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PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT T

Could A Double Chin Be Inherited?

By IDA JEAN KAIN

NATURE DOES THE DECORATING

By JOAN O'SULLIVAN

NUT flowers add the window frame, two set on the In the living room, tables ot room, but not everyone can either end of a sofa hold gay afford them. Thoy last litle pots of ivy. Behind the only a few days even with sofa, two windows house cop- the best of care then per containera Alled with aza-

ica plants. they're gone,

Miss Gannon has filled That's why

with all gaY plants are the decorative unused fireplace answer for those who like a ghe massed together pots of

spring preview of blooms. touch of lasting greenery hyacinths, tulips and daffodils, that's within the budget. flanking them with azaleas and bezonias, The effect is a fresh and gay na un Easter bonnet,

Cinishing touches to a sills.

A permanent indoor garden con be far more spectacular

A family characteristic? than cut flowers says Ruth Gan-

COU

non in her new "Decorating with House Plants,"

The book is filed with photo- the graphs that 'demonstrate author's point of view. Many of them, in fact, were taken in her own homo,

YOULD a double chin be inherited? Again, this uncommon inquiry comes from a young lady who ex- plains that double chins seems to be a family characteristic. Her grand-her decorate every room in the Miss Gannon lets nature help mother has a very double house. Even her stairway offers chin, and her mother like a display place for plants, 4 wise, and the young lady copper ash kettle attached to the stairway window holds herself already has a head

colcus and bloodleaf, while pots start on one even before she of azaleas, tulips and Lady is out of high school, Washington geranium march up

the steps in colourful array.

While we inherit a slim or 7101 so.alim neck along with general build...wo do not in- herit a double chin.' The con- tour of the throatine depends largely on head posture and the amount of tone bracing the con- trolling muscles. When the head

carried squarely on the shoulders, with the line at the back of the neck pulled up of- most straight, a double chin hasn't chance.

So if our young lady wall make a consistent effort to cor- Deef her head posture, and get Into the habit of carrying her head proudly, with chin heid level, she can kiss that doublo chin goodbye tout suite.

•

Practice mokes perfect...

in

but only if you practise the right way. When ̈bend- ing over the history book, girls hold the book up, or prop it up, instead of tipping the ch'n down. In walking, if a conscious effort is made to puli up with that line at the back of the neck s0 the chin can be hed level, this head carriage soon becomes natural. And, of course, that bump of self- esteem 011 thotop

the head should be held very high. You'll be surprised at how

of

quickly good posture can be- comic beautiful habit.

Como

to

An, erect head carriage does help keep the muscles firmly on the job. But we're forced admit, for those of us who have been out of high school for 25 years....strong measures may be needed to put the gimp back In those sack chin muscles. It's

,ଷ୍ଟା not su much the skin that sags, but the muscles under the skin that let down....and pull the skin down. Then, because soft muscles invito fat padding, the extra calories snuggle under the

chin, and there you are....with

double chin.

In the dining room, Miss Gunnon has chosen pink geran-'. iums to carry out the colour scheme set by a Meissen coffee service, displayed on a large buffet in front of two win- dows. The geraniums bloom in four window boxes two al-

tached to the middle of the

an

These are just a low of the In the book. idous pictured come of which are shown here. Miss Gannon also has some соп- unusual suggestions on tainers that can turn an or- decorative accent. dinary plant into a spectacular,

A chapter on colour schemes provides some very sound ad- vice. As the author points out, green is a great blender, and and plani therefore follage

any vines can be used" with scheme, Flowering plants, how- ever, must be selected to har- monise with other farthings. Boveral of the colour schemes outline should offer ideas that can be effectively carried out in your own home.

Part of the book is devoted to the very practical matter of caring for plants. These whu Jack a green thumb, who seem to have little success with

in- plants, will welcome lie structions 'given.

do Heed certain PLANTS ADD A FRESH, GREEN NOTE to any setting; but they amount of care if they're to tourish, says author Ruth Gannon in a new book, "Howatą?

Decorate with House Fianis."

Colds

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SNAPPER

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The muscle most important to keeping the throatline young is the platyana Picture this na a thin sheet of muscle. fibres which covers the collar bones and extenda obliquely upwards toward the middle, rounding the the en-

jawbone and coatline.

skin. Place

fist, resisting aurongly with chin

CLIMBING VINES have many decorative possibilities. Here, two types of philodendron climb and trall from an entrance

hall box...

.....

PHILODENDRON, a common

plant,

In looks, exalto· antique, teakettle of alesaning.

copper.

UNIC

"ISN'T THAT JUST LIKE A WOMAN?"

WHENEVER a man says: By ANNE HEYWOOD Wan't that just like a

woman?" the chances are he ed the fender of the car.

dele

Mrs

"We are old enough,' Smith told me chuckling, "to tell

the truth about what we like and

Іп

don't like. Since we are serious

front of the Here

Here Is

stance exercise a, resistance which helps restore tone to this cosmetic muscle, without danger

The of stretching doubled fist under. tip of chin, chin

knuckles resting between and anger joints. From, a chin- is referring to some terrible short, it is some mistake she, about this, I didn't feel I had level position, push up with trouble the little wonian has made in the aren of to pretend that I was a dear ....reverse, pushing downward has got into with her check- arithmetic or mechanics. with chin, resisting with Dating account or household Whenever a woman says; "Isn't About three times will do.

budget. Or perhaps she that just like a man?” chances "Yeah," Mr Smith agreed with This exercise, backed up with

head carriage, deals has tangled herself into the are that the man in question has a grin, "I didn't have to kid my»| proper firmly with chin problems. typewriter ribbon, or bump fallen for some dim-witted self that I'd rather, spead my

blonde, neighbour with his "typical" time tinkering with a broken lack of tact In other words, he lamp than anything else on has made an error in the realm earli." He shuddered. of human relations.""

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and don't forget these

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or insulted the next door

little thing that got lost adding a column of figures."

The whole thing was that Mrs tremendous Conditioning Is Different Smith had shown

a numerical ability-what we in We take it for granted that the profesion end Computational women aro wonderful with and Mechanical aptitude. people, and that men are Smith had come out with a high wonderful with facts and Agures, interest and skill with people But I began to realise that the what we call tha Persuasive opposite seemed true with

of the hundreds of people with Social Service type whom I'd worked, and I.. fait Took U

Look Up Volunteer Work our conditioning had a lot to do a with B.-

Mr

work that

are brought up, de a first step, the Smiths ea- and trained in dexterity along-gaged? in volunteer mechanical and factual lines. would take advantage of their Women are conditioned to plouse own splitudes. Mrs simili is do- people, in the bookkeeping for a fund-

active in One concrete proof bad of Smith La this involved in misdia, aged counseling ser

endTM couple called Smith They

Interests

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was anxious to find a hobby, and the rea

the utens : that," are cookidered her, husband, with retirement propos, for a woman, don't des Seven: Yeats of, Was thinking stroy your career pattern to keep about what he would do when up with what the Jonekta say in that time came, hang nice for good Little girless Certain

So together, they

to set. Deople are good at one thing, and tham Coralit, people, der good at an-

vocational tesia

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FIGURINES DAN OFTEN BE COMBINED wiih planis for on arrangement such as this one, which features different types of ivy:

way.

IF YOU'RE STRIVING for a different plants, "you"might" choose,uunagal holders, „rucham

book-end containers.

"bri"tham" "arb A BRASS PLANT STAN For them srethrop little potest?

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