Shorts that took like a smart divided skirt and tailored aliri in contrasting shade, are tops for tennis, especially when made of cotton.
Caring For China
DURING the summer months many
giris have married, and are now in Bie process of settling down to run homes of their own. Amongst their wedding glits most would, zet dinam and tea servlees, but in a little while they may be horrified to And that analt hair-like cracks are appearing all over these cherished gifts.
Yet, if at the outact they well take attle Lime and trouble to give the Chla som simple frentment, the annoying erneks enn be preveuled. Temper the Cups
Before using the services, warp each plece separately in soft cloths and put a few pieces at a tune into aaliallow pan. Cover with cold water, then bring slowly to bolling point and let them boil for ten minutes. Turn off the gas and let the China remain in the water until cold. This tempers the China and enables it to withstand sudden ex- pansion when anything hot, like tea! or colTee, is poured into the fragile cupe.
One bulling is sufficient and the Chirm will be quite free from cracks for a long time. A Hulle sliced soup. may be put into the water and the dishes should afterwards be rinsed in hot water and dried and polish. with soft towels,
When rinsing it is a good plan to, fold 'turkish towel and place it at Ure buttom of the bowl, so that if the delleute china should slip the towel, ------will-prevent-it-from-getting-chipped.)|
Remosing Tea Stains
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In the washing of any chin, new for old, if It has any ornamentation or alt of much red colouring, no seda hould be used, as this is sometimes injurious to the decoration. A des- sertspoonful of borax or a few drops. of ammonia should be used 'instend.
Crushed salt will remave tra skalns, but if very badly stained, a little powilered fuller's curth should be upplied on a cloth,
Tuis one-piece dress with Janket is of brown lightweight wool crepe with the line check in orange and white for the top of the dress and lapels on the jacket. A suggestion of peplum flure is given to tho jacket.
Useful To Know HANDS that are badly stained with
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useful appliance for washing plates should never be washed in hot water.
A dish: inop on a stick is the moat
handling frult whilst jam making and dishes, but a hand dishcloth is better for cups and anall articles, tub them over with a piece of lemon. whilst a hog'o nie nalat brush is ex- then wash well in cold water. Any
very obstrate staln wlil be cellent for cleaning releed ornamentai moved by being rubbed with some tion or porcelain Agures.
the salt after using the lemon.
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Carpet Renovations
WITH the approach of longer even-
inga Indoors, attention wilt naturally be focussed upon the car- pels which are such nù important item in the appearance of a room.
It is a good plan to turn a carpst ni least twice a year, to ensure even wear over the whole surface. At the same time it will benefit if treated with a shompoo made by putting two tablespoonfuls of soap-lakes and n tablespoonful of liquid ammonin into a small bowl of boiling water. Dip a clean scrubbing brush Inlo Uhla solution and go lightly over the whole carpet, finishing of with a cloth wrong out of clean, warm water, but take care not to make the carpei too wet.
Uluckiead und Soot
Nothing spoils the appearance of a carpet so much as the presence of stains which are more easily removed if dealt with promptly. If solled with blacklead put a jitile fuller's carih into a saucer, pour on a few drops of cold water and ammonia, Mix Into a soft paste, rub well into the carpet and allow it to dry in. After- wards it can be brushed well with n sili brush so that the blacklund will he removed,
If soot is split on the carpet, first sprinkle some salt over it, and cure- fully flick the whole mixture into a susipan. Any marke still remaining can be treated with the shampoo.
Tea and coffee stains ore best re- moved by washing the part with warm water to which a lie. borax lins been added. With frul, stains, how- ever, it is better to rub the spot with spirits of wine containing a few drops of ammonia. Ink split on a carpet must be soaked up immediately with blotting paper. Then treat the afferted part berally with milk, and
rub with a clean cloth.
Greuse marks should al:o be covered with blotting paper, und pressed with n hot iron. Repent with fresh sheets until the paper coincs sway clean, when the part can be finally rubbed with a cloth dipped in turpentine.
Should it be necessary to join a carpet first match the pattern and then reverse it firmly buttonhole cach edge with flax of the same colour as the groundwork, and draw the two plecen Armly together to ensure a perfect join.
G. G. T.
Cucumber Cookery
Cucumbers are good in soups and Favouries, as well as in salads. For- tunately, people who may find row cucumber indigestible are able to cat and enjoy it when cooked,
Cook evenmbers by any of the following recipes, and you will find them both delicious and digestible:- Stuged
One or more cucumbers, little inced tongue, ebleken, ham, or any well-seasoned meat, and tomato sauce are required.
