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· holiday. Before going away,måke sure you have the always necessary items tabulated below,

But you will also need the acces- sories illustrated:

Sunburn Protoctivo

Get one of the newer auntan pre- parations containing the ingredient which filters out, the burning rays of the sun and deanitely prevents the lobster stage. Most of these can be used instead of your powder base.

And there is no need to buy all sorts of separate creams and lotions for legs and arms: choose one to salt, you, and use it all overs

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For your hair-A good brush and comb, hair net, curlers, a tonic lotion.

For your oyos-Eyelash brush and comb, eyebrow tweezers.

For your skin-Cleansing milk cream, skin food, mild skin tonic.

or

. For your make-up-Powder base, powder, lipstick.

For your body-Superfatted soap. pumice stone, loofah or bath brush, cau de cologne or friction lotion, olive oil, deodorant, depilatory, tooth brushes

and cleanser.

For your hands and feet-Lanaline; nail brush, orange stick, emery boards.

In general, the oily skiined person will use & greaseless totion against the sun: the very trye skinned person may prefer a creant or oil, provided It is well rubbed into the skin,

But let those who choose a greapeless lotion remember that if they stay

much to avoid sunburn as to prevent scorching and dryness. Powdor

in the sun a long time they will need to apply grease afterwards; not so

You know the secret of successful powdering is to match you skin lone xcactly. Well, here's a cheap way to keep up with the changing tones of your summer skin:

Take with you ʼn box of very dark suntan powder to mix in with your usual shade, adding more as your get browner,

When choosing your suntón powder buy one with n pinkish tint rather thinn yellow; the ochre tones tend to clog round the nose.

Setting Lotion

Some giris don't use this as a rule, but it is a real help after days in sun, sea or wind, for coaxing you hair mack into its set-I can tell you of one whell combines wave-zetting with being a hair-brightener, too, if you choose it in a tone to match your own hal. It only costs 1s, fd, and comes complete with spray.

Smith By Any Other Cookery Lore

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HE best way to dry lettuce is to place in the centre of a clean the corners, and CLUES to 35,000,000 marriages, cloth, gather up

births, and deaths in this swing the cloth round two or three tlines. Move the lettuce to a dry country between 1588 and 1837 part of cloth and repeat the pro- are contained in the "National cess. The leaves will now be per- Index of Parish Registers," re-feally dry, crisp, and uncrushed.

cently published by the Society of wet paper and a sharp, wet knife To chop jelly, have a clean plece of Genealogists, Malet Place, ready. Turn the jelly on the paper W.C.

jund chop quickly and roughly. This makes the jelly sparkle decoratively,

It describes 3,000 parish registers, 500 of which came to light and were copted by members during the past

two years.

When baking pastry cases. place a caspoonful of rice on ench to prevent the pastry rising. The rice should One was brought in by a woman be kept and may be used again und

aguln. from Filey, Yorkshire, who had dis- "Add a few drops of lemon juice 10 covered it among her family papers.fial when baking or steaming it, and the flesh will rebain Orm and white. SALVE TO CONSCIENCE

When the flesh of poultry or game!

It was the Filey register, begin-neems dry, Jard the breast and cover ning in 1073, which had been report-with fat bacon. Also add a large pat ed as missing from the church for of buiter to the inside of the bind to

give moisture. many generaUons,

If boiling imported or chifled sal- The owner, whose remote ancestor probably acquired it at a sale of old mon, add a tablespoonful of salad oil. books without ever examining.it, be- an ounce of butter to the water. came a member of the society as a This gives the salmon a good flavour. calvo to the family conscience,

The Filey register is one of the few originals to find its way to the so- cloly's offices. So precious are the registers that no member is allowed to copy one at home unless he owns! a fireproof safe.

Copying has been entirely volun- tary. One member, Mr. F. Vaughan Cowell, has transcribed at the rate of 300 pages a week during the past few months.

Variations in handwriting and spelling make the lask difficult. Ten different spellings for "Smith," seven for "Jones" and 18 for "Gibson" were found in one register.

Gibson was spelled Gybson, Gulb son, Guybson, Guybsonn, Cüybonne, Gibson, Gibsone, Gibeann, Gibsonne, and all these variants were repeated with an Initial. J instead of G.

