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Life's A Big Adventure To The Six-Months-Old

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IX months is one of the most pleasant milestones in ù baby's roul. for by this time he is--or should, he really es tablished 'intle. persoll This mechanism,should be running perfectly smoothly by now, and. having finished the tripblesome business of forming god habits, he is ready to mach ext to the adventurous task of e ploring the life around him.

By the middle of his first year. baby

will probably he inciner about producing some, teeth, though." they may not actually pleas fér several months. He will, however, prepare the way, so keep güms and jave in good condition be letting him chew a boiled, scraped tune for a p:༩༨:༥* pf oeeris Pui: i{ji"" 1:2སཱ བྷཏྟཙྪཎ༠, tarian principles) for jaw exercise,

The time when he is most ready to do this is, of equmy, just before bis daytime feeds. A rubber Rumb-bell, a rattle, a hope or very ring, somg large bright wooden beads-are other suitable tooth sharpeners The beads are, of course, used to this kind of treat- ment, and made in fast culotisi

Moving trees or a futtering piece of bright material hang in the line of vision are much -joved, and bring forth coving appreciation.

The healthy youngster is well Versed in the art of physical jerks, rolling, kicking, and stretching on the ground for a short time before his feeds, with all the freedom and enjoyment of a puppy, and al. though he will be the essence of Geostentment, his "gundness” should not mean that he is left to Be from. one meal time to another, or his muscles will be flabby

A baby who licks opportunity for regular exercise and the spells of social intercourse which are his due will not develop either physi cally or mentally as he should. This does not mean that he should be subjected to a mental prodding, or any form of over-stimulation, of course, and we who love his com pany may in furt, have to curb

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ourselves from talking too much at

him, and prodding him in the ribs

to produce that captivating chuc

k- or winning smile.

His Hours of Sleep +

About 1 hours sleep is the ideal at this age-bly hours in the morn- ing, following hard upon the 10 at feed, then a cap in the after- not a shout 215, after a short enting, in the pram.

The half-year, milestone," is the best age to start the cool sponge,

after the evening warm bath the

bath by this time), and this is con-

is, of coursey, promoted to the big

-inues until it is replaced at other year by a nearly cold dip in the morning.

He will be busy developing his hack muscles, raising head

and shoulders, and holding on to the She of his cut Ang efforts he makes in this way are to the road, but he does not need help in this direction from us. It is his ow efforts which he so readily and with unfailing patience repeats that go to cake the strong muscles which are to stand. him in zound stead throughout life.

Holding Him Firmly

A webbing shoulder strap Amar be a necessity for his safety, how- ever, as this allows him to turo freely from side to side, and even to raise shoulders and head, but it prevents him from actually sitting up. Naturally the strap would only be used when leaving him to sleep ja cet or pram, and so would not interfere with further exercise.

Teething troubles and crying bouts are not part of the pro- Framme, at six months old, if feed- ing and management are satisfac tory: rather will the days run sweetly, and smoothly both for baby himself and for those with whom he

lives.

little tricks.

You don't need umpteen million pockets to keep up with the Joneses, Be smart and get one that changes its colour chameleon-like, via the simple expedient of different wash- able covers. You can buy them or. if you're clever, put your lily-white hands to work and make, 'em. Half yard of fabric is enough, and presto, "you're all ser and watching.

Aniateurs can be expert dyers - we should know for we're the com- plete amateur. An inadequate, shoe wardrobe was the moother of this particular invention. Buy a pair of your favourite fabric shoes, a paint brush and a box of ordinary water colours. Mix the paint in a glass of water, but be sure that the colour is deeper than you will want it to be it dries fighter, see?). A few strokes of the paint brush, and you have shoes to match or contrast with your evening gown —as you wish. But we, child-like, have saved the best until the last -the colour washes out, leaving but a faint trace behind, whenever you wish to change the hue. And if you don't think this an ingenious idea-well, there's no pleasing you --ever!

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"SATURDAY, "OCTOBER 3, 1935

BEAUTY DIARY

VIEWING a collection of hats

in Paris is more than an education in headwear it's a revela ion in How-to-make-the- most-of-you-hair.

The girls who show of these bats are not all beaùties—at least, judging by classical or even Holly- wood standards but they strikingly attractive, and their per sonality is impressed upon the on- lookers as soon as they room.

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This is because of their hair. They exaggerate the importance of their coiffure, and their clothes and make-up are chosen to suit. So the hairdressing style is not 3 ma dom choice or a matter of habit, of following the way in which the natural wave just happens w go. Indeed not

The coiffure is aade either the main feature-indepeßdent," arrest- ing or it is intended to show of some other string feature.

When the Frenchwoman goes to her hairdresser she insists that he makes her hair look smart, to go with her smart clothes, but when most of us go in for our weekly shampoo and set we seldom dream of asking for a new style, or even think of our hair in relation to the new clothes we have just chosen

We expect it to be dressed pret- -tily to suit our faces, but ignore our lovely hats! What a mistake!

Now, for instance, there are those girls with prominent features, large Doses perhaps, or even slightly for- ward teeth. They have been brought up-tó suppose that their hair should be softly waved or curled over their cheeks to try and counteract their over-emphasised features.

Thet idea has gone right out. The slick young woman of to-day just shows off her prominent pro- file to the world, and thus suggests a dominant. personality.

She seems to have Hepburn in mind when she does it. We are not thinking of Hepburn's, features, - though, only her hair. That fringe of hers started all sorts of ideas, The latest version is not a flat, wispy. affair, or even a soft curl- It is three rows of hard roll curls, fixed from a parting that goeg straight across the forehead.

Some women don't worry about the parting. They brush the hair from the centre of the head straight forward, and then roll it back again, holding it firm with twą or three invisible hairpins. The sides and back reach just to the bottom of the ears and are swept back in the windblown style, curling slight

ly.

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Coiffures Have Personality

When a girl has a Roman nose, and otherwise dainty features, this gives her a very fragile appear

If the Frenchwoman's hair is the type that does not want to curl, she, doesn't try to make. it. Rather, she goes to

other extreme, brushes it through with a man's hair cream to stiffen it, then sweeps it back off her fare and lets it shoot out at the back. This is a perfect setting får tailored, town clothes and hard, smart little hats and vivid make-up..

And see the way in which these Parisiennes put out the difficuity of hair which objects to a shingle.

They have the sides cut short and tapered and rolled round into large flat question-mark curls which are pinned into place on the hair itself (a little brilliantine is a belp here). Most of the back is cut short and thinned out, but on one side, just from above the car, they keep one also long piece quite thin and tapered--which is swept round the back of the head, brushed flat, and twisted round into a flat euri above the other ear. There it is pinned into place.

The vogue for these flat "button" curls, as they are called, still goes on, and some girls have

them all over their heads, so that they really do look extraordinarily like stamies, particularly when, they are wear- ing the дет classical evening zowns.

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