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Furniture

By ELEANOR ROSS.

IT happens so often! A family falls heir to a legacy, part of which is the: furnishings of an old house or some pieces that have been in storage for years, The joy IN unconfined! Antiques are booming, fino shops and galleries getting big prices for stuff not half as grand as that which Auntie or Grandma left.

art

..

But the letdown is awful! Usually, the sum offered is so Bmall that no transaction takes place. So what to do! Well, wise folk won't just abandon the stuff or sell it for the proverbial song. Instead, they will see what can be adapted and used in their own homestead.

Fit in Today's Sottings

And it's surprising how much of yesteryear's furnishings do fit in beautifully with contemporary settings. Why, don't most store model display rooms smartly nichleve a blend of period traditional with modern piecest Of course they do.

or

A little furniture surgery skli- You can't start children too carlyfully used solves many problems, on Bemax. During all the years of An old-fashioned bed with a growth they need the wealth of high headboard looks extremely special nourishment it provides. modem with the footboard sub- Nature has packed into Bemaxsulluted for the headboard. Then golden flakes her richest store of the bed may be either painted or

covered with a gay slipcover. essential vitamins, prote'n and minerals. A spoonful of Bemax

Usually a cache of old fùrni- ture includes a chest of drawers. daily goes a wonderfully long way Such a chest, well made, is to to ensure proper growth, sound good to part with: Painted constitutions and lively minds, bright colour, it can liven up a

dark hall or landing.

Give children Bemax at ·

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For Junior's Collections

An old library table is a boon.

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IF IT'S FORMALITY YOUR GARDEN NEEDS, HERE ARE THREE IDEAS FOR OUR HOMECRAFT PAGE READERS

YOU CAN WALK ON RAINBOWS IN THE GARDEN

MAN

ANY people prefer formal or crazy. paving for a garden path and this is no harder than the plain kind for those with the true do-it-yourself spirit.

Enclose a level space with boards 2ins. thick and spread in. of sund

You can have your garden coloured or crazy, or both, and our Homecraft' Pago here

Lells

you how.

Dello the path with pegs and. string, take off the top soil, and

solid. Lay slabs on a lin. thick

over it.

Lay concrete on the sand and level it ram, or roll the site until it is with a trowel or by rubbing a board bedding mortar of one part across it.

The under side of the slab will be the right). face side of the paving.

Top left: Cutting through the concrete; right: taying the slabs; bottom left: lifting the slabs; centre: casting in a mould; right: cutting crazy paning And at the top of the page-patterns for a formal paved path.

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No Need To Settle For Middle Spread

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girdle is

Make use of that old dresser or sideboard if the wood and workmanship are good, as they generally are in old pieces. Remove the "gingerbread," re- finish as a chest of drawers, take capable of keeping a off the mirror net hang it

beautiful girl's figure in separately.

But Old marble-top tables can be shape for a lifetime. cut down for coffee tables-and let these interlacing middle marble is the newest, smartest muscles lose tone and this decorative note.

girdle is as limp and shape- less as n worn-out two-way

One of our friends made'good use of an old table-lop sewing stretch. machine. The legs were suwed off two inches, a ruffled dressing table skirt was made, and a piece of plate glass went on top.

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Το make matters worse, when the brace of middle the vital muscles loses tone, organs sog and cannot function

in

By IDA JEAN KAIN

Conteracts gravity

cement to four parts sand. (top

This mortar · should. be fairly dry, not wet and sloppy.

The + mixture Tap each slab with a block. for the concrete of wood or a mallet until it is is one part ce- firmly bedded, Joints can be ment to three close up, or in. apart. Open parts sand, and joints can afterwards be filed for A 1la with mortar. thick paying for

Σ

path 30ydu.

Leave to hardon

Jong and a yard TTERE is a way to cast the slabs wide you will 11m the garden" encti, if this need half a ton is more convenient, 96 t

of

cement and Diagona; corners of the mould one and a half (botton centre) are héld“ py cubic yards of angie plates and the opposie sand.

You will have eye.

corners by cable hook and to buy 4 Hitito This makes diamantling

easy. more' sand cud You can, of course,`make a cement for the long mound alvided by vetuss bedding mortar, batiens, thus engling trinee or Bay Żewts, of our slabs at a time...

a cuble yord

If you have no space to lay the concrete, you can cast the slubs in a mould, and I will deni with that later..

cement and hair of sand.

Nolico that ine sipo La cash on newspaper, and, the sabs are left, for a few days to naruen petore being stacked.

Crazy paving is cut from the big slab (bottom right).ana. Juid in the БАТО way as 'torn:ol paving.

For colours

you prefer coloured concrete It is best to use the specially made colouring powders as they give, more aensity and p monence of colour...

