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the Spring Clean
Make space for new clothes by getting rid of white elephants: Take note of mattresses and sagging springs which need attention, Father will like to be consulted about the new curtains. Most important! See that equipment is in good order.
LONGER, brighter days, ac litte kane me unele down her made with son bikes
being turned upside down lather
companied by the first chirrups of the birds trying out their voices in the garden, never fail to arouse thoughts of a spring clean, even though this isn't the bogy it used to be.
Is it when all the polishing and painting, soupsudding and scrub- bing have been done and everything
Is shining like a new play, we have really pushed Old Man Winter hack into his place and the sunshine has come into its own once more.
when the campaign starts,
Discomfort at home, even in it
war soap flakes and is worked into the pile with a nail lush. No rinsing is necessary.
good cance, has a bad elfeet on tem- Lighter Woodwork jers of husband and · family. The homentater herself gets less tired if Doors and woodieork; were stained she has everything worked out in with creosote when we first moved advance and can take the spring to this house, but we would like to clean in her stride,
have the palated this spring- Porthcawl. IF you Hive
Newly Wed
March 29, 1939.
Brush Hair For Beauty
THERE is beauty in your hair.
Bring it out with vigorous brushing and proper care. Now that the up and down con- troversy appears settled, you concentrate on the thing that really matters the health and texture of your topknot, Whether your hair is shining and silky or stringy and dull depends on the attention you give it not on your latest haircut or a re- eent permanent.
Doctors say that hair is as healthy
the person it adores, so it your. Conscience tells you that you have champooed and, given yourself hot oil treatment enough and if you have urushed and brushed and still your hale is dry or oily and full of dnn- druf you had better see your doctor or a dermatologist.
Check Your Health
Nervousness, insufficient sleep, worry, anemia, und dietary faults may account for your slek scalp and aling hair, and all of these should E treated under the direction of a physician. Once any physical ab- normality Is been corrected. you will see an Immediate improvement in_the_condition of your liule.
In the majority of cuses, however, sensible living, regular shampoos, an occasional nil treatment (even for (olly hur), mid 10 mniutes of brush- ing night and morning with a clean bruch will bring about a miraculous chunge.
Perhaps the main reason for brushing your hair is cleanliness, First, Brush the back of your head from the hairline to the crown tu {stimulate the circulation. When the scalp has a warm, tingling sensation, go over the entire hend. Begin at the middle of the back and, separat- Ing the hair into one-inch strands,
NEW
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Here, at last, is a powder puff that lies almost unnoticed, in the smallest evening bag-the PIXIE" case enfolds it. A puff that cannot shed powder in your handbag the "PIXIE", casc prevents it. A puff that is always kept complexion-clean-the "PIXIE" case pro-
tects. it.
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Little larger than a lipstick in your handbag, yet in a moment a full size powder puff of silky softness! You can wash it in a moment and as often as you please because the "PIXIE" is designed for washing.
brush each one with brisk upward THE
wooden shelf with rounded or square strokes. After each third ghining corners, and the metal curtain ner is, sed to the underside.
The Anished pelmet is tacked along the front edge of the board. Spare Room
run-like stroke of the brush, stop and wipe the bristles on a clean, lintess towel to remove any all and particles of dust or entiele picked up.
Finish by lufting your hair with your fingers and short strokes of the brush to air the scalp and remove any remaining specks of dust. To We want to turn our third bed-re-arrange your colffure, brush the hair down to your head, the under ron, into 17 Share TOOL. it in layer of hair Brst then the top furnished with oddments; makopany lagers. Next, brush your waves or wardrobe, cane armichab, vak wash-curls upward or back in the direc- stond and tisan. I have some green tion they should go and set them
į with your fingers and perhaps one linoleum. Any suggestions?
of the new hairdressing combs, to end curls into START by distempering walls and help you roll the
eiling soft apricot pink and place."
