties.
Even on frocks the Cupid note is to be remarked, but no lady wears her heart on her sleeves.
You will notice in the models shown that pockets, collars and cuffs have a heart interest, and in
the right-hand model the bodice has been cleverly curved to follow the same lines.
A novel note can be given to the simplest frock by the addition of heart-shaped buttons. These are castly made in suede cloth or velvet. A belt embroidered with minute hearts in different shades gives a colourful note to a dark everyday dress.
The wearing of heart-shaped accessories is not restricted to St. Valentine's Day, as in Parla shops are to be seen black antelope bags decorated with a Cupid's arrow.
Gloves have the same emblem embroidered or enamelled an tho back or on the gauntlet.
On laces, too, true lovers' knots are a favourite border as well as corner decoration.
Many novelties not only take on a practical form, but are delight- ful sentimental remembrances of happy days,
Wives like something practical for the house and the pretty matchstand will find a niche in the lounge or dining-room,
February 14,
1939.
BATHS FOR BEAUTY
RATIS are the most important of
all beauty treatments-not just ordinary baths with soap and hot wnter-but those with something special in them to get just the right results.
For instance, have you ever tried fa hot sca sak bath? Sea water is very invigorating, and you can enjoy it in your own home. On days when you have been extra busy tone your- self up with a salt-water splash.
Sen salts can be obtained from your chemist, and a couple of hand-
to fuls added a hot
make it baili very pleasant Indeed. Or,
Or, you can prepare a
a similar bath by using the Fame quantily of course kitchen salt. Wash down with soap and water In the usual way to cleanse the skin, and then slip Into the prepared bath for a few minutes. Salt baths aro very sumulating to the skin, and aro just the thing to give you a feeling of exhilaration after hard day's
work or play.
For An Olly Skin
If you suffer train an olly skin try a bran bath. Put n cupful of bran Into a muslin bag, and pour two tablespoonfuls of toilet cau-de- Cologne over it. Tie up loosely, and use the bag as
in
□ sponge
your bath. It a home in
a good skin tonic. An oatmeal bath will soften and whiten the skin. Do not put the oatmeal in the bath loose, but tie it #t up in a 'muslin bag and squeeze out in the water several times.
The heart-shaped pocket work-case will also find mother's work basket, and will recall happy thoughts of a pleasant surprise each time it is used.
LUTAN
BAIRD
Valentine
by..
Mary
Grace
tion to your forehead tipis of people forget they have any face above their eyest), the parts round the nostrilk and your chin. These are the spots which shine first, so defeat them.
Lipstick fasts well if you follow that old, but effective, trick of applying R. then powdering the lips, then applying more of the #pstick. This why the rouge sets and Insts for hours.
Fresh as
à Daisy
Office workers who are not accus~ tomed to a lot of exercise often find that a day of biking or hiking leaves them too stiff to move next morning. You cзn avold this kind of hangover If you have a bot bath and a good rub down at night. A handful of bath salts adels to the pleasure at the end of a perfect day.
Last, but not least, remember that however beautifully you apply your make-up your skin will pick up a lot of dust. Don't keep powdering over Instead pop a tiny bottle of cleaning lotion and a bit of cotton wool in your handbag.
Have a good clean up during the day and when you get home your face will Mill feel fresh as a daisy and you look as pretty as when you started out in the morning.
Are Women Too Inquisitive?
MANY modern women ecem to formation
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for
use, Buy, in an
DOCTOR'S ORDERS
READER wrote the other day saying that she was going
to have a baby, and that her doctor had advised her to have tinned salmon twice a week, as the calcium from the crushed bones would be good for her and for her child.
She wanted recipes to vary the menu. Here are the ones I gave her
In a Pie
All the family will enjoy it. Ingredients: 1 small in Middle-Cul salmon, tomatoes. 11oz. margarine. pint milk. 1 small onich, 3 table- spoonful white breadcrumbs, season- ing. parsley, nutmeg.
Brush & reproof dish well with melted margarine and sprinkle all over with breadcrumbs, slice the toma- toes and lay evenly over the bottom
of the dish.
Flake the salmon into medium-sized pieces, lay a layer of salmon on the tomatoes and add a layer of finely- chopped onion and parsley.
Make white sauce. adding to it the Malmon liquid and a little nutmeg.
Pour over salmon, cover with bread- crumbs and bake in a moderate oven for ten minutes. Remove from oven, dot with small pieces of margarine and. gri til golden brown. Baked Salmon Potatoes
Nourishing and savoury dish Ingredients: 1 tin Middle-Cut salmon, 6 large potatoes, 2 oz. grated cheese. 1 oz. margarine, salt and pepper, and a little hot milk.
Drain and flake the salmon. Bake the potatoes. Halvo them lengthways and scoop out the potato.
Mash it well with margarine and a He hot milk, Add a good spoonful of flaked salmen to each potato case.
Season the mashed potato well with Frated salt and pepper and add cheese. F cach potato ease and brown in a hat oven for 10 minutes. With Cheese Sauce
Savoury garnish for the fish. Take a large in of Middle-Cut salmon, heat the salmon and place it on a dish.
Make a good white sauce and after it ins bolled add 1oz of grated cheese. Pour the sauce over the salmon. Slice three hard-boiled eggs over the top and garnish with paralcy.
