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Highlighting knitted ensembles with self-material is observed on This one's trim the many smart models being sported for this season. lines bear a military accent suggested by the braiding across the front and in the belt.

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 14, 1937.

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Children Should Be

Greedy!

More mothers are concerned about, has been scolded and is smarting under appetite than almost any other problem the sting. The angry or resentful child in child rearing.

won't digest even if he does eat.

It shouldn't be 80. Children should eat as greedily as puppies. Some of them do, but it would seem that most of them don't.

"Should you try to coax appetite ?" "Won't they eat anyway, if they are hungry?" "If they don't eat within fifteen minutes, should you take the food away and let them go until the next meal?" These are some of the questions asked.

It takes peace to make the juices flow into stomach and mouth. Un- pleasant emotions constrict glands and nerves get as tight as bow strings.

Once a correspondent questioned my suggestion that children might eat if tempted a bit by change of lates and cups. It sounded useless, she said. But trace the idea. It is useless to try if eyes play a part in stimulating plea- sure (the same thing as the roses and lace at your party), and through the Books have been written on the sub-senses, cause small mouths to open ject of appetite in the abstract, but eagerly for the same food that once now.comes along a volume I have been repelled? anticipating and hoping for a long time. Mrs. Elena Gildersleeve has just put out a book of recipes for children young and old. It contains numerous ways for making healthful foods taste "good," so that wan, picky little Sally or always-in-a-hurry Sam will stop, look, smell and then eat. These sug- gestions are different. And difference whets appetite.

Why Party Food Is Good

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far

As

also

Book Would Air Mothers

So if eyes play-a part as dishes and napery go, they will light up when left-overs are not dump- ed out on small plates in unattractive heaps, but swiftly ground up into at- or used in other tractive patties "different" ways.

In the book above referred to, the author not only has had this fact in

to

Take yourself. You aren't hungry.mind, but she has invented wholesome At home you would skip lunch, because combinations that tempt and spur ap-

I recommend.. her work the same old potato-cake and fried egg petite. aren't worth the trouble. But over mothers as a real help in this matter you go to Mrs. Smith's bridge-luncheon of diet and appetite. and proceed to clean up your fruit cocktail, pattie, salad, sherbet and an- gel food, to the last crumb. And why? It Because party food is different. looks pretty, smells good, and delight makes you hungry.

Of course exercise-lots of it-sun, air and regularity are the parents of hunger, and hunger is the best sauce. Peace at mealtime and the appearance of the table are also factors, that must be considered. But after all, it is fia- and wholesome Mood has a lot to do with appetite. vour that intrigues; You can't expect the excited child to preparation that keeps health, and ap- eat, or one who is worried to death, or petite, up to par.

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