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Days Indoors Should Be No Bore To Child

THE days' grow shorter and

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cooler and, though they love the outdoors, it doesn't call to the children in quite the sweet. beguiling way now that it does in the soft, brilliant days of Summer, with their warmth and green and water that invite exploration and play and sports under the blue sky.

Life for children (and for those grown-ups who like the open) is more physical in the Summer- they are more a part of nature and the elements. But as the air grows snappy and early darkness makes a brightly-lighted living room look inviting, and long, cold, rainy spelis make the house seem cosy, and as school starts in earnest. our in- terests swing again toward more civilised thoughts and pursuits.

To be sure all children have their empty or aimless or bored or dise contented times. But I have to work my imagination rather hard to picture the child who habitually doesn't know what to do with him- self indoors.

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Give a child even partly what he needs

person and materials with which to express himself, and he won't habitually find the hours of his day lacking in fun and interest and self-activity.. Such a child couldn't find the time not devoted to school

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outdoor play "hanging heavy" on his hands. A child who does will not grow and deepen and develop

as a person.

Contact and Experience What a child needs to find life interesting is two things: contact with people who are interested in him and varied experiences.

And just what does that mean? It means first-a mother or father who enjoys the and who has a real companionship with him. One who talks with him. Fstens to him, reads to him, and is sympathetic with his play or plays with him. One who takes him seriously as a person. Then it means, if possible, some companionship with other children, though the young child can, and does get along without.

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this. So much for the first part of what he does need

Now for the second part: variety of experience. Don't take.. for granted what is meant by this, but. think it out carefully. If you do one thing you will realise is that the younger the child, the less he needs experience outside his home.

To the fairly little boy or girl x walk along city streets or country roads with a grown person, who takes the time or has the patience to talk and observe and explain and discuss is another rich experi-

ence.

Soon, though, he is ready to reach out, to widen the horizon of his world. A railroad journey thrills him in every detail and interest in locomotives themselves and pictures of them follows not to mention a desire for repeated trips to ter minal and railroad yards. The zoo holds him for years, and pictures and stories about animals have reality for him after countless happy excursions to the zoological Each detail of a trip by parks. bus or tube holds its own experi- ence for his mind and senses- of speed, of sounds, of signal lights.

For The Older Child

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1935

BEAUTY DIARY

NOME fine day when you ara out walking just take count of how many men and women you see whese foreheads carry the two perpendicular lines that are attributed to eye strain in

or another. one form

The count totals fairly high in one day's review.

Then, having looked the frown or scowl lines over ca the other fellow's face. pake ja quick-look at home. your own when you come Jump up from your reading once or twice and see if you catch, your- self frowning the objectionable lines into the face. Watch for them. Be critical about them.

As a child grows older other ex- periences can be brought within his reach A big city or town usually has its aquariums and parks and museums and water fronts and industries. The suburbs or coun- try offer farms, historical places, opportunity for picnics and walks which lie within easy reach by foot-out and smooth as your best dam-

or car.

Books and music, art and archi- tecture are experiences of a little different order. And so is also the baving a really practical part in the family work or affairs.

Life Begins At 40

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foolish and dangerous Please re- member that. It took you years to acquire your obesity. Don't expect to lose it overnight.

Constipation may come as a re- sult of sluggishness of the intes tinal glands, but it is easily possible to overcome it by a change of diet and proper exercise, both of which.. will help you to lose weight.

Another rather common compli cation of the middle-years is high blood-pressure. High blood-pressure is one of the symptoms of a num- ber of diseases rather than a dis- ease in itself. For this reason, no general statements can be made as to the management of high blood-

pressure in all cases. The most logical thing to do is to hare ww thorough examination made by a physician to lear the underlying

cause.

The question is often asked, what can the patient do herself to obtain relief from high blood-pressure? In addition to overcoming the basic cause of the symptom, which may be due to a diseased beart, or dis- eased kidneys and in addition to the various kinds of drugs which have á lowering effect on the pressure, diet plays a very important part in the alleviation of this unhealthy condition.

