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WOMANSENSE
FLATTERING
Figure-finttering stripes come Into their own, as modelled by this San Francisco miss. The suit is of gabardine,
ORCHIDS ARE
1949 diet builds the Juno Woman'
by EILEEN ASCROFT.
LONDON. XCELLENT shopping, service by big London store is a Fashion Ad- vice Bureau. ·
A fashion consultant and Bix. trained assistants are always ready to plan inter- changeable business outfits. help choose inexpensive trousseaux, suggest colour contrasts for accessories" or.. give advice on cleaning, re- pairing and alterations.
Assistunta from. the Burcau can conduct you right through the store and serve in every department.
FIRST PICTURES from Parrs of the Jacques Fath collection are released to-day. This coot is made of natural tussare silk, three-quarter length, The unusual collar'is to large it forms on extra cade
news
COULD YOU BARE YOUR SHOULDERS? difficult figures from stock.
can fit
christened It has
the six
1190
ter.
AIR EXPORTS By JILL MORRISON main figure type attractive which may be
a box
Sussex,
"Dianu" for tall wo-
duroy
cor-
Be Sensible in Buying Shoes
Perfect for resort wear are theso sandals of brown and whito kid with a medium heel.
BL HELEN FOLLETT OKIRTS long or skirts short, it When you go shoe-shopping. does not matter, the feet keep an eye out for comfort in must be comfortably and beaut- walking as well as locks. You fully shad. Even the teen-agers can find both ease and style if have decided that it is best to you will seek that necessary have lady-like feet instead of combination. Let us hope you stuct lacinders that are ment and and one-half inches. Economise slouchily dressed
They resist heels that measure three
classic In feeling, dispel the on inches and you'll be better off. notion that every high school Extremely high heels can bring is a tomboy, that doesn't trouble if you wear them all the girl
are how she looks. Let us re- time. Joice that the silly period of blue jeans and shirt tails waving in the breeze has gone.
too
mode.
When walking, keep the head balanced, chest lifted, and ab- dominal muscles in a state of mlid contraction. Let the arms swing easily and lap up plenty of fresh air; there won't be such
a drain on the rouge compact,
Customers going abroad can obtain advice on clothes suita- ble to foreign climates and
Most popular stock hip mea evening.. novelty touch, expectant mothers can have
is now 381.2in. inspired by Paris, is sackcloth, special fashions shown to them surement In privacy.
bigger than before the war. A for sports conts, beach American stores have offered well-known beauty specialist bras and casual belts.
Increase down to an this kind of service for years, puts this TWO INCHES MORE over-starchy dlet. She advises WHALE ROLL-CALL
-exercises. massage.. TERE are more reports on DUYERS in all parts of the special
Wax baths and a giant rolling whalement roll (new item country report that women machine to roll away unwanted on our menu) from five office uro plumper than they wero inches.
girls who shared a tin for prewar.
their lunch with rolls and but THE JUNO TYPE
(1) Not unpleasant, but GOOD
for difficult
don't like it.
Too much of a lift at the rear comes from a figures
(2) "It is better than some
of your foot will throw the body London store which claims that of the saw-dusty stuff we get
out of balance, especially if the It
hecla roters specially for out of in the modern sandwich.”
slant cause the foot to the ordinary measurements and (3) "Has a a flavour similar to Very appropriate for this sea- down et an angle of thirty
Bearly 80 percent of the
This angular German or luncheon son of the year is the model with degrees or more. old
the of prewar days," sausage
the extension leather sole; it has position brings strain on has a strong tasten nice tailored look. It keeps metatarsal bones, crowding them (4) "It
preferred by your feet warm and comfortable even lower. Tocu nre forced and you'll be less likely to get a into a huddle, and carry most spotlight
such as "Juno" for some people." names.
