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WOMANSENSE

They Call It The "Starved Look'

By

PRUNELLA

WOOD

Mr. John, Inc.

Your Sewing Scrapbook

by

Mary Brooks Picken

BAR JOHN, an apt fellow at

a phrase as al ́a sill- houette. fara "the starved took" onto this partienlar allhouette, but anyone with a fashionable figure could carry it, no matter how healthy. The caped coat can bo clutched over curves lusty

for

a Hollywood beconto them? camera, and the skirt, since it in blas_cut with a seam in front, Bal- tern any figure which is not completely out of genteel control.

too

The fabrio la that taupe corduroy (fabrlo of kings, onte) which has bemused John since he first turned to clothics after hatting the

fashionable for some years.

Durable, always refreshing when used in a worldly man- ner, and definitely individual high fashion medium,

this corduroy suit is worth n Hittle attenuation of food and financing,

Introducing

Business Habits! In Your Home

BY ELEANOR ROSS

THE little newly-wed granted that sho bad everything to learn so far as cooking and running a house is concerned, but she insisted that in things she could give points to veteran homemakers.

same

Fresh from an office, she has installed many business prac- tices in the home. Оле Is D regular schedule, the other is a good fling system. She has arranged a neat Jittle desk in her kitchen fitted with a card-fling coloured cards for classify- box, ing and a good supply of 3 x 5- inch cards. Through the years she expects to have what amounts to an encyclopaedia of) recipes and home hints.

Menu Filo

As she clips recipes she pastes them onto the cards, using the coloured index card to classify the different groups of dishes. She is building up a menu Ale, foods, listing favourite 100, successful menus and such So that she won't repeat a menu for the same quests but wili do a dish that has made a big hit. She has made out a complete

of tory

furniture, furn accessories and equipment, from table to toaster, from sofa to sonp-dish. Every room has been inventoried,

each and beside

item is a notation of price, date and place of purchase. Hers in each room she has listed alpha- betically. She has one copy in! her desk, the other copy is in the safety-deposit box at the bank.

Filing Folder

She has a folder to hold all

cancelled checks.

Lace Blousette--- Attractive Topping paid bills which are stapled to

OFTEN

EN a suit coat needs more than a dickey to make it look right. The Ince blousette, seems to fit the bill perfectly. It is also good over certain types of blouses, and many of the more attractive ones

as formal separates.

are worn

You can make one for your- self of one yard of fabric and have it exactly to your liking as regards type of late, colour and finish.

Ono Yard of Lace

She has a neat little folder to hold fabric Zact-tags, labels, instructions on the care ›f household appliances, guarantees and such. Another fling folder takes care of instruction hooklets, patterns, catalogues, bulletins and such, so that, at a moment's nolice she can acquaint herself those instructions for with shampooing her rug, dry-cleaning furniture, dyeing a

helspread. wasting time without energy.

and

QUICK CAKE

WHAT B THE HUSTLE, JOAN ?

JUST HEARD SOME FRIENDS

ARG

COMING

TO TEA

SIEVE 12 BREAK- FASTCUPS OF FLOUR WITH & LEVEL TEA- SPOONS BAKING POWDER 12 LEVEL TEASPOON

SALT, AND

Í BREAKFASTCUP CASTOR BUGAR

BREAK AN EGO INTO A BREAKFAST/ CUP AND ADD 2 LEVEL TABLESPOONS MELTED MARG OR LARD, AND FILL UP WITH MILK

POUR INTO A BASIN, ADD TEASPOON LEMON EBRENCE

STIR IN THE FLOUR MIXTURE

BY DEGREES

THEN BEAT VIGOROUSLY TILL CREAMY

ABOUT A -MINUTE

BAKG IN 2

GREASED SANDWICH TING INA MODERATE OVENFOR ABOUT 26 MINUTES.

1101

NIGHT LIFE Eye Protection And Beauty A Bright

PICTURED (below) is a short ur- evening dress that goes banely to cocktails or dinner with its own little cover-up cost. At the theatre or dancing afterwards, the buretop design is just the thing. The dress of black slipper salin with jet and bead embroidery ncross the top. The jacket I lined in black velvet which also makes the collar and cuffs.