After the slab has been laid for an hour or two, take u straight-cige and u trowel (top left picture) and cut throug the full depth of the conurtie o the size of the paving required. Leave the slabs for four or Ave days and protect the con- crete from drying out too quick ly by occasional watering or by Add ten 10. of powder, to covering with damp sacks,

Cuca Ewi, of 'osment betore" the Then lift the stabs (bottom sand and water' are mixed --- left), stack thêm “úní edge until but of course study, the manu- you want to lay them.

·facturers instructions for it.

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BALEY ALLEN

A NEW RAW RELISH

the other side, again pulling backbone of the menu must be strongly. Make Eure the the protective foods...milk or abdominal muscles take the skim milk or buttermilk, eggs,

green action the hip swing is in lean meat,

and yellow lenty

green saled, fresh fruits including a eltrus, and a limited amount of 6T whole grain or cariched bread and butter? In prolonged re-

a normal invigorating way. cidental. Repeat times, al vegetables plus

crunting sides...Jater increase abdomen spread, to 12 or more times,

The muscles around the

stomach and

of a

101 unlike the strands

nesh shopping bag. Of course, the bluger the bulge, the more

the space between

muscle strands or fat to infiltrate, perhaps. five inches, thick!

The

Reducing After Forty

over-

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butter

bigour feźwi

SUGGEST 11 raw Transfer to a butteredor relish, Madame, made margarined qt. baking disb; bake F. or until brown on top. ducing, supplement the menu by fine-chopping new cal. 30 min. at 379

Hot Mustard Sauce,mat with

concentrate bage, mixing with chopped vitamin

scallions and of radishes, furnishing normal amounts

In a small saucepan combine 1 Vitamins

A, B-1, B-2, C, and D. celery, and some vinegar thap. butter or margarine, 1 Keep the calories between 1,200 drained from aweet pickles." tbsp. minced onion and 1 tbsp. middle spread is so Many middle-aged-

"Now cabbage steam-boiled 19 garlic vinegar. Simmer 3 min. common, we almost look upon weights who need to take off 20, to 1,400 a day,

What about beauty creams,

tbsp. enriched flour Ras natural and part and 30, or more excess pounds are

Melted soning? But age parcel of middle age.

cr and stir until smooth and frothy. reluctant to start reducing for oils and lubricants? They are mines is good, too. The rea- Then add is not the cause. In this push-

hcmon Stir in 1 tbsp dry mustard fear they will lose in the face helpful and necessary, for as we margarines mixed

Heaven get along the skin loses some juice, and a little curry,"

blended with 2 tbsp. cold water, button era we do not use the first and look older.

cles forbid!

With Cream Sauce

31 tsp. controlling

sugar, 1 tsp. salt figure

They have challenged of its natural ell. Use creams muscles

the skin

and 1⁄4 tsp. cayenne. enough to keep them toned. your dietitian to find a wrinkle regularly to koep

"I like now cabbage shreded And some

of the old posture proof way of taking off weight ooth end pliable. To tote the

over and steam-boiled seven minutes Gradually stir in 1 c. bolling water. Add beat boulon rules about. holding the stomach after 40. I accept the chal- skin, splash cold water

salice face, throck, chest and barks of and blended with cream

cube. Simmer & jmiską have got us off the beam. lenge.

horse-rudish," with The lifting, pull is UP.

added the Chat "Excellent with Skin plays the beauty role in upper arms, night and morning. Destioned middle muscles are capable of reducing. Face if... If you have

bailes or smoked meats," two actiona...they pull up and been toting considérahlo exteis,

"And for lunch, Chet, I like in, but the up-pull must come and for more years than you A small amount of regular new cabbage sliced and cooked care to mention, it takes time exercise stimulates the dreula- with steam-boiled now potatoes, for the skin to contract to A smooth covering.

You can ro- tion and prevents skin and mus seasoned with a little butter or elés from becoming flabby. Just mangarine, salt and pepper, and at the leisurely duce beautifully A little easy exercise will rate of three quarters

to one five minutes of smooth stretch-gamushed with crumbled drip-

Dinner ́ help put live tone back in the pound a week. Too slow? Well, los coupled with aide-bending cooked saland!"

a 30-minute every day, plus Firtile muscles. Then right use that's 40 to 50 pounds Year walk in the fresh air will help

Buttered Tornato Boullion of the muscles to maintain This modertio rate loss offers your Book and feel like a new Hom oat Hot Mustard Sauce good posture will keep them in other advantages.... For OTO AVDIVIDER,

...... New Calobage bracing tone. In sitting, push thing you can have more food, On this programme triends Spoon Head

Nutmeg Cup Custards

Coffee Tea

SMBIG T the back of the hips against and the protective way of eating will inquire if you've been away

to continued long enough to on vacation! effect doesn't take effort, but it will habits. Then you'll stay beaull- a lasting change in food

fully alim

first.

the back of the chair.

