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Heeping Fit

"ES; now for limbering and

slimming

waistline.

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It's always a good time to start. Here's how:

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With the hands on the bips, bend" the left leg, bringing the body down to meet it, as you see in the sketch. Now straighten up to the original position, and repeat the movement with the right leg. Do this slowly at first, quickening the pace as you become used to it.

Jumping with the feet astride and together is a good liver-shaker, and useful for slimming at the saşne time.

Stand with the hands on the hips. Jump with the heels together, and come. down again. Now jump with the legs astride and come down in sa astride position.

Repeat the movement about 20 times, alternatively feet together and astride..

Now for two exercises which are not ilustrated..

Ankies can be both strengthened and slimmed by this simonle move- ment. .Stand on something about two inches high-a flat stone or a little platform of sand will do.

Stand erect with the heels over- hanging the edge. Rise on the toes, relax, and lower the heels till they touch the ground. Repeat 10 or 15 times daily.

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Anything that zones up the spine has a good effect on the nervous system. If you are feeling a little run down and imp. here is some-. thing to brace you up and put you on good terms with the world' again.

Sit on the floor with the feet flat and knees bent. Clasping the arms round the knees, "rock" backwards until you are lying with your back against the Boor. Return to start- ing position and repeat vigordasly about dozen times.

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TOW for a

BEAUTY DIARY

дет beauty

Nechnique for these next

new

three summer months! It is just the time to stir up duli old habits. And

beauty habits will do something for you besides just altering your appearance: they will quicken your mind. freshen your outlook and uplift your spirit-just as new summer covers and dresses do.

A willingness to experiment is the very foundation

of routh Fresa ideas bubbling around in your mind animate your face just the way good circalation brings up rolour in your skin.

As to the new things you are going to try-here are some gezera! rules:

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Creams may be lighter in texture. perfumes more delicate, powders warmer in tone: rouges and Tip- sticks should contain more yellow, nail polishes may be darker, hair dressing should be simplified

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The "why's" at the back of this are quite simple. Your skin is less Eikely to be dry in warm weather. The reasons are: More fresh air and exercise, less cold wind, no artificial

better

diet heat,

balanced Therefore, most skins do not require the kindly encouragement of an un-" usually heavy cream. On early summer evenings, do your patting and tapping and smoothing, with a cream that suits the season.

As to fragrance-we are increas- the ingly.conscious of odours temperature mounts. (You know how overpowering a heavy perfume. can be in a hot room). Be kind to 25 to those around you, as well yourself, and choose light refresh- ing perfumes that bring a delicious with them. sense of coolness Lavender, lilae, violet, and the dozen and one blended odours that are

• Esther-

A New Face For Summer!

ike gardens in the carly morning come into their own in summer. And for the bath, too. pine and verbena and other light tangy .essences do something for the spirit as well as the warm weary flesh. * If you aren't accustomed to use a body lotion after your bath, sem- mer is the time to start trying i Pat the lotion on gently while the skin is stillva triße damp. but it is a cool and lovely feeling!

Whether you tan or don't your skin is almost sure to take on a richer tone the season progresses. Your winter powder will begin to show up too plainly.

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Now is the

time to investigate the flattering effect of a powder with a deeper tint. Don't just order a "darker powder" at random. There are cool browns as well as warm browns in skin tones and choosing exactly the right powder shade will make all the difference in the world to your appearance. You may not want a darker powder at all but only a slightly rosier one, if you have the type of skin which simply acknow- ledges summer with a faint blush.

Experiment a bit. Beige, banana, peach, blush there are all sorts of radiant, sun-kissed shades. One of them wil do something very special Sor you.

I have seen a summer make-up, properly worked out, make a woman look-five years younger. It gave her a kind of golden glow. And the pride she felt in her new face made her eyes brighter, and gaye her i alertness which almost general banished another five years!

With your warmer skin tone and powder it is easy to see why your rouge and lipstick should contain more yellow. The crimson, violet and American Beauty shades, which are so flattering to clear, "white skins, are not at home on a more You richly coloured background.. will not need so much rouge, either -not only because your own skin has more colour, but because warmer powder will bring extra emphasis to whatever rouge you do

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It is very smart-and quite. lovely to give your skin an all- over even richness, instead of a rouged look, using your lipstick for accent.

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And do give your eyes a share in this new summer make-up.. You know how faded the eyes of a sun- burned person look? As the skin becomes darker, eyes seem to lose in colour. This is the momenty to try that blue, green or violet eye shadow you have been yearning for.