Wel

In fact, there is scarcely phase of home-making that is Buy the yard of lace that is

not carefully filed away and

AMERICAN beauty silk taf- pretty and just the right colour

available at a moment's notice. for your purpose-white, off-

And there are not

to he feta is used for a magnificent going to ne white, a pastel, bright red, green,

any of those frantic searches for evening dress done in the grand Deft drapery ΟΙ brown, navy royal purple, black.

Fold bow in half lengthwista receipted bill or last month's manner (above).

It criss-crosses Fold lace as shown in diagram and stitch, Jeaving a small open-light bill, or that guarantee for is employed to the best ad-

we vantage. bow the new vacuum such as Turn collars with fold toward you. Pin sel- Ing.

have witnessed in households of the bust bursting into a potalled vages together. Measure and right side out. Press. Fold a

flare it one side. It is draped women who pin carefully as indicated, and tailored bow, sewing a narrow being magniiceat housekeepers. over the hips up to the bustle

pride themselves on baste your lines or cut a pattern strip of lace around centre.

It's a wise little wife who brings back at the side back where it of newspaper, as it is difficult to

Gather centre front at neck, good business practice into the falls in one dramatic panel to chalk-mark on lace.

rows of gathering.home! using two and draw gathers up to about

Bis shoulder to waist plus 3"

to right of A. C is 2" to left of

und

4" each side of centre front. Lay

B. Disarmhole plus 1" to top of front armholes (G) over

left of B. E is bust plus 1" back for 1" and tack.

above D. F is same

distance

above A. G is 8" above B.

Match points of collar to cen-

othur ends of collar at back

edges, adjusting front, if neces- sary. Turn in bottom of collar

Cut from F through E, then re front of blouse as at H, and on a curve for front armhole to G. Cut curve G to C. Cut back same as front except for neck- line B-G, which is only 54 pieces " and press, instead of 8." This allows for a

1" hera and a lap down centre

back.

All Edges Enclosed

You

foran a train.

Don't Need

Coach

A Voice

over

-Children Proved Best Trainers

Insert blouse neckline be- Cut the collar pieces, each tween edges of collar so neck measurement, plus 14" in edges are enclosed. Baste length and depth indicated on atlich. Sew crystal buttons down diagram. Cut bow 9" long and back with map fasteners un- Just read to the children two scam straight ends together. derneath them.

or three nights a week and To make: Stitch 1" hems up

Tack bow to position, Gather you'll get better results than French scam the underarm. fullness to waistline, using plas you would in months of Turn a "hem on armholes tic thread, or fit the waistline atructions, in the opinion

one movie star who has tried and bottom edge and silich.

It,

centre back, using 1⁄2" turn.

to your Agure with darts.

of

"A mother who reads

ber

don't Hollywood, Wamen need expensive voice les- best, and uses the time as a sons to develop a professional study period in which she tries aspeaking voice. All they need to improve her reading and and is a child or two.

consequently speaking voice, will find her time well spent." The mother: has to enunciato correctly and also has to be careful not to overact. Keeps You On Your Toes

"It keeps you on your toes to Collar Plocos Together If lace you use is expensive Gale Storm. has three young read with plenty of expression, but without any prissy, sugar- and you want to use it simply sons and she reads aloud to cookie whining and without Lay right sides of two collar for a front, make a falso back them at least three nights a

that exaggerated two-octave from their or rayon

favourite pieces together and stitch top of lawn

crope and week

custom scale range adults sometimes The

family edge and ends, using " scam. cut the front from one front books.

without L150

that it fascinates thinking Do came with two other collar length piece plus 3"-at most, started Just for fun,

kids, she said. places.

yurd

any objective involved.