This

contract and strengthen the front abdominal wall,

Now the corrective exercises, token from a safety position.

For these, use ʼn straight dining chair. and

rest feet and calves of

Halli

Household Hints

All Becausemente Ära Level Лестрка бегов почт

Ham Loaf

Croutons Peas

Alternative Dinner Spilt Pea Soup

Ham-Stuffed potatoes Cauliflower with Carrots Celery

Lima Bean-Tomato-Bleu'r

Chocro Salada

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Coffee Butterscotch' Sündoes

Coffee Tea Milki

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Recipes Bere` Four- Lam-Stuffed Potatoes Bake 4 good-sized potatoes at 400° F. for 50 min, or until Realy when pliched. Cut a thin slice lengthwise man the from, the

tops; scoop out. pulp.

neat, arma down at sides, (sco Ton't it when you are tired that substances that set up, chemise 2 r. måen packed in. Then quickly in a hot oven, 123. n

then table mustand and arrança orada on salad

Add c. minced ham, minced parsley, 2 spe Fi: add 1 c. soft enriched milk, 1 tsp. sall, tsp pepper, No metal jewellery can be bread crumbs to 1 c. hated milk 2 well-beaten eggs and 3 49sp. Through butter, or margarine, Beat until But let's see what is back of guaranteed against discolouring and let stand & min. Lie on back on our wrinkles: Ta 11 losing the excess the skin. Tarnish is caused by the food chopper pus and fully; refil the skins;

do oxidation of the metal when denents di cookedt ham to legs sidewards across the chair and unhealthy · Kat....... or

contact with

Lima Bean-Tomalo-Bleu wrinkles tem from straint it comes into

put through the chopper a

Cheese Balad:ły pelb illustration)

und. í To 2 tinned or cööked The exercise is to raise hips friends inquire if you've been cal reactions. Certain acids in second time with i ellee onion,

you the body cause such chemical a scraped carrot счет dieting,

though

pleee cleaned frozen linin beans add 1⁄4 c. (not a few inches off the floor and haven't lost an ounce? Much ection. Women with an acid médium-sized hold as

Add the cruxmios' and sweet) French may find that colory,

dressing BTITLS are stretched of that "reduced looks strain. xin condition

anilk.

Boat and stir.in. 1.ogg. fine-dired back on floor overhead. This Avoid the strain of fast reducing. dark line of tarnish on their Ada 1

all metal jewellery leaves exercise position **restores organs to normal place. Hold- and the role that comes from skin, regardless of the quality top, thyme. Mix thoroughly plate Border with 4 half-slices Ing hips off the floor as you pull your face is long and thin, and

ut following a poor diet. And of the Jewellery.

Rub (D x B-in.) loaf pan with tomato; garnish with chicory, Butter or up with the lower abdominal se hand first, then

margarine. Pack Tep cach portion of tomato, with mbcture in Da with fine day tsp. lieu cheese mayonnaise muscles, stretching arms over-

bread crumbs. Bake 4%, min. In a

Coffee Battertelt: auty three-quarters of IL

moderate oven, 350° F. Unmould exercise

complicated. nautids

for Sundaes int and serve with hot mustard but it is simple and effective, wock,

Combine 1 d. sugar, 1 c. strong dotace. Start with 6 urnes, Increase, to :: There l ́n way to reduce and To brighten ebony apply

coffee beverage,: 1 tbapa mitter 12 or more..

cloth look younger, and here it is..olive oil with a flannel

and 4 tsp. anli; slow-boll 6 min, Follow "with Va huminoth decide to got in the pink of vos and then polish with chamois

Combine 1c. enriclied corn- Chill and add 1⁄4 tsp vanillaje swing exercise, taken from the dition as you take off the pounds, cloth. same position, Halso hips off On the diet acore, go by the

moal, 2 tbsp. butter or margarine alen Cheese Maronala and swing hips slightly rule, no calories without keep- Flower containers should be and 11⁄2 tsp. salt. Add 34 Crush 1/3-c. Dieu cheese With jfowardoná side, pulling in Ing young nutrients," With that cleaned thoroughly after each rapidly boiling water. Then stir 14 bop, lemon juice or tarragon and up forcibly with the sides plan you'll have better nutrition use, since bacteria shortens the in 2 s. milk, 2 well-beaten eggs. Vinegar. Gradually work in dayo.

powder, mayonnaisenterasimone Abrent and 1, p. “baking front muscles. Tilt hips toward than when not dieting. Tholilves of cut flowers,

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head, tones the muscles, The bold your rate loss right at veljed to keep

pound

per

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