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Put Your Best Foot Forward
QUMMER puts the secent on our
feet. Sandals do not tactfully cover spreading fect and fullon arches, and however thickly you spread the null. varnish your toe nails will not be beautiful It they are cracked and 11-kempt.
Start now and get your feet into "summer trim." If you have auch things as corns visit a chiropodis!. Guard against shoes so tight as to cause disfigurement. Shoes can be comfortable as well as smart.
Once you are assured that your feet are all they should be think about exercising them. It is a strange thing that though we now concentrate on physical exercises we completely forget our feet in this respeel.
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This, perhaps, is prejudice. We think that the more we exercise our fect the larger they will row. Actually this SA incorrect. people walk badly, which their feet to spread. The correct use of the feet rights this.
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Any exercise involving rising on to the ball of the foot then lowering-- in other words lp-toeing is excel- leni,
-An exercise for the strengthening of the archies is to place a marble on'the floor (this must be one of the larger types of marbles) Then pick it up with your toes and lift it into the air. This means that you brace The muscles of your feet. The first time you do this exercise you will And I really strange to be using your foof muscles,
Another sound exercise which, by 'the way, also helps your balance, is to stand upright, Hft one leg until it is hip-level then bead the kace so that your toe is pointing to the ground. Turn the toe up, pause a moment, then stretch it down.
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May 3,
1939.
Mrs. Bardell
says-
FRENCH people often complain that they cannot get a properly bolled egg in England the white is hard and leathery, outside, duc, they say, to overbolling. A Frenchwoman bolls her egg this way.
First the water is brought to the ball in a saucepan, then the egg is slipped into the water, and immediately it is up to the boll again the saucepan is with tiran from the fire and the egg loft in the water for at least seven minutes or until required,
In this toay the while sels, but does not harden and the yolk remains liquid, If a little firmer set is required, leave the eggs to boll for the best part of a minute before removing the saucepan from the re
Bright Flowers
Uer the same beauty treatment for your tue nails na you do for your Anger nails. If you find the qúleks are very stubborn, try sonking them inle olive oil after your bath. You will have to do this severul nights in successlun, and it will only have effect if your feet have beenTHE first blooms of the year are Iamersed in hol water beforehand.
E. S.
Lissom Grace
THE well-dressed woman knows that a graceful carriage is essen- tial if her carefully-chosen clothes ure to look their best. By walking correctly, doing other forms of exer- cise, and by paying attention to her diet, she can ensure that her health is maintained und her figure is well- proportioned. Sho enn, In fact, acquire that grace and poise which are no essential to a 'smart appear-
ance.
Without a smooth-Otting founda- tlon garment, however, the clothes themselves cannot look effective, and for this reason the modern womaTI should pay particular attention to the choice of garments she wears underneath her dress.
Now that the fitted waistlines are so prominent feature of dress siyles, greater emphasis Is fald upon the foundation garments, and the 1839 collections have been de- eigned to enhance-the-smooth-lines of the spring silhouette.
Madame Kathleen Howell, a figure expert, speaking at a mannequin parade of Twildt's newest models, in Bir's Edinburgh, recently, drew attention to the new designs adapted to sull every type of figure, from the young schoolgirl to the older woman, Prior to the mannequin parade, Miss M. Morrison, B.Sc. dietitian, gave a short talk on health and diet,
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Make Bright Days
Tea-Time Novelties
Wi: H worth trying, and they are quite
ERE are two new recipes well
we can
easy to make. Cinnamon and Orange Loaf
here to delight our eyes. brilliantly hued flowers, ugain revel in flower-led rooms.
The colourings of the flowers are so glorious thit you should Inke Sieve four, 2 teaspoons buk- every advantage of them when ing powder, 4 teaspoon salt, and a arranging the blooms. If you use teaspoon ground cinnamon into 4 them wisely they will brighten, as bow). well as decorate, your house, and Rub in 1 oz margarine, then add make you forget the dull skles out-2 oz caster sugar, grated rind of one Alde.
orange, and 2 ozs Anely chopped orange peel.
The rich reds and purples and the sunshine-yellow will light up dim corners, or relieve the dark brown of an oak desk or bookcase.
beaten egg and about 1 gill milk. Mix well, and bind together with a The mixture should be of a stift drop- ping consistency.
Put the mixture
into two small
bread tins or one larger one, well reased. Bake in a moderate oven for 30-45 minutes-time depending on size of tin used. Cool on sieve. keeps moist and fresh for at least a tapering This loat cuts into neat silees, and
week,
If you like bold splashes of colour and have a room with pale walls, put some scarlet flowers into n wall Vose, and hang them where you can see them inmediately you enter the room. Use a vase of n shape, preferably, and cut the stems of the flowers fairly short.