Mies Storm lets the children, 1 yard

Phillip, 7, Peter, 4, and Paul, Dropped Voice Coach

3, choose their own favourites "Then I discovered that it for her to read. On Christmas Halloween they have op- and was helping my volce," the said. "Finally I dropped my

propriate seasonal eclections. Storm also teaches professional voloo.coach- and stuck to my juvenile audience. Sunday school class of mall chlidnon, If che misses out on It worka bogulifully.

any pointers while obo's read- "Children onD, the hardest, ing slowxi at home, she's sure audience in the work to read to catch her mistakes when to. They are the most critical show trying to hold theʻaiton- and the quickest, to detect and tion of a cines of childreķi. resent, vocal affectations.

United Prosa,

FRONT

+Bust

Fold

BACK

If you go in for winter sports, wear dark glasses to pro- tect eyes from sun glare. This pair has slots in temple pleoen to slip a scarf through for tying in back. It's the

fashion.

LOVELY

By HELEN FOLLETT

an eyes are

asset. end, then spread the creamy Good health, cheerfulness substance upward, doing a fade and animation will make them away. sparkle. Don't let anybody tell

you that there are magic drops

When you shop for these

that will turn the trick, though toiletries, you will have your there are soothing lotions that choice of delicate blues, green, will help them when they are bronze, prey, mauve, orchid. tired or the lids irritated.

The eyes can be affected un-

favourably by ill health, fatigue, Blonde Mermaid

state air, worry, the brooding habit.

Poor lighting arrange- ments in the home will keep them in a state of tension. If

you

Dares Shark-

are the boss of the domestle Infested Red Sea

warks, see that there is lamp

OR

desk, every

o!

beside every VIENNA A beautiful 21- reading chair. Don't let vanity year-old secretary has leapt to keep you from wearing glasses film fame as a modern mermaid If vision is falling. Without in the first full-length under- the help

lenses, turkey tracks water decumentary with a story will appear or there can be a theme. slight swelling of the surround- ing tissue. Fatigue often comes from weakened ovesight that is a strain on the nervous system. Dark Glasses

Twenty-one-year-old blonde Lotte. Buier makes her bow in below sequences shot 60 feet the shark-infested Red Sea. The ilm was made by her employer, 31-year-old bearded explorer

Girls who go in for winter Dr Hans Hass. sports should wear dark glasses An expert swimmer, she took to protect their eyes from glar-on the part after months of deep ing reflections on snowdrifts. diving practice. Her courage s One should bathe one's eyes Impressed Nublan 5t cikh twice a day, first with warm Al water, then with cold, It 19

el Sherif that he sent her

a complete set of heavy Nublan a bad practice to rub the eyes gold Jewellery. In a letter in Those de- Arabic the Shell begged Lotte should not

so specialists tell us. Heate mechanisms

be treated roughly,

Evening Glamour

When the big evening date is

to sce

to accept this offering of an old man who had never expected such fearlessness in a person of such beauty,

Film quarters

here say that on, you may want to glamorise the aim will cause a stir when

your peopers.

are fascinating make-up box

little mascara.

Lid items

one

on the Inshes will form a be-it is shown here and in London coming frame.

shadows

next year. Dr Hans has refused of the pre-publication of stills which

he describes as, quite unique. with which on can play. You have to be stingy with them and you have to know precisely how to apply them. Start in the centre of the cyclld, workt toward the Dear corner, then toward the far

AN HONOUR FOR THREE SISTERS

Three sisters, retired super- visors of the London Telecom- munications Region, the Misses Earth Catherine, Daisy and Lankshear, who live at Welwyn Garden City, in the English county of Hertfordshire, enjoy

distinction unique

of a simultaneous award of the Im- perial Service Medal. Each has 'devated д lifetime to publie service and the aggregated ser- than vice amounts to no less 114 years.

the

Unfortunately Miss Catherine Lankshear, the eldest of the threo, was unable to be at the presentation ceremony owing to ill-health, but the medal was prosented to her slators on her behalf. Both Mina Daldy and Miss Edith Lankabear have been during specially commended

or long careers for important work and for devotion, to duty during enemy eir rülds.

Child Has

Hard Time

By G. C. MYERS, Ph.D.

IT would be easier for a camel

to go through the eye of a needle

than for a precocious baby 10

Does Allergy Cause Migraine?

€1

By H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D.

