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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 22, 1938.

Now's The Time To Smarten

Now that your home leave is ap- proaching and the spring sales are on it is a good time to consider the important question of luggage. Whether you are the kind of per- son who ventures far afield to the beauty spots of Europe or beyond, or whether you confine your travel- ling activities to odd week-ends and jaunts into the country, you will need to be equipped with some of the up-to-date suitcases and trunks.. No matter how you prefer to travel

by air, road, rail or water you will be able to find just the right kind of trunk or suitcase for your purpose.

The increasing popularity of air

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travel has resulted in the produc- costly, were invariably packed on tion of the most delightful light- the floor of the trunk under a great weight suitcases. These are made many heavy articles calculated to them considerable damage? with no stiffening so that they will do

Striped Trunks Are A Boon

fit into almost any odd corner, and they weigh as little as four and three-quarter pounds each.

This question of weight is a very important one, even if you do not intend to travel by air. It is as well to remember that you may have to do a good deal of lifting and carry- ing yourself-especially on country journeys, and that therefore even

should an ordinary suitcase chosen with this in mind.

be

Do you remember how in the old days shoes, however important and

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Nowadays all this is changed, and for very little it is possible to buy a suitcase specially designed for holding shoes--or a hat-box with adjustable and removable compart- ments round it for shoes.

Even wardrobe trunks have im- proved upon their previous excel- lence, and can be bought now with hangers inside on a movable stand.

And here is an idea that is well worth keeping in mind, even if you do not contemplate buying new luggage but are hoping to improve

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From $5.00

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GOWNS

From $10.00

The Ladies Salon

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The House of Quality & Service

Your

Luggage

that which you already possess. Re- tages of having bright stripes on member that when you are travel them. You can see by the illustra- ling it is a very great boon to be tion on this page how attractive able to distinguish your belongings these can look--and, of course, you your easily and at a distance. Therefore, can have them painted on when you are choosing new trunks trunks and suitcases at very little and cases, consider well the advan- cost.

Nursery Tyrant

Selina is a tyrant. She is four and has two brothers. She is. power in the house, and she knows it.

In public places she is bribed with promises, sweets,' and treats if only "she will be a good girl and behave nicely."

Children are never too young to learn. It is little use to say “Selina (at four) is getting more and more spoilt" or "John cries for thing he sees.”

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Selina and John should have re- cognised discipline at a month old, and have learned by this time that nothing ever came by crying for things..

At home she is well aware that screams, kept up for an indefinite length of time, will produce results Habits of self-control begin in which are satisfactory to her. the cradle. A month-old baby re- Screams mean that she can have the cognises authority and soon learns she tricycle for the whole morning, eat obedience. Before she walks the Jast piece of cake at tea time can be reasonable in illness and cheerful in the face of her own and never "take turns."

Anything to keep her quiet has small troubles. become the family attitude to Selina.

SPOILT CHILD

There is many a household com- pletely dominated by a spoilt little creature of three or four who har- asses his or her parents and duces brothers and sisters to a kind of minor slavery.

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If the tyranny has already gun, force is useless.

You say "Come here" to a defiant three-year-old. She refuses. pick her up and bring her is the simplest thing. Mother wins be- cause she is bigger and stronger. But only because she is stronger.

The nursery tyrant does not learn obedience by methods like these she merely leams that her mother Parents spending much labour in is stronger than she is a fact she looking after a child's innumerable already knows. And some day she physical needs, often forget or fail won't be. to teach her the most important. It may be troublesome to wait and thing of all

patiently insist till the child comes

self-control.

She goes uncorrected because she when she is told, but it is worth is "such a little thing" She is in- while.

dulged because of her charming

ways.

It is well to remember that a wil-

"When icing a cake, a little flour

ful child at two is amusing; at four sprinkled over the top before the she is a nuisance; and at seven she icing is applied will prevent it run- is intolerable.

NURSERY DISCIPLINE

tyrant in the nursery is fair to the rest of the family.

ning down the sides."

“When you use petrol to remove stain from anything, add a pinch

salt to the

nd it will not leave a disfiguring ring,