1937-05-27 — Page 8

HOW TO USE YOUR INITIATIVE

Have you got a plainish frock with a flared skirt, that you're tired of being seen in ?.

Then here's a way to make it look bo different, and bring it right up the minute.

First take out the sleeves, cut the

round.

Then make an underblouse in one

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 27, 1937.

FASHION TAKES

THIS SUMMER

Discipline Will Not A HOLIDAY

Correct A Two- Year-Old

Our problems of child

Summer fashions in Paris are following spring lines, reports . a woman correspondent.

Waists are slim and normally plac- ed. Skirts are just above the mid-

training bourhood who have taken her to calf length and are quite full for front down to a very low wide V-would undergo much simplification the corner grocery shop on occasion both day and evening wear. shape and the back to a not-so-low were we to recognise just when we and away to their homes with them. The "swing" skirt is still smart. Coronation influence is still ap- should and should not delegate res-Now she has taken to running away

Bright red and royal blue of the new gay Tyrolean prints-ponsibility to the child. The ques-alone and still does it despite the parent. you can get them in very thin light tion, then, of how to keep a two-fact she has been smacked for doing are used over and over again. wool in scarlet, emerald or corn- flower printed with tiny roses, or in all sorts of silks.

drawing, or with tiny stick-up frill of lace (no pattern for this).

running into the year-old from

it. What shall the mother do now? street, would not be a disciplinary problem, but simply a mother's own Watch her. Put her. in charge of older children when you can't be on particular burden.

Otherwise, keep her in the We cannot possibly demand that hand.

a two-year-old be made responsible house.

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CHERRY SHORTIES Be sure to make the blouse with very full sleeves gathered into a

Cream together lb. of butter sight cuff just above the elbow, and

for her safety, nor punish her for Suggest to the children that they and 4lb. of caster sugar. Add 1⁄2lb. with a high neck hugging the

the impulse which carries her two keep reminding her that she must of self-raising flour, a pinch of salt, throat.

not leave home except with some one beaten egg and a little milk if

listen Finish the neck and sleeves with legs away from home.

to required to make a soft dough. Stir We must know that a lonesome older person. Children the as shown in

two ́ ́ounces of chopped narrow velvet,

orders and glace cherries, and roll. child will seek companionship, that children when they are deaf to the in

out far away fields are always greener numerous commands,

on a floured board to about a quar- and that the promise of the two-year-suggestions of adults. old isn't worth the breath it takes Above all, don't trust the child. ter of an inch thick. Cut into to utter it. Then we won't become She is too young to be responsible rounds, place on a greased baking be sheet, and cook in a fairly hot oven confused as to what and how much for her behaviour, and so must

shown and taught how to act when for about a quarter of an punishment the child needs.

oven, Mrs. W. A. B. says that her two-crossing a street, but given no op- After removing from the

with caster year-old daughter has been playing portunity yet to practise what she sprinkle the biscuits with older children in the neigh-lis learning alone.

sugar.

GLUING CHINA

When gluing or cementing china, press the parts together and keep them in place until set by using strips of adhesive tape.

hour.

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