BY no means are all of our unsolved medical problems now. Many allments for which wo are still seeing remodles today are known to have plagued monicind since the dawn of history.

сед

Among there is migraine, first described as "elek headache" about 3,000 B. C. It has puzzled doctors through all the turies since that time and even modern medical science with ]] Its knowledge and one rescurch tools has not been ablo to discover just why these one- sided headaches occur.

Between Attacks

People who have migraino perfectly well between

grow up as he should. It's not are

the youngster's fault, but his attacks but when amleted, they 50 handiare about as miserable as it is parents', that he is

The headache capped,

As soon as they dispossible to be. cover that he is far brighter than is usually ushered in by itscit is throbbing and severo the average child of his age, and

During

they want everybody else to disturbances of vision and blur-

about 11, So they can ring of the eyesight. exhibit his exploits

know

friends and make them their the attack there is a feeling of

marvel

sickness of the stomach, usuni-

at their prodigy. The parents ly with vomiting as the pain.

unawares res the youngster as reaches its peak.

a token of themselves, whether Modern medical celenco bem they suppose

he inherited his

superior Intelligence from them lieves that a tendency to such or gained his mental agility the ailments seem to

headaches is inherited, since run in They Camilles. But this inheritance is not enough in itself to pro-

through her guidance. bask in the glory he reflects,

which seem

Of course, many parents and duce the attacks, grandparents, when any tot is to be set off by a number of over two or three, suppose this different "trigger factors." child is very smart, oven though

In

Food Reaction

he may be only average or less mentality. They just don't know how a child develops

Recently numerous doctors normally. Every utterance or

have come to the conclusion act of bis, suggesting he can say that in many cases the head- or do what only older children aches are caused by an allergic usually do, muy

these reaction to some food. Those relatives to brag and show him who have headaches as often as cff; cause them, moreover, to

once a month are believed to train him like a seal to do and

be sensitive to foods caten Ky certain things normally done by older. children,

cause

Harm Young Child

daily, eggs.

such

milk Пл

wheat, or

Thus,

In preventing at- tacks of migraine, ft is Import- ant to and the foods to which the

person is sensitive and to climinate them from his diet. It is easy to see how the

One

of doing this way human frailties of adults can have the patient keep records is to thus harm the young child. It's all foods enten in the In the pre-school years when

24-hour

These exhibition of his mental exploits Periods before attacks.

compared to can harm him most. After the records are then

foods have been child enters school, especially see if some after the first few years of eaten prior to several attacks,

end of course these foods are: school, there are nity superior eliminated. ways for him to display superior talents

ΟΙ to

have

them Another method is to place

developed, atas. Even the child the patient on what is called an and his parents don't find other elimination diet. In such a diet, persons very much impressed the patient uses just one type with his mental exploits when of foods at a time for several he is twelve or fourteen.

days. If a certain class of foods

When the pre-school youngstersects to bring on the attacks, Is shown off because of his men- then these foods are eliminated. ial mastery of things usually

General Health 7 mastered only by a school-nge child, his interest and attention have been turned away from normal fun with other children plcyed

Other measures to be em- are to build up the

and he is rendered less attractive general health, to correct any to his playmates. Before long defects of the eyesight, and to he even may become repellent aid in the avoidance of mental- and physical strain, since these to most adults, poor kid,

things also may bring on an at- Lack

Basic Conformity

Various drugs, particularly those similar to orgotamine tar- What the precocious child trate, may ward off an attack,

make the needs most, especially in his or at least

attack

sodium

years before school, is to learn milder. Injections of such play skills as other children nicotinate have also been found of his age will share and enjoy helpful with him, while also learning.

for

rights

and

some basic conformity and duc the regard which he is least likely to learn.

*

feelings of other persons all of Bird Of Paradise

or

The bluc,

Archduke Encourage the child in normal fun

other children; Rudolph's, bird of paradise per- with

his famous courtship stimulate him to play with forms blocks, to colour, draw with dance upside down, dotes the display National Geographic Society. creative e clings by his feet to a:

a cleared. "danco mental branch over

floor" in the forest.

crayons and the like; his normal play and talents bu! not his exploits.

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