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WASP WAISTS
Lie fat on your back, tucking your foex under some heavy piece of fur- niture if you're new to this sort of thing, with your hands behind your head, elbows out. Slow- ly-as slowly as you can -raise and lower your self from the waist-ten times.
Still lying ON your back, with your handa behind your head, raise and lower your legs- slowly. Keep your legs straight, ankles and knees together, and do it as slowly as you can. This one takes practice -do it only five times at first.
These exercises, so simple they almost speak for themselves, will gently but firmly give you the figure for this year's tight-fitted frocks.
Sit on floor, lega-natride, hunds on hips with the thumba over your hip bones. Bend first to the right, then lean amoothly over to the left. right, left, twenty timea.
A soft blue rayon sheer has hand-smacked details through
the bodice, and a flaring skirt.
METROPOLE
Bend in right, left,
Pastry
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CHEESE
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Lie on your tummy, armis stretched out in front of you, legs behind you, Breathe deeply, then raise your arms and legs from the floor. They won't go very high but don't worry do it as smoothly as you can ~don't jerk-and don't do it more than ten times to start with.
CAKES
15 grapefruit
40%. butter
Fashion Notes
·February 16, 1939.
Tasty Puddings
WHAT pudding shall we have to- duy? That is a problem which
Is speelilly Importani in winter time when appetites arc keen. The following recipes will be useful in the moking!
Rice Castles
Wash ozs rice, then cook it with 1 piat milk in a double boller till it hos absorbed all the nik. Add 1 oz butter, suger to taste-then A beaten egg- Press the mixture into well-greased smil! tins or bowls decorated with 2 cherries at foot of mould,
Bake in andernte oven 15 min- utes, or steam 40 minutes. Turn on the to a hot dish, and serve with following sauce:-
Flake-up-2 ozs chocolate, and put into a saucepan. with 2 ozs granu- inted sugar and a tablespoon water, till the ingredients have all melted; and the mixture is smooth.
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int milk and teaten egg Stir titt the mixture is thick. like custard: but do not allow to boil. Directly, it coals the back of the poo-it is ready to serve.
Pip and Lemon Pudding
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Mix together 2 os flour. 2 ozs breaterumbs, 2 ozz chopped suet, pinch salt, ozs sugar, and 1 small teaspoon baking powder. Then add 4 ozs dried a (chopped). the grated rind and juice of 1 lemon. J. Mix well. Bind together with
beaten egg and I gill milk. When of dropping consistency,
into pour greure'l mould, and steam steadily 2 hours. Serve with
Golden Sauce
Put 3 tablespoons syrup in pan, ndd & tablespoons cold water, and the grated rind and juice of 1 lemon, Simmer gently 2-3 minutes, then pour into sauce boat.
Preserved Ginger Pudding
Boil 3 ils milk, and pour over breadcrumbs. In another ba- sin, beat 3 oza butter to a cream, stir In 2 ozs sugar, and 1 oz flour. Add to that 4 029 preserved ginger, cut amall. Bind together with 2 well beaten eggs.
Add this to the crumbs and milk, Into and mix thoroughly. Pour greased basin, and steam steadily 12 hours. Turn out and serve with a sweet white sauce, flavoured with ginger.
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TIMELY TIPS
A METAL clothes line cannot rust or murk clothes it it is given a wont of thin enamel.
cases sometimes become scratched Enamelled dapjacks and cigarette when carried about in a handbug. Make a cover by eulting two small eireles or squares (according to the size and shape of the case) from- the gauntlet part of old chamois gloves. Buttonstitch the side to gether, leaving suffelent opening for the ease, securing the opening with u press stud. This simple cover will CHARMING new accessories and protect the enamel from contact with
trifles give a smart @nishing keys and coins. touch to feminine chle. Small postes When washing cretonne or similar GRATE grapefruit rind and are made from anything from felt to material the colours of which may
feathers.
and water, try using One lovely fupel orna-fade in soup put in saucepan with the
ment is made from a realistic bunch water in which a large bag of bran Give a final rinse juice of the grapefruit, sugar of red berries held in three long has been boiled,
Other charm-in fresh bran water and salt. and butter; melt and cool. Beatleaves of black felt.
