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Dress-up Petticoat with Feminine Frills
TAVERY young woman likes a frilly, rustly, dress-up petti- coat. The type shown is a lovely gift for any girl above 15 years of age-not expensive, and ever so wearable,
Maice of a favourite bright colour-red, green, royal hiuc or purpic.
Buy 1 skirt length of taffeta or erepe; 2 yards of lace flouncing; 21⁄44 yards of nar- row velvet ribbon; 14 yards of beading wide enough to take your
velvet ribbon; 1 roll of Cost matching elastic thread.
will depend largely on quality of fabric and lace used.
From Waist To Hips
Straighten fabric. Fold in half lengthwise.
fold,
with fold toward
you. Measure in from A along Even the lower edge and put
Turn top cd 7" or the distance from in a 4 hem. walstline to largest part of hips, over and gather stitching 3 using elastic for B. Measure same distance rows apart, from upper right-hand corner sewing thread in bobbin. (C) for D. Straight in
French seam the ends of lace from both 13 and D measure hip flounces together, then
top of flounce from edge. plus for E and F.
Pin to position, scam In lace over centre back seam of skirt.
FLAKY PASTRY:" ©SAUSAGE ROLLS RAND JAM PUFFS
ROLL OUT THE FLAKY PASTRY INTO A STRIP AND GỨT INTO FOUR
ROLL EACH
PIECE OUT THIN ENOUGH TO MAKE 2 SAUSAGE
ROLLS
TURN ROLLED SIDE DOWNWARDS, AND PUT A
SKINNED PIECE OF SAUSAGE ON EACH, WETTING
THE EDGES
Child Welfare
Work In
Britain
Forty-five-year-old Miss
A
M. Scorrer, a former headmis- tress, has been appointed Chief Inspector of Britain's Home office Children's Department.
She will head a team of Inspec- tors who report on the work of local authorities and voluntary organisations concerning the welfare of deprived children, as schools, remand homes and 50 well as the running of approved forth in the whole of the Unit- ed Kingdom.
No detail is too small to be gather overlooked by this.group of ex- perta. They take a great interest, for instance, in the "boarding (not an arrangements out" adoption scheme) which local Beaded Flounce
authorities are making to pro- Place beading over top edge vide orphaned children with a of flounce and stitch beading measure of home-life until they
coach an
an age when they can tend along top and bottom edges.
Run ribbon through beading for themselves. This is extreme If unable to get Ince flouncingly delicate work, calling for tact The right Join the selvage edges to buy lace yardage and cut rume and understanding. edges
or home for each child is a matter of front in same way, to width desired, picoling Clip or remove selvages if they binding bottom edge, or turning which has to be carefully weigh- draw up.
and stitching it.
ed and considered according to the nature of the child, its pre- vious upbringing and so on,
E
With yardstick touching and F, chalk a line completely across fabric, as shown. Cut on titis line, to obtain three gores.
French seam the blas edges of the back gures together so you have a slightly bias scam at centre back.
Length Wat
Selvage
BACK
My Hip
FRONT
11/4 Hip
canter front fold
+
I lost my appetite
By G. C. MYERS, Ph.D.
FOR
a period of several days,
a few weeks age, I had an unusual experience, Foods I al- ways had enjoyed greatly had ifle or no lure for me. I lost my appetite.
During those appetiteless days I did a lot of thinking and feeling about children who don't enjoy certain foods or any meal at all for days and months and years; who never have a happy meal- time.
An Exhaustivo Experience
In my imagination, I tried to put myself in the place, now of this child, now of that. It was an exhausting experience that al- most wore me out. In just one instance, for example, in
my
fancy. I was three years old, at lunch. Before me at the table were a big glass of milk, some were cooked carrots, bakod potato (mashed) and string beans on my plate, almost a tablespoonful of each.
ate, in my imagination, some of the potuto and then did not feel hungry. I just sat. I wanted to get down and play, but I didn't dare to try it. "Eat your beans drink your and carrots and milk," my father said.
"Hurry up, dear, and cat," my mother urged.
