Ways With Mirrors
IN the latest furnishing schemes the
part played by mirrors is more im- portant than ever. Mirrors are em- played to make minnill rooms seem larger, to transform dull, dark cor- nors into it and cheerful nooks, and sometimes to heighten the offert of an interior colour scheme,, «^.
In considering the postbilties of mirrors-it is necessary to remember that there are coloured ̧ ̈ mirrors nowadays, in addition to the ordinary alivered kind. You can get peach and gold-tinted glass, or blue, green, or delicate rose-plak.
The modern mirror is often, but not always, - unframed · and plalily finished. When it is fixed to the wall with gilt or allverloaded screws it is a thing of beauty in Ielf, and frequently it gives the ·Necessary touch of style to the whole furnishing ensemble.
Some of Uie best of the framed mirrors have just a simple moulding of oak or walnut round them, but there are also very cluborate ones with "pic-crust" frames and enrved. ornamentation. These inirrors
well with the new period, furniture which is increasing in popularity. So you may have either modern un- framed mirrors or tramed period ones; both are fashionable.
A Sullable Position
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A good place for a long, rectangular mirror lu on the wall at the back of a sellee. The length of the mirrøv should be a littl: less than that of the settee, and if the proportions are right you will then And that the part played by the looking-glass Is decora tive as well as practien!
If one were dealing with a room that has a low ceiling, an illusion of greater height can be created If the mirror is Axed perpendicularly, so that the height is greater than the brendih.
Often this treatment gives good re- sults on a dark landing, where it is desired to increase the daylight by relection.
Corner Arrangement
Sometimes, too, a small room has a window which goes right into a cor- her. If mirror is fixed to the wali at right-angles to the window, and If the mirror is the some size as the window, the reflection gives the filusion of an up-to-date corner case- ment. To make the effect quite per fect, the mirror may be draped with n pelmet and valance similar to those used for the window.
In a small room, if you want to avoid the sense of four walls too near each other, you can do this by hang- ing two mirrors of the same size exactly
ctly opposite each other. By flection acruss and across the illusion is created of an apparently endless vista. With frieze, or band of mirrors all round the walls, you got the amusing impression that you can see into the next room. This can be very striking in a smartly-furnished sitting-room,
A very good but somewhat more expensive alternative is to have the whole of one wall panelled in look. ing glass; the room will then be doubled by reflection and will look twice its actual size. It makes the. interior seem lighter as well larger.
Baxeden Bult
The "covered-up" took is medi- 'fled in the new evening gowns for spring, as shown in this smari print gown. The covered shoul». ders and draped squaro neckline, as well as the set-drindi skíri fullness, are new and becoming - faalilon note. · This dress was shdwa recently at a fashion lunobson Ja New York's Rix- Carlton.
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MIDGE: "If I'm very good to day, can I have thres helpings of pudding to-morrow?"
HE endless pro- ccasion of meals
• can conjure up a long string of problems, those especially for homemakers who have to cater for finicky appetites.
I am dealing with some of their problema to-day, for this is a subject on which my advice is very often asked. In the case of young children, I suggest varlety in the way suitable foods are dished up: with invalids and those on 3 restricted diet it is possible to discover some unusual dish which contains suitable in- gredients but will tempt a difficult appetite.
Mild "Heart"
Tuesday,
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April 2, 1940,
Breakfast,
Dinner, Tea..
Baby still needs a helping hand with his cup.
They all bring problems
kiducy trouble, and the doctor will be eaten only in small amounts, so not allow her to take either red meat the food must be seasoned with substi tutes, such as celery and lemon juice.
Toddler's Dict
or cups. It is difficult to vary iter food. Suggestions, please,
Father sugers from mit heart Many vegetables now in season, are trouble and doctor advises us to put Rood for her carrots, cabbage, caull- hin on a "ght diet." What does flower, lecks, tainatoes, artichokes
which can be cooked in many different this mean in his case?
ways and mude to look oppetising.
