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By BUD FISHER

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A PAGE FOR WOMEN

Home Problems

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CATARRH bothers people much in Autumn as in winter. Much can be done to relieve it by taking

diet that overcomeS acidity. The chief acid foods are ineat, eggs, cercals and flour foods. The main alkali-forming foods are olives, spinach, raisins, dates, best- root, carrots, oranges. lemons, cur- rants, lettuce, and other fruits and vegetables. And the latter group should form the basis of 'your diet. Avoid too much meat, bacon or ham, and avoid fried and Toods of all kinds.

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LARDERS should be, especially well kept now. Keep a constant stream of fresh air through the

larder, and remember these tips: Never mix two bottles of milk; never keep milk standing in the cream jug. Stand it in the bottle or in a shallow bowl covered with gauze.

All soups, stocks, gravies must be emptied out of pans immedi- ately after cooking, and kept in

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EGG PIE

Boil three eggs until hard, shell them and cut into slices: Boll 4oz. rice as you would for curry and drain it well. Cook and cut up enough celery to make 4 tablespoon- fuls. Greaве deep ple-dish well. Put Into it alternate layers of rice, ogg and celery and state breadcrumbs. Pour over come good white sauce and finally add a good layer of breadcrumbs and det with dabs of margarine. Bake in a good aven -until · nicely browned. Serve with dry toast.

liny basins and covered with gauze. They should be boiled up every day to keep them really sweet.

Never put away meat on the dish on which it was served. Turn it out on a clean one. If you have no refrigerator, put it under a per- forated zine or wire gauze cover where air can circulate round it.

but briskly to tone up circulation, Put him on his back on a steady table covered warmly with towel- ling. First exercise: Gently straighten out the legs, then knees stiff bend them up, as though aiming at touching the face. Do not force the limbs, they will loosen gradually. Next take each leg .separately and re- peat the process; by about a year old baby will be able to keep, one leg horizontal while the toes of the other touch his face. The last exer- cise is to bend the trees. and double them on to the tummy. Three times is enough to do each exercise at first.

These Hints May Help

Using up leftovers is more im- portant than ever.

If you have a piece of stale fruit cake, make it into a steamed pudding by moistening with well- beaten egg and milk, allowing 1 egg to a pint milk. Crumb cake and beat mixture until smooth, then steam in a. greased, covered basin.

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YOUR SKIN-Many women ask if soup and water is better than cream for cleansing the face. Set stale sponge cake left-overs These notes may help you. If the in packet fruit jellies. skin is very dry, cream should be Keep cheese fresh by wrapping used. If it is medium dry, use soap in muslin squeezed out of vinegar and water followed by cream. If and water, and store in a paper greasy, cream first and then use bag in a cool place. soap and water. If skin is oily or

spotty, use

and water.

there are

makes. put

a" medicated Cold

soap

creain, and

several excellent Remember that a otacked egg up in sixpenny can still be boiled successfully it sizes, is a thorough cleanser. Keep a teaspoonful of vinegar is added. a tablet of soap specially for your to the water or the crack is rubbed face. The olive oil and castile types with salt.

are best. A point to remember

about practical skin care is never

to wash your face with soap and Use up potato water (a) when water if you have just come in out making stock; (b) when making of wind or sun. Walt. awhile until gravy, and (c) if you are a bread- you have cooled down, or cleanse, maker, use it for mixing the bread with a light cream only, or cala- dough and the loaves will last mine lotion.

longer.

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Wilted grech vegetables can be BABY EXERCISES-At three freshened by washing in water months your baby is old enough to containing a little vinegar, and | begin simple exercises. After the then left to soak in this solution

morning bath, rub him dry gently for an hour before cooking.

Milne Couldn't Escape From Children

It is easler in England to make mill is gett, as something wifit. a. reputation than to lose one. I arms out, obviously directing the wrote four "children's books" traffic. These last ten years in which I have been writing 'plays, containing altogether, I suppose, novels, and invocations against 70,000 words-the number of; war are littered with affliation words in the averago-length novel; orders on behalf of all the “ju-- Having sold good-bye to, all that veniles" born so lovingly and with in 70,000- words, knowing that as: such complete absence of labour far as I was concerned the mode into the book-world. If I didn't was outmoded, I gave up wrlfing, put my name to them, that," as. children's books. I wanted to the King of Hearts said, "only escape from them as I had once, makes the matter worse." It wanted to escape, from Punch; as proves that, my, spiritual home is I have always wanted to escape.. still the nursery, that I am still | In vain.: England expects the thinking, of policemen. As a dis-

writer, like the cobbler, to sifele cerning critic pointed out: the hero. to his inst. As Arnold Bennett of my latest play, God help it, [pointed out;' if you begin painting, was "Just Christopher Robin policemen you must go on paint“, grown up." So that oven when I ing policemen, for then the public, stop writing about, children, I: still! | knows, the-answer-Policamen,. If insist on writing about people who you stop Dainting policemen - in were children once. What an ob- order to print windmills, criticism bession with me children are bas Féminins.80 Ovatpoweringly police complFrom: “Giutobiography,!" by m men conscious that even a winds Can „MILNE, (New York; Dutton.).

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