When next bolling handkerchiefs, ing button-holes are made from de eggs and add. Stir over heat until lately curled feathers in brillant add a small muslin bag containing it thickens: do not allow it to boll.
colours.
plumes arris root to the water and a last- while ostrich mounted on a jewelled-glip make a ling fragrance of violets will be im- Line pally ting with pastry and
majestle and successful headdress parted to the linen. Bake for 20 with almost every evening frock. place mixture inside. mins, a moderate oven.
Precocious Children
THE precodous child is often the the child is more or less a wonder-
fog. Seend. the home! result of over-praise and indul- ful ving
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in the early years. It once where the family has been restricted this fact is grasped it inakes it easier to one, in order that that one "my for those who have to deal with him have every advantage," and third, later to do so in an understanding the small person who has arrived on and sympathetic manner, otherwise the scene many years Junior to his they are apt to arouse either feelings brothers and sisters, and so is made of strong resentment, or weak self- much of and lives in a grown-up
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Potential Geniuses
The child with mental ability above the average is apt. to be ex- ploited by adoring parents who thus
It must never be overlooked that unconsciously satisfy their own in the child who boys marked mental stinct of pride at the expense of his ability at an early age may be a Reneral and psychological develop- potential genius. therefore his up- i ment.
bringing needs all the more care K The young brain is constantly be- he is to make the most of his talents. ing made to exhibit its quickness in The safest plan for preserving the
of mental and memory tests, its readiness to copy balance
physical and emulate the sayings and doings health with the unusual child Is to of the adult world around, and so make him lead I normal life asi very naturally, the child soon thinks possible. Never allow him to think! himself a very fine fellow and much he is different from his fellows. Do! superior to his companions.
The Result of Over-Development
not force his brain-rather keep it! back from actual mental exercises. but give the child plenty of manual out of doors.
think occupation, preferint knowledge there is over-development of any all the time, but in such a way that une part, either mentally or physle- the mental, spiritual, and bodily de- alty there will be found a corres velopment will each get its due. ponding under-development some- As he grows older and some de Where else.
finite talent shows itself he must be The brain that Is overtaxed in taught that this eleverness or aptl- babyboud
takes its toll from the tude is something progressive; that nervous system or the psychological no matter how he may seem to stand; make-up, the character-building of head and shoulders above his com- the child. Thus he grows up lop- panions there is still much to be sided, as it were, with certain facul- schieved.
Do parents ever stop to where all this is leading? When He will be
ttes abnormal and others immature. When such a line is taken there Why do we so seldom heur of the is little fear of the child being intant prodigy in after-lite? Simply spotled, and his future powers im because his extreme precocity had paired by undue precocity, which is over-strained the brain to such an apparent in many modern children. extent that i had no power of fur- ther development.
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Here are shoes that will be worn Third from the top, still to the this spring. They are variations right of the sketch, is another of the high front line. Observe wishbone atrap model, in patent how the summer effect is achieved with crushed elasticked kidskin through open backa, open aldes, centre atrap. cutout vamps.
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At the lower right, another high
at the top is a asymmetric style front, is done in perforatca elas- in blue kid with binding and ride ficlzed stede in cranberry, with a lacing of white kid. Combination sawtooth edging to the front panel of the high and low cut lines is and similar stitching on the back
strap. achieved here in Interesting treat- ment with an elastic back.
Of the two shoes at the left of To the right below it the T- the group, the upper ta in japonica atrap in black patent has teardrop mesh, with trimming of japonica openings through the forepart and calf. Below it is the one true sans widely opened shurdi. The, strap dal type in this group, done in is elcsticized to give a molding patent with pinhole perforations
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