The chief dimculty is that salt must
OCTOR has probably advised
DOC
you not to give the patient
much liquid, but thirst cùn be pssssss53455135346115:25633 quenched by sucking a few sertions
of orange or a slice of lemon.
The chlef alm is to give foods that are easily digested so that no wind will form to lay pressure un the heart muscle and increase its work.
Diet For Daughter
Me daughter suffers from mitti
Spring Clothes In The Making
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Too busy making fashions to talk
the official motto of the Paris dress about them" might very well be
designer; nothing but the work exists. This is not a pose of indifference or lofty detachment from the world-it Is merely a real absorption, shared by most creative artists, in the job in hand.
Nor is any one of them a single doubt of the "Importance of his role at present that role is only too obvious, As Monsieur Luelch Le- long, president of the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture, points out, "The soldiers are protecting us on the Western Front we must do our ut most to defend the Country on the i Economic Front!".
Tackled In that spirit, difficulties and annoyances are only on additional spur to ingenuity and Inventiveness. New Fabric Collections
scarce
I am in despair about my toddler, aged 14 months. She refuses to take anything but bottle feeds and an occasional viscull. Weight 2715.; she is bonny, but rather fretful,
BOTTLES should have been given
up about the age of seven to eight months, and by this time your daughter should have been ink- ing regular well-balanced meats. including fah, minced meat, slavings from the joint, brains, vegetables and stewed fruit.
Put the bottle away for good and persevere with the spoon
Rose in
Bloom
A cluster of full- blow flowers in old rose velvet trims the high crown of a shovel brim black felt, Satin ribbon cas- cades shoulder length, covering the hair at back.
Should Men Use Cosmetics?
revealed
ASKS A MODERN MAN
Says NURSE HESTER
feeding If you refuse further bottle fetds, baby will give in within 48 hours.
She far above tho average weight for her ngo now, but much fat is not healthy; she needs to ba making muscle, bone and strong teeth, and the jawa will not shape properly un- Jess sho lina plenty of hard chewing to do, Avoid blo cuits; at her age she needs rusks or hard-baked crusts to chew. Give them before the meal to promote a plentiful flow of saliva,
Lazy Eater
Neither coaring nor acolding w bring my small son of six to get on with his meals, tie dreams and dawdies or elsa takes a spoonful into his mouth and then turns it round for ages with- out allempting to swallow it.
You say that you set Sonny's meal ready for him, then leave him to take it while you go on with your housework.
You would do well to break of to have a proper meal yourself, both for your own sake and for the boy's. No child will willingly eat on his own.
I advise you to set the table for two and to prepare for yourself and the bay. Serve him from the various dishes and take the same yourself.
He will soon follow your example if you show that you expect him to cat properly. Give him small por tions, but don't let him go back to
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Brown Vegetable Soup
Both dye ingredients and skilled workmen arc
nowadays.THE other day. I met a friend of "but aren't you going to rather ridi- Fortunately, however, the couture is
garnish. mne. He is a commercial travel- culous lengths in your argument?" nobly supported by the French fabric ler. and 'epart frons having all the Masculine Conceptions manufacturers. The new springarrulliy peculiar to his calling, he fabric collections were well under can lay claims to a rather original
"By no means," replied my friend,
This is very economical and a way even before the outbreak of war, brain, te prides himself on being knocking the ashes out of his pipe general favourite. Take 2 carrots,
"Often when I've been calling on small turnip, 2 onions, 2 tablespoons and they are simply magnificent this unorthodox. time.
