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That Last Touch Of Grooming

Choose a special perfume, one that's yours alone, always you.:

A few drops of fragrance on your furs will last a long time,

By HELEN FOLLETT

If a woman is a bit bewildered powder the impertinent vase. as to what perfume she should. Perfumes don't last.

Tomato Boullion Chicken Broccoli Phuter Fly Rice Hot Beat Salad Doop Apricot-Raisin Pie Coffee Te Milk Chicken Broccoli Platter Cook 1 lb. ́broccoli and drain" thoroughly. Dice or fake the meat, from half 'a 3-lb. to 4-lb. cooked chicken. Heat in chinese cream sauce. broc- or cane chair stals come clean are reversing the old dusting

To serve, arrange têle with a sudsing, followed by a idea. They dust before doing coll on a deep platter. Spoon clean sponging and then drying the floor with sweeper, vacuum,

over the chicken and sauce. with cloth. If food has pen or dust mop. Start with one

Surround with flaky rice.

Cheese Cream spilled on dining room rug or clean, dry, lintless cloth, and

Sauce: carpet,

the some

Make 2 wrung from warm, procedure another

dress hangers. 2 cups medium-thickc usually removes i. Use an soapy water. The damp cloth while sauce. Add 4 tsp.

powdered gets those finger marks from absolutely clean cloth and dry

woodwork, as suds, wiping with the weave tables, lamps, and somewhat beyond the well as those hard little pollen

marks often dropped stain.

by

to

lows

a

Keeping the living room up snuff, should start off the night before. Picking up the newspapers, plumping the pil- and taking ash trays to

them the kitchen, emptying and placing them to be washed after you've tackled the break- fast dishes, does help.

MUTTON OLIVEST

YOU CAN MAKE THESE WITH COLD MUTTON, -

DEAR

novers.-

If grimy window sills are a problem, make a quick washing Dust an every-other-day task.

do not rub in grime. lightly. A small bottle brush dipped in the sudsy solution will take dust from the corners, of win- dow pane moulding that's hard to get at.

CUT SOME

VERY THIN SLICES

SPREAD FACH

| WITH A LITTLE HORD

FORCEMEAT

BOYS' AND

diurmustard, 4 c, une

milk and c. coarse-grated sharp American cheese, Cook and sil over how heat undli. cheese melts.

Hot Beet Salad Cook 1 bunch bests, or use (1-1b.) tin beets. Slice the beats thin. Add 1 c.

dleed celery and combine with hot onion French dres8- ing. Simmer 5 min.

ROLL UP

AND TE

PUT THEM IN

A BAKING-

WITH COTTON

DISH, POUR

SOMG

GRAVY

OVER

THEM

COVER

KBOO

WITH GRBASED PAPER, AND BAKE IN A MODERATE

OVEN HOUR

wear, let her purchase several of Tollet waters are of reason- those tiny little purse containera, able price, Kezp yours. In an They are. a good buy and will atomiser, spray your neck and give her a chance to try out shoulders. Bath salts not only different scents without investing soften the water but a little of

vialı, Farger

their fragrance will cling to your zicin. Sachsts are remarkably in- Because the chemistry of each expensive. Tuck them in coat person's skin may slightly change poolets. Pin theen in your bras- dive character of perfume, test the slene. Place them in dresser fragrant quid on your skin be drawers. Put them on cost and fore making a purchase, Fristion A few drops on the back of

ack of your until

Cool scents are best for our- hand, wait a few minutes the alcoholic content has evapo mer, of course. In cold weather rated, then dake a long, deep you can use a heavier aroma. A breath. If it has an appeal it few drops on turs will keep on will make you feel like a million dollers

the job for a long time, Woollens. have a way of making perfumes work longer, too. But don't tip the bottle on your silk frock; it

Perfume is the last touch when grooming, Friends and acquaint ances you meet will enjoy it, may leave a stain, especially on and you will know that you light-coloured fabrles." have found your own, personal fragrance.

By carrying a puræ-size vial you can give yourself a retouch just as you retouch.

your lips or

THEN SERVE. WITH MASHED POTATOES AND THE THICKENED

GRAVÝ FLAVOURED

WITH CHOPPED

CAPERS

GIRLS' MAGAZINE

weaving their webs over at the fence

Christopher's Friends Move Inge gates

"WELL," said Christopher Hi Christ. Hi Christ'

at

that it has become so cold out- alde."

was

the wasp

"But," Christopher went

on,

the horneta

and the sparrows. It was quite Jolly seeing so many of my pals all so comfortably settled.”

Keeking The Family Car Spic-and-span

By ELEANOR ROSS

50 much time is usually spent in the family car that, one of our friends refers to it as her living room on wheels. And,

housekeeper that she is, the interior of the car is as spic- und-span as every room in her home:

good

Keeping a car interior clean- and fresh makes for pleasanter travelling, and it may even prove to be a good Investment when trade-in time comes along.

Frequent Dusting

It's a good idea to dust the up- holstery fabric and carpet floor covering with a whisk broom or vacuum cleaner at least once a month, more often it, long trips are made..

An occasional

going-

over

with

with a cloth dampened dry-cleaning fluid will freshen these surfaces.

don't saturate the upher. Weve

it

in contact

some seat cushions ond nrm with foam rests are padded rubber which deteriorates when

comes

with dry- cleaning fluid, Soaking the floor covering will also prove harmful If rubber compound is used in. the backing construction.