For a limed oak table or sideboard there is hardly anything lovelier than a lower-ring filled with purple and mauve flowers or sonte violets. Do not use any follage with the blooms. or you will spoil the effect that the strong contrast of purple and grey gives.
Coaring Twigs to Bud
Caramel Cake
sugar, 3 ozs butter, 8 ozs plain flour, For this you require 7 ozs brown pinch salt, 141⁄2 gli milk, 2 eggs, 12 teaspoon baking powder.
Put
the
Put 4 ozs of the sugar, 1 oz butter, and gill milk into saucepan. Dis- solve the sugar slowly, then boil to 250 degs Fah. (or till a little tested You can conx almost any twig to in cold water forms into a ball.) shoot forth buds and leaves earlier Then add the rest of the milk, indoors than outside. Put them into heated, stirring all the time. tepid water for the first day, and aside to cool. Cream the rest of prick with a needle any buds that butter and sugar, and add the beaten are showing. The stems should be egit, beating till light split up about two inches, but if they Add the sieved flour, salt, and baking and Aluffy, are very thick, It is better to smash powder alternately with the caramel hem with a bummer. This will en-mixture. Bake in a six-inch tin in a oble them to absorb water more moderate oven for 50-60 minutes. easily.
When cold ice as follows:-Mash Do not put ent flowers of any kind a small banana to a pulp with a fork, into water that has been just drawn add a pinch of salt. 11⁄2 teaspoon from the top. Stand a large jug of lemon juice, and 7 oz sieved Icing water in the room with the flowers sugar, beating the sugar well In. for a few hours before using it, to Spread smoothly all over cake and allow the chill to warm off. Chunge just before serving, decorate with the water every other day, and on sliced banana and gluce cherries. the odd days spray the flowers light-
ly with tepid water. If you have not a watering-can with a small rose.
you will find a clean scent spray fill- ed with water will do the job equally well.
And here are two more "don'ts." Never cut flower stalks with scissors, or you will close them so that they cannot take in water and air pro- perly. Cut them with a sharp knife. For the same reason, never cut flower stems straight across, so that they stand flat on the bottom of the vase. Cut them obliquely, so that only part of the stems rest on the bottom and the water can be sucked up.
Dius Lawrence
Useful In The Home
A
ROLL of adhesive tape should be
kept at hand in the home, as it has many uses.
The contents of bottles to be car- ried when travelling can be made perfectly secure by sticking a piece of adhesive tape over them. Have n strip long enough to pass over the voric and down the sitles of the bottle.
To make niin airtight, seal ull round the edge of the lid with a piece of adhesive tape. It can be removed easily when the tin has to be opened, and the same plece of tape enn be used again and again.
After sticking together broken ching or glass, the parts can be held in place with adhesive tapo until the cement or glue, has set,
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CIGS is eggs," as the farmer said when the
customer complained
about their smallness. That was as may bo; but to-day eggs are graded according to their weight, and every housewife knows that a small new-laid one is pre- ferable to a larger size of foreign extraction.
I am not going to give you a medi cal dissertation on the food value of eggs, for most of you know that, like milk, they supply all the food factors necessary to growth.
Not so much calcium as is in milk, perhaps, but more tron; and it has been proved that when hens have plenty of fresh grass their eggs con tain more vitamin D, which is some. times called the Sunlight Vitamin.
Getting Cheapor
greenest and eggs will soon be at their cheapest and most plentiful, let's think of egg dishies.
So now that the grass is at its
Let's allow one egg per person and see how we can spread it into a meat.
The first thing to remtimber is that an egg lo a good mixer-meat, fish, vegclables or fruit, an egg isn't fussy who it's put next tol
mince it up with a few shreds of Take a few ounces of cold meat, onlon, a dash of pepper, and bulk it
put with a cereal or breadcrumbs or cold, mushed potato.
Sir in a well-beaten egg with a tie milk, and you have a toothsome ple ready for a quick bako in the oven
The white of an egg beaten into a alift froth will eke out the cream, or give a luxury look to the top of a milk
adding
The yolk will bind a stuff better than anything I know. ing, a rissole or a potato cake logether
they deal with eggs.
Let's go round the world and see how French omelette.
Here's a nice
French Omolotto
Allow one egg. per person and bent
them together with a pinch of salt until the whites and yolks are evenly mixed. Have on the fire a nice heavy frying pan with a lump of butter melt- ing quickly in it.
Pour about a dessertspoonful of hot water on to your venten egg and then, when the butter is smoking hot, pour la
the egg and let it run right over the Dan. Keep shaking the pan about and pushing the egg away from the sides. Then, when it is just on the set, fold over the omelette in halves.
At the last minute before the fold
· you can pile in some ahreds of bacon: cooked mushrooms, a little cheese Bauce or anything you fancy to make the omelette more flavoursome.