The conversation which we had business men, I have asked myself, oatmeal or lour, 2 tablespoons mar
are our sex SU why As for all the little personal details Teertainis.
tied the strileing called masculine conceptions?
up by garine or dripping, 2 quarts water;
I refer. those. 10
pepper and salt. ose occasions of dress designers-well, when did a brief account of our talk:--
when I
Prepare and dice the vegetables. the genlus of Paris designers ever "Look here," said my friend, "I
have been
reflection in
10 a depend on a button or belt-buckle? don't see ony reason why men should sight of my
a mirror, through the mincer. Melt the fat in the and shuddered at my dyspeptic ap- the soup pan, add the vegetables, and And in any case, most of the button not adopt for themselves and accessory people are still at work, feminine practice of using cosmetics," pearance. How I have wished that I toss them well in the fat. Now add and show the most amazing ingenuity "Great Scot!" I exclaimed in sur- could banish the sallowness from the oatmeal or flour, and stir till it in coping with the
of my checks at such times! You know, is beginning to colour. Cool slightly. nand-labour and shortage of stilled prise. "How effeminate but,
when a man is aware that he looks then add the water gradually, stlering seedy he develops a sense of in-
of
and accessories so dent to the hearts originality of his outlook. Here is course tooling seedy. I have cought, Some people prefer to put them
difficulties, course, you're joising."
"Not at all," came the reply.
One gathers the impresslan from am perfectly serious when I say that ferlority. He loses his self-confiden all the time to blend the thickening!
the spring collections that no One feels that this is the moment to make
drastic or revolutionary changes in metics," fashion. These may come later, and
seems much more ap-
Well,
Isobel
Household Hints
mer slowly 1-2 hours. Season and Then would you limit the use of serve. cosmeties, so for as men are con- I certainly cannot imagine a cerned, to commercial travellers?" 11 is quite impossible now to sec just | navvy, for instance, producing a pow "Certainly not. what form they may Lake; but for der puff or lipstick when the fore- cosmetics to be used by ali men would permit present at least, a sensible con- man's back was turned."
whose business demands a bright and servatism
"I have nothing like that particular healthy appearance. Sometimes, you propriate und more in harmony with situation in mind. After all, there know, even Illy cun benent from the requirements of present-day life. would be no occasion for a navvy to being gilded. Think it over!"
Monsieur Lelong remarks, "New use cosmetics while working. Just times being new fashion-after the as there is no necessity for a house- war, we shall see.” Just now there is wife to rouge her lips when engaged no question of making "War Coller-
in, say, spring-cleaning or some heavy
tions" in the sense of milliary cut orinsk about the house." hand-grenades for buttons, but "wor- "Well, what are you renly driving time clothes are a natural develop-at in your advocacy of cosmetles for ment. Monsieur Lelong translates men?" I ventured to ask.
this in true French fashion to mean For a Good Appearance "practical wearable, but lovely and. above all, feminine-looking clothes- the kind of clothes, in fact that men ilke to see women wear."
PEPSODENT
TOOTH PASTE HAND
POWDER
CONTAIN TRIUM
FOR GREATER CLEANSING POWER
"There are some calling," explained my friend, "that demand a good ap- pearance. Take my own occupation as an example. A traveller must al-j ways look bright and well. That is where cosmetics come in. akilfully applied, they ensure that no matter how seedy one may feel, one's appearance will not betray" one's) physical condition."
When
Then do you suggest that every traveller should carry cosmeties in Jits bout of samples?"
"Certainly, for the
same
A. C.
reason HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE
as he carries about his military brush
Bel. Both are useful for improving)
mitted to spirit away signs of physical
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his appearance. If a woman is per We know you help War Charities, deterioration or age, by cosmeties, but please do not forget that war, thers I see no reason why this un- or no war, Hungry Childron doubted privilege should be denied MUST be fed.
to men."
"Really, old fellow," I demurred, l We dally feed hundreds.
TIE easiest way of cleaning a
An
saucepan after making toffee is to boil n lttle milk in it, which will absorb all the toffee adhering to the pan.
economical and hard-wearing dish-cloth made from od lengths of airing loosely knitted into a square, After using a chomols leather, wash out in soapy water, and place in a reversed Jani Jar. The leather will remala molst and be ready for in- stant use.
A little vinegar added to the water: when washing up fah plates and cutlery will remove all traces of odour,
A clean-bottomed kettle placed on top 0f A KALIcepan containing
| vegetables instead of 'n lid will nimos1
be bolling by the time the contents. of the saucepan are cooked.
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