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May 31, 1940.
The medium sized sailor with kettle edge, above, is of navy roglisse, with low crown of stitched taffeta to match, and tied on with a band.and.bow.of.the_alik..
The youthful bonnet type illustrated below is of black baku, with the brim edge of white Venise face.
Cookery Hints
Helpful Hints
If you have not a special threader
for your sewing machine, put u spot of white paint on the foot just behind the needle and the cyn will show up quite clearly and be easy to thread
Musturd and cress can be grown Inu sponge hung in the kellchen window. It should be kept damp and the window left open when pos sible. It can be gathered every day and fresh seed sown.
When making sandwiches, mix a little mustard and it with the! butter or margarine before spreading
on
The bread. The favouring is pleasing and is evenly distributed.
To remove distemper and white- wash splashes, rub with a rag soaked in liet vinegar. It will remove all traces if it is done quickly. This is a hint worth reineinbering when đơ- ing redecorating later on.
Put a knot in the flex of your vacuton cleaner just where it is nt- tached to the handle. This will save the fox wearing at a point - where
there in grent strain on it.
Baron will not shrink in frying if
it is firal dipped in flour.
on the
If andik has boiled over stove, wipe it up at once with a cloth dipped in soap suds. If this is done no marks will be left that, will
| be diffeßt to get off later,
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Rub olive oil over stainless steel articles occasionally. Then pollsh with a dry chanois. This will keep then bright and shining?
Twirl the blue bag in the water in which gusses are washed and they
BUTTER is best softened by filling wil sparkle when dried and polished.
basin with bolling water. emptying it, and turning 1 upside down over the butter-dish,'
A little salt rubbed over a hot fey ing pan belove frying pancakes will prevent the mixture adhering to the jau.
When preparing apples for cook- ing, pour boiling water over them and allow them to remain for a few minutes as the peei'caally comes off,
and with much less waste,
Finely grated lemon rind will enrich simple puddings and cakes in which the juice of the fruit is not required. In fact, the latter should not be added to cake mixtures as it is liable to make them heavy.
Clothes which have become dis- coloured and yellow from keeping will be made quite white again it soaked overnight in warm water to which u dessertspoonful of cream of tartar has been added.
A leaspoonful of cream of tortur. too, added to each gallon of water in which faded curtains are boiled Boil will make them pure white. until all the colour has gone.
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To cover up scratches on polished wood, apply a little lodine with a sinali bitish. Leave it for a and then polish with furniture cream.
day,
IL. E.
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Shampoo in
This little girl has her fluffy locks shampoood with a minimum of offort in the bathtub. Her hair is brushed to remove the dust, “dampened, then-a-foamy_oil shampoo worked-through-the-strands. The lather is rinsed away with a hand spray held so the water rúns backward and will not get into her eyes. Sometimes she has a bath at the same time-letting the soapy water run out then rinsing bath hair and body with a showering of warm water from the spray.
Brown & Savoury
OW
NOW
for hidney. He was --If Flavoured
not so ex-
tensive as some folk think, for
"It's all good, nourishing-meat.-A. little of it goes a long way and mukes any soup, stew, pudding or ple to which it is added rich, brown and savoury.
Ox kidney-you can buy it whole or by the half pound-is used for those appetising stowing and for steak and kidney puddings.
Muybe you've had to complain that the kidney is as rare as six- a Christmas Pudding, but pencer in a beware of going to the other ex-
treme or you'll spollall to
if
Chop the kidney up smali so that i is well distributed.
with Kidney
make an excellent meal.
Ingredients: 4 sheep's kidneys. 2 firm. Tomatoes, lb, potatoes, intr- garine.
Skin and split the kidneys and will them slowly with the tomatoes. The latter exun be put on at "half
Says Mrs.
it is they will cook more quickly Bardell Peel, then chip the potatoes,
them well cont try in boiling
Kidneys need a little more salt than most meats to offset their rather until golden brown.
Ant tost
tosic. Andi,
most important they need slow cooking if you want them to be succulent und anvoury. Cooked too quickly, the fibres harden and the meat becomes tasteless and
fat
Drain well, so that they arrive on the table crisp and brown. Herb Flavour
the Tub
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| kidney is extraying 'teens that makes a girl complaints comes from the trades-
good if accom.
panied by fluffy
dumplings....
