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Rest Is Important In Childhood

CHILD'S rest hours are

A just as important as the

amount of exercise he takes. We often find, when a child eats insufficient food. and appears listless, that the remedy Hes. strangely enough.. in more rest instead of exercise

We are apt to forget that the body and brain of the average child

e working at full speed daring his waking hours. He is for ever running around the house and gar- den, bending and stretching, pulling and pushing.

Even when he is asleep, his small body is growing and using up energy which must be maintained. by food certainly but also by rest

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An Avid Mind.

Hi, min, so avid for new ideas, is working ceaselessly to under- stand endless new problems and learning new and difficult lessons. from the day he is born, AD this requires much mental effort which makes his mind and body need rest. There are types of children who have. perhaps. * tendency rheumatism, an abnormal restless- ness of mind and body, or a suc- ceptibility to nerviness, fear or ex- citability. All of these need a good.

deal of extra rest.

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It is, therefore, the wisest plan to arrange your child's day so that his resting period has its proper place in it. This may not be such an easy arrangement if the child has been used to running about from breakfast until bedtime.

T1 He Is Eight

But if your baby is still tiny you will quite easily be able to retain one of his resting periods as a matter of course from his perambu- lator stage. through his toddling and growing up ages antil he is at least eight years old.

Must children. If they rise early. need a rest in the morning between eleven and one o'clock. When the child reaches school age perhaps the easiest plan is to give him his din. Der, about 12.30, and let him rest (Continued in Column 41.

BEAUTIFUL

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BEAUTY DIARY

MASHIONS in faces change

FASHION

nearly as often as fashions

in clothes, and so the woman who prizes her charm and per sonality must be for ever been- ing a flexibi; mind on the mat- ter of make-up. : She mus always be ready to dip her fingers into something new.

At the moment the eyes are the feature to be stressed. They must always be well-card for-that goes without saying: but now the hats. and the scarves, and the elaborate neck-trimmings all draw special attention to them,

Right, Make-Un

A different. rule, of applying eye make-up must be laid down for almost every individual face, so » few experiments in a hard, crust light are always necessary.

Beauty specialists and make-up, experts lay down rules for the four most usual shapes of eyes, and then these are slightly varied for each person For instance, deep-se eyes with eyebrows that grow Tathery near the lids need a very The blue-green, green-grey and Eght touch of eyeshadow, if any.

bronze shadows are best, with silver blends for evening...

Exes that are set close together should have the eyeshadow carried beyond the outer corners of the eyes to give width. Brush the lashes from the inner corners out- wards instead of curling them straight up. Give as much width *s you can between the brows, br careful plucking, and elongate the brows slightly with pencil,

Wide-set large eyes with arcbed brows are a lovely feature and one

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Eather

Do Your Eyes Give You Charm And Personality?

that should be niade the must of. placing the deepest tone close to the lashes.

Taking care of the sight, and so ensuring the lasting beauty and youth of the eyes, is a matter of a couple of minutes daily care night and morning.

Bathe the eyes with a special 1 lotion or a wash of warm water and boracic powder (a small teaspoon to a tumblerful of water). The solution should be

made fresh every time it is used Dip a small Dad of cotton wool into the boracic wash, tip the head well back, and gently, squeeze the liquid into each

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Nursery

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afterwards, until the early after-

Out-of-Doors Or In?

Small children can sometimes sleep out-of-doors in the peřamba- lator, while larger children are less distracted in a "bedmom They should have no toys ng books. except, the toys they are used to taking to bed with them-and they should be expected to rest quietly even though they may not, at first,

n to swep

It is a bad plan to let a child rump about and become excited just before going to bed. If he likes to.. play havoc in the bathroom let him have his bath half an hour before bedtime, and then he might have ten minutes reading or storytelling in order to relax his mind and body before going to sleep.

Menus For Nursery Lunch

eye. Before patting the eyes dry. THAT tearing and tumbling

open them wide and roll the eye ball round and round and from side to side. This will rest the eyes when they are tired and will ensure the lotion getting well into the eye.

Fit a basin with cold water. Dip your head in it, open the eyes wide and exercise them under water. Jest two or three movements from right to left and from left to right: Many women, incinding film stary, make up their eyes before pusting on the rest of their make-up. They say it is easier, to judge the depth of roage to apply if they make up this way. Powder should never fe. brought anywhere near the eyes, and just to make sure the lashes and brows should be combed through when powdering is done with

Englishwomen with their fair skins, should not use too much eye- shadow. Many of the newest sha- dows are so soft-în culour as to be almost indefinite, and these new creams will tone in and add lustre to almost any coloured ere. With a tan, either real or synthetic, how- ever a clear blue or viridian green looks most charming and is often successfully worn by a woman with brown eyes

home, for the magic hour.

of lunch is one of the most- "looked-for moments in a school- child's day The importance of food! All through that last lesson childish eyes have sur- reptitiously sought the clock

. 12 o'clock finds feet fly- ing homewards to Mammy-and lunch

It's a wise mother that knows how to encourage that ERGETTIESS for food. If it isn't there, it can be fostered by a daintily-laid table; by intriguing nursery china, by a particularly gay arrangement of the dishes. It is there, well, life's GINT

In the latter case the thing is to avoid sending a torpid child back to school Again, it should be some- thing lightly digested, yet siri- ciently sustaining to carry the child through an afternoon of work and play.

Here day:

are a few menus for mid-

Stuffed tomatoes on toast rings; stewed, stoned cherries and blanc-

mange.

Cup of clear soup; Flaked white fish: Brown bread and butter, Apple.

Eggs au gratin: Baked custard and prunes; Banana or apple:

Cup of tomato soup; Small, grill- ed cutlet: French beans; Slice of .melon.

Egg mayonnaise; Green salad; Stewed apples and custard: Orange Poached eggs with peas; New potatoes: Apple snow.

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