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Lie fat on your back, tucking your toes under some heavy piece of fur- niture if you're new to this sort of thing, with your hands behind your Slaw- head, elbows out.
ty-an slowly as you can -raise and lower your- self from the waist-ten times.
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Still lying on back, with your hands behind your head, raise and lower your legs-- slowly. Keep your legs straight, ankles and kneen together, and do it as slowly as you can. This one takes practice do it only five times at firat.
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, legs astride, hands on hips with the Bend first to the right, thumbs over your hip banes,
then Iran smoothly over to the left. Bend in right; left, right, left, twenty times,
A soft blue rayon sheer- has hand-smocked details through the bodice and a flaring skirt.
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Tasty Puddings
WHAT pudding shall we have to-
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day? That is a problem which is specially important in winter time when appeilies
koon. The following recipes will be useful in the making.
Nice Castles
Wash 4 ozs rice, then cook it with 1 pint milk in a double boller till it has absorbed all the milk. Add 1
to taste then oz butter, sugar beaten egg. Press the mixture into well-greased small tins or bowls decorated with 2 cherries at foot of mould.
Bake in n moderate oven 15 min- utes, or steam 40 minutes. Turn on to a hot dish, and serve with the following sauce!—
Flake up 2 ozs chocolate, and put into a saucepan with 2 ora granu- lated sugar and a tablespoon water. Sur till the Ingredients have, ali melted, and the mixture is smooth.
Then nd pink milk and a benten egg. Stir till the mixture is thick like custard: but do not allow to boll. Directly it coats the back of the spoon-1 is ready to serve. Fio and Lemon Pudding
Mix together 3 ozs flour, 2 ozs breadcrumbs, 2 DZS chopped suct, pinch salt, 2 ozs sugar, and 1 smal teaspoon baking powder. Then add 4 ozs dried Ags (chopped), the grated rind and julee of 1 lemon. Mix well. Bind together with beaten egg and 1 gill milk. When of dropplug consistency, pour Into greased mould, and steam steadily 2 hours. Serve with:-
Golden Sauce
Put 3 tablespoons syrup In pan, add tablespoons cold water. and the grated rind und juice of 1 lemon. Simmer gently 2-3 minutes, then pour into sauce boat.
Preserved Ghiper Pudding
Ball 3 gills milk, and pour over b breadcrumbs. In another ba- sin, beat? ezs butter to a cream, stir in 2 ozs agar, and 1 oz Blour. Add to that 4 ozs preserved gloger, cul small. Bind fogether with 2 well beaten eggs.
Add this to the crumbs and milk, and mix thoroughly, Pour Into greased basin, and steam steadily hours. Turn out and serve with a sweet white sauce, davoured with ginger.
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TIMELY TIPS METAL clothes line cannot rust or mark clothes if it is given a coat of thin enamel.
Lie on your tummy, arms stretched out in front of you, legs behind you. Breathe deeply, then raise your arms and legs from
Enamelled flapjacks and cigarelle the floor. They won't go very high bul
eases sometimes become scratched don't worry-do it as smoothly as you can when carried about in a handbag. -don't jerk-and don't do it more than ten Make a cover by cutting two small times to start with.
CAKES
1 grapefruit
4oz. butter..
Fashion Notes
circies or squares (according to the size und shape of the case) from the gauntlet part of old chamols Buttonstitch the side to- gloves. gether, leaving suficient opening for the case, securing the opening with a press stud. This simple cover will protect the enamel from contact with keys and coins.
When washing cretonne or similar
CHARMING new accessories and trides give a smart finishing touch to feminine eltin. Small poles GRATE grapefruit rind and are made from anything from felt to material the colours of which may orna- fade in soap and water, try using feathers. One lovely Japet put in saucepan with the ment is made from a realistic bunch water in which a large bag of bran three long has been bolled. Give a final rinse juice of the grapefruit, sugar of red berries held in
Beat leaves of black felt. Other charm in fresh bean water and salt. and buttert mell and cool.
ing button-holes are made from de- eggs and add. Stir over heat untifiately curled feathers in brilliant add a small muslin bag containing
It thickens; do not allow it to boll.
Line patty ins with pastry and dace mixture inside. Bake for 20 min. in moderate oven.
Precocious Children
THE THE precocious child is often the the child is more or less a wonder- toy. Second, the home result of over-praise and Indul- fid living gence In the early years. If once where the family has been restricted this fact is grasped it makes it easier to one, in order that that one "may 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 opt to arouse either feelings brothers and sisters, and so is made in a grown-up of strong resentment, or wealt self- much of and lives
pity.
atmosphere.
child The
with mental ability Pential Geniuses above the average is apt to be ex-
It must never be overlooked that ploited by adoring parents who thus unconsciously satisfy their own in the child who shows marked mental stinct of pride at the expense of his ability at an early age may be a general and psychological develop- patential genius, therefore his up- ment.
bringing needs all the more care it 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 and physical uteinory tests, its readiness to copy balance of mental and emulate the sayings and doings health with the unusual child is to him lead as normal life as of the adult world around, anti so. make very naturally, the child suon thinks possible. Never allow him to think himself a very fine fellow and much he is different from his fellows. Do
not force his brain-rother superior to his companions.
The Result of Over-Development
keep
back from actual mental exercises, but give the child plenty of manual
Do parents ever stop to think accupation, preferably cut of doors. where all this is leading?
When
He will be absorbing knowledge there is over-development of any all the time, but in such a way that one part, either mentally or physic- the mental; spiritual, and bootly de- ally there will be found a corres- velopment will each get its due.
some- As he grows older and some de- ponding under-development
finite talent shows itself he must be where else.
The brain that Is overtaxed hi taught thint this eleverness or apti- babyhood takes its tell from the tude is something progresalve; 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 chlid. Thus he grows up lop- panions there is still much to be sloed, ns it were, with certain facul-"uchleved.
les abnormal and others immature. When such a line is taken there Why do we to seldom hear of the is little fear of the child being infant prodigy in after-lite? Simply spoiled, and his future powers in- because his extreine precocity had paired by undue precocity, which la over-strained the brain to such an apparent in many modern children. extent that it had no power of fur- ther development.
Precocity is really dun. over- developed assertive instinct and be- cause this instinct is one which is so valuable when it is in its proper place in the child's character, it is ufortunate that by mishandling it
ls given over-prominence.
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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 strap model, in patent how the summer efect is achieved with crushed elasticted kidalin through open backs, open sides, centre atraj,
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HOLIDAY NOTICE. FEBRUARY 19th, 20th, & 21st, 1939.
Wo beg to inform our customers that during the above holidays the following business hours have been arrangod:
FEBRUARY, 18TH. FROM 6 A.M. TO 3 P.M. FEBRUARY, 19TH, ENTIRELY CLOSED FEBRUARY 20TH, FROM 6 A.M. TO 12 NOON FEBRUARY, 21ST. FROM 6 A.M. TO 12 NOON
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