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Peel the cucumbers, cut in half, re- move the seeds, and 11 e cavities the with the meat stúfling. Pul halves together again, place the vegetables in a casserole with a little butter and tomato sauce, and cook gently tender.
Cucumbers with Dutch Sunce
Required:One or two cucumbers, a little butter and reasoning, two egg yolks, and haif a lemon. Peel and cut up the cucumbers into cubes. Boil for five minutes, then drain and put in a pan with bulter, seasoning, and very litle water, and simmer till done.
Keep the cucumber hot, while you
Cloths for wiping should be will- Parchment lampshades con be out lint and old silk bundkerchiefs į clcuned beautifully by rubbing lightly | reduce the liquor by fast bolling for and
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a few minutes. Add a little thicken- ing, bolt again, and then, very gradually, add the beaten egg yolks and lemon juice.
Cane-bottomed chair that have sagged can be lightened up by being well scrubbed with a soapy mixture containing a handful of salt. Allow to dry, then paint cane over with a strong solution of salt and water, and † and serve at once. dry again, if possible out of doors in the sun,
Knitters will And it a great boon- to use needles of two different colours. As well as being ensler on the eyes, preventing strain, this has immense atlantages when dealing with a complicated pattern.
Windows will run up and down very easily if the sash cords are kept well rubbed with little soft soap.
The rubber rollers of n wringer should be rubbed periodically with a cloth well sprinkled with soapy ammonia, then wiped off with flannel wrung out of warm water.
D. F.
INDIGESTION
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Pour the sauce over the cucumber,
Summer Soup
Required: Cucumbers, two ounces of butter and stock, and seasoning, in the hot butter till teader. Add a milk. Simmer the chopped cucumber
Bttle onion juice, salt, and pepper, thickening, and the stock, Boll up, strain, and add a cupful of hot milk.
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SALAD LORE
TOT everyone can make a good salad. To the uninitiated it is Just a matter of mixing some greens together in a salad bowl, sprinkling them with dressing, and puiting the result on the table; no job at all! Stopped in 5 minutes! faults, perhaps its major offence is Such a slapdash salad, has many "Amazing evidence of the remarkable that it looks as though it had been speed with which indigestion and stomach handled. The first requisito of a medical stopped 14 been revealed good saind is that it should look fresh.
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separation and washing of the lettuce. Magnesis to be the quickest-acting and leaves. If the most effective known to medical selence, broken or bruised, the salad will. contral ribs arc |____Within 3 minuter R teaspoonful of
Blaurated Magnesis in little water over look fresh- produced complete ratiof in eraen where numberless other remedies had failed Limp lotiuce is anothor commen entirely..
fault. The fresh, crispness of lettuce 'urnied Magnesia la complete is one of the major delights of a treatment for the relief of stomach salad. Each leaf should be pulled off troubles it neutralines the harmful acids separately, washed in cold water, and that cause the trouble and it spremili a Anothing, protective fum over the stomach plneed In a wire basket to drain. finingg
Salad dressing should not be added
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The dress illustrated is deve-· loped in rayon crepe Jersey in navy blue and Benedictine yel- low. The gold plaque necklace has a blue stone centre, and the wide bracelet repeats the gold of the necklace.
Freshening Up "Stales"
TERE is in art in using up state
bread and cakes in attractive new dishes, but before, they become as state is all that there are ways of freshening them up, so that they be come very nearly na good as new again.
Dip a piece of stale loaf in warm water or milk so that it is damp all over the surface, but not saturated similarly. Then place them in a brisk øven Ull dry and crisp.
A piece of large cake, or d number of small oneu, will be light and moist again if they are popped into a tin or basin, covered with a 10, and steamed for half an hour in a pan of boiling water. Take them out and let them cool on a wire tray. Stale ples, farts, and pastry cases made with short pastry will be crisp and fresh ngain after five or ten minutes in a fairly hol oven. It is better, however, not to re-heat richer pastries, since the melting down of the fat inakes them Indigestible.
Fourchettes in the "Free Fin- gers" construction or centre back elaboration form the interesting points in these fall gloves. The top glove has a whipped finish so the four-chette panels, dono in two-colour combinalloris.
In the centre self bows and a radiating group of tuckingi cen- tre interest on ile back of tho slightly longer glove is an India brown glace with applique of sreen suede oak leaves and small wooden acorn. This is a four button,
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