Wash Brush Daily paint the woodwork pale apple) Wash your hair brush every day green. Leave the wardrobe its pre-if possible at least twice a week sent mahogany colour or enamel it if you haven't time to make this a event. Swish The brush to match the woodwork. Take the daily back off the washstand, cover the through soapsuds three or four times, top with plywood and drape it with and rinse in clear water. If your a chintz or treloung petticoat for aale is excessively oily or troubled
with dandruff give your brush dressing table.
sterlising unth several times, during Curtains would be of the some the week. Let it soak in a solution chintz a tiny flower pattern on of one teaspoon formalin to a pint Then shake the ex- cream ground. Enainel the chair of warm water. apple green and have a green Blod cess water from the bristles and dry led to cover for the divan, Two green and the brush, bristles downward, on i
Turkish towel. simple beige rugs would look cosy.
the woodworkt 10 I was married last summer, su am Initiat rout of good aluminium nète to housekeeping. Can you help paint before the undercoating and me to work out a spring cleaning drishing paint, there should be no propramme?-Coventry.
risk of the creosote working through and spoiling the paint.
Before you really get down to it with top and VALUAZ cleaner, a TECIDE first what decorating or
DES
Food Tips
repairs are necessary and get Pelmet v. Frills these done before you start on the spring clean. Also arrange for the
Ioant to change from frills to sweep in good time,
pelmets with my new curtains. You en save yourself trouble if do I fix them-Fareham.
a pelmet board
Add crisp raw enuliflower flowerets you make out a list of repairs, und segments, and serve with tart dress-fany mops or dusters to be bought. ing for a quick salad."
1 spread the spring clean over a
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Use the canned orange-grape-fruit fortnight, leaving one weekday und juice combination to thin mayonnaise Saturday and Sunday clear in ench ar mix with French dressing,
week for "breathing space.”
Saute finely minced mushrooms This arrangement would enable and-green peppers in mozola, and you to do the three bedrooms, bath- thicken slightly with four and cream from and funding-in-the-first-wook;
bread Spread on
slices and toast living room, dining-room, kitchen quickly.
Work and hall in the second week. from the top of the house down-
Split tiny finger rolls, take out the words. inside and spread with highly sea-
onned mayonnaise. Then place Treatment for Tapestry
maked sardines in the roll shells
and decorate with strips of pickle or Is it possible to clean tapestry
olive. Serve very cold,
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upholstery at home?-Motherwell.
Afix 2 tablespoons freshly grated Or bran is
good for generat
horseradish with 1 egg yolk: add 16 H cleaning, but there is also a ear- Juice, salt and paprika, and serve on pet shanipoo which can be used on
cup muzola, 1 tablespoon lemon
Ash saind for a new one"!
Violinot uses pockets toorked into panels for a softly belted suit. ioith 'roll collar. and bor pleals...
Wear Blues, Oranges
As New Colours
New York.
As a compliment to the New York World's Fair, French and English designs are playing up blues and oranges, drawn from the blue and orange of the New York State flag. The blue strikes a new culour note in fire mesh linens;} Forange Is smart in mixed tweeds. Plaid and striped talletus keyed up to orange are advanced for evening wear, these being given more import ance than those keyed up to the blue. Selection of just the right cast and Intensity of contrasting colour to combine with o selected costume shinde will be haportant this spring. An example this year found in the wide variety of yellows which have been brought forward to use with black, and various shades of ПАУ.. As reported previously. slightly greenish tones of yellow are: favoured to combine with black. But gold and the more subtle wheat yellow are used with the Hght navy which the exclusive costume houses pre showing.
Returning from Europe with new idens for spring, millinery repre- sentatives single out "cognar" as a new, colour in straw. This shade is described as a golden east of light brown. It is recommended for its novelty, and suggested for individual emphasis.
Skirts are still swirlings furing, Blowing If there was any suspicion that the world of American faphlons was tired of the spreading skirt and hunkered after a narrow Ene, cur rent Now York fashion tipsters dispel the Idon." Fullness all around, front voluminous rippling width, fullness, back flores, loose pleats, anthers, and newest of all-side, full- iness.Wear fullness over the hips ot either side, with enough fullness to widen the silhouette, and leave the front and back flat. It's a formal fushion.
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WHAT WILL HE THINK
WHEN HE'S DANCING
WITH YOU?
will the freshness, sparkling colour and pleasing cleanliness of, your dance frock make him think "How dainty she is?". Don't risk a bad im- pression-
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