Both genuino and Imitation, upholstery should be kept as freo`` of dust as possible by frequent wiping with a dry cloth,

Pasto Wax

To clean and protect these surfaces, apply a thin film of paste wax with a damp cloth to a small area, rubbing to loosed

"It was too cold for the spiders -Now That It's Winter, It's Too Cold Outside-

to keep living outside, so they By MAX TRELL

sooner got up there than I moved into the house. They heard a dozen voices calling, didn't bother asking anybody's I looked permission. They just moved in. Cricket to Knant and around, I could't imagine who So did the waspa, Hanid, the shadow.children would be calling me," with the turned-about names,

"And who was it?" as he crept out between two loose bricks in the replace where he was spending the ceiling," answered

"I finally looked up at the "My goodness,” said Hanid, Christopher were they getting anything to winter. "you'd be amazed

"And there I saw them, all of ent up in the attic, Chris?" how many of my friends have them There come to live in this house now family used to meet buzzing

Christopher shook his hend, Bround

\near the pond. They "Not much-In fact, not any- had a nice oczy corner of the thing. There were no flies for Khorf sald in a surprised celling all to themselves. In the spiders, no flowers for the voice: "Why, I didn't know any the opposite corner were three wasps and, the hornets. The Christopher Cricket took a walk the dirt and folding the cloth of your friends were living in hornets, all dressed in brown sparrows told me they flew out

portion from time to this house, Chris!"

pyjamas and lying in hom- through a loose board at the

tima. Polish each section im- "Oh yes," sald. Christopher mooks reading story-books, back of the

a attle and hunted said gooibye, see-you-all-again!

clean Cricket,

"On top of the rafters," on things.

around a bit for crumbs and to my friends, and walked down cloth with "Th

Spots on the upholstery and Now and then they to the cellar. And there, I found tinued Christopher, "were

carpet Hooring look as untidy and two would find something. But it more of my friends."

"You did!" exclaimed Knar! Indicative of poor housekeeping sparrows, looking mighty glad

as they do in the home. Hanid wanted to know which they had a place to go to out of was barely enough to keep them

Six Field Mica of alive." friends Christopher meant.. the cold. And in all four comers "Oh dear," said Hanld.

To remove grease "Yesterday morning." ould of the window," "which is good".

"Yes indeed. I ran into holfaattag

Btains,

rub lightly with clean Christopher, "long before any and dusty, I discovered four. "Don't worry. Christopher dozen. field mice-little fellows clath

cloth :wet: with: carbon tetrachloride. An one" in the house was stirring, spiders who were old friends of said, "they weren't complain- with big eyes. They don't like. took a walk up to the attle, just mine. During the summer 1 ing. If a sparrow, can keep alive, the cold weather eliher: So they treatment utile of the cleaning emergency for the exercise. Well, í

no

Which Friends

up to the nttio:

to

clean

Rupert and the New Bonnet-4

used to see them spinning and he's more than happy. Then I moved in. I also found a squire is to pour a

re), a few beetles, several more fluid" crickets, a tond and a scare immediately crow."

Rupert is excited by what Bill has said.. ** I love mysteries,** ba cries,

I do wish I could explore,

goes on his way, Almost; at once. (another of his pils appears' trudg.

Of

ing through the bushes at the side the road. It is Bingo, the

the wood with you but brainy pup, and he is carrying a

promised Mummy. I'd go in the sown for her. I'll hurry, back wa, quickly as I can." So Bill promises to look out for him and Raper

sack and a heavy box, Halo, Bingo, are • you heading for the": wonde con 213 sales the little benz cheerfully.

RUPERT and the

·BLACK MOTH

"Audi"Monday "und Buddy

$1:00

and oil

for oil-saturated fabric ct, soaking it spot,

it up by pressing à clean white blotter firmly against It and repeating until all oil and greate disappear. If soil remains from dirt in the grease, rub with Jukewarm Sponge off soap with a

Knart and Hania "both ' ex- pressed: astonishment at Christe pher's finding a scare-crcAv.

Oh, he was there all right, a clean cloth and

old suds. all folded up behind an trimit. He was the only one who clean cloth dampened with cold.

water.. didn't sound particularly happy. He used to stand all summer in

Staing corn-field, the middle of the

To remove ice, cream stains, crows rub with a cloth wet with: warm waving his arms at the and blackbirds and anybody sonpsuds, sponging off porn with else chat tried to steal, the corn, a cloth wet with cold water. Let It cily stain remains, rub sald

But he didn't like being 'stumdatly with carbon tetrachloride!:

behind an old trunk. He

he didn't mind standing out in For pet spots, sponge stain with the cold, he wouldn't even feel clean cloth wet with lukewarm it. He thought he should have mild soapsuds, remove soap by been left right out in the mid-Tubbing with clean cloth dipped dio of the corn-field to keep in cold water. Then Eslurato anybody from stealing the spot with a solution of one part of course that's silly household ammonia to dive parts Christophor Cricket cold water, Lot stand fore one and so did Knart and minute, rub with a clean wet

cloth

snow. But

And laughed, Hapid

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