Finally, what are the effects of the Baccumulating years upon the sexual life of a woman? For years the erroneous idea has persisted that after the "menopause." the sexual life of a woman, is over.

To a doctor, however, this idea is just one of those infantile. superstitions which have no basis of fact at all. The "menopause" means only that the monthly periods have come to their end and that the period of child-bearing is over! It does not, in any way, mean that sexual feel- ing is at an end at the same time.

To sum up. Providing you live sensibly, and have proper regard for your mental and physical well- being Forty is not the end-nor even the middle of life-it's the beginning!

We want to see that brow ironed

ash. There's not much use "spend- ing money on cosmetics, by which is meant the rouge and lip-stick and powder departments, until the lin- ed brow is smoothed out. And it geant be done.

We have just had an interview with an acquaintance who did get rid of those lines. It took her al most six months. I warn you, but hers were so deeply grooved that it was a job getting them done at all

Trip to an Eye Specialist

In this instance it took, in addi tion to five minutes night and morn ing of masasge_work, a trip to the eye specialist to have her eyes re- examined and new glasses adopted

Evening Gowns To Suit Your "Type"

THEN women began to

W realise that there were

some clothes they could wear and some which they definitely could not, they made a great stride forward- In short, they became fashion-conscious, as the Americans say.

To-day a woman searches for the clothes which suit her type. If she is tall, she does not wear spread- ing skirts-that is the monopoly of the small woman.

If her shoulders are broad she knows better than to choose frocks which make them look wider; if her hips are too broad, she sees to it that her dress makes them look narrower. And the woman who cannot boast of her inches does not wear long trailing important-look- ing gowns. For trimmings on her evening gowns, too, she must leav to someone who can carry them off better.

Fortunately, there is plenty of scope for both types in the new autumn fashions.

Toque a la Russe in deep green "fur " felt with dull silver buckles by" "Eun- ice": Peninsula

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Palm Off Your

Frowns

She had been wearing spectacles for reading for about Fren years,”

She never once had her eyes examined in this time, which isn't smart, since we are warned now. that eyes can stand examination yearly if for no other reason than to be assured there is no need of eyeglass change.

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We women ought tò bë most care. ful about these things of which we speak, since the perpendicular lines. over the nose bridge add substan- tial wears and no woman wants to do that deliberately

We want you again that once these lines have become deeply im- bedded, they are the very mischief to be eradicated. So you younger women had just better keep watchful eye open and, at the first faint sign. get busy, first with your

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eye text, and then with your mas-

sage and good skin food.

You don't need to have a special massage technique except to grease. the finger tips with your issue rocam and work in circular motion over and over again on the afferted

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Keep Natural Eyebrow Line All of this has become so vastly important now, with eyebrows and eye make-up having become such prominent traits in facial decora- tion. And, as said, it is one of the facial items women. or a great many women, have let go by un noticed. Nevertheless, it is the first thing noted by other people. So, if. there are lines over the nose bridge. or anywhere in the brow, get the palming habit, do the circular mas- sage over the deeply imbedded ones, and be sure that the eses get examination or re-examination.

sweet

Hints

If you're the homely-looking type look really homely cosy and com- forting. Make people think of.

lavender, warm firesides, strawberries and cream and other homely joys. Don't be lured off your own ground. On the other hand if you're exotic, do be consis... tent about it-drop that school-, girl giggle, for instance, and even if your best boy friend says he ad- mires simplicity," don't, for hea ven's sake, buy yourself a gingham frock! Stick-to the lovely pisture you make in your glowing colours and bizarre accessories.

• If you're frivolous; be gracefully so in chiffons, organdies and rose- petal make-up. If you're the “tai- lored" type, be as masculine in your dress as you please, but do insist on one very femininë touch-whether it is a diamond fob on your tailor- made or the sheerest of stockings above very sensible shoes. That'll give you a delightful piquancy.