With nail polish, too, this is the time to be daring. Brown hands welcome rosy nails. It makes them look so much younger. Try differ- ent methods of application, as well as new colours, until you have the combination which is most becom- ing. Try covering the whole näil clear out to the tip, especially if you are using one of the iridescent polishes. This is very effective at night Try the newer "streamline" effect, leaving a mere rim of white exposed at the tip of the nail. It does give a feeling of aristocratic length

Summer hair. That is a subject a in itself-hair that goes swimmtning. blows about on motor trips, gets wilted and limp-looking Simplicity is the summer answer, I think. Don't choose hot days to experiment with an elaborate coiffure. Work out something simple. In winter I like bangs and bias waves and all sorts of trickery, but I must say that in summer I think nothing is so practical and pleasant as a cool- looking. off-the-brow treatment. especially after 30. With your new summer face, be courageous about your hair. How do you know you "can't. Wear 1,RAY other way - How recently have you tried? Don't wait for someone else to set a new style. Do some work on yourself.

There are so many wonderful and exciting things to work with every year! "Prove your ability to keep step with the times; prove that you are still young enough to change

self this by discovering Summer

* new

What Is Woman's Future?

(Continued)

As early as 1858 in America it was resolved among other things that woman has too long rested satisfied in the circumscribed limits... which corrupt customs and a per- verted application of the Scriptures have marked out for her, and that it is time she should move in the en- larged sphere which her great Creator has assigned to her."

There' seems to be some doubt in the minds of other people besides Herr Hitler as to whether the sphere into which woman moved after that, and is still moving, was actually the one to "which her great' Creator" "assigned her. But there is no pos

sible doubt that it is enlarged.

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Paris calling

ALL DAY LONG AND, FOR ALL OCCASIONS

need it. Here are some lovely ideas.

A two-piece dress of spongy dow embroidered cotton, a rough straw hat matching the background colour of the dress. White kid oxfords with cutouts. Or here is another with an exciting colour scheme! Yellow, bright green and brown, in washable silk, with chamois slip

pers, yellow straw hat and brown

cord bag. Pink, with black "and

white, is also an interesting colour

scheme. A two-piece dress of a cotton material with a smart black applique monogram. Pink felt hat with black band, black and white plaid -cotton bag, and black trim- ming on white buck oxfords.

There are some dresses that, when. you see them on the hanger, bok like nothing at all, but on you they come to life: The moral of that is -don't judge from the hanger! Cool rayon-crepe frocks are apt to

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belong to that class, but they are forming your one ideal ensemble. A nicely tailored and cool dress can be made of white lines, yoke and sleeves of tucked bright blue linen. With a hat of white pique, a blue or white handbag and white Enen. candals, it is complete and wholly inexpensive. Ideas there are in tens and hundreds; the difficulty is to have them carried out perfectly down to the very last detail One wrong shade, ope handbag that just doesn't ftand it all goes.. Wrong So, once again, remember the de tails!

A garden-party or reception is one of those occasion to which you can rise with your most dressy freek, so long as you sternly" resist the temptation to have your neck too low or the skirt too long. It is so disconcerting to meet an evening de- colletage in the middle of a sum- mer's afternooi,

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coats, a dash of rainbow colours, yards of trailing skirt

dusk and then moonlight. music drifting out to remind you of the dance floor you have deserted

There is magic

in summer nights that makes you feel like the most beautiful girl in the world. And for your dances, your festivities, your roof-garden evenings, your dia- ner dances at home, you may make a choice between swishing and floating, but in some dresses -you can actually do both.

Paris is all excited aboat, taffeta, They put it underneath for a slip, with futtery sheer fabric over it! So, you see, you can botu. Bost and swish Cotton marquisette is lovely in motin Put rules at the neck- line, held by one large emerald-and- rhinestone clip. wear a bracelet to match and you have a charming en- semble. Chiffon, too, is perfect for summer wafting airily when you walk. With so many exquisite and unusual colours in chiffon, why not let yourself go a little in choosing one? They have towers that form an unusual contrast-and don't for get pearls with chiffon, or with any

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Mousseline de soie is also good orer taffeta. And don't forget the purple shades this year. They are newly revived and very welcome..

There are times in everyone's summer when it's important to look perfectly turned out. And those are not always evening times. You sometimes need just the ideal day- time costume: A well-selected, well-fitted, becoming costume, made of an interesting fabric which looks fresh and keeps fresh. Hat, bag and shoes that are exactly right with it-all ready. You know you'l

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SATURDAY, JULY 26. 1933

Make your own home

LANE, CRAWFORD'S

SUMMER

Sale

Fire of the couch units are shown here, separated and used as dining table chairs

CITY

ITY LIVING has made us a generation of Jealous space-savers. Instead of mak ing two chairsstand where one ¿e- stood before, the modern signer reverses the axiom and concerns himself with making two chairs disappear entirely into a couch or table.

Not only does one room have to take the place of several in most apartments mnd small houses, but the rooms themselves we actually smaller than formerly. And yet we are much more insistent upon light and air and a general feel- ing of space than people have ever! been before. Therefore the in- genuity of modern designers and decorators is taxed to devise rooms that serve every purpose required of them, and furniture that is ade- quate but compact and unobtrusive.