My mother seized a teaspoon and rammed some carrots into my mouth. I almost gagged,
An Order From Father Then my father ordered me to take a bite of beans. I just couldn't, after which he roughly pushed almost a teaspoonful of them between my teeth. The beans returned to the plate and
my father got So mad he slapped
21y
They
Household Hints
When a man's hat has been soaked in the rain, turn the lenther aweatband to the outside to serve as a stand while the hat drica,
•
T
FOLO OVER,
AND GEAL THE EDGES
GASH THE TOP TO LET OUT STEAM AND BAKE IN A HOT OVEN FOR ABOUT 12
HOUR
JAM PUFFS
FOR EACH
·PUFF, CUT 2 CIRCLES OF FLAKY PASTRY
WET ROUND
EDGE
OF
THE
44 INCH THICK
OTHER
"AND CUT OUT CENTRE OF
AND
LAY
THE
HOLED
ONE
ONE
Spring Head
4
A fashion
preview of hats women will be wearing during 1951, I noted that pastel felts will again be popular, and that hats generally will remain small.
Trim- mings will be draped chiffon and flowers feathers are out.
ON
BAKE AS FOR SAUSAGE
ROLLS, AND FILL
WITH JAM WHEN COLD
Dramatic Fur Sleeves
By PRUNELLA
WOOD
Line
Eur early spring, Aage Thaarup, the Queen's milliner; makes these tassel and chiffon trimmed felts.
THE FASHION for cocktail hats as such is dying out.. Dark felt or velvet hats with Jet,
elbow, liko the old-
fashioned armlet for men.
BALD? IN "A Calen-
of
dar Country Receipts" (Faber & Faber, 16%.) by
Noll Heaton, there are many old and now re- cipes for Christmas fare as well 09 all-the- year round recipes.
There is also a collection of
LOOKING BACK at the first hints on "how to cure bald Christmas issue of the Sunday nese-using a pomade made Express (December 1919), frons strained beef marrow, and fancy dress ideas included making cleansing, cream from The Spirit of Jazz, Puck, a lard." Flower Girl and Sir Walter Raleigh.
diamante and peart trimmings BACKLESS DRESSES were
are still seen at cocktail parties, "iz voque,” and an article was but these are now also being printed on "How backs may be worn from lunchtime onwards. tinted, powdered, reduced, or
pedded to enhance the frock,” SMART COLOURS for spring hats will be a light navy blue (called Dantmouth), Victorian lilac, and double pcony (a bright cyclamen).
MAKE YOUR OWN IF you are going to a fancy dress party, it is, Inexpensive to hire a fancy dress costume, but much Don't
more fun to make baths
To prolong the lito of cheets, change them frequently.
try postpone let small until morning. The grime and dust of a day's playing can be ground into sheet fabric night, causing unnecessary wear,
Choose a Hairstyle That
Suits Your Face And Neck
your own.
FASHION POINTERS
FROM America I hear
women
that
aro wearing DIAMONDS (rhinestones are cheaper and glitter as nicely) with coral, clipped in the centre
of a fresh flower, with crystal beads and a gilt snake choker.
SEASONAL RECIPES
for
mulling wine (heat wine in a
brass saucepan, adding lemon,
sugar and cloves); a good rum punch (using lemon rind and julce, orange rind and sugar and two pints of boiling water do one pint of rum); ginger cordial made from raisins and bruised ginger soaked in one pint of brandy.
CARE OF FLOWERS
THERE is a useful appendix
on the care of cut flowers. Did you know that daffodils should be placed in only one inch of cold water: that A NEW IDEA is to wear jet gardenias do not absorb water
stems MOST PEOPLE love to "dress and black braid lapel trimming through the
and that up," over
but
п when planning
on a brown jur coat,
their petals should be sprayed costume try to choose a pretty
with water; that half tea- UNDER YOUR fur coat wear and glamorous dress, leaving
n dress
velvet or bright spoonful of peppermint extract the comic costumes to the men. brocade or a cocktail dress with should be put in the water with PERIOD DRESSES and pen- a small velvet bodice and a gladioli: also that freesias last longer if a quanter of a tea- sant costumes used in famous huge net skirt. musical comedies can be bor. WITH LONG sleeved shint spoonful of alcohol is put in the rowed from 11⁄2 guineas up- blouses wear gilt bracelets water?