Sometimes

the

names brothers and sisters were spelled differently,

SAME FAMILY

even

at

Mr. Blomfeld, thesociety's secre- tary, believes there is no significance whatever in the spelling of names, and that Smiths, whether they spell it with "y" or an "e" all belong) to the same family,

There are 11,000 parish registers in all, containing'a fotal of 125,000,000) entries.

stops pain

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CORNS

are killed and loosened with just one applica- tion of Gets-It. `A drop for two cuds the torture of throbbing corns. À few days later you can › Hit off the cornroot and all.

GETS-IT

Makes you forget corna,

Detting

lotion

Dunburn protective

greasy "Lipstick

Sun Glasses

These are really intportant, since the habit of screwing your eyes up in the sun is bad for beauty as well as liealth. If you wear spectacles anyway it is the thing to have a dark pair made to the correct prescription. | It this seems a bit expensive it is possible to get for six-pence dark lenses to slip over your own glasses.

A lot of eye make-up, is no longer smart for holidays: betler just to keep your lashes and brows well trimmed and groomed with a tiny brush and borib kept for th peurpose. a

te lunaline on the eyelids, gives, lusrte and); prevents dryness: nad the delicate tissue under the eyse should be well oiled und Creased with gentle patting movements every! night.

Nose-Guard

July 28, 1939.

Sharkskin Dress Best For Tennis

By ELEANOR GUNN

If you are planning a new tennia dress this summer, be sure it's n dress, not waist and shorts. The very briet skirt is tops in tennis finery. This fashion has undoubtedly stemmed from the ballerina type of skating'skirt which it resembles,

The smartest models are made of either sharkskin or heavy white linen and some are equipped with coloured elido fasteners.

In one of the New York shops specializing in active sports clothes in the pleated one-successor (to' the favourite of last year. One of the newest tennis outfits is the "sharkskin' one-piece play sulf with high neck- line at front and low back, displayed in windows with the new wrist- Iength ribbed sweater. Such features as the ailde at the waistline for free- dom of action, fly front, buttons across shoulders and down the sides are accented in tennis models.

A fad which may easily develop into a fashion is that of substituting brass buttons for while on white jackets or dresses. The shop win- dows along Fifth Avenue play up this milliary note.

Speaking of jackets, visitors from Paris feel so strongly about Jackets that, they declare every dress has a Jacket of some, sart. This statement applies to evening dresses. Short Jackets are most popular. These, it is explained, are worn over dresses with straps, also over strapless dress- cs, and references are made to "tiny boleros," "Jackets slim and fitted."

How To Cook Spinach

Spinach should be cooked in an open kettle with no water. Cook slowly, until the Juice la drawn, then quickly, and the colour will remain

bright dark green.

SHORT CUTS

Spicing of fruits, pickles and re- Bshes is made cusier by putting spices, In a ten ball. Ball can be removed from hot syrup at any time without

This is an amusing trick and very neces-trouble sary if you don't want your nose to burn redder than hte rest of your face!

Just tear a piece paper approximately

to the length and breadth of your nose and stick it on with the sunburn preparation you are using! You see famous Alpine climbers doing this, as well as the best Lido loungers: so there is certâfaly something In It

Greasy Lipstick

Finally, as the sun and wind tend to crack the lips, don't forget plenty of grease on them, too. And choose a lipstick with a really greasy base. You can get them combined with losting cilour nowadays. A famous lasting lipstick in the newest orchid shade is made good and grency now.

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Ta crisp celery, place it in a pan of water with half a lemon for an hour or two before serv- Ing.

Paper towels not only save laundry work but ors useful in drying 'Nah before baking or boiling and for draining excess grease from dough- nuts, fritters, croquettes and bacon.

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Very. Spaulah in design is this smset afternoon ensemble:from, Farla."" The "dress, with fis widely', flaring skirt, is, of black, or covered with while and light blue rpols. The Jacket; reminiscent of a loreador's ‘coat, la fáthloned in black bordered with blus. The wide-brimmed straw hat adds to the Spanish effect,

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