French people would serve a plled. up dish of potato chips and a green salad to complete the meal.
Everyman's Omelette
Thai's mather a luxury omelette. Here's an everyday ono. It makes an excellent supper dish after a day out in the air. Ingredients-3 eggs. plenty of cooked potatoes, I rashers of bacon, joz, of margarine, 3 tablespa. of milk, salt and pepper.
Beat the eggs lightly, add the milk and chopped parsley. Season with pepper and sail. Out the rind from the bacon and chop it roughly. Cut the potatoes in dice,
Melt the margarine in an omelette pan, put in the potatoes and the bacon and fry for a fow minules.
Pour in the eggs and cook until set. Slip omelette on to a dish and fold.
Monastery Eggs
Boll four eggs for Ave minutes, re- move shells, and put into cold water for a minute to keep the yolks yellow,
Place the cugs in a greased fire- proof dish, pour over pint white Rouce. Sprinkle with a tablespoonful of chopped parsley and a little chopped onlon, and serve hot
These two recipes, I would like you to know, I tried out from a new recipe book called "Meals thint are Different," by Busan Croft, to show the advantage of Stork margarine in family cookery. I can confidently recommend it to you.
With Banana
A friend from Georgia gave me a recipe the other day which has been a great success both with children and grown-ups. It can be cooked in separ- ate glass cooking dishes or in one large pottery one.
Allow a bananu and one egg per head. First grease the dish ΟΙ dishes well with margarine, mush the bananas to a cream-with a little milk and make a bed of it at the bottom of the dishes.
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Break an egg into each without dis- turbing the yolk and build the banana mash up a little higher round the egg Bo that the white does not spread and look untidy.
Grate some cheese on top and pop inton hot oven for a few minutes, that is, until the eggs are nicely set but not hard; or you can do them under a good hot grill if preferred.
The Happy Home-Maker
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ODD, isn't it, that you have only to cheerful, and as inviting as possible,
poke your nose into the house Money does not count with her so of any man who runs it himself to much as good taste. By little In- be immediately conscious of that lack dividual touches she turns the house of "feminine touch?" That indefin- Into a home where everyone is glad able something which spells home to to be. everyone is Incking.
In the household routine, too, Housekeeping, however elelent, is What a difference collaboration with there is a plensent absence of fuss. not the same thing as home-making the clock can make to the atmos- you will agree. Certainly, the run-
ning of a home calls for brains and phere of home. Industry, but the real home-moker The woman who is "on time" in o requires gifts of heart as well as of morning, punctual with meals and head.
personal appointments, is a boon to What is your idea of a real home- all around her. The housewife who maker? She is the woman who is is always behindhand and always houseproud, but who never allows trying to "catch up," automatically that pride to become an' obsession.. becomes fussy, and her agitation A speck of dust, a squished spoils ruin for the harmony of the cushion, an untidy, newspaper, what home.
are these compared to the comfort Then the really good home-maker of the family? If a men cannot relax is elever in choosing her friends, in his own home, he may just as well And she is very hospitable! Always not have one. The real home-maker ready to welcome everyone, even if has enough Imagination to realise the it is only, to hread and cheese. stupidity of putting a love of order. No Fuan?". liness before the comfort of those she lover.''
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When her husband brings someone In unexpectedly, she does not furs ind mutter in an alarmed undertone that there is positively nothing in the Hobbles for the children are en- houze to cat. She ralds the larder couraged by the real home-maker. shelves and does the best she can. The sight of John's bedroom con- She sots the table attractively, does verted temporarily Into a "work- a few subtle things will flowers, and shop does not call forth a protest, then within real anlie of welcome, Of course nott For John's mother asks her quest to share their meal. realises that outsida Interests help to And how people liko her for It develop and refresh Her boy's mind. They feel that her hospitality In
Joan's sewing, muching, workman- genuine. At once they are at ease. mistress always wears a cheerful air,, we need to be more than just good like scissors and pliper patieque As for her husband, he would bn- | Slie believes in fair play for her hun-cooks and housewives,. We must decorating the diningroom table come quite lyrical if he could, but band and chlidren and dependants, cultivate sympathy for the family's makd her smile, but cheer her too, being, à mon hó just gives her an Everybody is loyal to her because needs, tolerance for their shortcom Unlidiness, she maintains, does not affectionate, look and calls her cap-sho Inspiros confidence and because ings, and tenderness for their: dis- mean dirt. Often it signifles comfort able.
sho la never tyrannical, bu
tress. Then what a happy place our and homeliness.
BB A home, managed by a real home- There is no doubt that If we wish home will bel She makes the home bright and maker. Is such happy place. Ils to excel in the art of home-making, t
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