Courtesy M. Lauls, N. Y.
This simple, yet stylish hairdo sults the girl with an average- length neck. Notice the little curl, placed Just below the side part. By HELEN FOLLETT MILLIONS of women and girls
The one complaint about the Mother and Father face.
cut is the need of n weren't eating anything, either, are shorn lambs, hair cut short short
Hair they were
so angry at me, and
permanent. Ra short can be. Millions of frequent
the grows at the rato of one inch refused to follow they seemed angry at each other, others
Straight talked loud. They argued
ued coiffure trend, have locks dow- every two months.
Of hair pushes out in overlapping over whether I should be made ing free to the shoulders. to alt there till I had eaten course, the extra long bobs is layers from the scalp. New everything before me or be al-
growth has to get frizzled. But out; an untidy definitely
arrange- to get down from the ment If there
aside from this drawback, short there ever
makes the The length of the hair should hair is neator and
lowed
table.
was one.
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"You've got to eat everything definitely depend upon the length average woman look younger. up before you leave," my mother of the neck. Without doubt,
Easy To Do told me.
there is a proper length for each Short bair hns encouraged Pretty coon I heard Father Individual within the short hair women to do their own sham- Any tushion trenzy pooing, because it's so easy to talking to Mother in the kitchen pattern.
must be adapted -omething about roo. They
to particular do. If you are among the home- noeds,
head-duckers, experiment, with seemed to be cross at each other. After a little while, Mother
Long Neck
various shampoo mediums. There back and yelled at me to
is a difference A girl or woman with a long is
among came
liquid hurry up and ent. I tried again, neck should not have it bared
one may prove but couldn't. By and by Mother to the same extent as the one agreeable to your wool than with the short, plump neck. The another. O shatupoos are re- returned, seized roughly and put me on the floor. reason is as plain as the nose on commended for hair that is dry
If there had been only one your face,
beauticians pay. The and brittle, breaks at the touch Cream shampoos food before me in very small mere that is seen of the long of the comb.
akios, and portion, I might have chosen to piller that holds up the head, are praised to the eat it, in order to get some other the longer it will appear to be well should be. They friction land of foot I red better, The loss that is seen of the short into the scalp emaily, are rinsed. zur, be shorter and fetter away quickly give the hair
· provided my
Parsala their outsides and inakdea silla It will look
wards,
of
over the sleeve and above the
-London Express Service}
Effects Of Calcium Deficiency
THE body needs a widely as By H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
sorted variety of materials
to
most
deflelency. If it is thought that the, patient's symptoms are due bulld and maintain its instances,
however, the signs to calcium deficiency, the giving diverse structures, One of the and symptoms are likely to be of calcium preparationis, to-
necessary is calcium or indefinite. Among the most rell- lime, so important not only to able is aching pain in the arms the building of strong bones and legs which tends to become but also to the proper function- more noticeable at night. Pain Ing of certain muscle tissue,
in the chest and tenderness of the spine are sometimes present.
Though severe
calcium don- clency or osteomalacia occurs but rarely in grown-up indivi- duals, its symptoms are well known. Pain of a deep-seated, boring quality is always an ac companiment of this disorder, and there is also a great deal of muscular weakness. Since calcium is pulled bones, they often become Fractures bery and soft. common because lack of clum weakens the bones.
gether with vitamin D, should; bring prompt relief.
CALCIUM IN BODY
During certain periods of life, there is a demand for increased
In order to make a diagnosis amounts of calcium in the body. of this condition, X-rays of the Unless plenty of the foods rich bones should be taken. These in calcium are eaten during X-rays will show whether there pregnancy
and adolescence, has been a loss of lime salts. In calcium deficiency is likely to addition, it is helpful to study result. The mother who breast the patient's diet to see if he has feeds her baby also has need been getting enough
calcium-
out of the rich foods, such as milk and for ample amounts of calcium. rub- products. Of course, lack of ex- Such preparations as calclum are posure to sunlight, or an insuffi- lactate or calcium gluconate can cal- cient
Intake of vitamin D. be used to supply it in any of which is needed so that the these cases. Tho preparations
adminis body may take up and use. cal- can be satisfactorily clum, will also lead to calcium tered by mouth.