Mincemeat Fairy
Cakes
THESE are pleasing dainties which
are safe for encores at any party. Cream four ounces of castor sugar and four ounces of butter together, Add two well-beaten eggs and beat thoroughly into the butter and sugar mixture.. Then mix in eight ounces of self-raising flour, three table- spoonfuls of mincement, and two Lablespoonfuls of milk.
Put into greased small tins and bake for about ten to fifteen minutes in a moderate oven,
D. F.
have this mania for asking examination; yet It puzzles me why questions, indeed the woman of to- women should be so anxious to mas-therefore, he ignores such questions day is becoming so Inquisitive that ter information that no one in the her husband and family can have least requires: the exact colour of when his wife puts them to him in very little peace in the evnings when her neighbours curtains; the number the evening. they return from work.
one
thing
and
other
and
far 100
If you suffer from insomnia, a terb bath taken hot, will usually induce n Hood night's rest..
be
can
Arelection of herbs bought at any
chemist's. Take a handful each of such herbs as mint, thyme, sage, rosemary and lavender. Put them in
drop them in a muslin bag and into a jug of boiling water; add tablespoonful of bicarbonate of soda. Leave the herbs in the boiling water for about ten minutes to extract the essences, and then pour the liquor into your bath. Such a bath is both fragrant and refreshing,
of dresses Mrs. X possesses; the I admit that there are faults on Curiosity, of course, is a good thing various relations who come to stay both sides. Husbands are in moderation; yet in excess it comes with the woman across the street reticent about their work, and stem very near to impertinence. In in the friends Miss Y. has to tomato forget that it may be of greut
umes the posunan
Wives, on fants and school-children It is on-the number of couraged, and rightly so here it is calls next door. These are only a interest to other people.
tive, and ply their husbands with knowledge that is being sought, few of the many facts which the the other hand, are far too inquisi- Women, however, are curious about average woman has at her linger questions even though they may be aro a little and one thing only ends.
It seems to me that some kind other
And then there are the questions aware that the latter. prople
which women ask their husbands tired. opio's affairs. Quite a big subject to be interested and families. These mainly concern of compromise should be made in in, you say? You are right; per- the persons met during the day, and this connection. sonally, I do not know how so many any strange incidents which may women manage to master and retain have occurred in the course of the majority of women ore far too in-
day's work.
quisitive. Curiosity, they say, killed such an accumulation of facia.
the cat. I sincerely hope that it will Strangely enough, the majority of Reluctant to "Talk Shop" these facts are of little Importance
The average British husband, how not be the means of destroying wo men, let alone their husbands and to anyone.
ever, has a strange habit of refusing families! to "talk shop" when his work lief over
A Modern Man
Funds of information
-1 can see the sense of storing in for the day; and not unnaturally,
Avoid very wet when taken before retiring at night, as they make one feel sleepy. A useful and safe guide is to see if you can im- merse your elbow comfortably in the water,
A Morning Tonic
To
A regular tepid morning bath bracing and beneficial. It should al- ways be followed by five minutes exercise to restore circulation, and then will feel really fit for the day's
work.
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If you want to slim, try a weekly foam bath. Haif all the bath with hot water and add a couple of table- spoonfuls of Epsom salts, sold for bath purposes. Then add half pound of soap flakes and beat the water thoro
cane thoroughly with a carpet bea
beater until Is a mass of Add. hot water until your elbow can just bear the heat, and Lie in the then sink into the foam. bath for about fifteen minutes, and cool down the water by turning on the cold tap before you get out.
foam.
Foam baths are slippery, and it is
a wise precaution to have a folded towel at the bottom of the bath to give you a foothold.
I. H.
A house frock that is "styled" is developed in printed percale. In wing and green tones. Note the ahirred waistline and the front buttoned bodice, while the skirt wraps and ties in con- ventional manner. The collar is white dotted swiss.
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mentals of good taste that smartness our opinions so valueless?
You pro
in a woman does not hit one in the fess to an honest desire to please us eye, so to speak; surely you can when you dine with us, but aren't Arst--in obtain your effects with delicacy you rather than-shall we say-obvious terms of dress?
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pleasing yourselves
-It is all very well to siy defensive-
I hope you will believe me when ly that a man has a natural pride in girl who is butstanding- I say that men loathe nothing more being with than to be made conspicuous them-ly dressed at a restaurant or a
that
you selves by being with a girl who has theatre; but does this mean set herself out to be looked at. Or should go to may I say It? absurd course, when we meet you, cay, for lengths to achieve that object? We lunch, we tell you that you have men are self-conscious. An evening for us If we feel that this maintain, By A MERE MAN
never looked better; we although our on
tongue is in our cheek, golf-consciousness is
Inspection. fified, we men, by the vagaries simply wonderful; yet we writhe ass of critical of feminino fashions: however, much we note out of the corner of our eyes we may like belog with a woman what we imagine to be covert smiles ly taste. Far from it. But perhape who is original, colourful, and smart, from other babies. we hate you to be conspicuous...
the focus
I still maintain, however, that the TOWEVER much we may be mys- that that rather striking new hat the fear that we be mostly led by
This is not D
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unobtrudva Genertnom in a
You diamles our opinions on the at you really knew how much men 11' all very well being the cyno- subject of what women ought, and woman You ase, we're probably eure of all eyes, as the novelists put. ought not, to wear with an affection rather more observant than you give It, but surely it is one of the ele ate but serious contempt.
Yet are us credit for being