(5) "Not too
which is bad. but 1 red nose,
of the body weight that which there is don't think I would buy it." your shoulders and neck.out-size. BY air to the Prince Chalerm-NEWEST fashions
unfair. nothing more terrible in the way Bbol of Siam recently went London, anys so, Paris says so. ner,
"Venus" for average,
of beauty griefs. Dressy shoes પ smali, "Helena! of choice orchid plants I say: Can you take this spot-"Phoebo"
that have lean, slender lines sent to him by a nursery at light? And does the rest of your the woman with the hour-glass COUNTRY STYLE
have no relationship to the old- THERE is a new children's Crowborough.
fashioned pointed Within gure stand up to the emphasis figure, and "Chloe" with the next few weeks, on almost which fashion is putting on it? small bust and big hips.
shop, where many of the gar-There is extra room at the ball your It is certainly more attractive ments are made by old crafts-of the fool to allow for the extra all BOAC-Qantas services leav-
In case your neck
the treat-to ask for "A Juno, ing London for Australia there weak point, here's
please" women in the country.
tapering at the Joes. than "Please show me your will be rare orchid plants for ment:
Scrub the skin with circular outsize fashions." Australian fanclers.
These plants are exported by movements, using a soft British nurseries
not only to brush, soap and warm and Siam but Australia
to Massage the neck every night
wih dollar and other hard currency one night
NE of the best things about knitted a bleaching
the spring collections being for cream, the next with skinfood. ONE £1 Worth
to £500 per. if
shown by the wholesale houses with socks to match only cost you have
Is the
of materials LISC
Silk, un- 30s.
hand-embroidereti plant, the orchids are packed use acne lotion, on your neck.
production bil and shot sets make charm- ybe the skin of your neck available for mass Maybe
ing christening gifts. a for years. is all right, but you have carry
There are also some amusing their own reserve of moisture-roll of fat at the back. Do thin: Seersucker for day and even-
wooden wall figures bent, the orchids in a "folge bulb" With urins
clasp the eing dresses. Broderie An Austrian above thr roots. For their hands together in front of you. giaise frocks, stoics, hats and for nursery walls and well-
they need Journey
ex Lower the head until the fore-
gaberding sulis designed nursery furniture. protective
The head touches the backs of the parasols
Sea Island cotton shirt cept
COMPLAINTS DEPT. orchids arrive by air at their ancers. Keeping the forehead blouses wool jersey destinations in # matter of pressed against the fingers, lift coa
weight
a new un- WHY are utility baby gar-
lecks." pepper. Bring to a slow boil. of in weeks, or the elbows and push the head crushable material rayon.
ments minde days instead
of such bad, look at the
exclaimed as the Chef un-
Then
cream together 2 tbsp. months, if they had up and back. Don't overstrain. liberal use of grosgrain, io quality wool? Latest example possibly
butter or margarine and 2 tbsp. travelled by surface transport. Repeat six times.
silk and lovely pure crepe de ...a 0s cardigan shrank packed a bag of vegetables.
flour. Add
hat c. of the only kix favourite unwearably
MadameTM* chine. popular
"You like lecks.
Soup and stir until smooth. Hybrid Descendants
queried the Chef. "In France Ther return to the kettle of is silk shanlung for day and careful washings.
they are one of the most popu- Mr Hugh
a Scot by Low,
cook and stir until soup and lar vegetables. We use them in birth And distinguished
boiling point has been reached, sauces, soups and stews, and founded the Stuart botanist,
and the soup bubbles all over. sometimes we steamboil like Serve garnished with a unle asparagus and serve with
minced parsley, or a combina- nice drawn butler sauce."
tion of minced parsley and ten- der lops of the leeks. "Leeks are also used exten- sively in England and Wales," I added. "They belong to the onion family and are very easy to grow. And their green tous are just as valuable as the leek bulb itself. You can just cut off the tops if you like, and let the bulbs grow more green tops."
arcas.
in special lightweight boxes.
emmels. Orchids, ke
uttle noss.
