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LADIES' DAY AT ASCOT

Ladies' Day at Ascot was favoured, with flaming June sunshine and enabled the Ladies to wear some striking fashions. Photo shows Miss Jean Gordon Love wearing an eyeveil. Mail).

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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 27, 1988..

Consider The Bathroom

By ELIZABETH MacRAE BÖYKIN

Oh, Lady of to-day, consider! around the back of the tub, a Less than a hundred years ago toilet bowl brush and a short there was a luxury tax on bath handled wet mop. Then 'fortify tubs, as the whole idea of bathing yourself with a little mental note was considered very disgraceful to see your bathroom gets a quick and downright unhealthy. Philadel- rub-down every morning as well as phia had a law prohibiting bathing a few winks of attention later in during the winter months while in the day. That way you'll never Boston you had to get a doctor's have that all-gone feeling when a prescription for a bath. Europeans guest arrives and you have to say, have a lot to say because Amer- "Oh please excuse the mess in the icans seem so preoccupied with bathroom -you know how the bath-rooms. But then we get to men folks are."

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thinking the matter over and say.

If you can think of one other room in your house that can give as much downright comfort as

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Leftover

egg yolks should be pretty bathroom, luxuriously ap-beaten with a fork, have a table- pointed with over-abundantly sup- spoon of cold water added and be plied fresh linen, we'll go and duck stored in a covered jar în refriger- our head in any old tin bathtub you lator. They can be used later for can find.

custards; desserts or salad dressing. The beating will prevent a hard sur- |ITS BRIGHT-AND-SHINING-NESS face from forming.

And the test of a good bathroom

isn't in tricky guest fingertip One of the best methods of grow- towels and fancy bath salts. Aing ferns is to place, the potted bathroom is only as good as its plant in. a jardiniere just a little plumbing and its bright-and-larger than the pot holding the fern.. shining-ness.

The space between is then filled with peat moss, which is kept con-

Most bathrooms omit the all-stantly moist. important point of providing a good cache for cleaning oddments. This should be very near at hand so you won't be tempted to leave a' soap-ring around the tub or a splash to catch dirt on the floor.

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A WHISK AND A RUB-DOWN

There you will want a mild cleansing powder (mild because any harsh cleanser will ruin the

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Practically all house plants can be propagated from cuttings or slips which may be taken from old plants that have lost their attrac- tiveness. These cuttings can be rooted best in clean sand although jar of water is frequently used with success.

Place mirrors in a position where

Heat causes

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gloss of the enamel and cause the the sun will not shine op them for tub and bowl and basin to become any length of time. rough and twice as hard to clean), the quick-silver on the back of a-long-handled brush for reaching mirror to crumble.

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