Here's a nourishing soup made with kidney and served with dumplings ta make a meal of it.
Ingredients: 1 oz kidney, 1 carrot, 1 turnip, 1 outou, 3 small potatoes, Another savoury dew, flavoured 1et, four, los, dripping, 3 pts. water, 1 leoap, vinegar, 11⁄2 teasp, ketchup, with a shallot and some sweet herbs. salt and pepper.
Ingredients: 3 or 4 sheep's kidneys, 102, margarine, teasp, flour; 14pt.
men who have to cut off the little cardboard coupons with scissors, become dis"If they were c only perforated, like
grow up good-looking, charming and self-confident.
Mothers sometimes couraged because their efforis do not show
results. But in immediate keeping a baby immaculately clean, in carefully supervising her diet and elimination and by correcting or forestalling small defects that might cause trouble later on, you are build- ing the finest, most fasting kind of beauty.
on
it can
And there is one thing that will show an immediate and gratifying the child's appearance, effect
the s Hair Lovely hair
nicest thing a little girl can have. offset a plain face, freckles, clumsy honds
nails with
stubby awkward carringe. It con arouse pride in her looks which will che courage brushing and mussage us soon as she is able to do this her- self..
or an
Hair Must Be Clean · Keep her hair immaculately clean. This is easy in baby days, but when her hair is longer, tangled and grimy from play, shampooing is a real job. rubbery
If you find shampooing your child's Sheep's kidneys are best for grill- ing or frying. If they're frozen when
Wash and cut up the kidney, prepare and slice the vegetables. Melt
hair over a wash basin unsatisfac tory, try this new technique which is you buy them, thaw them out slowly stock, chopped shallot, 1 teasp. the dripping in the saucepan and fry the onion.
iesa harrowing for both you and the in a worm place before cooking (save sweet herbs, 1⁄2 teasp. salt and n Dip the pleces of kidney if the flout and fry light. Then add the
the bathtub. A Use youngster. Rub all through a sieve, the juice for gravy), then cook shake from the pepper pot.
water and vegetables, and simmer for three hours.
hose, a atowly.
Skin and cut the kidneys into in. re-heat and add seasoning and flavourings. Serve with dumplings cooked spray with a good, long
folded Washcloth to Proteel the Some of the pleces of kidney And, new homemakers, if you've slices. Roll in seasoning made from separately in a saucepan of boiling water,
child's eyes from suds, a liquid oll not cooked a kidney before, take the the herbs, chopped shallot, salt and may be kept back before sieving and served as a garnish.
shampoo which produces a foumy outside skein off first. If you make a
pepper. Fry à light brown in the
father in a hurry, yet
rinses out tiny sit with the point of a knife
10 a. hot
casily even in the hardest water, a bath towel, a couple of hand towels
and you're all set.
just where the fatty piece is, you'llgare, then remove
plate,
find the skin slips off quite easily.
Add the flour to the margarine and
Cut out the small bit of fat. It when nicely browned add the stock will come in handy to grease the pan
and bring to the boil. Put in the
with If you're trying the kidneys, or kidneys and simminer slowly for 20
it can be melted down with other Tats Succulent Stew
Stewed ox kidney is very flavour- some. Here is the recipe:-
Ingredients: 1 ox kidney, 1 onion,
1 pt. stock, loz. flour, 1 teasp, sugar,
1
teasp. mixed mustard, reasoning.
1oz. margarine.
Wash kidney well in cold salted water. Cut away the fat and centre, and slice thinly. Heat the sugar ini
a pan until brown, then add the mar garine and melt.
Fry the kidney: and onion in Uhls, stir in the flour and add stock. Coolc gently for three hours, then add sea- soning and mustard.
Devilled Kidneys 187.
A favourite way to serve sheep's idneys is to devil them and to serve them on toust for supper.
Make the davii paste, first, with 2 tearp, made mustard, 2oz, margarine, 1 tensp. chutney, black pepper and salt. Work all the ingredients into the margarine with a knife.