Low orchid house in 1830, and the family subsequently search
nail
water
SACKCLOTH, TOO
On Your Tocs Even with shorter skirts, the spotlight is still on the ankles thanks to ankle-strap shoes. The appearance of thick ankles is helped by dark stockings and
ed throughout the world for a fairly high heel. Actual tes
specimens,
Soine coming surements can be brought down new
and down if you use running up and to which their cinira as an exercise. Du it on from countries
descendants are hybrid
now Later
In exported.
the last your toes. century Sir Hugh Low, British Minister int Perak, Peninsula, himself botanist,
And when you're alone, clo It brings into Malay backwards.
use to their advantage-mus- a famouscles you didn't know you own- sent home collections. The family still carries an the nagement of the nurseries.
Skirts that are smooth at the and sides show
ק ו1
Tb life of the young orchid front begins as a seed on a plece of bulging thighs. Slim them this jelly in flask. After ten years way.
In
Grip the back of a chair with
In a 70 degree temperature the right hand for support. Fut
humid atmosphere, and oc-
#
A
Lovely old-fashioned gingham and ginghom pinafores,
dungarees and matching walsiconts for boys, and plna- Hand- skirts for girls
cable stitch sweaters even
baby
fore
the smallest
after
The Birth Bill:
13 brave
brave wives.
prove the case
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Leek Soup for Dinner
$1
1
Curried Vegetables with Eggs
Steam-boil or
pressure cook thick lbs. cabbage cut in slices, 1. lb. string beans, sliced lengthwise, and 1 lb. carrots, which have been preted
Meanwhile, quartered,
and hard cook 4 eggs and prepare the i like to ball the very small
curry sauce. To serve, arrange lecks about 15 minutes, then
the vegetables on n platter- serve cold with French dress- the cobbage in the centre, the ing and a sardine for an up- carrots at one end, and the petiser. They are also excel beans opposite. Pour
over lent chopped and cooked in cur
curry sauce. Carnish with nests. cheese sauce for macaroni-or of rice containing the hard
cooked eggs, which should hot and cut in halves.
More than 200 MPs have taken action to stop the British Government killing the Analgesia Bill which would give mothers aids to make child-birth painless. Here is the story at an experiment which brings support are the left leg behind you, grasp casional transplanting, the rate ankle with the left hand
to the arguments in favour of the B1: blooms are finally produced. Then
comes the compensation and pull at it. Swing the le
six forward, grasp
Bill the ankle in
to provide, "dol" (from the Latin word for plant which flowers
THE months in the year and, pro- front of you and pull it up. Do
analgesia in childbirth pain: "dolor").
It was with this pain meter to serve over poached eggs on toust for luncheon, or for a perly treated, may last for 100 this six times. Repeat with the raises again the argument that Drs Hardy and Javert set
about the seriousness of the out
the pains of vegetable dinner. In France we them very good for childbirth. The volunteers were consider pain.
warned beforehand that they the health." Science lips now rallied to the would suffer the pairs of burn
Essential Minerals DI. to those support of the mothers, in an ing in addition Ingenious series of experiments inbour.
"Indeed they are good," reported in a medical Journal” two American doctors, James D.
BEDSIDE TEST
agreed. "For lecks contain an
years.
other leg.
VICTORIAN TRAVELLERS
Two models, in Victorian costumes, wait at a London 'railway station for a train to the Ideal Homes Exhibition where they appear in a fashion show.
to measure
1
They
as
Hardy and Carl T. Javert, have As each of the volunteers unusual amount of Vitamins B measured the pains of women reached the time of delivery the and C. as well as catelum and In Inbour. They had the co- doctors set their pain meter up other essential minerals. operation of 13 brave young her bed. Following each are really a vegetable tonle mothers-to-be, who volunteered by
labour pain, they irradiated the well as a savoury." to undergo additional test pains back of her hand and asked her so that the suffering of future to tell them which was
the
mothers might be appreciated stronger, the labour pain or the a soup," said the
and alleviated.