Paul Bry. French designer and decorator, has made a number of ingenious solutions to the problem of space-saving. He has schemes that are for the three-role F0021 adaptable for use anywhere. Some-

TOOM times he combines dizing living room and studio; sometimes he makes bedroom, living room and dining room into one. He has worked cleverly on the problem of combination furniture and shorn i of the self-consciousness and affec -ration with which it was once char-

terised

Mr. Bry is particularly cognisant of the bachelor's needs, as he ex- plains:

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"Upon entering the small room. only a couch, a dresser, a cupboard and small table near the window are visible, and it seems impossible that there should be room for more than one or two people to sit down. But from under the chust of drawers the bost pull our lifts He then. three seats the

chest top drawers (like opening a piano). and, there appears a set table made of red composition board, which is. washable, unbreakable and nice The guests sit without a cloth. down on the couch and the table is turned in such a way that it comes in front of the couch and drinks or a meal may be served. After- wards, the table is pushed against. the wall again and the glasses or s

the lid. dishes disappear, under After the "guests have gone a ser- vant pets everything in order.

"Für the night, the mattress of the couch is turned rer with the shot covered part on top. it is then made up with heiding which has been kept during the day in the closet connecting the chest of drawers with the couch.”

In the corner couch shown on these pages, the couch is made up of individual chairs which are held wacther by wooden clamps under- neath. These can be easily slipped os and off, and the chairs used-ty themselves as dining table chairs. A serving table contains the ser vice Mr By_uses wicker in many cabinets and closets because it al lows ventilation. With the old- combines fashioned material be view of "From the point of

would be too to pay a cup a economy, two roomS

decoration various synthetics that much for the bachelor: because he

A resist stains" of all kinds. is not home during the day.. third room would, of course, catail even more expense for furnishing From the point of and upkeep. view of comfort, one room might seem too little, but it is really enough to make quite an agreeable home. If it is furnished properly, there will be plenty of room even for frequent entertaining.

The furniture which Mr. Bry de- sigus is good not only from the standpoint of versatility and com- pactness. Its lines are pleasant. It is beautiful and fits into a de. finite place both in a room and in a scheme of well-ordered living. The fabrics used are of rich texture and colouring

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THAT about tea-time? Small fat bunnies peep- ing from a corner of a cheery nursery cloth They're only beige linen bunnies with white velveteen tails, but they do look so very full of life-just as if they were about to kick up their heels and go lop-lopping over. the green field of a tablecloth which is powdered with white daisies.

The funny little bunnies are sure to be a great favourite in the nursery, so why not enlarge the one pictured on this page, do a little drawing, and then work them on the children's bed covers or along the hem of the nursery curtains? The little close-ups of bunny, daisy bunch and border show you, too, the stitches to use in each case.

Materials Required-2% yds. of dyed linen crash in green, 231⁄2 in. wide: 6 skeins of Clark's "Anchor" Stranded Embroidery in brown, shade No. F5997; 2 skeins of light brown, No. F568; 3 skeins of white.

and one of green, No. F464: scraps of finer beige linen for the appli- que bunnies, and white washing velveteen for the bunny-tails and the daisies, a raler, a compass, a pencil, and some drawing paper.

Directions

Cat the cloth into four sections. 19 in square. Turn up tiny bežas. all round each square and tack Ermly. Work over in button-hole. stitch, from the right side, in brown No. F5997, spacing the stitches To join the about inch apart. squares, lay the buttonholed edges parallel on to a strip of stiff paper, tack them down and lace or whip the loop edges together with the same brown thread.

Trace your bunny drawings onto the liner, cut them out and pin and oversew them across the corner of the cloth Arrange two daisy groups near the bunnies, and one at each of the three remaining corners. Remember to cut the daisy head and bury tail on the white velve- teen, cut out and oversew in place on top of the corresponding outlines on the cloth.".

If you are a little more energetic you might try making one big and one small bunny. Try that the children will love it.

Embroidery-Big bunny, outlined in buttonhole stitch in brown, No. F5997; tail, buttonhole stitch, white Daisies, buttonhole stitch in white; centres, French knots, brown, No. in F$997. Leares, satin-stitch

sreen.

little tricks

To Fanten Oilcloth to a Cement. Floor

Make a very strong paste of rye Hour mixed with a little cold water. Then add boiling water and stir. Pour into this an equal quantity of hot glue, and use while hot

How to Enliven a Dull Staircase and lake the View From Above an Interesting One

Have the walls painted or dis- tempered in a light, sunny shade, and paint some modern views at intervals. These can have a ply- wood surround, which looks like a window frame, so that they give you the impression of looking out be yond the house, or be left unframed so that they are merely a wall decoration.