"Sklo, the kidneys, cut them open, spread with the devil pasto and grili over a clear fire. Serve an rounds of hot buttered tons) spread with chutney.
Grilled with Tomatoes
Grilled kidneys___lished up with grilled tomatoes, and chipped pofutors
minutes. Serve with bolled carrots and potatoes --
Palo pink combining bande of plain and dot embroidered Swiss organdiaymakes--this little frock in the 2 to 6 range. with beading across the neck-
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Making The Most Of Your Linen Store
Brush her hair thoroughly first to loosen dirt, lint and particles of dead cuticle and to stimulate the circulation. Be sure to select a good shampoo combination Colland cleansing preparation like the foamy all shampoo or a soupless olive oil
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HONG KONG NATURALIST
dern pressure had delayed dinner All eight. But ten and buttered tonst still appeared two hours af tert
a science now, Nutrition is
who know very People
little of what the words mean talk of ca lories and vitamins and protective foods. I know a couple who cat nothing cooked at all. Their re- freshment for a night journey was of cabbage leaves and slices of raw turip. Such food faddists should, someone told them, "be left to die of it. But we are all learning Vol. X. No. 1 that salad, cheese, fruit, and wholemeal bread are bolter body
THE fuel than the
sorts of old "two meat" and pastry.
Dwellers in the country and in country towns are, I think, better off in a food sense than the Elg Town people. They and their "re- tail dealera" are on friendly, 'neigh- bourly terms, na they could never be with Mr. Barrod or the Chair- 'man How to Shampoo
of the Military and Naval Stores. A voice on the telephone that "mackorelis nice whispern For the shampoo, have the child Thin blankets may also be turned sit in the tub, holding her head back to-day". Mrs. Fatheme, in Small- sides to middle, but for this purpose and covering her eyes with the folded
could have changed her town, real silk buttonhole twist is better washcloth. Using the spray, wel the superfluous butter for eggs, or marmalade. ..or for some of the than wool or cotton, being very hair with warm water, holding the strong and having claalle qualities, spray against the head so that the salmon that the Vicar's niece's hus- water flows back through the hair. band caught, during leave, on the
Spey. Then pour a little shampoo directly on top of her hend. Work up a rich, As the selvedges of blankets are foamy lather, massaging the scalp they were getting thin in the centre. not as strong as Ilnen ones, over gently with the fingertips and work- the entire They tore them down the middle, towing is not always sufficiently pinned the selvedges together, and strong. It is belier to lay the blanket the auds through
nanner you originally wet the hair. oversewed them from one end to edge to edge, to take up a quartermath of hair. Rinse in the same the middle, and then from the other of an inch or so of selvedge of one Repeat the sudsing and rinse again end to the middle, so that the werk side, then turning the needle and talk with tepid water. was not drawn unevenly. Then ing up similar pieces of the other Squeeze the surplus water out of the child's hair. Wipe her face and the sides were neatened by narrow side.
Several blankets can be laid on wrap one of the hand towels around top of each other, with a piece of her head turban fashion while you pretty fabric covering them, the dry her off with the bath towel.
even
THIS year some of us find the new them, then the worst of the pillow-shampoo treatment is good. Both
plies of bed linen in our cup slips may be darned or even patch-produce a thick, rich lather. boards rather smaller than usual, ed; and used as a permanent over- and it becomes
more than cover for the ticking, the ends being usually necessary to make use of sewn up. every bit of half-worn linen, and to get as much exira wear out of it no is possible.
Here perhaps our grandmothers, who regarded thrift as a virtue, even when not a necessity, can teach us a thing or two. They always turned Blankets in Layers their sheets "sides to middle" when
hems
Thin Piltow-Slips
If the sheets are badly worn, it edges tucked under, and the whole may be neccesary to cut the wiem quilted together-by-machine- strips off the sides, after the centre has been over-sewn, before hemming them, thus turning the double sheet into single size. =?
bed-
This makes quita: a useful cover, and it can be as altructivo ne'
You pleanosecording, to the cover: you choose, which can be bound with
If you live pillow-slips which are colour, or decorated with a self- so in that the ticking which holds} frill, the-feathers-becomes-visible through
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