THE PAIN METER
They also taste magnifique in
Chet. "For · thought we could burning pain. They then ad example, I Justed the intensity of the heat have for dinner a cream soup until the woman reported that of potatoes, lecks and plenty of. the burning pain was exactly as parsley." strong as her labour pain had
"Perfect for the first course of
Dinnor
The experiments have proved that the pungs of childbirth are as real as those of a grinding been
The experiments showed that a garden dinner," I said. toothache and frequently reach the maximum of pain that a beginning with barely percep
tible pains accompanying the person can suffer.
On the subject of measuring onset of Inbour, the severity of pain Drs Hardy and Javert are the pains rose, steadily. About authorities,. They are the men halfway through the first stage Who Invented the pain scale in of labour the pain passed the the first place. Their pain meter halfway mark in the dol sente, (or "dolorimeter,
us they call "a severe pain" in the estima- it) is a beam of heat rays focused on of the doctors. Af this on to the skin of the back of the point most of the women asked
for analgesic relief. hand for three seconds,
By regulating the intensity of the heat beam the doctors are able to determine how
much
hent it takes either to cause just the
BURNED HANDS The women who carried on to end of the experiment
a pricking sensation or to give registered the absolute maximum of pain sensation (between 10 the maximum degree of pain a
They and 10% dols) in the necond person can
experience.
Cream of Polato, Leck and Parsley Soup Vegetable Curried with Eggs Flaky Rice
Tossed Lettuce with Nuts Ginger Fruit Squares Orange Sauce Coffee or Ten Milik (Children)
All Measurements Are Level Recipes Serve Four
Cream of Potato, Look And
1 Parsley Soup
be
Vegetable Curry Sauce: Melt 1 tbsp. butter or margarine; add 1 small, peeled crushed section of garlic, and 1 medium-sized onion sliced; slow-fry 2 min. Then stir in 14 tsp. curry
pow-
der and 1 tbsp. flour. Slow- fry 1 min. Last stir in 1% c. liquid drained from the cooked. vegetables; cook and stir until boiling point is reached. Season to taste with salt and popper,
Tossed Lettuce with Nuts
Wash and crisp 1 medium- lettuce and shred sized head into bite-sized pieces. Use the green outer leaves as well as heart leaves. Toss with 14 <. and savoury French dressing sprinkle with 3 tbsp. coarse- broken walnuts ar pecan meats, or sliced Brazil nuts.
Savoury French Dressing Combine tsp. minced parsley, 1 tsp. minced chives, 1 tsp. minced pimiento, isp. salt, tep, sugar and 4 tsp. paprike. Adelc. mlad oll and beat In 2 thap, cider or wine vinegar. This is sufficient to dress 2 salads.
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Ginger Fruit Squares
C.
or
Use a plain gingerbread res elpe, or 1 package gingerbread found that the heat which causeil stage of inbour. These women Combine peeled, sliced mix. Add to the flour 1⁄2 maximum pain was appro- Buttered burns which rolac potatoes, 2 sliced feeks, includ- raisins or diced dried g ximately ten and one-half times bilaters on the backs of their Ing the green lops, and I c. quartered dates, and finish as Transfer to shallow as strong as the heat which just hands.
"These resulla hand the lle to boiling water. Add tsp. salt. usual.
and bake in Cover
coole until and
the pun caused pain, so they divided their scale into ten and one-half those childless "authorities" who vegetables are tender, about 20 moderate oven, 350 F. about 30
belittle the pains of child-
a through min. Then rub
min. Serve warm or cold, cut in
with birth.
orange parts and called each division a
scalded milk, · ́squares,, aleve. Add 3 c.
• The Journal of Clinical
George Glenwood 1⁄2 tsp. celery sell and tsp. poured over. Investigatioii.
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