SEVERE FORM
Though the severe this disease is seldom this country, milder much more common.
Child
To
form of seen in cases are In these
Actor
Play Leading Role
London.
*
For a month, 11-year-old Andy Ray has been meeting
"Quech Victoria" daily, for Androw who
his has never acted before in life, was chosen to play the title role in "The Mudlark" a film about Queen Victoria and Windsor Castle and meets Her small urchin who oncoks into
Majesty.
Of course the Queen was an actress in reality-Irene Dunne came to Britain specially to play the part-but tow-haired Andrew mot a real King and Queen when he was presented to Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
His armbition is to become a comedian lise his father Tod Ray. "I know it's very difficult." says Andy, "you soo it's hard to find the jokes."
While he was working on the dim, Andycolebrated his eleventh birthday; he received 10 shillings week pocket} money and at the end of the picture, he was given 210 to spendbe bought a train, két with it. The rest of sho-R600, he earned has been put into a Bank Account for him?
Duchess In Diamonds
The Duchess of Cilononstor, In va midnieks blus : KOWN wlib, dingmand thera; earings, and necklace, with Lord Histor- dalo during dihaan ni Dorobosture-London : Express, Borales.
Lilly Dache LILLY DACHE'S troubadour sleeves are hand- some gestures in the winter fashion scene, and we show you how she handles them with leopard fur, as leopard bids fair to be this season's amartest fur accent, whether it is a designer in America or in Europe who uses it.
Shown in their most flaunting effect, the sleeves also may be worn turned down, with a pointed cloth sleeve covering much of the fur along the top of the wrists.
The coat itself is black broadcloth, supple and polished, semi-fitted in front, straight and narrow behind.
THE SKIRT STILL STARS
and linking up with practically any American of the skirts, weskits and joe-
in kets.
of
Characteristics
Separates are important popular as ever and ready-made firms believe straight skirts with a lot style as separates, good enough to go with the co-ordinated parts. They show a big of slim
flared and slightly
Slim-line skirts with novelty Akirts with such style devices hip pockets which extend as: Pinched hipline
darts around to the back are charac forming a pegged line; gob- teristic of many of the opening front simulating poc- skirts. Rayon gabardines and kots: pleated hipline pockets checked suitings are used to with pleats opening beneath advantage here, in addition to the pockets; arrow-stitching a wide range of lightweight around side slash pockets, and tweeds, wool gabardines, gore-stitching for accent. nels, tartan plaids, and vol-
voteens.
gad
new
dian-
Velveteens blended to con- fined tweeds and coloured flän- A velveteen-trimmed wool nels make the main match-ups. skirt with button-trimmed vel. Basic short-fitted Jacket in vet bands which start at the velvoicens or;wool has a wide walstiing and curve outward notched collar
plunged to the hemline is a high apot. closing A shirt-tail jacket and Anuther novelty to sheen a short boxy style with low Enbardine with concealed but blush pockets are
dia- velveteen ton placket which
runa "all-arounders," to go with any gonally down the skirt front.
there is a
of the skirts.
with a tweed involving colour is just one example how these match-ups work..
in
In addition,
basically variety of
Cinnamon velveteen blended styles to choose from, including this come with velveteen-trimmed of pockets; a tartan plaid wrap- around; and slim-looking styles with low side pleats.
Jumpor Themo
"Two-Art Jumpern" are an- other theme, Interpreted as | skirt with buttoned-up weskit, or a skirt with a scooped-neck jerkin overblouse Black-and-
Inspired By Baby Cries
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red or yellow-and-gray tweed At a concert of students" weaklte team with solid black
for hold in a Now York City, high
a youthful сотарост
ព men's wear gray skirts for original musical compositions moro oo-ordination. The school, trouser-pleat skirt in the team played a piece which depleted deserves extra attention bo- cause of the trouer-cult hemin musical terma the moods of line.
hig baby gister: Ho mid ho got the Idea Ion the composition A White Cotton Broadcloth when the baby's crying disturbed wing-collar,dirt, with tucked him when he was trying to bopom is a "Vereatus:fancy. →→ work,
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